Latest / LOH Church Archive / 6/29/25 9AM - The Truth About Christian Suffering Part 3
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- 0:00(MUSIC)
- 0:04(ROARING)
- 0:07(MUSIC)
- 0:09- COME ON, CHURCH. GET UP ON YOUR FEET. LET'S GIVE HIM SOME
- 0:13WORSHIP THIS MORNING. WE'RE ON THE LORD'S SIDE, AMEN?
- 0:20(MUSIC)
- 1:34- PRAISE THE LORD. HALLELUJAH! - HALLELUJAH! LORD, WE'RE ON
- 1:37YOUR SIDE. YES! WE STAND IN THE HONOR
- 1:41OF OUR RISEN KING. LORD JESUS. LORD, WE LOVE YOU
- 1:44AND WE WELCOME YOU. GOD, WE ARE ON YOUR SIDE.
- 1:50WE LOVE YOU WITH ALL OUR HEART, SOUL, MIND, AND STRENGTH.
- 1:53- YES, WE DO.
- 1:54- AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT LOVE GOD SAID...
- 1:57- AMEN!
- 1:58WOW, THAT'S NOT BAD. I HEARD NOTHING
- 2:00FROM THIS SECTION OVER HERE. THIS IS
- 2:03TWO WEEKS IN A ROW. SO ALL THOSE WHO LOVE GOD SAID,
- 2:08- AMEN!
- 2:10- I KNOW WHAT IT IS. - WHAT?
- 2:13- NO, YOU ARE SAYING SOMETHING.
- 2:16IT'S THAT YOUR VOICES GO THAT DIRECTION.
- 2:19- IT MAY BE. OK, WELL, I GOT ONE
- 2:21FOR YOU. - COULD THAT BE IT?
- 2:22- I WANT TO HEAR THE INTERNET SAY AMEN.
- 2:24(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 2:27- AMEN.
- 2:28- SHOUT AMEN IF YOU'RE ONLINE. - GREAT, THEY JUST WOKE UP
- 2:32THE BABY. ANYWAY, SO GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY, AND GOOD
- 2:35MORNING, THOSE OF YOU ALSO THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD.
- 2:38WE'RE SO HONORED YOU JOIN US. LISTEN, YOU KNOW, PUT YOUR HANDS
- 2:42UP IN THE AIR, CLAP, APPLAUD. YOU KNOW, GOD IS A GOOD GOD. HOW
- 2:46MANY OF YOU, YOU GOT UP THIS MORNING AND
- 2:48YOU HEARD GOD'S VOICE, RIGHT? THUNDER, RIGHT?
- 2:51(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 2:52- YEAH.
- 2:53- DID ANYBODY WAKE UP TO THE SOUND
- 2:54OF THUNDER OVER THEIR HOME?
- 2:56- YES. - AND DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
- 2:57- COUPLE PLANTS OUTSIDE BLEW OVER.
- 2:59- YEAH, IT WAS RAINING PRETTY GOOD.
- 3:00- I WAS SWEEPING AT 6.30 IN THE MORNING.
- 3:02- YEAH.
- 3:03- IT'S ALL GOOD. SO EVERYBODY, GOOD, YOU WENT ALL RIGHT OUT IN
- 3:07THE RAIN AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.
- 3:10- JUST WENT WELL. - YOU DID GOOD.
- 3:11ALL RIGHT, WELL, AS WE SAID, WE WELCOME YOU THAT
- 3:14ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD. AND I'LL TELL YOU,
- 3:17MY FAVORITE PREACHER IS IN THE HOUSE. AND IT'S
- 3:23NOT A GUEST SPEAKER. IT'S YOU, BRENDA.
- 3:28- OH, WELL, THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE THAT.
- 3:30- AND I WANNA SAY THIS FOR YOU THAT
- 3:31ARE IN THE ROOM TODAY AND YOU THAT ARE
- 3:33WATCHING, IF YOU HAVE JUST CAUGHT TODAY, FIRST TIME, WHAT
- 3:38HER SERMON HAS BEEN ABOUT, SHE'S PREACHED, NOW THIS IS HER THIRD
- 3:42WEEK, AND BRENDA, I THINK YOU NEED TO PUT THIS IN A BOOK.
- 3:46SHE'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE TRUTH ABOUT
- 3:49CHRISTIAN SUFFERING. IS THAT THE BEST TITLE?
- 3:52- WELL, I GUESS THAT'S THE TITLE FOR NOW.
- 3:55- BREAK IT DOWN.
- 3:56- WELL, YOU KNOW, WE TALKED WEEK ONE ABOUT JOB, AND WE'LL RECAP,
- 4:00MAYBE A TOUCH ON THAT TODAY, BUT THEN WE'VE TALKED, WE'RE
- 4:03COVERING FIVE REASONS THAT SUFFERING OCCURS IN THE LIVES OF
- 4:07PEOPLE AND CHRISTIANS, YOU KNOW, SPECIFICALLY, BUT WE HIT THREE
- 4:12OF THOSE LAST WEEK, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA HIT THE LAST TWO
- 4:14TODAY. I THINK IT'S GONNA BE GOOD.
- 4:15- WELL, CAN YOU GIVE US A HINT?
- 4:17- NO, THEY GOTTA WAIT FOR THE PREACHING. I DON'T WANNA GIVE IT
- 4:20ALL AWAY. THEY MIGHT TUNE OFF. - OKAY, SO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE
- 4:24IN YOUR HOME, YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE WHEN YOU WATCH THE WEATHER
- 4:27REPORT AND THEY'RE SAYING, "IT'S GOING TO SNOW," AND HERE IT IS
- 4:29JULY. AND THEN YOU COME BACK ON AND IT'S LIKE, "YEAH, IT'S GOING
- 4:34TO SNOW IN DECEMBER." SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THAT FELT LIKE.
- 4:37- I GUESS SO, I GUESS SO. BUT I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY ALL THE
- 4:40PUNCHLINES, BUT WE'RE GOING TO HIT ALL OF IT TODAY.
- 4:43- WELL, WE'LL MAKE SURE WE ALL STAY
- 4:45TUNED. BUT BY THE WAY, I GOT TO THINKING, WITH
- 4:47ALL THE RAIN, HOW MANY OF YOU, WITH ALL THE RAIN, DID
- 4:50ANYBODY IN HERE, LIKE ME, YOU THOUGHT OF
- 4:52NOAH'S ARK? NOBODY THOUGHT OF NOAH'S ARK?
- 4:56- NO. - I MEAN, I HONESTLY DID.
- 4:57- I THOUGHT UMBRELLA MORE, BUT YEAH.
- 4:59- SO BRENDA, IN MY CARTOONIST MIND, I THOUGHT OF NOAH'S ARK.
- 5:04AND THEN IT HIT ME. I REALIZED THAT I JUST DISCOVERED WHERE
- 5:11CARD GAMES CAME FROM. - I CAN'T GUESS.
- 5:15- NO, THAT'S WHAT THEY DID ON NOAH'S ARK.
- 5:17THAT'S WHERE YOU GOT A DECK OF CARDS.
- 5:20(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 5:23I MADE THAT ONE UP. IT WAS, OH, OKAY. THEY DON'T LIKE ME, THEY
- 5:28DON'T LIKE THE JOKE. THOSE OF YOU THAT LOVE ME ONLINE, PLEASE
- 5:31PUT OUT AN APPLAUD. OR A THUMB, YOU CAN PUT A THUMBS DOWN. I
- 5:36WILL LOOK TO SEE IF YOU PUT A THUMBS DOWN. AND IT'S OKAY, I
- 5:39WON'T JUDGE YOU. BUT PUTTING THAT UP IN MY MIND, I CAN'T. ALL
- 5:42RIGHT, I THINK WE BETTER WORSHIP GOD.
- 5:44- I THINK SO. WELL, ARE YOU EXCITED TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF
- 5:46THE LORD TODAY? HOW ABOUT INTERNET? ARE YOU EXCITED TO BE
- 5:50IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD? ALL RIGHT, WELL, EVERYBODY HERE AND
- 5:53ONLINE, THROW THOSE HANDS UP TO HEAVEN. SAY THIS, SAY "LORD
- 5:56JESUS. IT'S A GREAT DAY TO BE IN GOD'S HOUSE. YOU'RE GONNA MOVE.
- 6:04YOU'RE GONNA SPEAK TO US. LORD, I'M RECEPTIVE TO GROW, TO LEARN,
- 6:11AND I ASK YOU, TOUCH MY LIFE IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME." IF YOU
- 6:16BELIEVE THAT, COME ON, LET'S ALL SHOUT AND GIVE
- 6:19GOD OUR BEST PRAISE TODAY. AMEN AND AMEN.
- 6:23(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 6:24(MUSIC)
- 6:28- COME ON, CHURCH.
- 6:30- THERE'S NO ONE LIKE OUR GOD, AMEN?
- 6:32(MUSIC)
- 9:15YEAH! OH OH OHHH. JESUS, YOU'RE SO AMAZING. JESUS...
- 10:24LET ME HEAR YOU SAY "YOU ARE". YOU ARE...
- 11:42(MUSIC)
- 11:58ON THE CROSS
- 12:52(MUSIC)
- 16:36(MUSIC)
- 16:39- IT IS DONE. OH THE BLOOD
- 16:48THE WONDER WORKING BLOOD. OH THE BLOOD OF JESUS.
- 16:55THE BLOOD OF JESUS. IT'S STILL POWERFUL
- 17:00TODAY AS IT WAS BACK THEN.
- 17:05IT'S STILL POWERFUL TODAY AS IT WAS BACK THEN.
- 17:10THERE'S POWER IN THE BLOOD. THERE'S SALVATION IN THE BLOOD.
- 17:17THERE'S DELIVERANCE IN THE BLOOD.
- 17:21THERE'S HEALING IN THE BLOOD.
- 17:25THERE'S HEALING IN THE BLOOD.
- 17:29'CAUSE I PLEAD THE BLOOD OF JESUS.
- 17:37OVER MY FAMILY. I PLEAD THE BLOOD OF
- 17:42JESUS OVER MY LIFE. I PLEAD THE BLOOD.
- 17:57(MUSIC)
- 20:09(MUSIC)
- 22:38ADONAI, OH. ADONAI. ADONAI.
- 24:02(MUSIC)
- 24:24(MUSIC)
- 24:30THERE IS ONE ON THE THRONE, JESUS, HOLY.
- 24:44HE IS WORTHY OF PRAISE, HONOR, GLORY.
- 24:58THERE IS ONE ON THE THRONE, JESUS, HOLY.
- 28:15COME ON, LIFT YOUR HANDS UP. WE CROWN THE KING. WE CROWN THE
- 28:19KING OF GLORY. LIFT YOUR HANDS UP ACROSS
- 28:22THIS PLACE. WE WELCOME YOU JESUS.
- 30:20LORD WE WORSHIP YOU. COME ON, LET'S LIFT UP OUR
- 30:22VOICES, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD. LET
- 30:26THIS MOMENT BE BETWEEN YOU AND YOUR GOD, YOU AND
- 30:29YOUR SAVIOR, YOU AND THE LORD OF LORDS AND THE KING OF
- 30:32KINGS. WE WORSHIP YOU AND WE MAGNIFY YOU.
- 30:38(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 30:46WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WITH THE 24 ELDERS OF THE LAMB.
- 30:56WE WORSHIP YOU LAMB OF GOD. WITH THE CLOUD OF WITNESSES AND THE
- 31:01SERAPHIMS AND THE CHERUBIMS, THE LIVING CREATURES. YOU'RE SEATED
- 31:08ON THE THRONE. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YOU, YESHUA. COME ON, LIFT
- 31:15UP YOUR VOICE. WE WORSHIP YOU. GIVING PRAISE.
- 31:22GIVING PRAISE TO YOU, MY GOD, MY KING, MY LORD. YOU'RE SO WORTHY.
- 31:35YOU'RE SO HOLY, GOD. THERE'S NO ONE,
- 31:40THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YOU, LORD.
- 31:42(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 31:44SO WORTHY. WE GIVE PRAISE. WE GIVE PRAISE TO
- 31:51YOU. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YOU, LORD. COME ON, JUST
- 31:57MAKE A MELODY IN YOUR HEART BEFORE GOD.
- 31:59(SINGING IN TONGUES)
- 32:02OH, WORTHY. CONTINUE TO SING. CONTINUE TO SING. THERE'S NO ONE
- 32:07LIKE THE LORD. LORD, YOUR PRESENCE. YOUR PRESENCE. GOD,
- 32:14YOU GAVE THE PILLAR OF CLOUD BY DAY AND THE FIRE BY NIGHT
- 32:17BECAUSE YOU WANTED YOUR PEOPLE TO
- 32:19EXPERIENCE GOD, YOU. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YOU, LORD.
- 32:26(SINGING IN TONGUES)
- 32:39THERE'S A SOMETHING ABOUT YOU, GOD. GOD, MY HEART, MY HEART
- 32:45LONGS FOR YOU. I'VE GOT TO EXPRESS MY HEART TO YOU, LORD.
- 32:50COME ON, LIFT UP YOUR HEART AND TOUCH HIS HEART. COME ON. RAISE
- 32:56YOUR VOICES, COME ON. RAISE YOUR VOICES, COME ON. ALL OVER THIS
- 33:01SANCTUARY, COME ON. IN YOUR LIVING ROOMS WHERE YOU'RE
- 33:04WATCHING, LIFT UP YOUR VOICES. ONE SOUND,
- 33:07AS THE FAMILY OF GOD, WE WORSHIP YOU WORTHY.
- 33:15O MASTER, RECEIVE OUR HONOR, YESHUA. RECEIVE OUR
- 33:20WORSHIP, OUR KING. AS ONE VOICE, LIFTED IN ADORATION, DEEP
- 33:31RESPECT, DEEP APPRECIATION, GOD. OH, OH, LORD, WE WORSHIP YOU.
- 33:44COME ON, JUST BEGIN TO PROPHESY ON THE INSTRUMENTS. BUT HERE'S
- 33:48WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO IF YOU'RE IN THIS ROOM AND YOU'RE
- 33:50WATCHING. I WANT YOU TO USE THE GREATEST INSTRUMENT THAT YOU
- 33:54HAVE, THE HEART CONNECTION WITH YOUR VOICE, WITH YOUR MOUTH,
- 33:58LIFT IT UP TO GOD. COME ON, SOME OF YOU NEED TO TELL HIM THINGS.
- 34:04THAT IS BETWEEN YOU AND HIM. WORSHIP HIM. YOU MAY SAY, "WELL,
- 34:08I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY." TELL HIM THAT HE'S LOVELY. TELL HIM
- 34:12HE'S BEAUTIFUL. TELL HIM YOU NEED HIM. TELL HIM YOU LONG FOR
- 34:16HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING THAT THIS EARTH HAS TO OFFER. COME ON WITH
- 34:21EVERY OUNCE OF SINCERITY, EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE TO THE
- 34:25KING. EXPRESS YOUR LOVE. OH GOD, HOW WE LOVE YOU, HOW WE WORSHIP
- 34:31YOU, HOW WE HONOR YOU. I COULDN'T IMAGINE LIFE. I
- 34:36COULDN'T IMAGINE THE EARTH WITHOUT OUR KING. OH, WE GIVE
- 34:40YOU WORSHIP, WE GIVE YOU WORSHIP, WE GIVE YOU WORSHIP, WE
- 34:44GIVE YOU WORSHIP. ADORATION AND HONOR BELONG TO OUR GOD. DEEP
- 34:59THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO THE WONDER OF YOUR NAME.
- 35:06(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 35:18THOSE THAT WORSHIP THE FATHER, THE SON
- 35:23MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.
- 35:25(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 35:30YOU MIGHT BE SAYING, "PASTOR, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
- 35:32I'M LETTING MY SPIRIT WORSHIP HIM.
- 35:34(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 35:38I JUST WANT TO TOUCH THAT PLACE IN GOD'S HEART THAT WIDENS HIS
- 35:45SMILE OVER MY LIFE. COME ON, DON'T YOU?
- 35:50(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 36:18YOU ARE THE RISEN KING, THE CHAMPION OF ALL THE AGES.
- 36:22(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 36:29KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
- 36:32(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 37:00OH, I WORSHIP YOU.
- 37:03(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 37:07I WORSHIP YOU. YOU SAY, "PASTOR, THAT SCARED ME." WHY? HAVE YOU
- 37:16EVER HEARD THE STRENGTH OF A MAN'S SPIRIT? I PRAY THAT WAY
- 37:24BECAUSE I LIVE THAT WAY. I HUNGER FOR GOD THAT WAY. I
- 37:32WORSHIP AND I PRAISE HIM IN PRIVATE THIS WAY. IT IS THE
- 37:36STRENGTH AND THE SOUND OF MY SPIRIT.
- 37:39(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 38:08WORTHY IS THE LAMB. COME ON, KEEP SINGING. GIVING PRAISE.
- 38:13GIVING PRAISE. GIVING PRAISE.
- 38:18(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 38:21THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YAHWEH. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE ADONAI.
- 38:28(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 38:32THERE'S NO ONE LIKE THE LORD. NOW WHISPER IT WITH HER. COME
- 38:35ON, CHRISTY. COME ON. GIVING PRAISE. YESHUA. THERE'S NO ONE
- 38:47LIKE YOU, LORD. DON'T STOP. ALL OVER THE WORLD,
- 38:53DON'T STOP. COME ON, WIDEN YOUR SMILE.
- 38:58(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 39:01LET HIS HEART FEEL YOUR LOVE.
- 39:04(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 39:13KEEP SINGING. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YOU, LORD. CREATURES.
- 39:23THE ANGELS, THEY BOW. THE ELDERS OF
- 39:28THE LAMB, THEY BOW. WE THE PEOPLE, WE BOW.
- 39:33(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 39:36OH LAMB OF GOD, WE BOW. HOLY POWER, WORSHIP HIM. WORSHIP
- 39:44HIM. THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MAN BORN IN THE EARTH AS GREAT AS
- 39:54YESHUA. NO KING HAS EVER SAT ON A THRONE GREATER THAN OUR KING.
- 40:05NO PRESIDENT, NO RULER, AND NO DEVIL IS AS
- 40:14GREAT AS THE MAJESTY OF OUR KING.
- 40:18- GREAT ARE YOU, LORD, GREAT ARE YOU, LORD, GREAT
- 40:21ARE YOU, LORD. - WE WORSHIP YOU.
- 40:23- YOU ARE GREATLY TO BE PRAISED.
- 40:26- WE WORSHIP YOU. - GREATLY TO BE PRAISED.
- 40:30(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 40:33GREAT ARE YOU LORD, GREAT ARE YOU LORD, GREAT ARE
- 40:36YOU LORD, FOR YOU ARE GREAT IN ALL YOUR WAYS,
- 40:41AND YOU ARE GREATLY TO BE PRAISED.
- 40:44- OH, YOU'RE GREAT, GOD, WORSHIP YOU.
- 40:48- GREAT ARE YOU LORD, GREAT ARE YOU LORD, GREAT ARE YOU LORD,
- 40:52FOR YOU ARE GREAT IN ALL YOUR WAYS.
- 40:55- YOU ARE GREAT IN ALL YOUR WAYS.
- 40:57- GREATLY TO BE PRAISED. - GREATLY TO BE PRAISED.
- 41:02- GREAT ARE YOUR LORD, GREAT ARE YOU LORD, GREAT ARE
- 41:05YOU LORD, FOR YOU ARE GREAT IN ALL YOUR WAYS,
- 41:11GREATLY TO BE PRAISED. - WE WORSHIP YOU.
- 41:16GREAT ARE YOU, LORD. GREAT ARE YOU, LORD.
- 41:18GREAT ARE YOU, LORD. - GREAT ARE YOU...
- 41:21- YOU ARE GREAT IN ALL YOUR WAYS.
- 41:23- OH, WE WORSHIP YOU.
- 42:06NOW IF YOU NEED A TOUCH FROM GOD, YOU'RE
- 42:08WATCHING TODAY OR YOU'RE IN THIS ROOM,
- 42:11YOU MIGHT NEED HEALING IN YOUR BODY. SOME OF YOU, I FEEL LIKE
- 42:14YOU'VE GOT PAIN IN YOUR HEART. BUT YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS CAME
- 42:19INTO THE TEMPLE IN LUKE 4, IN VERSE 18, HE ANNOUNCED IT. HE
- 42:23SAID, "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD GOD IS UPON ME. HE'S ANOINTED ME
- 42:29TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED." JUST PUT YOUR HAND ON YOUR HEART IF
- 42:32YOU'RE WATCHING. WE COMMAND YOUR SOUL TO BE RESTORED. ANY WOUNDS,
- 42:39MEMORIES, ABUSE, WE COMMAND IT TO BE UPROOTED OUT OF YOUR SOUL.
- 42:50MAY YOUR HEART BE FIXED. MAY YOUR HEART BE HEALED. TAKE A
- 42:56DEEP BREATH. SAY, "LORD, I RECEIVE THAT IN MY HEART."
- 43:03NOW SAY, "LORD, I FORGIVE ANYONE THAT HAS WOUNDED MY HEART.
- 43:11I RECEIVE YOUR TOUCH." JUST BREATHE
- 43:18THAT IN. SOME OF YOU ARE HERE TODAY
- 43:22OR YOU'RE WATCHING AND YOU'VE GOT EXTREME PAIN IN YOUR BODY.
- 43:28ISAIAH 53 GAVE YOU THE CONFIDENCE AND THE KNOWING
- 43:39BECAUSE IT REVEALS WHAT THE MESSIAH TOOK. HE BORE OUR PAINS.
- 43:48HE CARRIED OUR SORROWS, OUR GRIEFS, WHICH PAIN, SICKNESSES,
- 43:52DISEASES. HE WAS WOUNDED FOR OUR TRANSGRESSIONS AND BRUISED FOR
- 43:58OUR INIQUITIES. AND HE TOOK IT ALL. NOTHING WAS LEFT OUT.
- 44:04THAT'S WHY HE COULD SAY LEGALLY ON THE CROSS, IT IS FINISHED.
- 44:11DON'T THINK THAT YOUR SITUATION AND SOMEHOW ISN'T INCLUDED IN
- 44:17THE REDEMPTIVE RIGHT TO BE MADE WELL. IF YOU HAVE PAIN IN YOUR
- 44:21BODY, SICKNESS, I TAKE AUTHORITY OVER THAT IN THE YESHUA'S NAME.
- 44:27I COMMAND ALL PAIN. COME OUT. LOOSEN ARTHRITIS, JOINT PAIN,
- 44:36MUSCLE PAIN, NERVE PAIN. STOP. WHATEVER THE SOURCE OF THAT, WE
- 44:42SPEAK THE HEALING POWER OF GOD. BE HEALED IN YOUR BODY. WE
- 44:49COMMAND INFIRMITY, EVERY DEVIL OF INFIRMITY, COME OUT OF THEIR
- 44:53BODIES. COME OUT. COME OUT. EVERY SYMPTOM OF SICKNESS AND
- 45:00DISEASE, COME OUT. I SPEAK THAT TO YOU THAT ARE ONLINE. EVERY
- 45:05SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY, EVERY ILLNESS, EVERY SICKNESS, EVERY
- 45:10DISEASE, NAME, COME IN THE AUTHORITY OF YESHUA'S NAME. NOW
- 45:19SAY, "I RECEIVE, I RECEIVE MY HEALING. EVERY CELL, EVERY
- 45:28FIBER, MY BONES, MY MUSCLES, MY LIGAMENTS, MY BLOOD, MY BLOOD
- 45:37PRESSURE IS HEALTHY, IS WHOLE. EVERY PART OF MY BODY, EVERY
- 45:44ORGAN, MY SKIN IS HEALTHY AND WHOLE. ALL THE RIGHTS,
- 45:53PRIVILEGES, MANIFESTATION OF MY HEALING COVENANT IS OPERATING
- 46:00AND MANIFESTING THROUGHOUT MY BODY. I WILL LIVE LONG. I WILL
- 46:07LIVE STRONG IN HEALTH, HEALING, WHOLENESS, SOUNDNESS OF MIND, A
- 46:16BLESSED MEMORY. I SHALL WALK UPRIGHT WITH STRENGTH IN MY
- 46:21BODY." COME ON. SEE, YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND A PRINCIPLE. WHEN YOU
- 46:32TOUCH GOD, HE ALWAYS WANTS TO TOUCH YOU IN RETURN. COME ON,
- 46:38WHY DO YOU THINK HIS ARMS WERE SO STRETCHED OUT ON THAT CROSS?
- 46:42MAN, HE WAS OPENING IT AS WIDE AS HE COULD BECAUSE HE WAS
- 46:44SAYING, "EVERYTHING, EVERY BRUISE, EVERY LACERATION, EVERY
- 46:52DROP OF BLOOD IS FOR EVERYTHING." COME ON, THOSE OF
- 46:59YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, EVERYTHING YOU NEED. THAT'S WHY
- 47:06HE'S ALWAYS OBLIGED TO BLESS YOU. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU WIDEN
- 47:17HIS SMILE, I'VE LEARNED THAT. I SAW THE LORD SMILE ONE DAY WHEN
- 47:24I WAS WORSHIPING HIM. AND THE MORE I WORSHIPED, HIS SMILE GOT
- 47:29WIDER AND WIDER AND WIDER. AND I SAID, "I KNOW I'M A TERRIBLE
- 47:32SINGER, "BUT I KNOW YOU LIKE THIS." THAT'S WHAT YOU GOTTA DO.
- 47:41DON'T MAKE YOUR GOAL THAT YOU JUST SING A SONG. OR YOU LIKE
- 47:47THE FEEL OF THE, WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT, THE BEAT? THE MUSIC,
- 47:53WHATEVER IT'S CALLED. YOU GUYS KNOW YOU'RE MUSICIANS, I'M NOT.
- 47:58LET YOUR GOAL BE SPIRIT TO SPIRIT, HEART TO HEART, SMILE TO
- 48:06SMILE, KISS, THEN HAVE HIS KISS COME BACK ON YOU, AMEN. WELL,
- 48:13WHAT'S THAT KISS? IT'S CALLED FAVOR. IT'S CALLED BLESSING.
- 48:17IT'S CALLED APPROVAL. AMEN. ALL RIGHT, WOW, I THINK WE'VE BEEN
- 48:25WITH GOD. ALL RIGHT, WELL, HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO,
- 48:29AND I WANNA INCLUDE YOU THAT ARE WATCHING. I WANT YOU TO SHARE
- 48:32YOUR NAME AND SAY, "I BET I KNOW WHAT FOOD YOU'RE GOING TO EAT
- 48:39ON THE 4TH OF JULY." TELL US YOUR NAME ONLINE AND PUT WHAT
- 48:42FOOD YOU'RE GONNA HAVE, AND I'M GONNA READ IN THE COMMENTS. AND
- 48:45IF IT LINES UP WITH RIBS, YOU'RE HEARING FROM GOD.
- 48:48ALL RIGHT, THERE YOU GO, GREET ONE ANOTHER.
- 48:50(MUSIC)
- 49:30- WELL, GOOD MORNING. IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING
- 49:36WITH US, WE WANNA MAKE SURE YOU FEEL WELCOME. I ALSO WANNA POINT
- 49:40OUT THAT THE USHERS HAVE BLUE GIFT BAGS IN THEIR HANDS. IF YOU
- 49:44DID NOT ALREADY GET ONE AT THE DOOR, IF YOU DID, MAKE SURE YOU
- 49:49GET ONE FROM THEM. IF YOU DID GET ONE AT THE DOOR, PLEASE TAKE
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- 50:00AS WELL AS SOME GOODIES WE'VE TUCKED IN THERE FOR YOU. SO
- 50:03PLEASE TAKE THAT GUEST PACKET OUT IF YOU WOULD. IT HAS A
- 50:06PICTURE OF THE STAGE ON THE FRONT OF IT. INSIDE THAT,
- 50:08THERE'S SOME INFORMATION WE WANNA SEND HOME WITH YOU, AS
- 50:11WELL AS A BRIGHT ORANGE STAY CONNECTED CARD ON THE LEFT
- 50:15HAND SIDE. GO AHEAD AND TEAR IT OFF, FILL IT OUT, DROP IT IN THE
- 50:17OFFERING BASKET WHEN IT COMES BY IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. WE JUST
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- 50:54BLESSED BY ALL THE GREAT CONTENT WE'VE PUT TOGETHER
- 50:56JUST FOR YOU. WELL, SEPTEMBER'S COMING.
- 51:01(CONGREGATION CHEERING)
- 51:03OPENING THE HEAVENS 2025. IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED IN THE ROOM
- 51:07OR ONLINE, YOU NEED TO GET REGISTERED. AND I KNOW, YOU
- 51:12KNOW, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE TASTE OF WHAT IT'S LIKE IF YOU
- 51:15HAVEN'T BEEN THERE. YOU NEED TO COME AND EXPERIENCE THE ROOM
- 51:20WITH US. HERE'S A LITTLE SAMPLE FOR YOU. WATCH THIS.
- 51:26- I BELIEVE SOMETHING IS LAUNCHING. AND OUR KING IS GOING
- 51:29TO MOVE TO THE CENTER AND RISE IN HIS CHURCH.
- 51:33- THIS IS THE FINAL MOVE OF THE LORD, SAITH GOD. IT'S GONNA GET
- 51:38MORE INTENSE, MORE POWERFUL, AND MORE GREAT.
- 51:42- AIN'T NOTHING GONNA KEEP YOU BACK.
- 51:44AIN'T NOTHING GONNA HOLD YOU DOWN. AND THAT'S
- 51:47WHEN YOU SAY, "NOT TODAY, SATAN, NOT TODAY."
- 51:52- OPENING THE HEAVENS CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER
- 51:5411TH-14TH AT THE MID -AMERICA CENTER.
- 51:57DON'T MISS THIS DIVINE APPOINTMENT OF GOD'S
- 51:59REMNANT. TOGETHER WE'LL BOLDLY RELEASE
- 52:01THE SOUND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE.
- 52:04- IF GOD IS MOVING, PEOPLE WILL COME
- 52:07FROM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
- 52:12- GET YOUR VOICE AND RAISE IT BECAUSE
- 52:15IT'S TIME TO PURSUE, OVERTAKE AND WITHOUT FAIL
- 52:20AMERICA. YOU WILL RECOVER ALL. LET EVERY DEVIL FALL.
- 52:24LET EVERY EVIL AGENDA BE EXPOSED.
- 52:28REGISTER TODAY AT OPENINGTHEHEAVENS.ORG.
- 52:33(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 52:35- HOW MANY OF YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT OPENING THE HEAVENS?
- 52:38WHOA, THREE OF YOU. HOW MANY OF YOU ARE
- 52:40EXCITED ABOUT OPENING THE HEAVENS?
- 52:41(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 52:44WELL, REMEMBER, IF YOU HAVE NOT REGISTERED YET, MAKE SURE TO DO
- 52:46SO. NOW, I JUST WANNA TAKE A QUICK MINUTE OF YOUR TIME WITH
- 52:49AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT CORE YOUTH. WE ARE EXCITED THAT OUR
- 52:52CORE YOUTH RETREAT IS COMING UP AUGUST 3RD THROUGH 6TH. SO I
- 52:57WANTED TO ANNOUNCE FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. ONE, I KNOW THAT IF
- 53:00YOU HAVE A YOUTH AGE STUDENT, THEY NEVER FORGET TO SAY
- 53:03ANYTHING OR TO BRING ANY PAPERS HOME. SO JUST IN CASE THE SLIGHT
- 53:09CHANCE THAT ONE OF YOUR YOUTH AGE STUDENTS DID, WE DID WANT TO
- 53:11REMIND YOU THAT YOUTH RETREAT IS AUGUST 3RD THROUGH THE 6TH. WE
- 53:15DO HAVE A QR CODE IF THEY COULD PUT IT UP ON THE SCREENS. IF YOU
- 53:17HAVEN'T REGISTERED YOUR YOUTH AGE CHILD YET, PLEASE MAKE SURE
- 53:20TO DO SO. SPOTS ARE FILLING UP AND WE'RE JUST SO EXCITED FOR
- 53:23WHAT GOD'S GOING TO DO DURING THAT TIME. IF YOU ARE AN
- 53:26E -MEMBER AND YOU HAVE A YOUTH AGE CHILD, YOU
- 53:29CAN REGISTER AS WELL. WE'RE EXTENDING OUR INVITATIONS
- 53:32TO YOUR YOUTH AGE STUDENTS FOR OUR E -MEMBERS.
- 53:34SO GO AHEAD, REGISTER THEM AND WE CAN SCHEDULE A TIME
- 53:37WHERE WE COULD MEET YOU OVER A VIDEO CALL AND JUST GET READY
- 53:40FOR THAT. BUT WE'RE SUPER EXCITED. HOW MANY OF YOU ARE
- 53:41EXCITED FOR WHAT GOD'S DOING IN THIS GENERATION? OUR THEME FOR
- 53:46THIS CONFERENCE IS CHOSEN IDENTITY. THAT THAT GRAPHIC IS
- 53:49ALSO UP AND GOD IS UP TO SOMETHING, RIGHT? WHEN THE DEVIL
- 53:52TRIES TO STEAL SOMETHING, A, WE KNOW HE CAN'T, BUT B, THERE'S
- 53:55GONNA BE A GREAT RESTORATION IN THIS GENERATION WHEN WE REALIZE
- 53:58WHOSE WE ARE, AND WHO WE ARE IN HIM. AMEN. SO JUST WANT TO
- 54:03REMIND YOU, IF YOU HAVEN'T REGISTERED, PLEASE VISIT THAT
- 54:05LINK IN THAT QR CODE AND REGISTER. ALSO FOR ALL CAMP
- 54:08GOERS, THERE IS GOING TO BE A PARENT MEETING, IF YOU WANT TO
- 54:10WRITE THIS DOWN ON SUNDAY, JULY 13, IMMEDIATELY AFTER SERVICE.
- 54:15SO PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF THAT SUNDAY, JULY 13, WE'RE GONNA
- 54:18HAVE A PARENT MEETING FOR ALL CAMP GOERS WHERE WE GO OVER
- 54:20EXPECTATIONS AND KIND OF WHAT YOUR CHILDREN CAN EXPECT. IS
- 54:24THAT OKAY? WELL, WE'RE SUPER EXCITED. THANK YOU FOR WHAT
- 54:27YOU'RE DOING IN YOUR CHILDREN'S LIFE AND TRUSTING THEM IN OUR
- 54:30YOUTH GROUP. AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED FOR WHAT GOD'S GONNA
- 54:32DO IN THEIR LIVES THOSE DAYS. SO AGAIN, AUGUST
- 54:343RD THROUGH THE 7TH FOR A CORE YOUTH RETREAT. WANNA
- 54:37THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT, PASTOR HANK.
- 54:38- THANK YOU. AND HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY. HAPPY 29TH, MIKE.
- 54:44- YES, YES, AMEN.
- 54:45IS IT 29TH? OKAY, WE LOVE YOU. I WAS A
- 54:49YOUTH PASTOR. IT'S NOT AN EASY, EASY. SO WE DO
- 54:52APPRECIATE THAT. AND WE GOT GREAT YOUTH. GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO
- 54:55THE YOUTH THERE. SO, HOPEFULLY IN THE COMMENTS YOU DID FIND
- 55:01OUT, AND I'LL FIND OUT LATER WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE FOR
- 55:04FOURTH OF JULY, BUT I WAS JUST THINKING, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE
- 55:06PRAYING IN TONGUES, YOU KNOW, SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE THOUGHT
- 55:09THAT WAS SCARY. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S SCARIER IS IF CACKLIN'
- 55:14KAMALA HAMAS WOULD HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT. OR THAT NUT JOB
- 55:20DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE AND MAYOR IN NEW YORK. OR HOW ABOUT THIS, IF
- 55:26THE CONGRESS SEAT, DON BACON GOES TO THE LIBERAL, THAT'S
- 55:32SCARIER. JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. I KNOW YOU DON'T LIKE
- 55:37THAT, BUT YOU GOTTA LEARN, WHEN IT COMES TO GOD, WE DON'T SAY
- 55:42THAT SCARES ME, NO. NO, GOD, I WANNA KNOW, I WANNA EXPERIENCE.
- 55:49I WANT THAT IN MY LIFE. THAT'S HOW YOU GET AN ENCOUNTER, AMEN?
- 55:52ALL RIGHT, WELL LISTEN, THERE'S A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS. I WON'T GO
- 55:55REAL LONG, BUT JUST MAKE SURE, OTH, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
- 55:58ALREADY REGISTERED? I WANNA SEE IF YOU'VE BEHAVED YOURSELF.
- 56:01OKAY, HOW MANY HAVE NOT REGISTERED? NO, BE HONEST, I'M
- 56:04NOT GONNA SCOLD YOU. OKAY, I WANNA ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO SO,
- 56:08PLEASE. HOW ABOUT YOU? YOU THAT ARE ONLINE, IT'S NOT TOO LATE.
- 56:12AND BY THE WAY, IT WILL BE A LIVE STREAM, BUT I WANNA SEE YOU
- 56:16IN THE ROOM. AND YOU ONLY HAVE TO REGISTER IF YOU'RE GONNA BE
- 56:20HERE IN PERSON. I WANNA FILL THAT PLACE UP BECAUSE WE'RE
- 56:24GOING TO PRAY, AND MAYBE NEXT WEEK I MIGHT SHOW THE CLIP. HOW
- 56:27MANY WERE HERE WHEN WE DID THE SMOKE ON THE WATER? AND WE
- 56:31PRAYED. THERE WAS A MAJOR SHIFT THAT TOOK PLACE. SO I THINK
- 56:34WE'RE GONNA PRAY. WE'RE GONNA PRAY OVER OMAHA A LITTLE BIT,
- 56:37BUT WE'RE GONNA PRAY OVER, LET'S PRAY OVER THE MIDTERMS. AND
- 56:40THERE'S SOMETHING THAT MY SPIRIT WAS ON ALERT ABOUT GOING INTO
- 56:46THE FALL, WHERE GOD SAID SOMETHING TO ME TO START
- 56:49PRAYING. SO WE WANT TO HAVE A GOOD FALL, AMEN, A PEACEFUL
- 56:53FALL, AMEN. SO LET'S GET THERE IN SEPTEMBER AND LET'S DO OUR
- 56:58PRAYER. SO MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THERE TO OTH. I DO ALSO WANT
- 57:01TO REMIND YOU THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE FLASHPOINT. I'LL BE ON
- 57:05MONDAY AND TUESDAY AND THEN I'LL BE IN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAY
- 57:09LOUISVILLE, LOUISVILLE, HOW DO YOU SAY IT? IF YOU'RE FROM
- 57:12KENTUCKY, IS THAT WHERE YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN YOUR THROAT?
- 57:15LOUISVILLE, LOUISVILLE OR WHATEVER. WHEN PASTOR BOB ROGERS
- 57:19WAS HERE, HE SAID, "YOU'RE NOT SAYING IT RIGHT." I WAS LIKE,
- 57:21"BOB, I'M A MIDWEST GUY. WE'RE THE ONES THAT PEOPLE HIRE TO DO
- 57:26BROADCAST TV" RIGHT? PEOPLE WITHOUT AN ACCENT. SO,
- 57:31LOU-IS-VILLE, MEET US THERE ON JULY 3RD. THAT'S WHERE I'M GONNA
- 57:34BE, AND THEY'LL BE THERE JULY 4TH. I'M ONLY COMING FOR ONE
- 57:37NIGHT, AND SO THAT'S ALL I COULD HAVE DONE WITH MY SCHEDULE, SO
- 57:41I'LL BE THERE. I GET TO MEET ED RUSH AND I TOLD HIM, I SAID,
- 57:44"ED, BRING YOUR PLANT, IT'LL BE A GREAT STAGE DECOR." SO, AND I,
- 57:50HEY, TALKING ABOUT FLASHPOINT, JUST SO YOU KNOW, FOR THE FIRST
- 57:54TIME IN ALMOST FIVE YEARS, I'VE BEEN ON FLASHPOINT PRETTY
- 57:58FAITHFULLY AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. AND THEN I'VE BEEN ON TWICE A
- 58:02WEEK FOR A YEAR AND OVER A YEAR AND A HALF, 'CAUSE THE LORD SAID
- 58:05TO DO IT. AND HERE'S THE THING, I TRIED LAST YEAR TO TAKE A TWO
- 58:11WEEK BREAK, AND THEY HAD THAT ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST
- 58:15TRUMP, AND SO THEN THEY CALLED ME, SAID, "CAN YOU COME ON?" I
- 58:17WAS LIKE, "YEAH." BUT THIS YEAR, I AM TAKING A THREE WEEK
- 58:21VACATION HERE IN JULY WITH MAMA. AND I'M NOT GONNA BE ON
- 58:26FLASHPOINT, AND IF YOU ASK FLASHPOINT, NO, I'M NOT, I'M NOT
- 58:30GONNA BE ON. AND THEY RESPECT THAT. I'M TAKING A BREAK. I NEED
- 58:34A BREAK. YOU NEED ME TO TAKE A BREAK. YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE ME
- 58:37FOR THREE WEEKS ON THERE. SO JUST SO YOU KNOW, BRENDA AND I
- 58:41WILL BE ON VACATION STARTING, WE WILL BE ON VACATION JULY 13TH.
- 58:45WE'RE ONLY GONNA BE ON VACATION THREE WEEKS, BUT WE'RE ONLY
- 58:47GONNA MISS TWO SUNDAYS. AND SO JULY 13TH, DR. RICHARD ROBERTS
- 58:53WILL BE HERE, AND HE'S HAVING NOTABLE MIRACLES. YOU WANT TO BE
- 58:58HERE IF YOU NEED HEALING. AND I'M TELLING YOU, NOTABLE
- 59:02MIRACLES, DOCUMENTED MIRACLES, CONFIRMED BY DOCTOR MIRACLES. I
- 59:07MEAN, THEY ARE REALLY MANIFEST IN HIS MINISTRY, SO MAKE SURE
- 59:09YOU GET HERE. AND THEN ALSO, JULY 20TH, DR. GENE BAILEY WILL
- 59:14BE HERE. SO IT'S GOING TO BE A REALLY, REALLY GREAT TIME OVER
- 59:18THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. AND THEN LASTLY, ON THE ANNOUNCEMENT
- 59:20SIDE, IS THIS WEDNESDAY COMING UP, BEFORE I LEAVE TO GO TO
- 59:26FLASHPOINT THE NEXT DAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO A NIGHT OF PRAYER
- 59:30FOR AMERICA. AND YOU CAN JOIN US ONLINE, PLEASE. LET'S PRAY FOR
- 59:35OUR COUNTRY. IT'S GONNA BE POWERHOUSE. OUR PRAYER TEAM WILL
- 59:39COME UP. WE'LL BE HERE, BRENDA AND I, AND WE'LL GET OUT.
- 59:41(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 59:43SEE, I SCARED YOU AGAIN. EVERY LIBERAL DEVIL WILL RUN.
- 59:45(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 59:48AND THEN I MIGHT EVEN KICK MY FOOT.
- 59:50(SPEAKING IN TONGUES)
- 59:56SO ANYWAY, THERE YOU GO. AND I'LL TEACH
- 59:59YOU HOW TO KICK AND PRAY IN TONGUES AT THE
- 1:00:00SAME TIME AND YOU'LL GET A KICK OUT OF IT. ALL RIGHT,
- 1:00:02THERE YOU GO. ALL RIGHT, I WANT YOU TO OPEN YOUR BIBLES. IT'S
- 1:00:05OFFERING TIME, ARE YOU READY? I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT ACTS 3
- 1:00:09I WANNA SHOW YOU A PRINCIPLE VERY QUICKLY. I WANNA
- 1:00:11GET MAMA UP HERE 'CAUSE SHE'S GOT A GREAT WORD 'CAUSE SHE TOLD
- 1:00:13ME AND I BELIEVE HER. "NOW WHEN PETER AND JOHN WENT UP TOGETHER
- 1:00:18IN THE TEMPLE OF THE HOUR OF PRAYER, BEING THE NINTH HOUR,"
- 1:00:21VERSE 2, "A CERTAIN MAN FROM HIS MOTHER'S WOMB WAS CARRIED
- 1:00:26THERE DAILY..." SO THERE WAS A DAILY ROUTINE, A DAILY HABIT,
- 1:00:29DAILY, I BET, NEGATIVITY, "OH, HERE I GO AGAIN." "WHICH WAS
- 1:00:34CALLED BEAUTIFUL," BUT THINGS WEREN'T VERY BEAUTIFUL IN THAT
- 1:00:36GUY'S LIFE. AND EVERY DAY HE WENT AND HE WAS A BEGGAR. THEY
- 1:00:41PUT HIM OUT THE OUTSIDE OF THE TEMPLE. VERSE 3, LET'S
- 1:00:43CONTINUE. "WHO SEEING PETER AND JOHN ABOUT TO GO IN, HE ASKED
- 1:00:47HIM FOR SOMETHING." VERSE 4, "AND PETER
- 1:00:51FASTENED HIS EYES UPON HIM WITH JOHN..."
- 1:00:53HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN WHERE AN ANOINTING
- 1:00:56COMES OUT OF SOMEBODY'S EYES? YOU KNOW, AND IT CAN BE VERY
- 1:01:00INTIMIDATING. I'VE HAD THAT HAPPEN TO ME A COUPLE TIMES WHEN
- 1:01:02BRENDA LOOKS AT ME, I'M LIKE, (GROANS) YOU KNOW? YOU KNOW?
- 1:01:06I REPENT. "YES, DEAR, I WILL DO ALL THE HONEY
- 1:01:10-DO LIST." I MEAN, IT'S CRAZY. I WISH THAT ANOINTING WOULDN'T
- 1:01:12COME OUT OF HER EYES WHEN I'M ASKED TO DO SOMETHING, BUT IT
- 1:01:15BRINGS THE FEAR OF BRENDA ON ME. I DON'T, OH, I THOUGHT YOU
- 1:01:21WEREN'T LISTENING. OKAY, ANYWAY. NOW, HOW MANY HUSBANDS KNOW,
- 1:01:24WOMEN, THEY HEAR EVERYTHING. YES, THEY DO, ALL RIGHT. I LOVE
- 1:01:28HER. I LIKE TO TEASE HER. SHE TEASED ME BACK. SHE HIT ME
- 1:01:32PRETTY HARD THESE LAST FEW WEEKS IN PREACHING, SO I FIGURED I
- 1:01:34NEEDED TO EVEN THE SCORE. ESPECIALLY WHEN SHE TOLD ME
- 1:01:36ABOUT THE GRAND CANYON THAT I WAS NOWHERE NEAR THE BRIM. AND I
- 1:01:41WANNA SAY THIS PUBLICLY, IT WASN'T BECAUSE OF THE HEIGHT
- 1:01:44ISSUE, IT WAS 'CAUSE I WAS LOOKING FOR ICE CREAM. SO
- 1:01:46ANYWAY, LOOK AT VERSE 5. YOU BELIEVE THAT, THANK YOU, I SO
- 1:01:51LOVE YOU, YOU ARE SO GREAT, YOU ARE
- 1:01:53SO GREAT. "AND HE GAVE HEED,"
- 1:01:56QUIT LAUGHING OVER THERE, MY MOM'S SAYING SOMETHING. MOM,
- 1:01:59YOU'RE RUINING MY OFFERING MESSAGE. ALL RIGHT. THERE'S
- 1:02:04NOTHING LIKE HAVING A WIFE AND A MOTHER IN THE SAME CHURCH
- 1:02:08SERVICE WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO SAY SOMETHING 'CAUSE THEY WILL
- 1:02:12SET THE FACTS STRAIGHT. OKAY. THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, I'M TALKING
- 1:02:18TO YOU WHO REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT I'M SAYING. THESE GUYS,
- 1:02:21THEY JUST CHECKED OUT. THANK YOU FOR JOINING ME TODAY. ALL RIGHT.
- 1:02:27"AND HE GAVE HEED UNTO THEM." NOW WATCH
- 1:02:29THIS. HE WAS "EXPECTING TO RECEIVE
- 1:02:31SOMETHING OF THEM." STOP RIGHT THERE. WHAT WAS HE
- 1:02:33EXPECTING? THE SAME OLD THING. A HANDOUT. NOT MUCH REALLY TO
- 1:02:40CHANGE A SITUATION. NOT MUCH REALLY TO CHANGE HIS LIFE.
- 1:02:44THAT'S HOW PEOPLE APPROACH GOD WHEN IT COMES TO THEIR GIVING.
- 1:02:49"YEAH, I'M GONNA PUT A FEW DOLLARS IN THE OFFERING PLATE."
- 1:02:52"OH, HERE'S MY TITHE. I GUESS I'M GONNA DO IT." "NO,
- 1:02:55IT'S OFFERING TIME, THEY'RE TAKING TOO
- 1:02:56LONG." WELL, YOU'RE JUST EXPECTING TO
- 1:03:00RECEIVE THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD. AND YOU GOTTA BE CAREFUL THAT
- 1:03:05YOU DON'T GET INTO WHAT I CALL GIVING HABITS. NOW, GIVING
- 1:03:09HABITS LIKE YOU SHOULD GIVE, YES, KEEP THAT HABIT, BUT GIVING
- 1:03:12HABITS OF HAVING A BAD ATTITUDE. GOD SAID HE LOVES A CHEERFUL
- 1:03:15GIVER. MALACHI 3 SAYS, "WATCH YOUR WORDS WHEN YOU
- 1:03:19GIVE," BECAUSE GOD NOTICED. HE SAID, "HEY, MAN, YOUR WORDS ARE
- 1:03:21STOUT AGAINST ME." WE NEED TO WATCH THOSE HABITS. "OH, I'M
- 1:03:26GOING TO GIVE, BUT BOY, I STILL HAVE MORE BILLS THAN I DO
- 1:03:32OFFERING." HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN THERE? I HAVE. YOU'VE
- 1:03:35GOT TO WATCH YOUR WORDS. WATCH YOUR WORDS. YOU'VE
- 1:03:38GOT TO WATCH YOUR ATTITUDE. DON'T GET IN THE MINDSET THAT
- 1:03:41YOU'RE EXPECTING SOMETHING, BUT THE WRONG THING. YOU'RE NOT
- 1:03:45EXPECTING BREAKTHROUGH, NOT EXPECTING ANYTHING TO CHANGE.
- 1:03:50YOU'RE JUST EXPECTING IT'S JUST ANOTHER OFFERING. I NEVER
- 1:03:54APPROACH AN OFFERING THAT WAY, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT
- 1:03:57THERE'S SOMETHING CONNECTED TO MY OFFERING.
- 1:04:00LOOK AT MALACHI 3:9-10. THERE'S SOMETHING
- 1:04:04CONNECTED RIGHT THERE AS YOU'RE WRITING OUT YOUR
- 1:04:08CHECK. I LOVE YOU GRANDMAS, GRANDPAS, YOU GUYS THAT ARE
- 1:04:11WRITING OUT YOUR CHECKS. WE CHERISH THAT. BUT FOR THOSE OF
- 1:04:14YOU THAT MAYBE YOU GOT YOUR CELL PHONE OUT, OR YOU THAT ARE IN
- 1:04:16THE ROOM, DON'T BE LIKE THE BEGGAR. YOU'RE EXPECTING TO
- 1:04:21RECEIVE SOMETHING, BUT IN YOUR MIND, IT'S JUST THE SAME OLD,
- 1:04:25SAME OLD. I'M EXPECTING TO SEE MY ACCOUNT GO DOWN. I'M
- 1:04:30EXPECTING TO SEE NOT MUCH MONEY LEFT AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
- 1:04:36BUT LOOK AT WHAT MALACHI 3 SAYS. WE SHOULD EXPECT THE GOD
- 1:04:40FACTOR. COME ON, YOU'VE HEARD ME ON FLASHPOINT, THE VERY THING
- 1:04:44THAT WOULD FRUSTRATE ME THROUGH ALL THESE YEARS THAT I WAS ON
- 1:04:47FLASHPOINT IS PEOPLE WHO GOT ON AND PONTIFICATED, WHETHER IT BE
- 1:04:51ON THE TV SET OR ON THE PLATFORM. AND IT'S FINE, YOU CAN
- 1:04:55PONTIFICATE, YOU CAN BE A POLITICAL PUNDIT, YOU COULD BE
- 1:04:58AS BRILLIANT, YOU COULD BE A CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERT, YOU COULD
- 1:05:00BE THIS, YOU COULD BE THAT, BUT IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND OR
- 1:05:03INCLUDE THE GOD FACTOR IN YOUR PERSPECTIVE, YOU'RE LIMITING
- 1:05:08YOURSELF, YOUR PERSPECTIVE ISN'T 100% AND YOU'RE GONNA GRIEVE THE
- 1:05:14HOLY ONE. GOD WANTS TO BE INCLUDED IN EVERYTHING. THAT'S
- 1:05:19WHY HE SAYS HE'S THE LORD OF ALL. AND IF YOU LET GOD HAVE THE
- 1:05:24GOD FACTOR, WE'RE ALREADY SEEING WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN OUR NATION.
- 1:05:28WHEN YOU GOT A PRESIDENT, AS HE'S GOING OVER TO IRAN, SAYS,
- 1:05:31"GOD, WE LOVE YOU." THAT WAS AMAZING. THAT BRINGS THE SMILE
- 1:05:37OF GOD DOWN. IF YOU HATE THE MAN, YOU OUGHT TO FEEL REAL GOOD
- 1:05:40ABOUT WHAT HE SAID THOUGH, BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU MAINTAIN
- 1:05:43A BLESSING. NOW, LOOK AT VERSE, LET'S JUST GO TO, "YOUR CURSE OF
- 1:05:49THE CURSE, YOU'VE ROBBED ME THIS WHOLE NATION." LOOK AT VERSE 10.
- 1:05:51NOW WATCH. "BRING ALL YOUR TITHES INTO THE STOREHOUSE THAT
- 1:05:54THERE MAY BE MEAT IN MY HOUSE, AND PROVE ME HERE, SAYETH THE
- 1:05:57LORD OF HOSTS." NOW WATCH THE SPIRITUAL COMPONENT. WATCH WHAT
- 1:06:02HAPPENS. DON'T BE LIKE THE BEGGAR WHO JUST EXPECTS THE SAME
- 1:06:05OLD, SAME OLD. DAILY ROUTINES ARE GOING TO CONTINUE. SAME OLD
- 1:06:09BROKEN DOWN STUPID CAR, RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL IT. DON'T
- 1:06:11CALL IT THAT. SAME OLD, SAME OLD. I'M JUST RENTING AN
- 1:06:15APARTMENT. I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO OWN A HOUSE. I'LL NEVER BE ABLE
- 1:06:18TO GET AWAY FROM THESE GOOFBALL NEIGHBORS. I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO
- 1:06:21HAVE A NICE PIECE OF CLOTHING. I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO TAKE A
- 1:06:25TRIP. I'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW. ARE YOU HERE? I MEAN, THIS
- 1:06:30IS REAL LIFE. AND THAT'S WHAT THE BEGGAR DID. BUT GOD'S
- 1:06:34SAYING, WAIT A MINUTE, IF YOU WILL TITHE, "BRING ME NOW THE
- 1:06:39TITHES INTO MY STOREHOUSE, I'LL OPEN TO YOU THE WINDOWS OF
- 1:06:43HEAVEN." COME ON, THERE'S A SUPERNATURAL COMPONENT. IF YOU
- 1:06:46GIVE, I'M GONNA DO SOMETHING OF THE SUPERNATURAL KIND. THAT'S
- 1:06:51WHY ACTS 3, MY OPENING TEXT, PETER LOOKS AT HIM AND SAYS,
- 1:06:56HEY, LOOK, I HAVE SILVER AND GOLD I DON'T HAVE. IT WASN'T AN
- 1:06:59ISSUE OF MONEY. HE WAS SAYING, I HAVE SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL THAT
- 1:07:01YOU NEED TO START EXPECTING TO RECEIVE. COME ON, IF A MINISTER
- 1:07:06PRAYS A PRAYER FOR YOU TO BE HEALED, DON'T JUST SIT THERE AND
- 1:07:10CRITICIZE, I DON'T BELIEVE THAT, I KNOW PLENTY OF PEOPLE THAT
- 1:07:13DIDN'T GET HEALED. WELL, WAIT A MINUTE, YOU'RE NOT EXPECTING TO
- 1:07:16RECEIVE ANYTHING. DON'T SPEND YOUR WHOLE LIFE TRYING TO ALWAYS
- 1:07:20FIND WHAT'S NOT WORKING OR WHAT'S NOT RIGHT AND START
- 1:07:23DISCOVERING THE BIBLE ON WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT DOES WORK. AND
- 1:07:27YOU GOT TO MAKE YOUR EXPECTANCY CONNECTED TO THE GOD FACTOR. THE
- 1:07:34WINDOWS OF HEAVEN WILL BE OPEN AND YOU'LL BE POURED OUT
- 1:07:36BLESSINGS. SO MUCH, THIS IS GOD SPEAKING. SO MUCH BLESSINGS THAT
- 1:07:42YOU WON'T EVEN HAVE ROOM TO RECEIVE IT. NOW, LOOK AT THE
- 1:07:47NEXT THING. GOD DEALS WITH THE DEVIL. HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD
- 1:07:49LIKE THE DEVIL DEALT WITH ON YOUR BEHALF? LOOK AT YOUR GIVING
- 1:07:53IS CONNECTED TO GOD DEALING WITH THE DEVIL, YOUR TITHING. HE
- 1:07:56SAID, "I'M GOING TO REBUKE THE DEVIL, THE DEVOURER FOR YOUR
- 1:07:59SAKE. PROVE ME WITH IT." NOW LAST SCRIPTURE, ACTS 10:1.
- 1:08:06AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. LOOK AT THIS.
- 1:08:08BRING ACTS 3:1, OR ACTS 10, EXCUSE ME, VERSE 1. SORRY
- 1:08:14ABOUT THAT. AND IT WAS TALKING ABOUT CORNELIUS,
- 1:08:17OKAY? "THERE WAS A CERTAIN MAN IN CAESAREA
- 1:08:19CALLED CORNELIUS, A CENTURION OF THE
- 1:08:22BAND CALLED THE ITALIAN BAND." SO THEY
- 1:08:23WERE A ROCK AND ROLL BAND.
- 1:08:25AND THEY'RE GONNA BE UP AT, THE LORD ALREADY LAID ON MY HEART
- 1:08:28THAT THEY'RE GONNA BE THE OPENING ACT AT THE MARRIAGE
- 1:08:31SUPPER OF THE LAND. ALL RIGHT, CORNELIUS AND YOUR ITALIAN BAND
- 1:08:34COME UP. THEY'RE GONNA BE UP THERE, "ALL RIGHT, EVERYBODY
- 1:08:36ENJOY THE LASAGNA AND THE SPAGHETTI. ALL RIGHT, LET'S SING
- 1:08:39A ONE AND A TWO AND A THREE." SO THERE WAS THE BAND, THERE WAS
- 1:08:43ROCK AND ROLL. I'M HELPING YOU INTERPRET YOUR BIBLE. NOW LET'S
- 1:08:48GO TO VERSE 2. I SHOULD WRITE THE BIBLE, THE CARTOON EDITION.
- 1:08:56NO, MY WIFE SAID NO. ALL RIGHT, HE WAS A DEVOUT MAN. SEE, I TOLD
- 1:09:00YOU IT'S DANGEROUS TO HAVE A WIFE AND A MOM BE IN THE SAME
- 1:09:02ROOM WHEN YOU'RE A PREACHER. "AND A DEVOUT MAN, ONE THAT
- 1:09:05FEARED GOD WITH ALL HIS HOUSE," THAT'S
- 1:09:07IMPORTANT, "WHICH GAVE MUCH ALMS..." HE WAS
- 1:09:11A GIVER. HOW MUCH DID HE GIVE? MUCH. OKAY, GOD NOTICED.
- 1:09:16THE HOLY SPIRIT NOTICED. THAT'S WHY HE PUT IN THERE. HE GAVE A
- 1:09:20LOT "TO THE PEOPLE AND HE PRAYED TO GOD." SO HE MIXED HIS PRAYER
- 1:09:26WITH HIS GIVING. NOW WATCH WHAT HAPPENS. LOOK AT THE
- 1:09:28SUPERNATURAL COMPONENT. "AND HE SAW IN A VISION, EVIDENTLY ABOUT
- 1:09:33THE NINTH HOUR, AN ANGEL OF GOD CAME TO HIM." SO WHAT HAPPENED?
- 1:09:37HIS PRAYING CONNECTED TO HIS GIVING CAUSED THE GOD FACTOR.
- 1:09:43YOU KNOW WHY SOME PEOPLE, THEY DON'T GET AN ENCOUNTER? WELL,
- 1:09:46HOW DO YOU PRAY? DO YOU PRAY? DO YOU GIVE? HOW COME SOME PEOPLE
- 1:09:51DON'T GET A BREAKTHROUGH? LOOK AT PROVERBS 3, ALL
- 1:09:54RIGHT? AND I FORGOT THAT ONE, BUT I WANT TO SHOW IT TO YOU
- 1:09:57REAL QUICK. BRENDA, AM I TAKING TOO MUCH TIME? LOOK AT 9-10.
- 1:10:02YOUR GIVING IS CONNECTED TO THE SUPERNATURAL.
- 1:10:04WATCH, PROVERBS 3:9-10. "HONOR THE LORD WITH
- 1:10:08YOUR SUBSTANCE AND WITH THE FIRST FRUITS OF ALL YOUR
- 1:10:12INCREASE." THAT'S YOUR TITHE. NOW WATCH THE SUPERNATURAL
- 1:10:15COMPONENT. "YOUR BARNS WILL BE FILLED WITH PLENTY." THAT MEANS
- 1:10:19NO MATTER WHAT THE SEASON IS IN THE EARTH, NO MATTER WHAT THE
- 1:10:22SEASON IS IN YOUR LIFE, THE SEASON WITH YOUR JOB, YOUR
- 1:10:26BUSINESS, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE PLENTY. THAT'S WHAT THAT BIBLE,
- 1:10:29THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. BUT YOU CAN'T IF YOU DON'T PLANT SEED.
- 1:10:35YOU CAN WANT A BARN TO HAVE PLENTY. YOU CAN DESIRE TO HAVE
- 1:10:41GOD MEET YOUR NEEDS, BUT YOU GOTTA INCREASE YOUR GIVING TO
- 1:10:45THE POINT OF EXPECTATION. GOD WILL BLESS YOU AS YOU BLESS
- 1:10:49OTHERS. NOW WATCH, "AND YOUR VATS WILL BURST OUT WITH NEW
- 1:10:53WINE." NOTICE THE WORD BURST OUT.
- 1:10:56YOU WANT BREAKTHROUGH? YOU WANT BREAKTHROUGH?
- 1:10:59THAT'S WHAT PETER AND JOHN WAS SAYING TO THE MAN
- 1:11:02WHO WAS EXPECTING THE SAME OLD SAME OLD. YOU WANT BREAKTHROUGH?
- 1:11:07CONNECT YOUR FAITH TO THE ANOINTING. DO THE SAME WITH YOUR
- 1:11:10GIVING. ALL RIGHT, THE GIVING INFORMATION IS ON THE SCREEN,
- 1:11:13AND THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN GIVE. AND WE DO THANK
- 1:11:16YOU FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING. WE HAD A MEDIA SEMINAR
- 1:11:21THAT WE DID ON FRIDAY. MAN, IT WAS INCREDIBLE. IN FACT, IF
- 1:11:24YOU'RE A PASTOR OR YOU'RE SOMEBODY THAT YOU DO MEDIA AT
- 1:11:28YOUR CHURCH, WE'RE GONNA DO ANOTHER ONE. WE ONLY ADVERTISE
- 1:11:32LIKE THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE, WE'RE GONNA DO ANOTHER ONE. AND
- 1:11:35WE WANT YOU TO COME AND WE'RE GONNA INCREASE IT. WE'RE GONNA
- 1:11:37INVITE PASTORS TO COME IN. IT WAS FABULOUS. BUT ONE THING THAT
- 1:11:41THEY COULDN'T BELIEVE, THE PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE CITY THAT
- 1:11:44CAME, PASTORS CAME FROM AROUND THE CITY, DIFFERENT ONES. THEY
- 1:11:48SAID, "IT IS SO AMAZING TO US THAT BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE," WELL,
- 1:11:54FIRST OF ALL, LIKE YOU IN THIS ROOM, I WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE YOU.
- 1:11:58"YOU'RE GIVING HELPED TO FURTHER THIS VISION "AND TO MAKE THIS
- 1:12:02BUILDING HAPPEN, AND I PERSONALLY WANNA THANK YOU, "THE
- 1:12:05PEOPLE WHO DO COME HERE. I AM GRATEFUL. AND I BELIEVE GOD
- 1:12:10FEELS THE SAME WAY. BUT I ALSO WANT TO SAY TO YOU THAT SOME OF
- 1:12:14YOU, YOU'VE BEEN HERE AND YOU HELPED BUILD THIS, THANK YOU.
- 1:12:17SOME OF YOU, YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HERE, YOU PROBABLY NEVER WILL,
- 1:12:21BUT THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE BLOWN AWAY BY. AND IT'S SO HUMBLING TO
- 1:12:25SAY THIS, THAT YOU ACTUALLY GAVE TO SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE NOT
- 1:12:30SEEN, FELT, OR EXPERIENCED IN PERSON. AND THAT IS BIG. AND I
- 1:12:39JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT. I THANK YOU, AND I PRAY FOR YOU.
- 1:12:42WHEN I TELL YOU I PRAY FOR YOU EVERY DAY, I DO. AND I ALWAYS
- 1:12:45ASK GOD, WHETHER YOU'RE IN THIS ROOM OR WATCHING, TO ACCELERATE
- 1:12:49YOU AND TO BLESS YOU. AMEN? ALL RIGHT, LET'S STAND TO OUR FEET.
- 1:12:53I'M READY TO PRAY. ARE YOU READY TO GIVE? HOW MANY OF YOU ARE
- 1:12:56READY TO GIVE? ALL RIGHT. PASTOR BRENDA, I ALWAYS LIKE IT WHEN
- 1:13:01YOU DO THIS. SHE DOES IT BETTER THAN ME. I CAN'T WAIT TILL I'M
- 1:13:05GONNA PREACH NEXT WEEK AND THEN SHE CAN DO THIS. SHE DOES A
- 1:13:08GREAT JOB. DOESN'T SHE DO A TREMENDOUS JOB?
- 1:13:10SO I'M GONNA LET HER DO ALL THIS.
- 1:13:13- I LEANED OVER TO PASTOR MATT AND I SAID,
- 1:13:15"STAND UP, HE'S GONNA CALL AN AUDIBLE."
- 1:13:17- WE NEVER CAN PREDICT YOU.
- 1:13:19- YOU KNOW WHAT? THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. I
- 1:13:21JUST CHECKED THIS MORNING, 59 DAYS UNTIL KICKOFF.
- 1:13:23- OKAY.
- 1:13:24- HEY, SPEAKING OF THE GRAND CANYON, WE WERE HAVING A
- 1:13:27DISCUSSION. SHE SAID, "YOU MIGHT'VE LEFT THE STATE
- 1:13:31AND FLED THE STATE." I SAID, "OH, SO YOU LEFT
- 1:13:33ARIZONA AND CROSSED THE BORDER TO MEXICO?"
- 1:13:36- JUST ABOUT.
- 1:13:37- JUST ABOUT, YEAH. IT'S NOT JUST YOUR MOM AND PASTOR BRENDA.
- 1:13:43NOW YOU GOTTA DEAL WITH ME TOO, SO.
- 1:13:44- YEAH, THAT'S TRUE.
- 1:13:45- SO, LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT. IF YOU'RE A PREACHER AND YOU
- 1:13:49HAVE A WIFE, A MOTHER, AND A MOUTHY SON, I'M TELLING YOU...
- 1:13:53(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:13:56- TOUCHE, THAT WAS GOOD. I'M NOT GONNA LIE, THAT WAS GOOD.
- 1:13:59- HOLD UP YOUR OFFERING REALLY HIGH, HOLD IT UP. HOLD UP THOSE
- 1:14:01OF YOU ONLINE, HOLD UP YOUR DEVICE. EVERYBODY IN THE ROOM,
- 1:14:06COME ON, DO IT IN FAITH. FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR EVERY GIVER IN
- 1:14:09THIS ROOM UNDER THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, EVERY PERSON BY WAY OF
- 1:14:12THE INTERNET. WE THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT YOU REBUKE THE
- 1:14:19DEVOURER FOR OUR SAKE. AND WE STAND UPON IT, WE BELIEVE IT. WE
- 1:14:24DON'T EXPECT THE SAME OLD, SAME OLD, NO, GOD, NO. WE EXPECT TO
- 1:14:28BE BLESSED IN EVERY WAY THAT YOU PROMISED. AND WE KNOW THAT YOU
- 1:14:32WALK US THROUGH DIFFERENT SEASONS IN THAT BLESSING, BUT
- 1:14:35NONETHELESS, WE STAND AND WE BELIEVE YOU FOR IT. WE THANK YOU
- 1:14:39IN JESUS' NAME. COME ON, SHOUT AMEN TO ADD
- 1:14:41YOUR AGREEMENT. GO AHEAD PASTOR MATT, LET'S DO OUR
- 1:14:44DECLARATION TOGETHER IN JESUS' NAME.
- 1:14:47- WE DECLARE THE CAMPUS AND MINISTRY OF LORD OF
- 1:14:49HOSTS CHURCH SHALL BE INCREASED, EXPANDED, AND DEBT
- 1:14:53FREE. WE DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN WITHOUT DELAY. WE SAY TO EVERY
- 1:14:59HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT, "BE BUILT UP AND FINISHED." WE SAY THAT WE
- 1:15:03HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED FOR THE LORD IS BUILDING THIS HOUSE.
- 1:15:07WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH, EXCESS AND OVERFLOW. LORD, YOU ARE
- 1:15:12PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER, AND WE CALL UPON YOU, LORD OF HOSTS,
- 1:15:16TO BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE AND RAISE UP
- 1:15:19MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE ABUNDANTLY TO THIS WORK. WE
- 1:15:24PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, AND THEN
- 1:15:27WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE DECLARE NEW THINGS NOW. WE
- 1:15:32DECREE MINISTRY AND CAMPUS BE EXPANDED NOW. NOW SHOUT
- 1:15:37EXPANSION, COME ON, EVEN IN YOUR LIFE, AMEN. EXPANSION, AMEN.
- 1:15:41- PRAISE THE LORD.
- 1:15:41- TAKE IT AWAY, PASTOR BRENDA, I KNOW YOU GOT A POWERFUL WORD.
- 1:15:44- THANK YOU, PASTOR MATT. ALL RIGHT, THE USHERS ARE SERVING
- 1:15:47YOU, THOSE OF YOU ONLINE THAT ARE CLICKING YOUR LAST BUTTON TO
- 1:15:52PARTICIPATE OR LICKING THAT ENVELOPE AND APPLYING THAT
- 1:15:56STAMP, WHATEVER WAY THAT GOES, BUT GET YOUR BIBLES OUT AND
- 1:16:00WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE HERE ON, YOU KNOW, I'LL GET YOU OUT JUST
- 1:16:04IN TIME FOR THE RAIN TO STOP. HOW ABOUT WE GO TILL THE RAIN
- 1:16:06ENDS? WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT'S GOING TO BE, RIGHT? DO
- 1:16:11YOU REALLY WANT TO RUN OUT THERE IN THE RAIN? I DON'T KNOW ABOUT
- 1:16:13THAT, BUT ANYWAY, BUT PRAISE GOD. WELL, I WANT TO CONTINUE.
- 1:16:18THIS IS PART THREE IN A SERIES THAT I'M CALLING IT "THE TRUTH
- 1:16:22ABOUT CHRISTIAN SUFFERING." I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BECOME A
- 1:16:24BOOK. IF IT DOES, THAT MIGHT BE THE WORKING TITLE, BUT SOMETIMES
- 1:16:28THE WORKING TITLE IS NOT THE END OF THE ULTIMATE TITLE. SO WE'LL
- 1:16:32JUST KIND OF SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH IT, BUT I WANT TO DEVELOP
- 1:16:35IT MAY BE A LITTLE MORE. THE GOOD THING ABOUT A BOOK, IT'S
- 1:16:36LIKE A MOVIE. THERE'S ALWAYS MORE DETAIL THAN WHAT CAN COME
- 1:16:41OUT IN THE MOVIE. SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A LIMITED TIME UP HERE
- 1:16:43TYPICALLY. AND SO A LOT OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SO MUCH
- 1:16:47TRUTH WHEN WE STUDY THESE THINGS THAT WE JUST CAN'T GET OUT IN
- 1:16:5040, 45 MINUTES TO AN HOUR. BUT I DO ENCOURAGE YOU WHEN THINGS ARE
- 1:16:56PREACHED, GO BACK, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH, DO YOUR OWN STUDY,
- 1:17:00TAKE SOME OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT I'M BRINGING OUT AND THEN GO
- 1:17:03BACK AND ADD TO IT. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE ABILITY NOW WITH GOOGLE
- 1:17:07TO TYPE IN JUST ABOUT ANY SCRIPTURE. YOU CAN PUT
- 1:17:11SCRIPTURES ON ANY TOPIC AND YOU'LL SEE THINGS COME UP AND
- 1:17:14IT'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE, KIND OF SOME DIRECTION AND HOW TO, THEN
- 1:17:17JUST GO IN AND DISSECT SOME OF THOSE AND READ SOME OF THOSE
- 1:17:21VERSES. BUT LET ME RECAP A LITTLE BIT. THE FIRST WEEK, I
- 1:17:26DON'T KNOW, I'M GETTING A LITTLE WHISTLE UP HERE. IS THAT ALL
- 1:17:27RIGHT, GUYS? DOES THAT SOUND ALL RIGHT? I'M HEARING MYSELF
- 1:17:30WHISTLE. I FEEL LIKE I'M WHISTLING THROUGH MY TEETH WHILE
- 1:17:33I'M PREACHING. I DON'T KNOW. DO YOU GUYS HEAR THAT OR AM I JUST
- 1:17:37HEARING? IS IT ALL RIGHT OUT THERE? EVERYBODY GOOD? OKAY. AS
- 1:17:39LONG AS IT'S GOOD ON YOUR END, I CAN DEAL WITH A LOT. ALL RIGHT.
- 1:17:42IT'S GOOD. SO JUST TO GO BACK TO THE FIRST WEEK, WE DID A FULL
- 1:17:48EXPOSE, IF YOU WILL, OR A DETAILED PREACHING AND TEACHING
- 1:17:52ON THE BOOK OF JOB, AND WE LEARNED A NUMBER OF LESSONS FROM
- 1:17:55THAT BOOK. AND HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE DONE ANY READING
- 1:17:58ON JOB SINCE? ANYBODY DONE SOME READING, SOME
- 1:18:00STUDY, REALLY JUST SPENT SOME TIME GOING
- 1:18:04THROUGH THE BOOK. BUT JUST, I'M GONNA RECAP
- 1:18:06THAT AGAIN, JUST VERY, VERY QUICKLY. I'M GONNA EVEN, LAST
- 1:18:09WEEK I WENT OVER 10 LESSONS FROM THE BOOK OF JOB. I'M GONNA MAKE
- 1:18:13IT EVEN SMALLER THIS WEEK. WE LEARN FROM JOB, HERE'S THE
- 1:18:16RECAP. YOU HAVE TO GO WATCH IT. GOD DEFEATED SATAN'S CHALLENGE
- 1:18:21THAT MAN WILL CURSE GOD IN TIMES OF TRAGEDY. OKAY, THAT WAS THE
- 1:18:26WHOLE PREMISE OF THE BOOK. IT WAS SATAN CHALLENGING GOD AND
- 1:18:30SAYING THAT MAN WILL CURSE YOU TO THE FACE IF, UNLESS YOU GIVE
- 1:18:35HIM EVERYTHING HE WANTS. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD SAID, FINE,
- 1:18:38CHALLENGE ON. AND THE DEVIL WAS PROVEN WRONG, PRAISE THE LORD.
- 1:18:43THE OTHER THING WE LEARNED FROM THE BOOK OF JOB IS THE ROLLER
- 1:18:45COASTER OF HUMAN RESPONSES DURING ADVERSE TIMES, RIGHT? JOB
- 1:18:50HAD ALL THE THINGS. HE WENT THROUGH RAGING EMOTIONS. HE WENT
- 1:18:54THROUGH FEARFUL EMOTIONS. AT ONE POINT HE WANTED TO DIE. I THINK
- 1:18:58HE WAS, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL TIMES HE WANTED TO DIE. HE CURSED THE
- 1:19:00DAY HE WAS BORN. IT WAS ALMOST AS IF HE WAS SUICIDAL, YOU COULD
- 1:19:05SAY. THERE WAS MANY, MANY PLACES THAT JOB WAS. ON ONE MINUTE, HE
- 1:19:10WAS DEFENDING GOD. THE NEXT MINUTE, HE WAS BLAMING GOD.
- 1:19:13THINK ABOUT THAT. SO THIS WAS KIND OF THE ROLLER COASTER. AND
- 1:19:17THE REASON THOSE THINGS ARE IN THERE IS SO WE CAN AVOID THE
- 1:19:20THINGS JOB FELL INTO THAT GOD GOT UPSET ABOUT, RIGHT? SO THE
- 1:19:24ROLLER COASTER OF HUMAN EMOTIONS. WE ALSO LEARN FROM THE
- 1:19:26BOOK OF JOB THAT WHAT IS THE TYPICAL RESPONSE OF MOST PEOPLE
- 1:19:30ARE FRIENDS, FRIENDS, FAMILY, ASSOCIATES WHEN ADVERSITY HITS.
- 1:19:36I WOULD JUST SAY ONE THING ABOUT THAT, DON'T BE JOB'S FRIENDS.
- 1:19:39DON'T HAVE ALL THE GOOD BIBLICAL ADVICE AND THE RIGHT ANSWERS AND
- 1:19:42RIGHT THINGS TO SAY AND THEN MISAPPLY IT TO THE WRONG PERSON.
- 1:19:46YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING. THE COMMENT SECTIONS
- 1:19:49OF SOCIAL MEDIA GIVE US THE FALSE IDEA THAT WE KNOW
- 1:19:53EVERYTHING. SO BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOMEBODY AND THEY'RE
- 1:19:57FACING SOMETHING THAT YOU SAY, "WELL, IT WAS BECAUSE OF..." YOU
- 1:20:01KNOW, BE VERY CAREFUL. THAT'S WHAT JOB'S FRIENDS DID AND THEY
- 1:20:03GOT IN BIG TROUBLE AND THEY NEVER CHANGED THEIR POSITION
- 1:20:06NOTABLY. AT LEAST THE BIBLE DOESN'T RECORD THAT THEY DID.
- 1:20:09THERE ISN'T ANY PLACE IN THERE WHERE IT SAYS THAT THEY, YOU
- 1:20:12KNOW, SAID, "OH GOD, WE'RE SORRY. I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID
- 1:20:14THAT ABOUT JOB." NOW JOB REPENTED, BUT I DON'T SEE ANY
- 1:20:17PLACE WHERE HIS FRIENDS CHANGED THEIR MINDS. SO I THINK THEY
- 1:20:19WERE PRIDEFUL, RIGHT? SO DON'T BE THOSE PEOPLE. WE LEARN THAT
- 1:20:23FROM JOB. ALSO, WE LEARN FROM JOB THAT FOR OUR OWN GOOD, GOD
- 1:20:28WILL NOT ALWAYS PROVIDE US WITH THE ANSWERS FOR WHY THINGS
- 1:20:32HAPPEN, OKAY? HE MAY TELL US, HE MAY TELL US DOWN THE ROAD, OR HE
- 1:20:37MAY NOT TELL US AT ALL. AND WE'LL GET TO THE OTHER SIDE OF
- 1:20:40HEAVEN ONE DAY. I'M SURE JOB IS NOW IN HEAVEN PROBABLY SAYING,
- 1:20:45"GOD, THANKS FOR NOT TELLING ME THAT WHAT WAS GOING ON THERE."
- 1:20:50AT THE TIME HE WANTED ALL THE ANSWERS. NOW HE'S GOT THE
- 1:20:52ANSWERS AND HE'S THINKING, "WELL, YOU KNOW, ALL OF HIS
- 1:20:55QUESTIONS WERE IRRELEVANT NOW THAT HE'S IN HEAVEN." SO
- 1:20:58REMEMBER, GOD MAY OR MAY NOT GIVE YOU THE ANSWERS. AND JUST
- 1:21:02REMEMBER THOUGH, HE KNOWS BEST, RIGHT? SAY, FATHER KNOWS BEST.
- 1:21:06THE OTHER THING WE LEARNED FROM JOB IS GOD'S EXPECTATIONS. WE
- 1:21:09LEARNED ABOUT WHAT HE EXPECTS FROM US IN TIMES OF TRIAL,
- 1:21:13TRAGEDY, DIFFICULTY, THAT HE EXPECTS US STILL TO BE
- 1:21:17RESPONSIBLE TO FOLLOW HIS PRINCIPLES IN HARD TIMES. WE
- 1:21:22DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO GO SHOOT OFF OUR MOUTH TO START CURSING
- 1:21:25LIKE A SAILOR. WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO GO BACKSLIDE AND FALL
- 1:21:29INTO SIN BECAUSE THINGS DIDN'T TURN OUT THE WAY WE WANTED. WE
- 1:21:32DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO QUIT ON GOD. COME ON. WE STILL HAVE THE
- 1:21:36RESPONSIBILITY TO FOLLOW GOD'S WAYS. RIGHT? YOU DON'T HAVE THE
- 1:21:41RIGHT TO GO KILL YOURSELF BECAUSE LIFE IS TERRIBLE. NO, WE
- 1:21:45HAVE TO STILL BE BIBLICAL. WE STILL HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE
- 1:21:49WITH OUR LIFE, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS DISAPPOINTMENT. THE OTHER
- 1:21:53THING WE LEARNED ABOUT IS THAT WE CANNOT, AND THIS IS A BIG
- 1:21:56ONE, FROM THE BOOK OF JOB, WE LEARNED THAT WE CAN'T MAKE GOD
- 1:21:59OUT TO BE WRONG AND OURSELVES RIGHT. WELL, GOD, I DID
- 1:22:03EVERYTHING I KNEW TO DO. AND HOW COME YOU DIDN'T? DON'T DO THAT.
- 1:22:08JOB LEARNED THAT THAT DOESN'T WORK. AND BY THE END OF IT, WHEN
- 1:22:11GOD SHOWED UP IN A SUPERNATURAL WAY, JOB HAD HIS HAND OVER HIS
- 1:22:14MOUTH. RIGHT, HE HAD TO, HE REALIZED THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT
- 1:22:18WASN'T GOOD. DON'T BLAME GOD AS IF HE WAS THE ONE IN ERROR AND
- 1:22:23THAT YOU WERE PERFECT THROUGH THE WHOLE STORY. COME ON, IS
- 1:22:26THAT A GOOD WORD RIGHT THERE OR NOT? THAT'S POWERFUL, IT'S TRUE,
- 1:22:29BUT WE LEARN THAT FROM THE BOOK OF JOB. OKAY, THEN LAST WEEK WE
- 1:22:33TALKED ABOUT, WE STARTED TRACKING DOWN, I'M GIVING FIVE
- 1:22:36REASONS IN THIS SERIES WHY, YOU COULD SAY BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO
- 1:22:40GOOD PEOPLE SOMETIMES OR SEEMINGLY GOOD PEOPLE, BUT WHY
- 1:22:44DOES SUFFERING AND ADVERSITY HAPPEN IN THIS LIFE? AT TIMES
- 1:22:49THAT MAYBE YOU PRAYED FOR SOMETHING, YOU BELIEVED GOD FOR
- 1:22:51SOMETHING, AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE OPPOSITE IS WHAT HAPPENED. AND,
- 1:22:54OR YOU DIDN'T GET THE ANSWER TO PRAYER THAT YOU WERE SEEKING.
- 1:22:56AND SO THERE ARE DIFFERENT REASONS THE BIBLE GIVES. NOW WE
- 1:22:59CAN'T LABEL THESE ON PEOPLE, RIGHT? YOU CAN'T JUST GO SIT
- 1:23:04THERE AND GO, "WELL, SEE NOW THAT WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED TO
- 1:23:07YOU IF." WE LEARNED THAT. THAT'S WHY JOB'S FRIENDS IS SUCH AN
- 1:23:09IMPORTANT LESSON. BUT THE THREE THAT WE WENT THROUGH LAST WEEK
- 1:23:13BECAUSE ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THERE IS ADVERSITY IN THIS LIFE
- 1:23:16OR WHY CHRISTIAN PEOPLE CAN, WHAT SEEMS TO BE SUFFERING,
- 1:23:21WOULD BE GOD ALLOWS THE TESTING OF OUR FAITH. HE TOLD ISRAEL IN
- 1:23:24DEUTERONOMY, THE EIGHTH CHAPTER, "I BROUGHT YOU OUT INTO THIS
- 1:23:27WILDERNESS TO TEST YOU, "TO TRY YOU, AND SO I COULD KNOW WHAT
- 1:23:32WAS IN YOUR HEART, "WHETHER YOU WOULD WALK IN MY LAWS, "OR YOU'D
- 1:23:34WALK IN MY WAYS, OR NOT WALK IN MY WAYS." SO GOD BROUGHT THEM
- 1:23:39OUT TO TEST AND SEE IF THEY WOULD STAY WITH WHAT GOD SAID.
- 1:23:44AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH ISRAEL. THEY JUST DELAYED THAT
- 1:23:46TESTING SEASON. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT
- 1:23:51HEBREWS 12, "WHOM THE LORD LOVES, HE CHASTENS." NOW WE
- 1:23:56LEARNED LAST WEEK THAT THAT DOES NOT MEAN GOD CHASTENS YOU WITH
- 1:23:59SICKNESS. OKAY, GOD DOESN'T PUT CANCER ON PEOPLE ANY MORE THAN
- 1:24:03YOU WOULD PUT CANCER ON YOUR CHILDREN. BUT THERE ARE THINGS
- 1:24:07THAT YOU WILL WITHHOLD FROM YOUR CHILDREN, RIGHT, LONG ENOUGH,
- 1:24:11BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT TO MATURE INTO. YOU DON'T GIVE THEM THE
- 1:24:13KEYS OF THE CAR WHEN THEY'RE FOUR YEARS OLD. THEY'RE NOT
- 1:24:17READY, RIGHT? I MEAN, THEY MIGHT THINK THEY ARE, BUT THEY'RE NOT
- 1:24:20READY. SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT GOD WILL AND I SAID TO YOU LAST
- 1:24:26WEEK, IF, YOU KNOW, HANK AND BRENDA KUNNEMAN WERE GOING
- 1:24:29TO BE HANDED THE RESPONSIBILITY OF MINISTRY THAT WE'RE WALKING
- 1:24:32IN TODAY, WE WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN READY FOR IT. NOW, WE THOUGHT WE
- 1:24:35WERE. WE THOUGHT AT THAT TIME WE COULD TAKE ON THE WORLD AND DO
- 1:24:39ALL THESE THINGS. BUT NOW THAT I LOOK BACK, I'M LIKE, GOD, I
- 1:24:41DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING. AND SO, YOU KNOW, GOD KNOWS WHERE WE ARE
- 1:24:45BETTER THAN WE KNOW OURSELVES. HE KNOWS. SO GOD WILL ALLOW OUR
- 1:24:50FATE TO BE TESTED. YOU'RE WAITING FOR THAT SIX FIGURE JOB.
- 1:24:53AND, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO DOUBLE YOUR SALARY AND HAVE ALL
- 1:24:56THESE THINGS. AND GOD GOES, YOU KNOW WHAT? THERE ARE SOME THINGS
- 1:24:58I WANT YOU TO REPAIR FIRST. I WANT YOU TO TRUST ME THROUGH
- 1:25:02FIRST. SO BE PATIENT WITH GOD. DON'T GO, WELL, TIMING DOESN'T
- 1:25:05WORK. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT LOOKS AT THE MOMENT LIKE, YOU KNOW,
- 1:25:12NOTHING IS HAPPENING. NO, TRUST GOD. TRUST THAT HE'S TRUE TO HIS
- 1:25:16WORD. SAY, GOD, I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO BE FAITHFUL WITH
- 1:25:19YOUR PROMISES. I'M GONNA EXPECT A BREAKTHROUGH, AND YOU'RE GONNA
- 1:25:23BRING THAT HARVEST IN THE SEASON THAT YOU DEEM FIT FOR ME.
- 1:25:28(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:25:29AMEN. AND GOD WILL DO THAT. AND IF YOU TRUST HIM, MAN, YOU MIGHT
- 1:25:32JUST SPEED UP THE HARVEST. I THINK ISRAEL COULD HAVE DONE
- 1:25:35THAT. DON'T YOU THINK SO? ALL RIGHT, SO THAT'S THE FIRST. GOD
- 1:25:38WILL ALLOW THE TESTING OF OUR FAITH. THE SECOND ONE WE TALKED
- 1:25:42ABOUT LAST WEEK IS PEOPLE SUFFER ADVERSITY BECAUSE OF THE DEVIL'S
- 1:25:46ATTACK. YOU KNOW, TACKS, I THINK WE DON'T BLAME ENOUGH THINGS ON
- 1:25:49THE DEVIL. OKAY, ALWAYS ASSUME SLEWFOOT'S HANGING AROUND. OKAY,
- 1:25:56I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT IT. PASTOR'S BEEN
- 1:25:59PREACHING THE SERIES, NO FLY ZONE. YOU LOOK AT FLIES IN THE
- 1:26:02SUMMERTIME. I MEAN, THEY LIE IN WAIT FOR YOU TO OPEN THE SCREEN
- 1:26:06DOOR. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE OUT THERE JUST, (IMITATES BUZZING)
- 1:26:12AND YOU OPEN IT, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW IT IS, THEY JUST,
- 1:26:15THEY'RE RIGHT IN. AND THEY KNOW WHERE THE KITCHEN IS. SO ASSUME
- 1:26:23THE ENEMY IS INVOLVED. THE THIEF COMES TO STEAL, TO KILL, AND
- 1:26:26DESTROY, BUT JESUS SAID, "I'M COME TO GIVE LIFE." THE
- 1:26:30BEAUTIFUL PRIVILEGE THAT WE HAVE AS BELIEVERS NOW IS THAT WE CAN
- 1:26:35GO IN DIRECT COMBAT WITH THE DEVIL, WE CAN TAKE AUTHORITY
- 1:26:41OVER HIM. THE BIBLE SAYS, "RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL
- 1:26:46FLEE FROM YOU." OKAY, WE CAN TAKE AUTHORITY. SO WHEN THERE'S
- 1:26:51A PAIN OR SOMETHING'S HAPPENING, RESIST THE DEVIL, TAKE AUTHORITY
- 1:26:55OVER HIM. THE BIBLE SAYS, EPHESIANS 4:27, "GIVE NO PLACE."
- 1:27:01COME ON, TO WHO? TO THE DEVIL, DON'T GIVE HIM AN OPPORTUNITY.
- 1:27:05SLAM THE DOOR, GET YOUR SPIRITUAL FLYSWATTER OUT AND
- 1:27:10SMACK HIM DOWN. SO THAT'S THE SECOND REASON WE TALKED ABOUT
- 1:27:15LAST WEEK. AND THEN THE THIRD ONE IS WE SUFFER BECAUSE OF OUR
- 1:27:20OWN FOOLISH CHOICES. THAT'S A BIG ONE. THAT'S WHERE YOU GOTTA
- 1:27:24GET THE MIRROR OUT. TAKE A LITTLE LOOK AND SEE, IS THERE
- 1:27:28ANYTHING THAT I'M DOING? THAT'S NOT A SELF
- 1:27:30CONDEMNATION, BUT THE BIBLE DOES TEACH US TO EXAMINE
- 1:27:34OURSELVES. IT TEACHES US HOW TO LOOK AT OUR LIFE AND MAKE
- 1:27:38ADJUSTMENTS, DO THINGS, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE SIN THAT WE
- 1:27:42DON'T REPENT OF. THE BIBLE SAYS WE REAP WHAT WE SOW. HARVEST DAY
- 1:27:47ALWAYS COMES, WHETHER IT'S GOOD OR BAD. SO WE EVENTUALLY REAP
- 1:27:51WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO DO. SO THINK ABOUT THAT. OUR WORDS ARE
- 1:27:55ANOTHER CHOICE THAT WE MAKE THAT CAN BRING DEATH OR LIFE. THE
- 1:27:59BIBLE SAYS THAT "OUR TONGUE," JAMES 3, "SETS ON FIRE THE VERY
- 1:28:03COURSE OF NATURE." I THINK IT'S THE NEW LIVING THAT SAYS "IT
- 1:28:07SETS NATURE IN MOTION, AND IT HAS THE ABILITY TO DEFILE OUR
- 1:28:11WHOLE BODY." NOTICE IT SAID THE WHOLE BODY. SO DO YOU THINK THAT
- 1:28:16SICKNESS COULD BE ATTACHED TO OUR SPEAKING? RIGHT? OKAY, WORDS
- 1:28:23OF FEAR CAN CAUSE STRESS AND ANXIETY. SO WATCH OUR MOUTH, OUR
- 1:28:27OWN CHOICES, RIGHT? UNFORGIVENESS, STRIFE, YOU KNOW,
- 1:28:31STRIFE WILL CAUSE A LOT OF SUFFERING IN YOUR HOUSE IF YOU
- 1:28:35LET IT GO ON UNCHECKED. YOU KNOW, LISTEN, WE'RE PEOPLE. WE,
- 1:28:39I MEAN, AND ESPECIALLY, YOU KNOW, THOSE OF US IN AMERICA,
- 1:28:41WE'RE A BUNCH OF BIG MOUTHS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE GO TRAVEL OVERSEAS
- 1:28:45FOR YEARS AND WE'D GO TO OTHER COUNTRIES. AND I REMEMBER GOING
- 1:28:49THROUGH AIRPORTS. YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL THE AMERICANS, YOU KNOW,
- 1:28:53IT'S JUST THE WAY THEY ACT. THEY THINK THEY'RE ALL THAT. AND I'M
- 1:28:57LIKE, OH, STOP. GOING THROUGH AN AIRPORT WITH SHADES. I KNOW,
- 1:29:04THINKING THEY'RE ALL HOT STUFF. OKAY, IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT,
- 1:29:08YOU KNOW PEOPLE FROM THE UNITED STATES, IT'S JUST THE WAY THEY
- 1:29:11GO ABOUT. AND MANY OF THEM, I'M NOT SAYING ALL OF THEM, BUT THE
- 1:29:14POINT IS, IS, YOU KNOW, WE CAN CAUSE SUFFERING BY WHAT WE
- 1:29:19CHOOSE TO DO. THE STRIFE ATTITUDE, AN ATTITUDE OF
- 1:29:22UNFORGIVENESS, COCKINESS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, AND AS
- 1:29:26AMERICANS, WE'RE ALWAYS BIG MOUTHS. WE GOT THINGS TO SAY.
- 1:29:29WE'RE SOME OF THE BIGGEST MOUTHS ON THE PLANET. AND SO DON'T
- 1:29:33THINK THAT DOESN'T GO ON IN PEOPLE'S HOUSES. OKAY, WHO'S
- 1:29:37GONNA GET THE LAST WORD IN THE HOUSE, RIGHT? WHOSE POINT'S
- 1:29:41GONNA GET ACROSS? YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO PLASTER. YOU KNOW, WE'RE
- 1:29:44TALKERS IN THE KUNNEMAN HOUSE. BIBLE SAYS BE QUICK TO HEAR.
- 1:29:51LIKE LET SOMEBODY FINISH THEIR SENTENCE ALL THE WAY TO THE END.
- 1:29:58AND THEN IT SAYS BE SLOW TO SPEAK AND SLOW TO ANGER. WELL,
- 1:30:04YOU KNOW, THE REASON WE ALL GET MAD IS WE DON'T LISTEN TO EACH
- 1:30:06OTHER. SO STRIFE CAN CAUSE A LOT OF THOSE PROBLEMS, AMEN. COME
- 1:30:10ON, THAT'S A GOOD PLACE TO CLAP. GO AHEAD, JUST CLAP. NEVER LET
- 1:30:15THE ONE GUY CLAP BY HIMSELF. FOOLISH CHOICES, WE TALKED
- 1:30:20ABOUT. DON'T FALL INTO THE PIT OF THE GRAND CANYON, WE TALKED
- 1:30:24ABOUT. YOU HAD TO BE THERE. THOSE OF YOU WATCHING ONLINE,
- 1:30:27PASTOR MADE SURE HE DIDN'T. HE WAS OVER THE BORDER, BUT IT'S
- 1:30:30OKAY. NO, I'M JUST TEASING. HE WAS THERE. HE REALLY DID SEE IT.
- 1:30:34AND HE REALLY, I MEAN, PASTOR HAS A NOSE FOR ICE CREAM, SO I
- 1:30:38DON'T CARE IF HE'S AT THE GRAND CANYON OR THE PLAINS OF
- 1:30:40NEBRASKA, HE'S GONNA LOOK FOR THE GELATO SHOP. SO, YOU KNOW,
- 1:30:44YOU KNOW HE WAS DOING THAT. BUT THOSE, SO SUFFERING BECAUSE OF
- 1:30:47OUR OWN STUPID CHOICES. OKAY, SO ENOUGH SAID ABOUT THAT. SO LET'S
- 1:30:50GET INTO THE LAST TWO TODAY THAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. AND THESE
- 1:30:54ARE VERY IMPORTANT. AND I'M JUST PRAYING THAT I WILL COMMUNICATE
- 1:30:56THIS WELL, BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND IT TO THE BEST OF MY
- 1:31:00ABILITY. BUT NUMBER FOUR, NUMBER FOUR, BECAUSE WE'RE ON THE
- 1:31:04FOURTH ONE OF FIVE OF THE REASONS THAT PEOPLE SUFFER
- 1:31:09ADVERSITY IS BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A FALLEN WORLD. NOW I'M GOING TO
- 1:31:16TALK ABOUT THREE ELEMENTS OF THAT AND JUST TO KIND OF BREAK
- 1:31:20WHAT I MEAN DOWN BY THAT. WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT IS A FALLEN
- 1:31:24WORLD UNDER WHAT I'M GOING TO LABEL OR CALL, WELL REALLY THE
- 1:31:28BIBLE LABELS IT, CALLED THE CURSE OF THE GROUND. NOW I HEAR
- 1:31:31CHRISTIANS ALL THE TIME QUOTE THE SCRIPTURE. THEY'LL SAY,
- 1:31:34"PASTOR, I'M REDEEMED FROM THE CURSE." WELL, WE ARE REDEEMED
- 1:31:39FROM THE CURSE EXCEPT THAT THEY LEAVE OFF PART OF THE SENTENCE.
- 1:31:43GALATIANS 3, THEY CAN PUT THAT UP THERE. GALATIANS
- 1:31:463 SAYS, "I AM REDEEMED." CHRIST HAS
- 1:31:49REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF WHAT?
- 1:31:52- THE LAW.
- 1:31:53- OKAY, NOW WE GOT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS. OKAY, THE CURSE
- 1:31:56OF THE LAW IS DEUTERONOMY 28:15. PUT THAT ONE UP THERE.
- 1:32:01"BUT IT SHALL COME TO PASS," NOW THIS IS AFTER 14 VERSES OF THE
- 1:32:04BLESSING, BUT THEN GOD GOES INTO OVER 50 VERSES OF THE CURSE, FOR
- 1:32:09IF YOU BREAK GOD'S COMMANDMENTS, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT'LL
- 1:32:13HAPPEN TO YOU. "IT SHALL COME TO PASS IF YOU WILL NOT HEARKEN
- 1:32:16UNTO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THY GOD TO OBSERVE TO DO ALL HIS
- 1:32:19COMMANDMENTS," NOTICE IT SAYS ALL, "ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS AND
- 1:32:23HIS STATUTES, WHICH I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY, THAT ALL THESE
- 1:32:26CURSES SHALL COME ON YOU AND OVERTAKE YOU."
- 1:32:30NOW THIS IS CALLED THE CURSE OF THE LAW.
- 1:32:33GOD LAID OUT THE CURSE THAT WOULD COME IF
- 1:32:36ISRAEL DID NOT PERFECTLY KEEP HIS LAW. IF YOU BROKE ONE, YOU
- 1:32:41BROKE ALL. AND WHAT CHRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM, THROUGH HIS
- 1:32:46DEATH AND RESURRECTION ON THE CROSS, HE REDEEMED US FROM THE
- 1:32:50CURSE BY GIVING US GRACE AND FORGIVENESS BY FAITH. THAT IF WE
- 1:32:55CALL UPON HIM AND SAY, "LORD, I'M ASKING YOU TO CLEANSE ME,
- 1:32:58WASH ME, FORGIVE ME." THAT BY FAITH, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO BE
- 1:33:05FORGIVEN THROUGH HIS GRACE. NOW THAT IS BEING REDEEMED FROM THE
- 1:33:09CURSE OF THE LAW. BUT WHAT THERE IS IN THE WORLD IS CALLED THE
- 1:33:12CURSE OF THE GROUND. NOW PUT UP GENESIS 3. THIS WAS
- 1:33:17AFTER ADAM AND EVE ATE THE TREE. VERSE 17 SAYS, "AND UNTO ADAM HE
- 1:33:24SAID, BECAUSE YOU HEARKENED TO THE VOICE OF YOUR WIFE AND HAS
- 1:33:28EATEN OF THE TREE WHICH I TOLD YOU DO NOT EAT, OR COMMANDED
- 1:33:32THEE SAYING, YOU SHALL NOT EAT OF IT, CURSED IS THE GROUND
- 1:33:37FOR THY SAKE." NOW WATCH THIS, "IN SORROW YOU SHALL EAT OF IT
- 1:33:42ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE." NOW THIS IS, GOD IS SAYING THE
- 1:33:47EARTH, IT'S CALLED THE EARTH CURSE, NOT THE CURSE OF THE LAW,
- 1:33:50THIS IS THE EARTH CURSE THAT WAS PUT IN MOTION BY THE SIN OF MAN.
- 1:33:54LOOK AT THE NEXT VERSE, GO TO 18. "THORNS AND THISTLES SHALL
- 1:33:59IT BRING FORTH TO THEE, AND YOU SHALL EAT THE HERB OF THE
- 1:34:03FIELD," LOOK AT THE NEXT ONE, "AND IN THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE,
- 1:34:08YOU WILL EAT BREAD TILL YOU RETURN TO THE GROUND, FOR OUT OF
- 1:34:13IT YOU WERE TAKEN, FOR DUST YOU ARE, AND UNDER DUST YOU SHALL
- 1:34:17RETURN." NOW THIS IS THE CURSE, THE EARTH CURSE, OR THE CURSE OF
- 1:34:21THE GROUND, THAT IS STILL IN MOTION, OKAY? THE EARTH CURSE
- 1:34:25LOOKS LIKE THIS, IT'S LIKE IF YOU GO AND PLANT CARROTS AND THE
- 1:34:28RABBITS COME EAT 'EM. YOU PUT OUT NEW SOD AND DANDELIONS COME
- 1:34:33UP. NOW YOU GO AND PAINT YOUR HOUSE AND IT FADES IN A FEW
- 1:34:36YEARS. YOU CLEAN YOUR HOUSE AND DUST STILL COMES BACK. CLEAN IT
- 1:34:41ON MONDAY AND THE DUST IS THERE BY FRIDAY. ARE YOU HEARING ME?
- 1:34:45YOU WASH YOUR CAR AND IT GETS DIRTY IN A FEW DAYS. ALL OF THE
- 1:34:49EFFORTS WE MAKE, WE PLANT AND WE PUSH AND WE WORK AND YET WE'RE
- 1:34:54CONSTANTLY ALWAYS FIGHTING AN EARTH THAT IS IN DECLINE, THAT'S
- 1:34:59IN DECAY. AND SO THIS IS CALLED THE CURSE OF THE GROUND THAT GOD
- 1:35:04TOLD ADAM, HE SAID, "YOU WILL FIGHT THIS ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR
- 1:35:09LIFE." YOU'LL ALWAYS BE IN BATTLE WITH DECAY, OKAY? YOU
- 1:35:12WILL BE IN BATTLE WITH THE FACT THAT YOU'RE NOT FIVE YEARS OLD
- 1:35:15ANYMORE, YOU'RE GETTING OLDER EVERY SINGLE DAY. EVERY SINGLE
- 1:35:19DAY OF LIFE, YOU ARE FIGHTING AGE. YOU'RE PUSHING BACK AGAINST
- 1:35:24THE SPIRIT OF DEATH. SO EVERY GOOD THING THAT WE SOW INTO THE
- 1:35:29EARTH, WE'RE ALSO FIGHTING THE WEEDS. ARE YOU TRACKING WITH ME?
- 1:35:33THIS IS CALLED THE CURSE OF THE GROUND. WE LIVE IN A FALLEN
- 1:35:37WORLD. AND SO JESUS SAID IT LIKE THIS, HE UNDERSCORED IT. YOU
- 1:35:41KNOW, I'VE QUOTED THIS BEFORE. THE BIBLE SAYS IN JOHN 16:33,
- 1:35:46JESUS SAID, "IN THIS EARTH OR THIS LIFETIME, YOU WILL HAVE
- 1:35:51TRIALS, YOU'LL HAVE TRIBULATION, YOU'LL HAVE
- 1:35:54CHALLENGES, YOU'LL GO THROUGH STRUGGLES. BUT BE OF GOOD
- 1:35:57CHEER, I'M GONNA GIVE YOU PROMISES TO OVERCOME THAT CURSE
- 1:36:01OF THE GROUND." BUT IT'S SOMETHING WE'RE CONSTANTLY IN
- 1:36:04BATTLE WITH. THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
- 1:36:07OF FAITH. WE HAVE TO LAY HOLD ON ETERNAL LIFE. WE LAY HOLD ON IT.
- 1:36:14WE HAVE TO COUNTER IT WITH THE FIGHT OF FAITH. EVERY DAY YOU
- 1:36:16GET UP, YOU COUNTER THE SPIRIT OF FEAR. COME ON, YOU COUNTER
- 1:36:20THE SPIRIT OF DEATH. WE COUNTER THE SPIRIT OF EVIL. COME ON, WE
- 1:36:24COUNTER. THAT'S WHY WHEN PASTOR WAS SAYING A FEW MOMENTS AGO,
- 1:36:27WHEN YOU GIVE YOUR TIME, DON'T JUST, WELL, LET'S SEE WHAT
- 1:36:30HAPPENS. NO, YOU GOTTA COUNTER. YOU COUNTER, YOU REBUKE THE
- 1:36:33ENEMY. YOU STAND, YOU BELIEVE GOD, YOU TALK RIGHT. WE'VE GOT
- 1:36:37TO COUNTER, RIGHT, THE EARTH CURSE. SO WHILE WE'RE REDEEMED
- 1:36:43FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW, THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS BEING MADE A
- 1:36:46CURSE FOR US SO THAT THE BLESSING OF ABRAHAM WOULD COME
- 1:36:49ON THE GENTILES. THAT WE RECEIVE BY FAITH. BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN
- 1:36:52THAT ALL SENSE OF THE CURSE IS JUST NOW POOF, AND NOW IT'S
- 1:36:56GONE. NO, WE STILL HAVE TO FIGHT THE CURSE OF THE GROUND. SO WE
- 1:37:00LIVE IN A FALLEN WORLD. THIS IS THE REASON THINGS HAPPEN TO
- 1:37:03PEOPLE. AND SO, BECAUSE WE'RE CONSTANTLY IN BATTLE WITH THAT
- 1:37:08CURSE OF THE GROUND, THAT EARTH CURSE. THAT'S THE FIRST PART.
- 1:37:10THE OTHER PART OF LIVING IN A FALLEN WORLD THAT WE DON'T HAVE
- 1:37:14CONTROL OVER MANY TIMES IS THE CHOICES OF OTHER PEOPLE. YOU
- 1:37:19HAVE TO, MUCH SUFFERING IS CAUSED BECAUSE MAYBE THAT PERSON
- 1:37:24CHOSE TO GO COMMIT ADULTERY. OKAY, AND YOU'RE SITTING THERE
- 1:37:27GOING, "WELL, I HAD NO PART OF THAT." OKAY, THEY CHOSE THAT.
- 1:37:31THAT CHILD OR THAT PERSON, THAT LOVED ONE, CHOSE TO GO OUT IN
- 1:37:35REBELLION AND GET HIGH ON DRUGS AND JOIN A GANG. YOU DIDN'T ASK
- 1:37:40FOR THAT, BUT THEY, YOU FOLLOW ME, IT CAUSES A GREAT AMOUNT OF
- 1:37:44ADVERSITY AND SUFFERING. SO THESE ARE THE THINGS, WE CAN'T
- 1:37:46CONTROL WHAT OTHER PEOPLE DO. OKAY, YOU COULDN'T CONTROL THAT
- 1:37:50THAT PERSON TOOK THEIR LIFE. OKAY, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO, BUT
- 1:37:53THEN IT CAUSED SUFFERING FOR EVERY PERSON THAT LOVED THAT
- 1:37:56PERSON, THAT THEY CHOSE TO END THEIR LIFE. OKAY, THIS IS CALLED
- 1:38:01THE CHOICES OF OTHERS FROM LIVING IN A FALLEN WORLD. BUT
- 1:38:04THIS IS WHY THE BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULD PRAY FOR PEOPLE. PRAY FOR
- 1:38:09YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS. NOW, PAUL PUT TWO PRAYERS IN THE BOOK OF
- 1:38:12EPHESIANS. I WANNA SHARE THEM WITH YOU, BUT THIS IS WHY WE
- 1:38:15PRAY FOR OTHER PEOPLE. I CAN'T CONTROL THEIR DECISIONS, BUT I
- 1:38:21CAN PRAY FOR THEM. I CAN TAKE AUTHORITY OVER THE ENEMY FROM
- 1:38:25TOUCHING THEIR LIFE. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY A PERSON, MANY A YOUNG
- 1:38:29PERSON THAT CAME BACK TO GOD. YEAH, YOU MAY NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE
- 1:38:32TO CONTROL THE FACT THEY COMMITTED A CRIME, WENT TO
- 1:38:35PRISON, BUT YOU CAN PRAY FOR THEM.
- 1:38:38(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:38:40THAT THEY'LL BE ENLIGHTENED. LOOK WHAT PAUL SAID. PAUL SAID
- 1:38:42IN EPHESIANS 1:16, THIS IS HOW YOU OUGHT TO PRAY FOR YOUR LOVED
- 1:38:45ONES. PRAY FOR YOUR CHURCH FAMILY. PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE
- 1:38:48AROUND YOU. YOU CAN'T CONTROL WHAT THEY DO, BUT WHAT YOU CAN
- 1:38:51DO IS WHAT PAUL SAID. HE SAID, "I CEASE NOT TO GIVE THANKS FOR
- 1:38:55YOU, MAKING MENTION OF YOU IN MY PRAYERS, THAT THE GOD OF OUR
- 1:39:01LORD JESUS CHRIST, "THE FATHER OF GLORY, MAY GIVE UNTO YOU "THE
- 1:39:04SPIRIT OF WISDOM." YOU CAN PRAY THAT. YOU CAN SAY, "FATHER, I
- 1:39:07ASK YOU GIVE SO AND SO WISDOM." COME ON, THEY'LL HAVE THE WISDOM
- 1:39:10NOT TO GO OUT ON THE STREETS AND COMMIT VIOLENCE. THEY'LL HAVE
- 1:39:15THE WISDOM TO DO THAT, RIGHT? FATHER, GIVE THEM THE SPIRIT OF
- 1:39:19WISDOM. I ASK YOU GIVE MY LOVED ONES. YOU CAN PRAY IT LIKE THIS.
- 1:39:22GIVE MY SON, GIVE MY DAUGHTER, GIVE MY SPOUSE. THE REVELATION
- 1:39:26AND THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOU. COME ON, IF PEOPLE JUST HAD HALF A
- 1:39:29REVELATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, THEY WOULDN'T DO HALF THE
- 1:39:31THINGS THEY DO. SO PAUL SAID, "I'M GONNA PRAY THAT OVER YOU."
- 1:39:36AND THIS WAS THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS. AND I WAS THERE WITH MY
- 1:40:26BROTHER. AND THEN I WOULD PRAY IN THE SPIRIT OVER
- 1:40:29HIM AND PRAY IN TONGUES. AND YOU KNOW, HE GOT BORN AGAIN. HE GOT
- 1:40:33SAVED. SO WE CAN PRAY FOR PEOPLE. I CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL
- 1:40:37WHAT THEY DO, BUT I CAN PRAY. AND HE SAID THAT YOU'LL KNOW THE
- 1:40:40RICHES OF HIS GLORIOUS INHERITANCE IN THE SAINTS. GO TO
- 1:40:44EPHESIANS 3, AND LOOK AT THESE VERSES PAUL
- 1:40:47SAID, "FOR THIS CAUSE, I BOW MY KNEES "UNTO THE FATHER OF OUR
- 1:40:49LORD JESUS CHRIST, OF WHOM THE WHOLE FAMILY IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
- 1:40:53IS NAMED." NEXT ONE, "GO QUICKLY THAT HE WOULD GRANT YOU,
- 1:40:57ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS GLORY, TO BE STRENGTHENED WITH
- 1:41:00MIGHT BY HIS SPIRIT IN YOUR INNER MAN." THINK ABOUT IF YOU
- 1:41:03PRAYED FOR PEOPLE TO BE STRENGTHENED INSIDE THEMSELVES.
- 1:41:07IF THEY'RE STRENGTHENED WITHIN, THEY'RE NOT GONNA WANNA GO BLOW
- 1:41:09THEIR BRAINS OUT. OKAY, BECAUSE THEY'RE STRENGTHENED WITH MIGHT
- 1:41:13BY THE POWER OF GOD. COME ON, SOMEBODY. SO I CAN'T ALWAYS
- 1:41:17CONTROL WHAT PEOPLE DO, BUT BOY, I CAN SURE PRAY FOR 'EM. I CAN
- 1:41:22SURE BELIEVE GOD FOR THEM. AND MY GOODNESS, THAT IS HOW MANY,
- 1:41:27MANY, SEEMINGLY THE PEOPLE THAT JUST SEEM LIKE THEY'D NEVER GET
- 1:41:32SAVED, SUDDENLY GET THEIR LIFE TURNED AROUND. BECAUSE SOME
- 1:41:35PRAYING MAMA SOMEWHERE. COME ON, SOME PRAYING GRANDMA SOMEWHERE.
- 1:41:40AND YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR THESE TESTIMONIES, PEOPLE SAY, "OH,
- 1:41:43WELL, YOU KNOW, I WOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN SAVED, BUT, BUT MY
- 1:41:46GOODNESS, MY, MY GRANDMOTHER, YOU KNOW, SHE PRAYED. MY
- 1:41:51GRANDMOTHER WAS ALWAYS PRAYING." IN FACT, PAUL CROUCH WAS HERE AT
- 1:41:53THE MEDIA EVENT. THOSE OF YOU THAT WERE HERE, BUT I'LL SHARE
- 1:41:55THE STORY. I FORGET THE NAME OF THE PASTOR. SOMEBODY HELP ME IF
- 1:41:58YOU WERE THERE. BUT THIS IS MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, AND HE HAD
- 1:42:03BEEN A MILITARY VETERAN THAT WAS OVERSEAS IN VIETNAM AND THESE
- 1:42:08WARS AND JUST SAW, AS HE DESCRIBED IT, THINGS THAT NO
- 1:42:12PERSON SHOULD SEE IN THESE WARS. AND HE CAME BACK WITH, THIS WAS
- 1:42:16IN THE '70S, HE CAME BACK WITH A TERRIBLE CASE OF PTSD. HE WAS
- 1:42:22JUST NOT IN HIS RIGHT MIND. EVERYTHING HAD GONE DIFFERENT.
- 1:42:26AND HE WAS TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT. AND HE WAS SITTING THERE
- 1:42:30ONE EVENING, HIS WIFE WAS AT CHURCH. SHE WAS A CHRISTIAN. HE
- 1:42:34WASN'T. SHE WAS A CHRISTIAN. SHE WAS AT BIBLE STUDY. AND I DON'T
- 1:42:38KNOW, SOME VOICE KEPT TELLING HIM, "YOUR WIFE'S CHEATING ON
- 1:42:40YOU." AND, YOU KNOW, HE WAS JUST PARANOID, JUST LIVED IN THIS
- 1:42:43PARANOIA. AND SO HE WAS SITTING THERE ONE NIGHT AND HE THOUGHT
- 1:42:48HIS WIFE WAS OUT CHEATING. SHE WAS LATE COMING BACK FROM BIBLE
- 1:42:50STUDY. AND THIS VOICE TOLD HIM, HE SAID, "WHEN YOUR WIFE GETS
- 1:42:55HOME, YOU KILL HER." AND HE GOT HIS SHOTGUN OUT, CHAMBERED IT,
- 1:43:01SITTING ON THE COUCH, AND WHEN SHE WALKED IN THAT DOOR, HE WAS
- 1:43:04GONNA SHOOT HER AND KILL HER. AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE SAID, HE
- 1:43:10SAT THERE AND I DON'T KNOW, HE TOOK THE GUN FOR WHATEVER REASON
- 1:43:14AND BEAT THE TELEVISION SET. AND IT CAME ON. THESE ARE THESE OLD
- 1:43:19TUBE TVS, THE 70S. I DON'T KNOW, I GUESS WHEN STUFF DIDN'T WORK
- 1:43:24BACK THEN, YOU HIT IT AND IT WOULD WORK. AND HE WAS STILL
- 1:43:28WAITING, SHE WAS LATE, AND ON COMES TBN. AND HE WATCHED THE
- 1:43:34SHOW THAT WAS ON THERE. I FORGET WHAT SHOW, DID HE SAY
- 1:43:37WHAT SHOW IT WAS? I DON'T REMEMBER. HUH?
- 1:43:39- CHUCK SMITH.
- 1:43:40- OH, IT WAS CHUCK SMITH, THAT'S RIGHT, IS PREACHING.
- 1:43:44- RAUL REESE.
- 1:43:46- RON REESE, IS THAT? RAUL REESE IS THE PASTOR. RAUL REESE
- 1:43:50IS THE PASTOR WHO NOW, OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, HERE COMES
- 1:43:55CHUCK SMITH, HE'S PREACHING, AND HE SAID HE SUDDENLY FALLS TO HIS
- 1:43:59KNEES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PREACHING, WEEPING, SOBBING
- 1:44:03BEFORE GOD, AND HE GIVES HIS HEART TO THE
- 1:44:05LORD, AND NOW PASTORS ONE OF THE LARGEST
- 1:44:08CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
- 1:44:11(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:44:14WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL WHAT OTHERS DO, BUT WE CAN PRAY FOR
- 1:44:16THEM, AND THAT'S THE THING. SO PART OF THE SUFFERING THAT
- 1:44:20HAPPENS IN THIS LIFE IS OTHER PEOPLE THAT CAN PUT PEOPLE
- 1:44:24THROUGH ANGUISH. SO THE FIRST ONE, THE CURSE OF THE GROUND.
- 1:44:27WE'RE ALWAYS IN BATTLE WITH THE EARTH CURSE, OKAY? DON'T BE
- 1:44:30SURPRISED BY THAT, RIGHT? THE REASON YOU HAVE TO CLEAN YOUR
- 1:44:33HOUSE AND WASH YOUR CAR, RIGHT, IS BECAUSE WE'RE IN BATTLE WITH
- 1:44:38THAT DECAY THAT'S IN THE EARTH. AND THE SECOND IS THE CHOICES OF
- 1:44:41OTHERS. AND THEN THE OTHER THING THAT WE DEAL WITH IN A FALLEN
- 1:44:44WORLD, AND THIS IS IMPORTANT. NOW I WANT YOU TO LISTEN TO ME.
- 1:44:47I'M GONNA READ A PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE THAT I THINK WILL HELP
- 1:44:51YOU GREATLY UNDERSTAND THIS, IS THAT WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT HAS
- 1:44:56RISKS OF DISASTERS, MISHAPS, ACCIDENTS, AND INJURIES. NOW,
- 1:45:04HEAR ME THIS, BEFORE YOU GET IN, "YEAH, PASTOR BRENDA, WE DON'T
- 1:45:06HAVE TO RECEIVE THAT." NO, WE DON'T, BUT JESUS, 'CAUSE WE CAN
- 1:45:09COUNTER THAT WITH THE PROMISE OF GOD, BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU'VE
- 1:45:12EVER TRIPPED ON YOUR BEDPOST, YOU KNOW, OKAY, WE LIVE IN A
- 1:45:17RISKY, UNCERTAIN WORLD, RIGHT? OKAY, WE'VE ALL QUOTED IT, WE'VE
- 1:45:21ALL SAID, THIS WORLD IS AN UNCERTAIN PLACE. NOW GO TO, I'M
- 1:45:24GONNA TEACH YOU, JESUS TALKED ABOUT THIS. THIS IS LUKE 13.
- 1:45:30NOW I'M GONNA READ IT FROM THE ERV. I DON'T KNOW
- 1:45:33THAT THEY HAVE THAT UP THERE, BUT YOU CAN USE THE NLT, THE
- 1:45:37EASY, THIS, THE ERV IS THE EASY TO READ VERSION. YOU CAN FIND IT
- 1:45:40LATER ON BIBLE GATEWAY. BUT THIS IS WHAT JESUS TAUGHT. CAN I SHOW
- 1:45:44YOU THIS? HE SAID, "SOME PEOPLE," LUKE 13:1, "WERE
- 1:45:48THERE WITH JESUS AT THAT TIME, HAD TOLD HIM ABOUT WHAT HAD
- 1:45:52HAPPENED TO SOME OF THE WORSHIPERS FROM GALILEE, FOR
- 1:45:55PILATE HAD THEM KILLED." IN OTHER WORDS, THIS PILATE
- 1:45:58MURDERED THESE PEOPLE IN A MASS KILLING. OKAY, LET ME BRING IT
- 1:46:02DOWN TO MODERN LANGUAGE. THERE WAS A MASS MURDER THAT HAPPENED,
- 1:46:06"AND THEIR BLOOD WAS MIXED WITH THE BLOOD OF ANIMALS THAT THEY
- 1:46:09HAD BROUGHT FOR SACRIFICING. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID, 'DO YOU
- 1:46:13THINK THIS HAPPENED TO THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY WERE MORE
- 1:46:16SINFUL THAN ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE FROM GALILEE?'" IN OTHER
- 1:46:19WORDS, THEY JUST WERE MURDERED IN A MASS MURDER BECAUSE THEY
- 1:46:24WERE NOT RIGHT WITH GOD? NO, HE SAID, "THAT'S NOT IT." HE SAID,
- 1:46:27"BUT IF YOU DON'T DECIDE NOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIVES, YOU WILL BE
- 1:46:31DESTROYED LIKE ALL THESE PEOPLE." IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT HE
- 1:46:34WAS SAYING IS, UNFORTUNATE EVENTS HAPPEN IN THIS WORLD.
- 1:46:39THERE IS UNCERTAINTY IN THIS LIFE. THIS IS A LIFE WHERE
- 1:46:43THINGS, WE SEE ANOTHER SHOOTING. OKAY, WE JUST SAW A CHURCH
- 1:46:48SHOOTING, RIGHT? JUST HAPPENED IN A CHURCH. WE SEE THINGS THAT
- 1:46:53GO ON IN A SHOPPING MALL, OR AN ACCIDENT, OR A BUNCH OF PEOPLE
- 1:46:58ALL OF A SUDDEN KILLED BY SOME EARTHQUAKE SOMEWHERE. OR HOW DID
- 1:47:02THEY DIE IN ALL THAT TORNADO THAT FLATTENED THAT WHOLE TOWN?
- 1:47:06OKAY, THIS IS THE WORLD OF UNCERTAINTY WE LIVE IN. AND
- 1:47:09JESUS SAID THIS WAS AN UNCERTAIN, THIS IN THIS CASE, IT
- 1:47:12WAS A MASS KILLING. HE SAID THE KEY IS TO KEEP YOUR LIFE RIGHT.
- 1:47:18OKAY, LIVE CLOSE TO GOD. WE LIVE IN AN UNCERTAIN WORLD, AND THE
- 1:47:22LAST THING WE WANT TO DO IS BE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF ETERNITY.
- 1:47:26OKAY, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT, THAT AIR INDIA AIRPLANE THAT WENT
- 1:47:29DOWN. THOSE PEOPLE SUDDENLY FOUND THAT THEY STEPPED OVER TO
- 1:47:32THE OTHER SIDE. AND YOU WANT TO KNOW THAT WHEN, WHENEVER, NOW
- 1:47:37SEE, I'M SAYING, THE BIBLE SAYS WE CAN STAND AGAINST THOSE
- 1:47:40THINGS AND WE CAN COMMISSION ANGELS TO PROTECT OUR LIFE. BUT
- 1:47:44THE LAST THING YOU WANT TO DO IS BE MESSING WITH YOUR ETERNITY.
- 1:47:47ETERNITY IS FOREVER. AND WE WANT TO KNOW THAT WE'RE LIVING RIGHT
- 1:47:52WITH GOD. NUMBER ONE, WE WANT TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF JESUS,
- 1:47:58SEATED WITH HIM IN HEAVENLY PLACES. BUT THE OTHER PART IS WE
- 1:48:03NEED TO KNOW, IN LIVING RIGHT, AS CHRISTIANS, THAT WE EVERY DAY
- 1:48:07APPROPRIATE GOD'S PROMISES. THAT'S WHY PASTOR AND I TEACH SO
- 1:48:11MUCH. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY. BE CAREFUL WHAT POPS OUT OF YOUR
- 1:48:15MOUTH. "OH, THAT'S JUST KILLING ME." "MY WHOLE FAMILY HAS
- 1:48:20ARTHRITIS. I THINK IT'S COMING TO ME TOO." BE CAREFUL ABOUT
- 1:48:26THAT STUFF. BE CAREFUL WHAT WE PROGNOSTICATE IN OUR LIFE. OKAY,
- 1:48:31IT'S AN UNCERTAIN WORLD. DON'T GIVE THE DEVIL AN OPPORTUNITY TO
- 1:48:35COME SAILING IN. WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU NEVER KNOW, LADIES. AND
- 1:48:40THAT'S WHY WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL WITH SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOME OF
- 1:48:42THESE THINGS. I'M NOT SAYING YOU DON'T HAVE SECURITY. THANK GOD
- 1:48:45FOR OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT DO SO MANY
- 1:48:47GOOD THINGS. WE NEED TO BE SMART.
- 1:48:49(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:48:53BUT WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL. WE DON'T LIVE IN FEAR. I SAW ONE OF
- 1:48:56THOSE VIDEOS THAT CAME UP ON THE REELS. ANYWAY, I HAVE A LOVE
- 1:49:03HATE RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE THINGS. I PROBABLY DON'T WATCH
- 1:49:08THE ONES THAT SHOULD BE GOOD AND THE ONES THAT I ALWAYS PULL UP
- 1:49:10IS SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, FALLING OFF THE DIVING BOARD INTO A POOL
- 1:49:13AND ANYWAY, IT WAS JUST RIDICULOUS. BUT I SAW ONE OF
- 1:49:17THESE REELS AND I DON'T KNOW, SOME LADY AND IT SHOWS A
- 1:49:19REENACTMENT OF A MUGGER AND THIS LADY'S GOT THIS LITTLE PURSE
- 1:49:23SPRAY OR WHATEVER SHE PULLS OUT AND IT SHOWS THE GUY, YOU KNOW,
- 1:49:29AND THEN YOU THINK, SO THEN, YOU KNOW, THEY GET YOU WITH THIS
- 1:49:32STUFF OR THE CHOKING ONE. HOW MANY OF
- 1:49:33YOU SEEN THAT ONE? YOU KNOW, "DON'T BE
- 1:49:35CAUGHT WITHOUT THE CHOKING DEVICE." "X AMOUNT OF PEOPLE
- 1:49:38DIE EVERY DAY FROM CHOKING." AND THERE'S THE CHOKING
- 1:49:42DEVICE, AND YOU PUT THE SUCTION CUP, AND THE PERSON
- 1:49:46VOMITS OUT THE STEAK. AND YOU KNOW, YOU SEE THAT STUFF, AND
- 1:49:51THEN YOU THINK, "OH, I GOTTA GET THAT." YOU KNOW, "I NEED THE
- 1:49:55DEVICE." "I NEED THE BEAR SPRAY, THE PURSE-SIZED BEAR SPRAY."
- 1:50:01(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:50:04NOW THEY HAVE A WAY OF GETTING YOU, BUT THEY, IT'S THROUGH. OH,
- 1:50:09COME ON, BE HONEST WITH YOURSELVES.
- 1:50:11(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:50:12OOO, OOO, DON'T I'LL WOO YOU, WOO, WOO, WOO.
- 1:50:15(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:50:17DON'T ACT LIKE YOU NEVER ORDERED SOMETHING OFF OF SOMETHING LIKE
- 1:50:21THAT. IT GOES BY, 'CAUSE FACEBOOK JUST PLASTERS IT. YOU
- 1:50:25KNOW, INSTAGRAM, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED, YOU NEED THIS DEVICE FOR
- 1:50:29SOMETHING. OKAY, YOU NEED THIS PILL, YOU NEED THIS, YOU KNOW,
- 1:50:32ANTI -AGING, YOU NEED TO PUT THIS LIGHT ON YOUR FACE.
- 1:50:36TAKE ALL THE WRINKLES OFF. OH, SHUT UP, IT ISN'T.
- 1:50:40(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:50:42IT'S NOT GONNA TAKE THE WRINKLE, IT WON'T DO IT, OKAY? LET'S BE
- 1:50:48REAL, YOU AIN'T GONNA LOOK LIKE YOU WERE WHEN YOU WERE FIVE
- 1:50:50YEARS OLD. GET USED TO IT, IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS, OKAY?
- 1:50:54AND THEN FACEBOOK IS SO FAIR, YOU KNOW? THIS IS HOW YOU
- 1:50:58LOOK NOW, AND THEN IT'LL SHOW YOU FROM 10 YEARS IN,
- 1:51:00YOU'RE LIKE, AH, GET THAT, GET THAT, BIND
- 1:51:03THAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS. BUT THEY
- 1:51:09ALSO KNOW HOW TO PRICK YOUR FEAR, BECAUSE THE WORLD IS AN
- 1:51:14UNCERTAIN PLACE, OKAY? AND SO WE NEED TO NOT ONLY LIVE RIGHT WITH
- 1:51:18GOD, THIS IS WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING, EVERY SINGLE DAY, WORK
- 1:51:21OUT OUR SALVATION, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO KNOW HOW TO APPROPRIATE
- 1:51:25HIS PROMISES EVERY DAY, OKAY? YOU KNOW, SPEAK HEALING OVER
- 1:51:29YOURSELF, SPEAK LIFE. YOU KNOW, ONE THING I LOVE ABOUT PASTOR,
- 1:51:33HE'S DONE THIS FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, HE'LL SAY IT.
- 1:51:35HE'LL SAY, HE'LL PRAY OVER OUR HOUSE EVERY YEAR, ACTUALLY, HE
- 1:51:38PRAYS OVER WAY MORE THAN THAT, BUT HE'LL PRAY AND SAY, THERE
- 1:51:41WILL NEVER BE A BREAK IN, MISCHIEF, MAYHEM,
- 1:51:43NO ATTACKER, NO DESTROYER, THEY'LL
- 1:51:45NEVER BREAK A WINDOW, NO ONE WILL BREAK THROUGH THIS DOOR,
- 1:51:48THERE'LL BE NEVER A MURDER OR RAPE, THERE'LL NEVER BE A CRIME
- 1:51:51COMMITTED IN THIS HOME. I BIND IT IN THE NAME OF JESUS. WE
- 1:51:54STAND UP AND WE COMMISSION ANGELS TO BE AROUND THE
- 1:51:57PERIMETER OF OUR HOUSE. AND SO WE DON'T TALK DEATH AND FEAR. SO
- 1:52:02JESUS SAID, IF YOU DON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE AT RISK OF
- 1:52:06BEING DESTROYED JUST LIKE THEY DID 'CAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY OF
- 1:52:10THIS LIFE. LOOK AT THE NEXT ONE HE SAID. HE SAID, HE ALSO SAID,
- 1:52:14"WHAT ABOUT THOSE 18 PEOPLE WHO DIED WHEN THE TOWER FELL?" AND
- 1:52:17THIS WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT. MAYBE IT WAS A STORM, I DON'T KNOW. HE
- 1:52:22SAID, "WAS IT BECAUSE THEY WERE SINFUL MORE THAN EVERYONE ELSE
- 1:52:25IN JERUSALEM? NO, THAT WASN'T IT. BUT I TELL YOU, IF YOU DON'T
- 1:52:29DECIDE NOW," COME ON, CHANGE YOUR LIFE. DON'T
- 1:52:32WAIT TILL THE STORM COMES. YOU, YOU COULD
- 1:52:35SAY IT LIKE THIS, "ARE AT RISK OF ALSO
- 1:52:39BEING DESTROYED." SO WHAT DO WE LEARN FROM THAT? WE LIVE IN AN
- 1:52:43UNCERTAIN WORLD, AND WE NEED TO BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF GOD AND
- 1:52:47FOLLOW HIS WAYS AND APPROPRIATE THOSE PROMISES. DON'T JUST
- 1:52:50APPROPRIATE THE PROMISES OF GOD WHEN YOU'RE IN A TRIAL. RIGHT?
- 1:52:55APPROPRIATE IT WHEN THINGS ARE GOING GREAT. THAT'S WHEN WE
- 1:52:58SOMETIMES DON'T WANNA DO IT AS MUCH. WE THINK, "OH,
- 1:53:01EVERYTHING'S GOOD. "IT'S ALL RIGHT, GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF
- 1:53:03IT." NO, YOU HOLD ON TO THE TRUTH OF THE WORD. THAT'S WHY WE
- 1:53:06SAY, DON'T LET THE WORDS DEPART FROM YOUR EYES. KEEP THEM IN THE
- 1:53:11MIDST OF YOUR HEART. SO THIS IS THE NUMBER FOUR IS WE LIVE IN A
- 1:53:16FALLEN WORLD. AND WE ARE ALWAYS COUNTERING THAT. WE'RE ALWAYS
- 1:53:20GOING TO DEAL WITH THAT. AND THAT IS A CONTRIBUTOR TO
- 1:53:22SUFFERING. ALL RIGHT, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE LAST ONE. ARE YOU
- 1:53:25READY? ALL RIGHT, LET'S TALK ABOUT NUMBER FIVE, THE REASON
- 1:53:30CHRISTIANS SUFFER. AND THIS IS THE GLARING ONE THAT I SEE ALL
- 1:53:34ACROSS THE NEW TESTAMENT IS SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE
- 1:53:39PERSECUTION OF THE GOSPEL. NOW, PERSECUTION OF THE GOSPEL IS NOT
- 1:53:45SOMETHING THAT WE TALK ABOUT ALL THAT MUCH IN THE UNITED STATES
- 1:53:49OF AMERICA. IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT IS THE COMMON TOPIC. I
- 1:53:52MEAN, I THINK IT'S COME UP A LITTLE BIT MORE EVER SINCE THE
- 1:53:54PANDEMIC AND THE CENSORSHIP AND THE MASS MANDATES. AND ALL OF A
- 1:53:58SUDDEN WE REALIZE, WAIT A MINUTE, PEOPLE CAN GO TO THE
- 1:54:01CLUB AND HAVE A BEER, BUT THEY CAN'T COME TO CHURCH FOR TWO
- 1:54:05HOURS ON A SUNDAY AND SIT NEXT TO THEIR FRIENDS. YOU CAN FLY ON
- 1:54:08A FLIGHT, RIGHT, TWO INCHES FROM SOMEBODY IN A SEAT
- 1:54:12THAT IS NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR ONE WHOLE HUMAN.
- 1:54:15(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:54:19I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE IT GETS SKINNIER. EITHER THEY'RE GETTING
- 1:54:21SKINNIER ON THOSE THINGS OR WE'RE GETTING BIGGER. I DON'T
- 1:54:23KNOW WHAT IT IS. BUT THE POINT IS, IS THEY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU
- 1:54:27COULD SIT RIGHT NEXT TO SOMEBODY ON AN AIRPLANE, BUT YOU COULDN'T
- 1:54:30SIT NEXT TO SOME, AND YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT, FOR AN AIRPLANE,
- 1:54:33MOST FLIGHTS AROUND THE COUNTRY ARE TWO TO THREE HOURS. SO YOU
- 1:54:37WERE NEXT TO THAT PERSON FOR TWO TO THREE HOURS, BUT YOU COULDN'T
- 1:54:39COME FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF TO A CHURCH SERVICE ON A SUNDAY
- 1:54:42MORNING. COME ON, THERE WAS AN AGENDA WITH THAT. OKAY, THERE
- 1:54:46WAS AN AGENDA. THEY WANTED TO KEEP PEOPLE SEPARATED. AND SO,
- 1:54:51FACT OF THE MATTER IS, WE KIND OF TALKED A LITTLE BIT MORE
- 1:54:54ABOUT THE PERSECUTION OF THE GOSPEL. BUT LOOK WHAT PAUL SAID
- 1:54:57IN TIMOTHY. SECOND TIMOTHY CHAPTER THREE, VERSE 12. "YES,
- 1:55:03ALL," SOMEBODY SAY ALL. "ALL THAT WILL LIVE GODLY IN CHRIST
- 1:55:07JESUS "SHALL SUFFER PERSECUTION." OKAY, MAKE NO
- 1:55:14MISTAKE ABOUT IT. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF WE LIVE IN THE UNITED
- 1:55:16STATES. THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT HATE THE GOSPEL THAT
- 1:55:21YOU AND I STAND FOR AND THAT WE PREACH. COME ON, THEY'LL LET A
- 1:55:24MUSLIM PRAY IN PUBLIC, BUT THE MINUTE YOU START WANTING TO PRAY
- 1:55:28IN THE NAME OF JESUS, HERE COMES THE POLICE, HERE COMES ALL OF
- 1:55:31THE LIBERAL, LOONY LEFT, AND THE CIVIL LIBERTIES, RIDICULOUS
- 1:55:36OPINION, HERE THEY COME. THE MINUTE YOU BRING UP JESUS' NAME,
- 1:55:40ALL OF A SUDDEN THE WAR IS ON. 'CAUSE ALL THOSE THAT LIVE GODLY
- 1:55:45IN CHRIST JESUS SUFFER PERSECUTION. JOHN 15:18-19,
- 1:55:50JESUS SAID, "IF THE WORLD HATES YOU, KNOW THEY HATED ME
- 1:55:54BEFORE IT HATED YOU. IF YOU WERE OF THE WORLD, THE WORLD
- 1:56:01WOULD LOVE ITS OWN." YOU KNOW, IT'S OKAY NOT TO FIT IN, FOLKS.
- 1:56:05ALL RIGHT? IT'S OKAY, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. IT'S OKAY, YOU
- 1:56:10DON'T HAVE TO FIT IN WITH EVERYBODY. "THE WORLD WOULD LOVE
- 1:56:14ITS OWN, BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, I HAVE CHOSEN
- 1:56:20YOU OUT OF THE WORLD. THEREFORE, THE WORLD,"
- 1:56:23WATCH THIS, WILL HATE YOU." PAUL OFTEN DESCRIBED HIS
- 1:56:28SUFFERINGS ASSOCIATED, MOSTLY, WATCH THIS, WITH THE PREACHING
- 1:56:33OF THE GOSPEL. HE SAID, "BECAUSE I PREACH THIS GOSPEL, I SUFFER
- 1:56:39AS AN EVILDOER." THERE ARE 30 EXAMPLES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT OF
- 1:56:45PAUL'S SUFFERING AS A RESULT OF PERSECUTION. AND THEN HE GOES ON
- 1:56:48TO SAY, WATCH THIS, HE SAID, "AND THIS IS THE DESTINY OF US
- 1:56:51ALL." SO DON'T MAKE ANY MISTAKE ABOUT IT. THIS IS WHERE THE USER
- 1:56:55FRIENDLY MOVEMENT GOT IT COMPLETELY WRONG, OKAY? WE'RE SO
- 1:56:58BUSY TRYING TO BEFRIEND EVERYBODY AND MAKE IT, "AND
- 1:57:01LISTEN, WE'RE JUST LIKE YOU. HE GETS US. HE GETS US. HERE, WE'RE
- 1:57:07ALL ON THE SAME PLAYING FIELD." NO, WE'RE NOT. I HAVE THE BLOOD
- 1:57:12OF THE MESSIAH ROLLING THROUGH MY VEINS.
- 1:57:15(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:57:18BY THE WAY, THERE'S ONLY TWO RACES IN THE EARTH. ARE YOU
- 1:57:27READY? THAT'S WHY WE GOTTA GET ALL OUR RACE GLASSES
- 1:57:33OFF. TWO. THE SAVED AND THE UNSAVED.
- 1:57:41(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:57:44LET ME SAY IT AGAIN, THE SAVED AND THE UNSAVED. THE ONE THAT
- 1:57:50HAS POLLUTED BLOOD AND THE ONE THAT IS BORN AGAIN AND HAS THE
- 1:57:55BLOOD OF THE MESSIAH RUNNING THROUGH THEIR VEINS.
- 1:57:59(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:58:03JUDY AND I ARE THE SAME COLOR. WE BLEED RED. COME ON SOMEBODY.
- 1:58:14OH, DON'T SHOUT ME DOWN 'CAUSE I'M PREACHING GOOD. YOU CUT
- 1:58:18SOMEBODY'S FINGER AND THEY ALL BLEED RED BLOOD. WE ARE MADE BY
- 1:58:23GOD HIMSELF, BUT WE BECAME OF A NEW RACE, A HEAVENLY KINGDOM
- 1:58:29WHEN WE ASKED JESUS TO COME IN OUR HEART AND WE LEFT THIS
- 1:58:33WORLDLY KINGDOM FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
- 1:58:36(CONGREGATION CHEERING)
- 1:58:43AND YOU KNOW, CAN I BE HONEST? ALL US RACES GOT SOME JUNK. I
- 1:58:54DON'T WANNA CLAIM IT. YOU KNOW, EVERY CHURCH YOU GO TO IS
- 1:58:58DIFFERENT. YOU KNOW, THE WHITE CHURCH, THEY'RE PERPENDICULAR.
- 1:59:10"IT IS SO GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE TODAY." THEY
- 1:59:13DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO SAY LOUISVILLE.
- 1:59:15(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:59:26THIS IS MY LAST SERMON!
- 1:59:28(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:59:33I WON'T BE HERE NEXT SUNDAY. NO,
- 1:59:35I'M JUST KIDDING. BUT NO, IT'S TRUE! YOU
- 1:59:39GET THE PERPENDICULAR CHURCH. THEN YOU GO TO THE BLACK CHURCH
- 1:59:43AND EVERYTHING'S (HUMMING). THEY'LL HAVE CHURCH
- 1:59:47TILL 4:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, TILL THE HOLY GHOST
- 1:59:49COME. I WATCH ONE CHURCH, I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING TO ME. AND I,
- 1:59:55YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I LOVE 'EM ALL. BUT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO
- 1:59:59THE BLACK CHURCH, YOU'RE GONNA GET ANOTHER EXPRESSION. AND IN
- 2:00:02EVERY ONE, SOME GOOD AND SOME BAD. YOU GO TO THE WHITE CHURCH,
- 2:00:06THEY DO SOME STUFF RIGHT. YOU GO TO THE BLACK CHURCH, AND THEY DO
- 2:00:10SOME STUFF RIGHT, BUT THEY BOTH DO SOME STUFF THAT'S DUMB. AND
- 2:00:15THEN THERE'S LATINO CHURCH. OKAY, HOLY SPIRIT.
- 2:00:22(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 2:00:25OH, WE PREACHED ALL ACROSS LATIN AMERICA. I REMEMBER ONE CHURCH
- 2:00:29WE WERE, I HAVE TO TELL THIS STORY, WE WERE PREACHING IN THIS
- 2:00:32AUDITORIUM, AND I MEAN, THERE MUST HAVE BEEN 3 OR 4,000
- 2:00:36PEOPLE IN THERE, AND PASTOR GIVES A CALL, AND HE SAYS, "IF
- 2:00:38YOU'RE NOT FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST." NOW, KEEP IN MIND, THIS
- 2:00:41WAS A PENTECOSTAL EXPRESSION EVENT. THESE PEOPLE WERE FALLING
- 2:00:46ALL OVER THE FLOOR, THEY WERE RUNNING AROUND, THEY WERE LAYING
- 2:00:49ON THE GROUND SHAKING, THEY WERE DOING THE THINGS, AND I MEAN,
- 2:00:53THEY WERE HAVING AN EXPERIENCE. THE PLACE WAS CRAZY. AND PASTOR
- 2:01:00SAYS, "NOW, IF YOU'VE NEVER BEEN, "YOU'RE EXPERIENCING
- 2:01:03THIS, "AND YOU'VE NEVER BEEN FILLED WITH THE
- 2:01:05HOLY GHOST, "AND SPOKEN TONGUES, I WANT YOU TO COME TO
- 2:01:09THE FRONT." I'M TELLING YOU, GOD IS MY WITNESS,
- 2:01:11ABOUT HALF THE ROOM CAME TO THE FRONT. I'M NOT...
- 2:01:13(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 2:01:16ALL THESE PEOPLE AREN'T FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST? I MEAN, YOU
- 2:01:21KNOW, PENTECOSTALS DO THAT STUFF. BUT HERE THEY ALL CAME
- 2:01:27DOWN TO THE FRONT AND YOU THOUGHT THEY FELL ON THE FLOOR
- 2:01:29BEFORE. THEY WERE ALL ON THE FLOOR AND CAME UP TALKING IN
- 2:01:33TONGUES. BUT YOU KNOW, SO WE HAVE THESE THINGS THAT ARE...
- 2:01:36WHAT MY POINT IS, IS WE HAVE THINGS THAT ARE REHEARSED AND
- 2:01:38PRACTICED. BUT I WILL TELL YOU, THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS ABOUT
- 2:01:41WHITE-ISM, I CAN'T STAND. THERE IS STUFF ABOUT BLACK-ISM,
- 2:01:46I CAN'T STAND. THERE IS STUFF ABOUT LATINO-ISM,
- 2:01:51I CAN'T STAND. AM I PREACHING TOO HARD RIGHT NOW?
- 2:01:53(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 2:01:54CAN WE JUST LAY THIS TOPIC ON THE TABLE? COME ON, IF THEY'RE
- 2:01:58NOT GONNA GET IT IN THE CHURCH, THEY'RE NOT GONNA GET IT
- 2:02:00ANYWHERE. YOU'RE CERTAINLY NOT GONNA GET IT ON THE MAINSTREAM
- 2:02:02MEDIA 'CAUSE THEY'RE GONNA TWIST IT ALL UP. BUT ONE THING I LOVE
- 2:02:05ABOUT LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH, LOOK AROUND YOU, IT'S NOT A BLACK
- 2:02:08CHURCH, IT'S NOT A WHITE CHURCH, NOT A LATINO CHURCH. COME ON, WE
- 2:02:12ARE KINGDOM CHURCH, ALL BLEEDING RED BLOOD WITH
- 2:02:17THE POWER OF THE MESSIAH IN OUR VEINS.
- 2:02:21(CONGREGATION CHEERING)
- 2:02:27I MEAN, OF COURSE, I DID TELL LADY T, ON VACATION I'LL BE IN
- 2:02:32THE SUN A LITTLE TO BRING OUT MY BLACK SIDE. I'VE TOLD HER, HOW
- 2:02:39LONG Y'ALL BEEN IN THE CHURCH? 23 YEARS. I TOLD THEM A LONG
- 2:02:44TIME AGO, SHE'S GOT IT ON RECORD, I SAID, I AM HALF BLACK.
- 2:02:48I MAY NOT LOOK LIKE IT, BUT MY HAIR SHOWS IT. SO I JUST WANT
- 2:02:51YOU TO KNOW THAT. BUT NOW WE GOT TO GET RID OF SOME OF THESE RACE
- 2:02:54HANGUPS. OKAY, DON'T LET THE WORLD TELL US WHAT RACE OUGHT TO
- 2:02:58LOOK LIKE. BECAUSE IN HEAVEN, THE BIBLE SAID EVERY ETHNOS IS
- 2:03:02GOING TO FLOW INTO THE HOUSE OF GOD. WE BETTER GET ALONG
- 2:03:05DOWN HERE AND LAY DOWN OUR HANGUPS, PUT THEM ASIDE
- 2:03:09AND COME TOGETHER BECAUSE WE ARE KINGDOM.
- 2:03:13(CONGREGATION CHEERING)
- 2:03:18I DON'T KNOW HOW WE WENT DOWN THAT TRAIL. GOOD, WE GOT ONE
- 2:03:23THANK YOU UP IN THE RAFTERS, THAT'S GOOD. OH NO, I DON'T LIKE
- 2:03:27TO LET THE WORLD DEFINE IT. WE'RE BORN AGAIN.
- 2:03:30- AMEN.
- 2:03:31- OKAY, AND THE WORLD KNOWS IT. YOU KNOW, IT'S AMAZING, BLACK
- 2:03:35LIVES MATTER. REMEMBER THEM? YOU KNOW, THE ONES THAT COMMITTED
- 2:03:39FRAUD? YEAH, THAT. THINK ABOUT, THINK ABOUT HOW BLACK LIVES
- 2:03:48DIDN'T MATTER WHEN YOU WERE A BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN STANDING
- 2:03:53FOR DECENCY AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. IT ONLY MATTERED IF YOU RAN THE
- 2:03:58STREETS AND RIOTED WITH THEM. SO DON'T EVER FORGET, AND I'M GONNA
- 2:04:03SAY THIS LAST THING, I DON'T KNOW WHY GOD HAD ME GO DOWN THIS
- 2:04:05TOPIC, AND JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT THE WORLD ISN'T SETTING OUR
- 2:04:12VIEWS. THE DEVIL IS AFTER ONE BLOOD. DON'T EVER FORGET THIS
- 2:04:22NOW, OKAY? HE WANTS DEATH TO CHRISTIANS, OKAY? HE'S NOT AFTER
- 2:04:29YOU BECAUSE OF YOUR COLOR ON THE OUTSIDE. DON'T EVER FORGET THAT.
- 2:04:33READ YOUR BIBLE. HE IS AFTER THE PRECIOUS LIFE. AND EVERY LIFE
- 2:04:38THAT IS BORN AGAIN, FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST AND POWER, IS THE
- 2:04:43ONE WITH A BIG OL' BULLSEYE ON THEIR CHEST THAT THE DEVIL IS
- 2:04:47OUT TO GET. DON'T EVER FORGET THAT. AND WE NEED TO, AS THE
- 2:04:51BODY OF CHRIST, DEFEND ONE ANOTHER, STAND TOGETHER. COME
- 2:04:55ON. JESUS SAID, COME ON, STAND TOGETHER. WE'RE THE CHURCH. LOOK
- 2:05:01AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY, "WE'RE THE CHURCH."
- 2:05:04HAVE SOME CONFIDENCE ABOUT IT. AMEN.
- 2:05:08ALL RIGHT. NOW THAT I'M IN TROUBLE, PEOPLE ARE
- 2:05:11EITHER EXCITED OR WANT TO THROW SHOES. BUT IT'S THE PERSECUTION
- 2:05:16OF THE GOSPEL WAS THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF SUFFERING IN THE NEW
- 2:05:20TESTAMENT. IT WAS NOT BECAUSE GOD SUBMERGES US IN A PERSONAL
- 2:05:24TRIAL ON PURPOSE BEYOND WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DISCUSSED ABOUT
- 2:05:27THE TESTING OF OUR FAITH. JESUS DID NOT MINCE HIS WORDS IN
- 2:05:30EXPLAINING THAT TO FOLLOW HIM MEANS YOU WILL BE PERSECUTED
- 2:05:35EVEN WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR MARTYRDOM. NOW THIS SHOULD NOT
- 2:05:39BE SHOCKING, BUT JESUS SAID, "IF YOU DO NOT TAKE UP YOUR CROSS TO
- 2:05:44FOLLOW ME, YOU CAN'T BE MY DISCIPLES." YOU KNOW, I WAS
- 2:05:47THINKING ABOUT THESE AMAZING SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN THAT WENT
- 2:05:50IN AND DID THAT AMAZING THING IN IRAN. I MEAN, THEY JUST, COME
- 2:05:57ON, THEY DESERVE A HAND. IT'S 4TH OF JULY. I THINK WE OUGHT TO
- 2:06:03GIVE THEM A HAND WHILE THE MEDIA IS SO BUSY BASHING ALL OF THEM.
- 2:06:07(CONGREGATION CHEERING)
- 2:06:08FOR A JOB WELL DONE. WE SALUTE YOU. AND YOU KNOW, BUT THESE
- 2:06:24SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN WILL GO IN AND CONDUCT A MISSION. AND WHEN
- 2:06:26THEY SIGN UP FOR THE MILITARY, WHEN THEY SIGN UP TO BE IN THE
- 2:06:31MILITARY, THEY DO IT SIMILAR TO HOW WE DO IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
- 2:06:36IT'S A SIMILAR THING. THEY KNOW GOING INTO IT THAT THERE'S
- 2:06:40BLESSINGS FOR BEING IN THE MILITARY, THEY'LL PAY FOR YOUR
- 2:06:42COLLEGE. THEY'LL GIVE YOU MEDICAL BENEFITS. I DON'T KNOW
- 2:06:47IF THEY'RE AS GOOD AS THEY USED TO BE, BUT THEY'LL GIVE 'EM TO
- 2:06:49YOU. I HAD BRACES PUT ON, MY DAD WAS A 24 YEAR AIR FORCE, I HAD
- 2:06:54BRACES PUT ON, PAID FOR BY THE US GOVERNMENT. WE WERE OVERSEAS
- 2:07:01AND I NEEDED BRACES AND THE MILITARY AGREED TO PAY FOR 'EM.
- 2:07:06THERE ARE BLESSINGS IN THE US MILITARY FOR BEING IN THAT. SAME
- 2:07:10WAY WITH THE KINGDOM OF GOD, WE KNOW THERE ARE BLESSINGS FOR
- 2:07:13BEING INTO THE KINGDOM. BUT EVERY ONE OF THOSE SERVICE
- 2:07:15MEMBERS KNOW THAT THEY COULD CALL ON AT ANY GIVEN TIME, BE
- 2:07:20CALLED UPON, AND THEY WILL WILLINGLY HAVE TO GO AND
- 2:07:24POTENTIALLY RISK THEIR LIFE. THOSE PEOPLE THAT CONDUCTED THAT
- 2:07:29HAMMER MISSION OVER IRAQ, TAKING OUT THOSE NUCLEAR SITES, THEY
- 2:07:32KNEW SOMETHING COULD GO TERRIBLY WRONG. THE POTENTIAL AND THE
- 2:07:36RISK WAS THERE. SO LET'S NOT ACT SURPRISED THAT THE POTENTIAL AND
- 2:07:41RISK COMES FOR PERSECUTION OR MARTYRDOM TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
- 2:07:45WE SIGNED UP IN THE BLESSING, WE KNOW THAT, AND LISTEN, WE'RE NOT
- 2:07:49WANTING TO BE MARTYRED, ALTHOUGH THE EARLY APOSTLES ACTUALLY
- 2:07:52CONSIDERED IT A GREAT HONOR FOR THEM TO BE MARTYRED FOR THE
- 2:07:55KINGDOM OF GOD. OKAY, BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT WITH IT BECOMES
- 2:07:59GREAT RISK BECAUSE WE HAVE TO STAND. COME ON, THOSE MILITARY
- 2:08:03SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN STOOD FOR THE AMERICAN FLAG. THEY STOOD
- 2:08:07FOR THIS COUNTRY WITH ALL OF ITS GREATS AND ALL ITS FAULTS. AND
- 2:08:10CAN WE NOT DO MORE THAN THEY DO AS MEN AND WOMEN IN THE KINGDOM?
- 2:08:18AND SO THERE'S THE POTENTIAL THAT WE'D HAVE TO GIVE THE
- 2:08:21ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, JUST LIKE THEY KNOW THAT IN THE NATURAL.
- 2:08:24AND I WOULD THINK WE FIGHT FOR THAT ALL THE MORE, MORE WITH
- 2:08:28GREATER DETERMINATION THAN THEY WOULD. AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW SO
- 2:08:32MANY PEOPLE IN THE MILITARY ARE LIKE, I WANNA GO OVER THERE AND
- 2:08:35FIGHT FOR MY COUNTRY. I WANNA BE IN THE FRAY. I WANNA
- 2:08:39BE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. I'M NOT AFRAID. THEY WANNA
- 2:08:41STRAP UP AND GO. WELL, COME ON, CHURCH. USER
- 2:08:46FRIENDLY MOVEMENT, WE'RE HIDING BEHIND DONUTS AND MILK. PASTORS
- 2:08:52DON'T WANNA PREACH ANYTHING CONTROVERSIAL ANYMORE FROM THE
- 2:08:54PULPIT. WE DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT HELL. WE DON'T WANNA SAY
- 2:08:57REPENT. WE DON'T WANNA PREACH ANYTHING THAT'S BOLD AND ASK
- 2:09:01PEOPLE TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS IN THEIR LIFE. WE DON'T WANT TO HIT
- 2:09:06ANYTHING BECAUSE PEOPLE MIGHT LEAVE AND THEN THE PASTOR'S LEFT
- 2:09:09TO PAY FOR A BUILDING. COME ON, WE GOTTA GET BETTER THAN BIG
- 2:09:13BUILDINGS AND BIG EQUIPMENT AND PAVING A PARKING LOT. WE ARE THE
- 2:09:17PREACHERS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND WE NEED TO PREACH IT WITH
- 2:09:22BOLDNESS AND WITHOUT APOLOGY. IT'S NOT JUST THE USER FRIENDLY
- 2:09:33PREACHERS. OKAY. TIMOTHY ALSO SAYS THE PEOPLE HAVE ITCHING
- 2:09:38EARS SITTING ON THE FRONT ROW. YOU KNOW, HERE'S HOW, HERE'S HOW
- 2:09:42YOU DON'T HELP YOUR PASTOR. CAN I HELP YOU IN THIS?
- 2:09:46SORRY, I'M ON A RABBIT TRAIL AGAIN. IS THE RAIN OVER? WE'LL
- 2:09:49STAY TILL THE RAIN STOPS. I'M ALMOST DONE, ARE YOU READY?
- 2:09:55HERE'S HOW YOU DON'T HELP YOUR PASTOR.
- 2:09:58(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 2:10:07YOU'RE NOT GONNA HELP THE PASTOR PREACH A BOLD MESSAGE WHEN YOU
- 2:10:12SIT THERE LOOKING LIKE, WHAT WERE THOSE MUPPETS THAT SAT UP
- 2:10:16IN THE BALCONY IN THE... THERE'S ONE FOR THE MEDIA. YOU'RE NOT
- 2:10:32GOING TO HELP YOUR PASTOR. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PULL THE
- 2:10:34ANOINTING OUT OF HIM OR HER. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PULL OUT THE
- 2:10:37POWER OF GOD. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PULL OUT THEM PREACHING A
- 2:10:39KINGDOM MESSAGE THAT COMMANDS CHANGE AND HELPS THE WORLD. COME
- 2:10:44ON, GET BORN AGAIN. WE DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR A GOSPEL THAT IS AN
- 2:10:48EASY MESSAGE. WE SIGNED UP FOR A GOSPEL THAT HAS A HARD MESSAGE.
- 2:10:52THERE IS A HEAVEN TO GAIN AND A HELL TO SHUN. GET ON THE RIGHT
- 2:10:56SIDE OF HEAVEN OR YOU'RE GONNA GO TO HELL.
- 2:10:59(CONGREGATION CHEERING)
- 2:11:07COME ON. SOMEWHERE THAT'S THE GOSPEL WE HAVE TO GET BACK TO.
- 2:11:14USED TO BE BACK IN THE OLD DAYS OF PENTECOST, THE PREACHERS
- 2:11:17WOULD PREACH SO HARD. FINNEY WOULD PREACH, THE BARS WOULD
- 2:11:20CLOSE. PEOPLE WOULD RUN TO THE ALTAR BEFORE THE MESSAGE WAS
- 2:11:24OVER, ASKING GOD TO FORGIVE THEM. THEY WERE REPENTING. THEY
- 2:11:28CAME INTO THE KINGDOM. PAUL SAID, "WITH GREAT DIFFICULTY, WE
- 2:11:32ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD." IT'S NOT A ROSE WALK AND A CAKE WALK.
- 2:11:38YOU KNOW, "OH, COME IN IF YOU'RE GAY." NOW THEY CAN COME IN,
- 2:11:45THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE. BUT ONE SERMON OUGHT TO MAKE THEM
- 2:11:49QUESTION IMMEDIATELY THE LIFESTYLE THEY'RE LIVING. WE
- 2:11:53SHOULDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THREE YEARS AND TWO SUNDAYS FOR
- 2:11:57SOMEBODY TO FINALLY FIGURE IT OUT, "IS IT A SIN TO BE A GAY
- 2:11:59AND A CHRISTIAN?" NO, THE BIBLE SAYS THE EFFEMINATE WILL GO TO
- 2:12:05HELL. OH, THAT'S IN YOUR BIBLE. THAT'S IN YOUR BIBLE. THE BIBLE
- 2:12:15CALLS HOMOSEXUALITY AN ABOMINATION BEFORE GOD. I'VE GOT
- 2:12:20A NEWSFLASH FOR YOU, MEDIA. GOD HAS NOT CHANGED
- 2:12:23HIS MIND. THE MONTH OF JUNE IS NOT PRIDE
- 2:12:27MONTH. THE MONTH OF JUNE IS LIFE MONTH.
- 2:12:30(CONGREGATION CHEERING)
- 2:12:41ALL RIGHT, CLOSING COMMENTS. IT'S GOTTA BE DONE RIGHT NOW,
- 2:12:46'CAUSE I'M ALMOST DONE PREACHING. CAN WE BE SAVED FROM
- 2:12:50MARTYRDOM? WELL, YEAH, ACTUALLY. IF YOU WANT TO BE, THE EARLY
- 2:12:55APOSTLES, THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE. PAUL SAID, "I'M GOING TO
- 2:12:57JERUSALEM." AGABUS PUT THE BELT ON AND HE SAID, "MAN, THE MAN
- 2:13:01THAT GOES UP THERE TO JERUSALEM, "YOU KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO
- 2:13:03YOU." HE SAYS, "THAT'S ALL RIGHT, MY TIME HAS COME. "I'M
- 2:13:07READY TO BE OFFERED." THINK ABOUT THAT. BUT THEY PRAYED FOR
- 2:13:13PETER TO BE SAVED FROM BEING A MARTYR. AT LEAST THEY DELAYED
- 2:13:16IT. I THINK PETER WANTED TO BE ONE. YOU KNOW, I THINK THE
- 2:13:21APOSTLES LOOKED TO GET IN HARM'S WAY. 'CAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS IN
- 2:13:25REVELATION, THERE'S A SPECIAL PLACE FOR THE MARTYRS. BUT PETER
- 2:13:32WAS SAVED FROM MARTYRDOM AT THE UNCEASING PRAYERS OF THE CHURCH,
- 2:13:37RIGHT? PAUL SAID THIS WORDS, HE SAID IN 2 THESSALONIANS 3, HE
- 2:13:42SAID, "PRAY FOR US," RIGHT? PRAY, BRETHREN, PRAY THAT THE
- 2:13:46WORD OF THE LORD WOULD HAVE THE LIBERTY TO GO WHEREVER IT NEEDS
- 2:13:49TO GO AND BE GLORIFIED. AND PRAY THAT WE WOULD BE DELIVERED FROM
- 2:13:53WICKED AND UNREASONABLE MEN, FOR ALL MEN HAVE NOT THE FAITH. SO
- 2:13:58PRAY THAT WE WOULD BE DELIVERED. OKAY, PAUL WOULDN'T SAY PRAY TO
- 2:14:01BE DELIVERED FROM THAT, BECAUSE HE HAD A MISSION TO ACCOMPLISH.
- 2:14:06AMEN. I'VE HEARD MANY STORIES OF MISSIONARIES WHO ANGELS CAME AND
- 2:14:10BLINDED THEM, BLINDED THEIR ATTACKERS. COME ON, SAVE PEOPLE?
- 2:14:15SO YEAH, WE CAN PRAY THAT. PAUL WAS DELIVERED FROM MARTYRDOM
- 2:14:19COUNTLESS TIMES. OKAY, HE SAID, "I WAS SHIPWRECKED. "I SHOULD
- 2:14:23HAVE DIED IN THAT STORM. "I WAS FLOATING ON A BOARD IN THE
- 2:14:26OCEAN. I WAS BEATEN 40 TIMES, SAVED 40 STRIPES, SAVED ONE." SO
- 2:14:32PAUL WAS SAVED FROM MARTYRDOM MANY TIMES. WE SHOULD PRAY THAT.
- 2:14:37BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO REALIZE THAT THERE IS A PRICE FOR THIS GREAT
- 2:14:40GOSPEL THAT WE PREACH. AMEN. AND THAT'S WHERE WE CAN'T GET SOFT.
- 2:14:45THE WORLD WANTS TO JUST BLEND IN AND MAKE IT LIKE, WELL, WE'RE
- 2:14:48ALL LIKE YOU AND YOU'RE LIKE US. WE'RE ALL THE SAME. WE ALL LIKE
- 2:14:52THE SAME STUFF. NO, WE DON'T. OKAY, THERE'S STUFF IN THE
- 2:14:56WORLD. WE GOTTA SAY, NO, I DON'T LIKE THAT 'CAUSE GOD DOESN'T
- 2:14:59LIKE THAT. NOW LISTEN, I'M NOT SAYING YOU CAN GET READY TO
- 2:15:05STAND. I'M GONNA READ A CLOSING SCRIPTURE. YEAH, GO AHEAD AND
- 2:15:10STAND. IT'S OKAY, Y'ALL ACT LIKE, WHAT'S SHE GONNA DO? NO,
- 2:15:17I'M NOT SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, MEAN CHURCH, YOU KNOW,
- 2:15:19PEOPLE WALK IN THE FRONT DOOR, "ARE YOU
- 2:15:21A HOMOSEXUAL? GET DOWN", NOT SAYING
- 2:15:23THAT. NO, WE'RE HERE TO BE FRIENDLY AND WELCOMING
- 2:15:26AND REACH PEOPLE IN THE LOVE OF CHRIST, BUT WE'RE NOT
- 2:15:29COMPROMISING. OKAY, AND PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW RIGHT FROM THE
- 2:15:33BEGINNING WHERE YOU STAND. IT SHOULDN'T BE A GUESS. AMEN. AND
- 2:15:39I'M NOT JUST SAYING ON THE GAY SUBJECT, ON ALL TOPICS. OKAY, I
- 2:15:43LOVE WHAT JUDY SAID. I THINK I PREACHED HER OUT OF THE ROOM.
- 2:15:50SHE'S ALWAYS, I LOVE HER. SHE'S LIKE MY SISTER. WE'VE WORKED
- 2:15:56TOGETHER IN ACCOUNTING FOR YEARS. SHE'S
- 2:15:57AMAZING, BY THE WAY. JUDY, YOU'RE NOT HERE, BUT
- 2:15:59THEY'RE GIVING YOU A HAND CLAP RIGHT NOW.
- 2:16:00(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 2:16:05SHE SAID FOR YEARS, AND PASTOR ANTHONY KNOWS HOW IT GOES,
- 2:16:09INVESTIGATE BEFORE YOU PARTICIPATE. JUST 'CAUSE THE
- 2:16:14WORLD PRESENTS SOMETHING AND IT SOUNDS KINDA GOOD TO YOUR EARS,
- 2:16:17AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S ENOUGH STUFF OUT THERE THAT HAS A BIAS
- 2:16:19THAT SPEAKS TO EVERY PERSON. THE DEVIL MAKES SURE OF IT, RIGHT?
- 2:16:25OKAY, HE'LL HAVE THE BIAS THAT SPEAKS TO OLD PEOPLE. AH, AND
- 2:16:28THEN YOU'LL BE, YOU KNOW, YOU LISTEN TO ALL THAT, AND THEN
- 2:16:29YOU'LL BE LIKE, "AH, THEM YOUNG PEOPLE, THEY'RE ALL REBELLIOUS."
- 2:16:33OKAY, YOUNG PEOPLE LISTEN AND THEY THINK ALL THE OLD PEOPLE
- 2:16:37ARE JUST STUPID AND WASHED UP. WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL WITH THE
- 2:16:40MESSAGES THAT GET FED INTO OUR HEARING. SO THE PERSECUTION OF
- 2:16:44THE GOSPEL. SO WHAT DO WE LEARN TODAY? WE LIVE IN A FALLEN
- 2:16:47WORLD, OKAY? AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN AND WE NEED
- 2:16:50TO BE WITH GOD, PUTTING THAT WORD IN US, STANDING. DON'T JUST
- 2:16:54ASSUME, STAND IN THE WORD, BE ON THE RIGHT SIDE, LIVE RIGHT FOR
- 2:16:59GOD. EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND THE SECOND IS THAT THERE IS THE
- 2:17:04PERSECUTION OF THE GOSPEL, OKAY? SO GET USED TO IT. THEY MIGHT
- 2:17:08WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT YOUR CHURCH. RIGHT? I'M NOT SAYING WE
- 2:17:15DON'T SPEAK UP. OH, BELIEVE ME, WE'LL SPEAK UP. BUT THE KEY IS,
- 2:17:19IS THE WORLD HATED JESUS, IT'S GONNA HATE YOU. AND THAT MAY
- 2:17:23MEAN THAT THERE'S SOME FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT YOU'RE JUST NOT
- 2:17:25GONNA, HMM, RIGHT? HAVE YOU GOT A LOT OUT OF THIS TODAY?
- 2:17:30(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 2:17:32LET ME GIVE YOU MY CLOSING SCRIPTURE AND THEN PASTOR KEITH
- 2:17:36WILL MAKE HIS WAY HERE. THIS IS ROMANS 5 FROM THE NEW LIVING.
- 2:17:40THIS WILL GIVE YOU ENCOURAGEMENT. "THEREFORE, SINCE
- 2:17:42WE HAVE BEEN MADE RIGHT IN GOD'S SIGHT BY FAITH, WE HAVE PEACE."
- 2:17:47SO HAVE PEACE TODAY IN THIS WORLD WHERE THERE'S THINGS THAT
- 2:17:52HAPPEN AND THERE'S ADVERSITY. HAVE PEACE. WE HAVE PEACE WITH
- 2:17:57GOD BECAUSE OF WHAT JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD, HAS DONE FOR
- 2:18:00US. AND BECAUSE OF OUR FAITH, SOMEBODY SAY FAITH. CHRIST HAS
- 2:18:05BROUGHT US INTO THIS PLACE OF UNDESERVED PRIVILEGE. NO MATTER
- 2:18:09WHAT YOU GO THROUGH, YOU ARE IN A PLACE OF PRIVILEGE ABOVE
- 2:18:12ANYBODY ELSE BECAUSE YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD. DON'T EVER FORGET
- 2:18:17THAT. "UNDESERVED PRIVILEGE WHERE NOW WE STAND AND WE
- 2:18:24CONFIDENTLY AND JOYFULLY LOOK FORWARD TO SHARING IN GOD'S
- 2:18:27GLORY", AND I BELIEVE THAT'S IN THE EARTH. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I
- 2:18:29WOULD JUST SAY? KEEP YOUR EYES ON ETERNITY. OKAY, ALL OF THE
- 2:18:33PEOPLE THAT ASKED THE QUESTIONS AND THE WHY AND WENT THROUGH THE
- 2:18:37SUFFERINGS OF THIS LIFE AND THINGS HAPPENED AND THEY DIDN'T
- 2:18:41KNOW THE REASON. THOSE THAT ARE IN HEAVEN ARE NOW GOING, "OH NO,
- 2:18:47LIFE IS BUT A VAPOR. LIFE IS BUT A VAPOR." KEEP YOUR EYES ON HIM.
- 2:18:54LET ME READ YOU THE NEXT ONE AND WE'LL CLOSE WITH THIS. "FOR WE
- 2:18:56CAN REJOICE TOO THAT WHEN WE RUN INTO PROBLEMS AND TRIALS, FOR WE
- 2:19:01KNOW THAT THEY WILL HELP US DEVELOP ENDURANCE." THAT'S WHAT
- 2:19:04JAMES 1 SAYS, RIGHT? "AND THAT ENDURANCE WILL DEVELOP STRENGTH
- 2:19:08OF CHARACTER AND CHARACTER STRENGTHENS OUR CONFIDENT HOPE
- 2:19:12IN SALVATION. AND THIS HOPE WILL NOT LEAD TO DISAPPOINTMENT. FOR
- 2:19:20WE KNOW HOW DEARLY GOD LOVES US." DON'T EVER FORGET THAT GOD
- 2:19:25LOVES YOU. WHEN YOU'RE FACING A SITUATION, YOU'RE BATTLING
- 2:19:29THROUGH SOMETHING, GOD LOVES YOU. HE'S PASSIONATE ABOUT YOU.
- 2:19:38HE DEARLY LOVES US BECAUSE HE'S GIVEN US HIS HOLY SPIRIT TO FILL
- 2:19:42OUR HEARTS WITH HIS LOVE. I PRAY THIS WAS A BLESSING TO YOU. WE
- 2:19:46LEARNED SOMETHING ABOUT SUFFERING, BUT IN EVERY KIND OF
- 2:19:50SUFFERING, GOD HAS GIVEN US HIS PROMISES SO THAT WE CAN
- 2:19:54STAND IN FAITH TO BE DELIVERED IN JESUS' NAME. I
- 2:19:57LOVE YOU VERY MUCH. PASTOR KEITH.
- 2:19:59(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 2:20:02AMEN AND AMEN. NOW BEFORE YOU ALL RUN OFF AND ENJOY
- 2:20:09THIS WEEK OF CELEBRATION, LET'S GIVE JUST A MOMENT TO THE LORD
- 2:20:14AND THE ATTENTION TO THE PLAN THAT HE HAS. BECAUSE THERE MIGHT
- 2:20:19BE SOMEONE HERE AND THERE MIGHT BE SOMEONE OUT ONLINE THAT HAS
- 2:20:23HEARD THESE WORDS AND GOES, "BUT I'M SCARED. I'M AFRAID." THEY
- 2:20:33MIGHT BE LIVING WITH NOT KNOWING JESUS AS LORD, NOT KNOWING WHERE
- 2:20:43THEIR LIFE IS. AND IN THE MIDST OF THAT UNCERTAINTY, IN THE
- 2:20:50MIDST OF THAT DILEMMA IN THEM RIGHT NOW, THEY MIGHT BE SAYING,
- 2:20:55WHAT DO I DO? WHAT DO I DO? I WANNA UNDERSTAND THIS. BECAUSE
- 2:21:07THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND, WHEN YOU'RE BORN OF GOD, IT'S A WHOLE
- 2:21:13'NOTHER LEVEL OF LIFE. WHEN YOU'RE BORN OF GOD, IT'S A WHOLE
- 2:21:19'NOTHER PROSPECT OF LIFE. IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT LIFE. AND THE
- 2:21:26MORE YOU GET INVOLVED WITH THAT LIFE, THE BIGGER IT GETS. IT
- 2:21:32GETS TO THE PLACE, LIKE PAUL, WHO HE GOT TO THE PLACE WHERE HE
- 2:21:36SAID, "I NO LONGER LIVE, BUT CHRIST LIVES IN ME." SO FOR
- 2:21:43SOMEBODY OUT THERE ONLINE OR EVEN HERE, IF YOU'RE SENSING
- 2:21:48FEAR, APPREHENSION, UNCERTAINTY, TODAY'S YOUR DAY TO MAKE A
- 2:21:55CHOICE. TODAY'S YOUR DAY TO SAY, I BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS THE ONE
- 2:22:03WHO DIED FOR ME. AND MAKE A TURNAROUND. AND THE BIBLE SAYS
- 2:22:09YOU'LL BE BORN OF GOD. AND WHEN YOU'RE BORN OF GOD, THEN THAT
- 2:22:14LIFE BEGINS TO LIVE IN YOU AND THROUGH YOU AND WITH YOU. AND
- 2:22:19YOU CAN GET EXCITED ABOUT LIFE. BECAUSE YOU SEE, AS SHE SAID, IT
- 2:22:25INTERESTS ME WHEN YOU READ ABOUT THE APOSTLES, THEY WERE EXCITED
- 2:22:29ABOUT LIFE. ON THIS SIDE AND ON THAT SIDE AT THE SAME TIME. SO
- 2:22:39THAT'S WHY WHEN IT'S FINISHED HERE, I'M STILL LIVING. WHEN I'M
- 2:22:47FINISHED HERE, I'M STILL GOING ON. AMEN. SO STOP BEING SO
- 2:22:53CONCERNED ABOUT LIVING HERE AND LIVE HERE.
- 2:23:01SO THERE MIGHT BE SOMEONE OUT THERE IS UNCERTAIN ABOUT. SO
- 2:23:06LET'S MAKE IT REAL. IF YOU'RE HERE AND YOU STILL HAVE THAT
- 2:23:12FEAR, JUST RAISE YOUR HAND TO HEAVEN AND SAY, "I WANT, I WANT
- 2:23:18THE FULL EXPRESSION OF GOD'S PRESENCE AND HIS FORGIVENESS."
- 2:23:23AND IF YOU'RE HERE AND YOU FEEL UNCERTAIN ABOUT YOUR SALVATION
- 2:23:27BECAUSE OF SOMETHING YOU'RE DOING AND LIVING IN RIGHT NOW,
- 2:23:32THEN IT'S TIME TO REPENT AND SAY, I NEED THE FULLNESS OF THAT
- 2:23:37LIFE LIVING IN ME. MAKE THAT DECISION FOR HIM. AND THE ALTER
- 2:23:43TEENS ARE GOING TO BE COMING RIGHT UP HERE RIGHT NOW AND
- 2:23:45THEY'RE GOING TO BE HERE FOR YOU. AND ALSO IF YOU HAVE ANY
- 2:23:50NEED, THEY'RE GOING TO BE HERE FOR YOU. BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE
- 2:23:54GOING TO PRAY THIS PRAYER TOGETHER AND ANYONE OUT THERE
- 2:23:56ONLINE CAN PRAY IT AND YOU CAN BELIEVE TODAY'S YOUR DAY OF
- 2:24:01LIFE. PRAY IT WITH ME. I BELIEVE JESUS CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS,
- 2:24:09ROSE FROM THE DEAD. I BELIEVE HE'S SEATED IN HEAVEN AND I
- 2:24:15BELIEVE BECAUSE OF HIS LIFE, I NOW CAN LIVE. I SAY JESUS IS
- 2:24:26LORD AND I BELIEVE I HAVE HIS LIFE RIGHT NOW. I'M ALIVE, I'M
- 2:24:35ALIVE IN CHRIST JESUS RIGHT NOW AND I WILL TESTIFY TO THAT TRUTH
- 2:24:45EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE. NOW IF YOU'RE OUT THERE ONLINE YOU CAN
- 2:24:50CALL THAT NUMBER AND YOU CAN BE TELL SOMEONE ABOUT THAT NEW LIFE
- 2:24:55EXPERIENCE. IF YOU HAVE A PRAYER NEED AND YOU HAVE OR NEED TO
- 2:24:59SHARE ANYTHING, THEY'RE HERE. THEY WILL PRAY WITH YOU.
- 2:25:06FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR THE LIFE WE LIVE IN CHRIST JESUS.
- 2:25:10LET US LIVE IT BOLD AND STRONG, THIS DAY AND
- 2:25:13EVERY DAY, TO YOUR GLORY, AMEN. YOU'RE DISMISSED.
- 2:25:17(MUSIC)