01/24/2021 | Come to Jesus | Evg. Chris Green

[Music] well let's thank the lord hallelujah jesus i love you lord somebody just speak to the lord for a moment oh i love you jesus come on somebody speak to the lord for a moment why don't you open your heart and lift up your voice and just speak to him for a second hallelujah lord as much as we want to hear him speak to us he wants us to speak to him somebody just reached for the lord with your faith with your sincerity honesty desperation and desire lord i love you god i just want to be with you i want to be in your presence i want to know your voice lord direct us today god let your presence prevail in this house mighty god be here today oh hallelujah jesus oh what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we serve [Applause] hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus hallelujah lord it feels so good to not play games with god and not just play church amen we have our traditions and i honor our traditions i appreciate our traditions but i'm thankful for a church that we can come to that we're not here just by tradition not just here by design to be together but we are here to truly worship the lord the focus of our gathering is the lord and as we sang i just want to be with you i just want to be in his presence everything else is secondary to me just being in your presence for in your presence there is fullness of joy where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty and more than anything else i need your presence i need your spirit to prevail upon me i need the heavenly host of your glory to rest in me on us today hallelujah jesus oh somebody shout hallelujah amen i feel the lord has given me a direct yet simple word and sometimes the most profound word is found in the simplest of ways and i take you to mark chapter five one verse of scripture mark chapter 5 and verse 27. mark chapter 5 and verse 27 and i honor this church again and i don't always take time to say that from the pulpit sometimes i just feel such a impetus and uh momentum in my spirit of the lord i just i get up here and i just go you know but there's times i got to just pause and say thank you and it's easy to get caught up in what we're doing and forget to say it but please know i always feel it my wife my son and i we always feel just humbled and really the word that i i feel my spirit is joy to be with you in this church i i hate to be presumptuous i feel like i'm a stray cat and i don't really like cats but but i feel like i'm a stray cat you fed me once and i just keep coming back [Music] and so forgive me for being the cat that feels like i i belong here because you fed me but i just feel like this is family and i really do feel that way well thank you i was nervous to say that but thank you for your response that makes me feel a little bit better matthew chapter 5 and verse 27 says when she had heard of jesus when she had heard of jesus she came in everybody says she came in she came in the press behind and touched his garment amen i feel there's just a simple desire of the lord today that he just wants us to come in to him i want to preach today come to jesus come to jesus come to jesus [Laughter] oh it may sound simple but [Applause] it is a profound experience when we come to him somebody say in jesus name you may be seated this morning amen how many of you truly believe that this is the house of god this is the house of the lord and it's not the house of god just because we say it is nor is it the house of god because we have built this building and put a sign out on the front yard that says the church there's many places that can call themselves a church but yet not be the house of god and anybody could put brick and mortar together and put a a sign in the front that says the church that's not why this is the house of god this is the house of god because this is where his presence resides here his presence doesn't reside here because this is a church because this is a building that we call the church you can put the biggest steeple on the roof that you want that's not going to persuade him to reside in this place his presence resides here because we will it and we desire it to be so his spirit his presence it inhabits the praises the prayers the worship the sacrifice of his people and long before i ever got here there have been prayers that have been prayed crosses that have been carried sacrifices that have been given all for the sake of this building being a place that we can declare as the house of god and because this place has become the house of god we can come to church not just to see each other to sing a few songs i was going to say to shake a few hands but we don't do that anymore but we come to church to come to him i know again that sounds simple but there's a lot of churches that people come to but never come to him but i'm thankful that when i get in my car to come to eastwood pentecostal church i don't have to wonder if god's going to be there this is his house i don't have to ask god to be here this is his house i don't have to ask his presence to show up this is his house what i have to do is i have to worship that he'll let me come in to his presence [Applause] come to jesus when we come to church here at east when we are coming to jesus jesus said it's recorded in matthew 11 28 jesus said come to me come to me somebody let those words sink in for a moment he said come to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden i believe that this word is for you today so don't question if it is or not or if it's for somebody else but it's for you because everybody in here has felt heaviness not because of the coveted 19 pounds you've put on over the last 10 months i told him this morning i turned 33 last week and for the first time in my life i have gone on a diet yeah you can't have diet without the word die can you my joy has somewhat died in me for the first time in my life i have to watch what i eat watch what i eat my goodness i remember being 16 or 17 you know you never watched what you ate you just said put it in front of me i'll close my eyes i don't care what it is i'll eat it and now i have to watch what i eat feeling heavier these days it's stressful but i don't feel heavy laden no not because of the few pounds i've put on but i feel heavy in my spirit because of what we're facing what we're going through but also because we are in the end times we are in the last days it seems to me like such a juxtaposition like one writer that said the best of times the worst of times it seems to me like death is more prominent and prevalent on my mind but also the miraculous that is taking place right now at the same time there seems to be sickness and chaos and division but on the other side there seems to be unity and faith and expectation salvation people being saved i'm seeing reports as many of you are all over the world that that that the word and the gospel is going all around the world and people are receiving the baptism of the holy ghost and being baptized in the name of jesus even in the midst of social unrest and chaos and confusion and sickness and but yet because of where we are there is a heaviness on me and there's a heaviness on you and i know i'm not the only one who i can sleep seven eight or nine hours and wake up and still feel tired and when the alarm goes off in the morning my first thought is how soon can i get back here to this bed when's the next time i can get back to this bed and i can be exhausted all day long i mean it feels like i could fall asleep just in an instant i feel exhausted fatigued and tired only to reach that place of bed later that night turn off my phone put it aside put it across the room and all of a sudden just my eyes won't even close i'm wide awake can't sleep because there's a heaviness that causes your mind to just run rampant out of control thinking about what's going to happen here what are we going to do here and how is this going to turn out and there is a heaviness but jesus said come to me oh ye that labor and our heavy laden all of you that are weighed down all of you that feels like there's a pressure in your mind and a heaviness on your shoulders and i will give you rest take my yoke upon you and learn of me for i am meek and lowly in heart and you shall find rest unto your souls verse 30 for my yoke is easy and my burden is light he said i'm going to go up to heaven and he says and you shall seek me and shall not find me well that doesn't sound very promising he said and where i am there you cannot come now remember this he's talking about his place in heaven and he says you can't go there you can't come there he is speaking to them concerning their own intellect their ability their capability their bodies and what they can do in the flesh saying you can't go where i'm going in your flesh have you ever thought about heaven everybody has whether you're atheist agnostic or apostolic you've thought about heaven and i don't care how much you know of the bible how much you read to the bible how many commentaries you read on the bible you'll never fully understand or grasp heaven heaven i mean it is perplexing it's almost confusing to try to wrap my little brain around the concept of an eternal place of heaven and i believe that the bible is even strategically vague on what that place is like because number one god knows you'll never understand it you can't get there in your flesh no matter how much i describe it and explain it you won't be able to get there in your flesh you won't be able to get there in your imagination or your intellect he tries i believe in scripture he tries to use these human uh uh terms and idioms and euphemisms like streets of gold and i've wondered will the streets really be paved with gold i mean some people got mouths full of gold you know got gold in my teeth streets of gold walls of jasper gates of pearl he's just trying to give us a glimpse in our finite brain but yet he says here in this place you can't get there no matter how hard you try your body you can't make it your flesh can't make it your abilities can't get you there and it seems so convoluted so complicated so difficult sometimes and i don't know about you and i'm trying to articulate this as best as i can but even since i was a child there's there's been something in me that when i pray sometimes not every time i pray but sometimes when i close my eyes and pray or sometimes when i close my eyes and i begin to worship it's like i can see myself where i want to go where i want to end up man i want to be this and i want to be there you ever felt that way and it's like you can see this giant this uh this giant uh division from where you are to where you want to end up one day i want to preach like this one day i want to love like this one day i want to have this anointing and you can almost see this vague shadow in the distance of where you want to go this this far beyond place and but then you open your eyes waking up to reality that how can i go from here to there impossible the same is to be said about our destination to heaven it is impossible to try to open your eyes and articulate intellectualize a way to go from here to there jesus says you can't get there but watch they start asking questions they start saying what's he talking about we can't get there you're probably saying the same thing oh i thought that's where we were going continue verse 37 he had responded to them in verse 36 and he was like why are you guys asking about this why are you guys asking about this place heaven and and worrying about how you're going to get there in the last day verse 37 it says in the last day jesus stood up and cried if any man thirst everybody say first if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink notice what he did there he reduced our desire to go there for our need of thirst he's trying to relay to you how simple it really is first of all how impossible it is for us to get there you want to go there you can't get there so i came to you and now all you have to do is come to me see he talks about our desire to go beyond and then he reduces it to thirst that's good thirst you desire to go into the supernatural dimension but i'm wondering is anybody thirsty what he's talking about a desire that we can't articulate with our intellectual ability and then reduces it down to thirst if you want to go there are you thirsty what if you want to go beyond are you thirsty because if anyone is thirsty watch this now all you have to do is come to me you want to go to heaven come to jesus you want to go beyond a place you've never been before come to jesus you want the supernatural flow of the anointing of god's spirit come to jesus it sounds complicated when you think about the icing on the cake and how we're going to bake it and how we're going to get to where god has said we're going to but he reduced it down to a simplistic formula come to me watch this now verse 38 for he that believes on me as the scripture has said out of his belly that simply means that word is often used in the scripture for for describing the midst of something the heart of something out of you is gonna flow watch this rivers of living water watch this now he says you can't get there so i'll put there in you that was too deep for your response wouldn't it he said you can't get there you can't get to streets of gold you can't get to walls of jasper you can't get up to that place so i came here and if you believe in me i'll put the ingredients of there inside of you [Applause] well i feel like we need to pause right now and ask a question are you thirsty for what he's got for you in case you're wondering what he's talking about rivers of living water the next verse declares it but this spake he of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive he didn't say you can't receive it he said you should receive it have you received the baptism of the holy ghost if you have you want to stand on your feet and act like it for a few seconds he let the rivers of living water flow come on i've got more to preach but he's got fresh water for you he's got rivers of living water you don't need just a cup of water no more you don't need just a goosebump of water no more he's got rivers rivers of living water i want to take just a few more seconds and let somebody's thirst just create a response of faith i'm thirsty for your spirit see i don't know how to get to heaven but i'm going to get to you i don't know how to get to the supernatural dimension of healing but i'm going to get to you i don't know how to resurrect the dead but i'm just gonna get to you i don't know how to provide for my family when there is nothing to provide for i'm just gonna get to you i'm just gonna get to you and let it flow let it flow let it flow [Music] ah [Music] i just feel checking my spirit not to go forward right now we just need to press into his presence for a moment somebody needs to step out of the dry and barren into the rivers of living water jesus said the thief has come to kill steal and destroy but i have come but i have come but i have success but i came to you that you would have life and life more abundantly now the ball is in your court he came to you will you come to him will you go to him will you fight for him will you worship for him [Applause] remain standing if you need the rest of the sermon go watch it from this morning service if it's if it's available i'm gonna give you what i feel the holy ghost wants me to give you revelation 22 and 12. revelation 22 and 12. as i just quoted jesus said the thief has come somebody say he's come that is a reality we don't need to try to try to circumvent the truth sometimes the truth is not the good news it's the bad news he has come to kill steal and destroy he said but that's not the whole truth i have come and i'm coming again and behold i am coming quickly [Applause] wait a second he's not just coming he said and my reward is with me to give haha to give to everyone according to his work can we keep reading verse 13 he says jesus says this is jesus talking i am the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end the first and the last [Applause] watch this now verse 14 blessed are those who do his commandments that means his word that's you you've got his word blessed are those who do his word that they may have the right to the tree of life the thing he banished adam and eve from they can't have that tree they've sinned he says but you because you have my blood and my name and my you get to have the tree of life and may enter through the gates into the city man i don't have time verse 15 but outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practices a lie watch this verse 16 i jesus have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches i am the root an offspring of david what is he saying watch he said i'm alpha and omega those are the greek letters of the alphabet the the a and the z he says i'm the beginning and the end i'm the first and the last let me put it simple to you i'm everything so the question is why would you go to anything else i am i am the root and offspring of david i'm the one come to me watch this he started out this passage by saying i'm coming quickly now watch watch watch i'm coming quickly he says on the root and offspring of david the bride and morning star verse 17 and the spirit and the bride say [Music] no it doesn't say come it doesn't say that it says cow [Music] [Applause] wait a second who's the spirit go ahead don't be shy and who's the bride [Music] there's a voice of the lord and there's an echo of the church come to jesus and let him who hears say come and let him who thirsts come on on you're addicted oh that's okay you thirsty come divorced 12 times that's all right you thirsty come on you backslider i don't care you thirsty how long you been a backslider wow that long let me ask you a question you're still thirsty wait you you've been coming here for how long and you're still addicted to pornography let me ask you a question you still thirsty come on whoever desires let him take the water of life somebody shout freely lift up your hands everybody right now [Music] there is a drawing of the holy ghost in this place there is a drawing there is a stirring i want to echo what i feel the holy ghost saying come to jesus who wants to step out by faith and come to jesus right now who wants to step out by faith and show jesus i'm thirsty [Music] foreign [Music] i want to give one instruction don't stop praying but we've got to be clear if you've never received the baptism of the holy ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues like the bible says you've never received that experience i want you to come stand with me right here in front of these steps i'm going to stand here for several moments and wait on those in this service who have never received the infilling of god's holy spirit you say well how do i know you'll know when you speak in other tongues just like they did in the bible god gave us that tangible sign evidence and expression for us to know we have been filled with his spirit if you have never had that experience i'm standing right here and i want to pray with you we've got others who will pray with you i'm going to stand right here saints if you see someone in the room that you think they might not have gotten it yet they might not have received the gift of his spirit i want you to invite them and come stand right here come here brother you're standing raise your hand come stand right here with our brother right here come stand right here hallelujah come to jesus oh you might have come for a deep word but jesus said i came to give you a deep move of my spirit you don't need another word you just need to come to jesus you may not know how to get to where you want to go so i stepped out of eternity and said come to me come to me i'll show you the way hold on we gotta we gotta reach for a second we gotta reach for a second i know i know there are people here that have never received the gift of god's spirit and we're not gonna embarrass you at all but we're gonna be very deliberate right now this is the most important need in this service that everyone has the opportunity to receive god's spirit acts 2 38 they said peter said repent turn from your sins he said and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the receive the gift of the holy ghost but the next verse says for this promise is to you to your children and all who are afar off i i'm so glad he didn't define how far you could be until you were too far he said for all those who are far off this gift of my spirit is for you so i want everyone who has already spoken with other tongues as the spirit gave the utterance would you raise your hand and keep it up for a moment and for those of you whose hand is down which means you have not received this precious gift of god's spirit his promise of salvation his promise of comfort and direction his c his promise of his spirit if your hand is down i invite you to come stand right here in front of these steps right now for the hand raisers turn around and look and see do you see anybody here today whose hand is down go to them and say hey would you like to come to the front and receive the baptism of the holy ghost if they say no then say can i pray for you right here go go ahead we give you a second to do this go here comes somebody right here hallelujah hallelujah jesus if they're not ready to come up to these steps you say can i pray with you right here and man or woman of god you're going to pray them through to the holy ghost now how many of you are thirsty i don't care how long you've been in church you're still thirsty if you're still thirsty i want you to lift up your hands like an empty glass that's about to be refilled restored renewed in the power of his spirit like a fresh drink of water on a hot summer day his spirit is about to flow like rivers of living water the spirit and the bride say come [Music] right now would you lift up your voice and come to jesus somebody step out into faith step out into expectation and come to jesus anew and afresh right now right now in the name of [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] god is filling people with his spirit right now god is filling people with his spirit right now why don't you partake why don't you drink it in come on as a family as a body of believers let the lord fill your marriage with the baptism of the holy ghost [Music] [Music]

Channel: Eastwind Pentecostal Church of Palm Bay, Florida

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Length: 38min 41sec (2321 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021