10/3/2021 || Sunday Service ||Pastor Justin Bridges || 9am

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] always [Music] faith is our victory that overcomes the world faith this life of faith is not a message this life of faith is not a movement this life of faith is not a fad it's about coming to god but it's not about pursuing a result it's about pursuing him it doesn't matter what it looks like on the outside it doesn't matter what you're what you might be facing right now but it's saying i'm going to seek god i'm coming to god god is my answer and i'm solely dependent upon him [Music] it was something that went off on the inside of him he had now had a revelation of who god is he had a revelation of what he had a right to he had a revelation of the promises of god in a revelation of what needed to change in a revelation of his calling of his purpose his destiny but it all came out of this word he who comes to god he who comes to god he who comes to god he who comes to god this this is about coming to god [Music] life of faith is about pursuing it's about ever learning it's about ever discovering him good morning church how are you this morning oh my goodness how are you this morning we're gonna stir it up this morning this is what the word of the lord says in psalm 107 let everyone give all their praise and thanks to the lord here's why he's better than anyone could ever imagine yes he's always loving and kind and his faithful love never ends so go ahead let everyone know it amen tell the whole world how he broke through and delivered you from the power of darkness and has gathered us together from all over the world he has set us free to be his very own so let's just tell the world amen through our praise of how good our god is amen hallelujah glory to god [Music] [Music] [Music] is that conquers all anxiety and let it [Music] sing your rise in the dark and it changes everything we sing with all we are [Music] is [Music] [Music] we praise you [Applause] [Applause] is let faith be a song that [Music] calms their faith [Music] cause we cannot survive when we praise [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we praise you [Applause] [Applause] [Music] this is what freedom feels like this is what heaven sounds like we praise you we praise you this is what living looks like this is what freedom feels like this is what heaven we praise you we praise this is [Music] [Applause] cause we cannot survive [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is what freedom feels like this is what heaven we praise you we praise you this is what freedom feels like this is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is [Applause] [Music] is [Music] when we praise you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we were talking and praying back there and i just came up out of my spirit like i just believe the rapture of the church isn't just kind of like this lazy you know like the church is just like okay well it's time for revelation to take place no i believe the church is going to be so on fire and with so much forward motion that god's gonna be like okay i'm not gonna be able to finish this book of revelations if i don't get this church out of here right so we should be so fired up right now and decreeing and declaring that breakthrough is happening that strongholds are coming down so we're going to stir ourselves up so when we're seeing it we'll see you break down every wall we need to see the walls and our spirit coming down so what walls are you speaking to what worlds are you speaking to in your life what walls are you speaking to in your city in your schools in your nation that's what freedom looks like that's what it feels like that is what heaven sounds like it's the sound of victory amen can we just give him our praise can we just say thank you god that you are breaking through that you are breaking through and it doesn't seem like it's breaking through you are the god of the breakthrough you're visiting our house you're visiting our cities you're visiting this nation i've been creating it clear the body of christ is rising up it's praising you with this weapon of praise that we have cause we are our in full faithful and he will perfect everything that concerns us [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] when we praise you [Music] god we praise you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] we praise you [Applause] glory glory glory glory glory glory glory glory his glory is in us his glory is on us his glory is in us his glory is on us say that his glory is in me his glory is on me people can see it people can see the goodness of god on us hallelujah [Music] oh [Music] there is mercy from the throne that can walk away of fear as it washes every heart [Music] as i lay my whole life down at the altar of your feet i see hoses of reminder are redeemed so i believe i received mercy pouring [Music] there is freedom when i choose to let it all down i choose [Music] oh [Music] oh lord we trust you we trust you there is mercy from the throne that can wipe away our fear as it washes every heart from our sins so i believe i received as i lay my whole life down at the altar of your feet i see hoses are reminder i'm redeemed so i believe i receive mercy mercy [Music] there is freedom [Music] mercy comes [Music] there is i come to your all to jesus [Music] there's no other place that i desire to be than right here at your feet oh i come to you i come to you all to jesus [Music] oh [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] right here at [Music] right [Music] right here right here no other place i'd rather be no other place i'd rather be no other place i'd rather there's no fear in love there's no fear in love there's no fear in love mercy mercy pouring over my soul love transforming my heart and my is freedom when i choose to lay it all down i'll choose to let all down mercy mercy pouring over my soul love transforming my heart of my mind there is freedom when i [Music] choose to and my mind there is [Music] is love to jesus foreign [Music] [Music] no place no place i'd rather be there's no place i'd rather be no place i'd rather be than hearing your love here in your love no place i'd rather be no place i'd rather be no place i'd rather be than here in your life would be [Music] no place i'd rather be the place i'd rather [Music] there's no place that i'll be alone but here in your perfect love it casts out fear there's no fear in love [Music] there's no fear in love there's no fear in love there's no fear in love so all we have to do is stay in love [Music] so all we have to do is stay in love no place [Music] i choose to be right here at your feet i choose i choose to be right here at your feet just listen just listen to him speak to your heart [Music] it may be just words of encouragement maybe direction you may be just saying i love you kid it's gonna be all right [Music] no fear [Music] i choose to be right here i choose to stay right here at your feet yes i choose to stay right here [Music] um [Music] perfect love is here [Music] perfect love is here today for you and me perfect love is here [Music] perfect love is here today for you and [Music] it's me he's here he's he's here [Music] sing it one more time i'll choose to be right here at your choose i choose to be right here [Music] right here [Music] father we thank you for the altar [Music] we thank you for your altar being a place of mercy a place that we run to a place where we celebrate the finished works of jesus a place where we allow the fire of god to fall in our lives and to consume everything that doesn't belong we lay everything down at your feet this morning [Music] we thank you for the strength that comes from being in your presence that we humble ourself today [Music] we're here today father in just with humble hearts to receive the word of god james says the engrafted word of god that has the ability to save our soul so with meekness we open our hearts to the word of god today [Music] minister life in this place your strength in this place your presence is in this place and i believe that your glory the love of god the goodness of god the power of god the presence of god will continue to build [Music] throughout the service and into our next service so we open our hearts today [Music] and we receive all that you have for us [Music] thank you father hallelujah thank you father thank you father thank you father [Music] now back at chapter 3 the amplified it says in god approaching from sinai came from to man which represents edom and it says in the holy one from mount puran in the sinai region and it says think about that why think about that because what sinai represented in this whole region represented from god said was his glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise that's what it says it says it says why to think about that then it says his glory covered the heavens and the earth and was full of his praise so why was it bringing up sinai because it was saying because that that point in history the heavens and the earth at that point on earth was filled with the glory of god not just that but it was filled with god's praise and then it says this and his brightness was like the sunlight it says ray's stream from his hands and there in the sin like splendor was the hiding place of his power wow the sun-like rays coming from his hand wow [Music] wow [Music] the fire of god is real the presence of god is real his presence is tangible have you ever have you sensed his presence before it can be like a like a heavy blanket sitting on you not not burdening you or pressing you but but bringing such a peace that's so overwhelming it's nothing like his presence be ready to sing that song again cassie towards the end well the the ultra one yeah that one [Music] there's no play the place that i desire [Music] i come to your all to jesus i offer up my life for you to move in [Music] there's no other place that i [Music] i come to you all [Music] there's no other [Music] i choose to be right here [Music] thank you father you can go ahead and take your seats thank you father if you have your bibles turn to where shall we start thank you father thank you father if you're visiting or you're new we've been doing a series entitled altars so important for us to understand the importance and the power of alters what about you but my life was changed at an altar it wasn't in the altar of a church but it was where my heart cried out for god and god met me right where i cried out if you call unto him that says he answers us and he will show us great and mighty things that we know not of jesus the holy spirit are the most vital things in my life last week i talked about i talked about the fire of god and we talked about how in leviticus it talked about how the priest's job were to ever keep the fire burning it wasn't god's job but it was the priest's job for the fire to never go out and we talked about in in leviticus 9 it talked we talked about how how the fire was lit god lit the fire he he gave instructions and gave made application and then there was manifestation and and once they did everything and they put everything in order the way they needed to put it on the altar then they went into the temple of god and they praised god and the fire of god fell and burned up the sacrifices but from that point on it was the priest's job to keep the fire burning i'm going to continue with this thought this morning about the fire of god and there's probably three different sermons rolling around in my heart this morning so we'll see what comes out and praise the lord but thinking about this for a moment and tommy good good friend of mine he he sent me a some excerpts from a book a number of years ago i don't know how long long ago it was and and and i was i was preaching along something and right before i went to sleep last night i pulled i pulled this this out of my next to my bed this dresser next to my bed nightstand and there's a phrase made in this in this uh this this segment that he made a copy of and gave to me and and the book was really popular 20 years ago 21 years ago there's a book called god chasers and by tommy tenney and there's a phrase and there's a statement that is made in this book to me that just went off in the inside of my heart because it had to do with what was in my heart to to minister to our church family this morning and and it was this phrase that says that fire doesn't fall on empty altars let me make that statement again fire doesn't fall on empty altars you see it wasn't it wasn't the fire showed up and then they were saying okay now moses and aaron okay let's now take the sacrifice no it was when the sacrifice was put on the altar and so often we're wanting god to manifest and show up in our lives but the altar is empty you know the fire of god in in through i mean throughout scripture we can we can see things that are that are similar that in in in god gives different objects for us to see like light and fire we talked about that last week that that when you saw light in scripture you know when they're writing and they're saying the light they're not looking at light like we see light they they only had the representation of fire so when they're seeing saying light they're distinguishing that in and saying fire the fire of god the fire the light smoke glory presence goodness power earthquake trembling shaking all these things were symbolic of of the presence of god showing up and bringing change to something let's look at exodus chapter 19. i'm going to go to three different passages real quickly thank you exodus 19. thank you father verse 16 says and it came to pass on the third day in the morning that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the trumpet exceedingly loud so that all the people that was in the camp trembled and moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with god and they stood at the neither part of the mount and mount sinai was all together on smoke because the lord descended upon it in fire and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace and the whole mount quaked greatly and when the voice of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder louder moses spoke and god answered him by a voice so here we see the presence of god showing up on mount sinai and it was the glory of god and out of that voice out of that fire came god's voice now let's go to exodus 24. exodus 24. verse 15 it says and moses went up into the mount and a cloud covered the mount and the glory of the lord abode upon mount sinai and the cloud covered at six days and the seventh day he called unto the unto moses out of the midst of the cloud and the sight of the glory of the lord was like a devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of israel wow and moses went into the midst of the cloud and got him up into the mount and moses was in the mount 40 days and 40 nights now in in chapter 19 we see a phrase about moses that said that he went up we see a phrase in here in exodus 24 it said and he went up now let's look at exodus 33. i'm going to these for a purpose let's look at verse 7. now moses used to take his own tent and pitched it outside the camp far far from the camp and he called it the tent of meeting of god which his own people and everyone who sought the lord went out so they went up twice and here it says they went out to the tent of meeting which was outside the camp and when moses went out to the tent of meeting all the people rose and stood in every man at his tent door and he looked after moses until he had gone into the tent and when moses entered the tent the pillar of cloud would descend and stand at the door of the tent and the lord would talk with moses now let's go to exodus chapter 3. now this presence of god this fire of god the glory of god was so important to moses's life this was vital to his life it's something that he was always going after since he had his first visitation with fire you see i read i wanted to read those three things because every time when when moses was experiencing god there was fire connected to it there was the glory of god connected to it and it was also the voice of god was connected to it when we talk about revival we talk about the presence of god we talk about the power of god is not just so we come into a room and feel something but we come into his presence to be changed by it we come into his presence to hear his voice we come into his presence to to allow that presence to give me direction to to to do change something in me to make me more like him and and it's and i've heard this said you know we settle for touches with god instead of instead of being with god i i want to be rat continually be radically changed by him do you have a hunger to be in god's presence if you don't have a hunger to be in god's presence you have let your fire go out if you are here just to go through religious ritual on a sunday morning then you have let your fire go out when we wake up in the morning and being in his presence isn't the most important thing to us or his word the most important thing to us then it's an indication that something has gone out in my life now let's look here in exodus chapter 3. and moses kept the flock of drethro his father-in-law the priest of midian and he led the flock to the backside of the desert and he came to the mountain of god wow man this mountain of god was something significant this mountain of god isn't just any old mountain but this is a mountain that there's so much things in history that they said that happen at this mountain and yet there's also going to be some other things in the future that are going to happen at this mountain there's something significant about this mountain that they believe that this is when jesus comes back to the earth and he splits the eastern gates that he's going to stand on this mountain is this mountain is believed to be where abraham took up isaac and and on an altar and about to raise the stake and god said no now i know now i know now you because you did this now i can do this with my son and so this is a place of significance so here they're at this mountain and the angel of the lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the brush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed and moses said i will now turn aside and see this great sight why the why the bush is not burnt you know and some of you may have heard this before that that a bush burning is not a strange sight in the desert you're like yeah what yeah dry arid places it wasn't a strange thing what was strange is it wasn't being consumed it wasn't being consumed and so there was this fire that was different than natural fire this was something that was supernatural and and i love this because it says and it says i will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burned and when moses saw i'm sorry and when the lord saw that he turned aside to see god called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said moses moses and he said here i am now it's interesting that god didn't speak to moses until moses turned aside god wasn't saying yo moses hey i'm a burning bush over here i don't know why i try to sound like i'm new york right then i don't know but yo moses yo joey some cold ones come on we have fun in church and you know we gotta get a hold of this here it wasn't until moses turned aside it wasn't until he shifted his perspective it wasn't until he went he he went in another direction in his life it wasn't until he turned aside from what he was doing that then god was able to speak to him then so often we're wanting god to speak revelation to us but are we turning aside to see are we turning aside to here are we turning aside to receive are we turning aside from something different are we giving our attention to something different than everything else that we're given see it wasn't until he turned aside that then the lord was able to speak to him and set the course of his life for the rest of his life and if he didn't turn aside someone else would have had to and if someone else didn't turn aside after moses then who would set the children of israel free see god is waiting for you to turn aside because god wants to set people free through you [Music] see coming to the altar represents turning aside from your normal course of life turning aside from how you've ever always done things how your your traditions turning aside from your education turning aside from everything else that would distract you and turn aside to see something that's that you've never seen before so that's why after this moment there was that moses life was never the same i don't know about you but but i mean january 23rd of 1993 when the lord healed my body of a respiratory disease and i experienced the presence of god in a way that i never had before i'm telling you i don't want anything else but him amen you see he experienced the fire of god in his life and he was never the same and throughout the the book of exodus we're seeing he's constantly drawn to where the fire is he's drawn to where the fire is he's drawn to where the fire is he's drawn to where the fire is you see in new testament we are what is romans chapter 12 tells us he says brethren i beseech you meaning brethren brethren brothers this is it's not the word he's not paul's not talking to the world he's talking to the church brethren i beseech you i beg you by all the mercies of god that what that you present your body as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto him which is your reasonable service and we learned about this that that that when we present our bodies as living sacrifices then we open ourselves up to all the mercies of god everything that god is and everything that god has so it took moses to surrender in that position at that moment to turn aside turn aside to me there's so many things that are trying to get our attention there's so many things that the god of this world is he likes to blind the minds of them that believe not so what so that so that we can't see the light of the glorious gospel in jesus christ we have to turn aside there's a lot in this word turn aside this word turn aside or this phrase turn aside it's an attitude of honor it's saying i'm going to stop going my direction it's saying i'm going to show honor by giving my time it's saying i'm going to give my full attention to this another thing about turning aside is turning aside is your choice not gods just as surrender is your choice not god's turning aside is a choice it's saying i give myself to this you're opening yourself up saying i welcome you direct me i welcome you to speak into my life i welcome you to change me so this act of turn of turning aside is a position of worship and worship is a position we put ourselves in where god will reveal himself and give direction god came to to visit moses and not just bring change to him but it's like i said change to entire people and what if moses never turned aside what is god trying to get you to turn aside thank you father he says and i will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt when the lord saw that he turned aside to see god called him out of the midst of the bush and said moses moses and he said here i am and he said draw not near but put off your shoes from off your feet for the place wherein you were standing is holy ground you know annette was she was doing a study on this and and and she was telling me this as she was studying it that that what was so significant about putting off your shoes because see they made their own shoes they didn't have they didn't have foot locker you know in the backside of midian there there wasn't even there's not there's not shops there's not a flea market i mean they're in the middle of nowhere so so moses is is wearing something that he had to make and so when god was saying i want you to take off your shoes what was he saying you need to let down and let go of your works he's also saying you need to let go of the path and the direction you've been going see taking off the shoes because the ground is holy for some other things it's you know this phrase taking your shoes off is too often we stand on our own plans our own human strength our own desires and we never accomplish god's plan there needs to be a realization that as that we are barefooted empty-handed and we fall on our face before the lord dependence in every area of our lives let me say that again we have to come to a place where there's a realization that we are barefooted empty-handed and we have a fall on our faith dependence before the lord amen jesus had this same heart apart from the father i can't do anything so turning aside to me is getting me away getting away from business of life and is getting away from my way of doing things let's go to second corinthians chapter three turn aside thank you father second corinthians chapter three i'm going to read a few scriptures here thank you lord remember to begin let's look at verse 7. now this is paul's writing here and he's talking about this first ministration and he's talking about moses and he's talking about the glory of god and he says now if the dispensation of death engraved in letters on stone was inaugurated with such glory and splendor that the israelites were not able to look steadily at the face of moses because of the brilliance a glory that was to fade and pass away why should not the dispensation of the spirit now we just talked about when moses went into the mountain of god in the fire of god and we didn't go to exodus 34 but when he came out of that getting the 10 commandments he came out and it said his face shone like the sun getting the law and so what is paul writing here he's saying if the glory of god manifested in such a way in such a full in such a full measure in moses life in something that would be done away with how much more would the glory of god manifest by the spirit meaning in the old testament on just these these tables of stone that we're going to be done away with how much more should you and me in the glory that we should experience in our lives i mean that's that's what it's saying here he's saying why should not the dispensation of the spirit this i'm reading the amplified spiritual ministries who task is to cause men to obtain and be governed by the holy spirit be attended with much greater and more splendid glory more splendid glory more splendid glory so here the glory of god that that we were just referring to but moses it says here that there should be a more splendid glory verse nine four if the service that condemns talking about the the law the ministration of doom had glory how infinitely and more abounding in splendor and glory must be the service that makes righteous the ministry that produces and fosters righteous living and right standing with god indeed in view of this fact what once had splendor the glory of the law and the face of moses has come to have no splendor at all because the overwhelming glory that exceeds and excels it wow there's a glory that excels the glory that moses saw for if that which was but passing away faded away came with splendor how much more must that which remains and is permanent permanent and abide in glory and splendor since we have since we have such glory as hope such joyful and confident expectation we speak very freely and openly and fearlessly that the israelites might not might not gaze upon the finish of the vanishing splendor in fact excuse me in fact their minds were grown hard and calloused they'd become dull and had lost the power of understanding for until this present day when the old testament the old covenant is being read the same veil still lies on their hearts not being lifted to reveal that in christ it is made void and done away yes down to this very day whenever moses is read a veil lies upon their minds and hearts but whenever a person turns but whenever a person turns whenever a something happens when you turn something happened to me when i turned something happened when i turned something happened something happened when a person turns in repentance to the lord the veil is stripped off and taken away [Music] now the lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the lord is there's liberty emancipation from bondage freedom and all of us with unveiled faith who are those with unveiled faces those that turned that's right that's what it says it says those that turn it says the veil is taken away so if i turn then i have an unveiled face because we and and all of us as with unveiled face because we continue to behold in the word of god as in a mirror the glory of the lord are constantly being transfigured into his very own image in every increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another for this comes from the lord who is the spirit wow something happens when we turn aside something happened when moses turned aside something happened when he went up something happened when they went out something happens when we turn you see turning aside in my opinion for this morning's message and talking about altars turning aside is our position to decrease so god can increase in the thing that tommy had had sent me he put a note on there and we you know we we we had altered calls for how many people need increase you know alter calls for people to increase right i'm not and there's nothing wrong with that but how many alter calls have we had for decrease i'm not talking about financial not talking about financial decrease i know we can we have a lot of altar calls but we can celebrate that we want god to increase us and come up and the prophet's gonna lay hands on you and there's nothing i'm not saying there's anything wrong with that i'm just saying that that the altar is a position in a place where we decrease because it's when we decrease that then he can increase see it's he wants to be be the leader be the greatest of all what it must be servant of all so there's a position the kingdom that we serve in is an upside down kingdom good measure price down shaking together comes out first of decreasing by by being a blessing to someone else first the blessing of abraham was not just to be blessed beyond all caste think dream or imagine the blessing was abraham was so he would he would be blessed to be a blessing so the altar is a position in place where we turn aside it's a position in place where we decrease because it's when moses turned aside that god was able to increase him it was in when abraham turned aside you see we we talk about the blessing of abraham i want you to go to this place and and you're going to be blessed to be a blessed blessing i'll make your name great i'll make you famous and i'll you know i'll do all these things and and this is going to happen and that's going to happen and we can praise the lord but the first four verses in in in genesis 12 are great but the breakthrough was on verse 5 and when abraham left and when abraham left and when abraham departed you see that that that that is that is abraham decreasing so he can then get involved with god moses turning aside was was was was decreasing so what so he could increase you know what without faith it's impossible to please god without faith it's impossible to please god he that what comes see we we we can't leave out the most important ingredient we can't leave out the most important ingredient to our faith is not having faith in our faith without faith it's impossible to please god for he that comes to god see that is me decreasing me coming to god is me trusting in him in his ability alone he must come to god must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him turning aside is seeking and it's in that seeking that then we step into the rewards of the kingdom and this is all about the altar the altar is a place of decrease so you can experience all that god wants to do in and through your life through my life i know it's a phrase that john the baptist made and i understand why john the baptist said it in john chapter 3 i must increase so he i must decrease so he can increase but you know the apostle paul he may have not used those exact words but his heart was just as passionate about being dependent upon the father i can show you two places galatians chapter 2 verse 20. i am crucified with christ and that's that's decrease i'm crucified with christ nevertheless not i that lives it's not i that lives but it's christ that lives within me now get this he doesn't stop there he says in the life i now live i live by the faith of the son of god. now he's saying it's not even my faith it's his faith it's all him it's all him another place colossians chapter 3. let me just i don't quote it wrong colossians 3. thank you father you know i love that song this morning cassie lay it all down was that the one you wrote was that yeah and you wrote that from the altar series right yeah if you then be risen with christ seek those things which are above where christ sits on the right hand of god seek that's turning aside set your affections on things above not on things of the earth but how often are we setting our affection on things of the earth how often are the things of the earth taking up 95 of our time and here the apostle paul has set your affections on those things that are above where christ sits then he says this verse 3 for you are dead you're dead you're dead for you're dead and your life is hid with christ in god hallelujah you know i reading part of that those things in the book and i don't this is what he just he marked some things on there but this might have been like four or five years ago and he sent that to me but but he said that no living things could truly stand in the presence of god they had to have smoke they had a veil they had to have all these certain things so the only things that i could actually be in the presence of god were dead things and here it says because of christ it says you're dead and my life is hid with christ and god verse 4 when christ who is our life shall appear then shall you appear with him in glory wow wow the altar is the place where we die and we experience his life january 23 of 1993 in my sister's living room that was where justin let died close with this hebrews chapter 12. there's other places we could go but cassie can you all come up thank you father thank you father thank you father oh we praise you father thank you father we praise you we glorify you oh we turn aside this morning we turn aside we turn aside lord we decrease this morning hallelujah hallelujah decreasing and taking a lower place is not taking a step down in the kingdom of god i look at miss carolyn and dr savelle's life and to see where god has brought them and see what god has done in their life and i see a life marked by surrender here in thank you lord um i could read this whole chapter i mean it i mean the very first the chapter starts with the same with laying aside every weight in sin that does so it is at us and let us run with patience the race set before us and what looking unto jesus i mean this this chapter starts off with that but uh for the sake of time let's look at hallelujah thank you lord verse 18. for you the amplified it says for you have not come as did the israelites in the wilderness to a material mountain that can be touched a mountain that is ablaze with fire into gloom and darkness in a raging storm you understand he's he's a he's talking about this this this mountain in moses day right this is but this is new testament he's equating these so so we have to understand the we can't throw out the old testament because we see just connecting this we see in 2nd corinthians 3 and we're seeing here that he's connecting to that fire that happened on the mountain before but it says you have not come to a mountain that cannot be touched oh that means i can i can touch this there's no can't touch this i can touch this stay with me or pray for me either one [Music] that is a blaze with fire into the gloom and darkness and a raging and to the blast of a trumpet and a voice whose words make the listeners beg that nothing more be said to them wow man it's like god don't say anything more because i don't know if i can quite handle it verse 20 for they could not bear the command that was given if even a wild animal touches the mountain it should be stoned to death in fact so awful and terrifying was the phenomenal phenomenon that cite that moses said i'm terrified but rather you've come to mount zion even to the city of the living god the heavenly jerusalem and the countless multitude of angels and festival gathering and to the church of the firstborn who are registered as citizens in heaven and to the god who judges all now listen this into the spirits of righteous men who have been made perfect thank you father and to jesus the mediator of a new covenant to the sprinkled blood which speaks of mercy a better and nobler and more precious message than of the blood of abel which cried out for vengeance now listen so see to it that you do not reject him or refuse to listen and heed him who is speaking to you now [Music] for they the israelites did not escape when they refused to listen and heed him who warned and divinely instructed you here on earth revealing with heavenly warnings his will how much less shall we escape if we reject and turn our backs on him who cautions and admonishes us from heaven he's talking to the church here he's not talking to unbelievers and the warning here in this last days message is don't turn your backs on him and think everything's just gonna be okay don't turn your backs and just be complacent with how everything else is going in the rest of the world don't reject him he's speaking to you right now he's speaking to us this morning and he's going to be speaking to you when you wake up tomorrow morning [Music] how much less shall we escape if we reject and turn our backs on him who cautions and admonishes us from heaven verse 26 then at mount sinai his voice shook the earth but now he's given a promise yes once more i'll shake and make tremble not only the earth but also the very heavens now this expression yet once more indicates the final removal and transformation of all that can be shaken that is of that which has been created in order that what cannot be shaken may remain and continue let us therefore receive a kingdom receive a kingdom receive a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken and offer to god pleasing service and acceptable worship with modest and pious caring godly fear in all for our god is a consuming fire hallelujah what is it saying here that we let us therefore receiving a kingdom that is firm and stable and cannot be shaken [Music] what are we to do offer to god pleasing service acceptable worship with modest and pious care and godly fear and all see the first part was speaking to them that went before but this part is giving us our turn aside you see this is our turn aside that we need to hear him who's speaking from heaven i believe he's speaking from heaven i believe that you know even right now as doctoral is ministering in nacogdish i believe that he's receiving a word from heaven from from for from heaven for us as we go into this next year i believe this word right now in this series on altars is about taking us in to seeing jesus coming quickly i don't want this to be just a another sermon another message and and the lord's put some other things in me that i'm probably going to put this in a book but but understand that this is so important i believe for the body of christ to step into and understand the importance of what the altar is all about it's a place where we decrease and this is giving us our way of decreasing that we offer to god pleasing service acceptable worship modesty pious care godly fear in all the king james says wherefore receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved let us have grace thank you for grace whereby we may serve god acceptably with reverence and godly fear i believe we need to get our fear back not being afraid of god but being in all of god [Music] fire doesn't fall on empty altars we can cry a guy fire fall on me but have you turned aside fire fall on me but is there a godly reverence and fear [Music] miss carolyn i wanna put you on a spot on the spot i mean growing up in the time that you did knowing something about the altar would you just share something from your heart well we were taught from a child the altar was everything the altar was where we came and laid our lives down before god we did it on a daily basis as far as the church was open and people could go to the altars that were there but during church services it was a holy time and it there was always an opening of the altar where they would say if you have a need come to the altar because that's where he will meet you it was always at the altar where we meet god and that's what pastor's been teaching us it's only at the altar where we meet god where we lay our lives down where we prostate before him and we give it all up and we sacrifice we are the sacrifice then that's being given so we can be consumed and it's only when you're consumed then that you enter into that place with god where you're used by him so the altars were always open in the church and there were people always praying for their lost and i'm telling you we're at the end of this age and if you have loved ones like i do that are so far from god they wouldn't know god right now if he showed up in a big old white sheet so we're going to have to come to the altar and start putting those loved ones on the altar and believing him that they're going to come in before the appearing of jesus because i believe the time is so close we can almost number the days because every day i'm getting up now and i'm saying come quickly lord jesus come quickly lord jesus come quickly lord jesus that's become almost a mantra to me come quickly lord jesus come quickly lord jesus because the world is getting worse and worse and worse i mean just open your eyes and look at what they're trying to force on us so the altar is our place of being consumed by god so we're not consumed by the cares of the world and what's going on in the world but we're consumed at the altar the altar is our place the altar is where we go the altar is what god has made for us so we can get rid of the cares of this world and the stress that's in this world so we've got to as a church to get on fire for god is go to the altar so pastor justin i thank you for hearing from god for preaching this to us for helping us be consumed by the fire that falls from heaven so we can be accountable in these last days bless you pastor for teaching us this and leading us in the truth amen thank you amen thank you stand to your feet thank you father hallelujah thank you father i love you jesus i love you jesus i love you jesus i love you jesus oh we love you jesus we love you jesus [Music] hallelujah you know we have another service at 11 but i'm just gonna just think we just need to wait on the lord for a moment thank you father [Music] hallelujah [Music] thank you father maybe this morning and you're here and say pastor i i need to decrease in my life so he can increase i i know of a great calling on my life i know you have a great plan for my life but and i've been so focused on what that calling looks like or what that calling is and trying to figure these things out i realized this morning that i need to i need to decrease i i've got my eyes off onto the wrong things and i need to turn aside this morning this minister just something went off on the inside of you this message this morning i i want you to take take a moment just come down to this altar come down to this altar right now come down to this altar hallelujah thank you father thank you jesus hallelujah thank you father we praise you father [Music] there is freedom [Music] mercy pouring [Music] there is freedom and i'll choose to lay it all down i'll choose to lay it all down there [Music] first my [Music] is [Music] [Music] i come to your all to jesus i offer up my life for you to move in there's no other place that i desire to be but right here at your [Music] i offer up there's no other place that i desire to be but right here [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] there's no other place that i decided [Music] after jesus [Music] jesus oh [Music] thank you father oh father we glorify you we praise you oh hallelujah we turn aside today we turn aside from everything distracts we turn aside we turn aside thank you father we offer ourselves as living sacrifices today holy and acceptable unto you [Music] thank you father hallelujah thank you father for the spirit and where the spirit of the lord is there's liberty i thank you that where the presence of god is and the fire of god is i thank you that there is a liberty that far surpasses the presence that as far as surpasses the glory that moses knew i thank you that you have given and made available something far more exceeding than that hallelujah and i thank you that we see that exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask think dream or imagine in our lives through our lives in this church in this body hallelujah arise and shine for your light has come arise and shine for the fire has come and the glory of the lord has risen upon you [Music] hallelujah so we decrease father so you can increase thank you father hallelujah thank you father praise you father oh you're good you're good you're good you're good you are good [Music] thank you [Music] we love you hallelujah [Music] oh i thank you for a freedom a freedom [Music] of freedom that we have not yet known [Music] a freedom that we've not yet known we've experienced glimpses of freedom but maybe in the back of our thinking in the back of our mind the fear of man might be holding us back the fearing of being obedient and stepping out and doing what god has said could be holding us back the fear of giving what god's told you to give the the fear of serving the way that god's told you to serve the the fear the different things but we're stepping into a freedom that we've not fully grasped or understood [Music] freedom freedom hallelujah freedom if you're here this morning and there's just been this this hindrance on you this oppression it's almost like you're you're being held back you almost feel like you're in a spiritual straitjacket that that if you haven't seemed to been be able to break out of it it's been this this heaviness this oppression this this sadness that you can't get away from just if that's you come out come up real quick if that you come up real quick hallelujah thank you father thank you jesus hallelujah thank you father hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus oh thank you thank you thank you oh ha ha ha ha this [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh there is freedom right here right now in your presence oh yes [Music] oh right here right here [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you father thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you father thank you jesus thank you father thank you lord hallelujah thank you father oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah set me free [Music] oh that's me i'm free [Music] [Music] hallelujah thank you father hallelujah can you touch him hallelujah hallelujah the sun sets free can't grab your wife thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus is this your first time here [Music] and this is the for only the phrase the little gay male stand up there and he said the sun is going to shine on your life and ministry once again that's all he told me to say that the sun is going to shine on your life and ministry once again [Music] you are in a healing time in a restoring time and i will restore what the enemy has stolen [Music] you will never once again have to defend yourself [Music] you walk in love [Music] you won't have to explain yourself or defend yourself because my son is shining on your ministry and your life once again let the fire fall on this life and minister oh jesus jesus jesus jesus oh thank you father [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus lord we praise you father we praise you father oh hallelujah [Music] oh we praise you father oh we thank you all this week your assignment is to turn aside and let him speak to you your assignment is to [Music] hallelujah to offer god pleasing service acceptable worship godly fear and all so all this week make it a point to do this and let's see what happens when we come together as a corporate body next weekend and let's see what the glory of god and the spirit of god does in our midst the gifts of the spirit the words of wisdom the words of knowledge the working of miracles hallelujah [Music] we thank you for in jesus name give him a shout of praise he received that this morning thank you father you can go ahead and be seated real quickly and receive our ties and our offerings you know the different ways to give you an offering envelope there's one to see back in front of you hallelujah [Music] giving is an act of turning aside saying god i'm trusting you with my finances i'm trusting you with my life thank you father we praise you lord lord we thank you for the opportunity to give in your kingdom this morning and we thank you that you're faithful to watch over your word to perform and call this offering this morning blessed and thank you that you you are so true to your word and we thank you for it in jesus name amen ushers receive the offering and while they're doing that david can you come up real quick we have a couple of things i want to church be communicated to well hallelujah i just have to say i just had a hardest time in the world sitting still doing your message i had a hard time sitting still in junior high and i have a hard time sitting still when you preach about the fire i'll just about to run around the places i might do it next service all right just because i'll be here next service too but not this weekend but the next is the fort worth gospel festival be sure and grab it for flyers that are stacked out in the back on your way out please everybody grab a few flyers don't grab the whole stack but grab a few fort worth gospel festival is coming up we have main street blocked off not this weekend but the next just for two nights friday and saturday night and we actually start at five we're going to around nine o'clock from five to seven we're going to have a food truck there vendors games yard games giant connect four giant jenga uh let's see here a pony ride a petting zoo bounce houses and a big hay bale kind of fun area you can sit down and have a lot of fun and eat your food and all that stuff from five to seven and uh of course we're inviting a lot of people going to have street witnessing teams going out bringing people from all over downtown so this is right in front of the convention center in downtown fort worth the lord has called us to be a city set on the hill and that's what this is all about and at seven o'clock or so we're going to have bands start our worship team from our ministry is going to be doing friday night cassie and the heritage team are going to be doing saturday night uh terry miner's going to be there and uh then in the middle of that i'm going to get up and preach the gospel and uh probably preach john 3 16. you know that's what it says you can't get any better than that and it's going to be good i preached john 3 16 last year he had a lot of people get saved hallelujah and i was going to see people get healed so invite people the whole purpose of this thing is to invite the neighbors next to you and across the street from your house thus will say grab a few of them please on your way out i command you in the name of jesus to grab a few of these on your way out they'll be aligned but just get a few of them and i'm going to do this you know and i we my face is not on here my name is not on here because the unsaved unchurched people don't know who i am i'm not a draw so but the fun stuff is going to be a draw to them so go to your neighbor and say hey we've got a festival going on downtown it's completely free you don't have to pay to get in there are things in there that you pay for like food but there is some free stuff so go next door and hand them a flyer it's this is the easiest thing that you'll ever do and invite them and and uh tell them what's going on just tell them hey we got a pony ride bring your kids and and vendors and games and all kinds of stuff and live bands it's going to be awesome they've got main street blocked off please please please do this this is the easiest way that you can help evangelize people and and get them in because what we're going to do the presence of god the anointing you feel here we're going to release that there i'm not going to get up and just preach 10 minutes of a pretty little message we're going to step into the presence of god we're going to see people get healed and i'm telling you when people experience the lost and the unsaved experience the power and the presence of god their lives are going to be changed and so it's really important invite some people just it's so easy walk across the street knock on the door and say hey we've got a festival coming up the fourth gospel festival give them a flyer and ask them to come and also everybody here that wants to come or you're interested when you get a flyer please pre-register you just go to gospelfestival.tv and if you have the revival fire app you can go there but gospel festival dot tv that's as easy as it can get and when you pre-register will will so you'll be signed up so when you get there you'll get a free bag of popcorn and a free cup of hot chocolate when you walk in so a little benefit for you helping us spread the word everybody that you talk to that pre-registers and if you pre-register you get a free bag of popcorn we'll have a ticket there when you come through our little greeting tents and that you can go and get the free stuff and it's going to be a lot of fun and it's going to impact the city but please grab some flyers it's not this friday but the next coming up in two weeks it's going to be great so thank you so much david thank you so much nikki you can come on up um we're going to run out of time joseph i'll have you share that in the next next service but we've been doing something each sunday for the last month right after service joseph has been doing and some other people in the church doing zoom meetings with with the kimbo detention center and we're seeing salvations every week through zoom down to the detention center there and and also last weekend erica and her team and shawn and different ones went out street evangel last week had 22 salvations yesterday at our food bank we had 16 salvations people healed filled with the holy spirit during our food bank so a lot of great things about reaching our community and reaching our world so nikki got a few other announcements for us now if you'd like to be a part of the gospel festival by being a volunteer you can go on to the heritage events page and check out the gospelfest event and then there's a link to click go take ill straight take you straight to their website so you can volunteer they need people like greeters and people in the parking lot and ushers and just people to help out at the event because it's it's a little bit of work getting people saved aren't you excited that you can be a part i know i am all right heritage young adults you have a meeting today it's the first sunday every month and that's today so six o'clock here tonight i heard something about fajitas so yeah i know you want to be in on that so also mark your calendars the anniversary is coming up two weeks away two weeks and it's our anniversary so if you haven't registered online for water baptism and hey i know some of you guys do ribs and we want to taste it so register online for the taste off there's a few openings still for ribs and cookies and pies so check check that event out online and then fall cleaning day everyone say woohoo [Applause] heritage fall cleaning day october 23rd is when we all come in and we all take care of god's house and we have a fun time doing it we turn on worship music and praise music and we have snacks and we just have a good time and we clean the house from top to bottom and we do it as a family amen so mark your calendars for that it's just a few weeks out as well and it will be before the minister's conference so we have everything speak and span all right don't you love god i love god father we love you we thank you for today we thank you for everything that you're doing through all the outreaches that we're a part of father we pray over gospel fast father we just thank you that you're going to send the people and in droves father i just thank you for what you've got planned father because you have it planned so we thank you in advance father that we get to be a part father i pray for each person as they go out today i call them blessed their homes blessed their children's blessed their families blessed their bodies blessed in jesus name amen go give them jesus you

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