2021: Mess or Masterpiece - Sunday, January 24, 2021

good morning world harvest church right here in columbus elkhart all those watching us online i'm pastor chris and it's so good to be back with you after being gone a few sundays thank you so much for all the love and the prayers it's great to be home with you and we have some guests with us this morning miss moriah and nate joe for the trenton they've been hanging back with us all weekend for welcome back weekend world changers make some noise they've been blessing us all weekend and they're here with us again this morning to lift up jesus are you ready come on let's make his praise ruby let's go [Music] we'll sing it out what's your favs [Applause] [Music] mariah [Music] oh is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] the presence of the lord i can't help but dance i can't help but sing and i don't really care what anyone thinks come on in your presence i don't really care [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what's up [Music] is [Music] hey [Music] make some noise to king jesus this morning who in this room is victorious i got any victorious people in the house with me this morning i said do i have any victorious people in the house of god on this sunday morning come on if you got victory i need you to lift up a shot of praise right there where you are and shake the heavens god we believe you to be the one who's never lost the battle your record is clean you haven't lost before and you won't start now so we worst of you and we praise you for your goodness god [Music] and i cannot whisper away what he said in the light your word is true jesus and he is my firm foundation my ankle won't be moved and storms may collide but my soul is on fire with this word come on with your hands lift to sing this out sing win listen to the sound come on grab that authority of power on my lips cause jesus has broken the curse and he is never lost yeah a battle and who are you great mountain that you should not bow cause jesus defeated the target and he's never lost a battle come on never will oh yeah [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is are you great mountains [Music] and authority in jesus sing yourself with everything you've got jesus [Music] [Applause] come on if you believe this is true call them christ redeemer sing this [Music] you've already [Applause] oh jesus [Music] so jesus has broken the curse speak to that thing beloved [Music] he's never lost a battle do you hear me [Applause] [Applause] is somebody open up your mouth and declare the word of the lord speak to the mountain and remind that mountain that you're on the wind inside the key that's in the world yeah [Music] he's never [Music] and he never will my god your record is clean [Music] [Music] if power on [Music] and who are you great mountain that you should not bow though cause jesus will sing jesus jesus defeated the darkness defeated [Applause] forever and never ever is [Applause] [Music] [Music] come on if you're thankful if this song with us it sounds like this it's so [Music] [Music] amazing [Music] praise and adoration belongs to you the glory and the honor belongs to you [Music] sing songs [Applause] you are so amazing [Music] it's who you are it's who you are so amazing [Applause] you are and you always will be jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] we worship you this morning [Music] jesus come on sing that out to him so [Music] your children sing this to your face this morning we sing songs [Music] somebody testify with your worship right now that he's been that good to you [Music] so amazing so amazing [Music] nate thank you for lifting him up with us aren't you glad to have him with us this weekend you may be seated in the presence of the lord again so good to have mariah and joe nate trenton here with us this fun sunday morning look they're getting ready to bless us big they have an original song a song that they've written and spoiler alert we're getting ready to record it to go on harvest music lives new ep coming soon [Music] so it's a new song but it's about jesus so are you in elkhart online in this room it's a new song but it's about jesus so are you in come on let's bless them together [Music] so [Music] i see a holy place where all your glory shines your radiance [Music] i'm standing on the [Music] in all you've done [Music] jesus [Music] i was afraid [Music] guilty faces [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] jesus [Applause] [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh jesus [Music] and you love me you love me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] my [Music] [Applause] me [Music] is [Music] jesus [Music] are you thankful for the love of jesus this morning i said are you thankful for the love of jesus this morning [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus are you thankful for these four young people that joined us this morning and all weekend long for valor welcome back weekend thank you to nate and mariah and joe and trenton for pouring out all of your worship with us this weekend and what a beautiful beautiful beautiful song and thank you for sharing it with us and for allowing us to put it on our upcoming project we're so excited about it's going to be released in march would you like them to come back sometime [Applause] [Music] amen do you love harvest music live are you glad pastor chris deegan is back with us after a little hiatus amen amen you can be seated in the presence of the lord for those of you that don't know me my name is ashton blair and i am the proud creative director here at the harv in the ministry at large and of course i'm so so so very very proud to be the student pastor at valor christian college the school of the spirit and we are beside ourselves that our students are back on campus few they may be in this coveted world that we live in but man it takes a remnant to come to the cold corn fields of columbus ohio in january during a global pandemic we love our world changers and we certainly miss them while they were away on break so many of them have transitioned of course to online learning because of the pandemic but we only need a few we only need the remnant amen and we're glad to see our pastor back with us today he's been on much needed vocal rest he went earlier this week to have a scope performed and and have everything checked up on of course for for those of you that may not know pastor just about it's been about five years now was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma of the vocal cord cancer and received about 30 radiation treatments for that and was completely and totally silent for almost three years but god he is cancer-free and he has been back preaching this gospel [Music] [Applause] just about every single service since march of last year when you know the pandemic really hit and we had to go into quarantine doing every wednesday night every sunday morning of course doing all of his breakthrough television programs and we're so thankful for him and for his voice continue to pray for him and lift him up you know it's just like if you're an athlete and you had an injury you know you have to rehab that muscle and uh you know i'll tell on him a little bit because i'm his daughter he doesn't do a great great job rehabbing it all the time because when you have the oil and you have the word of god so afresh and anew in you all the time you can't help but preach it and can't nobody i may be a little bit partial but can nobody preach like the prince of preachers dr rod parsley [Music] so we're glad to have him back we also want to welcome of course any of our first-time guests we say that the first time you're here you're a guest and after that your family we consider you a vip you are a very important person to us so whether it's your first time or your first time in a long time we want you to click on that qr code or text the number on your screen there's even a little card in the pew pocket in front of you fill it out we just want to connect with you we want to pray with you and we want to make sure that we get a special gift in your hand a free gift from our pastor and the first family and the staff here at world harvest church so you can take that card and you can put it in the offering container as it comes by later with your million dollar check or you can give it to any of our dream team members and we'll make sure that you redeem that gift amen now a few weeks ago our pastor celebrated his 64th birthday 64 years young we still haven't come up with a tagline for it yet [Applause] 64 and ready for more that's it because we were 63 and breaking free we were 62 and breaking through now we're 64 and ready for more amen as dr sumrall always said nothing you have done nothing you are doing is as great as what you are about to do and we believe that for you pastor and he wanted to wait to celebrate uh until our valor college students were back with us because they're our family of course and he wanted to wait on all of you as well and those of you joining online you are our family you are not left out we believe that the anointing cannot be separated by a screen and everything we're receiving in this tabernacle is available to you make sure you get in those comments and let us know from where you're watching we would love to connect with you if you have prayer needs a request we would love to pray with you so uh to celebrate pastor you know many many moons ago many moons ago circa probably 1978 i think it might have been you were probably 21 years old or so then uh you know you're you're really no pastor if you haven't served in every area of the ministry at one point or another and way back in the day before we were ever on this property you know when pastor he started out with 17 people in his backyard at a picnic shelter and then we moved into the 120 seat building and then the 480 seat building 520 seat 1200 seat and then here to the tabernacle at gender road and so at one point when you were third yes before you were 30 we moved on to this property into this in eight years transitioned from 17 people in his backyard to this sprawling 5200 seat tabernacle that's something only god could have done and we're thankful for a willing vessel so back in the day pastor didn't just serve in in that office he was also the worship leader at what was then well it was first sunrise chapel s-o-n huh sunrise chapel then it was word of life word of life so back at word of life our pastor doubled as the worship leader you know back when the microphones had the felt tips on him and he he got so famous really so well known that he decided he would record a cassette does anybody remember cassette tapes yeah cassette tapes that came after you had your vinyls you had your records you had your eight tracks and you had your cassettes then you had your cds right now everything's digital and downloadable and there's there's a little known cassette tape that has blessed many over the years and back in the 70s in particular and it's called rod sings it's called rod sings and we thought pastor that there was no better way to celebrate your 64th birthday to digitize rod sings and and potentially make it available to the congregation at large so if you would turn your attention to the screens for just a moment [Music] taking back what the devil stole yes having put on the whole armor of god this is breakthrough [Music] with pastor rod parsley [Music] [Music] reaching out to you as the point is harvest church in columbus ohio this is breakthrough later in the program i'll be telling you about the preaching ministry you'll be enjoying today from a dynamic message entitled the tangible touch deals with the woman with the issue of blood but right now our announcer is going to tell you how you can avail yourself to a resource that so many thousands across america already have in their home and are receiving the benefit and the blessing of [Music] introducing rod sings [Music] prepare the atmosphere of expectancy to be the breeding ground of your miracle with rod sings available today on vinyl coming soon to eight track and high quality cassette tape we love you pastor happy birthday to you we did we didn't really digitize it we're not going to make it downloadable but we did put it on vinyl for old times sake there's you and and the the great phil driscoll just worshiping god together circa 1978. so we got your record player and you can bless miss joni at home with the melodies that she surely fell in love with back then what's that the the cords were what hooked her oh yeah yeah my peach polyester suit i wore peach because i could there are few of you still around that were around then we love you so much thank god for you it's going to be a great great great great year the more they afflicted them the more they prospered and grew this is our time time of ascension amen i i will not i'll forgive everybody but joanna ridgeway who is the only living human that still has that cassette so i know where this came from and i'm coming for you you got it i'm coming for you your family and your little ugly dog all of y'all we love you pastor you can remain standing if you would and to continue the celebration pastor we wanted to give you a morning off and so we brought one of your sons in a valor christian college graduate who is pastoring a tremendous tremendous church just about two hours away from here he and his wonderful wife wife kim and their two babies were so proud of him we can say that because we consider him part of the family and yes he's he's quite the celebrity these days [Music] yes oh there it is well that's a terrible picture can you get this one look at that a veil magazine now it doesn't say he's available okay because he and miss kim they traveled with us all across america yes sir i could tell some stories i could i could tell some stories i i was we're going to hey y'all bear with us and i want to thank pastor rd and the entire media team and these sound engineers at three minutes before 10 today we lost full half of the entire pa system so they're trying to make everything work through what they've got left and they told me it's just going to be 120 000 to replace it so i'm excited today at what god's going to do but anyway [Applause] is it better if i just use hers i can just use hers because hers is like really anointed there we go look at that i used to run sound too and i also played the kit yes i did so i would lead worship on some stuff play the kid on some stuff pray every prayer and we did eight services in 1984 eight so all you think there's something new under the sun you ain't never seen nothing we used to put velcro on the walls and give you a vest when you came in and just stick you up there to get you in the building and god certainly blessed but eric i think he grabbed when you graduated 2000 to the y2k and and some of the some of the valor students decided they were going to come to the house help ms joni put up because we put up a 15-foot christmas tree every year and a christmas tree in every room of our house so we did all that celebrate the kids were little and so eric came out to help us unload boxes put up christmas trees and he came in his suit like i don't know if he thought he was going to preach or what i said son go back to the dormitories and get yourself some work clothes and we loved him he loves us we thank god for him for his entire family for that tremendous tremendous church that he's raising up and i told him you know i got to rest my vocal cords a little bit you ought to come up about once every three months and do a sunday morning for me so i got to get some of these sons helping me out a little bit you know i'm so proud of this young man i'm so proud of him he was raised in a pentecostal pastor's home his daddy was a pentecostal pastor and when he came to valor christian college he had never received the baptism in the holy spirit and received the mighty baptism in the holy spirit in the dormitories at jude hall and he's been so powerful for god ever since you're very unusual young man and i thank god for the anointing that's on your life and how god's using you all over but i'm glad for miss kim's sake this isn't called available because you're not available amen we love this young man i want you to let him know how much we love sons raised up in this house doing great things for god pastor eric petry [Music] remain standing if you will this is just such an honor to always be here with my family you are my family you're my home away from home but have you ever watched pastor parsley in a service when he's not on the platform he is the biggest cheerleader for everybody who is on the platform and i thought in celebration for his birthday could we take just about 30 seconds and be his biggest cheerleader just for just for 30 seconds come on i want you to celebrate cheer whistle just like he does for everybody up here [Applause] thank you so much you may be seated it's an honor to be here with you and and i'm just always so thrilled that magazine i was very honored that they put me on that what they did is i've got a book coming out and this is my first book and i decided to be like my pastor you know who started writing books when he was seven and i think his first book when he was seven was a biblical explanation of the trinity but i decided at 41 it's time for me to write a book so that's coming out in the spring and so they took one of the chapters and they put it in this magazine and since you're my family they sent us a bunch of copies of this as you leave today at each one of the exits this magazine's sitting out there and it's free it's for you so take one and let it bless you and the the publisher because i'm a new author they're doing this really cool thing where if you and i don't know if they have the information if they don't that's okay it's in the magazine but if you go to that you can get the book they got so many copies for free all you do is pay shipping and handling but the book is for free so if you want this book it's called limitless because i believe god has called every one of us to live the limitless life i don't believe ephesians 3 20 is in the bible by accident now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that which we could ever ask or thank according to the power at work on the inside of us i believe god wants us to live a limitless life so that book's available i hope you'll pick it up i believe it'll bless you but today those magazines are in every exit so i just wanted to say thank you because if it weren't for this place this book would have never been possible so thank you for what you sowed into me it's my privilege to sow back into you today i want to welcome everybody in person everybody watching online iharv dot tv i think it is no what what is it rodparsley.tv thank you so much for being with us click that share button click the like button because i've got a word for somebody today now whenever a preacher approaches the pulpit you pray that they have a word from god but the delivery is always a little different there might be days where the delivery is more of a healing tone it's time to pour in the oil to wounds there's a time for that sometimes the delivery is more of a correction we are children of god and sometimes we get out of line we need to be corrected and and god will give us a word from a man or woman of god to correct us and bring us back into alignment but today what i have for you is a charge and i'm going to charge you today that by the time you walk out of this place you will refuse to live a normal ordinary life but you will live the unusual supernatural life that god destined you to live from before you were even born there's a scripture in the bible you can probably quote it as soon as i start saying it i can do all things through christ who strengthens me i personally believe that this is one of the most misused and abused scriptures in all of the bible i mean i can see the apostle paul sitting knee-deep in the roman's raw sewage with only a small hole in the ceiling that he's able to get any light through and he's writing i can do all things through christ who strengthens me so you could take that and tape it to your refrigerator to give you the confidence to stay on your diet i can believe that the apostle paul wrote that so once you get on that bench and you start lifting more than you've ever lifted before you can grunt out i can do all things through christ who strengthens me i don't think that's the purpose of that verse and i found it in a different translation it's the cev i have no idea what that stands for but it's a good translation and philippians 4 13 and the cev reads it like this christ gives me the strength to face anything christ gives me the strength to stand in front of the casket of one of my loved ones and when it looks like i'll never find joy and i'll never find happiness again i can look death in the face and say christ gives me the strength to face anything and when you're sitting in a hospital room and the doctor said yeah it's cancer and we don't know what treatment's going to be able to you can say to yourself christ gives me the strength to face anything [Applause] now it's under that banner that i want to introduce you to a bible character that i got introduced to when i got here to world harvest church i'd really never noticed him never paid attention to him but but up here this this guy was a celebrity and pastor used to preach sermons on him and it just impacted my life so he became even though there's only two verses in the entire bible on this man he is one of i mean he just marked my life in such an incredible way so much so that i begged kim when when i found out she was pregnant we were going to have a son i begged her to let me name my son after this guy he's found in judges chapter 3 and here's what it says and after him was shamgar the son of a knack how amazing would that be to have a son named shamgar you name your son shamgar and whatever room he walks into he's in charge shamgar's here straighten up i mean you got to name shamgar you are somebody you're going to do something shamgar the son of a naf who killed 600 philistines with an ox goad and he also saved israel this is one of only two verses in the entire bible about this man and it may seem like there's a not a lot in this but we learn a lot in this one verse about who shamgar is and what shamgar did when you read the book of judges it really parallels a lot of what our current culture is going through today now remember god never brought judgment because the world sinned god brought judgment because the church sinned the world sins because that's what it's supposed to do the church is called to live holy and righteous and separate and whenever the church started living like the world god brought judgment that's the whole book of judges right there and god would raise up a deliverer and this man shamgar there was something different about him he refused to live the ordinary life now i think they got a couple pictures they're going to put up of the mona lisa i want you to see this picture this is the most recognized painting in all the world the mona lisa it's a very small painting it's not very big if you've ever seen it in person it's an oil painting by the great artist leonardo da vinci it's considered to be priceless but they had to have an insurance company give it a value and so the insurance company has insured this painting for 860 million dollars almost a billion dollars this is an oil stain from somebody's garage floor you will spend 45 buying the chemicals and products to get that off of your garage floor what is the difference they're both created using oil but what is the difference one was done with intentionality and one just showed up one day and what i've come to tell you today is when you come out of 2021 you're either going to leave a masterpiece or a mess you're either going to live this year with intentionality and vision and purpose or you're just going to show up and can i tell you what we do with stains we do our best to get rid of them nobody has bought a ticket and flown their family to the other side of the world to come look at your garage floor to admire the stain hey we heard that you guys have this stain on your garage floor and we took our kids out of school we'd love to see it this is going to be a life-changing moment no because nobody comes to see a stain people come to see a masterpiece and see i believe this building today is filled with masterpieces i believe there are people in this room today that says i'm not just going to go through this life without purpose without vision i'm going to live a life of intentionality i'm going to make a mark not leave a state parents choose right now whether you are going to stain your children or mark your children parents that live with fear their kids will have to spend the rest of their life trying to scrub out the stain of fear that their parents left on their life but parents that leave a mark mark their children that there's something different about you than any other child you'll ever be around for the rest of your life no you will never blend in no you will never fit in because you have been called to stand out somebody shout make a mark well pastor i don't know if we can make a mark do you know what all's going on in the world today here's what i've come to tell you circumstances don't determine whether you make a mark or a stain you do and remember this people who are called to make a mark are rarely embraced by the culture to which they are called to make a mark in you will never blend in when you're called to make a mark the second verse that talks about shamgar judges 5 says in the days of shamgar it's a time of confusion it's a time where the enemy is testing the borders the enemy's seeing it there's a new there's a there's a new enemy on the horizon called the philistines and they're starting to test the borders to see how far can we get into god's land how far can we take how much can we take from god's people but shamgar made a mark and he made a choice and there were three choices that shamgar made that causes him to stand out in all the word of god here's the first thing that shamgar chose to do he got up everybody say got up he got up in other words just do something if you'll just do something that's 50 percent of your victory our problem today is we just can't get people to do anything my daughter sage she will beg us to let a friend come over the house she's 13. so kim and i will go across town we'll pick up a friend and we'll bring them to the house so that they they can entertain each other they can play together and kim and i sit in the room and we're in there taking care of rush without fail sage and her friend will walk into the family room sit down on the couch and stare at us and i look a sage saying why are you here and she says we have nothing to do and i look at her and say i did not bring your friend to our house so i could play with him yeah but we don't have anything to do to which i respond just do something how many church people are sitting on their couch or on their church pew complaining to god god i can't do anything god what are you going to do about this and god's looking back at you saying do something when i was a little boy it was summer and i was staying i was inside and i'm watching tv all day and my dad got tired of it so my dad opened up the garage door and he said eric eric you come here you got to see this come see this eric it's amazing i jumped up off the couch i ran out into the garage the next thing i heard was the door slammed behind me and locked and my dad yelled discover the great outdoors and what i've come to tell somebody today is stop going to god and complaining about what's wrong get up and change what's wrong get up and do something about what's wrong instead of be i'm so tired of the people who can tell you all the problems but do absolutely nothing to solve the problems just do something [Applause] one day i was complaining to god i was in a whining mood and i just everything was wrong and i just said god i need a word god i need a word said nothing god please you said you'd speak to us you said i'd call and you would answer give me a word god finally spoke and he said what's on your desk and i looked down and i had a king james bible a new king james bible and an amplified bible and god spoke again and said pick one anyone and i'll give you a word and god's saying to somebody today you want a word open my book i've told you everything you need to hear you don't need me to part the heavens and show up like a lightning bolt and speak directly to you open my book and do something with my word now i know somebody's gonna say yeah but pastor i got bible see i'm not moving cause i got i got bible well what's your bible well the bible says pastor they that wait on the lord so the reason i'm not doing anything is because i'm a waiting on the lord well did you ever bother to read the rest of that verse it said the people that are waiting are flying running and walking they that wait are mounting up with wings like eagle they that wait are running and not getting weary they that wait are walking and not fading in other words if you're waiting on god you ought to be soaring running or walking but god has never empowered anybody to sit and do nothing now i know today we call them servers we didn't always call them servers we used to call them waiters and we'd go into a restaurant and we would sit in a booth and the waiter would come over to us and say so thankful you're here today how may i serve you and then we would tell the waiter what we wanted and the waiter would go back in the kitchen get our stuff and bring it back out and if you're the waiter you're not the one sitting in the booth see if you're waiting on god you're the one running over to god's table saying god what do you need me to do okay i'll be right back god thank you so much i'm still waiting on my healing but while i'm waiting god what else can i do for you i'm still waiting on a financial breakthrough but god what else you need something else god how can i serve you if you're waiting you're not sitting if you're waiting you're not doing nothing if you're waiting you're moving somebody shout get up the waiter's not the one in the booth he's the one serving i know look we have a children's church today this ain't it you are not in children's church i've come to charge you for 21. you're about to face some battles in 2021. i'm trying to get you ready for the war [Music] if you're the waiter you're not the one sitting in the booth so what god's saying to you today is if you want joy go get you some joy stop waiting on me to give you joy get up and go find you i'm sorry turn off the social media and turn off the news and then go find you some joy that is overflowing and full of glory god i'm so lonely will you just bring me a friend how about you go find somebody who's more lonely than you and be their friend and then neither of you will be lonely anymore [Applause] well pastor i'm just waiting on god to bring me a man and when i see that man i'm gonna get fixed up and i'm gonna get in shape how about this how about you get fixed up and you might have more choices than you have right now [Music] you can just feel it when it's connecting with people [Applause] what if apathy is blocking your answer what if procrastination is holding back your promise god changed my children so god echoes change your children god heal my marriage and god says heal your marriage god changed this world and god says that's why you're there change the world here's what shamgar knew and here's what you need to know today anything you avoid anything you choose not to face always comes back bigger than they were and you will be smaller than you were do something sham guard got up the second thing shamgar did was he picked up everybody say picked up he picked up an ox goad is just a a farmer's toy we know he's a farmer because he has an ox goat and this was something that was used to prod the oxen to go plow the field god didn't give shamgar some supernatural weapon you keep waiting for these moments you've read too many comic books about how this sword is just going to appear out of the sky and that's going to be your super no he he reached down and he picked up something that he worked with every single day of his life could it be the thing that god wants to use to defeat your enemy and bring you into your destiny is something that is already in your hand what i've learned when you are go when you are in god's hand he always magnifies what's in your hand you've got to learn to attack your problem with whatever ox god god's given you well if i only had i didn't ask you what you could have i said what do you have right now because what you have right now is enough for god to give you the victory from it use what's in his hand there was another story about this in your bible where god actually asked somebody the question what is in your hand this is moses god's speaking to him from a burning bush and moses has given god excuse after excuse after excuse why he can't do what god is calling him to do so god finally looks at moses and says what's in your hand and then he tells moses to do something unusual he says throw it down and when he threw it down it becomes a snake and then he tells moses pick it up by the tail now when the rod became a snake moses took off running see the thing that moses needed was in the form of the thing that he feared faith will often command you to confront the thing that you've been running from it'll be a snake until you deal with it [Applause] pick it up and what god's saying to moses is you ran from egypt you've been running in this wilderness when are you going to stop running i've got to talk to somebody and ask you the question when are you going to stop running well the enemy just wants the farm yeah today but after he gets the farm he's coming for the house and after he gets the house he's coming for the kids and after he gets the kids he's coming for the marriage don't ever think you can give up anything when it comes to the devil when are you going to stop running when are you going to stop running from that dream god put in your heart when are you going to stop running from your calling how many more excuses are you going to make before you just step in and do what god asked you to do how much how much longer are you going to run from that habit run from that addiction i can't get victory over this and god's saying if you don't deal with it today you'll never have victory see i noticed something interesting what god's telling moses is if you start running from one thing it won't be long until you're running from everything so you got to deal with this now now now they got a picture now because before you put that up i often wondered why did god turn the staff into a snake and i thought why not a scorpion spider man spider i'm out i'm gone spider i don't kill spiders i burn the house down hopefully this fighter dies while it's in the house i just i don't i don't mess with spiders snake not that scary moses being in the wilderness must have known how to deal with snakes so why did god turn the staff into a snake and why did god ask him to pick up the snake by the tail so i went back into history and i and and so many historians believe that the pharaoh at the time of the exodus was a pharaoh by the name of ramses ii now there is a statue of ramses ii if they can put it up here on the screen and i want you to look at what's at the top of ramsay's head it's something that most pharaohs wore on top of their head it's a serpent they wore the head of a serpent on top of their head and this denoted their authority when god spoke to moses he said grab the snake by the tail because unless you can deal with it when it's just a tail you'll never be able to deal with the real threat that's ahead see what you're dealing with right now is just the little thing preparing you for the big thing and god was saying to moses if you can't handle this snake you'll never be able to handle pharaoh this snake is not your destiny pharaoh is your destiny but if you don't learn to take down the little things in your life now you'll never be able to deal with the big things in your life later i hear some of you saying oh i could pray for cancer you can't lay your hands on somebody that's got covered [Music] i have people who say they're filled with faith and afraid to lay hands on people who are sick i got news for you covet's just a tale [Applause] i want to have faith where i can deal with the real authorities and the real principalities but if i don't deal with it when it's small i'll never have the faith to deal with it when it's big and then watch what he said pick it up he told moses pick it up and what he did when he picked it up he picked up his future victory not his present victory and it became a rod in his hand see our problem today we want to see god turn things before we do anything we want victory before we even fight but god said it will only turn when it's in your hand god said you got to pick it up scared you got to pick it up nervous you got to pick it up while you're intimidated you have to pick it up you don't even know the victory you're going to achieve until you pick it up he got up he picked up then the final thing he stood up everybody say stood up i don't know what went through shamgar's mind you ever had those moments where you just kind of black out and then people tell you what you did during that time that you blacked out it's kind of like when your kids have pushed a line pushed a line pushing a line you you go blank and then your kids are missing you're like what happened what did i do what happened i mean just those moments where you just kind of something changes on the inside of you shamgar was probably out in his field one day and he's working this field and he sees all of his neighbors and they're all running they're grabbing their kids and they're running families entire families they're running they're running in fear they're giving up their land they're giving up their promised land their forefathers had fought for this land dying for this land but now they're just giving it up because they're so afraid of this new enemy called the philistines shamgar is watching them all run and finally he stood up he picked up he got up and he said i'm done running i don't know what this is going to cost me but i'm not going to live one more day running from this enemy and i don't know how he did it but i kind of like to believe that shamgar just drew a line in the sand and then stood back with his ox goat now my question is what kind of line did sham guard draw so i looked up artistic lines the lines that artists use and i found out there's different types of lines that you can use in art and one line is a zigzag line and you know some people they're out there drawing zigzag lines you know what a zigzag line is we really don't know whose side you're on you're on whoever side you're around at that moment so you're republican here but you're a democrat here and then you stand for this here but then you get around your work friends so you're for this here you're holy at church on sunday but you have clubbing on saturday you you just we're not really sure whose side you're actually on you're the zigzag person then there is a dashed line and a dashed line is strong line space strong line space strong line space this is the inconsistent person i mean you stand for this but don't say a word about this you'll fight for this but don't do anything about this then there's the blurred line blurred line we don't really know what you believe because you refuse to take a stand for anything you are the peace keeper not the peacemaker you just don't want to get on anybody's bad side so you do you will not take a stand on anything you know you just you refuse you refuse to speak out you sit there quiet you're so afraid of what somebody's going to put post on social media about you so you just don't say anything blurred lines here's my concern i don't own a business i'm a pastor i pastor a church i am a gatekeeper in the house of god so my concern is when i see churches out there drawing zigzag lines dash lines and blurred lines churches for this today not for tomorrow they stand strong on this don't say a word about this and then we got a whole slew of churches out there we don't really know what you believe but here's what i've learned unchurched people aren't looking for an echo to the culture unchurched people are looking for an alternative to it i'm not here to draw a zigzag i'm not here to draw dash i'm not here to draw blurred line i'm here to draw a bold line this morning and tell the devil you're not coming across shout bold lines we need to draw some bold lines today we got too many of these blurred lines we need a defiant declaration we need to draw a line and dare the devil to come across it we need to let the devil know this is where i draw the line with my family and if you step one foot over that line and try to mess with one of my kids try to mess with one member of this family devil you gotta have an enough is enough moment you're not there yet but when you get to it enough is enough moment you will stand up pick up get up and let the devil know the first one across this line is the first one going home in a body bag i've had enough and you know what happens see you see 2021 i see 20 20 line no we're in year 2021 no we're in your 2020 line because i believe we're coming back to the place again where god is calling his church out because we've had too many zigzags and too many dashes and too many blurred lines and god said no no no i'm drawing some bold lines again between what it means to be holy and what it means to live righteous and what it means to be a believer i'm calling you out from among the world and i'm asking you to be separate you have been called out from the darkness and into the marvelous light you are a city which has been set upon a hill you cannot take this light and hide it under a bushel no you gotta hold it up so everybody sees it i'm drawing blur bold lines i'm drawing bold lines that if it's in the bible i believe it yeah it's crazy isn't it oh my goodness blow up social media because if it's in the bible we still believe it we still believe what the bible says about marriage we still believe what the bible says about life we still believe what the bible says about holiness we still believe that what the bible has to say about sin we still believe what the bible says about heaven we still believe what the bible says about hell [Applause] i fire somebody and say i'm drawing some bold lines up in here today in fact i want you to look about three people and say go shamgar [Music] come on tell the devil if you take one more step i'm about to go shamgar up in here i'm about to go shamgar on my health i'm about to go shamgar on my children i'm about to go shamgar on my future i'm about to go shamgar on my dreams um tell somebody i'm about to go shamgar [Applause] [Music] you feel it you feel that boldness rising up on the inside of you i dare you to get a praise on the inside of you right now that lets the devil know today is my enough is enough moment today is my bold line moment today is the day where i refuse to run today is the day where i refuse to cower and fear today is the day where i'm drawing a bald line i'm about to go sham guard who's getting it who am i preaching to today let me ask you like that who am i preaching to take about 10 seconds and give god a shamgar praise up in here give god a praise that makes the devil nervous ten nine eight seven six is that all you got five four three two enough is enough enough is enough enough is enough let me say it like this and and i understand i understand that ohio state i'm not a big college football fan but ohio state's a big deal up here i get it your colors but the color gray i love the color gray like i took a picture with me in this gray suit that's what i put on the front of the book because i feel like i look so good in the color gray here's a big idea gray looks great on a suit but terrible on a life and i've just made up in my mind what do we got to lose because if we don't stand for anything we'll fall for anything and it's time the church come out and draw a bold line and say we refuse to live a great life we've been called to draw bold lines and live a bold life i'm gonna make my mark somebody give jesus a big praise in this [Applause] [Music] in fact i dare you not to wait for the enemy to come across the line i dare you to take a step across the line and let the devil know i'm coming after you grace praise and praise and praise him in this [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] excuse me i'm about to go shamgar up in here excuse me there's been a demon of fear bothering my children and i refuse to let them live on medication the rest of their life so i'm going to go samgar on this demonic spirit i'm doing shamgar on panzer i'm [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i will wake up tomorrow and when my feet hit the floor i'm gonna make a mark i'm gonna wake up and i'm gonna make a mark in this world i'm gonna make a mark in my family i'm gonna make a mark in my life my name will not be forgotten my name will be remembered throughout history i will not live a great life i will not live a dash life a blurred life or a zigzag i'm gonna live a bold life let me say this [Music] let me let me wrap it up with this here's the big idea you are responsible for this moment that's right nobody else stop thinking that anybody's going to listen to you complain about how bad your parents were because they probably had parents that messed up too it's time you step up and say i'm responsible for this moment i'm responsible for this life i'm responsible for whether or not i stain my children or mark my children and i refuse to live a gray life i'm going to go home and i'm going to draw some bold lines [Music] draw some bold lines what you allow on your television draw bold lines what you watch on the internet draw bold lines what you let come into your ear which ultimately gets in your heart is going to make its way out of your mouth draw some bold lines do something do something pick up use what god's put in your hand and watch him turn it and draw a bold line stand up stop backing down from the enemy i've got this for you today as you exit where those where those magazines are i put together these little bags of sand and they got a label on them that just says bold lines and what i want you to do is i want you to take this little bag of sand home you may want to get your family around you may i don't know just have that sandbag in front of you you may pour it out but let your family know hey we're a kingdom of light not a kingdom of darkness so as for this house we're drawing a bold line what we let come through the doors of this house maybe you'll just want to keep this with you and whenever you're at work just reach in your pocket and look at it and say oh i'm called to live a bold life draw bold lines whenever you feel yourself being tempted to blur the line and fall into temptation pull out that bag and say no no i'm drawing a bold line i see what you're trying to do devil i know it's just a little thing now but it'll be a big thing later and if i give in to this i'll never get victory over that so i'm gonna draw bold line draw a bold line do you receive that word [Music] can i tell you what we don't like to talk about [Applause] we never want to think about god drawing bold lines but all through scripture god draws bold lines one passage of scripture said it like this that jesus said there will come a day where god will separate the goats and the sheep and draw a line which side of the line will you be on you know we we see in movies when whenever there's a movie about noah's ark he pulls that door closed that's not what your bible said the bible said god shut the door and the only thing that mattered when that door shut was which side of the door you were on that door was a line it was the difference between grace and judgment the difference between life and death the difference between heaven and hell which side of the line are you on which side of the line if god were to shut the door today would you be beating on the outside of that ark saying please god one more chance or would you be safe on the inside knowing that you got behind the line you got on the right side of god and you said i'm gonna do i'm gonna live the life god called me to live god's drawing a line right now which side of the line are you on every head bowed every eye closed nobody looking around if you don't know jesus in this place maybe you were saved a long time ago but you've drifted across the line it's time to come home if you're watching online this is your moment this is your opportunity to step back across the line into the ark of safety and all you got to do is pray one prayer just pray this with me will you all over this church dear jesus i'm a sinner and i need a savior i ask you to forgive me of all of my sins erase my past jesus i believe you died for me but you arose for me because you live i will live also today i'm drawing a bold line between my past and my future thank you jesus for saving me friends if you prayed that prayer i believe yours assured of heaven as if you're already there somebody give jesus a big praise in this [Music] house [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on i want you to thank god for that word bold lines pick it up by the tail pick it up by the tail i got a series coming now isn't the word of god amazing i'm gonna try again isn't the word of god amazing you know truth is liberating because it's life-giving truth you can be seated truth not fact the problem is we want to deal in fact and not truth the fact was that i had vocal cord cancer i can show you the pictures i can take you to the spot i can show you where nearly 30 times they strapped me down with screws my head against a table and ran me in that big machine i can show you all that i did not ever deny that i had cancer that's where people get faith mixed up we don't deny the facts we just know that truth triumphs over fact [Applause] the fact was i had vocal cord cancer the truth was he was wounded for my transgressions bruised for my iniquities the chastisement of my peace was laid upon him and with and by his stripes i was and therefore i am healed whole and healthy in all that pertains to life and godliness just that simple truth is liberating and life-giving what's this lottery thing up to now is it a billion huh did they win it it got you a billion and and how many people won it just one so one person right and what i heard was that guy hit that was the first lottery ticket that he'd ever bought and and uh and so his wife found out that he had it before he found out so she called the pastor she said pastor my husband has won this thing she said you've got to come over and help me tell it he's got a bad heart i'm i'm fearful he's going to have a heart attack and die so the pastor came over the gentleman came home from his you know blue-collar laboring job and pastor was there he was happy to see him she said you need to sit down here mr so-and-so because someone has won the lottery and the man said thank god i have been so burdened ever since i bought that ticket i read in the papers where people that win the lottery end up in a divorce all those not-for-profit corporations won't leave them alone they can't hide from anybody thank god somebody won that thing he said preach i'll tell you i'd already told god if i won that thing i was given every bit of it to the church and the preacher had a heart attack and died bring you all the tithe into the storehouse and prove me now he will saith the lord of hosts that i will not open up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing there shall not be room enough to receive it malachi chapter 3 verses 8 to 10. but folks say but that's old covenant but that's because you didn't read verse 6 because verse 6 says says i am the lord your god i change not well that's old covenant so is adultery well that's old covenant so is thievery well that's old covenant well so is lying and what we celebrate in january is first fruits but seek ye first the kingdom of god and his righteousness when when first seek first the kingdom of god in his righteousness and then you get all the things then shall all these things be added unto you now for those of you that don't know tithe is tenth it means one it means ten percent of the sanctified gross income but what's important is that you remember its first fruits so we're going to grab it by the tail i'm going to grab it by the tail i got a hundred dollars i'm gonna give the hundred dollars to somebody because because i'm a giver now my wife and my entire family for many many years in january we consider january is a first fruits month so we want god's presence and power and provision available to us all year long so we take our entire first month's increase our entire income and we sow it we in fact do it at the end of december so that it's already in by january because how you leave determines how you enter plus we tithe on top of that so we give ten percent more than we made do you understand all right so i've got a hundred dollars so let's say we got uh twenty dollars uh well we'll have to have that for our mortgage and our rent and and then of course we got our car payment that's going to take another 20 because god don't want me riding no junk and then and then and then we got an another 20 well you know we got to pay our utilities and our insurance okay and then we gotta oh we got our credit card and that'll take another 20 because we can't control our passions and that'll only pay the interest on it but at least it'll keep the bill collector away and then and then we got ten dollars well we got to eat something because we don't know nothing about potato pancakes we only know about panera bread and starbucks so we got that and then and then i gotta have some entertainment i mean i can't show up to church without my nails did my tensions in i got to have some golf and some movies and i got to pay my cable bill and and now it's sunday what you call the last day of the week but god calls the first day of the week and you're left with two dollars and you're fearful of what else you may have a flat tire you may you never know you got to put a little away for the rainy day you're sure to have so maybe a tithe on a tithe that's called last fruits so what we should do when we get the hundred before anything else my mom and daddy taught me this when i'm seven years old when you did not get an allowance that's what's wrong with this generation we didn't get an allowance for breathing not in my house and you could lose your allowance too now we just welcome them in from all over the world and tell them we'll give them everything free remember when they say free he's talking about me and you gonna get it already this week signed into law the mexico city language to ensure that your tax dollars go all over the world to support global abortion you happy yet signed a piece of paper that said your six-year-old little girl going into a public restroom can run into as many men as women are we happy yet we're in a war and you might as well just strap your boots on some of us are there just because we love the nation some of us are there because you enlisted us i'm not backing up i'm not backing up i won't i got a hard line i didn't save 12 000 babies in this city from the american holocaust so somebody can protest about it they're breaking into churches in this city breaking up worship services yelling and screaming that to speak out against abortion is hate speech we gotta fight we lost half a public address system today gonna cost a hundred and twenty thousand dollars to fix it do i look nervous no because i know you're god's people and i know that the first thing you're going to do on the first day of the week is to take 10 of everything god bless you with you know what that's going to do that's going to pick up the tail it's going to sanctify the whole loaf for if the first fruits be holy then the whole thing's holy so let's take control ourselves instead of asking god what are you going to do about my finances do something pick it up do something and watch god do something about your finances are you ready all right you may be seated all the ways you can follow the instruction of the lord to bring all the tithe into the storehouse and prove him are right there on the big screen and they are right there on your screen at home can we take a minute before you even write that thousand dollar check can we take a minute and really thank those of us over 75 percent of us who still are not comfortable coming back in the building but are right there watching right now can we thank them for their continued support we love you so much we thank god for you hallelujah the devil is a liar i said the devil is a liar so those of you online all the information is right there on your screen please please hear the voice of god within my voice get god involved in the rest of your 2020 hard line make a hard line today i have never i've been preaching this gospel four times full time for four to six years i've been preaching in this church for 43 years i have never one time heard a tither say anything other than i am blessed and i've never heard a non-tither say anything except i can't that's all so get on the right side of the hard line we've got a kingdom to finance i've got harvest preparatory school to run i've got the women's clinic of columbus to fund i've got valor christian college to fund hallelujah breakthrough around the world for 40 years every day god is so good thank you do something everybody say do something pick it up gotta get up pick it up and stand up so you're gonna stand up right now click click click click click somebody's coming in just a moment to tell you what else is coming up this week but right now father i bless i i heard your holy spirit i cannot bless what is cursed but i can bless those who are obedient and i bless those now who are obedient knowing that your miracle is manifested by what they do by what you do when they obey so we believe you now god to move financially for every single person who's obedient and on the right side of the line on the scripture side we bless them in jesus name amen sowing into the kingdom of god has never been easier or more secure than with smart giving any smartphone will work to use your smart giving open your text messaging app and send a text to the number 4577 in the message of your text type the amount of your gift space whc if it's your first time using smart giving you'll receive a secure link to set up your account select your home campus and enter your giving method and where you would like to receive your instant giving receipt if you're already registered the process is the same just send a text message to 4577 type the amount of your gift space whc and you'll receive your receipt immediately if you'd prefer you can also sew online at whc.life or by phone or mail just call the number on your screen or send your gift to the address displayed [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Rod Parsley

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Published: Sun Jan 24 2021