5-30-2021 6 PM - Pastor Tommy Bates

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] praise the lord let's all stand tonight [Music] amen how many is ready to worship the lord this evening hallelujah come on put those hands [Music] together [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh bless that wonderful the name of jesus [Music] jesus jesus [Music] [Music] jesus oh [Music] [Music] joy when i think about [Applause] enjoy [Applause] i know oh [Applause] is you can't tell me joy when i think about what he's [Applause] somebody plus jesus come on let's bless him tonight hallelujah the name that's above every name we bless you jesus we magnify you jesus hallelujah hallelujah how many of you are glad to be in the house of the lord tonight i get joy when i come into the house of the lord it brings me joy to be in his presence hallelujah hallelujah [Music] all over me yes me [Music] i feel the joy [Music] [Music] [Music] me that can come against me [Applause] i've i've been set free the part of the me ghost [Applause] all over me i'm a little tired of the devil's gaze came for me you know what it don't matter what you're going through it doesn't matter what you're facing it don't matter if you're in a valley it don't matter if you're on the mountain high my joy is not circumstantial my joy is in the lord i had a brush reminder of that this afternoon and pastor's message was so good this morning it was so good but you know what that joy of the lord the joy of the lord is with me no matter what i go through no matter what i face no matter what the devil thinks he can throw my way i still carry the joy of the lord with me he's sustaining me he's keeping me he's keeping me and i praise him i thank him i thank him hallelujah put that verse number two up there oh hallelujah hallelujah that can come against me all over me [Music] [Music] is uh is i'll be [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] me me i've been set free hey [Applause] i've been set [Music] is i feel the joy of the holy for the joy of the lord is your strength thankful for the blood of jesus hallelujah he's the same yesterday today and forever his blood will never lose its power hallelujah your blood makes the deaf to hear right now your blood away the curse right now your blood heals every disease right now your blood sets the addict free right now you're the same yesterday today and forever [Music] me and [Music] for forever your blood means the broken hearts right now your blood compels me to forgive right now your blood transforms my mind right now your blood brings the dead today [Music] [Music] today and forever generations and your family and your children and their children [Music] he and your family and your children and their children is [Applause] thank you lord for your blessings generations and you're weeping and rejoicing upon his presence go before you and behind you and beside you all around you and then go before you is anybody believe that tonight that he's for you that his presence goes before you and behind you beside you all around you he never leaves us he'll never forsake us no no he's oh you're the same yesterday today and forever [Music] lord i still believe [Music] [Music] i still believe still blood is sufficient your blood is sufficient your blood heals every disease hallelujah how many you believe tonight amen if you believe i'll just give the lord a wave offering a praise that he deserves right now come on give him a wave offering a praise and tell him how much you love him [Music] we love you jesus we praise your holy name [Music] lord we glorify you in your house we glorify you in your house lord jesus lord if you're watching just lift those hands just begin to lift those hands wave those hands lord i bless you jesus lord i bless you lord holy are you lord [Music] lord we praise you you may be seated in the presence of the lord on your way to your seat just find somebody say i love the presence of the lord come on tell them like you really mean it i love the presence of the lord cause jesus jesus [Music] jesus you'll help me sing there's just something put on the screen for us about that name you'll sound great cause he's master [Music] save your [Music] jesus let all heaven no that's not it yeah and let the fragrance after the rain [Music] [Applause] jesus jesus jesus let all heaven and earth proclaim that king and kingdoms may all pass away but there's something that that name [Music] i want us to sing it again and i want you to sing like he's in the room tonight come on let's sing jesus [Music] jesus jesus there's just something about that name [Music] he's our master [Music] your jesus like the fragrance after the rain oh jesus jesus oh my jesus let all heaven [Music] and earth proclaim that kings and kingdoms may all pass away see i came tonight to tell you but there's something i said that there's something about i know that there is something about that name [Music] if you love the lord just give him a hand clap of praise he deserves tonight oh jesus we honor you in your house thank you jesus hallelujah hallelujah you may be seated in the presence of the lord don't you love the name of the lord amen amen and amen well we're so glad everybody's in the house tonight somebody said don't have church on memorial day weekend on a sunday night nobody will come well they've been wrong before but i'm so glad to see everyone in god's house tonight amen look at somebody next to you say you sure look good tonight i don't know who dressed you up but you sure look good but if you're here for the very first time we welcome you and all of our friends and family from out of town pastor kyle from alabama we bless you our pastor here from chicago illinois we welcome you and i know we have a lot more we have a lot more our parking team today they give us all reports on our phone they said my goodness they're coming in from indiana the list was a mile long pennsylvania illinois uh it was just all over so we welcome you tonight we're so glad and if you're watching online we welcome you tonight on this memorial day weekend we're so glad that you're watching uh tonight i know sorry if i'm going to embarrass you a little bit we were talking a little bit about our church and how even how they watch in alabama and maybe this is the same for you i don't want to speak for you but how you feel like we're family okay good i've got some amens in the house but she said i just know everybody i just i just love and i said that no matter how many people that this church no matter what sanctuary we build how many people we are still going to keep that family atmosphere at community family church it's one of our core values family right it's one of our core values so it's just an honor to be able to worship with you all and all of you watching but i want us to keep that family atmosphere amen just to let everybody to know that you are family even though you may not be blood kin we may not be the same color we may not be the same socioeconomic background but we are brothers and sisters in christ and we are family amen amen but if you're here for the first time just in front of your seat we have a connection card grab that connection card you can fill it out at any time in the service we got a whole bunch of them from today but place those and these bins to my right and my left we've got two in the back and if you're in the balcony great crowd in the balcony just place it over the ledge in one of those bins but community can you make all of our guests feel welcome tonight so glad you're in god's house with us amen well a couple announcements i know i i did this this morning but this is our fourth service today and a lot of people aren't able to come to the day and they come tonight so i want to make sure everybody's on the same page we're going to be having our first church dinner coming up on june the 20th this is a now when i say first i don't mean first ever i mean the first since the pandemic okay so we're going to have our first church dinner and we're going to be celebrating it's going to be freedom sunday on june the 20th we're going to be celebrating juneteenth which is the abolition of slavery in this country so it's exciting and so we're going to be celebrating that in the ralph byerly center june the 20th after the 6 p.m service but pastor would like for us all to register so we know how many people are going to be coming so you can text the word jt to 85935 or you can go to the church's website and sign up there all we need is your name that's it so if you're not tech savvy just grab a connection card say hey i will be there my family will be there however you want to do that and place it in the offering bin and we'll get it with the connection card amen but i'm looking forward to that event it should be fun and then small groups oh my goodness we love small groups it's a big deal here at the church and so i'm going to have we're going to have some people to hand these out so you all can go ahead and hand them out while i'm talking so if you would like a brochure you weren't here this morning you would like a brochure just raise your hand and i'm going to talk why they are doing that but small groups this is our summer session and we have all kinds of great things lined up for you if you if you would just raise your hand we'll make sure our volunteers get it for you but ladies any ladies in the house we have all kinds of women small groups we've got ladies fitness small group amen and i'm not even going to ask who needs that women on mentoring encouraging and nurturing we've got friends fun and fellowship this is just three out of the lists that we have here of small groups for women i told you today that pastor is going to be leading a small group on exploring the church's property we have 113 acres of the most beautiful property you've ever seen in kenton county so he will be leading that there's all kinds of great opportunities we want people to get involved i told them at 10 45 that my wife took sister shelby's small group on the holy spirit and she hated oh i got some other folks yeah so she hated to see that end so that's the kind of relationship that you build in small groups so you want to make sure that you get connected let me tell you a little bit how to do it uh sister sandy will be at the small groups count a small groups table in the central lobby you can check with her you can sign up that way you can go online or you can text keywords that is the easiest way to do it so if like if you want to do pastors text the word exploring to our text to connect number amen you excited about small groups amen so i know it's going to be great let's go ahead and say our offering declaration today as we prepare for the offering as we bring in today's tithes offerings and over and above giving we are believing the lord for supernatural release of god's favor over every area of our lives jobs and better jobs checks in the mail inheritances secure investments scholarships creative ideas finding money healing for our spirit soul and body deliverance to the captive salvation to the lost and an outpouring of the holy ghost let's say this together that we are blessed and we will be a blessing to others in the name of our lord jesus christ if you believe that give the lord a great big amen amen well since i talked to you this morning the blessings of the lord have come in more and more and more uh two checks for a thousand dollars to help pay off the new building came in and someone texts me before service said i feel led to give three thousand dollars to help for the new building so keep it coming keep it coming because the lord's providing the needs amen but i want to thank everyone your dedication to the lord my goodness your dedication to the lord is exemplary and i i just love and i appreciate i love a giving church and i'm so thankful for you being a part of this church amen will you bow your head with us lord we come before you we thank you lord for once again to be gathered together for our fourth service for the day and lord you've been pouring out your spirit upon us lord the spirit of revival lord jesus we're so grateful for it lord we ask you lord jesus lord to let us nurture lord let us nurture that spirit that's in the house father lord let us become closer to you in everything that we can do and a part of that involves our giving father lord it challenges us father lord and lord we thank you lord for those who have something to give tonight and lord we ask you to bless those who do not and lord jesus lord let's let your kingdom come your will be done in this house lord let every penny every dollar every quarter every cent that comes into this church lord let it go to glorify your kingdom and to build your kingdom and lord we're thankful that you entrusted us with that responsibility and we give you the praise and we give you the glory and the church says amen go ahead and stand for me one more time i know you were standing up but god bless you as you give and we sing this next song god bless you this is pastor tommy bates i'm standing here in the parking lot this is our empowering women's conference the place is jam-packed we can't get anyone in here and you know what we need a new church and i'm asking you to help us pay this building off at the women's conference they gave us over 21 000. there's people that are giving from tennessee from virginia from kentucky from all different states and i want you to join in we are 68 paid off and with your help we can pay this off before the summer is over thank you and god bless you [Music] i shall recover [Music] [Music] [Music] shall we cover it [Music] oh [Music] is is [Music] yes i [Applause] hits the rubber meets the road a few years ago my husband worked for himself for many years and we've had through the years have been cheated out some hunks of money and we weren't rich and it hurt but you know what i started praying that and i said devil you're the enemy that stole from us and the bible says if you catch the enemy he has to return it 20 40 60 every how many fold it is and i prayed that for years and you know what in our retirement years we don't have anything to worry about we never had much of any retirement but god fixed it where we do and we are blessed this soul jesus jesus jesus is our god jesus jesus jesus is jesus is our god jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus is [Music] me [Music] today [Music] and i rejoice come on let's rejoice in the lord oh we praise you lord i know we usually have a different set of people that join us on sunday night but we want to record we want to we want to welcome into our partnership nyla and island from british columbia canada michael and heather from newcastle indiana mitch and gwen from morningview kentucky andrea from auburndale florida angel from athens tennessee joshua don't have an address connie and marvin don't have an address and dixie all the way from sun city west arizona let's give god praise for those that have joined us in partnership [Applause] praise got all i need is over in zion and it's mine and it's fine all i need [Music] is [Applause] [Music] and it's is peace i just would like to say one more time this is memorial day weekend and i've never had the national anthem to ever to ever burn in my mind and in my heart as those words and the rockets red glare and my aunt is here my mom's baby sister she was the widow of the young i thought he was 19 but she texted me today he hadn't turned 19 yet he was killed before his birthday in vietnam he was 18. some young people a lot of price has been paid for our freedom and there's nothing that will devastate a country church when your little small country church nothing will devastate it any more than to have a coffin roll down and the hand grenade had blown had severed his head from his body the reason why i tell this because it was open casket and we wasn't sure that they were going to open it but they were able to with his clothing to make him presentable but as a child the last 13 but as a little boy that left a impression and i've had dreams all of my life and i pray that these are just you know just dreams of things floating around in my head but there has not been the blazing of bombs there has not been the blazing of missiles or cannonballs or whatever they used for 150 years and when i woke up this morning i didn't have any of this planned this was all just right off out of my spirit those words and the rockets red glare because i've dreamed it i've never been an eyewitness of this i've never seen it and brother micah if you could find those words i don't know if they're there and the rockets i want us to sing this just one more time in memory you see many of you don't see life from the perspective that i see it from we all see life from a different perspective i have friends in norway and england i preach in norway england in paris france in south africa haiti they've not had the freedom that you've had during this pandemic as a matter of fact most of them were totally confined and church was an absolutely off-limits place by the nations of the world church was considered totally non-essential 100 percent non-essential great churches i preach among my jamaican brethren in england large churches it almost devastated them totally in guatemala our el camino biblical we have over 400 and something churches shut down not even allowed to enter the doors for over all sometimes almost a year but because of the blood that has been shed [Music] our supreme court would not stand against the church and i appreciate that i know there's i know there are people who are contentious there's contentious people out there they want to start a fight over everything you know like darren what will the government do what are you going to do what the bible said foolish questions gender strife what are you asking me to do if the government was to come in here the government isn't in here the government hasn't come in here and can we just lay that off until it happens [Applause] can you imagine you married people what kind of relationship you'd have in your home if you all the time ask your wife or your husband now if another woman came over here would you leave me try to try that foolish question a few times you see how well it's going to work in your house the church needs to hush up with foolish questions which jew which do gender strife quit asking questions that haven't happened yet quit asking i'm saying this not for our benefit but for the benefit of the other pastors who'd pray to god that somebody would please hush so maybe some members are hearing this somewhere but i want us to sing this song in great honor great honor great honor of every male every female every person regardless of where their background brought them from that fought in war so the supreme court could say y'all go ahead and have church are you ready i've seen it oh [Music] and this is not a cincinnati reds game this was not a bengals game this is not a game at all this is the house of god and i want you to give one of the most jubilant shouts of praise oh we love you lord [Applause] foreign [Applause] go ahead go ahead enjoy your freedom enjoy this privilege enjoy this opportunity to take this gospel around the world hallelujah hallelujah praise the lord you can be seated for just a moment but don't be seated on your praise we love you lord [Music] you know we because we have usually 30 to 40 000 people watching on the internet we generally try not to do any off-the-cuff things that's pulling people out of the audience unless we know them a little bit and i'm not gonna i'm not gonna make you nervous brother this brother played he said he's been playing the painting since he was six years old and i said well do you sing he said i don't sing but my yeah i know i'm not going to etc he says he says i don't but my family does and i said well i probably better not he said no no no don't do it to him don't do it to him i'll get it but i am going to impromptu we also have a pastor here from greenville north carolina i want you to come up here real quick brother you come to my meetings i just want you to greet the people [Music] on tuesday morning i'm going to be leaving for the airport again about five o'clock in the morning the crab family have a huge large event in northern alabama on the side on the sand mountains somewhere around rainsville in that area that's going to be a huge event i'm going to be i'll fly into birmingham preach that meeting tuesday night i'll go back to birmingham jump on another plane go to valdosta georgia and the church of god cleveland assembly is having their southern south georgia camp meeting there'll be over 3 000 there and i'll be preaching that on thursday night and coming back on friday and i don't know if these are i think they're all both of them are going to be online you can enjoy them online but if you're a person that likes to drive come on down and enjoy us but this is one of the pastors that comes to visit us or has when we preach in his greenville area and i just want him to greet you and just tell him how how happy you are to be here this is the day the lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it we are so happy to be here at uh the family community church and uh this man of god has been such an inspiration not only to me but to so many pastors across the country uh many of us are by vocational pastors and we look up to him and see what god is doing for him and what god is doing through him we love his spirit he came to greenville about 10 years ago and my family was there we shut the church down to come over to be at the church of god and he took up so much time with us that night i was telling my daughters just this afternoon how gracious we were that he took the time after preaching and that night he was preaching with shingles preaching with shingles and he preached mightily that night but he took the time to invest in my family and pastor i want to say thank you for all of those pastors across the country and probably around the world that you're a blessing through the ministry of what god is doing you god bless you we love you [Music] praise god [Music] beneath the way oh but i called on jesus you know jesus he heard my prayer i cried holy holy holy [Music] lord god i know you're worthy i went away [Music] i went away one day to pray [Music] oh i went away i went away [Music] one day to pray one day to pray [Music] one day this is for mom she's home right now you may have problems [Music] they are so many oh that cross seems so hard to bear [Applause] lift your hands call on jesus i know jesus he's gonna meet you there you'll cry you lift your eyes to heaven you'll say lord god i know that you are so worthy all you gotta do is all you gotta do is go away somewhere and pray [Music] i went away [Music] i went away one day to pray one day to pray i was worried brokenhearted [Music] [Applause] [Music] i went away i went away i went away i went away i went away i went away i went away let's all stand together they said that brother harley hensley's wife in her young days used to sing that song often and i just i don't sing all the words right but you know i put words in it and you don't know the difference we're so glad to have jacob and marie with us they went with us and i know you didn't go with us to israel but we're glad you're here too brother but they went with us to israel and uh we're disappointed we can't go to israel this year uh it's it's just not open by the other nations we're a red country we're dangerous and we're not allowed in a lot of countries until this pandemic has passed and so we're just so glad to have you with us and they brought great joy you know when we're on a trip we have church and sing good songs on the on the bus as we travel and sister marie let us in a lot of good songs and we're just so thankful for that sister and jacob i don't remember you singing but you probably did you didn't maybe that's why i didn't remember it let's open up our bibles to the book of judges chapter 6 verses 11 through 13. and this this big family here from chicago who had ever thought in the hills of kentucky you'd have a family that loved you in chicago it takes love brother to drive down here i asked him i said did you all go to the creation museum because that's where everybody else goes they said no we came down here for you and i thought well maybe maybe they didn't go to the creation museum maybe they went to art they said well did you go to the ark and he said no brother we come down here to be in church with you well praise god brother i pray it was worth the drive you know one thing good about that internet is you can just slide over what you don't want and pick you and what blesses you you just get blessed over and over and over praise the lord but when you're in church you get it raw every sunday night with us well let's go with it hallelujah judges chapter 6 11 12-13 and there came an angel of the lord and set under an oak which was in oprah that pertained unto joas and his son gideon threshed wheat by the wine press to hide it from the midianites and the angel of the lord appeared unto him and said unto him the lord is with thee you mighty man of valor gideon's gideon said unto him oh my lord if the lord is with us why is all this trouble around us and besides where are all the miracles which our fathers told us that he would do did not the lord bring us from egypt but now look at us we're surrounded by the hand of the midianites just for a few moments i want to look at that phrase there from this young man he said where be all his miracles let's pray father we come to you in the name of jesus let your word go forth tonight with love mercy truth most of all god as your bible teaches me to preach with demonstration and power of the holy ghost we give you all the praise and all the glory in the mighty wonderful name of jesus let the church say amen you may be seated just for a few moments tonight we're going to deal with the subject where be all his miracles where be all his miracles our text is found in judges chapter 6 verses 11 through 13. the first thing we need to know is this book of judges i've dealt several sunday nights and if you've been following on sunday nights you've heard some messages some messages we many messages we never even got to finish only got halfway through them but the book of judges is a period of the dark ages of the scripture we call it the dark ages because they have stepped out of a theocracy that means a government that was god based into a humanistic form of government they were now operating in humanism humanism is whatever's right in your own eyes it may not be right for you but it may be right for me it may be wrong for you there's no absolute authority because the very last chapter and the last verse of the book of judges said in those days there was no king no absolute authority and every man did that which was right in his own eyes so it was totally humanistic completely humanistically governed and the bible said in the middle of these dark ages that god raised up judges another word for judges is deliverers but the most most powerful word of the hebrew translation is champions god raised up champions we've studied already and are preaching in the past few sunday nights we've talked about some of these champions like deborah that was under a palm tree a woman that prophesied we studied about jephthah who was the son of a harlot but yet god had chosen and called him now we're coming to a young man because a lot of times in the day and hour we're living in it's not like church used to be brothers and sisters people used to talk about the faith of their grandma the faith of their their grandpa and their faith of their mother and the faith of their father we have developed a whole new generation that never had a praying mother they never had a prey in grandpa they have no idea what it is like for a grandparent to have a path that goes back to the woods where they get underneath a tree next to a tree stump and begin to call upon the name of the lord they have no idea what that's like and so this scripture here tonight shows us how that god goes to a young man whose father has a party house he has an altar on his property erected to baal he also has groves which would be like a strip joint a striptease joint this is a vile wicked environment but out of this vile wicked environment the hand of god says i'm there's a champion out there and i want to put him in scripture because i don't want anyone in this last day of a humanistic philosophy and a world that's preparing itself for a global king i don't want anyone during this day in this hour to feel like they are exempt from being called or used in the kingdom of god through christ jesus there are champions all over this house there's champions all over they're sitting right here among us they're all over the internet they're in chicago they're in greenville north carolina the champions are everywhere they're in london england they're in norway they're in south africa they're in guatemala honduras mexico the champions are everywhere so as we look at this scripture the midianites were a totally different kind of enemy they did not come to the country and just enter there and camp there and take it over that was not their style their style was to leave you alone let you have peace let you plant your crops and let the green beans be hanging on the vines and the peas hanging on the vine and the apples in the orchard and the peaches in the orchard and the watermelon down on the ground and then they would come with camels they are one of the very few armies they were described as locusts they could move as high as 100 miles a day with these camels they wore gold and silver chains not only around their neck but around their camels and 135 000 of them like a swarm of locusts had come during harvest time the wheat was ready the barley was ready the apples were ready the grapes were hanging on the vine the pomegranates on the trees all kinds of fruits and vegetables it was time for everybody to enjoy what they had labored for what they had planted now this didn't just happen one time it didn't just happen two times this invasion of these camels with these gold chains around their necks with these uh men riding on these camels it would sound like a horrible invasion of locusts this was the seventh year that they had taken their wheat taken their barley and left them with a few scraps to gather up and to glean what was left that the enemy had stripped from them so we find a young man his father is a reviler a party animal as the bible says his father loves a good drunken party and has immorality tied and intermingled with it this is the place where everybody comes it's joe ash's bar joe ash's place to meet and the bible said that gideon was hiding behind the wine press he had went and salvaged some sheaves of wheat and in order for him to get the grain that his family may have provision he went in behind this wine press where you wouldn't expect wheat to be and he's hiding from the enemy and there as he begins to harvest this wheat i love the lord the angel the lord came and sat under an oak tree and that was her the angel of the lord came and sit under the oak tree and is watching gideon tremble as he thrashes the wheat and watches him as he takes just just little crumbs not the whole thing that ought to be his just the crumbs and he's threshing out this wheat and that angel's watching him work and all at once that angel says gideon you're a mighty man of valor you see god don't see what you are god sees what you're going to be through him through the power of the spirit god will never tell you what you are he'll make you tell yourself what you are remember when he wrestled with jacob and he kept on wrestling with him and he wrestled and he wrestled with him and he said and jacob said i'm not going to turn you loose till you bless me and the lord looked at him and said okay that's a deal but now tell me who you are tell me who you are he had to say my name is jacob my name is manipulator my name is conniver my name is somebody that does all kinds of tricky things and tries to steal and take from other people you see god will never say you low down good for nothing i'm going to do something with you that's how the flesh talks with you but when god looks at you he sees something greater than what you are he sees something bigger than what you are you may say i'm i'm impotent i don't have the power to do this i don't have the strength to do this i don't have the knowledge to do this and i've heard many people that have come into this house they say well i never had an aunt helen that prophesied i never had a great grandmother that prayed three times a day i never had any of those things but when god looks at you he's not looking at your great-grandmother he's not looking at your great-grandfather he's not looking at anybody but you and when god looks at you he looks at the potential that he can use through you if you will only allow him to work in you and to work through you and the bible said that gideon said this he said oh my goodness mighty man of valor nothing i can't do anything i have no power and he said as a matter of fact i've heard all these people talk about miracles i heard them talk about the revival i heard them talk about the power of god i heard them talk about when they preach that god began to move one one person apologized they said i had a relative that came and they were drunk they had been drinking and they sent me a text they said i apologize i sent him a text back i said it was so good to see him tell him every time they get drunk to show up i'd rather have him in here drunk i said i'd rather have them in here drunk than sitting on a barstool in a hellhole getting ready to go the opposite direction because we have stories that when the when they call on the name of the lord that the alcohol was broken and they sobered up we have stories history i should say there's history that blinded eyes have been opened right here in front of my face when sister gabbard 83 years old had an eye that had been burned in a fire 80 years ago and she stood here she was three years old when the fire burned her eye there was nothing but a gray mass but standing right here hallelujah i watched old mother gabbard who had received the holy ghost of about 1912. she lifted up her hand and a gray mask fell off we had to get a handkerchief or had to get a kleenex and they wiped the grey mask off and there was a brand new eye and she lived [Applause] yeah she lived to be 93 years old and when she died the new eye the eye that was only 10 years old was 2020 and she could see perfectly till the last breath went out of her body you see this church has seen the crippled walk this church has seen cancer be taken out of a body there are people sitting here right now that can stand to your feet i had the mass in my body i had the cancer in my body i was given a death sentence they said there wasn't anything we could do we're going to try chemo we're going to try radiation but we don't know if that's going to help you or not but they're sitting here tonight they've been healed by the power of god i said they've been healed by the power of god this church has a history it's seen a revival that went 13 weeks that lasted for six years and when i'm talking about a revival i'm talking about one when we took the bus down to bar down to butler kentucky to visit one of our country churches down there before we ever got back it was 11 o'clock at night and the holy ghost fell on the bus and we had to carry them out and they were laying in the parking lot and the police came by and saw everybody just waved and took off hallelujah i'm talking about revival when we took the young people to corbin kentucky and the power of god fell so strong we left corbin at midnight and when we stopped to get gas the bus was shaking and rocking back and forth and the police came over and said wow wasn't that a game they had at uk didn't the wildcats really play he said these are the most enthusiastic young people i have ever seen he said that whole bus is shaking i said sir they never went to uk oh sir they never watched the wildcats he said well what did they watch i said they've been in a holy ghost meeting and they're still under the power of god [Applause] you know what that police officer said he said goodbye and away he went what i'm telling you is this we have some of us have seen it with our eyes i've been to a katherine coleman meeting i've seen the masses praise god i played the organ for schambach in two different occasions in a crusade at cincinnati gardens and also in a tent meeting up in ohio i know what it's like i know what it's like to be in services with these great men and women of god but there's a group of young people that have not seen the power and they've not seen the glory and they've not seen the miracles and they're asking is it going to happen again is it really going to happen again where are his miracles where are they at and the spirit of god is saying to a generation i'm gonna point my finger at you you are a mighty man of power i'm gonna use you you're gonna see the enemy that has robbed that has stolen that has taken away that has taken your crops up that has taken your heritage that have taken your children that have taken your grandchildren you're going to see me move god is not finished yet i said god's not finished yet god is not finished yet and the bible said that the holy spirit the fire of god began to touch gideon and when he did he built an altar and the name of that altar was jehovah shalom the lord is my peace the lord is my peace before god ever sends you to a battle he assures you that he's going to give you supernatural peace that passes all understanding i know the boat's been rocking i know there's been war in the politics i know there's been war among nations i know there's been war among people but i'm here to tell you god's got his hand on a champion generation and they're going to build an altar it may be roaring and rocking out there democrats and republicans may be fighting out there but there's no fighting going on in here because we built an altar and that altar says jehovah shalom the lord is my peace the lord is my peace he's gonna cause me to mount up with wings as he goes up i shall run and not be weary i shall walk and knock the hater the lord is my peace do you believe it tonight let's give him praise [Applause] lord the lord lord is my peace the lord is my peace i'm going to use you gideon i'm going to use you the adversary has come in we've taken our children we put them in children's church we put them in sunday school we went to youth camp with them we've ate pizza till we've had to take alka-seltzer we've ate enough pizza it's where i've had to drink my vinegar water oh yeah we've stayed up all night with them we stayed up all night with them we've been to youth camp with them we played ball with them we didn't want to but we did it anyway let me tell you that man rocking and rolling that man using his rap with his vulgarity he's not the one that loves you the one that loves you sitting right at your front door the one that has sacrificed the one that has done everything to shield you from the danger of this world system but the time that these little seeds that's not the time it's time for harvest it's time to see these little seeds turn into piano players and turn into bass players and turn into guitar players and to turn into drummers you know in the old church we had a string of drummers i said they were everywhere one right after another you couldn't the church was full of drummers every boy sit around and play the drums on the back of the seat everybody was there and those that didn't play the drums they would take their thumb and act like they was playing a bass or they'd act like they was playing a guitar or acting like that's playing a piano almost every pentecostal spirit filled holy ghost apostolic child i knew how to play a tambourine i learned how to play a tambourine with a metal pie pan hallelujah i said with a metal pie pan i would get my sister's daughters all together i mean my sister's baby dolls together there was barbie oh i preached her in hell all the time there was barbie there was chatty cathy there was thumbelina oh yeah there was mrs beasley how many remember mrs beasley anybody old enough to remember mrs beasley there they were oh i'd get that i'd get that tambourine i'd get that metal pie pan and i'd start singing i know the bible's right somebody's wrong i know the bible's right i know the bible's right i know the bible's right now you've got to remember we was from the hole in this church so i had to have us had to sing a few verses and i was seeing that one versus oh listen my sister and now in corinthians you know it's written there that godly women are not to cut their hair i'd sing that one and then i'd grab a hold of shirley temple because she had the longest hair and i would shake her i would shake her until for surely when i got done with shirley her hair was standing out great big like that yeah yeah i said yeah all pentecostal children had rhythm they knew how to stomp their feet and to clap their hands every one of them they had rhythm i mean they had rhythm they everyone could sing they could all sing i'm not saying it was good singing but they all knew how to sing why why was it there it was our harvest it was our harvest it was our future it was our future it was our future [Applause] but now we've got an epidemic i said now we've got an epidemic when it comes time for them to start playing drums when it comes time for them to start leading out on singing i never started leading singing when i was 65 years old and gray-headed on medicare i started leading out on songs when i was a teenager i started singing songs when i was three to four to five years old in the house of god i never started prophesying when i was 65 years old medicare i was 60 i was 16 years old when the gift of prophecy fell on me i never started casting out devils when i was 65 years old and gray-headed i was 18 years old i was getting ready to cross over to cincinnati i was going i was 19. i was going to george hale's church and right when i got across that size 75 bridge the holy ghost spoke in my car do you know that can happen the holy ghost spoke in my car and said tonight oh tonight said tonight you shall cast out devils i went me the boy you're hearing something i was praising god i was driving in that vega gta [Music] you all remember that two old people [Music] right in the middle of the suspension bridge the holy ghost said tonight you shall cast out devils when i went over there a woman fell on the floor looked like she was half asleep and everybody just said lord as you know in the mountain way oh bless her lord bless the lord bless the lord well i walked by to give her a little blesser lord to and when i did her eyes open like that and they started dancing in her head and she looked at me and went not me not tonight no devil going to be cast out by me tonight i ran out of there i went outside and got me a drink of water i didn't want to have nothing to do with that devil but when i came back in she was still acting like she's asleep i walked by the second time and this time when i walked by those eyes went over should [Laughter] you're afraid of me i took off again i never said you're right right on devil you got that one right you didn't lie that time i ran back there went back in the lobby and got me another drink of the water found that's back in the old days we didn't let you slop around on stuff during church you know you weren't allowed to drink in church you had to go back to the lobby that's why people got up all the time and went back there to get a drink when you was wore out from shouting i said we're out from shouting alarm well i was back there praying and i said lord i don't want to do this he said but i said you will do it he said you can't wait till you're older i want you to learn how to cast the devil out i've given you all power to cast the devil out you see the enemy can't stand it he don't mind if an old grandpa casts the devil out oh but he gets very angry when he sees the teenager that he wants to kill that he wants to steal that he wants to destroy he gets very angry when a teenager looks and goes hallelujah he gets very angry i left that water fountain i came back into that sanctuary and i looked down there and those eyes opened up that growly voice went and you know the holy ghost women every time that happened they were they was on it i mean they saw them i thought they gonna kill that woman they'd start screaming and casting the devil out and she'd just go to sleep like just lay down there like that until i showed up and then i showed up again those eyes opened up and that crowley voice said you're afraid of me i said let me tell you something i said the lord spoke to me devil on the way to church and said tonight that i will lay hands and they shall cast i will i will cast the devil out i want you to know something you may have showed up in this place but god's already appointed that i cast you out in the name of jesus and i went and i'm not afraid of you and i'm not afraid of you let me tell you it took me about two hours it don't take me that long with the devil now it took me about two hours but with all the ringing wet and sweat when that last devil came out before he came out that devil started whining oh don't make me leave or you talk about a teenager feeling like a rooster on a on a fence post hallelujah i felt like i could jump on any foe fence post at that time i felt like a baini rooster ready to attack the world because now the devil's crying up he's not scaring me now now he's begging me don't cast me out don't make me leave i can feel myself oh but you're coming out you're coming out in the name of jesus you're coming out when that last devil came out that woman threw her hands up and she remained a christian i believe till the last breath weighing out of her body i'm trying to tell you something the devil wants to steal our harvest the devil wants to steal a generation the devil wants your children he wants your grandchildren that i see the holy ghost look upon the people and say you are a mighty church of valor you've got power you've got the anointing [Applause] the harvest is in front of me i'm gonna take back what the devil has stolen from me oh glory to god you know weight chair old and grey-heading got 12 grand babies the one on the way to get this power you don't get dedicated when you're well you can if it took you that long if it took you that long but god said i see what they're doing to you i see the harvest is leaving i see they're getting the best the cream of the crop they're taking your singers they're taking your levites you know when i wa years ago when i first started pastoring i used to look at the young boy said you'll be one of my deacons yeah you'll be a deacon one day they say ah not really i said oh yeah yeah if you stay true if you hold on to god if you keep right on going but this is one of the champions god raised up he said it's not going to happen anymore it's not going to happen anymore i see what they're doing what i've planted in you what i've sown in you what i've placed in you what i've put inside of you the enemy's coming on his chariots of camels with gold glistening chains they sound like a rumble the enemy never comes in like a little tinker bell flying through the air he comes with a rumble a rumble you could hear the sound of the rumble every time they got ready to pick a tomato a watermelon or a peach or an apple every time they got ready to get them a bunch a whole be a sheaf of wheat or rice or whatever they have planted every time they go out to the vineyard to get them a big pot of grapes and to bring them in the house here came that rumble here came that rumble like a bunch of locusts i'm gonna stop you right where you are i'm gonna stop you right in your tracks i'm gonna stop you but here we got a young man whose father whose father has a honky tonk whose father has a hoot nanny in a club his father who has a shin dig over there and after he after he built that altar that said jehovah shalom jehovah shalom jehovah shalom he's after he built that altar and named it god is my peace there was a there was a power got a hold of him there was an anointing that came upon him every time you build an altar there will be a level increase of the anointing every time that you find that place of sacrifice before god there's going to be another elevation and a level of the anointing and this time the level of anointing got a hold of him and he said i need to i called he called 10 brothers 10 neighbors and he said go help me they said gideon what are you going to do he said tonight i'm going to my daddy's shindig i'm going to my daddy's club i'm going to his strip joint i'm going to tear it down it says your what i'm going to tear it down and that bull lock that they've been fattening up for baal i'm going to offer it in sacrifice to god i'm going to tear down the groves where all that immoral sexual perversion's going on i'm going to tear down his peep show i'm going to tear down his lions club i'm going to tear down his pornographic sights i'm going to tear down all of his filthy ungodly lewd sexual sensual i'm going to tear it down tonight they said oh get in are you sure you don't seem like the same young man from the other day no no i'm different because i made an altar and when i made an altar jehovah shalom is my peace i don't understand it but i got peace i know the enemy's in front of me but i've got peace i know we're outnumbered but i've got peace he went straight to his father's hoop danny he went straight to the shindig he went straight to that place that party house that place of sensuality and the bible said he tore it every bit down and then he took those wooden groves which were very sensual which were very uh seducing and he cut them all down and he made an altar and he said see that big old heavy bull that they've been fattening up for seven years that they're gonna dance around bale and they're gonna have a prime rib dinner and some barbecue while they're having their sensual feast he said i'm going to burn him up i'm going to put him on the altar of god and i'm going to burn him up and that night when you get a new level you will face a new devil when you get to another elevation up you will face an elevation in the spirit realm but god will give you peace god will give you peace you'll look the devil right square in the eye hallelujah you don't have to worry about the seven sons of siva that when they went in they said we cast you out in the name of jesus that paul preaches and that devil said we know paul and we know jesus but who are you and they took the man up and they took the man and they stripped him of his clothes and threw him out the door you won't have to worry about that because once you make an altar that jehovah is my peace that god's got it all in control that god has called me a mighty man of valor and i shall go in the name of the lord god almighty [Music] oh hallelujah [Music] when he came to that place the bible said he offered up that bulldog the next morning the men of the city got up and they said oh what's going on what has happened here what has happened our party house has been burned down our sexual immorality has been removed our pornographic website has been taken off uh wha what's going on the altar erected to baal has been cast down who did it who did it who's responsible and joash that's gideon's dad they came back and they said we heard who it was [Music] it was your son that did it your son your son he needs to be executed well gideon's dad finally spoke up and he said if baal be a god let him fight for himself [Music] in other words if baal wants my boy tell him to go get him but you keep your hands off of him because something has happened to my son i don't know what's happened to him he was a coward behind the wine press but something has transformed he's never been confrontational he's never been one that would cause me in trouble but for my boy to come to my house and tear up all of my filthy literature and to tear all of my filthy movies up and to take my bar and smash it and to get rid of all my alcohol and to dump all of my pot down the commode there must have been something that got a hold of my boy there must have been something that is bigger than gideon that's got a hole to gideon [Music] church let me tell you something if you'll build the altar if you'll tear down the devil's territory your eyes shall see the miracles that the past has seen gideon was preparing his eyes to see the sea walker the blind man healer the leper cleanser the one that gave manna from heaven the one that caused water to gush out of a rock let's all stand our feet let's lift our hands to heaven let's give god praise come on give me praise where be all of his miracles they're just around the corner bear gideon they're just around the corner where be all his miracles he's not changed he's the same yesterday today and forever where be all of his miracles his miracles are right at your fingertips i'm getting ready to show you what i'm going to do to 135 000 midianites that are riding camels that not only have gold chains around their necks but around their camels [Music] and they march like the sound of a locust i'm gonna show you i'm gonna show you you shall see where his miracles are you mark it down this brother that came from chicago he said i was raised in this apostolic meaning the apostles doctrine the pentecostal experience from my grandfather i believe great grandfather your dad he said that's all i've ever known i played the piano in church when i was six years old let me tell you one of the highlights of my life is when the great revival broke loose at world harvest and i preached there for six months i don't know if you know about that it was the largest meeting world harvest has ever had god took a nobody from nowhere during the midst of that great meeting at world harvest it was right after that brother that i went to the church of god and i preached winterfest and 22 000 teenagers there and they sent me a note on monday said we've never seen anything like it 10 thousand had never received the baptism the holy ghost speaking with other tongues were baptized in the holy ghost i'm not a i'm not this isn't me brothers and sisters and one of my highlights was during that great meeting i came home on a sunday morning tired like all preachers are and i only preached what nine and 11 then [Music] came home to eat our dinner somewhere around 12 30 1 and all at once i clicked the answer machine and a voice said this is sandra another voice said this is andre i don't know if you know us but this is sandra and andre crouch i didn't think i'd ever meet andre crouch i was the only white boy in our fellowship that i knew of could play his music and sing his songs but one of my highlights is when i went to the big church there he wanted me to come and preach said would you come i said brother this is a dream come true he says we didn't know if you would come to a church unless it was a mega church their church hold about 900 that's big church in california i was there and this it was such a precious time i preached for andre over a period of three to four years and then when he went on to be with the lord saundra sent a call but i was out of the country they wanted me to come and be a part of his funeral and i couldn't do that i was out of the country but i'll never forget when andre crouch outside of the new sanctuary his parents had built was still the little old white church it's just right out the door right in california it looked like it was straight from the hills of kentucky it was in like their backyard he said that's where it all started [Music] he opened the door you could hear the squeak there was that old beat up piana there was that old beat up hammond b3 organ [Music] over here's where i wrote he named this song over here i wrote this song over here i wrote that song over here i wrote that song [Music] you're what i'm believing for i'm believing god for renewal for a refreshing for that anointing one more time to grant us the privilege that this generation can see what god wants what god wants done hallelujah hallelujah you make an altar and then tear down the evil around yours around your life and beyond the shadow of a doubt those midianites came in with a noise but god said gideon i am going to show you my miracles i'm going to show you my i'm going to show you my anointing i'm going to show you what i can do no gideon you weren't there when i parted the red sea you weren't there when i caused manna to come down from heaven but your eyes is going to see the same power and i prophesy by the word of the lord god almighty there will be an apostolic renewal and a pentecostal refreshing everything that happened in the book of acts is going to happen again in the name of jesus [Music] [Music] team tonight instead of having the elders to come up and stand i'm going to make a general altar call for everyone first of all if you're lost without god you're the most desperate in this situation you need god you nee you need to be born again but i want to make a general you need to come and you tell us let us know i need to be born again but i want everyone that has a hunger to see those miracles again i want you to shake off the intimidation the inferiority quit talking about what your dad was what your grandpa was i mean if they were like gideon's father and you say lord i'm coming to this altar in humility and then once the altar is filled i want you elders just to walk through and lay hands and pray and let's believe god beyond the shadow of a doubt let's sing this verse to this course together this altar is open for everyone hallelujah these oh me let's all pray this prayer together lift your hands and close your eyes say jesus our lord and our savior we are hungry to see the renewal of the book of acts we are hungry lord to see a pentecostal refreshing an apostolic renewal you raised up gideon and we're believing tonight in a political day of humanism in the backdrop of darkness that you're going to raise up champions that are going to defeat the enemy that's trying to steal our harvest [Music] and tonight we declare we decree and we proclaim that jesus is lord and there will be a refreshing of signs wonders and miracles the god of yesterday will be the god of today in jesus name now give the lord a clap and a shout of praise and praise him for that let's pray that prayer [Music] one more time one more time oh touch him lord touch him lord set it free tonight jesus oh come on one more time wave your hands anointing follow hallelujah hallelujah [Music] he's here hallelujah i have to obey the lord it took me everything in me to get up here but i've been standing right back there and every few minutes like 15 times right here right here in this side i look over here's who's next to me nobody there there ain't nobody there oh yes there is it's the holy ghost and he's right here he's right here he's all around us and i'm so thankful just reach out lord glory hallelujah i have to obey him he's here church he's here always he's here right here right here he's here well she said reach out and touch him oh reach out and touch the lord as he goes by oh you will find he's not too busy to answer your crimes [Music] i see [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] reach out and touch the lord as he goes [Music] small [Applause] go to carry everything to god in prayer oh what peace we offend oh what needless friend we have in jesus all our sins and grief to bear oh what our privilege to carry everything to god in prayer oh what peace we often put in oh what needless pain we bear everything to god in prayer is [Applause] [Music] pain we pay [Music] i said what a friend we have in [Music] everything that because unto the lord i cried till jesus came and made me whole i would not be denied oh i would not be denied oh i would not be denied if jesus came i would not be denied jesus getting us ready for that great who will be able to stand jesus [Music] i am ready for [Music] ready for that foreign [Music] god bless you on the internet we'll see you next sunday morning next sunday night oh jesus getting us ready for that great day jesus tommy bates ministries there is a fervent desire to bridge the gap of what mighty men and women of the faith have shown him over the years to this current generation that so desperately needs a relationship with the holy spirit god's continued faithfulness to open doors for pastor tommy bates has done just that the message of jesus is going around the world and lives are being transformed if the holy spirit is leading you to pursue partnership with tommy bates ministries i encourage you to make your commitment today join pastor tommy bates as god passionately uses his ministry to stir and impact lives for the cause of jesus christ to partner or contact tommy bates ministries visit tommybates.com or call 1-866-411 1032 or write us today you

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