6-13-2021 6 PM - Pastor Tommy Bates

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] praise the lord let's all stand tonight amen why don't you smile at three or four people around you and welcome them to the house of the lord tonight amen tell him it's good to see him [Music] [Music] let me tell you about the confidence that the bible said would lead you all see jesus said you'll have power after the spirit comes down from [Music] brought new life to me see i want to was lost oh [Music] jesus [Music] he has brought me through i know that jesus opened blinded eyes and it made the lame to walk there's nothing too hard for god to do now is the time that you [Music] [Music] oh my is [Music] jesus yes i am so many souls and dangers he has brought me through i know that jesus open blinded eyes and he made the lame to walk up there's nothing too hard for [Music] he'll make you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you can be free [Music] [Applause] keeps it'll make it right it's is [Music] [Music] he has brought me through i know that jesus open blinded eyes and it made the lane to walk there's nothing too hard for my god to do [Applause] now is the time that you must seek you will be born [Applause] it'll make you [Music] yes it'll make you move [Music] oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah i know that i know that i know i've been born again i'm free from sin [Music] i said i'm free from sin and i know i've been born born again hallelujah hallelujah well you must have that fire in the holy ghost with that [Music] is i again hallelujah come on get in place tonight [Music] hallelujah let the earth be filled with glory we'll let creation proclaim the name that the redeemed go tell the story of his love from acts of grace [Music] others oh i wanna tell myself he's the money [Music] [Applause] oh oh i wanna tell my story god is respect [Music] is [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] is [Music] hallelujah [Music] i'm so glad that he saw me in my mother's womb i'm so glad that he's brought me to where he wants me to be and he's going to take me to where he wants me to go i was lost but he brought me [Music] is [Music] there's a place [Music] he has ransom is is is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is is i am who you are am me [Applause] oh [Music] yes [Music] my father's house was a place [Music] praising [Music] you may be seated in god's hands amen is it so wonderful to be a child of god yes oh yes i'm a child of the king to be a child of god is awesome praise the lord it's so good to see you in god's house to celebrate and magnify the lord jesus christ who is so worthy to be lifted up and worshiped amen we're glad to be back and my family and i we were on vacation for a week i was there for two weeks but it's so good to be in god's house to celebrate jesus with you i don't know how you all have done this we came back and all of a sudden we heard this zippity zappity stuff outside the trees and i went to go cut my grass yesterday when i got in and it was a it was an all-out war they were hitting me and uh so i got in today and i was getting some things done and i guess i wasn't really paying attention megan was out getting some things done for her mom because she was out on her mom was on vacation too in a different spot and i didn't know this but my kids were picking cicadas and they trapped them all and then ethan rubbed them in butter and put them in a skillet and cook them and set them out and then put lemon juice all over them and they were just popping them like popcorn one after the other and they love them they say they're great which is really funny because 17 years ago i was eating them live too i was just popping in all the time so i missed it i missed it i came back and now but i think we're almost caught up we're almost caught up on itself thank god for moms because when mom got back i showed her a video of all the stuff that was happening and but we got a little cook in the making and isaac can't get enough of cicadas i'll just go ahead and tell you he absolutely loves them and not just like to look he loves to eat them he absolutely loves to eat them he's been fighting him for it but you know what it is so good to be home and it's so good to be in my home church i'm telling you what david said i was glad when they said to me let us go to the house lord i almost think it should say i was so glad when they said to me let's go to community family church i mean i'm just going to tell you this is a good place we are so glad you're here because i guess why i know i'm so glad to be here because i know that god is here and moving every single time he is here in this house and you better be ready when god is in the house the bible says when jesus would enter a town the bible says he healed all of them he'd heal all of them wouldn't be awesome tonight if everybody left here healed if everybody left here delivered if everybody left here set free if everybody left here with a blessing from the lord amen and we can have that in jesus name in his presence there is fullness of joy i love to be in god's presence amen and so good to be in god's house if it's your first time here to community family church we're so glad you're here i'm not a crazy person i'm actually a small group's pastor i'm not the crazy man who lets us kids eat cicadas all day i am on staff here and pastor second son and uh we just want to welcome you and let you know too uh that if you come here the first time we'd love the opportunity to connect with you so if you just reach in the seat in front of you grab a connection card there fill that out for us so we get the opportunity to connect with you and just take that connection card drop it off and whatever offering stands here at the front the back or the balcony if you see one of our friendly volunteers or staff members you can handle one of them can we let our guests know how greatly we appreciate them being with us in god's house tonight hallelujah and also to let you know next sunday everyone say next sunday next sunday is going to be our juneteenth celebration we're going to do that with a dinner special songs we're going to have a choir come in and sing our singer is going to be singing special songs it's going to be multicultural it's going to be phenomenal we want you to be here for our juneteenth celebration our freedom sunday next sunday night and we're going to have a dinner afterwards but we'd like to know how many people is going to show up for that after the 6 p.m service all you have to do is check text two letters jt to the number eight five nine three five nine three nine nine seven that will secure your spot and yes we do need a text for each individual person that would be for them also would encourage you as a small groups pastor get involved in a small group every single time we offer small groups we have to offer more because this place loves to get together and we love to pray together we love to be together and we love to learn from one another too so i encourage you to get in a small group if you can't find one that you'd like to be in just come see me and i'll make sure that you get in whatever small group you like to let's go and see our offering decoration and faith together as we bring in today's ties offerings and over and above giving we are believing the lord for a fear [Music] [Applause] salvation you know say this loud we are blessed and we will be a blessing to others in the name of our lord jesus christ if you believe that say amen it truly is a joy it truly is a joy to give in god's house you know i said this this morning but i would rather live on ninety percent and have the blessing over my life than to live on 100 and live under the curse on my life how may rather have the blessing of the lord over your life over your finances over your children everything be fully committed be fully committed in the name of jesus you can worship the lord in three ways here to give you can do that of course in person you can make your checks payable to cfc cash an envelope with your name on it you can do online at cfcky.com or you can text to give by texting the word give to 859 3593997 if you're gonna send a check in the mail mail to 11875 taylor mill road independence kentucky four one zero five one let's go before the lord in prayer god we thank you so much that you are in this house today lord we thank you that where two or more are gathered in your name that there you are in the midst god we recognize your presence is here and lord you can do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or think your ways are above our ways your thoughts are above our thoughts and god before a word is on our tongue you know it completely you know what we have needed before we even ask it god we're so grateful that we serve a god we're so grateful that you are so more so far above us god we are so grateful god that we can trust and hold on to you jesus and lord we're so grateful that we can come into your house lord to worship you lord with our brothers and sisters lord and to give you all the glory that you deserve with our hands clapping our feet dancing our mouths shouting our praises but lord also we're so grateful to worship you with our tithes and offerings and lord we pray that as this offering goes forward that it becomes a supernatural offering and we ask god that you move upon it lord let every single dog that is given go to in souls of your kingdom in jesus name and the church says amen please stand with me [Music] though i'll help jesus oh is just like a tree [Applause] hello yes [Music] jesus will not fail me i shall oh i today praise the lord praise the lord praise the lord praise the lord praise the lord hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus you may be seated in the presence of the lord cousin bradley come on up here i need an interpreter tonight just for a moment thank you jesus get brother bradley while he's coming up here can i say something yeah of course darling so i made awesome t-shirts and they're in the lobby so if anybody's wondering where all these t-shirts are coming from they're over there in the lobby and they will be available after service and those of you online we will have them available for you soon online the t-shirts that she's talking about i had nothing what did they say pastor he can't believe he's really like that famous that people want to see his his quotes well i noticed when i picked up one of the teenage one of the t-shirts it was in three different colors and several different sizes and it says you won't find me hooting at a toot nanny or shin digging at a shindigs [Music] pt bates quotes that's what it says quotes cfcky.com no it says pt bates quotes all righty hallelujah oh they're 25 it's for our new building payoff we raised one thousand two hundred and eighty four dollars just this morning off of the shirts i don't know if kennedy's here or not but i think she's the one that first started off that idea kennedy started making these t-shirts honey look what you've started it only takes a spark to get a fire going thank you jesus we're so happy to be here tonight and tonight we have special guests with us all the way from the country of haiti i first went to haiti when i was 19 years old again we have many people watching tonight that are in haiti some that are in the united states that speak creole god totally changed my life on that first missions trip i was in nine different countries before i was 20 years old [Laughter] i'd been to france and and greece and israel italy syria and lebanon syria and i love the land of the bible because i realized he got his eye on one of my cousins [Applause] and now the two of them mariah and bradley mariah are going to have a baby it will be the first in this church it will be the first in this church [Applause] i don't really know the the translation for hillbilly and hey a haitian belly hallelujah and we are so thankful because your baby [Applause] and tonight we are so privileged to have the parents of bradley all the way from the island of haiti in service with us tonight live would you please stand up that's it i said good evening how are you and praise the name of the lord thank you jesus we're so grateful to have a pastor who formerly pastored retired now he's just he's just directing his ministry in a different way at this present time no preacher ever retires he just shifts his ministry to another direction all the way from alabama friends from alabama today we had people from battle creek michigan south carolina alabama louisiana and i don't know where everybody you know than the rest of us home folks but we're glad to have company come and so many people's going on vacation let's give all of our visitors just a good warm welcome to the family one more time we want to give you a victory report because we had a prophetic word at the 10 45 a.m service you can go back and watch that online right before or right as i was getting ready to read the scripture there was a utterance in tongues and interpretation and the holy ghost came to us with a direct or loud word a firm word he said believe believe and do not don't doubt and speak my word and you shall receive saith the lord god i never had such a direct word that came forth we believe that there's something miraculous that has been happening all day and it's even happening right now that things are being changed in the realm of the spirit a couple of weeks ago one of the one of the families in the church it was levi eversole who was one of the signatures on the charter in 1954 his great-grandson his family went away on a vacation they left he's 19 him and his younger sister there at the house and they were only going to be gone just for a few days and the children decided to have a party and at this party someone gave gave caleb a drug that was evidently contaminated he overdosed on it it looked like he was totally brain dead with no life and going to be gone and out of this world that god changed the thing around i told this i'm going to tell it again for the glory of god i went in and i realized i said lord i know i'm not harley hensley because i went into the intensive care with harley hensley when a 15 year old had been stricken by a truck in a four-wheeler and they had called the family and said make the funeral arrangements there's no brain activity your boy's dead we've got him on a vent same thing with caleb he was on event the whole works i said god i know i'm not harley hensley i don't have that level of faith i don't believe i do i mean i've got faith but i don't know if my faith is at that level i said but for the sake of the ever soul family and levi i said for the generational blessing that's been passed down i'm asking you god for your great mercy i went to the intensive care to pray for him his father was here his mother was there when i had my hand laid on him the spirit of god began to move on me and i felt those unknown tongues wanting to gush out of me and i i was holding back the unknown tongue because you know i thought well i don't really know how the parents will receive such praying and i certainly don't know how that nurse's desk across the hall that's looking at me are going to receive this and i sort of had about a you know a 15 second battle but then it was too late the spirit of god released out of me is [Music] as i began to pray in the unknown tongue as something supernatural happened his forehead began to sweat up to that point he was cold his eyes from his head to his toe his arms were cold and i stopped and i said he's sweating has he ever done this before he said i i know and i said feel he said oh my goodness he's sweating i said it's going down his face i said he's sweating on his arm his arm is sweating well i want to give you the wonderful report i want to give you the great report he is out of the intensive care he's in a private room and he's not going to die god's not finished yet god is not finished yet [Applause] [Music] and then about 5 30 while visiting my parents when i came back from vacation in florida with the family i went over to see my parents and my mother said she said oh it's just awful about sonny your cousin my double first cousin it's awful about his son i only know his son through facetime because sani has lived in connecticut he's raised his family up in the northeast he has a very he's a ceo he's a he flies a big huge used to into canada over to europe every other week he makes he's very important man and i said what in the world's wrong said his son took the covet vaccine and the virus went straight to the heart and it's poisoned the heart and they don't think he's going to live and my mouth spoke out loud i said yes he will live because the last time i saw that boy on facetime i started praying for him i said that boy knows that boy has the anointing and don't know it it's been passed down from generation to generation i said he is gonna come out of here so saturday at six o'clock i came to the church to pray and for everybody i walk over every seat every seat here every seat every musician everywhere you're sitting i've laid hands on it i prayed in the spirit there's not one cubic inch in this house that's not already been covered from top to bottom not only by me but of course other prayer meetings but i make sure i personally pray over every seat i lay my heart i lay my hands on every seat this is not a job for me this is a calling we are the people of god and i took a picture of that cross and i sent a text to sonny i said sonny i'm here at the church and i had the picture of the cross i said i'm shedding tears on these altars i said god will now you know when you say that to somebody it's a little difficult because the enemy fights you because the enemy says now if it doesn't happen but i felt such i did feel faith i said god will bring him out god will we'll i said we're believing that god will bring him out i put we're believing in front of it that god will bring him out he simply texts back thanks that was around six o'clock at eight o'clock ten minutes after eight he sent me a text he said there's been a drastic change in the last 30 minutes the levels that were poisoning his heart have went from this level all the way down to that level and i just got through texting him i said we've already prayed for andrew three times and we're getting ready to pray the fourth time has anything else happened he said they stopped all iv medication they're giving oral medication he's going to have a mri in the morning if the mri shows the poison has left the heart he's going to get to go home until he totally recovers but god has spared his life god has spared his life [Music] you know [Applause] i text my cousin back and i said lord have mercy i said that was a very quick answer that came but sometimes an answer has to be quick it wasn't just my praying a lot of people were praying but i give god the praise and i give him all the glory i give him the praise so uh hallelujah while your faith is high let's all stand together put that picture back up there stretch your hands this way but not only for andrew we're praying for and another thing i didn't tell you this to be afraid of the covet vaccine the bible said if you drink any deadly thing it shall not harm you this coveted virus they cannot find the animal that changed its modification from an animal virus to human virus the only other explanation is in wuhan china at the coronavirus institute that this thing was man modified it was airborne there's never been a virus that has hit the antarctica and the amazon river at the same time it was released on this earth to bring us under global unity and global force it was meant to dampen the church it was meant to separate the body of christ it was meant to stop the work of the lord but i adore satan in the name of jesus [Applause] your virus did not kill us did not stop us has not stopped the work of the lord because the oval office in washington does not have the keys to the kingdom the schoolhouse doesn't have the keys to the kingdom russia doesn't have the keys to the kingdom the united nations doesn't have the keys to the kingdom neither does the central disease control have the keys to the kingdom the who does not have the keys to the kingdom oh lord [Music] [Applause] you know on the other side of the storm there's a man called gadara he's been bound by chains and there's a storm preventing the church of the lord jesus christ from getting to the man shake those chains josh hallelujah there's been a storm i said there's been a storm there's been a storm there's a man on the other side of the lake and the man has been bound by chains and the man is alive but yet he's living among the dead that's where it is there's been a storm to hinder the church and to stop the church but thanks be to god the master has never left the ship i said the master has never left the [Applause] ship what does that mean that means we're going to see things we've never seen before we're going to see of demonic powers and some food like we've never seen before the storm has passed and we are entering into the land of deliverance now i want with your faith to reach up to heaven father in the name of jesus you know everyone that's sick you know everyone that's afflicted you know everyone that's diseased god you know everyone that's bound by chains of darkness you know everyone that's bound god by chains of despair in the mighty name of jesus we speak the word of god boldly this is the house of prayer this is the house of revival this is the house of the name lord we speak the name the name of the lord is a strong tower and the righteous run into it and they are saved now god we speak deliverance to the captain we speak recovery of sight to the blind lord let this old soul-saving station shine brighter than it's ever shined before let the elevation of praise be greater than it's ever been before let our level of dedication be higher than it's ever been before because there's a destiny ahead the old ship of zion has faced a storm but the storm is coming to a silence that the work of the lord not go on in demonstration and power now lord we give you the praise we give you the glory everybody say in the name of jesus [Applause] come on in the name of jesus wave your hand in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Music] now give the lord a clap and a shout of praise hallelujah yay yay it's not by might nor by power but by my spirit says the lord glory to god hallelujah hallelujah just be seated for one more moment i'll preach here in just just a few moments if it be the lord's will i believe it is hallelujah next sunday night is going to be a momental night in history it's going to be a great incredible awesome event it is juneteenth and we want you if you're coming make sure you let us know about how many people's gonna be here there'll be the normal hamburgers and hot dogs for people that just can't get that wendy's and burger king out of them there'll be mayonnaise there'll be mustard there'll be ketchup there'll be onions there'll be tomatoes and there'll be pickles hallelujah glory to god there'll be fried chicken glory to god there'll be specialties specialties like caribbean french creole fish there will be african rice and beans with african chicken hallelujah there's going to be a choir here that's going to sing we'll sing a couple songs they'll sing a couple songs then there will be author a third song together it's going to be the union and this choir is people of african descent and it's going to be an incredible time next sunday night talk about a good time we'll talk about a good time [Music] now the words for that we're gonna have a time talk about a good time then you go lord we're going to have a time amen when god's people get together we're going to be a this will be a testimony it's going to be around the world over 40 000 different people or more are going to be watching it's going to be a testimony that in the body of christ there's no neither male nor female there's neither jew nor greek there's neither nationality we're all one in christ jesus we all been baptized into one body it's gonna be a testimony that all people can come into the house of the father that all people are of one blood it's gonna be a testimony there may be fighting out there but there's unity in here there may be hate out there but there's love in here there may be darkness out there but there's light in here in jesus name [Applause] now how all this is going to come to pass is going to be a miracle but it will come to pass we're going to have a good time making it happen if any of you here you you would like to help in the cooking portion of it make sure you put your name on a card and just put cook spelt the sea and just take one of those cards and put i want to help cook we'll make some tacos we'll have all kinds of different things we got different ministries going to do clean up different ministries going to do set up different ministries going to do this and that but we i need some people now this is people who are gifted in cooking if you don't know if you're gifted in cooking ask your children don't ask your husband he'll never tell you the truth but we'll need people but make sure you put that because on a saturday we're going to put a lot of these things together and get it all ready for this great wonderful event that we're going to have but if you want to cook if you want to help us in any area this week i'm flying out i got to leave the house maybe five o'clock i think i don't know in the morning i'm going to oklahoma to preach for pastor john parish i'll be preaching tuesday night and wednesday night of his camp meeting it will be online there are some people going to be out there visiting several churches they come from everywhere to that camp meeting i'll come back thursday night late then friday night i'm preaching at richmond indiana any of you in the richmond area or you just want to take a ride and go to church you have to look up my website because i don't know where i'm going but i will be there so that'll be friday night then saturday morning we can do some food preparation then get some things going then i have to back up because i have to preach sunday and we have to let everybody else take it over from there and we'll have a good time in jesus name praise the lord hallelujah let's all let me see if are we done yet are we done yet i think we are let's all stand together oh let's all stand yes yes somebody put that up there this is the women's night riva casey i'm going to have more information i'ma put it on the old call if you are not on all call and you attend this church you need to be on all call that's the quickest best way to get information you just take on your on the connection card it's in the seat in front of you just fill out put your name and the number and put all a-l-l call c-l-c-a-l-l sister riva casey is going to be a night of ministry on tuesday june 22nd it's in the central lobby and it's a night of dinner and conversation i'll have to talk with sue and get more information on this exactly what it is because if you have 300 women show up in that central lobby talk about a good time we're gonna have a time so i really don't know but you know but if there's a hundred it'll be just fine if there's 50 it'll be fine anything under 100 will be just fine so these sisters are going to come together and know you you won't find any better person than sister riva casey she's a dynamic powerhouse of god full of the spirit from harlan county kentucky praise the lord wednesday night brother josh it'll be taking the bible class right here wednesday night second corinthians chapter 4 verses 7 8 and 9 but we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of god and not of us we are troubled on every side but we're not stressed out we are perplexed and confused but not in despair without hope sometimes persecuted but never forsaken there's even times were cast down but not destroyed just for a few moments tonight i'm dealing with the subject the earthen vessel the earthen vessel let's pray father we come to you in the name of jesus we thank you lord for the great victories that have been won in this house we thank you god because you've given us the victory through our lord jesus christ as we break the bread of life let it be bread to the eater and seed to the sower i submit myself to you god in desperate need of the anointing that only destroys the yoke and we depend upon your spirit let this word be preached with love with mercy with compassion and as your bible teaches me with demonstration and power of the holy ghost we'll give you all the praise in jesus name let the church say amen you may be seated just for a few moments tonight we're dealing with the subject the earth and vessel the bible says but we have this treasure in earthen vessels you know our our most of the time we focus on the treasure and we ought to because it's the treasure that makes the difference it's the treasure that brings the power it's the treasure that releases the anointing it's the treasure that gives us the strength to overcome it's the treasure that gives us the resource of god but just for a few moments before we get to the treasure i want us to deal with the earthen vessel because it's amazing to me you know when people come into the house of god like this and they come into a place of worship we look around and for some reason we get these thoughts that look at all the perfect people look at all the perfect families look at all the perfect wonderful lives boy isn't it nice to be perfect like all of those people look at all the nice cars that those people have i know this i've had young men to pass through my doors and that's what they would say they say pastor tom no wonder those people out there jump around and shout all the time he said i know what kind of houses they live in i see the cars out in that parking lot i said they don't have they don't know where they don't live like where i've had to live they haven't come from what i've had to come from but see the issue is that is the blinding of satan satan wants you to think that other people can get something you can't have he wants you to think that you're less than everybody else he knows if you ever get a hold of this gospel truth and allow the holy ghost to take charge of your life you are the most threatening item on the face of this earth he cannot handle the power that works within you he cannot handle the power that works through you and the bible shows us from genesis to the book of revelation he shows us the weakness of our flesh abraham was called the father of faith but it took him 25 years to pass tests until he became the father of faith because abraham he he misrepresented the truth he wasn't totally honest he did things the way he shouldn't do them he said things he shouldn't have said he got himself in predicaments we find out that his son jacob his name means conniva it means means manipulator he is somebody that connived and manipulated then we come to his twelve sons and the very foundations of the city of new jerusalem are going to be named after the foundations of those 12 sons but they were everything but holy they took their brother and threw him in a pit they sold their brother into slavery they were everything but righteous he shows us in the scripture two preachers sons nadab and a by hugh that offered strange fire on the altar they didn't want to do it god's way they said we can we can have church any way we want to we'll have it this way and they offered strange fire and when they did the bible said they were consumed with fire themselves he shows us huffny and phineas two preachers sons that were at the gate and they were stealing the church's money they were committing sexual immorality they were sleeping around with the women in the church they were doing everything ungodly but yet they were sons of the priest he shows us noah after he had built this ark of righteousness that noah gets drunk he shows us the disobedience of jonah he takes us to the book of judges and he says i want you to only in his power not only in his strength but i want you to see his weaknesses i want you to see him he has no power over his lust no power over his passions i want you to see jephthah he is the son of a harlot i want you to see all these different judges i want you to see gideon as he's hiding behind the wine press because he's full of fear he takes us to david he says look at david david sings the psalms and david prophesies and david shouts and david praises god and dances before the lord but david also finds himself when it was time to go out to battle he said y'all go out to the battle i'm going to stay at home and have a little resting by myself and in his lonely hour by himself on top of his rooftop he noticed the next door neighbor was enticing to his eyes it wasn't just one look he knew that woman was over there before the kings ever went out to battle that's why he stayed home you always manipulate your sin you don't fall into adultery brother you plan for adultery it's not just something that you're walking down the street one day and you fall in the bed with somebody else uh uh you've been planning that thing out for a long time you've had that number you know where they live you know when they come you know when they go this is the weakness of the flesh but yet we find david he falls not only into adultery but he falls into murder and murders one of his great servants a solomon who was so powerful and full of wisdom but yet solomon ends up with all of these enter all these marriages that he had that caused him to sin and to go away from god as we look at simon peter he said if everybody walks away from you i'll never walk away from you but jesus looked at him and jesus said simon you don't even realize that before this night is over you are going to deny me three times god wants you to see the weakness of your flesh the scripture talks about an evangelist that preached the gospel that traveled with the apostle paul that was full of the holy ghost but yet he said demas has forsaken me having loved this present world the scripture says in the book of timothy that hymonaeus and philitus they've erred in the scripture they have messed up concerning the truth they've preached false doctrine and they have overthrown the faith of some because of their false doctrine and the bible says with ananias and sapphira and the early church they lied to the holy ghost and right at the altar they fell down dead before god people that was full of the holy ghost people that was full of ambition people that were evangelists that were praying and seeking god the flesh overtook them when you get to the rook of romans it describes the spiritual warfare and it talks like this this is a man that has written that writes this scripture this is at the end of his journey he's already been to the third heaven he's already seen things that cannot be uttered in his natural speech he has already witnessed the dynamic move and power of god he's seen heavenly things he's been beaten with rods he's been shipwrecked he's been left for dead but when he gets to the book of romans he says i've got to tell you something even though i've set in heavenly places even though i had a personal intimate relationship with jesus christ on the road to damascus even though that my hand has written letters to the churches even though that god has used me mightily i want you to know there's still a battle between my flesh and my spirit my spirit is willing but my flesh is weak the things that i went to do i don't do there are things that i want to do but i find myself still slipping into disobedience there are times that i said i won't do this anymore and i end up doing the things i said i won't do anymore he said o wretched man that i am how can i be free from this flesh how can i be free from this flesh you see the bible says in galatians chapter 5 it talks about the works of the flesh it calls it the works of the flesh because that's how all flesh works not some people's flesh not some racist flesh but all flesh works this way all flesh given circumstances will fornicate given certain circumstances all flesh if having the opportunity i've heard people say well you'll never find me engaged in this sin and i have to explain to them but wonder if your environment wonder if you were the nine-year-old boy who was raped at seven years old wonder if you were repetitiously raped over and over by other men because your mother was a prostitute and you don't know who your father is and your life has been totally messed up and manipulated by the very very fiery darts of hell you see satan comes to you at a young age he wants you to have every inferiority that he can put in your life that's why he wants to molest the child that's why he wants to rape the woman that's why he wants incest in the family that's why he wants somebody to lie to you that's why he wants you to be verbally abused he wants you to be physically abused he wants you to be sexually abused he wants to mess you up with everything he could possibly mess you up with because if he doesn't have anything to work with in your mind it's difficult for him to mess you up but the more things that happened to you the more difficulties you go through the more names they called you when you were in school some of you were called idiots some of you were they were laughed at you because of your weight some of them laughed at you because of your teeth some laughed because of the shape of your face or your eyes and you went through these horrible things as a child and the child problems have now become child problems have become unresolved conflicts of your adulthood and you find yourself in this struggle what's going on in my life why do i feel worthless why do i feel like i'm no good why do i feel like these things happen and i've had people say you will never find me committing this type of sin brother if you were put under those conditions of your flesh will do exactly what that man in prison's flesh will do your flesh is no different than anyone else's flesh that's why in the book of romans chapter 7 he said in my flesh in my flesh in my flesh a man that wrote 14 books of the new covenant he said in my flesh in my flesh there is no good thing and the moment that you think you're going to be a successful born again believer because of your uh because of your intelligence or because of your discipline and because of your actions that's all the enemy wants you to do is to put confidence in your flesh yeah i said confidence in your flesh there are some people think i know i'm gonna make it now because i don't do these certain things and i don't go these certain places if you put your trust in what you don't do and where you don't go the enemy's still going to find a way to conquer you because it's not what you do and what you don't do that is your strength and is your power your power does not rest in your flesh your flesh was hated by jehovah god jehovah god created you out of the dirt of this earth he breathed into you you became a living soul he breathed life into you but jehovah god from genesis to malachi he saw the filth of your flesh he saw the contamination of your flesh he saw the degradation of your flesh i'm trying to tell you brothers and sisters if you think you're going to make it in the flesh you might as well just quit because you're not going to make it in the flesh you're not going to make it by your determination you're not going to make it by your education anybody can live in mayberry and sit on a front porch and have an easy life but you're not at mayberry the days of 1950 60 70 are over we are in the final ages of the church and a demon pit has been loosed and demonic spirits are very vocal and demonic powers are very verbal and demonic powers are very visual satan is not hiding in the corner anymore i said satan is not hiding in the corner anymore he has revealed himself he has revealed his wickedness he has revealed his wicked devices i said he has revealed it and you're never going to be able to have a victorious life in the flesh so if you think just by your little fleshly acts that you're going to walk in victory it's not going to happen i said it's not going to happen oh he said oh [Applause] o wretched man that i am he said i'm in a battle the things i want to do i can't do and the things i don't want to do i end up doing up there are some of you you're going to battle your flesh i said satan he is not in the corner anymore these teenagers at any moment can get the most raw pornography that exists on the face of this earth right on their phone they know how to pass the message by they know how to get a snapchat that is so wicked and so vile i said the enemy knows exactly what he's doing he knows how to plant every figure of imagination in your mind he knows exactly how to lure you he'll take you to the cinema he'll fill you with enough lust that by the time you get in that car you're about ready to break loose in a hot sweat because you filled yourself up with passion with lust with vulgarity with the f word used over and over i looked at one movie it was about teenagers i only watched it for about two minutes i looked up the parental guardian guiding upon it and it said it had 141 times that these teenagers used the f word do you know the f word is used in pornography while a man is choking a woman and brutally sexually abusing her he's saying f f f over and over and over don't you know it's more than just a verbal word of profanity it is a word that has a spirit behind it it's a word that defies the name of god it's a word that brings all filth of communication in it and some of you men if you get mad at your house and you say the f word you need to go say jesus forgive me you need to go to your neighbor and say neighbor forgive me and you need to open up your big mouth and tell your wife say stick a bar of soap in my mouth and wash my mouth out i'm not gonna speak vulgar i'm not going to use the f-word because the hollywood movie star uses it i'm not going to dress like a hollywood movie star i'm not going to stick a string up my hand in and shake my naked flesh all over in front of this world i'm not going to drop my top until people talking to me i have to turn their eyes i'm not going to raise my line i'm not going to wear listen men you're doing it too i said the men are doing it too there's no there's absolutely no place for a man that knows the name of christ to wear these little thin jersey little thin jersey basketball drawers and not wear any underwear and let us know you're a male we know you're a male i said we know you're a male you don't have to be shaking yourself around trying to show your sexual identity whatever this everything i'm saying tonight is the works of the flesh and your flesh will do it your flesh will fornicate your flesh will lie your flesh will use vulgarity your flesh will steal up your flesh will do every evil thing but thanks be to god i said thanks be to god [Applause] oh you know i hate to preach like this years ago it was easy all you had to do was preach against tight blue jeans that's all it was just tight blue jeans but denim cannot even come close to what's out there i said denim has no denim a pair of blue jeans you can't get them that tight you can shrink them you can put them in the dryer and i know what it's like to lay on the floor and take a pair of pliers to pull the zipper up because my bridges were so tight but denim cannot do what this stuff does today this stretch yoga material is straight from hell if you can see your you can see your behind shaken up you can see every fleshly part of you shaken up it's like human anatomy this material this this this come out of this come out of victoria's secrets i'm telling you it did one of victoria's secrets have been released and what is so sad you expect the world to look like that you expect the hellbound to look like that you expect a degenerate to look like that you expect the beer drinker and the liar and those that are involved in evil to look like that but you don't expect appraiser to look like that you don't expect a bible reader to look like that you don't expect a person in the ministry to look like that you don't expect a sunday night hallelujah churchgoer to look like that and it's not in what you look i know that man looks on the outward appearance and he's getting an eyeful i said man looks on the outward appearance and he's getting an eyeful but god looks on the heart all i'm telling you is i wish i did not have to say such vulgar things that are happening today i wish it was easy i wish i could preach on fingernail polish like 40 years ago i wish i could preach against red that's what you preached against red fear nail polish i wish i could do it it would be much easier it was easy to say it was easy talk about earrings that when you shook your head that they shouldn't move that all your earrings had to not shake up that was easy sister glory to preach on those but we have come to a point do you hear me it's not necessarily it's not the shake of the earring definitely and it's definitely not your red fingernail polish we have come into open blatant evil and satan we have come to the time of a seductive spirit that doesn't want to just take from you he wants to kill you he wants to destroy you he wants to take your anointing he wants to take your calling he knows he can't stop the church but the only thing he can do is get the church bound up to where the church can't be effective and since he can't stop us all we have to do is say oh wretched man that i am who's gonna save me who's gonna save me who's gonna save me come on give me the praise say talk to me lord talk to me lord the holy ghost talk to me holy ghost speak to me holy ghost tell me what i need to do holy ghost tell me how i walk holy ghost tell me what i need to do the church's final hour is right before us and we can't allow the contaminants of this flesh to hang on us to be upon us and to stop us from the miraculous power of god it's worth it watching that boy come out of that bed of affliction it's worth it to watch paul roberts come out of that bed of affliction it's worth it i said it's worth it it's worth it it's worth every praise [Applause] i said it's worth it i said it's worth it [Music] it's worth extra prayer it's worth extra dedication it's worth extra commitment it's worth extra living before god straighten up my vocabulary lord straighten up my eyes straighten up what i see straighten up where i go straighten up what i do oh straighten me up lord i want to see signs i want to see wonders i want to see the manifestation of the power of god and [Applause] [Music] god's going to anoint a holy church god's going to give signs and wonders to a holy church to a consecrated church to a dedicated church to a blood covered church say it blood covered church blood covered church well somebody on a walk and shout right now blood covered blood covered come on blood covered church blood covered church blood covered church blood covered church blood covered church blood covered church i i know i know i'm an old man i know i'm 65. i know i got some snow on the mountain i know i know that i'm on medicare they sent me a letter and told me i know i am in life but that doesn't stop that underworld it doesn't stop that pool it doesn't stop do you know that on my ipad i can't get the devil to stop i've even went to professionals how do you get the devil to quit because of my age because they know how old i am the pop-ups come up on my ipad they come on the junk mail over there i can't get them off they come up 150 of them they come every day i'll go home tonight i'll put delete all i'll put edit select all delete all select all delete all i cannot even tell you they want me to gamble that's what they'll want they want me to gamble and i can't tell the other things they're just too bad i said they're too bad they're enticing an old man they say old man if you want to be young again let me give you this let me show you this let me come on all you got to do is push this button it's free that's all you got to do the devil said it's free it's free nobody's going to know it nobody's going to know it's there you just push that button up and you don't think you think just because i'm 65 and got gray hair that that flesh doesn't pull on me that that demonic power doesn't pull on me i have to say hold it here satan you hold it right here if i push this button i may not see somebody saying if i push this button up that boy may die in that hospital if i push this button up there will not be a revival if i push this button the church will die if i push this button i'll be an embarrassment to my family if i push this button up i'll be an embarrassment to my children if i push this button i'll be an embarrassment to my grandchildren hell will never show you the embarrassment he is out to kill you he's out to destroy hallelujah come on give him worship the lord for a few moments come on praise until i get a drink here [Music] [Applause] [Music] so you thought i'm 17 and the devil knows my testosterone levels are shooting out for years and and my my energy is high so he's working overtime on me i'm going to tell you something 49 years of ministry he's not stopped he's not lightened up he never quit for one moment i'm not no special person i'm not somebody here with angel wings on i don't walk in the house and every time i sneeze terey hits the floor because she's been knocked out under the power i'm not a person my kids and grandkids know i'm paul paul i'm just flesh i'm just blood i have weaknesses i know without the power of the spirit within with the hoshita oh when you realize your strength is in the manifestation of the holy ghost you will never quench the spirit again you will never sit on the holy ghost again you will never back off when god wants to pour his spirit on you you'll never put your hands down when god wants them in the air you'll never do this when you realize if i don't get that boost in the spirit i'm not going to make it i've got to have it i've got to have a strength i've got to get radiant power i've got to be hooked up to the anointing of the holy ghost speak to lord speak to me lord speak to me lord speak to me lord speak to me lord speak to me lord speak to me lord show me show me show me show me show me you stand before the presence of god and you look into heaven my lips have never touched alcohol my sanctified fingers have never slipped into a bowling ball these sanctified hands have never played a game of cards i've never walked a mile for a camel you know in the old days they taught you how man was supposed to smoke in a women everything was gender relative we were in school they told you how a man's supposed to hold his books man holds them here a woman holds them here when man sit down he folds his leg here woman sits down she folds her legs there and if you're a man and you fold your leg like that the other men will come up and slap you on the legs they put your legs down you're not supposed to do that that's just the old days okay i'm just telling you the old sorry josh just telling you the old days [Applause] yay well but you know they taught us they taught us how a man smokes and how a woman smokes man smokes like this a woman spokes like this watch it on tv go watch lucy ricardo watch lucy watch watch all of them go watch those old sitcoms from back in his 50s and 60s watch betty good old betty davis when betty gets to get ready for cigarettes she goes and when john wayne gets ready to smoke i know because when i was 14 years old i made me a paper cigarette i colored it all up it looked as real as it could be and there's a bunch of little guys in the neighborhood and i pulled that thing out and i was going there was nothing on it they couldn't they weren't even lit they said we didn't know you smoked i said don't tell anybody don't tell anybody the flesh knows how to dress you up oh yeah before he throat before he put you on the stringer to catch a fish he knows exactly how to dress you up but you could stand before god you see these holiness fingers have never been in a bowling ball these hands have never played a game of blame of cars oh i've never even played a whole game of pool in my life i've never even played oh you i've never i've never uh put my hands in a bowling ball never done this never done that never smoked never drank and i say oh god i've never done any these things look at those people how they live look at how they live look at the filth and stuff they had you know what god does he looks down from heaven and goes pewee [Music] he says your righteousness not your failures not when you make a mistake you know we got a tendency to say oh lord i made a mistake oh lord i know my righteousness this is filthy rags not your mistakes this is filthy rags the very best you can do you got your sleeves covered in your naked arms so when you worship the lord nobody's looking down your sleeves and sees the hair under your arms you can worship you can magnify god you got your hair just right you got your neckline just right you got everything just right you looked in the mirror before you came to church you can bend over and praise him you can raise up and praise him you can turn sideways and praise him and you shook yourself in the back and it's not too tight and you're covered up and you're not showing everything and you just come before god and you've got yourself well i'm ready to worship i've got my neck just right i've got my clothes just right i've got my sleeves just right look how holy that i am look how holy that i am and god looks at you and says pewee pewee you smell like a bunch of sewered wish sewered washcloths soiled washcloths he said your righteousness is as contaminated contaminated rags listen we do the best we can do we live as holy as we can live but it's not our flesh that pleases god it's not our flesh by which we worship god it is by the spirit of the living god it's because the blood of jesus has cleansed me from all unrighteousness i said all unrighteousness i put my sleeves down here because i don't want you sisters to be distracted by these incredible awesome 65 year old biceps i've got to tie on tonight not cause i want to but because it matches my outfit and i don't even know what else to wear i'm here tonight because i got long pants on because i didn't want you to see my incredible awesome tanned legs that have been down on longbow key i didn't want you to see him no no no i didn't think you did you'd want to suffer with such temptation as that not only from the sisters but from the brothers hallelujah i didn't want you to suffer with such temptation but on top of all of that i've covered myself i've checked my vocabulary but i've got to look up to heaven and i know underneath these long sleeves there's a house of clay underneath i said underneath this pentecostal haircut this is a house of clay underneath this body that has had no the extras added to it there is a house of clay underneath this clothing there is a house of clay underneath my list of things i've never done there is a house of clay and the only way that pastor thomas d bates has made it for these many years is it's not by might and it's not by power but it's by the spirit of the living god it took the spirit to get me where i am it took the power to release the evil that was on my life oh wretched man who shall save me from this body of death who's going to save me thanks be to god which gives us the victory because there is no condemnation there is no condemnation for the law of the spirit of life in christ has made me free from the law of sin and death the law of sin and death is like the law of gravity hallelujah get me something out of that thing a chain or something yeah that'll work the law of gravity says everything that goes up [Music] everything that goes up that law is true [Music] it's true but there's two things that defy the law of gravity one is the law of aerodynamics and when i was young good looking you boys enjoy it while you got it i went to kings island and i got that thing that went around and around and around around you ever seen that thing and you stick to the wall you ought to have a mouth like mine and it stick to the wall that thing started i turned sideways i felt like my nose was touching my ear [Music] that's called the law of centrifugal force it defies the law of gravity because once they got us spinning fast enough they dropped the bottom and i stuck to the wall [Music] but there's another law oh there's another law it's called the law of aerodynamics [Music] and last week [Music] june what was it whatever it was [Music] on saturday when my family and i got on that big jet every seat was taken the flight attendant said we've never seen this many kids on one flight before has anyone seen what a four-year-old's mask looks like after one hour and 47 minutes you open that mask and kleenex would be embarrassed let me see your mask [Music] one hour and 47 minutes there's big people little people old people young people we're all on that plane none of us can defy gravity none of us but all at once fasten your seat belts put your trays up put your seat in your most upright position we're ready for takeoff that thing starts creeping creeping creeping creeping faster faster faster all of that weight the law of an aerodynamics catches that wind and we defy the law of gravity [Music] hanaya tashila kosei i don't care how loaded down your plane is i don't care how many how many pounds of molestation how many pounds of drug abuse how many pounds of immorality how many pounds of disappointment how many pounds of discouragement how many pounds of inferiority and intimidation how many pounds of verbal abuse how many pounds of physical abuse how many pounds of sexual abuse the law of the spirit of the life in christ jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and of death and when the treasure on the inside begins to move inside of this house of clay i defy the law of sin and to death and they that wade upon the lord they shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles there's not a person in the world that cannot make it there's not a not a person involved in any sin that cannot overcome all you gotta do is get on the air ride of the spirit get on the 747 of the holy ghost buckle your seat belt up and say i'm ready for the ride and one of these days you're gonna land in the streets of the celestial city because it's not by night nor by power but by my spirit if you believe that if you believe you're gonna overcome if you know you're gonna make it by the law of the spirit i want you to jump to your feet clap your hands give god a victorious shout [Music] turn around tell five people i'm gonna make it come on i'm gonna make it i'm gonna make it by the spirit yeah i said yeah my pilot is king jesus it's not determined by how much weight i got on me some people got a lot of weight of sin some people got a lot of weight of past some people got a lot of weight of things that's happened to them in their life oh but the pilot said no problem no problem is that my cousin jeff back there in marsha well you've been quiet all day come on up here jeff while i preach on you just a little bit hallelujah i said hallelujah this man right here married my cousin i went to florida to preach he was mr teen florida he was on every magazine he had the biceps he had the precepts and he had the concepts but he didn't have this jet he didn't have this jet power lifting weights didn't do it women didn't do it alcohol didn't do it he came from a bunch of heathens his family was party ravenous heathens if anybody that was destined for failure if anybody had a reservation in hell you had it i said had it h.a.d had a reservation in hell but one day i said one day a teenage boy i said a teenage boy for 22 about 22 years old something like that how old were you 20 years old this young man he fell in an altar he said i know my daddy's the heathen i know my family are party animals i know i've done every sensual thing that you can imagine but god i can't live it by myself i can't make it by myself standing here tonight is a preacher a father a pastor with victory he jumped on the law of the spirit [Applause] high five four people high five of them say i'm gonna make it come on i'm gonna make it i'm gonna make it i'm gonna make it i'm gonna make it i'm gonna make it it's not by your flesh it's by the spirit it's not by your flesh it's by the spirit there's not one single human being on the face of this earth that has an excuse because once you get on board this holy ghost train once you get on board this gospel ship you're going to land safely i said you're going to land safely play me something to shout by i just feel like shouting right now [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] at 16 years old the devil looked me in the eye when i got out of the bed he said what are you gonna do with simon ken today he said you won't make it today you're gonna you're gonna lose it you're gonna say something wrong you're gonna do something wrong you're gonna go back to your own comedy act you're gonna say dirty things you're going to make people laugh you're going to be the same old same host yes you are yes you are i left the house at 8 o'clock the devil was talking to me i got in school he was talking to me but when i got home at 3 30 i said devil where are you now i made it yesterday and i'm gonna make it tomorrow i'll see you in the morning because it's not by night it's not my power but it's fine [Applause] i made it through my 20s [Music] i made it through my 30s i made it through my 40s i made it through my 50s i'm 65 and i'm gonna make it till the last breath goes out of my body because i got [Applause] [Music] i got on something that was bigger than i had i got on something that was greater than i am i got on something that's destined to make it i got a pilot that knows where he's going i got a pilot gonna take me to the store i got a pilot gonna take me through the problem gonna take me through the sickness gonna take me through the works of the devil i've got a pilot oh yeah oh yeah 1972 i walked up the steps and i sat in that old aircraft of zion i got on that aircraft i buckled my seat belt and i said away we go holy ghost away we go holy ghost i've been laughed at i've been mocked out i've been called holy roller i've been called a fanatic but i'm still here i said [Music] go ahead just give him a few minutes [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] so [Applause] so [Applause] so sister sister mary [Applause] your heart's been broken you've had family members that tied a coveted and the devil said i'll get you too but praise god you're aboard the gospel aircraft you're tied in you're locked in and may interpret night but joy comes in the morning joy joy joy joy [Music] so what's the joy about this joy is overcoming joy joy joy to god to god all the things has he done anything has he done anything has he done anything has he done an essay has he done anything has he done anything [Music] oh for the place [Music] all the things he has done [Applause] [Music] hallelujah i don't know if we have room for all of our altar orders to come up but if you've been struggling with your flesh [Music] you've been struggling with your flesh the elders will come and alter prayer warriors whoever this is just to help people that you know we're here to pray a little low back there forgot which low you are you're david's boy but can't remember come on i did his was it your brother your uncle whose funeral did i do your brother i did his brother's funeral now his brother's son is facing the same thing that took his brother out the devil uses the same old tricks and he wants to stand in and ask god for mercy how old is that boy 20 years old intoxicated horrible wreck is in the very jaws of death now listen not everybody's obedient to an altar call i don't know why but [Music] that flesh holds them back but if you don't make it in this altar call i want you to hear this message there's no such thing as good flesh and bad flesh there's no special people there's just a special god [Music] if it wasn't for god i'd be in the depths of every cesspool of sin that existed so if you don't come to this altar call i want the word to come to you [Music] i pray that everybody needs to come this altar will come in the next few minutes but if you don't come to here i want the word to come to you can we believe that's going to happen [Music] jesus every heart every person that walked in this building every person lord every person that believes [Music] that their situation's more difficult too difficult for god i want you to come to them let them know they can't make it by the flesh in jesus name now let's pray for mercy this boy's daddy i think i was there when your daddy got saved and your mother i think i was there when they got saved in the old church handsome david lowe nina the old days of the old church lorraine duncan's daughter all that bunch in the old church now lord you've raised my cousin up from the jaws of death you raised up caleb bush from the jaws of death soon now this boy who i saw his grandma and grandpa prayed through at an altar i'm asking you lord to give him up give him up a window of mercy let mercy drops fall all around his bedside in that hospital god if it be your will we want a testimony next sunday night that god brought this boy out of the jaws of death and we will give you the praise and we will give you the glory i [Music] [Music] surrender [Music] oh [Music] all i surrender all oh i [Applause] surrender [Music] [Music] say lord we thank you for this service this altar service is going to keep on going sometimes we dismiss and we go off the air these altar calls have known to go an hour or more people praying it just keeps on going but we want to give god thanks lord we thank you lord because we know we're not special people but we know we're aboard a special aircraft whose landing is sure we love you lord tonight we praise you god for the treasure in this earth and vessel we give you the praise in jesus name let the church say amen and amen and amen the god that i serve is the same yesterday today and forever together with pastor tommy bates we connect others with the gospel of jesus christ for those who need revival in their hearts you help make a way for them to be awakened for those who need to hear about the saving power of the cross you open doors for the holy spirit to sweep into their lives for those who need strength to continue in life you help make it possible for them to know that jesus will carry them through when you sow your best gift or become a partner with tommy bates ministries today you join with us to advance god's plan and purpose in the lives of those around the world to partner or contact tommy bates ministries visit tommybates.com write us at p.o box 30 independence kentucky 41051 or call [Music] 1-866-411-1032 you

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