A Son, a Servant, and a Samaritan - Harold Hoffman | Church ONLINE

[Music] hey guys we're so excited because today is new sunday that's right fcy will be running service today [Music] let's just start praising our god let's just start worshiping let's give god all the glory as we start to stand up hallelujah thank you [Music] put your jesus together [Music] you want to do [Music] is like me [Music] before every single [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] this is i know oh is [Music] oh [Music] your presence [Music] is [Music] when the israelites were walking around the walls of jericho for six days they were going over in circles and sometimes in our life situations we feel like we're going around our situation over and over again with nowhere to end and i'm here to tell you today that on the seventh day those walls fell down at the shot of praise of the israelites i wonder if anybody in the house today is looking for a breakthrough i wonder if anybody will give god a shot of praise [Music] hallelujah [Music] my god my god is [Music] oh sometimes in our life situations just like i said it feels like we're going around in circles and sometimes it even feels like we're surrounded as a matter of fact in second case that chapter 7 the prophet elijah was surrounded by a full army and the servant came to him and he asked and said my my lord we are surrounded by this army and it's big it's a big army what are we gonna do so the prophet started praying for his servant and he said god will open your eyes and when god opened his eyes he looked again and he saw chariots and horses of fire surrounding him so i'm here to tell you today that when you feel surrounded just fight fight the enemy ask for a little bit of help from god and i'm telling you that breakthrough is coming and that he will surround you with his chariots of fire and his horses of fire so i'm here to tell you today to tell the devil that i'm going to fight you with my praise and my worship hallelujah give god thank you [Music] in the presence of my enemies this is [Music] this is this is how i find my this is [Music] thanksgiving this is is [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] he may look like i'm surrounded but i'm surrounded by you yes he may look like i'm surrounded but i'm surrounded [Music] [Music] it may look like is [Music] [Applause] surrounded he looks like is this is [Music] such an amazing presence and we're not gonna hinder it right now in fact we're gonna go one more time but as we go they're gonna put a list of names behind me these are people with needs and in fact that's not even close to the amount of needs in this house right so when we sing this song and when we pray one more time this is how i fight my battles let's let's turn it a little bit let's switch it up and let's say this is how i fight their battles i don't know about you but there's something special that happens when somebody in need begins to pray for somebody else's needs you begin to take on the mindset of god so they're going to sing and we're going to pray this is how we fight for their battles in the name of jesus and everything that that neighborhood i pray for the depressed i pray for the angry i pray for the weak i pray for the struggling i pray in the name of jesus that you begin to move in this house that you begin to go to the hospitals that you begin to meet people in their houses that should begin to meet people in their sleep in jesus name and everything that that name represents move in this house jesus jesus man before we uh before i go with my announcement such an amazing amazing presence i want to thank everybody for coming i want to thank every single guest that's in the house and everybody who's watching online thank you so much for coming [Music] and if you haven't already noticed welcome to youth sunday uh you can make your way back to your seats for a moment you can make your way back to your seats and i'm going to continue with my announcements so to start off let's talk about life groups anybody excited about life groups anybody loves their life groups if you have no idea what i'm talking about life groups is a place for you to connect with the body of christ and to grow in an intimate place in an intimate way so if you're curious about life groups or if you want to sign up you can go to first church sterlingheist.com and you'll find a life group tailored fit just for you and you can join us there next up is our growth track uh as you can see around the building today you see a bunch of people with their fcy first church use shirts on everything that they're doing happens because of growth track growth track is an on-ramp for you to begin to be used in the kingdom of god to find your purpose and to learn a little bit more about our church so if you want to join growth track it happens on the first and second sundays of every month that's not today so if you want to join put in your calendars the first and second sunday of every month during the service all right and next up i like to think about the next thing i'm going to talk about it's not just monday night prayer it's actually almost like a part two of what we have here today right it's just like if you if you love sunday worship and and the altar called the and the preaching just think of monday night worship or monday night prayer 7 p.m as the crescendo of what we do here today so if you want to move if you need something from god meet us here 7 p.m tomorrow night in fact tomorrow night's a little bit special because we have brother trenton cross from louisiana who sent us a personalized message that's just gonna touch so many people so if you can make it please make it and uh next up is our is that it i think that's it actually that's it in fact we're gonna go straight into our offering now i don't look at at my offering as just an obligation i look at it as an opportunity to return my ties and offering and so as they bring the boxes up to the front they're gonna have a list of things behind me on how you can give back to back to god and so if you're a guest please don't feel obligated in the slightest bit please don't in fact you can just pray about it think about it and if you want to give go for it if not no problem at all and for everybody else here are your options right behind me and before i pray for the offering i kind of want to give an expectation of how service is going to run so right after we pray for offering they're going to put a timer on the board behind me now this is a time for you to meet and greet with the people around you and so let's uh let's try to keep some distance so no hugs or anything like that maybe just some air high fives or some fist bumps and we'll just keep it like that and then after the sermon after a pastor comes up and and preaches the house down we're gonna have altar call this is a place for you to come to the front and receive and just just feel a move of god and put into action what you just learned and so if you're comfortable please come up with your masks and we'll have people up front ready to pray for you if you need personal prayer all right so let's pray if you can bow your heads with me in the name of jesus i pray for i pray that you bless the giver i pray that you take every single dollar and every single penny to impact a life that we don't have a name for to impact a person we've never seen before and to expand the kingdom in ways we never have in jesus name amen please and come [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you jesus we honor you lord we are we love you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus come on why don't we all just begin to stand again we have one more worship song we're gonna just begin to worship and lift up our hands we're gonna hear some amazing testimonies and we're just gonna shout we love you jesus name above all names say i need you jesus you were there before time began sovereign one i rest in the old man [Music] is jesus jesus [Music] [Music] oh need you you are in love all my trust is [Music] thank you jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my jesus [Music] [Music] we thank you [Music] i believe in you are powerful [Music] i believe in you [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] i believe in you [Music] i believe in you i'm me the week of my song coming out i was going through a lot of spiritual warfare and i remember crying and just asking god for peace and for comfort reassurance and in that moment god took me back to a prayer that i prayed at nayc 2019 and i remember just praying god help me use my gifting that you gave me to impact others and to help others and i totally forgot about that prayer but he did it and in that moment even when i was praying that he knew oh just wait a year from now you're going to be coming out with your own single i have something in store for you and you like i forgot and he remembered so pray big prayers because he doesn't forget them and you might be looking back and be like me and i forgot i prayed that but he remembered [Music] [Music] i will [Music] family [Music] [Music] god stepped in and made away in our family or once again but depression stayed with me [Music] [Music] to pray and i went to his father myself and i asked god if you're in this room send someone to meet you right here i continue to pray and someone put the armor on me the presence of god was in the room and he revealed himself to me i felt real depression and all negative thoughts it was if it wasn't for the grace of god i wouldn't be here [Music] i believe [Music] [Music] be impossible [Music] there was a time in my life where i went through a complete state of brokenness i started getting depression and i started getting suicidal thoughts i didn't want to be here anymore because i didn't think i had anything left for me i didn't think god wanted to make anything of my story because i didn't believe i was worth a story the state in my life really pushed me down i my thoughts were so bad every day they'd whisper in my ear these lies that i that i couldn't do anything for god or i was just a mistake or or i don't belong on earth i would cut myself and i would try to take the pain away with my own things but it didn't work i started praying and i said god i don't know why i'm going through this i don't know i'm a faithful christian i go to church i pay tithes i do everything you're supposed to do why am i going through this and um god didn't answer that prayer but as time went by it got better and one day i looked back and i remembered that i wasn't depressed anymore a couple months later i realized that i i overcame it and i completely forgot i was suppressed and then i prayed to god i said god why did i go through that why did i feel like i wasn't good enough why did i feel like i couldn't do anything for you and he told me it's because many people feel this way and i have to help other people so if you're here today and if you feel that way i'm here to tell you that you're gonna get through it and it's just a phase in your life and it's gonna be used for god's glory so keep going because god has a story to tell for you [Music] i believe in you [Music] i believe in you i believe in you [Music] he still does miracles he still performs miracles did you not hear those stories this morning all too often we look at children and we can almost discredit what they might have to say or overlook where they are and never realize how broken some of the battles that they face but they're here to tell us no matter where you are in your walk with god he'll never leave you or forsake you he will walk through the evening with you he will walk into every storm of your life and i am thankful that we have a body of students that are carrying on the word church our future is safe with these students and we are so thankful for our youth pastor kento and his wife bianca incredible incredible leaders you all ought to do better than that because this is a product of leadership this is a product of an anointing a calling and we are indebted to our youth pastor and his wife thank you so much we love you guys you can make it back to your seats and just uh be seated for a few moments but i am so thankful that we have a multi-generational church it's multi-generational we're not just dealing with only millennials not just generation z not x it's multi-generational and i am thankful that this church is that way and uh if if you're here and and uh oftentimes in pentecost we have our own language right christianese we we hear the word brother and sister i think it's kind of weird if if you're a guest and you've never heard that we really feel like we are brothers and sisters that we are a family and when you're talking about a multi-generational church oftentimes you will hear from our pastor is an incredible man who is back in the house we've missed him these last couple of weeks but man is good y'all are in for a treat because 9 15 was great 11 13 uh the 11 30 service is off to an amazing start but oftentimes depending on your generation you will say pastor hoffman is incredible it's incredible yes maybe if you're a different generation you might just say man pastor hoffman's a beast he's just a beast it's a man maybe another generation must say man you know what that bastard often is fire he's just fire all these different generations and so thinking about these different generations and where we are as a church and thinking about our languages brother and sister thing today's a special day for us because to have this amazing pastor it's not because he made it on his own he has a very special lady that has given him the gift and the spacing for him to operate in the gift that he has and that is none other than our sister hoffman and it happens to be her birthday this week so we're celebrating that and so i am going to ask her to come up here with me join me she hates this believe me this is not in her character to be up here but it is her birthday and bridget and i were talking just a couple of nights ago and uh in today's climate you're always aware like well if you say brother and sister people might not understand and if you go first lady you know that they might not get that either and i said well how about pastor renee and bridget said that's kind of weird i never really heard that i said well if you get on a zoom prayer at 7 30 in the morning she's pastoring people through their problems i'm sure if we were able to take a poll in this house has sister hoffman ever pastored or led you through a situation in your life and just been the mentor to you that's picked you up from where you were and set you on a better place higher grounds that's a pastor and so as family to some as first lady to first church and i promise you she has been all over this country and she represents us with first class she is a first lady through and through as a pastor to many i want to say happy birthday from our church to you and we love you and we have some cards there's hopefully a lot a lot of cash in there because we know that your second gifting is to spend and we're behind you 100 but why don't we stand right now and give a round of applause and celebrate our pastor's wife an incredible leader mother to this church we love you thank you we are really blessed and as pastor hoffman makes his way up here uh in celebration of our first lady we do have cider and donuts in the back so once pastor has concluded the service and we have prayed now go ahead and just gravitate towards the back grab a cider grab a donut enjoy your time with us but for the next couple of moments why don't we put our hands together for our senior pastor harold hoffman and just excited to hear what god has through him today [Applause] all right who's doing all the who is that that's ronnie ronnie you could sit down you've been standing for a long time good job guys i didn't know you played that i was so moved with what these young people had to say and how they sang you get your strength in a church from your elders but you get your life from your young people and we've been very blessed wow look at this crowd she was and we had a great crowd this morning even with this covet thing i really now i don't know if we could get us all back into one building and so uh you know years ago years ago i was in lynchburg virginia and that was the uh headquarters for a guy named jerry falwell who was uh had built a great church and very political influential they called themselves the moral majority it was pretty unique back then but i met this guy by the name of wally bibi and i had no idea who he was and he invited me to one of his sessions and i went there and there was lots of people there lots of pastors and i didn't know it but wally bibi was considered probably the greatest sunday school man alive in america at the time and i'll never forget he said if you want your church to grow go to multiple services and that crowd resisted him and they thought he was crazy but here we are all these years later and all wally knew what he was talking about because this church is a prime example in the midst of this crazy virus thing wow have we had a lot of new people come into the church and so i i want to thank you i i don't get to do this often but as your pastor i i want to thank you for your faithful support of this church it has been amazing i this corona is is one of the best things that ever happened to this church because we have more people doing their giving online now than ever before and it's more faithful than it's ever been and i personally would like us to come to the day to where we don't do public offerings to where we could just all be disciplined enough to do it online and uh but that that we could possibly get there but brother parsons i don't know if he's here in this service his son-in-law brother carver joel carver and his wife jenny you know they um the evangelist and their car in minnesota their engine blew up and it was eight thousand dollars to fix it and and we were able to help and and so we never said anything about that to you but uh brother and sister rodriguez are here stephen raise your hand emily these are these are these people are precious they're just precious went to malaysia and then this crazy thing happened they had to come home they have three young children she's having another baby in november they have a deep burden for the mission field they're in limbo right now they've been at the campground for a while they're going to be here soon at least until her baby is born we please pray for these folks because we don't know what's going on and and while they're here you want to partner with us for them so that we can help because it's this is just all up in the air right now and we want to make sure that we do our part to help them and we're building a church in uganda right now and um i just made another commitment yesterday to something in paraguay and we don't come to you and say give us give us give us give us we just thank you for your faithful giving and we're able to support things not only here but really around the world and so thank you thank you thank you for your faithfulness to our precious first church canada we want you to know we love you and we're going to be so glad when we're together so glad so glad when we're back together again and this has been another amazing week and there's been such i just focus on good things right now you just stay disciplined and stay focused there's going to be more than enough things out there to steal your joy don't just just focus on good things right now and we'll get through this and we are getting through it but jesus name well i do this out of honor for the word okay and i don't ever want it so would you stand one more time john chapter 4 so jesus came again into cana of galilee where he made the water wine there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at capernaum when he heard that jesus was come out of judea into galilee he went unto him and besought him that he would come down and heal his son for he was at the point of death jesus said except you see signs and wonders you won't believe he said look you've got to come to my house or my boy's going to die and jesus said unto him go thy way thy son liveth the man believed the word that jesus had spoken unto him and went his way as he was now going down his servants met him and said your son's okay your son's living he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend when did my boy start getting better and they said yesterday about one in the afternoon and the seventh hour the father knew that it was at the same hour in which jesus said thy son liveth and himself believed and his whole house this is again the second miracle that jesus did when he came out of judea my subject today is a son a servant and a samaritan god bless you you may be seated this is at the end of john's books john of course wrote five of the books in the new testament but this is the right at the end of john 21 and verse 25 there are also many other things which jesus did the witch if they should be written every one i suppose even the world itself could not contain the books he didn't say they could be written he said they should be written they should be written we there are there are repeated places in the in matthew mark luke and john when it says the whole city came to see him when you read the story about the man let down through the roof they had to do that because everybody there was they couldn't get the guy in and listen to this verse in the book of mark wherever he entered into villages or cities or country they lay the sick in the street and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment and as many as touched him were made whole i i don't this whole story fascinates me because if you know your bible there was a woman with the issue of blood and she had been hemorrhaging for many many many years and you couldn't go into church during that time well her time wasn't once a month it was years and so she grabbed the hem of his garment when she did instantly she was healed off the top of my head it's matthew chapter 9. if you go to matthew 14 it says and many be sought in if they would just touch the hem of his garment i found a verse years ago that that is so appropriate in the last book of the old testament malachi it says the son of righteousness but it's cool the way it does son it's capital s-s-u-n not s-o-n it said the son of righteousness will arise with healing in his wings the word that's translated wings there is a hebrew word kanaf it it is proper of course to translate it wing but it's got additional meanings and one of the additional translations of the word kanov is edges or borders of the garment and it's saying the son of righteousness is going to come and he's going to have healing in the borders of his garment and that woman was a was wasn't even a jew and she she was healed and when that happened it opened up an entire new ministry that people said if i could just touch them here they're laying these people in the street hoping that just his shadow would touch him now just think with all the social media and all the stuff that we have now if jesus was in this room right now it would just take a moment and i promise you them uber guys would be charging a hundred dollars to bring somebody from troy beaumont three miles down here to come in his shirt this place the grass every it city had come jesus would empty the hospitals because it was like if if i could just get around him it's just a shadow wow you know and and it's just that there are you know john said there were lots of things he did we we've lost them to history and um we we don't know what else he did however there are 37 miracles recorded in the bible that jesus did i personally believe every one of them have a reason and if if we could take the time and i've always wanted to take the time maybe i'm in a different season of my life now i may be able to start putting some of this down i always kind of wanted to do that but i wasn't disciplined enough to do it and but i believe that every miracle that jesus did has a specific purpose and has something totally different to teach us about the healing aspects of what jesus is capable of doing and it's like in the old testament there were seven festivals of israel i passover unleavened bread first fruits pentecost trumpets atonement i believe those seven festivals all give us an aspect of the church when you get into leviticus the first five chapters there's the five offerings and you've got the the burn offering and and the peace offering and the sin offering and the trespass offering and the meal offering every one of them have show us something different that he did when you study the sacrifices in the tabernacle every one of them show a different aspect of what he and it's the same thing with the miracles in the new testament i think if we really took the time there are 37 different things that the word is trying to teach us that he's capable of doing and there are things that possibly have a different name now than back then but there's these things are written that you might believe that he is the christ the bible said he came in the fullness of time not a fragment of time by the time he showed up i i and what he did is there to show he can do anything you know because i i i messed with people's minds years ago and i said i don't serve a biblical jesus we don't serve a biblical jesus and i wasn't rebuking them i was making a statement of fact and people thought that was so strange what i said but i said let me explain something to you the bible says in john 7 in the last day the great day of the feast jesus stood and cried saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink for he that believeth on me as the scripture has said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this spake of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive watch for the holy ghost was not yet given because jesus was not yet glorified if matthew mark luke and john all end with the same story the death and the resurrection of jesus and he leaves that after he left he was glorified we had a little shot of it in matthew 17 on the top of the mountain but when john saw him years later he said he was like the son of man he said i knew it was jesus but wow and and so what we have in matthew mark luke and john all of this happened before the resurrection all of this happened before he was glorified we're on the other side of the cross which means not only do we have the right to believe for everything that's in that bible there's stuff that isn't in that bible that he's capable of doing jesus is bigger than the book and the book pretty much takes us to his resurrection and he left i'm not serving the jesus that's in matthew mark luke and john i'm serving the jesus on the other side of the open tomb that's an extra biblical jesus that's why the book of acts is so powerful and so it's like shakespeare you know i got fascinated with a guy years ago named shelby foote ken burns if you ever see any ken burns documentaries they're all amazing but ken burns did one on the civil war and he he used a guy named shelby foote and so i got fascinated with shelby foote and so i saw them interview shelby foote and he said if you were talking to writers what would you say is mandatory for writers to read he said oh shakespeare no pro hands down he said shakespeare's the master uh it's like if i remember right most people have a working vocabulary of about uh i think it's like eight to ten thousand words churchill was pretty special they figured churchill had a vocabulary of at least 14 to 16 000 words shakespeare in his writings has a vocabulary of over 20 000 words and what's really cool is that almost a third of them he invented they weren't even in the english language until he wrote them down that's how brilliant this guy was and and and you know he wrote the five they called what the tragedies you know uh romeo and juliet macbeth you know king lear that's five of them and so it's obvious shakespeare wrote those five tragedies but you you can't limit him to those five books he's the author of them books he's bigger than books and it's the same thing with jesus he's bigger than the bible he can do everything that's in there and more and and and and so he begins his ministry in nazareth i mean the demoniac of gadara or no not when he started his ministry in nazareth and that's where that's luke 4 you know when he read isaiah 61 and he closed it and he said this day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears because if you read isaiah 61 it talks about the acceptable year of the lord and and he reads that in luke 4 what was that that's leviticus 25 that's what's known as the jubilee year every 50 years was a jubilee year which you you got you got your land back you got the you got the family farm back because real estate is a big deal to god and still is and so it's obvious the first year of the ministry of jesus was a jubilee year and he appropriately reads isaiah 61 and then he says this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears and what he was saying was you're never going to have to wait 50 years again to get back what you've lost am jubilee and so when he gets done they're in shock and they're going i never heard anybody preach like that authority wow and then some smart mouth says wait a minute isn't that the kid that his dad used to have a carpenter's shop here oh mary that's mary's boy and it said they besought him that he would leave and they when you read the story of the demonic of gadir matthew 8 mark 5 luke 8 1 i think it's matthew matthew said there were two that met him out of the tombs no one i've never heard anybody preach about that the other guy so two guys meet the same jesus hear the same sermon one gets delivered and the other stays bound i've seen that happen in church people hear the same singing same sermon come to the same order some get delivered some go home the same way i've seen that it used to frustrate to me until i read that said well jesus had people like that let me explain something to you if you get frustrated about the church not even god could create a perfect heaven even in heaven there was lucifer not even jesus could pick 12 good ones if jesus can't pick 12 good ones then who am i and that gave me hope because i realized there's there's a lot of variety when you're dealing with the human condition it fascinates me though when those demons spoke out of that man they said jesus of nazareth what have we have you come to torment us before our time so it's obvious even the devils knew nazareth was supposed to be ground zero nazareth was supposed to be the headquarters of jesus ministries incorporated but they pushed him out and he went down the road and he ends up in a place around that's called capernaum capernaum is a fascinating place because there are 37 miracles recorded that jesus did over two-thirds of all those miracles happened either in capernaum or on the verge on the outskirts of it chorazin bethsaida this is cane it's all so all capernaum in other words all this could have happened in nazareth i mean capernaum this is where peter lived this is where andrew lived this this this is this is he could have called his disciples out of nazareth but they came out of capernaum and over two-thirds of the miracles that we have in the bible happen in this one localized area in a matter of fact in in matthew 11 it says woe unto thee cho raisin which was a fishing village about two miles from capernaum and woe unto you beseda same thing he said if the mighty works that were done in you had been done in some other places they would have repented and it's a powerful powerful deal because jesus does it's uh what is it john 4 jesus does his first miracle at a wedding i i mentioned that last i mean i i checked is jameson in church today i don't think he's in church he wasn't in church last sunday got married on saturday should have been there two years pastor preached the next day but he was gone let me say this to you very soon james is going to bring his sweetheart here her name is chelsea many of you know her you be sweet to her this is all new to her this is not where she was raised her family's not here she's going to need a kind group of people and i know you're up to that so you embrace her and and love on her because she's got a lot of new things to deal with when she comes back and so jordan and and they're getting married when are you getting married jordan thursday we're going to do our best not to tie a slipknot you know told him that but it's just a lot of lot of changes and and jesus the bible begins with a wedding it ends with a wedding jesus don't by chance jesus began his ministry at a wedding and so he does this thing and it's amazing turns water into wine and then he goes and what i've read to you is he's back now the second time and buddy all heard about the wedding they've all heard about it and this this nobleman this wealthy guy comes up to him and he says my son's dying would you come home and heal my boy and she said no i'm not going to do that he said you got oh if you don't see something you won't believe jesus is about to test this man's faith because he's going to ask him to believe something he can't see he said go thy way thy son liveth and it's very specific the man believed the word that jesus spoke obviously he left it's a trip he started one o'clock the previous afternoon i don't know what time he got home the next day but before he can get in the yard the servants are jubilant master your son's getting better and it's what's the exactness of the word would you tell me exactly when he started getting better oh yeah fever broke one o'clock yesterday and he knew that was the exact moment when he obeyed the word and started going back home to have a miracle that he hadn't seen yet. watch you want something to happen in your life today i'm teaching you the word of the lord you have to make a choice if you're going to obediently respond to the word because we want to see something and then we'll believe and she said no don't work that way i'm going to give you my word you act on it obediently then i'll give you something can you act without seeing it do you know the bible said faith is the evidence of things not seen if while we're in church today there was a big rainstorm and then the sun came out by the time i got done and you walked out there and you stepped in a big water puddle none of you would say oh look this is evidence that it's gonna rain if you went out in the woods and and saw a ring of rocks and some charred black sticks none of you would say oh look this is evidence there's going to be a fire here soon if you if you happen to pick up a spent cartridge of of a gun none of you would say oh look here's evidence somebody's going to shoot a gun evidence is post-mortem evidence always happens after the rain after the fire after the gun went off listen again faith is evidence your faith is actual evidence not that something's going to happen but that something did already happen [Applause] hallelujah it's it's amazing and and so so jesus leaves and he comes back about two weeks later and it's in matthew 8 and there's a soldier that meets him and he says my servant is at home grievously tormented jesus does the exact opposite two weeks before this guy said would you please come home with me he said no i ain't coming on with you i'm gonna speak the word thy son my son liveth go home two weeks later he comes back to this city and and this soldier no not a jew this is this is a roman soldier who says my servant is dying jesus does the exact upset oh i'll come home with you and he said oh no no you don't need to do that watch what he says i am a man under authority i say to one guy go he goes i say to another come he comes then he says this just speak the word only just do what you did two weeks ago it worked for the nobleman it'll work for me jesus said i never seen faith like this no jew ever figured this out but this roman guy figured it out because he you know this is a soldier he's a century he's got a hundred men under him and he's so if i gotta move boxes i can do that if i get to move wagons i can do that but i'm out of my league here i can't move sickness but i see something in you that i i live by if if i give a man a commandment and an order and he doesn't obey me he doesn't just have me to deal with he's got my commanding officer who gave me the order and he said i think you're a man under authority just like me did you get the understanding if you're here today and you're struggling with something in your life let me ask you a simple question are you under authority or not do you have anybody in your life with veto power that whether you understand or even agree with it if they tell you no don't you do that would you obey if you don't have somebody like that you better get somebody like that watch you're never going to have authority over things in your life until you are willing to voluntarily submit yourself to authority you won't you won't i've never been the kind of pastor that said it's my way or the highway i'm god lord boss and the big in this church i'm the pastor so you're going to obey me for else i've never been that way but i am going to tell you this sooner or later you're going to need a pastor in your life to a lot of people i'm just a preacher but to some people i'm their pastor which means they're trusting me with the bluest of the blue chips their soul it's a big deal trust me it's a big deal so don't enter into it lightly don't don't just do it because i'm handsome don't just do it you need to check this out you need to find out am i for real or not let me tell you what every catholic priest ain't a pedophile every pentecostal preacher isn't going to run off with the secretary check me out we had a guy came to this church several years ago and he was wealthy he had hundreds of rental properties all over this area and he came for several months got the holy ghost got baptized great guy and he said could i have a meeting with you sure and he said do you know who my sister is and i said no and he told me her name and i went oh i know who your sister is now and and i got to be careful how i word this but she's a billionaire she owned multiple banks i knew where she lived she had a helipad on her house had a fleet of planes wealthy probably the wealthiest woman in the midwest he said my sister was catholic when she found out that i was coming to this church she was furious and he said have you noticed anything unusual in the last couple of months and i said no i don't think so he said my sister hired the best private investigators in chicago and they've been following you for three months said pastor hoffman they got your w-2 statements they they they've got video recordings they've they hacked your emails after three months of following you they told my sister he's clean and she said everybody's got secrets somewhere and they said not this guy we have been through him everywhere there's nothing there and i said that's not a secret to me i've lived that way my secretaries have the passwords to my computer i don't have secrets and it's just like and he had to move because of working out but but but it was just a great story about you know if you live clean you don't have anything to worry about i asked sean cabot you know he he came here he's the pastor in port euron he's an attorney and i said sean i'm watching some of these trials and things on youtube they're asking people questions about stuff that happened 20 years ago i said how can you possibly ask somebody about something they said 20 years ago he said oh you're going to love this answer pastor hoffman he said if you always tell the truth then you know exactly how you answered that question 20 years ago because you haven't changed he said if you're a liar and he said that's how we get them that's how we catch them on the stand they're telling lies all the time they can't keep track of all their lies and he said that's how we fool them so the deal is just tell the truth see jesus is the way the truth i was taught all my life we're pentecostals we have the truth which means acts 2 38. got news for you that don't say that because the truth is not a doctrinal position the truth is a person jesus said i'm the way i'm the truth i'm the light and that's why that's why repentance is so powerful you know i see people i don't want to repent because if i really spill my guts he's not gonna like me anymore i got news for you you're never gonna surprise jesus you know he's never gonna say oh shoot harold i expected it out of everybody else but not you when i get down on my knees i'm sorry jesus but i did that no you you did you're never going to surprise the lord nothing is more attractive to the truth than the truth and when you just it's not about humiliating yourself remember jacob jacob here's an angel come on come on now do you think an angel was so stupid that he doesn't know his name and he said what's your name uh i'm a liar thank you now we can deal with this now now you're going to be israel you think the angel knew exactly what his name was he wasn't confessing to the angel he was confessing to himself and willing to openly admit i'm a lying rat i had a boy now i'm going to make you a prince so don't quit resisting repentance that's why angels rejoice the moment somebody gets baptized and filled with the holy if they repent angels rejoice and what pentecost say well you got to get bedtime got to spit that holy god and speaking of them tongues we ought to be like angels we ought to rejoice when somebody repents because if they really do repent they will get baptized they will be filled with the spirit and this stuns me because here's this here's this soldier that figures this out i'm a man under authority you're a man under authority jesus was a man under yeah there's god the man christ jesus and then there's man and woman he's got this dual nature he's a man under authority i was talking to a good friend on the phone yesterday and he was having some difficult days and i told him about something that happened to me a while ago and i was i was very hurt i had some people gang up on me i thought it was uncalled for i'm talking about other preachers and and i i got involved with with with trying to see that detroit became a district of its own and i told i said i feel like i'm in a civil war with blue pants and a gray shirt it's just like i'm getting shot every time i turn around and i came here right there and i just poured out my heart and said god i i'm being accused of stuff i didn't say i'm being accused of stuff i didn't do i like mike talked about pentecostal leave there's pentecostal cousin too it's not the words you think of but preachers have a way of balling you out and and and i was called things and there were things that were said to me that that hurt me deeply and i came here to pray and i'm just pouring out my heart saying god they said this about me they did this to me and and the lord spoke to me and said well you said you wanted to be like me and it's like no no no no i want to walk on water i want to open up deaf ears man and he said they pulled my beard out they spit on me i was wounded in the house of my friends i was a man of sorrows acquainted with grief you really want to be like me there you go and it's like this this this is amazing to me because he he said just speak the word only and jesus said go thy way watch as thou hast believed so be it done unto thee watch and his servant was healed in the self same hour it's just as exact as that first story i've told you the story of the son now we're into the servant but it's always the same he speaks the moment you obey something changes the self-same hour so can i see has anyone here ever seen a leper have you ever seen anybody with leprosy is there anybody me i'm the only one i saw it in india no it's not what you see that you'll remember it's the smell it attacks the furthest extremities from your heart so fingers go toes fall off lobes of your ear end of your nose the extremities are they just literally and there's 10 of these guys and and and it's fascinating because it's in the book of luke and and he says you need to go to church go show yourself to the priest and you've got to understand if you've got leprosy you don't go to the temple they'll kill you and so go show yourselves to the priest this is what it said watch as they went they're healed and one of them who's a samaritan he runs back to jesus and jesus said where's everybody else uh you didn't ask us to come back hey dummy i just healed you of leprosy i shouldn't have to ask you to come back i could take you example after do you know nobody ever asked david to fight goliath i'll give you a million bucks if you can give me the verse where all saul did it no he didn't or his brother no there's not one verse in the bible that says somebody asked david to fight he said i'll do that here here is this this is stunning to me and he it said he okay one one one one of these places would he said he came back worshipping him jesus says this thy faith hath made me whole now this is not original with me but the first time i ever heard it it really moved me i'm hoping that maybe there's somebody in this crowd today that's never heard this because it just may move you as much as it moved me the first time i heard it because it's one thing to get healed it's another thing to be made it's not the same so they they're all healed but they're eating breakfast the next morning and his nine pals are trying to hold a spork with no with nubs and he's over there going and they're going dude where'd you get the fingers and he said looky here and he puts his foot up on the table said i got all my toes back too and they're saying where'd you get the fingers and toes and he said i went back i'm i'm so grateful you're here today because there's no doubt in my mind jesus in one way or another has healed everyone in this room at one time or another but you came back here you are [Applause] oh that's oh oh is that amazing but you would come back again and again and again and again what let them let me let me give you a revelation they let the guy down through the roof here's a guy maybe in a coma because he said he sold their faith not the guy so so jesus looks at this crowd this huge crowd he said what's easier to do heal this body or forgive sins nobody will answer here's these pharisees in the back saying only god can forgive sin but they're saying it in their heart and jesus looks at him and says why reason you these things in your heart and they're going they answered their own question it's like ashley always tells me it's rhetorical dead it's rhetorical here's the question who can forgive sins except god the answer is in the question watch watch listen with revelation but that ye may know that the son of man hath power on earth to forgive sin i say get up rise take up your bed and walk dude's eyes pop open wham he's off of that bed worshiping god did you get the revelation when years ago at the old church i had a call we had church at two ten o'clock sunday morning six o'clock sunday evening it was a long day and church was over and i was in the office by myself and i get a call from this lady and she said pastor hoffman i know you're a new pastor there but my brother just had a heart attack he he he's in troy or he's in royal oak beaumont would you be willing to go pray for my brother he won't live through the night and i said yeah sure i'll go and she said well there's something i need to tell you i said okay she said my brother lives in the house right beside of your property i said okay good well now make it convenient for him to come to church she said now you understand the man that pastored the church before you always had a tent revival on the grass every summer and there's a noise ordinance in madison heights nine o'clock one minute after nine my brother called the cops on your church when they had the tent revival because he said they were bothering him he hates your church are you still willing to go yeah so i went over there an area is looking like a plumbing experiment with all these tubes and all these monitors and stuff and there's this very obnoxious nurse and you could feel it one of the hardest places to operate in faith as a hospital because it's totally sold out to sense knowledge and this woman looks at me like so what do you think's going to happen when you put your stupid little hand on his head we're the medical people you understand that uh we we've been to college you've got that stupid little bottle of oil what what do you think's going to happen and and and i said ma'am i'd like you to leave and she said excuse me and i said no i don't think i will i'd like you to leave you don't believe what i believe and your doubt is destroying faith in this room i want you to leave and people said oh that was true jesus did that with jairus's daughter he threw him out get out of here some of them might have been many as apostles you don't believe get out of here all of a sudden he brings that little girl out and said whoa i believe now and so i shut the door and i looked at that man i said my name's harold huffman do you know who i am i said i pastor the apostolic church on gardenia where your house is do you know who i am now i said do you know you're not going to live through the night you're going to be dead in a couple hours do you understand that will you give me permission to pray for you if god heals you and raises you up will you give me your word that you'll serve god and come to church for the rest of your life so i prayed and then them they went nuts all their monitors they finally came and said you got to leave now you're killing this guy this is god's honest truth if i got to answer to god for this his sister called me the next day and said they let him go this morning i'm not done i've never seen him again i've never seen that man again he got healed and that's all he wanted you you got to understand if you've ever been healed in your look at this church just what's happened in the last couple months i mean brother pacheco should be dead but he's cancer-free greg vandewater should be dead but he's cancer-free jay boren should be dead but he's cancer-free i keep going i give you example after example and i appreciate you worshiping but did you get the revelation did you get the insight jesus is saying every time i heal somebody's body i'm trying to get your attention to help you understand i want to fix the sin problem i'll fix the obvious so that you can believe me for the for the invisible do you know corinthians says we look at things which are not seen because if you're not willing to see the invisible you're never going to see the miraculous i'm teaching you the word here's a son that had a close relationship here's a servant that had a different kind of here's a samaritan that's got no relationship but it doesn't matter all three of them did the same thing the word was spoken they obediently responded something changed here's the lepers they look the same they feel the same they smell the same the only thing that's saying where had been spoken so here you are today i'm teaching you the word of the lord are you willing i can't burglarize or are you willing to obediently respond to the word because if you are according to that bible your faith is evidence in the self same hour that you're willing to believe the word sentence changes not going to say something changes does your marriage need an overhaul is your family in trouble do you need a job are you willing to be obedient to the word and believe something changed today some changed hallelujah stand with me hallelujah hallelujah if you're in this room and thank you so much for but if you're in this room right now and you would like someone to lay their hands on you let me tell you what the bible says if anyone is sick let him call for the elders of the church and it says who will anoint them with oil watch what it says and the prayer of faith will save the sick and if they've committed any sin it will be forgiven oh that's a good deal that means not only can you get your body healed today if you'll submit to an elder laying because it's an act of faith it's an act of faith i've always said you know i i can have holy ghost bubble gum and people said that's i was watching river knight last week he's been dead for years reverend ike was a fan he said you can't lose with the stuff i use you know and it was he was so controversial but but i i could tell you i i'm going to sell you holy ghost bubble gum and you cool i'm on the third bubble that you break you're going to speak in tongues and everybody say i'm crazy but i promise you sooner or later somebody's going to come to this church that's really hungry they're going to be bowing her eyeballs out and they're going to go one two bam and away they go it's a trigger of faith that's what lay in not just anybody not just anybody i got to be careful because i'm too loose sometimes but in the bible in that book of acts not just anybody had a ball of oil it was an elder who had the blessing of the pastor and the pastor saying when i sent somebody to your house and they got a ball of oil they have my blessing on their life i'm not just sending any old reprobate to your house i'm telling you these guys are clean i'm telling you they got a prayer life i'm telling you they can touch god well i got to have the preacher you got to get over preacher religion this ain't about preacher religion it's the prayer of faith we'll save the sick and the lord shall raise them up you get in the old testament elijah dies and and elisha has got his pastor's sport coat on he's got the mantle on he comes back and they said oh where's the boss oh he said he ain't going to believe this man dude went up in a chair he's gone and they said maybe he fell out you read it said the kings for three days they looked for elijah and i used to preach his message looking for the body of elijah one day harold's gonna be gone i'll get too old to do anything i'll die are you gonna preach your religion and say you know how pastor hoffman wow is he something special got to get your eye off the messenger and get it on the message [Applause] you've got to get this i i i know churches that are personality driven and when that guy's gone the whole thing it's gone it would be the greatest testimony to my ineptness is when the day comes that i hang up my spurs this place just shrivels up to nothing then i didn't build a very good foundation i want to build a foundation that when i'm gone not only are you here but multitudes of others have come because of the foundation that we've laid to build something amazing in this city watch elijah goes up mantle comes down elisha has the mantle he comes up to the river and he doesn't say where's elijah and he said where's elijah's god and he hits the river with the mantle and it opens up see the river is a great picture of the world bob said voice of many waters i can give you all kind of examples like this see the the world out there they don't know who harold hoffman is but i'll tell you what they will recognize anointing they don't care who the pre are you anointed do you have the mantle on your life that's what matters we've taught you the word you know there's a scripture it says when the wise not stupid guy wise men when the wise men came to where jesus was they they worshiped they presented their gifts and then it says this they returned into their own country a different way that's what we want to have happen today i want you to go home different i want a different person to leave this room than came in here an hour and a half ago why because you're willing to obediently submit yourself to the word something will change in your life today if you're willing to do that if you want somebody to lay hands on you come here have you ever been healed great how about being made have you repented great it's not enough to read you need to be baptized in the name of the lord you need to be filled with the holy spirit you need him to take such control over you that he literally magnifies himself in a language you don't know that's power that that that that's that's power we're gonna pray lord jesus i am so grateful just to be alive right now i am i am so uh my sweetheart's having a birthday i i i my my children are healthy my grandchildren are healthy i i i am i am with this amazing group of brothers and sisters in this room here right now i've just done this for too long lord i know there are people in this room that are going to be changed i know that what i've taught here today has resonated with somebody in this room right now and they're going to grab a hold of this lesson and say i heard the word now i'm going to obey and i believe that when i do something's going to change in that self-same moment when i obey lord i don't need to see it i just need to hear it amen just speak to me lord i will bear your word and then i'm going to see something magic amazing and miraculously [Music] oh [Music] [Music] right [Music] [Music] hallelujah give birth to something today don't let that thing keep squirming in your spirit let that thing live today let that thing cry out today for the first time [Music] [Music] oh [Music] jesus said [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] be impossible i believe [Music] i believe in you i believe i believe [Music] you

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