Bishop David Maxwell - The Unstoppable Church

[Applause] I'll greet you in that irrepressible Anne imitable name Lord Jesus Christ the wellspring and the fountain by which all of our blessings flow we give honor to the - this prelate this leader par excellence in the person of my friend Bishop Charles Johnson that are celebrated and to the ambrosia of this house elect lady Johnson we would be remiss if we did not give honor to Suffolk and Bishop Douglas amen god bless you to the College of preachers that grace our platform and to this august body baptized believers as we celebrate 84 years of uninterrupted unimpeded uncompromised an unfailing Ministry of this great institution the Morningstar Apostolic Church I think I got the name right I want you to look with me in the Book of Revelations the first chapter I want to speak something that is apropos that there might be solidarity and unity in the house let us all rise for the reading of God's Word revelations one and eight I am Alpha and Omega the beginning and the end saith the LORD which is and which was and which is to come the Almighty hi John also am your brother and companion in tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ was in the owl called Patmos for the word of the God and his testimony of Jesus Christ I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day and heard behind me a great voice as a trumpet saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last without seeing right in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia unto Ephesus and to Smyrna unto Pergamos unto Thyatira unto Sardis and unto Philadelphia and Laodicea but Jesus Christ we ask for your impartation and divine divine revelation of your word give us a message now as only you can in Jesus name Amen may be seated amen I want to use for a thought today entitled the unstoppable Church the unstoppable Church stoppable Church appropriate for this occasion thank you I'm right there this occasion as we celebrate 84 years kaleidoscopic live through the lens of history we recognize the Herculean labor the foundation of the beachhead but success is not what you do success is measured by how those who succeed you continue to be successful and it is without controversy it is without debate Bishop Johnson has continued that success not only standing upon the shoulders of a giant he himself has become a giant in the kingdom ministry the organization AFF I and which used the prelate and founder which this church has so graciously shared your pastor not just within the confines of this domicile but to the far reaches the far corners of the world it is noteworthy that God has sustained you through all of these 84 years without having a raison d'être a summary of your history I'm just looking at it from practical experience it has not always been easy I was listening to the testimony where it appeared that banks and secular systems had come to somehow impede the will and purpose of God and God miraculously intervened and not only did he intervene I'm fine not only did he intervene he extended and showed himself strong to that we celebrate and the powers at the Surrealism the powers of confrontation and obstruction but not just in the world itself but I am certain there were those that were in opposition even within the kingdom the body of Christ spirits of jealousy spirits of antagonism that resulted in not wanting to see this movement succeed but God was on your side and if God be for you he is more than the world against the church is predicated upon the utilization of human instruments that are in the hands of God God does not singularly make it such that the church will rise and fall by what he does but he made it so that if those who submit themselves to the will of God that God would show himself strong it is indeed a cooperative effort it was the 16th chapter of the book of Matthew somewhere around the 18th verse that he said to Peter that upon this rock I will build my church and the very gates of Hell shall not prevail against it it was God using a man to be the fulcrum by which he would move his church forward and then in the first chapter of the book of Acts the eighth verse as he was preparing to leave the planet Earth I'm certain there was a lot of this consolation a lot of angst and anxiety that the bodily presence of Immanuel God with us would no longer be physically with us but he assured them in the 14th chapter of the book of John that I would not leave you comfortless but I'm coming to you again and I'm going to abide with you forever and in the first first chapter in the eighth verse of the book of Acts he said I want you to go back to Jerusalem and wait until you endued with power from on high because I'm going to give you power to be my witnesses after the Holy Spirit has come upon you not only did this create a power to witness and to be effective it also created and organizing the element that put the church together and therefore the church moved with great momentum the second chapter of the book of Acts reveals the extent of that movement with the descendency of the Holy Spirit organizing the people into a spiritual organism these men who were not learning did not matriculate through academia did not have the grand eloquence of speech but had the power of God this is not to cast an aspersion upon eloquence articulation or education but beyond that which you have learned from the secular you need to have a relationship with God for he said is not by might nor by power but by my spirit saith the Lord it's important to know that the early onset of the church he did not use the cerebral articulate urbane Paul to be the leader because it could have been suggested that it was through his wisdom his knowledge his Roman citizen tree his eloquence to understand the logicians and the philosophers of Greece that that's how the church was built but God used clean ordinary simple men who were not a part of the religious aristocracy were not a part of the educational a man body of that day but just plain men that for 3 and 1/2 years he nurtured he taught he tutored he meant that he developed he brought to his self and revealed to them the deep things of God and so when he stood up in the second chapter to refute the error that this was some type of crazy fanatical cult speaking in another tongue engendered by the drinking of some type of intoxicant but he said this was that which was prophesied by the Prophet Joel that in the last days I'm going to pour out my spirit upon all flesh so he preached with authority preached with great fervor preached with great anointing he preached with great conviction and as a result the church expanded exponentially through the preaching of this a man rough cut this rough person in the person of the Apostle Peter the church grew exponentially it began to grow with great proliferation and so the church expanded itself the Peter was a mortal man and Peter eventually died somewhere around 66 AD in Rome he was crucified upside down and I'm certain great anxiety permeated the church that our leader Peter was dead now but by this time Paul had ascended to a position of leadership Paul who was trained in the culture sitting at the feet of Galileo Paul who was versed in multiple languages Greek Aramaic Hebrew Paul who had pedigree Roman citizen tre Paul who a man knew the law said as a related to touching the law I was blameless a man I was a Jew a Hebrew of the Hebrews how I was all of that and a bag of chips however Paul had a conversion experience the conversion experience knocked him off of his beast and then Paul was converted by the power of God and so Paul is still there he's still the titular lead of the church but Paul meets his fate at Nero's chopping block and Paul is dead there's only one apostle left now that had the privilege to interact with Jesus and so the church though it was going through a people and consternation because leadership had died there was one that had not died and that was John the beloved Apostle John who was there who saw the miraculous powers of God is something to read about God it is something to hear about God it is something to study about God it is something to learn Christology and pneumatology and angelology and soteriology and ecclesiology but it's a difference in knowing the writer of those things so Peter is gone John is left by himself and as he is left by himself I'm certain he can recount where he has come from that's why it's important to always remember where you come from don't forget the bridge that brought you over don't forget the rock from which you were you don't forget the hole of the pit from which you were dug as we sit in the opulence of this beautiful a man facility that God have brought you and bless you to have but don't forget where you come from a man Ezekiel said it on this wise the birth was that of a Canaanite and your nativity was from the land of the canaanites hallelujah your mother was a your father was an amirite and your mother was a hittite and when you were dying laying in your own pool of blood God walked by and pick you up hallelujah and said don't die but Liz could have died could have died could have died but God said don't die hallelujah when everybody else pass you by God said you can't die and everybody else abandon you and forsook you God said you're not going died because I have a destiny for you my destiny for you that there is no power that's gonna be able to nullify that destiny that's why you cannot judge anything before its time you've got to learn how praise the name of God to wait Oh God hey man I said wait upon the law God will bring it out I don't care what your child is doing right now wait on God I don't care how dark it is wait on God I don't care how fast reading how a man frustrated you might feel wait on God cuz every time you look at yourself in the mirror you realize that I am a miracle from God it was not always like this but God brought me from a mighty long way God got me out of a horrible pit God breathed life into my body when it looked like I was gonna die God said you can't die cuz your grandmother prayed and I promised her and I'm gonna deliver you I promised your mother I'm gonna see you through and therefore I stand here today saying look whether Lord have brought me from praise the name of God hallelujah to God Amen God has brought us from a long way hey man it was not easy but he brought us it was not a man a bed of roses but he brought us that is the common denominator of those who now shout the victory is because of where God have brought you from hallelujah don't ever forget where you come from don't ever forget the bridge that brought you over don't ever forget amen somebody prayed for you somebody cried for you somebody praise the name of God amen lay down their face for you somebody talked to God for you and don't sit here like you've been perfect since you been born again yeah God but God in His mercy God in His love and God in his kindness it is by His mercies lamentations 322 that I'm not consumed not because she was so good but because he was so good not because of your righteousness but because of the righteousness of God that you stand here saying I thank God I'm not what I used to be but I thank God it was not because of my goodness but because of the goodness of God that I stand here shout hallelujah God not because of my goodness look at your neighbor and say not because of my goodness but because of his goodness hallelujah hey man I would have fainted David said in Psalms 27 cannot believe to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living I I would have died had I not believe God praise the name of God and so now we sit here in this place with all of the opulence and beauty of this grand cathedral but it is a time to reflect upon where God have brought us from so it is a celebration not just of right now but a celebration of yesterday hallelujah hey man as we celebrate where we come from many times the enemy want to suggest to us you're not gonna make it but I stopped by to tell you God have not brought us this far yes God have not brought us from where we come from where you come from but the black covered you should have been in prison but the blood covered she should have been in a padded cell somewhere but the blood covered she should have been a Muslim Buddhist huh a Shintoism or a Catholic but look where he have brought you from the hey man look what he did for you look at the door see open what is done for me my soul cries out hallelujah shake about three hands and say when I think about it I get happy so the devil throws everything throws a pass throws circumstances but somewhere I read many are the afflictions hmm yeah the righteous but the Lord delivered him out of them all thank you praise the name of God when I was my sole look back when men said I would fall god Sara I've already ordained you because whom I did for no I did predestinate and mo and whom I did predestinate her fear McCord and McCall are just a fad just a fad a glorified what didn't shall we say if God be for us he's more than the world against us huh shake your neighbor's head and say neighbor he's on my side he's on my side in the time of battle huh the reason I'm not dead right now is because I was covered by the blood [Applause] today the reason you know that when God got something for you you're not going to before you got a blessing for you you came God's got a miracle for you you can't can I get a witness here John they put him in a hole you know nothing hurt him no harm came on it I had the writer see nothing in March 16th the Sun shall follow them that believe in my name don't you know praise the name of God hallelujah when they took him out there was no harm so we gonna John up we don't put him Pappas and when we put him down he's not gonna be able to talk to number he's not in the spirit [Applause] [Applause] I'm gonna show you you would know that in the beginning what's the was the word what's in the 14th said the word was made flesh in the book of John he said these words he said show me but he said been with you for such a long that you don't know who I would you see me you've seen the father and the father is in me [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] what he said he would what catches [Applause] he's right now go into the three weeks Sparrow hospital waiting room the doctors win in the wing the doctor say we we didn't [Applause] I wish ahead a few hundred folks to shake your neighbors and say name stoppable huh I'm gonna praise him right I'm gonna praise him right right [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Applause] yeah I wasn't I was for somebody [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] take that neighbor for the last and say neighbor ha idem praise him from a fan praising for JA ha but now I'm go crazy for my enemy huh but heaven not for my enemies I wonder got this close to the love young and go praise Him you too mad [Music] but put your arm around you leap and say neighbor I've had some enemies that said I couldn't make y'all do it I've had some enemies that's where I would fail but thank God for my enemies they taught me how to trust in God they taught me [Laughter] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] whoa [Music] yes on the strength of the word holla new young ministers are coming hallelujah I had to do this in a and a little timeframe but God moved someone need a healing someone need a miracle come on down now hallelujah come on to this hot water baptism in the name of Jesus is right hallelujah hallelujah I want you you got water here right yes sir hallelujah come on down Nicholas come on down so you got daddy can baptize you come on down hallelujah hallelujah come on down yellow bow shot I'm shouting for you come on down hallelujah those that need healing in your body come on down come on down that's it come on down come on down yellow book shunned come on down [Music] hallelujah come on down hallelujah hello Bo shun - come on down I'll see y'all at five o'clock hallelujah take it to a different level hallelujah hey God come on come on anyone need to be healed come on down don't sit there sick don't sit there in poverty come on down come come come well the blood is money warm in your veins come come come you want to be baptized in Jesus name hallelujah I want you to come right now hallelujah see you coming I see you coming hallelujah come on down friend come on and let God do something in your life you know Bo shun in the name of Jesus come on down come on down you aren't stoppable your visions your dreams your aspirations your future what God has for you you cannot be stopped even when you feel that you're in a lonely place you might feel that you in a desperate place hello Bo shunda in the name of Jesus hallelujah hallelujah you might feel that you in a desperate place holiday spend my time I'll pray for that young man right there I'm gonna come down to pray thinking okay okay [Music] in the name of Jesus [Music] no one can stop your vision no one can stop your dreams no one can stop what God has for you I trust that you understand what I'm talking about God has something for you your future belongs to God your future is in cards hallelujah here abortion I want you to come down hallelujah cards go do something in your life the name of someone else someone else you're in the seat we want you to pray for those that are coming for those that are standing in the need of prayer we want you to pray hallelujah the Lord would have his way don't just be a spectator let's pray Saints let's pray we want God to have his way we don't want to just have church as usual we want God to do something in this place a man let's pray say this break [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] saturated with your brother's goal of every huddled on you from heart to heart in the name of Jesus in the name of jihad in the name of Jesus Bhuvan is half full God in the name of Jesus let no one leave the same way that they came

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Published: Tue Nov 05 2019