Bishop Noel Jones - Sunday Morning Worship - August 29, 2021

[Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so so [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh so so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] bye [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] the city of refuge is now back to in-person worship service every sunday at 10 a.m masks are required for non-vaccinated and vaccinated individuals streaming is still available on all our streaming platforms stop by the city of refuge for our free cover 19 tests with our new schedule monday through friday from 9am to 6pm and no appointment is necessary you can pre-register at cityofrefugela.org your test results will be emailed within 48 hours the noel jones early learning center is internet ready all our after-schoolers can now do their online classes and zoom meetings noel jones early learning center is a coveted safe environment staff and students temperatures are taken daily upon interest and we implement sanitation procedures throughout the day we use the stem science technology engineering and math curriculum and the abeka reading program for after schoolers and preschoolers bible lessons are taught daily with weekly chapel services we are now accepting new enrollment applications all child care substation programs are now accepted by crystal stairs pathways and children's home society would you please call 424-295-9440 for more information family we are gathering all photos of your loved ones who went home to be with the lord during the pandemic please email us a single photo of your loved ones with their full name and the date of their transition please email us at social media cityofrefugela.org all are welcome to attend our in-person or virtual sunday school every sunday with our new time at 8 45 a.m to 9 45 a.m pacific standard time join us for our weekly friday night dial in corporate prayer at 8 pm pacific standard time our prayer line number is 760-548-9309 immediately following today's service stop by the noel jones ministry table to purchase today's inspirational message you can also replay today's message on youtube on our youtube channel and official bishop noah jones bible class will be continuing every wednesday at 12 noon with the rebroadcast at 7 pm on all our streaming platforms please follow us on all our social media outlets and there are three to choose instagram city of refuge la or at bishop noel jones global on facebook city of refuge los angeles and on youtube at official bishop noah jones the noel jones ministry app is updated so please go to the doll jones ministry app and update the latest version calling all men it's that time again for the men's vegas excursion october 14-16 visit the men's ministry table in the lobby for more information i'm here [Music] and i'll talk to the brothers [Music] oh [Music] this concludes our weekly announcements please continue to wear your mask wash your hands and please make every effort to stay safe praise the lord everybody hallelujah praise the lord everybody praise god how many came to give god some praise today come on put those hands together [Music] i gotta praise the lord [Music] gotta everybody the lord everybody [Music] lord everybody [Music] birthday lord everybody everybody is [Music] [Music] together [Music] [Music] if you know it's worth it [Music] he's worthy of all the glory he is [Music] oh now come on everybody put your hands together if you know how god is worthy if you know him please is [Music] is [Music] come on everybody come on if you've got a reason this morning let me see you put them together [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that good in the evening [Music] hey here we go everybody this is your opportunity to make some noise from the rising of the sun to the setting down on the shame our god is one thing hallelujah oh come on he's been so good come on praise him for what he's done for you please him according to his excellent greatness that means as good as he's been to you that's how big your boy [Music] glory hallelujah hallelujah i will bless the lord at all times not just in the good time but at all times not just in the happy times but at all times shall continually be in my mouth hallelujah he's worthy he's worthy lord we love you today and we bless your name you are worthy of all the praise for your faithfulness for your lovingkindness for your mercy hallelujah we just come to say thank you thank you lord you haven't failed this yet thank you lord you haven't dropped us yet thank you lord you've never disappointed us thank you lord hallelujah [Music] [Music] i adore you and with my whole heart i will bless you lord i love you i adore you [Music] i say [Music] adore you and with my whole heart [Music] come on let it bring hallelujah come on everybody [Music] [Music] [Music] i will bless you [Music] come on everybody hallelujah is [Music] [Music] come on everybody say it together [Music] come on let it ring out [Music] [Music] this morning [Music] [Music] with the angels and we cry [Music] there's nobody like him nowhere [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] you died for me on calvary [Music] with all of my strengths [Music] [Music] thank you for always [Music] i'm the one that came back to say thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Music] one more time everybody we love you we love [Music] you we love you [Applause] we [Music] hallelujah come on everybody [Music] [Music] [Music] right here right here celebrate your king hallelujah hallelujah [Music] [Music] oh all over the sanctuary come on lift up your hands come on don't clap just lift up your hands and just just begin to tell god how wonderful he is how marvelous he is he's wonderful he's the best thing that ever happened to us hallelujah come on now all over the sanctuary put your hands together and give god a hand praise come on thank god for keeping us all week long amen you may have your seats in the presence of the lord it is good to see sister camille amen come on stay there let's give god a hand praise for our own sister camille amen and she's sitting down amen just want to remind everyone while in the sanctuary just keep keep on your mass amen and then immediately after the service amen there's a company who called city a refuge and gave us a pallet of free hands um hand sanitizer so after service we asked you if you can take just one bottle amen so we can have enough to go around so it's a free um bottle of hand sanitizer amen that you can keep in your purse all in your backpack or just on you so as you know we are living in a different time and we constantly have to wash our hands and so please um take one and then if we have leftovers on next sunday take another one amen amen and then immediately following this service amen we ask you everyone just go to the solomon corner and just ask them for today's special and then what i'm hearing they're giving away free ice cream sandwiches to everyone amen so please i know it's around 90 degrees outside amen so please get your free ice cream sandwich and support amen for those who are watching us online god bless you amen cd or refuge and for those who've ruined us around the world please receive our pastor bishop noel jones and he's come in his own way amen god bless you [Music] uh there's there's so much we have to pray for today i'm sure you're following what's happening in in new orleans in louisiana mississippi and and and sister patrice just went to texas and somebody her sister passed there my brother's hanging on no not sister patrice sister patrice's sister and uh then the reverend jesse jackson is awfully sick his wife is very very sick and we have to pray for just everyone who's dealing with all the situations and sister winchester evangelist winchester her daughter passed hurricane is coming cove it is here and that does not deal with all of the idiosyncratic things that we have to deal with on a day-to-day basis so if you're standing clothed and in your right mind [Music] father we come in the name of jesus and we want to give you praise and thanks we want to say to you lord that in the middle of what we have gone through and what we're facing we still can pray for somebody else we still can reach out our hands to somebody else to love somebody else because you've given us not only conquerors strength but you've made us more than conquerors we thank you now for your blood we thank you for the covering that you have given us the consolation that you extend to us and we just believe right now that in the middle of all that's going on you were still to be glorified and yet still to be worshiped and prayed so with everything that's in us we say thank you jesus bless now everyone on the list and those who aren't on the list i pray that you will touch everybody who needs it and we claim that victory right now in the name of jesus and if you believe god just lift your voice and give him a praise i'll tell you if you praise him you'll fear [Applause] i love to praise him [Music] i love to praise him i love to pray help me patrick praise him yeah i love to i love to praise [Music] i love to pray him yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] you may be seated amen now the interesting thing is i get all kind of phone calls you know and or email who can't reach me by phone somebody sent an email and said uh but the pastor we've got the place looking we've got lights everywhere and things shining around brother pastor reminds me of the club well i didn't ask them when last were they there but but i said since i don't go i might as well have a good goal right here uh it's it's really interesting that that we don't understand change i i had a meeting with the choir a couple weeks ago and we were talking about many things and change and moving from one thing to the other and becoming more user-friendly for millennials and seers because they're not assembling they're connecting and so you know what you do at night when you sit in bed going you're getting ready to sleep and you're going down just thumbing the thing and thumbing thumbing thumbing and then if you see something that you like you stop but it has to get your attention so when they're thumbing and thumbing and thumbing and thumbing and they run into the city of refuge well we have to get their attention and everybody else pretty much is doing it except those people who don't have the might i say the nerve so i said to the choir do you know the whipping i got for praise team to be singing in pants [Music] and now the pants aren't even baggy there's always a challenge to change and if the church is going to grow then the church has to make itself user-friendly to the people you're trying to reach you cannot keep preaching to a diminishing demographic you you've you've got to reach and uh it's an interesting concept when i went to become pastor oh not pastor but when i went to become the bishop of northern california and i had my first meeting with the pastors and i said well i know that all of you didn't want me that some of you probably didn't want me and when i walked in and sat down i had my two dogs on the pulpit what so you know whoever had a little grumble it didn't it didn't work for long but i told them i said look if you don't like me i still don't have a problem i'm going to do what i'm going to do and i'm going to work like i'm going to work and i told them i don't mind controversy if i had a problem with controversy first of all i wouldn't preach jesus and secondly i wouldn't have done the preachers of l.a [Music] i got i mean people would call me in the middle night and beat me up so understand that if you're going to progress you got to understand change the church going forward will never be what it used to be because you're going to have assemblers and you're going to have connectors those people who we're going to win now so i've got a couple young men coming in to give me some and their professional business people who do it all the time and i want to know how to make the people who will come over here once in a while because some of you decided what sunday you were coming anyway and some ministry things have to be in person you can't do all ministry over the internet so the question is how and what do we promote as an event to get those who connect together and if they're going to gather they have to gather with people who are open and people who don't think that because they assembly they're more holy than people who get who are on the internet now where is the baptismal i thought you all are apostolic and believe i don't want to get an email that says i'm we're baptizing people at somebody else's church well that's what deacons and trustees for to make sure unless we're not in the business of saving people all right all right i don't want that email again i want an email that says and and where is brother uh shang because he's been on me incessantly and i'm saying that's something deacons do amen decancy about the building and see about baptism and that ain't what i do amen while i'm doing that who's going to be studying the praise while i'm cleaning the floor and arranging the pulpit and talking to the musicians who's going to be studying uh all right we have elder l tumor or yes i think it's tumor senior and sister carolyn toomer from dorchester massachusetts amen where are these lovely people oh give god praise for them they're calling me all over the country and i told them i'm not flying until 2022 with the lord teres and uh i'm not going anymore in uh in a big plane i'm not going to find a [Music] i'm going to find what what aretha franklin always came in yeah she just took a bus somewhere she she wasn't flying anywhere uh give god praise for the indubitable bishop keith clark and his lovely wife denise stand up denise and where is your daughter give god grace for them being with us today i can't oh i like that my father told me when i was growing up or when i started preaching he said no you'll never be a success if you don't have a successor and so it's my time i tried to do it once before if you remember and that didn't work out but i did it early enough so that i would still have time to do it again and i hope i'm doing it early enough in case i got to do it again but you have to admit that god has gifted this young man and god has blessed him richly in the word and whooping days are over i mean you know [Music] those days are coming fast to an end if you don't have something to say today you can hang it up and i'm telling young preachers bishop jakes and i were talking the other day we were talking to a group of people on and we said if we had only to get online to start a church we spent nine million dollars on tv we did to put the people in the seat we spent nine million dollars i i i don't know how much he spent but if we could test to see whether or not we have passed the material because if you're online and you're preaching to the whole wide world and you can only get two people or comment after doing it for six years then that ought to tell you something amen if you got your face on instagram youtube what are the other stuff and you can only get two people alike if we had had that opportunity in my pastorate i have bought three churches in the little years i've been pastoring and didn't have the world at our feet things are shifting now some are saying the lord's coming so because of the pandemic but you had a pandemic a hundred years ago and he didn't come then so we don't know if we're in the we have always been in the last days the question is when are we going to get in the last of the last day and until then he said occupy shall i come amen you are not hanging your clothes on the line anymore you got a washing machine and if you don't have one of those you go to the laundromat things are shifting and if you don't shift with it we're all going to be left behind all right that was my little pastoral uh speech since i haven't been here it's offering time amen [Music] and to those of you who are watching us around the world we thank god for your participation and all that you have done and certainly i want to say to this congregation that when we were not even in the building you have been wonderful in your giving and the consistency that you have given and we thank god for you even doing pandemic when money was funny but not only money when our psyche because this time has brought a psychological debilitation that i don't think we have anybody has experienced who's sitting in this building right now and so we had to overcome the psychological aspect and then still operate in the things that god has given us and i said to you then and i'll say to you now we're not trying to break anybody's back and put anything on you that you're not able to do they have made a shift i was praying and hoping that they would extend the moratorium on evictions and now that's another thing many of us are going to have to face so if it's a choice between paying your rent and pick and paying your tithes uh you pay your rent first hear me when i tell you uh unless we gonna move you in here with them five children [Music] and and please don't tell me you you you got 700 your rent is a thousand and the preacher says well you don't have it all so give god the 700 and he'll give you the other 300 and no brother preacher i got 700 i need 300 i believe god gave me the 700. so don't let me have to need a thousand again because you took mine don't do that you got your children to take care of don't ship your money somewhere i'm gonna give you a story while you're getting your offering together i'll give you a story i'm a little garrulous today i haven't talked in a little while so i'm a little uh i'm a little garrison i father we bless your name and we thank you for every gift that never given and as you have smiled on us financially i pray now lord that you help us to think about what's going to happen in [Music] the wake of ida i pray god that you help us to think of the people in haiti and i pray that you help us to think about our boys who are dying in the street and all the things that we need to do and bless us now as we give [Music] cheerfully mindfully and will claim the victory financially in jesus name can somebody say it's [Music] done amen for those who's on the wings if you can please stand and please deposit your offering um in the center for those who sitting in the center please rise and come down front to deposit your offering please receive mrs camille [Music] [Music] and you were the only thing [Music] i'd still have everything oh if i lost everything and didn't have anything and you were the only thing [Music] i'd still have everything come on help me say [Music] and you were the only thing [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] heavenly father we thank you lord we thank you for your blessings father god we thank you for your grace and your mercy lord we ask that you continue to cover our bishop and keep him keep harm away from him oh father god we just thank you for all that you do for us and we ask that you bless these ties and offerings bless those who gave and those who couldn't on this day father god and we give you all the praise jesus mighty name we pray amen amen [Music] my everything [Music] you're the reason why i sing god i am [Music] this is where i want to be out of your feet in your arms to be with you forever [Music] to be with you [Music] to be with you forever i will see i will see you i will sing [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] the one [Music] forever [Applause] [Music] didn't have anything [Music] i lost everything [Music] is that your testimony this morning as long as i got jesus come on last time everybody i still have everything [Music] [Music] [Music] i was telling you a little story a while ago i didn't forget some years ago a wonderful citizen church said that she had received fourteen thousand dollars she said the lord has blessed me with fourteen thousand dollars and i said that's marvelous she said brother pastor the lord spoke to me and he said that i should give the church to fourteen thousand dollars i said well i said my dear you're only required to give a tenth from wherever i look in the bible that's all you're required to do she said no but the lord spoke to me and said i should give it to the church i said think about it god blessed you do you have bills she said yes i said the only requirement you have to get 14. she said all right pastor if you won't take it i'm going to give it to joyce myers i said let me have it i told the deacons please take 1400 in general fund and put the rest in a savings just put it away well two weeks later the lord changed his mind and she came back and i gave her the money i'm going through the airport i'm going to the airport i was traveling somewhere and i got stopped by one of the managers of the airport and she said to me brother pastor my husband has decided that he wants to be a member of the church and i said but but i've never seen him i don't know him has he ever been here said no he's never come but he wants to be a member of your church because the lady that you gave the money to is his sister and he said he couldn't think of any preacher in the world that would have done that i'm in washington dc just to give you about 10 stories but i'll just give you two i'm in washington dc and uh it's three classes of service and in the first class of service and i saw a friend who is in the back of the plane and i walked to the counter and i said i want to bring that person up to the front and you know it's a five six hour flight and i said i want to bring up to the front i said i'll give you miles and i'll give you money because you can only take one one segment miles gets you one segment then you got to pay to get to the next segment i said i'll do that she said we're not doing that we can't do that i said why can't you do it this is the regulation i've got 9 million miles on this airline i know what what you do and what you don't do well we just don't want to do that so i called to la and i said to the manager of that particular department talk to this lady say i'm not talking to anybody and the lady said okay let me handle it few minutes later the phone rang at her station and when she picked up the phone she turned red as a beat the manager whose brother whose husband wanted to be a member church called the top man in lax who called the top man in dulles who called her and she's still trying to figure out who i am had nothing to do with me so i'm telling all my preacher friends sometimes less is more all right in saint john's gospel chapter 12. and i would like you to consider verse 20 to 22. and there were certain greeks among them that came up to worship at the face the same came there to philip therefore to philip which was of bethsaida of galilee and desired him saying sir we would see jesus and philip cometh and telleth andrew and again andrew and philip tell jesus i want you just to say to yourself i would see jesus we would see jesus i am going to make it the theme of my life from here on out that if i can't connect jesus to anything i preach i'm going to do my best to avoid it and i say that in the introduction simply because if you have followed christianity for any length of time you will have to ask yourself why have we preached everything but jesus we've argued about doctrinal issues we've done a great deal of norman vincent peale we have preached positive thinking and self-help but you almost have to apologize when you go to a church and you preach jesus it's interesting dynamic because we have come to the place and i just tried this new mic it'll get fixed and i had it on a while ago looking for mike you know it seems as if the issue of salvation has ceased to be the main function of the church so consequently we have lost the zeal for the connection because we've minimized the experience to our financial gain and if we're not dealing with the issues of what kind of house i'll get what kind of car i'll get when i come to god what kind of woman i'll get what kind of man on you then church loses its enthusiasm for us it changes the dynamics because when we used to preach the altar call would be directed to people but how many times have you gone into a service and at the end of the service the altar call had nothing to do if they made one at all we got so cute with it because the demand was so great whenever you go someplace that they would measure the value of the service by how much money you raised and i told you we all have been guilty because we have brought people in to preach to you just because they could raise money i might as well you see the pandemic has brought us to the place where we should understand by now that none of us is going to stay here it has brought us to the place where we should understand by now that any one of us can be gone at any single time and it does not matter how much money you have a friend of mine the other day came by the house some months ago and uh he just did a 300 million dollar deal he took another friend of mine and he's on his way to collect he says you got to come with me because we got to celebrate because his cut of the 300 million was 15 million dollars they go to vegas to get it rejoicing you know if you got 15 million coming you know you won't get a little happy got off the plane in vegas had to go straight to the hospital and never even saw the check that was waiting for him in the office it don't matter what you had if money would keep you here rockefeller wouldn't be gone and if you ever know anything death equalizes the platform oh i wish i could shout on that one i was telling somebody the other day in in their grief about their loss financially and i said to them 100 years from now it's not going to matter the only thing that's going to matter a hundred years from now is whether or not you had a good dose of jesus christ i feel like i'm not talking from a position of a hater because where i haven't been i didn't want to go and what i don't own i didn't want to buy so it's not hating enjoy your life have a wonderful time buy your clothes liver for life but somewhere in that life you gotta say i would see jesus [Applause] before john turns to identify the reaction of the pharisees in another brief but forceful verse because in 12 and 19 if you notice the pharisees therefore said among themselves perceive he how ye prevail nothing behold the whole world the whole world has gone after him he has to remind the reader then john is trying to remind us of the setting for their reaction by referring really to two very important contexts in the first place he draws attention once again to the climactic sign of the raising of lazarus and the fact that the people the in the crowd that had been at that event were continuing to bear witness of lazarus having been brought back from the dead literally from the tomb literally from among the dead ones now when you understand that you understand that everybody in here has had an experience with jesus even when you were not aware of because lazarus had an experience and had to come to the knowledge of it when jesus brought him back to life it's in his power that he brings us into an awareness of his presence what has become the problem the problem is that those of us who should be exhibiting jesus have failed horribly because we no longer made him the center of attraction we just brought him along for the benefits oh i need to preach this i uh indeed and in fact he started startling what was so startling was the event for everyone that the authorities moved immediately to hatch their paths over plot that in the middle of this great move of god those who are on the controlling side you gotta watch who wants to control you and keep you from your relationship with jesus hey can i preach jesus just a little bit some people get very upset when you shift your attention from them and shift your attention to the lord do you know how how nervous people get when they can no longer control your thinking no longer control your behavior no longer control your zeal or your joy do you know how problematic it is to some people when you walk in a room and they can't understand what all you're going through how you can still have a praise and rejoice and lift up the name of jesus they can't understand it they're looking for you to stay down and be down and when they least expect you bounce back in the middle of everything you're facing and the only answer you can give them is i have seen jesus [Applause] i remember when we were growing up [Music] and the preacher would come in and if he ever had a problem preaching he might not have been as grand eloquent as the other he might not have known his bible as well as the other but he did know one thing if i keep hollering jesus jesus jesus somebody's gonna jump up out of their seat and feel like giving god some glory because there is no powerful name like the name of jesus i wish i could preach [Applause] we're running to church to see personalities but we ought to go to church to hear about jesus and it don't matter who the personality is it only matters what the subject [Music] i'm almost there pat i got little work to do [Music] let me go to work a little bit after the miraculous move of god and some people want you to deny your experience because of your financial position my financial position does not dictate how close i am to the lord and for those people who know jesus they always find a way to give back to somebody because of what he has delivered them from and they don't want to talk about their accomplishments they want to talk about the jesus that brought them to where they are [Applause] everything i have came from him but if he takes everything i have and i have him i still have [Applause] in the second verse john now he rehearses the fact that the large jerusalem crowd which is a different crowd okay i you know sometimes i read the bible i really feel for the pharisees i i really do i i really do in 18 john is now introducing not the crowd who saw the resurrection of vladimir but he's dealing to an ancillary cloud that became a crowd in response to what they heard we've got two separate crowds here we've got the crowd who saw it and we're talking about it and then we've got the crowd who heard it the greek word exclusive and it means they heard to the witness of the lazarus's crowd now here's my pain i got a big pain for the pharisees and i got big pain for haters because somehow if we can get him to stop because we don't want to hear it no more we have just heard it from the lazarus crowd now here comes a big crowd out of jerusalem who never saw it but they're talking about it when we want them to quit every time they put a roadblock in jesus's way he come up with something else so while they're trying to shut the people up from loving him he's coming up with something else i don't know have you been there i don't know maybe i've been there i need to examine it but have you ever just got sick of somebody and every time you see them they're better off we challenged him with the the man at the pool we challenged him with the blind man to the point where we wanted to convince his parents that he wasn't born blind and they even questioned whether that was their son because somehow we're sick and tired every time we leave our sanhedrin council we had a name changed every time we see a blind man we hear the name jesus every time we go by the sea of galilee somebody said he walked on the wall every time we get a few dollars together to feed somebody he said he fed five thousand with a few loaves and fish i dare you to testify what he's done for you and you find out who's with you and who's against you [Applause] i can't run with every preacher you can't run with every deacon you can't run with every song stress you can't run with every person who calls themselves a saint because some folk don't want to hear no more about what you gotta say i feel like shouting you know in a different time now i can't tell you to touch your neighbor but um boy i feel like hollering the crowd came because of the miracle worker and his recipient who had his life restored and as a result it was going to be again the reception oh we're going to have a wonderful time here and although the crowd hardly understood john sense of sign hear the crowds acclaim of jesus raise the concern of the pharisees power brokers it is really interesting that the least one of us can bring the traditional power brokers down because they're more concerned about controlling you then allowing you to have your time with jesus oh i feel like dancing in here i i'm almost there pat i'm almost there the piracies then are the representatives of the religious establishment and they were completely frustrated by this charismatic leader who seemed to have a spot a messianic like revival of passion among the people it's a difference when you go to church just to go to church but don't know who you're going to church about i feel like shouting on this one simply because when you talk about everything and everybody sitting in the church and sometimes you're sitting in church trying to focus on the lord and the worst words you can ever hear is now that you mentioned anytime you hear yourself saying that somebody's got you off track you can sit in church all day long in praise and in worship seeking that closer walk with jesus and you have somebody sitting beside you who really don't care because they're there to scope out who's there and then after they talk to you you find yourself saying now that you mentioned when you have your eyes focused on jesus you don't see how tight the woman's pants are i wish somebody talked to me now don't get quiet when you got your eyes focused on jesus you don't see who's talking to who and maybe who's going to leave with who because i didn't come for a gossip column i didn't come to get another people's business i came up here for no other reason than to see jesus oh i feel like dancing in here because i might not be able to take you home with me but i can take him home with me and no matter what's going on in my life he's got an answer for me i would see jesus preacher get out the way quiet get out the way deacons get out the way get your clothes out the way i came for only one reason and that is to see i got to see jesus [Applause] so now what john is saying to me that in every age establishment people are highly threatened by charismatic types mm-hmm your ritual does not determine your power because you can have ritual without spirit and that's why he says if you're going to worship me you got to worship in spirit and in truth many times we hold on to our form at the expense of the move of the spirit and many times the spirit is moving but we got to get back to our program we got to get back to who we think is important but at the end of the day the power is in the spirit and when he's moving in the power of the spirit those who are in charge want to stop him i wish to get it in your spirit to understand this if i've got to holler i'm going to holler if i'm going to praise him i'm gonna praise him if i'm gonna lift him up i'm gonna lift him up oh you [Applause] got you don't even know why i'm dancing you don't even know what i came through you don't even know how i almost didn't make it but i saw jesus [Music] do i have anybody in here who's seen change [Applause] [Applause] [Music] the only reason i'm in my right mind is because i saw jesus i'm almost there pat i'm almost there the thing that is so significant here and john is trying to get us to understand that the establishment had reckoned that the so-called jesus christ would ruin everything because the romans would thus have to take care of restoring order forcibly see when jesus begins to move what you think is chaos because you can't control is just the way he wants it to be let me digress for a minute jesus is in tire and saddam and the phoenician woman comes the phoenician that's all right she let us shout the phoenician woman comes and hollers at him [Music] and i'm going to take it further and when she's hired at him jesus now son of david have mercy on me and he answered her not a word the disciples say to him get rid of her because she's hollering after us don't confuse yourself church member ain't nobody trying to get to you and you got a nice car you got a nice house your daughter's doing well you got a good job and you want me to sit in the house knowing jesus is in here and i'm not trying to get his attention if it bothers you with me screaming move [Applause] but i'm not leaving here without a blessing i'm too close not to get it now i feel it moving down my road i feel the holy ghost coming close to me and i'm not gonna let him go until he bless me oh i feel like shouting in here you know i'm so used to feelings that that you know we just got so caught up with it the doom prediction of his growing popular power seemed to be right on target but they could not only see their political helplessness because what he's saying they say you profit nothing and the niv says this is getting us nowhere so with all the scheming and the conspiring with all the planning with all the setting them up every time they look around somebody's coming to jesus with everything they tried to do to you you still here still praising him still lifting him up because you got a relationship with jesus i i i'm trying to behave i got a little more to go uh it seems then that the whole world and you know they're exaggerated because the whole world has gone after him they're sitting in a situation where they found that nothing they do can get them to the place where they can stop the people from going after him can i tell you what they planned when they couldn't stop the people they tried to stop him and when they put him on the cross what they didn't realize was and if i skipped and went to that jesus said my hour now has come because i've got so much power with the people they got to stop me but what they don't know is if a grain of wheat is not sown into the ground it stands alone so what your enemies don't know is when they try to stop your praise they increase your power [Music] [Music] uh now they have made him literally the light of the people of the world and his coming into the world was to take away the sin of the people of the world but the people who should know him and the people who should study him their hearts were so hard and they rejected him don't you get so religious that you reject the move of god because things don't look the way you want them to look or things don't go the way you are used to them going when jesus is moving just follow him honey just follow him just follow him if you got to follow him with the strobe lights just follow him if you got to follow him into the ghetto just follow him if you got to follow him where you got to change people's lives just follow him and one thing i have learned i am not the center of anything where jesus is involved if it's not him it's nothing and nobody i feel like lifting him up i'm about to close i'm about to close the greeks then reacted because what follows in the argument is clearly connected to these verses but in a sense these verses are related to the previous part of the story where they introduce another group so every time the lord is moving here comes another group now it is always difficult and i'm getting ready to close to deal with the other group how many times have you been other group because you weren't the first group and you weren't the second group so now since we're so far removed and i break down the whole greek and who they are they weren't hellenistic which means that they were not jewish greeks and the reason he went to philip because phillips name was greek and the reason he talks about bethsaida because it was close to decapolis so these greeks came along to worship they were not pagans but they were not yet proselytes they had not yet accepted judaism and now they're interested in jesus now notice what happens here they come to philip because of that connection but philip doesn't take them straight to jesus philip has to check with andrew to see whether or not it's all right to take him to jesus so he doesn't take him to jesus by himself he and andrew takes him to jesus because they've got the okay i wish i could have you to holler i don't need an okay to go to jesus because i want to see jesus i feel like having a little church right now why do i want to see jesus i want to see jesus because as fm lockwood says he's the king of the kings he's the king of israel he's the king of righteousness he's the king of the ages he's the king of heaven he's the king of glory he's the king of kings and the lord of lords somebody holler i want to see jesus the heavens declare the glory of god and the firmament with his handiwork there is no means of measure that can define his limitless love there is no foreseeing telescope that can bring into visibility the coastline of his shoreless supplies there is no barrier that can hinder him from pouring out a blessing and i just came to see jesus he's enduringly strong he's entirely sincere he's eternally steadfast he's immortally graceful he's imperially powerful he's impartially merciful and i didn't come to see you i just want to see jesus he's the king of kings he's my king he's god's son he's the sinner's savior he's the centerpiece of civilization he stands in solitude of himself he is august he's unique he's unparalleled he's unprecedented he's supreme he's preeminent i want to see jesus i want to see jesus he's the highest personality in philosophy he's the loftiest idea in literature he's the supreme problem in higher criticism he's a fundamental doctrine of theology he's the cardinal necessity of spiritual religion and only person i want to see is jesus he sympathizes and saved he guards and he guides he heals the sick cleanses the leopard forgives the sinners discharges the dead delivers the captain defends the feeble blesses the young he's anything you choose to call him i want to see jesus i want to see jesus somebody take me to jesus is the key of knowledge the wellspring of wisdom the doorway of deliverance the pathway of peace the roadway of righteousness the highway of holiness the gateway of glory the captain of the conquerors the master of the mighty i just want to see jesus somebody holler his office is manifold his promise is sure his life is matchless his goodness limitless his mercy everlasting his love never changes this world is enough his grace is sufficient his reign is righteous his yoke is easy i just [Music] for the rest of my life i want to see jesus for the rest of my life he's indescribable he's incomprehensible he's invincible he's irresistible i wanna see help me help me i wanna see you i wanna see [Music] jesus cheers [Music] so [Music] but mine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and never and [Music] [Music] get the mansion i want to be i would see god bless you today god bless you today the pharisees couldn't stand it but they found they couldn't stop him pilate couldn't find any fault in him the witnesses couldn't get their testimonies to agree herod couldn't kill him death couldn't handle it and the grave can't hold him [Music] is there anybody here that have not had [Music] an audience with jesus now is your time and for those of you [Music] who have suffered in your life there is no greater delivery give god the prey there is no creator searching all over [Music] nobody [Music] searched [Music] come on he's caught [Music] young lady [Music] somebody will oh [Music] [Music] nobody [Music] [Music] [Music] nobody [Music] nobody [Music] [Music] [Music] give god the praise still we be realistic saying we would see we would see jesus families are coming we would see jesus we would see jesus for those of you who are online [Music] the privilege you have is that you can go privately into any part of your house or you can go out back go outside with your phone [Music] and somebody's waiting on the other side of that call and they desperately are waiting for you to call and the number is on the screen but it's 844 267 7729 when i tell you they're prayed up they pray every friday night and prepare themselves [Music] to be there for you and if you feel anything in your spirit right now and and the feeling is and i say feeling because the feeling you're having is i want to i want to call in but that feeling didn't originate with you it's him drawing you by giving you that feeling so if you feel it don't try to rationalize it please don't say you'll call when you get to be a better person or you'll call when you want to do right no come as you are called right now i don't care where you were last night i don't care who you were with if you feel right now that i need to get in touch with jesus we've got some we've got some phillips and we've got some andrews who'll take you straight to him father we come in jesus name and for that person viewing from their computer viewing from their phone viewing from the bedroom living room i pray right now that they respond volitionally in their will to the feeling that's in their heart and i just know lord that after they connect with you the only thing that they will say is i should have done this a whole lot earlier [Music] so i claim that power of your blood power of your drawing power to complete its work right now that your word will not come back to you for it but that this soul will be saved and i envision right now people calling in from all over the country and saying we would see jesus and i thank you for it now bless everyone in this house every bop and i speak it done somebody say in jesus name searched [Music] nobody [Music] father as we go go with us meet me in the cafeteria get whatever it is that they're giving away specialty of the day [Music] we love you come here [Music]

Channel: Official Bishop Noel Jones

Views: 15,874

Rating: 4.8571429 out of 5

Keywords: #bishopnoeljones, #cityofrefuge, #noeljones, #bishop, #losangeles, #onlineservice, #virtualservice

Id: 83KIZhzk5W0

Length: 117min 55sec (7075 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 29 2021