Sunday Morning Service | September 12th, 2021

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] good morning everyone [Applause] thank you jesus thank you jesus that we get to be in your house lord for everyone watching online welcome your family i'm just going to read a scripture real quick make a joyful shout to the lord all you lance serve the lord with gladness come before his presence with singing know that the lord he is god it is he who has made us and not we ourselves we are his people and the sheep of his pasture thank you jesus that we get to come into your courts with thanksgiving look at all you have done in our lives lord look at what you've done with your blood jesus we worship you we purpose in our hearts today we worship you that we will lift a shout to jesus that we will make a joyful noise to the lord because he is good [Applause] we meditate on your goodness this morning lord we meditate on your grace this morning where would he where would we be without you god where would we be without you you you pulled us out of darkness into your marvelous light we praise you and we give you glory in jesus mighty name amen [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] holy thunder [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh jesus [Music] her son and king of glory the king [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is amazing [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] it's done for us [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you really told me [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is is is the king [Music] set free [Music] [Music] [Applause] this morning [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] my hope is is [Music] sees my comforter [Music] of christ's name [Music] this gift [Music] jesus died [Music] [Applause] here in the death of christ [Music] is [Music] 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cling to you me more than this [Applause] [Music] is [Music] of my [Music] give me more than this to me i wouldn't trade [Music] [Music] just haven't you seen this out as one voice [Music] foreign [Music] this is [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] my [Music] to be [Music] [Applause] [Music] me more than this [Music] is [Music] to me [Applause] [Music] is [Music] more than this [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] you are the hope that i cling to me lord in this world to me [Music] is [Music] you are [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] more than this [Music] is [Music] [Music] just take a moment and be alone with him now right where you are you can just close your eyes just be with the lord saying you can sing and tell him what he means to you talk to him you can think of him look at him [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] she's [Music] so [Music] see moments like these are invitations just keep keep loving him i just want to help and serve you in moments like this [Music] these are invitations to go further with the lord to go deeper and you resist the weakness of the flesh to to move on you just resist that by setting your attention back on the lord we all go through it so you just gently move that aside and behold jesus now and then from your heart you just let honey flow just let that beautiful name drip from your lips it's a fragrance it fills the room [Music] love you lord [Music] [Music] you are [Music] me [Music] is [Music] my [Music] more than this [Music] just lift our hands to the lord this morning heavenly father thank you for the privilege of coming before you as your family thank you for being our father our faithful father safety in your presence lord such peace in your presence jesus so we come in this morning thankful thankful jesus thankful that we can approach the throne of grace with boldness and this morning we enter by the blood not in our own merit but we come in to the throne room by the spirit because of the blood of jesus so right now lord with hands lifted we say thank you for the blood thank you for the cross thank you for your suffering your death thank you jesus for your burial and resurrection thank you lord for being seated as the eternal high priest that gives us this opportunity this morning and so we want to tell you we love you we love you jesus before anything else we want you to hear it from our lips we want you to hear it we love you we love you [Music] we love you here and we know you love us for what a love you've shared what a love you've given [Music] we want you to feel our love this morning and and sense our love and know our love we deeply love you and we want to love you more [Music] minute by minute we want to love you more because you deserve it lord you deserve the love [Music] it's what you're after it's what you're seeking [Music] you want our love deeply so the best we know how this morning [Music] we want to love you and we do love you well father i pray for every person who's come in needing a miracle who's coming broken discouraged filled with anxiety who's been damaged and buffeted by the world [Music] heal us today heal your people heal our hearts keep our eyes on you lord i ask that everyone who's come in from out of town just to be in the room that they would leave with jesus let it be lord let it be and holy spirit greatly glorify jesus here the most you ever have and help us surrender so that you can do all you want to do you're a good father can you just say that say you're a good father you are a good father oh hallelujah hallelujah he's the glory and the lifter of our head [Music] lift your heads heaven word and just give him praise would you come on just bless his name thank you are the glory and the lifter of our head [Applause] we're worthy of praise worthy of all of all [Applause] hallelujah wow thank you [Music] lord oh just just just one moment just look up again say jesus i love you burn a fire in my heart this morning i don't want to recover from this love i want more amen now tell a few people you love them come on thank you jesus hey man you guys ready to give this morning come on i'm just so thankful i woke up this morning just so grateful and thankful just for everything that the lord has done i mean he's given us so much so so so much man i pray that we all walk in here every sunday with just such a thankful thankful heart knowing that every good and perfect gift comes from him and him alone i am i get the honor to be able to receive tonight today's tithe and offering you know it's very scriptural it is all throughout scripture from genesis all the way throughout the life of jesus in fact jesus mentions it in matthew chapter 23 verse 23 um about the tithe and the offering what's amazing is you know jesus and malachi and these these are very familiar scriptures that god has given us you know untithed in offering malachi chapter three you know talks about uh you know he'll pour out such a blessing that there won't be room enough to contain it and we know that that scripture but what's amazing is he's addressing the sons of levi within that chapter specifically priests um and and in that chapter you know they say how did we rob you you know we we've advanced in all these other areas of worship but jesus gets right to the part right to the part of their heart that they have left behind he says you've robbed me in tithes and offerings and what's amazing in matthew chapter 23 jesus addresses something else he says you have given a tithe of your cumin and mint he says but you forgot the weightier things of life and so it's amazing that worship is all inclusive it's it's it's everything and so jesus knows how to get so intentional in our hearts and in our lives and address the very thing in which we're withholding um and so it's a and then paul writes within scripture as well you know that you guys are excelling in all the gifts of the spirit he says but he says let's also excel in tithes and offerings in giving and it's just beautiful that it it's it's it's all together and so i just wanted to encourage you guys this morning you know that that we actually get to give a tangible gift to god and it actually moves his heart it just amazes me to think that that he gives the gift we hold the gift and that we get to give it back to him and then it moves his heart the god of the universe it is absolutely amazing so i just pray this morning that you allow the holy spirit to just to just to really go deep inside your heart today god what do you want me to give to you because this is worship unto him it we worshiped him for for for 45 minutes to an hour with our hearts a yielded heart now we get this beautiful opportunity to worship him with the tangible substance here on earth in this lifetime we get to give of the fruit of our labor what an honor and what an opportunity so let's just pray over all our offerings if you guys want to hold it in your hand the beautiful seed that god has given us and i'm going to pray jesus we thank you god we thank you that we get to worship you with the fruit of our labor that we get to love you with an actual tangible substance called finances and money god it is an honor and an opportunity lord we pray that you bless every individual in this this house god every business owner every family lord we pray a blessing over them jesus we love you and we thank you in your precious name we pray amen man if you guys need an envelope we have ushers throughout the building just lift up your hand they can give you guys an envelope we have text to give up on the screens for those of you watching there will be a number that you can text on there as well so we're going to bring the buckets up you guys could rush the buckets we love you guys and we'll see in a little bit [Music] [Applause] [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] this [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] glorious [Music] is [Music] ah [Applause] [Music] there's always one of them oh isn't that beautiful good morning good morning you doing well you know i always start the day by buttoning my sleeves and the moment i start preaching i just feel like they need to be rolled up meow meow time and we're gonna have a good good time this morning speaking of jesus 21 it's what is it 90 days out is come on scott you're the smartest guy in the room 14 days oh there we go come come lord jesus come we're actually doing a what we have a special going there's a discount right now for the next how for how long 48 hours so if you're watching online from around the world get here it's going to be glorious we're going to worship jesus under the night sky and the day sky and if you're from up north it's much warmer here in december then it is there but really it is going to be an amazing two days now we've added a day uh to worship the lord and preach the gospel and see thousands come to jesus and fall in love with him all over again amen so there's the info on your screen we'd love to have you now's the time um i think we released who's coming he's speaking so that's just going to be phenomenal most importantly we invite people who don't care if they're on flyers and jesus comes and it's beautiful so we want to invite you come it's such a special time also i got these yesterday i'm not sure how clear these are gonna are gonna be but i wanna show you guys some progress we've been making with the building so there's this stain some of the stained glass imaging thank you lord i promised you more color i told you i'd put maple trees in there they are and uh let's show the next one that's the inside of the sanctuary and so up there they didn't quite do this yet but you'll see it get a little feedback there um you'll see it all the square stained glass windows on the top level will have different names and natures of jesus so savior healer redeemer lover lord and then the corresponding stained glass will have a scripture that that speaks of that aspect of who he is there we go and and then also the sides of the walls will tell the gospel story those side stained glass windows so those those just aren't done yet but i just wanted to keep you guys in the loop and there's a little smoke in there but i can promise you that'll never happen i don't know why they did that unless it's the lord's glory we're down but that'll just never be but you know everyone's got you know whatever they're doing great job um so i don't know why but these next two slides move me even more deeply can we show the next one that's the house of bethany or bethany house that's mary of bethany pouring oil on the lord's feet on the stained glass and that that you see can i go over there chris without blasting the crowd yeah no it worked okay thank you chris we love you um this is water this is the back lake so this will be in a cross shape as i showed you before on the lake and so imagine praying you can look through some of the windows many of them will be stained glass and you'll see a beautiful lake and the the shore you can't see it quite here just because that that's a snapshot but we're we're going to get you the full cat video soon we're just kind of working on on it we want the cad view it'll be annoying too so it is done but they sent it to me i'm like in different music sorry i'm one of those so that's the shoreline could there be bass lurking probably they're probably well let's go to the next one yeah there it is again that's house of bethany bethany house and uh isn't it glorious there we go so let's pray in faith let's do it together come on let's just stretch our hands in faith switch our hands in faith put that image back up father we thank you that you're a good god and then you want to live with the people you don't need buildings to do that but lord you want this house to have a home so we pray in jesus name for every dollar to come in for all the favor with the city for for for the gifted people like bezolio lord who know what they're doing gifted artisans clothed in the anointing favor with councils and and and in our city let this be a blessing to this city and the nations and i pray that jesus would be so deeply loved there that his glory would rest in jesus name amen amen isn't that wonderful i kind of want to live i want to live in there i don't know i want to live in there i do as long as y'all don't ask for prophetic interpretation while i'm sleeping yeah you can just ask jess good morning how many of you came in from outside the city of orlando to be in the room wow um amazing how many of you came from a different state to be in the room wow okay where where did you come from where ohio ohio is the glorious land i hope this doesn't hurt anyone's feelings that what i'm about to say right now but ohio people are like my favorite american people i [Music] i just love ohio i love the people there my mom's side of the family spent like three decades there they just i don't know they're salt of the earth people so welcome we're honored to have you and what part of ohio columbus nice gosh i could talk a lot of golf right now but that would throw off the whole meeting well welcome it's a joy to have you guys some hands went up here too where'd you guys come from iowa is it cold there already no welcome it's so good to have you uh who else yeah they're in the back where'd you come from portland welcome revival we'll take it you came from revival that is not a city did you come from michigan welcome my lord what an honor anyone else yeah yeah yep colorado i like colorado too i like colorado too yep texas you said that with such confidence and you said it with um pride would be the wrong word you're but you're happy to be from texas aren't you yeah i know i i get it we used to live in dallas yep i totally understand well welcome it's a joy to have all of you guys let's welcome so many precious people who come in to be with the lord a real privilege to have you here thank you for being here we've got some dear friends with us this morning stephen and steph gretzinger are here so good to have you i'm so glad they brought becky with them we've had an amazing time together and uh we don't want any of you to feel like guests that's illegal and um we're so happy to have you yeah so precious and there steph and becky are from ohio there you go something's going on with ohio and uh it's an honor to have stephen here as well we've had an amazing few few days together got to take them to see the ocean yesterday and uh it was a man gosh lord let's plant a church on the beach people or not actually i just need to go to the beach i'm not sure i want to plant a church on the beach then it wouldn't feel like the beach anymore would it jenna all right you ready to get into the word god has good things for you this morning i'm sitting because my back is 90 percent better i actually walked around pain-free all day yesterday the only time it aches is when i stand and i don't want it to ache so i'm sitting i'm not trying to be a 22 year old hipster pastor doing the stool thing but it's it is what it is this morning all right father thank you for your word thank you for the presence of the holy spirit who teaches us what you give him your word says what knows the depths who knows the depths of man but at the spirit of man or in the same way who knows the depths of god but the spirit of god so father by the spirit today teach us touch us teach us with touch warm our hearts change our lives forever and let every broken soul come to jesus today let every sick body be healed as your word goes forth for you sent your word and healed them in jesus name amen can we give the lord one more praise often thank you lord thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord [Applause] you ready to jump into the second coming all right because it is happening it's coming and you want to know about it most importantly you want to know jesus very very deeply in this hour we ended in first thessalonians 4 last week quick review let's just turn there i'm not going to give you the entirety of the review just was just this passage obviously all the sermons are on youtube and um if if you if you haven't been here for the last few weeks i would encourage you to go back and listen to the last three because i really think it'll give context and build a foundation regarding the second coming of jesus uh first thessalonians 4 verses 14 through 18 for if we believe that jesus died and rose again say that's me if it's not you in the depths of your heart you can today for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so god will bring with him those who sleep in jesus so those who've gone on before us for this we say to you by the word of the lord so you can take this to the bank that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the lord so those who have not passed away when jesus returns will by no means precede those who are asleep so in other words those who've died in christ will be raised first for a few reasons one because of the nature of harvest to because the lord is the lord of honor it is an honorable thing to transition in faith and the lord always rewards honor this is one thing i touched on last week that i'd just like to briefly touch on is you know steph's father passed went to glory how long has it been steph a year a year and a half and he went to glory holding on to jesus that is incredibly honorable but it becomes cliche in a church setting it's like okay yeah he held onto his faith and went on to be with the lord but in that crossing over when man breathes his last and by the way that will happen to everyone should the lord tarry it is a great act of faith to hold on to jesus and breathe your last jesus actually said more blessed are those who believe are those who believe and don't see so there's this there this is a greater faith than trying to pack a stadium this is heroic by nature to hold on and cross over into the eternal realm a place that definitely carries a sense of mystery what will it be like what is the moment like what does it feel like to breathe your last all these things yet saints hold on to their confession and to the lord himself with everything in him and because they've done that the lord this is one of the reasons the lord will honor them at the resurrection he's like you first you did it they haven't they're great they're in you did it made that be said of all of us amen may we all go to be with jesus with our families around us singing hymns like rex humber and with our eyes fixed on the lamb of god amen amen so here paul's giving us the order of the resurrection for the lord himself looked on your bible for the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout out the lord himself so it's not a figurative return people are trying to theologically evade this event but you cannot be a bible-believing christian and not believe in the literal return of the lord jesus he is coming back it is vital to the gospel the gospel is incomplete without the return of the lord jesus and the resurrection of his people does this make sense to you so paul's very clear here the lord himself not a vision of the lord not some parabolic fulfillment or mystery you know people have said the lord returned he didn't really mean to return physically that actually happened at pentecost for instance people teach that that's not the bible it's just not the lord himself jesus himself will descend from heaven with a shout who will shout the voice of the archangel he's not coming back alone though even if he did it would still be wonderful but how many of you know jesus is the lord of the procession he he loves bringing a parade of friends with him it's who he is because he's the savior he's going to return with his trophies with ten thousands upon ten thousands with the hosts of heaven worshiping him somebody better get as happy as steph all right because this isn't normal this is the furthest thing from boring he will return with the voice with a shout with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of god i encouraged all of you shofar lovers last two weeks this is going to be your moment this is going to be your moment now you have more than welcome to blow your shofars as long as it's this kind of moment there's all there's a time for a shofar by the way i have seen some breakthrough come but you just gotta know when to fire those things off and then be humble enough to go to to honor us when we say wrong moment wrong key go get trained all right but this is going to be your moment maybe some of y'all going to go up with the shofar don't blow it back at the archangel you'll lose [Laughter] it's your moment you guys are going to have them on your backs aren't you like little ninja swords some of you are gonna have your prayer shawls on they won't stay on they're gonna hit the ground someone said hallelujah this is the scene the great victory trumpet the trump had blew in israel for battle and it broke walls the trumpets blew when jericho took when the israelites took jericho the walls came down it's a prophetic utterance that one day the trumpet will blow and the people of the lord will possess their eternal promised land this is amazing this is amazing and i feel jesus as i'm talking about this then oh sorry and the dead in christ will rise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air sounds great and thus we shall always be with the lord and thus listen to these words we shall always be the lord in that state we will always be with the lord no more death no more how's this no more weakness no more weakness how wonderful is jesus that he chose weakness to the degree that he took a nap on the bow of a boat how humble is jesus to take on such humanity and limitation in many ways chosen limitation never stop being god but this is the beautiful glory of the gospel is that he not only saved us but became one of us so that we would stand before the father as his own so he redeems us and raises us and thus in that way we shall forever be with the lord forever i said forever we shall be with the lord may heaven be more real to us than the weaknesses of this earth and thus we shall always be of the lord therefore comfort one another with these words now paul is speaking to a group of people who had been mourning the departure of their friends and unfortunately horrifically many people are passing away in this season as a pastor now we were talking about it last night the level of prayer requests that i'm getting now have not only changed in the last year and a half but they're of a completely different nature every day i'm getting i got one this morning please pray for my husband he's back in the hospital with pneumonia it's a real assignment and if you don't look at jesus right now you will not survive as a leader in the church you just won't do it you don't make it as a christian in general i mean we signed up to help people through their worst to their worst days it's what we do it's part of what we do so without knowing jesus right now without having that therefore therefore comfort one another with these words we need it now more than ever one of the glorious if not one of the most glorious promises of the gospel is that to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord this is not escapism this is not anti-kingdom it is just a reality even moses was buried by the lord does this make sense am i is this landing you have a blessed victorious hope ahead of you an unconquerable hope jesus is returning and no demon in hell can stop it he is coming back that's wonderful news it's wonderful news therefore comfort one another with these words i had the joy of sharing it jesse's dad's her grandfather's funeral her grandmother's funeral a few months back and she was a precious woman she was dedicated by the lord to the lord by the jeffrey brothers which is you need to go look them up some of the greatest revivalists in history modern history and um when her body went into the ground the reality of the resurrection just struck my soul and i read these verses what else am i going to say to the grieving what else can you say to those who face their deepest moments or their deepest darkest moments i want to encourage you in those moments it's very common to not know what to say because you feel like what you're saying doesn't match the severity of the pain okay number one it's holy for you just to be there and be present you don't have to have it all figured out but number two number two when in doubt actually not not when in doubt always give them the word of god even if you don't feel fire on it it is fire share the word of god share the promises of god and that's all you give you have given them everything one of the pastors at the gravesite was my my father-in-law myself and another pastor is a dear man he i don't know why he said this but he prayed he closed in prayer remember and he said lord bless we we were teaching on this body just being a tent right there at the grave jesse's dad and i were teaching on the body being a tent that will one day go back into the ground and then we receive a new body and we kept calling that an earth suit i don't know why when he prayed he said lord bless this space suit so [Laughter] he literally said that and he was so tired such a precious man he ran the whole deal he was just so tired and her dad goes nike i go what he goes did he just say spacesuit i go yeah he did oh my god the lord knows how to get us through those moments all right first thessalonians 5. let's look there do you love the scriptures food for our soul jesus said i have food you don't know about the voice of the lord the word of god first thessalonians 5 1 through eleven now concerning how and when all this would happen dear brothers and sisters i don't really need to write to you for you know quite well that the day of the lord's return will come unexpectedly i submit to you that distraction is a huge part of that a sober mind looks around and goes come lord jesus i don't think it's by accident the lord gave us that phrase for jesus 21 a year ago what could actually how can you be alive today and not notice the need for the messiah right has society ever felt less trusting no all of these are markers but when distraction comes even the return of the lord will be unexpected like a thief in the night when people are saying everything is peaceful and secure so that's a false sense of security then disaster will fall on them as suddenly as a pregnant woman's labor pains begin and there will be no escape but you aren't in the dark about these things you see he's not talking he's saying no no you're children of the light no not you that dullness and blindness is not for the children of the lord we're not clueless people we should know the hour we're in as believers say amen you won't be surprised when the day of the lord comes like a thief for you are all children of the light and of the day say this i am a child of the light i am a child of the day powerful we don't belong to darkness at night paul tells the thessalonians and by the way the word thessaloniki which is the church the region the city that he's addressing that word means seat of victory so he's speaking to a victorious church a church that understands the power of enthroning jesus letting him have his seat and enthroning him among us gives me victory so this is this is the type of conversation you have with a victorious people what does that mean victoria's over temptation victorious over mixture victorious over dullness victorious over compromise victorious over being lukewarm victorious over blindness victorious over sin are you hearing me victorious over division hatred judgment victorious people victorious over their own members of their bodies they reign in life they do live holy lives he's speaking to a victorious people here and he tells them we don't belong to darkness and we don't belong to the night where does pestilence dwell it walks in darkness psalm 91 says disease belongs in darkness amen there's nothing good in the night i'm speaking spiritually spiritually jesus says we are children of the light children of the day what's he saying you can see you can see you're not the blinded ones so be on your guard not asleep like the others you see night is for sleep spiritual sleep but you're not like them stay alert and be clear-headed what does alert mean does it mean like physically no no that'd be weird if you all studied attention it means that you are aware of god's presence and his voice most foundationally his word there are a lot of people who say i've heard the voice of god and it's as twisted as you can imagine do you think if people think they're hearing god and it's not the word they're not hearing god they are not hearing god if they are hearing something that does not align with the word of god it is not from god and that's why one of our core foundations here is the bible wins the bible wins you can't deconstruct it because you don't get to deconstruct something that you know that you don't even know one one millionth about you cannot deconstruct a house and build it back up again if you don't know how to build houses the word is so limitless that the greatest theologian barely understands a drop in the ocean of its vast nature it's not to say there aren't truths here but those truths are immovable they've been paid for in blood and they've been proven over time proven over time oh i could go on that but i'm gonna keep it moving let us who live in the light be clear-headed protected by the armor of faith and love and wearing as our helmet the confidence of our salvation all right let's talk about this i think i've taught on this before when we talk about the armor of god let me help you all out there is no armor factory in glory with a conveyor belt where angels line up like some spiritual holy north pole and that every time you ask for a specific piece of the armor it just starts flying off the conveyor belt and lands on you it's not the way it works to put on the armor of god you must put on christ only he listen carefully only he is the manifestation of every piece of armor that the armor speaks of does that make sense so some people are like oh my gosh i forgot the breastplate today it's wonderful to pray it you need to jesse does it every day with our children or just about just about that every day would be an exaggeration but many days most days the lord actually told her to but if you go putting on helmets and forget about jesus it's not going to work does that make sense you must put on christ say that christ is the fullness of the armor of god all right now paul tells us here this is very beautiful and powerful that the armor in this context is faith and love and you can't have great faith unless it works by love are you following me why is this connected to the last days or the coming of the lord because faith true faith is becoming more and more rare true faith because of the bombarding nature of the hour we're in it's not just a fiery dart if you scroll incorrectly for 20 minutes you might need a sozo now or you might need to get baptized again with epsom salt it's a good old washing because if if if if fiery darts could be fired out of an automatic weapon they are right now those are darts of distraction listen carefully aimed at the mind aimed at the mind check this out you get to choose who and what you think about and and you will be who are what you think about as a man thinketh in his heart so is he now that scripture is not limited to to addressing the topic of your thoughts but the scripture here is addressing not just what you think but how you think about what you think and the order that you think with example you get a bad report from the doctor there's no judgment here at all we're all weak vessels in need of jesus i want to make that clear but what's your default thought process because when you go through something your default process is instantly revealed to you right you don't have enough money oh my gosh maybe god didn't call me maybe he didn't call me i don't know why i'm moving to the city it's not as easy there aren't glittery covered unicorns prancing through jesus school in jesus image people actually have problems there yeah they do they're people so where are the angels are they where where are they i can't maybe god didn't call me our default thought process this is what the scripture is addressing here as a man thinks not just what he thinks but how you think about what you think does the word come up first you're listening to me does the word come up first he is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all we could ask her a thing things are tight that month my god shall supply all my needs according to his riches and glory i'm fearful of something therefore comfort one another with these words the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout if you're afraid of death what's your default thought process this is vital to the renewal of the mind very important so when it comes to faith and love in these last days as armor faith is valuable we are people of faith jesus is alive i said jesus is alive he is alive jesus is alive some people have made faith just a mere confession confession is important but faith is a substance that means it's him he's the author and finisher and perfecter of it it's jesus jesus is faith you don't have to go about seeking more of more faith you don't need to do that you need to seek jesus and his faith will get on you and in you he is faith can i can i let the lord mess you up a little bit and then watch you all right i like to do that like if they're first years they always go wow whatever you got to do on this one see the bible says faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen okay think of that carefully and slowly faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen you're praying for the sick and our fallen mind says the miracle is the i should say the manifestation is the proof of the miracle but that scripture tells me and it is such a clear definition of faith that the moment i know that i know that's the evidence whether your leg gets healed or not is not the proof well i should say whether i see it in the moment that's not the proof the moment i'm in faith it's too late it's done unless you resist it faith is the evidence not the breakthrough faith is the substance listen carefully faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of what what i can't see i don't need to see it to believe it maybe you say i haven't seen jesus you don't need to you should want to it's natural but seeing him is not required to believe in him the eyes of the heart are promised to behold him that's what i mean by seeing him you should continually see him blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god i don't mean these weird visions or whatever unless they're real i'm saying this that the hearts of humanity if they are purified by the fire of the holy spirit have been promised an eternal vision of the beauty of jesus and you can actually live in that blessed are the pure in heart for they shall that is a current promise and an eternal promise and what a beautiful promise it is that regardless of what the world throws at you you can go like this jesus you close your eyes and his beauty is revealed to you right here in the heart the comfort of his face the beauty of who he is faith and love one of the one of the signs of jesus's return is that me the love of men would wax cold remember that there'd be such hatred that the love of many would wax cold for children of the night not for children of the day so faith and love are going to become much more attractive much more needed i feel the holy spirit much more beautiful may the love of god compel us to love jesus and love people well to share the gospel well notice that jesus healed the sick listen carefully by entering and honoring the compassion that he was feeling he was moved with and healed them one of the things bill taught me i'll never forget it one-on-one just standing next to him he said when when you're in a room and you feel compassion for someone honor it and i'm like what do you mean he said honor it give it a moment pray into it it's most likely a door for power we don't think on those terms how often do we think that the compassion of jesus bursting forth in us for someone is actually an opportunity for them to get healed for them to get a breakthrough for them to leave transformed compassion is a doorway to the healing power of jesus it's so needed faith in love say faith and love and wearing as a helmet the confidence of our salvation jesus himself our savior who saves us from everything not just hell you actually have to begin thinking that he's your savior and knowing that praying into it let me give you a quick tip if you want what's written here to get here and then hear eternally so that you can keep the word remember mary kept the word in her heart she treasured it she kept it she protected it the bridge is communion with the lord that was way better than you uh i just threw a filet at you and you gave me a tip for a quarter i don't need that but just need to know you're breathing it in okay for it to get from the pages into the depths of your soul the bridge is prayer the bridges prayer and i don't mean just praying whatever you want to pray i mean actually taking the text and reading it and praying it over and over and over and over until at some point the holy spirit will take over and brand it into the depths of your soul and once it's there if the lord knows you'll protect what he's given you and not offer it like pearls to swine and other things whatever there's a lot of ways to not cherish the bread of life that's in you but the moment the lord knows you're protecting it it'll never be taken you say well i don't that's a big deal a guy named bob gladstone who was one of the instructors at brownsville used to say this without revelation we die without revelation we die and that's scriptural without the manna the israelites died manna was simply the word manna just means what is it so if god's not wowing you daily you're not eating daily you're eating last tuesday's meal if i'm not joking here daily mana means daily oh my gosh what and maturity does not move beyond that pride does death does an icy heart it's like uh-huh yeah i'm balanced now if you're too balanced for your heart to explode when you read jesus piercing the clouds that's not maturity that's ice you want that every day every day read the scriptures until you eat manna until your heart breaks forth with wonder wonder there are a million ways to read the garden account cool they were naked they found out about it they had an apple and they messed stuff up now we now have wrinkles a great beard or you can look for jesus in all of it or then the spirit of god hovered over the face of the deep what do you do oh really what do you do oh god breathes into adam's nostrils or you can read it like this that the father the son and the holy spirit all being won released mouth to mouth the very presence of the holy spirit into adam who was fearfully and wonderfully made who was dead without the spirit as beautiful as he was and the moment he breathed in he breathed out that was the first moment of worship and he became a living soul you get to choose how you want to read the word but if you you read it properly in prayer with a heart that's worshiping not you're not trying to i don't have a problem with reading plans i think look if you're do what you need to do but there's a there's a deeper way to read the scriptures where your heart's connected oh jesus you have a question all of a sudden you go he goes red light stop there but i i i can't i have to check off my devotional box and by the way uh jesus school students you have a reading plan you need to honor it don't be telling me you only got to one word all right don't be doing that the flame on my head when i preach the pentecostal girl and kona at wyoming whenever i'd say something good she go i don't know what she was doing prayer prayer listen prayer takes the text and sears it in your soul and if you keep it it's yours forever and when it's yours forever do you know can i have five extra minutes this morning okay when it's yours forever they become your five smooth stones so you don't i wish you had 100 smooth stones but if you've got five it's enough to kill a giant you follow me and that's the default buttons oh this is oh i care too i am offended by this person they didn't honor my anointing and the devil's just loving that he's like oh yeah yeah oh and i need you to know how anointed you really are and eventually i'll get you to believe it's your anointing i have news for you you cannot apart your anointing you don't have one it's his anointing the anointing is the overflow of the life of the anointed one that's what the anointing is it's just the overflow of his life in us and on us we don't own the anointing to own the anointing you'd have to own the anointed one and nobody does start thinking this way there's fallen thoughts all of a sudden holy spirit comes up with a scripture five smith stones in that case he'd give me the first and great commandment as mike defined greatness last sunday night this is greatness to love jesus whether i'm noticed whether people know my name whether i take the platform or not whether my church is big and small and by the way big is not great you can have a big church and it can be bad and last instead of first and great well actually when it gets there it's really not a church so for a church to be first and great in god's eyes not first as in competition but to fulfill the first and great commandment you have to live the first and great commandment these these become your stones you're going to die of cancer just like the rest of your family you look oh there's i have a stone in here that i've been meditating on it's not just a song i've been meditating on this passage so long through prayer and song and with the lord this is a polished smooth stone a polished smooth stone flies straight fast fits in the slingshot i've been crafting this thing just for you devil and then you learn because it's yours now you're pulling it out of the reservoir the manger of your heart are you following me remember how she protected the word and that led to eventually uh being a mother to the promise that was jesus that's how you should be over the word you protect the scriptures in your heart you pray the scriptures they become yours oh i like this oh i like this i need someone else i'm just waiting wearing the helmet the confidence of our salvation for god chose to save us through our lord jesus christ thank you that i don't have to save myself not to pour out his anger on us oh my gosh do you realize that the children of the day the children of light have been positioned for love not damnation not eternal judgment you have been positioned and crafted and betrothed to a faithful husband who wants to eternally love you let him start now christ died for us so that whether we are dead or alive when he returns we can live with him forever so encourage each other and build each other up just as you are already doing ooh i gotta stop there it's easy to think that because a people do something well they don't need to hear it again but when the anointing comes on you you you have one message through a thousand sermons you just have one message if i preach the sinai covenant i'm preaching jesus if i preach pentecost i'm bringing it back to jesus i i now i personally think every christian should preach christ you're like no that's little that's well i just can't i've been reading that book now since 1989. and i can't shake him he's everywhere the book of revelation is not the revelation of stars falling whether or not i'm not saying that's not going to happen i'm saying it's the revelation of jesus so a great her daddy actually told me this he said when you teach the word tell the people what you're going to say then tell them and then when you're done tell them what you said and do it forever tell them you're going to tell them about jesus that's what paul's doing here he's saying comfort one another with these words and then he says even though i know you're already doing it isn't that what fathers and mothers do paul right here is is encouraging his people to hold on to the blessed hope in the midst in the midst of confusion in the midst of opinion in the midst of hatred in the midst of people changing the faith and changing the word in the midst of people saying i hear from god and they don't they're not hearing from god the fruit shows that they don't there's so many opportunities right now to just be confused this is the greatest opportunity to remember this he's coming back don't stress you know when jesus said all these things would happen he didn't say and because there'll be race against race kingdom against kingdom uh famine pestilence earthquakes fearful events in the heavenlies all these things just check the weather out or what i mean my gosh there's so much jesus didn't say all this is going to happen be extremely depressed freak out because all that's going to happen you know what he said look up fear not your redemption draws nigh he said stay awake what does that mean it doesn't mean have a monster drink it means pray how do you stay awake by being with him keep your heart on the altar let him light you up day after day be alert doesn't mean be crazy it just means be a lord be children of the day and here's the good news the children of the day are not condemned to anger and judgment we are the bride who've been chosen for love this is wonderful with every head about an eye closed i want to talk with nobody moving i want to talk directly to you i'm not speaking to a crowd i'm speaking to you right now i want to ask you this question how ready are you to face the lord can you stay in the depths of your soul as the scripture teaches can you say that you'd be able to face that day with boldness and confidence paul talked about such a lifestyle that you could face that day without being ashamed that's measurable knowable and as the scripture says who knows the man who knows the depths of man but the spirit of a man you know right here as you're listening to me whether or not you're really free from sin you know you don't need me to coerce you you don't need someone else to tell you hey you we have been designed in a way to know if our lives break the law of god and the thought that we can hide from god is actually humorous to the lord the bible says as he who formed the eye can he not see you he sees all now because of jesus as paul wrote here because of jesus the father offers a salvation he saves us through his son jesus you say what do i need to do this morning to be free you need to simply come to jesus you see what we've done for too long is made the altar the proof of our salvation it was never meant to be the proof of salvation is the fruit of god in us the life we live monday through saturday how free are you can you reign can you even be responsible for what your eyes see on your device are you evil as job said to make a covenant with your eyes that you won't look upon a woman in that way jesus said to lust after a woman is to commit adultery with her you see there's no hiding there's no righteousness in and of ourselves you need jesus this morning and he's here he's right here i said jesus is right here he's here and he wants to do you no harm he wants to redeem your soul to truly set you free so that you can leave this room this morning knowing that the blood has washed you and knowing that you're brand new with every head bowed an eye closed he said michael i i want to come i want to come to jesus truly fully maybe maybe you were walking with jesus burning burning burning and now now the fire's gone out you you're not in love with him anymore it's for those two people if you're one of those two if you're in one of those two groups i want you to raise your hand right now just slip it up and put it right back down let's all stand let's all stand can we move this right now i want to i want to open the altar if you raised your hand or you wish you did listen carefully if you want to do business with the lord here and get truly free he will free you this morning he'll free you from addiction he'll free you from bondage he'll fear you he will free you from hatred he will free you from pornography he will free you from all of the filth this world offers that's been holding your soul he will free you this morning if that's you i want you to come forward right now you step out of your seat and come forward if you feel like you've sinned in a way that's unredeemable come forward come forward god bless you god bless you come forward if you raised your hand or you wish you did get down here get down here thank you lord come come to the lord come to jesus come come come come come come to the lord thank you jesus thank you i want our team to come out of these two front rows come on guys just surround them i want yeah yeah come forward come on come on come on thank you lord thank you jesus this is wonderful come come i feel this strongly i feel this so strongly right now if you have been struggling with the bondage with the bondage of sin and you have believed i will never be free i will never be free i will never be free from this thought process and this habit and the way i feel in my heart i've been too wounded i feel this so strongly i've been too wounded in my life my heart is so broken it will never be healed the bible says that he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds i want you to come down too right now you come down the lord will heal you in the depths of your being right now come there is no wound too deep there's no wound too deep joe dion joe and dion would you pray for them come on there's no wound too deep [Music] [Applause] i i i feel i feel i feel something else many of you yeah come on come on guys come on thank you jesus thank you jesus many of you have had these certain habits and weaknesses in your family for generations you can be free today you don't need to own that i want you to step out of your seat and come down here and for the sake of the generations to come you break that you break that thing right now off your family line you come out come out and this thing is going to break in the name of jesus right now alcoholism addiction hatred schizophrenia anxiety all this stuff come come but break this stuff if they start getting into the aisles just get in the aisles the lord the lord listen it stops with you yep we got room on the sides there it stops with you addictions i feel this very strongly addictions drug addiction alcoholism all of this stuff this this might sound weird some of you are addicted to your device and it's ruined your soul you've given your eyes to unclean things come get free hatred cycles of poverty this stuff stops this stuff stops i'm sure many of you came forward and these last few requests are born again i'm not at all doubting that but we're going to pray we are going to pray the confession of our faith declaring the might of the gospel that's what will free you the might of jesus the might of jesus i want the whole house to pray this out loud say this heavenly father i have sinned against you forgive my sin wash me in the precious blood of jesus i want to love you i want to know you i want to have first love i want to walk deeply with you i believe that jesus christ is the perfect holy son of god i believe that jesus christ came to the earth born of a virgin living holy and blameless and i believe jesus died on the cross shed his blood to wash away my sin and to secure my eternal life and i believe jesus has been raised from the dead and that he ascended to the right hand of the father and is it throne forever as king of kings and i believe that jesus [Music] that you jesus are coming back again save my soul cleanse my heart set me free today set me free today dearest jesus amen amen say this out loud very important i repent and i renounce [Music] my sin my mixture my lukewarm heart the ways of the world wickedness and evil i renounce it all and i turn to jesus with my whole life in jesus name amen now i want to pray over those who came forward actually yes thank you thank you lord i want to pray over all of you to receive a fresh and filling of the holy spirit because you know at the end of the day we can pick issue after issue and try to pick all the but this the coming of this spirit that is the cure-all lift your hands to heaven all of you who came forward i want everyone to stretch their hands from from their seats you can just minister to the lord in the spirit if you like for those of you who come forward just receive you don't have to beg heavenly father filled these precious people your children with the holy spirit in faith father i just say come holy spirit come i want all of you in your seats to say it by faith come holy spirit fill them lord fill them father you just receive now don't pray fill them fill them from head to toe you promise that they'd be filled with the holy spirit fill them i pray clothe them i pray bring joy where there hasn't been bring peace lord the peace of the spirit where there hasn't been replace all that is not of you with your presence now receive receive receive receive [Music] receive yeah receive the peace of the lord so wonderful so wonderful come holy spirit and and give them peace and joy and love patience you know some of you your hearts got hard because you were so hurt and distracted i feel the balm of gilead the precious bomb of the lord softening your hearts again to believe to trust to be with him to walk with his people again in the name of jesus now would you all look at me if you came forward this is so important you read your bible every day every day i'm asking as your pastor if you're visiting i'm asking as a servant of the lord that you would read your bible every day you will not listen you will not live a life burning satisfied filled to overflowing without the word of god every day spend time with jesus every day alone watching this live stream is i hope it blesses you doesn't replace that you have to be with him alone because you're married to him and you need time with him number three you need to be baptized in water if you have not been be baptized in water we would love to help you with that number four i just prayed that for you that the power of the holy spirit would come upon and for those of you who who are born again who came forward to be free the answer is really the presence of the holy spirit and that's not a one-time experience paul said be ye filled live a life of infilling live a life being filled with the spirit and this leads me to my next to the next thing i want to address you can't be as filled as god wants you to without being around other people who are filled it's important to be alone with god it's vital but it's also very important to be with other people who love jesus and their weaknesses are filled by your strengths and your weaknesses are ministered to by their strengths and that's called the body of christ and as paul writes we are perfectly fit together it's very simple make it a lifestyle amen i want to pray one more blessing over you dion would you come for many of you who have not met dion you came forward to give your life to jesus today or rededicate your life i want you to find dion after service right outside that door it's very important he's just going to help you equip you with what i just discussed okay let's pray let's just all lift our hands together as a family father thank you so much for this precious house i thank you for every marriage here i thank you for every person i think for every family i thank you jesus for every pastor i thank you lord for all who came in from out of town let the fire of the holy ghost come upon [Music] that group from ohio just lift your hands to the lord those near don't lay hands on them just stretch your hands father let the fire of the holy ghost come upon them that they would take revival back to ohio and that the gospel would go forth in clarity and power use them use them use them in jesus name all of you who came in from out of town just start waving your hands father in jesus name fill fill them fill them all fill them all with the power of the holy spirit fill them let them carry your presence like a fire shut up in their bones use them for your glory father i thank you by faith that we will read of many moves of god throughout america because they're catching fire today in the name of jesus amen amen can we give the lord praise thank you lord thank you lord if you if you need prayer if you need prayer this morning if you've come forward and you feel like the lord's ministering to you stay here if you need prayer you may just have to wait a few minutes we want you to line up in the center aisle and our prayer team is happy and honored to serve you for those of you who've come forward the lord's touching you you can remain ushers i'll need some help on this one okay god bless you have a wonderful sunday we'll see you tonight by the way get there early tonight it is going to be a special one god bless you bye-bye the night jesus died on the cross and descended into the underworld and the king of glory shall come in [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh ye gates the everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in who is this king of glory the lord of hosts he is the king of glory jesus you have the grave has been plundered you are the king of glory [Music] you were created to experience the presence of god in a way that will transform your life family and the world we understand how difficult it can be to find time to attend a school where you study the word of god grow in your faith and build a community of believers that's why we created jesus school online we believe that the holy spirit is unlimited in his reach no matter where you live or what stage of life you're in we invite you to take part in this amazing online opportunity you'll be led by world-renowned speakers and worship leaders you will be taught to seek jesus daily be activated in the power of the holy spirit learn to share the gospel and build community with jesus 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