Dangerous Church | All In Series | Pastor John Gray

I am looking for a dangerous Church I'll say again I'm looking for a dangerous Church today we rightfully honored first responders people who run towards danger when other people are running from it often times first responders are thrust into unexpected situations emergency calls and when you have an emergency what number do you call pastor DeMarcus stand out when was what day was her daughter born September 11th 2011 at 9-11 p.m. your daughter's name is what Trinity and so God marked an emergency situation with the Trinity the Father Son and the Holy Spirit and your daughter is anointed to to speak to the emergency that is in the earth for we consider the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us for the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God because there's an emergency in the earth and the earth is groaning with birth pains until now the earth is screaming 911 waiting for the church to rise up but we are too busy seeking entertainment your daughter was born on September 11th of 2011 at 9-11 p.m. Romans 5 verse 6 says for when we were still without strength in due time Christ died for people who go to church if you don't have a Bible you should get one and if you have one you should open it Romans chapter five and six I think this is what it says for when we were still without strength in due time Christ died for tithers in due time Christ died for the people who knew all the words to the song for when we were still without strength in due time Christ died for the people that are looking at their watches hoping to get out of here before the game starts for when we were still without strength in due time Christ died for the ungodly so he didn't die for perfect people perfect people he didn't die for people who think they're better than other people Jesus died for the ungodly for scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die but God demonstrates his own love toward us in that while we were still sinners somebody stays somebody say still sinners say it like you know it was talking about us still sinners Christ died for us it makes no sense to run into an impossible situation knowing it would cost you your life Jesus went into the Garden of Gethsemane on a Thursday night knowing that on Friday they were going to take his life not because of what he did but because of what I did and what you did and yet here we are coming in when we want ever so casual and as urgent as the moment is in the earth we still have plenty of seats left but every stadium is filled and they were filled yesterday too and I'm looking for a dangerous Church a church that doesn't feel like playing contemporary Church games anymore but we'll go after souls as if they were burning in flames and you with the knowledge of Jesus Christ were their only hope today is all in part 6 dangerous Church dangerous Church let me pray Lord speak and speak with power in Jesus name Amen I'm grateful for our police officers our sheriff's deputies all of our armed forces men and women National Guard EMTs firefighters that is not an easy job and we don't often understand the weight of what it takes to do a job like that and I asked us to honor them today because it was in line with the word that God gave me everybody say dangerous Church in September of 2000 I was given a position as a youth minister at a church in New Jersey alright I packed my 1989 Nissan Pathfinder two-door stick shift with the dent on the left rear wheel well I liked that truck because it like I was a Pathfinder I was trying to find my way it was dented up and I liked that dent I never got it fixed because I liked the dent and I knew wherever my car was that was my car that's my dent a lot of times we want to push the dents out and act like we're all good but every now and then it's your dents that mark you as different it's the things you've been through that gives you a unique testimony that nobody else can have I remember packing that Nissan Pathfinder and driving the ten hours to New Jersey and I would call my mama on the way and I finally got there to sleep on my friend's couch he and his wife let me sleep on their couch in New Jersey Mike and crystal Penix they're from Pittsburgh they're Steelers fans so we're praying for them I remember our first weekend serving our youth ministry was called jam it ain't too hot for me to jam oh it ain't too hard for me to jam Jesus and me and we would meet in the Community Development Corporation the church had a building they owned we would meet in the basement about 50 teenagers down in the base with the head were feeding on the wild it was in there pop lock in they were breakdancing and getting saved at the same time and the adults because it's a upper middle class church it was out oh that's sweet that's cute until somebody our kids started coming home speaking in a different language and then I got called into the office and they were like what are you doing down there because they think this is a cult and why do you what is this speaking in tongues I said they read the Bible and I made it clear that I understand that everyone won't have the same gifts even though Paul said equally desire the greater gifts but I do believe that the Bible makes it clear that the Holy Spirit gives gifts to whom he will each one of us has different gifts for the working together of the body of Christ so just because I have certain gifts does it make me more spiritual than you I have a unique gift set because I'm called to do something different than you but it doesn't mean I'm better than you and so some people might have the gift of tongues some may have the interpretation I'm not the one who distributes them and I'm not the one saying that it is a prerequisite for salvation so while you're worrying about my theology you should check the fruit and so I served there and then a little over a year later I was working at another church there in New Jersey on September 11th of 2001 in New Jersey not far from the bridge that would take me into New York City I remember waking up Tuesday September 11th and my mother called me and she said are you watching the news and I said no she said our country is under attack and I don't know if anybody here remembers that day where you were does anybody remember where they were I was living in Plainsboro New Jersey I started making phone calls to the people in our church staff is everybody all right everybody was saying yes I got in my blue Ford Taurus because the transmission on my Pathfinder broke down it got me to where I needed to get to and then it was time for the blue the blue Ford Taurus and nothing ensures your virginity like a blue Ford Taurus there's no woman is hollering at a blood cloth seats every time I Drive it like this a rental don't judge me this was 2001 and I remember getting on the New Jersey Turnpike strangest thing they had shut the highway down but I was one of the first cars that they allow back on the Turnpike ten lanes of traffic and I was probably one of ten cars on it driving straight up Pyke heading north got off at around exit 15 somewhere near Jersey City and looked over to see where the towers used to be and I remember the feeling of dread and fear that came over me I rushed back to the church and we had service that night and we stayed there people coming off the train coming in with the dust from the towers still on their clothes weeping at the altar with tears mixed with with dust at the altar believing that their family members got out not knowing what was coming next I remember the fear that gripped our region because you could see the smoke later that night pastor Robert I would watch the news and I would see pictures of firefighters as they were looking at the towers before they walked in what kind of bravery and courage did it take to have on 50 pounds of gear looking at certain deaths knowing that you signed up to save lives now you can't take an elevator you got to climb to fight for people you don't even know and they they bravely climbed into their own coffin so somebody else knew that hope was on the way and that's why we honor our first responders because they do what other people won't do and they do it for people who may never know what it costs Oh they went into the buildings and they weren't fighting for people's lives who were screaming for help you may say pastor John this is a very depressing sermon no it isn't stay with me for a few minutes I'm getting ready to get to somewhere that you need to be because on that day first responders 412 of the over 2,900 people that died at the Twin Towers 412 were first responders of them 343 were firefighters the reason why that's important is because you and I are called to be firefighters you can sit there and stare at me if you want if you want to play Church get your things and go down the street somewhere else because today I'm laying down the gauntlet because we will be a dangerous Church that runs into the flames for people that are dying for people that are on fire for people that have no hope you can have a needle in your arm and weed in your pocket but you have a home here you could have a gun on your hip and bullets in your back pocket but you have a home here you can have HIV in your blood and no hope in your heart but you have a home here you can be trying to figure out who you are what you are who you love or how many you love but you have a home here we will be a dangerous church we will fight for souls because Jesus fought for us when we weren't even looking for him and if you know that I'm talking about you then you ought to give God a thank you [Applause] don't wait on the music you're gonna sit there and not clap like you saved yourself like you so big and bad that your own fate saved you you have no hope just like me you were lost just like me but the blood of Jesus saved you [Applause] who would run into a burning building to save complete stranger somebody say dangerous Church see we're called to snatch Souls from the flames and the reason why I have an urgency now that I haven't had is because over the last two weeks I've buried one of my friends he was 41 yesterday I buried another friend she was 46 had to hug her husband and two kids and we've known each other since six years old I've known her 40 years life is this short walk around and and in one moment you go from here to looking at Jesus I don't have time for games and as pastor Chris was talking I thought about my own life because for too long we've got an entertainment driven Qatar culture where we're trying to one-up each other and this preacher done like that preacher and this church doesn't like that church and and when what are they doing on the internet and Instagram and how many followers and look at that and I don't care anymore what you think about me I don't care if you like me it's time for somebody to preach the gospel repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand I'm tired of a watered-down gospel that winks at sin God loves you God loves everybody yeah that's that's a part of the story but the other part is God loves you enough to tell you the truth that's sin and sin will get you sent to hell and you need to stop sinning and you need to give your life to Jesus and you need to turn from your wicked ways oh I'm gonna preach it if I'm by myself I'm a preaching jesus said in Matthew 4:17 from that time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand no gospel is complete without the gospel of repentance you didn't buy a ticket to get in here this isn't a concert this isn't a show if you came for a show this you're in the wrong place this is a church and churches for broken people who need to know that only Jesus through His Holy Spirit can change your life but sin is a real thing and hell is real everybody's not going to heaven and you need to hear me say it everybody's not going to heaven some folks are gonna go to hell and you can only go to hell if you reject Jesus Christ I will keep reaching and it's not just bad people going to hell it's gonna be some preachers in hell it's gonna be some preachers some famous preachers and elders and prophets in Hell how do I know the Bible says they're gonna look at Jesus and say but we we we cast out demons in your name we prophesied in your name he's gonna say depart from me I never knew you you did all of that show and we never had relationship you did all that stuff and you never came to see me Oh God woe is me if I preach my whole life and end up in hell you can go to church your whole life and end up in hell repent stop sinning if that ain't your wife don't sleep with her cut it off right now if that ain't your husband stop sleeping with him if you single stop having sex outside of marriage you know what the Bible says if you're gluttonous stop eating everything [Music] stop all of that line stop all that gossiping pop it repent cards from your wicked ways call Lord Jesus [Applause] I'm tired of cheap grace running around like God is okay with everything he's not okay with everything if he was okay with everything Jesus wouldn't have to suffer and I wish I had more than you DeMarcus I don't know I think I've offended some people cuz you want to live in your safe box like you can come to church and still live how you want no you cannot if you are saved for real then you have some real fruit if you say you want to show [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I'm looking for a dangerous Church dangerous Church tells the truth dangerous Church is not popular we got too many cool churches now everybody wants to be cool cool we'll get you hot later [Applause] helpme Holy Ghost help me Holy Ghost cut that thing off I don't know who that's for that's a Delilah spirit I know you love her but you can love what's trying to kill you he loved her and all she wanted was his secret so she could kill him you sitting there smiling and they killing you you have no clue ask me how I know the enemy is counting on you not to know who you are so you can end up being around people and getting in relationship with people that are beneath your calling let them go you're bigger than that you're better than that you're greater than that you're past that now repaired tires up yo wicked way [Applause] [Music] [Applause] watered-down gospel that dishonours the cross of Jesus people are dying going to an eternal hell and we looking at our watches so we can watch a game that doesn't matter last one here first one to the car to do what to go back to your broken lice hot or cold lukewarm I spit you out if you're gonna get in church and get all the way in if you're not then get all the way out because whether you out or lukewarm they both get you sent to hell so if you go do wrong do it all the way don't worry yourself with Church don't be guilty just be a good sinner or you can let it go and serve God with your whole heart love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all of your strength who is some uncomfortable people in here but I will give them 20 seconds to give God and all in praise [Music] you can stand you can sit you can shout you you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ah repent see the Bible says we shall reign with him if we suffer with him for I consider that the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us everybody wants victory nobody wants to suffer it everybody wants the blessing I can prophesy houses y'all run all up and down this place i prophesy cars y'all run up and down this place i prophesy healing from cancer you'll run up and down when I declare suffering nobody claps but it's the suffering that produces glory coz here's the truth everybody's not getting healed from cancer some of our loved ones gonna die in a car accident some folk gonna die of a heart attack and they won't get a Lazarus gift they won't get resurrected this body doesn't last forever but eternity is forever and there's something that's after we close our eyes you go in somewhere and it might as well be heaven tell somebody I'm all-in no say it like you mean it screaming shouting yelling she pump it stand on the cushion tell somebody I'm all-in ain't nobody gonna stand on the cushion they scared they don't know if they wait gonna hold i double-dog there yeah Brent let's go Nick let's go pastor aventure I'm all-in latina I'm all-in I need a couple people that a stand on this thing oh Christ the solid rock is taking Sam [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] his sake its head [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I will reign with him if I suffer with him but you and I have a Western mindset an American definition of suffer which means physical pain without purpose but the word suffering in the Greek means to press to press hard upon narrow straightened contracted so the word suffer means to be contracted or narrowed or cut down or conformed to the image of the Sun so the suffering is actually cutting off anything that doesn't look like Jesus I wish I had some help in here that's not a pain that you want God to let go of you need to thank God for that pain he's cutting off some stuff you don't need he's constraining you can swarming you he's pressing you he's trying to get the anointing out of you so he's squeezing you we got too many great pews Christians but God's not trying to make great juice he's trying to make new one I wish I had some help in here I wish I had about tell somebody it's just a little bit of suffering these light afflictions which are but for a moment are producing a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory get your weight up got too many light weight Christians first sign of an attack you quit I ain't going to church double God didn't answer my prayer this ain't Santa Claus you hearing a genie you don't rub God's stomach and get three wishes suffer go through something get the keys so you can tell somebody else keep that it from me he can do it for you [Music] [Applause] he's pressing you in he prick I feel the Holy Ghost I promise I this church will never be the same after this search we will be the church that God sent us here for help me Holy Ghost been fighting for over a year and a half although what you want me to be what you want me to do don't need to be sweet they stay feelings still hurt coz the pastor lesson well what am i spoke do they like me do they want something else I don't know when my wife got Braves and we black they was white I don't know it's the south it'll said all this stuff about me some of his true most of it's a lie should I give up should I quit I didn't let none of it happen till you got here cuz I'm making you [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] where they receive me will they like me I don't know why don't I play it safe I could have stayed at the big church tell you what happens if I close my eyes and open them and I'm looking at Jesus and I'm ready to get any sense hold on I ask you to follow me if you're gonna be a disciple you must first deny yourself take up your cross and follow me you didn't follow me well Lord it wasn't convenient to follow you I was at the big church I had it easy I was at the biggest Church in America yeah but I didn't ask you to do that I went there to teach you to train you Moses I gave you the best schools Moses then I sent you to the desert roses and it looked like that was the last stop but the second stop is for the final stop [Applause] can I get in no you wanted the spotlight more than you wanted my lane [Applause] cloud chasing running after every invitation running after every conference my picture on all the Flyers God said imma let you had that for a second to show you it ain't real then I'm gonna break you all the way down and show you that like you running all over the world you got to lose your whole family and you want to know if that's me or not dog I didn't call you to serve me and lose your wife and kids I gotta keep going Brandon I feel that I'm gonna get free it's I'm the only one that gets saved today then I won't get saved I'll put the mic down and be at the altar in ten minutes [Applause] I can stay in the safe place I didn't call you to stay safe Oh help me huh I called you to live dangerous dangerous is leaving everything you know and going to a place I didn't I didn't know anybody and have no family here didn't know if they'd like me I didn't build this this don't look like me but he told me to come first responders go where there's a fire first responders go to the place other people run from help me Holy Ghost [Applause] sometimes you looking for your life to be easy and you think ease is God's favorite no it's not ease is the devil's illusion when you suffer it gets your weight up so that means whether I'm a based or about my hands are lifted if I got a million dollars or negative 150,000 whether I get paid on Friday or Tuesday I still trust God girl help me Holy Ghost I got my hands lifted not because of what I had but because of who you are and I trust you even though it's not always going in my favor I got my hands Paul declared in second Corinthians 11 in 22 are they Hebrews so am i are they Israelites so am i are they seed of Abraham so am I are they ministers of Christ I speak as a fool I am more in Labour's more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequently in deaths often from the Jews five times I received 40 stripes minus one three times I was beaten with rods once I was stoned three times I was shipwrecked night and day I was in the deep huh in journeys often in perils of water in perils of robbers in perils of my own countrymen in perils of the Gentile perils of the city in perils in the wilderness peril means danger for the folk that don't know what that means I was in danger from the non-believers I was in danger from the folk in the church I was in I was in danger with robbers in the city in the wilderness in the sea with false brethren in weariness and toil and sleeplessness often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness that's Paul wrote 70% of the New Testament but you don't get that kind of anointing without suffering here's what I learned most people don't want to be a disciple they just want to go to church you're not gonna be safe coming to this church anymore if it's saying I'm gonna talk about it not talk about you catch that don't get out there say he tried to talk don't even know your name I haven't even said nothing you going through that's the Holy Spirit convicting you what is dangerous church pastor John a dangerous church goes after souls even if it cost you your life I had my own agenda I could have been a famous preacher and been at the big church or I could have went to the small town and serve God so I had opportunity and then I had obedience [Applause] wanna make you famous with men other will get you saver with God I don't want anybody on this team that wants the same with men over favor with God if you got your agenda over God's agenda then you be blessed but in here we're going after Souls we running after broken people I don't and I want you to run after broken people they already talking about you give him something to talk about why you smell like we cuz I was hanging with him why they were smoking and I was talking about Jesus and I wasn't judging them cuz I used to puff puff pass - is there anybody in here that'll keep it real yeah I heard you was at the bar yep I used to get turned up have my own bottle of patron now I'm high off something else but I know what it's like to be at a bar and be hopeless so I sit next to him I got water in my glass they got something in there but there is a water that won't run dry I wish I had some help in here [Applause] yeah I saw you and your homegirls at the strip club yeah cuz I used to strip now I talked to the girls why they leaving to let them know there's something more than making it rain there's another rain coming the latter rain the rain of the Holy Ghost is there anybody in here that hears what I'm talking about we don't judge anybody who walks through them doors I don't care who you are I don't care who you love I don't care who you think you are what you will be you are a soul and you are welcome in this church when that the Holy Ghost workout everything else [Applause] I'm tired of the church reacting did you hear what I said James Church always reacting something oh look at this who what we gonna do first responders show up at them they don't even know how bad it is they just go it's time for the church to just go did you hear what I said let's go I want to shirt the sins let's go okay I want to run past the yellow tape I want to touch the things that the world doesn't want to touch I want to touch the people that other churches don't want to touch you can tell you talking about us anyway so you might as well we might as well give you more we must respond first we must love first we must forgive first we must serve first why because the unrepentant heart responds to love and mercy it was with loving kindness that I drew you religion will try to shame you into coming to an altar shame on you you know you need to be shame it's nowhere in the Bible you lying devil I don't receive it and none of them religious demons I don't care what a preacher says if it don't look like Jesus I don't receive it if it doesn't sound like Jesus I don't receive it on the same side I'm not gonna be real super liberal with my theology and be like God is cool with everything no he's not sin is sin you better confess your sins or end up in hell hell is real the devil is real and he wants to trick you into thinking that you can manage your sin you can't manage your sin you gotta get delivered and I want Jesus to come in through the Holy Ghost and I don't want you to just get to have it I want you to dig up the root so it doesn't grow back anymore is there anybody that says God get it at the root [Applause] we are to love people into the kingdom forever ones with loving-kindness that I've drawn you so if you're here are you listening we're gonna be a dangerous Church Charles 343 firefighters ran into a tower many of them climbing all the way up to the 80th floor trying to save people they never made it out they had wives or husbands and children right now family still in counseling because they had enough courage to run into a burning building to fight for people they don't know Jesus is the ultimate first responder running into the burning building of our soul that we set on fire with our sin and he came in with the extinguisher of mercy but the oxygen of grace in the helmet of salvation walking us down through peril and trial and demonic activity pushing us out of the way of certain death running back into the building to be crucified in our place not only was he the ultimate first responder he responded before the first bell went off because the Bible says while we were yet sinners Christ died for the ungodly which means before the building was even on fire before you had ever done the first sin he had already determined to die for you what kind of First Responder is there in the building before you do the first wrong thing and say it's paid for you like what are you talking about then all hell breaks loose and you realize he was there before it started cuz he had a plan for you after it's over tired of searching for acceptance and approval I don't work for you I work for God if everybody leaves and God stays I'm alright but if everybody comes and God leaves I'm I have nothing there's a lot of popular folk with no oil you can draw a crowd and have no oil but relentless is gonna be a dangerous Church when the devil sees us coming he gonna tell this demons pack up and leave cuz we not gonna win I've tried everything and they keep coming they keep going they do weird stuff they go to places other church folk won't go I've said I'm looking for a dangerous Church some folk ain't gonna come back you'll be blessed you go over there where they preach everything you want to hear go where they won't offend you and then end up in hell cuz you wanted somebody to like you in your sin if I don't preach the gospel I need to throw the microwave [Applause] I haven't said this one before but this takes me back to my days at Bethel Baptist Church the doors of the church are open as the elders and leaders and pastors get in place is there one today that needs to repent and call on Jesus everybody's standing nobody leaving everyone's standing if you've never given your life to Jesus he responded to you first meet me at the altar is there one if you know that you're saved but you know you want to be a part of a dangerous church get your stuff and get all in here's the first one first responder [Applause] there are others and we're going to clap till they come it's a few of y'all in that balcony get your stuff and come I'm not playing with y'all come on [Music] you know the Lord is calling you to be a member of relentless church [Music]

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Published: Tue Sep 24 2019