Faith to Return to God's House Part 1 | Pastor Eben Conner | Word of Truth Family Church

[Music] god is up to something good let's go come on can i get everybody to clap their hands [Music] you're up to something good [Music] when i'm in the roughest water i won't go on i won't drown [Music] broken and down [Music] [Music] whatever is [Music] something good even through surrounds me [Music] oh [Music] whatever see i know [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] there's nothing in love [Music] now if you believe that your god is all over this room [Music] wow [Music] eyes haven't seen is having her the kind of blessing the kind of blessing that's about me [Music] new things get ready for overflow [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] we are [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] ready [Music] oh ready [Music] [Music] is come on release the shot in this place like you're ready i say release that shot like you're ready come on 30 seconds and give god the biggest praise for miracles times and wonders for unexpected blessings for changing your house killing it in your heart put it in your body you gotta praise him like you know it's coming i don't know what you're facing but you gotta praise him like it's already [Music] the done folks used to say we don't wait till the battle's over we don't wait till the battle is over when you're in the middle of the valley that's when you let the corpus shout out when you in the face of your enemy that's when you scream unto god you don't wait for the victory in the middle of the battle you throw your hands up say for god i die if i die here let god be praised if god comes through let god be praised but nothing will stop my praise because i'm gonna seek [Music] but there's something that i feel is breaking and can i just say this as the worship pastor i feel like there's another ceiling that has been placed over us but our praise is going to burst through that place see some of y'all been asking why haven't this happened yet why haven't this happened yet why haven't this happened yet i've been praying i've been seeking i've been giving i believe there's a shout inside of you that will bring the walls of jericho down but you can't be cute with it you can't be comfortable with it it comes a time when you gotta let forth the praise when women give birth to babies they don't care about makeup they don't care about their hair they got a purpose and their purpose is to push is to push to the next level i come to tell you this morning you gotta push you gotta push [Music] [Music] and we're excited today not just because we're emotional but we're excited today because whatever the enemy threw at us whatever the enemy said about us even whatever we said to ourselves that did not align with your word [Music] you love us so much that today you are speaking a better word a better word than cancer a better word than depression a better word than bankruptcy there is a better word in the house today and we lift our hands and we receive that better word come on let's worship [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus [Music] thank you jesus [Music] your blood is healing everyone your blood is making all things new your plan speaks a better word [Music] your blood is the measure of my worth your life it's more than i deserve your plan speaks a better word speaks about a word [Music] the precious blood of christ your blood thank you jesus it's a road of righteousness your blood it's my hope and my defense your [Music] thank you yeah it's shouting down [Music] is it's making all things come right here let's worship him today church yo what your word speaks lord it's a lie lord it's a love today [Music] it's rewriting my history it covers me with destiny [Music] and it's making all things right the precious blood of christ is rewriting my history it's rewriting my [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] the precious [Music] [Music] it's still the same blood church it's shouting down [Music] the precious [Music] [Music] it's making more things [Applause] [Music] is [Music] a better word [Music] the blood the blood of jesus hallelujah he said that they put a crown of thorns around his head in the blood dripped down his head and then they pierced him in his side and water and blood came gushing out of his side and he was beaten on his back for the healing for our healing the blood is still alive [Music] if it's not alive we're in trouble because the bible says he's still able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all i've got to believe in the blood because my sister was diagnosed with cancer and i'm believing that the blood is washing away every disease cell hallelujah jesus i've seen broken relationships and i'm believing that the blood is going to mend the relationships i've seen kids in in in breakdown and destitute and depression and i gotta believe that the blood will restore their joy does anybody still believe in the blood and the wonder working miracle power of jesus christ he's able hallelujah the woman with the issue of blood she said if i could just if she had to say it to herself because sometimes when you say stuff out loud people don't believe you they think you crazy oh she doing too much so she said i said she said to herself if i could just touch the hem of his garment i'll be made whole anybody need to touches him this morning do you need something from god father we just receive it [Music] would you lift your hands [Music] thank you jesus you're able your blood is able lord [Music] your blood is able your blood [Music] jesus the christmas [Music] through [Music] lord of all [Music] in the [Music] lord [Music] [Music] the weakest man [Music] [Music] you're the cornerstone [Music] [Music] only if you believe it lift it up again christ the right before i gave up now right now open your mouth and just bless the kingdom of jesus the lord of lords come on let's worship come on he's the quarter song and we don't reject him we don't reject eyes on him [Applause] [Music] don't think about the storm think about the god of the storm [Music] so come on the savior's love through the storm and we were hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah lord we worship you today in christ alone in christ alone the word says some trust in chariots and some trust in horses but we shall remember the name of the lord our god and i feel like i got a word from the lord if you don't mind if i share it with you i feel like some of us really have been trusting in chariots and horses we've been trusting in our own strength and our own wisdom and our own skill and our own mindset if i could just break through then i could receive the goodness of the lord but the goodness of the lord is also in the battle the goodness of the lord is also in the fight that you don't have to fight alone that you some of you came in today and you didn't have any strength left and you're not sure what you're going to do because it is crazy out there right now but here the lord wants to refresh you that presence that you feel that is in this room today that's for you that's for you online as you're sitting there right now at home god's presence is filling your room because he wants to fill your heart jesus didn't die for brick and mortar he died for you if we could do something wherever you are whether you're in this building or online raise your hands real quick close your eyes and just picture jesus before you and i believe the lord wants to pour out on you he wants to refresh you and bring you strength he wants to wipe away the chains and the burdens and the heartbreak and the heartache in christ alone the word of god is written for you that you might find strength and wisdom if anyone lacks wisdom let him ask god who gives liberally to all without reproach listen i i feel like there's somebody here keep just keep your hands up i feel like there's somebody here who feels like you're not worthy enough that god doesn't see you that your prayers aren't making it to him because you're not important enough or you're not special enough maybe that's you online i want you to know that that's a lie of the enemy but that god sees you today god's heard those words and he says that's a lie i have called you my own i've called you my child and jesus died for you and i want to speak this over everybody today exodus 14 14 says that the lord will fight for you you need to only be still you need to only be still hallelujah father we give you all glory and honor and praise today there is no god like you there is no god who is present with us at every moment of every day no god who separated heaven and earth i brought heaven and earth together so that we might have a relationship with you while we were sinners christ died for us and we love you and we give you glory and honor today and we pray that you would magnify continue to magnify your name today and it's in jesus name we pray amen amen give the lord a round of applause today lord we celebrate you go ahead and be seated wave to a neighbor say hello to somebody we are so excited that each and every one of you are joining us here today live in person and those who are joining us uh via facebook youtube i couldn't think of the word there for a second but we're grateful to have you whether you are local or across the world shout out to you for those who are across the world we're so glad that you're joining us today we believe that god has a word for you here at word of truth so please take a moment and continue to watch the screen for today's announcements hey everyone welcome to word of truth my name is pastor che and i just want to thank you for being a part of our worship service today first of all i want to let you know if you're online share the link that's right just share the link share the youtube share the facebook we want to get as many people connected right here at word of truth so we can impact more lives and make a difference all across our country and our world hey if you need prayer i want to remind you that you can text the word hashtag pray the number 4 and me to 54244 and someone will call you immediately after the service to pray with you we don't want you to be going through whatever you're going through all by yourself remember you have helped there's someone here to support you and encourage you in prayer hey guys my name is danielle and i serve in the children's ministry as a mother of four i felt it was an honor to be able to serve in the ministry i have watched the ministry bless the lives of the volunteers the children and even the lives of my own children they have in turn become servers in the kingdom we have developed in relationship lasting relationships with the volunteers that we served alongside of and that brings me to a particular time in our lives when my daughter unfortunately lost her father when she was 12 years old i was in such odd how the ministry came together to make such an impact in her life and it has formed her into the person that she is today and that is why i serve children are very near and dear to the heart of the lord in matthew 18 5 jesus said whoever welcomes a little child welcomes me you have the opportunity right here at word of truth every single sunday to welcome jesus to serve jesus to minister to jesus to sacrifice to jesus to give to jesus simply by being and serving in the children's ministry if you would like to join the true kids team get out your phone right now and text the word team to 54244 [Music] and thank you so much for joining us here at word of truth listen now it's time for us to give good morning word of truth i am pastor jonathan i'm the youth pastor here i've been this past year for almost eight almost nine years so i've been a member since 2012 so that's pretty awesome so we're going to do something a little different i'm up here to have the honor to be able to honor our high school graduates so if i can have my registered high school graduate 2021 come on on the stage as they're coming up here i just want to kind of tell you a little bit what uh elevate is come on come on come on [Applause] these are our 2021 high school graduates incredible people guys we have a youth ministry elevate i absolutely love it it's for seventh through twelfth grade so if you have a student in the 7th or 12th grade where every wednesday night we meet here from 6 30 to 8 and you know what this wednesday per pastor evan any student who shows up to elevate will be entered into a 500 raffle so if you have a student online if you have a student house get your student here wednesday nights it's an amazing time but right now what i want to do is i want to take a moment and have pastor edmund come up we have amazing gifts for uh for our graduates but we're gonna have pastor evans do a dedication and a prayer over our students come on give pastor johnson a big hand this morning give our graduates wow [Music] what an accomplishment so i'm going to pray over you all and because he took a shorter amount of time i'm gonna give you five things you need to keep up you ready five things five things five things high five high five five five five come on put em up put em up put em up put em up put em up put them up five things you need to keep up regardless if you go to college or whatever you're gonna do number one you need to keep your spiritual life up can't make it without god number two if you're going to college you need to keep your gpa up [Music] don't party first study first then number three you need to keep your attitude up because your attitude determines your altitude number four you need to keep your communication up with your parents because you're gonna always need some money and then number five you need to keep your draws up all of them [Music] [Applause] yeah keep them up up up up so let's pray let's pray father in jesus name calm down parents those of you who are watching online i hope you heard all five of those father in jesus name i thank you for each and every graduate i pray now that you will give them supply them with wisdom with supernatural knowledge give them favor with god and man and father those who may not be as close to you as you want them to be i thank you for drawing them closer those who are closer father i pray that you will bring them even closer and those who may be even closer i pray for an intimate relationship with you that they've never had i pray that father you will supply every need that they have in whatever they do and i pray in the mighty name of jesus that you will surround them like a shield with favor protect them in the mighty name of jesus and we thank you that they are more more than conquerors through him who is christ jesus and if you are for our graduates who could be against them i thank you lord god for just doors of opportunity and blessings being open for them that they've never seen and we thank you for them now in jesus mighty name everybody say amen come on give our graduates a big hand clap which way they're going to go this way and these are their gifts so they're going to be giving those to them and while they're doing that if you graduated thank you if you graduated from college stand up through the lens and stand up in here if you graduated from college it doesn't matter if you did it with your mba your what your bachelors come on come on that's good stuff congratulations to you all god bless you well good morning we're the truth family church [Music] with my phone where my phone with my phone yeah yeah yeah i heard i saw that last week so uh before i do the offering can i do my announcements first then we'll do the offering can i do that all right so uh first of all uh you know father's day was an amazing event we had more men than women for mother's day it was amazing so uh god has put a prophetic word in my heart that i am going to release right now and i want you to receive it let me just say this uh the last no maybe the not the last facebook live but the one before that that i did a prophetic word came and i said that there were some people who were applying for a home loan and they ran into some obstacles and i said don't give up fight the good fight of faith stand in faith and god's going to do it so i got a text from this person that same day it says thank you for that prayer pastor we're praying for favor over our loan people said they're unsure if it will go through we believe otherwise closing date is june 25th so watch this yes so then i get a text and a and a video on uh let's see here on friday and says it's official we close on our lawn today and we're moving in our house and we go and they got the keys to their house so this prophetic word that came to me i've been i'm like lord how do i relate what i'm feeling inside to people and uh i'm gonna tell you what it is and then i'm gonna explain how he well let me let me explain how he gave it to me today so i've been this weekend i'm like lord how do i explain this prophetic word to everybody and so i wake up this morning and you know what song came to me now if you old school you would know this song but it's a song by johnny uh nash and i ain't sung or heard this song in a long time and this may sound real different for some of you all especially if you're real religious because if you're real religious to be like does god speak like that he does so i was asking how to explain the word and he gave me this song and it's by johnny nash and so i had them to download it because i want you to hear the words of the song because the words of the song agree with the prophetic word that i'm going to give you that he gave me so can y'all do that right now all right watch this down watch this stuff [Music] sunshine i think i can make it now the pain is gone [Music] and all of the bad feelings [Music] [Music] all right now listen raise your hands right now because ease is coming some of you have been in fights from battle to battle you settle one thing and something else pop up and then you fix that and something else pop up and god is telling me to tell you that ease has come [Music] ease has come things that were hard are now about to be easy doors of favor are about to open blessings are coming unusual opportunities that will bless you and others are on the way right now the difficulty the strength the stress and the burdens are being lifted even as i speak in jesus name and the pain of it all ends today in jesus name [Music] and listen to what he told me to tell you he said you know when the rain stops when it stops in the heavens you don't know it because it hasn't reached the earth yet he said so you might see a little drizzle but he said it stopped today do you receive that give the lord a hand clap if you receive that i'm telling you some good things are coming church the fight is over amen all right well i don't know how much i don't went over my time thank you he even played the song for us praise the lord so you all know i had surgery it happened so fast i couldn't even tell y'all but i had hernia surgery and i wouldn't recommend that i wouldn't recommend it at all i might even have to teach in a chair today but either way right let me see what else i have on here uh well let's let me see what else hold on i got staff texting me announcements okay the office will be closed monday july the 5th in lieu of the fourth of july weekend pastor ebbing goes on a sabbatical every july if you've been here long enough you know that so you all may see me coming and going but just be praying let me tell you something uh you would you will see the difference when you allow a pastor to rest you will see the difference the church benefits from that and i've been doing sabbaticals for it's i think this is the 11th year so uh you all be praying for pastor evan and then one more thing we're refinancing our church right now we're in the process of doing that [Music] and i want us all to get in agreement that it's going to happen here here's why because it's going to save us so much money a month that it's going to allow us to keep doing what we do in a bigger way see like father's day i want that to be the norm giving a car away every mother's day i want that to be a norm wouldn't it be great to give away two cars i'm in faithful two next year right how many are faithful too let me see your hand okay good so you'll give you two tries right maybe we'll give one to the mothers who are uh regular mothers and then the single mothers we have two drawings yeah that's like 50 grand all right we really need to be in faith right now all right so that's it so it's time to give this morning so i didn't give them this to this the this to them uh but if they'll put first corinthians chapter 16 verse 2 in the niv version of the bible first corinthians chapter 16 verse 2 in the niv version of the bible i was speaking to a young man yesterday who i met for the first time 22 years old and i was explaining to him that his seed will work faster in his life than his hands see here's the thing about working hard i believe that you should work hard but working hard alone does not guarantee you success because if that's the case some of our parents should be billionaires with how hard they work do you agree with that so working hard alone doesn't do it and here's the thing about working you can only do it when you're up what happens when you're asleep that's when seed in the ground works for you while you're asleep god is able to take the seeds that you have in the ground and multiply them while you're asleep and when you wake up open doors for god to bless you first corinthians chapter 16 verse 2 says on the first day of the week they're going to find it first corinthians chapter 16 verse 2 first corinthians 16 2 in the niv here we go let's read it together on the first day of the week well let's let i said that wrong let's do it again now y'all gotta wait for me now we're gonna say it together we're gonna say it together okay y'all ready let's do it on the first day of every week each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income saving it up so that when i come no collections will be me made i like this because he said it's the first day of every week did y'all see that the first day of every week that means now this is my my my faith attitude i want to be able to tithe every week i don't get paid every week but i want to be able to tithe every week you say well how can you do that because that means somebody's got to give me something so think about this if you got something from someone of somewhere every week you could tithe every week who would like to do that right some people i don't want to die every week then you don't want increase every week so i'm just believing that god's opening up opportunities for us and that people are going listen i had someone who said something to me this week they said to me they said i'm trusting god to help me make you the richest pastor in the world i said when i'm in agreement with dad he said so you won't have to do you're just walking in and be paying off other churches i said well i'm in agreement with that so let's stand up we're going to do our confession because our confession lines up with scripture but it also lines up with what i just told you and that is men given to your bosom let's say it together father i thank you i live in daily expectation of an exceptional life i always support the kingdom of god with ten percent of all my increase therefore the windows of heaven's blessings are open to me i believe i receive so much creative wisdom insight and opportunities that i cannot take advantage of them all because i give offerings i thank you father for raising up unsuspecting people to go out of their way to use their power their ability their influence and their resources to help me thank you for blessing me so that i can be a blessing i expect exceptional and extraordinary increase for me my family and my church in jesus name amen god bless you may be seated and if you're giving you can give of course online we have our website you can go to or you can go to pushpay which is an app that we have we also you can give on paypal or if you want to give physically here today in the house you should have an offering envelope if you need one just raise your hand and our ushers will give you one and on your way out you can put your offering envelope in the box in the back amen all right we have some hands here raise them a rear in fact while we're doing this how many are visiting today if you're visiting for the very first time would you just raise your hand come on get my visitors a big hand thank you thank you thank you you know i've watched god grow our church in the midst of a pandemic there's a bank working with us who cannot understand how our church financially grew last year and nobody came to church you know there was nobody in the building so they they couldn't understand how did that happen and so you know me and my wisdom i just i just told them i said hey that's the favor of god what else am i gonna say i can't take credit for it i was preaching the chairs right so thank you for visiting us stand to your feet we're gonna do our confession and if you are at home i know i seem like i'm neglecting you today but i'm not now listen if i feel like i need to sit down i'm going to ask them to bring my stool and i'm going to do my very best to not get excited this morning it's going to be hard so i think i'll reserve my energy till the end all right so y'all ready stand to your feet at home hold up your bibles repeat after me say this is god's word not pastor evan's word i am who it says i am i can do what it says i can do i can be who it says i can be and i will have what it says i can have today i will hear the word of god i boldly declare that my mind is alert my heart is receptive my ears are open and i better not go to sleep i'll never be the same in jesus name amen let's pray together father we thank you for your word it's always a lamp unto our feet it's always a light unto our path and father as we break open the logos word i pray in jesus name that you will cause the spirit of god to breathe on this word that's in the bible and father breathe it into our hearts by your spirit i step back so the spirit of god can use me to minister life to your people and i thank you that everything that is said and done will bring glory to you and i give you praise and honor and i declare in jesus name that signs miracles and wonders are going to follow our lives because jesus always watches over his word to perform it in jesus mighty name everybody say amen amen amen god bless you you may be seated i hope you all are ready for me because i'm ready for you look i'm prayed up and obeyed up so let's see what we got right so uh three weeks ago i started a series entitled faith to change everybody say faith for change and the thought process behind this whole series is to help you and i embrace change with the faith attitude and faith actions everybody say a faith attitude and faith actions and so i'm going to do a small review just for those who may be here for the very first or second time or who are viewing and so so far we've looked at three primary ways that change is going to come number one we looked at change can happen to us everybody say happen to us change can happen to us and this is when change or changes come from life or others and these changes or these decisions we had no say-so in in other words these are decisions or actions that no one asks us our thoughts or our opinions so change can happen to us and then the second way change can come is that change can happen from us and this is when we make decisions as individuals that we decide to do certain things or say certain things or buy certain things you know the house that you buy you bought that that's a change from you and those are easier to swallow unless we've made some bad decisions and those bad decisions changed our life but either way it goes change can happen from us everybody say from us and then number three we looked at change that can happen from god and these are when god wants us to make a change or changes that will ultimately better our life anytime god wants you to make a change it is going to be a blessing in your life and i've called these changes god directed changes everybody say god directed changes and we must remember that any change that is directed by god will always take our lives to new levels and new blessings and so today is our third lesson in our series on faith for change and the topic today is called faith to return or faith to return to god's house so i'm talking to everybody who's watching me online today now the sub topic of today's message is the ark has parked the ark has part and this is going to be a two-part teaching and the whole purpose behind these two lessons that i'm going to do today and next week is to produce faith in our hearts to start physically returning to god's house for worship for fellowship and for serving everybody says for worship for fellowship and for serving now you may say well pastor why is a teaching like this so important it's important because all of us have been impacted by a worldwide pandemic this was not just a nationwide pandemic this was a worldwide pandemic that all of us have been impacted by but unfortunately many of us have developed pandemic thinking i want you to hear me today think about this studies have shown that it takes about 21 days to develop a new habit how many have ever heard that anybody have ever heard that if you've heard that online just put put a thumbs up if you've heard that it takes about 21 days to develop a habit a habit and if this is true then many of us have developed a habit of not physically attending church because we've not attended church for the most part almost a year and a half it was not on purpose because we were in a global pandemic we didn't even have a choice for the most part so let me just give you a disclaimer before i teach the lesson let me give you a disclaimer here's the disclaimer because see i don't want conviction to be confused for condemnation conviction means that i hear something that i need to do that i'm not doing that comes from god he says he stirs me up and goes you need to do that condemnation makes you feel bad and tries to beat you down for not doing it so if you feel condemnation it's the devil if you feel conviction come on church it's god all right so there are those of you who have genuine health challenges that may require you to connect through the lens or through streaming because of your health challenges and then there are some of you who live outside of our area who are members or visiting members who can only connect to us through streaming or through the lens why because they live too far to attend and that is understood 100 everybody say that's 100 however there are those of us who do not have medically or physically reasons of why we can't start physically attending church so that's why i'm teaching this lesson and so i'm going to be showing you some benefits and advantages of corporate worship services versus individual worship services because there is a difference between the two and i'm going to be doing that next week because if there's anything that we should have learned individually through this pandemic was how to individually worship together so there are many experiences from the pandemic uh that were mostly in my opinion negative i mean there are some positive things that have come out of it but there was more negative than positive and some of this included things like functional impairment i mean some of us used to you know we wanted to go to work we were people people and so we you know we enjoyed going and physically you know and now we're stuck at home between four walls with a kid that's on a computer that's in school but we're the teacher where's the teacher and i recognized i needed to repeat the sixth grade with landon because my sixth grade mathematical skills are at second grade level some of us in the pandemic experience boredom worry different phobias came up frustration and anger and a new study just came out that revealed that 20 of couples who were married five month months or less prior to the pandemic have filed for divorce or are looking to get divorced right now and that's 11 why is it 20 and it was only 11 in 2019 almost double because of a pandemic and all of these negative feelings listen and the responses from it start with how we think about what's happening to us which means now our thinking has a whole lot to do with how we're responding can you say amen to that and here's the thing even though our core beliefs which is what we believe they're lodged on the inside of our hearts if our thinking is affected listen it will shift how we now believe okay let me explain it this way um i'm gonna explain it through scripture and then i'm gonna give you an example all right here's the deal a change can take place in a person's heart but if their mind is not renewed or let me say it like this if their mind doesn't catch up with their heart change then their lives will never see the difference okay let me see it say it like this you get somebody who gets born again saved they give jesus all of their heart and if they never pick up god's word and renew their mind to the new person that's on the inside of them they will never see on the outside the new person that's on the inside why because they have not renewed their thinking to where their heart is and this is why it's possible to believe something but not see what we believe come to pass in our life it's with the heart we believe but watch this but it's with the mind we receive listen write this down the heart is responsible for spiritual transformation but our minds are responsible for physical transformation i'm gonna say that again our hearts are responsible for spiritual transformation everybody say spiritual transformation our hearts which is on the inside it's responsible for the spiritual transformation if any man be in christ he's a new creation all things are passed away behold all things will become new but our minds are responsible for physical transformation and that's why listen what you know in your head dictates how you are led whatever you think about long enough is what you're going to do say amen to that so believing is the bridge between my heart and my renewed mind in other words information dictates my transformation and jesus said in john chapter 8 verse 32 they're going to put it on the screen he says you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free but see the key words in that verse is not make you free the key word in that verse is you shall know the truth because you can't get free without knowing that so truth is very important so let's look at this verse that most of us are familiar with is found in romans 12 2 they're going to put it on the on the screen and here's what i'm going to do i'm going to read this verse in three different versions now i've used this verse in our in our series so far but i want you to uh i want you to listen to it in different ways because the point i'm trying to make these verses are going to help me make it and you say well pastor what's the point the point is this i'm wanting you to understand that the pandemic has changed how we think about a lot of things including attending church can you say me into that and i really want you all to pay attention to my content and not the charisma you know because sometimes the charisma of the preacher can distract you from the content in fact in a lot of cases the charisma is hiding the content because there is none okay i won't get started on that but anyway here we go romans chapter 12 verse 2. listen to what it says this is the king james version and be not conformed to this world but be transformed watch this by the renewing of your mind so my transformation in life comes from me renewing my mind and then he says that you may prove what's good and acceptable in the perfect will of god listen to the new living translation don't copy the behavior and customs of this world but let god transform you into a new person how church read it with me by changing the way you think watch now the message translation which puts the cherry on top don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking and i know and understand that this pandemic has created a new norm but what i also know is that it has not done or should not create a new way of how god create how god operates why because see it may have created a new method by which god wants to use but god is not going to change the bible to fit our traumatic experiences i'm going to say that on this side god is not going to change the bible to fit into our traumatic experiences in other words what i'm saying is just because our world has gone through a a pandemic change god's word is still the same and so what we're going to do today we're going to look at an experience that happened in the life of noah and his family and see how it relates to where we are in our world today so if you're taking notes and you should have some notes in your in your handout point number one is god directed changes require changes from us god directed changes requires change from us everybody say it with me say god directed changes requires change from us so let's now read genesis chapter 6. i'm reading out of the king james it's a little reading but i'm going to point some things out as we go and then we're going to jump into it it says and god saw the wickedness of man it was great in the earth and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was evil continually and it repented the lord that he made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the lord said i will destroy man and whom i've created from the face of the earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and the files of the air for it repented me that i made them sounds like god's in a bad mood don't look at verse 9 or verse 8 but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord verse 9. these are the generations of noah i'm reading this for a reason norah was a just man and perfect in his generations and noah did what he walked with god and noah had three sons shem him and jebeth and the earth was corrupt before god and the earth was filled with violence and god looked on the earth and behold it was corrupt for all the flesh was corrupted in its way and god said to who who did god say it to noah he says the end of the flesh has come near for the earth is filled with violence and behold i'm going to destroy it and then he tells uh uh uh this man knoweth something he says i want you to make an arc of gopher wood so now watch this now here we go noah is experiencing one of these changes that we talk about this is a god directed change now i don't know what noah did for a living but now he has become a boat maker he says i want you to make me an ark and i want you to make rooms from it and you will you pitch it on me and i want you to cover it with slime and so it won't leak and then we're jumping down to genesis chapter 7 verse 1 and the lord said to who come on church what did he say he said to noah come you and all your house into where church come into the ark it wasn't an ark in our case it was our house he says i want you to go into the ark for i've seen you righteous and verse 2 says and every clean beast you shall make or shall take to you by sevens and then he goes through all of that and and then in verse four he says for seven days i will cause it to rain upon for yet seven days and then i will cause it to rain for forty days and forty nights and every living stuff that i've made will i destroy and noah did sounds like now noah not only got a god-directed change but remember now some changes have to come from us now he's having to change his agenda and now this change is coming from noah he did what the lord had commanded now remember we have three different kinds of changes and watch this in this situation noah is experiencing all three types of these changes at the same time you think your life is hard because you got a change on a job that you didn't you didn't know about you wasn't ready for noah had all three changes changed from life it's happening to him that he has no control over a flood's getting ready to happen he can't stand outside with an umbrella so change is happening to him change is being directed by god and this change that's directed by god is going to save his life in others but then also there are some changes that must come from him in order for him to live i don't know what he did for a living but whatever it was he had to change it so even though what noah is about to experience is not a global pandemic it is what we would call today a global natural disaster it's like a tsunami it's something that's huge and so there's there's some similarities between a global natural disaster and a global pandemic here is number one this is what they both have in common massive amounts of people die do you all agree with that we saw that with coronavirus we saw it with the tsunami noah seeing it in this flood massive amounts of people died here's number two massive change had to take place with noah his occupation changed where he lived changed how he did things change where he ain't changed number three massive change took place with his family now ain't no going outside and play no no no no and then listen they might have been used to like air fresheners in the house smelling good they in a boat with animals now massive change here's number four massive change took place in the world now when they get out of this boat nobody's gonna be left but them number five noah had to experience a new norm but here's number six we're gonna talk about but noah had to eventually return watch this now to some healthy customs that he used to do so here's point number two if you're taking notes we're going to talk about some facts about noah's changes that relate to our changes that we've had to make so here's the first change that noah had to experience it took listen you may not have known this because see when we read the bible we think that something happened overnight so it took a hundred years for noah to build that ark a hundred years and you've been waiting as a single person on your spouse for a hundred days and you tired and weary are you kidding me the bible says one day to the lord is like a thousand years keep waiting a hundred years it took him he started building this ark when he was 500 years old and he did not finish it until he was 600. genesis 5 32. i'm going to give you proof of all this it says and noah was 500 years old when he begot his three sons genesis 7 6 says and noah was 600 years old when the flood of the waters uh became on the earth and let me just throw this uh at you you're never too old to obey what god wants you to do listen you're never too old you can be 90 years old but if god still has something on his agenda for your life it is never too late to say god i will do what you want me to do it is never too late and here's another point i want to make sometimes the work or our obedience seems to be taking a long time for us to continue to do it for us to see the manifestation but see sometimes you have to understand big blessings have long roots amen so here's the first one so the first one was uh it took noah a hundred years to build a art here's number two noah and his family were stuck in the ark for one year and 17 days or a total of 382 days basically for a year and 17 days noah and his family were trapped in this boat and many of us were trapped at home in this pandemic couldn't even go to work for the first time they allowed you to work at home you didn't even know they could do that and now you're working at home or or now your business is closed and you're at home and the same thing happened to noah and his family and here's the thing noah had to adjust to living in that ark eating in that art praying in that art spending time with that in that in that art with his family worshiping in that art he wasn't used to that and just like us there are things that happen we weren't used to i saw some people when they came out of the pandemic i didn't recognize them that's three words recognized they hadn't been to the barber shop and had a shave in a year and a half they look like a caveman genesis chapter 7 verse 1 it says this and the lord said to noah come you and all your house into the ark for i've seen your righteousness genesis 7 4 says watch this now because we're going to count down this and i'm doing this for a reason we're going to count down how many days that noah was in this ark because see we think noah was in the ark 40 days and 40 nights because that's how long it rained but that's not how long he was in the ark so watch this it says for yet seven days everybody say seven days okay somebody i need a mathematician on the front row who's good with the calculator anybody good with the calculator on the front pull the calculator out we gonna add up these days that noah was in the boat it said seven days and he said he put him in there he said seven days now get in get in the boat and then in seven days i'm gonna make it rain so we got seven okay put seven in your calculator then genesis 7 12 says and the rain was upon the earth come on read it with me church 40 days and what 40 nights how many days okay so how many days did it that was he in the ark before it started raining seven so 40 plus seven is what okay he's in 47 days already genesis 7 24 and the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and what 50 days so if you add 150 days to 47 it should be 197. then it says it took most people don't notice 74 days that is like two months and some change for that water to go down genesis 8 4 and 5 says and the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventh day of the month upon the mountains of ararat and the waters decreased and continually until the 10th month see when you add up all these months and stuff it comes up to be 74 days so now 74 days plus 197 is see i even helped y'all by putting it up there it's 271 days and then watch this now the waters went down and he had to wait for that and he waited another watch this 40 days genesis chapter 8 verse 6 it says and it came to pass at the end of how many days church 40 days noah opened the window of the ark which he had made and he sent forth the rave and see most of us would talk he sent doves out first he didn't send doves out he sent a raven out first but it took 40 days so now how many days we had now we had 311 days he almost been in this boat for a year let me ask you a question do you think noah thought he was going to be in that boat for a year i'm thinking well first of all it took 100 years for him to build a boat a hundred years man that's almost a year so then 14 days go by after he sends the raven out and he sends out some doves genesis 8 8 through 12 says he also sent forth the dove to see if the waters went down the dove found no rest the dove came back and then if you look down in verse 10 it says and he stayed yet another seven days and he began to send forth another dove out of the ark and then the dove came to him and if you keep reading uh it said another seven days so now we're at 325 days and here's now i'm doing this for a reason too 57 days go by because in genesis 8 14 it says in the second month see if you add up all these months it comes up to be 382 days so watch what happened now in verse 15 it says and god spoke to noah and he says i need you now to leave the ark you your wife and your sons ladies and gentlemen boys and girls if you're watching me through the lens the ark has parked after 382 days the ark has parked they didn't stay in the ark they came out of the ark why because had they stayed in the ark there wasn't enough food in the art there wasn't enough food for them the animals they couldn't live in that ark forever you can't live in your house forever remember i said that noah had to leave the ark and then re-engage into some activities that he used to have well watch this genesis chapter 8 verse 20 and the new king james version says this then noah watch as soon as he got off the art oh i can't do that i can't do that i can't do that i can't do that i have to slow it down as soon as he got off the ark it says then noah built an altar to the lord and he took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and he offered a burn offering to the lord on the altar and the lord smelled it it was a soothing aroma and god said i'll never curse the ground for man's sake again and this is what i want you to see noah had to go back listen church and do some things that he was doing before the flood and just like noah had to do some things that he used to do before the flood you're gonna have to now go back and do some things that you used to do before coronavirus [Applause] you and i in spite of what has happened with this pandemic we must get out of our homes by faith and come back to the house of god listen to corporately worship to corporately fellowship and to corporately serve and you say well why because there is something listen i'm about to get excited i'm just going to have to suck it up right now but listen there is something that happens in god's house that will not happen at your house oh i will say it again i said there is something that will happen in god's house that might not happen at your house why would god have us in a school for 13 years to get to this facility and then for the rest of our ministry life we watch church on tv why would god have the children of israel to build synagogues and temples just for him with nobody in it which now leads me to point number three are y'all ready for this this is good here he comes here he comes here we go look at your neighbor say he's coming down your street he's coming he's coming he's coming he's coming he's coming here's point three what happens in god's house may not always happen in our house i can't tell you how many people who have been watching through the lens who came to church for the first time since the pandemic because things are opening back up and said pastor i forgot how physical and live worship was so much better than through the lens now through the lens is good we had to do it but unless you have a health issue and unless you live outside the metroplex god is speaking so watch this i'm gonna show you something i'm gonna show you that what happens in the house may not always happen at your house acts chapter one this is the new living translation it says in my first book i told you theopolis about everything jesus began to do and teach until the day he was taken up to heaven after giving his chosen apostles listen further instructions through the holy spirit listen to what he told them he says during the 40 days well this is a continued description during the 40 days that he was here after his res his crucifixion he appeared to his apostles from time to time and he proved to them in many ways that he was actually alive he talked to them about the kingdom of god watch this now verse 4 once when he was eating with them he commanded them now let me ask you is there a difference between a command and a suggestion he commanded them watch what he tells them do not leave jerusalem until the father sends you the gift of the promise as i've told you before john baptized with water but in a few days you will be baptized with the holy spirit now let's drop down to acts chapter two verse one and when the day of pentecost was fully come what's the next word church come on church how about what is it everybody say they does they sound like me no so it wasn't at home they wasn't at home because they ain't at home me is at home it says and listen and they were all on one accord in what one place and then suddenly there came a sound see sometimes when you in the house something suddenly can happen in here that ain't gonna happen through there i can tell you that right now you can put your hand on the camera all you want to i don't know you just gonna have some fingerprints you got to watch off and suddenly that cat ain't mad at nobody i just want y'all to know that i ain't mad at nobody i love everybody i love everybody and suddenly there came a sound a rushing mighty wind watching and it filled all the house where who was sitting come on church come on who they were sitting and there appeared unto them clothing tongues like there's a fire and it sat upon egypt who and then watch it says in verse 4 and come on church and and they were all filled with the holy ghost and begin to speak with tongues and the spirit of god gave them this didn't happen at home what's this now i'mma prove to you see if this movement that they experience in that room together in one place with something universal everybody in jerusalem at their house would have got filled with the holy ghost but they didn't because it took place in the house and there are some things that god's going to do he's not going to do it in your house because he built his house for that so i'm closing right here how do we apply this message it's real simple come to church [Laughter] real simple come to church they can see they can see me sweat for the first time come on come to church now listen listen listen i know some of them some of them on the lens are saying but pastor how do we come to church well let me say it like this because see some of you all have fears so how do we face our fears we do it with our faith you may be saying well pastor i can't come to church because the children's department from zero to five year olds is not open right now in fact two kids first through sixth grade is only taking 50 kids so i'm not able to bring my kids right now well here's the reason why you're not able to bring your kids because it takes volunteers to serve for them to come [Applause] so next week same bedtime same bad channel and i'm gonna feel a little bit better so i might even scream and run in this place but i'm tell you something god's up to something so with every head bowed every eye closed those of you who are watching me through the lens wow god just said something to me for some of you through the lens this is not for all of you but this is this is for some of you he's saying what's your excuse you don't have one you've developed pandemic thinking and today he's saying choose my way now we've been at home long enough [Music] father right now i thank you that the word has fallen on good ground and i declare in the mighty name of jesus that our hearts have received it our minds are being adjusted to what we heard just like you started the world all over again with noah you can start our worlds all over again with us and i pray in jesus name that everything that was said and done that no condemnation will bleed from this but father conviction from your word and your ways will be the reason for us to make changes and so i thank you that members of word of truth family church who live in our local area those who are visiting members that live in the local area father they'll just begin to just come back to your homes come back to your house and i thank you and i praise you for what you're doing in jesus mighty name with your every head still bowed even if you're watching by your head right there here's the question i have if you if you died today are you 100 sure you go to heaven [Music] because if you're not sure i believe god's got you watching or god's got you in this building for that reason he said pastor how can i be sure well the bible says it's appointed unto man wants to die and then after that there's a judgment there is a judgment but guess what the judgment is not because of what you did wrong the judgment is because you didn't make a decision for the person who did everything right and that's jesus there's nothing you can do to earn your way into heaven you must accept jesus christ as your lord and savior he's the one who died for all of your sins past present and future and the only way you're going to go to heaven is to go through him he says i'm the door no man can come to the father except by me so my question is if you're not sure if you died you'd go to heaven i want to give you an opportunity to open up your heart to jesus christ or maybe you're hearing you say pastor evan or you're watching i'm already a believer but if your heart and your life is not 100 surrender to the lord in other words you're living life your way and you know you're not 100 surrendered i want you to recommit your life today and then thirdly there are some people who need to make a decision to join this house whether you're through the lens or physically in here i believe god the bible says those who are planted in the house of the lord shall flourish i believe with all my heart another level of prosperity blessings connection favor you name it it says those who are planting in the house of the lord shall flourish flourish is blessed maybe you need to join word of youth family church today so here's what i'm going to do those of you who are not saved but you want to be saved if you're not sure you'd go to heaven but you want to go to heaven i want you to pray this prayer with me but i want you to make it your prayer if you're in the house in fact everybody in the house i want us to pray this prayer together because there may be some people in this house that need to make this decision to make jesus the lord of their life if you're watching through the lens would you just repeat this prayer after me let's pray everybody say lord jesus i believe you're the son of god i believe you died for my sins i believe god raised you from the dead and today i make you my lord and savior holy spirit come on the inside change me on the outside take me out of darkness put me in the light today i've decided to surrender my life to jesus christ in jesus mighty name amen now father i pray for those who decided to recommit their lives to you today and those who decided to make wordless youth family church their home and i thank you for spiritual momentum starting in their lives that they've never seen or experienced before in jesus mighty name everybody say amen come on give the lord a handclap this morning if you receive that word now listen we're going home if you made one of those decisions to get saved to recommit your life or to join word of truth family church whether you're in the house or through the lens you can take it here's the quickest way you can get your phones out cell phone go to your text area and text the word commit c-o-m-m-i-t to the number 5-4-2-4-4 and when you text commit to that number it will ask you what decision you're making and you can make your decision or record your decision if you're in the house and you want to fill out our uh connection card that's in your bulletin you can physically fill that out and when you get done with it you can put it in the box in the back or you can give it to one of the ushers or greeters that's outside if you need one just raise your hand if you made a commitment today and you need one just raise your hand and he'll give you a connection card and then if you want to get baptized if you've never been baptized or you need to get re-baptized because when you got baptized you didn't know what you was doing and you want to do that then also type the word commit did y'all receive the word today are y'all ready for next week come on give the lord a handclap thank you for those of you who are watching through the lens i want every member and visiting member of world of two family church to watch the message again how does faith come church it comes by hearing especially those of you who are through the lens those of you who are here i'm so thankful that you physically came listen i believe first of all the pandemic is over we're in what they call a herd immunity immunity meaning that there are so many people that have had the virus or have been vaccine that the thing is completely under control two weeks ago there were only 13 000 cases in the whole us for the virus when we used to have that many in tan cali so it's over everybody say it's over come on give the lord a handclap we'll see you all next week through the lens god bless you we love you so church because it may not look like it i'm a little sore right now because i jumped

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