GENERATION S | Jase Lumpkins

okay well good morning good morning and welcome to new life let's stand together we're so happy to have you in the house of the lord today we welcome you you look good today i hope you are feeling good today and uh this is a great day the scripture says that this is a day that the lord has made and so we will choose to respond by rejoicing and being glad in this day and so uh i'm thankful to be among people that i feel are ready to worship the lord today ready to magnify jesus and lift him high he is worthy of our praise this morning one of the great things about new life is we have people that are from every demographic every age and if you have small children today if you have infants or very small children with you we have a staffed nursery during this worship service right out this back door across the hallway is our nursery and if you have other children who will get a little uh antsy or disruptive we do have a cry room out this door and right around the corner if that will be uh helpful to you in just a few minutes in this service we are going to pray for our teachers our students all of our support staff that are going back to school and we're also going to be praying for our homeschool families this is an exciting time of the year and we want god's blessings on our students we want god's blessings on schools and homeschool parents and families and we believe that god answers that prayer and so as we pray we're going to believe god's going to hear us and we're going to do that here in just a few moments but the bible is very clear that when we enter into his gates it ought to be with thanksgiving when we come into his courts it ought to be with praise so i think it would be good at the very outset of this service to do what the scripture says however you would choose let's enter his gates with thanksgiving let's come into his courts with praise would you do that with me right now lord jesus we thank you for the privilege to be in church we thank you for the privilege to lift our voice in our hands and magnify you we do come with thanksgiving today thank you for health in our bodies to be in church lord thank you for the freedom that we have in this country to worship you thank you lord that we are in your presence and when we are in your presence there is freedom and liberty and joy o god so we welcome your anointing in this sanctuary today we thank you in advance for what you will do in every man and woman every child and every student lord we thank you for the covering of prayer that will be upon this service today lord receive our worship lord fill this house with the holy spirit and lord we're going to thank you and we're going to give you all of the glory our voice is going to praise you lord our spirit is going to praise you today thank you for working and ministering in this service already and we will praise you with a lifted unified voice in jesus wonderful name and everybody in the house would you shout a man amen now whether you know it or not you just joined the choir because we're all coming together to sing and to worship the lord today so just nudge your neighbor right now and say hello choir member amen you may be seated god bless you let's lift up our voice and sing about this great jesus that liberates us and gives us strength god bless you this world is not my home i am just you are the one i want you are the one every day jesus jesus the one who brought these shapes and took away my shape help him hey but i found my hope you are and took away my shade there is only one you are the one we need the only lasting thing is you you are forever you are forever the you are my treasure you are my treasure lovers you are my treasurer jesus is hallelujah come on let's praise him come on let's praise him together right now let's give him the praise he's worthy of you're worthy jesus you're worthy of our praise today oh god hallelujah how many have found jesus to be more than a historical figure but he is a personal savior anybody found him to be a healer of your body the lifter of your head the strong tower that the righteous run into i'm thankful for his presence today i look across this sanctuary and i see evidences of god's miraculous power amen ray it's good to see you my friend i am so happy you're back at church melissa we're glad you're back god has put his hand on them healed their bodies lifted them come on somebody he's still a healer he's still a healer praise god i am thankful that we're serving a great and mighty god today you may be seated to all of our guests that are here with us in the sanctuary some for the very first time welcome to new life church we are thrilled that you are worshiping with us today amen you have made our day by taking time to come and be in the house of the lord with us we pray that you go home believing this was a good choice that you made to get up and come to church before you leave i hope you will stop by our connect center area in the lobby out there and we'd love to send you a little gift a thank you for being with us and those of you that are watching online right now our online broadcast we welcome you those of you on site would you welcome everyone that's watching new life cabot today our facebook page our youtube channel we're glad that you've taken time to worship with us today and if you will just look down on the screen you'll find a virtual connect card and we'd love just to note your attendance as you worship with us this morning we have a great privilege to cover children teenagers teachers staff in prayer today and at least here in cabot tomorrow is a very big day because it starts the school year and i want to say first of all how much i appreciate our students that are represented in this church for your flexibility over the last year or so because it has been anything but normal when it comes to at least public education and all of the things that you've had to deal with and some who have forgone major things in school because of this pandemic but you're still here we're still standing we're still faithful and we're still prayerful and so i want to take just a moment and i want us to pray over this very special group of students teachers staff and also all of our homeschool families we're going to pray not just a defensive prayer because it would be easy going into a school year to have a defensive posture oh god protect our kids and we're going to pray for that but you know what i choose to believe that god can use a school year not simply as a defensive thing but that we can pray a kingdom impacting prayer today that god will use our students our teachers our staff to impact the kingdom of god i'm just going to speak it i believe that other students who are not born again of water in spirit will be born again during this school year because of the students and the faculty in this church amen so we're going to pray for that we're going to pray for our teachers for peace and strength to approach every day with joy we're also going to pray teachers for your wisdom as you prepare for students to learn we're praying for your physical emotional and spiritual protection and we're also praying for sensitivity for you to make a kingdom impact over all of our students today we are praying that you will have a clarity of mind to learn and to excel we're also praying for your physical emotional and spiritual protection and that you will make a kingdom impact one of the things that i've noticed at cabot high school over the last several years is we have teenagers who put together what's called p7 clubs p7 clubs are clubs where students get together and they talk about jesus and they talk about the bible and we've seen a great harvest come through our students in nexus engaged in p7 clubs and there are some that are already starting this year through the students of this church and i'm thankful for that i want everyone to stand if you would please i'm first of all going to ask for our ministry team our prayer leaders our small group leaders those of you that work with our kids and our students and our young adults as well because there are kids going young adults going back to college i want first of all for the prayer team and the leaders to come and stand up here at the front if you would just come quickly if you would and i would like you to face this congregation we're going to have you help us in praying for our students and also praying for our teachers now represented in this this congregation across the room right now our families that are homeschooling their children and we're praying for you mom we're praying for you dad because that has a set of challenges all its own we're praying for those that work in our public school system as teachers and as staff we're praying for our students that go to our public schools whether it's in cabot or surrounding areas as well those of you that are in college we're praying god's covering over you so i would like to ask our students our teachers if you work in education i want you to step out now if you would come we're going to pray over you today and i would like you to come and just line up across this this front area here just standing in front of these ones that are here give a little bit of space between you and that group that's going to be praying for you because we want them to be able to move around and pray for you but they're coming from all over the sanctuary there are people here that are serving in school staff and serving on faculties and teaching classes we're thankful for you we're thankful for you students we're thankful for you amen look at all these students look at all these wonderful children that are coming they got their backpacks some of them have their ready to go if the bus pulled up right now we could load them on the bus and take them to school amen they are ready to go amen all the students that are here in the altar area would you look up here at pastor just for a moment i just want to as your pastor remind you of something before you step foot in that classroom or you begin your work as a homeschooler look at pastor right here there are some names that are on your life right now if you've been water baptized you have the name of jesus on you that's a powerful name that's a sign there's no name higher than that name so as you walk into this school year you are representing the name of jesus christ you have your family's name on you so when you walk into that classroom or into your school work this year you are representing that family name and represent it well you also have the name new life church on you so you know what as pastor represent that name well not because i think you won't but remember that's a name that you have on you as well and i believe the lord is going to use you we're going to get reports of some of you young ladies and some of you young men that are making profound impacts among your friends i just don't believe that teenagers have to go the way of the world i don't believe that teenagers have to get carnal i believe you can be powerfully used of god to reach your friends teachers we are praying for you moms and dads homeschool moms and dads we're praying for you in just a moment these ones that are here are going to reach over and lay their hand on you and bless you in prayer and i want you to believe that there will be an imparting of god's grace and his anointing on your life as prayer is made all of you in the congregation would you just as a symbol of unity just stretch your hand out here toward the front we're going to pray together would you do that would you just stretch your hand out here and i want us to begin to lift our voice students these wonderful ministries team are going to lay their hands on you and bless you in prayer right now i want them to speak the blessing of the lord over your life right now father you see every student in this altar right now you see every teacher in this altar right now you see every homeschool parent in this altar right now so lord we lay our hands upon them and we speak the blessing of the lord jesus christ over their life i pray lord that you will make a way for them to be a light and a witness in their community lord i pray against every power of hell that would try to sway them to not live and live far beneath their privilege lord let them be a kingdom impacting student lord i pray protection i pray physical protection emotional protection spiritual protection over our students i pray that over our teachers right now lord let this be a tremendous year in the classroom lord anoint those that are teaching anoint those that are instructing let them do it with joy bless their preparation lord in the name of jesus in the name of jesus lord i pray over every homeschool family that your anointing will be upon them your presence will be in that in that house daily lord there will be connections in the spirit that are seen i pray strength physical strength upon those families lord let them have connections with others that help their way lord i thank you jesus i praise you jesus i glorify your name oh god oh jesus anoint our students today put your angels around them lord let them represent your name and this church's name and their family name in a godly way lord for that we're going to thank you and give you high praise today lord oh raise up a hedge around these wonderful students these great teachers and families lord in the name of jesus christ in the name of jesus christ we thank you lord and we praise you come on let's thank the lord for what he's going to do through these students this year let's thank the lord for what he's going to do among our families this year praise god thank you lord we give you praise today we give you praise today lord hallelujah amen our team's going to move throughout this group right now and give you something that you can remember this moment by this is a carabiner you can put this on your backpack you can put it somewhere significant it is your link to the kingdom of god you are linking people together with the kingdom of god when you walk into that school amen you're going to bring your friends to the knowledge that you have of jesus and they're going to be connected to you and thereby connected to the lord jesus christ amen amen would you give our students congregation give our students a great hand we appreciate them we appreciate them give our staff and teachers a great hand you may be seated amen what a great day what a great day and i believe that god is is hearing our prayer and he's protecting our students and our teachers and going to use them this year we have several things coming up and i'll give our ushers time to prepare for our giving this morning we have a great men's conference coming up at the end of this week it begins on friday night at 6 pm down in redfield you've been hearing us talk about this but we would love to have all of the men from new life to be a part of men's conference you can go on the arkansas district upci dot com website and you can register for the men's conference if you need any information about that please see brother jason lumpkins he'll be in the the lobby after church or myself we can get you information everybody say next sunday you'll see this on the screen is world missions day we're going to be very blessed to have tess stewart here with us a wonderful evangelist preaching god's word we're also going to be taking a great missions offering next sunday so come prepared and let's bless the work of god all over the world small groups are coming up in just about 10 days there's sign up at newlifecabit.com that is a wonderful way for you to connect with other people in this church we have a marriage weekend coming up i told you we got a lot of stuff going on we got a great marriage weekend coming up august 27 and 28 and we've got couples that are already registering for this the nz's are going to be with us it will be a friday night a meal is included in that and also saturday during the day michael and summer hensley are heading that up it's going to be a wonderful weekend couples whether you have been married 50 years or 15 minutes we want you at this marriage weekend we want you here at marriage weekend so register only 25 dollars per couple and then finally iglesia and nueva vita will have service on sunday august 29th at 6 00 p.m we're so excited about what is god is doing in our spanish congregation amen amen let's stand back up we're going to give today thank those of you that are faithful in your giving thank you for those that tithe that is a very scriptural thing to do so many families in our church practice this it prioritizes the lord by the giving of that first 10 of our income to the work of god and then over and above that obviously we give to missions we give to other areas uh you give to support this building this beautiful facility that we have to worship in amen we have envelopes that the ushers have here if you want to get contribution credit we have online giving text to give all of that you'll see that referenced on the screen lord jesus you've been so good to this church i've seen your hand as pastor i've seen it now for over two decades how you have kept your hand on this church you truly have been the source of all blessing lord you are our provider and you use your people to bring about the kingdom work and so lord i pray that the blessing of the lord will continue to rest upon every family that is a tithing family you you promise to do that lord i pray that you'll bless others who are realizing and coming into the knowledge of what it is to give and you will give back lord teach us those all-important lessons lord help us as a church today to continue to be very wise and good stewards of every dollar that comes through this local church for that we're going to thank you and give you high high praise in jesus name amen amen amen how many of you are glad you have something to give today amen if you have something to give in the actual baskets today you can make your way toward the front and put those right up here in the baskets as we're doing that why don't you wave at someone tap someone on the shoulder give them a fist bump tell them you're glad that they're in church today you may be seated or you can stand but let's worship the lord together when all i is there's nothing to fear now oh that'll be me lord jesus there's nothing impossible for you is me oh oh you go before is oh oh oh as most of you know i'm a teacher and as i was preparing songs for this week and i was praying over this service students this song kept coming to my mind god this battle belongs to you and his brother gaddy just mentioned it's not a defensive thing you know i walk through the hallways of my school and i hear teachers that are desperate that are fearful that just focus on all the negative of covet and deaths and shots and no shots and parents put pressure on us you know i walk through that every day kids you walk through elementary kids you walk through every day students that are lost in the midst of this pandemic they're fearful and as brother gaddy said brother the lord was dealing with me the same way this week it is not that we are not in the same boat as everybody else we're just scared but we have a huge difference oh thank you jesus we have the difference that we know where to go to when the battle is strong and it's raging when that battle of fear is evident in our lives it's how we respond it's that we don't run around scared and going to the doctor and taking medicine not that there's anything wrong with that but i'm saying we go to god first we go to god first and we say lord here is my problem and as brother gaddy said to you guys today it is so it is such a testimony when you can walk through the halls of fear and doubt and turmoil and you can have a smile on your face because you have the lord jesus living in to that dark place so i'm telling you guys this week when i fight i'll fight on my knees with my hands is is thank you jesus for speaking jesus lord the battle is yours for jesus and you have won that victory i thank you it won't prosper when the darkness falls it won't breathe cause the god i serve knows only how to triumph my god will never fail i know my god will never fail i'm gonna victory victory jesus i'm not backing down oh oh oh oh oh it foreign foreign foreign me oh hallelujah praise god praise god amen amen how many have that testimony he turns it around here's what i want you to do i want you just to reach over and i want you to connect with somebody that's near you right now and i want you just to pray that in the remainder of this service god's mighty presence will touch them right where they are at write with what they need would you pray that right now god you know us so well right now and this great holy spirit that is moving in this house let the presence of god baptize us right now speak i pray as only you can through your word lord let there be a holy anointing upon the receiving of your word whoa come on that's it go ahead and pray out loud right now go ahead and lift up your voice right now oh thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus come on new life we're on holy ground right now we're stepping on holy ground right now oh thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord praise god praise god hallelujah amen amen thank you jesus what a great presence of the lord is in this house today amen what a tremendous anointing of the lord is in this house today amen amen i'm so thankful to be in a church where there is a free move of the spirit of god amen no substitute for that no substitute for that during our preaching in this service and going forward we're going to have a class for our three and four-year-olds and an attended nursery so we want to make our parents aware of that if you have children in those ages from birth to two in the nursery and three and four-year-olds will be in our toddler classroom right down this hallway here you are welcome to take your children there now if you would like to do that so you can slip in here into the sanctuary over 24 years ago i preached a sermon in the town of benton arkansas if memory serves me it was in early february of that year and as i walked into that church i was serving as a student pastor at the time i saw some friends some real good friends jason and courtney lumpkins and she's already left the platform but jason and courtney lumpkins and they had just had a new baby boy and it just so happened that it was his first service to be in and i was preaching i just happened to be there preaching on a sunday night in their son's first service and courtney was holding him and just rejoicing and people were all crowding around it was just a wonderful event i had been at jason and courtney's wedding a few years earlier and have always counted them as dear friends i i have to tell you something if anybody had told me that sunday night brother jason that all these years later that good couple of friends would be a key part of our church here in cabot and that little baby in arms would be our student pastor i would have thought no that doesn't work like that but yeah it works like that i was looking down in the face of a little baby and i if i just would have had the gifts of the spirit operating tom i could have looked at jason said you're going to be our student pastor someday in cabin but isn't it neat how god works and there is a great anointing on j slumpkins he comes from a long line of great apostolic heritage and new life is really the only church he's ever really known he's grown up in this church and is now serving in leadership and i will also say he has a tremendous wife lexi lumpkins what a great lady she is we are so blessed to have pastor jace and sister lexi leading our nexus students and that boy of theirs he has got my heart i just call him the big e elliot is something else but i believe that god has given pastor jace a word for not only our students and our teachers today but this church and how many of you are ready for the word of the lord today would you put your hands together and give a good hearty welcome to our student pastor jace lumpkins love you buddy can we just take a moment to give that praise to the lord you are so worthy lord lord we're so thankful for the presence that we feel in this place right now lord i praise you for what you've already done in this place lord but i give you praise for what you're going to continue to do throughout the rest of this service lord in the name of jesus why don't you look at your neighbor before you sit down and say i'm glad you're in church with me today and as you're seated i'll go ahead and give you my text today it's going to be first peter chapter 2 verse 9 and that's where we'll start today but before we do that i will like to give honor to my pastor thank you so much pastor for believing in me and taking time and pouring into me is anybody thankful for a pastor who's who's invested into the next generation i am i am thankful for that and sister gaddy i'm so thankful for you as well and of course as he already mentioned my wonderful wife my better half that i would be lost and probably wouldn't have made it here on time without her lexi i love you and in the course elliot i don't see him in here um he's my a man corner at home and i'm practicing he'll haul her with me he'll just he just rares his head back and lets out a big yell i choose to believe that he's getting behind me he's probably saying dad i'm sleepy go to stop it's late and of course my church family knew life thank you so much so many of you have have poured into me and invested in me and believed in me and and and just spoke encouraging words into my life and i thank you and i appreciate that and just love you guys and i am going to take a small liberty here to get uh brownie points with both our men's director here and the state men's director men if you you do not want to miss men's conference any men here like barbecue i like barbecue any men like to play cornhole i like to play cornhole friday night if you register free barbecue dinner and we're going to have a doubles cornhole tournament i will challenge anybody in this place to cornhole i'm not that good but i'll still challenge you amen first peter 2 verse 9 says but you are a chosen generation shout out chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation his own special people that you may proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light i felt such a confirmation as praise and worship began on the on this word that the lord has given us so why don't we just pray that the lord would have his way in the remainder of the service lord i pray right now lord there's such an openness in this sanctuary right now lord and i pray that it would continue that we would be open to your word we we open to what you have for us today lord that you will loose my tongue lord that it would not be by my knowledge it would not be by my understanding but by through your anointing that you speak through me today lord i'm just a vessel for you to use tonight in the name of jesus lord have your way and let your will be accomplished in this place in jesus in jesus name generations that word stuck out to me a couple of weeks ago as i drove to work i have a 45 minute drive every day to work and and it's time my time with the lord and i was preparing for this brother john and and the word generation came to me pastor and so i began to look up generations and we're going to have a little bit of a not an activity but i just want some um um i don't even know the word just raise your hand when i say your generation how about that i'm trying to find the words can't you do it so there's several generations and i want to start with the silent generation if you are in the silent generation that's years 1928 to 1945. can you raise your hand in the place that we have anybody in the silent generation i see some of our flying eagles in the silent brother odo and the silent generation if you're in the silent generation you might remember charles midgley jr or you might not have any idea who he is but you will know what he invented and that's freon anybody know what freon is it's what cools our refrigerators and our cars and up to recently our air air units and i'm so thankful for charles because the freon replaced a toxic gas that they used to cool our refrigerators before freon hey it's cold but it's toxic scary or pat oliveira who invented the philly cheesesteak in 1930. that's the silent generations now do we have any baby boomers 1946 to 1964. all right i got some hand claps if you're a baby boomer there was a great invention that happened in 1946 you might not know him his name is earl tupper but i guarantee you you have used his product the product of tupperware anybody use tupperware here oh yeah leftovers throw that in there take it to work microwave it perfect but there's also george clemons who invented the first hand dryer in 1948 the thing that you hit and you put your hands under and all it does is just spray the water all over the floor like let's just use towels that was george clemons and then we have generation x that's 1965 the 1980 who who's generation x in this place all right yeah generation x saw joseph brown invent the carnival ride or death trap depending on who you are asking called the zipper anybody ever wrote the zipper anybody who man you know the lord was with you if you survived the zipper hallelujah and then you had david l noble who invented the floppy disk the eight-inch floppy disk that was that was dave and noble given wisdom by the lord to invent the floppy disk and then we have the millennials 1981 to 1996. that's me 1996. any other millennials in here all right yeah the best generation just kidding robert plath invented the first tilt and roll luggage or wheeled luggage in 1988 pastor i know you appreciate so linda you probably appreciate that you no longer had to carry it around but you could just roll it around now they have those luggages have you seen those you can sit on them and they're like yeah man that's just what we need a bunch of crazy people riding luggage around airports then you have william cheswick and steve bellovin who came up with the first integrated security measure to prevent unauthorized electronic access also known as the firewall i'm thankful for a firewall and my work in 1988 and then we have last but not least generation z that's anybody from 1997 to president anybody a part of generation z let me see your hands yeah there we go not as enthusiastic as the other people they're not used to waking up early in the year of 2000 the first camera phone was produced and immediately everybody became a professional photographer everybody in 2005 the website known as youtube any other youtube junkie i'm a youtube junkie i love youtube youtube made its debut and it's now the world's most popular video streaming site and so these are the generations and all these generations are represented here and everybody no matter when you are born belongs to a generation you don't get to choose your generation you don't get to say well i i like generation z or i like generation x no but you were defined by when you were born a generation liter the word generation literally means a group of people born or living about the same time you can't choose it but how do they come up with generations anyways if you if you paid attention not the the time between each generation is not always consistent it does depend on when you're born but the length of time is not is not always the same but the span of time between generations can vary depending on political economic and social factors technology in particular the rapid evolution of technology is what shapes generations so my baby boomers grew up as television expanded rapidly generation x grew up as computer revolutions began and the millennials came of age during the internet explosion and there's many people who are smarter than me that look at economic trends and they look at technology trends and they come up with this generation and they define you as where you who your age by your generation and a lot of times society tries to find who you are by the generation that you're a part of but listen to me new life we have to be very careful we have to be very vigilant that we don't allow ourselves to be defined by these generational titles that the society doesn't say well you're generation x so this is your kingdom purpose or your generation z and you have no purpose but we have to be very vigilant that we are not defined by our generation we need every generation in operation in the kingdom of god the lord has not only called the multicultural of church but he's also called the multi-generational church silent generation we need you baby boomers we need you generation x we have to have you millennials i need you generation z we need you the lord has called every generation for a kingdom purpose it doesn't matter whose society has defined you as my definition comes from the on high the one who defined me the one who knew me before i was born my i am not defined by this world but defined by christ so i don't think it's fair that we have to be defined by generations depending on our age and so today i propose a new generation this might not be published anywhere but i do feel as if it is the word of god and that is generation s look at your neighbor and say generation s see this generation is not defined by age it actually knows no boundaries generation s is not defined by technology or economy or social factors but instead generation s is defined by an experience generation x is not defined but when you were born but rather when you were born again generation s is a generation filled with the holy ghost generation s is a generation that's led by the spirit and not their flesh generation s is not defined by society but they're defined by the word of god oh generation s is a spirit-led generation oh and listen church that's what we need more than ever society is looking to generations they're looking to millennials they're looking to generation x generation z and they're saying who's going to bring us out of this darkness oh and i'll tell them none of them but generation s is stepping up and saying the lord has called me i've been filled with the spirit and i'm gonna go change my world the world needs generation s there's no well maybe maybe later no now generation s is needed generation s must understand their kingdom purpose who kind of generation s must understand their kingdom purpose it doesn't matter if you've been in the kingdom a long time the lord still has a purpose for you oh i see some of our silent generations and the baby boomers in the prayer room oh and they're just crying out to god we need your prayers we need your leadership we need that anointing in the church oh millennials generation next generation z you must understand your kingdom purpose oh it says 67 percent of millennials believe that their life is full of purpose that's compared to only 53 percent of generation z that so generation z only 53 of them feel as if they have a purpose meaning 47 of generation z feels as if they have no purpose oh let me tell you i felt such opposition as i prepared this message i was at home and i began i began to develop this message i began to feel like the lord was leading this and i felt such opposition i felt such opposition because we have to understand that the enemy is trying to confuse our purpose he understands you might be filled with the holy ghost but if you can't find your purpose in god you're not going to do anything oh but generation s we have to understand no matter what the world defines me as no matter what i feel like i am god has called me to a greater purpose proverbs 29 and 18 where there is no vision the people perish the new king james translates that to where there is no revelation oh where there's no purpose the people perishing the devil understands that oh and i've been feeling this in the spirit for the past couple weeks i've been battling it as i've been praying and it's not really the spirit of depression it's not spirit of anxiety but instead the spirit of confusion because the enemy knows if he can confuse your purpose the enemy knows that if he can confuse the will of god with the will of the world he knows he has you right where he wants you oh because the enemy has tried to trying to confuse what true holiness looks like generation s the enemy is trying to confuse what biblical marriage looks like he tries to blur the line between what is right and is wrong he tries to confuse your understanding of your called the calling that god has placed on their life but this morning i stand here in front of generation s saying we got to stand strong and stand firm and say i have been called for a purpose my ear is not tuned to the world but my ear is tuned to the spirit and i am what god says i am oh can we just give him some praise i feel that right now in the spirit lord i am who you said i am lord it doesn't matter who i was it doesn't matter what i have done but you have brought me out of darkness into a marvelous light though you wouldn't die on the cross for my sins that i could be used in your kingdom it's a spirit of confusion let me tell you that while that spirit operates that spirit operates you might be a young person you might be you might be a millennial you might be generation x no matter where it falls but you've heard the voice of god you've heard the calling of god you have felt as if the lord has anointed you for a purpose oh and it could have been at a camp it could have been at hyc you could have been a service here at new life but you have felt as if you have had a purpose in the kingdom but what happens is a couple days after you've received that revelation you've received that purpose from god here comes the spirit of confusion here comes the spirit of confusion and and at first it's not it's not a great confusion it's just a little it's just a little confusion where the lord you felt as if the god of all god of all creation has called you to be a missionary that spirit of confusion just kind of gets in your mind and says are you even really qualified to be a missionary you don't even know another language you don't even you're scared to even go out of the state how are you going to go across the world oh you've been called to be a prayer warrior and you've kneeled down for for the first time to start praying and that spirit of confusion comes up and says well are you even truly making a difference are you even truly making a difference with this prayer it's that spirit of confusion oh but this morning i speak to the spirit of confusion not by my power but by the authority of the word of god by the authority of jesus christ and i speak to the spirit of confusion and i curse it i cast it out and i lose the spirit of revelation i lose a spirit of kingdom purpose i lose a spirit of authority and power and boldness in the name of jesus christ oh there needs to be some young people starting monday as they take a step into the hallways of their school oh with every step of the lord i curse the spirit of confusion lord i bind that spirit of confusion oh the spirit that's trying to confuse this generation i curse it right now in the name of jesus and i began to loose revelation and i began to lose peace lord i began to lose joy i began to lose understanding in the name of jesus look at your neighbor and say i have a purpose oh but god has had a purpose for you generation s he's had a purpose for you nexus he's had a purpose for you kids life young adults hyphen he's had a purpose for you since the beginning of time you're a puzzle piece that fits into this great puzzle of the kingdom of god and you fit just perfectly where god has ordained you to be oh jeremiah 4 jeremiah chapter 1 verses 4 and eight this is the lord speaking to jeremiah says then the word of the lord came to me saying before i formed you in the womb i knew you before you were born i sanctified you i ordained you a prophet to the nations then i said oh lord god behold i cannot speak for i am a youth that's jeremiah disqualify himself lord you might have called me but i'm just a youth i'm just a kid and it goes on to say for you shall go oh it says but the lord said to me do not say i am a youth do not disqualify yourself for you shall go to all to whom i send you and whatever i command you you shall speak do not be afraid of their faces for i am with you to deliver you says the lord oh there's so there's the voice of god going out even right now calling generation s to a greater purpose and that voice of confusion is going to say try to disqualify yourself you're not good enough but the lord says don't say but i am a youth don't say but i am not good enough because it's not by your power it's not by your might but it's by my spirit that i will send you to make a difference in your school that i will send you to make a difference in your family oh jeremiah tried to disqualify himself because he was a youth most people believe that jeremiah was only 13 to 16 years old can you imagine being called to be a prophet ah 13 to 16 years old well let me tell you it happens and it even happens today oh let me tell you young people i i'm speaking everybody but generation z listen new life we have to give room for the young people to operate in the spirit we have to give room for them to lay hands on the sick and see them recover we have to give them room to prophesy the word of god because you know what this generation is going to change this generation is the future of new life and i want a generation that rises up to know how to walk in the spirit know how to be used in the spirit oh but i'm just a youth it doesn't matter because you have a kingdom purpose oh because the lord knew jeremiah before he was even formed he knew him and it says he ordained him or he set him apart he made him holy he said jeremiah not only did i knew you know you but i i ordained you i set you apart from everybody else and i have a divine purpose for you to be a prophet if there could be somebody in generation s that would understand that the lord knew you before you were even formed and not only did he know you but he ordained you he sets you apart he made you different you say i'm not like this world the lord never meant for you to be like this world he meant you to be set apart he meant you to be holy he meant you to be a prophet a pastor a teacher an evangelist oh a missionary in the name of jesus oh how he ordained you set you apart he made you holy you're a chosen generation generation s their purpose must be defined by the word of god we read it first peter 2 9 but you're a chosen generation a royal priesthood a holy nation his own special people oh that you might proclaim the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light oh i love matthew 28 19 because he says go therefore and make disciples of all nation he didn't qualify he didn't say you have to be 13. he didn't say you have to be 22. he just said go that was the commission go and make disciples baptizing him in the name of the father son and the holy spirit which we understand is the name of jesus lord have your way in the service hikano da but scholars call gin z the first truly post-christian generation and has found that most previous generations have had a basic understanding or basic education of the bible in christianity but not generation z gen z is also more likely than other generations to say that the problem in this world is evil and and the evil of this world is what's stopping them from believing in christianity gen z typically sees truth as relative but also cares about evidence to support the claim even though they have mostly favorable views of the church they don't think attending the church is that important new life that's oh that's the time we're living in oh oh it hurt me so i was just struck in my heart spread to my heart when the lord when i read this and it said generation z the generation that lexi and i are pastoring the generation that chris and lindsay are pastoring that our kids life team is pastoring they're not known that what they're known for is just being the first truly post we don't believe that oh but we know their purpose but we know their purpose we know that you have a kingdom purpose for them okandela we know that you have called them today and you have to forgive my imagination i have a pretty wild imagination sometimes always have and i read this and after praying about it this is going to seem weird but just hang with me my mind flashed to the pit of hell pastor gaddy and i can imagine brother john a demonic spirit coming in with this article waving it in the air and say we finally did it we finally did it we finally have got through to a generation to the point where they're calling them a post-christian generation we finally made a generation that doesn't believe in the power of god we finally got a generation that doesn't understand who god is or even cares to learn and i can imagine that satan and his demons are down there reading this article and they're just having the time brother chris they said all right go get the cake go get the punch go get a banner and say gen z post christian we're to have a party and i can imagine as they set this party up in hell that there's a demon that says whoa whoa brother jesse whoa i hear something what is that sound i i know it's coming from generation z but i'm not really for sure what that is do you hear that do you hear that yeah i hear that too and as the sound began to get louder and as it began to reverberate through the walls through the pit of hell they understood that it was a generation z young lady on her knees intercessing for her children for interceding for her school in her seating for her family that sound was a young person standing in a p-7 club teaching and preaching the word of god that sound that came in was the sound of a mighty rushing wind that sound was a kid a child going to their parents and saying i want to be baptized in the name of jesus christ devil you have not defeated this generation oh but generation s is rising up and they're saying that by my who your will be done your will be done your power your authority be done in this place oh i read this oh and i just began to pray i just began with the warfare prayer and i began to speak to the devil and saying you have no authority over that generation oh all authority that you think you have is completely cursed in the name of jesus christ you don't control their minds you don't control their thoughts you don't control their desires oh but it's the spirit of god that has authority over their minds oh the enemy forgot about generation s oh this world might have forgotten about generation s well that's okay they don't even have to know about you but they will know and they'll understand the difference when you walk into the school when you walk into the workplace in that spirit without even saying a word the spirit of god begins to minister and the spirit of god begins to draw them unto you oh it's generation that's that's gonna change this world oh look at your neighbor and say let it be done it's generation s oh it's generation s that's going to change this world it's generation s that's going to lay hands on the sick and see them recover oh it's generation s that are going to go preach the gospel oh not just in arkansas not just in the united states but it's generation s that's going to spread the whole gospel to the whole world oh that's your power and if you don't understand anything from when i'm preaching tonight just understand that you have power through the holy spirit oh his word says but you will receive power from on high when you receive the holy ghost you'll receive that power and what i have found my mistake is when i try to walk in my own authority when i look at the situation oh and i feel like i'm big and i'm bad and i'm tough i might bring it on and i try to do it through my flesh and my authority and let me tell you i've got whooped every single time oh but when i lean on the spirit when i lean on god when i lean on my firm foundation i have yet to lose a battle i have yet to be defeated but i am victorious through christ if you musicians if you don't mind making your way up here we have to understand that satan has never been able to destroy generation s satan though he has attempted throughout history has never been able to destroy generation x from the yes from the very beginning when he poured out when the lord's spirit was poured out in the upper room and generation s was established what happened is the apostles went out and they began to preach the word of god oh but that that kind of upsets some people it upset the jews and so a number of times they arrested those proclaiming jesus christ those operating through the spirit and the several times they looked at them and said you we don't want you to proclaim the name of jesus christ anymore you do whatever you want but don't lay hands on the sick and proclaim jesus christ and they just looked at him and said should i obey you or the voice of god oh and it just made him even more upset brother john and so what they do is is they arrest stephen and stephen gets his account and they get so angry because he declares who the true king of kings is and that's jesus christ that he takes him out and they stone him and that's when we see our buddy saul he begins to persecute the church he begins to literally take people out of their houses for praising god and throwing them in prison all what the enemy's true was trying to do was derail the power and the momentum of generation s oh but i love what it says in acts 8 and 4 in response to what saul is doing to the church it says therefore those who were scattered went everywhere preaching the word it was an attack of the enemy but what he didn't know is do that attack it was actually going to propagate the gospel all over the world that he was going to send missionaries and apostles to minister this this word to minister this truth all around this world and if you can stand up can we just entertain this spirit for one oh just entertain his presence right now new life here's what i feel in the spirit i first want to give a call and we'll all come to the front here but i want to give a call for anyone who hasn't received the gift of the holy ghost because let me tell you today is your day i have complete faith that the lord will fill you with his holy spirit today oh it's the word says you must be born again of water and of spirit if you haven't been baptized in the name of jesus the water is warm we could probably put you and your whole family in that baptistery so big we want to baptize you don't even have to get your clothes we have robes and everything back there and i want to give that call for anyone who wants to be filled with the holy ghost or baptized in the name of jesus christ but there's also another call and this call is to everybody generation s as a whole if you feel as if you have lost sight of that kingdom purpose ah if you feel as if you have lost sight of what god has called you to be if you feel that you have heard the voice of god but you just have been battling a spirit of confusion we want to pray for you today because what i believe is going to happen is there's going to be a deliverance that happens in the minds of every person in this place not only is there going to be revelation that comes in who god has called you to be but also a spirit of boldness to go and operate in the things of the spirit a spirit of boldness that we wouldn't be fearful to be used by god but we would step in to the things of the spirit if that's you today whether you want to be filled with the holy ghost whether you want to be baptized or you just want to come down and you want to just talk to god say lord renew my kingdom purpose i'm inviting you to the front right now oh don't let fear hold you back don't let the spirit of confusion hold you back don't let anxiety hold you back oh but god wants to do something in your life right now in the name of jesus lord and first and foremost i curse any spirit that's not of you right now that's trying to derail is trying to distract these men and women from your kingdom purpose from what you're trying to do in this moment in new life church lord and i pray that there would be a spirit of revelation lord that would sweep into this place a spirit of revelation that we began to renew the kingdom purpose in each and every individual's life today lord you have called me you have chosen me lord and you want me to be used in your kingdom to go and to share your gospel to go and to make disciples oh lord so let it be done in the name of jesus christ is i'll say is i will be what you call me to be i'll say passionately is is me how safe is

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