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[Music] welcome redemption family online it is so good to see you today we're so glad that you guys are here seriously we're so glad you know thank you guys it's gonna be a good day i really am feeling really good ask mike i was off the chain we're getting ready for this i'm just super excited i have a lot of expectation there's a lot of expectation here in this house so i hope there's a lot of expectation where you are right now we're so glad you're here hey we're so glad you decided to join us for a church this morning hey it's gonna be incredible like like you said like there's like you said there's an expectation that's happening this morning i don't know what it is but y'all better get ready because it's gonna be fire get ready let us know where you're watching for sure today if you're watching from columbus ohio los angeles california you're watching if you're watching from india we want to know where you guys are watching from because we have people all over the world we are a 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track is is it gives the the department leads the ability to share their heart share their vision where they're going yeah you get to kind of hear like how we started as a church our values and our vision yeah all of that like the purpose of why we feel like we exist here on earth as a as a church as a redemption to the nations you know connect track is an amazing time that you get to be involved get to really hear the hearts of some of our leaders and it's an incredible incredible time yeah so if you're in the area come on by they'll probably be serving coffee i don't know sometimes they have snacks i go over there and sometimes i'm like i'm a new member let me go give me a cookie like resign this paper but seriously if you're around come and join us for connect track like mike just said also we have on april 25th pastor appreciation oh it's coming up that is one of my favorite days of the year because it's a day where i mean not that i don't honor our pastors and our leaders every day but it's a day where we can intentionally yeah how much we appreciate them how much how thankful we are how i mean personally for me it's just i'm so grateful to serve under leaders who are the same people both on and off that stage um you're going to get the same person you're going to get the same jesus loving god-fearing people um family people they're incredible i could say a lot of words about so i can say so much i'm gonna save it for april 24 april 25th but no seriously last week remember uh like we're just talking about how our pastors are examples yes they don't say something that they're not already doing and this is just like you said one of those times where we get to just celebrate them right just a little bit more just a little bit more and you can be a part of that so just stay tuned um you know over the next couple of sundays about how you can be a part of that how you can honor them and and listen guys these are amazing people and and i'm so glad that i get to be a part of uh sharing the vision of this house by following those leaders and so more information is going to be coming up about that but april 25th so you want to be tuned in you want to be tuned in on that day for sure so we can't wait to celebrate that for sure hey josh literally we had marriage ministry oh yes tell us what was it i think it was this yeah this friday y'all it was off the chain we had um pastor richie and his wife stephanie speak incredible incredible information they gave us i know me and my wife we took some notes we took some things down and then they had a panel section with pastor jojo and tobin uh pastor rick and carolyn and then our pastors pastor kevin and devin yeah it was so incredible wow i took some notes i was like oh my gosh people that have walked this path just a little bit longer have uh done this road a little and it just gave us some practical um tips it gave us some spiritual tips yeah it was incredible y'all i'm telling you if if you are in the air you need to go online look up our marriage ministries whenever they have events yeah get there it was an incredible incredible time you don't want to miss and that's that's amazing that you even brought that up because it's a beautiful segue into guys you need to get the app because we have a lot of things going on get that out you need to make sure that you're keeping up with our events we have so many things for all demographics of people here for young adults for kids for youth you want to if you're in the area or if you want to come and you want to be like hey i have a weekend free where i can come and visit rttn look and see what kind of events are happening we would love to have you guys here so that thank you for sharing that with us i'm so glad and you know maybe next year you know i don't know we're praying you'll be praying we're praying we're believing we're believing we're believing we're believing for myself all the things y'all know i'm crazy listen we're we have baptism sunday today this is my favorite sunday sunday this is my favorite time and that's where some of that expectation is coming from we get to see live stream right throw the wave emotion let's go we get to see what if there's a diamond it's like trans you're crazy lives transformed by going down and becoming a new person and that's just something so awesome to celebrate those people taking the next step in their salvation and even people redoing it just saying you know what i feel like i just need to do this again just as a statement so we are so excited to jump into that and so i think they're about to they're going into prayer right now so you guys make your place an altar make it shut up pastor lisa for for just being such a great pastor and being an you guys sorry you guys can make where you are a place of worship you can get just as involved stand up lift your hands sing out loud join in with your family your friends celebrate them like go ham put it in the comments like yes this is something that heaven and earth should be celebrating and so we want you guys to get just as involved as we are here it's going to be crazy today it's going to be so glad that y'all are with us we love you guys and we will see you after power we have overcome them all yes they surrounded me like a swarm of killer bees swirling around me i was trapped like one trapped by a raging fire i was surrounded with no way out at the point of collapse but by yahweh's supernatural power i overcame them all they pushed me right up to the edge and i was ready to fall but you helped me to triumph and together we overcame them all lord you are my true strength and my glory song my god my champion and my savior the joyful songs i now sing will be sung again in the hearts and homes of all of your devoted lovers that's you and that's me my loud shout to victory will echo throughout the land for yahweh's right hand conquers valiantly the right hand of yahweh exalts the right hand of yahweh will never fail you will not let them kill me but i will live to tell the world what the lord has done for me yes the lord punishes punished me as i deserved but he'll never give me over to death swing wide you gates of righteousness and let me pass through and i will enter into god's presence to worship only him i have found the gateway to god the pathway to his presence for all his devoted lovers i will offer all of my loving praise to you and thank you so much for answering my prayer and bringing me salvation the very stone the masons rejected as flawed has turned out to be the most important capstone of the arch holding up the very house of god the lord himself is the one who has done this and it's so amazing so marvelous to see this is the day that the lord brings gladness and joy filling our hearts with glee oh god please come and save us again bring us your breakthrough glory blessed is this one who comes to us the sent one of the lord and from within the temple we cry we bless you for the lord our god has brought us his glory light i offer him my life and joyous sacrifice tied tightly to your altar i will bring you praise [Music] for you are the god of my life and i lift you high exalting you to the highest place so let's keep on giving our thanks to god for he is good his constant tender love lasts forever lord you are so worthy to be praised there are not enough words in our vocabulary even when we speak two and three languages god there are not enough words in our vocabulary to worship you to give you all the honor and the glory that you deserve so lord as we attempt that we join the angels this morning we join as they sing holy holy holy is the lord god almighty holy holy holy is the lord god almighty will you stay with me holy holy holy is the lord god almighty holy holy holy is the lord god almighty the heavens declare your glory and we worship you this morning god we trust you we trust you with all that we have we will not fear we will not power we will not back down because we trust you we believe in you abba you are a good god you are a trustworthy god you are an everlasting god you are a god of mercy you are a god of god of love you are a god of goodness and we worship you this morning we surrender our will to yours we turn our hearts to yours oh god come on this morning let's bombard heaven with our worship let's convert heaven with our praise with the fruit of your lips begin to worship the lord with the fruit of your limbs begin to proclaim his greatness oh god we worship you oh god we worship you come on with the fruit of your lips begin to worship if you have a spiritual language begin to use it let's call down heaven let's call that heaven today in the name of jesus in the name of jesus we worship you we honor you all but we honor you god this is your place this is your time we celebrate what you've done oh god we celebrate new birth we celebrate baptism this morning oh god we honor you come on fruit of the lives fruit of the lives begin to tell him what he's worth to you god we bless you god we bless you god we bless you we know that you inhabit the praises of your people so lord we praise you this morning we bless you this morning we bless you this morning what do you need from god i hear him saying what do you need from me today this is the time to start to bring it down god bring it down come on when the fruit of your lips begin to proclaim those things that aren't as though they were oh god we worship you oh god we honor you yes come on fruit of the land of the land begin to worship his greatness lift up your holy hands we worship let's celebrate with these souls this morning giving their hearts to christ making a prophetic and a declaration this morning at their salvation let's rejoice [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] there is an ocean [Music] from the heart of god [Music] [Applause] is is is [Music] oh see there is crashing over us [Music] [Music] in the river today [Music] [Applause] [Music] nothing can stop this [Music] spring [Applause] oh is is [Music] [Music] nothing can stop us [Music] [Music] is all the way [Music] wasting all the rain oh we come alive [Music] then we'll go to the left if he goes to the right then we'll go to the right we're gonna jump jump jump jump in the river jump jump jump jump hit the river if he goes to the left [Music] [Applause] if oh [Music] oh is we come alive [Music] all the way we're going all the way in we're going in hallelujah [Music] i will dark and all the waiting seems long you have always been faithful to remind me [Music] you are good to me you have always been patient and you have you're always through the ages oh what a friend of mine so i'll remind [Music] [Applause] be myself cause i'm seeing what you can do [Music] you are good to me oh you have always been patient and you have always been kind you're consistent through the ages oh what a friend am i i'm standing firm upon your truth i know that you cannot be shaken cause i'll see what you can do uh you are good to me [Music] you keep on getting [Music] god [Music] keep [Music] [Applause] god you're so consistent [Music] because you're yeah than the sunrise you're better [Music] you keep on getting you keep is [Music] when i is my head cause every day gets sweeter and every day gets better every day gets sweeter every day [Music] and is and sweeter and better every day it keeps getting sweeter is is [Music] [Applause] cause you are good in the morning sing it again when i look back over my life i can't tell him enough you are good to me [Applause] let's just take a second right here and just lift up worship has he been good has he been faithful we just take a second and open our mouths and declare out of our mouths just declare it out of your mouth if he's been faithful every time if you've got a testimony we just worship worship [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] preparing me for my next [Music] just like you did [Music] [Applause] in the spirit it's a manifestation time so here i am oh [Music] [Applause] preparing me for my next just like you did foreign here i am jesus i yes you are and this is what i believe is is and this is what we believe [Music] [Music] god will he fail [Music] will he come through for me how long will he show me that he's still god oh he watches over his word to perform oh yeah i'm reminded of abraham [Music] when all he had was god's word carrying him and even when it hurt he still had faith in his god [Music] [Music] yes [Applause] yes it will just [Music] [Applause] i know he will provide i know that i know that i know i know that i know that i know oh come on let your faith rise in the room you're jehovah you're jehovah you're your holy [Music] [Applause] and this is what i believe is come on i believe [Music] me to shine i believe that the same guy who delivered the three hero boys i want you to lift your voice and give him your praise go over this room today somebody give me praise give me praise somebody lift up a shot of triumph in this place china right now would everyone just lift their hands in this house and can we receive the word they're singing oh yeah lord we just release a spirit of acceleration over every individual attached to this house today we release a spirit of expansion father in the name of jesus lord let everything they put their hands to be everything let everything they put their hands to be blessed and multiplied in the name of jesus father what their hands are put to let acceleration hit it let growth and expansion hit it right now in the name of jesus god we release kingdom increase over each house over each family right now in jesus name i think that's exactly what god is saying right now the spirit of the lord is releasing a grace of acceleration somebody catch it right now by faith just say that's my word that's my word i'm telling you there are there are some suddenly things getting ready to happen in the lives of people in this room and it feels like it took forever to get to this place and the enemy wants you to think it's going to take a long time to get there but god said what you've been waiting on is suddenly coming into your life we declare a spirit of acceleration i hear the lord say no more wasted time no more lost days he's redeeming time for somebody today you felt like you lost the season but god's accelerating it the reaper is going to overtake the sower somebody lived up with praises i'm talking to you a spirit of ex a spirit of acceleration is coming on this house today jehovah's job [Music] won't stop believing somebody take up your home and it's not just acceleration i hear the lord saying expand the place of your tent [Music] [Applause] ah i remember what jabez prayed bless me indeed in large whoa my territory somebody needs to make some space god help me today i tried to figure out why there was an extra bedroom in the house that god just called me and my wife to purchase but god knew that baby was moving in and he had to expand for what was on the way tell somebody right now neighbor enlarge my territory is on the way right now god is about to enlarge your territory if i'm talking to you find the best praise you have in large enlarged won't stop with every head lifted if you have a promise from the lord that you've been waiting on would you just lift your hands in this place i just saw the promises of the lord as seeds in the ground and i saw a rain called acceleration just falling on those seats and i just declare as that anointing of acceleration falls upon those promises they will spring forth even now in the name of jesus i declare the fruit and fulfillment of every promise begins to spring forth over this house i prophesy redemption to the nation's church is in a season of fulfillment accelerated fulfillment of seeds that have been planted and as it is on this house let it be on your house i feel it happening in the house right now amos said there would come a time a time where god moved so fast that it would make your head spin he said it's a time when the reaper would overtake the sower it's not that god skipped the process you still gotta sow seed you still gotta water the seed it's not that god skip the process it's that he accelerated the process i want somebody understand this morning that what god is getting ready to do in your life he didn't skip the process he just expedited the process and accelerated the process because promises promises that are in the balance are coming to pass in this season and we don't do this every sunday but i declare there is a grace of acceleration that is falling in this room right now and some of you that thought you had to wait 20 years for the promise to come to pass god wants me to tell you you better hurry and get yourself together because it is about to come to pass it's about to happen come on if i'm talking to you just lift your hands come on babe just obey god we thank you for accelerating and right now i just saw a door closing on a season of doubt a season of hopelessness over someone's life someone has been so discouraged so hopeless over what seems like the lord denying his promises and i'm here to tell you he's not been denying anything he's been working and hiding is what i hear the lord say and there's about to be a great unveiling and you will forever shut the door on doubt shut the door on hopelessness there will be joy springing forth in your harvest where you were sowing in tears i declare you will reap enjoy in the name of jesus the lord is not a man that he should like every word that he has spoken will not return and he is proving himself faithful and true and doubt is dying in your life in jesus name [Music] i don't know if harry is still here we just had baptism the last man that i baptized i just feel this in my spirit right here in this moment where god's grace is moving the last man that i baptized watched us every sunday morning on television in the bledsoe county correctional facility is he still here there he is waving his hand back there wait a minute this is crazy listen to me listen to me this is amazing he watched every sunday and he got a group of about 40 or 50 guys to watch that broadcast with it in the correctional facility and they said there's more victory inside the prison than for some christians that are sitting in churches outside the prison listen to me he's here today i'm not trying to embarrass him but i feel god quickened me two or three times to do this he's here today because while he was in prison he's been diagnosed with stage four cancer they let him come home so so that he could live this season of his life with his family and he wanted to come and get baptized today so thanks it's amazing [Music] but harry i don't want to just baptize your friend i want to pray for the lord jesus to heal your body [Music] i want to he's god and he's the healer i'm no healer [Applause] he's a prayer answering god lieutenant are you back there with him would you pray lay your hands on him right now everyone stretch your hand toward my friend harry god from the top of his head to the very bottom of his feet i curse the cancer that's in his body in jesus name and i pray for the power of jesus christ who is the healer to come upon him now and healing while he stands in this building today for your glory for your glory and for your honor i pray god that you supernaturally touch my friend and i thank you god for the work you've done in his life i thank you for the work you've done today i believe you're so good jesus and i know that you are able and i thank you for healing people of cancer in this room and watching online right now in fact if you need healing of any kind lift your hand right now i feel the gift of faith working in my heart right now lift your hand if you need healing of any kind if there's someone near you with their hand up in the air and you have this faith i want you to lay your hand on their shoulder right now we rebuke every sickness come on pray people of god we rebuke every infirmity we come against every disease every malfunction of the body from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet may the power of christ that brings healing come upon you now i pray that every blood disease and every condition someone has a condition keeping them up at night it's like insomnia and you cannot get rid of it be healed and delivered from that in jesus name the spirit of the lord says that rest is your portion and the enemy will rob you of your rest no more today i declare you are free from that and you will never you will never be tormented again at night the spirit of god is bringing rest upon you in the name of jesus lupus i command you to go in jesus name father i'm asking you now to heal people in this room and online right now by the power of god jehovah rapha the lord our healer we thank you for healing your people today we thank you for bringing healing today we thank you for manifesting it in bodies today lord the tangible touch of jesus the power of the lord is present to heal lift your voice lift your hands and receive healing every one of you who are sick in your body be healed in the name of jesus be healed by the power of god nothing is impossible to him or to her that believes no we thank you lord for the release of healing i worship [Music] i worship you lord i worship you jesus i believe there is a mother here praying for her child to be healed from seizures we rebuke the seizures in jesus name we command that these seizures would never return yes yes we command that these seizures would never return to this child again by the power of god in the name of jesus is there a mother in here that's praying for their child who has a issue with seizures lift your hand if you're a mother my god right there anyone else any other mothers who have a child that has seizures you're praying for them right now right there somebody near both of those dear sisters if i'm missing anyone let me know just lift your hand right there i need people of faith right beside these women of god to lay your hand on their shoulder and you don't have to do anything but come into agreement with the word of the lord it's already done and i need you to come into agreement with them right now it's already done it's already done the word of the lord is these seizures will not return the power of god the power of god is against these seizures the power of the lord is against these seizures we break this off of this child in jesus name and we declare they will never return again i declare peace over that mother right now peace over your spirit you've been worried about your baby and you've been worried about their future and if they'll survive this and the lord said your child is going to live and not die and declare the works of the lord jesus i thank you jesus i thank you lift your hands and worship him just another moment the spirit of the lord is in this place the spirit of the lord can do anything there is nothing too hard for god nothing too hard for god we worship you come on 30 more seconds of worshiping him and just tenderly giving him your heart and your worship today all of our praise we give to you oh god all of our praise we give to you oh god yes lebron put it in e flat i just want to sing this and we're going to pray every day i [Music] yeah i feel like he's giving us strength today come on you're the hope i hold on to be the strength of my life come on say be the strength of my life be this i feel him in this room [Music] today everybody praying for the strength of my life be the strength of my life be the strength of come on let's just sing that verse again i feel strength rising everybody's saying come on every day to be the strength the strength of my life now everybody lift your hands and sing the song be the strength [Music] if you ask him he'll do it today [Applause] [Music] come on let the weak say i'm strong let the weak say i am strong one more time be the strength of my life god breathe the strength thank you father peace thank you father today i need you jesus oh [Music] one less time be the strength come on be the strength of with a week like you've had you need his strength today and he's giving it by his spirit we thank you lord come on say it today oh yes lord jesus be the strength [Music] be the strength of my life i just can't let this go i just feel like someone in here needs healing from a tumor or a cyst in fact anyone in this room that needs healing from a tumor or a cyst would you just raise your hand all over this sanctuary right now right back there i need some people just to touch and agree with them anybody else all the way in the back do it now jesus lord in the name of jesus we just release healing father over every tumor and every cyst let it dissolve in the name of jesus let it dry up right now in the name of jesus father we speak to every tumor cyst and growth that is in the bodies of the hands that are lifted we declare father they must dry up in the name of jesus and dissolve everybody we release healing in jesus name healing in jesus name healing in jesus christ in jesus name now how many know about the bible said the joy of the lord is our strength i said how many know the bible said the joy of the lord [Applause] i feel like with all this healing and goodness of god we ought to have an increase of joy today come on tell somebody in your zip code say neighbor i got joy come on tell him my cup overflows today tell him if you're not careful you're gonna get a dose of joy today smile adam and let's give god one more big praises pastor richie comes to give us our announcements may the lord bless you today [Music] hallelujah do this for me look to your left and tell somebody our god is the greatest now look to your right and do the same thing we used to say god is good all the time and all the time god is good right remember that that's an understatement he is the greatest there are a lot of things that are good jewish is good p.f chang's is good but our god is the greatest amen i want us to retrain our brain to tell people that only god our god is the greatest wow what a great great start to the service if you're a first time guest and you're watching online today for the first time would you please text the word guest to 423-200-4933 just want to acknowledge and thank you for giving us a chance you got a lot of options for church and we're just honored that you're with us today connect track april 21st in the together cafe we get asked all the time hey how do i get involved in this or how do i lead this or how can i get on one of these teams or or how can i use my gifts in the church this is your chance once a month we have what's called connect track it's an hour in the together cafe right down the street here we spent an hour telling you the history of the church what we believe our philosophy our theology all those things you say yep that's what i want to do that's when you can get involved so sign up on the website for april 21st in the together cafe starting tonight at sundown we're having a corporate time of fasting and prayer we'll have a prayer call every morning at 7 a.m say 7 am a prayer call at 7 am call the number on the screen live prayer online tuesday at noon right here you can stream that or you can come and be a part of that it's powerful every tuesday at noon we have a and then we end the midweek service at 7 00 p.m this wednesday and we've got a special guest speaker this wednesday night you do not want to miss it's going to be an awesome time so the fast will end with the midweek service on wednesday starts tonight ends wednesday night we've got prayer calls in the mornings and we've got a powerful time of prayer on tuesday at noon before you prepare to give i want to just tell you that sunday april 25th we're going to honor our pastors that's going to be pastor appreciation day go ahead and give it up right now [Music] [Applause] and as you prepare to give i want to ask one of our trustees bill barker to come up and he's going to tell you a little bit about how that works but as you prepare to give today say today i was just looking at proverbs 3 and it says this it says honor god with everything that you own everything means honor god with everything that you own then it says this give him the first and the best and i can't wait do most people get paid on fridays is that fair sometimes mostly on fridays or maybe you get paid once a month or whatever i can't wait for sunday because i want that first check or that first digital gift that we do each time we get paid i want it to go right here because i know what takes place we just baptized 30 people amen [Music] we got a powerful testimony about harry right yesterday gary keelan had a share event it was phenomenal we've got stuff going on all the time there's ministry taking place all the time i want to give god my best the first and the best so we're going to give you a chance to give in just a moment stay seated after bill he is a wonderful trustee our trustees are the best the trustees at this church keep us accountable they slap us around when we need it they encourage us when we need it but bill barker is a wonderful trustee of our church he's going to tell you about pastor appreciation day and after that when he finishes we'll give you an opportunity to bring your offering down to the buckets okay welcome bill barker thank you thank you good morning family uh yes i am one of the trustees much to probably sums dismay but i'm going to start today with reading ezekiel chapter 34 136 and his pastor sometimes says hang with me i'm going somewhere [Music] the word of the lord came to me son of man prophesy against the shepherds of israel prophesy and say to them this is what the lord god says to the shepherds woe to the shepherds of israel who have been feeding themselves shouldn't the shepherds feed the flock you eat the fat you wear the wool you butcher the fattened animals but you do not tend to flock you have not strengthened the weak healed the sick bandaged the injured i brought back the strays or saw the lost instead you have ruled them with violence and cruelty and they were scattered for lack of a shepherd they became food for all the wild animals when they were scattered my flock went astray on all the mountains and every high hill they scattered over the whole face of the earth and there was no one searching or seeking for them [Music] you may be thinking why is he reading that what does this have to do with an offering for pastor appreciation well let me tell you god has given us shepherds and pastor kevin and devin through them we are fed and clothed spiritually in the natural and spiritually not only we are but our community has also been fed and clothed they spend hours in the word and hours in prayer to hear from god to be able to tend to what god has entrusted them with they strengthen the weak they lift the hands that hang down they pray for the sick and they are healed the ministers they minister to the injured bring back the strays and seek the lost [Music] they are concerned about our lost loved ones the prodigals and the lost in general because they preached that god wasn't willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance they shepherd over us with tenderness love and grace we are not scattered because they hear the voice of the father and speak thus saith the lord we haven't became food for the enemy because our pastors tell us who we are in christ jesus and greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world we weren't even scattered because of the pandemic they know the importance of coming together as the body of christ they're not just concerned about what's in these four walls but what's outside of the four walls because god did and does so loved the world what i'm saying is is we have good shepherds godly shepherds ones that tend to their heavenly father's flock we are blessed and so we should be blessed doesn't the word say doesn't the word of god say give and it shall be given to you good measure pressed down shaking together and running over pastor and kevin pastor kevin and devin are good ground they're very good ground and i know from experience that god will bless your seed and that you give to show our pastors our appreciation on april 25th now this is the part of the service where we get to give back to god through our ties and our offerings and i want to thank first off all of our faithful givers without you we could not do the work that god has called us to do so thank you the word of god issues us a challenge and two promises in malachi 3 and 10 to bring all the tithes into the storehouse and see if he won't open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that we can't contain [Music] and he would rebuke the devourer for our sake i love the windows of heaven being opened [Music] but i get more excited about him rebuking the devourer [Applause] the devourer is our enemy and he comes against us to destroy it could be the actual seed that you're going to put in the ground or the seed of your body and your children or the seed in your finances your talents your gifts and your time he said bring the ties into the storehouse and he would pour out that blessing it's his word as chris my youngest sometimes says i didn't write it god can't lie he can't change his mind it won't return boyd it accomplishes what it was sent to do so i encourage you today to rise to the challenge and step into his promises now while i'm giving you a minute or so to get your tithe check ready or get the envelope ready i'm going to end with something maybe a little more humorous a pastor stood before his congregation and said i have bad news i've got good news and i've got bad news the bad news is is the church needs a new roof man groans were heard all the way across the congregation but he said the good news is we have the money to fix the roof size and clapping went on across the congregation he goes but the bad news is it's still in your pockets [Music] let us pray over these givers today father thank you for the cheerful givers bless our efforts and our contributions for the proclamation of the gospel and the building up of your church father affirm your love grace and provision for each giver in our minds and thank you for their heart for the ministry [Music] amen [Music] bye [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] is holy spirit open it wide everyone lift your voice and make this your prayer holy spirit [Music] ask him today [Music] [Music] [Music] holy spirit [Music] [Applause] let your voice how many want him to reign on you today [Music] [Applause] how many want them to rain on you today just reach your hand up and ask him just rain down on me today rain down on me today rain on my family rain on my church lord rain on our leaders today we need you god we need your god come on just articulate it don't be don't be afraid we got time just ask him i need you to reign on my spirit today lord i need your strength to rise jesus give us your strength and your presence today i want us to go to the word of the lord i i don't know if he's here i think he was coming but i'm not sure lebron is dead here today is that alvin where are you at pastor alvin where are you friend pastor alvin he he went stepped out pastor alvin's sweet mother 86 years old went home to be with the lord yesterday and he is in church this morning we're gonna just pray a strength and a blessing over pastor alvin and angela they they gutted out that work in athens tennessee and now we have partnered and we got a campus up there they're precious lebron is their son but his sweet mother alvin's mother went home to be with the lord yesterday and when we pray for the word today i want you to just pray for the lord to give pastor alvin strength there he comes right there pastor alvin we're going to pray for you today sir how many have your bible say amen take your bible out and go to john chapter 16 and then put your finger on first corinthians 2. i'm going to begin a series today it's going to take me a couple of weeks to teach this but i want to begin a series today called getting to know the holy spirit how many know we need to know who the holy ghost is [Music] and i just want to take this opportunity to teach on the holy spirit because i think he's the most neglected member of the godhead i think he's become optional for many christians i think we treat him like a denomination or some sort of i said this last week the flavor of the monk but the holy spirit is god he is not optional and without him you're not even alive spiritually if you don't have the spirit of god you don't belong to christ and for the next couple of weeks we want to talk about the holy spirit because i want you to know who he is and i want you to know that he knows about you so today and for the next several weeks this is going to be uh i i think i'm going to teach more we'll see where we go um i recognize i was telling pastor richie this this past week our church is full of people who've been pentecostal all of their life but our church is also full of people who just started coming to a pentecostal church today and we take for granted that everyone sitting in this room has been taught and understands the person of the holy spirit and the work of the holy spirit in the life of the believer but the reality of it is there is such little teaching on the holy spirit that if you don't hear the truth regarding the holy spirit you could spend your whole life loving god in the shallow end of the kingdom the kingdom of god there is so much more for you and i to know there is so much more for you and i to understand and i believe god led me to this assignment and i feel him because there's a spirit of wisdom and revelation that he wants to rest upon you how many want to go deeper i don't mean weird i mean deeper it might seem weird to some people but deeper is good right and we want to stay in him but we want all of him that there is to have and i want you to go to john 16 and i'm going to read there verse number 12. um through 13 12-13 and then i want to go to first corinthians chapter 2 and i'm going to read verses 9 through 13 there so john 16 12 and 13 and then first corinthians 2 9 through 13. look at your neighbors say neighbor i don't know what it is about what you're wearing but you look thinner today than you did last sunday come on tell them [Music] hey help me welcome our athens family right now i love you pastor devin and ingrid pastor chris and amy the entire athens family we're with you in spirit you're in the house we're grateful for what god is doing there let's read john chapter 16 verse 12 together jesus these words are written and read in my bible that means they come from the lips of our lord and he is speaking regarding the holy spirit everyone else has talked about the holy spirit i think we should hear what jesus has to say about the holy spirit how many want to hear what jesus has to say about the holy spirit jesus says in john's gospel the 16th chapter the 12th verse i still have many things to say to you but you cannot bear them now however when he the spirit of truth say the spirit of truth has come he will guide you say guide you say he'll guide you tell your neighbor he will guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things that are to come now go to first corinthians chapter two [Music] first corinthians chapter 2 verse number 9 when you got it say word but as it is written eye has not seen neither ear has heard [Music] nor has it entered into the heart of man the things everyone say the things say the things say there are things the things that god has prepared for those who love him next verse but god has revealed them to us through his spirit for the spirit searches all things somebody say things the deep things say deep things of god for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him even so no one knows the things of god except the spirit of god now somebody say right now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit who is from god that we might know the things say the things that have been freely given to us by god last verse these things somebody say things how many know god's trying to get us to see something here today these things we also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the holy spirit teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual today i want to talk about this this is going to be a little different i want to talk about this today and i want to preach a message called follow the tour guide look at your neighbors say neighbor just trust the tour guide they're not trusting the tour guide tell your other neighbor neighbor trust the tour guide follow the tour guide he knows what's up pray for me i'm praying for you give me give me a brother uh uh it lay your hand on pastor alvin right in front of you right there would you do that father we just pray for pastor alvin today and his family thank you for this great and godly woman that has gone home to be with you to be absent from the bodies to be present with the lord i thank you today god that a spirit of peace and rest come upon him and his entire family now we don't sorrow as the world we sorrow but not as the world we know where she is and we know that everything that she committed to you you kept it against that day and now she's seeing you face to face bless pastor alvin and the family today strengthen them in christ i pray and everyone said amen god bless you is receded in the presence of the lord so um so we love fishing right the wallace family loves fishing my i get that from my dad my boys get that from from me and we like fishing most of the time we fish in fresh water places um either on the bank or in a in a bass boat but a couple of years ago um devin and i had the opportunity to take a sabbatical and we had gone like seven straight years and really i don't know that we ever uh really missed more than one sunday here and there and uh we're just gutting it out and doing all that we could to build the church and we were just tired and the lord had blessed to supernaturally paid the debt off on the building we had built it was an amazing season and for the first time every day and i took 30 days and we got away with our kids and we went to a a remote location in florida and just sat and prayed and spent time together and and it was amazing it was incredible and while we were there for those 30 days mom and dad came down to visit us one of those days and i decided we were going to go out and go deep sea fishing so we had never been deep sea fishing together like that i wanted to catch some fish so we we get on this boat and uh and this guy is is uh got this boat we go out this is what the crew looked like the crew looked like this so you know it's a pretty amazing day already when you get spent three days with samford and sons it's incredible it's um um uh dad was if you know my dad you know that joke um so we get on the boat and the guy takes us out and he just keeps going it's an eight-hour trip and i'm like man where are we going we drive and drive and drive and drive and drive and we get out and um he said we got a couple of stops to make today um and we're gonna catch some fish went to the first stop caught nothing second stop caught nothing um and by the time we'd gone to the second stop we'd been on the boat a couple of hours by then three or four hours and we were getting frustrated you know you pay money you want to catch fish you trust the people that that are taking your fishing to know where the fish are and so the guy says to us i know where the fish are i'm getting ready to take him put you on the fish so we go out a little further and he's looking at this this thing called a depth finder a sonar and he pulls up he says get your rods ready boys get your reels ready boys i found the fish and we're like you know whatever we've heard that for two stops and we've caught nothing and all of a sudden we start catching fish so quickly we caught our limit and we had to go back in because we couldn't keep any more fish than the ones we caught chad show them a picture of what we caught in like 30 minutes like 30 minutes we caught all these fish and we're going crazy and we're reeling them in and we're i mean you know my dad is a smack talker when it comes to fishing and and so he's he's out there and he's talking smack and my kids are catching fish it's almost pulling jeremiah and isaiah in the water and and it occurred to me i don't want to go fishing and follow somebody who don't know how to find the fish i want to follow a tour guide that knows where the fish are and and there are a lot of people i believe sitting in churches experiencing a christian life in which they don't need a tour guide you're living the kind of shallow end christian life with just a little bit of blessing a little bit of jesus a little bit of god a little bit of holy spirit a little bit of church and a lot of everything else but today i want to tell you there is something beyond the shallow end of christianity that is available to every born-again person in this room and if you're going to live in those places in god and experience the fullness of god's kingdom and the fullness of god's promises you're not going to be able to get there guiding yourself you're going to have to have a tour guide who knows where he's going in fact living without the holy spirit as your tour guide is like fishing for deep sea fish without having a sonar or a depth finder that man could have driven us around the entire ocean that day and we never caught anything because he didn't know where the fish were but when he turned that sonar on and showed me that picture of all those dots on the bottom in the deep part of the ocean he knew we were getting ready to catch fish because he had taken us successfully to the place where the fish were just like that god who knew where the fish were the holy spirit is the god that takes you into all that god has for you and i and jesus says to his disciples he's getting ready to die he's getting ready to leave the earth and he says to his disciples i think this is fascinating because as i woke up this morning the spirit of god just reminded me please be remember be reminded that the disciples didn't have the bible they didn't have the bible they didn't have the treasure or the opportunity to wake up every morning and hear the voice of god spoken through the written logos they depended strictly on the voice of the holy spirit so jesus in john chapter 16 is telling them things that that's getting ready to happen he's telling them that he's going to die he's telling them that the spirit is coming and then he says to them there are other things watch there are other things i want to tell you that you can't handle right now but the spirit is coming and when the spirit comes the holy spirit of god will guide you into all truth watch the word says he will talk and speak the things which i show him and he will show you things that are to come the spirit of god is not an energy he is not a force he is not an ethereal cloud or shadow out in the mysterious beyond he is the he is the person of god i don't want to go too deep into this but we are trinitarian people in this house we believe in god the father god the son god the holy spirit not three separate because that's modalism and we don't believe in that we believe that they are so perfectly unified yet perfectly different the only way you could explain it is through a spiritual understanding of god all three in one that is accomplished by the perfect unity of the godhead never been a disagreement never been an argument never been crossed with each other never been upset with one another all three of them tied together one in unity three distinct yet all three one isn't that a miracle when i say the holy spirit i'm not talking about goosebumps he may make you feel goosebumps but he is not the goosebumps he is not the shaking in the floor but sometimes i've seen him touch people and they shaken the floor he is not the people who take off running although sometimes he's touched people and i see them took off running you ever seen people they're like why do they do that i've never seen that before you don't know what god did in their life well jesus never did that no he didn't but everybody he touched did i just want you to understand that the holy spirit is able to be known and he wants to reveal himself and he reveals himself as holy spirit to your spirit not to your body he does not communicate with and through your body this natural tangible tent that you and i are in is not the mechanism that god gave you to be able to receive communication by the holy spirit you cannot hear him with natural ears some people struggle in finding the voice of the spirit because they don't know where to find him at if you want to locate the place in you where you hear the holy spirit an exercise that i taught myself very early in my walk with god is that most of the time when i need to hear the holy spirit i have to close my eyes i don't always close my eyes but why do i close my eyes because often what i'm seeing with my natural eyes and hearing with my natural ears is not always in compliance with what the spirit of truth is trying to talk to me about come on the bible said elijah heard a sound of an abundance of rain but there was no clouds in the sky how can you declare rain is coming when there are no clouds in the sky i'll tell you how you operate not by what you see in the natural but by what you hear on the inside if you're not afraid to draw near to the holy spirit and walk in the spirit he'll let you hear things before you see things the bible said he would speak things and then he said it would show things and sometimes before god shows it he says it and you and i have to pick up on it and the spirit of truth jesus said god you and i into listen all somebody say all all truth i want you to imagine that there is not just imagine i want you to believe because it's true there's more of god than you've ever seen how many would say god's revealed an amazing amount of stuff to humanity but can i tell you that there's more of god hidden than he's ever revealed as much as we have seen the revelation of god when i walk out this building and i look up at lookout mountain and i see the carved river that has its edges and and when i visit florida and i see the the waves roll in and and the water can only come so far and then i walk out at night and i look up in the cloudless sky and i i see the constellations and the stars and we look at the grand canyon and we see all the vast amazing things that god has revealed in nature in the beauty of nature in in the beauty of a child in the beauty of harry getting baptized in a pool today when i see the beauty of god he's revealed so much and yet in light of all that he's revealed he's hidden more than he's ever revealed i've often said this that's why eternity is called eternity and that's why it has no end because eternity is the vehicle listen carefully that god chose to reveal the fullness of his revelation do you understand that there is a reason why eternity has no end if you ever put an end on eternity it cannot be the vehicle that god uses to reveal the totality of who he is because the totality of his who he is will never be completely revealed he's that awesome forever and ever the angels have circled the throne crying holy holy holy and they never get tired how because every time they do another revolution around the throne it produces new revelation because the overflow of who he is can never be stopped you can't put an end on it that's why we got to have eternity we got to have a space and a place where it never ends because he never ends there is this place in god there is this place in god that paul calls and i like to call it the deep things of god the things of god eight times in this one little chapter of first corinthians chapter 2 paul calls it things of god the things of god and if you're not careful and if i'm not careful we will live a christian life in the shallow things and we will live in this superficial sunday morning only experience with god where we have compartmentalized our life and successfully put god on our sunday calendar but we do not live with him being our tour guide monday through saturday and we stay in a shallow end and we work a job and we work for a boss and we raise the family and we buy a house and we do all these amazing things and and my concern is that we live our whole life and it's not that we don't love god it's that we don't understand that because we love god there is more for us and why don't people want the deep things of god i'll tell you why most people don't because they don't know they're available you can't have faith for or expect things in your life that you don't have faith for let me rewind that and say that again you can't have an expectation for things that you don't have faith for and you can't have faith for things you haven't been told from the word of god are available that's why paul said in romans faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of god when i teach a truth from this book and it gets deposited into your spirit it's supposed to wake up faith and expectation some people today are are absolutely blown away that we prayed for sick people in the prayer time today because you've never been in a place that prayed for sick people and it's because they told you that god don't heal anymore well if you've been told all your life god doesn't heal anymore then you don't have faith to believe that god can heal but if you're in an atmosphere where people believe that he was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquity and the chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his stripes we are healed then you can come into a room and when leaders give you the green light that god is healing something ought to wake up on the inside of you and say i can have it today [Applause] most people don't believe because they haven't been taught and the reason they have been taught is because most people teach and haven't found the deep things themselves and god wants us to understand that there is this place we can go in god like that tour god took us to the deep places in fact that's what paul says in first corinthians chapter two let's just break it down right here look at this i'm going to teach today look at this verse number 10 for the spirit searches all things yes the deep things of god if you got your pen underlying deep things because in the greek that's the word buffos b-a-t-h-o-s anybody see the word bath in that bathos it's it's literally the depth the absolute bottom of the deepest places in the ocean when the bible says don't miss it when the bible says that the spirit of god is is the god that takes us into all truth let me break this down and see if i can explain this for you in a way that we can understand it the spirit of god went into the deep places of god and discovered everything that there was for you and then comes back to you and as a tour god takes you into the deep things that are intended for you god didn't just go to the shallow things the bible said that the spirit knows the deep things i don't want to talk about today when i talk about deep things and shallow things i'm not trying to create hierarchies in the church no one in here is more special than anyone else no one in here is more spiritually elite than anyone else god is no respecter of a person but he is respecter of principles there are some people who are are invited into accessing the deep things of god that other people could have but don't get invitations to not because they're less spiritual than the people who got an invitation but because they don't have the principle of devotion oh come on in here that unlock the deep place that god had for them what are you saying i'm glad you asked there is only one stipulation given to us in first corinthians chapter two for knowing the deep things that god has for us what is that stipulation pastor i'm glad you asked it's right here in verse number nine catch this eye has not seen ear has not heard it has not entered into the heart of a man or woman the things that god has prepared for those here's the here's the one condition who love him if you love god i mean really love god i mean like for real pursue him you know why i i am married to her because i pursued her and loved her like no other man pursued her and loved her yeah that's what i said too when i saw her oh yeah now there were other jokers that came along that said god show me i was gonna be with you but those jokers are not here today do you know why because it wasn't that they didn't love her it's that they didn't love her like i loved her what i want you to understand is there are a lot of people sitting in this church today who are here today because they say they love god and they might love him but maybe they love him 10 to 12 on sunday but god said for those who really love me jesus i feel like teaching for those that really love me not just blowing me kisses on sunday not just dating me on the weekend not just hitched up to me to see what i can do for them but for those who don't even need another reason to come talk to me in prayer those who don't even mind staying up at night tears coming down my face nothing's even wrong i'm just glad i belong to him and he belongs to me i love him god said for people who love me it hasn't even entered your heart the f things look at somebody tell them things things things things things things things i just want to tell you there are plural things multiple things major things little things miraculous things blow your mind things that god has prepared for those who love in this good news i don't have to have all my ducks in a row i don't have to have a degree i don't have to be mr theology all i got to do is love the lord my god with all my heart all my mind all my soul all my strength and if i really love him more than i love anything else he has a way of revealing things and the one who reveals knows where the things are he's not finding them now he knew them about you before you got here when the bible says that the spirit searches the things of god this search has already occurred he already knew my days before eddie and gail got hooked up at the a w root beer store and had a hot dog together do you understand what i'm saying god knew what he had i need you to get this y'all he's not trying to find out a plan on the spot he's not surprised by the years of failure and the years of misery and the mess you made he knew it was coming i just want to tell you it doesn't end in misery and it doesn't end in a mess and it doesn't end in pain it might have started in a mess it might have had pain but in the end he's taking you to a place called the deep things and he's already seen you there [Applause] the deep thing somebody say the deep things now you can't access this place of deep things without intimacy with god casual christianity is killing the american church we don't want a god who is the absolute object of all of our affection we want a god who accepts our leftovers this is why few people operate in their calling and stay in the anointing and stay in their in their purpose it's because it's not because god doesn't love us but the most dangerous thing god could ever do is send his glory to people who have not demonstrated pure intimacy with him and the holy spirit is the spirit of truth that guides us into all truth there is a reason why that fishing god knew where to go ready he had been there before the holy spirit knows where to take you today because he's already been there today watch i'm getting ready to flip you out and he knows what to do for you tomorrow because he's already been [Applause] in your tomorrow when the bible says he's alpha and omega that doesn't mean he's just the beginning and the end he is the beginning and the end and everything that happened in between he doesn't wake up and read the newspaper and get information he could have told him what was going to happen had they heard because he saw it coming before it ever occurred and the reason he knows how to take you and out to the deep things is because in eternity past before you and i ever showed up he searched in the deep place of god and discovered your purpose and your plan and when he put the dna strands together that created you you came and we announced your arrival the day you were born but god knew you before you came out of your mama's womb the plan for your life was actually already searched out and determined before you got here and it's a good plan you ready for this sinners in this room please hear me he has a good plan for your life the only reason it ain't good yet because you haven't gone to the tour guide you're not talking to the one who knows what god puts you on this planet for you could be 50 years old and have wasted your life following yourself or the devil and today god could turn your whole life around and you could follow the one who knows the things god has prepared for you and if you'll follow him he'll lead you to everything god has let me teach this part say things let me talk about things real quick what what kind of things does the holy spirit reveal number one the holy spirit look at this this is in verse number i believe it's seven but let me tell you the right address it's in here i promise yeah verse number yeah nine first of all i want you to understand something the holy spirit reveals the things say things spiritual things say spiritual things say deep things the holy spirit reveals things number one that have been prepared look at verse nine for those who love him so number one the holy spirit reveals to you things god has prepared for you let me teach that this word prepared everybody say prepared it's the greek word heptoid mazzo that's big right and this is the word used for the ministry of john the baptist who prepared the way of the lord and we borrow this term from oriental custom this is where the word came from it comes from the oriental custom of when a king was coming to a city they sent an entourage ahead of the king because when you are carrying royalty you do not make royalty wait while you get the road ready you send an entourage ahead of the king to prepare the way so that when he gets to the city the valleys have been lifted up and the high places have been brought low come on in here and the crooked places have been made straight so that the king can be known when the king arrives in the city when the bible said god prepares things and that the holy spirit reveals those things verse 9 stay in the bible the spirit reveals things prepared for you if it hasn't been prepared it might not be yours this is where everybody's like oh he just no he didn't i was thinking about this as i was preparing this message today how this entire transition of us coming to this building occurred in our lives it happened like this someone called me and said have you heard highland park baptist church is for sale you may not know the history of the building you're sitting in it used to be a building from this stage all the way to that glass wall by the road that wall wasn't there it sat 6 000 people this building sat 6 000 people it was full every sunday twice and they had over 30 satellite churches in 1980 they had 30 000 people a week coming to the church between this campus and all of their satellite campuses the day the week before we bought it it had 130 people in it it died a slow tragic 30-year death i'm not throwing stones or being mean i'm telling you the facts and this is from people who came to the church there i remember someone called me and said have you heard highland park baptist church is for sale i said no i didn't know it was for sale now at this time we have we have a campus in utah and a little bit of campus over in the real hood i'm talking about the for real hood i'm talking about the kind of hood where they threaten me the the drug pushers chris will tell you we had to hire police because the so many drug addicts were getting saved that the drug pushers who were sending the drug addicts got mad and came over one morning and they were going to shoot me they said he keeps telling all of our our people that they're free and we don't own them anymore and i didn't even know when i was telling these people you're free that they were gonna go back and tell the people who said they owned them that they're free now the people that thought they owned the free people are mad at the preachers that the preacher told the people who thought they were on that they were free so they come over to shoot me that's the kind of hood we was in and i remember when god opened the door for this house i wasn't going to take this building when i first walked into this building it was huge and we were in a little bit of storefront i'm talking about a little bit of storefront cram 150 people in i could manage that when i walked in here i saw this i said this is too big for me standing back there at that sound booth the spirit of god said to me it cannot hold what i'm getting ready to do [Music] it ain't big enough for what i'm getting ready to do i said oh my god what do you mean lord what do you mean we got 150 people what do you mean what do you mean and this is what he meant and we ain't done yet i said we done yet we won't stop until chattanooga is in a church somewhere worshiping god i won't stop i said i will not stop i'm telling you right now somebody said when will you lay on lay off of it when will you ease up i will not ease up until every lost person is saved every sick person is healed every demon of racism is under our fear i will not stop i won't stop deep and i remember i remember thinking to myself how we gonna afford this guy i was on a three-day fast you've heard me tell this story i don't want to waste a lot of time say deep things i'm on the third day of a fast i'm standing in the atlanta airport chris is standing with me i preached i'm tired i'm trying to get home i'm standing at the at the train tram at tram at concourse a going to concourse c so i can get on a plane and go to my house and eat because it was the third day of the fast and i'm hungry i'm not more spiritual i'm hungry and mad i don't even feel like i can hear god i'm so hungry you walk past and go down concourse a and a popeye with a chicken biscuit and a bojangle with a chicken biscuit and a dab i'll get under my feet and i'm standing at the tram stop and the tram stop the tram stops the train is sitting there and i'm trying to hear god about this building and the lord said and i'm about to say no we don't want it and the lord said careful don't know the woman's voice on the train operator speaker thing said careful doors are closing and will not reopen and when she said that i dropped my bag and tears streaming down chris jumps on the train he turns around and looks back he said bishop what are you doing i said i just heard god he said you did what did he say i said he came on the voice of that train operator and he spoke through that train operator voice and he told me regarding this campus doors are closing and we'll never reopen and from that moment i made two phone calls the next morning i was standing in this sanctuary with that young lady and two real estate agents i called the person that called me they said what did god say i said i don't understand this but god told me to take this building he said good make an offer i said the problem is i don't got no money he said i didn't ask you if you had any money i asked you if it belonged to you and if it belongs to you i got the money god oh my god i feel like running around here slap somebody tell them the deep things of god i feel faith in this room the deep things of i feel like somebody is about to get into somebody about to get a revelation that it belongs to you well the devil said i couldn't have it i don't care what the devil said the devil is a liar stop three people tell them it belongs to you it belongs to you it's a big thing god already said it's yours if you love him he'll open up the window by the society he'll open up the windows of heaven and he'll bless you with deep things oh i gotta go listen how can you take this and how can you how did you do it i can only tell you this is how it was prepared this thing was prepared for us i drove by this building every day in the summer of my childhood with my papa and my granny and they drove us down bailey and my my granny was going down to get a trinket at the dollar tree and we drove by this big old building every day never in my eight-year-old mind did i know that in the deep things of god he prepared something for us all of us this ain't mine this is the kingdoms say prepared i want you to hear me tell you something the holy ghost is about to bring revelation to some of you about things god has prepared for you why has he been waiting i'm going to tell you why he's been preparing y'all miss it he's taking the crooked out of it he's taking the high things out of the way he's raising up the valleys so that when it comes time for you to get there you don't have to spend all your time oh god i gotta raise up the valley i gotta remove the mountain i gotta get rid of the cookwood place oh no you don't all you got to do is get there and know that it's yours if you get to the place god will give you the revelation that it belongs to you and he'll take the sweat out of this y'all don't even hear what i'm saying he'll take the sweat out of it the reason some of you are working overtime and you're trying so hard and there's no oil in what you're doing is because you're operating in something that wasn't prepared for you but when you get in the holy ghost hallelujah he'll show you what god has already prepared and all you got to do is show up and walk and give god glory for what the lord has done i got to go number two not only are they things that are prepared look at verse number 12. is the teaching helping anybody today okay thank you father look at verse number 12. now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit who is from god watch that we might know the come on verse 12. thank you the things the first thing that they were are things that have been prepared the second thing the spirit does is lets us know the things that have been given free the given this is a wonderful word in the greek this word freely given it means a favor yeah i feel like hollering right here for a minute i'm already sweating we might as well jump all the way in look at somebody tell them hey neighbor tell them god is about to do you a favor [Applause] some people who are religious can't handle this because you've been trying to figure out how you're going to earn what god is getting ready to do but the holy ghost doesn't show up to reveal how you work harder to get what god is about to do in your life the holy ghost shows up to show you tell your neighbor say hey neighbor say god is about to do you a favor [Music] i know there are some things that you did that you know it was partly your deal and you had an investment in it that made it happen but i feel like god wanted me to tell you on this sunday morning that there are some things getting ready to happen in your life that are beyond anything you had anything to do with it was a favor god is about to do somebody a favor in their business god is about to do somebody a favor in their marriage god is about to do somebody a favor in their children god is even about to do somebody a favor in your church you can't earn this you don't deserve this so you better find a praise and give the one who doesn't own the glory yay touch three people tell them god is about to do you a favor [Applause] i just heard the holy ghost say he's about to do somebody a favor in their [Applause] finances anybody that believes he'll bless you good measure press down shaken together running over he's about to do you a favor [Applause] [Music] what kind of blessing would it be if when you got it you knew you did something to deserve it i'm not saying that we don't play a role but i'm telling you that there come a time in your life where god will do something so crazy good for you that you start thinking hard what did i do i feel the holy ghost on me right now what did i do to deserve genesis of my wallace what did i do to deserve devin hamilton wallace what did i do to deserve judah and lily as my niece as zion as my what did i do and god said when you come to the end of all your searching you will recognize that you didn't do anything to deserve something that good but i did you a favor [Music] [Applause] touch somebody one more time tell them hey neighbor god is about to do you a favor shout like i'm talking to you right now [Applause] whoa i gotta go one last thing the holy ghost is a good tour guide he'll take you where the deep things are he'll take you to what's been prepared he'll take you to what's freely given and then watch this the last thing is the next verse says he'll show you things that you are to speak oh this is getting ready to do something right here can we put that uh next verse up there come on here yes these things things that have been prepared things that are freely given watch and now things that we are to speak oh i'm getting ready to say something right here do you understand that god is not looking just for your activity he's looking for your agreement you will not be able to work your way into the kind of things god is getting ready to do in your life but you will have to demonstrate agreement with those things well how do i demonstrate agreement i'm so glad you asked you simply find yourself hearing what the holy spirit is saying and accepting what the holy spirit is revealing and then you articulate what the holy spirit said oh this is too deep for some people well pastor i thought you told me i didn't have to work you don't have to work you just have to declare it and i'm not talking about wish list and i'm not talking about naming and claiming and blabbing and grabbing i'm talking about saying what the holy ghost said y'all some of y'all can't handle this see i i should have preached this one first and saved the other two for last because you were shocked and now you won't scream and show me but let me make sure you understand something when the holy ghost reveals something to you you got to say it good teaching pastor thank you when the holy ghost says something to you you got to say it why do i have to say it because heaven is looking for agreement and witnesses [Applause] i got so much in my brain right here when the bible says that we received everybody say received the spirit of god the greek word for received is lambano l-a-m-b-a-n-o ce lambano lambano means in the greek among other things in two places in the new testament the word lambano is used for the word caught when they went fishing and they caught the fish it was lambano i'm going somewhere the father thought it the son bought it the devil thought it the spirit brought it but i caught it y'all missed what i just said i'm going to my room in a minute but before i go to my room and change my clothes and go eat up all your local i feel like telling somebody god is throwing stuff in your direction and heaven's looking for somebody to say what the holy ghost said so that heaven knows where to send the pockets on this sunday i need somebody who's been hearing something in the holy ghost to say i hear a sound of an abundance of rain anybody hear what i'm saying today i'm not just saying what i want i'm saying what he said i got faith to believe it's mine and i came today to catch it the devil fought it but i caught it [Applause] some of you are about to catch a healing some of you are about to catch a spouse some of y'all are about to catch a business some of y'all are about to catch a new deal some of you are about to catch an outpouring of the holy ghost that turns your whole house upside down exactly people tell them catch it catch it catch it catch it catch it [Applause] you gotta you gotta say you gotta say what the spirit of god said do you know why uh it's messing me up do you know why we have her because devon heard it when devin came to me and told me what she heard i said that ain't god this is a year and a half ago a year and a half ago no i'm serious she came to me and said and judah judah i'ma ground you judy for four years judah daddy we're going to adopt a baby the lord showed me in a dream daddy i was holding a little girl we're going to adopt a baby and then devin came oh the lord showed me in a dream that ain't god y'all been listening to something else because i hear this thank god and then i'm down in florida last year in july and i'm preaching in a spontaneous revival down in the panhandle of florida and the preacher gets them one night to introduce me and before he introduces me he gives this little thing in the middle of the sermon that didn't even fit and he said the bible said that we always say that the bible says the fool has said it in his hot heart there is no god but he said in the hebrew that's not what it said in the hebrew it says the fool has said in his heart no god and when he said that the holy ghost convicted me and he said to me how long are you going to tell me no about this child i'm trying to get you to adopt and i said oh no i don't know that thing that's been visited in judah in her dreams and that thing has been talking to devin in her bed it's trying to get in me now and the lord said i'm telling you i'm giving you a child what i want to tell you is that baby she's holding today was conceived in july the same time y'all don't even hear what i'm saying the same time god was trying to get me to see a deep thing he was working on a deep thing and the devil fought it but i can't i can't wish somebody will see what i'm saying slam your name and tell your neighbor say neighbors it's a deep thing touch somebody tell them it's your turn to catch it it's your turn to catch it it's your turn to capture if you're turned up [Applause] it's your turn to catch it you're about to catch a breakthrough you're about to catch a miracle it's a big thing [Applause] somebody praise him one more time praise him all over this house praise him for the game then [Applause] staying with me i'm through preaching i'm through teaching there are some things there are some things i feel the lord worked in here there are some things that have been prepared for you there are some things that are going to be freely given to you there are some things that you're gonna have to declare belong to you all you gotta do is speak what the spirit has revealed belongs to you as long as you are in doubt you won't declare the word of the lord i'm not criticized because i've been in doubt before but there comes a moment where promises from heaven get revealed to you in such clear ways like mary you say lord lead unto me according to your word there's a reason why zechariah lost his speech [Music] understand this remember remember zach write a priest priest an angel comes up this is the priest saying you're gonna have a child zechariah gets a look on his face like he don't receive it god said okay i'm gonna deal with you since words are so powerful and what you say is so important i'm gonna take your ability to speak away so that you don't curse your own future if you ain't gonna say what i showed you i'm not gonna let you say anything at all we're begging people to praise god in the church and one reason they won't praise god they got a mute spirit on them and the reason they're muted because every time they open their mouth they curse their future i told them friday night at the marriage comp which by the way the marriage ministry launch on friday night was bananas good bananas some of y'all want your house to change before your house changes what you say has to change sisters [Music] you keep speaking to the fool in him and the fool keeps standing up you start speaking to the king and him and the king will stand up i can't get no help right here brothers what she does is nag nag well speak to the nagging her she'll keep on nagging speak to the queen and her and the queen will stand up well my kids won't listen they keep on getting crazier and crazier well just keep on declaring that or you could say my children shall live and not die my kids will not be a statistic my babies will not get run over by this crazy culture well i'll always be broke my mama was broke my mama never broke my granny was broke i'll always be broke you could keep on saying that or you could tap into the deep things of god and you can say as for me in my house we shall be blessed i just want you to know this when the holy spirit starts revealing it it's not time for you to question it it's time for you to get with it look at somebody tell them get with it the tour guide knows where your stuff is the tour guide knows where your stuff is some of you fighting over a man with another woman if it's yours you don't have to fight with her for him [Music] god has some stuff that belongs to i feel the lord working at mines right now lift your hands holy spirit you're the tour guide [Music] you're the tour guide it ain't a joke listen the greatest thing that god's taking you to is not just stuff and more people the greatest thing he's doing is taking you closer to the heart of jesus because if you get all this stuff and you don't get deeper in god you don't have anything at all some of you are in the shallow end god is saying i'm taking you deeper i'm going to talk about a couple of different things over the next several weeks i'm going to talk about walking the spirit life individually and then i'm going to talk about the spirit-filled church and what happens in a spirit-filled church and why do certain things happen in a spirit-filled church why do people fall on the floor why do people speak in tongues what is all this i'm going to talk about all that but this morning it's not just an explanation it's an invitation for somebody to say i just want to love him more than i've ever loved him before i want to give him all of my heart i don't want to just seek him out of convenience and seek him for the benefits package i don't want to just get him for his stuff i just want him i need him i want to love him if that's you for just about a minute 30 seconds 45 seconds whatever it is can we just lift our hands and if you want to love him more than you've ever loved him if you just want to love i'm not talking about complicated things added to it just i want to love him more than i've ever loved jesus before lift your hands and begin to tell him that all over this room tell him that until your heart tells him that not just your mind because i'm telling you to but somebody began to tell him that until your heart tells him that i want the tour guide i want you you know what my days are supposed to be i'm tired of living for me and being my own tour guide you know what you know what god has for me holy spirit you know what is in store for my life you know you knew the pain before it got here you knew the the hard chapters before they were written about my life you knew about the divorce you knew about the pain you knew about the mess you didn't do it but i thank you god that in spite of all the pain you're leading me into deep things and you're leading me into greater purpose and you're not through with my life yet i feel like the holy ghost is in this room right now to break the spirit of hopelessness awesome people who feel like they've come through some stuff that has hurt them and the devil told you it wounded you forever but i feel like god is saying to you today there's a grace of healing coming on your life you will not be a victim for the rest of your days oh god he's taking you into deeper things he's revealing deeper levels of mercy deeper levels of grace deeper levels of his goodness and his love lift your hands and lift your voice right now it's a little bit too quiet right now i know god's working but somebody just needs to be beginning to say i need you lord i want to come after you i want to get hungry for you again i'm shaking off the pandemic i'm shaking off this assignment uh to distance me from you and from your people and i i want to come close today lord i want to come close today uh somebody that will shy somebody just needs to draw near and get closer to him again you feel like you're a few miles away from the heart of god today the lord's restoring you in him he's restoring your relationship today i want to love you like i never loved you before i want to return to my first love that's the condition for the lord's spirit to be the tour god of your life you're in this room today you say pastor kevin pray for me i need to i need the lord to save me pastor kevin pray for me there's somebody in here today you haven't even started the journey the adventure has yet to begun you haven't even come to jesus and asked him to be the lord of your life i'm not saying you've never been to church i'm saying you've not given him your life if you're in this room right now and you need jesus to save you and his spirit to bring you new life if you want to get born again you were born once from your mother's womb but today somebody's about to get born again by the spirit if you're in this room you say pastor kevin pray for me i need to get saved i want to give my heart to jesus i want to live for him i want to go to heaven and not hell serve god and not the devil walk in the light and not in the dark living the blessing and not in the curse if i'm talking to you when i say free lift your hand i want to pray for you i want to give my heart to jesus i want to tell you this right now it doesn't matter how far away from him you are how screwed up you feel and how many mistakes you've made today is about to yes in you as he knocks on the door of your heart will you say yes to him when i say three if i'm talking to you and you want to get saved lift your hand i want to pray for you one two three right now yes i want to give my heart to jesus god bless you god bless you god bless you you can put your hands down everyone look at me right now i want you to ask the person on your left and on your right this question most important question that you could ever be used to ask someone perhaps the person on your left and on your right you may have known them your whole life you may have never met them before today if you're in this room right now i want you to ask the person on your left and right do you need someone to go to the altar and pray and if you lifted your hand or you should have when they ask you that question walk with them right down here i'm standing down here for you and i want to pray with you right now because i believe christ is going to save people all over this room ask the person right now if you lifted your hand or you should have i need to give my heart to jesus come stand with me right now i'm giving my heart to the lord today anybody at all anybody at all i'll wait i'll wait as long as i need to wait but you know if he's knocking if you lifted your hand or you should have come stand with me right now i'm giving my heart to jesus come on come on sweetheart come on that's right come on come on baby come on come on god bless your friend god bless you come on i'm giving him everything [Music] god bless you for coming a whole road coming my god somebody praise the lord god bless your family god bless you god bless your family god bless you give me some prayer leaders and pastors to come help me pray right now i want them to pray i want us to pray stretch your hand toward them stretch your hand toward them just pray strength on them today would you do that for me would you do that would you do that come on let's all pray people need to give their hearts to jesus i need some i need some leaders to come help me right now hallelujah come on lift them up lift them up lord we pray for them today give them strength at the cross at the cross where i first heard the burden of my heart rolled away it was there i received my sight and now i'm happy come on this is the greatest miracle stretch your hands and pray before we go at the cross i first saw the light and the burden of my heart it was there my faith [Music] if i preach to you today in your heart and desires to go deeper just lift your hands where you're standing i want to pray a blessing over this house because i feel like god is taking this house deeper in its understanding of the things of god the things of god there is this world that is accessible called the things of god but you must have the holy spirit to lead you and guide you and he's going to speak to you in your spirit and you're going to know it's his voice father i pray now that this house would experience a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of jesus reveal to us and open our eyes oh god i pray today that the things of the spirit would come alive to those who are part of this church i pray that we would not play in the shallow end of religion but that we would find ourselves in the depth of your grace your power your goodness by your spirit today oh god reveal things that our natural carnal fleshly eyes and ears cannot see take the lid off of us and let us walk by the spirit and i pray today that the holy ghost would begin to lead us and guide us into things that have been prepared things that are freely given things that we hear from god that we are to declare and say with our mouth as we believe them in our heart bless our people this week with divine appointment let them leave this building as the army of god and jesus said jesus name advance the kingdom as you leave today may the lord bless you go in the peace of god and let's give god praise for every one of these precious brothers and sisters that have come come on lebron [Applause] at the cross [Music] hey guys i don't know about y'all but i was extremely blessed by that that was incredible i was extremely blessed i'm so pumped about this series you have no idea i'm looking forward to the next coming weeks and you know one thing that i do want to say that like really impacted share your notes i took some notes but he talked about the three things that the holy spirit reveals and that's things that have been prepared for those who love him things that have been freely given favor that has been freely given by god and things that we are to speak and just how awesome it is to be reminded that such a all it takes is that we have to love him all it takes is loving him being beloved and in that beloved identity there are things that are given to us they're the blessings we receive all of that and i don't know many relationships that all it takes is just hey you just love you just love me right one day a week it's like it's a consistent thing you just love me and i will do the rest that's such a beautiful thing and i was just so impacted by that and i hope that you guys were as well and you can let us know in the comments um please maybe someone knows you took drugs that you got we watched the comments we want other people to be able to see that as well and and just tag somebody in the comments that needs to hear this word today as well share it guys we i mean i'm just completely blown away i have a lot so i gotta ponder and process no idea i'm so pumped about this series i guess i'm so excited this is gonna be i think this is gonna be one of those series we go yo you remember when pastor kevin did that series on the holy spirit yeah yeah this is seriously it's it's gonna happen you know like so say that and we want to remind you guys that midnight tonight starts our corporate fast you can fast anything if it's a meal a day um if it's you know i'm gonna not eat sweets this weekend just take that time that you are fasting to intentionally seek the lord and listen to what he is saying listen for the things that he has go deeper take this time like what a great way to start a fast is to have that reminder that we can go deeper in the things of the holy spirit also we have uh connect track coming up don't forget that get connect april 25th 21st wednesday wednesday every day yep in the together cafe together go ahead and get the app download the app if you haven't already or go to rttn.church and you can see our events there check that out daily check it weekly so you can be up to speed it's a beautiful day here guys i hope it's beautiful where you are and i hope that you enjoy the rest of your day and enjoy the rest of your week hey we love you guys we'll see you here next week you

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Published: Sun Apr 11 2021