Guest Speaker Scott Shelton 9.2.21

don't you love brother and sister better [Applause] what a blessing it is to have a man and woman of god leading us wherever it is the lord's trying to take us and um i have said this a lot of times i may have said it when i was here before but if i didn't i'm going to say it now i i don't know how people live without a man of god in their life i don't know how people presume to be okay without a man of god and a voice of leadership in their life and not not just somebody that we allow to make suggestions to us but somebody that we give liberty to to have veto power in our life and i tell churches this all over the country if he can't tell you no and you keep a right spirit he's not the one that's got the problem i was in a meeting one time and this pastor said i want you to set in on a staff meeting and they were discussing somebody wanted to start a new ministry and the staff was involved in the decision-making process pastoral staff well the elder was inclined to give this person that opportunity but staff wasn't having it because this guy his mantra was that old song i shall not be i shall not be moved and it wouldn't have mattered if flaming horses and chariots of fire rolled through the joint that brother wasn't going to get off that pew and yet he felt like he had a work to do kingdom and so the senior pastor said what do you think brother shelton i said oh it's sunday i said church gonna start about 45 minutes i said in about 35 minutes bring him in here and tell him no 10 minutes before church starts he said why i said let's see how he acts during church if his motive is to do the will of god he'll he'll act just he'll do the right thing in church but if if you tell somebody no five or ten minutes before church and they go find a corner and so can suck their thumb like a two-year-old then you made the right call but if they just go ahead and worship anyway they pass the test and i think that's what we better figure out there's always a test well tell somebody you're better looking than they are and you can seat yourself i want to read several verses of scripture to you matter of fact i'm going to read a bunch of scripture well maybe not a bunch but several to those who don't read very much it's going to seem like a bunch but fear not beloved you will have caught up on your weekly bible reading and we'll be able to go into the weekend without guilt yeah praise god well give honor to my bishop thank the lord for him i think i told you this before i hadn't always liked the brother but the only time i don't like him is when he's right and i'm wrong and i know he's right and i'm wrong then i have to do what the old people used to tell us all the time go pray through i didn't know what in the wide world they were talking about go pray through pray through what and then i realized my flesh we might have a relationship with god if we wasn't so in love with ourselves well i might just be ready to go on to my seat right now second timothy chapter number three verse number one i do give honor to brother and sister better and thank god for them and the leadership of this church and this church honor you my wife i thank the lord for that good woman and she was why i was tardy getting out here she called and i answered and finally i said baby i got to go well i just need to tell you one more thing no i have to go but she told me one more thing i feel like that old prophet in the old testament i alone nobody else knows what that's like do you men my wife can walk right past me sitting in the living room not say a word go get in her car and call me before her bumper can get across the end of the driveway you do know you tripped over me getting out of here don't you didn't even acknowledge i was sitting in the room breathing air well i know i just don't like driving and just not talking i said well there's three children in that van and you're still in the yard you're not driving yet boy i'd rather live in that world with her than some other one without her i'll tell you that second timothy chapter three verse number one this know also now i'm not going to read all the uh previous chapter but when he says also he's saying in addition to what i've already told you know this as well in the last days perilous times shall come that word shall is a definitive statement it's it's non-tolerant it's not up for debate it is a promise in the last days perilous times are going to come and if you have not looked beyond the perimeters of your yard we are yet living in perilous times matthew chapter number 24 and i'm going to read 6-14 here and you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you be not troubled for all these things must come to pass what things well perilous times and wars and rumors of wars for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nation there's still some more stuff that's got to happen nation shall rise against nation and that's not we're not talking about just verbally this is talking about literal confrontation nation shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shall be famines pestilence i think cicadas could fall in that category have y'all got them things up here huh have you all had them recently we are yet contending with them in the natural state of arkansas it's like the loudest soundtrack off the dumbest berated sci-fi movie you ever saw you're looking up in the yard thinking there's going to be a 400 foot tall locust come crawling right up out from under the when they first broke loose on us this year i was yet on my lawnmower had my little raycon earbuds in listening to music and i could hear this noise and i thought my god this lawnmower is about to launch and then when i silenced everything i found i was in ignorant bugs pestilence i'm gonna go ahead and put the cicadas in the pestilence category earthquakes we just had a big one over in haiti again in divers places all these things are the beginning of sorrows it's not the end of them this is we're just getting started when you see this stuff happen you better buckle down because these are the beginnings of sorrows the end time is going to be filled with harvest and sorrows then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted it's going to get worse and all the folks who believe you're going to go in the rapture before anything happens no no the early church was burned at the stake crucified upside down boiled alive in oil fed the lions drowned made sport of slaughtered by the droves by people that hated their guts ah they shall deliver you up to be afflicted everybody say praise god isn't it exciting to think about the end time and shall kill you oh praise his name and you shall be hated of all nations for one reason you bear my name and then shall many be offended have you ever seen a day where people got their feelings hurt more than the one we're living in right on today well that hurt my feelings well put them in your pocket that's like sticking your toe out and somebody running over it with a lawnmower and you say well that hurt well precious why did you put it out there if if we wouldn't if we wouldn't run our feelings out on a limb all the time you're just wanting somebody to offend you so you can justify the activity and the behavior you're going to have next i'll tell you what i think i think easily offended people are smart and cunning people they know how to pick at a scab and push a button and pull a thread until you have to take action and then when you take action all of a sudden that spirit of jezebel flips and becomes a victim and now they can justify misbehaving because you are nice to them i'm just reading the bible and then shall many be offended but there's a cure in scripture for that blessed are they which do love my law and are not easily offended and shall betray oh and shall betray one another oh my and shall hate one another ooh and many false prophets shall rise my god they're all over the internet right on tonight and shall deceive many i heard on prophet lying on there about the great election the armies are going to come from the i said a friend of mine called me he said what do you think about it i said he's out and he ain't coming back this time around no matter whether it was an election filled with nefarious activities or not the brother's gone and well you know so and so is prophesying no no so-and-so's prophet lying i mean i didn't want to see the brother go either but he went and you know why he didn't get voted back in or they stole it from me or whatever happened you know why that happened the lord told me he said hey you want to know why i let that happen i said well i would like to know i sure was betting on that deal i mean not literally betting on it but i mean i was really pulling for the brother and the lord said well you had made him more your savior and i told you a long time ago you won't have any other gods before me [Applause] i really think we're partially to blame for the whole deal i mean my god i just waiting on somebody to add a book to the bible in the brother's honor what we equated him to moses he brought us out now well i just thought god was going to have to use him and not the one we got the one we got's clue is he don't know who's using him and and you know what god don't need our choice he used a mute and i'm not comparing anybody to a mule right now but i'm just saying he has been known to use a well a worm a stick and a mew take your pick all right y'all have distracted me already uh where was i at oh and then false prophet liars shall arise and what are they going to do they're going to deceive many not a few many why is it going to be many because the scripture says that in the last days there's going to be a great falling away somebody's going to have to be used to pull them out and because iniquity shall abound iniquity well there's a deep word right there you ought to just go home and devour that word and look into it for the next two or three days iniquity shall abound that's our righteousness uh that's our i i've got to go to my next read here the love of many shall wax cold what love of who many who who us if you want to know whether or not we're close to the coming of the lord look at the world situation but if you want to know how close we are to the rapture look at us we think that all the indicators of the coming of the lord are beyond our front doors if you really want to narrow the timeline down and see whether we're in that season or not look at who we love right now right let's let's read yet a little further the love of many shall wax cold our love for him shall grow cold but he well now here's a tough one that shall as that strong word shall endure through the end now i'm gonna just tell you something the devil loves to beat us up because we don't feel like running through a troop and jumping over a wall 24 hours a day and i'm gonna go ahead and tell you straight up some days just getting your flesh in the front door of this building is quite the victory can i get a witness that's right sometimes we we may just want to talk in tongues and run the aisles and climb the wall and then there's other times we can just barely get a hand up but just endure the same shall be saved it's not to the one that runs the as the scripture says in another reading but to the one that endures to the end and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end to come when the gospel has been taken to every corner of the world i heard a man talking the other day he said i i feel like i can scripturally substantiate the the fact that it's not necessarily every human is going to hear it but every family somebody in every family maybe several somebodies but every family on the planet will have someone in their ranks that have been exposed to the gospel and then they have they will they will know of it and hear of it from them but when the gospel is taken as a witness to all nations then at that point the end is going to come luke chapter 17 verse 21 and 20 21 and 22 and when he was demanded of the pharisees when the kingdom of god should come he answered them and said the kingdom of god cometh not with observation i'm going to come back to that neither shall they say lo here or lo there for behold the kingdom of god is within you and he said unto the disciples the days will come when you shall desire to see one of the days of the son of man and you shall not see it i want you to notice what he says that when the kingdom of god should come he was asked he answered them and said the kingdom of god cometh not with observation just let that sit in your spirit a minute now luke 17 uh just down a few verses 26-37 and as it was in the days of no so shall it also be also in the days of the son of man they did eat they drank they married wives they were given in marriage until the day that no entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all likewise also it was in the days of lot they did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they builded but the same day that lot went out of sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven notice the timeline there the same day that lot went out not before he went out but when he went out immediately following his departure it rains fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed that in that day he which shall be upon the housetop and his stuff in the house let him not come down to take it away he that is in the field let him likewise not return back remember lot's wife whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it notice that whosoever shall seek to save his life people who look at the end of time and become fearful and begin to try to do everything they can to preserve themselves and get through this thing with the least trouble the scripture says if you seek to save your life you're going to lose it and whosoever shall lose it whoever decides to live in what would be considered by many as reckless abandon but it's actually total faith and trusting god whosoever shall lose his life whoever says whatever you want to do lord you do it that's fine they'll preserve it now the life it's talking about here being preserved is not a carnal earthly life but it's talking about eternal life if you want to be saved in the kingdom you're going to have to just let go of everything in this world that's important and and this fear that why why do you think let me finish reading what in the wide world i tell you in that night there shall be two men in one bed now i want to clarify that word men was not used in a gender-specific usage it's just two people will be in the bed asleep the one shall be taken and the other shall be left two shall be grinding together at the meal this words talk about the one shall be taken the other left two men shall be in the field the one shall be taken the other left and they answered and said unto him where lord and he said unto them wheresoever the body is thither will the eagles be gathered together now kovid and i've teased a lot about it uh some of the things you gotta you gotta find something to laugh about or you'll just go nuts a lot of times but kova kovet has just really done a number on humanity hadn't it people have legitimately become very sick and some have died but the work of covid has not been a physical work it's been a mental and an emotional work and what it has done is it has struck fear into the hearts of humanity not not and and you have to remember and realize the enemy was not targeting the church with fear it was targeting all of humanity because in the end time for us to do and be what god has called us to do and be we are going to have to be able and willing to live and walk by faith faith is the opposite of fear fear is faith but fear is faith that god is not going to do it and he's not going to take care of us and he's not going to keep us there's no such thing as no faith just like there's no such thing as darkness science says there's no such thing as darkness there's only the absence of light there's no such thing as cold according to science there's only the absence of heat and in political science they say there's no such thing as injustice there's only the absence of justice in the kingdom there's no such thing as no faith there's no such thing as trying to live a neutral life in the church he said you cannot serve two masters you're gonna love one and hate the other or hate one and love the other choose you this day who you're gonna serve now this kingdom business is all about decision making the decision making is not about what our opinion our position on covet our politics is going to be our decision-making is who am i going to trust now the thing that's going to govern the church through the end time is going to be the laws of god but the scripture says that the carnal mind is not subject to the laws of god neither indeed can it be tithing is not a man-made idea tithing is something that god put together and it's not to feed the preacher with god don't need your tithes to feed your pastor you keep your tithes that's fine just let it rot in your pocket god will send a dog by with a grocery sack full of meat and money to your house he proved that in scripture too i don't understand these spineless preachers who can't read the bible and figure out god will take care of them don't worry about what people are doing he sent one old prophet uh ravens with food in their mouth to take care of him told one brother if you'll just just drop your little hook in the water right there and and you'll catch a fish and if you'll look in his mouth there'll be enough money there for you to pay your bills god don't need us to take care of our pastor paying tithes so we can go to heaven you've robbed god he said malachi they said in what way have we robbed god he said in your tithes and your offerings people who have 20 extra dollars they could put in the offer but they put a dollar in the offering now you're going to go to heaven but you're proven where your faith is too jesus said where your heart is that's where your treasures are going to be well i got to buy lunch this week brother shelton oh sparky you're not going to buy lunch every day with 120 bill for the whole week but when you put that money in the offering you're saying to him i do need to eat every day but i'm going to depend on you to provide it right that's right see anybody three people even want to hear that so i may just drop the plow and come back around we'll get that stump dug up in a minute tithing is what we do in obedience to him offering is what we do to let him know where our love really is and in whom or what our trust really is now no the lord doesn't expect you to give every single solitary dime and live like a pauper when they anointed the priest the priest had chains that went part of their garments there was a chain that started at their head and it went around their garments all the way to the floor and when they would pour that anointing all over them that oil would work its way down that chain and they would leave a trail of oil in the floor there was always a residue you could tell where they had been because there was some of that oil that remained with them and it just touched everything so the blessings of god that come into your life god's not telling you every dime that you get come put it in the offering he is intending for you to keep some of that with you so that people can see that and glorify your father that's in heaven but the problem we have with blessing in the church is people that are outside the church looking at us in the church notice that we worship money more than we worship the master when money becomes that important to me it's very difficult for me to convince somebody else to trust god are you picking up what i'm putting down i'm trying to move on my little lesson here i'm just saying there's some things we got to get straightened up for we could really get into the end times here kovid kovid has i mean i watched some people today in the airport with double mask on and then they had a shield on it but bless their heart they put it on upside down and it's supposed to go around their cranium they headed around the neck and it's just flopping out there just i'm like what you're going to cut somebody with that thing i don't know what in the world but it's it's open on the sides and on the top do you really think that germ you can't see can't find its way around that little shield and then you got six layers of bed sheets on your face what are you doing they're trusting themselves they're trusting their understanding or somebody else's are you saying we shouldn't be cautious look i was sanitizing and defuncting my hands long before cove would ever come crawling out of a lab somewhere you'd be laying hands on the saints of god i mean i love all of you but y'all got some greasy heads i've been opened up with sanitizer for years it's in my truck and all the doors in my truck my little children i spray off back there when i was a kid they'd say go to the go the bathroom and wash fellowship off you think about it just get rid of covert for a minute how many people's hands do you think you shake in a day's time that picked a booger 30 minutes before you shook that uh-huh you're looking at me and you know that you know somebody that picks their boogers and they had picked one and just wiped it on their pants and they didn't wash it they didn't wash their hands be scratching an armpit or some other area and then gonna shake your hand that's why i've been sanitizing for years but covet took us to a whole another place beyond cleanliness the first hotel room that my wife and family and i went to after covid hit they had that little sticker on the door this room has been thoroughly sanitized i'm so happy about it but precious said well what have they been doing to the hotel room and nobody put a sticker on it before now y'all have y'all have distracted me one too many times kovit has taught us to be afraid and covet has taught us it's okay to make room in our life for fear covett has told us to use terms like out of an abundance of caution which is code for we're afraid i'm not opposed to shutting churches down because i got a feeling the government's going to shut a bunch of them down before this whole deal's over with and and this has been a good time for us to learn how to be faithful without being able to come in this beautiful building but covet taught us to use phrases like see it's just eating you up isn't it you you know you you shook hands with some nasty creature you better check the back of your hand with their finger wrapped around there may be a little residue i'm just saying you can't be too careful sister get another little dose of that sanitizer and just go right on up to your elbows like somebody doing surgery but we've we've adopted phrases that we didn't have before out of an abundance of caution is one of the most critical ones be sober be vigilant what the scripture says for your adversary of the devil but we we haven't worried about him because we've got trust in god and and nobody sees him and nobody goes to the hospital because he's affected their breathing but kovat did my wife said to me the other day she said why has coveted been so easily used to bring fear to people well covet is the new cancer there was a day that cancer i mean the c word if you were diagnosed with cancer i don't care if it was just some melanoma on your skin that was not deadly and they gonna scrape it off and let the church roll on if if they told you i got a scar right here in the side of my face three years ago two two or three years ago they took uh squamous cell carcinoma out of my face because the sun had beaten on my face in the truck all these years driving and when they called me and told me i was in a hotel in houston and they leave a message do we have any medical people in here can i ask something from all of you that hippocratic oath you took about do no harm when y'all call us after we give blood and the little blood drive oh we've been down there and had something scraped off and they're gonna send a little sample of it in to get tested and y'all call us who are the who's the medical people i had one here two back here anybody else i don't want to leave nobody out and we don't answer the phone because we're taking a shower in the bathroom and you leave a message mr sheldon this is dr so-and-so's nurse from the dermatologist office we need to speak with you concerning your lab results if there's nothing wrong could y'all just throw in there it's okay everything's good because when we get that message am i the only one in here that i mean but that doesn't pass smooth out my daddy died about two years before that or year before that was small cell carcinoma so when they call me and tell me we need to you've done this to people haven't you you're a little terrorist that's what you are and we need to talk to you i'm not calling you back if it's going to take me out it's just going to have to sneak attack me because i'm not calling you now you done you got my pressure up now and i'm going to have a stroke for him dial you back up tell us that we're okay you're not dying just call us back for god's sake so then speak slowly and distinctly remember that oath you are hurting us when you just rush through it because i she said you've got squamous cell carcinoma i thought she said small cell carcinoma i just went over backwards in the couch in the hotel room it's over i said ma'am could you repeat that please i got what kind of carcinoma squamous cell is that deadly no sir well could you have started this conversation you could have led off with that little phrase sir what we found is not a deadly issue but we do want to take it out fear because in that moment i had to choose while i was on the phone with that doctor's office am i going to believe something negative is coming without having given god a chance to tell me what his will is i'm not saying that we're not going to get a bad report for some time the scripture says yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will what i will what fear no evil why for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they do comfort me well years ago cancer was the thing that caused us to forget that scripture cancer was the thing that caused us to separate ourselves from the protection of the word of god fear will cause you to walk right out of entire chapters of the bible the 91st psalms is my favorite chapter he who dwelleth eth the person who makes the presence of god his habitat he who dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the almighty it goes on to say that a thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but none of it shall come nigh unto thee the lion and the young ad are down at the end of the chapter the lion you'll walk on the lion and the young adder and then he goes on and after all of these things i won't be afraid of the arrows that fly by night or the enemies that come by day and at the end of all of this he says i will testify of him i will tell the world of the benefits of living in the 91st psalms i i have found a habitation in him where fear can't get to me the enemy can't get to me nothing can touch me as long as i dwell in the presence of god but the enemy being as shrewd as he is has found out that the scripture you remember that story in the in the word about the city of refuge and the fellow that ran into the city of refuge and as long as they were in a city of refuge nobody could do anything to them sanctuary cities was basically what it was this guy goes and someone disguises themselves up tricks him into leaving that fortified place and stepping beyond the walls of security and when he got him beyond the walls of that city he slips a dagger between the third and the fourth rib i believe it was and kills him fear is one of the greatest weapons in the hands of the enemy to getting us to walk out of our sanctuary city called the word of god as long as we make his word our habitat as long as we make his spirit our habitat as long as we decide i'm in this world but i'm not of this world i'm going to trust god i'm not going to lean to my own understanding but in everything i do i'm going to acknowledge and trust and lean on god if we will stay there nothing the enemy's going to do is going to get you nothing and then then we think about this one no weapon somebody finish that for me while i get a little drink all right now say it all together um i feel something say it one more time it was a little tepid i wanted to get it down for it got cold no weapon formed against you is going to prosper do you know what it does not say it does not say there will be no weapons formed against you the problem with us is we think that just because we saved and sanctified holy ghost filled and water baptized ain't no weapon going to be formed against me that's not what the book said the book don't say anything about he won't form a weapon against you he's going to form a weapon against you he's going to use a fence as a weapon he's going to use gossip as a weapon he's going to use insecurities as a weapon he's going to use fear he's going to use anxiety worry doubt unbelief the book doesn't say that he's not going to try to get you the book don't say that we'll never have to deal with covet i believe in the divine healing power of god but just like everybody's not going to be a multi-millionaire god couldn't there's some people if god gave them 20 extra dollars a week they'd go to hell over it god blesses us at the level he finds out he can trust us with and and that that we i'm not going to do it but we could get back to that offering business again no don't you try to add me on i said i wasn't going back to it no no i'm gonna have to go to my seat early but all the enemies trying to do is to get us to walk out of the word get out of that fortified place look look in scripture and notice how many times you'll see the word selah it'll come after some profound proclamation in scripture and then you'll see at the end of a phrase or end of a chapter selah that word celi means a well-fortified place a strong tower that the righteous run in and are saved that's the word the righteous run into the word and they're saved so when the enemy comes and says oh you've got flu-like symptoms do you that's the great corona that's fine don't don't even don't even argue with the brother well maybe it is but you're going to be sick well it ain't the first time i've been sick and it's probably not going to be the last time and if it's not the will of god for kovid to take us out kovan's not taking us out it's not going to happen i'm going to walk from time to time on high places i hope it's more often than not that we're in those high places with god i i love the services where people are falling out talking in tongues and angels are just walking on the backs of the pews and all kind of miraculous things are going but then there are also and that's the problem with us in the church we have hyper focused on the miraculous that we forgot to talk to one another about the real life experiences of walking with the lord sometimes walking with god baby there ain't no mountain to climb up and sing from the top of sometime you just trying to endure the valley that god saw fit to let you go through he's either god or he's not and if i am convinced that he's god i don't worry about the weapons that the enemy's over here trying to forge in his little hellish blacksmith shop build all you want to and shoot all you want to but i'm going to stay in the 91st psalms and i'm not coming out to fight with you and i'm going to tell you something about the enemy he's smart he knows scripture he knows the book says that no weapon formed against us shall prosper but if he brings that weapon to us in the form of a fight guess what we're going to do we're going to go to the book the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they are mighty through god to the bullying dialogue strongholds and we're going to smite the brother hip and thigh if he comes at us with a pocket knife we're going to pull out a machete he knows he don't have a chance in a straight up fight with us so he's always doing this when hoff not when when tobiah and sam ballad came and they're trying to rebuild the wall and rebuild the temple they didn't come at them with an army they didn't have one all they had was a conversation and they're trying to talk nehemiah and the rest of that bunch of happy folks with him to just come down just quit working on the building quit working on the wall quit working on the project at hand do you know that before covet hit the church was engaged in some pretty significant momentum 18 and 19 we had built some momentum i mean things from 17 on things started to change i don't know what it was all about but there was a season that had come to us and i say this all the time momentum is easier to keep than it is to get and so we had built momentum up but then the enemy knew while ultimately god's will is going to be done i have i have to be committed to my plan which is to do everything i can to shut his plan down hell is more committed to stopping us from doing the will of god than we are to do in the will of god and the reason it's a lopsided battle seems like a lot of times is we are fighting an enemy who is absolutely saturated with conviction and we are not convinced of near enough about god as we ought to be timid people are not convinced that he's really god and that he really loves them and that he's really going to take care of them he who seeks to save his life will lose it the eternal life he's talking about so if i'm trying to save my life from a point of fear what does the scripture say everything that's not of faith is what sin everything the book says everything that is not of faith is a sin is it a sin to be fearful yes is it a sin to be scared no i've got a friend that just i'm not scared of much and he's the only human in the world outside of my brother who has ever scared me but he scared me not long ago i just went on down to the floor gently i just laid myself down because i knew i was about to just cross right over i told him i said judgment's going to come on you one day son i'm telling you god's going to have enough of you being scared at times is not the problem covid scared a lot of us and that was okay but it's what we let that turn into that's the problem when that dictates every thought every move every decision the book says whose report are you going to believe we have to choose whose report are we going to believe now for those of you that are wearing a mask right now hold on a second i'm fixing to defend you we got a lot of people in the church that want to say well if people are wearing a mask they don't have faith find that in the book you don't have a right to an opinion you don't get to look at somebody and say well they got a mask on they don't have faith you're not god baby you don't know what they feel peace to do somebody better help me now we don't have a right to pass judgment on one another god told one army go out onto the battlefield and kill everything then he tells another equally powerful army go hide in the bushes he tells noah you want to see my power i sure do build a boat and get in it and generations later he says to little pete hey you want to see my power absolutely get out of the same thing i told noah to get in god's sovereign and he may tell a husband don't wear a mask and tell the wife to wear a mask but the issue is not who's wearing a mask and who's not wearing a mask if you're wearing a mask and you are it's one of them good m95 ones are in 95 ones and you're doing it because that's what you've got peace to do don't you let anybody make you feel bad about wearing a mask if god told him to wear a mask well let me go on and get on that vaccine while i'm at it well if you've got faith you go get a vaccine find that in the bible lean not to thine own understanding but in all thy ways acknowledge god i said this on the great internet the other night and so i'm gonna say it again maybe i'm on the internet again what if god says to everybody in this church go get vaccinated by the end of next week what if he says that there's some hardcore people sitting right up in this joint right now that night dude that's our devil okay maybe so but it's not it is but it ain't if god says go get the vaccine well our first well why would god want me to get a vaccine i don't know i mean why'd he tell moses mama to wrap him up in some clothes and weave a basket and hide him in the bushes i mean if god was so powerful why do you have to hide little moses see the problem with us is we don't believe god's truly sovereign and we don't believe god's got all this stuff figured out so we live our life trying to help god make decisions well i just don't understand why god would want us to take a shot brother shelton okay sparky what if somebody in the local city council has it in for you and they only need one or two more strings to pull to shut you down permanently and they're going to play the vaccine card and a man of god's up here praying one day and the lord says man of god tell my people to go get vaccinated well why would he do that to hide you he hid moses in the bushes what if he says i'm going to take you off the radar i'm going to take the weapon out of that hand to that city council member i told you it wouldn't be yeah but i don't want that and somebody right now is struggling because they're afraid i might be fixed still y'all i'm not but here's the deal if there's something harmful in that vaccine if there is do you think god can't turn a vaccine to plasma he proved us i can turn one liquid into something else first miracle he did he gave us peace to deal with covet shots water make it into wine oh okay cool whatever he did to it and there it was so what if the lord says to hide you in these end times why don't you go on down and get that shot that's the mark of the beast i've heard that so much i think i've had like a hundred aneurysms there won't be no question about the mark of the beast when it gets here it won't be one one faction saying it's the mark and the other not everybody is gonna know this is that mark they've been talking about and you'll know it because there'll be some guillotines set up out there in the town square cutting heads off people that won't take it we get in the cart before the horse on some stuff but is god really that sovereign in each of our lives that he can tell us to go do something i made a deal with the brother i did i told him i said i'm not going to just run out there and voluntarily get the shot but if it comes to the point that the only way i can travel domestically or internationally or whatever if to do what you've told me to do i have to go get that shot i'm gonna go get the shot i'm telling every one of you right now well i thought you were a man of faith i'm really a man of obedience that don't make any sense to me well that's good too because scripture says his ways are above ours so i told him if you if you don't change my job description in the kingdom and i have to keep doing all this traveling and the only way i can do that and obey you is to get the shot i'm going to get the shot now the scripture says that day that little joshua and them were fighting i forgot who they were out there fighting with the scripture says that josh told the lord the bible puts it this way joshua commanded the lord to make the son stand still the book uses that term commanded him he told the lord what he wanted him to do and then the scripture goes on a few verses later and says and not since the days of joshua has a man again commanded god a few months ago or last year sometime i was reading that and the lord said notice what i did not say i didn't say that never again would i let a man command me he said i'm just waiting on someone to be secure enough in their relationship with me that they can tell me what they need me to do well why should we have to tell the well i'm just back in the book but it's like knock and it'll be open seek you'll find ask come boldly before the throne of god make your petitions known before him so i said okay you brought that to my attention i'm gonna i'm gonna seize on it if i have to get that shot you are gonna turn it into plasma or saline or whatever else you wanna turn it into and if there is something harmful in it you do away with it and i don't heard they got the 5g tracking stuff in it your phone oh my god i can't find that in the bible either you remember when the great y2k came upon us my god they were prophesying them planes were going to be falling out of the sky people stocking up on spam and potted meat and vaina sausage and sardines and crackers and such i went and talked to the old prophet brother barnes i said brother barnes are you making any preparations for y2k he looked at me like i had fell off a turnip truck he said no i ain't making preparations how did you not well no first i heard of y2k i got in the book talk about the scripture i can't find any mention of it in there it won't happen he didn't buy an extra bottle of water he said me and lucille we'll be eating steak on new year's day all you feathers with no faith eat all the baloney you won't we we've got to believe and trust him just that purely we are the scripture says we are the sheep of his pastors his sheep his little children so if that book is that fortified and it is if the word of god is such an ironclad security for us and it is how's the enemy going to get us by talking us out from behind the walls of that book and saying let's just have a good robust logical let the science speak to us okay fine but when you've had your say with the science let's let the scripture speak to us have people died from covet yes and some more going to unfortunately die of covet but same time they've been dying to covet they've been dying of cancer and tuberculosis and flu and pneumonia the revised numbers coming out it's shedding a different story than what we were told up front bottom line is people are still dying babies are still being born a couple that's a friend of ours had a baby yesterday 504 in the morning somebody else died yesterday time to live and the time to die you know why people are so terrified of covet my wife asked that question i said because it affects your lungs and it's going to be a slow agonizing death and it's if if it's something that a car wreck you die in your sleep whatever no big deal you don't know anything about it but we we are afraid of that long drawn out process because it gives us time to reflect it's not the dying that we're afraid of it's what we didn't do while we were living i'm going to tell you what causes people to have the greatest trepidation about eternity it's not the sins they've committed but it's the righteousness they have omitted and justified and never repented of we are quick to repent of commission sins we commit we are not as quick to repent over things of righteousness that we omit faithfulness to the house of god living the disciplined life in the word obeying the word of god doing the things that commands that god's given us we we allow those things to slip and we don't do them and we know we're not doing them but we say one day but then one day when we're not able to do them and it looks like life is slipping from us now we're wondering and we're agonizing can i really be forgiven over what i could have done and should have done but just refused to do one of the most terrifying spirits of the end time is the spirit of indifference in my opinion i would rather have people and i have had it happen stand up while i had a mic in my hand heckle me and call me names than to sit indifferently without one measure of conviction one way or the other and just simply have the attitude i'm just waiting when you say what you got to say bud when you're done i'm going home you'll feel better you've got to pray preach and scratch that itch that's a person who's probably so far gone that even conviction of his greatest measure isn't going to get their attention at least somebody with an opinion can be convinced you can change them because they see truth if they are if they have a conviction about something even if it's wrong if i can show them in the word where it's wrong they've demonstrated i'm willing to believe something i'm willing to have a conviction i'm willing to commit to something but a person that's indifferent nothing phases them conviction don't touch them they don't move nothing matters to them but fear has got us to question god's ability and god's willingness to love us i don't think the church has a problem with our ability as a whole to believe god can i think our lives are still so full of shame and insecurities and other stuff that we are not sure god will do what we know he can do and so the enemy talks us out of a sheltered place he talks us right out of selah the scripture says that we've not been given a spirit of fear that word fear there actually is the word timidity fear has always tried to cause the church to change its characteristics from being bold and prophetic to being timid and pathetic bold people speak prophetically which the nature of the kingdom of heaven is prophetic always moving forward looking ahead looking ahead looking ahead but we have lost that momentum we had a few years ago the last 18 to 20 months has caused us to just circle the wagons and just just try to maintain and survive maintain and survive god is so sovereign he can tell one to do this and one to do that and both of them be pulling in the same direction fighting the same fight one may fight with a staff one may fight with a sword one may fight with a slingshot but we're all in the same battle we're all fighting the same enemy and we're all trying to go the same direction and we've got to quit worrying about how god's trying to apply one another to the kingdom and figure out if i'm doing what i'm supposed to be doing we don't need to worry about other people when i was a kid in arkansas they them country people they just mind your business anybody ever been told that by somebody and it wasn't like you mind your own business young man in the south we don't waste all that energy you don't have to say all that mind your business we knew what that meant get your nose out of somebody else's business and my mama my mom and dad if if i went and tattled on my brother mom steven didn't do his chores my mother said well since the lord showed it to you you go do them that's what mama said and guess what old scotty boy did i went and did steven's chores on top of mine because i didn't want what came after that i wonder where we would be today instead of listening to the voice of the world in the spirits of the end time we had kept our focus on the voice of god and the word of god 400 years of silence between what we call the old and the new testaments i don't believe that for one minute there's too much history in scripture where the lord sought high and low near and far for somebody to talk to so if you think that i believe for one second that he just decided i'm gonna give you the cold shoulder he wanted a relationship so bad that he was gonna robe himself in the very fallible flesh that he put us in and go down across beaten beyond recognition so it wasn't he wasn't fixing to walk away from a relationship with his people and he looked high and low and high and low more than once in scripture one man in all the land that was righteous and upright he went and talked to him but i think we did go through a few hundred years of nobody repeating what god was saying because people weren't listening to what god was saying and we're going to have to start playing catch up here pretty quick and get back to to get caught up to where we should be had we not been delayed by the great covet outbreak has it been serious yes i've already told you that i i have buried my friends that died from covet complications i'm not denying the legitimacy of it neither am i denying the legitimacy of cancer but have you ever wondered why all of a sudden the bubonic plague comes around ebola came out a few years ago h1n1 we've we've had some nasty stuff hit the earth but nothing has ever hit us with fear like this disease has why we ask the wrong questions we are we are so small-minded in the church we we don't even know what questions to ask which he kind of ooh i had air conditioners right here son they thought it was an angel it could have been i'm pretty sure it was that air conditioner though yep there it is i'm getting right so that's what you got to do sometimes you just have to creep around in the house of god till you get to where that flow is quit creeping on the internet and start but anyway that's why we got such a stagnation of the gifts of the spirit in the church we got too many preachers on the internet if you quit nosing around in other people's business not just preachers the saints of god did you see i'm reading what they're texting did you see her facebook page that post she put there on vacation did you see what she was not wearing well by the time we have chewed her out whoever she is and they get back from vacation we don't even have the ability to go pray for them now because we made a post on we we responded some smart look had something and the gifts of the spirit are just we can't do that no more revelation god can't speak to us to go pray for somebody because we don't been trashing them on the internet kind of hard to do that if he wasn't on the internet but anyway the enemy said i got to talk these people out of that fortified place they in why because i got to get them to fight in themselves because that book says that nothing i do is going to prosper i cannot defeat them but my god i can get them to defeat themselves matter of fact if i can get their tongue loosened up i can get them to kill one another y'all remember that story about little gideon when he'd done run up out there on that valley and he had like 300 of them fellas left and he posted them all four corners of the valley and they blowed the trumpet and busted the little vessel open and the candles went to shining and the enemy killed themselves satan took note of that it feels to me like the brother has run up on the four corners of the valley we've been in broke his little lamps blowing his little tune and got us to fighting one another mask and vaccines and social distancing and abundance of caution have done more to disrupt the momentum of heaven than a demonic spirit has ever been able to do to us a devil come in here we cast it out but you can't cast an attitude out and the spirits of the end time like jezebel and judas and michael and delilah and dissension and division things that we once guarded against we no longer do because now we are justified in being divided hatred we have grown accustomed to hate we're okay with it because now i can hate you because what you're not doing may maybe threatening my life i've got a relative who made a post on facebook somebody read it to me just ripping everybody that won't go get a shot you're the reason that we're dying we're comfortable with it and if you think hate is going to stop at the end of a syringe it's not this is a diverse church so i'm gonna go on and say it you better be a beacon of hope to a world who really does not want to be torn apart by hatred i don't care what you're hearing in the media and i don't care what people are saying i watch it play out day by day by day i see people that don't even know god trying their best to be kind to one another different races different ethnicities different languages and cultural barriers and all of that yes keep your individuality and be who and what you are but humanity was never designed by god to hate one another our original created intent from god was to love one another how good it is for brethren to dwell together in unity in harmony that's in that book why is hatred making such a big show right now because hell knows what that book says better than we do the enemy knows he cannot destroy this house but he also knows how to make this house destroy itself a house divided against itself cannot it is impossible for it to remain so if i can get you to justify having the feelings you've got towards somebody over a medical issue or whatever hatred is hatred it don't matter how it comes among us have you been hurt and offended yes we all have everybody in here has been treated hatefully everybody and i wish i could apologize to everybody in there for all the hurt that you've suffered regardless of where you came from or who you are my mother gave birth to me and left me in the hospital and i ended up in an orphanage till i was six months old and didn't know until i was 51 years old that i had eight other siblings now i could be mad at that woman who has died and gone on to meet the lord in whatever capacity she was in i could be mad at the man whose dna fathered me for getting her pregnant on a wild raucous night and then being transferred to military and he never he went to his grave never knowing i was in the world and i could get mad and say my god how are you responsible are you or i can look at it and say you know the lord had a plan in all law the lord knew what he was doing somebody had to reject me so somebody else could embrace me you know what the lord may allow somebody to say something really hateful to me tomorrow or tonight but maybe he allows that to make me run to him maybe he saw that i was about to step outside the gates of that city maybe he saw that i was about to be vulnerable one more time for the enemy to be able to get me here here he is he's come out of that sanctuary place where i can't get to him that refuge he's ooh i've almost got him to the edge of the 91st psalms oh i've almost got him if just one more word if i can if i get you know what i'm gonna and maybe the lord sees the enemy saying i'm gonna make that person do something hateful to this person and and when they do that he's close enough to the gate he's going to step out to say something and when he steps out to smart back off to them or to say something in defense of himself what he don't know is he will be one step too far outside that sanctuary city and when he steps out there in a fit of rage and an anger and then a need to get back and have revenge in that moment when he opens that door you're not just going through a door you're opening one too and the enemy's waiting on you and he's got a dagger he's going to slip between the third and fourth rib and then that bitterness and that that that anger and that wrath and that hatred is going to fester and it's going to contaminate everything in your life and you'll look up one day and you won't have been to church in six months when all i had to do was think you know that that may be designed to make me turn and run deeper into this city of refuge and in these end times there are multiple spirits maybe i'll get to them tomorrow could you come play something melodious give them hope somebody whoever's in charge of that piano it's false hope but just they'll think i'm almost done i really am there are so many things that i think we have held at bay the lord has helped us to hold at bay for years but the enemy knows that his time is limited and he knows that it's time for him to begin to try to defuse us and distract us so that the last great thing god does in the earth before the rapture of the church which is going to be the greatest outpouring of the holy ghost that mankind has ever seen the enemy knows i got one last chance to disrupt that i can't stop it all together but if i can get some that are in the house now to leave the house i'll call it a victory don't don't let satan use fear or hate or unbelief or lack of conviction to get you to step outside that city of refuge don't don't give him the opportunity to find a way to make you step outside the word of god lean not to thine own understanding trust him [Music] don't don't let the doctors report be the last report you hear [Music] go see what the lord says about it [Music] that i might know him pastor said it earlier i want the lord to be able to talk to me like he did to moses face to face like one man speaks to a friend [Music] i don't want heaven to be where i finally get acquainted with him [Music] there's going to be a great falling away but i'm not going to be in it and i hear people say to me all the time you better not be too cocky about that the devil no no weapon formed against me shall prosper if i will stay in that place of selah he can't get me and it'll be i hear you knocking but you can't come in [Music] we're going to fight greater enemies spiritually than we've ever fought before [Music] a few weeks ago i was in indiana and i made some statements the lord said it through me i had no idea i was going to say it matter of fact when it came out of my mouth i was a little surprised go figure and it was it was a little strong but it was something the lord said dealing with the times that we live in now and [Music] i found out two days later you know we're so happy with all of our cameras and all of our streaming capabilities and thank god for it i mean i'm serious thank god for it but did you think it was going to be free did you did we think that we were going to get to be on the internet and stream all this stuff and it not cost us i can promise you it's going to cost us some more than others [Music] i found out that when i made that statement within a second of me saying what i said a lady in mississippi was watching that service that night [Music] and her computer screen blurred me out instantly and popped up at this particular social media platform this content is in contradiction to our rules of our community etc i don't remember what all and then it gave them four options block it without reporting it block it with reporting it report it and don't block it or ignore this notice she ignored the notice and three seconds later she's back online watching the other night just in the last four or five days same thing happened again but it comes across like glitches like there's a feed mess up the stream's getting maybe there's not enough broadband or something i don't know but if if you think that i'm not in somebody's database somewhere for offensive content you are the most naive person in this room and the enemy says to me from time to time why don't you just not say some of those things well first of all they're in this book secondly if i call myself a christian what i'm saying is i believe and follow and subscribe to the teachings of christ and if he's far and i'm fart if he's against it i have to be against it i don't have a choice if i'm going to be a christian but i don't have the right to be against it my way i got to take his stance on it not mine i don't get to have an opinion secondly if the lord tells me to say something i have no choice but to say it and the enemy says well you go ahead and say it but your wife and your three kids are going to suffer because of it well that book we were reading tonight says that you're going to be hated for his namesake my family's going to have to deal with opposition just because they took his name just like you are has nothing to do with what i'm doing in the kingdom i go sit and hide in a mouse hole somewhere and they still gonna have to deal with what the book says they're gonna deal with in the end time so at the end of the day we've got to make our minds up stand with me that we're we're just we're just in this thing to win it right we're in this to see it through to the end we're going to stay with jesus wherever he leads us whatever he does through us or with us whatever he trusts us to walk through we're just going to go on and walk through it and we're not going to look left or right and the scripture says any man that puts his hand to the plow and then just looks back that man isn't fit for the kingdom i don't want to go back to where he brought me from i don't want to go back to the mess he dug us out of i just want to go to heaven i want to go be with him in eternity and i want to be wise as a serpent i i want to know the enemies of the church in the end time i want to see it before it gets to me i want to stay in that place of refuge that sea law that strong fortified tower i want to stay right there because if i do then i get to do his will and he's going to see us through if i leave out of there i'm on my own really lift your hands pray with me lord thank you you've helped us and been kind to us tonight and we've laughed we've had fun and yet we've also had some moments of somber reality where truth has looked us in the face and the reality of the times that we live in has presented itself to us yet again and lord i've counted it on this evening to be a high honor to speak on your behalf to your people and such wonderful people they are every one of these people in this room all of us have a divine purpose in your kingdom all of us have a place all of us have a ministry and all of us have an ultimate eternal destiny to live with you forever lord we are going to do what you've called us to do we're going to fight the enemy on every hand from inside this city of refuge we're going to mortify the deeds of our own flesh so that we're able to withstand the fiery darts of the enemy we're going to put our will aside we're going to embrace yours so i thank you in advance for all the things that are going to be done through your body here in this place to the believers that are here you're going to show yourself powerful through the believers that are here you're going to show yourself powerful your book says your word says that these people the believers we're going to lay their hands on the sick and the sick we're going to recover that's going to happen more and more and more day by day by day they're going to not just do it in this building but they're going to walk through the streets of this city and every community around here throughout even this entire region they're going to walk among the people of this city this region and they're going to lay hands on the sick and in the street the sick are going to recover in the streets miracles are going to be done you're going to hide us when we need to be hit you're going to reveal us when we need to be revealed but all of it will be done according to your purpose and for your will and your glory not ours help us to lay our flesh aside and our opinions aside on tonight and die once again to our will to be able to sincerely pray nevertheless not my will but thine be done thy kingdom come thy will be done in this earth and vessel as easily as it's done in the heavens i take authority and dominion over every work of the enemy over the spirit of divisiveness and confusion and chaos i bind you now in jesus name fear i've talked a lot about you tonight because you need to be exposed you're nothing more than a shadow on the wall you can't hurt these people these people are powerful they're believers they're believers in the powerful name of jesus they're believers in the blood they're made overcomers by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony and yes they're going to be some valleys of the shadow of death and yes we're going to walk through them but it's there that we're going to get our own testimony and that is what's going to make us ultimately an eternal overcomer i can't go on somebody else's testimony i got to have my own lord i thank you i thank you for the testimonies that are sitting currently in this room and those that are on the way fear you will not choke out the revival of this region you will not choke out the dimension of the miraculous in this region you will not destroy the momentum of harvest in this region you won't do it hatred you may wreak havoc everywhere else but not here not here there's a truth preaching church there are people who love the word there are people who love peace in the holy ghost too much to give themselves to you this community is starving and dying looking for someone to prove to them and show them the pure love of god so hatred division i'm sorry but you have no place here not just in this church but in this region i i know you thought you were going to destroy what god had been building for decades but you won't the work of brother yachts and others in this region you're not going to destroy it no sir no you're not you're going to huff and you're going to puff but you're not going to blow this house down the winds are going to blow the fires are going to come the floods are going to come but when it's all over with this house will remain this eternal house of god will yet remain stable and strong a well-fortified place [Music] a stronghold you angels that have been waiting for decades to be sent out prepare yourselves because your time's coming the lord's about to send you into places and begin to stir the dreams of people who have once been among us but are not any longer you're going to be sent to round up the way we're children of god and urge them and call call them back home you're going to go into crack houses and they're going to see you walk in as a man and you're going to start speaking truth and people that are sitting there putting crack in their bodies and meth in their bodies you angels are going to walk in the front door and you're going to look like one of them but you're going to begin to speak a word to them and when they turn to ask you you won't be there and they're going to find the house of god they're coming the scales are yet falling from their eyes even now those who are deceived hopelessness i'm telling you there's an angel of hope coming [Music] to the spirit of depression i'm telling you there's a spirit of hope coming the angel of deliverance is coming for you you will not you will not you will not reign here suicide your days are numbered life the scripture says that it came that we might have life not suicide not death life and that more abundantly so to the spirit of suicide i'm telling you the spirit of life is coming there's an angel of deliverance coming for you he's going to cast you out of this place he's going to move you out of the way and those that would have committed suicide are going to find their way to the house of god they're going to find their way to a small group meeting in someone's living room they're going to walk into a convenience store and a believer is going to be standing there and god's going to do a work in them oh yes they are infirmities sickness your days are numbered you've just wreaked havoc and touched and taken everything you want but the keys of death hell and the grave have never belonged to you at calvary he went into the depths of the earth and the man christ took those keys from you death where is your sting hell where is grave where is your victory you have none all you have is lies we're not going to believe you you can't take the people of god you can't destroy the people of god with his hands on them nothing will come to them but the lord says it can so you angels get ready your time is near [Music] lord i pray a blessing over the saints of god let peace peace rest and strength come upon them body mind and emotions would you lift your hands high one more time now i know you're already praying but open your spirit one final time and let the lord just wash through you in jesus name [Music]

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