Harold Hoffman - The Birth of Promise | Church ONLINE

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on can we clap our hands in this house hallelujah jesus we love you lord we thank you god can you put your hands together [Music] oh [Music] is foreign [Music] because my heart is thinking about your life oh [Applause] [Applause] [Music] everybody oh says my soul everybody put your hands together like [Music] this voice in this house hallelujah thank you jesus is anybody excited to be in the house of the lord this morning come on are you really excited to be in this presence this morning being able to be with your brother and sister lifting up the name of jesus hallelujah just can't stop singing there's a song that's been on the radio that's been playing in my mind written repeat over and over again and it goes i see the evidence of your goodness all over my life all over my life when you really think about it i see your promises and fulfillments [Music] all over [Music] i see your promises and fulfillments all over my thank you jesus we just want to come in this house and say thank you god thank you for inviting us into your presence his presence is in this room right now and i promise if you just tap in if you lift a hand if you choose to lift a hand and lift your voice i promise you he'll meet you right where you are thank you jesus because he's a great guy so thankful to be able to come into his presence and just give our hearts to me god lord we thank you we know that the weight of the world is on so many people in this room god and we all have cares and we all have things that we're facing but lord you still invite us to come in here and be ourselves and say oh lord help us and we love you we thank you for inviting us oh how i need your grace more than my words can say oh jesus i come jesus i come in all my weaknesses you are my converts jesus i come jesus i girl and i will rise [Music] now just lift up your hands right here and just worship the father [Music] [Music] is me oh [Applause] jesus right now in the name of jesus god we lift our hearts we lift our voices in our heads to you god lord we know that you know everything about us so we're not hiding who we think we are i'm not you can't bless who we pretend to be so lord i'm asking you god to just bless me oh jesus help us just as i am [Music] thank you oh is oh jesus is changes us thank you [Music] just as i am thank you jesus [Music] amazing [Music] oh come on think about his love and be grateful in the hostage just as i am i come wherever you are this morning whatever is going on whether it's in your family it's in your body financially whatever it is jesus only asks that you just come and hear first church one of our values that we hold on to is that prayer is our anchor whether you're on a boat that is in the middle of a storm or maybe it's sunshine for you sometimes you just need to let down your anchor and stay there and just pray to jesus whether it's in the storms of your life or it's in the high moments in your life whatever that is he wants to be a part of your situation and if you're in this room and you would like prayer and you need something i want you to know that jesus is asking you to just come as you are broken with all of your issues whatever it is that you're battling he just wants to hear from you and so we begin to prayer in just a few moments there'll be some needs behind me on the screen and no doubt there are needs all across this room and the beautiful part of it is that we all don't need to know every single situation that's in the room he already knows he just wants to hear it from us he just wants to hear you tell him what you need this morning and he is ready and able to meet you right where you are so all across this room however you're comfortable lift your hand and let's begin to lift our needs to him and bring it to him because he is the only one that can truly hear you and heal you and step into a broken situation and change everything lord we are so grateful to come into this room and be able to touch heaven with our words to touch heaven with our prayers and so god with the needs that are behind me and the knees that are in this room and the needs that are in this city and this nation we take those before you because you understand exactly where we are lord and so lord we're speaking faith into these needs this morning we're speaking life into what seems to be death we're speaking peace over what seems to be troubling times and so god all across this room we have an understanding that we can't change things on our own the lord we know you can and so god we lift up these needs to you and we believe that you can change them nothing inside of me on my own but it is with your strength and your power that we can change what's in our lives because you are in the seat with us god never leaving or forsaking us but god that you are just desiring to be that friend that sticketh closer than any friend in some of the darkest times in our lives and we're so grateful for that in the name of jesus all across this room why don't you thank him for what he is doing on your behalf right now in the name of jesus we pray in jesus name in jesus name amen thank you so much for coming this morning you may make your way back to your seats and uh for every guest that is here thank you so much for making this morning special so on behalf of first church thank you for joining us and for everyone that is online thank you for joining us this morning and to our canadian family who have not been able to make it back into the states in several months we thank you for joining online with us and we love you can't wait to see you soon and first church is standing behind you all and for every guest that is here we have a connect card it's in our guest services desk just out there in the lobby so if you would like to just if you're comfortable filling out if you need prayer if you like a bible study any information someone from our team we'll reach out to you this week so please go ahead and fill out a connect card and you can drop that right in the box out there and we will reach out to you well this week we have wednesday night bible class here at seven o'clock typically we are in life group semester but right now we are gearing up for the next semester coming in just a few more weeks and so life groups are a place where we connect outside of these walls in our city in homes a lot of them are online but they're a place where we can grow relationally and spiritually together and so we really believe that life is not meant for us to live alone but that we are better together and so that will come up here just a few more weeks so please be uh following us on social media first church sterlingheights.com we'll have more information that will come out as far as the next semester in life trips but until then for the next few more wednesdays we will be here together at seven o'clock with pastor hoffman teaching us an incredible word and so i look forward to that coming up and if you're a guest and you're wondering hey how can i find out a little bit more about first church we have something called growth track that is the vehicle that you can find your gifting and how you belong at first church and in the city and you make a difference you really make a difference and it takes all of us to reach our city and so if you would like more information on that growth track happens the first two sundays of every month it happens right here during service so we're not asking any extra time from you or or anything else out of you you can just partner with us right here in the middle of service and growth track you can find what your gifting is and what you can do and just plug right into the kingdom tomorrow night is prayer you've heard us say this many times before that prayer is our anchor and if you've had if you've been able to be here on a monday night at seven o'clock it has been some incredible incredible times that we've had matter of fact what you feel in this room is at least what we feel on a monday night it's that great to be in the house and praying together and it's just been a matter of fact if you seen little weston up here praying he was up here just kind of lifting his hands just a little boy lifting his hands in front of everybody that began on a monday night in prayer when he was just following other students walking around and trying to learn how to pray and here he was this morning leading some of the church in prayer at that age and that is a testimony to how important and vital monday night prayer really is and this monday night is going to be special we have a missionary from south africa that will be with us we cannot mention his name publicly or even where he's from in south africa it's very sensitive uh what he does there and so we cannot disclose that information so please be here tomorrow night and come hear from him he'll be able to guide and direct us through prayer and that's why my expectation as so should yours be really high because i i know god's gonna really show up tomorrow night uh in prayer i'd like to set what the rest of this day looks like uh just a few more moments where our praise team is gonna lead us in one more song of worship and that's a time that we can connect with god and then after that pastor hoffman will preach something that's going to challenge you it's going to encourage you and then following that we'll have some time that we can pray right around here together we'll ask that you keep your mask up and your heart open because i believe god can meet you right here uh right at the front while we begin to pray together and just so you understand the power of prayer this morning at the 9 15 service we had somebody receive the holy ghost right there right after service it works so come expecting because it's going to be awesome in just a few moments we're going to return our tithes and offerings and uh typically this church has done a great job and we've always done a great job of investing in not just our church family but also in our city so i want to thank everyone in this room for all of your efforts we have done so much behind the scenes and so thank you for partnering financially with us and enlarging the kingdom you guys have done an incredible job and again i said that tomorrow night we'll have a missionary with us and we would love to really take care of them you have to understand in these times they're limited in their travel and so no doubt they have not been able to travel nearly as often as they have been called to do so and so first church once again would love to be generous generous to a missionary so please if you can uh just partner with us a little bit more than you normally would if it's possible if not we understand we're still going to take care of this missionary but just go ahead and just do what you can but here in a moment we'll pray and you can partner with us by returning your tithe and offering we have a couple boxes here on either side of me you can also do that through the kiosk in our lobby as well as you can text to give you can do it all online there'll be a screen behind me that'll give the different ways that you could partner with us and then it'll be a three-minute timer and during that three minutes i would like us to get out of our seats find somebody that maybe you've never seen before or maybe it's a guest or someone that you haven't seen in quite a while and just let them know how excited that you're that they're here with you and just try to respect social distancing just you know just a hello an air high five whatever that is uh but just get out of our seats and let's find those and let them know that they make a difference this morning lord we come before you we're humbled that you would choose us here in this city to be able to reach locally and globally everything that you have done through first church god has been a testament of how faithful you are and how you have blessed this church in this city and so god as we return our tithes and offering to you we believe that you're going to take that it'll go places we'll never be able to go by our own accord but god that we will literally be able to touch lives across this planet because of what we're doing in this principle that we find and that we follow in your scriptures in the name of jesus we pray amen [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you hello [Music] because i've seen the faithfulness [Music] i trust the power of yours [Music] i won't be here is [Applause] is is [Music] i behind me behind me when i walk through my is i'm not afraid i'm not afraid [Music] where you won't find me no i am not afraid can we sing that together come on [Music] before [Music] i am not afraid to god be the glory [Music] to god be the glory to god be the glory for the things [Music] he has saved me with his powers [Music] for the things [Music] for he has done great things [Music] he has done great things [Music] when i look back over my life i can say he has done great things oh he has done great things [Music] come on and bless his holy name right now come on use your lips in this place and bless that wonderful name of jesus bless that wonderful name of jesus we bless your name jesus we bless your name jesus [Music] thank you jesus hallelujah come on let's continue to celebrate in this house can we clap our hands in this place if you know that he's done great things if you know that he's done great things come on come on think about the great things that he's done in your life just today just today the fact that you're aware that we're up right now that that we've got breath in our lungs that we've got sanity in our minds and that we're still on the other side of the dirt thank you jesus you've done great things from god you've done more of a mistake for them jesus name [Music] there's great faith in this room right now absolutely nothing god can't do in this room here right now hallelujah i don't know who coined it but i've heard it where jesus is anything can happen anything can happen too many things go on in church that can be explained we want stuff to happen that nobody can explain to where they just have to stand back and say only the lord could have done that jesus name amen we've had several prayer requests just they're texting us right now if it's all right with you fabiana and others we're gonna wait to the end i won't hopefully be too long but uh in jesus name i greet you thank you so much for coming we've already had a great service this morning and uh so do my magnificent brothers and sisters in canada we love you and we look forward to being with you so soon and uh i i i want a t-shirt that basically says uh first church uh sterling heights london l.a sydney australia you know that's uh we we we got a group they're watching right now first church littleton colorado that's what they call themselves and uh we have a group in australia right now watching us i love you good day to me brothers down under my brothers and sisters amen when you say goodbye in australia you go uh toodle pip that's what they say toodle pip and uh it was a good day when i was eating dinner with someone they said it's my shout i didn't have any idea what that means that means they're going to pay for it that's a good day when someone says that's my shout so uh to my precious aussie brothers and sisters i love every one of you to my precious cousin russell who i trust is watching right now that god will enable you to walk in jesus name and john chapter 3 verse 3 jesus answered and said unto him i say unto you except the man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of god nicodemus said how can a man be born when he's old how in the world is going to enter into his mother's womb for the second time jesus said except a man be born of water and of spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of god notice this that which is born of flesh is flesh flesh is lowercase letters there small f small f now watch that which is born of the spirit capital s is spirit little s the big s is him where the little s it says his spirit bible said in romans 8 his spirit bears witness to your spirit there's something goes far beyond just a physical something that's what's going on in this room right now and uh basically the presence of god is saying to your spirit you're my boy you're my girl you belong to me marvel not that i say you must be born again this is my translation of verse eight the wind blows wherever it wants to you don't know where it came from you don't know where it's going so is everyone that's born of the spirit this is the last thing that luke remembers jesus saying luke 24 49 i send the promise of my father upon you terry in jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high because we've had such an overwhelming we just had amazing how many new people are looking at this church and how many people are being baptized and filled with the spirit and others that are curious about it i'm going to teach you something today simply entitled the birth of promise all right god bless you you may be seated it's in red okay i didn't say this jesus said it you must be born again that's pretty adamant do you know that every major religion in the world has the story of a guy and a boat and a flood every religion has that story the major religions jesus said i am the way i am the truth i am the life jesus said as it was in the days of noah so if the truth see he can't violate his own nature he can't tell a lie and still be the truth i was taught all my life the truth was a doctrinal position but the truth is not a doctrinal position the truth is a person jesus said i'm the truth and i know people who are so in love with their doctrine but they have no living relationship with jesus christ we that can the bible said the letter killeth but the spirit gives life i i know people that can literally take the bible and kill somebody spiritually with it and uh they're just mean with the word and you can do that you can use the letter to kill people you can use the word to kill you gotta have the spirit of the word god is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth truth is right information spirit is right attitude i've said this for a long time and i've been criticized for saying it but i'm right and the rest of them are wrong i would rather work with people who have bad doctrine but a great attitude than people who have good doctrine but a horrible attitude my attitude is so very important and since jesus is the truth and he said the guy's name was noah guy's name was noah i don't care what every other religion says the truth said his name was noah i'm telling you that story because the truth said you must be born again it's a big deal so let me start in the old testament and let me give you what i think is a wonderful study and the power of the second birth and then let me show you how to experience something that jesus said was a must you must be born again one of the most amazing people in the bible is a guy by the name of enoch the seventh from adam enoch shares a distinction in the bible with only one other man not even jesus can say this enoch and elijah were the two men that never experienced death they did not die elijah taken in a whirlwind enoch it just says he walked with god and he was not because god took him he got so close to that the lord said it's closer to my house today than it is to yours come on let's go home and uh enoch's blessing was carried over onto his son methuselah and enabled him to hold the distinction of being the oldest man that ever lived on the earth i'm convinced the reason methuselah had that long life was because of the father that he had listen to what it says in genesis 5 and verse 21 enoch lived 65 years and begat methuselah watch this verse and enik walked with god after he begat methuselah 300 years begat sons and daughters all the days of enoch were 365. that phrase in verse 22 that he walked with god after it's a it's it's typology it's trying to prove something to us because this man is so well known in the word because he walked with god but in verse 22 it says this that walk didn't start until he had a new birth in his life he walked with god after there was a new birth in his life there's a lot you can teach from that one thing you should understand is every daddy ought to know that verse because when you're blessed with children you better make sure you walk with god after your children are born america is weak because america has weak churches churches are weak because they have weak families families are weak because they have weak or non-existent deads if we can fix the dad problem we can fix the family we can fix the church we might even fix this other broken thing called america it begins with godly deaths daddy if you have children walk with god i i think this is so important because i want to take you to romans chapter 9. i'm gonna read six verses to you that i think are are the ultimate in teaching this lesson today here's romans nine and six not as though the word of god hath taken none effect for they are not all israel which are of israel neither because they are the seed of abraham are they all children but in isaac shall thy seed be called that is they which are the children of the flesh these are not the children of god but the children of the promise are counted for the seed for this is the word of promise at this time will i come and sarah shall have a son and not only this but when rebecca also had conceived by one even by our father isaac for the children being not yet born neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of god according to election might stand not of works but of him that calleth it was said unto her the elder shall serve the younger let me take this verse by verse and explain to you what's going on they are not all israel which are of israel so the question is who in the world is israel israel is a very elastic word depending on where you are in the bible today of course it's a nation a little bigger than rhode island isn't it amazing that that tiny piece of property i promise you if you go home today that nation will be in your paper it doesn't go away with this last nuclear being assassinated and they're trying to stop iran's nuclear program iran has vowed retribution on the nation of israel and on the united states it's just another link in an ongoing saga that little bit of dirt over there just has such prominence in the world today you have to understand the story you have to understand that that abraham has got a big family a big family and abraham isaac jacob isaac's got these two boys and jacob there's two things you got to understand the birthright and the blessing they're not the same thing the birthright was something that if you were the firstborn son you were guaranteed didn't matter how many siblings there were you were guaranteed to get twice as much as any of the others just because you were the firstborn son but then there was a blessing that was given to that firstborn son by the father the bible said that esau came home one day and jacob was making bean soup lentils is what the bible says esau said i i gotta have some of this super i'm gonna die his brother being very shrewd said i'll make a deal with you you give me your birthright i'll give you a bowl of bean soup esau made the deal and the bible criticizes him because he undervalued his birthright position later on the old man's about ready to die and it's very interesting because it says that basically isaac liked esau and mom like jacob and it's a divided house it says his eyes were dim he's blind he gets esau and he says now you go kill a deer make me that venison stew like only you can make i'll eat your soup and then i'll bless you and then i'm gonna die well mama's outside with her no or ear up against the door esau puts on his camos and he's gone she gets a hide of an animal puts on the forearms of jacob said he was a smooth man put it on the back of his neck went to jacob's closet got his old hunting coat smelled all earthy you know jacob smelled like aftershave but he saw he smelled like the field they knew the recipe so they made this soup and they go in there and the old man rubbing them arms and feeling all that hair back of that neck smelling that jacket tasting that stew and he says you know tastes like esau's venison sure does smell like his clothes feels like his arms but the voice is the voice of jacob so his eyes might not have been working but his ears were working great but they continued the ruse and jacob lied said no that's really me i was bow down here and i'm going to bless you and he put his hands on jacob's head transferred that blessing to that boy that boy no sooner walks out of the room and esau's in the backyard hanging up a deer cooks that thing up and brings it in says daddy here we go and uh and the old man said i have already given the blessing away there's a great verse in hebrews that said esau sought it carefully with tears but he found no place of repentance in other words once that blessing was handed off he couldn't just conjure it up again something mystical and magical happened when that dad put his head hands on that boy's head he comes out of daddy's bedroom and he says i'm going to kill you so mama buys him a bus ticket out of town and he ends up at this place called luz which means an almond branch cut off but he has this dream about these angels going up and coming down and when he wakes up it said he turned his pillow into a pillar he grabbed a bottle of oil out of his knapsack and he started anointing everything and he said how dreadful is this place this is none other than the house of god and the gate to heaven and then he prayed this prayer i i've proven in bible studies past he's at least 70 years old he's not a teenager he but listen to his prayer if god will be with me and if he will keep me in the way that i go and if he will give me raiment to eat a raiment to wear and food to eat and bring me back to my father's house in peace then he will be my god and i will pay my tithe unto him anybody that tells you tithing started with the law and ended with the law they don't know the bible tithing is a law of life and it preempts the law by many many many many years since it didn't begin with the law it sure didn't end with the law and it's a it's an amazing story because he goes to his what would be his father-in-law that's the story of leah and rachel he's there for at least 20 years every good crook knows see his name means deceiver every good crook knows when it's time to get out of dodge he's got both the girls he's got all the kids he's got all the cows all the flocks he's got all the sheep the goats he leaves as he's trying to go back home somebody comes home and said your brother's coming to meet you and he's going to kill you you're never going to get back home but he remembered his prayer would you bring me back to my father's house in peace he divides his wife and kids and as we are all so prone to do when we know we're in a really bad place we pray and he's haggai said it happened in intercession now in genesis it says he wrestled with a man until the breaking of a day but haggai said it was intercession in other words he's in a prayer meeting and this is not just any man he's wrestling with an angel of the lord says what's your name he said my name is jacob which means deceiver or liar he said from this point forward you will not be known as jacob you will be known as israel you will have power with god and influence with men and when he got out of that prayer meeting and he met his brother the bible said esau ran and fell on his neck and began to cry and the last part of his prayer was answered that he was able to go back to his father's house in peace this is the revelation of romans nine and six they are not all israel who are of israel it's talking about jacob paul is writing this letter years later off the top of my head i think it's romans 11. i could be wrong but i'm just flying by the seat of my pants right now with this there is a verse where paul said if it was possible i am willing to be lost if israel could be saved he loves the jewish nation but they are not all israel who are israel which means natural birth doesn't guarantee spiritual hunger i have a dear friend who pastors in romulus and and he had a lady received the baptism of the spirit in his church several years ago and he didn't know her and he asked her what what do you what do you do for a living she said i work at the united nations and in in a matter of time she asked him would you be willing to come to new york city every week and teach a bible study at the united nations and it was a huge commitment but art wilson made that commitment and for years now has been going to the united nations because of his status as it's risen there he was invited to vice president pence's office he had a bible study there he's rubbed shoulders with everybody and he's such a humble guy and he's not trying to just be a name dropper but he really has met these people on a regular basis i asked art wilson a question that's always bothered me why don't jewish people back conservative politicians it's very obvious to me that the outgoing president was a great friend to the nation of israel i would have thought just by him moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem would have made him a favorite of all the jews and yet if you study it most of the jewish people that live in america are very liberal in their political leanings and so i asked her wilson how in the world could somebody that's a jew vote for someone who obviously isn't a friend of the nation of israel and he said harold it's a rhetorical question which means of course the answer was already in my question and i looked at him so quizzically and he said here's your problem harold you assume that just because they're jews they love the nation of israel and he said they don't just because you're a jew doesn't guarantee you're there's so many of them that are for this one world system and all of that and so they don't believe that israel is highly favored of god they don't believe so just because they're israel doesn't mean they're israel and listen to verse 7 neither because they are the seed of abraham are they all children but in isaac shall thy seed be called that is they which are the children of the flesh these are not the children of god but the children of the promise are counted for the seed for this is the word of promise at this time will i come and sarah shall have a son what does that mean it means that abra it's abraham isaac jacob but that's not the way it was supposed to go because isaac wasn't the firstborn son abraham had another boy before he had isaac and if you know your bible you know exactly who that is ishmael ishmael's mother was an egyptian slave hagar but the bible said sarah is going to have a child and he's going to be the child of promise there's there's a fascinating verse i think it's it's in it's in galatians i i re here it is here's galatians 4 and verse 22 for it is written that abraham had two sons the one by a bond maid the other by a free woman but he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh but he of the free woman was by promise this is when the the plot thickens because it's saying abraham had two boys but the first son wasn't the child of promise it was the second birth it was the second sun it wasn't israel it was isaac and then listen to what it says in verse 10 and not only this but when rebecca also had conceived by one even by our father isaac for it was said the elder shall serve the younger because isaac and rebecca are going to have kids and she's got twins and we don't know who said it but someone prophesied over her right before she gives birth and it says two nations are in thy womb two men are a people shall be separated from thy bowels the one shall be stronger than the other and the elder shall serve the younger and if you know your bible esau was the firstborn son but esau didn't get the birthright and he didn't get the blessing jacob the second son had the birthright and the blessing go on to joseph here's this amazing story of joseph sold by his brothers down into egypt promoted in a man's house by the name of potiphar potiphar's wife tries to seduce joseph he won't participate i can't do this against my god he ends up in prison on a trumped-up rape charge meets a butler the former butler of the king and the baker of the king god they they have dreams and joseph said i know what your dreams mean he looked at the baker and said you better get your house in order you're going to die and he looked at the butler and he said you're going to be restored to your former position when you get there please remember me the baker is killed the butler is restored but forgets joseph languishing in prison all of a sudden pharaoh has a dream brings all of his magicians and his sue says and his wise guys and he said i had a dream and it troubled me so deeply i need you to tell me what it means and they said well we could tell you what it means would you just tell us what the dream is and he said that's the problem i can't even remember the dream and they said well nobody could do that except the gods be with him they were wrong god not gods all of a sudden there's this guy standing there who just served breakfast and he said hey i had a guy in prison that told me i was going to be restored to my position and here i am and pharaoh said well go get him and they bring joseph in front of him and he said can you tell me my dream he said absolutely you sold seven fat cows and then used they came out of the river and seven skinny cows ate them up yes that's what it was what's it mean he said god is going to give you seven years of great harvest and you need to be wise enough to store the grain because the world's going to go through a seven-year famine if i was you i'd find somebody that really really was a good administrator and all of a sudden he said well who in the world could i choose better than you and he put his ring on his finger put his robe on him marched him through town commanded everybody to bow in front of joseph and guess what somewhere in that crowd was potiphar's old lady who put him in jail on a trumped-up rape charge she had to bow to the second most powerful man in egypt now seven years of plenty he's a good administrator all of a sudden the famine goes around the world and isaac and jacob all that whole bunch they say we gotta sit we go i heard they got corn down in there's corn down in egypt and jacob sent ten of his boys down there and all of a sudden if you know the intrigue that went through finally finally joseph revealed himself to his brothers i love this verse it said and the joints of their knees were loosed they were scared slapped to death and said my god this is baby brother's chance to get retribution he's going to kill us all and one of the greatest verses you ever read in the bible joseph looked at his brothers and said you meant it to me for evil but god meant it to me for good because if you would have never sold me i would have never ended in potiphar's house if i'd never been to potiphar's house i'd never met his wife if i'd never met his wife i'd never been to prison if i'd never been to prison i'd never met the butler if i'd never met the butler i'd never meet the king if it never hit the king i'd never be where i am now don't you see boys you played a hand you can't keep good men down if that touches god is on you you're gonna be okay god keeps good books and it's this fascinating story because it's it's it's it's it's in the book of genesis uh chapter oh it's it's i think it's 48 in chapter four see this is so real to me i'll read you here here's genesis 48-8 and israel or of course jacob beheld joseph's sons and said whose are these and he said these are my sons who god gave me in this place and joseph brought them verse 12 from between his knees and he wants his daddy to bless them because this is what went on while he's in egypt he takes an egyptian wife and he has two boys manasseh and ephraim i wish i had time to teach you about their names one of their names being god made me fruitful in this barren land that i was stuck down here in in siberia and the lord still took care of me and he named his boys after the blessings of god on his life this is so real to me because we just had thanksgiving and my right before thanksgiving my daughter and my son-in-law and my two granddaughters came to spend three days with us and and it was it was such a special time and and and and i've got a new granddaughter she's 11 months old and i i sat down to try to talk to her and i said i i this is my first time to see you and i'm so grateful that you're in my house and she just started crying and reached out for her mom because she didn't recognize my voice and she didn't recognize my face and she's very this is a totally different girl this second baby she's very very sensitive and tender and and i did my best to disarm her for three days and i wasn't completely successful and i i see joseph with these two little boys between his legs and they're looking at and saying who is this old man and i don't know and and read the verse it said that joseph took he he took manasseh in his right hand or took ephraim rather in his right hand and pushed him so his dad's facing him so joseph's right hand becomes jacob's left hand he takes ephraim and he pushes him towards his dad's left hand he takes his left hand with his firstborn son manasseh and he pushes that little boy up to that old man's right hand and he said daddy would you would you pray for my boys and this is what it says in verse 13 and joseph took them both ephraim in his right hand towards israel's left hand manasseh in his left hand toward israel's right hand and brought them near look at 14 jacob or israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the wrong boy's head he laid it on ephraim's head who was the younger and his left hand upon manassas hand head guiding his hands willingly for manasseh was the firstborn look look look look what joseph he goes in verse 18. he said not so my father you got the wrong hand on the right boy you you daddy that's my my firstborn son but if you read the next verse he said look they're both going to be great but i'm telling you ephraim is going to be greater than manasseh and when he laid his hands on those boys there was something mystic and magical that was trans and if you know your old testament ephraim exceeded the greatness of manasseh by many many multiples of times what do you say it's there again and again it's it's it's it's not ishmael it's isaac it's it's not esau it's jacob it's it's not manasseh it's ephraim it's the second birth that's the birth of promise it's the second child that's really going to be the one that's going to be used what in the world are you telling me brother heaven i'm telling you what jesus said don't be amazed at what i'm telling you you have to be you must be born again you had nothing to say about the first time you were born but you have everything to say about the second time you were born you must be born again see there's at least five things that jesus is saying here number one you have to be born again let me tell you what every church preaches that every preacher preaches you must be born again but they don't preach the next thing that jesus taught he said you've got to be born again of water and spirit here's the third thing jesus taught if you're not born of water and spirit you're not going to see the kingdom you're not even going to see it until you're born again here's the fourth thing he taught if you're not born of water and spirit you can't enter in the kingdom here's the fifth thing that he taught you got to wait for the wind whenever you see the wind you're going to know so is everyone that's born of the spirit the i was taught all my life once you're baptized and filled with the spirit you're in the kingdom that's not what jesus taught jesus said you're not even going to see it until you're born of water and spirit then you're going to have to make the decision am i going to enter the kingdom way of life if they're automatically in the kingdom just by water and spirit i want to know where all these thousands of people are that this church and other churches have baptized just in the last five years i'm telling you it's not the seal of good housekeeping just because you got baptized and filled with the spirit you have to make a decision i am going to change the way i live i am going to make a commitment to the kingdom of jesus christ listen listen as i go through these scriptures here's you say see see here's my first principle you've got to be born again it's a bible principle the second birth is the birth of promise but what does that mean how do you exp how do you experience being born again of water and spirit there's a fascinating verse in john 14 and verse 20 where jesus said you have to be in me and i have to be in you so the first thing is we need to get in christ how do you get in him let me give you a bible verse here's galatians 3 and verse 27 as many of you as have been baptized into christ have put on christ so now you are in him through baptism why do you put him on because he listen this verse it's in romans 13 and 14 but put ye on the lord jesus christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof why because in romans 8 and 13 it says if you live after the flesh you're gonna die but if you through the spirit do mortify the deeds of your body you're gonna live so it's a big deal about getting water baptized it's pitch picture a swimming pool called jesus and you dive into that you've got you understand you're in him but that doesn't mean he's in you that's why it says in romans 8 and 10 and if christ be in you the body is dead because of sin but the spirit is life because of race colossians 1 27 says it's christ in you the hope of glory the book of acts is the diary of the new testament church in john 7 37 38-39 this is what it says in the last day the great day of the feast jesus stood and cried saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink for he that believeth on me as the scripture has said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this spake of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the watch for the holy ghost was not yet given because jesus wasn't glorified yet when you read matthew mark luke and john they all end with the same story his death his resurrection and then he leaves matthew mark lucas all end right there i read you the last thing that luke said he said go to jerusalem and wait or tarry until you get the promise why because if you want to know about the baptism of the holy spirit you're not going to find it in matthew mark luke and john that is after he's glorified which happens after he leaves so it's going to bring you to the next book the book of acts the book of acts is the diary of the new testament church acts is 28 chapters but it's divided into two big divisions acts one through twelve simon peter is the principal spokesman 13-28 the apostle paul is the principal spokesman that's why everything after the book of acts is basically a letter written by one of the apostles to a church that was started in the book of acts so if you want to get in the church you've got to get in the book of acts if you want to stay in the church you've got to get the epistles don't go in the epistles to find out about how to be born again and how to get in the church it's not there i'm not saying x is more important than any other book but if you want to know how to get see it's called the last will and testament you know we which this is the new testament what was the you talk about the will of god what was the that's that's the whole ministry of jesus i'm going to have a church i'm going to have a church i'm going to have a church i'm going to have a church that's my will that's the whole message of matthew mark luke and john but there's no church possible until after his death bear and resurrection that's why you have to go to the book of acts and this becomes so powerful you see because everything after the book of acts was basically a letter written to somebody that was already in the church so when you go the book of acts there's only four places four where people were water baptized x2 x8 x10 x19 there's only four i'll give you a million bucks if you can find anywhere else it's not there but in every incident in acts 2 acts 8 i'll read them to you here's acts chapter 2 and verse 38 repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ here's acts 8 and 16. this is philip with samaritans for as yet he would fallen on none of them which means none of them have been filled with the spirit yet only they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus here's acts 10 wednesday at our thanksgiving service we have a precious young man here and foddy butchers and he said i'd already been baptized two times but he said i never understood the revelation of being baptized in the name of jesus christ and he said when i saw it i submitted myself and he said i got baptized for the third time why i'll give you a million dollars if you can find me any place in the bible where somebody was sprinkled it's not there the word baptism is a greek word baptism there's another word rantiso i i don't have time to give you all the history and all the the the the specs on all this but rantizo means sprinkle baptizo means dipped immersed or plunged beneath it's baptism it's it's it's it's it's an immersion it's a burial we're not throwing a handful of dirt on somebody we're burying them this is very very important you see because in in acts chapter 10 these these in acts chapter 10 they these are amazing this is cornelius and and and and while while peter yetz spake the word they they they were baptized they were filled with the spirit and they were baptized here it is in acts 10 48. he commanded them i'm trying to be a nice guy edna are you here today your grandfather was dying of cancer and he sat right there on the platform and i knew he just had a couple days to live and i said i want you to get in that water right now and we're going to baptize in jesus name and some of your family members were okay and i said what do we got to lose and i said i got bible for this he command he peter commanded him get your carcass in that water right now i'm trying to be a nice guy pete wasn't a night guy because he understood the power of what he was preaching he commanded them look at acts 19 and verse number five these are people that these are the original baptists these are people that have been baptized by john the baptist and he said have you ever did you ever see the holy ghost they said we don't know if we're even allowed to get it and he said of course you could he explained to them that john the baptist preceded jesus and said somebody was coming after me greater than me and that somebody has come it said when they heard this when they heard this even though they'd been baptized by john the baptist jesus said there's never been a man greater born among women but then he said this he that has least of the kingdom is greater than he and even though they've been baptized by john the baptist they submitted to being baptized in the name of the lord jesus there's only four places acts 2 38 8 16 10 48 19 5. there's only four places where people were bad they were all baptized in the name of the lord jesus christ i'm talking about putting him on jesus said you have to do this this is important that's why i'm laboring in the word with you right now trying to explain to you how valuable and how scriptural this is there is no more scripturally documented doctrine in the new testament than water baptism in the name of the lord jesus christ hallelujah why do you resist that why don't you want to do that well because jesus said baptized in the name of the father son holy ghost that's that's matthew 28 19 right so my question is who is he talking to go to verse 16. it said the 11 disciples judas is dead there's 11. go to the book of acts chapter 1 13 14 and 15. there's 11 names mentioned there are those 11 in acts 1 the same 11 that jesus talked to in matthew 28 of course they are and this is what he said baptized in the name of the lord of the father son holy ghost i'm a father i'm a son i'm a grandson father that's not my name the name of the father son holy ghost is not father son holy ghost thou shall call his name jesus for he shall save his people from their sins and i i feel inspired to say this you know we there's only one legal liquid that can deal with sin and that's blood but god is spirit and if god remains spirit he can't redeem any of us jesus christ is not jehovah jr it's god in flesh do you understand that that's what's so powerful about this revelation and so what's what amazes me is that jesus shed his blood he had no earthly father where did the crow cr where did the genetic information for his blood come from we got something amazing going on here and what you have to realize is jesus died 2 000 years ago so how do you and i access his blood today leviticus 17 11 says life of the flesh is in the blood that's what it says through the new old testament it doesn't say that in the new testament because it's like a flower the old testament is the new testament concealed the new testament is the old testament revealed watch what it says in john 20 and 31 these things are written that you might believe that jesus is the christ and that believing you might have life through his name why because according to john 20 and 31 if you have the name you got life if you've got life according to leviticus 17 11 you got blood if you have blood based on hebrews 9 and 22 you have remission if you have remission god got alzheimer's and you're a new creation in christ jesus and have not existed until that day but if you don't have the name you can't have life there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved if you don't have the name you don't have life if you don't have life you don't have blood hebrews 9 20. if you don't have blood there's no remission if there's no remission you just got wet i'm telling you the blood is in the name of jesus that's how we access the blood today that's why acts 2 38 that's why 8 16. that's why 10 and 48 that's why acts 19 it's always the name of the lord jesus the name of the lord jesus i'll prove it to you in acts chapter 5 they told the disciples don't you dare preach in jesus name and they kept on preaching so they brought him in and they said didn't we command you not to teach or preach in this man's name do you intend to bring his blood on this city absolutely because the only way you can bring his blood on a city is by preaching and teaching the name the blood's in the name oh jesus hallelujah this is why this is so important somewhere to my left where are you snow i haven't met you yet this is snow fields right and this is snow where's your daughter huh huh but you got a daughter named snow right so this is more snow okay i got two beautiful black women called snow i like that that's amazing this you got another daughter what is your name oh we're delighted that you're here we are delighted i i i wouldn't embarrass you for nothing in the world but i i don't think i've ever met you have i but snow snow has a trespasser in her body and got a hold of clarinda and said i need prayer could i come to church and have prayer over me this is what you you may be seated this is what you have to understand snow here's the problem that people make without the shedding of blood there's no remission of sins that's hebrews 9 that's not what it says it says without the shedding of blood there is no remission it doesn't say remission of sins because you can't limit the blood of jesus to just sin see see in the old testament that high priest went into the holy of holies and he splashed blood seven times on the mercy seat and that's when god manifested his presence and they called it shekinah or the shining that it's very very powerful so look at jesus on the cross he's got a hole in both wrists so there's two sources of blood he's got holes in both of his ankles now i got four sources of blood he's got his back ripped apart by a whip now i've got five sources of blood he's got a crown of thorns on his head i got six places bleeding but finally a soldier sticks a spear in his side now just as there were seven sources of blood in the old testament on the cross there are seven places that he's bleeding from why because you can't limit blood to sin the blood that came out of his side was for our sin but what about the blood on his back that wasn't for your sin by his stripes you are healed that's physical healing in your body what was the crown of thorns for he turned a thorn was a curse but jesus turned a curse into a crown because the blood from the side will take care of your sin and the blood from his back will heal your body and the blood from his brow will give you bone for your brain and it'll help you emotionally and it'll settle you down one and you've got four additional sources to take up anything i can't think of i'm telling you folks the blood's in the name that's why in just a few minutes we're gonna play pray in the name of jesus hallelujah because if there's one thing the blood can't fix the blood can't fix anything i gotta finish okay watch it's so important that these say there are so many i could give you dozens of verses for people being filled with a spirit but ironically enough the same four that give us information about baptism in his name give us the best information about what happened when people were filled with the spirit here's acts chapter 2 and verse number 4. they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with tongues as the spirit gave them utterance here's acts chapter 10 while peter yet spake these words the holy ghost fell on all them which heard the word and they have the circumcision or the jewish posse that peter brought with him because he's in a gentile dog's house see he's not supposed to be he brings six pounds to cover his tracks and while he's preaching they get the holy ghost listen to what it says and they of the circumcision which believed were astonished as many as came with peter because that on the gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy ghost watch for they heard them speak with tongues the most critical audience in the world were jews but when those gentiles were filled with the spirit and spoke with tongues the jews had to begrudgingly admit these people have received the same holy ghost that we received because they spoke in tongues just like we did so how did the jews know that gentiles got the holy ghost they heard him speak with tongues how are you going to know i got the holy ghost you're going to hear me speak with tongues how am i going to know you got the holy ghost i'm going to hear you speak with tongues look at acts chapter 19 when these people have been baptized by john the baptist they're now baptized in the name of jesus christ paul laid his hands upon them in acts 19 and 6 and the holy ghost came on them and they spoke with tongues and prophesied but i left one out it's acts chapter 8. this is philip in samaria philip's not one of the early apostles he's one of those seven men that were chosen to hand out the peanut butter sandwiches in the kool-aid to the greek widows who were complaining but he went down to samaria and he's just a good deacon in a church he's not the senior pastor he's just doing what everybody ought to do he was a witness so what happens people he's praying for people he's praying where's diana where are you at stand up sweetheart this girl came to me before service and she oh was it a facebook page and she said i want to bless people do you have any clothing that you could share with me she is it 40 is 48 hours i don't want to be evangelistic here she showed me pictures my house is full my vehicle is full she's leaving church today and has appointments until seven o'clock tonight to go to people i'm not talking junk here i'm talking nice stuff and she said pasta i'm wondering what like my ministry i wanted i want to do something for god and she told me i've got all their emails and i've got all their phone numbers and my eyes lit up and i said that's it baby doll she said what do you mean i said they gave you your prairie she had a shirt on with talisha can i pray for you and then they said would you pray for my daughter would you pray for my family she's writing their names down with their email and their prayer requests so now we're going to pray and what's going to happen is she's going to stay in touch with him and say what's happened give us an update and she said my ministry my ministry i thought it was clothes but it's more than clothes it's brand for people and seeing god she's not the pastor she's not the ladies ministry director she's not the worship leader jesus somebody that's filled with the holy ghost that wants to do something for god oh chief look i got to go fast here's acts chapter eight they've got miracles there's hearings philip's baptizing people but it says forget he was fallen upon none of them only they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus so philip being submitted to his pastor got a hold of peter and said pastor would you come down here i got a whole bunch of people need praying for peter came down laid his hands on him they were filled with the spirit there's this guy there by the name of simon the bible said he's a sorcerer i'm not talking magician here i'm not talking card tricks here he's a sorcerer he gave himself over to evil spirits he's been baptized with these people and he's filled with the spirit i can prove to you he got the same holy ghost as everybody else but it said when he saw that he offered them every bit of his money saying i want to buy that trick what did he see that's so arrested him he knew something in the spirit was going on it doesn't say in acts 8 they spoke with tongues but i'm convinced it did because simon saw something that so stunned him and here's the scary part peter said your money perishes with you watch because your heart's not right with god he's been baptized and filled with the spirit but he hasn't made the choice to enter the kingdom way of life and his attitude his heart is messed up we're going to pray i wish i wish all of you could know fabiana fabiana was married to a famous soccer player from south america when she first came to this church boy was he handsome he was handsome but they had a horrible marriage she called me pastor they had a handicapped child i remember the day fabiano called me would you come to the cemetery and pray with us over our little girl she just died i did my best to minister to that very broken family husband wasn't faithful to fabiana he got sick and died she was left alone with the family trying to make do now she's got a daughter that's very very sick she went to south america moved back to south america moved back here she calls me pastor calls this church her home she's one of the most precious people you ever meet in your life but as i was coming up on the platform today she texted the sound room and said please please pray for my daughter my daughter's in trouble right now and she's very very very sick this is what james said a very small rudder turns a big boat a very small bit turns a big horse the tongue is the most difficult member and your body to tame when god fills you with his spirit you're a vessel i can prove that biblically he'll fill you like this and that last orifice he will use your tongue to glorify himself in another language that you never learned that's power that's power you cannot biblically say you have been filled with the holy spirit until the lord controls the most difficult part of your body to control god wants to magnify himself through you in another language hallelujah listen to me you must be born again you gotta experience the second birth you gotta put him on by being water baptized in the name of jesus you need to get him in by being filled with the spirit and let him totally control your body so that you can be a witness we're gonna stand right now it's faith oh i i don't know i don't know why i do know why it happened it's because of prayer i was there when my girls were born let me tell you about my wife when my daughters were born renee wasn't playing suduko she was going i can prove to you in the bible the church is the mother it's not the duty of the baby struggle it's not the duty of the baby hey man to go through all the it's it's push it's the duty of the mom to do that intercession and to do that groaning and with it it's not up to guests to labor around the altar that should have already been and it's being done by us in prayer we're praying on sunday we're praying monday evening hey man my mother my wife's got a prayer meeting with women every morning at 7 30. the staff's praying on on on thursday morning it's what van der water has intercessory prayer this is we had we had i'm telling i was laboring in the first service and all of a sudden as i was walking out a man just walked up right there and i mean in 30 seconds just threw his hands up and he told john gibbs he said i got this heat it's it's like indigestion inside of me and john said the bible said it'll be like a river flowing out of you he said why don't you just let it out he just threw up his hands and god filled him with the holy ghost and began to speak with tongue just bam bam right there why why is it happening easier why are there more people getting baptized than before prayer prayer prayer is the intercession prayer is the groaning prayer is that mother daughter i don't want the baby to die in the birth canal i want that birth to be very easy it happening without effort that's the duty of the mother to make that strain and that effort and there are people in this room right now amen that one prayer so i'm asking snow to come come up here with your girls come with them tyson girls my god these amazing tyson girls michael i'll let you and john pray with her amen i want you in the crowd her name is fabiana i want you to pray with me right now we're going to pray for physical healing right now will you do that with me lord jesus by the authority of the word of god and the power in the name jesus we take authority over every trespasser every squatter that's trying to take a presence in the life of these people right now we're asking you god to evict it throw it out like the trash that it truly is in the name of jesus in the name of jesus i'm calling on the blood from the back i'm calling on the blood from this back for every one of those stripes that was laid on your backlord i don't know which stripe it was but there are 39 of them somewhere in that mystery of those stripes there's a category that deals with snow right now touch your body heal [Music] don't just heal your body filler with your spirits let something mighty and powerful happened in her spirit today i pray for fabiano her family find this woman showed enough to me he's not enough heartbreak i'm gonna have have you ever been baptized that's biblical that's biblically is is is name of is we declare healings great is this power is the name of jesus is oh [Music] so god is [Music] in the name of jesus is i will not die [Music] i will live i will not die i will [Music] cry [Music] christ revealed and i am killed in jesus name i will i will not die the resurrection power of christ is alive in me and i am free in jesus name in the name of jesus in the name of jesus we have the victory in the name of jesus in the name of jesus we have the victory [Music] in the name of jesus in the name of jesus we have the victory [Music] in the name of in the jesus of jesus satan you have to flee hallelujah cause our god is greater god is stronger god you are hunger than any other our god is a healer he's awesome in power my god that's my god [Music] my god is greater my god is stronger god you are higher my god is a healer he's awesome in power that's my god my god [Music] and if my god is for us then who could ever stop us and if our god is with us then what could stand against and if our god is worth then who could ever stop me if [Music] [Music] come on declare it all across this place today our god our god is greater everybody [Music] come on let the enemy know [Music] [Music] is what you said is let's worship the lord foreign is and if our god is with us [Applause] and if our god is with us and if our god is all across this room let's thank him one more time thank you jesus what can stand against us when you are for me then who or what could ever be against me lord we are so grateful that you have walked into this room and you have heard our cry you have earned our prayer and i believe that today you have done some miracles of this house hallelujah thank you jesus i believe miracles were done in this house snow i believe that god's hand is over you and i believe that you're going to come back and you're going to tell us a story that this moment that you were here and that he watched over you and that blood that we have heard that dripped from calvary that healing powerful blood it still works today j born you're online and you can testify that someone's body that was once riddled with cancer is completely healed and you are sitting in your living room you are watching this morning you were filled with cancer and here you are alive and i believe it's your prayers that have gone on that have affected snow there ought to be enough faith in this room that can move mountains in this room that he can touch anything you need right now because our prayers have gone on as a memorial before him there are miracles all across this room years of praying that have gone on before and we are now seeing the benefits of a church that has been faithfully praying every monday night faithfully praying throughout the week your prayers go before you they're bottled up our tears are bottled up and i believe that god literally turned that bottle upside down and he poured those tears right back towards us tears of healing there are tears that have gone on before that we are reaping the benefits that you're reaping to benefit this morning from a church that's been praying a god that's been hearing you can walk with your head held high as a child of god i am so grateful for that if you can be here tomorrow night seven o'clock where you're going to feel what you just felt you'll feel this for an hour do yourself a favor and start your week off right if at all possible and be here and i want to pray and dismissal as we leave remember what you feel in this room is the very same thing that you can give somebody else during the week it's not meant to just stay inside of these walls but this is meant to be outside of these walls lord i am so grateful for the opportunity that we were able to gather together and we've been able to talk to you and hear from you and god what you started is a ripple effect this morning that god we're going to hear the stories as the weeks continue of your miraculous power that is in this room and what it has done and so lord as we leave this place we're asking that we would stay with our hearts consecrated ready to see what you're going to do tomorrow night in prayer in the name of jesus i pray over your people that we would go forth and we would be able to minister to those around us in the name of jesus we pray amen [Music] [Music] you

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