How to Defeat Fear Pt.2 - Sunday Service

glory to god glory glory glory glory glory oh glory to god thank you jesus oh thank you lord jesus we can't we can't do it without you we can't even live like you want us to live without you [Music] so much going on in the world today but you make the difference thank you lord for sitting on the throne of our lives thank you lord for never leaving us nor forsaking us so no matter what what comes no matter what happens i'm going to lift you up i might have tears in my eyes but i'm going to exalt you i might have pain in my body but i'm going to exalt you i might be in the middle of the greatest hurt betrayal of my life but i will exalt you you're my hiding place you're where i go when i can't figure it out you're where i go and i'm about to lose my mind you're my hiding place there's safety in your presence [Music] that's all we'll ever need is your presence already god that's all we want right now is your presence everything else in life just seems to fall in line when we get this priority and make this first place your presence [Music] in jesus name glory to god oh my goodness glory to god oh my goodness thank you for your presence lord thank you for your presence in jesus name like they used to send the baptist church ain't he all right huh ain't he all right won't he make a way for you hey amen praise god oh my goodness you can be seated praise the lord oh wow i don't know about you but i i just that to me i over 40 years of ministry and it is uh it is his presence that makes a difference it is his presence that's what it's about everything else in life really you know when you have him you got everything you need when you when you place value on your relationship with god and his presence in your life dude you good come what may but god's got your back amen god will take care of you amen say it out loud god will take care of me amen i was about to have a moment there for a moment man let's go uh to second timothy chapter one verse seven father we thank you for this another opportunity to minister to these your precious sheep thank you lord that revelation knowledge will flow freely uninterrupted and unhindered by any satanic or demonic force i pray that you will speak through my vocal cords and think through my mind none of me and all of you it's in jesus name we pray and everybody said amen praise the lord second timothy chapter 1 and verse 7 last week we began to talk about fear and how it gives birth to darkness in the lives of people and we'll be dealing with this subject throughout the month of december as we prepare to go into 2022 and we're not going into 2022 fearful did you hear what i'm saying no it's it's it's that's we have we have we have an almighty god we ain't got no chunk backing us up we have an almighty god amen and god will perfect everything that concerns you in the name of jesus amen second timothy chapter one and verse seven let's read it out loud together for god hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind now it's it's pretty clear here you know that you know fear is more than a figment of our imagination or something that can be overcome merely by exercising willpower the world would have us to believe that it is a normal part of life that fear is a normal part of life however there is nothing natural or normal about fear and it should never be tolerated on any level you hear what i just said it should fear should not be tolerated on any level in fact i'll go so far as to say that fear is a cancer that uh that's affecting people from all walks of life it is a spiritual force that is designed by the enemy to steal to kill and to destroy one of the things we looked at last week was the fact that you know god hath not given us the spirit of fear so stop making it a part of you know don't look at it as well fear is normal and fear is natural because the day you you know conclude that you know fear is okay then that's the day you will tolerate it and fear will come in on what i see as a innocent level you know the fear of heights the fear of of space and all that kind of stuff only to get a foothold in there and begin to affect you on greater levels so you've got to be careful not to in your mind think it's natural and that it is normal and then you end up tolerating fear because when you tolerate fear satan now has a foothold into your life he has a foot for a hole in your life somebody says well you know there's nothing wrong with a little fear that's just like saying there's nothing wrong with a a little adultery or a little murder no you've got to recognize how the enemy operates just trying to get just a little foothold in there and then later on take take advantage of what you open your life to and then it graduates and begins to torment you fear is the faith of the devil pick the phone up and tell them you're busy right now fear is the faith of the devil now what do i mean by that god needs faith the kingdom of god operates by faith and without faith uh what god what jesus has made available it won't come to pass see we're saved by grace but we get it through faith everything in the kingdom of god operates by faith okay and so what we understand is that i'll teach this morning if we get to it we're going to talk about the laws of reciprocals that that faith has a reciprocal that's an inversion a direct opposite uh north and south there are directions uh on on the compass but they're opposites of one another and so like faith operates for us that believe god to turn on the life cycle the opposite or the the reciprocal of faith is fear and so like god needs faith in order to bring his word to pass satan needs fear in order to bring his word to pass when you operate in fear and you begin to mature in fear you turn on the death cycle and and things start with a small small seed eventually leading up to destruction when you operate in faith it turns on the life cycle you don't see the promises of god right away but if you'll stick with it then it begins to manifest so there is a battle satan needs you to operate in fear he cannot have any success in disrupting your life if you don't maintain a foundation of fear in your life you somehow someway there's got to be fear to operate in your life and so this this is this is very important because there are a lot of things that derive out of fear for example please understand this uh if you want to practically look at fear for the christian and see what he's trying to do to christian people fear is for a christian fear is like i'm trying to get you to not believe that what god promised will come to pass the number one fear for christian people is you are afraid that what what god promised won't happen you're afraid when he says by stripes you're healed that you're not really going to be healed you're afraid that when he says sow a seed reaper harvest it won't happen and so if you'll notice the enemy is saying all right what i'm gonna do is uh you may not even be aware of it but i'm gonna get you to operate in fear and ultimately what it says is you don't believe what god promised will happen now think about that think about the number of times in your life maybe it was protection maybe it was favor maybe it was something that you were standing on and maybe it didn't happen when you wanted it or how you wanted it and now the next go around you hesitate a little bit watch this you doubt a little bit based on what didn't happen before and then as a result of it now fear has got a foothold in there and you ultimately don't believe what god promised will come to pass so what happens at this particular point you go to self you look at self you're going to self preservation since i don't believe what god promised in his word then i'm going to have to work it out myself self-preservation is based in fear you you you look at self-think selfish things you look at how you can now do it man the world's full of that how you can do it god is no longer valued anymore because of some experience you had that you didn't understand why it turned out that way and how about just trusting god how about maybe it wasn't time for a certain thing to happen right now and how about god knows about your life better than you do he knows what's down the street around the corner behind the building and you're immediately getting upset because you rubbed on the genie lamp and the genie didn't give you your three wishes that's not how this operates there's a relationship with god look at this uh you're talking about turning to self james chapter 3 and verse 16 if you will uh let's look at the king james and the and the new living translation right quick and then we'll we'll get into this you know in these sermons i'm learning how to take my time to make sure that the holy spirit can infuse things that i didn't study that can he can infuse things that i wasn't planning on going that way so i got my notes and all that but i and and you know we'll get to it when we get to it if we can tap into the holy ghost then that's that's what we want i want i want a word from the law the lord excuse me [Applause] all right he says for where envying and strife is there is confusion and every evil work somebody says well what does that have to do with fear look at this in the new living translation now same james chapter 3 16. he says for wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition wherever there's jealousy and selfish ambition there you will find disorder and evil of every kind anything that's based in selfishness is rooted in fear selfishness is fear based you don't trust god to preserve you so you move out of fear into self-preservation you don't trust god to provide for you so then a man will go and steal you don't trust god for a lot of things and what happens is when you don't trust god for it then all of a sudden you are afraid to trust god you are afraid to believe that promise can come to pass and you turn towards self-preservation but see here's the problem wherever there is selfish ambition you're going to find jealousy he says you will find disorder you will find evil of every kind and all of that is based in fear it's based in fear the number of wickedness and the evil things we see in the earth right now it's fear-based and satan's trying his best to cover it up he doesn't want you to see very clearly that this is based in fear you know he wants us to stay fear is defined fright oh you made me afraid there are lots of things that are based in fear you know anger is based in fear when you get angry and start cutting folks out you know you said you buried the book of course when you got born again and somebody made you mad and you went outside in the back and dug up the book of course and you turned to page 666 that's fear base that's based in fear i need you to think about the number of things you might be yielding yourself to that are rooted and based in fear ultimately it says i don't believe god i am now i am now placing a greater value on what i can do for myself than what god can do for me it's all based in fear i was amazed to see that anger was based in fear i just thought i had an anger problem now i found out i had a fear problem anger was just expressing my fear it's based in fear there are lots of things you're doing that's based in fear you'll tolerate a toxic relationship because you're afraid that that that might be the only person that you'll ever have a potential of marrying so you'll put up with stuff that if you were in faith you wouldn't put up with but fear allows you to put up with a lot of toxicity in your life a lot of junk that you wouldn't put up with if you've trusted god you know you you don't your identity is under attack you don't believe that you're righteous you don't believe you're forgiven you don't believe that you are who god says you are and so i'm afraid therefore i'll choose these other things and make it even more toxic honey let me tell you something whoever you are afraid to stop dating believe me he or she is not the only one you just fear they're the only one see he or she not the only one now that means you men you can't be afraid to approach people and keep going but a lot of a lot of men are afraid to approach women because they can't they can't you know get over the rejection and the hurt they have from the last one and so what you've done you've opened you've allowed to adore your fear to come in and now fear is governing it well i'm scared no you're you're you're fearful you're you're afraid of rejection you're afraid of you know i i became uh uh uh vulnerable and that vulnerability hurt me and and i don't do that no my whole so every time you look at a woman if she reminds you a little of the one that hurts you you you back up you ease in too slow by the time you get there she married all right i'll leave y'all alone in essence what we're looking at here is fear is the foundation of darkness and when i use darkness it is it's when you can't see and understand the light of god's word you're living life in darkness and you just can't figure it out you're in a toxic relationship but you you just can't see it you don't know what to do about it you just feel bad uh you can believe god but you just can't see how you can believe god god can change everything about you but you you're in darkness you you don't know how you don't you don't know you don't you don't you have no word you stopped going to church once you you got old enough to leave grandma and your mama and and you you're in darkness you think you're in you you think you're in you think you are involved in intelligent movement in your life and you dark all you're doing is paying attention to what everybody else doing and you think that's light and enlightenment so you hang around people you know somebody says well if you want to be successful hang around successful people ah be careful about that be careful about that you better make sure that their success is based in the light and not based in darkness are you listening what i'm saying and the world's dark i'll go to isaiah 60 real quick i i haven't got started i gotta hurry and get started isaiah 60. now this whole chapter 60 is talking about the jewish people returning back to their home and that's taking place as a prophecy but but i think i'm allowed to to see some prophetic things in in these verse three in these these first three verses verse one says uh isaiah 60 verse one arise shine for thy light is come when i use the word light here i'm talking about a clear understanding and awareness of god's word and way when i use the word darkness here i'm talking about a misunderstanding or blindness concerning god's word and way and i tell you one of the biggest sins we can have in our life is spiritual blindness i just can't see i i hear what you're saying but i don't believe it so i'm going all the way through with this and then when i'm beat up messed up and and just go through all of the stuff i sit back and wonder why did i not listen to the light you were dark you you were afraid and fear kept you there it kept the darkness there but it kept you there as well fear works works very hard to maintain darkness over your life so you can't see he don't want you to see he talks about the light of the gospel being hid so you can stay in darkness so that that light won't shine under you satan's working real hard to get you and keep you in a position where you don't see what you don't understand even where churches are concerned you can you if you don't go to the right church you'll be going to church thinking that suffices and it doesn't you go to church and you're still dark you're still in darkness you you don't know how to live you don't know how to pray you don't know how to walk in love you don't know how to live together you don't let no none you you know about shadrach meshach and that bad negro that's all you know but you don't know you don't know how to live from day to day and you don't know how to fight the devil when he starts fighting you in your mind [Applause] there's a war going on then the wars that keep you dark to keep you where you're not enlightened you go get a degree and now you think you're smarter than god and you you get some light from the word and the word will still outdo everything you learned in your degree it's the wisdom of god the knowledge is one thing but wisdom is how to use knowledge hallelujah in other words god's not just gonna tell you two plus two equals four what god is gonna do is he gonna show you how i work god gonna show you what to do when your wife ain't talking to you you don't know what you did [Music] god will show you what to do in the in the middle of a an assignment you got on the job but you've never done it before but you believe you got the equipment on the inside to do it and then the lord starts talking to you and then they want to promote you again honey there's coming a time in the life of wise people where you're going to be able to go in and state your salary and they'll give you exactly what you say you want to pay for the word is the wisdom of god it's it's the word is the enlightenment that'll show you what to do when you don't know what to do how many times you've been in a situation you didn't know what to do and the light of god shined and all of a sudden you knew exactly what to do this is what's going to cause you to stand out you're going to operate on a level of wisdom that you can't get through a degree ain't nothing wrong with the degree but in all your getting get understanding and get some wisdom get the degree but make sure you get god with your degree amen well i have my bs and i have my masters and i have my phd you better get that born-again degree that word wisdom degree i'm a ww what's that i got the word and wisdom but you can't you they go together are y'all following what i'm saying so the world's dark you know what you know you know you know when you can realize the world is really really dark ah it's when they don't think they're in darkness it's when the light shines and they would rather have the darkness instead of the light i'll show you that in the coming weeks that's the scripture god says there's coming a time well i will present the light and they will decide no i want the darkness we're there this is not coming we are there and satan's doing everything he can because he knows his time is short and he knows jesus is coming back and he knows he doesn't have long for some reason he keeps telling himself because he's dark he keeps telling himself he can win and the bible says and god laughs he looks at him and he laughs it's like there's no way you're going to ever be able to win just like that and it can be over with and it will be i don't want to be in darkness and then realize how much i could have lived like you know some people they get they get married their spouse goes on and then tradition and religion says you can't get married anymore you will dishonor your husband or your dishonor your wife they're dead you should go hunting that day [Applause] the bible says till death do us part so when death do you part go find another part and learn how to live your life because god does not congratulate you for maintaining the pain for the rest of your life god wants you to learn how to live he wants you happy he wants you happy now if you're satisfied with staying single all the rest of your life praise the lord but i know if something happened to me i know what taffy gonna do sell everything go on the trip marry somebody [Applause] she could be like he dead and i told her i said if there's any vision that hasn't come to pass don't try to finish something that god told me i'm dead now you got to go before god and ask him what he wants you to do if i started the building and not around to finish it tear down do what god tell you to do we have a wrong perspective on that kind of stuff [Music] now see my wife kind of scared me she says now if you get married again i'm gonna hunt both of y'all and i believe her so i say if you do that i'm gonna bury you in the backyard above ground so i can come and check in on you every now and then make sure you know what god wants more than anything he wants you to enjoy your life enjoy it be happy listen when people go home to be with the lord you may have to rearrange some things you're used to doing this one thing now you got to you got to figure out how to feel that spot how do i feel that time what do i do with this situation but don't just don't just sit and rot away waiting to die thinking it's honorable cause somebody told you you can't get married no more ever again and if you do people gonna be mad at you forget the people they see they got somebody but you upset with me because i decide i'm gonna get married again he ought to be ashamed of himself see you in the dark the marriage covenant is over at death i can go hunting now i'm about to fix myself up just a little bit well how old she gonna be that ain't none in your business if my rap worked then hey praise god amen now i ain't doing no 20 y'all cause ain't nobody waking me up until four o'clock in the morning somebody going to the beyonce he can't say oh gonna be waking me what just like you're laughing right now god wants you to have a good life he wants you to have a happy life he wants you to rejoice he wants you to have some fun he wants you to go hiking go to amusement park go to the circus eat some popcorn every nine days get you a snickers bar he wants you to enjoy life he don't want you to go around deep and sad yeah you talking to all the young people if listen if you like 81 and you see a 80 year old twisting [Music] i ain't gonna do that let's just keep going [Applause] amen arise and shine for the light is come and the glory of the lord is risen upon thee for behold the darkness shall cover the earth the whole earth against god and growth starting is going to be on the people imagine gross darkness on the people they don't have a clue they're not going to church and the church they're going to unfortunately he or she don't have a clue maybe hopefully that's not the case you know overall he said but the lord shall arise upon thee his glory is going to be seen upon thee [Music] verse 3 and the gentiles shall come to thy light and the kings to the brightness of the horizon you know what god says to me he says those of us who will stay in the light or get back in the light they're too many there are too many world changes in the dark you ain't been in church in so long you were in the dark you ain't been to church then you started listening to the stream and now you stop listening to the stream and now you just you just replace church with something else and you think you're all right because of your past knowledge it's got to be current right now you know what revelation is it's it's right now knowledge you need a revelation on what to do today you need a revelation on how to handle tomorrow it ain't based on what you already know that you that'll fool you you you start living off past knowledge you need to know something for right now god is a right now god well that's real baptism he's a right now god i believe god's going to use you i believe that the light of the gospel is in the love of god will rise on you your attitude being affected by the anointing the presence of god as we come and gather together satan has been after our gathering he wanted to break up our gathering he's still trying to stop us from gathering because there's power in that one sound of prayer little shallot there's power when we lift our hands up and we worship god there's a sound that comes from this building hallelujah that that no place on the planet can make like the church of jesus christ and we make a sound that all hell got to back up we make a sound that demons got to bow to we make a sound that angels give attention to and heaven receives that sound he's against our oneness he don't want us to come together and agree as one [Applause] well you can do that through technology honey this i i thank god listen i think god for technology i think god for streaming i think off all that but boy when i can come together and feel it i know you can feel it through the stream i felt it to the stream but then when i got here live and y'all when y'all came back my stream preaching went from stream preaching only to the oneness of a few people that gathered together if i was on a stream i'd have been finished this series like last week but it's the pulling it's the stuff i sense when i come in here and i look at your face and the lord say this to me and say that to me and then i'll change that or i and then and it's something it's just something about it i don't have the intricate details of what goes on but when god when god's children get together the bible says where two or three shall gather in his name there am i in the midst of thee god is in the midst of us right now god is in the midst of us right now and you're safely in his presence i wish the omicron would try to come up in his crescents you're safe in his presence carolina [Applause] look at isaiah 12 16 in the esv version isaiah 12 excuse me isaiah 42 isaiah 42 16 in the in the esv version watch this oh goodness lord jesus lord jesus the light is rising on you these things are changing god gonna show you how to do what you need to do glory be to god god gonna show you how to god get a marshall god god is gonna show you how to prosper in bad times [Applause] watch this and i will lead the blind in a way that they do not know in paths that they have not known i will guide them i will turn the darkness before them into light the rough places into level ground these are the things i do and i do not forsake them i'll read that again y'all y'all see you see the lord the lord saying you might be in darkness you might be in darkness world changes wherever you are you might be in darkness but here's what he said i'll lead the blind in a way they do not know glory be to god in other words god said even though you're blind i'm going to lead you in a way you don't understand he says i know how to get the light in i'm a legion in a way you do not know i'm a legion paths that have not that you have not known in other words get ready we getting ready we're getting ready to walk down avenues we've never walked down before everybody else has done it this way i'm telling you we got to follow everybody else god says i'm getting ready to show you a path you've never seen before i'm getting ready to take you down the path that you've not known before and he says now what happens when you go down the path you don't know you don't want to know where to go he says that's all right i will guide them glory to god he said well what about the darkness he says i'll turn the darkness before them before them into light god's getting ready to turn darkness into light i don't know where you are i don't know what you're doing i don't know who beds you in i don't know who you're talking to i don't know what you stole but i tell you god is working there's an eagle stirring in the nest right now and he's turning your darkness in the light i got to believe that and start praying that for your friends and your relatives lord i thank you that you're turning darkness in the light i'm telling you he can do it i don't know how to do that but he can do it and when god turns darkness in the light you're going to be like that baptist deacon won't he do it won't he make a way for you excuse me i don't got excited i didn't got excited because there go god doing something that i can't do see that's why i can't depend on human beings because god god is god all by himself don't don't ever think god really needs you to do what he wants to do god can do what he wants to do all by himself hallelujah he still sits high and looks low he's still the almighty god he's still jehovah jireh he's still jehovah mccain as god can do whatever he wants to do and i'm gonna trust him he gonna turn darkness in the light now here's what i like how many you ever have some how many ain't know how many everybody have how many how many of you experienced some rough places over these last two years you've experienced some rough places [Applause] now hold on to this one now the rough places he says i'm gonna put it on level ground now here's the promise these are the things i do oh glory to god and i do not forsake them i'm telling you guys that work on your behalf right now don't you quit don't you quit cause you don't see it right now you stay hooked to him he gonna stay hooked to you this thing's getting ready to happen this is where this is where you're gonna see souls being saved like never before when they see god turn it all around for you when they can't understand why you ain't in your rough place no more what happened somebody forgot to tell me what happened you say baby i've been telling you the whole time it's god i've been telling you god is good not because i'm good but god's just good and i just trust him i know i ain't there yet i know i got a lot of stuff going on but god is good and i'm going to stay hooked up to that good god because i need that good god look at saint john 1 and 5 in the esv saint john 1 5 hallelujah i believe i don't preach myself happy glory be to god hallelujah well you know i don't like all the hollering and screaming good please i when you know jesus and you are in his presence and if he's ever delivered you out of anything if he's ever delivered you out of a ditch if he ever delivered you out of sickness and disease if he ever delivered you out of debt if he ever delivered you out of a toxic relationship you better learn how to shout and you better learn how to praise him because he is worthy to be praised hallelujah somebody he's where that my god my god so forgive me if i haven't stepped away from proper for a moment i can't get it out of my head how when i was sick he healed me i couldn't get it out of my head that when i was in deep depth he delivered me i couldn't get it out of my head when i was broken and hurt that he made it all right and gave me peace i got to praise him i got to give him glory i got to shout unto god with a voice of christ excuse me excuse me while i shout a little bit excuse me why i praise god a little bit excuse me why i lift my hands up just a little bit excuse me my god my god my god [Applause] i will not allow fear and darkness to keep me down when i have the light of jesus christ and the light of his word not gonna do it now look at john 1 5. i like to shout and praise him but my time go by too let's say that john john i keep doing it you're a shot on your own time we get [Applause] oh man verse 5 he said the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it [Music] the light shines in the darkness and the darkness can't overcome it you might minister to somebody that's in dark and they didn't they didn't get saved at that point but at that time you might just be somebody just sawing a seed and then somebody come after you and just water the seed but remember you're not the one that's responsible for the increase god says some plant some water but i get an increase god says i god says i get increased so keep sawing and keep watering and keep sawing and keep watering the light shines in the darkness it works the light shines in the darkness and the darkness will never overcome the light glory to god no matter how they acted no matter what they're doing you dark what you talking what i've got is light what i have is more powerful than what you have and the thing about light sometimes you ain't got to have a big old flashlight a little bit of one still break through it go to saint john 8 verse 12 and in the esv i'll just stick in that translation for a moment saint john chapter 8 verse 12 in the esv glory to god again jesus spoke to them saying jesus said i am the light of the world whoever follows me will not walk in darkness but will have the light of life i don't how do you share a scripture even you can't get no plan of this if you're in darkness follow jesus there's no other way out of darkness except following jesus i don't care how much understanding you get of the world you cannot get out of darkness except follow jesus somebody said somebody says following where yet it's his word follow his word follow his word follow his life follow the truth grace and truth jesus is grace and truth grace is the truth that makes men free follow his word if you follow jesus i'm the light of the world whosoever follows me will not walk in darkness the opposite is true whosoever doesn't follow him walks in darkness that's what he's talking about he's talking about the number of people in the world who've just ceased to follow him they got entangled in a bunch of principles that got entangled with everybody trying to prosper without jesus they got entangled to self-ambitions and they're in darkness and don't even know it because of all of the self-help material that's out in the world today it should have been jesus help but we don't want jesus help no more we want self-help jesus isn't helping me quick enough anything you get quickly you're going to lose quickly there's some lessons to learn on your way to where you where you're going and besides you what is it that god's called you to do why did he allow you to be born on the earth to do you just choosing something because you see somebody else doing that they got an anointing to do it but you don't but you want to do it because it's a whole lot of money and mammon is ruling the world mammon is fear-based mammon says i don't need god and i don't want him mammon says i value money more than i value god because i'm afraid that god can't do for me what money can and so the whole world is blinded by mammon governments are blinded by mammon people are blinded by amendment i guarantee you oh i'd be so close to say about 90 percent of the issues in our world today is mammon driven mammon based which is grounded and rooted in fear it is you you when you you know the risk you take when you meet a new person and they say some kind thing to try to get you and you don't know them it's like dude let's just get to the very end tell me right at the beginning what do you want that's what i do all right tell me what do you want and you if you lie i'm gonna know your line just tell me what you want oh but the lord just told me to serve you for what why why you don't know me yo why you won't tell me well don't give me all that deep stuff i'm past god i can't say that i got let's just say i have a meter a monitor yeah for all that stuff and you you ought to be cautious dude coming up to a woman he's trying to rap at you and you're like all right so why you why you want me why you want me woman come up to you why you want me you know if i was you dude if you do have a lot of money you need to play broke for a minute to see if they still want you give you some false teeth that look yellow [Music] bad advice bad advice ain't nobody gonna talk to you yelling t you smile say praise the lord they say oh yeah follow jesus that's like old fashioned i don't want to go to the church where they're talking about following jesus and watch this now i don't want to follow jesus because jesus was a white man i don't want to follow jesus because that picture of jesus that's just really uh uh that came from a michelangelo painting and and it was a model what we know that any kind of excuse well there ain't no jesus you see where it's going it went from jesus being a white man that you can't trust jesus to ain't no such thing as jesus to all right so who who who who we dealing with now watch this yourself or you can pick out any god you want to a higher power oh you think the name gonna change the fact that you devalued god my higher power is that chair oh let me see if that chair can heal you let me see if that child can deliver you let me see if that chill can what it's just stupid crazy i'mma follow jesus so i can't stand the light if you don't follow jesus and you don't follow his word you're in darkness i can't take that chance i can't die and then everything the word says comes to pass and i am now face to face with like oh my god there is life after death there is a heaven and oh my god i'm seeing people who've gone ahead of me and they're there right there it's not like i can re-enter my body again and and my bad god give me another chance i can't i can't i won't risk that with my eternal life now there are a lot of people that'll do it but i'm not gonna risk that with my eternal life see if if i live for christ and benefit from all of these things that he's done and my faith gets it to me and i'm wrong i still lived a good life but if you don't believe in christ and died without him then when you leave your body and it's like oh wow all this is true and then you get up there and they called on the road and looked at it and say dang i thought i saw your name oh they blotted it out this morning damn bro all you had to do is just make jesus the lord of your life but uh um they call for the sandman you remember that on apollo snatch you out and i can't risk that i'm not doing that ain't no such thing as heaven all right so have you ever even went any round now well how you know that well this book i read from my friend that gave me see that's dark you dark you don't even know what to do hard times are here and they're going to get harder but we're going to be in goshen and not in egypt and that's that's not even to be debated about it's already here there's so much wickedness going on right now that the wicked confused the wicked confused everybody confused don't nobody know where they are they don't know nothing they just they don't they don't know who they are they're confused if you ask them to explain it they don't even know well see uh like this you know see you have to be there no you need to be there because you don't know what you're talking about and we are the light of the world we have something that's so valuable now an understanding of jesus christ share it with people now is the time share it with people when's the last time you witnessed somebody and prayed for them to be born again into the kingdom of god not just come to church but share it with they're people you know if you love those people stop them from going to hell introduce them to jesus when's the last time you did that it's called soul winning and it's not joining the department of soul winning it's situational soul winning it's taking somebody out for lunch for the full purpose of introducing them to the lord jesus christ it's time now it's time it's time it's time to pray for people in the house at the grocery store it's time when you see somebody sick lay hands on them and believe god want to be healed you'll be shocked the miracles that'll work at your hands don't come calling me well my cousin them said can you pray for him no whoo pastor why do you want to pray for him you have the exact same authority that i have stop being such a and go ahead and lay hands and cast that devil out and have your own prayer line at the hospital [Music] because when they see them get healed you know somebody's going to start walking in there can you pray for me too have a revival praise god have them to sue you for for practicing uh uh uh unseen medicine without a license and then show them the bible ah this is my license right here i can lay hands on the sick i can cast out that that needs to come with you who you gonna bump into today what opportunities will you have today [Applause] let's not walk past these opportunities anymore too many opportunities well pastor i don't quite know how to explain it well at least you can do is pay them to come to church with you pay them yeah they need motivation jesus ain't no motivation to them pay them do their laundry agree to keep them bad kids for a night for them to have a break or something like that you got to do something you got to you you got to you got to encourage them and motivate them to want to come to church then send me a little note pastor i got him here i'm like i got you and i come out preaching hell fine brimstone which is so wrong because most of us got saved out of fear somebody asked me the other day they said well why did you get born again in the first place and i thought i was like uh cause i ain't want to go to hell they say well i ain't want to go to hell i ain't no none but i knew i didn't want to go to no hell then i found out and understand not more what i what i knew before but man there's going to be a lot of people that's going to die and go straight to hell with a small self those who thought they were smarter than god ain't never talked to him ain't never seen him just talk about what their grandmamma used to do you ain't going to heaven cause what's your grandma you can't go on your grandmama's coattail you try to hang on your grandmom's coattail they're just going to cut it off and you grandma's going to go on in and you're going to still be out on the outside of the gate ain't nobody slipping in i remember you was doing all right now you talking about that no nobody want to hear nothing about no hell you need to hear that there is a heaven and a hell there is a god and a satan there are angels and are demons [Music] this stuff is real i mean i'm not coming at church anymore i don't know about the heaven and hell stuff see you just trying to run away from god and the next thing you know you're going to be using the same phrase everybody else who deceive you my truth because you couldn't accept god's truth so it's my truth tell me what your truth is and i hear it i'm like that's wickedness ain't it no that's my truth i'm living out my truth you're living out a lie you've been listening to the devil and was deceived into thinking it was god thinking that they were wise the bible says they became fools you know what a fool is a fool says that there is no god what are we gonna do this thing coming to the end my heart went out for those people that when the path of those tornadoes and the churches that were wrecked up and and and all those people that died over weather you you really think things are just going return to normal no this is it and for those of us who are in goshen we're just going to rejoice all the way through and be ready to pull people out of the dark and bring them to the marvelous light i commission every world changer both live here and on stream i ordain you as soul winners and ministers of the gospel to go to the north the south the east and the west to carry this gospel and to preach in season and out of season i call you to the ministry of salvation to save souls from a burning hell whether you're 12 years old or 112 years old you've been commissioned go ye therefore now into all ethnic groups and all nations preach the gospel praise god win souls and watch what god does in you your life ain't gonna never be the same again you do understand that right you think we just been hollering and screaming and laughing for no reason at all but while that stuff been going on the holy ghost has been dropping some stuff on the inside of you god tell you to feed the the hungry feed them but then he told you now they can't get the food until i pray for him let him use you let him use you let him use you pray and then obey go do it let's get them we're world changers he didn't call us world changers to just be sitting down and let wickedness take over we are the light of the world we are world changers it's time to go out and make a mark that cannot be erased go get em go get em go get em boy go get them get them at the gas station hallelujah do what you got to do just have your antennas up you'll be at that gas station and you'll pull up and the lord lord say bye-bye buy them and take gas well lord why now all right lord on my back amen brother i want to bless you can i pray for you are you born again well you know and they'll tell you all of the seeds that's been sold and god used you at a gas station where are we at where the christians at this is our time we are not behind ain't no closet nowhere everybody coming out the closet himself christians get out the closet get out the closet god can't use no closet christians [Applause] [Music] ephesians 5 and 8 and the esv says this for at one time you were darkness you remember that don't you you mean how dark it was you know your mama i i can't talk about you i'm talking how stupid i used to be stupid just did stupid stuff me and my neighbor was riding in my volkswagen on 285 one time this man jumped in front of us you remember silvia right shiva said crawford you gonna let that man park you out like that we from college park you gonna let that happen i'm like no i ain't gonna let it happen i caught up pulled up inside of that guy that guy reached down like he pulled out something but both of us dug just like them just stupid stuff stupid we wouldn't got a big old cup like that and decided we were going to celebrate because we're going to be graduating soon it was 100 degrees that day we mixed mad dog red lady 21 and brass monkey all in the same thing and dared anybody to drink it now i wasn't that stupid i'm like this is knocking me out i don't even know where i am i couldn't handle a good bit well more or less all that stuff and brass monkey had a strange spirit to it every time i drank brass monkey it was the next day [Applause] i'm like what is what's this it was always the next day god dawg don't act like you don't remember when you were in darkness [Applause] finally got out of high school i'm in college i came here my first stop was the i want to know where the women's dorm was [Music] and i stood out in front of that dorm and i said i am here let the fun begin and this girl stuck her head out the window she said you devil i rebuke you in the name of jesus i said your mama [Applause] [Music] i used to get high listening to rick james and jermaine hawkins [Music] rick jane had a song i called passing joint jermaine hawkins said i'll never let you down no more so one of them was get ready for the joint the other one was feeling bad that you did it but we did at that time but we promised this girl we were gonna come to church with her the next morning you know a bunch of football players didn't play around we got a time off we maximized so we went to church and we were sitting down on the third row i said oh god dawg i looked over at my friend ross said rock you this man he said yeah it's coming out of you i said it's coming out of you the priest or the preacher he must have smelled it too and he called us all down to the altar and began to lecture us about how we need to grow up and be young men of character and stay away from that evilness in that bottle i'm like rob what are you talking about there ain't no evilness in that body ain't number four in that bottle i was dark i couldn't see the light but then one day something just started stirring in me that i need to get my life right i need i need to i need to get i didn't know what i needed so i had a friend who was born again because i thought he was weird when he got saved all night bro he know what happened and you stay away from me and i called him and i said man something's going on with me it's like i got like a demon on this side an angel on this side and i'm freaking out man i'm tripping i don't know if it's the weed or what i'm something going on he said i know what's going on so he came over he led me to the lord he told me he said i have a piece of paper write all your sins down and i say hey right now all my sins now you write all yours now i want you to know everything i did cause one of them might have been with your girlfriend i don't know i see some of y'all tripping because you act like you don't forgot what you used to be like and i want you to know i haven't forgot where god has brought me from and i'm just testifying here a little bit hallelujah on simmons drive in college park georgia right next to a cemetery i lift my hands up in that little bedroom and i asked jesus to come into my heart and to be my lord and savior and jesus saved me that day and darkness left me that day and the light of jesus came hallelujah and now i'm on my way to heaven and i am not ashamed of the gospel of jesus christ for it is the power of god under salvation and that's what he's calling for now and maybe god will let you witness to somebody just like what you used to be like don't throw away your testimony don't throw it keep it in your pocket somewhere and say oh i know you cause i was you but let me tell you what happened to me i was blind but now i can see hallelujah i didn't know what was going on but now i know what's going on i didn't know how big a fool i was until the light came he says for at one time you were darkness but now you are light in the lord he said walk as children of light can't do that without the word my time's up did you get anything out of that walk as children of the light would you lift your hands up those of you in the dome those of you are at home and doing a stream would you lift your hands up just for a moment and just think about what i said just think about it think about your life think about where you are think about how god delivered you think about it i tell you god wants to use you you're not here you being here is not a mistake you hearing what you heard today is not a mistake the holy ghost said some stuff that you did that i wouldn't come out of my mouth but it came through your ears what he said now may the grace of god be upon you all may the blessings of god overtake you may the blessings prepare you for the path that you've never gone down before and may he use you as the light in this world today that darkness will not win jesus is lord and every knee will bow and every tongue will confess anoint those hands lord that are lifted anoint those hands anoint those bodies anoint their minds anoint their lives open doors that were never open to them before in jesus name amen if you're here today listen to them if you're here today in this dome or through that screen and you've never made jesus the lord of your life you've never been born again somebody told you it was something you don't need to worry about and i'm saying it's the thing you have to do you don't want to die without having jesus being the lord of your life then bow your head and pray this simple prayer with me heavenly father i realize that i'm a sinner but right now i repent of all my sins i receive the free gift of of jesus's forgiveness jesus come into my heart be my lord and my savior and right now by faith i thank you for saving me in jesus name amen now if you prayed that prayer with me you are saved right now meaning if you were to die right now you will be absent from the body and present with the lord if you all prayed this prayer with me over the stream i want you to text the keyword i'm saved as one word to 51555 provide your name and your email address and we'll send you a free ebook as a gift to you today now let's conclude our worship with the giving of gifts i am so grateful that we have an understanding of giving i'm so grateful that i have to get up here and manipulate you all different kinds of ways to try to talk some money out your pocket i'm so grateful that i get to give because of what jesus has done for me it is a part of my worship it is a part of my adoration it is a part of my honor to honor him for everything he's ever done for me everything he's ever done and that's a lot and so i get to give i want to give i'm motivated to give because of him if you need an offering envelope if you'll raise your hands to us is to put one in your hands if you're at home there's some instructions on the screen including a qr code for your giving if you want to text world changes space amount to 74483 or call that number on your screen if you want to mail in there's the address and if you want to go to the web where you can use your paypal you can do that as well their qr codes for those of you who are here and as you exit they're also qr codes and and uh the information desk is up so i don't know if they have anybody back there but there are people out there to kind of help you to to do that as well i'm so excited about what god's gonna do with you i see you doing miraculous things outside of the church house i see family members getting born again and coming to jesus and those who are saved surround and love on those who've been out there for so long it's the prayers of the righteous that will avail much i tell you the truth god's gonna use you there's anointing in your hands you can lay hands on sick people and they'll get well you can speak to mountains and they'll obey you have authority to cast out devils you can speak to things and they come to pass all is well with you i said all is well with you amen let's just go ahead and receive the offering yeah there you go praise god we're getting ready to have a little short altar call thank you guys for coming today and to being a part of our services today taffy and i are so so geeked up about being able to pastor you and give you everything we got so that you can be encouraged and have enough to just win win win win we want you to win win win win and that's what's happening right now and call those things that be not as though they were if you're not win win win win call things that be not as though they were win win win win all is well now if you're here today and you want to join world changers church international here in college park i want to give you that opportunity to do that as i said before maybe i don't know how other pastors feel but man i i i would love we would love the opportunity to pastor you we would love the opportunity to teach you and to avail you to the things that this church offers to help you because we believe if we can change the way you think we can change the way you live in your life if god's called you to become a part of this church today and you really believe that you're supposed to be here if you get your bibles and personal belongings and make your way down front and for those of you who prayed that prayer of salvation if you're here if you can go ahead and make your way down if you're on the stream and you want to become a part of our e-church because there's no way you can get to the one here in college park georgia you can become an e-member today you can go to worldchanges.org and click join at the top of the page you can text join wcci all one words at 51555 and we will send you all the benefits of e-membership including receiving today's sermon notes in your inbox access to the e-church facebook community group and access to our virtual conferences and private e-members we welcome all of you who have become members of e-church today and we love you and appreciate you in jesus name amen praise god praise the lord hallelujah hallelujah amen oh praise god praise god touch one life touch one life [Music] such one life you know i just i just believe that what would happen if we just all just touch one life one life this week just one somebody taff and i are believing god to put families back together marriages back together some of you are gonna start amazing businesses that are gonna give you quick turnaround and you're gonna know oh my god look at this look at this but don't forget him when you experience success don't forget god don't forget god don't forget to give him the glory and the praise and the thanksgiving for the things that he has done in your life amen praise god lord glory glory glory [Applause] the blessing is a real thing and i want to release that blessing over your life right now father i thank you for the power of the blessing that through jesus christ and our faith in him is available and so i declare that each person at this altar they are blessed today they're blessed in everything that they do they bless their blessing everything you instruct them to do and we praise you for their lives right now in jesus name and everybody said amen at this time if you'll turn and follow this gentleman to the prayer room they're going to take you upstairs get some information from you and be a blessing to you and we just thank god for you you'll never be the same again congregation would you please stand at this time for the final blessing uh again if you have not uh made plans to join us for christmas man they're going all out you do not want to miss it it's gonna be a an amazing family time and we try to keep all of our special holiday celebrations within that hour and um if if for nothing else it gets you up and get everybody dressed so you ain't waiting on nobody to come to dinner amen praise the lord now i declare the blessing of god over you and your house and your family i pray that all is well with you all is well with your marriages your children i declare that the angels of god watch over you and i plead the blood of jesus over your life i thank god that all of the sorrow be gone all of the sickness be gone i declare that if any virus or sickness or germ touches your body it will die instantly in the name of jesus and now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before the almighty god be glory majesty dominion and power both now and forever and everybody said amen god bless you everybody have a great day

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Published: Sun Dec 12 2021