How To Respond To Persecution | Pastor Marco Garcia

you know i've been i've been hearing a lot of like tragic stories in the last like week or so you know even today one of the one of my the ushers in our church he's a police officer and he said today there was a man in a in that was driving a hundred miles per hour on sierra avenue in fontana and just driving reckless and and he's driving so reckless they're getting calls about there's someone right driving reckless he's dangerous he flips his car and he flips it it rolls and rolls and it rolls over a card oncoming car and crushes that car um both drivers mom the mother and the father die and maybe the child in the back might die too and when i think about you know these stories that i hear on a daily basis it's it's happening you just don't know when your number's going to come up it makes us realize how important our subject what we talk about really is most people live their lives as if they're going to live and they're never going to die so they don't prepare for eternity and and what our responsibility as believers is not only to be prepared through our faith in jesus christ but also help others get prepared for eternity we have an assignment we have a mission and our mission is to go out there and preach the good news about jesus christ share our jesus story what christ has done for you how we save you what he did for every single person and make disciples of jesus christ some will say make disciples of jesus christ so we're this is the the bible is very simple follow jesus and then this is what you do next help people follow jesus so i follow jesus and i help people follow jesus because jesus jesus said this and this is the church in church his name is the way world outreach and and and we get it from john 14 6 and it says this jesus said this i am the way i am the truth and i am the life and what he was saying is and he said this no one goes to the father no one gets to heaven but through me and we're saying if you want to get to the power you want to get to heaven you want to get a breakthrough you want to be saved you want to be forgiven you want your broken heart to be healed there's one name to call on you don't have to go through a whole bunch of names there's one name to call on his name is jesus call on him and tonight you could call on him and you don't have to have a perfect prayer just make a prayer i need some help lord and god will definitely intervene so we've been taught going to the book of matthew and we we we're stopping right now matthew chapter 5 verse 10 and last week we introduced a subject um and the subject's kind of weird in in america because we introduced the subject of persecution and the reason i say it's a little weird in america because there's not a lot of persecution really of christians here in the united states of america what i started realizing about persecution persecution is a lot it's the last resort of the devil he doesn't use it unless he has to use it and i'll tell you why in a little bit why he doesn't use it unless he has to use it but the purpose of persecution persecution what's the word persecution mean it means to pursue with a desire to harass to mistreat to torture and destroy because of someone's beliefs morals and message so they're the person you're being persecuted when when the devil has actually assigned someone to you to harass you hurt you injure you because of your beliefs your lifestyle and your godly message the enemy will not assign someone to harass you at this level unless you're a threat to his kingdom that means he sees that you are actually impacting or messing up his systems he goes this person i've tried the temptation it didn't work i tried the distraction it didn't work i tried to get him offended it didn't work i tried to get him caught up in his career it didn't work i tried a heartbreak it didn't work i tried to depress him it didn't work so now he's still going forward she's still moving forward she's still preaching she's still sharing she's still living he's still doing it now we got to bring out the heavy artillery let's bring out some persecution but the purpose of persecution is to shut you up and shut you down what's the purpose of persecution to shut you up and what now we don't deal with that a lot in america because most christians are shut up already they they're not shut up in church but they're shut up at home they're shut up in a neighborhood you'll never get persecution until you take this message and take it out there publicly persecution happens in public places see what god wants us to do is start infiltrating areas that the enemy has public places where crowds are meeting that we're taking this message and we're assaulting that crowd with the greatest message in the world that jesus came and he died for them so they could be saved so they can be made whole there's people that are empty suicidal depressed in a cycle they can't break hopeless and they're waiting for an answer that they can't find i got good news for every one of us we are the answer we just need to open up our mouths outside of church you guys get this right i was kind of looking let's look at matthew 5 10. and i like it in a message it says this you're blessed when your commitment to god provokes persecution the persecution drives you even deeper into god's kingdom what what what this is saying is that your commitment to god is so it it's so it penetrates it penetrates the darkness it's penetrating hearts it's impacting people's lives that this is what it does it provokes the enemy it provokes hell to come against you with some persecution he goes but the problem is when we respond properly we're being persecuted and we respond properly it backfires on the devil someone say persecution can backfire on the enemy what he meant to do was shut you down but then if he can't shut you down and he doesn't discourage you it drives you deeper into the power deeper into the anointing deeper into the revelation deeper into being effective you become more effective you become more influential you become more powerful after the persecution so what's meant to tear you down is actually now driving you deeper christian persecution it may be surprising to some of you but christian persecution around the world not here necessarily is one of the biggest human rights issues of this era a woman in india watches as her sister is dragged off by hindu nationalists she doesn't know if her sister is alive or dead a man in north korea prison camp is shaken awake after being beaten unconscious the beatings begin again a group of children are laughing and talking as they come down to their church's sanctuary after eating together instantly many of them are killed by a bomb blast it's easter sunday in sri lanka these christians these people don't live in the same region or even in the same continent but they share an important characteristic they are all christians and they suffer because of their faith while christian persecution takes many forms it is defined as a as any hostility experienced as a result of identification with jesus christ from sudan to russia from nigeria to north korea from colombia to india followers of christianity are targeted for their faith they are attacked they are discriminated against at work and at school sexual violence torture arrests and much more the reason i'm sharing this because this is actually happened happening right now in other nations i said pastor why would god want to talk to us americans about persecution see this is what god does he prepares us to have a backbone to be able to handle what is coming all i'm saying the more effective you become the more on fire you become as a believer understand there will you'll get to a place we as a church will get to a place as we're turning the city of pomona upside down as we're going to tj and we're dealing with all the drug trafficking out there the prostitution out there the spiritual religion out there when we go out there and we start turning tj upside down we start turning pomona upside down we start to we start turning watts and and compton upside down there's going to be a spirit spiritual wicked in high places they're going to say wait a second we got to shut down the way now there's two sorts of of persecution one is physical persecution i remember one day me my me and my friend we went to the rose parade and we went to the rose parade not to watch the rose parade but the night before the rose parade it's a big party on the streets so me and my friend we went down there and we're passing our bible tracks and sharing our faith that witness sin for hours we run into someone that takes our bible track and eats it and i go wow that's interesting like it's not food right he eats it but he looks at me really mean and then he spits it out in my face that was the beginning of the spirit using someone the devil uses someone to let me know this is my territory it's not yours that's what i would say physical persecution and then there's also verbal persecution this is when people start lying about you saying all kinds of evil things about you they slander your name what are you gonna do and they're slandering your name because of who you follow and how you live they start thinking they start saying that you're you're a hate monger and you're you're you're a religious zealot and all kinds of names that they might that's an old biblical name but the i don't even know what they'll call you nowadays but the idea here is is understand words sometimes have more power than physical physical persecution all god is saying if you're doing what i've asked you to do and you're sharing my faith with everyone you meet and you're willing to bring this out of the public place and you're willing to shine your light understand there will be backlash but i'm promising you this when the backlash comes a bigger blessing is gonna be released upon your life it's gonna actually be your promotion not your demotion now let's talk about how to respond to persecution because the response is really important respond to persecution this would maybe even follow under how to respond the people that aren't nice we'll start at that little level because if you can't overcome people that are not nice there's no way you're going to handle persecution persecution's a whole another level some of us are being tested by someone and all they're doing is developing an ability for you to handle some negativity you think it's persecution it's not persecution they're just getting on your nerves but if if the enemy could send just someone that gossips a lot and get on your i don't even know why i don't like her i just don't like her you're not ready for persecution because the enemy could just use obnoxious people to get you off track but let's go ahead and talk about just the obnoxious people or the people you don't like we got to learn how to respond to people that are unfavorable and make sure that their mindset doesn't overcome your emotions you know you know how you get conquered by someone that you don't like when you start acting like them well how do i act like them they cuss you out you cussed them out they just conquered you i thought we were here to praise the lord well you made me mad no one can make you mad you choose to be mad stop blaming people for your emotional dysfunction i sound like a psychiatrist emotional dysfunction that's what you got you got to take control of your response you can't always control whether you're going to be persecuted treated right or not but you can control your response so let's look what jesus says about persecution and again in matthew 5 11 it says god blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers so now i want you to get this they're persecuting you because you are what his follower because you're what you're known as his follower if no one knows that you're his follower and you're dealing what you think is persecution it's not persecution they don't even know you follow jesus that have to know that you're following jesus living for him for you to actually start experiencing persecution you gotta become a christian that comes out of the closet it's okay to be in a prayer closet but you can't stay there all day some of you from from our hoods in our neighborhoods you were gang-affiliated you were so gang-affiliated that you tattooed the name of your gang on your head and then you even sacrifice your hair to show the tattoo right here sfr right when you used to represent that you used to ask people where they're from not because you were trying to be kind like where are you from back east no south side or north side what are you you were trying to pick a fight because you want to let them know where you were from there was lifestyles that we lived that we were so proud of we represented it they looked at us and they knew what group we belong to but now as christians could we be could we could can we be at a place that we're so worldly that no one even knows we're blending in so well that we don't stand out at all we talk like them we walk like them we dress like them we look like them we live like them we drink like them we smoke like them we cuss like them we we're immoral like them and the only difference is we go to church on sunday or on easter or on christmas but you're not going to be persecuted because you call yourself a christian you're going to be persecuted because you're going to be known as a follower of jesus christ now you know what's trippy about all this is that the world knows how you're supposed to act have you ever said you're a christian and you do something that's not christian like and you get non-christians they don't even know knowing about god haven't been to church your whole life i thought you say you were christian oh so you're a christian expert now do you know why because everybody knows the bible says that god writes his laws on our hearts so we know what christ should be like we know what a believer should behave like we know how they should talk we know how they should walk and what god is saying when you start talking and you start walking it and you start speaking it then they're gonna know you're a believer and when they find out you're a believer then you qualify for persecution he said pastor qualify is this something we want to qualify for like are you trying to like what what yeah i want a church full of people that are persecution qualified that when we enter a city when we enter a neighborhood when we enter a party all of a sudden hey man whoa whoa they just showed up i'm going to give you something about the spiritual realm it was it was three years back three years back i went to las vegas and actually i was like in henderson on the border but we'd go visit this trip come back i wasn't gambling just stop tripping we're doing tourist stuff right but the first night that i stayed there something really radical happened a demon visited my room i saw the demon and this demon was a weird-looking thing he was super muscular but he had woman body parts like that ain't look right he was a gangster and and and and he asked me this question this is what he says what are you doing here and basically he was saying why are you here because we already know that the call on your life is to take over cities we don't want you here that night tried to attack me of course it didn't work i'm here i'm we're here let's say pastor well is that making any more special no on all i'm saying is we belong to the same organization the church of jesus christ we represent christ jesus is the same yesterday today and forever and if the first disciples were persecution qualified the followers of jesus christ in 2021 shouldn't be the watered-down version of what they used to be we should become get to the point that we're persecution qualified that we're ready to go in there and make a difference is there anybody willing to die for this thing and until you're willing to die for it it's not going to be fun you guys are what kind of crazy church is this so now response number one how do we respond number one respond with praise someone respond with praise we cannot let persecutors conquer our relationship with god and our emotions with hate anger bitterness payback frustration doubt fear anxiety worry god blesses you when people mock you in this scripture it says in matthew 5 12 says matthew 5 12 says be happy about it be very glad for a great reward awaits you in heaven and remember the ancient prophets were persecuted in the same way what he's saying is you're in good company we're being persecuted every single major prophet in the bible was persecuted he goes they were persecuted now you're living for me you're going to be persecuted but you're in great company remember every single one of those world changers had some resistance because they were making an impact god is saying this church you as an individual no longer are you gonna live a whole home lukewarm life worldly life you're gonna live a life on fire sold out for god and when the persecution comes they're gonna squeeze you and when you squeeze a lemon lemon juice comes out hey pasta that's deep you squeeze the orange you create orange juice you squeeze a watermelon you pop it but if you keep squeezing you'll make some watermelon something so what happens when you squeeze a devoted follower of jesus christ you squeeze me no cuss words come out no anger comes out no hate comes out what comes out of me is just some praise the more you squeeze me the more i praise and magnify my lord is there anybody here that can praise god in difficult pressure situations that under pressure you still got some praise or are you one of those dodger fans i'm not don't don't i could see it right all right don't you mess with my dodgers i felt the spirit of resistance you're persecuting me but are you one of those dodger fans that they're down by three runs in the ninth and you're in your car driving home i'm not one of those dodger fans if i'm there i want to see the whole game to the last out and if they lose i said i don't even think they lost yet maybe they're going to come back i only know what's going on you know what that means is that you're still believing even when your team is down and what god is saying when you praise god after they persecute you and god says be happy about it be joyful about it you know this it's gonna work out just fine can anybody praise god under pressure come on get persecution certified [Applause] you say praise god yeah don't let the devil overcome your emotions praise will resist you can't be thanked i thank you jesus i praise you lord i might be going through a difficult time right now and i might be going through a valley but i know this that you're a god that's with me and of ups and them downs you're the my shepherd i shall not want though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil you are with me and if you're with me who's going to come against me i thank you lord that you're the alpha you're the omega you're the beginning you're the end you're going to have the last word in this thing it's not going to be my persecutors it's not going to be my situation i thank you lord that you've already all things work together for good for those who love god are called according to his purpose i thank you jesus that i'm more than a conqueror through christ jesus who strengthens me the joy of the lord is my strength i thank you lord i'm going to get through this i know it's going to end in victory i thank you lord yeah jehovah jireh you're my provider you're jehovah rapha you're my healer i thank you lord that you're the prince of peace i command this depression come on can somebody just praise god under pressure like that [Applause] anything that you're going through that's difficult right now it's just helping you get persecution qualified because until you're persecution qualified you can't be a world changer because you're too emotional why you depressed i got a flat tire today the devil attacking my tires you're depressed you got a flat tire oh yeah i woke up on the wrong side of the bed everything's going wrong so depressed things were going good until this morning but usually it starts on monday at least it got to wednesday you know what we're talking about can you keep your praise from here to your car and from your car to your house and from your house to your job and from your job to the freeway and from the freeway back to your house and then do that on sunday and then do that on monday and then do that on tuesday and then do that on wednesday and can you keep your praise when someone gives you a bad report the doctors say man we don't know what we're gonna do with you it don't matter i guess you don't have the answer but i serve a god i understand this i got eternal life and he's with me in this dark moment i'm gonna be okay can anybody praise god when you get fired praise god when it's hard praise god when someone's prejudiced against you and you're still praising [Applause] see this is what he says jesus said this he said this be happy about it be happy about what when they mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all kinds of evil things against you because you're my followers he goes be happy about it be very glad exclamation point exclamation point for a great reward awaits you we can respond with praise because we know that after great persecution after great trials come great rewards great victories great growth great influence a great harvest for the kingdom after great trials great persecution great difficulties come great great great great great rewards what god is saying the persecution is gonna release your destiny upon your life don't fear it face it i'll bless you every time you're there for me we covered this last week you're not persecuted if you ain't living right that's called consequences and the devil the devil's not i'm not even in this like you don't threaten me at all because i i got chains all over you i know what you do when you leave church you go straight to the porn side do you think i'm gonna do you think i'm gonna persecute you why would i waste my big demons on you they're getting quiet up in here too many people doing that when they leave church you guys understand that you're a struggling christian but you're not being a powerful christian and and god didn't give you his holy spirit so you could be weak he gave you his holy spirit i want you to get this the spirit of jesus so you could be like jesus you could say no to those traps no to those chains no to those habits so you can start me come on if god can make a major impact in your life he can make a major impact through your life pastor you know i just i just like to drink a little bit that's your problem instead of depending on the holy spirit to give you some peace you're still acting like you used to be well you know i i don't get drunk stop making excuses for your mediocre lifestyle why don't you get sold out for christ and try to stop trying to use scripture to justify your worldliness oh lord someone say praise god look it we can be happy about it be very glad for a great reward you great reward i'll wait you out in heaven he said when it's all said and done you know how this ends you know why you could be praising god in the middle of the toughest time in your life because you already know how it ends it's all in the script i watched um the other day fast furious 9. five nine f9 whatever it is but some of the stuff that happened there was like totally unbelievable how many seen f9 i mean it's just it's no way there's just no way that it would ever happen you're dead but how do they get out of every one of those dead it's just impossible you can't do it there's a cliff you're driving you're driving over the cliff and all of a sudden you drive over the cliff and and your your car gets hooked on to some some fallen bridge out there and it takes you to the other side that's a real scene when have you ever seen that but why does it work because it's in the script so i'm not tripping i already know he ain't dying it's too early in the movie they say pastor it was exciting but i do know this right now you might be in an exciting place a difficult place but don't you worry about it you just keep following jesus keep living for him come on keep testifying keep making disciples of jesus christ and god is saying it's already in the script great reward is in your future so that's why you could praise god right now come on give god just a little praise right now [Music] someone said respond with praise be glad about it be happy about it i want you to we're going to end it with this but what was crazy about this is that is that jesus is sharing about persecution before there was any persecution so it was not like they were being persecuted they were in a huddle in a meeting he's preaching and they're just at his feet while he's preaching and he just brings out this persecution sentence and actually it's actually two sentences two verses and i'm sure it went in one ear out the other but the first time that they were persecuted they went back to that verse and they go oh that's right persecution because of what we believe because we're following jesus we're not being persecuted because we're liars we're not being persecuted because we're sarcastic we're not being persecuted just because someone doesn't like us we're being persecuted because of our faith of who we represent and this message is so powerful it's intimidating the enemy oh man i don't think you know the power you got in you this place right here we shouldn't have any any empty seats because you should leave here on fire i was i'm going to give you an example i was at um at ralph's on 4th of july why am i aroused the fourth of july because lisa wanted me to go get some rice i'm like the not the best guy to send to do anything i might show up another three hours later where's marco where's marco doing ministry girl we don't need your rice we need jesus man should not live by bread alone but every word that proceeds out of the mouth of god girl so i'm at ralph's and while i'm there ralph's i see a lady she passes by i go hi if i if you see me at ralph's i'm probably going to be saying hi if you just look near my way say why would you say hi because you might belong to the wayward outreach right and oh man i saw pass tomorrow he was so rude and i know how sensitive people are that they get taken out because i didn't say hi right no persecution i just didn't say hi i'll never go to the wayward outreach again i see how he is he thinks he's too good for all of us in the right section so if you just look my way hey whoa hey just in case so this lady was looking at me like hey oh she stops hey how you doing and we began to talk and she began to open up right there in the aisle and she says my my grandson is suicidal i don't know what to do with him honey have you been to church later because i haven't we're gonna we're gonna it's time to get back your son needs the presence of god your son needs to get set free you're not just dealing with a mindset a mental condition you're dealing with a demonic attack and you're gonna need some power you're gonna have to get out of your comfort zone and come to the house of god now and your son needs to get mentored he needs to become a disciple he needs to be part of a growth group a power 12 group he needs a mentor over his life let's get a mentor over his life i'm saying that and you know who walks right on my at my my my aisle the junior high pastor i've never seen him outside of church barely he's right there at the aisle her her grandson's 12 years old he's the guy and i go jesse come right here and she's thinking like this is a setup what is going on do they do they roll that deep that they were like matt if i don't tell them i like i i had a i was going to prison with that the prison ministry in the corner what's up like do they have all everybody in their whole ministry if i was home i'm hungry with the food ministry all of a sudden show up but how many know god has this all organized how many come on how many want to start walking in that divine power that divine anointing that when you're in the aisle the power of god is moving now so we exchanged numbers i pray with her right there in the aisle there's another lady who comes by hi and she just keeps going by she goes hi she comes by i'm still talking this one she comes back she goes all the way down she comes back she goes hey are you a christian like you know i am i'm here to get rice from my wife i don't even care about that we're going deeper here so he she comes over and she starts sharing about her husband i don't know this lady she starts sharing about her husband the problems whatever he doesn't know god i go that's awesome so we talk about that all i'm saying if we could take this out of the church and you could start living this life for real and you don't get trapped in your secret places that your secret place turns into a place of worship a place of praise that you don't have this secret double life but you start saying i'm all in for jesus christ because i want to see god use me the way he used those apostles he could use me in 2021 god trusts me with the trial trust me with the difficulties trust me with the persecution and when they squeeze me praise is coming out of me [Music] last verse paul and silas respond with praise after being severely persecuted and see great power released someone said great power after great persecution comes what great what how many understand that god wants you to walk in great power god wants a church that speaks word and power not just word signs follow when you speak and the reason they follow when you speak because you're following jesus let's clap a little louder because i'm going to start thinking there we go let's stop a little bit louder so at least come on let's get some praise there [Music] all right we'll end it with this verse but look at this verse put yourself in this verse this church is going to be crazy i'm talking if god's talking about this we're ready to turn pomona upside down we're ready to turn tj we're ready to turn your family upside down we're ready to turn san bernardino upside down we're ready to turn inner cities upside down come on god's going to turn your side world upside down god's ready to use us come on to go out there and be a light in this dark world of course there's going to be some pushback but we're ready for it the title of this message if you didn't know persecution won't stop me pastor just you know just relax the devil's hearing you i could care less the devil's underneath my feet he's already been defeated do you not know that jesus came to destroy the works of the devil i don't care about no poltergeist stuff i cast out demons and step on them come on church god you already got the victory the one that's in you is greater than anything you're facing let's end it you guys are too crazy acts 16 22 look what it says a mob quickly formed check this out against paul and silas and the city officials this is crazy city officials are getting involved with paul and silas now they stripped and beat and be beaten beat them with rods wooden rods acts 16 23 they were severely beaten and then they were thrown into prison the jailer was ordered to make sure they didn't escape the jailer put them into the inner dungeon and clamp their feet in the stocks around midnight paul and silas were praying and singing and praising and worshiping hymns of god you put pressure on me and what's going to come out of me is going to be some praise and god inhabits the praises of his people because if i could praise him in a dungeon this is what happens god will show up anywhere you praise him right now it's not a time to cry it's not a time to get depressed it's not a time to give up it's not a time to be hopeless it's a lot of time to commit suicide it's a time to praise god in your darkest moment and watch god show up and this is it suddenly after the praise after the praying there was a massive earthquake after the persecution and the prison was shaken to its foundations and all the doors and all the doors come on the door of depression has to let you go come on the door of anxiety has to let you go the door of fear has to let you go the door come on that door that you feel a torment has to let you go oh the doors immediately flew open and the chains of every prisoner fell off there was a chain reaction and all god needed was a christian that could handle some persecution and still praise them come on everybody get caught give god just one more pray let's all stand up pastor robert pastor robert come on let's close this out everybody stand up now i'm telling you it's time to get on fire it's time to get over yourself because god is saying if you'll just give your life to me i'll take care of you i'll protect you i'll put a joy in you that's not controlled by your outside circumstance because the joy is not going to be dependent on how well you're doing in this physical realm is going to depend on what's inside of you does anybody want some joy that's unspeakable come on some peace come on some peace let's get it from god let's sell out you know i'm gonna have pastor robert close us out in prayer but i'll tell you i love you church but i ain't playing games people are dying people are coming to these altars and some of them after they leave here are committing suicide i ain't playing we need some disciple makers we need the power of god come on we come on we need the power of god we got to stop being offended let's let go of all the all the come on all the drama let go of all that and just make this real simple i'm a disciple of jesus christ that makes disciples of jesus christ i'm going to live for him till the day i die i'm a humble servant ready to reach the world with the gospel god bless you one more time let's give the lord one more big hand yes let's give jesus a shout of praise today praise will come out when i'm persecuted we will worship god when we're persecuted [Music] how many receive that word today look at the person next to you and tell them when i get persecuted i will worship god i will worship god when i get persecuted praise will come out of me praise will come out of me how many praises do we have in the house today doesn't matter what come against me i will praise god now as we come to a close in this service everybody here in this auditorium we don't want anybody moving the only people that are moving right now is our altar team right now or our team that's getting ready to pray right now you're watching online right now this is your moment as well you know pastor marco mentioned it right before the sermon so much tragedy people losing their lives did you see what happened in florida half of that condos just went down how many seen that how many seen out of the news you got to watch the news just for a little bit i don't know how big that that building was 10 15 stories i was huge one two o'clock in the morning half the condos just collapsed they got 50 60 people dead that they found it's been over 14 days they still can't they're still searching for bodies in a rubbish and then a storm hits so half of the condo falls down there's still a hundred over a hundred people still missing moms are waiting to see if they're gonna find their son in the rubbish husbands are waiting to see if they're gonna find their wives in the rubbish well it's been over 14 days now a storm hits the only thing i can think about what's tape what's taking them so long to get through that rubbish i can't even i can't even fathom if i was at work and my wife was in that rubbish i can't even fathom that they showed a father the other day just crying and crying they said can they just find my son i just want them to find my son in the rubbish two o'clock in the morning that happened most of them were fast to sleep they had no idea that their lives would be taken at two o'clock in the morning by just a collapse of a building doesn't make any sense why it happened so pastor why are you sharing that story at the end of this you guys we're not promised tomorrow we're not promised tomorrow we're not promised the next two hours we're not promised the next 45 minutes the bible says this our life is like a vapor we're here for one second and we're gone that's how quick life is we've done so many funerals here within funerals of babies of teenagers of of young adults and yeah the elderly but tomorrow is not promised to you tomorrow is not promised to me so here it goes if you're saying pastor you know what i i need to dedicate my life to jesus i want to make jesus the lord of my life or pastor i need to come back to him i've been backslidden i need to come back pastor i'm not right with god okay let me ask you this question here's the most important question anybody could ever ask you pay close attention online pay close attention here goes if you were to die tonight all the way in the back row if you were to die tonight where will you spend eternity well pastor i want to go to heaven well how do we get to heaven this is it by placing our faith in jesus it's not about a religion i'm not saying hey everybody come join the pentecostals it's not about a religion it's about a personal relationship with jesus christ jesus the one who died on the cross for us so here he goes i'm gonna count to three don't let this moment pass you by you're a young adult don't think well i got to the five years i'm still young you're not promised tomorrow young people teenagers you're not promised tomorrow so here it goes i'm gonna count to three if you're saying pastor i need jesus i want jesus to forgive me of all my sins i want to make sure if i die today that i would go straight to heaven that is me on the count of three all across this auditorium all those watching online when i say the number three get ready to lift your hand up as fast as you can you're gonna say pastor that's me i need jesus i wanna get right with god i wanna surrender to god today that's me i'm gonna count to three don't let nothing hold your hand down here it goes one you're online you're watching get ready to slip your hand up as well you're at work you're in your living room right now get ready to slip your hand heaven's gonna see your hand right there when i count to three all the crosses out of torum raise your hands if you want to receive jesus as your savior one two three right now raise your hands raise your hands i see your hand over here i see your hand over there i see your hand over there keep your hands up keep asking your hand there i'll see you and there'll see a hand there i'll see you handy i'll see your hand there i see your hand there i see two hands way in the back yeah see those hands i see one two three four five hands way in the back over the yes all those who just raised your hands i want you to come meet me over here in the front and i'm going to lead you in a prayer salvation today all the way in the back come on down come on down this is your day

Channel: The Way World Outreach

Views: 1,470

Rating: 4.9285712 out of 5

Keywords: Jesus Christ, Christian Church, Southern California Churches, Online Ministry, The Way World Outreach, San Bernardino

Id: oQK56gZ1PIw

Length: 53min 14sec (3194 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 08 2021