Jesus, The Bridegroom | Michael Koulianos | Sunday Night Service

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the holy spirit have his way in you right now oh you're glorious lord [Music] you're glorious forget about everything right now and give the lord your full attention you are holy holy holy holy holy can you just for about 30 seconds just sing softly in the spirit oh that's right just gently let your mouth drip drip a love song [Music] or [Music] singing the holy ghost singing the holy [Music] god [Music] just get lost get lost and sing to your bridegroom tonight sing to your bridegroom the lover of your soul let me hear you aaron aaron aaron sing into the mic sing unto the spirit janae singing the spirit on the mic [Music] something happening right now [Music] that's right [Music] holy holy holy [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] none like you jesus none like you jesus it's his presence it's his presence his presence keeps [Music] is [Music] this is where lives are changed it's right here it's right this is where here break since where hard hearts melt sin is in his glory this is where sickness dies right here hmm wonderful jesus [Applause] [Music] shining like the sun lord shining [Music] release your beauty tonight release your beauty into this room [Music] foreign and we lift our hands together as a family in in our father's presence just think we worship before the same throne that they worship before in heaven father tonight we come with hands lifted and hearts lifted and eyes lifted worthy is the lamb seated upon the throne you're seated high above the earth of the cares of this world a wonderful holy spirit i pray that your perfect will would be done in this room but your perfect will would be done [Music] in the life of everyone watching every home that you would fill every home with your power with your glory that jesus would be so real to us here and to everyone watching in every nation [Music] every college campus every prison let that prison feel like heaven oh come on pray with me let that i feel that's so strong let that prison turn into heaven on earth oh jesus oh jesus do it do it you are the fairest of ten thousand rightly do we love you you are all together lovely now holy spirit reveal jesus tonight move in power save the lost in jesus name i need your agreement save the lost in jesus name heal the sick tonight in jesus name let us burn with first love tonight in jesus name touch our children tonight and jesus touch every child in children's church and in this room reveal your glory wonderful lord in the face of jesus if you believe that and you agree i want you to say amen in faith now i want you to lift a shout and feel it and praise oh jesus you're wonderful you are wonderful you are wonderful wonderful you are holy who is like you who is like you who has left the lord jesus jesus jesus who's like the lord [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] oh praise breaks fetters praise breaks hallelujah worthy worthy is the lamb come and inhabit our praise come and live in our praise live in our praise lord [Applause] [Music] hallelujah oh man oh my [Music] wow you better watch out dom because i might just run right over you i don't even know where i'm at right now oh come on gosh thank you jesus who is like you oh who is like holy holy is the lord of hosts the earth is filled with your glory oh hallelujah oh man grab a seat grab a seat sell somebody just whatever oh wow no one moving around here for a second stay in your seats hallelujah thank you worship team let the worship team know you love them would you please oh thank you jesus close your eyes would you please find a seat quickly for the next 10 minutes i'm going to ask that nobody move for the next two hours i'm going to ask that nobody i understand i understand just give me these next 10 to 15 at least oh close your eyes holy spirit you're the one you're the one who does it it is not by might and it is not by power it is by my spirit saith the lord of heaven's hosts or heaven's armies you are the mighty lord and so right now i ask that you would charge our hearts and charge this place with the reality of your tangible presence let nothing else matter to us but you in jesus name i pray father that as i preach your gospel that hearts which feel your love your word says to teach us to number our days do it lord let eternity be more real than momentary pleasure tonight come holy spirit and wave your sickle bring jesus a mighty harvest tonight say amen in jesus name oh wow hallelujah hallelujah i want to talk to you tonight about the love of god i'm going to read a quick passage from matthew 19. i've been reading mother vesselia's book here a bit smile for him go to matthew 19 verses 16 through 22 and just stay with me here i want everyone absolutely focused there's nothing more important than a man's soul a woman's soul matthew 19 16 now behold one came and said to him good teacher what good things shall i do that i might have eternal life so he said to him why do you call me good no one is good but one that is god that was jesus's way of saying if you're going to call me good you better call me god but if you want to enter into life keep the commandments he said to him which ones jesus said you shall not murder you shall not commit adultery you shall not steal you shall not bear false witness honor your father and your mother and you shall love your neighbor as yourself the young man said to him all these things i've kept from my youth what do i still lack jesus said to him if you want to be perfect go sell what you have and give it to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven and come and follow me but when the young man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had great positions later it tells us that jesus loved this young man the greek word is a deep pulling longing love a passionate love a pursuing love i've been blown away lately by the reality that jesus left the throne of heaven to come and be born in a manger made for animals what type of love is this what type of humility is this that god almighty would run to our rescue say thank you jesus this is amazing love i want to share two stories that are true they both happened in my family and they have to do with the way two different family members transitioned into eternity one was my grandmother the other was my uncle we grew up in a very uh traditional which is not bad family we were very committed to our local church which is clearly not bad but nobody had ever simply shared the gospel with us so at the age of 12 right here in this city i heard the gospel for the first time as a little boy my father-in-law was preaching i had epstein-barr disease i had been in bed for the good part of a year and my cousin who was a greek priest had been filled with the holy spirit after reading good morning holy spirit when his son was filled with the holy spirit he spoke perfect aramaic and began to quote the entire chapter entire chapters of the book of isaiah his father the greek priest actually took him to the synagogue and asked the rabbi what's going on here he said your greek son is speaking aramaic and quoting the book of isaiah now one thing i can tell you about our family is that we didn't speak aramaic how many of you know most of your cousins don't speak uh ancient aramaic this was a great wonder in our family and that same priest brought me here to this city to forest city road what was the address 7601 forest city road orlando christian center and i walked in and heard the gospel i felt for the second time in my life the jesus that i had heard about in the bible i felt him in the room how many of you feel jesus tonight in the room how many of you would agree that it feels a little different in here than it does at a theme park may it be that all the theme parks feel this way god can do that as well that would be a miracle i probably still wouldn't go so that night i heard the gospel i saw people healed i saw a skin irritation disappear off of a lady's arm in the road behind me i heard devils leaving during worship i saw people throwing up during worship i know you're supposed to do that during worship i prefer that you don't do that here unless you have to we can help you out and after that first worship set my father-in-law pastor benny took the platform and he said if you want to know the jesus that we've been singing to come and give him your life tonight and that's exactly what i did i ran down gave my heart to jesus that night and took my bible back home with me underlined everything in in that bible i didn't even know what it meant you know you're in love with jesus when you underline the genealogies at 12. you don't even know what they mean but they feel right they move your heart may we all start reading the scriptures with our hearts rather than our brains and so i went home i take my bible out walk through greek town where i grew up and preached the gospel the best i knew how my technique wasn't so great i hadn't been trained so i would start off by telling people they were going to hell it was true but maybe there's a better lead-in i started with my aunt who at the time was probably 68 or 69 years old i said thea that's the greek word for ant in greek i said you need to give your life to jesus i'll never forget it we were sitting over the the the dinner table and she goes oh really and why is that i said because you're going to go to hell and she said well she said what did you just say i said you're going to go to hell she said how can you say that to me i said because i had my bible i said because the bible says you're going to go to hell if you don't give your life to jesus she said wha well what do you think i am i said a sinner i was just 12. she said if you call me a sinner one more time i'll slap the lips right off your face so i backed off and discovered the power of praying for the lost oh man i'd take my little bible walk through greek town and just preach the gospel then i started to pray for family and they were slow to come slow to come to jesus anybody there right now anybody ever been there okay and so for years for maybe uh 15 years no i would say no sorry eight to nine years we prayed for my grandmother to truly give her life to jesus she was a wonderful woman but at the time she had not put all of her hope and trust in the lord himself and how many of you know that our own righteousness is a filthy rag in comparison to the to god's perfection and so my mom and dad started a little church in a town called tarpon springs florida they met in a little uh trailer like a double-wide it seemed almost like a classroom trailer a modular unit and one day my grandmother showed up to church by that time her her knees were not so good she she couldn't walk very well she needed a cane or a walker i remember that and my dad was preaching the gospel my dad had been gloriously saved my dad had walked in to a meeting like this in 1999 i believe i had been saved for about a year my dad had told my mother if you take my kids back to that crazy church in orlando one more time i will divorce you and so my mom said have you ever gone a night without food my mom's greek she can throw down he said no are your clothes wrinkled no do you ever have dirty clothes no do i keep a clean house yes have i ever denied you no there's one thing you're not taking from me jesus [Applause] said you can have it all i'm not i am not leaving jesus for you now i'm not saying she should have taken me or not but it worked out okay so i said ma you got to get me back to orlando because there's some i was at 12 years old i was begging my mother to drive me three hours each way and we did it twice a week 10 a.m service we got in that line we got in line at eight to get into the ten and then my father-in-law likes to say that he never had a service over two hours i'm like you never i preached a message shorter than two hours bub trust me they went to two he goes no no no never never had a one short longer than two hours mikey i go okay bob if that if that it maybe felt like two hours to you but trust me the 10 a.m would end at two we'd run to shonies just up the road here remember shoni's we get in line shoni's is the pentecostal marriage supper did we get to shoni's go to the buffet eat the popcorn shrimp the mac and cheese as fast as we could get back in line back in line by 3 30 for the six o'clock wait all afternoon run to our seats just to be in the presence of god you know god's moving when your kids are begging you to drive them three hours not to the youth service to be in god's presence i feel that same glory it's the same fragrance it's the same gentle jesus so my mom took me my dad found out he went to that greek priest he said are you going up to benny's service to that crazy church my cousin the greek priest said i am you're he said did my kids and my wife go up there father he said yeah they have he said i am driving there i have the papers ready i am driving to orlando to serve evelyn the divorce papers in the building so my dad drove up and my father my cousin the priest said look before before you divorce her before you give her those papers can we just have a talk on the way up there i don't think the talk worked very well so i was on the second row right down there kind of like right where jordan is and i was worshiping jesus and my cousin nudged me he goes bro we got a problem we were singing alleluia most likely most likely i said what's the problem i was caught up in glory like how there are no problems in god's presence he goes your dad just walked in i go we got a pro we got a proper i didn't know anything about binding and losing or running i said my dad just came i kept my eyes closed he goes yeah where is he he goes walking toward you so then my cousin moved and my dad sat right next to me so i didn't even look at him i was like straight up oh god though he slay me yay will i trust him and he happened to walk in right before the miracle started and the people were coming up to testify of their miracle and my dad started mocking god he said that's not real people started falling under the power of god he said that's not real and then he told the lord right there in the second row as a lady walked up a young woman with her one-year-old baby she was in her 20s he said god if this is real let that when benny prays for the lady let her not react if he prays for the baby the one-year-old i know that baby can't fake it let the baby react to the power of god and so my father-in-law prayed for the mom and the mom just kind of stared at him nothing happened and then he touched a little baby just a little baby on the mom like her the baby's head was on the mom's shoulder he touched that little baby's head and when he did the baby's head fell to the side and when the baby's head fell to the side my dad went flying through the air in the second row slammed into the pew while i i'm like i have my hands raised and i'm like it looked like he got shot by a sniper he his back smashed into the pew you have to understand my dad was on the board of our cathedral my dad was in the military my dad went to law school this is not the kind of guy that you think would just shake rattle and roll he flew in to the pew slid under the pew and started hyperventilating oh man i was afraid to look but i had to part of me was grateful part of me was like that's what you get that is exactly what you deserve that's what you needed it's exactly what you needed he was down there for an hour sobbing shaking under the power of god he stood up after an hour lifted his hands and said said jesus i give you my life tonight receive my life he was born again right there in the second row and then he looked at the whole family and repented and said forgive me for what i've done my life belongs to jesus now come on give the lord praise fast forward that same father my dad planted a church the guy who was resisting all of a sudden became a pastor jesus gets the last word i said jesus gets the last word and so in that service my dad was preaching the gospel my grandmother had come in with her cane my dad preached the same gospel i'm gonna preach tonight and when he made the altar call all of a sudden i looked over my right shoulder and my my 80 probably i don't know two three-year-old grandmother i could hear her cane shaking on that mod floor and it took her i don't know how long and i think she was the only one that day to give her life to jesus and it took minutes and she didn't care because she discovered what i tell you every week we don't come to the altar we come to jesus and he's worth the walk i said he's worth the walk and so i watched her get saved that night that day a few years later jesse and i had met our wedding was approaching i got a phone call saying yaya that's that's grandmother in greek yaya's not doing well you need to get home when i got home it was clear to me that she was going to transition into heaven and that was the first time i got to be with someone for days before their transition and just before she passed the entire family was gathered around her we were worshiping the lord we were singing this was three weeks before my wedding and just before she passed in that wonderful atmosphere she sat up and started pointing to different probably to angels that's what the scriptures teach that the angels receive us into glory on that day and she began to point and all of a sudden she sat up and said i love my family as she was in between heaven and earth she laid back down and ultimately went on to be with jesus in the glory of god that's the power of jesus when the scripture says upon this rock jesus i will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail it doesn't mean what we think that means it actually means the gates of hell are the gates of death not us running around trying to conquer every city though that's okay in a way that scripture is pointing to the gospel being so powerful that the gates of hell the gates of death themselves cannot stop jesus in your life job speaks of the gates and they speak of death jesus has conquered death that's a glorious way to go then i have another family member an uncle named bob jesse and i were married i got a call from my brother my mom and dad my uncle bob had come down with cancer i believe in the lungs and my mom and dad were with him my brother was still living in florida at the time jess and i were living in dallas as it became clear that he was going to pass away my family stayed with him in the hospital and my mom and dad day after day day after day begged my uncle to receive jesus to hear the gospel because they knew he was going to pass and he would say things like this i was born a catholic i am going to die a catholic don't tell me about your jesus now let me say clearly there are many jesus loving catholics all over the world he could not see jesus day after day my parents would say bob come on the hour's approaching don't you understand what the scripture says what good is it for a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul so my brother went in to visit and he said uncle bob can i pray for you he said no get away from me he was so bitter about his sickness and so my brother called me and i wrote jess we'll remember a four letter from dallas spelling out the clearest declaration of the gospel i knew to give and i wrote it out and i fedexed it to his wife my aunt and i said get i overnighted it and i said get this to uncle bob immediately next day she got it and she said michael wrote a letter to you from dallas please read it she went to give it to him he batted it away he said i don't want to hear about that jesus again so my brother went to him again in person he said uncle bob please just hear the gospel receive jesus and my uncle kicked him out he said get out of this room i want you to hear the mercy of god how many opportunities did my uncle have how many did god give him to secure his eternity and so my brother was kicked out of the room he was walking down the hall in the hospital listen to the mercy of the lord and the holy spirit said are you going to give up that easy this is after weeks are you going to give up that easy go back in and tell him again friend let me tell you something nobody will stand before the throne and if they miss heaven nobody will point at god and say it was your fault christ has made a full payment jesus has paid the price my brother went back in he said uncle bob god just sent me back in this is hours before he's dying before his death uncle bob please hear what i have to say he said get away from me with this jesus so my brother left either that day or a few days later my parents were around the table or the bed in the hospital and death began to set in and all of a sudden this moment came when my uncle be sat up over the last few minutes of his life and began to punch listen to me and kick and scream and tried to defend himself as the devils of hell came for him he began to fight and the hospice nurse ran in and she said i've witnessed i think it was 500 or more deaths she said i can tell he doesn't know the lord i've done this for years she said quick let's just sing a worship song to ease it to ease the suffering so he began to sing amazing grace and he'd stop fighting and then he started fighting again they'd worship again and he saw he did not receive jesus and to my deepest pain i can only tell you what my parents saw with their eyes that he transitioned into eternity fighting the very devil that jesus had defeated my grandmother went to be with jesus in glory and in peace my uncle transitioned fighting the demons of hell why are you speaking this way because the hour is too late to play games with your soul with every head about an eye closed jesus has made full provision your eternity has been paid for jesus said on the cross it is finished there is nothing in this world worth your soul there is no reason to leave tonight wondering if you're truly born again there is no reason to leave tonight choosing something that does not bring life only jesus himself brings life i want you right now to ponder your eternity ponder the security of your soul peter said make your election sure all of us will either close our eyes one day or behold the lord in the sky and for those who've given him our entire lives for those who received him and his work on the cross and the precious blood we will experience jesus as a loving bridegroom for those of us who've lived in the world and given jesus a little shot but chosen the world day in and day out we will not meet him as a bridegroom but as a righteous judge [Music] and in our own merit we will stand guilty jesus has made provision friends if you want to give jesus your life tonight or you want to recommit your life to jesus tonight whatever that sounds like i really don't care i just want you to obey the holy spirit right now i want you to lift your hand you say i am not gambling with my soul i want to give my life to jesus i want everyone to stand please please if you raised your hand or you wish you did i want you to come forward immediately right now get down here right now get down here if you came with somebody listen who you know needs jesus you know in your heart come on you know in your heart they need jesus i want you to look him in the eye and say come on i'll take you down there you know you need to give your life to jesus look they're coming come on come give your life to jesus come on thank you lord i want you to look that person in the eye right now and do the work of an evangelist you do the work of an evangelist say look do you need to get down here kids if while i'm speaking you feel like you need to give your life to jesus i want you to look at your mom and dad and say i want to go down there mom and dad nothing else nothing else matters right now [Music] hallelujah hallelujah i give you praise lord look at this precious young man [Music] wow thank you lord can we give the lord praise can we give the lord praise just wonderful babe can you and ben and look at this little boy giving his heart to jesus tonight come on ben will you stand come on just got jess gather around them team come on come on this is beautiful look look at these children giving their lives to the lord thank you father oh come on give jesus praise thank you lord thank you jesus come on man come on come on thank you jesus oh don't nothing nothing nothing is worth it nothing is worth it nothing is worth it nothing is worth it if you need to be free listen if you need to be free from sin tonight you come and give your heart to jesus he will set you free you are you do not have to remain a slave jesus and the power of his blood will break every bondage tonight so the bible says whom the sun sets free is free indeed you can actually live a free life hallelujah hallelujah come come thank you lord there's more children more children giving their lives to the lord come on [Applause] thank you father come on give the lord praise this is wonderful come on give your life to jesus [Applause] it doesn't matter i don't care if you grew up in church if you're being pierced with the gospel right now come and respond and give your heart to the lord those of you watching at home you need to give your life to jesus right now and you know it i want to invite you get on your knees as a family and i want you to pray with us children you do the same you can join these kids who are here right now this is amazing i hope the cameras are picking this up this is precious and holy would everybody who came forward just please look at me all of you look at me tonight you're going to give the lord your life fully and a glorious exchange will take place his life for yours yours for his he's not changing you tonight he is completely replacing you newness of life newness of life you're going to leave absolutely brand new and i want to say again as as i'm sharing this with them if you feel like you need to give your heart to the lord you will not interrupt me at no point at no point the lord's touching them deeply all you need to do tonight is the best you know how hand your life over can we all do that can we all do that come on come give your life to the lord you father thank you father thank you father you can come with him you can come is that your boy he should be crying it's beautiful let's all pray i want you in your seats to stretch your hands i want those who've come forward just to lift your hands just lift your hands in faith we're going to declare this out loud the best we can are you ready are you ready say this heavenly father forgive my sin wash me with the blood of jesus i have sinned against you jesus i believe that you are the son of the living god that you came to the earth and lived a perfect life jesus i believe that you shed your blood and died on the cross to take away my sin and to destroy death jesus i believe three days later you were raised from the dead you are the king of kings the very son of god and jesus i believe that you ascended back to heaven and that you are seated at the right hand of the father and that you are coming back again as king of kings and lord of lords jesus receive my life come into my heart and save my soul i put my faith in you and you alone just keep your hands lifted say this jesus fill me with your holy spirit all of you in your seats to stretch your hands towards these people father come upon them in power touch these young people touch them touch them touch them with the power of your spirit come upon them use them use them use them lord to save use them jesus to bring your saving power to many let tonight be a night they will never forget the fire of the holy ghost come upon them upon these young children in jesus name upon these moms and dads in the name of jesus upon every person who's here wonderful holy spirit come come in your beauty come in your beauty and show them how real you are do to them which you did in me thank you father thank you father wonderful lord wonderful lord i want you to lift a shout of on praise hallelujah hallelujah oh come on give the lord praise hallelujah thank you jesus hallelujah now for all of you who came all of you who came forward uh john are you here okay there's john keep your hands up i want you guys listen you're all gonna do this say yes i will please look at me if you came forward look at me in the eyes say yes i will all right john turn around look at john i know it's hard when you're on the ground but that's john i want you to meet him at the new believer's table it is right outside that door we're just going to make sure you have a bible we're going to make sure you can walk with the lord in victory and experience true discipleship there's a few things you need to do one pray every day two read your bible you remembering this read your bible three get baptized in water ben and i would love to do that we're a good team we'll get you baptized in the water we think we're baptizing twice a month here now isn't that awesome four you need to give your heart to the lord with a people that's called church you need to plug into a church we'd love for it to be here if god calls you somewhere else go but just make sure to become part of the life of that church okay lastly lastly i want you to go home tonight and say jesus you are the great baptizer in the holy spirit light me up and use my life okay all right can we give the lord praise let's let's help them out let's help them up you can go back to your seats we will see you after service come on give the lord praise come on give the lord praise if you gave your life to jesus tonight while you're watching i want you to text that number on the screen text more jesus to 321-320-8040 text more jesus to that number right now if you're watching from around the world you can be seated let's welcome ben [Music] [Applause] fitzgerald [Applause] oh wow uh when i was behind that boy the both of those boys you know i went to dinner with those boys about five nights ago in jacksonville florida at their house their father's here he's a precious man when these boys were giving their heart to the lord just now i could feel that this was i mean you think about heaven what jesus went to the cross for the yes that he desires the fruit the life that he wants to give every person i could feel as those boys were on the ground there i could feel it all of heaven the pleasure of all of heaven that that was exactly what the cross was for even if it's a five-year-old boy a seven-year-old boy girl puts her hand up and says yes jesus i'll give you my life all of heaven right now is rejoicing way more than we are i mean they are rejoicing like crazy over what just happened then over every life every single life it's pretty easy right now to do the offering because you realize what we're giving to we're giving to the king who's gave given us everything but i'm a little bit out of it i'm sorry that just really hit my spirit seeing these boys give the life to god i'm shaking actually and i don't usually do that i just feel a little bit of the reverence of god on the way here um i'm so sorry guys i'm usually good at uh holding things together but like i'm shaking and i just feel the fear of the lord and the reverence of god and i just think that things are much more eternal and much more real than we think they are sometimes we think we're in church really we're seated with christ in heavenly places the things that are happening are eternal they're significant they're important they're of great importance every person's life that was just committed to the lord is a new life that is eternally sealed in the blood of the lamb a new creation i mean to give to something i used to give so much money to the world i gave everything i had to drinking to i gave everything i had i would never hold back when it came to buying an extra drink that cost eight dollars i would never hold back to when it came to having that last cocktail or last shot of vodka i would never hold back there you know i i i find it strange sometimes when we wrestle in our heart with god he's so faithful he's so life-changing life-giving and he's given everything and i'm just struggling right now man my heart is like i'm my heart is thumping bro i'm so sorry like i i just uh i i i think that that we need to understand the hour we're in the focus of the hour is the lord and it is the gospel there's no other reality that will change people and those children right now all of heaven they look back on that cross they look back on the lamb the work that he did for the regeneration of a human soul to become one with god what greater thing is there what greater thing is there to give to it shouldn't be that we need offering messages we should have to someone should say it's offering time and people should run to the front and say i've got it all to give just show me the bucket we shouldn't have to be convinced when heaven became bankrupt for our life for a little boy like that to be made new we shouldn't be convinced real hard but i'll tell you what god said to me on the way here i just drove from jacksonville now i said lord because i can preach to you from many different angles i can hit the ball from many angles here on the offering messages i can bring up scripture to you that would convince you it's the right thing to do and i said lord your streets are paved with gold what is the offering we give when i when i give a tithe what does it do for you and the lord spoke clearly to me in the car he said it communicates you trust me it communicates that you trust when i say that there'll be you won't even have enough storehouses test me in this when i say show me your tithe and i'll show you my faithfulness this is the trust we give to god when we give him our money and what is money it's not a little note you have it's time it's intimate time that you spent to earn that money so you're giving god a sacrifice of your time you're putting the time that you spent to earn that money into the hand of god and it's a trust thing and i said that's amazing god and immediately i thought of this scripture in psalm 37 it says i was young and now i'm old yet i have never seen this is david talking yet i've never seen a righteous man forsaken or his seed begging bread ever david could say and all the psalmist could say all those who wrote the word of god anybody who put their trust in the lord anyone who lived that way was never forsaken never have you gone a day where you have forsaken could you put your hand up in this room if you ever remember a day where you were forsaken where you didn't have enough there's no hands he said to me that communicates trust when you give your tenth when you give your tithe to me and so i asked him another question because i started to think of all these scriptures and i thought about my money is time my money is effort it's sacrifice it's not just a note i have it's what i it's what i did to get the note it's me being faithful in my job it's it's what is it god it's time it's so i'm putting my trust back into a kingdom in time and then i said god what does it communicate to you when people give more than the tithe you know what he said to me it communicates that i'm worth it to them i'm worth more than the tithe and the principle than the money i'm worth more than the time they spent i'm worth more to them and i said that's what i want to be that's i want to be one who gives more because you're worth more to me and i thought about that woman with the alabaster box you know who she was right mary magdalene or some people say it's either that mirror or mary of bethany but if it was mary magdalene it means that all she got that alabaster box worth a year's wages what she had inside her hand she would have saved everything for she would have worked hard for as a prostitute she would have taken all of her life savings and seen somebody worth more and she she broke that and all the other disciples and all the other people in the room are like what is she doing she's doing something stupid this much money shouldn't be spent on a person's feet but i love her offering she gave an offering of worth she looked at the king she never knew him until then but she looked at the king and she's like that person whoever he is he's worth giving everything to and you know she could have easily unscrewed the top of that alabaster jar and poured the oil on his feet but it says she broke it you know why she broke it she made sure it could never be used for anything but him she broke it open so that she didn't have to pour a little bit and squeeze the the top back on and have a little bit more for herself have a little bit extra and sometimes i think god he doesn't look at what we give he looks at what we keep and how much we trust in all this other stuff and which we put so much weight on our money when instead of wait on that we should put worth on jesus i want to encourage you tonight don't give to god just to tithe give to god what he's worth to you give to the lord what he puts in your heart joyfully as it says in the book of corinthians the lord loves it when we joyfully give not begrudgingly but because the spirit in us he just wants to cry out other father you're so worthy you saved this kid's life god you're so amazing i who cares if i spit i'd rather spend this extra fifteen dollars or extra fifty dollars on you than starbucks i'd rather pour an offering out that is worth something and i'd rather give that to you where i know i can never get it back but i know i'm sowing into an eternal kingdom into an eternal king who i have intimacy with and you're worth more to me than the dollars in my wallet i will put my trust in you and my worth in you it's trust and worth do you trust your king you've never had a day where you're forsaken and how much is he worth to you you get to make that decision if you stay with the tenth and give the tithe god honours the faithfulness god would never say to you how dare you not show me how much i'm worth that's not what i'm saying to you i am saying this to you though when we give the tenth to god we're we're showing we trust you we trust the principle and we trust your word but when we say god i want to be generous because i love you more then we're saying this not only do i trust your word but you're worth more to me so i want to give you more and it's valentine's day and i'm single so jesus is my valentine so so i want to encourage you even if you're married or single your valentine the one with the sweetest kisses is the king of glory so why don't we give to him a joyful offering on behalf of who how good he is and how he just saved these lives so i'm just going to pray and then and then i'll uh we're going to put it in the bucket it's going to be at the front here again okay so king jesus we love you we want to give you not just a tithe we'd like to give you an offering today lord jesus out of all the loves in the world we say we love you the most we love you more than money we love you more than false security we love you more than what we could trust in we love the fact that you take children and their little hearts when they say god i give you my life all of heaven weeps and rejoices with joy because you can even make the smallest life a brand new one in you lord jesus we want you to be our valentine all across the world people watching and in this room jesus we choose you as our valentine lord and tonight we want to give you an offering of love and i pray you'd speak to every person in this room those watching online of what they should give right now and just whatever you hear in your heart just have faith just have faith whatever you hear in your heart just trust the lord and have faith in jesus mighty name and everybody said amen amen amen let ben know you love him please love you so much bro you if you'd like to give by text to give you can text give to that same number please and if this ministry has been a blessing to you for those of you who watch every week i hope it has did you guys know that there are small groups meeting all over america and the world just watching sunday night and they come together in houses and god is touching them it's amazing so you're welcome to come give let's bless the lord if you'd like to get my text to give the number is right there or check there it is i'm not going to try that again seated on his throne seated on his throne jesus [Music] is [Music] you're holy every voice [Music] oh the lord is here lord is here sing it [Music] again [Music] i saw the lord i saw the lord [Music] is [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] about jesus the bridegroom i'm going to ask that everybody to find their seat quickly and uh it seems like uh i don't know it seems like carla maybe some seats have opened i think some people had to leave so if there's people in the overflow carla you can bring them back in you can bring them in here i don't know maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me but it looks like they did it's valentine's day and you're in church you either are super holy or you need help with your love life i i'm not going to comment on that i was just gonna say hi to the marrows but that would be a horrible lead-in i love you guys nathan and lydia thank you for being here so much you guys grateful for the marrows and shake the nations and oh all god is doing with nathan morris and rachel and romeros we love you so much such an honor to have you here love you [Applause] all right jesus our heavenly husband i had for oh i didn't i would sound like a horrible husband and pastor if i i was about to say i'd totally forgotten about valentine's day i did not um i did a chocolate spread for jess this morning and she's fasting but i had to do it because if i didn't it was one of those where you're in the dog house so i'm like i know she's fasting but i'm going to just put it out there and this little sophia i did the same for sophia and sophia goes sophia goes hey mom she whispered in the kitchen she goes but buzz up this game [Laughter] our heavenly husband take your bibles to matthew 22 verse 23. my plan is to finish here by 8 45 and then sandy i appreciate the faith thank you so much [Applause] we actually do need to have a very important convo uh before we dismiss tonight i need to bring you up to speed on a few things that are very pressing and important matthew 22 verse 23-40 the same day the sadducees who say there is no resurrection came to him and asked him saying teacher moses said that if a man dies having no children his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother now there were with us seven brothers the first died after he had married who even thinks of this stuff and i'll tell you the religious think this way anyways let me keep going and having no offspring left his wife to his brother likewise the second also and the third even to the seventh you can this is like calculus last of all the woman died also therefore in the resurrection whose wife of the seven will she be i mean really gosh for they all had her jesus answered and said to them you are mistaken not knowing the scriptures nor the power of god now if you're going to stumble in your revelation of the lord it's typically in those two areas the scriptures and the power of god you might know the text and not know the the person and power of the spirit or you might have you might be full of shaka baba's but you don't even know john 3 16. both are a problem trust me both are a problem you're mistaken not knowing the scriptures nor the power of god for in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like angels of god in heaven but concerning the resurrection of the dead have you not read which was spoken to you by god saying i am the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob aren't you happy he's a god of covenant god is not the god of the dead but of the living say thank you jesus but when the multitudes heard this they were astonished at his teaching well yeah compared to their combo i mean jesus is amazing but can you imagine hearing what they wanted to talk about and then what jesus just laid down light years apart but when the pharisees heard that he had silenced the sadducees they gathered together since he checked their enemies then they gathered together and started talking to jesus again then one of them a lawyer asked him a question testing him not a good idea to test the word himself teacher which is the great commandment and the law jesus said to him you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind this is the first and great commandment by the way mark adds strength this is the first and great commandment and the second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself which is basically the most simple description of the great commission by the way is to love your neighbor as yourself on these two commandments hang all the law and all the prophets the religious wanted to discuss revelation and supposed deep conversation and jesus brought it back to love this is the first and great command now here's a question for you why is it the first and great commandment why is loving the lord with every fiber in our being by the way if we love him with heart soul mind and strength that is the entirety of the human being so here we have jesus himself saying commandment number one the first and great commandment is to be radically in love with your bridegroom why is it number one are you ready it's because that's what he wants most say this out loud close your eyes say jesus you want my love wow i want you to write this down beneath every command in the word of god is a revelation of the heart of god beneath every command in the word of god is a revelation of the heart of god so god is not a robot god is not telling us that the first and great command is to love him with all we are just to do it it's actually the lord saying i want your love more than anything in your life are you with me tonight do you all have too much chocolate all right a little insulin spike what's going on y'all here all right because i'm talking to you about the most important thing in the entire universe loving jesus there's nothing more important there is no crusade that can make up for it if you don't love him you can't get enough people saved to make up for your lack of love there's nothing you can do there's nothing you can give god that would please him if you just decide to keep your love back it's not checks and balance system one time we were sitting with a family member i said you need to give your life to jesus he goes well look he goes should i stop sleeping with chicks i go yeah you should he goes okay well how about if i keep sleeping with chicks and just stop smoking and drinking i go bro this is not like a chex you don't that's not how this thing works okay you're either married to jesus or you're not that's what this you either love him or you don't you're either all in or you're all out according to jesus lukewarm causes him to vomit he don't pet it he vomits it out he doesn't cope with it he doesn't understand it and the reason he doesn't understand it is because if you look at that cross you realize he gave all to you perhaps nothing is more frustrating in a marriage than for one person to give all of their love and for the other to hold it back love is not a feeling though you can feel it love is a choice and at the end of the day love is to draw near god so loved the world that he gave his one and only begotten son god's love has been proven through the life of jesus no other listen nobody has proven their love like jesus has proven his love no one the next time somebody says how do i know god loves me you take them straight back to the life of jesus and it is absolutely undeniable my lord god himself chose to knead a nap on the bow of a boat let alone the cross of calvary when jesus said i thirst he actually meant it love we're talking about the one who neither slumbers nor sleeps all of the sudden became limited to a human body unbelievable his love is proven so it is the first and great command because it's what god wants most his heart is always revealed through the scriptures are you with me okay now check this out if it's the first and great command that means god has priorities or it wouldn't be the first wouldn't it be a shame to give our life to the 11th great command and miss the first and the reason we know god has priorities is because he has a personality which makes him a person that's why it's always shocked me why the church cannot figure out that certain sins are worse than others it is basic theology if i shot you in the face with a 12 gauge god would deal with me differently than if i stubbed your toe by accident with my shoe and didn't say sorry but for some reason all this is confusing and i'll tell you how this happens when relationship leaves when love leaves you can't even think straight say jesus wants my love isaiah 54 5. listen to this for your maker it's your husband are you hearing that for your maker is your husband and if you want to know your husband's name the lord of hosts is his name and your redeemer is the holy one of israel who's the redeemer jesus he is called the god of the whole earth your maker is married to you jesus himself in john 21 15-19 there jesus is restoring peter onto the seashore of galilee jesse and i have been there it's probably our favorite place to go and we're going to take a jesus image tour to israel you'll love it you'll love it don't bother me i'll be eating falafel find someone else to pray for you ben and i will beat shawarma and we'll just stretch our hands towards you yeah we'll be on a boat we'll we'll send you a prayer cloth from the boat jesus is there listen it has death god sees it as a nap hallelujah we don't die we close our eyes and we're truly delivered into the arms of an everlasting father the issue is love john 3 22-29 now we're going to get in there after these things jesus and his disciples came into the land of judea and there he remained with them and baptized now john also was baptizing in aenon near salem because there was much water there and they came and were baptized for john had not yet been thrown into prison then there arose a dispute some of john's disciples and the jews about purification or the washing with water and they came to john and said to him rabbi he who was with you beyond the jordan to whom you have testified behold he is baptizing and all are coming to him john answered and said a man oh this is a great lesson to learn a man can receive nothing unless it has been given to him from heaven that kills manipulation it kills self-promotion it kills jealousy it kills you handing out your business card to go preach the next event or you posting and faking the comments so that somebody would like you enough to have you back this kills all this stuff when you realize when you realize only god can promote you when you realize promotion cometh from above you're truly set free you can't receive anything unless it comes from heaven you yourself bear witness of this that i said listen john is speaking now i am not the christ but i have been sent before him oh listen to this he who has the bride listen carefully he who has the bride is the bridegroom but the friend of the bridegroom who stands and hears him rejoices greatly because of the bridegroom's voice therefore this joy of mine is fulfilled listen carefully one of the ways to know that he was messian king was very simple is he the bridegroom if he is not the groom he cannot be the christ this is what john is saying here i'm not the christ the christ is the one who has the bride now listen to what john says here he says the friend of the bridegroom that being john rejoices to hear the voice of the bridegroom this is so powerful you're going to slap the person next to you i'm telling you it's it's too much it's crazy i mean it is oh i got 11 minutes i guess because we really got to get to something stop laughing sandy all right jeremiah 33 you don't mind the bible do you jeremiah 33 10 verse 16. i'm sorry jeremiah 33 verses 10-16 thus says the lord again there shall be heard in this place of which you say it is desolate without man and without beast in the cities of judah in the streets of jerusalem that are desolate without man and without inhabitant and without beast the voice of joy and the voice of gladness the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride maybe you're wondering who's who they're talking about here the who jeremiah is talking about the voice of those who will say praise the lord of hosts for the lord is good for his mercy endures forever and of those who will bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the lord that's us for i will cause the captives of the land to return as at the first says the lord thus says the lord of hosts in this place which is desolate without man without beasts and in all its cities there shall again be a dwelling place of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down that sounds a little like psalm 23 in the cities of the mountains in the cities of the lowland in the cities of the south in the land of benjamin and the places around jerusalem and in the cities of judah the flocks shall again pass under the hands of him who counts them says the lord behold the days are coming says the lord that i will perform that good thing say that good thing which i have promised to the house of israel into the house of judah it who is jeremiah talking about in those days and at that time i will cause to grow up to david a branch of righteousness jesus he shall execute judgment and righteousness in the earth in those days judah will be saved and jerusalem will dwell safely and this is the name by which she will be called the lord our righteousness when john the baptist said the bridegroom the best man me i rejoice at the voice of the bridegroom he was quoting jeremiah 33. he's saying this bridegroom right here i'm rejoicing because i heard his voice do you know who he is he's the lord our righteousness he's telling israel that their maker is their husband hallelujah now just listen to me you don't have to turn here this is ephesians 5. husbands love your wives well let me back up so i don't make it so i don't cause an argument with you guys let's do both wives submit to your husbands as to the lord you know i don't know why people have a have such an issue when you can see what this actually means it's so beautiful for the husband is the head of the wife as also christ is the head of the church and he is the savior of the body in case some of you husbands as i'm reading are getting shot through with testosterone right now let me tell you what what you are to do therefore just as the church is subject to christ so let the wives be to their own husbands and everything husbands love your wives what's that love look like just as christ also loved the church and gave himself for her gave himself for her gave himself for her this is marriage talk see see the death of jesus is marital it's love talk and gave himself for her that he listen might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word that he might present her to himself a glorious church or a spotless bride without wrinkle again this is marriage talk later on in chapter 5 it says for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh we leave all for jesus jesus left all of heaven for us then he says this is a great mystery i speak concerning christ and the church so here paul is taking marriage and saying this jesus is married to the church jesus is our husband we have to get this may the holy spirit run us through with the revelation that jesus is our heavenly husband and here the cross is compared to the love of a bridegroom unto death gosh this is amazing you know in matthew in mark chapter 2 verses 18 through 20 it said the disciples of john and of the pharisees were fasting then they came and said to him why do the disciples of john and the pharisees fast but your disciples do not fast and jesus said to them this is mark 2 18-20 can the friends of the bridegroom fast while the bridegroom is with them as long as they have the bridegroom with them they cannot fast but the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them and then they will fast in those days now i've heard people say i don't have to fast because jesus hasn't been taken from me i've heard a lot of preachers say that the reason i don't fast is because of mark chapter two he said that the day will come where jesus is taken away and since he's never been taken away from me he lives in my heart i don't have to fast i'm like bro let me let me help you out he ascended to the right hand of the father yes he's in your heart he's in your heart by the spirit absolutely but jesus has ascended why do we fast are you ready because we're in love wait let me help you i'm now i'm getting all wild listen let me throw this thing out of here we fast because we yearn for him let me say it another way we fast because this mortality this body is longing to put on immortality and the reason we long to put on immortality and receive a glorified body is because our husband has one the bride paul as a leader in the bride is saying i long for this mortal body to put on an immortal body this is love talk in a way we fast because we're pulling on him it's marinata come lord jesus it's a passion to disconnect from the world and enter into a life in the spirit no you eat too much your tent grows you extend the tent pegs literally you just want to grow in your capacity i get it just okay so there's this connection listen there's this connection between the food we eat and the mortality the body the flesh and so fasting is the lifestyle of those who miss him yes they have him but they want more it's that maranatha cry it's love talk jesus said the day will come or they'll fast so fasting is it's about more than you launching your ministry it's about more than all this stuff fast because you're in love literally fast because you want to be more aware of his presence our team is on a fast right now day one i sat in my prayer room i got in there it was instantly i was aware of the lord i was smiling i was almost laughing in there it was so delightful the lord just needed a little window to get in just a little window hosea chapter 2 verses 14 through 17. listen to this language therefore behold i will allure her i will bring her into the wilderness and speak comfort to her i will give her vineyards from there and the valley of acor as a door of hope she shall sing there as in the days of her youth as in the day when she came up from the land of egypt and it shall be in that day says the lord that you will call me my husband no longer my master for i will take from her listen i will take from her mouth the names of baals and they shall be remembered by their name no more love listen love incinerates idols now now listen i want you to begin seeing john the baptist's ministry a little differently yes the forerunner yes the prophet but in a way a best man introducing israel to their bridegroom now i want you to couple that with john's message a message of repentance listen carefully a bridal message is by nature a repentance message it has to be you're not hearing me i'm about to throw a guitar into that section a repentance message is the message to the bride it will forever be it's what jesus said to the loveless church return to your first love return to the first works why because the bride must be prepared for her wedding day a wedding is coming a real wedding the wedding will be consummated at the marriage supper of the lamb it will really happen just like god ate with the elders of israel as israel's husband on mount sinai the father listen we'll give the church away as a gift and we will dine at the marriage supper of the lamb and forever we shall be with our husband listen listen yes the message to the church is jesus the message to the world is jesus i don't know where we came up with all these systems and like well i'm a pastor now maybe i stopped preaching jesus no the church needs the gospel and the lost need the gospel jesus is the father's only sermon so whether it's to the lost tell them about jesus you'll never bore a true jesus lover by telling them about jesus i promise you if jesus bores us it's not his fault there's nothing boring about jesus who's listen whose eyes are flames of fire nothing boring about that there's nothing boring about being fully god and fully man at the same time nothing there's nothing boring about wearing eternal scars in glory and every saint and angel will eternally meditate on the one who is fully god and fully man we will never stop staring at him because there's nothing boring about him never never never so i i'm shocked when people go bro you ever stop preaching jesus okay and what would you like me to replace him with 12 steps to interpret something no i'm not going to do that loving jesus is life's greatest achievement you can pack jesus 20 21 jesus 22 jesus 23 you can pack every field between here and tampa you can pack all of a i-4 and billions could get saved and healed but if i don't love jesus i have missed the mark because he raised the dead with judas that one didn't like that one first you clapped i said that you didn't like it judas raised the dead judas cleansed the leper judas healed the sick judas even preached the kingdom god doesn't get people saved through our sermons to endorse us he endorses his word you can't do enough to make up for not loving him and so the message to the church is this repentance message in the last days why god is readying the bride she needs to shine like him she needs to burn like him she needs to be set apart like him she needs to love people like him she needs to look at sickness like he does she needs to be as generous as he is she needs to love the things that he loves and hate the stuff that he hates she needs to hate iniquity so that she can be filled with the oil of gladness she needs to be like the one she's married to and when god is done when the holy spirit is done and every spot and wrinkle has been removed because because she has prepared herself god's not going to read your bible to you he's not going to fast for you he's not going to forgive your neighbor for you he's not going to forgive 70 times 7 so that you don't have to he forgave you 70 times 7 so that you would do the same what's he after romans 8 conforming us into the image of his son but why why a wedding is coming oh man and it's real it's real one day the heavenly bridegroom is going to rip the eastern sky wide open and he's going to come out of his bride feel the lord so strong he's going to come out of his bridal chamber listen he's going to come out of his bridal chamber after waiting thousands of years not as the mere second adam but as the last adam he's the last one there's no one coming after him and one day he's gonna rip that sky open like the veil was torn in the tabernacle and he's gonna come take his bride away oh man now you're happy you're right it's a lot better than talking about judas hallelujah that's what he's doing stirring our souls i don't want less fire i'm not even sure i can handle more but i want it i need the fire of the spirit to just burn michael away burn michael away i don't i don't even want people i don't want people even i don't care i don't want to know about me i want to know about jesus jeremiah 2 go and cry in the hearing of jerusalem saying thus says the lord i remember you the kindness of your youth listen to the lord speak in israel i remember you the kindness of your youth the love of your betrothal when you went after me in the wilderness in a land not sown jesus listen the lord remembers the earliest moments of your salvation i hope you're hearing me gosh lord jesus let this settle in let it just just break us open he remembers every song you ever sang when you shut the door in your bedroom he remembers every tear that fell from your eyes to the pages of your bible he remembers the crazy stuff he used to do he remembers you obeying his voice to tell that person at target about jesus he remembers it all he remembers what what what his presence did to your heart when you first met him when all you could talk about was him he remembers he remembers the hour of the betrothal the earliest days of the engagement when he began to reveal himself to you oh this is holy this is holy ezekiel 16 6 listen and i passed by you and i saw you struggling in your blood i said to you in your blood live that was us and our sin live yes i said to you in your blood live i made you thrive like a plant in the field and you grew and you matured and became very beautiful your breasts were formed your hair grew but you were naked and bare and when i passed by you again i looked upon you indeed your time was the time of love oh what a heavenly husband i said what a heavenly husband so i spread my wing over you his healing presence and covered your nakedness does anybody else remember a day where they did not know jesus and had you walked into a meeting like this you would have felt exposed in the light of god but jesus said i let my grace cover your nakedness i clothed you with my glory yes i swore an oath to you and entered into a covenant this is marital and you became mine says the lord god i washed you in water that's the word yes i though i thoroughly washed off your blood and i anointed you with oil that's the presence of the spirit on us i clothed you an embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin embroidered cloth are ropes of righteousness jesus gave us his own righteousness and he gave us badger skin as shoes why because bad your skin keeps the elements off it's ugly to the eye but it keeps the dirt off it's why it covered the tabernacle it keeps sin away i clothed you with fine linen the innocence of jesus himself and i covered you with silk his own royalty i adorned you with ornaments the very gifts of the spirit i put bracelets on your wrist the person presence and gifts of the spirit a chain on your neck and i put a jewel in your nose that's why we are called love slaves of jesus earrings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head we are kings and priests of an eternal kingdom thus you were adorned with gold and silver gold is his divinity silver his redemption your clothing was fine linen again the innocence of the lord silk and embroidered cloth you ate pastries a fine flour speaking of the sweetness of his presence and word honey the sweetness of worship oil the presence of the spirit you were exceedingly beautiful and succeeded to royalty he has made us kings and priests your fame went out among the nations speaking of the gospel's power today because of your beauty for it was perfect through my splendor which i had bestowed on you says the lord god do you hear him saying i remember when you were naked and i passed by you and i didn't stop i i didn't keep going i should say i stopped and i spread my wings of mercy over you we are married to the lord this is part one of a 390 million part series i'm going to do on the love of jesus he is married to us oh aren't you glad you're not an employee aren't you glad you're not a mercenary trying to earn trying to earn i mean you're do you realize you have a husband who is purifying you to be with him i don't know what that marriage supper is going to be like where christ's presence is the meal and jesus himself is the host and the father like every father who walks the bride down as a gift to the son because of the cross philippians 2 that he died even death even the death of the cross and therefore he's earned the name above every name that father is gonna the father is going to give the bride to his son as his son's eternal reward he's gonna give us away and when all things are under the feet of jesus as he ruled and reigns in his conquered death jesus first corinthians tells us will give us and everything the entire kingdom back to the father so that god can be all in all you talk about humility oh hallelujah jesus our heavenly husband oh jesus now you understand why john said i must decrease so that he might increase what is he saying it's not my wedding when the best man stands at the side when the vows begin the best man takes a step away it's his desire to pull away before the groom and the bride get there the best man stands at attention he's just about centerpiece but when the bride and the groom come when the groom shows up when the bridegroom shows up his best man backs off and his heart says i must decrease that he might increase this is the bridegroom hallelujah give the lord praise father in jesus name i thank you for the power the power of the holy spirit i thank you lord for the loving beautiful heart of the bridegroom who is like you jesus teach us the ways the spousal love of the bridegroom make us a bethany purify our hearts teach us to love you like you want to be loved for there is none like you let a bridal revival sweep america and the nations in jesus name amen give the lord praise now before you leave before you leave before you leave i just need to have a quick talk with you i promise you it will be less than 10 minutes carla can you come up please chris tinsley would you get up here guys chris tinsley is the mastermind of the audio experience here you need to thank him because the stuff he's doing back there is absolutely incredible he's invisible back there but he's not invisible to god he and uh he and dorothy just had another baby well he didn't have the baby but he was there and involved let's leave it there okay um really chris thank you for all you do i mean all the mixing everything that's going on it's really watering the nations um as you guys know we're going to sunday morning on march the 7th we're still going to stay here for sunday night we're not going to cancel the sunday nights we will continue the sunday morning or we're going to begin the sunday mornings and continue to be here it's march the 7th you need to write this down it's on my social media 10 a.m we begin that begins march 7th by the way easter on easter which is april the 4th we will have two sunday morning services at the sheridan maitland orlando maybe we can put that up on the screen guys so they can have it so two easter services and then easter sunday night we will be here that's april the fourth april the second for good friday we are going to the apopka amphitheater thousands will gather we're taking this cross with us we're inviting really i don't think the borders will be open but we're inviting people from around america to come to gather around the cross for us to worship we're going to receive communion preach the gospel and have a glorious time in god's presence outdoors it'll feel a lot like jesus 20. it's going to be phenomenal it's going to be a yearly tradition for us good friday is a very holy night so that's april 2nd 7 p.m entirely free come to the apopka amphitheater easter two services at the sheridan maitland one service here that night all right yeah there we go december 17-18 we have penciled in the dates we're about to sign the contract for jesus 21. we are going back to the central florida fairgrounds but we're taking a much larger field come on say amen we're taking a much larger field thousands and thousands are going to come and it's going to be phenomenal so write that down now that being said can y'all come up here come up here that being said um with us beginning sunday morning which is a must obviously as a church family uh we have some major costs that we have taken on uh for audio now you know me i i rarely do i do this and when i do it's always for other ministries we've given to john bevere's ministry on the second offering to the send and to upper room that's about it right yeah so for a second offering but if we're going to move forward we're going to have to do it together i said if we're going to move forward we're going to have to do it together so if we're going to call this our church as ben said it's going to require our hearts and our resources so can we put up the figures of what audio and uh okay that's the total 310 000 do not sigh that is not a lot to the lord i said do not sigh that is not a lot to the lord but it did keep me up two nights ago nonetheless all right i'm joking it did for like 20 minutes and then i thought of golf and i went straight to sleep all right now we wanted to be really clear because this is a big number and we've already taken on some of these costs because we have to begin march 7th some of them we had to order they wouldn't arrive in time so the ministry took on debt it was charged to us much of this that's right huh carla yeah so i have chris up here because i this is not my wheelhouse we wanted to break this down so that you can see we're not just throwing a number out and i wanted chris to kind of speak in like cables chris why do cables cost thirty four thousand dollars well can i speak to the whole yeah yeah please yeah so we're called to be good stewards with god's money so let me work toward that so everything you see up here these speakers this drum kit other than basically these microphones that he's speaking on and me and carla have and that keyboard aren't ours judah this church has blessed us with the opportunity to use their gear going into uh the sheridan it's all us so we could spend between six and eight thousand dollars every week how much six or eight six years just renting it depends on the production company all that stuff and in a year we're spending more than that and what do we have we don't have that we don't have a sound system so once that building's built all that gear goes into that building and then we can take it on the road with us too you can take it on the road with us absolutely it'll minimize the rental costs as well for the apopka good friday jesus 21 etc we'll still need stuff we've spent hundreds of thousands just on renting for the yearly event and then our vision breakfasts we spend i don't know but thousands in rental yep uh we we when when things get back to normal we'll have two a month so we'll be able now instead of renting uh this audio equipment especially in the southeast we'll be able to have our own and take it so do you want to speak into any of those costs or they're pretty pretty clear it seems yeah i mean it's i don't want to bore you with each detail but again it's from the ground up we're using basically the the the building and we come in and we build that this has to go in quick go up quick and then come down because we have to set up and tear down everything because then we have to come back here you know okay and we're you know our our main goal in production the cameras the sound is to create a distraction free intimate experience with jesus come on and that's it yeah how many of you know excellence matters and as jeremy said last night the worship or said last week the worship going on here is going to water the nations and it already is so we want that same experience for sunday morning carla do you want to speak into can we throw that some of the children's costs up are they oh kids kids why do kids cost so much money they do um so like chris said we are starting from you know the ground up so even all the items that we have inside of the nursery they are not ours they are judas who has been so gracious to let us use that and so as a parent um you know and obviously most of us have kids we want to develop and have the safest and funnest atmosphere for our kids to not only experience the lord but to build community with other children that love jesus so you know we have um so what are we buying yes what are we getting so a good portion of that has to do with um kind of like a tv setup that we have so currently on sunday nights the kids are able to live stream the service so that's still super important to us that the kids are able to get in on what is happening in the main sanctuary and then it just is toys and books those pads oh yes lots of foam mats safety is important to us so we're making sure that you know anything that um that the kids are going to need that it's going to be provided for them yeah yeah well i told the team look if we're going to have to raise this quickly and together but i want to be as transparent as possible so i asked them to break it down that came off a line item uh itemized sheet that austin and chris worked through and so we're going to need to do it together and i know we can do it together and the generations are going to thank us when we do you remember when i came to you and said we need to raise money for the video it was right after jesus 19 we we i i took an offering at jesus 19 and about 60 percent came in all of the sudden within a few weeks all of it came in and i think it was too it's like two but how much was it 250 something like that the day we received our last piece of equipment the following day everything shut down from covet and no more equipment could come in from china we would literally have waited six months to a year to get the video equipment that we're using right now that is blessing the world had you not given so jess and i are going to do this i want you to think about your children's children god has called this to be a church in the city and we're going to have to all build it together now there might be some of you who can say you know what i will cover i don't know the audio board or i don't know for those of you watching you've been blessed by the ministry you may be able to do something can we throw that up on the screen hopefully it's up for those watching the live stream we want to invite everyone to be involved so let's pray let's just pray holy spirit this is your idea certainly not mine it's your idea the church was your idea you promised to build your church and so father in jesus name we come sacrificially this is a marking moment for this church family we come sacrificially and we bring you an offering so that the gospel would go forth for generations to come we ask you to make this a city set on a hill we thank you that the nations will fly into orlando to drink from a well of your presence the well of healing the well of salvation the well of joy and peace in jesus name amen i'm going to ask you guys just to do whatever the lord has put on your heart let's do this together for those of you watching if you'd like to give by text to give there's you can just text morning wow you guys are getting fancy text morning to 321-320-8040 if you'd like to write a check you can make the check out to jesus image p.o box 950640 lake mary florida two seven nine five every time i do that it amazes me i am not getting older praise god again if you'd like to write a check you can make the check out to jesus image p.o box 950-640 lake mary florida 32795 if you'd like to give tonight old school you can rush the buckets let's pray first father take this offering and multiply it in your people bless them we call it blessed as we give to you thank you for funding this in a miraculous in a miraculous amount of time father i ask you to do this quickly quickly lord in jesus name bless your people amen amen amen if you'd like to give by through the buckets please come give before you go the lord bless you and keep you we love you so much we will see you next sunday night love you so much bye-bye quickly if you need prayer i want the team to come up if you need prayer before you go as you're leaving our team uh will be here uh john i need your help buddy if you could just help get him get him in line oh you have to go new believers you were created to experience the presence of god in a way that will transform your life family and the world we understand how difficult it can be to find time to attend a school where you study the word of god grow in your faith and build a community of believers and that's why we created jesus school online we believe that the holy spirit is unlimited in his reach no matter where you live or what stage of life you're in we invite you to take part in this amazing online opportunity you'll be led by world-renowned speakers and worship leaders you will be taught to seek jesus daily be activated in the power of the holy spirit learn to share the gospel and build community with jesus people from around the world at jesus school online we are passionate about seeing a jesus people raised up to shake the nations for the glory of god you were created for this moment in history the jesus people are emerging and we have one ambition jesus himself [Music] will you join us god demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were still sinners christ died for us jesus shed his blood he died on the cross he was buried he rose again from the dead on the third day to give you life and to prove that he is the son of god who he said he was today he is seated at the right hand of the father and for those who belong to him he is interceding for them [Music] will return again he will crack the eastern sky like a width and with ten thousands upon ten thousands he will return in glory [Music] [Music] in 2017 we received a word from lou engle that we really believe is the word of the lord for our school our house and the entire ministry lou said that the greatest musicians in the world and the greatest vocalist in the world the greatest worshipers that they would descend upon orlando florida to jesus image and that word began to burn in us and we began to dream about what it would look like to one day have a school where people would come to worship jesus and be in his presence and receive his word and a church was birthed in that same worshiping atmosphere and what a beautiful opportunity that we have as a jesus people to come before him and to be at his feet and to pour ourselves out before him worship has the potential to unlock things that really nothing else in the world can unlock and so we decided about a year ago to launch a an opportunity within the jesus school setting for those worshipers for the musicians for the singers for the dancers for the artists for the poets this is going to be a place where you can come and you can learn and you can grow and we have highly trained instructors who are going to be coming they're going to be teaching instruments they're going to be teaching vocals anything that you can think of with worship it's going to be there the worship is not about us we worship for him so we want to invite you to come come worship the king of kings with us so come and be a part of what the lord is doing come and give your heart to the lord come and surrender yourself to the lord and let's be ones that are willing to rise and go we decided to name it after bethany that wonderful house where jesus was ministered to that place where the feelings of jesus were preeminent it was a place where he desired to not only move and work and teach and do wonderful things for the place where he would be adored a place where he would rest a place where he would run to so that he would receive ministry and so now jesus school has this space that's been created for all of you who are desiring to use your vocal gifts your instrumental gifts your gifts of worship and dancing gifts and give them to jesus [Music] among us you

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