Maintaining The Right Spiritual Mind | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] they seem arable good to see you all in the house tonight I don't know about you but I've had a very busy busy day and I'm excited to come to the house and feel the presence of the Lord and let him just kind of calm my spirit and make me feel like everything's gonna be okay right if you'll stand will begin worship right now [Music] are you glad you know the Alpha and Omega who is he what's his name Jesus right [Music] the beginning [Applause] you're the thing [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and Omega you're the beginning [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we bless your name tonight Jesus nobody like you [Music] the Lord over [Music] sing it with me [Music] [Applause] No [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] come on can we lift our hands all across this room I know some of you have had a hard week but this is where we can lay our burdens down our midweek service is how we get refueled during the middle of the week come on could you put aside your situations the problems that you're facing outside of this room I don't want you to worry about job situation I don't want to worry about sicknesses right now all I want us to focus on it's the fact that we serve a good god that we serve a mighty God come on can we put our burdens can we put our change and our shackles down let's just focus with one mind and one Accord just like they were in the Upper Room come on just trust few moments can we focus on the fact that we serve a good God Lord you've been better than meat another serve God God you've given me food God you've given me things I'm needed don't even sing someone and God and I thank you for tonight you are a good god you are a gracious god you are a most of Oh God Lord when I committed mistake after mistake don't and you gave me mercy when I didn't deserve it God you giving me grace when I didn't deserve it god god you're a good god God in this season of Thanksgiving I want to thank you for being a good god come on let's just think of just for a minute less for a minute can we spend up a season of Thanksgiving unto our God we have so much to be thankful for god I thank you for this church family tonight you got us thank you that I'm allowed to come in here and worship in spirit and in truth God not only can I worship you in my in spirit but God I worship you and the fact that I know you are one God and your name is Jesus and you are risen from the grave god I thank you for God I thank you for my church family you've got who I should worship with tonight god god you are such a good god you are a gracious gracious god and i thank you tonight god I fake to Jesus I thank you come on someone say he's good he's good just a beautiful spirit of worship that is in this place tonight could we just take just a moment and maybe step out the aisle and shake a few hands and let's just tell them it's good to see them the house of Lord this evening there's just a beautiful spirit of worship in this place I can't wait to see what God does tonight through his word if you are a guest in this house we are so honored and we are so privileged that you pick first Apostolic Church to worship with us tonight of the many houses of worship that you could that you could have picked to worship in we are so honored that you picked first Apostolic Church and we pray that you feel just a spirit of unity a spirit a spirit of revival on this Wednesday night fellowship sounds so good in this place we welcome you I hope you notice all the seasonal decorations that sister Hammond pastor Hammond and sister Hammond has and their team has put up can we give them a big hand clap for all the decoration in this Christmas season yes and as you're returning back to your seats thank you so much for being a spirit a church that loves to fellowship past troubling a fellowship meeting has broke out tonight is that all right with you for just a few minutes awesome yes sir and as our Usher's are making their way forward again we we we are so thankful that you are here I want to tell the church tonight that I received my first piece of church merch I am so excited I don't know if the cameras there camera guys Phil Holland you did some work Sunday night I want you to I want you to zoom in on this thing how how awesome is this this is just a phone case on there a sketch of the church and this is just some of the church merch that is on here you go to first apostolic first Apostolic org or FAC TV org and you can go down to the merchandise tab and you can pick some merchandise on there they've got t-shirts and just a bunch of stuff I got I got in hoodies man I was pumped that's all I've been wearing it's something and the same thing in different colors and you can ask my school kids just I've been wearing all the church merged so go in there and you can get out that's some great Christmas gifts if you do Thanksgiving gifts I guess you can do that too whatever that would be awesome if you'd be so kind of stand with me before we take up our offering we're going to we're going to take our needs before the throne and as we pray over offering we're going to take our needs before God there are many many needs in this house tonight Larry King's brother James has a problem with his heart his lungs if we could keep him in our prayers brother clay Birds mother Pat is in UT this evening Dorothy Glasgow's brother passed away let's keep their family in our prayers of course we need to keep brother brother Lee in our prayers Nolan Havard Mary Crowder and then brother and sister Yates have a grandchild that has been suffering from seizures us keep them in our prayers just evening and I'm pastor just mentioned to me a special unspoken request that he received right before church we can keep that in our minds tonight if you have a need in your life if you would lift your hands up to heaven to signify that need and let's take these knees before the throne room tonight God God we love you Lord we feel your presence in this room God you've got know that you are here Lord as our praise went up God your glory came down Lord and I can't think of a better time to petition our knees before the throne room tonight I would you touch brother King's brother James tonight you gotta pray that you would heal his heart his lungs God would you go to for the clay Birds mother Pat tonight at UT Hospital would you go to that room God you know that situation we know that you are a healer God God would you touch the Glasgow family God as their brother passed away Lord God touch brotherly God I pray that you would heal him god body soul and spirit God would you touch them tonight God strengthen you got strength and brotherly tonight God keep your hand upon brother Noland have hurtin my god and sister Mary crowd or Lord the people who have served you for such a long time God would you honor their faithfulness tonight you God and would you heal their bodies Lord you got in touch brother and sister Yates grandchild god I pray that you would just make this seizure stop happening God even though the doctors may not know everything God I am talking to someone here tonight I am talking to you that knows every problem got you created our bodies God you can just speak the word and healing could go forth tonight god we thank you god for being a prayer answering God would you heal every need in this place every hand that was lifted in this house can we bring these needs before you tonight thank God not only have you heard our prayer but God I thank you for hearing us God and healing our needs tonight god I thank you Jesus I thank him come on one more time can we clap our hands because the Lord has heard our prayers tonight Jesus in Jesus name in Jesus name the needs are great but God is greater then I pray one more prayer let's pray for this offering tonight before we march God we thank you we thank you for hearing our needs god I pray for this offering God you know the fields of labor that it'll go into lord I pray that you are blessed together tonight forgiving sacrificially lord I pray that you'll bless this offering and bless the giver God we do everything in your name and gee just name everyone shout amen amen you can exit out the right side of your row and entering back into the left lease march into this offering [Music] [Music] [Music] thank God thank God thank y'all put your hands together right now let's just give God a praise Almighty God mighty god mighty God brothers and sister Yates they had a grandchild who had some very severe seizures that kept him out of church Sunday and and while they were while they were out of church they didn't get to hear pastors Bible lesson Sunday morning home the Lord is good the Lord is good and so sister sharp she told them about the message said you just need to go in there and lay your hand on that child and say the Lord is good just say the Lord is good they went in there and laid their hand on that child and proclaimed that word the Lord is good and praise God I'm glad to report victory and seizures have ceased and and we just thank God we just thank God for that I believe it was it was at Nashville you all had to go to the hospital there said they got back on the interstate heading home and said they got right back right behind an 18-wheeler and on the back of it it simply said the Lord is good amen the Lord is good the Lord is good how many said that this week how many said the Lord is good the Lord is good if you have your Bibles I'd like you to stand with me tonight turn to the book of Philippians chapter 2 and verse number 5 as you're finding that passage of Scripture that I'm going to teach from tonight thank you for coming to midweek Bible study thank you for being faithful to the house of God and thank you for being a witness thank you for being a witness in our community I contacted someone this week brother lawless I if my memory serves me right and I've often said I've got a photographic memory I just simply ran out of film sometime and you invited a man by the name of Israel am i correct a man by the name of Israel becoming with the Sunday and he filled out a guest card and I sent him a text and just told him that it was so good to have him worshiping with us this service blew his mind Sunday he was acts absolutely taken back he said my soul got fed in the church Sunday and he said I will be back so not only thank you for being faithful to the house of God thank you for being good witness in the community and bringing people to church amen you notice brother sister Erickson are missing tonight they have had to go back to school they're actually in Georgia tonight in school that has to do with the new program that we're launching here after the first of the year with small groups and they have been back to paper/pencil probably a whole lot of erasers all right they've been back to the classroom but it's going to help make us a better church help us to be able to reach reach more people for the Lord have you got Philippians 2:5 let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus why don't we say that all together as a church I'll lead the way let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus father tonight anoint your servant Lord it is my desire this evening to help prepare a people for your soon return it is my desire tonight Lord as an anointed man of God it is my desire Lord to prepare a people to be ready and to also prepare a people to go in the harvest field to re lost souls before your coming father touch every person in this room tonight I bind any demonic spirit I bind any spirit tonight that would try to hinder someone from receiving your word Lord you are great and you are greatly to be praised in Jesus wonderful name we pray amen and amen you may be seated let this mind be in you Paul says let the mind let the mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus Church a constant prayer of ours should be that we always maintain the right spiritual mind so that we can serve the Lord I want that to sink in a prayer Byers in case in case you may have made the statement I don't know what to pray for one of the staple items in your prayer time should be that you always maintain the right spiritual mind to serve the Lord having a godly mind is essential having a godly mind is essential for being productive in the kingdom of God and I would say that word for those that need to be told it's a heaven or hell issue alright it is essential that you keep a godly spiritual mind in order to be productive in the kingdom of God it is only with a spiritual mind that a person can discern the correct path that he or she will be called upon to take because living for God there's a lot of Forks in the road that's right living for God there's a lot of decisions there's a lot of Forks in the road and it is only a spiritual mind that can discern which road you need to walk down because sometimes what looks good to your fleshly mind is not the right path there is a way that seemeth right unto the man but the end is the way of death so I think we begin to see that this having a godly mind is nothing we should scoff at it's nothing that we should we'll maybe sculpt that's not the right word maybe I should say we need to take it very seriously that we always maintenance maintain to make sure that we have a godly mind we have a godly mind that can that can discern that candidates and that's been my prayer this week since Sunday night that's been my prayer for all of us is that we will raise up a church that has the right discernment that can discern the end of time will be marked the end of time will be marked by those who call good evil that's right the end of time will be marked that if something is good they'll call it evil and something that's evil they'll call it good they're there their spiritual taste buds will not be able to discern what is what is rotten what is sour what is spoiled what is not good what is not good for the body and my prayer for all of us this week not just pastor but all of us has been oh god help us to develop the spirit of discernment that we can discern huh I believe that it's God's will that that we not run off the cliff I know that God can restore us when we run off the cliff but I wonder and I don't wonder I know for a fact that it's God's will that we can discern where the clip is a and how we need to stay on the road of evangelism increasing the kingdom of God so that he doesn't have to always be restoring her life God give us the spirit of discernment give us the spirit of discernment so that our minds can be godly minds how important is how important is it for our minds to be godly well let's look at a story in the gospel chapter of Mark chapter 5 verse number 2 the Bible tells us an event that happened in the life of Jesus it says and when he was come out of the ship immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit and I want you to notice that because that's one of the first things that tells us that something's wrong with this man is not necessarily they comes walking out of the tombs but it tells us that this man's got what kind of a spirit I'm gonna see if you're listening to me tonight what kind of a spirit because the man have he's got an unclean spirit how did this unclean spirit manifest itself who had his dwelling among the tombs meant he lived he lived among the dead and no man could bind him no not with chains because the that he had been often bound with fetters and chains and the chains had been plucked asunder by him and the fetters broken in pieces neither could any man tame him so this man had this unclean spirit which we know is the devil and because he had these unclean spirits Allegiant in him he had strength beyond that of a natural man he was able to break chains he was able to break fetters pieces of iron that were laid to keep him restrained he was able to break those chains he was able to break those fetters not only that somebody come up with the idea to reform him say what he needs is somebody go down there with a book and teaching well the Bible said no man contain him you couldn't even listen he was beyond an animal you can tame an animal to do certain things they couldn't tame this man verse five and always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying and cutting himself with stones the first thing that is said about this man is that he has an unclean spirit and then from there it goes from bad to worse from there it goes he's a maniac there it goes he's cutting himself self-mutilation he's cutting himself he's tormented day and night he's crying out in the mountains and in the tombs he's ripping his clothes off they try to chain him down and he breaks the chains they try to put feather fetters on him and he breaks those fetters and they came out and tried to tame him but he couldn't be tamed until one day Jesus came when Jesus stepped off that boat that man came running to him and worshiping and before it was over with let's just go to verse 15 because this is where I want to draw I want to draw something from verse fifteen from verse five to verse 15 Jesus tells the devil's to be silent he tells the Devils they can leave and go into the herd of swine the swine run down to heel and drowned themselves and the people in the town the herdsmen left went into the town until what had happened and in verse 15 the Bible said and they can come to Jesus and see him that was possessed with the devil and had the Legion sitting clothed and in his right mind and they were afraid isn't it amazing that the story starts off with him having an unclean spirit but it ends by them making note that look he's sitting he is sitting that's the opposite that they had seen him running wild uncontrollable look he's not only sitting he's clothed another opposite that they had been used to seeing this man because the Devils had ripped his clothes off but now he's not running around naked he's sitting he's clothed but you noticed something else about him he's in his right mind now it begins by saying this man had an unclean spirit I believe that an unclean spirit starts with an unclean mind I don't believe anyone can ever truly be possessed with an unclean spirit until they have first enter the unclean spirit in their mind same thing with the Holy Spirit I think before I know before you have the Holy Spirit in you you've got to first begin to believe by faith that I can be possessed I can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost so Paul said let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus and this demoniac when the Lord delivered him from these demons the Bible says that now he is in his right mind let's look at this let's look at this when he had an unclean spirit it doesn't say it per se but he had an unclean mind he's got an unclean spirit because he's got an unclean mind and because he's got an unclean spirit he's got unclean behavior he's wild he's cutting himself he's naked he's tormented because all of that goes with the unclean mind the unclean spirit and unclean behavior you cannot separate we don't need to treat symptoms we need to go to the cause of the behavior this man doesn't need clothes this man doesn't need classes a personal hygiene this man needs the unclean spirit brought out of him so that he can be back in his right mind and he can choose the right behavior because the right mind the right behavior the wrong mind the wrong behavior let's look at another story of this happening it happened with the prodigal son in Luke chapter 15 verse number number 17 Luke chapter 15 verse number 17 just a little review you know what the prodigal son he lived a lavish life with his father his father provided not only what he needed but more than enough but somewhere this man began to have thoughts that there's a better way of living outside the father's house can I tell you that we need to dismiss any thoughts that there's a better way of living outside of God's Word God's people and God's house see the world would like to put us in the frame of mind it's all right to go to church just don't become fanatical about it matter of fact that matter of fact you won't you really won't fight much of a battle with the devil as long as you really don't start seeing this place is a must in your life it's a must for my personal salvation it's a must for my personal salvation I must read the Bible to be saved I must adhere to the Word of God in order to be saying I need to do what the Word of God says in order to be saved and one of the things you know I heard a fellow one time make the statement I'm repeating what his pastor said this man had told his pastor I didn't stay home and read my Bible and pastor agreed you can stay home and read your Bible but there's one thing you can't do you can't stay home and obey your Bible reading your Bible is one thing obeying your Bible is another thing and your Bible tells you to forsake not the assembling like a lot of you have not forsaken the Assemblies of ourselves together we know culturally culture has been telling us for some time you don't have to do Wednesday night but when do we let culture tell us how to live for God when do we let the culture begin to dictate to us oh you know you can go to church on Sunday morning that's all right you don't even have to do something there have been people that at one time would not miss when the doors would be open to the house of God but because they got in the wrong frame of and they now have the wrong set of behavior that I church I'm alright and his longus if they'll stay around here as long as they feel like brother Carpentier feels like they're alright but the moment they begin to get the inkling that I don't feel like they're alright then they put me on the Walmart circuit and they start looking for them another pastor that won't make them feel uncomfortable about their new cultural way of living for God listen this this is not just something I have to have every now and then I need the house of God I covet the house of God I come at the ways of God I don't want God's Word only to affect me on Sunday and Wednesday I want God's Word to affect me seven days a week 24 hours a day our marriage needs it our children need it it's not something that that we can take early it's something that that is very essential in our lives as a matter of fact our Bible tells us that it's God's people that were to have our fellowship with now won't you listen real closely now it's God's people that we have our fellowship with eyewitness to a lost world but I fellowship with my brothers and sisters it's my brothers and sisters that I feel at home with it's my brothers and sisters that I feel comfortable with because we share one thing in common our God a love for our God a desire to please our God in the world I'm not saying we don't well I'm not saying we don't have anything to do with the world we got a witness to the world we got to befriend the world that that may that may mean that that may mean that I take someone that's not a Christian to dinner that may mean that I'm seen in town eating lunch with someone that's not a Christian someone that doesn't know the Lord but let me tell you that is witnessing going on but my fellowship my fellowship is God's people all I know the church has got its flaws I know that we're not perfect the very moment the first fleshly person walked into the church it ceases to be perfect I know that I know that the church isn't perfect but can I tell you that the church at its worst is better than the world at its best I don't I don't really listen don't don't don't let the devil don't let the devil put in your mind oh my goodness help me Jesus tonight how many people their entire families are out of church right now I could I could I wouldn't want to embarrass anybody I wouldn't calling names but in my mind right now under my mind's it's like a Rolodex it's just it's rolling of people that started to start off something like this sounded something like this well brother carpenter we took our family on vacation to to a church that they don't know all the Apostolic truth and I want you to know they were they were they were they were more friendly than our church or I took him our young but their young folks at that church was way more friendly and all all their young people had their Bibles out and off and I cautioned them all you you better you better watch because the devil would have you pick out someone in the church that's not living right and have you start comparing them with someone that you don't know anything about all you've done is looked and saw them with a Bible under their arm you may have you may have caught them on their best day let's don't do that Church I know the church is it perfect but you hear mother carpenter one more time the church at its worst is better than the world at its very best I love the house of God I love the people of God I love the songs of Zion I love the preaching of the Apostolic Faith somebody tell me there's one God again somebody tell me what name were baptized in somebody tell me what we do when we receive the Holy Ghost somebody tell me how we come out from among them this message has been like a crock-pot message just it's been simmering since Sunday I got in the prayer room I got in the prayer room this morning that old song hit me he's everything he's everything to me he's everything he's everything if you're not saying it he's my father my brother my sister and my mother he's everything to me that's right that's what the church is that's what the church is it's everything to me that's what God is he's everything to me he's not just my son Dee my son Dee he is to me no he's everything to me he's everything to me the power of keeping the right mind but notice this this man said father give me what belongs to me he gathered it up put it in his suitcase and off down the road he went the father's house was in his rearview mirror he went down in for a short season of time let his flesh have its way with harlots and wine but he soon found himself bankrupt and morally bankrupt he found himself in the Pigpen and in Luke 15 verse 17 and when he came to him self catch that and when he came to him self can I tell you no one leaves the father's house in their right mind can I get a witness there's no one that leaves this place in their right mind there's no one there's there there's no one that leaves this place so if you begin to entertain if this place becomes an irritant to you and you begin to only talk about the flaws that we have and we had them and I submit to you that you're slowly taking a demonic narcotic that's numbing your brain to just how good it is around here can I tell you can I tell you well we're we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna work we we were worth it the right way want to come out we're gonna go somewhere where are our kids have got some friends you know our Bible teaches us if you want to have friends show yourself friendly show yourself friends it's did somebody say that was a word if you want friends if you want friends show you so friendly and do you know when you want friends you can't be a respecter of persons well we've I tell you what I will I want the preachers kids to be my friends well they'll be your friends but are you wanting them to be your bestest of friends you what does it BFF is that what they say you know can I tell you all of that we'll take all of that you'll find dear friends and close friends matter of fact some of the dearest friends I have I didn't set out to say hey I want to make him one of my dearest friends it just happened can I get a witness tonight it just happened but-but-but-but to be a respecter of persons oh it's no no I want I want the I want this friend I want that friend well you may not get that friend but can I tell you not having the friend you won't stay with me now is a whole lot better than getting a call at 2:00 a.m. in the morning by a state trooper telling you that your boys have been arrested and he's gotten narcotics on him see this man the Bible said and when he came to himself that meant to me he wasn't in his right mind when he left his father's house we got to keep the right mind you make the wrong request when you have the wrong frame of mind he would have never you seen when he was in his rut when he wasn't in his right mind guess what his words were father give me father give me see when we when we don't get in the right mind let this mind let this mind be in you which was in Christ Jesus the Bible says that though he was rich became poor so that we who are poor may know the righteousness of God when God came to this earth as a man he was a giver not a taker he was giving he wasn't taking and were told by PO to let this mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus if that mind is in us then we are not takers we become givers and follow that now father give me you owe it to me Lord we're living in a day of entitlement aren't we we're just living we're just living in a day of of an entitlement generation and they feel entitled to this and you owe this to me and all of this no we don't we don't owe you anything no no one owes you no one owes you anything even children can grow up with an entitlement mentality and your parents see once they put you once they feed you and put you through school and and all that that's what they that's what they owed you to bring you into this world but after that you need to get after it you need to use the launching pad of your family and get after but what you mean and follow it now please when you're getting your wrong frame of mind what can I get out of church what can I get but they better they better assist partner and I saw this and she brought it to my mind I think to not coming to church but Francis Chan a minister to the thing out on social media this week in it had said someone came up and told me they did not enjoy the worship at our church Sunday he said didn't you know it wasn't for you it was for God I didn't him maybe some of the things we're not enjoying around here we're getting to think churches about us and the right frame of mind as churches and not about us churches about God Church is about giving God praise church is about how the Lord feels about Bishop McCool told years ago said he was going to church one Wednesday night said he was praying Lord give us a good service tonight Lord give us a good service tonight we've all prayed that prayer he said when the Lord spoke to him and said who served and who why don't you give me a good service you see when we got if we get a frame of mind of entitlement we get the wrong frame of mind the church owes me something somebody didn't shake my hand somebody didn't do this somebody didn't do that we're actually beginning to say I'm getting the wrong frame of mind on one side Father give me but do you know when he came to himself you know what he said to the Father the last words he said to his father was father give me but when he got back in his right mind lord I don't want the Pigpen to have to do that to me I don't want to have a hard times I don't want to have to be late I don't I don't want God to put me flat on my back so I look up I want to be like I don't want to be like believe it was joke that said the words I cried unto the Lord by reason of my affliction I don't want to have to be afflicted to cry to God I just rather cry to him tonight and tell him how much I love him and maybe walk around the altar while they're singing it and worshiping God and just tell him how I'm good I'm not sure other cry out to him when I in the good time for him to say I'm gonna have to put him flight of his back he's forgot Who I am he's not prayed to me in a few months he's got to he's got the big head he thinks he he's got a little money in the bank he's gonna eat and and make merry and all that he's just gonna he's just he just forgot all about me and God says lay him flat of his back take his job away from him do all make it hard on him make it difficult on him why because when you're laying flat on your back the only way you can look is a I don't want God to have to do that to me I want to keep a good frame of mind and my pockets are bulging out I've got good health in my body bless the Lord O my soul and all that is within me I will bless why don't you do that right now I will bless I will bless His Holy Name I will praise go ahead I love you Lord Jesus I praise you Almighty God father father give me but when he got in his right mind what was he saying father make me father make me please remember that he remembered his past privileges be thankful for your privileges because they'll always go with you he said how many servants in my father's health house have bread enough to spare and I perish he had to remember his past privileges remember he had an unclean spirit an unclean spirit is a product of an unclean mind David said in psalms chapter 51 verse number 12 david said these words restore unto me the joy of thy salvation uphold me with thy free spirit we that uphold me with thy free spirit been feeling like you're bound up I've been feeling like you're all bound up maybe it's because in your mind you've not allowed the Lord to work in your mind you can't have thoughts of bondage and have a spirit of freedom David said restoring to me the joy I want my joy back oh I want the joy of my salvation back uphold me with thy free three spirit I've dug up one other version of this I'm not a big proponent of different versions of the Bible but I did come up with this version and some it's the same as Psalms 51 12 it says restore to me the joy of your salvation and let a willing attitude control me let a willing attitude control me and I know brother Nolan's over in chapter 29 - not over and strong tower I know that but he said something during the offering and I'm not I'm not offering this up as a rebuke I'm not offering this up as a rebuke to him but he said something about giving and he said God wants us to give sacrificially and then just struck a chord with me and I thought I don't think so not always I don't think not always and we need to always have to sacrifice and giving I think God would like for us to do some things in the New Testament there cause we just want to call it sacrifice in the Old Testament if you want to but I think God would just like for us to do some things now because we love Him just because we love Him I think well I think we ought to be willing to give in the offering not because we're broke I think we ought to be willing to put something in the offering up because we're hoping to get ten times that back I think we all just give something the offering because it's just right to give it's just I just love God I love everything about God I love where the money goes I love to see that we're trying to reach missionaries and we're trying to reach the world idea I just love I just love everything about this I just love with the money goes I I love they told me the other day they wait hey they've got on a new we because of the internet and all this and and and need more and I mean literate needing more fuel for the internet and all of that we we need don't you laughs we need more this for the internet and that for them they they told me so we had to get a new upgrade and it's several hundred dollars a month and all of that praise God praise God I'm I'm glad that we're able to do that thank God tonight today I got a pastor in Mississippi text me and he said do I have your permission said do I have your permission tonight said God has led me and said if I've got your permission I'm going to do it said tonight at our midweek Bible study said there was a man in my church that heard you preach a few weeks ago on a place called hell and said that has so stirred him up that our entire church with your permission by the carpenter tonight we're going to have praise and worship we're going to pull the screen down and we're going to download that sermon and we're going to listen to you preach on a place called hell I just you know what if that's where the money's going praise God praise God if that's if that's where the money's going praise God I don't we ought to just give because we got a willing spirit just together I just I just gonna give I don't wanna have I don't want to get in the prayer room because my boy hazmats lid now listen give the prayer rooms a good place for you to go to if your children are backslidden but I don't want to have just to go there when my world is falling apart I want to go there because it's just good to go there right it's just good to go to the prayer room it Oh Lord I'm trying to teach and I'm feeling a feeling a camp-meeting spirit coming on it's just good to be there I'm here tonight nobody called me up nobody held a gun to my head nobody's going to call me the Martin I don't know I'm just here tonight praise God because it's right to be here tonight I'm just here because it's the right thing to do right thing brother Devine I don't have my glasses on things that's your brother Devine would you wave your hand praise God brother Devine would you stand right now would you stand what a what a nemesis carpenter is teaching them Bible studies and brother divine I want you to know that that I could have it the smile you have on your face or you every time you come into the house of God you got a smile on your face divine to the Undertaker cake what can't wipe off and I I want you to know we love you here I think that I think that boys got the joy of the Lord on him he wants to praise the Lord hey back in the Old Testament they had to come back in the Old Testament they work required to come but we got something much better than an Old Testament we got the Covenant inside of our heart I want to praise Him I want to serve him I want to live for him I woke up this morning with my mind huh I woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Jesus as far as I'm going restore unto me the joy of your salvation and let a willing attitude control me do you know when this prayer was prayed you mean this prayer was praying it was prayed when David was confronted by Nathan his pastor and Nathan confronted David with his sin his hypocrisy of adultery and covering it up and the Bible said in Psalms 51 and 10 I read 51 in 12 but let me read some 51 and 10 you see this is the remedy have you failed God have you failed God have you got things in your life that maybe your pastor Nathan doesn't know about but God and you know about it can I tell you how to take care of it tonight created in me a clean heart Oh God and renew a right spirit in me created me a clean heart is what he said and then he said no no no notice what he said he said created in me a clean heart but then he said I want you to renew the right spirit because David went to adultery and David went to murder because he got the wrong spirit he got the wrong spirit and because he got the wrong spirit he now cries out to God and renew a right spirit within me cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit he realized that David's recovery from adultery do you realize that David coveri from adultery and murder was going back and getting the right spirit put back inside him do you know that our restoration our restoration begins with us having the right spirit no way that you can be restored you'll go back and make the same old mistake over and over again if you don't get the right spirit put back in you you see when we begin to think about when we begin to think about worship we need to always keep in mind that worship has to do with the refueling of our spirit simply put John 4 and 15 John 4 and 15 Jesus is talking to a woman who has got a horrible moral life but somehow she's got a little bit of knowing that she needs to live for God he meets her - well John 4:15 the woman saith unto him Sir give me this water that I thirst not neither come hither to draw jesus saith unto her go call thy husband and come hither the woman answered and said I have no husband jesus said unto her thou hast well said I have no husband for thou has had five husbands and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband in that thou settest thou truly Wow she went through five marriages and was currently living with a man that belong to somebody else she said I have no husband he said you put a good spin on that he said in that they'll says truly the woman said unto him sir i perceived thou art prophet our fathers worshiped in this mountain and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship jesus saith unto her woman believe me and please pay real close attention to pasture believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father now stop there she was a Samaritan he was a Jew the Samaritans believed and they talked that was on this one mountain that the Samaritans worship God they got a place in their mind they got a place in their mind on this mountain is where we worship God now it didn't matter the lifestyle you were living it didn't matter it didn't it didn't matter that that that that you were not keeping the law of Moses and it didn't matter that you your life was immoral as long as you went to this certain place and worshiped but the Jews the Jews worship at Jerusalem that was the place where they worshipped and so when Jesus pointed this woman sin out she immediately brought please pay attention when Jesus pointed this woman sin out she immediately brought worship into the conversation because the lack of worship leads to the abundance of sin but the abundance of worship will lead us to the lack of sin if we are a worshiping people I'm not I'm not saying we're going to have sinless perfection but I promise you the more we worship God the less we're going to feed the flesh and the more we feed the flesh the less we're going to worship God you know one good way to stay out of sin worship God worship God worship God one good way to overcome temptation worship God worship God I'm a testimony tonight I'm a testimony 16 years old got in the church two packs of Winston cigarettes a day at 16 years of age I was smoking two packs of cigarettes a day the devil had the same plans from me then he had for my daddy that died of cancer due to tobacco at 46 years of age the devil had the same plans for me but I got the Holy Ghost and I got me a little taste of what heaven was I didn't want to smoke but boy that was rooted in deep stained inside of me and my it wasn't stained in me I wish I could say that God gave me the Holy Ghost and I never desired it again but it didn't happen to me that way and maybe it worked out for the good because I tried pray and I'd worship God and I'd pray and I'd worship God on Sunday and I'd make it till about Tuesday and I fall off the wagon and then I go to church on Wednesday and I be condemned and I'd give me a little prayer on Wednesday and I'd I'd make it about Thursday evening then I fall off the wagon plumb Saturday I'm not all that and his kind of look like little cycle until listen to this now in my little Oh 16 year old wanting to serve God mind I timed how long it took me to smoke a cigarette and it took me about five minutes to smoke a cigarette and so I decided every time the urge hit me to smoke a cigarette I was going to pray and talk to God and can I report that within just a few days of every time the flesh the earth see it wasn't the holy ghost it was chipped he wasn't a Holy Ghost that was willing to smoke what was it my flesh your flesh doesn't want to pray your flesh wants to smoke so what I began to do was when my flesh begin to say smoke I began to flex my spiritual muscles and I began to worship God in spirit until the spiritual man became stronger than the fleshly man and I put those cigarettes behind me and never looked back and it not only will work with cigarettes it will work with an unforgiving spirit it will work with a wounded spirit it will work with all kinds of things if we will learn how to worship God it's wonderful to come to church it's wonderful to come to 13:31 William Blount Drive it's wonderful to have Kenneth carpenters your pastor but all that is is a bunch of fluff it won't deliver you from nothing but if you'll come to 1331 William Blount Drive and learn how to worship God I mean really get into the worship get your hands out of your pockets and get them up in the air get your mouth open it and get the praise and God praise God loud enough that you can hear yourself praise Lord you've been mighty good to me Lord you blessed me more than I'm deserving of the blessing god I magnify your I magnify he's everything to me he's everything to me the woman said our fathers verse 20 our fathers worshiped in this mountain you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship jesus saith unto her woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the father ye worship you know not what we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews but the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers when the true worshipers if there's a true worshiper there's a false worshiper when the truth worshipers god help us to discern some things in this world we are not one of the many spokes in the rim of religions that are leading to heaven we have a revelation of who you are that the 3rd century religious order has not touched we worship one God we worship the one god of the Old Testament we worship the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob we worship the god of Moses I am that I am we worship the God that became human flesh he was Jehovah in the Old Testament he is Jesus in the New Testament there are not two three four five nine persons in the Godhead there's only one person and he's not in the Godhead but the Godhead is in him for in him dwelleth the fullness of the Godhead bodily can I tell you that's not some little Oh cymatics that were saying but we worship God in spirit and in truth we worship God in spirit and in would you stand with me Oh hallelujah Oh hallelujah hmm about the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers how many want to be a true worshiper please discern this please discern this old God please discern this well brother carpenter those folks don't those folks they they they don't believe like we do on the Godhead and baptism but they're so sincere in their worship they are do you know that it's possible to be sincerely wrong sincerely wrong and do you know that if they are sincere don't you believe that God can do them just like you did corneas but don't judge it don't order don't reorder your worship that you know is truth because you look over at somebody that doesn't have truth and you think man look over there don't lower yours because number one you don't know that God might have sent them a Simon Peter but they may have said we want our traditions more than we want any new revelation so don't worry about somebody don't have to all the truth leave that to them and God but you worship God in spirit and in truth because to whom much is given much is required and to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not to him it's sin but the hour cometh and now is what the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the father in spirit would you please notice something with me that is a little s you know why that's a little s there our spirit not I'm a worship in the Holy Ghost no no no no it's my spirit must worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father seeketh such to worship Him you won't freedom tonight you know with the right frame of mind worship God worship God let the discernment be we need this we need God's house and just just this morning when I was in the prayer room over here having my prayer I started singing that little o course again he's everything he's everything to me he's everything he's everything to me he's my father my brother my sister and my mother come on he's everything to me would you help me sing it tonight whoa he's everything he's everything to me he's everything he's everything to me he's my father my brother my sister and my mother he's everything to me let's just take a moment before we go home and just worship God just this worship God tonight Lord I woke up this morning with my mind stayed up on you Jesus lord I want my mind to be upon you Lord God I want this mind to be in me that was in you Lord God I love you and I praise you lord I magnify your name god I thank you you are God alone there is no other God besides you Lord you are God you are the God of all heavens you are the king of kings and the Lord of lords you're everything to me Lord you're everything to me Lord Lord your wealth is beyond all the wealth that's in this world Lord your wisdom is beyond all the wisdom that is in this world Lord you are everything to me Oh God father look down in my heart tonight Lorne you know if there's anything in my heart that I'll not be there Lord you know if I've said anything or I've neglected to say something Lord father I just ask you by the blood tonight to cleanse my life lord I ask you to not to create in me a clean heart Lord and renew within me the right spirit God Lord that your spirit Lord being me I worship you Lord because you are the one true Living God I praise you do not Lord I magnify you tonight God Lord your every your every your everything to me Lord your hear everything to me Lord your everything to me lord I praise you enough father I pray tonight I pray over the church that we will have the spirit of discernment Lord give us all the spirit of discernment Lord help us God to discern what is good and what is evil Lord help us God in our decisions that we make in our lives to discern God the goodness and want to lead our families God down the right way Lord let us have the right judgment Lord God let us let us have the right spirit of discernment that we can look Lord we can look and we can tell if we should go that route we should do that or say that or or or if we should refrain from that Lord father I pray for this church family tonight I pray for all of the men I pray for all of the women I pray for our you tonight Lord we would be we would be given a special spirit of discernment that we could remain the light in this dark world that we need to be Lord that we can remain the city set on a hill we could remain the light put on the candlestick Lord Oh God touch first Apostolic Church of Mirabal Lord me up all this Lord in a grade in a mighty way in Jesus wonderful name we pray amen and amen god bless you tonight thank you for coming out into midweek Bible study see you Sunday morning at 10 o'clock ready to worship ready to worship the Lord [Music]

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