Making Room for Salvation | Pastor Ron Eivaz

[Music] when all i see is the battle you see my victory [Music] when all is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] there's nothing to fear now for i'm safe [Music] belongs to [Music] oh god the battle belongs to [Applause] and if you are for me who can be against me [Music] before jesus there's nothing impossible [Applause] [Applause] you see [Music] nothing can stand against the power [Music] nothing can stand against the power of our god [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] that'll [Music] [Applause] [Music] let me talk about some regrets all right so we're going to make this very exciting today we're going to talk about regrets we're going to start off anyway talking about regrets now let's start it simple i didn't ask you what regrets but let me just ask you basically anybody have ever a regret like maybe you bought something and you're like i regret about that thing like like you bought a car and after you bought it you're like i regret buying this that happened to me one time i bought this buick and uh excuse me and it was like it turned out to be a total lemon if you have one of those cars lord bless you yours is probably anointed but mine was like a lemon like soon as the warranty was over like everything fell apart on it and uh and then i you know finally sold it and blessed somebody else with it and uh so right so you had to regret i may have had how many ever had like an investment regret like you invested in something and you're like it did not turn out the way you wanted it to turn out you know like remember the old saying if it sounds too good to be true it is sometimes we hear that we believe it but then we need to feel the pain to get the revelation of it right so that happened to me one time because i believed someone anyway so uh but a couple of times i've made some investments that didn't turn out the way i thought and i was like okay well i regret investing in that uh how do you ever regret dating someone all right so now now i feel the spirit right you all like it's like on everything else you're like eric daddy's on that's right sister right here right and we regret i'll just keep it at that i won't take it to the next level of relationship but you know there's a lot of regrets that people go through now you know most regrets we could just let go of and just be move on right if you messed up aren't you glad the blood of jesus forgives you and you can move on from that you know i've been a senior pastor for 23 years at this church only church i don't know anything else i was an associate before that so it started when i was really young i tell people i'm only 50. i know i look 40 but i'm only 50. and started pastoring this church as senior pastor when i was 27. so i've only i'm only 50 but i have like the pastoral experience of a guy named 80 year old because i came to this church anyway so uh it was tough for those early years and uh you know people ask me like what have you made any mistakes anything you regret doing and i always say yeah i'm sure there's a lot of stuff that i shouldn't have done but i can't remember them not because i don't try to learn from my mistakes but then i realize i can't hold on to regrets i just gotta let go of it you know just move on don't do it again just move on right i don't hold on to the regrets and i think i think we shouldn't we should let go of stuff right because most regrets are not going to follow us but there's only one regret that does follow us and that's what we call eternal regrets decisions or lack of decisions that we make that affect not our time on the earth but affect eternity now when he when you think of king david you know he he's a guy that if he could talk to him you say well what regrets do you have david he could probably list a bunch of stuff he could like list something like uh you know that we're probably all thinking about at this point like you know when was the season for kings to go to war i shouldn't have stayed home you know that one night when i was bored i probably shouldn't have gone on my rooftop and be looking around with binoculars and boom there is bathsheba you know even though i messed up with bathsheba i probably shouldn't have tried to save my image and had her husband killed that's an understatement that's that's called a regret maybe if you ask hey david would you have done anything different he would have probably said you know what i should probably have dealt with my kids when they were rebelling so that i didn't develop an absalom later who had pain in his heart because i wouldn't deal with my kids so therefore at the end it was you know because we talk about absalom about how bad he was yeah he was bad doesn't excuse anything he did but i know absalom had a wound and an offense in his heart because david wouldn't deal with stuff there's a whole lot of regrets that this man who the bible calls a man after god's own heart could have stated but yet here's what it says about david the story of his life if he could be summed up in one verse is summed up in acts chapter 13 verse 36 says for david after he had served his own generation by the will of god fell asleep and was buried with his fathers and saw corruption think about that it mentions nothing about his failures mentions nothing about what he could have done different it says he served his generation according to the will of god and then he died i think that's the greatest thing that could be said about us it doesn't matter how much we've messed up on the earth but if we set out our heart to do what god's called us to do at the end of our life he's going to say he or she serve their generation according to the will of god and then they died right i mean it's nice when people say nice stuff about you at funerals right but really the greatest thing that could be said is they serve their generation according to the will of god i made a decision years ago i wasn't going to lie at funerals right if somebody was a jerk i was like i'm not going to say they're a great person so i don't do funerals anymore [Applause] everybody else doesn't no i'm kidding but what is going to be said about us and how we serve our generation when we die now god's plan for the earth has always been the church i shared this few weeks ago on all of my church sunday god created a means by which we can multiply the effect of our lives because we could do more together than we can by ourselves i mentioned earlier this year we're probably going to get out close to 180 000 before this month is over to missions and missionaries around the world most of us probably could not do that by ourselves but we do it together because we came together we combined our resources we each gave regularly monthly to kingdom builders so we were able to reach that many people this year together now here's some principles this morning's message we're calling this making room for salvation right we're calling making room for god making room for miracles this morning's about making room for salvation how do we make room for people that we love and people that we don't even know to come into the kingdom of god point number one is this on your notes only our generation can reach our generation right only our generation could reach our generation that means no one from the past can come and preach the gospel to our generation and we can go into the future and preach the gospel to the future generation only our generation can reach our generation so um i remember in 1998 you know i was talking about you know binging on on those videos i remember in 1998 god spoke a word to me right after i became the pastor here actually there's two particular words very clearly god spoke to me standing right there my right your left in front of that window so if you want to hear god just go stand there after service today and you'll hear and you'll hear god the first actually one of them was when god spoke to me about changing our name when we first changed our name i was standing there one night in prayer and god spoke to me he says just as i changed abraham's name abram's name to abraham to fulfill my purposes in him i am changing your name to fulfill my purposes in you another time i'm saying that i had just hadn't been a pastor here that long and the lord spoke to me and he says uh if you sow into the nations i will give you a city i will if you sow into the nations i will give you a city and remember this is when uh i just become a pastor there's probably a couple hundred people in this entire church we're in our old building with the gold seats that smell like mothballs the church is dead not realizing not even imagining back then i used to think man if i ever in my lifetime pastor churchill 500 i mean i haven't made it not realizing that one day we have so many campuses so many people way beyond who could ever imagine but i just was obedient to a simple word if you sow into the nations i will give you a city how many know god god's heartbeat is the nations for the life of me i can't understand again i i love and support all churches but for the life of me i can't understand people who do not have a heart for the nations he said well we gotta invest here well we do but how many we also need to invest in nations because that's the heartbeat of god so only our generation can reach our generation uh luke chapter 16 verse 19 i'm going to read out a new living translation jesus said this as there was a certain man who was splendidly clothed in purple and fine linen who lived each day in luxury and at his gate lay a poor man named lazarus who was covered with swords as lazarus was there longing for scraps from the rich man's table the dogs would come and lick his open sores finally the poor man died and was carried by the angels and said beside abraham and the hemline banquet the rich man also died and was buried and he went to the place of the dead there in torment he saw abraham in the far distance with lazarus at his side the rich man shouted father abraham have some pity send lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue i am in anguish in these flames but abraham said to him son remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted and lazarus had nothing so now he is here being comforted and you are in anguish and besides there's a great chasm separating us no one can cross over to you from here and no one can cross over to us from there what is jesus teaching us once you're dead it is done you can't change your decision verse 27 then the rich man said please father abraham at least send him to my father's home for i have five brothers and i want him to warn them so that they don't end up in this place of torment how many of the greatest evangelists are people who have seen eternity but abraham said moses and the and the prophets have warned them your brothers can read what they wrote the rich man replied no father abraham but if someone is sent to them from the dead that they will repent of all their sins and turn to god but abraham said watch this now if you if they won't listen to moses he's talking about the written word the law if they won't listen to the word and the prophets be the preachers if they don't listen to the word and the preachers they won't be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead in other words it's not the miracles that gets people saved it's the preaching of the word that will get people saved that is the responsibility of the church that's the responsibility that we have because if miracles alone got people saved there's enough miracles that happen in this church on an ongoing basis this whole valley would be saved but how do people who don't want to believe they find a reason not to believe but it's the foolishness of preaching it's the foolishness of the cross and jesus crucified that brings people to the gospel that's how god designed it is the foolishness of preaching that brings people into the kingdom of god so with this story actually many scholars believe that this wasn't just the parable that jesus told that this was an actual story that had taken place because it's the only time that jesus actually used the name of a person he said there was a man named lazarus so and i tend to agree with this that many scholars believe that this was actually a person that jesus saw into eternity and saw this and was telling us a story so people have to believe the proclamation of the word that's proclaimed by us we can't put it off on somebody else we can't put it off on another generation only our generation can reach our generation and by the way we are stewards and responsible for the generation that we live in let me say that again we are responsible for the generation that we live in if you don't like what's happening in our generation no one's going to change it by uh but us we've got to take responsibility for our generation here's the second point god's plan for the world has always been based on the church right god's plan for the world has always been based on the church and i shared this few weeks ago at i love my church sunday in the new testament it's called the church and the old testament was called the house of god but either one it is the center of god's heart right it's the center of god's heart it's god's plan a and there is no plan b and again this is our stewardship month but you know god's plan has always been for god's people to bring the tithe whether it's old testament or new testament into god's house so that god's house is built that god's house is powerful that god's house could preach the gospel around the world god's heart's always been on his house that's why i push back always about this funky thinking that's in some people say well i don't need to go to church i am the church i always have to respond no you and your funky self are not the church you're a christian a weird one but you're a christian but remember what i said a few weeks ago we get a herd of christians together it's called the church when we get a bunch of us together that's called the church and god designed the church to reach the world jesus said i'm building my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it right so when we talk about the tithe again you know we teach on this every year around september october you know i know a lot of churches you know they'll talk they'll only talk about giving when you know they're financially hurting so that's why they're financially hurting so we talk about it every year because it's part of our discipleship and you know there's this the number one lie that the devil tries to get people to come especially in america is all the church wants is your you all knew that one now you guys got so involved with that see and a lot of preachers don't preach about it because you know what happens is in in most churches as soon as you start talking about money people get this constipated look on their face and they just want to say loosen god let him go bad joke it just flopped i'm sorry but why do we talk about did you know jesus talked more about money than he talked about heaven and hell combined did you know jesus wasn't just trying to raise money to buy a jet he wasn't trying to raise money to you know build whatever ministry he was multiplying food he was you know they were finding money in a fish's mouth he didn't need to do that why would he talk about giving so much because god because jesus understood this is that there's a direct connection between your heart and your wallet that's why i say wherever your treasure is that's where your heart will be also that's one of the most misquoted verses where it says well your heart is your treasure will be no i know a lot of people who said their heart was in the kingdom but their money never showed up but if your money shows up your heart shows up it's true i told the first service and i'll tell you guys because i don't want you to feel left out and i said man if you're offended i'm sorry you talked to jesus about it because i don't like offending people i like being popular but it's i said i can't understand for the life of me christians who can't trust god with their finances but they say that they trust them with their eternity because we we use a lot of christianese but we've got to start getting real and say what do i really believe do i really trust god do i really believe that he'll take care of me if you don't believe he'll take care of you on the earth how are you gonna believe he's gonna take care of you for eternity see why does god talk about it so much because it's the testing ground one is because it tests our heart but number two it's god's avenue to bless you i'm not giving it's not for god giving us for us so that god could bless our life you know whenever a preacher today mentions malachi what do we think about tithing right because that's pretty much all we preach about out of malachi bring the tithe into the storehouse and god will open up the windows of heaven and bless you but did you know the book of malachi is not just about tithing the book of malachi is about returning to god right in chapter one it begins where he's talking about coming back to god and in three areas in particular malachi says come back to me in your worship come back to me and your families and come back to me in your giving so chapter one begins with god says i believe verse 9 10 12 12-12 he says to them through the prophet malachi he says you have brought me offerings that are sick stolen and lame i remember back in 2008 after the recession hit god told me that because he says the people sneer at the offering and they bring the offerings that are sick stolen and lame so can you imagine in the middle of the recession i stand up here say yo girl spoke to me you sneer at the offering that was fun but i'm telling you this is when you know it was really from god it broke something and our finances i mean jumped up almost like the recession never happened after that because it broke something i mean the word of the lord breaks something and so he says you sneer at the offering you bring offerings that are sick stolen and lame because you know what they were doing at that time instead of bringing their own cattle their own offering to the lord they would go steal it from their neighbors and say oh god i'm bringing you my offering and god says that's not your offering that's your neighbors offer it or they are supposed to bring god the best that they would bring all betsy that was blind and limping about die anyway they put a blanket on her oh god here's our best offering you know what happens when you bring blind offerings to god's house that the church becomes blind with no vision when you bring limping offerings to the house of god the church just limps limps along and can't do anything for the purpose of god so god says to them he says you stare at the offering you bring me offerings are sick stolen and lame then the next verse he says try doing that with your governor so in other words he says listen you are giving gavin newsom a better offering than you are the lord almighty and gavin will steal it from you anyway okay i'll leave him out of it anyway but because i don't talk politics right but he says god says to them know where your priorities are so by time you get to chapter three they're like okay god okay we're coming back we're coming back to you how should we come back to you if it was me i would have probably said come back to me in your worship come back to me and your families and kind of like ease people into it then come back to me in your offerings but god goes right for the offerings he says he says you have robbed me how he robbed your god in tithes and offerings because here's what god knew where your treasure is that's where your heart will be also and then they say well how he robbed you god you robbed me your tithes offerings did you know tithing is not even giving it's simply returning to the lord what is already his never once in the bible will you find tithing referred to as giving it's always referred to as bringing or returning because you bring to god what's already his by the way tithe means tenth right we give ten percent you know the number 10 in the scriptures is the number for testing the tithe is a task whether we're going to trust god and when you pass the test god's able to bring increase into your life i put this chart together a couple years ago some of you have seen this before you know everything we have comes from god right he said well i work for hard for my money i make my money no how many know god's given you the ability the strength to work in one moment you can use your ability to work and right i was joking earlier i said god gives the ability to work and ability to get stimulus checks anyway so god is the ability to work then he tests us with bringing the lord's tithe and offerings to the local church and then when we give it it goes all around the world preaching the gospel how you know your money is going around the world preaching the gospel when you give in this house anyway he goes all around the world preaching the gospel now as as is doing that god is bringing increase because now god knows that if he could get if he could get it through you he could get it to you right so he's going to get it to you if he knows he could get it through you so god brings the increase then it comes back to us and then the cycle begins you know over the years and i mentioned this recently you know people say well i can't afford to tithe and all these years you know it's amazing people who don't tithe always say i can't afford to tithe but the ones who do tithe say you can't ever give me soft tithing why because they've seen the results and by the way i'll say it again you'll never be afford to tithe until you tithe because it's the tie that breaks the curse off the finances that's when god releases his blessing and as malachi 3 says he rebukes the devourer for your sake a couple years ago a few years ago relevant magazine did a study say what would happen if all everyone who goes to church just in america brought the tithe here's what they found that there would be an additional 165 billion dollars that churches could use and distribute for the gospel the global impact would be phenomenal here's just a few things that the church could do with that kind of money now you know the church always does a better job than the government does right here's what the church could do 25 billion could relieve global hunger and starvation and death from preventable diseases in just five years 12 billion could eliminate illiteracy in just five years five billion could solve the world's water and sanitation issues specifically at places where the world in the world where one billion people live in less than one dollar per day one billion dollars could fully fund all overseas missions work and the church would still have a hundred to 110 billion dollars left to expand ministry and that's not you know sometimes people talk about well what if bill gates gets saved and he tithes we don't need him wait i mean i pray you get saved because then microsoft will probably do better too anyway but just kidding but we pray all that everybody gets saved but i mean we don't need people like that to fund the gospel god's people if they just obey god fund the gospel right you know i'm old enough to remember when uh the lottery first came to california y'all remember that if you're old enough remember that i remember preachers and it was like a big old deal it was big back then and like oh would you take money if somebody wins the lottery in your church you know then pastors would be like i wouldn't take that that's gambling money and i was young but i wasn't stupid and i said that i was in there thinking you dumb dumb professors if somebody wins the lottery i say bring it on down now you might want to double tithe we'll forgive your sins for gambling be forgiven but go ahead bring the tithe i don't care well that's dirty money it's not dirty when it reaches our hands right money has a spirit and takes on the spirit on who holds it people might have used money to buy drugs but we're going to use it to preach the gospel and set people free come on y'all catching this this morning don't act like those churchy people come on this is the 11 a.m downtown campus and ripping campus you guys are wild come on don't don't act like all weird all right here we go last point pay it forward if we're going to make room for salvation we got to pay it forward see as i mentioned there's a spirit on money that's always and and about and jesus called it the spirit of mammon the spirit of mammon tries to control us uh you know but we break that spirit with generosity we break that spirit when we put our money into the kingdom of god by the way did you know mammon is the only thing and i'll probably teach on this sometime i've taught on before mammon is the only thing that jesus said we cannot serve god and it it's the only time he said he cannot serve god and mammon do you know why because mammon or money the spirit that's on money promises you everything that only god could deliver to you have you ever heard somebody say man i need a whole lot of money right now or i need god to come through did you hear what they just said they need i need money or i need god man if i had money i could live wherever i want and do whatever i want come on how many have had those day dreams but how do you know with god you could live wherever you want do whatever he's called you to like do you see how mammon works mammons you know says you need me or you could have god but you could have me instead of god so mammon is a spirit and look what jesus said and i'm going to read the whole passage for sake of time so i'm going to let you go we're going to come back tonight for the outpouring service but luke chapter 16 verse nine it says jesus and i say to you make friends for yourselves with unrighteous mammon make friends for yourself with unrighteous mammon that when you fail in other words when you die they may receive you who's gonna receive you the friends you made into your everlasting home what is jesus talking about he says use the money use the mammon that god puts in your hand put you use the resource that god's given you to reach people around the world and make for yourself friends with unrighteous man you know what's going to happen when you walk into heaven one day you're going to walk into heaven also and you're going to have people with every tribe every language every color all of a sudden they're going to say to you my friend you're like wait a minute i never knew you on the earth i said no but you gave into the kingdom and i got saved because you gave into the kingdom now the bible says when we get to heaven we will fully know as we've been fully known in other words we're going to see all the connections because i believe that every time we give it reaches somebody for the kingdom of god we don't see it right now but when we get to heaven we're going to see it we're going to see all the friends we made through unrighteous mammon i like saying it this way my offerings are plundering hell my offerings your offerings are plundering hell come on let me say it again your offerings are plundering hell every time we give somebody's coming into the kingdom of god so we stand before god we're going to see those connections and people are going to be calling us friends that we never knew because we gave and we sowed into the kingdom of god as i as i said you know lord spoke to me recently says sow a double portion seed for a miracle harvest so this year and with our kingdom builders we're gonna we're doubling so you know in the past we've done percentages and stuff but this year we're just we're doubling so everything we've committed to our missionaries for the next 12 months we're going to double because we we believe as we step out on what god said god's going to release a miracle harvest into our life i believe every name we put on that cross is going to come into the kingdom we're going to see people come into the kingdom that we thought would never get saved that are going to come into the kingdom of god because the holy spirit is doing something today like we've never seen before i'm telling you it's just starting you know um in beginning of 2020 the lord spoke to me as as you know i've shared this so many times they get he said to me get ready for the harvest and get ready for the fire get ready for the fire and get ready for the harvest that was january february i can't remember now of 2020. so then we started uh we're like okay we've got to make room for the harvest because i realized one day i'm like wait you don't get ready for the harvest and the harvest comes you get ready for the hearts before the harvest comes right so um so we started getting ready to do all sorts of expansion and renovation on this campus and our north campus and then boom covet hit praise god no really in the midst of covet it turned out to be a blessing because when was the last time we could like close everything down four weeks and got out all the bathrooms how many have seen our new bathrooms praise god i mean there's a new sense of the presence of the lord now when you're on this campus it's all about the bathrooms right so in the midst of that praise god so between the two turlock campuses we spent about a half a million dollars in cash renovating and expanding uh areas in the same time we spent about 150 000 right there ripping you guys are watching right now to redo that building guys in ripon some of you never saw that building before you set foot in it it is an awesome building now a facility to meet but before that it was like i'm telling you the first time i walked in there with pastor nathan and elena they were all giddy they saw the potential i saw the money we would have to spend and i walked out depressed they walked out excited and uh but in the midst of covid we spent about 150 000 cash and we renovated that building and we launched services in the middle of a shutdown and rip it and uh all that in the midst of covet right so in 2019 i mean backtrack now in 2019 some of you know some of the story uh you know we were at that time uh getting ready to launch ripon and merced so we were both meeting on wednesday nights for out uh what we call them gatherings thank you i got too much of my brain i can't remember the gatherings we were meeting in ripon and merced so we launched those at the same time so we were doing that before uh and then um and then so one night my wife and i are lying in bed and we talk about the kingdom things in bed so i thought other services laughed i just i think my timing was off comedy is all about timing all right all right so we're lying in bed talking about holy things as nacho libre would say and uh so i said to her i go you know what after we launch merced and ripon i think our next camp is supposed to be in modesto but i said oh man but that's a ways off i don't want to think about it don't say a word to anyone but i'm like but and i don't believe in fleeces but i put them out there all the time so i said and i think you should kind of help launch it and then we'll just turn it over to somebody else and you know she's all i mean she's travels all around the world does all sorts of i thought she would never be interested in launching another campus and she she's laying in there she's like yeah that's the lord so i just you know i thought man she's either intoxicated laying next to me in my presence or this is really the lord and it's probably both you know um she was at the north campus this morning i mentioned that and she didn't look impressed and i said that anyway but moving on so but i said she goes yeah that's the lord i go okay don't tell anybody all right just keep it hush we got to focus on ripping in merced so end of october i think sometime in october 2019 james gall was here i mean i know the prophet james call and uh he was doing that weekend and he stayed over and did our outpouring service that night and uh anyway just what happened keep my mic on i just stay right there so when before in coming here i have written down in a journal four locations okay and so you have this location you use the terminology also we've had some discus you know a little talk and you have a north campus or something and then you have a wednesday night that is that you do they lead it or and it's i don't know what a ripon is it's like okay and then there's another that is beginning in merced okay so now you guys join back together again so i felt that there was when i would you'll come here but this was going to be being established as a hub with spokes and so i i had in here my knower was four that there would be four and so there are so there's here there's a campus and then there's now two outreach posts that are getting going but i have something else that's on the inside of me and it's about a fifth and i declare on this whole modesta whatever that is watch me looking at my wife when you go to modesta that is when the the higher level breakthrough anointing will occur when you turn your sight towards modesta there is going to be a wine a wine a wine of the holy ghost that's going to flow flow float and you will be given an anointing and it'll be the fifth place the number of grace and it will be a sign of a true apostolic hub has been born in jesus name all right so did you all see as soon as he said modesto i looked at my wife and if you see i'm mouthing to her i'm like did you tell him did you tell him because i believe in a prophetic but i just want to make sure it's really prophetic right if it's not we don't want to be pathetic we want to be prophetic so uh and of course she had not said a word and uh and he doesn't know this area obviously and the lord gives him the word that's a cool confirmation lord gives him the word modesta close enough we'll take it right so at that point i'm just like okay put on the back burner the lord outed us so if you were here that night remember i had to get up and tell okay all my elders right here yeah we did talk about that the lord just outed us that's going to be down the road all right so now fast forward so 2020 happens get ready for the fire get ready for the harvest and covet happens then we're expanding and we launched ripon and then we kind of had to shut down merced because we were renting a facility then they stopped laying us it which we're launching now again october 6th on wednesday night so um so so come january 2021 of this year we go into our 21 day fast that we do every year and then our fast ended january 31st right last day of january so a couple days before that i had received a call from the same owners of our ripping campus wanting to talk to me on zoom and it happened to be they scheduled it for february first the day after our 21 day fast i wasn't even thinking about it then i'm like what do they want you know they always want something so uh so i get on the zoom and you know after the pleasant you know pleasants talk how you doing what's going on brother praise the lord the gentleman says to me says have you thought about starting other campuses i said i'm always thinking about other campuses what do you what do you have in mind he says well i have this building and he starts telling me where it's at and i'm familiar with it it's in series and immediately you could see me on zoom i'm going no no i'm not i i'm so stretched right now right that i have a spiritual wedgie right so uh i'm not taking on anything else that is not part of that i've already stretched it out i'm like ah no no then he says to me yeah i think it's in series let me look oh let me look at the paperwork oh the ad it's in my address is modesto actually so i'm like give me a week to pray about it all right give me a week to pray about it so our management team went back and forth because you know it still doesn't mean it's the lord right it could be a distraction it could be all sorts of other stuff so we just kept on praying about it going back and forth this is the lord is not the lord we don't know you know and uh so finally i'm like let's just take it to our elders so we did a meeting with our elders on zoom and and our the first one who spoke up says to me says pastor god's given us harvest containers every single one of them said this is the lord so i remember going back to the owners of the building i said listen so is is this the same deal as ripon now you remember the deal we got with the ripping building right a dollar a year how many think we could afford that yeah all right so actually i had one of my board members give me two dollars so we paid the lease on both buildings anyway so uh he says yes it's the same deal and i and i put out some other stuff you know just like hey how about this how about that they said listen you guys have a track record we trust you i mean we're not going to tell you how to do ministry if you take this do whatever you want and i said okay so we lot we've signed the lease a few uh months ago like i said we sent our dollar in and uh and now so actually the building is in better shape than rip and what some of you've been to rip in those you're sitting and ripping right now that's a nice building you guys are sitting in but it wasn't that nice like i said earlier when we first got it this is actually in better shape than ripon was it's just it's so much bigger it says it's three acres sanctuary seats about 250 people has other buildings on top of it it's just a huge facility so uh we're we're limiting ourselves we're capping ourselves spending 250 000 to renovate it and to make it uh ready for ministry right it's just a tool ready for ministry and um so you know we've done the same thing with when we got the north campus on north campus was a miracle property that was given to us and we renovated all cash um you know same thing with ripon you know we all got together we we sowed and we gave and we did it in cash you know when we did the north campus the lord gave you know dropped this word in my heart he said man if ever if everybody would give the equivalent of a tithe over a 90-day period the need would be met and you know that's exactly what happened and we could do the same thing now with with with this modesta campus we're calling that a hatchback campus if uh if we give the equivalent of a tithe over 90 days we could we get to be a part of a miracle or some could give over and above that and we need over and above that uh to meet the need so on october 17th which is about three weeks from now we're going to receive a what we're calling a first fruits offering again that's separate from kingdom builders kingdom builders is what we just give every month to missions but we're going to receive our first first offering october 17th which will begin the 90 days believing that in 90 days we're going to receive 250 000 so that we're going to do it in cash we're not going to borrow money to get that building ready and you know and here's the thing it's not about buildings it's about being part of a miracle and a fulfillment of a prophetic word i mean when god moves on something i was not looking for a building especially and people are looking for buildings today they can't find them i just keep getting them you know it's like stop with the buildings no wait i shouldn't say that but uh you know it came to us it's a miracle that god has brought to us so here's a chance for us to be part of the miracle so again nobody's going to call you nobody's going to contact you say hey what are you going to give this is a free will offering so it's going to be between you and the lord you're going to ask the lord what he's going to have you do but you get to be part of a miracle as we sow together you know ripon uh people sowed from these campuses into your miracle so now you get to sow into somebody else's miracle there's going to be people that are going to come from that whole modesto series region come into the kingdom of god because we prepared a room we had harvest containers for people to come into the kingdom of god i'm telling you we are in the day of harvest like never before people are getting saved easier today than i've ever seen have you noticed that people are getting saved easier today than i've ever seen i i could tell you some stories right now but i can't because we're streaming but uh of people coming into the kingdom of god that you would never think would ever get saved but they're coming because of churches and christians that are standing up being bold and saying listen now is the time now is the time to come into the kingdom of god and we get to be a part of that in jesus name amen come on stand to your feet let me pray for you father i thank you for your people i thank you for your presence i thank you father that we get to be part of a miracle we get to be part of what you're doing on the earth today god we we get to be a part of what you're doing in this region today god you said to us if you saw into the nations i will give you a city but god you've made it now cities that we're reaching in this throughout this valley or up and down the 99 lord as you said just as jesus left the 99 for the one now it's time to leave the one to reach the 99. god we're going to reach the quarter 99 corridor with the gospel with the power of god the demonstration of the holy spirit so lord we thank you that we get to be a part of that miracle so lord let a fresh anointing father for evangelism let a fresh anointing for the harvest god to come upon this house like never before the greatest days of harvest are ahead of us the greatest harvest we've ever seen in the kingdom of god maybe you're here this morning right now with every about night clothes maybe you're here this morning and you're not in right relationship with god if you were to die tonight you're not sure you go to heaven you know before i came to the lord when somebody asked me that question i was like i don't know can you really know after getting to know jesus encountering jesus i realized heaven is not something that we hope to go to when we know jesus we know we're going there because heaven is also living in us by the holy spirit maybe you're here this morning and you've never given your life to christ because all you've known is religion you know going to church doesn't make you a christian all you've known is religion religion is trying to get to god on your own efforts but jesus came died on the cross rose again on the third day shed his blood so that you could be forgiven your good works will never get get you into heaven but jesus blood is already purchased the forgiveness of your sins we could become a child of god and enter to heaven maybe you're here this morning or you're watching online that and at one time you knew jesus but you walked away you're not serving him but this morning you want to renew your commitment to him you want to come back to him the greatest lie i've ever heard when i talk to people about jesus is they say oh i'm not ready yet some i need to get some stuff in order someday i'll be ready there is not a someday the bible says today is the day of salvation we're not guaranteed tomorrow all we have is today right now some of you the holy spirit is tugging at your heart and you're you're feeling something and you know that god is calling you right now if you're here this morning and we're watching online or you're on ripon you need to give your life to the lord either for the first time or recommit your life to the lord i'm about to pray a prayer and say pastor include me in that prayer i need to come to jesus i want to get saved today if that's you without hesitation i want to lift your hand over i could see it think about it back down i know and get things right with god thank you thank you thank you i'm looking in the balcony on the bottom come on and rip it if that's you i want you to respond also i need to get my life right with god if you lifted your hand and ripping your campus pastors are coming up they're going to lead you in prayer right now all of you in this room and watching online if you lifted your hand i want you to pray this with me we're all going to pray together say jesus thank you for dying on the cross for my sins i ask you come into my life forgive me of all my sins and i make you the lord of my life fill me with your holy spirit i renounce every spirit by the holy spirit and according to your word i'm now a child of god in jesus name amen come on can we celebrate with them come on come on celebrate [Music]

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Published: Tue Sep 28 2021