No Shortcut Here-Rev. Wade Bass

[Music] every place is to our God every word of worship he wanna core every praise every praise is to our God Holley me sing hallelujah praise [Music] doors - I got [Applause] - yeah every word were share what's up every page is - I gotta sing hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] every page [Music] [Applause] [Music] cheek hallelujah - I know yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] god [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] seek Holly [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes yes yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] see Holly [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] my [Applause] [Music] yes she [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] can we give him great praise all across this house this morning hallelujah hallelujah he's my healer he's my Savior hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah God I worship you I worship you and I worship You hallelujah [Music] hallelujah can we lift our hands all across this room this morning can we just love on him for just a moment hallelujah God better about Diana [Music] hallelujah I Love You Jesus [Music] take me to the place where your peace and love over where my heart is dead free from the shame and guilt the chains are on [Music] take me there [Music] me there take me [Music] take me to the place where your AIDS has never cease to cry [Music] will he ever spout out and test all of their crowns at [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] take me [Music] [Applause] take me to the place where your [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] to set free from the shame and guilt though chains are on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] beep [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] by [Music] [Music] [Music] to go [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] tacky [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] take me [Music] ha [Music] [Music] halleluyah halleluyah halleluyah early can we just extend our hands one more time before we move on there's nothing like being in his presence hallelujah hallelujah yes in his presence is fullness of joy in his presence is everything you need this morning you got a problem or a situation you don't understand take it to his presence I told her for short or about diet hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus hallelujah hallelujah I thank you this morning God hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus hallelujah we're gonna receive this morning's offering you may be seated you've just given her to the Lord worship with us as we sing [Music] [Music] make me a house make me a house of prayer a house of prayer Lord make me make me a house of prayer a house of prayer [Music] may the fire of my altar never burn out the fire on my altar never burn out may the fire of my altar never burn out make me a house of prayer [Music] make me a house make me a house of friends [Music] make me a house how some praise may the fire of my altar never burn out the fire of my altar never burned off me the fire of my altar never burn out make me a house of bread may the fire of my altar never burn out the fire of my altar never burn out may the fire of my altar never burn out make me a house of rain maybe [Music] house maybe house [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] never burn the fire of my altar never burn make a fire my altar [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] at night at night and day and day night and night and day day and night and I did a baby a house made me a house a Parente day and night and a day and a night a day maybe a house [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] day by day [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] make me a house maybe a house Oh make me a house maybe a house of prayer a house of bread [Music] hallelujah hallelujah Haribo roto era wash [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I wonder if we couldn't just for the next few moments just make that our prayer real quick Tata Motors shorty I'm Diana [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we've got class parties this morning we're gonna dismiss our Sunday School classes at this time twelve through graduation or twelve twelfth of young singles part of me I'm gonna turn this service to our pastor would you greet him to this pulpit this morning with an apostolic Amen Jesus in your name he meant everybody breathe a sigh of relief honey Louie you made it just sir praise God I'm glad you're here amen thank God for all of you they're here for the bass and I have a conversation the last time he was here and our conversation went something like brother vas I really want you to come back and I we need you to speak in our lives and I want you to speak into our lives and I asked him when he could make that happen put us in his schedule and he was looking and he's going to be very busy next year and he was going to be close to the relatives this week and christmas is coming up all that holidays and I asked him I said what would you be able to fit us in and he squeezed us into this Sunday and God knew what it was going to be like outside and he knew who was gonna be here whenever that happened and I know tonight there'll be a bear crowd probably unless something just crazy goes wrong with the weather I think it's supposed to be okay and so I know that but I also know that God supported to speak to somebody at night and today and I believe he wants to speak to us as a church body and I feel like if nothing else he'll have the audience of one today because I'm seeking desperately from a word for the Lord and I want a word from the Lord if nobody else showed up today I would probably just gonna come over and sit on the front row and let him preach to me because I want a word from God I know everybody in this room wants a word from God and I want him to just take his liberty today I know amens sometimes it can be intimidating when everybody don't show up but I'm not intimidated I don't feel like he's intimidated and I don't want you to be intimidated I want us to just see what God has to say if you will let's stand all over this building and let's welcome this man of God to the pulpit with an amen amen hallelujah thank you pastor praise the Lord everybody amen so good to be in the house of worship this morning and to join with this wonderful congregation in a time of praise and adoration to the king of kings and the Lord of lords amen rejoicing today and what God is doing and I believe he is doing great things amen give honor today to your good pastor and the first lady of this church we love them very dearly amen we appreciate their leadership do we not amen also want to give honor today to the bishop and sister man who loved them very much and we're just so happy to have this wonderful privilege praise God said the little boy was wanting a bicycle for Christmas and he kept telling everybody worn a bicycle so he you know at least did get the hint somewhere along the line so they finally said why don't you just pray and that's the Lord you know to make sure you get that bicycle so he decided to go to his room and on the way he passed the nativity scene and as he passed by he reached over and got Mary and rushed upstairs and opened his drawer and stuck her in the back you shoved it tight and went over knelt down and said Jesus I have your mother and if you ever want to see her again you better make sure I get that bicycle amen well I'm happy to know we don't have to twist his arm today he hears our prayer thank God he hears our prayer and I never cease to be amazed at how God operates at how God works and when I read my text this morning you'll understand fully what I'm talking about but the song make me a house of prayer it gave me solid confirmation because there's a thousand and one songs out there that could be sung amen I mean anything this praise singers could have sung anything but I really believe that that song was ordained of God for this morning mark chapter 11 verse number 15 16 and 17 three verses of scripture in your hearing today and I want to try if I can to obey the Holy Ghost in this service amen and I know that we have classes that are out we have others that are out for various reasons but we are here amen and I can tell you that God speaks to those who have an ear to hear amen mark 11:15 and they come to Jerusalem and Jesus went into the temple and began to cast out them that sold him and bought in the temple and over through the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple and he taught saying unto them is it not written my house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer but you have made it a den of thieves and everybody said amen god bless you you can be seated I will give you my title here in a few minutes but there's some things I want to talk about to lead up to that point in time but I understand and one of the things that I don't like to do or scripture is concern is I don't like to use supposition I don't like to just suppose things because sometimes that can get you in trouble I do believe that there are times that when we read the word of the Lord because we know human nature and we know why that people sometimes do the things that they do sometimes we read scripture and it gives us a bit of an understanding of the background simply because we know human nature so we're not so much using supposition as we are experience we're human nature and the way people are is concerned and so we're able to speak things and of reality and so I feel like that there's enough evidence in the scripture with what I want to talk about for the next few minutes that I believe are is very very important to my subject today but Jesus did come to Jerusalem and whenever he went in the temple there's another occasion where we find that he went in and he looked round about on all things and then he went and and began to form a whip of sorts to come back and cleanse the temple but this scripture doesn't give us all of that detail it just tells us that he began to cast out them that sold him and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers and the seats of them that sold doves so what he did was put the house through a cleansing process now based on what we read here and then of course based on some things I have read and studied where this particular event is concerned it appears that there were some things going on around the house of God and that was not in the best interest of the people of God and their worship unto God it appears that what was happening was that the people of God were bringing their sacrifices to the house of the Lord and there would be a priest as given by the law the commandment by the law that that priest was to take that sacrifice and he was to investigate that sacrifice and determine whether or not it was acceptable to offer unto God and so if it was lame if it was diseased if it had a blinded eye or whatever the case might be that sacrifice would not be acceptable and it could be rejected by the priest and they would be told and that they would have to bring a better sacrifice and of course there was a reason for that and the reason being that what God really did not want was the people bringing him sacrifices and that they really could use for any other reason in other words said if they had something lame or diseased him then they didn't want to have to kill it just outright kill it they could bring it to God and offer it to God and God said no you're not going to do that if you bring me a sacrifice I want you to bring the very best that you to offer a man and really and truthfully I don't have a problem with that today because I believe that the god I serve and deserves at my very best he deserves my best praise he deserves the best of my life he deserves the best of everything that I have to offer him and I don't want to be guilty of bringing God have heartedness and I don't want to be guilty of bringing God just have devotion and have consecration I want the Lord to know you don't have just part of my heart you've got all in my heart you got other thing that I need everything I have it's yours Lord and I give it to you somebody praise Him with a hand clap right now the man but here's what was happening and that was that the people were really bringing oftentimes an acceptable sacrifices they were bringing sacrifices that there was no reason for them to be rejected so what was going on was at the house door the door out the house they would be rejected and they would be told the sacrifice is not acceptable so what you're gonna have to do is go over here to this table and you're gonna have to sell the sacrifice and collect the money and because of that money that it's sold for cannot be used in the temple then you've got to go over here to the money changers table and you've got to exchange the money there for temple money and then take that money and go to this table over here and you've got to buy you a new sacrifice ship that has already been shown to be acceptable the problem with all of that is number one at the door they were being told it's not good enough and then at the table where they sold the sacrifice they were cheated in the value of that sacrifice and then when they would go to the table of money changers the money changers said would not give them a good exchange rate and they would be cheated and shortchanged him at the moneychangers table and then when they would go over here to the other table to buy a new sacrifice then they would be overcharged for the sacrifice and even at time said they would be buying back the exact same sacrifice at a higher price than the one that they brought to the door they would not even be buying a new sacrifice and so what was going on was that when people went to the house of God they would be shortchanged at the door they would be shortchanged and selling they would be shortchanged in the exchange of currency and then they would be shorted when they went over here to buy a new sacrifice and I'm telling you that is what is happening in the church world today too often people go to the house of worship and they are sure changed at every point in worship and in praise they are sure changed too when it comes to the power of God they are sure change when it comes to the preaching of truth there's a whole world out here that's going to church this morning and when they leave they're not gonna leave change that they're not gonna leave different they're gonna leave the same way that they came I pray God that that's never said about us the Apostolic Church I pray that when they walk in that door they feel something that never felt anywhere else said when they hear the word of God preached they hear preaching that affects them that challenges them that moves their man and when they see the worshiper they recognize that the worship is a spiritual worship that's true shut it's not just a performance on the platform but it's entering the gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise somebody shout hallelujah hey Manny Manny man what I feel holy ghost in this house this morning hallelujah it can't be said that when they come here it must not be said that when they come here and they leave that they say well it's the same there as it is everywhere else it don't need to be said of them of us in that light when they walk in here they didn't say I've never felt this before I've never experienced this before there's something in this house that I didn't even know you could get when you go to church hallelujah this is not the place for people to be shortchanged it's not the place for people to leave feeling like I've wasted my time I've wasted my money I wasted my efforts when they come out of this place or to come out saying that the house was not even told me the house was not even told me I felt some things I've never felt before in my life [Applause] anybody believe that today hey man man thank you race the Lord scripture says and I baptized the floor up here this morning so I'm probably not the first one that did it he arose in chapter 8 and verse 27 it talks about Phillip the Evangelist and how that he arose and went he was preaching in Samaria and then he was called of God to go down to the desert place and whenever he went there was a man of Ethiopia of eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians who had the charge of all her treasure and this is what the Bible said this man this Ethiopian had come to Jerusalem for to worship and he was returning and he was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet so what had this man done he had gone to Jerusalem he had gone to the temple in other words he had gone to the right place and he had gone for the right reason he gone to worship the Lord and he was reading the right book he was reading the prophet Isaiah and the word of the Lord said he was on his way home and the Bible said that a Philip asked him a question do you understand what you read him and the eunuch said how can i except some man that should guide me and he decide Philip that he would come up and sit with him and the place where he read that was this he was led as a sheep to the slaughter and like a lamb done before you share so open he not his mouth his humiliation as judgment was taken away and who shall declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth and that eunuch said who is he popping about hey is he talking about is he talking about himself or is he speaking about somebody else and the Word of God said that Philip started at that point and preached under him Jesus hallelujah you hear me today there's a lot of folks go in there to the right place and they're going with the right motive they're going for the right reason and they're reading the right book but they're on their way home with more questions than they have answers they got more questions in their mind about the Word of God when they leave I'm telling you this only one truth that we understand it there's only one God and this name is Jesus here o Israel the Lord our God is one and neither is there salvation in any other for there is none of the name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved him had him had when they leave here Bishop then they leave with answers I said they need to leave with the answers yet they won't walk in here wondering if anybody loves them they oughta leave with an answer yes I'm loved yes God cares for me yes there's a church that loves me oh praise God praise God yet they're if they're a prodigal and they're walking in the door questioning if the father gonna run to meet me they help me jesus said I said that the prodigal comes home with the question they don't need to leave saying where's the house I used to go to where's the prayer that I used to see no they gotta come here and know it's like it was when I left him an Amen that is why that Jesus cleansed the temple when he cleansed the temple the word of the Lord tells us that the halt in the lie claim came in and He healed them and the second thing you said the children were in the temple crying Hosanna to the highest blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord you got to hear this preacher here today it's not enough that we as the adults of the Apostolic generation of today come back and understand what we know and know what we believe but there's got to be our children that have been raised in this cell that know Oh hallelujah they gotta know him they didn't see the reality of the power I children need to praise Him and worship Him as well amen amen after preaching traveling course forty-seven years have seen a lot but in the past four plus years in preaching in 117 different churches pulpits Amen nationally and internationally and seeing all kinds of situations and everywhere Amen one of the things I have observed is this and that is that our children you see when a sinner walks in the door and they've never felt the touch of God all the things that they've ever heard is from the world the music all about divorce and remarriage and all about drugs and alcohol him a man losing their dog and losing their wife and losing their truck and everything else you hear what I'm talking about a man then they come to the house of God and they hear singing like we heard here this morning the lyrics and the presence of God Amen they're moved by that because they've never been in contact with that man they're touched by what they hear and what they see in this house because it's not but they felt out there in the barroom are on the dance floor hey man come on church but our children come to church week after week and month after month and year after year and they hear the same songs and they hear the same efforts at promoting worship and praise and a service I'm going to tell you it's going to affect our children what's going to affect our cheerless when they walk in here and they feel something that's powerful and they feel something that's a movie and they feel something that challenges them come on church hallelujah we gotta give them more than standards we gotta give them more than guidelines we gotta give him a visitation but the holy ghost in the house hey man hey man and Jesus they asked Jesus they said don't you hear what's going on here hey man don't you see what's happening because they didn't like what was happening and Jesus said have you not read that out of the mouths of babes and sucklings said that praise would be perfected let me tell you when you have an perfect place in a church in other words complete praise in a church it's not just women the adults are praising God it's not just when the elders are praising God but it's when our children have tears flowing down their face and they're reaching for something that they're feeling in the house come on I feel a word from God here today I feel like the Holy Ghost wants to help us we've got a have revival not just from my generation but we've got every visor for the children that are being raised on our pews [Music] hey man hey man we keep our young people because they feel more here than they do out there you can't tell me sin doesn't have pleasure because even the scripture said that Moses chose rather to suffer the afflictions for the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season seein as pleasure but it's only for a season they need to understand that the joy of the Holy Ghost is not seasonal it's there when you're up and the stair when you're down is there when times are good and it's there when times are bad it's there when you got the victory and it's day when you feel like you lost the battle the joy the joy the joy of the Lord is your strength [Applause] so let's shall praise the Lord somebody shout praise the Lord man me man so Jesus cleansed the temple and it made this statement he said is it not written that that my house shall be called of all nations the House of Prayer not just the nation of Israel but of all nations in other words everybody ought to recognize what the house is all about everybody ought to understand what this house really is it's not just Israel that needs to understand and not just the Jews but the Syrians said and the Lebanese said hey man everybody else Egypt no matter who they are that they say that's a house of prayer that's a house of prayer so what was Jesus doing he was restoring the most basic and the simplest form of worship that there is and that is a prayer lujah you cannot get more basic than prayer you cannot get more simplistic than prayer who praise God come on now him and why because prayer doesn't need a choir and prayer doesn't have to have music and prayer doesn't need a crowd and prayer doesn't have to be public prayer can be private prayer doesn't need a cathedral hallelujah prayer can be in your bedroom man prayer can be at your living room sofa prayer can be in your automobile driving down the road prayer can be in the aisle at Walmart a prayer can be on your job because prayer is the most simplest and basic form of worship that there is amen prayer does it had to be eloquent hey man I said prayer doesn't have to be eloquent prayer doesn't have to have perfect diction in everything that is said oh praise God prayer can just be as simple as saying I love you Jesus there is a nun like you lord you're the greatest of all my heart hungers after you as this as the heart prince said to the south of the water Brooks so pinched my soul after you all call it you can be driving down the highway saying Lord look at the work at the handiwork of your hands look at the sun the moon the stars they all declare your glory but they're not going to be the only one that declares it I think I'll declare it for a while hear my voice Jesus said hear my voice jesus said I want you to know that I trust in you with all of my heart if you're engaging in prayer then you are engaging in the most simplest and the most basic form of worship amen - God - God prayer is so important that he wanted his house to be known as the house of prayer amen the house that Solomon built was a magnificent house it was astonishing in its beauty and in its glory but the Lord spoke to him the night that he prayed that prayer of dedication and he said to Solomon he said Solomon I want you to hear me today he said if I shut up heaven that there be no rain hey man if the earth can't bring forth and his fruit hit the land is disease and you got problems on every hand if my people put your call by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and I will heal their land and he said to Solomon that he said I've chosen this house as a place to put my name and I'll hear the prayer that's the prelude you feel what I feel right now I see I chose this place and I'm going to choose it as a place to hear prayer from because God God wanted the house to be known not so much for its beauty but for its activity he wanted the house to be known for the activities that would go on inside this house Oh hallelujah I wanted to be known as a house of prayer I won't ever nation that passes by to say it's a beautiful house but that's really not what is represented there what's represented as the fact it's a house of prayer Oh glory to God I said glory to God yet there's anything that abundant life ought to be understood to be our here in Danville our in Danville Indiana yes that place is a house of prayer that's a prayin people if you need somebody to pray you can call on them man come on now you need somebody to touch God you can call on them to touch God this is a house of prayer this is a house of prayer it's the house of the activity of Prayer it's not because it's gilded with gold and it's not because it's covered with precious stones hey man it's not the cause come on now hey man not because of the nice automobiles in the parking lot hey man when they pass by and they see the beautiful edifice that in due process of time you're gonna enter into the worship they ought to say it looks to me like they just built a bigger house of prayer that's what it looks like to me some of y'all not hearing me at this morning hey man there ain't nothing like players ain't nothing like getting a hold of God amen whatever else you are whatever else you can be you ought to be singing with the choir this mornin saying make me a house of prayer make me a house of prayer I know my body is the temple of the Holy Ghost I want to be a house of prayer in fact when Israel was preparing to cross over into the land of Canaan they were on their way the Lord gave them commandment he said if you make me an altar of stone you shall not build it of hewn stone for if you lift up your tool opponent you have polluted it you know what God was saying he was saying listen when you build me an altar I don't want you to take stones take your your-your-your hewing tool your hammer your chisel I don't want you to chisel them out and perfect them and build a build a an altar that you can stand back in glory in what you have done and glory in how you have built that altar he said you build me an altar just pile up a bunch of stones because here's what I want you to stand that when you approach that altar I want you to approach it understanding that it's not the altar but it's the sacrifice that's only altar and it is the one to whom it is being sacrificed that is important hallelujah what's important today is not what we can do it's not how much we can do it's not how perfect that we are but it's the God we serve that we pray to Him because he alone is worthy of our praise and our worship [Applause] amen in fact you read Isaiah 66 and I don't have the verse right in front of me here but God talked about being angry with Israel and he said one of the things that he was angry about is because that they offered them their sacrifice on altars of brick they offered incense on altars of brick and when you go back and you study that you realize that what they did is they came from Egypt having built all the grand edifice of Egypt with brick you understand it Exodus chapter 1 will give you that understanding that they had learned how to make brick they had learned how to build altars and great edifices to the gods of the Egyptians they learned that art down there in Egypt their ability to get the job done hey man and God said I'm not happy with the fact that you are offering your incense you're offering your worship on altars of brick because your offering and your sacrifice is being based on what you have done and how beautiful you have made it come on your folks know me well enough to know that I'm a strong component and believer in preacher in holiness and righteousness and separation from the world but you got to hear this preacher here this morning that it's not enough faith that you just dress right and it's enough that you just dress according to the Word of God in the direction of your posture hey come on now you can offer your sacrifice on the perfect style of living that you develop it's still gonna come in there saying that by the blood of Jesus said am I even in this house and by the sacrifice of Calvary do I even have this privilege to lift my voice we're still saved by grace not of works lest any man should boast come on I'm in the book hey man I said I'm in the book you're still saved by grace not of works you're still ain't good enough to save yourself oh you're not good enough to save yourself you can't live good enough to save yourself you still gotta have the grace of God you still gotta have the blood of Calvary you still gotta help the help of Jesus Christ ha ha hey man you see I understand I understand that there's a difference between pre salvation works and Pope's salvation works pre salvation works means that you think you can be saved because of how good you are how great you are and how well that you live your life a man but Pope's salvation works s because I am saved then I live this way because I have been filled with the Holy Ghost then I walk this away come on I'm Who I am and I do what I do because I've been baptized in Jesus name and I've been filled with the Holy Ghost I'm still saved by the grace of God I'm still saved by the blood of Calvary I'm still saved by the name of Jesus Christ and because I am saved and I'm gonna live up to the name gonna get a witness hey man but here's something I want you to notice and this is really what I come to preach about hallelujah and that is that he made a statement or the scripture makes a statement about something that Jesus did that caught my attention just recently and that is he said after that he ran out the money changers and the dosent bought and sold and those who sold doves and all that then verse 16 said he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple a man he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel to the temple now I have to tell you that I searched and I looked and I tried to find a law in the scripture that gave a commandment regarding this and I could not find it I couldn't I couldn't find any place in scripture that they were not permitted to do this thou shalt not and so it left a question in my mind as to why would Jesus not allow that any man see carrying a vessel through the temple and I found out that this is what was going on there was a place that was that was connected around she was part of what was called the temple compound that that was called the great court of the Gentiles it was a pretty large place it was the place because Gentiles could not enter into the temple proper and there were certain areas that they were not permitted to go to there was a place for those that wanted to identify with the Jews where the religion is concerned and the God that they served and so there was a place built that was called the great court of the Gentiles said hey man here's the problem that wasn't being encountered in that time and why Jesus did what he did and that is that because of where the court of the Gentiles was built in the temple complex that if that reality you could pass through that area and go from one part of the city to another part man in other words said if you were traveling from one part of Jerusalem to another part of Jerusalem a shortcut could be taken if you passed through the court of the Gentiles said and if you could not go through there we're not allowed to go through it then it was a long and tedious circuit that you would have to travel and it added a great deal of time and effort and energy to go from one part of the city to another for example if you were passing from the sheep market but that's that into the upper part of the city the shortest cut was through this court and go right by Solomon's porch and so you would decrease the amount of distance you had to travel if you were allowed to go through there and so what had happened is the priests had begun to permit servants and Labor's and those that were laden with any kind of a burden to take the shorter cut to the great court of the temple but Jesus in the midst of clean cleansing the temple he hindered him and he forbade them with authority and he restrained them with his hand and he compelled him to go back he said you're not gonna pass through this place anymore in other words he was saying to them you're not making a shortcut out of the house of God you're not gonna use this place as a place of mayor convenience and I'm thinking why why why why because my brain sometimes does crazy things when I read certain things in Scripture and I can't quite wrap my brain around it and then I kind of got a hold of something and I know it's an old example but it's worth repeating here this morning that I believe that Jesus was operating in this spirit in 2nd Samuel 23 11 and 12 it says after him was Shama the son of Ag the Hara height and the Philistines were gathered together into a troop where was a piece of ground full of lentils and the people fled from the Philistines and he stood in the midst of the crown and defended it and slew the Philistines and the Lord brought a great victory and so here is what was going on it was Shama somebody said what in the world was a man doing risking his life out there alone defending a ground that was full of lentil said nothing more than a bean field it's because that the bean field was on the outer skirts of the property it was one of the first fields you came to whenever people were farming and that was the first field and here's Jala's mind sama was saying if I don't defend the property here then what are they gonna go for next step because passed the bean field that he would get to the herbs and all of the various things that they could build a disturber to grow to spice their food and then you would get to the barley field and you would get to the corn field and you would get to all of the other fields of wheat field which were the thing that sustained them on the long haul hey man hey man I might can do without this lentil field but I can't do without the poly field and I can't do without the corn field and I can't do without the wheat crop a man so shamans idea wash I'm not giving up anything I'm not giving up anything I'm gonna stand right here in this lentil patch and I'm gonna defend this rental patch because ultimately what I'm doing that it's defending everything else has passed this Oh hallelujah somebody help me for the next few minutes I'm not going to be much longer but I gotta preach what I feeling the Holy Ghost right now you've got to hear what I'm telling you and there is the enemy sometimes we'll go after the most basic form of worship that you have in your life yet there's one thing he would like to steal from every one of us it's our prayer [Applause] yes our prayer life he wants to still I know it's not a very popular message but it's what I feeling the Holy Ghost in 2016 going into seventeen if there's anything we gotta have that we gotta have somebody rise up and say not you're not getting my prayer life you're not getting my prayer time you're a man because what happens is when he steals your prayer life it's not long before he steals your consecration he steals your devotion he steals your love for God he steals your love for holding that self your love for separation amen am i right you're steered from you you'll do everything you can he'll fight you in the bean field he'll fight you over your parent why do you think that he wants to get your prayer life because if he gets your prayer life it's not long he can overrun you and everything else that's going on in your life or God is concerned gotta make up your mind this bean feels as important as everything else in my life I've seen folks that kept trying to live right who never prayed but eventually it got to him if a man I say eventually it got to him because they're out here and Jesus is saying huh he so tell y'all something he said you see this court of the Gentiles as far as I'm concerned every part of the temple complex is special to me there is no part of this that's not special no part of it that I'm not gonna protect no part I understand I understand there's no law that says you can't pass through but every now and then you're just got to decide I don't need a law to keep something special I don't need a law to keep something special I don't need a come-on there's some things I do live and for God I don't have to have a law to do it there's just something about it that I want to keep my relationship with him special I want it to be special I want it to be pure and holy I don't always be chapter in verse because there's been some things I've consecrated to God I devoted to God and I'm not gonna let the enemy use it as a it's a thoroughfare you're not gonna bring everything you want to bring through my life devil oh come on now help me Jesus hallelujah that's why in the world that we live in we gotta guard these eyes and we gotta guard these ears if we don't there's gonna be an enemy using our ears and our eyes it's just a thoroughfare to bring all kinds of junk and bring help me Lord Jesus he's gonna do everything he can to pollute the house of the Lord amen no no go back go back take that out of here get back get back get back go ahead get out of here you're not going to use this place as a thoroughfare you're not gonna use this place it's just a matter of convenience to just pass through you're not gonna use it as something that you just want to do just for your personal benefit this is my and that right there may not be part of the temple proper but it's connected it's a part of what has been accomplished in the process of time amen second first Kings twenty-one and one said it came to pass after these things that naboth the jezreelite had a vineyard which was in Jezreel listen hard by the palace of ahab king of samaria that means it was literally connected to the palace of ahab it was right beside it it was hard by it it was you could look out the palace window and look into new boss vineyard and they have the king the wicked king and the most wicked of all Israel's Kings came to nebith and he said give me your vineyard that I may have it for a garden of herbs because it's near to my house and I will give it you for a better vineyard than it and if it seem good to you I will give you the worth of it and money hey a person named off I like your vineyard amen but he said what I wanted for is I want it for a garden of herbs because it's near to my house in other words it would be really convenient it would be a convenient place for me to plant some herbs I want it as a place to just kind of spice up my life add a little flavor to my life lord have mercy I feel holy ghost' all over this house I wanted just as a matter of convenience that's all I want it for then they bother look today happened he said god forbid that I should give the inheritance of my father's son to you you see I help oh you want it for is just a little flavor you want it for a little spice of life but you don't understand what this vineyard means to me man I gotta tell you something they have this vineyard fed my great granddaddy and his family and it failed my granddaddy and his family that fed my daddy and his family and I gotta tell you something they have it's it's sustaining of my family it's providing for my family you see I am you own it for spice and flavor but this is our life this is what sustains I said this is what keeps us in good times and bad times no I understand that every year the harvest is not the greatest and it's not the best but we hang on to it anyway because we know that next year just might be better and things are gonna show we're not selling out you don't have enough money you don't have enough money and you don't have another vineyard that comes anywhere close to this vineyard it's gotta be something inside of us something inside of us that says I'm not selling out for anything I'm not selling up for mama for daddy for brother for sister for cousin for uncle or aunt nephew niece or anybody else grandma grandpa hit no matter who it is I'm not selling out this happens to be where I live this is my life I don't know how you feel today about the church but the church is my life it's not just a matter of convenience I don't just show up boat Sunday morning I don't just come because I need a little more flavor to my life I need a lot of spice in my life I come here because this is how I live this is now I'm sustained this is what helps me make it through all the seasons of life I love the church I said I love the church with all of her imperfections come on now with all sometime the idiosyncrasies and the warts and the shortcomings and all the stuff that you got to see sometimes I still love the church lujah come on now see I still love the church because there ain't nothing like the people of God there ain't nothing like the house of God there ain't nothing like the Church of Jesus Christ there's no place like this place I'm sorry a hab you don't have enough money to buy me you're not getting this place it's not going to happen now as long as I'm alive because we know what happened but the story is he stood up for what he believed was what sustained him through everything huh hey man hey man I could walk through the doors of the church and worship God but folks I know we're not perfect cuz I understand I'm not perfect [Applause] come on where's my witness here this morning hey man and so here's the thing you gotta understand that we either make it a place where we are absolutely sold out and this is our life and we don't really care what happens Amen I'm here I'm here cuz I don't want to go to hell I wanna be saved and then you know it's not just that because I love God amen Jesus talked about the mustard seed he said it's the least of all the seeds but when it's planted it grows up to be the greatest of all the herbs and listen what it says it shoots forth great branches and the birds of the air come and lodge in those branches and I looked at that and I thought you know what a difference what a difference between branches and birds amen branches are tied connected they draw their life from the trunk from the root system amen birds just watch the birds of the air he said coming Lodge and the branch's what is he saying they just fly in and they rest a while and when they get tired of using the branch is a place of convenience then they flit off and flying go somewhere else hey man they go find him another tree they go find him another place to rest they go find them some other place for flavoring for spice but the branches are there and they say I'm not going anywhere whatever you do don't cut me off whatever happens don't cut me off and whatever take place don't cut me off because if I cut off I can't live I can only survive if I'm connected because you see there's a big difference between of being a matter of necessity in a matter of convenience a big difference between a matter of necessity in a matter of convenience it's just a preference I just prefer to go to church on Sunday morning huh instead of a conviction that says I've got to go to church because I needed the Holy Ghost to help me and I need the Word of God preached to me and I need to be among those of like precious faith I need to rub shoulders with the saints of God I'll just tell you Church hey man I get so weary with hell badgering the saints of God badgering people that live for God staying after you it just rides up and tell him look gonna tell you something this is my life hey man I might not win every battle devil I'm gonna win this war huh I may have to struggle but I'm gonna keep on struggling cuz I'd rather struggle and make it then I would to give up and not make it I'm closing hallelujah lujah this is my life this is my life years ago in in Ocala we had a newspaper and I guess they still have it I don't know but anyway we had a page that called the the letters to the editor editorial page and they allowed they allowed people to write in and sometimes vent their frustrations or their anger or you know you know put out their agenda or whatever it was and it was somebody wrote in one time and they were decry and all of them the whys and wherefores of even going to church and they were saying there's not a great use one guy this one man that wrote the letter said I've been going to church he named how many years forty plus years or whatever and I can't even remember one sermon that really stood out to me I just came I don't know I think it's a waste of time I don't think it's even important to go and so I followed that line of because ever the people could write in and respond and so for about a week and a half there two weeks people were writing in letters and they were responding and this guy finally wrote and he was the best response of all he said I have been married to the lady I'm married to for 43 years and in sit in the course of that 43 years he had calculated how many meals that that woman his wife had cooked for him in the process of their marriage and it was thousands whatever it was and he says you know really and truthfully I can't really say that I can remember any one specific meal I just being outstanding he said but I can tell you this he said the reason I'm alive today is because she just kept feeding me [Applause] she just kept feeding me I kept going back at the table that she kept putting food on the table hello and I whether your preacher pulls a rabbit out ahead of a service that's whether you just come back to the table and sit back down and say feed me feed me this is my life I can't live without it it's not a matter of convenience it's a matter of survival I gotta have it I gotta have Church I got to have Church I gotta have the help of God I've got to have his presence amen you can stand jesus said let me just say this this way I believe what he was saying to us the crowd that day when he stopping him from passing through he said wait a minute this house is not going to be a place that you just passed through on your way to somewhere else he said this is gonna be a place you come to Amen this is a place you've come to that's why the writer of Hebrews says for you have not come to a mountain because that mountain was a place that they just passed through that area in fact they've been there so long at one point God said you come past this mountain long enough that was just the place they passed through you not come to this mountain he said but you have come to Mount Zion there's not a place you're gonna pass through you've come to Mount Zion the city of the Living God New Jerusalem spirits of just men made perfect Jesus Christ you've come you've come somewhere and this is not a place when I I know I've been raised in this I I was raised to this but I'm not in it tonight this morning because I was simply raised in it I'm in it because I found out this is right this is life amen and so one of the things that we have to recognize is that while we are going to the process of cleansing even sometimes the Lord cleaning our heart out whatever it might be grudges bitterness and things that we've allowed in our spirit we also have to decide and from this point on I'm just not gonna let this place be a thoroughfare that the enemy can bring through here whatever he wants to bring he can traffic through my life I'm putting a stop to some stuff because this is not just convenience it's not just a matter take it or leave it it's a matter of I'm taking it the kingdom of God suffers violence and the violent do what take it by force they take it I decided a long time ago Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to me I'm glad I was raised in this but better than being raised and that Jesus was the best thing that ever happened I remember the night I got the Holy Ghost I remember the night I spoke in tongues I remember I remember when he called me to preach and I looked back down the road and I see all the points where I could have exited off of this highway but I chose to stay on the highway [Music] huh been a few times come on now been a few times I was in the ditch mind you come on now church but I didn't get off the road to take another road the church came along and pulled me back out and kept me going on the same road anybody guys anybody happy anybody thankful [Music] driving over here yesterday is coming down Interstate 70 and there was a backup of probably 10 miles because there was a semi that had flipped over on its side and was still sitting in part of the left-hand Lane and they had it all blocked off and we're trying to get all this stuff out of it so they could upright it and get it out of the ditch amen I've looked at that and driving down and I thought yeah how many times how many times has there been a backup because somebody kind of got off course huh okay so I don't know how many instances yesterday coming over here thankfully I didn't get caught any of that but you know I can tell you this the man that was having this truck and all of his goods transferred and those that he was mighty thankful somebody was there to help him huh and I've been mighty thankful to the time that the church prayed for me been mighty thankful because I'm still here today because I understand without the church I couldn't meet it so this is not just something I do just because I have nothing else to do this is what I do because this is my life not convenience not flavor not spice his life is what sustains me amen I'm so glad I'm so glad hey man I know I didn't give my paddle here's my title no shortcut here I said no shortcut here ain't no shortcuts in my walk with God I don't want a shortcut I want to just keep traveling the road I want to keep doing what's right I want to live right I want to pray I want to seek God I want to go to church you see I know I got a hurry I gotta quit I understand that but you've got to understand church that there is no part of our walk with God Jesus would not let them go through the court of the Gentiles it was part of the temple complex there was no law but he said it's special and the reality is there is no part of our walk with God that can be substituted with something else you can't substitute prayer for preaching and you can substitute preaching for prayer amen you gain substitute your separation from the world your lifestyle you gain substitute that with prayer every part has got to be special to you you can't substitute going to the house of God with listening online if you do it online but whether it be the case you can't do it that way then now if you're sick you can't get out of bed and you're contagious stay home we don't want your sickness amen but as soon as you well get on back to the house of God because online preaching ain't nothing like hearing and feeling and being among the saints of God huh read your Bible at home can't be substituted for hearing it preach to the church you didn't say you're saved by reading your Bible I said just saved by the foolishness of preaching am I in the book have I been out of the book this morning I don't think I have what I'm trying to do is help us all to understand every aspect of our walk with God has got to be special and unique and guarded and guarded lest we allow one area to become a trafficking area to where that things go through our lives there's nothing more than just convenience let's lift our voices let's lift our voices let's worship the Lord somebody's to thank God for the church this morning thank God for your walk with God thank God that you're living for him [Music] well I feel like we just need to lift our hands let's lift our voice can you just give God thanks today that he fills you with the Holy Ghost come on there's no shortcut here there's no shorten conditional part of my life and my walk with God I can give up I can't give up any aspect of my walk with God [Music] I am a Shia I'm a hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Lord I feel the call of the Holy Ghost this morning I wonder if there's anybody in the house who would like to join your pastor appear this morning to say Jesus I want to reaffirm to you that I need you but I need this church that I need the ministry that I need your word that I need the house of worship that I need every aspect my walk with God I need everything I can get I need everything I can get I need all that I can get my hands on I don't want to be I don't want to be one that just uses the church as a place of convenience as a place when I'm in trouble as a place when I have a few heartaches that I need somebody to help me with but I need it as a place and strength on a daily basis I want to live for God I want to live for God I want to live for God I want to be faithful to God katayama Satori under behind in the presence of the Lord in the presence of the Lord all over the house which we lift our voice although the house would you lift your voice all over the house would you praise Him [Music] [Music] [Music] ai-ya-ya a llama hi hallelujah [Music] literally almost Saba [Music] hallelujah Jesus blessed Jesus blessed Jesus blessed Jesus [Music] hallelujah shut up a higher ilaha illallah wa seon-ah [Music] [Applause] I praise you I praise you I praise you I [Music] love you Holy Ghost I love you Holy Ghost I love you holy [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] face [Music] in the presence of the Lord that's where you'll find everything [Music] we see kids near to us in the present [Music] small [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the presence of that's [Music] we see kids [Music] the presence of [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh in my soul nothing come to you until I see your presence can we lift our hands all over this building right now can we just let the Lord know God this is not gonna be a shortcut this is not just a matter of convenience to me this is not just something I'm gonna do God because it's what I always do I'm gonna desire this more than my necessary food Lord had a miracie attire a mirage a animal coat I am an amorous a theorem or OSHA NASA eat I am Oceana bossy italia maschi hallelujah I wish everybody was here although I know God does not make mistakes I wish everybody was here to hear this message I know he spoke to me today if he didn't speak to anybody else God spoke to me through the man of God I'm thankful for this church I'm thankful for the balance we try to maintain but something we've got to remember is we cannot substitute one thing for another thing it's not this or this it's all of it and our walk with God we can't say well I live holy so I don't need to pray or I pray so I don't need to live holy alright fast so I don't need to reach for the lost every bit of it's something that we're supposed to do as Charles of the king and people of God thank you brother bass for a message let's just praise the Lord one more time for that message we just heard Jesus we praise you thank you for the man of God today Lord thank you for the man of God that you sent our way we praise you for it we thank you for it in Jesus name Jesus name Amen praise the Lord Amen we're going to move to dismissal but before we do I want to make a quick announcement amen our young people are going to be doing a trip to a conference and they need a mint some help with raising that money it's coming up on them quickly in fact it's next two weeks from today well if you count this is the first of the week and not the end of the week this it's next week but let's write after Christmas I'm gonna be going and doing some things and serving the Lord and going to church and so they're going to be serving some stuff in the FLC today if you're able to go you're more than welcome to go I think it is chicken fajitas and man I'm telling you right now it's going to be good stuff there there's the fajita meat of course is chicken with all the veggies and stuff like that with it and then there's cheese and sour cream and salsa and they're doing it to raise money and all the young people that work it's going to be able to get some more money added to their their overall bill that they're trying to raise money for and so make sure that if you can go down there and heat at least do if you don't have anywhere else you're going or you didn't lay out a pot roast or something at home I know we announced it a few times but you know it is a busy season so you're more than welcome to go down there and if you don't if you forgot about it that's fine as well but we'd love to have you go down and if you're gonna go somewhere to eat you probably can't go anywhere and eat any cheaper than you'll eat down there so just come down and be a part of that we need all the help we can get today because we definitely have a smaller crowd that said also my other thing I wanted to announce is do not forget your kids I know normally they're back in here by this time so I know they're out but don't forget your kids today even we don't want them to even have to stay this afternoon in the service and are in church and just unless you want them to and the some of them might need to pray hallelujah but we want to make sure you don't forget your kids and then tonight everybody's sake tonight at 6 o'clock we're gonna be back in church here by the bass is gonna be preaching to us I'm gonna ask everybody do your level best to get here if the weather is bad or something like that try your best to get here if you don't feel safe I understand that but it should not be any worse than it was this morning I think it actually the advisory is going to be ended at noon what little advisor there was so amen it should be better right now actually so we're excited too brother bass is with us didn't he do it a great job preaching to us this morning amen so uh amen make sure your young people come back we want all the young people to be able to hear for the bass tonight make sure you come back we're gonna have revival services tonight and we're grateful Amen for God sending this man of God over to hear our teens preach to us so we can hear what the Spirit is saying to the church thankful for it any man what a great job I mean if you'll stand a man we're gonna dismiss today and we're going to just say this if you have a if you have to any tithe and building fund missions offering whatever you might have just bring it tonight if you're coming if you're not coming back tonight you're more welcome to come up here drop in the box or drop it in bakbox on the way out and given to the Lord amen but we're not gonna march this morning we're just gonna allow you to give Amen freely if you're not gonna be back tonight if you're gonna be back tonight we'll do our march tonight and we're gonna make sure that we March I have something specifically special to announce tonight that's gonna blow your mind and I'm gonna tell you about it it is a powerful powerful thing and if you're not gonna be back tonight you're gonna miss it so you know you don't want to miss this it's very powerful what God has done for our church and it is just amazing it's mind-blowing actually what God has done for our church so tonight when we invoke the spirit of Goshen I'll tell everybody what God has done for this assembly it is an awesome awesome thing and we're grateful so make sure you come back tonight everybody said against a tonight at 6:00 p.m. try to be here on time don't forget when the weather outside is frightful you need a little bit more time to get to church amen a little bit more time leave 10 minutes earlier than normal five minutes earlier than normal and do your best to be here at 6:00 tonight amen 5:30 is prayer and we have prayer downstairs and we have prayer for those that can't make the stairs and we only have to do that for about another month and we have prayer for those that can't make the stairs over in the new office swing in my our main office there you can pray there and we want everybody to be in prayer especially after this message this morning amen be in the prayer room tonight god bless you you're dismissing Jesus name shake hands with somebody around you make sure you tell our evangelist how much you appreciate his ministry before you leave and we'll see you tonight god bless

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