Place to Place | Reverend Mark Morgan

only the present are the things to come paul knew that if you get the dwelling on your past that it had the potential of separating you from the love of god and i'm glad that the love of god encompasses it all amen he loves us he loves us amen well it's a delight to be here today amen and i was over there kind of reminiscing just a little bit i preached my first time at revival center of course then it was uh i think first united pentecostal church or something like that and but it was in january of 1992. so that's been what 29 years ago some of you are getting old amen and but it is a delight to be here and was coming off the exit up here and i told tommy i'm glad he's here with me helping me chauffeur me around a little today my bodyguard amen and i told him i said man i've been here a few times and took this exit many times but it's a delight to be here and i give honor to your leadership and uh to all the great people of god that's here and uh see some familiar faces and then i see a lot of new faces amen and that's a good sign that's a good sign amen and you know there's three levels in a real church there's infants there's young men and there's fathers that's what john teaches us i write unto you infants don't sin but if you do you have an advocate that's spiritual infancy i write unto you young men overcome the wicked one now you need to start growing up and overcoming some things i write unto you fathers you've known him from the beginning in other words you reproduce you teach you mentor and so if it's a real church you got all three levels in it amen all right let's uh let's go to work what do you say i've certainly enjoyed the worship and the praise here today and of course you praised him always does such a great job and it's good to see mckay man god bless her and boy a lot of change amen and i knew her before she was born john chapter 14 verse number one i want to start here and uh now i will tell you the difference between 1992 and 2020 is it's going to be slower there's been a lot of sermons between then and now amen john 14 verse 1 let not your hearts be troubled you believe in god believe also in me and my father's house are many dwelling places if it were not so i would have told you i am going to prepare a place for you and if i go and prepare a place for you i will come again and receive you unto myself or receive it to myself and that where i am there you may be also you know where i am going and you know the way. of course thomas said lord we we really don't know where you're going and we don't know the way and jesus said i am the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me except through me i want to talk to you today about the subject the title is from place to place from place to place and i i feel very strong this word today and i hope it will be a blessing and to help you there's a lot of crazy stuff going on right now and i've just decided not to even engage with the news you don't even know who to believe anymore and some people say i don't do that i just google it but it's a lot of things going on and there's a lot of struggles in the world and in the church there's a lot of struggles a lot of questions and so i want to kind of maybe bring just a little clarity on some things here today that i feel in the holy ghost jesus i love you and i'm very thankful and honored to be in this pulpit thank you for revival center and what it's meant to myself and my family through the years i thank you for the johnsons and the keys and these great saints of god and elders in this church and all the new converts and everyone in between i pray today god that you will speak through me to them that it will help us pray that your word will lodge in the right soil and come to fruition i exercise your authority in this service right now in the name of jesus christ confirm your word with signs following in jesus name everybody said amen amen uh i guess you can turn and raise an eyebrow towards somebody or you may be seated amen you know what my new favorite bible word is damascus i'll leave that alone amen i am i've been a student of john 14 for a long time the amazing thing about the word of god is is it's in layers and you get part of it and then it's line up online precept upon precept and you see things in it and then just about time you think you've figured it all out god says here's another dimension to it and uh i know that john 14 is some of our favorite funeral message text my father's house are many mansions and some of you don't have any idea what i'm about to say but there was an old songwriter by the name of dottie rambo and she wrote just build me a cabin over in the corner of glory land or something and you know we all are headed to heaven to live in this elaborate house this elaborate house and jesus has been in a 2000 year construction program amen and there's a lot of sawing and hammering in heaven i hate to tell you but i'm about to take your mansion from you i shouldn't say i'm going to take it from you i think i want to help you identify what it is jesus was not talking especially if you read this in the greek text he's not talking about an elaborate dwelling place but it could be worded like this for in my father's dwelling are many little rooms and if you understand that then you begin to recognize that those little rooms that he's in reference to happens to be you well i lost some of you right there it happens to be you uh he tells you that he goes on through here and he lets you know a lot of this and if you read the rest of it it really begins to make sense and i'll show you a little something here you have to understand what jesus is saying because what is his where is he going to what is he about to become well john the revelator who didn't start out as john the revelator he started out as john a son of thunder and then after a little rebuke from jesus he goes from john the son of thunder wanting to call him and his brother wanting to call fire down on the city to john the beloved and then from john the beloved to john the revelator so as long as there is progression in john's life he also recognizes the progression in the life of jesus the ministry of jesus and he's the one that began with this in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god and then 14 and we beheld the glory he understood that when jesus christ came he was the fulfillment of isaiah 53 that he would be a lamb going to a slaughter but he also understood not only was jesus and the book of hebrews especially points this out to you not only was he the lamb he was also the altar people have trouble equating how can jesus and the father be the same at one time well how can he be the lamb the altar the censor the golden candlesticks mercy all of that at the same time but the fact is is it's in there and so when john sees him now remember john was with him john was one of the closest i mean john's leaning his head on his bosom he's very close to jesus he identifies him he knows what he is but yet in revelation chapter one which john's pinning these words he said there was a voice that spake behind me and i turned to see who was speaking and he said it was one likened to the son of man now john's thinks it's who it is but he's not sure but then he goes on to give description to john or to jesus and he says he's in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks and he's he's girt about with this and eisen's hair is white and his eyes are flames of fire but basically if you understand and you look at the attire that john is describing jesus with is he's dealing with the high priest so jesus christ in revelation chapter 1 is the mediator he's the one that's at the right hand of majesty now to understand that then you have to go back to the old testament the high priest's responsibility was to go to the altar come through into his courts with praise and then to the altar of the the uh the brazen altar and then into the holy place and then ultimately unto the holy of holies you have to realize that god was very specific to the location of the high priest when the high priest was standing in the holy of holies which was the ultimate the culmination of it all he always is standing at the right side or the right hand of the throne of majesty or the scripture would teach you which happens to be the mercy seat or better yet the throne of god that's what it means so we're beginning to see and this is exactly what jesus christ is saying what he's telling us is he said hey we've not had access back into the dwelling place of god from the old testament the tabernacle it meant the holy of holies that's the dwelling place of god so we haven't had access back into that because you need a high priest to go before you and to take you there now the good thing about all this is is we are called to be kings and priests and so not only was jesus christ allowed to go back into that position in place but through his blood and through the atonement you likewise and the writer of hebrews said with boldness you can come before his throne and you can appear before his mercy seat and obtain mercy and grace in the time of need so when jesus is saying to us here i go away to prepare a place for you he's not talking about heaven in this elaborate dwelling place but he's telling you that i'm about to enter into my ministry of being a high priest i'm going to go back into the holies of holies with the right blood perfect blood you had a lesser altar and a lesser lamb back over here but the whole book of hebrews is about something better and so you had to have a priest go in once a year for the atonement but this is going to be the the finishing work of atonement when i put the blood on the mercy seat that's why is this too much like a bible study that's why when mary came to him and identified him he said don't touch me mary i've not yet ascended because the scripture teaches us according to the law the high priest from the time of his mick for his cleansing bath until he went into the holies of holies he could not be touched by humanity so he's telling her listen i've got to ascend into the heavens and do what i'm supposed to do as the high priest i'm going to put blood on the mercy seat it's going to be accepted so you can't touch me until i get the job done now when he comes back and he tells thomas he said touch me put your hands in my side it's okay for you to touch me now because i've ascended i'm now in the state of glorification i am now not the suffering lamb of god i am your faithful high priest making intercession for you continually before the throne oh praise god that ought to put you on shouting ground today i know it was the blood i said i know it was the blood i know it was the blood that saved me now this is all in john 14 we overlook it now if you remember when the high priest went in and all israel's standing on the outside wanting to know well is it accepted are we in trouble did god you know receive the the blood and the mercy has the mercy being extended does anybody remember what the sign was it was the shekinah as it would descend and the people would see that glowing shekinah of god and they would know they would know the high priest is where he's supposed to be the blood is on the mercy seat and our sins have been rolled ahead for another year and later on in john chapter 14 jesus says in that day you will know that i'm in the father the fathers and me and we are in you he said but here's how you're going to know that it's been accepted he said just like in the old testament when you sing the comforter or when you've seen the shekinah just look for the comforter when the comforter comes when the holy ghost comes you will know that i'm in the right place doing the right thing and the high priest is there at the right side of the mercy seat and everything's fine so on the day of pentecost when the holy ghost fell that was god telling the whole world i want you to know i'm right where i need to be in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks i am your faithful high priest somebody ought to give the lord a little praise right now now that's what john 14 is trying to tell you but if you watch jesus he goes from place to place and he's still not through he puts on the garment of a of a suffering lamb and then he puts on the garment of a high priest but read over in revelation chapter 19 he's got a different garment on hmm i preached years ago an old message called when god changes his coat now in john revelation 19 when he comes back he has a vester dipped in blood and he has a name written which is called the word of god i come as the suffering messiah i put on the robe of humility and redemption but i've been wearing the garment of a high priest but now i'm about to put the garment of a conquering king on and it says he has a vester dipped in blood we need to be reminded of this in the hour that we're living right now he has a vester dipped in blood which means i used to think okay that's his blood to atone no no no no no when a conquering king or general was going into a battle there was a certain garment that he would wear and on it was the blood of his slang foe so when jesus comes back with the vester dipped in blood he's reminding them i conquered the babylonians i conquered the medes and the persians i conquered the greece i conquered roman romans i've conquered all those kingdoms and images that you've seen matter of fact when daniel looked at it he said i turned to see a stone hewing out without hands and it was coming to the feet of that that's jesus christ so when he returns back to fight that battle he's not coming back as the humble lamb of god he's not coming back as the faithful high priest he's coming back as the king of kings and as the lord of lords and that's the reason why the scripture in jesus says for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever the only kingdom that's going to last is the kingdom of god all the other kingdoms of this world are going to collapse including the kingdom of the antichrist you know you need to make up your mind what kingdom you're going to focus on you need to make up your mind what kingdom you really want to see [Applause] even with the ministry in jesus christ he would go from place to place to place until ultimately he and god the lamb are on the throne he's king of kings and he's lord of lords that's what's permanent in the in the new jerusalem the thing permanent is the temple which is you that's the only thing permanent now you have a temple not a tabernacle now here's where i'm headed not a tabernacle tapping tabernacles are not permanent structure they're temporary they were temporary because you had to move them the only time that it become permanent is in jerusalem when solomon built it up to that point here's what i want to tell you david gets the prophet he says hey i want to build god a house the prophet said go right ahead and then the prophet goes home and the lord spoke to the prophet said you go tell david no no and matter of fact is what i want you to ask david who did i ever speak through to tell you that i wanted a permanent dwelling place i have always read it it's in there i have always moved from tent to tent and from tabernacle to tabernacle tabernacle of david moses tabernacle of david and john 1 14 says and the word was made flesh and it literally means tabernacled so it goes from the tabernacle of moses to the tabernacle of david and then if you want to follow it over there may be a few others and i miss him but then it becomes the tabernacle of jesus christ tabernacles were stationary you could move them cloud would move they'd move israel would move the tabernacle from place to place read it it's in there but it's not until they get to jerusalem now solomon was allowed to build it a permanent structure for god there's some debate on all that even and so this is this is what we have to understand is when you get to the new jerusalem that's the mention of the temple is this too is this too heavy for a sunday morning that that's that's the temple john said i seen the temple there the lamb is the light and the temple's there that means this is the permanent dwelling that's all of us in glorification and i'm going too far into this that's all of us in glorification we're going to be the permanent dwelling place of god that's what glorification means anything that ends with an ide or an ied means you've taken two or three different components or substances fused them together that can they can never be separated again now what you think about it you've taken two or more components or substances or things and you fuse them together and they can never be separated again and you spell glorified how that means that the spirit and your body have been fused together and you can never separate it that's jesus christ he's in he's in heaven one minute in the tabernacle one minute offering blood on the mercy seat and then the next thing he's standing there eating with him and all the stuff and all it's glorified you can't separate it now you can't separate it now and that's where you're headed i said that's where you're headed when you put on when death has been conquered [Applause] and you go by the way of the grave or the rapture and when you ascend into the heavens you're not going in that old body like it is right now it's all going to be done away with there'll be no more death sorrow tears funerals covered disease pestilence famine all that's passed away [Applause] i want to help somebody here some of you say i don't i don't need the holy ghost well let me ask you a question what gives that physical body of yours life anybody know the life is where the life is in the blood so once the blood's gone what's going to give you life the blood gives your physical body life but it's the holy ghost that gives you spirit life and if the same spirit that raised christ from the dead if it dwell in you it's going to quicken this whole mortal body yeah you do need the holy ghost yeah you do need the spirit the spirit brings eternal life okay okay okay okay okay okay all right y'all fanatic sit down because you know what a fanatic is just somebody closer to jesus than you are now tabernacle tabernacle from 10th to 10th the problem with humanity is we want everything to be permanent now now now here's saul over here and people went to samuel and said we want a king we're like a king so samuel goes and talks to the lord lord said well that's not really my plan but they want to be like other nations other kingdoms all right i'll give them a king now he's going to tax them welcome to government even the kingdom of god kind of has a tax it's called tithe some of you better pray that the spiritual irs didn't come visit you make sure you make sure you're paying your taxes well that'd get out brother morgan said it's attack well here's the deal uh we we want everything so here's here they are and so all of a sudden this this successful farmer by the name of saul wakes up one day he's the son of kish study history tells you they're very successful farmers and his dad said you know saul a couple of our donkeys are missing i need you to go find them now that would be the equivalent of like one of these farmers around here waking up and two of his tractors are gone his security has now been threatened and the means by which he obtains his livelihood is not there and so saul and his servant go looking for him and they wander around for a while now this will give you a little insight to how spiritual saul is finally they get close to gilgal and the in the service that there's a prophet over here by the name of samuel he said who so i never even heard of samuel and he said well let's go inquire and uh uh we got anything to give him an offering yeah okay well let's let's give an offering and let's acquire the lord and so they go in and god had already spoke to samuel said tomorrow there'll be a guy come through the gates of the city look for him he'll be head and shoulders he'll be really tall and that's the one that i want you to anoint to be captain over my inheritance so so saul and his servant they go in they find samuel they go sit down they give him an offering they're they're having a meal and then brother samuel springs it on him and saul says i'm not interested in being a king i just want to find the donkey so i can go home and samuel said oh the donkeys returned home two days ago they're already there so i can see i don't even know the names of donkeys well yeah i do that one kind of slipped out let's call them no well we know one of his name was jack the other one was jill how's that jack and jill and so um and so this angel goes down there and gets jack and jill and says i need to lead you on this little journey because i've got this guy that i need to get to the kingdom but he thinks that his life where it's at right now is permanent and the only way that i can get him to where i need him to get to is i'm going to have to mess with his stuff i'm about to shake that little permanent life of his because i've got to get him from where he's at to where i need him to be he's got to go from place to place well man after that i woke up yesterday morning lord is really talking to me about the rest of that story and how that he said now when you go home you're going to come to the mount of worship isn't it amazing isn't it amazing that at the mount of worship was a garrison of the philistines if you study the philistines in scripture it's flesh it just it's a typology of your flesh that's why israel could never get a permanent victory against it they had to continually battle the philistines because philistines is a type of your flesh isn't it amazing that at the base of worship the mount of worship the biggest enemy there is flesh but yet he ascends up and when he gets there he sees these coming down for the prophets coming down he gets in line with them he starts prophesying and samuel said when you go home you'll have a different heart god's going to completely change you so i was like i don't want all that stuff i didn't ask for all that stuff and then when they get ready to crown him king the bible says he still just wanted to go home he's hid among the stuff they go to looking for this guy who's going to be king and he's over here among the stuff after dragging out the stuff i don't want to do this i want to go back to what i have comfort in i want to go back to what i know i'm good at i want to go back to what i know i have security in this is a whole different world for me over here this kingdom stuff i want to go back to the farm i'm not interested in the kingdom i'm very productive at the farm i don't know much about this king stuff i said no no we'll take you from where you're at and we'll take you to where you need to go now here's the deal okay here's the deal we're all like that we're all like that i remember years ago flying into concord i told them this last sunday i flew into concord and i forgot my toiletry bag not my toilet but my toiletry bag and and so i get there now listen i'm telling you right now i have used a certain deodorant a certain toothpaste a certain toothbrush i mean i started with that a long long time ago my wife does not pack my suitcase i packed my suitcase i want to make sure my stuff gets there and i got there and i forgot it and i went into panic oh my god so whoever was there i mean i flew in as a late flight i just barely had enough time to go by the motel freshen up a little bit get dressed and then go on to church so this guy's waiting on me in the lobby i said man you got to help me out here i need you to go to walgreens or what do y'all have out here i said well i was asking him you have a walmart walk target and i said i need something closer than target and he said well there's a drugstore i said okay this is what i want you to get well he comes back he's got a different kind of toothpaste different kind of deodorant he's got this old raggedy toothbrush and i mean i'm just i'm wrecked don't laugh at me a lot of you just like me you got a routine and you don't like change do you know tommy can verify this the sunday before covet hit the lord spoke one word to me when i was waking up on sunday morning changeability what changeability look at the word study it out this morning and preach on it and i did i talked about are we changeable can we adapt to change are we flexible if you're not flexible and you're brittle you'll end up broken and i preach there's a lot of change coming in but of course i wasn't thinking and i mean i i preached it and after service man come up he said i i know you was trying to say something i just couldn't figure out what you was really trying to say is there something you really wanted to say so i mean you're known for saying what you want to say and i said i i just preached what the lord gave me and then the next week boom where shelter and place and coveted hits and all that stuff and all and looking back now see our battle is we want things in life to be permanent we want the economy to be perfect we want our homes and our jobs and our security and the things that we're productive in we want it to be place of security we want it to be permanent but it can't be it's like we want to get locked in a certain season of our life i know people right now that are 70 that are trying to look like they're 20. i don't care how much you cut it diet tuck it or anything else you do you're 70. i don't care if you try to dress like these 20 year olds i hate to give you some information but you're 70. you had a season in your life where you were here that's over that's done you want to make that permanent oh boy that that went over real well you want to keep there you want to stay there and god says no that's never way i design life there's a summer there's there's a fall there's a winter and there's a spring these are the seasons of life and you it doesn't matter how much you kick against it it doesn't matter how much you scream against him the fact is god time watch this time just keeps moving you forward i don't care how much you want to drag your heels time and if time's not dragging you forward you're dead permanent and so time keeps moving you and you want to keep reaching back to a pleasant memory or you want to reach back to something that was great or something that's good and i'm going to flip this here in just a second you want to you want to hold on to that you don't want to come out of that season and americans are kind of like we we just want to go back to a strong economy and we want to go back to this and we want to go back and we're trying to hold on to it we're trying to make it permanent and god says i never intended for it to become permanent i intended for you to go from place to place if some of you don't believe that study paul's writing to the corinthians you are to go from glory to glory to glory to glory to glory until you reach glorification doesn't mean from just one glory to the next it's a repetitious statement you go from this to this to this to this or this and you got to keep moving you go from place to place until you can you can't make the beginning of it permanent it's the end of it that becomes permanent the progress of all this is to move you in life and to move you as a church and to move you as a family from glory to glory and from place to place and we don't like it we're struggling with it you're really not going to like the next statement oh we fussed can't have church a devil brought this covet to attack the church to stop the church to stop us to assemble don't know that i see it that away malachi says caterpillar palmer worm one of the other worms what are red worms i don't know three worms he said my great army which i sent among you because see you were locked over here in a permanent place of not one to give tithe an offering and i had to move you from that place back over here to a place of you giving so i had to send an army over there and i had to attack your crops in your fields in order to get you to move from here to here and god can look at the north american church and say you're too stationary you're too locked into a place see i think i think cove had proved something that a lot of our people had a relationship with the church but they didn't with jesus i'll hurry i'll hurry and flip this and wrap it up here's the thing elijah's running the fear of his life he gets over here he's in this cave and the lord said what does thou hear he's actually asking elijah to take some inspection identify your location where are you at i know you're in a cave where are you at and uh he says uh all of a sudden the wind the earthquake and the fire came but god was not in it right and then a still small voice and the lord was in it why did god come and use the wind the earthquake and the fire but he was not in that but he's in still small voice because the same cave that elijah was hiding in is the clef and the rock that god put moses in when he gave him the law and when he gave him the law he appears in the wind the earthquake and the fire so he's telling elijah that place this is how i manifested this is where i established the law seriously i'm going to mess the service up you like the wind the earthquake and the fire of a church service the shaking but you're having a little trouble with the shelter and play stuff and i put you there so you could hear my voice no no no no and i could give you direction to the next place i kept telling abounding grace i said this whole cova deal is preparing us to move it's getting us out of some of our traditions some of our paradigms there's a complete paradigm shift and we don't like it we want to go back a lot of our people they just waiting it out we just we just can't wait till we get past it well i sure hope that vaccination works so we can get on back to church you may take it end up with one eye right there i don't know but the fact is is we're just trying to we're just trying to endure we're just trying to make it we're just you know we're just hoping everything goes back to the good old days economy gets strong oh dear god please open our restaurants back up we sure don't like cooking in a home i mean this this is this is where we're at this is where we're at as a movement as a church it's families and all this stuff and all we just want to endure and wait for it to go back how can you go back in time how can you go back to a place that god says no that was for that season that was for that time now you're moving on i want to go back over here and i i want to hold on that's why a lot of you are fearful and you're frustrated and you're afraid because you see all that being destroyed and instead of getting your focus on the place that you're going to you're so fake face you're so focused on where you were that you can't see where you're supposed to be going god's trying to move this apostolic church out of being so stationary to becoming mobile and flexible and ability to change and the ability to move he's trying to tell you something you know what you ought to be having church in your home and you fathers ought to be the priests of your home [Applause] hallelujah [Music] all right i'm gonna wrap it up cause i'm losing a bunch of you right now i'm just waiting for taco bell to open up i just can't wait till i can go back to the mall there's a lot of people like to go back to the mall and go to taco bell they don't have the money now they lost their jobs it's the devil it's the devil it's the devil you might ought to be careful what you're calling the devil i know some of y'all said man we wish you to stay in san francisco today it ought to be exciting not fearful now let me let me show you one point and then go flip it when jesus refers to this he says let not your hearts be troubled you believe in god believe also in me i'm going to prepare you a place and if i prepare you a place i'll come again to you and receive you unto myself now we know ultimately what he's talking about but see the disciples thomas spoke it we don't see the place i know you don't see it but i'm the way to it i'm the truth and i'm the life my responsibility is to come get you and to take you to the place that i've been preparing for i've been i feel an apostolic something moving in here right now to the place that i've prepared for you what do you think the promised land is when god spoke to them he said i'm going to send an angel my name will be in him don't you provoke him he has my full authority or how how do you provoke him when you start worshiping the gods of the canaanites when you get in that land if you start into this relevant nonsense and wanting to look like them act like them and talk like them you're going to provoke him and as long as you don't provoke him your enemies are his enemies and he's going to help you in this land but i'm sending him to guide you into the place that i have prepared for you god never intended for us to take the journey by ourselves he's always had the ability to send angelicos i mean look at elijah he's running a fear of his life he don't know where he's headed this this angel shows up eat drink get up wake up and he does and he falls back to sleep i'm telling you right now if tonight two o'clock in the morning i wake up in my bedroom and there's an angel got a barbecue pit going on i'm not going back to sleep but he shows you how weary he was he's running in fear of his life and i'm telling you the spirit of jezebel that attacked him is attacking the church right now and we're weary with all this stuff and we're frustrated with all this stuff but god said listen i got an angelic host i've got angels that can come and they can minister to you if you don't believe that look at the ministry of jesus christ in the garden he would as far as he could even the disciples forsook him but he gets over in the bible says that god sent angels to minister to him so he could get to the next place which was calvary i'm telling you if you're on your way and you're trying to take the journey you may be weary right now but trust me there's help coming but you are going to have to wake up and partake let me let me explain something to you if you think you're going to survive the end time and where we're headed without awakening to the supernatural you're on your way to collapsing and dying in the wilderness it's time for the church to awaken to the supernatural provision of god and i want to remind you something else greater is he that's within you than he that is in the world i wish somebody praise him here just a [Applause] second [Applause] let's go back to the text let's go back to the text i can't see it so i don't know if i come again to receive you unto myself i'm going to come get you take you where i'm going i've got this place prepared over here i'm going to come to you and i'm going to take you and take you there but the key to that is let not your hearts be troubled later in the 14th chapter he says let not your hearts be troubled and fearful because see right now we want god to give us a clear picture of the next place and he says nope trust me on this one i got to prepare for you and when i come to uc we all want to get focused on us going to him he says before you come to me i'm going to come to you the only way you can get there the only way you can get back in the dwelling place of god the only way you can get knack next to the next place that god's prepared for you as an individual a family a community a church whatever the only way for you to get there is i'm going to have to come to you but when i get there you need to make sure one thing your hearts are not troubled and you're not fearful and if there's one thing that covet brought was a strong spirit of fear have you ever read the parable of the unjust judge nevertheless when god avenges him shall they not do it speedily and the next verse says but when the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth i've heard people say well when the rapture takes place and jesus comes back will there be anybody believing that's not what that means it's the conclusion of the parable you've been asking so long and asking so long but when i decide to come to you to do the miracle will you have enough faith to open the door and let me take you to the miracle or take you to the place that i've prepared for you i have a message for some of you jesus is on his way to you he's prepared this place for us where he wants to take our churches our ministries he your family all of it he's already got it prepared and now he's coming to us because he knows the only way you can get there is through me i'm the way to get there [Music] you've been believing too many lies i'm the truth and you're so subject to death but i'm the life and so you know what you need to get your eyes off all that other stuff that's promoting fear and death and all that and you need to focus and be ready because when i come to you you need to make sure that your heart is not troubled and you have a heart of faith because i'm about to move this apostolic church into the greatest dimension of harvest and revival it's ever witnessed but the question is can you make the journey i feel the holy ghost right now i said the question is can you make the journey the journey's too great for you if you don't awaken to the angel of the lord preparing you a meal he's shaken up all of our paradigms he's messing with everything i rebuked that in the name of jesus it's god's way of messing with your stuff i know you don't like to hear that i just want to go back to them i won't go back to the farm you can't where you were productive yesterday i don't think god's going to let you go back there i mean seriously you'd rather follow behind some donkeys plowing instead of over here king of a kingdom so you'd rather remain in the temporal kingdoms than to participate in an eternal kingdom you would rather be involved in the kingdoms of this world and your own kingdom that you build instead of leaving that and coming over to my kingdom and operating seek ye first the kingdom i'm going to make this statement a lot of us including myself we live in the past we go back to moments in time that were glorious i just uh i was oh boy i need to be careful right here no seriously i was uh i was at my brother jeff's and i do my best to pray him through every time i'm around him i don't think i've ever succeeded but i try so we went out there to do some deer hunting and all you liberals just get over it can't believe you shoot deer i can't believe you eat pork or beef or chicken they're not live on your plate let's settle that argument i'm sure we have vegans in here i guarantee you that but anyhow so we went back to just do a little deer hunting me and john mark and jeremy and jude and so we plan on staying a week we get there and jeff's like man why don't you call the girls and see if they'll just come out and y'all stay over and celebrate thanksgiving for us we'll all be together the first time we've all been together in years and uh well i'll tell you if you want now to come then here's the trick you got to get bethany and them grandkids coming if you get them coming she'll follow so long story short is we end up so it turned from one week to been there three weeks and that's a lot of carnality it's all i can say and so uh so he asked me he said i uh first sunday i want you to preach okay so i preached and the message and all then the next sunday he said listen if you don't mind i want you to i want you to preach again this sunday and i said okay well what i got the feeling was is that that church had never experienced sacrificial giving it was a very traditional way of approaching things and just the way people been taught and so that sunday morning i'm trying to prepare and i'm praying and trying to meditate a little bit and the lord said i want you to talk about your observation 40-something years of ministry a lot of that evangelizing and traveling i want you to tell your observation of an apostolic church what have you observed as the characteristics of an apostolic church don't you hear me so i got into it and most of the examples that i used that this is where i started observing this stuff was about modesto the prayer walking through that prayer room on sunday before service and just thundering in there with people thundering in there the intense worship passion for revival the moves of god yeah services we had several ministers here wayne mcclain and on and on the list goes brother bourne keith clark all of them some of you don't have any idea what i'm talking about and uh i use a lot of examples i think the first time i ever took a sacrificial offering outside our local church was right here on a wednesday night brother keys actually had to be out of town for that service and i got up preaching and it just moved on me and i just started and i don't remember is either forty thousand or eighty thousand or something and the next day brother keys calls me said i'm glad you obeyed the holy ghost church had a need and god people responded to it and i just saw and so i learned that i learned watching you people give and i can remember one service especially it's on a sunday morning and i preached about lesser altars i talked about you build got an altar and then god builds you one your altar is lesser coming to a place of sacrifice i still remember brother keith falling out of his chair over there on the floor for over three hours i left almost close to four o'clock that day to go back to the doubletree to get ready for the what was it six o'clock i think you started at six then and i get back to the room and i'm like my god we just barely left what am i supposed to do tonight the lord said you won't need to do anything tonight i'm gonna give you a glimpse of what a book of acts church service looked like we walked in in this place it was littered with things people had gone home and brought sacrifices and all one guy gave a business and all it was memorials memorials and and i mean just giving brother keys and them had a home in in branson at the time and sold it and gave all that i mean thousands and thousands of dollars and the little did i know that here in old monkey and places that god was using and then it would go out from there and go to other places and then end up in general conference and brother morgan become known as the offering taker i'm retired from that and that was but here's my here's my point see when i drove in today i wanted to go back to that place and god said that's over where am i taking them where is it going see some of you are still trying to hold on to an old place it was right for that time it was the thing to do and you don't lose those things you add to it so you take those experience and you go on down the road and then god adds something else add to your faith virtue and virgin knowledge and so you go to the next place and god says good i'm going to give you some stuff here where is the apostolic church heading the north american apostolic church i just spent four or five days with some other men of god brother shoots and some others on looking at where are we going what's the strategy to get there how we're going to get there and we all kept coming back to it has to be a book of acts model see we've gone to a north american upc model that's the place we've been but god's trying to say no i need to lead you to a book of acts model where you get to the book of acts and you start operating as the book of acts now i know some of you are like man i hope he quits see i know that some of you are in places that aren't pleasant you've been in places in your life that were not enjoyable that has a lot of pain some of you are there now you're in a place of shame suffering anger confusion and the holy ghost wants me to tell you he wants you to come from that place to a place that he's prepared for you over here some of you are coming god wants to bring you from a place of sickness and disease to a place of healing he wants to bring some of you to a place of bondage to a place of deliverance but can you let go of the old place or has it become such a part of your identity you're afraid if you you know i know some people they're they're so afraid of change because their problems have become their identity is am i going too far here no seriously they've become i mean every time you talk to them they're going to talk about their problem and if god took that problem who am i but you know what god's asking some of you right now you're clutching something in your past and you're holding on to something that's held you trapped here but i'm starting to mess with all that and that's why there's such upheaval in your life right now i'm trying to get you from that place of torment and sin and death i'm trying to get you over here to a place of redemption and to a place of peace and to a place of love i'm trying to move you from a place of hatred and anger over here to a place of peace and love but you you're going to have to understand the process and all of a sudden everything starts going crazy and you just don't understand what life's all about i'm telling you what it's about god knows how to mess with your stuff even when your stuff is wrong he knows how to mess with it to get you moving i feel the holy ghost to get you moving from where you're at to where he needs you to go i lost my job he's probably got a better one for you i feel fear about everything he don't want you to live in fear he's trying to ask you why don't you come on over here to peace and trust i got it in my hand i know that number of hairs on your head i got you in my hand why are you so fearful i got one for you he's trying to take you from a place to where all you do is watch the news to a place called get your nose in the bible let's stand [Applause] [Music] i stand here today with this understanding that i represent places in this church from the past but i've also come here today to tell you are we not willing to take the journey to not try to go back to the past but to go to our future well it looks a whole lot different it always does tell you one story i preached the eastwood church every watch night for years i preached watch night service it's just a standard thing brother ewing and so i got up that morning or december 31st i was getting ready to go at the airport and i told my wife i said now i'm i'm troubled she said why i said because i had a dream last night in the dream i seen eastwood the buildings and they had all changed it's very modern looking everything was different and i said something major is coming changes major changes coming to eastwood i don't know how to tell brother ewing that and she said well the lord will give you the words and the time so i fly into houston i get off the plane i turn my phone on getting ready to connect all the little puddle jumpers and i turned my phone on and instantly brother huntley was calling he said hey man i need to ask you something i said what is it true about brother ewing i said what do you mean is it true what are you talking about he said well i just heard he passed i said oh no no that's a rumor i'm on my way there right now to preach he said well i'm telling you you might want to call and check so i hung up from him i said i'll call you back let you know so i hung up from him and i tried to either get a hold of david smith or greg goblin because they were they were there already so the one i couldn't reach and the other finally answered the phone and i just said is it true that's true you found him this morning in bed apparently died very peaceful i just collapsed there in the in the floor the airport because my relationship with him i wanted to be a permanent relationship and god let me know that a lot of these things are seasonal seasonal i lost him which i considered my pastor i lost brother mcclain and i lost sister charlotte within just a few months or within i almost should say a few months within two or three years i lost them all people that i trusted with my soul people that would speak into my life when i needed to hear a word from god and then i woke up in a world one day that i felt vulnerable alone fearful they're gone they're gone i turned around a little earlier and glanced through here and remembered the spots mr bonnie used to set and all the others and all you felt a sense of security around these people they were praying people they were godly people but it's over but i do feel to tell some of you this where's god trying to take you in all this so i finally woke up one day and realized you know what god you're trying to do this to get me to a completely different place in my life and i've tried to get to that place to hear the still small voice listen to me not always needing somebody else why does god have to put your mail in somebody else's mailbox we got people that are prophetic junkies they just go from preacher to preacher prophet to prophet conference of conference i just need a word from god i need you to tell me something i got word for you you ready for it go to the cave you and god get alone quit waiting on the wind the earthquake and the fire it's not coming and just listen cause he's about to tell you the next place he's taking you to this one's a hard pill to swallow you ready for it you know where elijah was headed to anoint a double portion generation elisha's gonna fill your room go go find jehu he drives fast the spirit of jay who stays on me he drives fast and go anoint them it's going to be a double portion i think the place that god's trying to take us is and it's hard for me but tommy and i was talking about it coming over is i'm watching god raise up a completely different generation now but his intent is for you to have double what we experienced what we had now i plan on going with you that's really where god's got us let's lift our hands here a minute and let's just talk to the lord [Music] i know some of you you uh i i don't blame you but if you feel comfortable just hear me and you know in your life or your family right now that you're in a struggle because you really want to retain where you've been it's comfortable here it's predictable i'm familiar with it why would i go into new territory that i'm not familiar with because that's where god said you're going and you might quit trusting in the arm of your flesh and go to trust in him lead not to your own understanding but in all thy ways acknowledge him and he will see a lot of you are trying to lean to your flesh and figure it all out and strategize and all but he's asking you to trust in me right now i'll direct your ways i'll put you on the right path but if you know that you're in this building and you're there and you've related to what i've been preaching about and i'm struggling i want to get to that i need a little help here today this is what i feel i feel a very strong supernatural touch in the service right now that if you'll just at least get in the journey going elijah god's going to send ministering spirits to you this morning he's going to minister to you and give you strength for the journey the angel told him he said the journey is too great for you you can't do it on your own but today god wants to help you to transform you from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his dear son and that's why he sent the holy ghost to you to move you from where you're at to move you to where he wants you to be that is the work of the holy ghost from glory to glory by his spirit so if that's you i don't care whatever it is in your life if that's you and you're honest now if you don't want to come just right where you're at right where you're standing say i'm i'm i'm agreeing with this and i'm going to pray and here's what i want you to do if you're really sincere about this i don't want you just i got to get out of here i got to hurry up and go i mean i got stuff to do i mean i need you to open your spirit up here today and let the holy ghost effectively minister to you the way it needs to minister to give you strength for this journey that you're on because if you don't the journey is too great and you're going to die in the wilderness somewhere spiritually die in the wilderness maybe you want to come as families i don't know but come on come on come on i've been trying to hold on to an old place a place of comfort a place of ease [Music] and i realize now that god's been messing with it trying to get me to where he wants me to go a place that he's prepared for me [Music] i've been trying to hold on to things in my past good or bad and it's delayed me and caused me to be crippled in my journey but i want to take a step of faith come on peter just get out of the boat take a step of faith and see if the lord won't rescue you and get you to where you need to go i mean lift your hands your hearts and your voice and cry out to the lord right now speak to me today god speak to me today god i need you to speak into my spirit and settle my spirit and settle my heart today i need you lord [Music] anybody found peace [Music] i've been changed [Music] anybody found peace [Music] [Music] is [Music] hereby [Music] oh [Music] [Music] before your presence [Music] all my shames [Music] my life is over [Music] [Music] oh [Music] for your presence somebody said i won't go [Music] your back [Music] [Music] i can't go back to the way [Music] [Music] [Music] never going back never going back [Music] i'm never going back i'm never going back to the way [Music] i'm never going back [Music] never going back [Music] oh [Music] i'm never going back [Music] i won't go back before your presence [Music] i won't i go go back boys [Music] we thank you lord we thank you [Music] why should i worry about tomorrow and i know that all i gotta do [Music] every little thing's gonna be just [Music]

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Published: Sun Jan 31 2021