Praise is Not Enough by Johnny James

have him to come and bring to us the word of the Lord thank God that he's kept him live and well and Hari still in right mind and ask your prayers for him that God will use him to his own honor and glory to deliver the word of the Lord to us tonight Italian hands down to a good friend elder Johnny James in Detroit Michigan let's receive him with a hearty amen praise the Lord in Jesus name everybody and praise the Lord in Jesus name everyone that is a conglomerate everybody and a personal everyone so nobody is accepted and nobody is excluded and nobody is left out it starts with the founder and the pastor of this great church who is also my brother and my friend and one of the greatest preachers to ever preach the gospel in the English language and he may not be the greatest ever lived but I would like to argue the proposition he's the best in the world in the person of the ship Morris he Golder that praise the Lord starts with him and from him it goes to every member of grace and it goes to all of the visitors who are present tonight and you are included in my favorite founders and superlative Christian greeting praise the Lord in Jesus name grace you are truly a great people in a great church and an additional goda you have a great leader who preaches a great message from a great book about a great God I was blessed to be with your pastor at the National Apostolic Fellowship in Washington DC it was hosted by the Honorable Bishop Ralphy Greene I was one of the daytime speakers and Bishop Gordon was the featured night speaker and the first night he preached to about 900 people for 50 minutes the next night he preached to 1200 people per hour and 10 minutes and the last night he Prince to 2,000 people for hour and a half and I told brother Christian he preached like Jesus was born yesterday died today and is coming back tomorrow he preached like he had the body he had back in the 60s some of the best preaching I have ever heard in all of my life and when Brotherhood called and invited me to come and participate in this service I was both honored and humbled it is a great honor to preach the gospel but it almost me tremendously to stand in the pulpit at one of the greatest preachers that I've ever heard so all of you that know how to pray I'm asking to pray for me that girl who helped me if you don't know how to pray then the best you can do is wish me well in August evening Genesis 29 35 Genesis 29 and 35 the 44th some of the fifth book verse 6 and st. Matthew 15 8 and 9 Genesis 29 35 44th Psalm with the fifth book verse 6 and in Saint Matthew chapter 15 verses 8 and 9 you have heard people say this is Bible Bowl meeting and so Bible Bowl means really scripture sharpness you heard people get up and say would you please turn to the 27th division of some etc in reality this is very incorrect because Psalms only has five divisions or five books wonder 41 is the first book 42 to 72 is the second book 73 to 89 the third book 90 to 106 the fourth book and 107 to 150 would be the fifth book or the fifth division so the 44th psalm of the fifth book verse 6 in psalms number 150 verse 6 which would be the golden text for this lesson tonight Genesis 29 and 35 I put out like that to keep you on your toes Genesis 29 35 it says and she conceived again and bare a son and she said now will I praise the Lord therefore she called his name Judah and left bearing Psalms 150 verse 6 let everything that hath breath praise the Lord praise ye the Lord Matthew 15 8 & 9 this people draw nigh unto me with their mouth and honors me with their lips but their heart is far from me but in vain they do worship Me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men you may be seated the golden text for the lesson would be 150 of some verse 6 it says let everything that hath breath praise the Lord praise ye the Lord and tonight the subject for the teaching is praise is not enough one of preaching let me say this upfront one of preachings purposes the Bible said in 2nd Timothy 3:16 that all Scripture is given by the inspiration of God and it tells you what the Word of God of the scripture is profitable for it says it is profitable for doctrine for instruction for correction and instruction and righteousness so the Word of God is profitable for correction in other words when you see people who get off the mark and do things that are contradictory and contrary to Scripture you preach about what they're doing they get on back on the mark that's why Paul told Timothy that preached the word he refers to the scripture and then tells him to preach the word so one of preaching his purposes is when you get to far to the left or to far to the right take the word of God and bring you back to the center of the road and so for that reason I want to talk to you from the subject praise is not enough now if you are of the opinion in the concept that brother James is against praise you've missed the point already but I would like to say that what I am against is people who are doing things that are contrary to the Word of God and you know a lot of stuff and wrong stuff is popular and a lot of stuff and wrong stuff gets over good and impresses people but regardless of its popularity regardless of impressive it is when it is contrary to what the Word of God teaches it never works right and never will be right so praise is not enough in the 20 nights after the book of Genesis here we have the first mention of the word praise in the Bible the word praise is in the Bible two hundred and forty three times it comes from a multiplicity of both Hebrew and Greek words and these words combined really tehila kadal hello hello Shabak in other words really when you combine the words praise really represents eulogizing and bragging about and boasting in now when you look at the text we have tonight where it says let everything that hath breath praise the Lord praise ye the Lord you'll never hear that verse quoted or used except when the pre service is what we call dragon I was in Peoria last week and the pre-service dragon and one of the brothers who was leading the service said this don't sound like no Holiness Church I said to him I said brother if you think loneliness is noise go to the ballpark if you think holiness is noise go to the arena there are too many concepts we have that I contrary to the word and we think that God can't work unless it's noisy God is God he is sovereign God can work with who he want to work with any way he wants to work so I sell everything that has breath praise the Lord praise ye the Lord may I argue the point tonight that you are another thing may I argue the point that you are a try you don't like being of body soul and spirit but the text said that everything that has breath praise the Lord anything breathing 79 pieces of a gas called and nitrogen and 21 pieces of a gas called oxygen inhaling out of the atmosphere the nitrogen in the carbon dioxide putting the oxygen in the bloodstream in the bloodstream carrying the oxygen throughout the body anything doing that is praising the Lord because it's a praise to God that he made the lungs to breathe it it's a praise to God that he combined the comeup components 7921 called 80/20 in or work on what will nothing work by 7921 what that means then is literally saying that the rats in the alley are praising the Lord that the roaches in the kitchen are praising the Lord the cows in the middle are praising the Lord the caps in the street are praising the Lord everything reason is praising the Lord now if you think then if everything breathing is praising the Lord if you think praises enough how much more do you think is required of you when you are made in the image and the likeness of God you see what we have done in the Pentecostal world we have taken praise and we eulogize praise see we ain't praising God many times we praise and praise worship and worship and having faith in faith and I know what sounds good and we get over with it but God don't have nothing to do with nothing that ain't done according to his word we say hallelujah is the highest praise you can give done we said it go somebody else said it cause somebody else said it Kaleem nobody looked up nothing I'm telling all you young I ain't gonna deal with older people is too late verse I'm telling all of you young people never give out a definition that you haven't looked up and never thought of scripture that you have read because it may not be in there and somebody may call you in out to rain the early the early elder Gus Holden efficient builder knew him well that the early of the goshawk I know you called him late cause even dead 28 years I want to argue the point that he ain't late he went to hit him early and you late cause you ain't got there yet the early outer Hogan told me one time he said if you decide to preach about Noor and third he said you make sure you have it so correct that if Noah is sitting in the congregation it ain't gonna make no difference and what you preach or to be so right that if Jesus working you ain't got to change your subject it sounds good hallelujah is the highest praise you can give God but if you want to be granite grammatically and linguistically correct hallelujah is not even a praise hallelujah is a complex for a compounded Hebrew word Cologne or Harlow and Yahweh and the compound word means praise ye Jehovah hallelujah is a command to praise if I tell you praise the Lord you ain't supposed to answer back praise the Lord when you do that you are just like the people who use Matthew 28:19 for the baptismal formula Jesus didn't say say that he said do that so if I kill you to praise the Lord praise him then like the brother said praise Him in the uplifted hands praise him in the song praise him in the dance praise him under instruments praise him any way you want to praise Him hallelujah highest praise you can give God the Bible said in Nehemiah nine and five his glorious name is exalted above all blessings and praise brothers and sisters ladies and gentlemen Saints and Friends boys and girls Christians and well-wishers pictures and teachers and leaders and theatres and elders and bishops and ministers and servants and writers and fighters and singers and cleaners and agonizes and organizers and heathens and hypocrites and Lobos and tramps and pilgrims and strangers and I bet I bet not leave out the paint brothers dick dictate agitate irritate and imitate meditate he died long time ago and of course the press sisters supersu pressed deep breaths oppress and repress I don't want to leave nobody else the Bible said his glorious name is exalted above all blessings and praise and it don't make no difference how high you lift up magnify glorify or exalt God Jesus name touch that praise Jesus name is the mountain peak of etymology Jesus named is the superlative wonder of linguistics Jesus name is a stellar attraction the feature presentation and the very centrifugal of our phonics there is no sound that the voice box can articulate and feel out into the atmosphere that the ear can pick up as a listening station that is equal to the word the name in the sound Jesus in the Bible I personally counted a thousand and twenty four names that God has but you know what God did God took a thousand and twenty four names and he made a composite name he compressed them and put them all in one name Ray Charles would tell you when they come to Jesus name God got a thousand 24 names but when it come to Jesus name you got the right one baby huh huh because Jesus name is God great name I don't I don't know how much money I don't know how much money they they bribe blue rolls with the go on television and tell a big lie and say when you say good you said it all but I want to say tonight that when you say Jesus you've set it home now if you want to use hallelujah for a praise it's all right but put things in perspective the greatest using you can give the God is when you know him and call him by his name and his name is Jesus so since everything breathing is praising the Lord what do you think God is required of you and you are a being made in the image and likeness of God the reason I want to argue the point tonight that praise is not enough is because some of you brothers come to church and you praise the Lord and you work on different artilleries in the church and you go back home and slap your wives around praise is not enough the reason I want to ask you the point that freeze is not enough because some of your sisters are cooking the strike and sex strike right now but you're in church singing in the fire and you're praying the Lord please is not enough some of you young ladies can't get your panties up can keep your dress down but you in the choir praise the Lord tell me you young Devils are skipping school and hanging out praise is not enough similar come to church and freeze the Lord is speaking in tongues why are we talking in tongues we ain't even talking English to the brother on the other side of the church some of us come to church and praise the Lord how we praise your love we're not supporting the ministry or doing anything to help the kingdom let me explain the beautiful church y'all built next door talking in tongues gonna build that church singing in the car didn't build up just doing covering somersaults and cartwheels didn't build that church running around the church and getting happy didn't build that church it took money to build that church and you see praise is not enough because God wants your time God wants your talent and God wants your treasure praise is a whole lot like in the necklace and worship is like in the animal now you see everybody and in the necklace maybe in Indiana but everybody in in the end of show Amen in the necklace so while our praise is one dimension of worship praise ain't near not enough Bishop dolger can get way more souls out of you if you only lift your left little finger every fifth Sunday and you are cool Pleasant and laid-back but you live it right and you're doing it straight and your tithing name comes up every time the offering basket goes around you'll do the kingdom way more good than somebody who is all emotional talking in tongues ain't giving nothing nor living nothing so let's put it in perspective then so we got we have gotten to the place now where we think we can get over on phrase there are people who are praised but they won't do nothing else they won't study but their praise they won't read the word but they're praised but praise ain't near but enough praise is simply one dimension of what the Christian must do to be at all Christian no fellows who plays sports they want to make all City and you want to make Allstate and all America somebody ought to want to make all Christian and to be all Kristin you got to do it all and praise is not near about all of it I went to a meeting in Springfield my grandson tonight my grandson there the big black fella sitting next to sister Jeanne Robertson that's my grandson we went to this meeting in Springfield Ohio to hear a preacher the service started at 7:30 just arena christian de preacher didn't get that on 9:30 they had to extend the pre-service extra 40 minutes waiting on the preacher they finally put him up at a quarter to 10:00 when they put the preacher up the first thing he did was said on your feet why don't you praise him by that time I was so mad you can fry egg on my head I ran down the aisle in front of 600 people and I stopped him dead in his tracks I said hold it brother preacher you mister prezerv Asst we've been having a prayer service for our hair waiting on you and you missed it and now you're gonna tell us on your feet why don't you praise him and you want to get into praise service get here on time wanna be in the prayer meeting get here on time now you know what he gonna do he gonna have another prayer service and have us hugging kissing and licking each other and he's taking each other's hands and then we're gonna do the work he gonna go over to Orin but it doesn't work like that you want to be in the pre-service getting for the praying service and you are a preacher when it's time to preach forget that stuff and preach the Word of God cheap praise praise basically is eulogy or bragging or boasting about and everybody booster brags see everybody says that their pastor is the best preacher in the world now how can everybody's Pastor be the best preacher in the world in a reality your pastor is but everybody can everybody can't be right every every man says that his wife is the best looking woman in the world now how can all of y'all y'all look good but how can all y'all be the best looking woman in the world that is simply our way of eulogizing or boasting that's why they call a funeral service for eulogy because they always speak well of the decision you have never met nobody that was just breathing up and can courageous enough to stand up at a funeral and tell the truth I don't care how bad they are we all live so they're featuring up the light our funeral I don't care how careful they are the funerals will go on everybody will talk good about the dead person but I think some of our gotta be honest one time so I'll just go ahead and stand up and say look this wasn't worth two dead flies run over by a freight train said he's dead and he need to be dead so they call it a eulogy because they speak well of the dead person so when you praise the Lord your eulogizing him you are speaking well of him and too many people speak well of him but don't live for him jesus said your job near to me with your mouth and your honor me with your lips but your heart is far from me so eulogy and talking good about Jesus is not enough he wants somebody to be a dedicated full-time Christian and become a worshiper of him the Bible's the Bible says in the 34 sum in verse 3 it says oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together now there is a scripture that everybody will get up in full in the sanctified Church during the prayer service and they will say I came to magnify the Lord now people who say that many of them they wouldn't give a crippled Creber crutch let alone tithe and giving the building fund but they came to magnify the Lord but I wondered this day you came to magnify the Lord may I explains in that the word magnifying on page 508 column 2 in paragraph 33 of Webster's complete unabridged dictionary mr. Webster said that what magnifying means to enlarge enhance blow up expand or make bigger hoping you came to make the Lord bigger really I'll say this space is the unlimited room that extends upward from an object in all directions there is no known in or limit to space but space God is not in space space is in God and you came to make the Lord bigger I mean the dollar sir I don't know who your God is but the god I serve is a you video was omnipresent everywhere here right now everywhere there right now leaving you coming - you ain't never went nowhere killing up all time and space at the same time and it ain't nothing new it ain't nothing that nobody can do to make God any bigger everything that God does he does it within himself God don't do nothing out of themselves like the faith teachers you know straight preachers so-called faith come to tell you if you believe and believe is strong enough God will have to do it and you can have what you want look in faith is a force out of God that can make God do something then faith is bigger than God and God is no longer done all that teaching is PMA positive mental attitude which is faith in faith if you have a positive mental attitude you'll do better your great areas with Warren because I'm still hanging around the Blue Room you go to the library if you have a positive mental attitude your marriages don't work better cause instead of hanging with your sellers you'll go home to your wife a positive mental attitude will improve every area in your life but a positive mental attitude is not faith in God the Bible teaches that the object of faith must be God so you gonna make God bigger God is everywhere but the Bible said o magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together before you showed up in revelation 19:16 he was the King of Kings before we got here in 1st Timothy 6:15 he was the Lord of lords in Daniel 247 the God of gods Daniel 8:25 the Prince of princes Isaiah 9 and 6 the wonder of wonders the Song of Solomon when went into the lover of lovers first Corinthians 2 and 7 the mystery of mysteries Hebrews 2:10 the captain of captains first Peter 2:25 the Bishop of Bishops Philippians three and eight their science of Sciences and the third verse of the book of Jude the faith of faith you call that the superlative degree you can't go another further Jesus ran off with the superlative degree he's the king of kings lord of lords god of gods captain of captains bishop of bishops science of Sciences lover of lovers wonder of wonders and all of that without your help and you're gonna make him bigger Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together but the Bible wouldn't tell you to do a thing you couldn't do you can magnify the Lord see these glasses I wear them because I'm nearsighted now I've had my glasses on and I looked around and I see where y'all are Jeannie I see you without my glasses on all I can see is something like brown sitting beside something black that's all I can see but my glasses off now when I put my blessed glasses back on I've seen Jeannie NRC grandson now let me ask you did my glasses do anything to them my glasses haven't changed them hasn't done a thing to them the purpose of these glasses is not to work on what I look at but to work on me where I can see what I look at where when the Bible said magnify the Lord you have to get the proper instrumentation of magnification to magnify the Lord the Old Testament is the telescope the New Testament is the microscope that telescope brings in close and the microscope makes him big and when you look through the telescopic microscopic lens of the Word of God you see a great big Jesus he lifts your spirit free your soul stretches your mind warm your rug plans your ride and provoke your wheels and you say wow he sure did get big no baby he always been big he just got big to you cuz you got the right stuff to see him with don't nothing magnify the Lord but the Word of God singing in the car don't magnify the Lord jumping up and down don't magnify the Lord don't nothing to magnify the Lord but the Word of God you don't come to Sunday School you don't come to Bible class stop jiving you ain't magnifying the Lord don't nothin magnify the Lord but the Word of God will have to come from your school before time to be on time or to come to Bible class before time to be on time but the Bible teaches y'all having a greased your parking lot order look like Kate might at Christmastime every time you have Bible class in all of you who don't love the word I don't care how good you sing high and jump how could you do anything you ain't magnifying the Lord cause nothing does it but the Word of God but magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together the Old Testament is a telescope and the New Testament is a microscope so get the telescope and the microscope and get a good look and a clear view of Jesus Christ and when you see him in his word you're magnifying the Bible you know is this Prudential's if Jesus was to convene the nephrons and open up an office in downtown in the necklace quickly hang on the world for credentials I mean he didn't go to Louie Louie he didn't go to Indiana State he didn't go to the University of Indiana but you know why Jesus didn't go to school don't you school have recess in Jesus don't play all that Jesus could hang on the world for his credentials would be the Old Testament in the New Testament because the Bible gives you the Prudential of Jesus in the Old Testament Jesus is veiled new testament jesus unveiled the old testament the covert of jesus new testament the overt of jesus the old testament to intimate jesus new testament the ultimate jesus old testament jesus to innermost new testament jesus to utter most old testament jesus contained new testament jesus explained old testament jesus concealed new testament jesus revealed old testament jesus unfolded new testament jesus unfolded oh just a minute jesus impounded new testament jesus expounded old testament the intimate jesus new testament ultimate jesus old testament a panoramic Jill's new testament the Cyclorama jesus old testament jesus in picture new testament jesus in person old testament jesus and shadow new testament jesus instructions Old Testament Jesus with ritual New Testament Jesus in reality Old Testament the Eternity of Jesus new testament to put birthday of Jesus and when you put them together you see a great big Jesus and when you see him in his word oh yes he's magnified and when he is magnified it gives you solid ground to stand on when you eulogize a lot of people are eulogizing but praise the Lord offer they're free and Mama and they sing an auntie and their Bible cooking grant Pepe your singing mama pre an auntie and Bible cooking grandpappy's praise is not yours your phrase to be legitimate must be your own praise you see freaking praise out of order has made us a grunt a group of praise hustlers I refuse to be a phrase hustler a grumpy face I refuse to be a phrase less turn so I stand up in the street before I got saved I know what husband is hustling is getting somebody to do something whether they want to do it or not and we have become a group of praise hustlers I went to see I went to see the Phoenix Suns I was preaching in Phoenix and the brother had some tickets for the Suns and so a bishop builder I sneaked up with your brother and we went to see your son's play I'm confessing now saying they were playing they were playing the Celtics Charles Barkley stolen the ball get with the whole court and don't did and I mean the stadium in his Phoenix when I've been smoked but you know what I noticed didn't nobody run out on the floor tomorrow why don't y'all come on and give Bakri some phrase why what y'all praise Barkley now listen if they can freeze a nigga's what's going to points what kind of praise and eulogy and you don't have to hustle praise preach the cross and let them know what Jesus did and the phrase will be automatic anybody that don't praise Jesus don't know Jesus and if you ever know him you automatically praise Him anybody who freely praise Jesus whether five things is wrong with you you got brain damage you see now you have arrows hammers or your smoke dope anybody that knows Jesus will automatically be appraiser of Jesus so they ain't no need in hustling no praise preach Christ rich the cross and the praise is automatic in that embedded meeting I told you about in that meeting I was telling you about in Washington the bishop builder of the national episodic fellowship multi organizations came together bishop Brophy green told me I went back after then he said it wasn't no need to make an altar call no night bishop builder preached in that service the Holy Ghost fail eleven people speaking in tongues in the pew and people were delivered and healed from the Word of God in the pew what no prayer line none of that stuff the Word of God did the work if we will use the word the work will get done so brilliant perspective praises legitimate praises honorable and praises something we all must do but your praise is only one dimension of your Christian living God wants your time God wants your talent and God wants your treasure and if you will magnify him you have good ground to eulogize him and then you'll glorify him and the glorify the Lord simply means punish the flesh let the Lord have his way to glorify but glorifying the Lord again is not a ritual we go through glorifying Falls that he glorified God in his body when you glorify the and you know you're 50 pounds overweight but you'll do is not eat so much that's glorifying the Lord when you glorify the Lord sisters better sell it on your job who's hitting on you he is so handsome when you glorify the Lord I don't care how high the heat wave is you'll kill him no and you'll keep your panties up and your dress down when you do it by the Lord brothers you'll keep your pants zipped up glorifying the Lord is letting the Lord heavens complete way in your body so when you go up by the Lord then that means you completely live for the Lord at the expense of suffering we have listened to these people who preach prosperity and got out of perspective so much we messed up prosperity is a part of the gospel but into down spoon I remember one time we were insane was at a big meeting and Bishop bill McKinley said to me I preached brazen ain't but a bishop McKinley crazy it's a gospel another sister there said I preached bountiful blessings I said sister bountiful blessings is not the gospel another brother said I'm freaking miracles as I let me explain to you brother miracles is not the gospel you see all of these are issues that's like going to a car dealer kill the car dealer I want me a set of bucket seats until the car dealer I'm going me a tinted window or I want me a stereo listen the purpose of the automobile is to get you from point A to point B whether the windows are tinted or not the purpose of the automobile is to get you to working back home in the church whether you have bucket seats or not the purpose of automobile is to solve your transportation problem whether you hear music or not now the purpose of the gospel is not to get nobody into a Cadillac it is not to get no woman into a mink coat it is not to get you into a mansion to live in the purpose of the gospel is to get your assay and and get you into heaven and when Jesus went the Calvary and died he didn't dive for Mercedes and Cadillacs he didn't die for mink coats he didn't he didn't die for none of that junk he died for that anti-god monstrosity comes in and you are better off to live on the street wear a fake beverage burn and be dead broke and you're locked up by the weapon and they live in a mansion and we are four little mink coat and being sin and die and go to hell Jesus went to the cross for sin I know what you're thinking brother James is against prosperity no I ain't I believe in pie-in-the-sky way buy and buy and have it on the ground while you hang around but not at the expense of the battering and the beaten up on and the butchering of the scriptures somebody said somebody said that Tuesday July the 20th 1969 it was 11:50 Atlantic Daylight Time in Hell effects Nova Scotia Canada it was 10:15 Eastern Daylight Time in New York City it was 850 it was 915 central Daylight Time in Chicago 850 mountain Daylight Time in Denver 750 Pacific Daylight Time in Los Angeles when Neil Armstrong stepped down the letter of a space capsule put his right foot on the moon surface and said one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind somebody said that was the greatest moment in human history now why would they tell a lie like that the greatest moment in human history was not Wednesday July the 20th 1969 it was Wednesday April the 10th 1829 not Good Friday blood Wednesday when Jesus Christ set his foot on Calvary's Hill and the dump the gospel of Jesus Christ was not shaped by praise the gospel of Jesus Christ was not saved by the Sermon on the mountain the gospel was shaped by the cross on the hill and Calvary is the superlative wonder of the universe Calvary is a picture of the ugliness of sin and the beauty of holiest Calvary is a portrait of the love of God payment on a human canvas Calvary is the behaviors banner of the world Calvary is a rainbow of government in any preaching or teaching or lecturing or talking that misses across it ain't worth its weight in White Castle hamburgers they have taken praise and put it in the place of the cross you preach the cross and fraises fraises automatic the cross the great Saint Paul said in first Corinthians 2 and 2 for I determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified but here's a man talking he had a PhD in psychology a THD in theology EDD in administration I mean the man had so many degrees is degrees had degrees here's a man who was not tired linguistic intoxicated here's a man who could speak and philosophize about any major science in the world but what he said I don't know nothing but Christ and him crucified what you saying Paul he's not saying that he don't know nothing but the cross he's saying that other than the cross nothing else is worth talking about Jesus took 12 men he turned them a loose in the Roman Empire and they turned the world upside down there's a business freed in Detroit called brass 11 little Bishop golden has preached on that street in Detroit brass should ever know I counted the churches in the on brass you never know 147 churches on one Street and they can't even turn a corner upside down 12 men turned the world upside down but they turn the upside down with the message of the cross they didn't turn it upside down with praise they turn it upside down with the message of the cross and the crucified Lord so let's put things back in perspective it was the fixing of the cross that made the Christian Church but it is today and when you understand the cross and understand who Jesus is look we got to hustle no praise from you weighing up the bag no praise we ain't got the pomp no praise the reason that many people are sitting up in churches looking at pathetic and indifferent like a leaking faucet Dean turned off and ain't turned on and don't love nobody and don't hate nobody and don't care if you're doing don't care if you don't because they're not hearing the cross and the love of God in the Calvary message and when the message is preached it'll get the job done so what praise is a good thing and a necessary thing praise is not enough the Lord wants you to be a worshipper of him you see with the praise teaching out of context goes the teaching of prosperity you are supposed to have everything that you want and our minds I've got to come warp you can tell we leave home step out of an air-conditioned house we get the key in our hand put the key in the ignition of an air-conditioned automobile back out of a paved driveway drive the car over a paved road pull up on the parking lot 22nd and Broadway walk into a comfortable air-conditioned Church and we turn to the person sitting next to us and say honey I had to press my way on out to get here now you're saying that means our vision is distorted that means everything is out of priority I ain't never heard nobody saying I'm gonna press my way out to Red Lobster cuz they got a fish special a swim special I've never heard nobody say I'm gonna test my way out to the mall I've never heard the man's name oppressed my way out to Six Flags I've never heard nobody say I'm gonna press my way on out to work or school the only time we use the word press is when we do the most glorious thing we do and that's turning dollars house and worship God and if you think coming in here is a press it means you're mixed up come in this house because this house was designed to do more than praise it is designed to worship Him now you see you can worship him anywhere but you get better results when you worship him in the house that was designed the worshipping in worship at home is not like worshiping here because the only purpose for this structure is the worship him this building is not the church you are the church and the purpose of this building is to keep the rain and the snow and the ice and the sleet off the church and when you get hot to keep the church cool you're at the church and you come in this house and your purpose in coming is to be a full o Christian and be a worshipper of him your eulogizing your glorifying your magnifying eulogized or glorified plus magnified equals worship and when you worship Him he got your time yes your talent and he also has your treasure in biblical in a biblical context tithing is when you give the Lord one-tenth of your increase that means anything that you are increased with he gets a tenth of that now the 24 hours in a day if the 24 hours in a day if you really believe in tithing try this give the Lord 2000 24 minutes of that day in prayer 2 hours and 24 minutes in study 2 hours and 24 minutes in witness are we coming here and turning a little house down phrasing but it is when we leave here and don't start do we get back here we need to be a full complete Christian and a full Christian is a worshiper of Jesus Christ he said you draw a little me with your mouth honor me with you lift your heart is far from me in vain you worship Me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men so read the book of Acts read about the early church and notice what they did they emphasize the lifted Christ at Calvary and they worshipped Jesus they were sold out completely not just bragging and talking about Jesus but they were sold out completely on living for Jesus Christ twenty five hours eight days a week of fishing all the way wall-to-wall twenty four killed four sides to flaps zip up and zip down because praise is not enough because why we come together and have our so-called praise in the necklace is on dope and why are you and you're praising the Lord that is gonna break the back on track probably and you're praising the Lord families are breaking up children are being abused the world is so messed up your name fifty live in and can't get out of it alive and we can sit up here and think if we want to that we are alright because we come in here on Sunday morning and go to a whole lot of ritual but God want you to live for him when you leave here and when you come back in here bring somebody back with you to hear the word of God the purpose of the church in the earth is to rescue men and women and boys and girls from sin somebody say there's a rat race and it looks like the rats are winning the preaching of the gospel no question the preaching of the gospel will get the job done if we can get somebody with a passion and a burden to preach the gospel so all are you Bible Bowl youngsters and all you aspiring preachers I want to say to you as you study for the Bible Bowl study the scriptures get them everything and do everything within a biblical context and when you do within a biblical context I promise you and I'll guarantee you you'll get the proper results I don't nobody leave here and say that brother James is against praise brother James he wants you to make your praise legitimate and put it in proper perspective because if all that you doing is praising and you are not living for the Lord I want to argue the point praise is not enough

Channel: The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints

Views: 26,877

Rating: 4.7982197 out of 5

Keywords: Christianity (Religion), Oneness Pentecostalism (Religion), Pentecostalism (Religion), Apostolic (Religion), God (Deity), Holy Spirit (Deity), Holy Ghost (Deity), Jesus Christ (Deity), The Bible (Religious Text), The New Testament (Religious Text), The Old Testament (Religious Text), Religion (TV Genre), Religion (Literary Genre), Salvation (Belief), Redemption (Belief), Johnny James, Praise (Quotation Subject), Satan (Deity)

Id: dmyBxbWBQ2c

Length: 47min 26sec (2846 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 06 2016