Pure Worship | Michael Koulianos | Sunday Night Service

[Music] [Applause] good evening how are you guys tonight are you guys excited to be with jesus tonight me too let's just open up our hearts to jesus when i was praying today i was just loving on jesus you know it feels so good sometimes just to be with jesus right we all need to just settle in and turn our affection to him and when i was praying today i said holy spirit please don't let me get ahead of you i just kept saying that over and over holy spirit please don't let me get ahead of you i said i want to be right next to you i don't want to be behind you i don't want to get ahead of you i don't want my ways to get in front of you just please lead me holy spirit and that's what i just feel so strongly on my heart tonight that we just need to let the holy spirit lead us so holy spirit we welcome you tonight this is your night we say come lord jesus come come lord jesus come come into the room come take us over tonight jesus we just want to be with you tonight god we give you our heaviness we give you our worries we give you our fear we give you even lord our dreams and our goals we just give it all to you and we lay it at your feet tonight jesus we welcome you holy spirit into the room tonight have your way beloved here lord jesus amen [Music] amen [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah don't wait for us just start thinking jesus there's been such a beautiful peaceful presence today such a nearness such a nearness this today [Music] thank you jesus so [Music] do so [Music] so [Music] that is [Music] [Music] unless you give hope [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] hey [Music] you bring life to the darkness [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah come on [Music] our hearts will cry these bones our hearts will grind these [Music] our hearts will cry [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] singing away [Music] lord come on [Music] come on we have so much to be thankful for tonight shout it out come on sing to [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] our hearts will cry [Music] [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] will [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] the way [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] way [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] jesus [Music] hey [Music] to praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] to praise you to praise you so 24 [Music] to praise [Applause] with every breather [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] with every breather [Music] okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] i will be [Music] glorious [Music] glorious [Music] beautiful [Music] [Music] beautiful beautiful [Applause] glorious [Music] glorious that's this [Music] [Applause] everywhere [Music] uh foreign [Applause] [Applause] 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am yours you are my [Music] you are my together forever [Music] together forever together forever foreign [Music] [Applause] together together forever [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] me [Music] together forever [Music] i am yours and you are mine [Music] and we'll be together forever i am yours i'm yours forever i'm yours i'm yours forever oh you paid for forever oh together forever i am yours together forever higher [Applause] forever [Music] together [Applause] [Music] [Applause] together [Music] together forever [Music] together [Music] if there's gonna [Music] there's [Music] is [Music] there's [Music] there's [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] is [Music] today [Music] [Music] to [Music] [Applause] you're coming back [Music] we're gonna bury the land [Music] [Applause] [Music] coming back [Music] man [Music] coming back we're gonna [Music] get it ready getting ready getting ready [Music] we're getting ready [Applause] [Music] get it we're 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[Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] i [Music] is [Music] with you [Music] just everyone just lift your hands sing in the spirit come on all over the room [Music] [Music] your voice lift your voice [Music] keep blessing him keep listening thank you lord i just want you to close your eyes right now and forget about everything nothing in the world matters right now but jesus just gently right now just lift your hands to heaven and begin to love him with your words begin to tell them what he means to you come on i should hear just this holy hush this holy whisper all over the room begin to talk to jesus [Music] glory to [Music] missing this to the name for you are glorious and [Music] upon the throne [Music] our voice [Music] glory [Music] [Music] glory [Music] to the land for you [Music] no [Music] we lift our voices [Music] and glory glory every voice [Music] up we lift our voices [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] if [Music] lord we love you i give you all the glory we give you all the glory tonight just every eye closed just look at jesus right now [Music] highly exalted the right hand of the father lord we give you all the glory tonight would you just lift your hands lord we collectively say glory to the lamb who was and is and is to come you are holy you are exalted just continue to administer the lord in the spirit [Music] thank you jesus hallelujah holy spirit i welcome you here to come and fill this room to fill every mind every thought every heart every body we welcome you come on let's do that as a family as his people lord we welcome you we we we acknowledge your presence here we acknowledge your presence here you are the spirit of the lord you are the lord wonderful holy spirit [Music] this is your time this is your church we are your people this is yours it's your kingdom keep playing behind me guys keep playing so we welcome you jesus come on we need to do it together we welcome you lord we welcome you we welcome your presence wonderful wonderful holy spirit wonderful wonderful [Music] wonderful jesus [Music] wonderful jesus [Music] lord have this night have this meeting have our hearts have us have all we are come on every hand lifted let's just fully surrender again tonight have all we are [Music] rain rain rain down tonight your wonderful presence like the dew on a parched land let springs break forth in the desert tonight in the hearts of the dry and the hearts of the weary break forth tonight lord with the river of the holy spirit you are beautiful you are beautiful tell him that say you are beautiful now just tell him you love him however you want to do that but make it don't make it don't make it religious come on make it real jesus we so love you we love your presence we love you jesus now father move in power tonight and in glory we've come to lift you high as your people shock us all tonight you do exceedingly and abundantly above all we could ever ask all we could ever hope or even think of or even conceive do it tonight come on agree with me do it tonight heal the sick tonight heal the sick tonight [Applause] but every person who is captive to demonic power be set free tonight in jesus name every person lord let every uh let every lost soul come on i need you to agree with me [Applause] let every lost soul come to the come to the savior of their soul in jesus name come on agree with me and say amen in jesus name let every lost soul come home let every person struggling and their minds be healed tonight let a wave of healing and salvation and let the fire of the holy spirit fall on the hungry in jesus name and lord i pray that even even those who are not hungry that you would awaken them tonight that you would awaken them tonight that you'd awake the sleeper that you would awake the sleeper to your presence is here you're here in the room and we give you all the glory come on live to shout to jesus hallelujah hallelujah we love you jesus oh we love you jesus [Applause] we love you wonderful lord highly exalted rule and reign in our praise tonight rule and reign in our in praise name amen come on lift one more praise we love you lord we love you jesus amen amen amen we'll say hi to somebody then grab a seat for about the next 10 minutes i'm going to ask that you find your seat and not move so just just i want you to be very sensitive to what is about to happen uh in the room many people are about to come to jesus i said many people are about to come to jesus now i i'm gonna ask ryan to come up this is ryan mabe you guys all know ryan sit down sit down not another time but you're learning um i want all of us to be in the pocket together when the gospel is being preached what i mean by that is for those of you who are walking a life of surrender and gildedness to jesus it's not that when the gospel is being preached did you know that the bible says that we stand in the gospel we don't just hear it once and move on paul actually said that that by the gospel we were saved and stand so hearing the gospel never gets old to the one who loves jesus never never because the gospel is a person and it is the power of god unto salvation so however beyond it filling you with life i want everyone here while the gospel is being preached to consider themselves an evangelist this is what that means that in your heart you're listening you're refusing to be distracting because you're realizing as god's people that eternity is at stake right now but you're also praying and interceding maybe for the person you brought i don't know i'm sure many of you brought people who need jesus tonight but maybe you didn't bring anyone who maybe you just came alone there are people in the room tonight that need jesus and so that's where you put on your intercessors hat and you you are in the moment it it is not the mere duty of the preacher but collectively as a family we begin to battle for the souls of men and women i'll never forget having a dream last year seeing that the enemy was deceiving people by blinding them while they were attempting to walk in and hear the gospel he would blind them and they would leave not hearing the gospel and that's what the bible teaches that the god of this world has blinded them to the gospel so i want everyone here to get in that we all realizing that that eternity is at stake that heaven and hell are at stake that eternal life is at stake ryan has an amazing amazing testimony god has done great things in his life the gospel is the gospel in other words the gospel does its work whether it comes out of my mouth orion's mouth you understand but many of you who came to i want you to hear me many of you came thinking that a person brought you the lord brought you i should say thinking that a human being brought you the holy spirit brought you before you were ever born the lord knew you'd be sitting there tonight many of you who are bound you you can't beat your sin the lord knew you'd be in this in this place tonight and he can easily for you it wasn't easy for him set you free tonight in jesus name so i want every heart locked in i don't want anyone moving and i want those who know jesus who are walking deeply with jesus just in their heart let your spirit begin to minister to the lord silently you don't need we don't need to hear it but i want you to get in begin interceding for souls right now ryan it's all yours buddy love you yeah what an amazing opportunity that i get i counted a true privilege and an honor to be able to share to you guys about a man a living king that changed my life november 22nd 2014 and an encounter that i had with him that forever changed the course of my life and in a moment i realized the reason i was alive and why i was on this earth and my whole life i didn't know that because i didn't ever meet this man named jesus i didn't know i was raised in church hearing that he died for me that he shed his blood for me and he took hell and death captive and took captivity captive and rose again on the third day and ascended and put the blood on the mercy seat and sit it at right at the right hand of the father but it was never alive to me because i never met the man jesus christ and i met him in 2014 november 22nd and when i met him his arms were open wide to me the bible says that we were not purchased with mere silver or gold in first peter but it says but with the precious blood of jesus we were bought and we were purchased and i didn't know that and it wasn't real to me until i met him that day in my my bathroom and i was reading a scripture this morning and it it was just so alive and so real the lord actually took me back this morning to that moment in the shower where his arms were open wide it says in romans chapter 10 verse 21 it says but regarding israel god said all day long i opened my arms to them but they were disobedient and rebellious and i remember the arms of jesus christ opened for me my whole entire life but i would say no i would reject them and i was rebellious the very thing the scripture says and i knew right before i gave my life to jesus that my time was very short how i knew that because i was having dream after dream that i was gonna die i knew my life was gonna come short in a moment it was the loving wooing conviction of holy spirit that was saying no ryan i have more for you in fact i have my arms open wide for you don't miss this opportunity in the shower when his arms were open he said don't miss this opportunity and then i read in scripture that jesus did it all throughout while he was here on the earth that he opened his arms to the woman at the well and he opened his arms to a a a a man at the gadarene's full of demons a legion of demons that his arms are open wide and in a moment of embracing those arms that are open wide their lives were forever changed he met an adulterous woman that was in the middle of it but his arms that were opened wide where she said yes embraced her and he said go and sin no more and i feel tonight that the loving jesus is his arms are open i felt it this morning when i was reading this and and i and i feel it today and what's amazing is that jesus christ even up to the very last day on this cross his arms were open wide and there was one person on the right and there was another on the left and one said yes to the open arms and the other one didn't even unto death his arms are open and i feel the loving embrace of jesus his arms open wide because he paid a high price for those arms to be open and for us to have full access to him the beautiful blood of jesus that he's standing here today i remember the first year of jesus school i i was driving down the street with another jesus school student and we were driving down and i saw this bus that was in front of us it it swerved out of the way and then the car behind him swerved out of the way and then then i swerved out of the way because i saw there was something in the road and as i looked i realized it was a body a lit a human being and so i pulled over and i ran over there with the other jesus school student and i saw this young girl laying in the street and she was she was dead i could physically see that she was dead and i knew in a moment her life was gone in and there was another girl who was walking with her who didn't get hit by a car but that one did and and i got to share the gospel with this girl standing there and i said man your life is but a vapor because life eternity was real to her to me to everybody that was on that scene eternity was real in that moment and sometimes we don't see that and we don't know it but this life is so short even if you live to the rightful age of 95 i promise man it's short compared to eternity and so i remember standing there and i remember talking to her and and i got to share the gospel and i got to say man life is so short it is but a vapor you are here today and you're gone tomorrow and i said would you love to receive jesus right now because his arms are open wide and in a moment right there she gave her life to the lord and i don't know if the the girl that was on the ground did but i pray that she didn't know jesus but i knew where one life was gone another one was birth new life came to the girl that was standing there and i feel that tonight even if you may be in church and maybe you've given your life to the lord and and you feel that man i haven't embraced those arms in a long time i've left first love that i left that that place of knowing that his arms are open wide there's a story in scripture about two sons and one of them grabbed his inheritance and went out and lived a wildlife of parties and going out and and lived in the pigsty and he started eating and partaking of pig food because it it was it was momentary pleasures that stuff that didn't look good anymore started looking good to him and and i feel that if you've left your first love you start finding momentary pleasures in pornography and addiction and you're created for intimacy and that intimacy was to walk with the lord and so i pray tonight that the the loving conviction of the holy spirit just like he did with me i said ryan i am here i died a gruesome death the lord died a brutal death he paid a high price became a seat in a woman started a sacrifice and beginning of what god was doing here on the earth and he really did ascend and it really is sitting at the right hand of of god i love when michael says there is a real man up there and right now he's in fact interceding on our behalf think about that jesus christ is right now interceding for you and for me that's beautiful that the one who died and shed his blood and his arms open wide is now praying and believing that you would come into that very reality that he died and he's a living king and he loves you your life for his and his for yours and so i would love for all you guys to stand up in this moment and i pray right now you guys just close your eyes and i pray that you guys see these loving arms of of king jesus that are open wide and if you've never met jesus if you have never said yes to him if you have never given your life over to him he's here tonight or maybe you you have at one point but now you you've lost first love you've lost that embrace and that intimacy in that moment with the king that you were created to live for and it's to love him with all your heart mind and soul if you were one of those two i would just pray right now that you would raise your hand in this room and if you've made that decision if you feel the amazing holy spirit that love that conviction that that says yes to him that's the same one same holy spirit that was in my shower that day i want you guys to come up here if you've raised your hand i would love for you to take that extra step and say yes to jesus maybe you've left your first love if we raised her hand or what she did come on come on down here now quick come on come on god bless you thank you jesus wonderful thank you lord if you brought someone this week if you brought them and you know in your heart there's a question about their eternity i want you to look at them you look at that person next to you if you came with them or you wish maybe you didn't maybe they're just sitting close to you i want you to look at them and say hey do you you need to get down here right now the bible says make your election sure make it sure your soul is too precious jesus said what good is it for man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul your soul is valuable valuable enough for jesus to die so look at them now and then say look i'll take you down we'll go together you can look them right in the eye father i thank you for what you're doing i thank you for what you've done i thank you for this precious soul guys can we can we stand around this precious young man this is wonderful we don't to lay hands on him i just want our team to come around him kathleen would you guys come nathan come on come on get this come on this young girl right here come on come on this is wonderful wonderful thank you jesus thank you jesus oh come on lift the praise thank you jesus [Applause] this young man right here come come thank you lord come come thank you father it's so wonderful so one if there's anyone else who wants to be set free from sin and live in the liberty of god the bible says whom the sun sets free is free in deed you can live in freedom and liberty completely set free i think there's somebody else coming trump thank you father come come she's smiling all the way up here come come come let's yeah let's just spread out a bit if you don't mind thank you lord i'm going to begin praying and as i do i really feel like many of you are feeling the convicting power of the holy spirit don't resist it jesus is wonderful he's wonderful and as i begin praying if you feel like you need to come you just come on down now for those of you who've come forward this is so precious you know the bible says i tell you this every week the bible says all of the angels in heaven rejoice when one person repents when one person repents heaven there's another one come on down come on down thank you jesus thank you jesus there's nobody like him there's nobody like jesus there's nobody like the lord thank you father oh come on let's look the praise thank you father [Applause] thank you come thank you lord so precious thank you jesus god can change your life in a moment he changed ryan's life in a moment all right for those of you who came forward just look at me for a second tonight a great exchange is going to take place your sin is going to be eternally removed from you isn't that wonderful i don't know about you but before jesus i had a lot there was a lot i needed to be forgiven of and i'm assuming you all do too and that's okay because he can handle it one drop of his blood is more powerful than all of the sin combined in your life jesus wants you i think there's a little girl coming down here and a young man come on come on let's right over here this is so wonderful oh jesus thank you far away come on thank you [Applause] father young man here thank you lord you can come up with him if you like you can come yeah oh don't worry don't worry yeah thank you jesus you know maybe some of your parents need to look at your children right now and say do you want to go give your heart to jesus all right and if they do bring them down while i'm talking tonight you're going to give your life over would you look at me again tonight you're going to give your life over to the lord and the bible says that if we come unto him he will not cast us away in other words the lord will not reject you tonight and this is what you're going to do you're going to repent that's a fancy word for turning away from your old life turning away from all that grieves the lord turning away from running your own life and turn to jesus here young man god bless you thank you [Applause] now you're going to turn from all of that but it doesn't stop there you're going to turn from that stuff from the devil himself from your own will and ways and turn to jesus now turn to him that's called repentance to turn away from and to another who is the lord himself so you're not coming up tonight to simply get your sin taken care of that will happen but i want you to know because jesus said before you build something you should count the cost and this is the cost everything i just want you to know that if you ask what is the lord wanting he's wanting your life all of it all of it okay now here's the beauty you might think that's a lot to give but you give him your life and then he gives you his life and that's way better than what you're giving him how many of you would agree that life is not so easy not so wonderful all the time that sin is not as great as it looks on the outside right it leaves you empty inside so jesus is going to take all that and then he's going to give himself to you and you are going to become a disciple of jesus christ a true christian and then jesus will come and live inside of you by the holy spirit the scripture says don't you know that your body is the temple of the holy spirit that's good news and this is why forever no matter where you go or what you're doing the lord will be living inside of you literally and that means there is nothing this world can do to interrupt your relationship with jesus because he's not going anywhere i said he's not going anywhere all right i want everyone out there to stretch your hands towards these precious people i want you who've come forward to lift your hands to the lord it's just an act of surrender now we're going to pray i want you to repeat after me i don't want you to merely repeat after me i want you the best you can to let these words flow from your heart and the lord will receive them all right here we go say this almighty god i come to you tonight a sinner save my soul wash me with the blood of jesus cleanse me cleanse my sin jesus i believe that you are the son of god that you died on the cross that you bled and died to take away my sin and the sins of the world jesus i believe that you were buried in the three days later you were raised from the dead and that you are alive right now and that you are alive forever and jesus i believe that you have ascended to the right hand of the father and that you are the king of kings and the lord of lords and that you're coming back again to rule and reign in jesus name i am yours you are mine me for you and you for me i repent lord jesus and i turn to you i am sorry for my sin make me whole tonight in jesus name now for those of you came forward i just want you to keep your hands lifted i want everyone out there to stretch their hands and i want everyone out there to gently and i mean gently begin praying in this spirit just very gently now for those of you came forward keep your eyes closed i want you to give your attention to jesus not to me jesus said that if we ask the father for the holy spirit that he would give it to us give him to us i should say so right now i'm just going to very gently pray that the holy spirit would come upon you in power that you'd sense his presence tangibly jesus you're the great baptizer and the holy spirit let come on you guys out there just gently pray let your glory come upon them let the person of this spirit rest upon them let them know beyond the shadow of the of a doubt that they are yours and empowered you said that we would receive power after that the holy spirit has come upon us so by faith by faith right now i declare that the power of the holy ghost comes upon you now receive receive receive receive receive the power of the holy spirit to live this life in power and in victory in jesus name lord let your fire fall on this young lady up in front of me here let your glory rest on her let your glory rest on her change her life tonight come on i want all of you to pray change her life tonight let her never be the same remove all the religion and give her something real tonight something undeniable touch her with your hand i pray for a full encounter with the living christ in jesus name in jesus name come upon her in power come upon her in power tonight thank you father oh come on just keep praying out there this is wonderful this is wonderful john come over here lord let your glory come upon this young lady lord jesus fill her fill her filler with your wonderful spirit it's not by might not by power but by my spirit saith the lord can you pick the keys up a little joel it's not by might it's not my power it's by my spirit saith the lord let the power of the holy ghost come on her and feel her from head to toe fill her from head to toe jesus do it you die to give us the spirit to give us the spirit she needs the power of the holy spirit to live a victorious christian life clothe her clothe her clothe them let them sense your power they'll be more real to them than their own lives than the world hallelujah oh hallelujah come upon this young man in front of me anoint him clothe him use him deliver him fully and come upon him tonight in your power and presence grab him in the depths of his soul let him know your love for him you're the deep deep love of god come on keep praying this stuff has eternal consequence it's a privilege to be in the room we all are privileged tonight oh the deep deep love of god the deep love of god come holy spirit like a blanket like a blanket of peace and liberty come upon him tonight consecrate his life consecrate these children in jesus name consecrate these children in the name of jesus i pray you'd be clothed in his glory and presence for the rest of your life and i know i need you on this one guys and never a day away from the lord not a single day not a single day not a single day away from the lord in jesus name in jesus name come on praise the lord thank you lord [Applause] come on thank the lord thank you jesus hallelujah all right look um for those of you who've come do we have the table up what are we doing now okay when are we gonna start doing it during okay next week we're gonna go back to help me there joel just stay with me next week we're going to go back to meeting right after you give your isn't he wonderful what do you feel like hot really hot it's good huh thank you lord it's so wonderful feel free you feel forgiven it's all gone yeah the beauty of jesus there's nobody like him what i need you all to do yeah yeah what i need you all to do is after service keep put your hands up guys john and jenna not you guys sorry just john and jenna you're gonna go find these two right here come on look at them they're waving at you they're gonna help you live a life of victory lately only like 10 percent of the people getting saved have been going back to that to that table so i need all of you to be obedient new believers and actually go to the table they are not going to bother you and harass you it is simply to make sure that you have what you need to live in victory and to live in fullness with jesus okay all right so that's the ones you're gonna find all right you can go back to your seats let's welcome them home can we do that please come on hallelujah hallelujah all right jess you want to come back jess is going to receive the offering yup yup get excited i said get excited it's a good thing hello there i am awesome turn the mic on jess that was supposed to be funny okay how are you guys so every week we get together before church starts as a team our worship team and we we pray and michael looked at me back there and said i want you to receive the offering tonight and as soon as you said it this verse popped up in my heart and i really feel like just in my own life i've been on a journey with jesus just to restore the joy in my heart do you know what i mean like sometimes we can get so caught up in the day-to-day grind so caught up in doing things for jesus we lose the simple childlike joy and that can be in giving that can be with worship that can be in your prayer time with the lord today i just went to be with the lord and i dom i text her all these old songs and i just started listening to the old songs when i first got saved as a little girl does anyone else do that okay i'm really old school so i had sandy patty and larnell harris on do you remember them if you're most of our students are like no i have no idea i just aged myself but i was just loving on jesus and it was just restoring the childlike wonder and joy in my heart so when michael said that these are the scriptures that came to me so if you'll turn to your bible in second corinthians chapter six i'm sorry chapter eight we're going to start at verse one and two and i'm gonna skip around a little bit but i'm gonna stay close by all right second corinthians eight i'm gonna read one through four this is paul talking now i want you to know dear brothers and sisters what god and his kindness has done through the churches of macedonia they are being tested by many troubles and they are very poor but they are also filled with abundant joy which has overflowed in rich generosity for i can testify that they gave not only what they could afford but far more and they did it out of their own free will love that they begged us again and again for the privilege the privilege of sharing in the gift for the believers in jerusalem now i'm going to go to verse 7 and i'm going to read through eight since you excel in so many ways in your faith your gifted speakers your knowledge your enthusiasm and your love from us i want you to excel also in the gracious act of giving verse 8 i am not commanding you to do this but i am testing how genuine your love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the other churches see we don't give because we have to we give because we get to give to jesus and that's my prayer for you that god will restore the joy like that's why this verse came to my heart right away they were so joyful to give to the lord i i tell this story and it's a good one i'll tell it again but i remember getting someone i loved a close friend a gift and i i gave my best to her and she gave us like a hat from a gas station i was like i'm so glad i bought you a spa day that's great i got like a hat that was hideous and i could tell her heart wasn't in the gift she gave it because she felt like she had to so the joy in receiving it wasn't what it should have been for me to receive because she did it out of obligation not out of love so when we give to jesus we have to give it out of love out of hunger out of our deep deep appreciation and joy to be his children right it's an act of worship so whatever god puts on your heart just do it it's just that simple you can give by text to give it's up there on the screen three two one three two zero eight zero four zero we're going to bring the buckets down you can give old school in the buckets i like to do it that way yeah i think can i just yeah and reject her sorry babe it's the way we are this is our marriage right here it's really um you're actually the tithe is locked in it has nothing to do with hearing an amount from the lord for those of us who eat and drink from here spiritually that is not up for debate i don't need a prophetic word to know the tithe amount the word actually means first tenth so that is sealed whether you feel like it or not whether i feel like it or not that that is what christians do so i just want to remind you and again that is that is really in my opinion it's the kindergarten of generosity it's where it all begins can god entrust us with what is his so that he can entrust us with more the scripture says the tithe belongs to the lord so i believe he actually waits to see if we'll be faithful with what is his so let's be faithful today and for those of you watching uh around the world guys can we welcome this worldwide audience it's amazing thousands and thousands around the world are they just watch all week long really they're watching these teachings in some of the most uh unchurched areas of the world so we want to welcome you just welcome them one more time let's do that we want to welcome you it's a joy to have you here and if this ministry has blessed you we're going to ask you to be faithful tonight as well we love you all right let me pray over this offering father in jesus name we thank you we thank you lord for how good you've been to us and now we ask you to bless your people as we give directly to you from hearts filled with love now bless your people bless every pastor here bless every local church that's worried about closing its doors every business that has closed its doors or is worried about it do a miracle father protect your people in this hour shield them and bless them and let the gospel go forth at a rate that it never has in these last days in jesus name amen amen okay you can rush the buckets if you'd like and uh or you can there's the info there on the screen love you guys see in a minute [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] if [Music] oh [Music] oh are you guys ready you ready to receive communion how many of you do not have communion elements can you help me joel please how many of you do not have the elements okay if you need elements keep your hands up ushers please i do need some too babe could you help me orion thank you oh what a precious time what a holy holy time all right if you still do not have the elements would you keep we got one right here oh we've got three four all right just keeps growing all right see them guys yeah just keep your hands up please until you have gotten the elements i want every staff member i want the guys in the sound booth i want all of us as one family coming together now in communion all of us thank you jesus i said thank you jesus thank you lord hallelujah is right thank you lord for your goodness i want to read from the amplified [Music] thank you father take your bibles to luke 22. it's a very holy so what i like to do before i receive communion is prepare my heart and settle my heart you know the world is so loud and busy and moving i i want to be still in this moment the scripture says be still psalm 46 10 and know that i am the lord know that i am god so let's just quiet our hearts right now in his presence the bible says in luke 22 14 when the hour had come jesus reclined at the table and the apostles with him he said to them i have earnestly wanted to eat this passover with you before i suffer for i say to you i will not eat it again until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of god and when he had taken a cup and given thanks he said take this and share it among yourselves for i say to you i will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the kingdom of god comes when he had taken bread and given thanks he broke it and gave it to them saying this is my body which is broken or given for you do this in remembrance of me and in the same way he took the cup after they had eaten saying this cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood but listen the hand of the one betraying me is with mine on the table for indeed the son of man is going as it has been determined but whoa to that man by whom he is betrayed and handed over i want you to imagine the lord about to die yet he still has the presence of heart to eagerly desire the celebration of this meal notice we never do this prior to the gospel being preached because this meal is set aside for the family of god it's not that our heart is to exclude if anything we want the whole world to be born again right but this meal is for the people of jesus paul goes on to say that we take it in an unworthy manner he said for that reason not discerning the body and blood of the lord jesus which you cannot do unless you're born again doing that paul writes many are sick and have fallen asleep among you in other words many become sick and die because of the way they handle communion this is a very holy thing so on the positive end if taking it in an unworthy way causes that type of suffering my question is what comes to those who take communion and do discern it and have been made worthy by the blood of jesus not by themselves amen this is the glorious privilege the eucharist is what the early church called it and what what must much of the church calls communion has for the last 2000 years it's really only in the last 500 years that certain churches did not receive this every time the church gathered it's my opinion this is just my opinion that one not the only but one of the reasons the church is so sick is because it does not obey the command of the lord whereas jesus said do this often in remembrance of me i don't think the church receives enough communion it's my opinion we have received think of this we have made teachings and sermon series more valuable than the covenant meal and i believe and by the way the covenant meal unlocks everything those sermon series are all about so you're going to notice here we receive communion a lot often because the bible says to do it but this meal for millennia has been the centerpiece of the church's gathering or what obviously the presence of god is but this meal has been a core nucleus a magnetic nucleus by which the church has gathered for thousands of years there is power in the covenant meal because there is power in communion and there is power in the covenants amen very just let me just finish and then we're going to receive what power is in communion what what is what are the benefits of the covenant well let me ask you this what power is in jesus because he is our covenant i said he is our covenant isaiah 49 says the father says to the son i will give you as a covenant to them so jesus is our covenant ultimately the covenant is not a contract on paper it is a person and that covenant is sealed with the third person of the trinity the holy spirit himself so what what what awaits us in the covenant well what awaits us in christ everything you need i said everything you need for those who are struggling emotionally tonight with anxiety fear hopelessness oppression depression all of that can leave in a moment as you receive the body and blood of jesus tonight in a moment i said in a moment those of you who've received a negative report from the doctor the body and blood of jesus is more powerful the bible says who hath believed the report of the lord say amen with me if your heart is not on fire come to the table tonight and let jesus light you up again amen this is a treasure you might say i love michael's teaching nothing listen the presence of jesus is more valuable than my teaching series please say amen to that one all right so tonight the scripture says that we should examine ourselves we should come before the lord don't you feel him already it's he's he's entering and the best thing you can do is what i like to do is offer my heart to the lord jesus and allow his presence that is the light of the spirit to shine on my heart on the depths of who i am and i want to give him full access to challenge me at the core of my being to point anything out that he would like to this is what it means to allow yourself to be examined so holy spirit come on just lift your hands to heaven shine your light on us we bring everything into the light tonight we bring everything into the light tonight as we have fellowship with you and each other cleanse our sin our motives our ways for those of you at home get the elements out receive communion with us pray the same prayer now lord forgive our sin wash us and cleanse us the bible says you knoweth our frame that we are but dust forgive us lord we are weak and in need of a savior we declare that again tonight lord your word says that this is your body given to us let's lift the bread your word says and when he had taken bread and given thanks he broke it and gave it to them he you gave your body to us on that cross you gave your body to us on that whipping post you gave your body to us when they mocked you and scourged you and crowned you with thorns you gave your body away your word says that you are the bread who comes down from heaven so we lift this bread tonight high and we break it because you were broken now father i pray that as we receive your body the life-giving healing power of the holy spirit will flow through every person now wants you all to receive the body of jesus in faith right now let every sickness die under the sound of my voice in jesus name receive receive thank you father thank you for the bread of life in the same manner he took the cup after they had eaten this cup he said which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood this is the new covenant in my blood you said lord you are our covenant you are eternal this is the greatest covenant you will never leave us forsake us we'll be with you forever you will protect us you've redeemed us justified us made us right in your eyes cleansed us lord in one day we'll even put on a new body delivered from weakness so that we can stand in your glory and worship forever oh thank you lord thank you for the blood i plead the blood over every family represented in this room and watching online every family every person i plead the blood by faith by faith by faith we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony i testify tonight it is my testimony it is our testimony that jesus died shed his blood and overcame that he is king in the name of jesus we lift the cup because you bled as you were lifted on the tree and we received the cup tonight thank you for the cleansing of our sins the protection of the blood and for the power of the blood in our lives in jesus name amen let's receive it hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus just continue to worship him thank you jesus and the bible says that after they receive communion they begin to worship i want us all to just very gently stand dom are you here come and i just i just want us to worship i want us to do the old the old alleluia chorus and just begin to close your eyes right now let's just bless the lord [Music] praise you lord [Music] you [Music] oh [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] jesus there's a lady i keep singing dom softly you guys keep worshiping keep worshiping very gently there's a lady watching there's a lady watching i see your bottom jaw you've either got a decay issue and your teeth or there's an issue in your gums or right here in the front having your jaw if that's you i want you to comment on the feed right now keep blessing him guys in here keep blessing the lord if that's you i want you to comment on the feed and say that's me father in jesus name with your healing power go forth heal that lady in jesus name the power of the covenant flow the power of your body and blood flow thank you jesus there's somebody else uh here in the room you've had pain it goes all the way down the side of your leg all the way down from top to bottom but it's on the outer the outside thank you jesus keep blessing the lord thank you lord if you've had pain that goes from top to bottom on the outside of your leg i just want you to lift your hand lift your head and wave wave at me move your hands yep there's a lady there is there anyone else father in jesus name keep singing guys if you're around that lady right there i just want you to stretch your hand towards her stretch your hand if you came with her and she's okay with it put your hand on her now father in jesus name we curse that pain we command it to go command it to go in the name of jesus christ commanded to leave you the power of the body and blood of the lord jesus make you whole we rebuke that pain right now in jesus name thank you father i give you praise somebody have scar tissue in the abdomen you have some scar tissue in the abdomen i don't know why i don't even know if it hurts i just see scar tissue there if that's you lift your hand lift your hand and wave i need your hand to wave there put your hand there on your belly there's another one there if if you came with them i want you to put your hand on them if they're okay with that put your hand on them father in the name of jesus christ we curse it all command all the complications the scar tissue to go now in jesus name right now go go right now thank you jesus for your healing power somebody hurt their tailbone you have a tailbone issue here in the room you hurt your tailbone lift your head i just need to see your hands move i need to see that move right there is that you you had a tailbone you heard it father in jesus name let your healing power flow it's a healing power flow [Music] lord i thank you now for anyone here listen anyone here keep singing softly unless you need a healing i just want you to stop for a moment if you do not i want you to keep singing if you came in tonight with an emotional issue or a physical issue of any kind this is what i heard the lord say before the service tell the people to give their sickness to me to give it to leave it to leave it tonight to leave it in the room just offer it to the lord so ms kuhlman used to say give the lord your body and he will gladly heal it if you have an issue i want you by faith right now to put your hand on that part of your body wherever that sickness is if it's on your mind it's in your thoughts put it there if it's a broken heart softly place off it if it's a broken heart put your hand there on your heart keep singing keep singing put your hand right there on your heart [Music] now if you came with that person and they're okay with it i want you to put your hand on them on their shoulder just to agree with them just to agree with them lord you said if two or three would agree if we would agree touching anything you would do it sing softly down now father in jesus name we thank you for your healing power in this room and by your stripes we are healed thank you jesus for your body and blood your word says that there were none feeble among them when they left israel so in jesus name every single person's body healed some of you had actually had a weight on your mind you felt like a physical weight on your head and even on your neck i rebuke it tonight in the name of jesus christ the name above every name i rebuke every lying devil every spirit every spirit of oppression i command to leave now in the name of jesus christ of nazareth i want the team praying in tongues all the whole team in the name of jesus christ of nazareth i rebuke every spirit of oppression every spirit of anxiety every spirit of infirmity every spirit of depression leave now in the name of the lord jesus i plead the blood the blood is against you the cross is against you the word of god is against you you've been rendered powerless by the cross of christ leave the people now chronic illness go now in jesus name some of you have been suffering with it for decades you thought it's just the way it is in jesus name i rebuke that illness now that spirit of infirmity goes it goes in jesus name it goes in jesus name it goes in jesus name it goes in jesus name every lying devil [Music] every lying devil goes now be free be free in jesus name thank you don just keep playing behind me hallelujah now just lift your hands to heaven receive your healing i'm telling you it's as simple as getting rained on right now [Music] just to receive it just receive it like a little child let your heart drink of the lord's presence it's as simple as receiving the rain as simple as receiving the rain hallelujah hallelujah and i want you to do something you could not do i want you to do something you could not do before i don't want you to look for your sickness i don't want you to glorify and focus on it i want you to look for your healing trusting jesus as the great healer of your body i want you to begin to move i want you to begin to move and as you feel a change in your body i just want you to lift your hands to heaven i want the team praying in tongues i want the team bring it down i just want you to begin to lift your hands and wave at me as you feel a change in your body it's not me there we go it's not me now i want if the lord has healed you i want you to go like this i just want you to wave like this yep look at look at them look at them thank you father thank you give the lord praise thank you father thank god now now now now i want everyone to quickly sit down just very quickly let's follow the holy spirit keep playing behind me guys i want the team to continue to pray the whole team praying in tongues [Music] everybody here on the front row just praying in tongues just softly dull only just just very softly [Music] if the lord healed you during communion or when we prayed i want you to wave at me i want you away from me okay okay ryan i'm gonna need you cause when we start the testimonies are gonna keep going this young man right here can yeah what happened to you not a nodule in my lungs 1.3 centimeters and what happened tonight no i don't know if it went away but i did you feel the difference in your body i did what did it feel like peace no pain i didn't have pain but i mean i i feel my body's better you feel like something changed in your body yeah you know the bible says that the woman with the issue of blood felt it dry up within her felt it dried up within her there is a knowing thank you claim come on give the lord praise thank you jesus who else many of you raised your hand who else had your hands up there's one right there oh dear katrina how are you doing i'm doing what happened what happened so i've been playing tennis and i really hurt my wrists and also um with piano and yesterday i was looking up uh just wrist braces because i've been having so many issues with it and i came in tonight just in pain and we prayed and i'm healed totally pain-free yeah i was in a lot of pain so thank you thank you father yeah over here go over there ryan you look like a bank robber look at us running around like uh yosemite sam what happened oh you just got saved tonight yay what happened so i've always had like knee pain like since i was like 15 years old and i kind of just had faith and i was like lord okay then you know just heal me right here and then for a little bit as i was praying and giving it to him i just kind of did this and it wasn't hurting anymore and i was like how long have you oh my goodness how long have you been in pain since 15. since 15. how old do you know i am about to be 21. wow six years and tonight it left come on come on in jesus name thank you father come on there were others wait wait wait there were others one right here one right here ryan what happened so i forgot that i had wrist pain i slipped on water and like landed on my wrist and i in 2017 and whenever she said that she was having wrist pain i was like oh yeah i have a wrist problem so i was like moving it and i don't have any pain in my wrist how long have you had pain i've had it since 2017. every day yeah and so today's the first day you haven't had it since 2017. wow thank you jesus you are worthy of all praise you are worthy oh come on give the lord praise we got one over there ryan you see you have to prove to the lord that you're grateful and then he keeps moving go ahead what happened ma'am well uh yesterday i had a real bad swelling in my foot it was just mysterious no pain no accident nothing and i have had arthritis in my knees and while i was worshiping my um left leg from my foot up to my knee started moving up here started really hurting and when you started um oh wait so you had pain although i i did and when you started calling out healing i knew you were going to say that and i was wondering if i'm really going to get a touch and i i've been doing this all night and i finally it's completely healed wow so yeah did you did you walk in with swelling with what did you walk in with swelling uh yeah i still have a i kept looking down at my foot and it's uh the swelling's way down there's still a little there but i'm leaving for it to be gone all right all right everyone just stretch your hands towards her father we thank you for what you've done now in jesus name let your glory and power flow precious jesus through her body and remove all the swelling all the inflammation come upon her in your beauty jesus there's no one like you no one comes in the room with such love so in jesus name swelling go down for the glory of the name jesus amen now check your leg check it again thank you father still there still there it's all the pain gone all the pain how bad was the pain like it was it was pretty bad um right after how much has the swelling gone down the swelling it's in my foot it's gone down it's it's gone down more than when i came probably about half so that's amazing yeah thank you jesus come on thank you jesus now can you are you pain free now yeah i have no pain and how long how long has it been since you were pain-free um since you called out the healing in the no but i mean like how long have you been suffering oh gosh um for a few years so is tonight the first night where you feel a pain relief yeah i mean i was um i felt no pain for a while you know uh over the years but then it returned so you walked in you walked it's been bad again and you walked in in pain i walked in in pain yeah my knees and everything there you have no pain in hurting and the swelling's gone down by half thank you father thank you come on come on come on do you have a growth if you have a growth on your body of any kind like a tumor or a cyst i just want you to put your hand where that is right now [Music] thank you father and just just give me a pat joel and just fill the room up with it all right if you have a growth or a cyst or a tumor of any kind benign or malignant i want you to put your hand there heavenly father come on everyone in the front agree with me everybody behind me agree with me heavenly father you are the god of wonders i give you glory and honor we command these growths to go down and die we command every tumor to die we command every cyst to die in the name of jesus christ of nazareth the name above every name the lord rebuke you in jesus name amen amen now there were others who had their hands up i want to get to a couple more and if you found that a growth has gone down or is gone you go ahead and interrupt this go ahead there were others who had their hands up get ryan's attention did you get healed buddy come here wow what happened benny um i've had really bad pain in like my quads and then they stopped hurting as much which is and he really really has he's had to go to the doctor and uh it's been a big deal yeah buddy so is it all gone um most of it's gone like it doesn't hurt as bad when did it happen um when we were praying wow that's incredible come on thank you jesus thank you lord yeah one more ryan okay get over there ryan get over there no no keep going yeah the lady the lady we'll we'll take both and we'll take both i keep going ryan ryan yep they're both in yellow so we'll take them both that must be prophetic go ahead so two tuesdays ago it will be this tuesday will be two tuesdays ago i ruptured my um tendon and my hip oh wow or pulled it extremely or something and it was just a miracle that i was walking anyway and then tonight it was bothering me when i came in i was actually came with a bit of a limp and you said it someone that had pain down your leg well that caused pain to go down to my knee on the outside yes on the outside i mean even to touch it was painful wow and all the pain is gone thank you jesus come on thank you lord another yellow shirt that means something it really doesn't but thank you lord what happened well so i didn't necessarily have pain um a few years back i suffered with seizures wow and um one of the symptoms that i knew that i was about to have seizure was memory loss and whenever i would move my jaw i would start twitching and i remember when we were taking the communion out of nowhere i went blank and once i took the communion it was almost like memories that i forgot that i started to remember started coming back and so i'm actually wow in the process of joining the military and last year around october was the last time that i had a seizure i wish it could have happened today but what i remember was i was in my bedroom and i remember i laid hands on my head and i spoke against the spirit i called it out by epilepsy and ever since that day i haven't had one seizure now since that day it's almost like the enemy started attacking me harder and it was through my family and it was through depression it was through the people that had hurt me and by taking communion today it was something that you said earlier today and i think people probably didn't catch on but i did you said something related to how one of the issues with the church could be a root with the communion and they're not taking it enough and they're not taking it seriously so many people want deliverance but they're picking at the fruits and not at the root if they're not getting to the roots their deliverance is not going to take place so i hear the word of the lord coming through right now for all those who came here purposely for deliverance the word of the lord is you need to give it over to god and you need to forgive whoever you need to be forgiving because a lot of times unforgiveness it builds into a sin and that sin then cultivates your body and manifests itself in a way where now you've allowed that sin to dictate what happens with your life you've completely removed god's covering from your life so i've learned that in order for me had to been delivered i had to what did you feel in communion tonight i feel like i could remember everything i could write something down wow remember it wow thank you jesus wow thank you lord thank you jesus let's all stand up and give the lord praise come on jesus thank you thank you jesus thank you jesus all right grab a seat did anybody feel a growth or a cyst or a tumor of any kind go away completely or shrink in size the reason i'm saying that is because we were that these testimonies came back uh we started to share these thank you guys you're fine go ahead we started to share these in the back and we had a meeting in cleveland where that that was literally 80 of the testimonies were tumors and gross that had dissolved oh jesus all right all right take your bibles quickly i'm not going to keep you late how many of you enjoyed last week's message okay i'm only going to preach about 25 of what i preached last week um holy spirit come on lift your hands to heaven holy spirit speak to us cut us open sear us on the inside in jesus name amen thank you joel joel you're a good man you're a good man take your bibles to john chapter 4. you know i'm i want you to hear me and i oh man these days you say something it's it's out there so it's like you jump off the cliff and you've eternally taken the jump i'm i'm concerned i'm i'm encouraged and uh about america i think uh uh carla how many people alone yesterday registered for jesus 20 a thousand people just yesterday just yesterday you didn't give the lord praise [Applause] you would be if you were hosting it a lot of faith goes into that stuff you're like all right anybody got if you you're more than welcome to pay for the whole event i promise you i think last year was almost 900 thousand dollars y'all are and they're all dancing getting upset that we received an offering all right that was my lead-in all right i'm encouraged by what's happening in america i'm also concerned about what's happening in the west uh within the church context i expect the world to be crazy and really i feel like not everywhere let me just be really really clear not everywhere but in many of our american non-denominational environments we're a mile wide and an inch deep we're a mile wide in reach but we're an inch deep in relationship and that concerns me it concerns me because uh the environments we uh say are dead many of them have been around for 1500 to 2000 years and what we tend to glory in is for the most part untested in america but is now just beginning to be tested so just give me a few minutes and and try not to move while i'm teaching the word okay uh i'm 43 believe it or not i know you guys thought i was 23. i know i get it i get it some of my eyes play tricks on me too guys so i uh i'm 43 and uh for those of you who know i know i grew up playing competitive golf that's what i did it's all i knew from the age of five um you know most of my summers were looking back i mean pretty gosh i don't know how i did it i mean literally 12 to 14 hour days many of the days and it's just what i did and and um so i played at the university of florida who at the time they were ranked number one in america division one and uh it was a real honor and my coach regardless of whether i won a huge event which i think at one time i'm sure my parents are watching i don't know i guess i think i won like 36 or 30 something i don't remember i was too young i just winning was just what we did so you know now that's not acceptable i guess winning is a bad thing but now everyone gets a trophy it's like man you know you can just you don't even have to play you get mvp it's like they got all kinds of awards cleanest cleats awards all this stuff and i don't think that's good i think it's honestly i think it's crushing a generation like when i grew up you won or you went home and cried and that's that worked for me you know it worked worked for tiger worked for jordan different combo different combo so whether i won a national championship or whatever my coach always checked like four or five things the next time he worked with me in a lesson so if i played horrible or i won a national event he checked my grip he checked my posture he checked my alignment he checked my ball position every time every single time i promise you that if tiger went to get a lesson from one of his coaches is that a few over the years regardless of who they were i guarantee you all of them even at tiger's level after winning the masters they would have checked grip posture alignment ball position every time now being 43 i am no longer a professional golfer i play once a week on the golf course i do get out with with my kids and mess around a little bit on the range but at this age at 43 you're supposed to get weak you're you lose a lot of testosterone evidently i'm doing good so i don't know i don't know just keep it moving keep it moving all right you're supposed to get really weak you're supposed to not hit the ball far you're supposed to lose your killer instinct you're supposed to slowly play worse and worse but i'm getting better and better in fact i think i would have destroyed the call the the the michael who who was playing for for the gators i'm hitting it further i'm hitting it better i don't think i've shot when's the last time i shot over par for 18 holes huh like a month or two ago i'm shooting you know 70s 68s 69s i mean i'm playing good golf and i thought the other day oh my gosh what my coach taught me in the beginning is lasting me a lifetime the fundamentals of the game have given me longevity i'm concerned that the goalpost is so moved that when the church is resisted buckles my job as a pastor i'm feeling this it's increasing more and more my job as a pastor is not as a pastor as a pastor it's not to make you feel good all the time though that's important it's legal to enjoy the lord's presence but my job in many ways and my dream for you is to see you finish the race more in love with jesus than when you began so i am thinking now as far as building you up in the faith i am thinking now with the end in mind for you are you hearing me so i am aware that everyone here will stand before the judgment seat everyone i am aware that the world will continue to oppose the church paul wrote that the god of this world has blinded them speaking of the unbelievers so the enemy is still the prince of the air now while jesus has purchased and has ascended to the right hand of the father as king of all he is king of the earth are you ready because it's about to rev up really quick i can feel the lord going i'm ready to run in the room come on all right he is king of the earth jesus is king of the earth he is going to inherit the nations and he is inheriting them now jesus is king of the church jesus is king of the jews still he is still king of israel hallelujah but he is not the king of the world system the system of the world and the earth are very different and what i'm sensing happening right now this is what's going on i'm watching it you don't even need to sense it you just need to watch is that the ways of the world that the devil himself realizes that the only force opposing him is the presence of jesus in his church now jesus said i will build my church upon the revelation that he is the christ the son of the living god he said i will put my church upon that revelation and the gates of hell will not prevail against it however he also said that a house divided against itself will crumble it cannot last the devil is attempting to infuse worldly mixture into the precious bride of christ who is called to worship with purity turn your bibles to john 4 24. look look this whole thing's got to crumble and god is destroying it i'm talking about within the church how in the world did who cares if you are or are not a celebrity pastor who who gives a rip who cares if you are or are not a well-known worship leader that is not god's measuring stick well all right john 4 24 god is spirit and those who worship him must worship in spirit this is jesus talking and truth say this the more truthful i am the more of his spirit i experience the more spirit i experience the more truth i experience spirit and truth go hand in hand philippians 3 3. for we are the circumcision in other words he's saying our hearts have been circumcised for we are the circumcision who worship god in the spirit rejoice in christ jesus and have no confidence in the flesh none none say this origin is everything the enemy listen carefully now let's find a seat the enemy is after your worship and you don't need his name to be in a song to do that listen up now you just need to sing hymns the devil's way let me say it another way you just need to sing christian songs the devil's way i'll get into that in a moment what do i mean by that it's possible to lead worship to be a preacher to go to church to live a life supposedly of worship and make it all about you i'm not sure there are two things more opposite each other i'm sure there are but there are few things more opposite of one another than self-exaltation and worship do you know why so many people are offended in church settings one of the reasons is because you ready they don't get what they want so you walk into god's house thinking god's house exists to launch you or god's house exists to to let the world finally see how anointed we are and so we come up with ideologies like i want to go where i am celebrated not tolerated oh yeah that's a good one i've heard that one a few times we want to go where our anointing is honored or valued but the only issue with that is it's not your anointing it's his anointing and if somebody's really anointed oh you know trust me you know i mean there's can i be family with you there's big money in the worship game big money you just write a song and make sure you write it so that people sing it it's got to be the right length too because you know studies show people won't sing for more than four minutes and 20 seconds so we have to write songs that match the people's ability to sing and that would generate ratings and all the while rather than singing to the lord i'm singing to people isaiah 14 turn to verse 3. give me 10 more minutes and the sound of your stringed instruments the maggot is spread under you and worms cover you how you are falling from heaven oh lucifer son of the morning how you are cut down to the ground you who weakened the nations are the nations being weakened right now you better believe they are for you've said in your heart now you're going to discover the nature of the devil himself for you said in your heart i will ascend into heaven i listen to this word you're going to look for two words here i will i will ascend into heaven i will exalt my throne above the stars of god i will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north speaking of the lord's abode i will ascend above the heights of the clouds now you'll try but only jesus has done that eternally i will be like the most high yet you shall be brought down to sheol to the lowest depths of the pit though those who see you will gaze at you and consider you saying is this the one who made the earth tremble in other words it was you so judged will he be eternally that those in the underworld will look and go wait you you're the one who made the earth tremble verse 16 who shook kingdoms who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities that's happening who did not open the house of his prisoners in other words he kept them captive all the kings of the nations all of them sleep in glory everyone in his own house but you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch abominable branch like the garment of those who are slain thrust through with a sword who go down to the stones of the pit like a corpse trodden under foot you will not be joined with them in burial because you have destroyed your land and slain your people the brood of vipers shall never the brood of evildoer shall never be named prepare slaughter for his children because of the iniquity of their fathers lest they rise up and possess the land and fill the and fill the face of the world with cities i will ascend that is the heart of the enemy me in other words i'm preaching look at me i am leading look at me open my door clean my shoes do my clothes look at me i am the one serve me look at me bless me follow me like me comment about me only if it's nice this is the heart posture of the devil himself if you want to lead like lucifer make it about you ezekiel 28 ezekiel 28. is this boring you you need it so do i ezekiel 28 1 the word of the lord came to me again saying son of man say to the prince of tyre thus says the lord god the prince of tyre here is the enemy because your heart is lifted up and you say i'm a god i sit in the seat of the gods in the midst of the seas yet you are not a god a man though you set your heart as the heart of a god behold you are wiser than daniel there is no secret that can be hidden from you with your wisdom and your understanding you have gained riches from with yourself from yourself and gather gold and silver into your treasures listen up but your great wisdom in trade by your great wisdom and trade you have increased your riches and your heart is lifted up because of your riches this is so this is so important i want you to skip i want you to go all the way to verse 11. moreover the word of the lord came to me saying son of man take up a lamentation for the king of tyre and say to him thus says the lord god listen up you were the seal of perfection this is speaking of the enemy you were full of wisdom and perfect beauty you were in eden the garden of god every precious stone was your covering the enemy was made of precious stones and here they are sardius topaz diamond barrel onyx jasper sapphire turquoise and emerald with gold he was constructed externally with jewels the workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created many theologians and bible teachers believe that the inner construct of lucifer were literally musical instruments timbrels and pipes in other words some would even teach that he didn't even have to play them he just needed to move and worship flowed so you ask yourself tonight why is the enemy wanting to pollute worship because he gets it some have gone as far to say some bible teachers that he was heaven's worship leader let's keep reading you were the anointed cherub who covers i established you in other words he was a cherub a high-ranking angel and an archangel the only being angelically that is mentioned in both of those offices as a cherub and an archangel and his ministry was to cover now we learn where he covered you were on the holy mountain of god you walked back and forth in the midst of the fiery stones you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created it was the anointed cherub that covered he understands listen carefully heaven's culture he knows what goes on in the throne room his being was filled with sound and worship and music and all he had to do was move an inch in this direction and the most glorious worship flowed from his being he was perfect it says you were perfect in your ways from the day you were created until look at verse 15 iniquity was found in you say iniquity iniquity is inner sin say in all right i'm going somewhere now we discover now we discover how he was corrupted within look at the beginning of verse 16 by the abundance of your trading or merchandising by the abundance of your trading you became filled with violence within and you sinned therefore i cast you as a profane thing out of the mountain of god and i destroyed you o covering cherub from the midst of the fiery stones he was cast out of the throne room your heart was lifted up because of your beauty you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of splendor i cast you to the ground i laid you before kings that they might gaze at you listen you defiled your sanctuaries what happens in sanctuaries say worship how did he defile himself iniquity was found in him how did that manifest making merchandise of what is holy god using us is not a career choice it's interesting to me how i'm just being real with you how many preachers come into this setting saying i just want to be in the presence of god oh it's so beautiful what's happening here we're we just love being here i just want to be in the presence of god and then a couple months go by and they are never preaching or leading a song and then all of a sudden they're gone preachers need to realize again that church was not made for them we worship jesus because he is glorious we never worship jesus so that something can happen we don't even worship jesus so we'll get healed we worship jesus because he's glorious the thought that worshipping jesus helps make other stuff happen while it does the motive is still off you see we don't even worship jesus so that people will get saved people get saved so they can worship jesus do you understand the enemy was found to make the sanctuaries about him and he found a way to merchandise and that's a completely different teaching to merchandise what was sacred as heavens possibly as heaven's worship leader oh i could go on that don't leave me matthew 4 8. finally the devil took jesus to a very high mountain he showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory if you bow down and worship me he said i will give you all of this and jesus said to him get away from me satan it is written worship the lord your god he is the only one you should serve i want you to think of this for a moment did the devil know i was just talking about this with my father along the way here did the devil know all of the grand wisdom in the death and sacrifice of jesus say no okay but did he want him dead it was as if he knew because remember he had he was the anointed cherub who covered for possibly billions of years now the second person of the godhead that he was aware of in glory is now in a body that's why you hear demons crying out going son of man have you come son of david to torment us they knew something was up in other words why are you here the devil knew enough to go i worshiped i worshiped the word with a capital w for like three billion years now he's here something's got to be going on okay i don't know i don't like him healing all of these people he has complete control and authority over demonic power we've got to get rid of him and he began to catch on we don't know how but began to catch on and you see peter all of a sudden use of the devil to keep attempt to keep jesus from dying the death of the cross and this is what happened here jesus hasn't eaten for 40 days he has not rested and the devil shows up and the final temptation which were real temptations by the way the final temptation was i will take you on a high mountain you say michael how did that happen we don't know the bible doesn't tell us we have our theories but we don't know the enemy takes jesus up this mountain and shows him every kingdom in the world every nation every kingdom and he says these are mine to give you you can have them all if you'll just worship me were they all to give the devil stole those nations from adam they were his to give how long were they his i don't want to get into the theology of this but just let's just keep it simple let's just for the sake of simplicity let's say from the time of adam until that point it was four thousand years i don't want to go into what happened prior to that i'm starting with adam so conservatively four thousand years of owning the nations he's willing to give it all up for a moment of worship from jesus that's how bad he wants your worship he's saying i will give up everything i have just for a second of your worship what does the enemy offer today it's the same stuff here's the world if you'll just worship me and wear a christian name tag if you'll just worship me and wear a jesus image t-shirt what does the antichrist force humanity to do worship the image what is the devil hungry for worship he wants you to worship him you don't necessarily have to sing him a song you can just sing how great thou art while in your heart you think it actually means how great i am remember that old song i exalt thee we sing it tonight some people think it means i exalt me this thing's not about us give me two more minutes i have never once just will tell you this has never been about crowds not for a second never once i'm still shocked you come every sunday i am shocked you show up i go oh my god they came again i can't believe it really it happened to me today they came again oh my gosh but the church the church in america has made church about the likings of people because leaders are valuing the affirmation of people above the affirmation of god so if you show up i'm good at what i do if you don't show up i'm horrible at what i do but what does it mean if you show up and god doesn't that means i'm bad at what i do that's what that means let me end with this passage jesus says in matthew 12 either make the tree good and its fruit good or make the tree bad and its fruit bad for the tree is recognized this is matthew 12 33-37 the tree is recognized and judged by its fruit you brew to vipers listen to this how do you speak good things when you are evil for the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart the good man from his inner good treasure brings out good things and the evil man from his inner evil treasure brings out evil things but i tell you on the day of judgment people listen to this gosh this is this is sobering but i tell you on the day of judgment people will have to give an account for every careless or useless word they speak you better say wow if doesn't wow you you're dead inside i'm serious because if that doesn't wow you you're you maybe you don't even think this is real i'm just going to give an account for adultery if you're going to give an account for every word ever spoken it doesn't even have to be a curse word or gossip it just needs to be careless and idle let me let me give you the 20 20 version of that saying stuff that you don't mean that doesn't really flow from your heart if i feel the anointing on certain songs and and i don't on others i'll instantly want to know who wrote it where did it come from who was involved in it what was it born out of did it come from a heart that meant what it wrote because if it didn't an account will be given for by your words you'll be justified listen and acquitted of the guilt of sin and by your words you'll be condemned and sentenced this is a big deal preaching what you don't mean is a big deal singing what you don't mean is a big deal talking in a way that doesn't reflect the heart is a big deal the reason alleluia works still is because it came out of an encounter the reason i exalt thee works today proven to work because god fills the room it's because it came out of an encounter with god you come out of an encounter with god it flows with authenticity therefore it is spirit and truth if it's not authentic it is not truth and the devil is trying to get the church to worship him that way sing about what you don't mean and then just hope everyone just looks at you while you're doing it do you think jesus is more interested in the lyrics or the motive lyrics matter make no bones about it but you can have the wrong the right lyrics and sing it for the wrong reason and the people might sing it and they might download it and it might get a bunch of views but i'm telling you right now it will not make it into eternity it will burn up like wood hand stubble this is bridal worship notice that the bride i read it to you last week i promise i'll shut up notice that the bride sang the song of the lamb and then it says this and went everywhere the lamb went she wrote about him because she walked with him she didn't want to go anywhere without him if he took a left she went with him if he went right she went with him if he stopped and was still she stayed still she refused to go on without him so he became her song because that's all she knew that is the heartbeat of this end time company of jesus worshipers you're playing your instrument it's got to be unto jesus period i remember when i was a kid not a kid yeah maybe i don't remember i just remember being young and now somebody came into one of jesse's dad's crusades a famous vocalist and oh my gosh the just of the number of requests and they weren't even requests they were just demands down to the the everything you name it and then and then behind this stage the person used foul language so the crusade director picked up the phone and said hey pastor benny so and so wants this and that he goes put them on the next flight they are not taking the platform we need that again we need that again because all of this is more important than me it's bigger than me it's got to remain that way jesus is raising up bridal worshipers i want you to lift your hands right now and say lord teach me teach me teach me teach me to be pure i want to worship in purity say this i want to worship out loud i want to worship in spirit and in truth say deliver me lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil i want to worship in spirit and truth i want to go wherever you go i want to worship you and you alone in jesus name stand your feet father i pray just receive this blessing father i pray in the name of jesus christ of nazareth that you would touch your people and keep them and cleanse them keep them to the end strengthen them bless them this week to live a victorious powerful christian life in jesus name amen quickly before you go two announcements the sunday night following jesus 20 we are meeting at it's it's on right okay we're getting a bigger location for that night because so many people coming in so you need to stay posted and and then lastly be on time some of you are rolling in after six because we sing for a long time the reason you come here is because you need to sing for a long time that's why you like coming here now listen here's what's going to happen right now our students are in the overflow to make room for you guys what i'm doing is if you don't show up on time instead of our students who many have moved in from out of town sitting in the overflow so that you can have their seats they're gonna get your seats so you need to be here at 5 55 if you want the latest if you want seats amen say michael loves me i know it baptisms are next week god bless you we'll see you next week

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