Rev. Wade Bass // Wed PM // 04/28/2021

blue to the skies [Music] [Music] foreign this way sometimes [Music] [Music] [Music] is foreign a dream [Music] [Applause] i this is so down praise the lord everybody it's church time it's time to give god the praise it's time to go ahead and just go ahead and just shake off the world and just to go ahead and magnify the king of kings and lord of lords let's stand lord we love you and adore you and yes we magnify your name we're so honored to be in your presence tonight hallelujah if there's anybody that has a need a physical need a a a healing that you need a a a spiritual knee raise your hands we want to see you yes yes yes go ahead and turn to the neighbors that's closest to you and stretch your hands and let's go ahead and pray over them father in the name of the lord jesus christ we just want to thank you for answered prayer god there are many needs that are in here god that need to be taking place healings god financial miracles and breakthroughs mending together the broken pieces and tonight is the night for you god to show yourself mighty and show yourself strong in the lives of these people hallelujah and so we rejoice god because of the ancient prayers that you're giving your people in jesus name amen [Music] lifted us out of the graveyard [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] daughters [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] daughters [Music] [Applause] is [Music] forgiven [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] to the one who said be glory and honor for all our days with our hands and our voices raised [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i wish that somebody would continue to give the lord a handcuff of praise i would think somebody would continue to lift up their voice and give god a kind of faith if he rescued you and saved you you want to give him some faith oh we can play the miracle working god we play the living god we pray the healing god [Music] in jesus name in jesus name it feels good in the presence of the lord god bless you you may be seated just to make you aware of what is up and coming tomorrow morning we have men's prayer at 6 30 and then breakfast to follow that and then tomorrow evening we have pre-teen prayer at i believe 6 30 it might be seven if you have any questions regarding that timing you can get in touch with brother corey josephson or his wife sister julie vaughn and then this friday night is girls night all the ladies say girls night well it's actually youth girls night so don't just be showing up there is a five dollar entrance fee there is five dollars in order to get in that pace for food as well as any of the supplies that were purchased in lieu of having fun and then this saturday night we have family prayer and uh so that's exciting we're going to be playing from 6 30 to 8 30 in preparation for service on sunday and this sunday we follow our normal sunday schedule we have service at 10 a.m and then a bilingual service at 11 30 a.m and then we also have death service at 11 30 a.m while that is taking place and then sunday evening we have a service with everyone in the same house at 6 00 p.m and then everybody say martha service if you don't know what a martha service is that is a work night service here at seoul's harvard where we come not in church clothes but in work clothes and that will be one week from tonight we will be starting at five o'clock or whenever you get off work just hustle here there will be something that you can do many hand make for light work and so let's make the work light and the us you can go ahead and get in place to receive the offering and let's just pay over this offering lord we thank you so much for all that you have done we pray that you will continue to make a way where there doesn't seem to be a way continue to bless this church in jesus name amen god bless you as you give [Music] you surround me with a song of deliverance from my enemies till all my fears are gone and i'm no longer a slave to fear [Music] i am a child of god i'm no longer a slave to fear oh i am a child of god [Music] from my mother's womb you have chosen me your love has caught my name [Music] and i've been born again into your family your blood [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] from my mother's womb if you have chosen me your love has called my name [Applause] and i've been born again [Music] oh oh [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] i am a [Music] oh [Music] i am [Music] why don't you just lift your hands all across this place don't you just reach for his present just for a moment oh god thank you for meeting us here thank you for showing up thank you for being just what we need oh jesus we love you jesus we worship you hallelujah [Music] all the presence of the lord is here come on if you know that to be true if you can if you can feel him walking walking up and down the aisles if you know he's just to the right or just to the left if you know he's he's right there with you no matter what you're going through no matter what's coming against you if you know he's right there why don't you just lean in for a moment we're gonna move on in just a second but his presence is here his glory is here healing virtue is here [Music] [Applause] [Music] is i am a child of god [Music] i am a child of god [Applause] [Music] hallelujah if you're a child of god why don't you go ahead and lift your hands let the redeemed of the lord say so let the redeemed of the lord say so thank you for setting me free thank you for delivering power hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord what a wonderful presence of the lord is here and the truth of the matter is is there's lots of things that we can do without but his presence is not one of them that's why david after he messed up his prayer was just just don't take your spirit from me if i can get to a place where i can get in the spirit of the lord the truth of the matter is is i can get in the spirit at home i have plenty of times but there's something special about when the body comes together and we as a body come and we rejoice together and we weep together and this week last night a lady that helped raise me i got some stories to tell but sister zappa went on to her reward in heaven we love this wonderful family and um you know there should be a little bit of sadness but there should be more rejoicing than sadness because we're going to meet again on the other side why don't you just lift your hands if you know that to be true if you believe the word of god lord we thank you for that confidence that we have in you we thank you for the confidence that we have in you that you do all things well god i pray that you'll be with the zappa family be with all those god that love her and are close to her god lift them like only you can and lord let there there be a rejoicing even in the sadness let the glory of god be shown in the name of the lord jesus we pray in jesus name in jesus name thank you lord mr zappa's sister's here some people thought sister zappa was here they look so much alike but we want to keep her in prayer of course brother zappa angela i don't know if kim's here or not but the family's here and we want to keep them all in prayer and we love them and uh you know my dad told me a long time ago that uh the truth of matter is until someone actually goes to be with jesus and you know they were living right when they did you it's always a constant job work because we don't you know we don't believe in once saved always saved that's not bible so that means we got to constantly work but once they've made it there's nothing to do but thank god for that they've made it no more sorrow no more pain no more temptation thank you lord so i'm thankful for that we are yes thank you so much brother donnie her services will be uh friday uh and the viewing starts at 10 30 and then the funeral service the going home service is at 12. so 12 o'clock on friday those that are able to if uh if you've ever uh been able to get off for anything this might be something worth getting off for this is family and uh and we want to do all we can to be here and support and show love but our church is is privileged for many reasons but one of them is uh i i've got the privilege of going to family reunions uh and they're at the family reunions my uncle wade was gonna be there and at some point i was gonna get him talking about the bible and then walk away and write everything he said down and not tell anyone that it actually came from him but he is a man that loves the word of god that has preached the word of god around the world and uh he is here and we are celebrating going to be celebrating friday 50 years of marriage and past administering 50 years of and uh so we are we are thankful for that and as you know uh my father and brother bass travel together if you ever go into the uh prayer room and sitting on the old piano the original piano from the old church building you'll see the picture of two young guys and that's these two young guys right here and uh but we're thankful i'm so thankful that he's here to preach the word of god are you ready to lean into the word of god are you ready to receive from the word of god clap your hands one more time let your voice out as he comes to preach the word how can somebody make a joyful noise unto the lord [Applause] amen why don't you be seated just for a few moments i i'm not going to take but just a short amount of time in our opening comments but i'm so delighted to be here and and of course i give honor to pastor and sister barnum and also to the bishop and sister bishop amen both of them would love them very dearly but i'm also happy to have my wife with me tonight amen come on come up here dear and just say a word uh it was 50 years ago that you broke up one of the most famous evangelistic teams of all time and pastor varnam our bishop barnum and i were traveling together and she kind of stuck her foot into the situation and and decided that three was a crowd and she kicked him out and so we're happy so happy to still be working for the kingdom of god together tonight she was the piana player at the time that she married me she played the piano at church she's saying i think she played the organ or the accordion and uh so i stole your piano player 50 years ago and so i'm happy to have her here tonight i wanted to testify amen this is my home church from way back [Applause] i thank god for what he has done for us in just so many different ways i love the work of god and it's just so good to be here tonight and see all of you i don't know most of you so but here i am i love you all she's a woman of few words in front of a crowd but get her alone especially when she's preaching to me and then she gets long-winded but uh i am so thankful to be here and it's great to see the church family again uh whenever you haven't had opportunity uh to be in a church uh very often due to your own schedule traveling extensively then whenever you do get that chance you you think of a thousand and one messages you'd love to preach but then you try to find the right one and i hope i have the right one tonight and i do feel that the lord has given me direction for this service i think you all just celebrated your pastoral anniversary or and how many years 14 years wow i didn't realize that it had been that long but we are happy to be a part of the aftermath of all of that he says 14 years and i think it might be close to 25. and so i i remember back in 1984 when i assumed the pastor of the church in ocala my father began to travel and about six months later he called me and he said son i just don't understand it i said what are you talking about he said i feel better than i have felt he said i'm preaching better than i've ever preached and he just goes on and finally when he pauses i said dad i know and he said well if you know tell me i said you left me with all your problems so some of that was true some of it may not have been true because by that time i had probably already created some of my own problems and we have a way of doing that but it's good to see the church family here tonight and there's such a good atmosphere it is bible study night and so really i don't feel pressured to be an evangelist tonight uh i'm traveling extensively god's doing tremendous things uh i just real quickly give me about two minutes here uh we have been working with some uh groups over in africa and i think i've already mentioned to this church uh about the fact of what god did in the country of zambia but a few nights ago i was talking to the bishop in zambia that we baptized a year and a half ago he has churches in eight different south african nations and he told me about two weeks ago he said bishop bass he said i'm happy to report to you that all of my pastors in all eight different south african nations have all been baptized in the name of jesus christ hallelujah i'm going to tell you what i like that kind of report amen one of the bishops that was actually from the country of malawi that was interpreting while i was teaching on the oneness we were actually called to go over and teach and preach in a trinitarian conference for the purpose of teaching on the godhead and baptism in jesus name and so while i was teaching on the godhead this bishop from malawi was interpreting for me and while he's preaching a message through interpreting for me one he's never preached before in his entire ministry he gets the revelation of the mighty god in christ and so i baptized him and last year alone he baptized 180 people in malawi hallelujah he started three churches he's already started a fourth one this year in the process of starting two more churches he has people waiting on him right now to get to where they are so he can baptize them in the name of the lord i think this year he's already baptized around 50 people so coveted okovid he's still having revival right in the middle of all of what's been going on and and there's so many stories i could tell you uh last summer during uh right the shutdown uh i had a young man from gambia 21 years old to contact me and we got in conversation i gave him a bible study by way of facetime and he saw his need of baptism there's no church in that area to send him to and so i did the only thing i knew to do i sent him out to the water told him to take his phone and i said i want to see you in the water and i want you to hear me on the phone and when i say i baptize you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of your sins i want you to go down in water and he did first virtual baptism i've ever done [Applause] but it worked a few days later i gave him a study on the holy ghost and how to get the holy ghost and what will happen when you get the holy ghost and we had a prayer meeting right then and there and he got the holy ghost on facetime praise god [Applause] and so we've been training him since last august and every week i'm giving him bible studies and working with him uh in developing him it's just amazing what god is doing in his life he's turned 22 years old and there's a lot that i could talk about in regards to that but there's many stories i could tell you all across africa the country of uganda our pastor there baptized not long ago we baptized 67 people in one weekend 12 of them were trinitarian pastors one of them was a trinitarian bishop amen out of that 67 24 of them got the holy ghost [Applause] [Music] hallelujah praise god and there's so many other stories india we had our our pastor in india that we're working with he just baptized two congregations this year already uh a uh he baptized a baptist assembly and he also i think it was a seventh-day adventist assembly took them all out of the water and baptized them in jesus name [Applause] thank god and just tremendous things that god is doing we're excited about the kingdom of god the work of god as a matter of fact uh 50-plus years now of ministry actually probably somewhere around 53 years of actually preaching and i'm i'm more excited today than i've ever been in my life absolutely more excited than i've ever been i refuse to sit with my feet propped up doing nothing amen there's still a fire burning down inside hallelujah and and so as i said there's many many good things that god is doing in many different places that we're working with and right now we're sending over uh video recorded lessons on the godhead and many other doctrinal subjects uh we've probably sent about 25 of those out in the past several months and they're going to 12 different uh south africa or 12 different african nations and to india and also to the philippines because there's so many that we have seen come to this great truth that want to be apostolic they want to know what the bible says they want to know what the word of god says and so all of these things just make for a very fulfilling and an exciting journey as you know whenever you know you're looking at the end of the sidewalk and you don't have very many nickels left to spend you want to spend them in all the right places you want to have as much effect as you possibly can and that's what we're making an effort to do if you have your bibles go with us to the book of first corinthians chapter 14 and verse number six and it would sure be so appreciated if our sound guys could favor me a little bit on these monitors here tonight whoever whoever preaches here uh that likes them loud just set them the way they like them and i'll probably like it amen first corinthians chapter 14 verse number six the scripture says now brethren if i come unto you speaking with tongues what shall i profit you except i shall speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying or by doctrine and even things without life-giving sound whether pipe or harp except they give a distinction in the sounds how shall it be known what is piped or harped for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself to the battle so likewise you except you utter by the tongue words easy to be understood how shall it be known what is spoken for you shall speak into the air there are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without signification therefore if i know not the meaning of the voice i shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me amen i want to talk to you a few minutes on this subject tonight the preferred voice in your life the preferred voice in your life you may not understand my title just yet but hopefully in a few minutes you will but first corinthians 14 as i'm sure all of us know tonight is not an attempt by the apostle paul to minimize the importance of speaking in tongues nor is he trying to explain away the initial evidence of your receiving the holy ghost being that you speak with tongues he's not muddy in the water between the gift of the holy ghost as an integral part of your salvation and the operation of spiritual gifts in the church but what he is trying to do is to bring order to a congregation that had allowed themselves to get so carried away in spiritual things that the end result was that their worship services had descended into nothing more than a chaotic confusing time where no one was being edified no one was being blessed no one was being helped this is why that as he is going through his instructions here he talks about how that everything with that has no life within it it has no life-giving sound except that it give a distinction in the sound you're not going to know what the sound is all about whether it's a pipe or whether it's a heart you're not going to understand what is being played on the music if somehow there's not a distinction in what is being played he said because even if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound how or who shall prepare himself to battle so he is stressing the necessity of clarity he is stressing at the necessity of there being a clearness of understanding and so there's a lot that we could talk about i really don't want to get into all of the details the whys the wherefores but i do want to show you an underlying theme here that the apostle is trying to communicate he says in verse number 10 that there are it may be so so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without signification and so he's talking about the fact that all over the world even of that time and i think all of us understand that we're in the same place today that there are many many many voices and those voices are all vying for our attention and oftentimes those voices are associated with confusion they're not bringing clarity they're not bringing understanding they're not helping people to recognize what things really ought to be amen and so what paul is really trying to do the crux of the whole thing is this he's saying if there is any place that people ought to be able to come and get clarity of direction it ought to be the church hallelujah if there's any place that people ought to be able to walk through the doors and when they walk out be able to say you know what i heard something tonight i understood i heard something tonight that helped me i heard something tonight that made a difference in my life because this is where you get understanding your whole world can be confusing but this is where you can walk out with some understanding about life about walking with god about living for god about being what god wants you to be [Applause] here's what the psalmist said in psalm 73 and 1 truly god is good to israel even the such as are of a clean heart but as for me my feet were almost gone my steps had well nice slip for i was envious at the foolish when i saw the prosperity of the wicked here's a man caught between two extremes on the one hand israel's being blessed on the one hand god is being good to his people on the other hand he says i see the wicked and they are prospering and i am envious at the foolish as for me he said my feet were almost gone my steps had well and i slipped i found myself caught between two situations they're being blessed and they're being blessed but i'm in a situation where i'm asking the question where's my blessing at where's my help at where's my strength [Applause] at and you go down to that chapter and i don't have time to read all the verses but he says this eventually when i thought to know this it was too painful for me i've washed my hands in innocence it looks like i'm living for god for no reason whatsoever all of my efforts are futile i'm not accomplishing anything i don't seem like my work i'm drowning in all of this perplexity he said when i got to thinking about this it was too painful for me until until i went into the sanctuary then understood he said i didn't understand till i went to church i didn't understand till i went to the house of god come on there's been times i was drowning in my own pity but i went to the house of god and i got some understanding i can't hear you [Applause] hallelujah i understood some things i understood the house of god the importance of the house of god he said there's one thing i understood i understood their end in other words i understood the end of the wicked and i understood the end of the righteous and i believe the man would have said i think i'll choose the way of the righteous i may struggle i may have problems i may find myself drowning in all kinds of perplexities but there's one thing i'm not going to do i'm not going the way of the world i think i'll stay praise god well i was wanting to try to stay slow tonight but i'm not going to be able to do that i feel the holy ghost in this place amen don't pressure your pastor to not preach truth don't pressure your pastor to not say it what the way it ought to be said there's a world out there tonight that's that's always in the grave they're not in the they're not in the place where it's either black or white everything's in the gray zone everything is just up to you to how you feel and what you want to do and the way you want to live when your pastor gets up and begins to draw the line straight and preach the word of god direct you ought to be on your feet saying thank god for clarity thank god for clarity thank god for an understanding [Applause] come on we cannot be ambiguous in our position on the doctrines of the apostolic church there's got to be a clear note there's got to be a certain sound when they walk out there ought to be no doubt that we believe in one god that we believe this name is jesus [Applause] why because jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free free from what free from the bondage of deception the darkness of false doctrine oh hallelujah we don't need to get tired of any apostolic truth can i just go and preach what i feel here tonight amen i think you celebrate a pastoral anniversary i'm just going to follow it up and kick off the 15th year tonight by telling you that you need to hear the word again and again and again and again truth has got to be preached there was one thing moses understood if you're going to lead people out of egypt you can't compromise with the adversary [Applause] pharaoh offered four compromises and and moses turned every one of them down because he understood if i get these people out of egypt i cannot compromise with pharaoh we cannot compromise our message we cannot compromise this truth come on souls harvest what it is today because somebody preached truth around here somebody stood for one god somebody stood for the name of jesus somebody stood for holiness separation from the world [Applause] oh i wish you'd clap your hands and praise him [Applause] ow [Applause] hey man you didn't get where you are this church didn't come to where it's at being ambiguous people not really knowing what they believe amen this church cut their teeth on acts 2 38. hallelujah there's a lot of voices in our world first of all there's the voice of the world itself and then we have the voice of the religious world out there you've got the voice of temptation every day you've got the voice of education we have the voice of civil government we have the voice of our friends you got the voice of family you got the voice of backsliders replibates you got the voice of your own flesh you got all kinds of voices coming into your ears i'm persuaded tonight that we must be careful as to what voice we are lending our hearing amen it is vital that we know that the voice that we are listening to has our eternal destiny at heart i'm i'm convinced that the key that we the key is that we can all choose what voice we prefer to listen to amen there's a lot of voices and all of them have significance that's what paul said they're significant but what is important is that we establish in our lives a preferred voice that becomes the ultimate authority over all other voices i'll say it again that we need a preferred voice that becomes the ultimate authority over all other voices that no matter what voice speaks to you you submit that voice to the ultimate voice the voice of authority the voice and that's where my title comes from tonight the preferred voice in your life and for the next few minutes what i want to do is i want to draw a contrast between three men in scripture saul david and solomon and i want you to note the voice that each of these men preferred and how that voice ultimately affected them now when you read first samuel chapter 14 and verse 22 the bible said there was sore war against the philistines all the days of saul and when saul saw any strong man or any valiant man he took him unto him so the first thing you notice about saul is that his entire kingship the in all the days that he ruled and was marked by warfare he was always in a fight with somebody else he was always in a battle with somebody else so saul was always looking for strong men he was always looking for valiant men because those were the men that he preferred he wanted to hear the voice of fighting men men that would rise up with sword and spear and stand to defend and and stand with him in his fight and in his battle i don't have time to get into this but you need to be careful hanging around somebody that's always in a fight with somebody else [Applause] huh now if you go to first kings 11 and verse 28 the scripture said the man jeroboam was a mighty man of valor and solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious he made him a ruler over all the charge of the house of joseph so we follow solomon's life and i think that this verse encapsulates the kind of men that solomon drew to himself because solomon was an industrious individual he wanted industrious men close to him he wanted the voice of men that knew how to build to construct because when you study what all he did he had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots and twelve thousand horsemen he built his own house it took him 13 years to build that house he built the house of the lord and it took him eight years to build that house he built the city of milo he built the wall of jerusalem he built the city of hazor megiddo geezer and beth horem he had cities of store and cities for his chariots and cities for his horsemen everything that solomon desired to build in jerusalem and in lebanon and in all the land of his dominion you add to that that he also made a navy of ships so here's a man that is extremely industrious and he needed industrious voices around him he needed men to talk to him about how to build this how to construct that how to put that together i'm just going to tell you tonight that men seek out the kind of men that will advance their own agenda carnal men seek out carnal men spiritual men seek out spiritual men carnal ladies seek out carnal ladies spiritual ladies will seek out spiritual ladies amen you're going to run with whoever identifies with your agenda with whoever you want close to you you want a valiant person you've got them out here that'll help you fight you want an industrious person there's those out there that'll be industrious with you and that's all good in this place amen because when you get to david you discover that there was a third type of a man in david's life that he preferred above all of the others and that was the godly man he wanted a prophet in his life he wanted a man of god the closest voice to him the one voice that you will see consistently in david's life was the voice of the prophet it was the voice of a godly man now david needed valiant men and david needed industrious men because he was like the other two he fought battles but he also built there were things that he did that he accomplished but the one thing you're going to notice in david's life is the simple fact that he was a man that allowed only the preacher's voice to supersede everybody else's voice that it oh glory to god that it didn't matter what they said didn't matter how they approached the problem david said i'm going to hear what the preacher has to say first amen when david was running for his life from from king saul who did he flee to he flew straight to samuel the prophet and he spent time we don't know how long he spent with samuel but we know this that they spent time and they talked about things i wonder what what samuel said to david when david came and said look here's what saul's trying to do to me he threw a javelin at me he tried to kill me he tried to take my life from me amen i wonder i wonder possibly that samuel looked at david said david as long as you live don't let the ways that make kings go mad become the thing of your life hallelujah learn how to handle problems without picking up a javelin learn how to have problems without always being in a fight without always being in a war [Applause] amen david don't learn the ways that make valiant men go mad david was running for his life on another occasion and he fled to the house of god and spoke to a godly priest he wanted bread and a sword the sword was wrapped in a linen ephod it was behind the altar the linen ephod was a holy garment he asked for a weapon to use and the godly man brought him a weapon that had been wrapped in a holy garment amen let me tell you friend a valiant man sometimes will put a sword of vengeance in your hand but whenever the preacher puts a sword in your hand and he says for you to go out and fight it'll be enough it'll be in a righteous manner it'll be in a godly manner you'll go after the right thing you won't go after the wrong thing for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principality and power spiritual wickedness in high places rulers of darkness come on fight the right thing not your brother not your sister fight got about half of you helping me here tonight somebody shout hallelujah y'all better come on that bill davis spirit's gonna get on me somebody hallelujah you need to fight the right thing don't fight the wrong thing doesn't matter how bad your brother does you're still he's still not your enemy i see still not your enemy that matter how you get treated that's still not your adversary your adversary the devil he is like a lion amen david had a deep thirst one day and said you know he said i sure would like to have some of that water from by the well huh amen i'd like to have some water by the well at the gate in bethlehem three mighty men broke through the host they got that water and brought it back david lifted it up looked at it and realized you know what i can't drink everything that mighty men bring to me and he poured it out now i know there's a lot more to that story but that just fits right here tonight that every now and then you can't drink everything that a mighty man brings to you a mighty man may not have the word from god that you need to hear the mighty man may not need have the help that you need the industrious man may not be able to supply you with what you need at the present moment in time come on there's nothing wrong with seeking out the help of a valiant man or an industrious man but the key is who do you prefer in your life who holds the position a preference who holds the position of authority amen when god gave you a pastor he didn't give you a pastor to give you advice when you ask for advice you know what you're doing you're asking for some kind of input that you can put with everybody else's and then you can kind of determine whose is the best god didn't give you a pastor to give you advice he gave you a pastor to help you understand what the will of god is for your life come on the valiant man will give you advice the industrious man will give you advice but your preacher will say this is the will of god we're not talking about advice here we're talking about this is what god's will is for your life amen don't get upset when you talk to him and he looks at you and says i need to pray about that because what he really wants to do is find out what's god's will in this situation i'm not just going to talk off the cuff i'm going to find out what god thinks about this amen david's in the cave one day and and and back in the backside and all of a sudden then comes saul who had been chasing him and all of his mighty men and they find a place to lay down and go to sleep and and so david's trying to slip out of the cave and he walks right by king saul his arch enemy the man that has been chasing him for years now and he walks right by him and as he's walking by one of david's mighty men nudged him and said here's your chance here's your opportunity right now right now this is this is god god this is what the mighty man said god has delivered your enemy into your hand you can kill him it's it's this is your golden opportunity and david there was a voice that david heard in his ear and that voice was coming from the sound of a prophet's voice that said that's not mine anointed and do my prophet no harm come on come on i'm telling you you got to be careful what the mighty man tells you the opportunity may present itself but it may not be the will of god the timing may not be right the opportunity is there but it's not the right time [Applause] whoa come on let's talk to him in a moment church he caught the hosh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah god may give you a chance but it may not be the right time there's some giants you can kill goliath but there's some giants you just got to let them let live until god gets ready to take care of the situation [Applause] and don't let the wrong voice cause you to make a wrong move praise the lord amen david looks up here comes an amla kite and i'm having to hurry through this because there's there's a lot more in this than what i'm even going to preach tonight but david's standing there and an amalekite comes walking up and in his hand is the crown that saw war and the scepter all the all the accompaniments all the the signature things that signified kingship and he walks up and says here i i i was there and he said why do you have those things in your hand what's going on he said i was on the battlefield and and saul was wounded and he was going to die and so he told me to to slay him and i slew him because he was going to die anyhow and the amalekite said here i brought the crown and i brought the scepter i brought all those things to you the mighty man you hear me the mighty man brought to david the crown you see what you have to understand is the amla kite is a descendant of esau and the amalekites in scripture represent the flesh and i can see david look at that amla kite saying oh no it was a prophet that anointed me and told me that god was going to put me on the throne and i'm not taking the throne out of the hand of flesh i'm not going to take the crown from the hand of flesh oh hallelujah since i've got over 50 years i think i could say this tonight if you're a young preacher here tonight be careful taking the crown of anointing from flesh if you'll hang around long enough god will put you in your position god will put you in your place come on if a man of god ever laid his hands on you and confirms your calling you need to hang on until god elevates you until god puts you in place [Applause] come on don't get in a hurry to take the crown don't get in a hurry to take the crown don't get in a hurry to assume a position that god's not ready for you to be in i've seen more young men make shipwreck of their life because flesh offered them a crown and i'm standing there saying amen i'm standing there saying yeah we'll see we'll see how long this crown lasts and i don't mean to be facetious or hard but i'm just telling you it don't work that way if god anoints you god will elevate you and you don't have to have flesh elevating you i don't care how many saints come by you and say i sure wish they'd let you preach you know instead of you saying yeah i kind of feel that way myself you didn't look back at him and say when my pastor's ready for me he'll call on me but until then i'll teach home bible studies i'll go out and witness i'll work i'll do i'll clean toilets i'll mow the grass can i get a witness david said no no no it was a godly man that anointed me and it'll be god that elevates me when he when god's ready for me to be on the throne that's when i'll be there and he looked at that mla kite and he's told his guys about on the side to kill him and the best thing you'll ever do for your life and for your ministry is to kill the temptation to take the crown before it's yours to have come on i said the best thing you'll ever do for your life and for your future is to kill that that that inner fleshly desire the propensity to take it from the hand of flesh kill it kill it kill it kill it amen you see if david had taken the crown that day if he had accepted it from the flesh he would have had no justifiable reason to do what he did whenever it came time that there was one with ambition who tried to take the throne amen you see david understood he understood the reason why david told joab please go easy on the young man whenever his own son conspired against him and he had to flee the land of flee the city of jerusalem he had to leave with just a few servants because david understood something that ambition is a poor substitute for anointing i said ambition's a poor substitute for anointing and david knew it wasn't going to last and he knew that somewhere god was going to work it all out an ambush ambition got hung by the hair of its head in a grove and died amen i got to hurry david sin with bathsheba david sin with bathsheba whose voice was it that broke through all the whirlwind that surrounded him and brought david to repentance two years you already heard your pastor reference uh psalms 51 and david's prayer oh god whatever you do take not your holy spirit from me that's a prayer that david prayed probably not once but dozens of times over a two-year period as he went through that misery of knowing that he had not only committed adultery but he had also murdered a man and yet it was the voice of the preacher that broke through all of that and david found himself in a place of prayer a place of repentance i'm gonna hear i'm gonna tell you freedom whenever you're struggling with failure you're struggling with sin it's gonna be the preferred voice the valiant man won't help you then the industrious man can't help you them it'll be your preacher it'll be your prophet that brings you back to a place of equilibrium [Applause] you better get a preferred voice i said you better get a preferred voice because you get in trouble with god it won't be the mighty man that's going to help you out it's not going to be the industrious man that's going to help you out it's going to be the preacher that's going to help you out amen david presented the plans to the temple and said here's what i want to do the prophet of god looked at the plans and said do all that's within your heart and he left the palace and started home and he got home and that night god said you told that preacher wrong or you told that king wrong you go back and tell him in the morning he can't build the house and that he's a man of blood his son following him will build him and so the preacher showed up on his doorstep the next morning he went in and he said listen uh i have to tell you i told you wrong last night today i'm going to tell you that god said you can't build the house you know what david did he got up he went to the house of god he got on his knees and he started praying he started saying you know god i thank you for letting me be what i've been in your kingdom i'm so he doesn't get mad at the preacher he didn't get upset at the prophet of god he didn't change churches [Applause] i said he didn't change churches he didn't change pastors because the pastor didn't tell him what he wanted to hear because here's what you have to understand tonight and that is you never approve what you are when someone says yes you only prove what you are when someone says no my god hallelujah i said you only prove what you are when you're told no not when you're told yes anybody can handle a yes but everybody can't handle a no he just went back over there and started praying said god i'm so glad you let me be what i've been he said i'm going to tell you now god if i can't build the house i'll tell you what i am going to do i'm going to help the one that does build the house he didn't get mad didn't go have a pity party he said you know what if i can't be the choir director i'm going to help the one that is the choir director if i can't be the music leader i'll help the one that's going to be the music leader if i can't be the sunday school director i'll help the sunday school director huh come on you may have the grandest plan that you've ever conjured up in your mind and bring it to the preacher the preacher look at it and say i'm sorry that ain't going to work you're blessed if you can walk away and say well thank god i'll just go pray about something else we live with our feelings too close to our shoulders well hallelujah i'm gonna say that one more time when i'm moving on you don't prove what you are when someone says yes you only prove it when somebody says no when somebody tells you no that's when you really prove who you are the closest that david came and i got to hurry here because i don't want to be accused of preaching a long time because i know you're not used to long-winded preaching here oh thank you for laughing i appreciate that you told me everything i needed to know the closest that david came to listening to the wrong voice was when a man by the name of nabal rejected david's request for assistance the only thing that stopped david from making a horrible mistake a grave mistake was he listened to a godly voice when nabal said david who's david when david had been the one to protect his flocks and hurts when david had kept the marauding bands of robbers from from from ravaging the wealth of nabal it was david that stopped all of that and nabal said david who's david he's just another another name out here and and david when they brought word back to david him knowing what he had done for this man fire got in his eyes i'm sure that the the mighty men around him will see him let's go take his head off and david said yeah you know what i think that's what we ought to do let's strap your swords on boys we're going to go show this man that we mean business we're going to let him know amen what we think of him after all that we've done for him and he's on his way to nabal's house and abigail the wife of nabal meets him in the pathway and she says listen david she said don't do this said if you do this it's not going to turn out right for you it will not be to your benefit it will not be a blessing it's going to be for your it won't be for your good so i'm begging you please don't do what you're about to do amen it was the voice that was godly it was a woman's voice and i'll just go here and toss it in right here it wouldn't hurt some of us men around here every now and then to pay attention to a godly voice coming from our wife well preach on hallelujah because every now and then your wife doesn't know what she's talking about wow i lost most of you right then huh amen don't kid yourself in fact most of the time she knows what she's talking about i hate it when my wife looks at me with that look she don't ever say i told you so she just looks at me come on guys where's my amens amen i've seen that look a few times because i didn't listen so don't hurt it doesn't hurt to listen to a godly voice if it's coming from a woman she spared david some misery she spared david having a scar upon his life amen now now i find in the in the new testament that that there was a time when when paul was on a boat the bible said when much time was spent when sailing was now dangerous because the fast was now already passed paul admonished them saying sirs i perceive that this voyage will be with much hurt with much damage not only of the lady in the ship but also of our lives nevertheless the centurion listen to this the centurion believed the master and the owner of the ship more than those things which were spoken by paul the voice of the valiant man and the voice of the industrious man the merchant man drowned out the voice of the preacher and you know the end of the story they lost the it proved to be exactly can i just talk you've heard it before but hear it again tonight you could save yourself from a lot of storms don't don't let the voice of the mighty man don't let the voice of the industrious man drown out the voice don't take the job that that industrious man's telling you to take if your pastor is saying it's going to keep you out of church it could cost you your soul it's something you might not want to think about doing because the mighty man is only concerned about your about your your rights and your position and what you ought to have and the industrious man's only concerned about your welfare your finances but the preacher wants to know what about your eternity [Applause] amen i promise you you come to this pastor and say i've got a job offer man i'm going to make i i'm going to make twice as much and he's not going to be standing there calculating the ties off that twice as much he's going to be looking at you saying what's the schedule are you going to be able to be in prayer meetings are you going to be able to be in church are you let me let me close tonight by just pointing out a couple of things let me show you tonight the end of saul and the end of solomon and the end of david the end of saul is found in first chronicles 10 and 13. listen what the bible said so saul died for his transgression which he committed against the lord even against the word of the lord which he kept not and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit to inquire of it you know white saul died he died because he listened to the wrong voice he listened to the voice of a familiar spirit he died that's the death this is what's recorded in scripture it's recorded that he died because he listened he died for his transgression and because that he listened to the voice he asked counsel of one with a familiar spirit and then when you look at the end of solomon you found find it in first kings 11 and 1 king solomon loved many strange women together with the daughter of pharaoh women of the moabites ammonites zidonians and hittites other nations concerning which the lord said unto the children of israel you shall not go in unto them neither shall they come in unto you for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods solomon clave unto thees and love it came to pass when solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart after other gods and his heart was not perfect with the lord his god as was the heart of david his father solomon did evil in the sight of the lord and went not fully after the lord as did david his father solomon died listening to the wrong voices this is what's recorded i i can't i can't make this up it's recorded here that his wives turn his heart after other gods how did they do that they did it because they kept badgering him and talking to him and telling him i'm my god's bigger than your god my god's better than your god a man who never learned how to have the voice of a prophet in his life a king saul that never learned how to have the voice of a prophet in his life he never knew how to put the right voices in the right place but when you read first kings chapter 15 and 5 here's what it said of david because david did that which was right in the eyes of the lord and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life save only in the matter of uriah the hittite the only thing god held against david was the fact that he tried to cover up his sin that's the only thing god held against him everything else was forgiven and the fact that he he repented the reason why it said that he that he'd turn not aside from anything that he commanded him because even when the prophet came to him and put his finger on him and said you're the man david repented of it he accepted the voice of the prophet amen and what you're going to find when you when you leave from first kings chapter 15 and 5 throughout the old testament every king was judged by the standard that david said amen every king was judged it was either said of them that they did that which was right in the eyes of the lord as david their father did or they did not that which was right in the eyes of the lord as david his father did all the way through the old testament every king was judged by the standard what was it what was it that made david what he was and there's there's other things i could get into tonight i'm closing but what was it it was the fact that he was a man that while he had voices in his life that he could listen to there was one voice that superseded all of them and i felt i have felt for days this was something that in fact probably for a couple of weeks now knowing we were going to be here i just felt continued to feel that the lord wanted me to bring this to your attention tonight because we are living in an hour that is confusing amen nobody's telling us the truth i don't care who it is politicians are not telling you the truth amen health officials are not telling you the truth so-called scientists are not telling you the truth there's agendas out there that are not telling you the truth there's all kinds of voices and they're not speaking truth and it's creating mass confusion in our world when you come here god has given you a voice god has given you a voice and what you need to say whenever you're trying to make a decision you need to say you know what i'm going to church tonight because i think that the voice that i've been listening to can probably help me out and make this decision you may never even have an opportunity to stand in front of your pastor and say what do you think about this because as he's preaching he may just reach right out there with the word of god and pinpoint your situation and say i'll tell you what the holy ghost wants you to hear right now [Applause] anybody believe that [Applause] let's stand amen let's stand the reality is what god is looking for is for people that will set in their heart in their life a voice that will supersede all of the voices church there's a reason there's a reason because when they roll you up here in that casket and you're laying in front of this pulpit what the industrious man told you won't mean nothing and what the valiant man advised you won't count for anything the only thing that's going to count for you when you're right here is if you listen to the voice of your preacher if you listen to the voice of a man of god that is the only thing that's going to count for you nothing else lift your voice lift your voice let's talk to him i feel like there might be some folks that want to step out in this aisle tonight and say i'm coming down to this altar i'm going to let it be known tonight i've got a preferred voice devil don't talk to me world don't talk to me voices don't talk to me i want to hear the voice of the preacher lift your voice and praise it [Music] hallelujah hallelujah yes this is a night that we all need to make a move from our seat today hallelujah hallelujah ah this preacher tonight is actually quoted some things that our pastors said walked right down in front of this pulpit and quoted what i just said about a week ago oh we need to move for my seat tonight we need to draw ourselves out of the from the back wall and from the from the seats and even from the usher chairs as many as possible hey we need the lord to remind us to lift us oh to strengthen us to renew us restore us give us victory and power over every situation thank you lord for the voice of our pastor thank you lord for the voice that speaks the word of the lord from the scripture thank you lord jesus thank god thank god thank god thank god lord hallelujah hallelujah oh blessed be the lord almighty god king of kings lord of lords our god great god victory is ours hallelujah salvation is given thank you jesus deliverance has come to us thank you lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah lord we reach for you lord we stretch ourselves out for you oh god oh your ear is not death your arm is not short but we reach for you tonight thank you jesus whoa hallelujah [Music] oh yes yes hallelujah hallelujah from the front to the back up on the balcony let's just lift our hands receive the word of the lord right now lord jesus not a hearer of the word but the doer of the word in the name of jesus christ hallelujah oh jesus if you're by a husband and a wife why don't you join with them and pray for a moment god we're going to prefer god your word god the voice that preaches the word of god that's what we're going to prefer in our life god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus that's it we're going to leave in a moment i know what time it is in the name of jesus in the name of jesus some young people need to pray together that you've gotten in a little bit of a click and you're kind of doing your own thing you need to pray for each other we're not going to allow that to come in we're not just going to do our own thing we're not going to let that spirit rise up in the name of jesus oh i feel the holy ghost is sweeping through this place right now hallelujah jesus hallelujah hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus hallelujah jesus hallelujah oh that's it let that flow just for a moment oh yes yes yes [Music] jesus name jesus name thank you lord i tell you what just i don't it just keeps going through my mind over and over and over again right now is something i said a week ago tonight after brother madison got done preaching and i made that statement and it just won't leave me right now and it's this if you come out of the wilderness any other way than by the power of the holy ghost turn around and go back into it because there are people that you're going through something right now and you're getting someone to tell you how to get out of it you're having someone connive the way to get out of it you're paying someone to tell you how to get out of it whatever the case is if it's not by the power of the holy ghost it's not worth walking out of the wilderness just go back in just go back in until when you walk out of that the holy ghost is the one taking you out i don't know why i needed to say that again but will you lift your hands one more time and just receive that i know we want to move to the next thing but god's trying to do a work [Applause] jesus jesus the devil the enemy life will offer you all kind of ways but make sure you hear the voice of the lord according to the word of god that's the voice of your pastor someone's got to be there god's called someone can't be saved without a preacher in your life not supposed to say that kind of stuff in this world are you get in trouble well you get in trouble if you don't have that in your life that's how you get in trouble i'm so thankful for the word of god aren't you thankful thank you brother bass for preaching the word of god amen amen amen i love this wonderful church there are so many amazing things happening right now it's unbelievable people are just having bible studies everywhere people getting baptized even in the middle of the week it's just exciting to see what god is doing sunday god's going to do great things here sunday morning i want to be preaching in dade city and bishop's going to be preaching here hallelujah and then sunday night i feel like i have a word for this church god already gave to me and we're going to be here and god's going to speak to us i'm excited about it don't just walk out greet a couple people before you leave god bless you you're dismissed in jesus name those that are meeting me let's head to the conference room quickly please

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