"Shifting Into The Future" Rev. Myles Young

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on lift up your voice unto the lord tonight have you come to give god praise in this house have you come to lift up a joyful noise under the lord hallelujah hallelujah [Music] nun's the person next to you and i want you to ask him have you come to worship god i don't know about you tonight but but we're not just gathered together tonight to sing one another we're in the presence of the most high god the king of kings is here anything that you need you can walk out of this place tonight having touched the throne of the lord i wonder if you could just put every thought aside everything going on during your week aside and you just take the next 15 seconds put that all to the side let's glorify the lord in this place oh how many are happy to be in the church on a tuesday night how many know that our god he deserves every praise and it all belongs to him help us sing tonight [Music] is [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] word of is is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] every oh every prayer [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes he is [Music] [Applause] he's [Music] [Applause] [Music] and we pray every prayer every praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's god my savior he's god my deliverer whatever you've come in this place needing tonight you need to know that he is he can deliver you he can set you free [Music] many people have come in here tonight facing all of us facing various circumstances i want you to know no matter how big the circumstance no matter what your what you're facing or what you've come in here with plaguing your mind i want you to know that god is more than able that's not just something we say to make you feel good that's not just a catchy line god is able amen if you've got a need in this place just lift your hands to the lord he hears you i want you to open up that mouth and call on his name we're praying for robbie snipes we're praying praying for amanda dickerson and many other needs brother john flew it let's call on the name of the lord god you are our healer you are a provider god i pray that you touch each of these needs i pray that you would make a way in each of these circumstances god we trust in you we have faith believing that you're going to move in each of these needs and we give you our praise in jesus name [Music] oh bless the lord [Applause] [Music] is [Music] oh yes i'm singing [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] i know [Music] oh my god [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] hey everybody in the house [Music] [Music] oh [Music] let's take a moment and bless his holy name [Music] i've come to bless the lord i've come to lift up holy hands i know you're tired i know it's been a long week but i've come to worship god in this house god's been too good for me for me to just stand by and go through another service come on he deserves all the praise come on everything you can muster he deserves that kind of race [Music] that's good for some athlete that's good for some hollywood star but i'm talking about the king of kings and the lord of lords [Music] hallelujah come on up you come to praise him tonight [Music] i hope we've not got to the place that that the musicians just have to hit the right note and then i'll praise him i hope it's not got to the place that if it's the right tempo then i'll praise him i want you to know that he put breath in your lungs i want you to know that if it wasn't for the lord you wouldn't have the heart beating inside of your [Music] we chest you lord [Music] amen it feels good in the house of the lord you may be seated into each of you we are so glad we're so we are so very glad that you are in god's house and looking across the room i know we have guests and to all of our guests welcome to first pentecostal church amen we welcome you we're so glad that you're here and if it's your very first time we always have a gift for our first time guests it's our way of saying thank you for joining with us and so if you've not already get your cell phone out this is the one chance in church get to pull your cell phone out and text the word welcome to 919-364-5236 we have a gift to say thank you for joining with us this evening first pentecostal church is a is a moving church and there's a lot of things happening and and i'm glad to be in a church where there's things happening [Music] so we have many announcements we want to make you aware of for all of those that are involved in bus ministry tonight brother earl webb jr is inviting all captains all drivers and all workers to participate in a meeting that's after the service this evening it is in the upstairs balcony please promptly make your way to that area for that meeting and then for all of our men that are participating in the deep sea fishing trip that is on september the 20th there is a meeting regarding that it is tonight and brother marty farah has a handout for each of you that are participating so go immediately after service to the men's prayer room to receive that handout and to receive the necessary information and for all of our young people this friday night from seven to nine pm we are having teaching and video games and a cereal bar and so come hungry come ready we're gonna have a good time the cost is five dollars join us on friday night and for all of our men that are involved in men's outreach this saturday at 10 a.m meet right here in the sanctuary we're going to go out top out for a time of outreach this is being led by brother vincent beckwith if you have any questions you can see him or see the people at the info booth in the foyer and then for our adults that are involved in bible quizzing this is our saints and swords we want you to know that there is a tournament it is this saturday at 11 a.m in the educational building there is no charge to come and watch the competition it's going to be an excellent time and then of course seed money season has been churning exciting things have been happening plenty of food has been eaten for the glory of god amen and and so we have two more sunday night dinners it is this sunday and it is the following sunday um the menu this sunday night is being prepared by brother daryl mullins it is his it's quoted as being the almost famous hot dogs and frito chili pies now now i don't know what almost famous is supposed to mean but but i believe it's going to be good so come hungry come ready to participate and then for all of those all of our singles that are 27 and up there is an event for you mark your calendars for saturday september the 25th there is an event it's going to be a raleigh balloon glow it's a hot air balloon festival and it's the buses are going to depart the church on that date at 4 00 p.m and you can see brother ben or sister darlene ridge for more information or visit the welcome center in the foyer if you're new around here and you don't know who anybody is just go to the welcome center and we will point you in the right direction we want to get you plugged into everything that god is doing and everything happening with the people of god i'm glad to be in the house of the lord tonight amen there is no telling what god is going to do in the next few moments would you pray with me let's pray over this offering lord thank you for your goodness to us lord i pray that our hearts would be ready for your word to impact us and change us lord i pray that you'd strengthen us let your spirit be in this place and bless each person in jesus name we pray amen [Music] yes [Music] so let's start right now why would we wait [Music] place i just wanna be with you i just wanna be with you [Music] just wanna be with you [Music] so let's start right now [Music] victory [Music] [Music] just want to be with you [Music] till you come again [Music] again [Music] again oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] glory feel this place [Music] [Applause] peace [Music] [Music] glory [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] this place [Music] let's lift our hands let's lift our voices all over this house ah he's the king of glory tonight i came to remind somebody he's the king of glory tonight hallelujah hallelujah lift up your head oh ye gates and be lifted up he everlasting doors and the king of glory [Music] shall come in who is this king of glory he's the lord strong and mighty he's the lord mighty in battle and i'll go ahead and add tonight he is jesus christ [Music] so lift up your head oh ye gates be lift up ye everlasting doors hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus let's give the lord a handclap of thanksgiving tonight praise god praise god thank you jesus thank you jesus god bless you you can find a seat in if you're here and you have never received the holy ghost speaking with other tongues you can receive it tonight you can receive it at any moment when you begin to call on the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah and we can baptize you in jesus name tonight and you can be filled with his spirit and have his name placed over you i wouldn't leave this place without making sure i was born of the water and born of the spirit i want to belong to jesus christ i want to be a part of his kingdom i want i want to be a part of his family i want to become an heir of salvation and i think sometimes people the devil tells people the holy ghost is hard to get the holy ghost is not hard to get if i repent of my sins i can be filled with the holy ghost if i have faith i can be filled with the gift of the holy ghost and what makes the holy ghost difficult for some people is their mind it's unrepented sin and it is their mind getting in the way when we pray with little children we tell the little ones we say lift up your hands lift up your voice god's going to fill you with the holy ghost you're going to speak with tongues and they go okay and the holy ghost touches them and when the holy ghost touches them they lift up their hands and they speak with other tongues and the holy ghost fills them jesus said except you become as one of these you shall in no wise enter the kingdom of god amen i just got to get my adult thinking out of the way god doesn't need my sophistication god doesn't need my pride god's not impressed with my accomplishments what are you going to do that god couldn't do for himself what are you gonna give god that he doesn't already own my god who owns the cattle on a thousand hills but if you'll bring your praise if you bring him the sacrifice of praise if you pour out your soul the holy ghost will fill you from the top of your head down to the bottom of your feet yes you will come on i wish i had a holy ghost church that knew and believed that had faith on a tuesday night that god wasn't just able but he was well able [Music] somebody say he's well able praise god praise god you can be seated it is so good to have you in the house of the lord we're glad you came to worship god [Music] you better watch out that same spirit his own sister paulette is going to jump on you and i hope you didn't come to stay dignified i hope you didn't come to take a nap [Music] because brother you walked into a holy ghost church you walked into a bloodwash church i might as well say it you walk into a one god church there's a difference yes there is there's a difference [Music] thank you jesus the old timers used to say he's all over me and he's keeping me alive he's keeping me alive he's keeping me alive hallelujah how many can say you feel that way tonight they say he's in my hands and my feet and he's keeping me alive he's down in my heart [Music] praise god praise god praise god well i'm not the preacher we got a preacher coming god's good isn't he amen amen it is good to have antonio and tamika bullock visiting with us tonight god bless you good to have you in the house of the lord we haven't met but i look forward to meeting you folks and others of you if if i don't know your name i'm glad you're here and if you're watching online the streaming service welcome to fpc welcome man i hope the kind of crazy world we're living in i hope a holy ghost lightning bolt hits you and your lazy boy hits you i i know you might have to quarantine i know covet might have messed up your weak ah that god is still able [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus somebody say thank you jesus amen amen i see you up there sister brandon giving god the glory praise god god's still able isn't he [Music] i feel like there's a little bit of sunday night still spilled over in this place and if you're not careful it'll get on top of you it'll it'll get you all shook up it'll start moving from the top of your head down to the bottom of your feet yes it will [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody said y'all better calm down you're going to scare the rich folks off you're going to smear scare the smart folks off well maybe the rich folks and the smart folks need a little bit more of what god's doing in this place right now [Music] thank you jesus [Music] praise god praise god praise god amen amen amen amen let's give the lord a handclap of thanksgiving amen god bless you you can be seated it's been a wonderful week we've enjoyed the ministry of pastor miles young from elk grove sacramento california what a wonderful time we had this coming sunday everybody say this coming sunday we have the ministry of brother cornelius williams and if you have not heard the ministry of brother cornelius williams just get ready just get ready the holy ghost is going to hit this place bring somebody bring somebody to the house of god god will bless them you will enjoy his ministry it's going to be a great time last sunday morning we started back bus ministry amen thank you to all of our bus ministry workers we love you we appreciate the hard work and we're excited and brother brother earl webb jr is heading that up and we love and appreciate him and all the workers that are a part of that god is doing good things and then i want to mention very briefly before brother young comes east coast conference is around the corner we will be having day sessions so so prepare your work schedule so that you can be a part of that we have the ministry of brother rick mayo from spokane washington brother daniel mckillip that wednesday night and then thursday night for the larry booker is going to be here and then friday night and saturday day will be spanish east coast conference amen who's preaching the night service for the prado brother antonio lagunas is friday night with arie prado is saturday it's going to be a great time in the holy ghost we want you to be there we want god to just have his way anybody expecting a great move of the holy ghost i'm i'm believing god for great things god's going to help us amen it's so good to have the young family with us this week they ministered to us on sunday i'm glad boston young could fly in and be with us and be with his family this is pastor young's son married to sister haley and new father to little echo savoy who has been brightening up our whole week amen so we're glad they can be with us with us and sister london and brother peyton bradford but peyton's his father his mother are our wonderful people of god dear friends from bakersfield california they pastor a dynamic church and and we're excited he can be here with the family and sister young we're glad that you could accompany your husband as well we love you we appreciate you we're excited that you are here and brother young we want you to come and take your liberty tonight this is my friend pastor miles young is one of the most gifted worship leaders he's a great preacher he this is a missionary in a pastor's body he doesn't go anywhere that he's not trying to win somebody to god start a church start something for jesus amen and we're glad he's in durham tonight let's stand let's give the lord a handclap of praise preach to us brother god i love you praise god come on give the lord a handclap of worship right now come on let's give him the best ovation he's received all day long oh when i think of the goodness of jesus and all he's done for me my soul cries out hallelujah amen amen turn and shake somebody's hand and tell them you love them and it's good to see them in the house of the lord tonight amen you may be seated it has it has been an extreme honor and privilege and a blessing to be here with you and uh i am i am so thrilled i don't know if if we have ever done anything quite like this as a family uh since the days we were evangelizing and i know we've never done it with a grandkid or a son-in-law to be so we are we are really delighted to be here it has been it has been a time of healing as as i talked to you on sunday morning my wife has been battling some some issues in her health and it has been good just to get away and not have to do anything and just recover and she's looking cuter than ever amen [Applause] i want to say how much we love brother sister urshan and their family they have been a blessing to us as i mentioned on sunday evangelizing preaching doing work lived on the property with us for about four or five months and during a season of transition so we're more like family than friends and we counted a real honor to be here and i want my son to come greet you this is his first time at fbc he can go to heaven now [Applause] greetings i give honor to your your pastor brother ursian and your former pressure the great brother godaire amen the bible says give honor where honor is due and it's due [Applause] amen now today for me i'm not going to preach i promise i'm a young preacher but i'm not going to preach but today if for those of you that are aware of what's going on in the state where i'm from it's a little bit of a momentous day for californians and i'm not going to get into all that but it got me thinking about the trials and the tribulations we went through in the last year there was a season where i know in this state just like my state where you and i couldn't gather together you and i couldn't gather and worship and praise god and gather where two or three are gathered together there was a time this year when that wasn't we weren't able to come together and commune with the creator but look at us now and so i think for the first time the first time in these great united states we now understand we now understand what it means when david said i was glad i was glad when they said unto me let us go let us go into the house of the lord we can come today and gather and worship and pray and lives will be changed and people will be filled i'm excited amen [Music] [Music] [Music] your name [Music] that's why my heart is singing with me i love you i love you i love you i love you lord today because you can't for me in such a special way so i praise you i lift you up i magnify your name that's why my heart is filled with pain oh my heart my mind my soul belongs to you [Music] [Applause] i lift you up i magnify your name that's why my heart is filled with praise can you feel your voice with praise right now oh i love you lift up a hand i love you and sing it to him i love you lord today because you cared for me [Music] [Applause] [Music] magnify your [Applause] [Music] that's why my heart is filled with pain come on somebody give god great praise right now [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh hallelujah can you extend that out a little bit come on he's worthy of all praise glory honor majesty dominion and power forever be unto you o god we magnify your name today hallelujah hallelujah amen if you have your bible i want you to join with me let's meet in the book of joshua chapter 18 amen and i give honor to again the pastor of this house brother nathanael ershan and i give extreme honor to bishop johnny godaire i love him and i thank god for his ministry not only to you as a local congregation but his ministry to the apostolic movement and uh we go way back amen he he used to live in malden i wasn't there when he was in mauldin but i wound up in kenneth not very far away and then my daddy used to pastor in greensboro and uh i think ever since i've just been alive i've known the godair family and they they have been heroes of ours and then brother robbie mitchell one of my dearest friends since we were kids i was in his wedding and he was in my wedding and we've been in trouble together amen nobody quite like johnny go there i'll never forget we went on vacation with the goat as one time and we we had traveled from i don't know where we'd come from and it was late at night and we didn't get to the hotel until like two in the morning and we had to go to brother godard's room to wake him up now i don't know what you look like at two in the morning but when brother johnny go there step to that door and open it he was in a stark shirt dress pants he looked like he was going to meet the mayor and i know y'all got y'all got cornelius williams he's gonna shuck the corn on sunday but y'all stuck with me tonight amen good good to be here with all these these men of god and uh brother ben rodriguez amen i love you buddy proud of you doing a work evangelizing amen brother jordan good to be here with you amen god bless you and and then my good friend brother galindo amen he came out and spread a little north carolina love in norcal and and uh it's good to be with him thank god for him and man i feel good tonight y'all feel good i'm going to do something i have never done i've never done what i'm going to do today i'm a grandpa now so i can do it i'm not going to preach like a young man today i'm going to preach like an elder and i'm not an old man but i'm going to do and what i felt is that is that brother antonio right there in the dark shirt do you remember me i was here about 12 years ago and you were driving the van i think it was you picked me up and and uh something like that i i remember meeting you remember that name when you walked in i asked he looks for me good to see you again you don't remember me but i remember you amen but i'm i'm going to i'm going to do something that i felt this morning i was i was up early and uh i want to talk to you i'm not going to preach i'm just going to talk to you because i believe i don't know if you know how special you are this is a special place and this is a special church and if i if if i do anything i want to impart to you encouragement and strength because you are doing a great work here in durham north carolina and i felt god nudged me in this way if you have your bible go to joshua chapter eight we're going to read three or four verses here amen joshua chapter 8 verse 18. and the lord said unto joshua stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward a i for i will give it unto thine hand and joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city god was doing a work in that city and god was working through joshua and his people let's skip down to verse 25 and so it was that all that fell that day both of men and women were twelve thousand even all the men of ai for joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of ai i want to talk to you for a little while today on this subject shifting into the future shifting into the future put your bible down and give the lord another handclap of worship praise the name of the lord [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you may be seated shifting into the future i want to talk to you tonight and i want to talk to fpc and my [Music] my remarks tonight are not coming from a position of knowledge as in we are in a relationship of friendship because i know very few of you i have only preached other than this trip i've only preached at this church two other times at east coast conference and then a youth convention and then i was our youth conference of some sort and then i was privileged to be here with the mitchells on a singspiration night and that is the extent of my time here other than as a a young man with my family prior to that and i'm looking forward brothershin to being back with you at east coast conference it's going to be a great time but what i what i want to say to this church today is is coming out of what i believe is i believe is the heart of god not because i know you are not because i know of any situations pastors go to the pulpit with a with a number of responsibilities sometimes there is the evangelistic call to do the work of the evangelist a pastor will recognize there are people that need the one god apostolic message to be preached and this is the one moment we have and he steps into the role of an evangelist then there are other times where the man of god preaches base default based upon present distress things that come into the body where has to be dealt with and then there are times where there is wounding or loss of people important sickness or a funeral or death that comes and strikes the church and the pastor preaches a message of comfort and hope and direction and and then there are times where it is a prophetic word where god lays on the heart of a man of god something about the future or then there are times that the man of god just teaches out of what he feels in his spirit oftentimes for me that happens on tuesday nights where i'm working through things and and working through the word of god and you're not dealing with any issue in particular or any prophetic grand vision you're just breaking the word of god down and it's amazing and no matter what the assignment is god is speaking to his church so tonight if you would allow me indulge me tonight i'm not dealing with a problem i'm not dealing with issues that i'm aware of i'm just going to to do what i felt this morning in prayer and in the word of god and honestly because of who you are and sometimes we don't tell each other how how we really feel about each other until funeral time and we've all stood at a casket whiskey wishing we could say it one more time how much we love somebody and i determined i could have come with a number of sermons and this is a worshiping church i could have preached something tonight and we'd all shouted or i know how to preach conviction i've been preaching a while and we could we could have done that but but i wanted to stop and talk to this church because you are an important piece of god's kingdom uh i want you to understand you are not an average congregation you are not an average congregation and you you do not have an average history you do not have an average founder you do not have an average pastor you are not an average city i want you to somehow feel the weight of of the call of god to fpc in durham california and if you're just here and you've just kind of been marking time on the pew of this church thinking well i i just go to church let me let me let you in on a secret you are a part of something very very important that god is doing in this end time age and god intended you to be here at this time at this season amen and uh i thought this morning sister twilight good to see you we go all the way back to bogalusa bible conference days amen good to see her but i honestly brother ershan i've never done what i'm going to do today i can relate a little bit with your position and brother go there i can relate a little bit with your position an iconic leader as johnny godaire and then to follow that type of leadership is a challenge not only for the elder is a challenge for the younger but it's also a challenge for a church and i have experienced that same thing so what i'm going to do tonight is i'm going to talk to you about what i wish someone would have talked to us about your church i hope you feel like it's your church you love this place you have and are and will continue to be an example of revival you were doing things in this church before any most of us in the apostolic movement had even ever given thought to it your bus ministry your evangelistic efforts your founder teaching bible studies before bible studies were cool he didn't didn't have to write a book about it and this church has been a mighty church with an iconic leader nobody quite like johnny godaire and you have undertaken the necessary and challenging process of transition notice i said necessary and challenging you are you see it's not just brother go there and brother urshan trying to figure it out you're in there too is this all right if i talk just talk to you tonight [Applause] we've had no conversations i have no inside scoop i don't know of any good things or bad things i'm just in durham and i'm just here to preach and be with friends and i'm headed to a wedding kind of worked out i was on this side of the country and he asked me to preach and so we did and when the kids found out i was coming to durham they wanted to come so we're just here partying [Applause] but i have been in a very similar situation everybody relax ain't gonna be nothing controversial everybody just breathe deep it's gonna be good you really don't need me to come give you another sermon tonight because your pastor is one of the finest preachers on planet earth can you say amen [Applause] it's all right but here's what i want to talk about for a moment there is always everybody say always there is always transition in god's plan because this thing was never intended to die or stop with the present generation this thing is to go from generation to the next jesus comes to earth to redeem uh humanity the ministry of reconciliation that was what he was doing but he gave that ministry to 12 others he didn't come to come show what he could do he came to do that and then empower 12 men those 12 were to turn into 120 that 122 explode into thousands and then an innumerable host and it reaches all the way to durham north carolina this thing was to be handed down from generation to generation in fact in that very first pentecostal message it's for you and your this thing was to go on in transition paul would tell timothy who was the pastor for a season of the church at ephesus and he tells him in second timothy chapter two and verse number two he said the things that you have heard of me are the things that i have taught you he said you then need to commit that to other faithful men that they would then teach others also even the mighty apostle paul recognized this thing's not about my leadership and timothy it's not even about your leadership alone it's to come from me to you and to faithful men but it's not just for them to say look what i've got it's to be what look what i've got to give to you so this this apostolic truth that we have this this thing that we have in earth and vessels is to be handed from one generation to another there is to be a continuum that takes place and if the lord is to tarry for 200 years there should always be a strong faithful apostolic church that is growing and thriving [Applause] there was a book many years ago written by a preacher in north carolina that at that time the way i remembered i remember finding it as a young evangelist it was written and this this gentleman had studied at that time i guess it was in the 70s brother godaire had gone around and had interviewed and gone to apostolic churches that were thriving in revival and i read that book as he talked to each of those pastors in each of those churches and then the the the shock to me however was as at that time in the 90s as an evangelist i was reading that book and there was only one of those churches that was still preaching the apostolic truth and one of them was this church right here we've come a long way since the 70s but i'm looking around on a tuesday night and it still looks like the apostolic message is being preached from generation to generation [Applause] but in these transitions the transition brings with it challenges that are unique to the transition and it's like a race there is the moment where the passing of the baton and that's the place of the challenge and i'm not worried today about elder goldare and i'm not worried about pastor ershen but i have pastored following an iconic leader like brother nathanael wilson brother carmine came to me sunday morning when he found out i was from california he shook my hand and he said where are you from i said california he said where's brother wilson i see where i rate on the scale but in transition things can happen for israel they face this challenge too because they went from dare i say an iconic leader in moses no no leader on planet earth other than jesus that ever was as powerful as moses and there is a transition can you imagine having to follow moses i mean this is a guy with a magic wand how do how do you follow moses i mean you got a stick you throw on the ground it turns into a snake you got a stick you wave in the air and the whole sky fills with with lice and flies and blood and the river and i mean and i mean you're doing tricks with your magic stick and then the list of accomplishments part of the red sea called plagues from the heaven water from rocks manna from heaven shoes that never wear out how do you follow that leader wake up every morning to free donuts and he does all this with his shepherd staff and moses is the one that led them out of egypt it was under his leadership that they tasted the cool breath of freedom as they are led to the very edge of the promise and here you could go into as so many do you could go into a leadership lesson and the different levels of leadership pushing toward the pinnacles of leadership for first level of leadership is position that's where people have to follow you uh because you you're the guy in charge it's positional leadership and then then there's permission people follow because they they want to they give permission uh to the leader they will follow because they want to and then then there's the production level because of what you bring to an organization or to a company people follow because of production and and then there's then there's the next level as you're climbing up and and that that third or fourth level is that level of personal development people begin to follow you because or follow the leader because of what they've done for them or how they've developed them and then there is the ultimate that fifth level that is the level of respect and moses had that that's where people follow because of who you are and what you represent and so a pastor steps into those roles in whatever point it is and so here you have i'm just gonna i'm just gonna talk to you like i'm at home today i wish someone has talked to us and you have a man like brother johnny go there who has who has carried you through those those roles of leadership and and i watched sunday as he walked in the building and this place was excited to see him just simply because of who he was [Applause] and it's part of the process is that it takes time to move through that and leaders understand that and brother godard understands that and brother ershan understands that but sometimes people don't understand that so here was in our text the second battle of ai remember they had lost the first one because the guy had taken the garment and the gold and hid it for himself and and this is the reboot if you will and this is the time and i'm not going to go into all that story because i'm not here to do that but joshua is now leading the battle this is this is not moses now this is joshua and the bible said that the lord said unto joshua stretch out the spear that is in thine hand what may be one of the most important verses in the bible for leadership is often overlooked because here is a unique distinction to joshua because moses brother galindo had led them with a shepherd's rod and he had stepped to the red sea and he had walked into pharaoh's house and he had lifted a shepherd's rod because it took a shepherd to lead them out of egypt but do not miss what god's word reveals coming out of egypt to the edge of promise required a shepherd's rod but he said joshua to go where we're going next take the spear we're moving from shepherding and we're moving to conquering i brought you out not to wonder for 40 years i brought you in to possess the promise i brought you in and it's time to go to war the point i'm making is even your bible reveals that leadership leads differently joshua had to take the spear in his hand moses was a shepherd joshua you have been given a mighty nation and you are to lead with the spear you're going to lead differently than moses it will be a it will be a day of conquering and nation expansion transition requires skill and commitment by both moses and joshua but hear me fbc it also requires wisdom and faithfulness of the people recognize what is needed i may never be invited back but i'm just going to tell you what i wish somebody would have told my church change impacts all of us everybody it does and where there is loyalty it's extremely challenging because you don't just flip a switch and change loyalty you don't stop loving just because some new dude showed up and here's the deal people really don't resist change they resist loss and it's natural to feel a loss it's natural to feel this whatever it is in the shift because when you followed the shepherd's rod and now it's a warrior's spear it's different because we we love the 23rd psalm thy rod and thy staff they comfort me it's natural but you see joshua had never been a shepherd joshua had only been a warrior he couldn't come replace moses in transition you never replace greatness you simply step into your role in the greatness process there will never be another johnny godan but guess what it's not supposed to be there's only one in fact when you try to be somebody you're not you're not real good at it i can't be like you and you can't be like me but i'll tell you what i'm really bad at i am one bad dude being me [Applause] god calls all of us in our uniqueness because he needs us he created us joshua's never been a shepherd he's a warrior joshua you're going to lead differently but this is the way that god designed it fbc you are a key church and i'm not just i'm not just telling you that because i don't have anything else to say but i hope you in some way play a vital role you understand that you play a vital role in the apostolic movement and i'm going to block them out for a moment i'm going to talk to you i challenge you to recognize your greatness we know how great brother goldie is we know how great brother urshan is but i want to look you and your baby blues and baby blacks and baby browns and baby grays and tell you you're awesome you're awesome you are part of an incredible example of apostolic revival you have led the charge following the vision of this leadership both in the past and at present do you realize that in what what some would call the south you have broken cultural racial barriers that have never been broken in some constituencies around the world long before it became the vogue thing to do you were reaching souls no matter what color or shade they were you have been an example of revival you have been an example of evangelism you have been an example of godliness and holiness and separation you are not an average church you are not an average people you are a revival church a family of god that is leading the way even reaching beyond language barriers and i know we always brag on the preacher we always thank god for the elder and we should and we give double honor but understand something unless there's somebody that picks up the vision priest it doesn't get done i preach all over the country i've been to 34 countries of the world and preached i've been around the world i can tell you there's a lot of churches with great preachers and bad churches where there's no revival well they're not preaching holiness i can show you some holiness preachers that ain't having revival somewhere there's got to be a great person in the pew that when that doubly honored man of god steps behind this desk and begins to preach there's got to be something in the spirit of a congregation that grabs hold of it and says i agree preacher and they begin the ebb and flow of ministry together and look at what god has done i think fbc you ought to get up on your feet and thank god for what he's done in durham north carolina hallelujah amen i challenge you recognize that you're not an average people you're a great people with a great responsibility leadership every parent knows it requires disturbing things but real real leadership is is can you disturb things at a rate that can be absorbed it takes wisdom it takes guidance because change that fear of loss messes with our equilibrium and we feel a little bit out of balance and things are different and people push back when they're uncomfortable new ideas and new initiatives and discovery of new needs and leaders are at risk in that season in fact heifetz and linsky wrote a book called leadership on the line dealing with the dangers that come with leadership especially in times of transition in transition there can come church you need to hear this in a season like you're in this has been a weird time covert and all the issues and and transition there's been a lot going on in the world and you're you're in this and you're pushing forward and what what what the devil likes to do and it's not just a church thing it happens in any kind of leadership thing is that marginalization begins to take place opposing forces or uncertain things begin to push back and people get marginalized and then opposition raises up diversions or god forbid attacks because they want sides to be chosen and even seduction can enter but understand that whether it's marginalization diversion seduction attack whatever it may be it's all to stop the process of transcending and transitioning to the next level and it happens not just for the leader it happens for the follower as well israel was to follow the spear the same way they had followed the staff first timothy chapter 3 verses 14 and 15 it was a time where there was instruction and paul wrote to timothy and he said i'm writing so that that the church could know how it ought to behave that that was the language of how it ought to conduct itself things were changing things were moving and he said i'm writing and i want to take a little bit and show you what he said he said the reason i'm going to spend timothy so much time in this is because the church the house of god which is the church is the pillar everybody say the pillar and the ground of truth the pillar and the ground of the truth this was written in a season of transition here was a great older leader if i could say it that way the apostle paul writing to a very gifted and anointed leader timothy but his words are not just to timothy his words are speaking to us and speaking to the church that was there and he said timothy you need to understand why these issues are so important is because the church fpc you're the church the church is the pillar and the ground of the truth it is the foundation it is the footings this is about sustainability it's about strength and security and he said i'm writing to show the proper behavior of what a church is supposed to be i want to take the time tonight i'm not going to be much longer he writes to him and he says let's talk about this leadership thing he begins to give the details of what it meant to be a bishop to be an overseer he's to be blameless he's to have one wife he's to be sober vigilant good behavior given to hospitality apt to teach not given to wine not a striker not greedy not flying off the handle ready to fight somebody patient not a brawler not covetous ruler of his own house and family then he says he shouldn't be a novice that's the leadership if you're going to lead one of these churches timothy you've got to understand that i'm writing why because the church is the pillar and the ground of the truth whoever leads it's got to live a certain way but then he said let's go to the next tier of leadership i want to talk to all the leaders of the church he's saying he says all of you leaders in the assembly said he said you can't be double-tongued you can't come on sunday and act like you're in agreement with leadership and go home and do something else you can't come shake hands and say i love you pastor and then go home and work another deal somewhere you don't put your clothes church clothes on on sunday and then put your worldly clothes on on tuesday he said you can't be given to wine you can't be greedy he's not talking to the pastor he's talking about church leaders here you got to hold the faith out of a pure conscience in other words it's got to be in you not hypocritical if you're going to be a leader in the church he said you have to be blameless you have to have one wife it must be pretty important he said that two or three times and then he says oh by the way wives you got to be sober you got to be faithful in all things you got to have your family all your families they got to be ruled well all that's to the leadership of the church oh and then he says let's get a little more specific chapter 2 he says all the men all the men wave your hand at me says all you men in the church because you're the pillar on the ground of the truth all you men you're supposed to be men of prayer and all of you women he says women you're supposed to dress in modesty and godliness and then he gives a chapter one i'm backing up kind of showing you he says timothy here's your job description and give specifics to timothy and paul says i've written all this i wrote to the bishop i wrote to the pastor i wrote to the families i wrote to the wives i wrote to the husband i wrote to the deacons i wrote to all of you in the church how that a church should function why because the church is the pillar and the ground of the truth duke university is not the pillar and the ground of truth wake forest university is not the pillar and the ground of truth the capital of this state is not the baseline of truth this church in this city when anybody in durham north carolina wants to know what truth is they should be able to come to the bishop the pastor a wife a husband a deacon a leader a family and say that's what truth is because fpc is the pillar and the ground of the truth [Applause] you may be seated i want to make that more real to you i want to make it more real how many here have ever heard of the burj khalifa see some hands it's on my bucket list it's considered to be the most beautiful and awe-inspiring building that has ever been built by human hands the burns khalifa is in dubai it is presently the tallest structure on planet earth is 2 722 feet tall nearly a half mile into the sky 166 floors construction began in 2004 completed in 2009 35 000 people live and work in the burj khalifa the magnificence of the burj khalifa is unmatched by any other building on our planet how do you build a building a half mile into the sky the cooling system alone in a climate like dubai with an excess of 100 degrees every day with wind and sandstorms that can last four days with at that height can be almost as powerful as tornadoes every day 26 million pounds of ice the equivalent of 26 million pounds of ice has to be used if you were using ice to cool that building the water system to pump water a half mile up in the sky how do you even have pump systems strong enough to do it so on the 45th floor there was a holding tank of 250 000 gallons on the 45th floor to build it 22 million man hours it took and when you think of where it was built on the edge of the water on the beach on the sand a foolish man builds his house on the sand so how do you build burj khalifa some of y'all gonna go home and look it up tonight in 2003 test holes were dug into the ground they studied the soil trying to find bedrock and thousands of years of wind blowing across that dry arid climate had covered to the point it was 140 feet down before they struck bedrock so to build burs khalifa they begin to dig and begin to drive down into the bedrock 150 feet 4 feet wide 194 pillars they poured concrete at night because it was too hot during the day they could not afford there to be any cracks 39 000 tons of rebar i didn't even know this was possible brother urschen to pour those pillars they had to wait till night would fall to cool even enough so the concrete could dry without cracking but in order to do that still wasn't cool enough they literally had to mix ice in the cement because they said to build burs khalifa a half mile in the heavens there cannot be one tiny crack we have to make sure every single eye is dotted and every t is crossed to build the greatest tower that has ever been built no one ever comes to burst khalifa to see the pillars no one ever drives by to see what an incredible set of rebar but when you arrive in dubai it captures your attention it's built on that bedrock built on those 190 450 feet deep four foot wide pillars stands the grandest tallest structure that has ever been built can i tell you people want truth and they're investing their lives in durham and all kinds of things that people are telling them is truth only to let a storm come and it blows it over they live a little while and their hero falls they live a little while and their business crumbles they live a little while and their health crumbles they live a little while and education changes but in durham north carolina there is a church that has built one generation dug down and now god says it's time to build it up so that the world can see what truth really is fbc you are the pillar and the ground of truth paul said timothy i'm writing because we're about to build a grand thing called the church of the living god and i need every elder i need every family i need every husband i need every deacon i need every bishop i need everybody on the same page because the truth is gonna be revealed to the world all that stuff matters all those doctrines of holiness and separation and attention to detail without it we crumble without it we crumble because what what god wants to do in durham is bigger than our wildest imagination he said i can do more than you can ask that's big i got some requests you should hear them brother latif he said i can do it bigger than you can even imagine but the only way we get there is bedrock so pastor young what do we do you get faith in the impossible you get faith in god you get faith in your spirit and you gather your family around you and you say you know what we're tying into this thing we're going to be like rebar in this church and we're going to sink our family in this church we're going to get behind the vision of johnny cold air and the vision of our pastor brother ershad and we're going to tie it together and we're going to mix it together with the holy ghost and we're going to join with our brothers and sisters and we're going to build the greatest church that's ever been built you got to start believing that way you've got to start thinking that way oh you got to start believing there could be a thousand souls spanish church in durham there can be a 2 000 member church in durham what are you saying it's time to build this thing it's time to go where we've never been no cracks no division i listened a few weeks ago staying with me musicians come and listen to the designer that had been the lead engineer making burst khalifa possible and he said there can't be any cracks boy isn't that the way the devil does he tries to divide he tries to get little spots one place the apostle told he said hey you husbands and wives don't let the sun go down in your wrath he said don't give place to the devil what do you mean by that let me tell you in modern language don't give the devil a toehold that's what he's saying because if you give him an inch he takes a mile and if he can create in the body a little oh he knows how to work that crack he knows how to work that little schism he he'll get that screwdriver in there start prying he'll start banging on he'll start y'all know what i'm talking about but you got to see yourself if i'd have been organized enough i'd have got a picture and put burj khalifa up on the screen going tonight you ought to print it out put it on your refrigerator and that's where you need to see yourself that needs to be your idea of what fpc is i can only imagine brother go there what dreams you had when you first came here i got a feeling you had some big dreams i know i follow one of those dudes brother wilson wakes up with a new idea every morning we can do it so here's how we're going to do this i want you i i know y'all don't have a lot of room but however y'all do that maybe we'll do it this way if i do it wrong forgive me i don't know what's protocol i'm california we don't have no protocol all the ministry team the the preachers if your wife and children are here i want y'all to come up with i want my family to come up here i'm standing this is my claim this is my church too this is my north carolina home when i'm out here come on [Applause] if you're if your husband's up here come up here with him or your dad's up here ben you don't have a wife you just stand right there any of the is there are there other ministers here this is it okay all right y'all come out here brother erson [Music] bishop go there if you can you're the bishop you can do whatever you want to do you can sit down and lay on the floor and eat twinkies for all we care come up here [Music] i want every father mother step out and i want your family to meet you up front [Music] just join me and if we run out of room we'll we'll fill back in come up close if you can young men if your mom and dad are here go find them get with them [Music] two good-looking dudes right there [Music] amen hallelujah there it is there it is man y'all got a team up there i want you to look at that that's fpc rising above durham rising above all those false doctrines rising above all those broken homes rising above all the diabolical teachings in wake forest and unc and duke and every other godless place that's trying to tell everybody that god's not real and right in the middle of sand and storms fbc does that resonate does anybody want that now i want you to just this the way my mind works is we're somewhere about pool level i'm gonna be there next month and i can't wait to go through that building i'm gonna get high as up as he'll let me get there's all kinds of records that are broken at the highest hotel in the world the highest restaurant in the world i'm gonna try to i'm gonna eat there i don't care if it's 500 i'm going to build brother hershey we're somewhere around that because [Music] below all of that is everything you are and i want you to picture in your mind that that first level and then that next you'll see that i want you to picture that as stages of growth where fpc is going and it's going to get higher and it's going to get stronger but the responsibility of making that doable is on our shoulders so pastor ursian we're getting under it we're getting our feet settled in the bedrock we're going to take revival on our back and shoulders and we're going to stand up strong we're going to lock arms together and from generation to generation we're going to build a tower that when people roll in this city they say where's that fpc i've heard about that church i've heard about you want your life fixed to get to the tower get to the tower of truth oh they may never know our name they may never see what we did but we built it we got under it and we held it up a tower of the truth fbc you are the pillar and the ground of the truth get ready we're going up get ready we're reaching into the hell [Music] i want you to gather your family put your arm around a mom and dad children young people wrap your arms around your mom and dad oh if you're here and you don't have family grab somebody's hand if it's appropriate and say i bind together with you i join from generation to generation i'm building my family as they begin to sing i want you to begin to pray for your family i want you to begin to pray for your marriage pray for truth in your inward parts pray for revival pray for the truth to be revealed [Music] [Music] is [Music] on my family's in god we're all in with both feet we're committing the division we're committing to building the kingdom of god we're going where no one's ever been before we're gonna build this thing greater bigger stronger higher god we agreed [Applause] [Music] lord i wanna be what you call me [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] god i'm behind your kingdom i'm supporting the work of god we're going to reach the world from durham north carolina the hope of the world is the local church the hope of the world is the local church god brought you here god placed you here oh i'm not going anywhere pastor i'm all in you can depend on me we're gonna build the kingdom of god [Music] me [Music] [Music] is [Music] let's lift our hands to heaven that's love god together [Music] let's ask god to help us [Music] let's ask god to be with us [Music] let's ask god to build us to plant us to establish us the pillar the ground of [Music] thank you truth [Music] is [Music] oh thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you [Music] hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus bishop godair nobody needs to introduce you in this church or around the world but you built a foundation so deep but the goater did not build his foundation on the sand the bible said the wise man the wise man the man that hears the word of god and does it it didn't just say that he built it on the rock and said it dig down and he built it on the rock and this foundation is strong fpc is a church of doctrine it is a church of worship brother goder would say during prayer and during worship service he'd say let's all praise the lord and then if people weren't praising the lord he'd say you're not praising the lord because god's church is a praising church it's a prayerful church it's a consecrated church it's a truth-loving church and he doesn't want this kind of recognition he actually works to put himself in the background and the more he does that the more he shines and if people knew the sacrifices he made and what he's had to go through thank god for a man who built who built the foundation who built this structure who put it together because the truth is we are living in unprecedented times i want my wife i want brother and sister galindo i want you to come out here with us i want ben's to come the future is so very bright spanish ministry is exploding [Music] we have powerful spanish leaders who love god who preach this great truth and i'm excited to be working with the galindo family walking into the future praise god i'm excited to be pastoring the greatest church in the entire world here at fpc praise god and when people pull into durham north carolina i want them to say i want to know where fpc is at i want to know where tdp is at i want to know where to find the holy ghost we're this truth preaching church i've heard all over the world i've seen it online i've heard people talk about it let's find the people that know the truth the pillar and the ground of truth one last time let's lift our hands let's love god together let's ask god to help us in the name of jesus oh god strengthen our hands for this great work that you've called us to anoint your people pour out your holy ghost let there be a mighty demonstration of your spirit of your word in the last days say of god i will pour out my spirit upon all flesh hallelujah it's time for the sons and daughters to prophesy it's time for the old men to see visions and the young men to dream dreams hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah glory to god glory to [Music] [Applause] say god [Applause] i'll say yes [Music] i'm free [Music] let's lift our hands let's love the lord in this place thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus let's glorify god let's glorify god in this house praise be to god praise be to god i look across this congregation i see with the daryl crane i see brother up church i see brother watson i see brother higginbotham i i look around i see elders of god i see the halls i see them teaching bible studies i see them doing what they can and what they have done for decades thank god for the people that have built what they have built thank god for the faithfulness thank god for the steadfastness thank god for every bus ministry leader every every person involved in every capacity i thank god for brother mcgee i thank god for the men and women who labored this this wouldn't be here without you brother mcgee it wouldn't be here without your sacrifices and standing strong with bishop go there now there's another generation and this is a generation that not only is it the fairer family and the fluid family and i could call so many names throughout this place the jones family and the glover family all over this place people who believe god the wood family the woods family if you go too far into those big families you get lost in the woods praise god [Music] but there's another generation even under that there's young brother webb praise god there's the newton family there's the tremale family that are coming up and god's anointing is heavy upon them hallelujah there's brother juan and sister matisha amen there's brother william guerra amen his precious family powerful people of god that are doing a great work for the things of god [Music] for the kingdom of god and i'm excited i'm excited about what the future holds i'm thankful for every person that works so hard fpc works hard we believe in revival and we're going to keep on believing for the glory of god god's going to help us i said god's going to help us amen [Applause] and there's new families there's maynards here and there's scarboroughs here and praise god the bedwells are great people of god love god and and god's using people all over this place and i can't wait to see what god's going to do going forward anybody excited about revival [Applause] [Music] well that might be good for a denominational church but i what about an apostolic church is anybody excited about the new souls about the kingdom about the expansion i let's go ahead and build them let's go ahead and believe god hallelujah amen thank you brother young thank you for preaching to us that was a masterpiece tonight thank you so much for obeying the holy ghost amen amen amen we want you to take the good word of god with you let it strengthen you how many is enjoying 24-hour prayer something that i will mention very quickly before we're dismissed if you have trouble entering in the doorway that has us the doorway has a safety mechanism on that when you enter your code it has a catch on it to where the wind can't blow it open so if it catches release it count to two and open it again for all of those that have been seeking entrance into the kingdom amen but we want the house of the lord to be open and available to whosoever will and if you are having struggles with it please see sister karen or sister gail we have remedies to help you we want everybody to have access to the kingdom of god and to prayer and i believe prayer is going to change things in jesus name amen god bless you go in the grace of god we love you we appreciate you you're dismissed in jesus name [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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