Sunday 11 AM | Fighting the Right Fight, The Right Way | Bishop Patrick L. Wooden, Sr.

hallelujah come on let's bless the lord everybody come on let's bless the name of the lord i will bless the lord at all times and his praises shall continually be in my mouth hallelujah he's worthy he's worthy hallelujah from the rising of the sun to the going down of the sin the name of the lord is worthy to be praised we worship your god we give you glory in your place hallelujah one thing have i desired of the lord that i may seek after that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord and to inquire and is tipped over i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord my feet shall stand within thy gates oh jerusalem hallelujah hallelujah anybody came with a praise on their lips anybody came with their praise hallelujah hallelujah [Music] is exalted and we have the victory somebody praise him come on let's praise him [Music] hallelujah touch your neighbor say neighbor look at your neighbor and say neighbor you look good today but no one else get the praise for god come on everybody come on hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] no one [Music] is [Music] [Music] no [Music] right [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] right [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Music] wow [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh nobody else get the glory but here hallelujah [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to the upper room church of god in christ and the god first broadcast well if the lord has been good to you just give him a praise hallelujah hallelujah we love him we adore him we worship him this morning let's give him a better praise hallelujah and while we're standing we do thank god for the incoming of our great leader the bishop patrick here with the senior and to our first lady we thank god for uh we thank god for first lady princess haynes let's praise god for her we thank god for our first and second assistance elder john our manchoku elder anthony wilson and to all the men of god we thank god for all of them to missionary margaret moses let's praise the lord for her to all the women of god we thank god for you and to all of our beautiful and regal mothers let's praise god for them [Applause] for mother williams and our absence let's praise god for her and to mother willa dean turner our founding mother let's praise god for her [Applause] last but not least i want you to look to your neighbor and just tell your neighbor god's got it and i need it and by faith i'm going to get it well if you really believe that clap your hands and tell the lord thank you our morning worship will begin with prayer by elder alvin geiger old testament scripture evangelist wanda crisp new testament scripture elder adrian howell and after our new testament scripture we have our statement of faith and following our statement of faith by evangelist disandra murden after our statement of faith we will have our him and please after i him please be seated loves jesus [Music] [Music] my soul jesus my soul loves jesus my soul loves jesus [Music] yes [Applause] oh yes [Applause] [Music] let us bow our heads dear kind father lord we come to you as humble as we know how lord we got thanksgiving in our mouth and in our hearts lord we give you the praise the honor and the glory in jesus name lord we thank you for our eight o'clock service for the spirit of god is still in this place lord for that we just say thank you lord we thank you for the saints to make it here safely lord jesus lord that saint that was burdened down lord jesus lord we know that you're a burden lifter in the name of jesus lord that saint that was sick in their body lord jesus touch their body in the name of jesus lord we thank you for our pastor lord jesus bishop patrick l wooden senior lord jesus lord he's going on 34 years lord jesus and for that we say thank you lord jesus lord he's still standing on your word lord jesus and for that we say thank you lord jesus lord touch him from the top of his head to the soul of his feet in the name of jesus lord bless first lady in the name of jesus lord continue to give her strength in the name of jesus lord bless first assistant lord jesus lord second assistant lord jesus as they continue to serve lord jesus lord give them the strength father lord continue to do the work lord jesus and be a servant for you jesus lord bless all the elders and the ministers lord jesus as they fight back lord jesus as they fight against sin lord jesus as they preach your word jesus and stand on you jesus love her that we say thank you lord bless the evangelist jesus bless the missionary jesus lord we thank you jesus lord for every saint lord jesus somebody is going through something right now lord jesus lord we ask that you be with him father in the name of jesus for this power in your name jesus for your king of kings and lord of lords jesus and for that i say thank you jesus lord move by your spirit jesus we thank you for the power of the holy ghost jesus moving inside of us jesus give somebody a fresh anointing jesus refill him jesus lord we thank you right now lord we point it all to you lord we point it all to you lord we give you the honor lord we give you the praise and we give you the glory in jesus name we pray bless the service in the name of jesus in the name of jesus we pray amen our old testament scripture will be coming from psalm 27 verses 1 through 4 and i will be reading from the king james version the lord is my light and my salvation whom shall i fear the lord is the strength of my life of whom shall i be afraid when the wicked even mine enemies in my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and failed though a host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear the war shall rise against me in this will i be confident one thing have i desired of the lord that will i seek after that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord and to inquire in his temple [Applause] the new testament scripture is coming from james chapter 5 verse 13-15 and the lord words read that's following is any among you afflicted let him pray is any merry let him sing songs is any sick among you let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him anointing him with oil in the name of the lord and the prayer of faith shall save the sick and the lord shall raise him up and if he have committed sins they shall be forgiven him amen read the statement of amen i believe concerning the bible [Music] our belief concerning god [Music] our belief concerning the church our belief concerning [Music] our since concerning salvation [Music] our belief concerning christ [Music] our belief concerning sanctification we believe in the sanctifying power of the holy spirit by whose indwelling the christian is unable to live a holy and separated life in this world amen [Music] have you been to jesus [Music] trusting in [Music] thank disgrace [Music] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] everybody man at this time we're going to have our welcome address by sister joanna mccoy following her we will have our greetings by our first lady and following after our first lady we will have our announcements by evangelist patricia lester following the announcements we're going to have our musical selection by the upper room praise team and immediately following our selection we're going to have our presentation of our pastor by elder anthony wilson say amen for everyone good morning good morning to all of the saints gathered together in the house of the lord to our uh members on youtube live and facebook live we greet everyone this morning we stand at this time to welcome all of our visitors and guests if you are worshiping with us for the first time if you're visiting in the area visiting with family and friends or just plan to come to the upper room today we would like for you to stand and visitors good morning to you god bless you good morning so glad to have you please do remain standing on behalf of our pastor bishop patrick l wooden senior first lady pamela wooden and the entire upper room church family welcome to the service of the lord we're very glad that you chose the upper room to worship this morning our ushers are approaching you now to pass out visitors cards we would like for you to complete those and return them during the offering and attached to the visitors card is a name tag that we would like for you to fill out and to wear so that our members may greet you properly we are so glad that you're here today if you have any needs during our service today we have hospitality workers they're standing at the back doors with black dresses and yellow flowers and they'd be eager to assist you with any needs that you may have during our service again we're glad you are at the upper room if you noticed or may have been wondering about the rainbow flags hanging in our rafters we at the upper room are reclaiming god's rainbow we believe that the rainbow belongs to the church the one that you see hanging to your right is the one that god promised us in the opening book of the bible that he would not flood the earth again with water the one that you see directly behind me is the one he promised us in the closing book of the bible that we'll see around about the throne when we get to heaven we're the saints of god we believe that things of god and the rainbow belongs to the church we know there is a word from the lord that shall come forth with power and with authority and we pray you would hear and receive from the lord this morning he has something special in store for you upper room church family we're so glad to have visitors in our midst today we also would like to acknowledge the presence of the visitors during our eight o'clock upper room please stand with me let's greet our visitors warmly visitors we're glad you're here praise the lord let's clap our hands once more for our visitors amen and let's give god a thunderous praise for his goodness and his mercy toward the children of men certainly we are glad to be in the house of the lord one more time every time we get the opportunity to come to the house of the lord it is a blessing and a privilege we thank god for being here and we thank god for seeing each of you in the sanctuary on this morning and i tell you i don't know about you but i come to church on sunday morning on thursday night to hear a word from the lord i don't know what the future holds i don't know what next week have in store for me but i know that god knows and i know that god will send a word that will meet me in at my point of need i thank the lord for our great pastor and leader almighty man of god god bless him praise the lord to the first assistant and the second assistant god bless them to all these mighty men of god to our district missionary missionary moses god bless you woman of god to first lady um first lady princess haynes i was gonna say chris i was trying to keep from saying chris to first lady haynes i know your name but just slit me for a minute then and to all of our beautiful mothers uh members thanks and friends god bless you everyone and i tell you i'm just excited about again this word that's coming forth he talked to us on thursday night about fighting the right fight the right way amen and i tell you sometimes we are tempted in our flesh to fight our fights from the flesh but i tell you the battle that has come to us the battle that's going on and raging in the world today we have to fight the right fight the right way with the right weapons amen and we know that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they are mighty through god and then ephesians uh the sixth chapter lets us know all of the weapons that god has given us and so we're ready and we are prepared god has given us the arsenal that we need to fight the good fight of faith in these last and evil days i say to you set out to cubs prepare your hearts to hear and to receive the word of the lord our pastor and leader is armed with a word from the lord those of you on facebook and youtube live thank you for tuning in prepare your hearts to hear to receive the word of the lord and be blessed god bless you [Applause] good morning upper room church family we have a couple of verbal announcements elder clarence and missionary tabitha rayford celebrated their 31st anniversary on wednesday august 25th congratulations to them additionally we would like to extend a warm happy birthday to mother gwendolyn ellison she is the mother of our dear pastor mother-in-law of our dear first lady she is celebrating her birthday on today august 29th let's give her a handclap she should be in shortly amen at this time please direct your attention to our monitors for our video announcements [Music] everyone is encouraged to join us for tuesday night service to be held august 31st at 7 30 p.m in the multi-purpose room the speakers will be missionary wynonna tyson and elder andres barrios [Music] the homegoing service for sister sean woods will be held friday september 3rd at 11 a.m here at the upper room please continue to keep the woods and bronson families in your prayers the north carolina third jurisdiction coaching academy is preparing for its 2021 fall semester enrollment if you've been called into ministry and desire to pursue licensure and ordination or you would just like to gain a deeper understanding of doctrine while enhancing your educational level nc3 kojic academy is for you our training will engage called ministers and missionaries as well as laypersons to zealously defend the god of the bible and spread the gospel of jesus christ registration is open now through september 10th and classes begin saturday september 11th all classes will be in person and video conferenced via zoom at the upper 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for a vigorous defense of the gospel of jesus christ calling all parents grandparents families teachers social workers therapists and supporters of youth anxiety depression suicide loneliness fear drugs and alcohol human trafficking and sexual immorality are just a few of the enemies which attack our youth daily let's go to war on their behalf through prayer join elder john ammanchukwu with parents in prayer every first and third wednesday at 6 00 am the new conference call number is 351-888-6425 and an access code is not required i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord if you are in or visiting the raleigh area and looking for an opportunity to gather with the saints for a god first experience the upper room is pleased to offer two services every sunday morning join us at 8am and 11am for sunday worship service in the sanctuary you can also join the upper room church of god in christ every sunday at 11 a.m and thursdays at 7 30 p.m for the live stream of our services on facebook live and youtube live bishop patrick l wooden senior will bring a fresh word from the lord relevant to our times and equip you to contend for the faith thank you to our viewers throughout the united states and abroad for your weekly support of our broadcast please be reminded there are several ways to give to the upper room church of god in christ for online giving please visit easytithe.com forward slash urc also please use only one email address for each easy time account so we can properly track your giving you may also visit our website upper upperroomgospel.org and select the giving tab or you can mail your gift to the upper room church of god in christ post office box 447 garner north carolina 27529 first time text to gift users can text urc give to four five seven seven seven and you will receive a link to complete your giving if you have used text to give before you can simply enter the amount and fund for example twenty five dollar tithe to four five seven seven seven as always thank you very much for supporting the upper room church of god in christ join superintendent william h cooper ii and the new horizons district for the fifth sunday aim service to be held this evening at 6 pm district first lady laverne cooper will be honored and the guest speaker will be jurisdictional first lady pamela wooden the service will be held at salt of the earth church of god in christ located at 1412 north church street in burlington additionally the service will be streamed live on the salt of the earth facebook page bishop wooden will be the guest speaker for the north carolina faith and freedom coalition salt and light conference to be held saturday september 25th from 9 a.m to 6 p.m at temple baptist church the church is located at 3615 rockford street in mount airy north carolina more information is forthcoming [Music] [Applause] [Music] unmovable bishop that's exactly what you are you're steadfast you stand firm in your allegiance to the word of god my name is jasmine thomas and i have been a member here at the upper room for 27 years now and i have watched you continuously stand firm on the word of god and never waver when people had things to say when people didn't agree with you and when it wasn't popular you continue to stand on the word of god bishop i just wanted to say happy anniversary i'm proud of you i support you and i'm standing with you so i can remember being in about the 9th or 10th grade it was i believe may of the year 2012 and we in north carolina were here fighting the marriage amendment i was then attending up room christian academy and i remember us taking our whole high school downtown to support our bishop and his fight for the faith it was hot that day but it was an awesome experience being on the front lines being able to sit there on the front row with picket signs in our hands and see our bishop really stand on the word of god like that it is now 2021 nine years later and we are still seeing our bishop fight the exact same fight that is the definition of unmovable in my opinion my name is desmond thomas and bishop i just wanted to let you know how much we love you and appreciate you i've been a member of this church all my life i turned 25 at the end of this year and i can honestly say i have seen this man of god never waver on his word never waver on the word of god and i appreciate that because it gives men like me faith and confidence to stand up and fight the fight every single day bishop we love you we appreciate you we thank you happy 34th pastor anniversary get ready for the 34th pastoral anniversary celebration of bishop patrick l wooden senior unmovable sunday september 19th prepare to be a blessing to our man of god during two power pack services at 8am and 11am we're pleased to welcome guest artists michael boone and jarrell smalls but that's not all prepare yourselves to hear the priest's word from bishop destree c bell when i was lost upon the cross it's the 34th pastoral anniversary celebration of bishop patrick l wooden senior unmovable sunday september 19th at 8 am and 11 a.m at the upper room church of god in oh christ many of you excited to be in the house of the lord one more time [Music] [Music] hello [Music] [Music] huh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i can't begin [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] now wow [Music] one more time [Applause] right [Music] [Applause] right [Music] [Music] [Music] i want you to help me with your honor prison we have been serving for the last 34 years can we celebrate her today this is our last sunday with us and sister wanda we just want to take it out with the veins we want to let you know we love you we appreciate you and we are praying for you i want to snap with your brain come on [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] been [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] oh bless his wonderful name oh we honor the god of the bible go ahead and give him the highest praise hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus [Music] he's worthy to be brave we're resting on our feet all over the sanctuary facebook live youtube live saints and friends that are gathered in here i told them in eight o'clock service and i'll tell it again when you're excited about something you repeat it over and over again i love jesus hallelujah there's power in the name of jesus i'm glad to be saved sanctified in holy ghost field i love my beautiful wife and i love my children i love my church family but guess what else i love in a couple of weeks i love the opportunity to celebrate what i believe is the greatest possible of all times oh i'm talking unmovable you heard he is a multi-generational leader he's impacted so many lives and i'm one that have benefited from his ministry so many could testify and god has been good to us here at the upper room people from all over the globe realize the oil that is on his life and so therefore we that are here with him in the sanctuary appreciate the hand of god that is on our leader so without further ado put your hands together and receive [Music] a loose here and receive the greatest leader come on you can do better than that our pastor bishop patrick lane wouldn't see you let us give the god of the bible praises today [Applause] [Music] give him praise all over the sanctuary for the lord is good and worthy to be praised and how many know today he's the hero he's the reason he's our strength he's our song he's the one that we're here to praise and adore and we've done it thus far in the service god met us in the 8 o'clock service but i tell you you can't praise him too much and i often say this about the god of the bible he is the only one uh that it is impossible to flatter flattery by definition is too much phrase you cannot praise the lord too much would you give him praises once more what a mighty god what a mighty god how many soldiers do we have in here today if you feel like a soldier clap your hands if you're not a soldier don't worry about it but if we are soldiers and we're marching up to zion how many of you let me hear you glory to god everybody everybody [Music] [Music] [Music] you gotta hold up [Music] i'm just a stranger here this world is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] my mother is a soldier she's got her hands on the gospel plow [Music] today she gets one year older but she said son i'm gonna fight anyhow [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] it takes courage to stand for jesus [Music] it takes courage to live holy it takes courage to carry on everybody here takes care of jesus and it takes courage [Music] we need more [Music] praying for courage to stand alone i'm praying for courage [Music] to carry it on [Music] one last thing i'm encouraged to stand for jesus i'm encouraged to stand alone i'm encouraged to live holy and i'm encouraged to carry on we need more [Music] [Music] courage in the streets [Music] territory [Music] and we need to stand alone [Music] give the god of the bible praises if you will [Music] you can have your season but while you're sitting there just lift your hands and worship how many love to pray how many love to follow god how many love to live holy facebook youtube friends worship with us oh man i just love it [Music] i love walking with you talking about the lawyer i love i love walking with you you can take me anyplace you want to because i love walking with you [Music] i love talking with you i love to pray i love i love i love talking with you [Music] everything you tell me is always true yeah i love [Music] [Music] you make me feel so special lord you make me feel i'm important to you and when i'm having a problem you always have a gentleman bringing me through [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] one last thing i love singing to you i love i love i love singing to you you write those melodies that keep me [Music] so sing to me [Music] [Music] walk with me [Music] i [Music] [Music] i i love [Music] bless his name what a mighty god what a mighty god what a mighty god we give honor to the god of the bible the god and father of our lord and savior jesus christ what almighty god [Music] we serve to my first and second amen mighty men of god today let's praise the lord for them [Music] they're doing a tremendous job to elder mccoy who did a tremendous job as our master of ceremony he's a mighty warrior for christ and a christian apologist and thank you today to all of our elders and ministers the guy prayed a powerful opening prayer today blessed us real good and uh so we thank the lord for him we thank god for our district missionary and amen all the missionaries all of the elders to our administrator and sister lester to the mothers today god bless you amen mother tongue the lord bless you today and we certainly do honor our spiritual mom and honor mother williams and all of the mothers today and i've been looking for and hoping she would get here amen thank god for my mother today is her birthday happy birthday mama i tell you it's a big deal it's a big deal you say what you will have made when you've had a conversation with your your mother and she'll look at you and plan her own homegoing service and tell you what colors you want this to be and what colors you want that to be and what she wants to wear and what songs she won't sing and then tell you to preach it that's a conversation there and then only to see god say not so and [Applause] two years later still here and looking beautiful today oh my i'm i'm just grateful to the lord for being so good and so kind and for sparing uh my mother and letting her live i gave a call this morning and uh i hope i was the first one to get in to say if i beat you you and gabriel and all y'all to the punchy hey man mama i i thought about calling around um four because i was up you know my son just died between four and four thirty i don't like the rush getting ready to go to church and so giving us giving us enough time for the first service you know and i said no that's too early to call and i waited for as long as i could and then when i did put the call in by the grace of god that sweet voice answered and i'm thankful amen god is good god is good i want to thank the lord today for my lovely wife the first lady of the upper room i tell you she's precious i was praying to god the other day and i said god just keep her covered watch over and lord let my let my wife live and cause your face to ever shine upon her she's a gift and i'm i bless the lord for her today would you give her another big hand praise the lord she stepped out i'm i'm giving her dedication and look i look back and look like the rapture taking place amen that happens she'll hear it say amen but god is god is so good um i want to thank god for our streaming audience today uh friends on facebook and youtube live god bless you our members from near and far and we're grateful uh friends in jamaica we thank you for uh your wonderful correspondence uh with us my things my things uh brethren um i have something special that i want to show you and while they're getting it i know that people are waiting uh for the count and three babies were saved yesterday lord i thank you lord thank you so much jesus uh and and one of the ladies who changed her mind one of the mothers were carrying twins and she went there with the intentions to end the life of twins and god by the help of the saints of god love life and the happy warriors changed her mind and those twins are living and those twins will live and you never know who and what those twins will grow up to be and whether the twins ever meet those who are responsible for changing their mother's mind on this side uh is irrelevant but god knows and god sees and thank god for that i think that's good work don't you i think that's good work i think i i call work like that rubber meets the road christianity amen and i believe that all life is sacred born [Music] and unborn amen you know they used to try to have an argument as to when the fruit of the womb isn't a human being and i i always thought that had to be the dumbest argument ever because at what point can a human being bring or give birth or get and carry anything other than a human being not maybe a human being at various stages of development but still a human being what do you think it was a cat a dog what do you think an alligator or a crocodile it had to have been a human being amen and so we thank the lord and you know when we talk like this and to our friends who are watching there's anyone who is uh here today who has had an abortion and you've repented of your sins walk in your forgiveness we're not talking about you and we don't want you to feel bad and there's no need to feel that you need to leave or to stand up and testify or anything like that we're just trying to save the next baby and the next one and the next one and that was a sin the killing of the unborn and the babies was a sin that god said that he would not pardon in the old testament so the lord doesn't look favorable on a nation that does these things and no one says anything or does anything about it so we thank the lord for that i am um we have such a wonderful um god of givingness i i feel at the upper room the finest members anywhere and we have some wonderful wonderful friends who love us and support us people who love jesus christ and a dear friend screenshotted something the other day a picture of your pastor and and uh he he did a quote i have it in my office hanging on my wall i wanted you to see uh what he did i thought it was powerful if you all would uh in the uh the room that would put that picture on the screen the god side of history picture that was sent to me and i was actually standing approximately right here and i actually said i'm not worried about being on the right side on the wrong side of history i just want to be on the god side of history and a man of god captured that and put that that cloud the sky behind it like that and and sent that i think that's a powerful thing don't you amen i'm very very um appreciative and in our fight to you know we still believe in uh that to be heterosexual is right patricia did they take a picture of this that all right uh i have here this was so beautiful now this was sent to me yes okay you can see it good but these cameras are something say amen say amen again this is set from one of our members who live uh in memphis tennessee and she joined the church and she loves the ministry and she'll be visiting soon but this is look at this this this pail here it has god first and you see the cross there and you see the rainbow sign isn't that beautiful uh just of things that inspire people to do kind things and i'm going to take it and proudly display it in my office and i'm making a mess up here but i want to show you one other thing that blessed me real good because and one of the reasons i point these things out to you is that you know the devil wants you to believe that nobody that you know not many people uh are interested in god's truth and all of that and they'll tell you preaching the way we preach if you keep that up everybody's gonna turn on you and all that i mean if they did i'm still going to preach it but uh there is a market [Applause] there is a market for god's truth and i'll just read just a little bit of this it says thank you bishop wooden and church of god in christ family i am so thrilled to have found you in the upper room a few weeks ago you spoke on the split rock at mount sinai and i wanted to share these with you my parents my sister and i are the ones who rediscovered it in the wilderness of arabia and these are the these are part of our story and he goes on to talk about how much he appreciate our steadfastness in the word and willingness to preach the unadulterated word of god and uh this man he he's his family i was deeply touched uh are the ones who rediscovered and you remember when i was showing you uh the rock praise the lord come and help me out with this and uh here it is right here and this is the this is the rock that moses struck and the rock split and water remember i showed you that gushed out from the rock well this man's family rediscovered this and sent the video if i could do a close-up on the the video and the book uh it's by penny cox cadwell the god of the mountain and uh uh here's the book with the story of what transpired and all of this biblical evidence is right there in saudi arabia and when we were showing you this a few weeks ago on the screen we had not you never know who's watching and god has a way of letting people find you and we were quite honored that they would find us and and would take the time um to write uh it is so encouraging to hear from christians uh of of this note and who care enough to send something to encourage you to carry on in the name of the lord isn't the lord good god is good speaking of being encouraged sister jasmine you and dj i spoke with him in the 8 o'clock and i was so touched and so impressed by your tributes would you please give her a big hand amen and i was i was so blessed i was walking out and uh i wasn't supposed to see yours but there was a a gentleman here um visiting today and i wanted to greet him his dad is a dear friend of mine he's an attorney uh by trade he has two of his brothers are bishops in our church he's an attorney in our church and his son attends duke university and he wanted to be here today and while embracing him you came up on the screen and i was so touched by the kind things that you and your brother had to say i've been so blessed by these tributes give her another big hand please [Applause] evangelist wander crisp [Applause] brother rayford said when he was after you you sang he said this is sister wanda this is her last sunday she's leaving i want him to complete the sentence she's moving to california she's moving not not not just leaving she's moving see now we we don't we don't have no we don't celebrate you for leaving you can leave you leave goodbye but may the lord god bless you real good and we love you in the lord but that's between leaving and moving and she's moving to california to san francisco to join her daughter first lady princess um haines and pastor willie haines church to carry on the work of the lord amen and she's been here now i've been here 34 years and she was here when i came and this is her last sunday we bid you god speed and may the lord continue to bless and keep you and cause his face to shine upon you and i told them they had a wonderful a wonderful celebration this past um friday and i said i thank the lord i tell you who's happy delta and and these airlines they're glad because they're going to make some money off of flying back and forth from raleigh to california from the left coast back over here with us and we're proud of you and the lord bless and keep you is our sense of prayer amen [Applause] amen so we just thank the lord and we thank god for everybody being here today we're glad to see you we're glad to see you you know 8 a.m the 11th the 8 o'clock uh was was just tremendous people everywhere then to see you here for the eleven uh we thank god for every one of you and may god continue to bless you and tonight the first lady will be the keynote speaker my lovely wife is going to be the keynote speaker for uh the service honoring first lady laverne cooper she's the wife of our district superintendent superintendent william h cooper ii and before i go to the word i want to show you something that just uh gave me such uh pride and um you know i'm i'm walking on clouds i want you to brethren to show on the screen the saturday morning sunday school the saturday morning sunday school this past saturday morning sunday school the sunday school teachers were my grandchildren john patrick pamelan and john junior and how oh she she called her she called john junior amen and uh uh they i i was so proud that uh that that that that opportunity would come their way and and they took it and uh i thank the lord for them and i don't know of anybody that wouldn't be proud of that that's a big deal to god be the glory to god the glory i'm quite quite uh impressed and uh john patrick is playing football now and they got him they got him on the offensive line he's playing the same position that his grandfather played well and his dad did too you know i have a good time with my son-in-law he's a great father he's a great dad and oftentimes i just claim his credit amen but i'm but i'm glad that they have a father in the house and he they're tackling and blocking and amen amen amen so i'm i'm proud of that and and i i thank the lord for that i i um i want to thank god for coach brooks being with us today god bless you sir he coached el nino ahmanchuk coached him in high school and he and his lovely wife they came by the other day it was such a joy to meet them and coach i know you have to feel good about seeing one of your students go on and take the principles and things that he learned in sports and to make something special out of his life thank you sir for your contribution and for what you've done to countless young men amen give them a big hand and that you would come and be with us today is indeed an honor praise the lord let me call your attention now to the word of the lord ephesians chapter number 6. we're going to read in your hearing the 10th through the 18th verse amen ephesians chapter number six i'm so blessed to see uh my brother heath and his wife and gabriel and his wife my nephews so good to see you great big football players over there some big boys amen god is good i love them here celebrating mama today and nieces that's right thank you pam nephews and nieces we get that wrong sometimes amen god is good god is so good if you have ephesians chapter 6 and verse 10 say i have it this is a continuation of the message that we began this past thursday night and i'm i'm i'm going to try to finish it today but if what happened uh earlier is any indication we won't and we will be uh talking about this uh the lord willing this thursday night as well and it's not me it's just it's just that the word of god is so dense it's so dense you you can spend oh my you could spend months on a text and never scratch the surface the bible is the it's not a it is the inexhaustible book you can exhaust um all other books you can read them and get out of them all you're gonna get but the word of god is living and powerful and quicker than any two-eighth sword and and this book is about a god that the bible says his ways of past finding out and how unsearchable paul says are his depths he's so deep till when you get to what you think is the bottom you still have that much further to go what a mighty god we serve so we will take a stab at teaching the word of the lord today beginning with the tenth verse it says finally my brethren be strong in the lord and in the power of his might put on the whole armor of god that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places wherefore take unto you the whole armor of god in verse 11 he says put on the whole armor verse 13 take unto you the whole alma of god that you may be able to withstand that is to stand up against to stand up against or resist that you may be able to withstand in the evil day now watch this and having done all comma to stand king james version let me translate that last phrase and having done all comma to stand it's simply stand firm comma continue but what king james translates and having done all is literally stand firm comma continue continue is the translation of to stand sometimes we read that as though the we read it without the punctuation and haven't done all to stand it's not the way it's written and having done all comma to stand period so you can't interpret it as and haven't done all to stand because the punctuation doesn't allow that and having done all comma to stand period stand firm comma continue period stand firm comma continue period and and verse the the next verse uh verse 14 says stand therefore that is continue therefore does that make sense that makes sense if you you know if you if you look at it grammatically and look at the punctuation you see that what i'm telling you uh makes sense and it goes a long way toward understanding exactly what it is that he's telling us to do he says continue therefore having or stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth and notice this now look it's not gert about with your truth it's god's truth and i'm going to tell all the ministers here i don't want to hear anything about but this is my truth no no no no no we're not interested in your truth we preach god's truth god's true god's truth you can't you can't go there here if you stand up here and you talk about your truth you're not going to preach here anymore we have to be careful i'm going to preach today how we allow the world to make its way into our language the world's um sayings the world's maxims the world's uh comments see the most powerful thing on earth are words how do i know when god decided to reveal himself to mankind god revealed himself by calling himself the word in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god and the word the bible says was made flesh and dwelt amongst us words and what we say is terribly is very important when you read about the god of the bible have you noticed you see all in the old testament god talks about his covenants covenants are made of words the bible talks about vials vows um that you take a made of words what you say and how you say it matters to god jesus said you can say to yonder's mountain be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea and it shall obey you the man said to the lord i am a man under authority i know i you know i tell one man to go and he goes and tells another man to come and he come he says i understand you don't have to come to my house just send the word marketers know this that in a pr battle he who controls the language normally wins the war the world understands the power of words and sayings so if you notice in more cases than not the vernacular the colloquialisms the sayings of the world the nomenclature of the world finds its way into the church it is amazing that our words and nomenclature and our sayings don't find their way into their into the club but that stuff they could come up these rappers can come up with stuff and all of a sudden i was told one time about a church where they broke out and everybody was chanting a praise saying ride or die ride or die ride or die how did that become a phrase i was in a conference one time in a collection of bishops and i heard uh one man when bishop was talking he says in my first life i was and he kept talking and it was like it was like the words it was like a claw screeching across a blackboard in my spirit just that that sound when i heard him say that because here's a man of god up and he's bringing in the talk the nomenclature the teachings of hinduism that has no place amongst christians in in in in biblical christianity we don't believe in reincarnation we don't you don't come back as someone else as a matter of fact uh that's false anyway because when when hinduism first came to america when people like the bhagwan tri rajneesh and all of them came in the 70s and they were trying to push the uh hinduism and all that stuff it didn't catch on because the first teachings of hinduism was that when you died you came back as a cow or something like that and america wasn't buying that they attend the service until you brought that part up this i'll come back as what so you mean tell me that's the reason why you have starving people in your country but cows are everywhere all those hamburgers steaks and all that just right right there and you're starving to death because you believe that that's grandma seriously so it didn't catch on in america and you know what they did they did what you do with all false doctrines they altered it so now you can come back and in your next life you can come back and be a prince or king or you get to get get a whole new do-over and so people fail for that but that kind of language has no place in the christian church so let's let's be careful about what we incorporate in our language when they were building zagaraps temples that would go up maybe 250 feet in the air in babylon and shinar god to stop them confused and confounded their language the lord wasn't concerned that they were going to build a temple that would go all the way up to the sky where jesus is the space shuttle won't do that a rocket you can't get in a rocket ship and fly and go straight up to where god is amen the rover that's supposed to be on mars sending back pictures anyway it can't get to where god is now you got to die to get to where god is so the lord's concern wasn't that they were going to build a tower to go to him the issue was he wanted the earth replenished they were building towers to keep men right there in mesopotamia the cradle of civilization the lord gave them the blessings of ficondity in genesis chapter 9 after the after the flood had receded and it was a large will that the human race uh that the planet be replenished populated so as man was trying to stay in one place god says no i'm gonna divide you and send you somewhere else he confounded the languages nothing is as important as words so be careful what you allow to come out of your mouth and uh so he says in our text and i'm going to preach and uh it's going to to bless you the lord willing real good have your loins girded about with truth that truth is god's truth and having on the breastplate of righteousness and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace and above all taking the shield of faith wherewith you may be able to quench the fiery dots of the wicked and take the helmet of salvation which is the take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of god praying always see if you take many times people stop there at that uh at that colon uh in verse 17 but none of these things happen without activating them and uh and and preparing to receive them and the preparatory passage is verse 18 it says praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints notice the emphasis that he places on prayer praying always paul says with all prayer and supplication supplications is a prayers to supplicate is to pray a targeted prayer you're praying about something specifically so he says praying always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit and watching unto the unto all perseverance pray in the spirit until you persevere so how long do i pray about it how long do i battle until i win you don't give up you don't walk away saying lord i tried god wants us all to be winners in christ we pray with all perseverance and knows here it is again and supplication for all saints semicolon then paul says and pray for me that utterance may be given unto me that i may open my mouth boldly and make known the mysteries of the gospel i'm trying to get to a period comma for which i am an ambassador in bonds i'm in jail for christ that therein i may speak boldly as i ought to speak for your consideration verse 12 says for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in hot places this is part two of fighting the right fight the right way fighting the right fight the right way father bless us as we preach the word of the lord today in jesus name amen fighting the right fight the right way you know many times today the church is involved in fighting the wrong fights the wrong way we many times major and minors and we minor in majors major things i think we've witnessed just a few day for the last week or so what happens when the military and generals and people in positions of authority fight the wrong fight while our generals are fighting to promote wokeness in the military while they're assessing the greatest threat and danger to our military and to our nation is racism so we've got to fight to get rid of the racists they took their eyes off of al qaeda the taliban as they were gobbling afghanistan the president was asked do you think that afghanistan will fall just in june or july of this month of this year he said no he fell so fast and nobody was even ready why because we're distracted looking at the wrong things not paying attention to things that ought to be you saw what happened last summer y'all won't like me today but in many cases we were marching all over the country shutting down shopping centers destroying shopping centers raiding businesses shutting down freeways marching all over the country chanting the name george floyd my comments is not about george floyd my comments about us but you'd be hard-pressed to find any of us who will march or even just come down and visit a clinic with thousands of babies over which the overwhelming of which the overwhelming majority are black just as black as you and me are slaughtered every day all that marching about one man but not a whimper about thousands that are slaughtered every day every day one of our riders the other day i won't mention the city that he said that he was in because i don't want to indict anybody but he was in one of our major cities where we have bishops and pastors and superintendents to spare pastors bishops auxiliary bishops i mean we got all the positions and he said while their own business i visited a clinic and said there stood one white man and i went there and i marched and i stood with him and said for the time that i was there he was their own business he said no one else came and i thought about all of the church leaders that i know personally good people in that city but they have no interest in fighting this right battle the right way we've stood idly by and allowed marriage to be redefined family is being redefined um we are defining deviancy down i've been talking to you about that things that we used to call deviant and we used to be somewhat shocked and alarmed about now is treated as normal i told you the other day that the saint valentine's day massacre which was considered to be horrible was four men killing seven gangsters on valentine's day that's a light weekend in chicago now that's almost like weekend in some of these neighboring counties and even here we've defined deviancy down are you praying for me satan is coming against us and i'm here today to sound the alarm and say to the church that we are going to have to fight amen um forget uh adopting this strategy that you can just go stand off in a corner and i'll stand up in the corner i'll be a good guy or a good gal and i'll make no noise and nobody will bother me no no satan's coming against us all right satan's coming against us all we're all being challenged in this day and time and but i believe that god has given us what we need to reign paul says to the saints at ephesus i won't spend much time in laying a foundation because we talked about it thursday night he says finally my brethren be strong in the lord and in the power of his might we said thursday night that the power must the strength we must draw strength from jesus from jesus jesus must be our power source and no one else amen and the power of christ is sufficient he gives us more than power i read to you where the bible teaches that christ is exalted far above principalities not just above but far above room to spare amen i thank god for that but we've got to turn to him and we've got to trust in him and we've got to lean on him and we're told in verse 11 to put on the whole armor of god and verse 13 take all up the whole arm of god the idea is put it on and never take it off you you wear it as a uniform that you never shed and many times we compare the roman soldier as paul writes about this and we show the soldier but and there's nothing wrong with that but according to isaiah chapter 11 and verse 5 and isaiah chapter 59 and verse 17 the armor is god's armor god is telling the believer that i want you to dress up in what i wear myself the bible says in isaiah 11 5 and righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins and the faithfulness and faithfulness the girdle of his reigns isaiah 59 and 17 says for he put on righteousness as a breastplate and as a helmet of salvation upon an and helmet of salvation upon his head and he put on the garment of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal and as a cloak you know the enemy wants to rob us of isil amen wants to it's the will of satan to make the church apathetic matter of fact jesus predicted that the last epic the last stage of the church would be that of apathy apathy laid back as a matter of fact the laodiceans were described as laid-back people one writer said that their invitation was come on over to laodicea and join us and they were just as relaxed as they could be and jesus said this about their estate of apathy he says and this is described in the last day church he says because you say that we are rich i am rich and increase with goods and check this out and have need of nothing see when people don't sense that they need anything they're not zealous to get anything see and you know when you got to be careful that you don't let the devil rob you of your zeal see an an apathetic christian can never win against a christian who is still hungry i told them at eight o'clock what the devil want to do he wants to rob us and i worry this way of the dog in us see you got to have some dog in you some desire in you if you're gonna do if you're gonna make it in this oftentimes the prize fighter who ends up losing his belt the champ who gets dethroned becomes apathetic see it's one thing to be out there running in the winter time getting in shape for your fight and you don't have any money in the bank you're talking about something that'll just get you up you're out there and you're punching that uh that heavy bag and you doing all of the work because you're hungry your family is depending on you you need to win this fight that's very different from after you've won a few now you got three or four hundred million dollars in the bank you'll ask yourself why you out there running what am i doing this far almost worth uh 400 million dollars of a certain that heavy bag can easily get too heavy and what happens is the man who was broke like you were and who was as hungry as you used to be before you got full that man will come and take your title because he has more of a reason to fight he has zeal you've been lulled into a false sense of security and achievement and all of a sudden you begin to skip stages i saw one man fight a fight not too long ago and i told my wife i said he's gonna lose that fight right before the fight um he was downstairs the boxer you know most time when the fighter gets ready to fight a heavyweight championship match you're not downstairs in the locker room with your wife she's sitting on the couch beside you and you cooling out before the fight his opponent was in there getting ready i told my wife i said he's going to lose that fight he says how you know i said uh he's too relaxed his zeal is gone god he's got his honey down there that ain't the place for you honey send her up into the stands i'll see you when this is all matter of fact i don't need to see you for the next 14 weeks because i'm going to need all of my strength to beat my opponent because he's doing the same thing see some of you who have never been uh athletes and content contended you don't understand that no no at a certain time you know you got to praise the lord walk away from the pleasures of this life in preparation for what's coming up say amen god gave egypt seven years of plenty but god knew i've got to tell them in the seven years of plenty that they will follow seven years of famine because if you get seven years of plenty it's easy by that third year to feel like this is the way it's going to always be by the fourth year you you feel like you are an expert at knowing how to keep plenty here we are today in our 67th week back into live services but in week 67 we don't want to not be careful we don't want to not be smart now we know what we're doing but if you're not careful you can lose your age and get messy and get sloppy god said tell them that there's seven years of famine coming after the seven years of plenty tell them because they'll think that after five or six years of plenty that this is the way it's going to be from now on but it will get just as bad as it was good and everybody knows that if you don't save in the seven years of plenty it won't take seven years of famine to deplete you take maybe about two years and now you got now you got praise the lord five more years to go sometimes the enemy robs us about zeal gets the church to sing and all uh we we we were toning it down preach reverend i hear that all the time we're toning it down we don't we don't want but so much jubilation don't get but so happy don't shout but so much come on now we've got to we got to learn some sense that's a trick of satan to rob the church of its zeal and while the churches are cooling off have you noticed that the world is heating up the nfl just added a few games to its schedule the world is becoming increasingly worldly raunchy music movies are becoming increasingly raunchy the deviant are becoming increasingly deviant but they're telling the church to tone it down the devil is a liar they're inventing new ways to sin every day but they're telling the born again to tone it down you don't hear what i'm saying you know and and i'm going to move on i'm i'm i'm you don't like this i can look at you and tell you but you know you you could see it coming mother that they were going to put us on the non-essential list oh you're back on that again wouldn't i told you i'll be talking about this for a while because you know what they may try to do it again i see it coming i see it i see it i see it with these variants and all that but before the governor's declared the church is non-essential you know who declared the churches as non-essential pastors churches you remember the trends the trend was having shorter and shorter churches church services quicker and quicker brevity in the presence of god became the selling point come to our church our our service will be over in 90 minutes come to our church the preacher is not going to preach for 15 minutes come to our church service starts at 11 you'll be out by 12 come to our church service starts at 11 at the most you'll be out about seven by by 12 30 and people flock to these churches that the moment you sit down it's time to get up and lean but now the baseball game got longer so the psychologist said that the human attention span is only 15 minutes nobody told hollywood when the last time you went to a movie and paid your hard-earned money and bought a bag of popcorn by the time you get the ticket and the popcorn the drink you spent 30 dollars and sat there and watched a 15-minute show if they listen had they pulled that you would have left that fighting and would have demanded your money back but when it comes to god when it comes to the things of god the trends have been less of thee and more of me so it stood to reason when they declared that we were non-essential it stands the reason that we receive they receive minimal pushback churches folded like cheap tents some haven't opened yet went home with the tail tucked between the legs are driven by fear when god when jesus said that my house shall be called the house of prayer for all men churches now and the leading church voices are sending out notices telling their members that you cannot enter into the sanctuary unless you show your vaccination call now where is that in the bible so much for whosoever will let him come praise the lord praise the lord so so much for coming be healed and somebody asked the other day concerning vaccines what would jesus do what do you think jesus how do you think jesus would act in all this well if you go by the biblical evidence they probably would have called jesus a rebel because according to the historical account jesus walked up to the leper and touched him that's what jesus did that's what jesus did don't get me started [Music] and when he touched him the leper called healing didn't he do it so let me move on i feel something i'm going to preach in in in a minute but i want i want to talk to you see because we're living in a different time and the church is standing idly by we're being uh re god said dress up in my outfit put on the whole armor of god that you may be able to withstand against the wiles of the devil we spent time thursday night on wiles the greek word is methodia the word method the the orderly and systematically handling of a subject that is when satan attacks us he attacks us after he studies us every human being has flaws every person has weaknesses everybody has desires every every everybody have kinks in their armor we all have propensities we all have procured peculiarities we're all just people amen all human beings have idiosyncrasies oh pastor says nothing strange about me ask the rest of us i said all didn't i said all you know we just you know we just don't see our own but people do the husband stands and says i'm a complete man there's nothing wrong with me the wife sits beside him and don't say a word then when she finally does other stuff she said he's guilty of thinking more highly of himself than he ought to think satan studies us and organizes a plan and then launches his plan that's called the evil day that's when he comes after you after uh he studied your brother monet and studied your family oh my study he studies our appetite i can't imagine that there are people who don't like chocolate but there are a few messed up people who don't and uh and uh and you know what uh satan won't come after them with chocolate because he knows that they don't like it i can't imagine a man not like a fried chicken i really can't imagine that and yet especially her brother hey yeah yeah yeah i'm having some fun with it and yet there are those who don't so satan won't come after you uh if he knows that that's something you don't like he comes after he studies us and finds out what our preferences are our likes and dislikes and he organizes a plan and he makes a move and sometimes if you've ever had that feeling where you feel like life is just working against you and somebody up there is working against you and something's going wrong you're halfway right it ain't somebody up there well maybe up there yours with satan being the prince of the power of the air but not in heaven the devil knows how he's really satan down there the devil knows how to study you and then after a while he launches an attack and he comes after you sometimes he's in a then b it comes in a series a b c and d and then sometimes when the series don't fail don't work he'll send them all at the same time and then after that attack is over and you've you've withstood it the bible teaches that satan leaves for a season he leaves you [Music] he comes right back and by the time he gets back he studied you again this is what paul says you need to suit up to be ready to fight against you ought to shout to somebody and say shoot up and he didn't say put on half of it he said put on the whole honor the whole armor of god that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil for we wrestle not against flesh and blood our enemy is not human but there's a there's a reason paul said we do not wrestle against flesh and blood there's a reason he said that the first reason is obvious because we don't but the second reason is less obvious this is one that that the discerning and those who are filled with the spirit understand even though our battle is not with flesh and blood when the enemy comes against us he comes through flesh and blood our battle is not with flesh and blood but flesh and blood humans are used of satan to promote the darkness of this world to promote spiritual wickedness in high places humans are in the position to promote these powers and wicked things so as a believer you got to know how to look at that person see the wickedness in them and then see beyond that and know that it is the devil that you're fighting against that takes discernment if you don't know how to see it you'll end up being racist you'll end up hating people you'll end up thinking that everyone is out to get you you end up uh rejecting folk who look a certain way talk a certain way because you don't realize that your enemy is the devil but satan uses people so he says put on the whole arm of god for we wrestle a not against flesh and blood but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places i got a question with all these the repetition the repetitious use of the word against my question today is what are we against is the modern church now against anything what are we opposing what are what what sins do we oppose well somebody please tell me we're certainly not against the abortion industry because you know even we sanctified people believing a woman's right to choose so when it gets that we're certainly not against the lbgtq because we're not judgmental but no longer against that we're certainly not against telling our young black boys and black girl brothers to turn pull their pants up and stop being a victim amen because if you are against that then you're called a oreo or an uncle tom my question is what are we against what are we against when racism had its ugly grip on our nation the white church did not speak especially in the south against it as they should have i don't care if you don't say amen what are we against what are we against we've claimed that god have gotten us out of the correction business joel osteen pastors the largest church uh in the country if not where any in our country and uh he'll tell you that i'm just called to encourage you the lord didn't tell me to do anything but to encourage that's not that's not possible there is no calling that limits a preacher to encouraging people only that that that that doesn't exist see the bible teaches do you all still believe the bible no i know you didn't like it you don't like it that i said something about your precious job but the bible says this and and last time i checked the bible is right the bible says in ii timothy 3 and 16 all scripture is given by inspiration of god and is profitable for doctrine for reproof for correction for instructions in righteousness now with somebody find in this passage i'm just called to encourage you the word here notice two words that are side by side reproof and correction reproof is to cause you to be convicted it is to convict you to the point of shaming you it is to convict you to the point of making you angry to bring about correction now when did the church get out of the correction business we're not called to be movie stars we're not called to be the celebrities you all don't like me we're not called to uh learn how to uh cohabitate with sin to find middle ground with sin that's not what we call for we're called to be against these things against them and you may not want to be against anything but god sent me to tell you whether you want to be against them or not the devil is against you don't you ever forget it don't you ever forget it you have an enemy out there that is doing everything he can to say to it that you not put on the whole arm of god to say to it that you not stand up and resist and hold out and hold your ground praise god when the evil day comes it is the will of satan for you to fold so if you're not against him then it's a one-way fight because he's certainly against you and i want you to know that uh god have called us praise the lord to fight we're not called to accommodate sin we're called to oppose sin it's not a compliment to you that uh when the world calls you and said well you don't judge you don't do anything you're just sweet that's not a compliment to a christian that means you're not bringing any correction there was a time when the world saw saints coming they could be cussing and they'd stop cussing because the saint walked up they could be smoking man put the cigarette in his pocket because rebs just walked up they'd be drinking they hide the liquor because the preacher just walked up now the world see you coming up they offer you a smile hey man you won't want to drag hey doc you want a hit why because we don't correct we don't correct instead of standing uh in opposition we are learning to just get along why can't we all just get along now rodney king asked that he was not a preacher he was not an apostle he was not an anointed man there's a reason why we can't get along paul said what fellowship have righteousness with unrighteousness well amen what concord have he who is a believer with an infidel where does light and darkness get along see that's the answer to that question sometimes the reason we can't get along is because you don't want to do right and you don't want to do right and you want to you want to pull me into your sin that's why we can't get along and god didn't call us to get along god called us to stand against [Music] [Applause] and i want to say to the preachers who are watching and a lot of you do that you better you better stand on your calling because satan is putting a plan together right now to try to put you out of business and you're the purpose in your heart that you're not going to allow the enemy to do that to you but instead you're going to stand and put on the whole arm of god and stand against these wicked powers that exist and i heard him say for we wrestle not against human beings but we stand against principalities these principalities are ruling devils they rule over territories you know you find a lot of these principality demons in the world of government oh lord look at what the government is doing to us now did you ever believe that you live in america in an america where they're trying to make people take shots that they don't want to take now even though it's against the law nor nuremberg codes of 1947 said that they're not supposed to be able to coerce people to take any medical treatment that they don't want and look at you now that saying if you don't do it we're going to fire you whether you've taken the shot or not that's your business and that's not my point but my point is you ought not to be able to walk up to me a perfectly healthy human being praise the lord and tell me that i've got to put something in my body and i don't know where the women are who used to get mad bring up abortion and the first thing she tell you is my body my choice now the same people are telling us that we've got to put stuff in our bodies good god almighty and and many of those if not all of them are made with the byproduct of aborted babies and when you get good and sanctified you don't want that in you you're not saying amen and uh they're they're trying to force you to do it and they're putting pressure on the saints now unless you have been paying attention to this church you didn't see it coming but the reason i said if you paid attention here and that i told you months ago that the day they said we're gonna make uh vaccinations available to all americans who want them i said then soon they're gonna drop that all americans who want them and they're gonna try to make everybody do it and i'd whether you do it or not that's your business but they ought not to be able to make people this is of the work of principalities we see principalities declaring that a man can turn himself into a woman and once that man says he's a woman now these principalities and demons are trying to tell the rest of us that if you slip up then the man been the man's name has been mike all your life you've been working with mike on the job for 20 years you went out with mike you went to win the church with mike you went to the bar with mike you watch the game with mike and mike decided that mike was going to become michaela and if you now slip up and call michaela mike they'll try to step fire you and discipline you this is the work of evil spirits it's the work of the enemy in the world and then when you see all this stuff going on god knows you can't take it unless you're suited up unless you already have on the whole armor of god because without the armor you won't be able to resist without the armor you'll find yourself constantly giving ground giving up see that's the context there keep your territory hold your ground soldiers don't retreat good soldiers don't retreat unless their commanding officer tells them to retreat but if their commanding officer don't tell them the retreat then they stay where they are but look at what the devil is doing we're constantly retreating we're giving ground we're making excuses we're becoming something else but god says i want to give you power to stand your ground i want to give you strength to be able to stand up against the wires of the devil against these principalities against these powers of demon spirits that have been given permission and authority they've been given might they've been given the right from the devil to come against you and they come in human and inhuman forms so you got your principalities you got your powers and look at this thing here principalities and powers and the rulers of the darkness of this world this is a dark world there are people in place who rule the witchcraft they rule the pornography yes they do they mess up children these are traffickers it's the darkness of this world the drug trade they said the other day that i think it was the fires a vaccine they gave it uh fda approval fda approval fda approval they call the fda the gold standard fda approval i might be wrong about this but then those opioids have fda approval and look at all the people that got killed look at all the lives that got messed up with fda approval look at all the drug addicts that they created with fda approval you better be sure that your ankle holes you better know that you've been suited up because they the devil is a liar he's coming against the saints he doesn't he don't care about the little man don't care about the little woman but aren't you glad today to know that jesus loves you and jesus has given you power and given you a way to keep from losing your mind to keep from cracking the lord told me to tell you that it's time to be strong be strong in the lord and stand your ground against the rulers of the darkness in this world against spiritual wickedness in high places wicked folk who promote all kinds of sin and maliciousness persons who are not they're not just evil themselves but they don't have problems expressing their evil they plot evil they are plotting evil against the church even as i speak the lord's showing me how the world is trying to surround the church but i'm so glad that despite their best efforts we win why you got to do is hold to his hand stand your ground and live holy because god has anointed us to be able to stand up against the wise of the devil somebody declared a day i'm not gonna lose my mind somebody shout today i'm not gonna crack i'm not gonna fold i'm not gonna be depressed i'm not gonna get discouraged i'm gonna outlast this attack because god has put fight in me god has put down in me the lord have put something in me that gives me what i need to keep on keeping on i want to fight the right fight the right way let me close what i heard somebody said you don't know what i've been through if you knew what i'd been through you would understand my praise if you knew what i've suffered you'd understand my praise you would understand that i have a right to praise the lord the holy ghost began to move on me and the holy ghost said patrick reverse that thing tell him you're right to praise me it's not based on what you've been through but you're right to praise me is based on what jesus went through on your head he died he was crucified he was beaten he was lying on he was spit on good god almighty they kicked him they stabbed him they lied on him he hung his head and he died but somebody shouted that sunday morning he rose again and he's the reason that we have a right to praise the lord he's the reason that we have to give god to praise well i will somebody praise the lord for saving you well somebody praise the lord for setting you free let me hear your praising not for what you've been through but what he went through on our behalf yeah yes [Music] thank you since you've done all this for me i think i'll throw my hands up since you've done all this for me i think i left my voice since you've done all this for me lord jesus i think i'll tell the world that you're the only savior that you're real that you're powerful and that you're soon to come again how many know that jesus christ is coming back jesus christ is going to snatch us out in the nick of time so friends of mine let us fight the right fight the right way let us pray in the holy ghost let us put on the whole arm of god let us make sure our feet are shot with the preparation of the gospel of peace that is i'm ready to march i'm ready to climb i'm ready to run whatever [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] let me hear you praise him if you're ready whatever the costs i'm ready i've been prepared and i've got a shield of faith let me close here with that faith leads me to believe that whatever come my way god will see me through whatever whatever comes our way he's still a healer he's still a deliverer he's still a waymaker do you still believe that he is to set your soul on yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're just looking at somebody and say suit up put on put on put on the whole arm of god you can't fight without the armor [Music] i read well just for a spell some soldiers ah didn't like the armor because the armor was heavy the helmet was heavy the breastplate was restricting and they felt that they could be more nimble and they could fight better without the armor so they were allowed by their commanding officer to go out without the them they all but got slaughtered without the armor see i know i know in this day of easy believism i know in this day of where they call holiness bondage i know as we talk about things that can be restricting i know that they call it old fogey i know that they call us playing church oh i know all the stuff that they're saying but wait until the enemy comes against them they're going to do what they've done everywhere else they've been full full you know why because they have no armor they have no armor the armor might be heavy but you can't but let me tell you something when you you you you know what i'm talking about you're a real one he's been behind enemy lines all that you have to wack into battle it's quite heavy but it it helps you come back see see yes it's heavy sometimes what the church put on you you can't go here you can't go there you can't do this and you can't do that and sanctification means you got to come out of this group sanctification mean you can't do those ski weeds sanctification means you got to be real nah nah sanctification means you can't be assistant can't be a homosexual can't be a homemonger oh ow it means all that stuff and and and you know what that gets heavy but i'll tell you why it may be heaven but when the devil come against you you will be glad that you have your armor wow somebody lift our hands and praise the lord somebody'll say i'm so glad for my armor some of those restrictions pastor put on me mothers got on my nerve some of others yeah they oh they i'm a young man but looking back on my life without that armor i wouldn't be here today wouldn't have last 44 years and counting armor armor armor gives you power to go through something imma give you the strength to fight the right battles the right way see those who are fighting against the armor they're fighting the wrong battle how are you going to be a church preaching against the church that preached church stuff see how you going to be a church and you you you're busy trying to make sure your church don't sound like a church that you don't look like you're going to church there's nothing churchy about your church if you're fighting but you're fighting the wrong battle and you're fighting the wrong way the test of the church i want to go on record pierre wooden the test of the church is not how far it can stray from its old landmarks [Music] of the church is how close you can remain where you were when god called you in the first place how many can still say i'm saved sanctified holy ghost field and i'm fired baptized see jesus died so that we could be sanctified he didn't die for us to move away from it there's two things and they have to be understood i'm going to pray we're going home i want to celebrate my mother so i'm going to get to that right after uh two things so you got to know the difference between imputed righteousness and practical righteousness is what these guys miss it see these lightweights these lightweights don't understand the difference imputed righteousness is the righteousness that you gain the day you get saved god confers righteousness upon you now you haven't changed the thing yet if if you if you were drinking before you came he got saved the liquor ball is still in the car because that's where he left it before he came to the church all right the the drugs i'm just using still in the gun compartment right but the lord has imputed righteousness on it the ease of believism churches and these guys that don't understand stops right there that's where we're wrong that's where they go wrong paul teaches after we've been imputed with righteousness see this is how the book of ephesians is divided the first part deals with imputed righteousness righteous that god declared before the foundation of the world but if you keep reading in chapter four he begins to talk about what you got to come out of what you got to give up take off the old put on the new that's called practical righteousness practical righteousness see you begin to walk in practical righteousness because you have imputed righteousness now i'm going to brother haines if you're watching i'm going to put your wife on the spot i thank god for you you look so nice you look like a first lady you got you got the look now you got there now i'm gonna ask you a question and i want you to i don't want you to think anything deep because it's not a trick question why are you standing there uh with that dress on cause i bought it well he bought it okay what's the next reason and i liked it i wanted to wear it one more i'm a woman got it [Music] she said she said and she's right she said i didn't think i had to say that she's right but that's why nobody thinks it's strange because you know what when she came here god decided before she got here that she'd be female so with her being female she puts that on because she's a female well when the lord uh declares you righteous then you begin to walk in practical righteousness because he have declared you righteous ruffin you just came in and married this girl you're her husband you gotta treat her right you gotta prefer her before you [Music] you have to be her protector if she needs you to work five jobs to take care of family do it it's mine six that's what men do but you know why because you're the husband and once you take on that role and you and it's imputed you're it now you know what you have to do once you become it you have to act like it [Applause] somebody shout amen somebody shout amen [Music] there's a certain way you do because of who you are i'm done i want to read one verse i i quoted the other day it's been hanging around my spirit and and john you and anthony uh elder uh armachuca you and elder wilson y'all probably could do more with it than me but it's been hanging around me um in chap proverb prophet proverbs chapter 17 and you know and it's a simple looking verse it says in verse seven it says excellent speech become if not a fool much less do lying lips a prince nobody is expecting a fool to talk like he's got good sense because he's a fool but people are surprised when rulers and princes and people of note are liars because you expect the person that once they attain certain status to have certain character and integrity right all right we're saved god have made us righteous then it is expected that we walk out and live out that which the lord have declared us to be in the name of jesus [Applause] hence the whole armor of god because satan is determined that you are not going to live out what you have what has been imputed upon you if i couldn't stop the imputation if i couldn't stop you from getting to the altar i did my best to keep you from getting saved and you went up and got saved anyway but if i can't stop i couldn't stop that but what i will do is i'll come against you in the evil day and keep you from being in a practical way what god just imputed upon you god says that's all right i have a remedy put on the whole armor of god amen and the armor will do the trick i'm stopping right here my time is up i want to pray for you today i want to pray for everybody who wants to fight the right battle the right way who wants to uh walk first of all prepare see you some some things you can't do without preparation what happens is um real life shows when a person is actually prepared you can claim to be prepared all you want to but everybody knows if you get out there and you crash and burn everybody says they wasn't ready looked ready talked ready and thought they were ready but it wasn't ready the ready the prepared we're prepared to march run climb and do what it takes god wants to prepare you god wants to prepare song says lord prepare me to be a sanctuary pure and holy tried and true and with thanksgiving i'll be a living sanctuary for you father in jesus name i pray i pray for the believers i pray for everyone here today everyone here today who is interested in living out practically what you have imputed upon us spiritually i pray oh god the holy ghost is in here for every believer who is saying lord i want to fight the right battles the right way i've wasted so much time fighting the ones who are trying to help me i've wasted so much time pushing against kicking against the prick you've given me a pastor you've given me a church you give me people and i resisted you i've i've i've wasted so much time with the attack of the enemy during the evil day lord i don't i don't want to waste another moment in the name of jesus so father i ask you now to bless me to suit up to put on your outfit the whole armor of god in the name of jesus from the crown of my hand to the soles of my feet dress me lord in your uniform dress me for battle trust me o heart that i might be able to win in jesus name i pray healing i pray deliverance i pray freedom in christ in the name of jesus and it is so in jesus name amen give the lord praises glory to god there may be someone today who wants to be saved you're not saved you don't know jesus you can't put on the armor without being saved and you'll never be able to overcome your weaknesses the temptations of the devil the trick of the enemy without salvation the altar is open we'll take the time to pray for you if there is one glory to god glory to god all right god bless you at this time let us make ready our offering to our friends who are streaming go to easytive.com urc and you can sow your you can give your offering to help this ministry continue to do the things that we're doing that we're doing i want to say to the saints here in the sanctuary to our friends who watch us online thank you for your support your support you you're doing you're doing what we've asked you to do and i want to thank you for your support hallelujah lift your right hand father we bring our gifts and we give them to you right now in jesus name amen you're in the hands of the usher lord prepare me [Music] to be a sanctuary [Music] pure [Music] tried and true i'll be a living sanctuary my [Music] [Music] jesus to [Music] tried and true and with thanksgiving [Music] i'll be a living [Music] you [Music] [Music] um [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] sanctuary [Music] father bless the offering of gift and giver in jesus name we pray thank god amen god bless you i pray that the word of the lord has both blessed you and challenged you today if it's the lord's will we will dare even more practically in the armor what does it mean to have on the helmet of salvation what does it mean to have your feet shard with the preparation of the gospel of peace those are meaningless platitudes what is it to have on the breastplate of righteousness and loans girded with god's truth the shield of faith and this sword of the spirit which is the word of god god's preparing the saints god's preparing us and we're in a day where we need spiritual preparation like we have never needed it before so god bless you and heaven smile upon you is our prayer may we all stand hallelujah remember tonight's service it's in burlington and we're celebrating the appreciation service for first lady laverne cooper and uh equally as important upper room our first lady is delivering the word of the lord on this evening and that's going to be a treat and and um after i dismiss i'm going to make my exit because i want to make ready to spend some time with my mother amen i'll tell you she looks good today mama you you came ready amen i'm so thankful i'm so thankful let everybody you got praise the lord our second assistant is coming at this time let's thank god once again for our leader bishop wooden amen [Applause] we're resting on our feet all over the sanctuary we're just grateful to god that we have a leader a general in the faith that is leading us from earth to glory let's appreciate him once again on today fighting the right by battle the right way we're lifting our hands our right hands everybody say god first god bless you at this time we're going to allow our seniors to leave before you leave everybody let's look at mother ellison and say happy birthday come on let's thank god for her and celebrate her we love you ma'am we're gonna allow our seniors to leave at this time please stay in place god bless you you

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