Sunday Morning Worship w/ Apostle Buddy Crum (9/12/21)

break the lord today yes let's celebrate him he's worthy of all of our praise and acknowledgement and our worship oh it is so good to be in the house of the lord with you father i thank you today for your presence i thank you for the anointing that comes through breaking to break every yoke we declare today that we will be set free for the things and purposes that you have planned and purpose for each one here give us your strength and guidance and wisdom direction and let your word do the speaking today and we declare that we are all redeemed for a purpose and we do that in the name of jesus and all the saints together say amen all right for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory foreign oh man [Music] amen god bless god thank you so much you may be seated i guess you heard my mario hit that note bing that means get on pitch so thankful this morning to be here but today i want to talk about this whole week we've had a great time together yes amen and amen it has been a time of coming together to celebrate a beautiful conference around deployment and all of the praise and worship team and volunteers just did an outstanding job would you let's give them a hand please you know in years past we we would have anywhere from 40 to 60 volunteers it takes that many to accomplish all that we do during conference and we had a lot less than that and so everybody had to work very very hard and i'm thankful for that and we do it unto the lord because he is worthy amen he is worthy and he is worthy so i want to pick back up on deployment grace for deployment is the name of the title this morning says we've said this we had a great great time together beginning with our bishop bishop bill hammond and he brought us such a good rich word about the fact that yes the world's getting worse but we're getting better and we're going into the third reformation which is the greatest expansion of the churches ever we've ever had and we're going to take dominion and we're going to take our rightful place in the world today and he encouraged us but i really want you to know that at that tuesday night he gave a prophetic word to dr mary and me and elder catherine up here and i want to reap have that word reproduced because it's not a word to us it's to all of us as a family as the church as the body as the ministry it's to all of us and you'll be excited when you see what god is telling us as i've said i've waited 30 years for that prophetic word to come forth not to me but where god's moving i just wanted the confirmation where god's moving and he's using the life center to be part of that movement that's god's taking place can you imagine the greatest movement that's occurred wow that just means we've got to get aligned with it doesn't it doesn't mean we you know it it won't happen to everybody because everybody's not aligned but when we get aligned with what god's doing and how he's doing it we get in the wake of his blessings and his anointing and we just ride right in that wake and so that was good and then pagani came in and got us all delivered from everything it moves and doesn't move my word we were you know in the good news you don't have to get up here and crawl on the floor you can just let the same anointing fall on you that's falling on them and you get the same deliverance can i hear an amen on that right now if you didn't get delivered go watch it on youtube we can get delivered because we want all of us delivered from every demonic activity that there is every oppression every demon everything that would try to come steal kill and destroy and so we got delivered first we got encouraged then we got delivered and after that uh apostle john eckhart came and gave us a deep word of the lord and direction and guidance and it was wonderful and if you didn't get it go back and study psalms 118 and or watch it on youtube and he just told us you know this is the in verses 8 1 18 24 and 25 this is a day that the lord has made we will be rejoicing be glad in it save o lord now oh lord now sin prosperity see every day you get up you say this is the day the lord has made and i will rejoice and be glad in it save o lord o lord send prosperity now amen and it's good to have that verse i didn't know the i i've said that this is the day the lord's made many times but i hadn't tagged on that and it was a prosperity telling us that god can turn things around no matter where you are or where you've been or where you're going god's intention is to bring all kinds of prosperity prosperity your soul prosperity to your health prosperity to your finances and all of those so then we were really on high by then and then katie souza came in and broke every curse include including the curse of death and and set us free and claimed and proclaimed and declared and everything that you could possibly ever go through we went through it and got delivered from it right so now we're ready we're moving we're targeted for what it is that god has and if you're not excited we're going to have to raise you from the dead because i'm telling you it was it was that kind of week this week and so we're so so blessed and then after that you know this is this is the point i want to make about the changes and the emotions that come so saturday you know there were some highlights i won't mention football but again but but then we celebrated 9 11. now you think about 9 11 and we do and we celebrate it because it was the first time we've had that kind of attack on our own soil many people have died through the virus we've all experienced many friends who've died this time i've lost some very dear friends in the last two years that i've been close to for some of them 30 40 50 years but that is part of the spirit that is always prevalent always you have to know that so 9 11 we celebrated the almost 3 000 lives and if you count those who died from the effect of that it'd be over three thousand but the point is we celebrated memorially the thing that represents to us not death but what it should represent is life life and and so that's what we wanted we don't want to forget that and even and and we don't want to go around and celebrate the coronavirus that's not what we want to do but we want to look at that and say what could happen what will happen all of us have a date with death unless you get resurrected before death and gold straight and get to go like elisha did and or and go up into heaven elijah that is okay so that was uh on our own soil but then when we look at deployment and that is the theme of this week i want to look at the grace that goes with the deployment deployment actually began in the garden itself when god raised up adam and eve and in the garden and he blessed them that was the first thing he did after he breathed life into them he blessed them and told them take dominion reproduce and be fruitful now the garden was the place where all the animals and the trees and the plants were and outside of the garden was the place that the garden was to expand until it took over all the area that god had created and we know that in order to do that god wanted us to be sure that we took dominion which means to have all the influence and and the control over all that goes over with righteousness with goodness and so we would expand the garden and that's deployment was to take it from the garden on out and to take all of that territory as man's population grew well we know the fall came we're all very familiar with that and that changed everything from that point and then suddenly it wasn't the relationship on a personal basis with god where he he was with them and met with them every day in the garden but then it became a new way through an intercessor and through the one that was placed between god because god had to judge righteousness or had to judge sin because he is righteous and so he had to do that and the point that we see right here in the beginning like i say was the unity had to be there in relationship but deployment was to take place even in the garden the tower of babel the sin was not that they could reach heaven we know that that couldn't have happened but the sin was they were in unity and not willing to be deployed there was us for and no more and that is when you see that even in the new testament with the persecution that came through nero when he burned rome and the per and somebody had to be blamed for his craziness that uh so they blamed the christians and the christians came under persecution but it had the effect of spreading them out of jerusalem because they were all in jerusalem like being there and not being deployed we're to be deployed and so from there they went to antioch and antioch was a sending out church that was where they got the concept and the understanding to be deployed and that was where paul through barnabas was carried to antioch and there for years he was under the under that direction and guidance and then he began his journeys out of antioch and he realized that being what it meant to be deployed so i want to make that point that we we have that and it all really began with the first deployment after adam and eve was with abraham and he told abraham get out of this religious place you're in you're all tied up in religion and i can't do what i want to do through you so i want to send you out there so he sent him well where is out there well you'll know it when you see it yeah that wa we've had that one before haven't we you've been told that by the holy spirit where are you taking me god and what am i going to do and what am i what what's my assignment what i'll tell you when you get there that's not the comfortable thing we want to hear but now in the way that again was as paul says in in romans 4 as he's building that up he says it's all by faith you take those steps by faith and you are deployed to go out by faith now faith means that there's already something established for you and you're claiming it by hoping and by your hope and desire you're going to see the fulfillment of what's already been purposed and planned for you that's the good news that you have an eternal destination but you have a destination here on the earth and so he sent adam i mean abraham out by faith and by faith we all live by faith we all live by what god's already purposed and planned for us and how do you have faith it's only one way believe now you can believe and not do anything so when you move in faith you've got active faith and active faith brings about this what it is that god's already planned and purpose for you and so that was what by first of another deployment by abraham to go into a new area to set up a new relationship with the people that he would be there and now when we got to the new testament and then the deliverance or the fulfillment of the prophetic words came to pass when the messiah was born in stable we know this we know the history we know the story and we like to tell it because it's amazing the story is amazing isn't it it's an amazing that god would put himself in the form of man take on flesh and come down and humble himself as man and come and show us how much he loves us so we begin to see a change there for god so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son that what what's the word you do know that verse don't you god so loved the world he gave his only begotten son that good whosoever whosoever that's a totally different change now whosoever means whoever you get in touch with whosoever is who god brings into your life whosoever means you are the one now not the priest or the or the high priest or the the other priest that would did all of the sacrifices and all of the that told the story we're to tell the story now a lot of people didn't like that responsibility so they kept trying to go back to the law i'd rather try to obey the law than have the responsibility of being a witness and a testimony to people i i don't really think i can handle that well we want to talk about that just a little bit because deployment is part of what it is that god's called us to do so then we see that in this new testament it's a greater responsibility you and i have the responsibility to be the salt the light the light under that who's not hidden under a bushel let your light so shine that others will see your good works and glorify your father which is in heaven we have been given the great commission go ye into all the world and teach disciple everybody teaching them whatsoever i've taught you baptizing them in the name of the father the son and the holy spirit wait a minute me representing him that's right that's right as as pastor charles was talking about it communion we've all been saved we've all got the holy spirit and that was the revelation that they that paul brought to them because when you receive the holy spirit you receive grace which is god's divine enablement and his preparation to send you out you just take the holy spirit out with you and let him do his work you're just a carrier you you're infected with jesus and your job is to go out and get other people infected that's what we do that it it we try to make it harder than it is and we just go out and just show up and when the holy spirit says what he says you just say wow that's great i didn't i didn't know that was in me and there it is coming out so this is the day that we're moving into the revival we're moving into tr into a time when more people are going to get saved than ever before they're coming to the lord and and they're leaving the world and coming to the lord but who's going to do it we are to whom whosoever will that's deployment now the deployment has changed from to all the way that when jesus came he magnified glorified the father and told us that we should know the father like he does that he knows the father intimately so can we know the father intimately through one vessel through one means the lord jesus christ that changed everything everything was changed after jesus was crucified and born and rose again that changed the deployment way the deployment was done so when we got jesus when we confessed jesus and received him as our lord and savior we became his instruments and in the extended of him but we also got the gift of grace for by grace you are saved it is a gift of god not of works so we receive the gift of god of salvation and part of the package was you get the holy spirit and the holy spirit is your means for being deployed come on somebody say amen in here help me just about that much thank you very much all right now paul got this real clear can you imagine the jewish rabbi that he was the pharisee he was he was so deep in judaism that he was out [Music] you know killing off the christians and then he became one no wonder they didn't trust him the disciples said we don't know about this man i mean that's radical i mean all the way from going one direction to another direction anybody else had a radical experience in their life and by talking to somebody that kind of knows what we're talking about that it was all about me and all of a sudden it's all about him and it's instantly because that's called grace and mercy and the combination came into your heart and life and changed your life so now you got the reality is and it was so dramatic with paul that you know when paul on the road to damascus and when he received the light and was blinded and knocked off his horse the first thing he said was lord what do you want me to do he didn't say who are you or where are you he just said what you want me to do in other words y'all know i've been called for a purpose and this recycle pharisee was now a christian and he was ready to go to work and do because he was a worker paul was the one and so when we look at that we see that christ like i say becomes the centerpiece of everything and then we begin to look at it in the light of look at and that he was the center priest from the beginning from the time of the from the time of the fall from that point forward on jesus was the centerpiece of the bible all the way from genesis to the revelation is all about the mystery revealed which was the christ which was the church which was us we are the church and we're to take the gospel throughout and tell the good news and the good news is it's good news that's the good news so when i look at that i begin to see and and you see that he was the center priest from john all the disciples got this john the john the disciple of love that's all he won't talk about was how much god loves us and he said god is love love god so love he just loved god because of the mystery was revealed that draw what the driving force for your redemption and mine was love that god wanted us to be part of his family and he wants us to love him and he wants us to love each other and we're trying lord thank you very much we're working on it and you're getting us there but but that was and then it said in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god and the word is the christ the the christ himself and then paul wanted to be sure that he would paul was obsessed with jesus he was possessed with the holy spirit and obsessed with the intimate relationship with jesus christ now that is the key for your deplorment it's not your working it up it's allow him to work in you is to allow the holy spirit to work in you you when when jesus said it's finished he meant he had he had made it the highway clear the way clear for us to take the gospel and what we must do to do that is focus on jesus until we become jesus centered in our life and in the beginning was the word in the beginning was christ that he was there in the beginning when creation won paul got over into galatians and they were drifting away and they were going back again to the law because they had preferred the law because they didn't want the responsibility of being responsible to carry the gospel out he said well you foolish galatians who has deceived you don't you understand that the law was set there to get you to god not to keep you with god the law couldn't do what jesus did jesus completed the law he fulfilled the law he took care of all of that actually if you look at it i think the purpose for the law is to get people saved but once they're saved they got the empowerment of the holy spirit and the ability to take it to where it is the holy spirit wants to go and so he said to the galatians i don't i don't understand that that you receive grace and you want to leave it and go back and then then he got over to colossians and he said to those at colossae he said don't you understand christ is in you through you by you with you he's a centerpiece and he is our blessed hope he summarizes said he is the blessed hope what does that mean he is our eternal hope that in him is not only hope for today but the whole hope is set in eternity and we will see faith realized through that hope of eternity so he was had he had the same message to the colossians he had the same message to the to the ephesians that this is the story of the church this is a mystery revealed this is how you do it it's through reconciliation as we were reconciled to through christ to the father we're also reconciled with each other through the love the same love that came from the father amen so we're beginning to see that wait a minute this is a bigger than i thought it was it it is a big event in my life when i receive christ as my savior jesus is the centerpiece of your life then when we get then i look at the final deployment i want to talk about that because you see the final deployment is when we when we pass from this life to the other line as a pentecostal say when we cross the jordan when we cross the chili jordan when we'll fly away one day right amen we're going to fly away one day but listen you live until you don't on earth and then you live with him is that good news i think it's wonderful news and the older i get the better it gets come on you know when i was in my 30s i didn't think about that i had life by you know i had a grip on it i had life until i hit the wall about four times come on somebody help me because you know what i'm talking about but anyway you have life and you have it more abundantly meaning you have the fullness of life in its fullness which is not all the tinsel but all of the blessed hope that's in you that's the life and more abundantly nothing can take your eternal life away from you if you're truly saved so we get to that we begin to see that paul got to that final stage of his life he's in rome and he's incarcerated and and you'd say well paul you've got you must have some real thoughts about here you are in prison and you kind of knew when you went to rome you're going to be put in prison anyway they warned you that you would and you stubbornly went anyway and he said that's what god told him to do and he said when he and look at all those great letters that we have that define our doctrine that that encourages so here he is in in philippi and there he is in this roman jail incarcerated i don't know it was a jail or a house or what but it was in car incarceration and from things that we read he was had soldiers that were watched him all the time they must have thought he was a dangerous man going to be like he was when he was in prison and the doors opened and they walked out you know he and so well like silas and paul and silas so they're guarding him very closely and so you would think he's he so would be miserable what does paul say he said i haven't even achieved yet what i'm going to do there is even yet more for me to do there are higher callings that's higher your goal in in three over there he said do i do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing i do forgetting those things which are in the past and reaching forward to those things which are hit i press on can you imagine here he is incarcerated no he's going to be killed or beheaded and he says what i press on now that's the attitude that we have to have i press on towards the goal for the prize of the upward call of god in christ jesus he told he told timothy there is set before me a crown of righteousness and for all those who believe will receive theirs and i know that there's a crown of righteousness waiting for me now that's the kind of assurance and confidence that you have to have in the great deployment the blessed hope that comes and then he goes on to say and he's not quitting and then he goes on to say now what's the attitude paul what do you what should be our attitude as we're getting close to those days because you have to know what we'd like to know what you know paul you know you know you seem to have the secret sauce we want it too that's good stuff and here he says in philippians 4 beautiful expression of his attitude but i rejoice in the lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again and then he says i know i have learned in whatsoever state i am in to be content wait a minute paul that word c-o-n-t-e-n-t content no matter what i find myself he said i know what it is to be lifted up and i know what it is to abound and i know what it is to be brought down and to be hungry wow we know paul suffered and as was said recently that he said i rejoice when i am persecuted i'm rejoiced when i suffer because he said i will know the experience of christ i don't want to know just about jesus i want to know what he felt what he thought what he realized i want to know i want to suffer like he suffered i want to rise up and know the high joys of he knew from communing with the father and then he comes with that verse now he's at the end he's in prison and he says i can do all things through christ who strengthens me let that be our confession come on let's say it together i can do all things through christ who strengthens me yes amen well let's just that's our declaration that's our testimony and he goes on to say he goes on do we we love this the way he does it he's before he said i know what it is to bound like saying not but then he says at the end and god shall supply all my needs through christ jesus jesus is the centerpiece jesus is the centerpiece of everything and the more we make him the centerpiece of our life the more we'll find the same attitude and contentment that paul had so many things paul couldn't change and he said so in philippians he said there are those out there that have a different gospel there those that are coming against us and don't don't get involved with them they're going to have their own reward but he said have that mind in you that was in christ even though it was not robbery to be equal with all of the blessings in heaven and he set aside not his deity but he set aside his glory and took on the form of man and humbled himself in order that we could become like him and then he goes on and one day every knee shall bow every knee shall bow at the name of jesus and we're looking to that day bishop hammond indicated that that day is not probably tomorrow or the next day you know for all my ever since i uh was saved i've been waiting for jesus to come the second time and at one time we were in a church that was so con that was so centered on that that i was afraid to go to sleep i didn't want we would talk to mary and i one time they had the we all we thought about we had charts on the wall you know everything was going to happen so one time we didn't we didn't hear about the change of time when we went to church nobody else was there and i was afraid the rapture occurred and i got missed how did i miss it lord but we've got the blessed hole the blessed hope and i that's the that's the thing i want to make that is the that is the deployment when you finish what you are to do here on the earth there's a greater reward waiting for you now i'm i've taken this text this morning because i want to say something that's going you're going to make you sad but you got to remember what we just talked about i've got a last night dr hope was going to be preaching this morning so i was watching football late and got a phone call late last night and pastor wander's daughter died last night and that is sad because it would be a hard thing to lose a child not a young child has she has three children and it was but it was it was taisha is her name and the beautiful part in praying with pastor wanda and dr hope last night we did and then dr mary and i prayed after that took communion to again represent the resurrected life that she was now experiencing because she has the blessed hope she's with christ and you and i one day will know that experience and for that reason there's no sting in death we don't have to hate death or not not we we can't avoid it but we can embrace it for what it is a celebration one day now we want to be a responsive church we want to pray for her family and and her you know the family of dr hope is her there is the aunt and her mother is here as a member also he eva scott mrs scott's here she's a member of wanda is a member wanda's got her whole family here she said if i'm on pastor i got to have somebody to pass her so she got her whole family here right so i want you to do something a little bit different i want you to put our hands together and applaud the homecoming or the celebration that's taking place today in heaven today come on let's celebrate the resurrected life the life eternal the blessed hope wow thank you god whoa thank you god praise the lord for his beauty praise the lord for his resurrection power thank you father for your promises your promises that you go and prepare a place for us and that where you are we will be there and we will celebrate with you oh god bless you you're the blessing listen while you stand it i want us to let me let's just let's just pray oh father we thank you for the blessed hope that you've inspired us to live this life but knowing that there is a life eternal and in that life we shall see the joy of those that have gone on before us and we'll be part of that cloud of witnesses that is celebrating the work of jesus christ what he did for us is eternal and we receive it as them now father i ask you today as we are gathered here together that you would bless every family that's here that you will shower your grace upon us we can't earn it we just receive it and we thank you for and i pray you put your grace over every family that's here and you would we would celebrate life celebrated the life that we have on the earth but also knowing that that is just and all that is just an earnest as you say for the life to come so we thank you for eternal life father if there's any here that are not sure about eternal life we pray that you'll convict him even right now and i declare say father i i praise you for preparing a place for me through jesus christ i accept that promise and i thank you for it and i look forward father at the right time your time to make that transition and i thank you for jesus christ who is my all in all and in him all promises rest in jesus name how many of you love jesus how many of you love jesus how many of you believe jesus prepare to play how many of you really do really love him i mean really love jesus oh come on let's just sing it while we do come on up oh how give me a key there mario so you won't have to how i love jesus [Music] oh how i love jesus [Music] because he first loved me now mario put a little of that pentecostal bump in there you know a little bit of that let's get it in there come on [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] love me [Applause]

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Published: Tue Sep 21 2021