The Book of Revelation: Part 9 - Micah Johnson - June 24, 2020

praise the lord christian life center amen what another wonderful opportunity is to worship the lord on a wednesday evening i'm so excited that we have this opportunity that the holy ghost can come into our house and touch our weary bodies i know talking to many of our church members some are weary some are tired this is your opportunity for the holy ghost to rejuvenate you i know we're not together in body but i'm telling you if you allow it the holy spirit will come into your house i said this before but i'm going to say it again for many years we have always talked about the power of the devil and how he's used in media and when you watch certain things and entertain certain things that there are spirits that come through those avenues and those channels and i believe that i believe that with all my heart but i was thinking if the devil can do it with the screen how much more when the holy ghost is preached and this and the singing goes up to heaven and the worship is offered unto the lord could the holy ghost come into your house right now and touch your tired body and rejuvenate your tired soul so where you're at right now would you lift your hands to heaven would you stand where you're at and would you just offer up a praise of thanksgiving to the lord would you just invite him in your home right now in the name of jesus lord we thank you so much for another opportunity to worship you we don't take it lightly god lord we don't take advantage of it but we cherish it we cherish the opportunity to lift up your name we cherish the opportunity to sing your praises god i pray you bless this service like you've never have before i pray you bless the musicians bless the preaching of the word and bless the hearers lord that they would be strengthened oh lord jesus we love you god and we thank you for what we already feel hallelujah we feel the holy ghost in here i'm sure you do at home worship with the musicians as they come god bless you [Music] praise the lord church [Applause] put a smile on your face and worship with us tonight [Music] there's wonderful power [Applause] [Music] [Music] there is [Music] [Music] [Music] oh there is [Music] [Music] [Applause] there is [Applause] [Music] oh there is [Music] there is [Applause] [Music] would you do service for jesus without power in the flood for if you live daily his praise is to sing there's wonderful power in the flow oh there is [Music] [Music] all singing [Music] [Music] nothing but the blood of jesus what can make me holy nothing but the blood nothing but the blood of jesus this is all my hope and peace proclaiming nothing but the blood of jesus this is all my righteousness [Music] well there is [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] hallelujah the blood that jesus said for me [Music] the blood that gives me strength from day to day [Applause] [Music] it reaches [Music] [Music] wow the love that gives me strength [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] that gives me strength [Music] [Applause] [Music] heavy voice [Music] if [Music] that gives me strength [Music] [Music] one more time can you sing that together it reaches [Music] me [Music] [Music] tonight it will never [Music] if you're thankful for that blood can you worship him hallelujah [Music] oh yeah [Music] that's it right where you're at just continue to the entertainer's presence right now we bless you but we all need jesus [Music] is now we have the victory has won our freedom [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah you are the reason [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] and by [Music] [Music] i wonder if right where you're at can you clear this thing he has won our freedom he is say hallelujah that could not hold you and death could not hold you down [Music] you are the [Music] situation we serve a victorious god a mighty god a powerful god to entertain his presence right now oh yeah [Music] he won the victory he reigns on and you won the victory [Music] he won the victory he rings on high our god is risen he is [Music] thank you say hallelujah if that could not hold you down is hallelujah come on right where you're at live the victory slip the praise hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus thank god for the blood church i'm so thankful for the blood the book of hebrews says it like this having therefore boldness to enter into the holiness by the blood of jesus without the blood there is no holy ghost there is no presence of god without the death i'm so thankful for the blood i'm so thankful i could plead that blood thank you jesus and if you here tonight are watching and you have a need we have pastor standing by we want to plead the blood over your situation whatever it might be i'm telling you there's nothing too big or too hard for the lord if you'd phone in we'd love to pray with you we want to keep a specific family in prayer one of our long time saints sister donna siebold has gone home to be with the lord last time i saw sister siebold was a couple months ago and she was telling me stories about clyde haney and she remembers uh these churches being built and we're going to keep the family in prayer as they grieve they're having a small service tomorrow and now praise god and now we're going to go into the time of prayer we've been so faithful to pray we're going to pray for our nation we're going to pray first and foremost for revival that god would pour out his spirit on this nation like he never has before that stockton would see revival that his house may be filled we're going to pray for those that have been affected by the pandemic we're going to pray that god would provide for them those that have lost jobs and those that have contracted the virus we're going to pray for an instantaneous miracle i'm telling you god's still in the healing business church god is still doing miracles and if you have contracted this virus i'm telling you at the name of jesus that virus has to flee hallelujah we're going to pray for you and lastly we're going to pray for our nation's leaders that god would give them direction in this dividing time so wherever you're at would you link hands with somebody in your family and let's go to war in the name of the lord jesus god we come before you on behalf of stockton california god i'm asking you that you poured out your spirit uh on this city god make yourself real to the people of stockton i pray you touch this nation oh god i believe as long as there's people to pray there's still hope oh god i pray you baptize us with the revival of righteousness and the revival of biblical living lord in these last days i pray for the saints of our church that have been affected by this virus lord you would provide for them for those that have lost jobs you would protect those oh god that are afraid and that you would heal those oh lord jesus that have contracted this virus i plead the blood over these people right now that you would do an instantaneous miracle you would do a miracle tonight that we would hear the testimony about tomorrow god i pray for our nation's leaders i pray for president trump god give him wisdom from heaven give him godly and divine counsel i pray you direct his steps i pray for mike pence oh lord god you would direct him touch our governors and our senators lord that you would influence them with godly people in their lives and ultimately that they would find salvation in the wonderful matchless name of jesus we pray hallelujah hallelujah i know we've prayed that prayer a lot but i felt like something just happened in in in the spirit right now i just i'm crazy enough to believe that when we pray our god hears us amen amen god bless you we're going to go into now our wednesday evening tithe and offering god bless you all good evening christian life center i want to encourage all of you when you give your tithe and offering not to just go through the motions turning it into a tradition or a ordinance of the church but to take that tithe and offering lay that before the lord and tell the lord exactly what you're doing god i'm taken 10 percent of all of the substance that you have given me first i want to thank you for what you've given me and second i want to let you know that i'm not holding back on you but i bring this willingly and with joy in my heart that you've provided so much for me when we speak of our offering tell the lord said god i love you so much i know i'm not required to give this offering like i am the tithe but i want you to know that my heart is filled with thanksgiving and this is a love offering to you jesus and when you pray over it you can remind god of his promises to rebuke the devourer to give back to you and then look forward to god keeping his word for you god's not a liar including in the area of finances god bless you tonight as you give may the lord be with each and every one of [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well praise the lord everybody we are so glad that you're back with us on this wonderful wednesday evening bible study and i am glad to be back with you tonight we are studying through the book of revelation and i believe tonight is number nine and it's hard to believe that we've already been journeying through the scripture for this many weeks it's hard to believe that we have not been together in service in this long it is it just feels so weird still for me uh not to be in church physically with everybody here but we know the moment in the day is coming soon we believe that we trust god as we know god's in control and i've come tonight and hopefully we can build up your faith and the holy ghost tonight as we journey through chapter four of the book of revelation i'm so glad you're here tonight so as we're getting started go ahead and grab your bibles uh your phone tablet however you're you're studying tonight along with your family and we're going to begin our lesson tonight and and as as i mentioned last week i do my best to um to teach you know and to stay kind of calm and everything but you know when you're talking about the bible and you're talking about god and talking about the gospel and the rapture you just can't help but get excited there's something about it that just should fire you up and if it doesn't fire you up then something might be wrong and so uh you know not saying anything but you know it should fire you up a little bit get you excited because jesus is coming back i said jesus is coming back for his church and i'm so thankful that when he comes when that trumpet sounds i am ready to go i want my family to be ready to go i want this whole church to be ready to go to heaven and if you agree with that right where you're at just say amen say amen praise god i i like how people right now during this time where i see people online on youtube and stuff and they they say hey man right there on the youtube and it's so awesome because it's almost like i can hear some of you saying that amen in service so thank you for being engaged online whether you're on the youtube the website the facebook we thank you for for joining us tonight again revelation chapter 4 you have your bibles that's we're going to be tonight last week we ended with the seventh church of laodicea or seventh church the church of laodicea and moving that was chapter three we'll do our best we're gonna we're gonna move through this i probably will only actually touch on these two first verses but it's going to encompass the whole chapter and then of course we might end up pulling a little bit from chapter five a little bit from chapter three to bring in some context here but this is where we're going to be tonight out of revelation chapter 4 verses 1 and 2 the bible says after these things i looked this is john and behold the door standing open in heaven and the first voice which i heard was like a trumpet speaking with me saying come up here come hither and i will show you things which must take place after this and these are i'm pausing and kind of emphasizing intentionally because it's important to highlight he says after these things a door was there an open door and then a voice like a trumpet is what he heard speaking to me and it said come up said come up here and i must show you things which must take place after this verse 2 immediately i was in the spirit immediately immediately i was in the spirit and behold a throne set in heaven and one one say that right there in your home say one one sat on the throne not two not three one sat on the throne and so tonight i want to talk to you about we're going to spend our time in revelation 4 we're going to kind of make our way through but i just want to remind everyone listening right now and watching right now that there is still one on the throne tonight he's not absent he doesn't he's not you know off on vacation he's not in quarantine he is still on the throne and we believe that tonight and we're excited about that tonight let's pray as we begin our journey through the scripture tonight father we thank you we thankful we thank you for your word we're thankful for all the blessings that you've given us you you've allowed us god the ability to have church even though we can't gather in the same building god this is a blessing and we thank you for that we thank you because we can partake of the meat of your word god and it's going to bless our souls it's going to bless our families it's going to bless our lives and we thank you for it speak to us tonight we're going to be sure to give you all the praise all the glory and all the honor in jesus name we pray amen and amen uh so the first thing we need to point out tonight is that the bible uses a lot of symbols it uses a lot of imagery and that's important as you're beginning to study through well just not just revelation but your entire bible that's a very very important uh observation you have to make is that the bible we take as the literal word of god and what we mean by that is we we mean that the bible means everything that it says however there are times when trying to trying to convey a point the bible will use imagery it will use types we'll use shadows it will it will use metaphors it will use parables these are these are perhaps physical representations of something in the spiritual or something as a to represent a thing and so it's very important that we recognize that it's it's a type of speech it's a a type of uh a language or a meta a tool to convey a thought i often time often tell students you know we get a lot of rain in uh stockton uh during the winter months we don't get a lot of rain any rain really during the summer months and right now it's uh the summer time and so it's really warm outside and dry but if it were raining outside and i were to tell you i'd go outside and say you know it's really raining cats and dogs outside well immediately most of you would understand what i was saying we have this kind of vernacular this kind of saying here in in america raining cats and dogs i don't really know where that comes from but that's what we say and what we mean by that obviously is that it's raining a lot there's a lot of rain coming down outside we don't literally mean that cats and dogs are falling from the sky right but we're using an example it's a metaphor it's a physical representation to explain something else and so in the bible this does happen but what you should always know is that that metaphor that parable that that that type that shadow that thing that imagery is representing something that is absolutely real and literal and that's always important to point out the reason i'm starting here is because when you get into these first few verses and not just these verses but basically all of revelation you have to start seeing things through the eyes of john and in terms of the imagery of what's being conveyed and of course we need to be careful that we don't take it too far there there are some theologies that you can take a little bit too far like for instance the study of numbers or numerology is what they i believe is what they call it and this is the study that tries to attribute uh numbers or a meaning rather to to numbers and in some cases it works out pretty well but there's limitations on this idea of a study of numbers right we see seven is the number of perfection threes the number of completions six is the number of man this shows up in the scripture but the problem when you try to take that too far you end up with well what does 937 mean you know what is you know 1212 mean i mean at some point you're going to run out of meanings for the numbers and so although there are numbers that have meanings we need to be careful not to take it too far but in the case here in revelation 4 we see an imagery happening and this is why i'm i'm pausing to kind of give instruction here because what's happening is that john is seeing the event known as the rapture but the issue is at least this is the way i see it tonight the issue is however that the rapture is not explicitly stated inside of this passage nor is it really stated explicitly really anywhere in the book of revelation and this is very interesting the rapture doesn't really show up probably the most obvious places or at least where we would say is the clearest is in revelation 3 10 and then in this passage right here it shows up in other places as well but but it's never really conveyed and on the same level as the millennium for instance or the second coming or the tribulation these events seem to be much more defined in the book of revelation and so uh one of the reasons i want to i want to pause here is because i think this shows us a very good example a very good example of why we need solid teaching in the church one reason that i believe we don't see it explicitly stated in the book of revelation is because the entire church believed in the rapture they all believed that jesus was getting ready to come back and take his church home as a matter of fact paul tells us this in the in the book of first thessalonians you have your bibles let's turn over there really quick the bible says in first thessalonians chapter 5 he says but concerning first first thessalonians chapter five i'll give you a moment to to grab it there on the media team but concerning the times and the seasons brethren he says you have no need that i should write to you in other words you don't need me even to tell you about this you know what's going on you've heard it preached before you've heard this message you you know the the rapture is coming he says for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the lord so comes as a thief in the night in other words you already understand this information you already have this built into your dna as a church that that jesus is coming back and so i i want to pause right here just to uh just to encourage you that the teaching of the word of god is one of the most biblical concepts that we see in the scripture it's the reason that we teach so much about the bible it's one of the main reasons one of the main things as a matter of fact that god tells of a minister he says that you must be able to teach first timothy chapter 3 verse 16 i believe or 3 verse 2. he says you need to be able or apt to teach that's crazy that's amazing to me it doesn't say must be willing or able to convert a soul win a soul it doesn't say that there it doesn't say you got to be a good orator or be able to preach really good it doesn't say that you got to be a construction worker to be able to put things together it doesn't even say that you got to be able to balance a budget or it doesn't say anything but what it does say is that you must be able to teach that's why as a church we should thank god every single day that god has given us a pastor that is apt to teach that has a ministry of a teacher i thank god every single day for that because it's the teaching that's going to make your family strong it's the teaching that's going to make your kids get to heaven it's the teaching that's going to make you get to heaven you can't be saved without the the preached word of god but here's a here is a secret for you there really is very little difference between preaching and teaching when it is done correctly i said when it's done correctly i don't know about you i'm not interested in just a motivational speaker as my pastor i want someone that knows how to preach the word of god i want someone that can open up the word and tell me what thus saith the word of god for my life for my family for my kids well i hope you're saying amen at home i hope that you believe that we we should thank god every single day that we have a man of god that knows how to teach the word without fear and favor that knows how to tell us how to get to heaven that knows how to explain the word of god to us this is a blessing from god i just feel that to camp out there for a second because that that is a huge blessing from god and i'm going to go a step further we need more teaching in our families i said we need more teaching in our family we we need more instruction in our family we need more wise and and less what's oh well i just said that we need more wise explanation than just watts meaning don't just tell your family your kids what to do tell them why we're doing it it's not just it's time to watch service on this wednesday night but hey kids it's time to watch service because we need to be saved this is how we get to heaven i hope you're saying amen at home still quiet in the building i'm gonna get the media guys shouting here in a moment it's more than just the what the what will work for a while but eventually those kids have to learn the why the reason we are losing so many young people and young adults to the world it's because we fail to explain the why see my kids are young right now i can get away with because i said so hey hold my hand because i said so that can last for a while that's going to be okay for a while but as they grow as they mature as they get older that what needs to turn to a why why do we believe in this one god thing why do we only baptize in jesus name that's why our sunday school class i i don't want my my kids going to a sunday school or they're just babysitting and giving them cookies no no i want them taught the word of god i want them to know that there's something behind the bible stories it wasn't just noah's ark but that there's protection when you listen to the word and voice of god i feel that in the holy ghost they need to learn the why and if you can put the why into your family into your kids you will train up that child in the way they should go and when they're old they're not going to depart from it but training that's the proverb says see this is the problem training is more than just a lit a list of what's to do training also accompanies with why we do it why we believe it i know i'm a little bit off topic here but i feel it in the holy ghost we need to have more instruction in our family it's not good enough mom and dad to sit your kids in front of the youtube on wednesday and sunday and when we come back to church it's not good enough that we just send them to sunday school class it's gotta happen at home too it's not good enough that they only get an hour on wednesday night an hour on sunday morning and they never hear about jesus or the bible the rest of the week that's not good enough i said that's not good enough the world has your kids for hours every single week a lot of our kids go to public schools a lot of our kids are playing video games a lot of our kids are watching movies they're taking in media think about how many hours you let your child sit down i am way off topic i know don't worry i'm coming back around i'm in the holy ghost think about how many hours that you're allowing hollywood and media to be poured into your kids and then you drop them off at sunday school and expect brother schlapstick to turn them all around in 30 minutes 45 minutes or whatever whatever we got with them that's not going to work i said it's not going to work i said it's not going to work we need more instruction in our homes we need more teaching in our homes and we need more support for the man of god in our homes oh my i am all over it tonight my goodness you can't expect your kids to respect the man of god if you don't respect the man of god how do we expect our families to buy in to our pastor's vision buy into what he's calling us to prayer and calling us fasting or when he gets up and he says hey we're having an all church prayer meeting and then when you go home your kids don't hear anything else about it talking about we need more instruction in our home where are they going to learn it how are they going to find out how are they going to know what to do i'm talking about teaching in the church we see it as absolutely essential that we have instruction in our home and i want more of it in my life i need it you need it we need it i want to know what thus saith the word of the lord someone say amen right where you're at tonight so he doesn't so in the book of revelation i know i got off topic there but you know you'll forgive me it's okay you're not here to frown at me so i just assume you're all smiling out there in media land we see the imagery going on here and and so the bible in this passage it doesn't explicitly state that it's talking about the rapture but like i mentioned it's almost as if they didn't need uh uh john to explain to them that this was the rapture they understood that they got it and so the voice calls out to john come up calling him out the the posture of the rapture a sign of what is to come he says come out and come up here come up hither and this catching away this beautiful time when when we are going to be uh just going about our daily business maybe just on our way to work maybe on her way home maybe sitting in a classroom maybe maybe doing something at the job maybe on a plane in one of these days that trump it's gonna sound and as john said i heard a voice like a trumpet and that trumpet sounds and that trumpet blares loud ah afraid i don't know about you but i am looking forward to the day that that trumpet sounds you know when you're i know i know how it that sounds sometimes when you're a kid you know i'll be honest when i was a kid i used to hate i used to hate preachers saying that stuff you know like i can't wait to hear the trumpet sound you know like i would always think yeah because you're like you know super old you're 40 you know you've already lived your life you know at 40 you know of course you want him to come you've already lived your life well let me tell you it doesn't matter if you're 40 or 14 there is nothing in this world that is comparable to being with jesus i want to see my jesus and i know for some of you young people you might think oh yeah but i want to live my life friend this world has nothing for you heaven is going to be so much greater than you can ever imagine and i wish or i pray right now that there's some acts 29 or some lifeline or even some kids that would start getting excited about the rapture that would start getting excited about seeing jesus because there's nothing in this world there's nothing this world has to offer that's greater than him and i'm looking forward i'm so looking forward to that day and the scripture said in verse two i'm kind of bouncing around my notes right now but that's all right the scripture said in verse two he said after he heard the voice he said immediately right there at home saying immediately oh immediately i wasn't let me just tell you if you're waiting around to get right with god if you're waiting around to to get your life together friend you need to stop waiting you need to get it done now because in that moment in a twinkling of an eye you're not gonna have time to get your stuff together you're not gonna have time to get your shoes on you're not gonna have time to to get life to get that lamp lit and go to the market and get off no no when that call goes out it's gonna happen in a moment one moment you're going to be here on earth in the next moment you're going to be caught up in the spirit and you're going to be looking at jesus face to face one moment you're going to be on the earth you're going to be living your life going through life in the next moment you're gonna be with jesus he said immediately oh immediate i wish i wish i pray that we would get this understanding of the immediacy of the imminent return and the rapture of the church so much of life we we just think we have time you know it's like we we go through our lives so often and we don't talk about it we don't think about it we don't think about it until we start calling people you ever have one of those moments i know you have if you were raised in church you know what i'm talking about you start calling your family call mom mom doesn't answer back when you say have landline phones some of you don't know what landline phones are that's all right you don't even need them anymore some of you still pay for them and you don't you never use it you have a landline phone so you call the house and it just keeps ringing and ringing maybe the answering machine picked up or something just kept ringing like man you call someone you call another friend your that friend doesn't pick up like oh man oh man you start calling everybody you know except for one guy or one you know that guy's not going to go so he's not trustworthy you know what happened oh i might have missed it then of course mom picks up the phone thank you jesus you know i didn't miss it we've all had that experience you have that experience because you go through life and you you forget you forget that it was immediately john said immediately i was in the spirit immediately i was from here to there and it's going to happen in a moment friend you don't have time to mess around and i don't know if you're paying attention or not to the to what's going on in your world but this world is coming apart at the seams it could be in a moment i think if one thing this whole business of kovitz showed us that god could take this entire world and flip it on its head in one single day one moment nobody saw this business coming no one saw it coming it completely rocked our world it it threw people out of work it messed up everything and in one moment if you don't think god is ready that god is the world is poised for the rapture of the church friend you're not paying attention you're asleep and you need to wake up i said you need to wake up you don't have time to get things together you're not going to have time to figure your life out you're going to come to a you're going to come to an empty building even though right now the building's empty you're going to try to sign on and everybody's gonna be gone all those people you knew went to christian life center they're all gonna be gone you're not gonna have time to get your stuff together i'm trying to tell someone tonight we need to live in a way that we are ready to meet jesus every single moment every single day i want to be ready to meet jesus remember i shared a story one time my elder my church growing up she was talking about going to movie theaters and she's told that she said you know you know i don't go to movie theaters she's talking to young people she said because that's not a place i want to be when jesus comes back she said that's not a place i want to be when jesus comes back i don't know about you when that rapture happens i want to be working in the kingdom i want to be teaching a bible study i want to be in an altar i want to be in prayer huh i want to be on a fast i want to be doing something productive i want my time to be spent in the kingdom of god i want to be working while it is day because the night is coming where no man shall work i'm trying to shake someone tonight and say it's time to wake up oh well i know what the world thinks about it they make fun of us you know they mock us you know that's nothing new they mock jesus too don't forget that they made fun of jesus they they made fun of noah too you know building his ark oh crazy no over there building an ark what are you doing building an ark you're in the middle of the field no what are you doing not close to a c they had never seen rain before think about that you want to know why the world mocks the doctrine of the rapture and why so many christians fail to believe the doctrine of the rapture i think i saw a study a while back it was about 70 percent of christians today don't believe in a rapture crazy number crazy number you want to know why they don't believe it because they've never seen it before think about it if they had seen a rapture before it wouldn't be too hard to imagine you know oh but noah he said there's coming a flood preached it for years they said a flood come on you're in the field that boat's huge rain from the sky water from the sky you're crazy noah they've never seen it before this world's never seen a rapture before they never seen it taken away before they never partook of that sort of thing millions of people across the planet gone in a moment they've never seen it before but friend they're going to see it i said they're going to see it and i don't know about you but i'm not going to be around to see it i'm going to be caught up with the lord in the air my family's going to be caught up with the lord if i have anything to say about it my wife my kids we're going to be caught up to meet the lord in the air because we are going to be ready and i want you to be ready this church needs to be ready right where you're at right now no matter where you're watching it how you're watching it i want you to lift your hands in the air and as high as you can get them and tell god god i want to be ready oh god i've got to be ready to see you and to meet you go ahead right where you're at just call out to the lord right where you're at say god i've got to be ready to meet you i've got to be ready to see you my heart's got to be right my spirit's got to be right my attitude has got to be right my motives have got to be right my ambition has got to be right oh god god i want to see you i've got to be ready he said immediately immediately was caught up we have to live our lives ready to go i said we got to live our lives ready to go can't allow that spirit of lao to see it again on us we got to live our lives ready to go we can't be so in love with this world so in love with the things of this world that we cling to it that are treasures in it no no no you can have it all this world's got nothing for me jesus looked at his disciples and said will you also leave me people were leaving him couldn't take the gospel he looked at this disciple said will you leave me also they looked back and said lord where are we going to go where are we going to go it's you you have the words of eternal life friend there's there's a lot out there in the world you could go to run to a lot of books you can read a lot of ideologies that you can buy into a lot of groups that you could join protests you could be a part of but friend there's one that has the words of life there's one place that you can go to that'll be a shelter from the storm oh there's a rock that you can cling to when the world all around us is sinking sand on christ the solid rock oh i love those songs on christ the solid rock i stand i'm telling you today there's one that has eternal life in his words jesus name one more time just lift your hands right where you're at call on the lord jesus i need to be ready i need to be ready i need to be ready i need to be ready i need to be ready i need to be ready jesus name in jesus name i don't feel the need to move on right now i just feel in the holy ghost you know there's nothing more important than being right with god you've heard me say that before but there's nothing more important than being right with god if you're not right with god then you are not ready to go i hope you said amen right where you're at if you're not right with god then you're not ready to go i got to be right with god i need my i've been praying this prayer so often lately i need my mind to be right i need to pray over everything of yourself i need my mind to be right i need my spirit to be right you know you can have a bad spirit you could be doing everything right obeying and listening all that but you do it in a bad spirit you know i used to get super frustrated when i was a kid you know because i used to have a bad attitude you know and the teachers always say they say micah do this do that i go over oh whatever and i grab whatever it was and they would say pick up so i pick it up throw it i see my daughter doing this now you know bad at it and they would say do it again or something like this i just did it they said yeah but you had a bad attitude used to get me so frustrated you know that's how we are with god sometimes god tells us to do it go to church show up listen to preaching and we do it yeah yeah god i'm here i got the youtube on so sad right we're on youtube i'm here i'm listening god yeah you're there but you got a bad attitude god i need my spirit to be right i need my i need my attitude to be right god i need my heart to be right there's nothing more important than being right with god and if you're not right with god you are not ready to go and someone's saying amen he said come on up here i need to show you things that much that must take place after this immediately john says it says i was in the spirit and behold a throne notice what he says there was a throne sat in heaven and behold the throne sat in heaven and go to the next part of that verse if you would and it says and one sacked on the throne there wasn't two there wasn't three there was only one i'm so thankful that i know the one who's on the throne i'm so thankful that i know who's in charge i'm so thankful even though everything in this world might be falling apart i know who's on the throne i've come to remind someone tonight god is still on the throne i mentioned it earlier he's not on vacation he's not in quarantine he's not isolated he knows what's going on and he's still on the throne and you know what this is more than just a position or a placement this is important now next week maybe we'll have some time i'm running out of time tonight but when we start getting into chapter five the the issue though the oneness of god starts coming into view and there are people that have uh issues with this uh trinitarian doctrine and it it's important to understand that this imagery that's going on here is that john is seeing what's going on in the spiritual and he says i saw a throne and there was one seated on the throne and that right there is telling us that this is a symbol of authority i said it's a symbol of authority it's saying that god is still in charge he hasn't lost uh his authority he hasn't lost his control no god's still on the throne book of psalms a number of times goes through and says the lord reigns the lord reigns the lord reigns what does this mean it means that god is still on the throne it doesn't mean that he's just sitting there not doing anything it doesn't mean that he's just chilling out no no the language there means that god is still in charge it might look like there is no leader it might look like it's chaos and no one knows what's going on but friend that's what it looks like in the natural but what the bible tells us in the spiritual is that god is still on the throne which means he's still in charge which means that there's nothing that passes his gaze he can see you he can see me he knows what's going on and let me tell you something else god is always keeping score one of my one of my elders in our life one of the our bishop of the church brother mullins always comes by and preaches every year we love brother molings i i love when always ten he'll text me once in a while he'll say just want to let you know and he preaches this all the time and he'll always say it god's keeping score and he says and god keeps good books you remember him saying in our church he always says it all the time i love it when he says it because what it reminds me about is that god's still in control god's still on the throne even though it seems like things are going against you even though it seems like that job is never coming back even though it seems like your kids are never coming back to church you just remember god is still in control we said it last week i'll say it again god is going to have the final say every single time because he's on the throne he's on the throne and i don't have to worry about the most beautiful thing about it is i don't have to worry about a trinity no no no he said there was one on that throne and this is why jesus said all authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me all authority in heaven and on earth jesus is the one god god manifests in the flesh in him jesus dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily i'm here to tell someone today when you pray and call on jesus you're calling on that one that's sitting on the throne you're calling on the one that has everything under his control you're calling on the one that's ruling and reigning you're calling on the one that can change any situation you're calling on the one that all power is in his hand there's power in the name of jesus we don't we don't worry about i've hurt people you know when they come into our churches they worry about praying to the father praying to the son and praying to the spirit all you have to do is ask the question what is the name of the father what is the name of the son what's the name he only has one name there's one lord one faith one baptism one god father of all who's above all through all in all and when we get to heaven you're gonna see one throne and there's gonna be one seated on that throne and when you call on the name of jesus when you call on the name of jesus you are calling on all authority in all the power that is in heaven and in earth i'm telling we need a revelation of that this isn't some sort of you know incantation that we speak you know it's not a a little magic word you know the hocus pocus and kind of and it's on them you know no no what you're doing is you're saying okay god we recognize that you're on the throne that means that you're the god over cancer you're the god over disease you're the god over sickness you're on the throne you're sovereign there's no one that's greater than you no one that's stronger than you there's nothing that can defeat you and we are praying in that name that's above every other name and we are declaring that power over this situation why because he's on the throne he's on the throne he has the authority i feel it in the holy ghost right now there's some situations going on in your life you need to get off of your couch you need to bury your face into the pew the pool of the the floor your your chair wherever you're at and you need to start declaring the name of jesus over that situation right now in jesus name you got some young people some kids that are going crazy in your home i just filled in the holy ghost right now mom dad and yes i said mom and dad that it's not enough that mom's the only prayer warrior in the house that's not enough mom and dad you need to go into that kid's room you need to go get the oil out of your kitchen you need to go anoint every piece of furniture in that room see i was raised that way i still believe that stuff works i still believe there's power in the name of jesus i still believe that prayer is powerful you need to go in there and start anointing everything you need to say i command every spirit to leave you are not taking up residence in this home by the authority of the word of god and by the power that's in the name of jesus take authority over every one of those spirits do you let those young people you let that spirit into your home that's on you mom and dad i said that's on you he's oh yeah but they just keep on watching those movies they just keep on well i'm all over it tonight wow i feel something in the holy ghost getting up all the axe 29ers getting mad at me right now they're trying to turn off the internet or something right now let me tell you something if your parent if your kids run your house you are out of the will of god i said if they run your house you're out of the will of god so i just can't get them to quit watching those moves i just can't get a oh all this why are you making excuses you need to take authority over your home you need to get every media device out of your home you do whatever you have to do you say we're going to be ready for the rapture this house is going to be clean we're going to be ready to meet jesus whatever i have to do we're going to please god and after you do that you pray over that house you pray over your home you anointed with oil you said these kids are bought with a price they belonged to jesus they were dedicated at an apostolic altar by an apostolic man of god they belong to god you declare it over your kids well i just believe it in the name of jesus hallelujah praise god right now there's a mom and a dad that need to start interceding for their kids right jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah want my family to be ready i want my family to be ready i have authority with god god's still in control god's still in control a beautiful message of revelation the revelation of jesus christ that he's coming back for a church he's coming back for a clean church a church that has been washed a church has been washed in the blood it's living a life that's pleasing unto him that's ready to meet him i'm going to do whatever i have to do to make sure my family's ready the question is are all of us going to do what we have to do i feel the holy ghost all over this is this is where we're going to stop tonight and i believe that god is ready to meet you where you're at there's some moms and some dads right now the conviction of the lord has settled into your home god's still on the throne he's still he's got your back you're afraid of what's going to happen i'm afraid i'm going to push them out i'm going i'm going to make them you know go further into the world you don't worry about that you worry about pleasing god you keep that line you keep the line and god's going to back you up you you tell them the truth you would teach them the truth you intercede you pray you do what you know you have to do god's still on the throne god will take care of the rest but whatever we have to be ready whatever i have to do whatever i have to do i need my kids saved i need my family saved my soul i've got to be saved right now right where you're at we're going to sing some songs and just kind of worship tonight but right where you're at don't turn the video off until you've prayed don't turn the video off until don't turn the message off until you've made some commitments with god some things are going to be different god i'm going to start taking some situations more serious i'm going to make sure my attitude is right i'm going to make sure my spirit's right god you're coming back that rapture could happen any moment i still believe it lord and i'm going to start living like i believe it god you're still on the throne i'm still good i'm going to trust you every day even though there's chaos all around there's one on that throne he's still in control he's still in charge right now as the music plays we're gonna fade a little bit here but i want you to take a moment take some time and pray some of you need to do some cleaning tonight somebody to go through your home and start throwing away things media devices cleaning stuff out saying we got to purify this house we got to get ready we got to be ready jesus is coming jesus is coming jesus is coming oh preacher you're young they've been saying that for years well i know i heard it i remember hearing when i was a kid jesus is coming repent be saved i heard it when i was just a child five six seven jesus is coming repent be saved i heard it when i was in college i started preaching it when i was in my twenties you know what the lord tarries i'm gonna be preaching it when i'm 80. get ready jesus is coming it can happen any moment in the twinkling of an eye and i got to be ready i've got to be ready to meet him my family's got to be ready to meet him and i want all of you to be ready to meet him let's pray tonight let's ask god to speak to us today god bless you as you pray with your family [Music] so [Music] four above all else i must be [Music] saved i must be [Music] safe you have to do to me don't let me be lost [Music] and i must be saved [Music] i must i must be safe whatever you have to do to me don't let me be lost [Music] i must be safe [Music] i must i must you have to do to me don't let me be lost i must be saved [Music] i must [Music] tonight must be safe [Music] sing it over a lost loved one [Music] don't let me be lost i must be safe [Music] you

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