The Civil War in the Church Part 1 | Jeremiah Johnson

[Music] let's take a look at the global pandemic numbers now stay away from crowds stay home as much as you can the cdc has confirmed this is the first case in the country houses of worship essential [Laughter] [Music] remnant is rising god is looking for a remnant in america who's going to build arts of his presence all over america your family might think you're crazy your friends might have never heard of that revelation before but god is looking for an obedient people [Music] welcome to the watchmen's corner this is your host jeremiah johnson i'm excited today to bring to you a message broadcast live from around our nation you know in the midst of covet 19 god is seeking a radical remnant calling us to the front lines of the battle i know that you'll be blessed by today's message and i encourage you to hang in there after this message for a special time of prayer check it out come on let's give jesus one more shout of praise [Applause] [Music] [Applause] has anybody ever seen the movie gladiator folks around the nation ask me what's it like over there at fresh start church said it's like a pentecostal colosseum where they slay demons come on you entered a colosseum where no demon in hell is safe in this place god is raising up an end time army amen [Music] can we give the worship team a round of applause [Applause] all right you can be seated it's a true joy and honor to be with you this morning we had an opportunity to fly in early for this conference and just be able to receive how many of you have received so well from isaiah and sean and pastor kilpatrick brother russell just incredible pastor thank you so much that message honestly was probably my favorite so far touched me deeply i have all the feels at this conference as someone who pastored full-time for 12 years and has also traveled and i know the price that it requires in part to steward revival on a local and regional level a lot easier just to fly around and drop bombs and leave and so there's been so many pastors and leaders here and i know by experience just the real fight that it takes a lot of these conferences it's exciting and then the last day you're sort of depressed because you have to go back and try to figure out what to do with all of this so you you have my condolences and i'll be praying with you and for you i know half of you really just want to farm this worship team and have these people out of here in a recruiting in the lobby but you know what god has a place and a space of people for you where you live and i just want to encourage you sincerely that god is with you and he's going to show you exactly what he's asking you to do and then finally if you call fresh start church home i hope that you know that you're blessed i hope that you know that god is doing something special i want to honor pastor kim and paul the sacrifice in this house there's precious oil here amen if you have in your bibles would you turn to acts chapter 3. i want to preach a message this morning concerning the new era that we are entering into in the body of christ and part of the new era that we're entering into is concerning a great civil war that is going to take place in the church i believe that this civil war in many ways has been fought through many decades but the battle is going to grow very fierce and very intense i believe the intensity of this civil war that i speak of is literally going to be like elijah uh when he calls fire down on mount carmel it's literally going to be which god do you serve and so the civil war is going to be concerning the doorkeepers of revival and the doorkeepers of religion we are here at the door keepers of revival conference but i want you to know that there are many door keepers of religion in america and just as fiercely and intensely you and i are called to guard the door of re of revival making sure that only certain realities get through the door there are many in this nation who guard the door of religion and they don't want you and i to pass through and my encouragement for you today is that god is releasing a holy jailbreak from the spirit of religion in america there are chains that are breaking even now barn a survey suggesting that one and three are not watching online and have no desire to go back to church after covet 19. there has been a mass exposure in the american church concerning where our foundation truly lies and so in acts chapter 3 here we're going to see a collision between two door keepers of revival peter and john and a lame crippled beggar who is our door keeper of religion there's a collision here in the scriptures that i believe is symbolic of the collision that's happening in our nation now before we jump in there i want to confess some things to you for about two minutes wow that was awkward wow okay don't worry my wife is watching i have accountability i had a supernatural birth experience an angel of the lord came to my mom in her womb and told her to name me jeremiah i began dreaming around seven years old i was really blessed to grow up in a father a pastor's environment where what we said we believed in we saw in other words part of the blessing or inheritance that i personally was a part of is one of the only fights my dad ever had with the board was the services being too long start at 10 and at 3 pm kind of thing so i grew up in a supernatural environment do you believe in tongues yes then you speak in tongues do you believe in healing yes then you pray for healing more of what isaiah mentioned and so i grew up in this supernatural environment where the gifts the charismatic expression pentecostalism was embraced we were unashamed it wasn't a prideful arrogant thing it was just more like hey i mean if you're spirit filled then are you really spirit-filled where are the manifestations of it and i never really encountered a religious devil until i went to bible college i attended the largest pentecostal university in this nation and honestly that was my first experience being around young people who said that they believed in one thing but there was no evidence of it in their life i was very discouraged and i was very heartbroken at this kind of encounter i had no idea that my experience of church was completely different than their experience of church and so i was there on the campus for a number of years and i took a course called homiletics in order to graduate and part of my confession to you is that i failed the course now i got an a in terms of actually preaching but i failed the class because you had to submit as your final paper a 52 week sermon series it was communicated to us that as you grow as pastors and leaders you plan out a year in advance and so i needed to pray and basically line up some series that i could turn into the professor and i made a really bad mistake and the mistake was i asked the holy spirit what he wanted to do so i turned in a 52-week sermon series and wrote holy spirit and turned it in and i flunked the course how many of you in here have flunked religion but you've passed on revival come on how many of you are tired of the dead the dry the stale how many of you know sermonettes produce christianettes we need the fresh fire of the holy spirit to return come on somebody turn to your neighbor and say give me something hot give me something fresh so when my wife and i graduated and we planted a church i was like the worst sermon series guy our elder team tried to convince me that we needed to do topic kind of things and i do i do believe if you're a leader a pastor in here and you're a sermon series guy god bless you when i talk about today god breathing i believe god wants to breathe life into a religious system what i'm not meaning by that is stop preaching the word okay because the bible it says that the word of god is god breathed i'm not saying we need less bible in the church but the difference between anointed teachers and teachers is teachers give you information anointed teachers they inject a love for the truth inside of you we need more anointed teaching in the body of christ that erupts a love for the truth and so i had my work cut out for me church planning and then when the lord called me to travel it got even worse i began to go to assemblies of god i began to go to pentecostal denominations and because i loved revival history i would preach on azusa street and as i preached on azusa street and pentecostal pastors would ask me what's that i knew we were in trouble you know as a young guy a lot of times when you tell people there's a new thing coming they think you're arrogant so i stopped telling the pentecostal church there's a new thing coming and i just started telling them god is taking you back to your roots there's an inheritance so it sort of snuck me in the door with this old-time message and then they would become enraged when i would challenge the fact that in many of our charismatic pentecostal expressions the ministry of the holy spirit has been relegated to a sign out by the road there's actually nothing spirit filled really going on in the services although i'm pentecostal and charismatic and so i was in a season where i was continuing to preach on pentecost on the power of the holy spirit so many these things and honestly i was greatly discouraged and a guy by the name of isaiah saldivar said have you ever heard of fresh start church in peoria arizona and i said no who are they he sent me a video clip and from that day forward i prayed to god that he would give me the opportunity to preach in this church one day so this is a real honor and a real privilege for me that there are people here gathered today that are actually walking the walk and not just talking the talk there are door keepers of revival here so when i asked god what was the mandate of fresh start for the nation the lord said to me the mandate in this house for the nation is to awaken the sleeping giant who is the church and to make war on the religious spirit i believe that this house has a mantle and it's being extended to many who gather here on weekends to awaken the sleeping giant who is the church and to make war on the religious spirit god is releasing a spirit of awakening in america to a sleeping church now many of them are not sleeping they're like the church at sardis they have an appearance of being alive but really they're dead every program known to man every opportunity all those things but really spiritually they're dead on the inside and so i believe that today on the final day of the conference god wants to introduce us to this clash this civil war concerning the doorkeepers of revival and doorkeepers of religion and then give us an opportunity to choose a side and i believe more than even choosing a side god wants to raise up individuals in this house that are actually going to penetrate the power of religion with the fresh baptism of the holy spirit and fire last confession i promise the pharisees and the religious leaders i believe never knew how dry and stale their system was the people that followed them they never understood until jesus came and demonstrated the power of god it was only until they had something to compare their doorkeeper of religion that they could actually wake up and see the truth and so my final confession to you is i believe that there could be some people in here that you have a phd in pointing out the spirit of religion while simultaneously you have no plans of defeating it you're one of these generals on facebook you know like these general prophets and intercessors on facebook who love to rebuke and love to moan and complain about how dry and stale their city or their churches failing to realize unless you give yourself to become the difference that they don't have an opportunity to to compare it and so again much easier to point the finger much easier to say your city is dry rather than actually plant a house of revival i believe when we talk about making war on the religious spirit it's more than a facebook status it's actually callousing your knees it's actually paying a price to become what you long to see in your region somebody shout amen i think some people want a refund on the material out there now lord awaken the sleeping giant your church in america teach us how to make war on the religious spirit acts chapter 3 i want to begin reading in verses 1 through 10 and then we're going to break it down now peter and john were going up to the temple at the ninth hour the hour of prayer and a certain man who had been lame from his mother's womb was being carried along whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called beautiful in order to beg alms of those who were entering the temple and when he saw peter and john about to go into the temple he began to asking to receive alms and peter along with john fixed his gaze upon him and said look at us and he began to give them his attention expecting to receive something from them but peter said i do not possess silver and gold but what i do have i give to you in the name of jesus christ of nazarene walk and seizing him by the right hand he raised him up and immediately his feet and ankles were strengthened and with the leap he stood upright and began to walk and he entered the temple with them walking and leaping and praising god and all the people saw him walking and praising god i'm telling you there's a breakthrough coming to the doorkeepers of religion and they were there taking note of him as being the one who used to sit at the beautiful gate of the temple to beg alms and they were filled with wonder and amazement at what had happened to him i believe that this first encounter that peter and john have after being filled with the fresh baptism of the holy spirit in acts 2 is representative often times when someone or a church gets powerfully touched by the holy spirit immediately in front of them becomes a challenge there becomes a collision has the lord ever told you to fast and then mama comes in and makes the best meal a lot of times when someone gets powerfully delivered that jezebel sister who you dated calls you out of nowhere there's an immediate attack that oftentimes follows powerful moves of god and peter and john as door keepers of revival being fresh being filled with the fresh power of the holy spirit automatically encounter a lame beggar who we're going to find out in a moment i believe was a door keeper of religion when we look at this story i have in my bible acts 3 1 now peter and john i have here now products of revival now gatekeepers doorkeepers of revival were going up to the temple at the ninth hour of prayer and a certain man my translation jj's is and a doorkeeper of religion who had been lame from his mother's womb was being carried along whom they used to set down every day at the gate of the temple which is called beautiful religion in order to beg alms of those who are entering the temple if you're taking notes i've done some extensive research i felt it was really important for a moment to talk about this location it says that the lame beggar who's a doorkeeper of religion he sat at the temple gate called beautiful probably every day for a number of years we're gonna read in a moment in chapter 4 he was more than 40 years old when he was healed okay so this individual sat at this gate now if you look in history the nine gates temple gate called beautiful isn't mentioned most scholars will agree probably it's the double gate but this gate positionally was very important because through this specific gate it led to the court of the women through this specific gate it led to the trumpet-shaped boxes where they would give offerings through this specific gate there was teaching beyond it and so when we think about the temple gate called beautiful or for our time today the temple gate called religion we have to recognize that the crippled beggar was strategically positioned at a very important spot and where he was positioned would have given him the opportunity in his lifetime to be around several important things that you might remember for example when simeon and anna dedicated baby jesus they probably would have had to walk through the beautiful gate because the court of the women was right behind it it's not a far stretch to know the crippled beggar being about 40 jesus dies around 33 that probably as a boy lame the crippled beggar would have seen jesus being carried in the temple and being dedicated you might remember jesus going into the temple and throwing out the money changers the boxes for the offerings were right behind the temple gate called beautiful you right remember jesus as a boy 12 teaching in the temple he would have passed right by the lame crippled beggar why is the location of this beautiful gate called religion so important because somehow some way this lame crippled beggar had experienced all that the church of his day had to offer yet he remained bound and there is a generation in the church like the lame crippled beggar who have had a front row seat to every program every preacher i heard that seen that read that they have a ph.d in religion but they've never actually experienced the power of god for themselves and notice the spirit of religion that is upon this crippled beggar the spirit of religion is always demanding payment give me an alms let it be a contract just come in and out religion demands payment but revival offers the power of god it was just another day in the crippled the doorkeeper of religion just another day going through the motions looking for a handout and he asked peter and john for money in other words he's out of touch with his true needs people bound in religion are out of touch for their true need for an intimate encounter with the son of god more than outward behavior modification and going through the motions if we're gonna get free from the power of religion we must say yes to the spontaneous workings of the holy spirit when he comes upon us see religion restrains but revival brings an outpouring religion restrains but revival brings resurrection god wants to release resurrection power to parts of the american church who are drunk on programs they're drunk on pre-planned the power of religion is born in so many services are over before they begin and part of this dead dry stale going through the motions religion comes to maim you religion comes to constrain you it comes to paralyze you it comes to castrate you it comes to paralyze you many of us were saved through a radical encounter and baby we worked great for the devil bc before christ we were out at the club we were up all night we wouldn't get out of the club till 4 00 am but then we get born again and church has to be an hour it's like we serve the devil way better in our past than we've ever served jesus christ now and religion has come to silence and to polish and to shut down an emerging breed of firebrands i'm telling you part of this new era that's about to hit the body of christ is the fire is going to burn so hot that in some places resurrection will come but in other places it's time for new plants and new models and new houses of prayer some of you might be called to go and infiltrate but many of you are called to birth something new oh brother i just can't move to that city my parents live there and it's free babysitting for the kids and brother i i can't leave that church you know it's my friends and no it's our love for the comfortable and the convenient that actually is louder than our hunger for revival questions been asked all week how hungry are you there's a civil war that's coming to america the doorkeepers of revival are going to clash with the door keepers of religion and i'm prophesying to you who's going to win my prophecy for you today is this peter and john are about to come to the american church peter and john are about to come to the american church and i'm going to break that down in a moment can i tell you at part of revival and experiencing all that god has for you doesn't have to look like you being miserable i'm convinced that we have a hard time getting people saved because they're looking at our faces i don't know where we bought into this christian experience where it's like we try to hold on in church feeling like what we're missing out on out there when i prophesy to you days are coming to the church where people out there are gonna wonder what they're missing out on in here there is a joy amen there is a happiness but this miserable thing this depressed this i'm just as bound 20 years in as i was 20 years ago i believe the church is reaching a tipping point god if this is all there is i'm done i want to encourage you further down that line like i want you to walk the plank with me like i i want you to walk the plank and dare to jump out of the pool of religion that broken cistern that old wine skin god is saying to so many intercessors and prophets and faithful how long will you mourn for saul [Music] i believe in this quarantined season god has intentionally separated many people from their soul to help them to wake up and recognize that wow it's a lot hotter in the prayer closet than it's ever been in the house of god wow the spirit's breaking out in my living room but i have to sit through a drive-through every sunday and it's doing nothing for my marriage nothing for my family i want to say to a generation of samuels lift up your head because peter and john are coming to the church there's an intimacy there's a boldness there's a power there's realms of faith that are coming that are going to disrupt the religious system revival comes to release it comes to empower it comes to refresh it comes to resurrect it's spontaneous religion loves routine because it can be controlled so there was a clash the location of the beautiful gate is very important because the crippled beggar had spent his entire life having a phd in every song and every program but yet he still lacked an encounter i've shared with you before i have a brother in a federal prison serving a long-term sentence grew up in a similar atmosphere as i did what happened he chose to know about god rather than know god it's possible saints even in these kinds of atmospheres of revival to start operating and a user anointing will you get so comfortable with the presence of god you're stuck in a religious system and a wine skin called revival i believe that following the holy spirit being born again was intended to be one of the greatest adventures that you and i have ever been on i believe that it should be the most fun and the most scary journey you have ever taken choosing to take your hands off your life off your church is one of the greatest liberators where we actually die to self and allow the spirit of christ to live through us now i know as a pastor how to tried i was praying even about this morning through my own experiences because again it's one thing to talk about the move of the spirit in a church and it's another thing to be a leader and have to face those hard decisions and i remember our church plant in lakeland florida was about three or four years in and it was an easter service or you know christers those folks that just go to church on sunday and wednesday and a lot of folks in the congregation began to beg me around easter to tone it down because they wanted to bring their friends and family you know could you make it a little bit more comfortable so people won't get offended and there was something a wrestle i know so many great people you love the lord you're hungry for revival but your greatest enemies to the things of god are your friends and family it's the pressures around you god wants to sharpen you but religion is trying to polish you off so we had gone to a restaurant and the lord previous to that said jeremiah i want you to invite this missionary on easter sunday i can't say his name publicly but i can tell you he's on al qaeda's most wanted list for real this is a missionary when he gives altar calls it's not do you want to come to the lord it's do you want to be a martyr it's like you know we have our sermon illustrations this guy is well i was stoned by muslims out in the village for preaching the gospel okay basically he makes preachers feel not saved and the lord says i want you to bring him on easter sunday and as a young pastor i'm like oh god so a couple days before the gathering my wife and i went out to eat we were sitting in this restaurant i might have told this story here before but there was a waitress that came up and just introduced herself and said that she had the gift of reading people and immediately my wife began to kick me in the shin and it didn't hurt enough and so i said that's great i have that gift too why don't you try your gift of reading people and then i'll try my gift so she asked for my birth date you know the whole astrology you know no power all of that and the lord just gave me a picture of her as a young girl sitting in a room lonely and abandoned i just just spoke that to her and said you know the love of the father is here today to minister to your loneliness she literally dropped the the notepad and ran in the bathroom crying my wife looks at me and says we didn't even order the food you know just i mean it was one minute five minutes ten minutes she never came back all i knew how to do was leave our church card and a hundred dollar tip fast forward to easter sunday we're sitting there and the brother is literally preaching like you know hell fire and brimstone okay like i'm crying in the front oh god i don't love you enough no i'm not ready to if a man came in or the god and you know he's just i mean he's going wild all of a sudden out of the corner of my eye i see a woman in a beautiful white dress come in the back and it was her from the restaurant and when he gave that altar call folk she didn't walk down to the altar she ran you know we prayed for her it was incredible and then i went home and god gave me a spanking he said don't you ever do that again i said what do you mean lord he said jeremiah are you so wise do you know my holy spirit so well that you think you can determine who i can touch and who i can't you know a fiery preacher or someone comes into town and you have friends and family oh that brother's too deep for them he's too pentecostal they'll be weirded out are you god that's what the lord was saying to me are you god don't ever do that again don't ever put yourself in a position where you think you can dictate and you can determine what i can do and what i can't do see when doorkeepers of revival come onto the scene they recognize nothing is impossible for god they weren't intimidated by a crippled beggar who had sat at a religious gate for 40 years they were not intimidated they engaged and said silver and gold have i none some of you are well i don't have a sound system i don't have a building i don't have a ph listen i got a degree and it did nothing for me okay if god tells you to get a degree go for it but listen i want to encourage you today i want to challenge you today follow the voice of the holy spirit we need the fresh ruach the breath of god to breathe upon a religious system in a church and i'm prophesying to you we've made it so much about the house of god that we don't even talk about our own personal homes what if the revival that's coming to this nation we're going to see his breath and meetings like this but folks i've been dreaming for years now it's going to come to homes it's going to come to neighborhoods it's going to come to workplaces it's going to come to elementary schools god is looking for door keepers of revival in every sphere of society you are not less than because you're not called to be a preacher lord said to me months ago the most anointed individuals in this nation are home school moms come on somebody needs to hear that today if we can shut down when the holy spirit can move and can't move i'm telling you we haven't yet tasted him this is not turning the faucet on god move and then shutting it down this is lord we give you freedom liberty to come and have your way and if that means in this service praise god and if that means on my way home stopping off at the gas station praying for healing or deliverance lord i'm all yours i'm bought with the price the holy spirit lives down on the inside of me i'm tired of the religion peter and john are coming to the church if you'll turn to matthew chapter 15 i'll begin to land the plane jesus had plenty of confrontations with the religious system in his day jesus probably being the ultimate doorkeeper of revival and he confronts the doorkeepers of religion in his day the pharisees and the religious leaders and i want to give you today it's a little bit of a different take i want to give you the religious tradition manifesto i want to expose to you the religious tradition manifesto so you know how to war against it i felt like this first session this morning i need to expose the power of religion to you and then tell you there's a holy jailbreak god is releasing from the power of religion and god is raising up doorkeepers of revival that are going to penetrate the religious system peter and john are coming to the church now in matthew 15 jesus begins to talk to the religious leaders and the pharisees about their traditions and i just want to remind us for one moment that there were approximately 613 commandments that they followed and another approximately 5 000 oral traditions that they tried to live by so i know that there are those of us out there that feel bound in religion because you have to go to church on sunday brother i got free from religion tell me about it yeah we went to church on sundays and we had to give in the offering what 613 commandments and 5 000 oral traditions i'd say that's a bit of religion just want to just sidestep real quick if this helps out somebody jesus said unless your righteousness surpasses that of the pharisees you cannot inherit eternal life what was their form of righteousness it was fasting it was giving these and it was praying these individuals so wait a minute jesus is saying unless your righteousness surpasses that what is he saying when jesus comes on the scene he's not shutting down works he's not shutting down fasting and praying you hear these people i've been freed from religion and now i'm in relationship which means lazy lethargic christianity i've been freed from religion and now i just do the little bit that i need to to get to heaven when jesus came he wasn't addressing so much the fasting and prayer and giving he was addressing the motivation for why though they did those things they did it to be seen by men so the power of religion invites you to do religious acts so that you can be seen by men where when the spirit of revival comes upon you listen you will do for love what you would have never done for duty i'm actually telling you when the spirit of revival comes upon you and he gets you on the inside of you you will do more for love so it's not all on sundays and wednesdays and i've been freed from religion beloved when the spirit of revival comes it's house to house it's prayer it's fellowship it's the apostles teaching it's a lifestyle we need this revelation in the so-called relationship freedom from religion movement you didn't get burned out because you did too much you got burned out because why you did too much is what burns you out [Applause] because when we do it out of our beloved identity we were created in christ jesus to do good works you don't have to separate one from the other so i'm prophesying to you i believe many of you have been surprised this weekend wow they're intense i bet that's emotionalism i thought they were in revival i just thought it was knowing what you're finding is in this house they're more intense they're more hard working they're more fasting more praying it's not born from religion it's born from an encounter a sustained encounter with the burning man whose name is jesus and when he wraps his arms around you and fills you with his love you will never go back to dry dead stale religion come on somebody give jesus a shout of praise peter and john are coming to the american church there's a holy jailbreak going on in america and he wants to mantle you with revival today you guys okay with this are you following me i've always wondered jesus says he reads the scroll the spirit of the sovereign lord is upon me he's anointed me to preach the good news to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim freedom to the captives i've always thought that would have been a much that the sermon on the mount would have been a much better location for that sermon why not go on the countryside with a bunch of lost people and say the spirit of the sovereign lord is upon me he's anointed me to preach the good news to bind at the brokenhearted to set the captives free he doesn't do that he goes into the synagogue the church of his day what is he saying there are captives to sin and then there are captives to religion jesus christ is coming to his church saying i've come to set religious captives free those of you going through the motions miserable depressed more loyal to a denomination and a ministry than you are to the holy spirit we need to ask for a spirit of repentance i'm telling you the doorkeepers of religion will guard that door just as tightly as the door keepers of revival will you ain't gonna go in there and mess up their show they're out to produce jesus we're here to introduce them they're trying to put makeup on them and do a pr job on them to make them palatable so that people can swallow jesus come on how many of you know is way too big to be swallowed he's not some guy up in the sky desperate for more followers he is the king of kings the lord of lords the bright morning star the alpha and the omega he's looking for more lovers love sick [Applause] warriors i want to encourage you avoid the extremes it's like you're seeing in these camps you know they did religious works and so now you know they soak so long in the glory they become a prostitute then he got people that are so into works it's like man are you doing that for love or from love but you know you don't have to he loves you the lord wants to marry these realities in christ jesus created to do good works we will do for love what we would have never done for religion i remember struggling so desperately to get to morning prayer like i knew i needed to go as a pastor like that's part of it prayer and the word i knew but i remember that encounter that i had where the father said to me jeremiah i love to hear your voice and all of a sudden it went from trying to make another prayer meeting to me waking up before the alarm hit because i couldn't wait time i couldn't wait to spend time with dad when when we allow him there's there's just such a deeper encounter that the holy spirit has for the church i look at so much of what we've done in america i know if you remember david youngi cho you know mega church at one time you know over from korea he sends a delegation over to the u.s back in the early 80s and 90s you know as we were blowing up you know growth and all this stuff and he wanted a report they visited a lot of churches you'd know the names and they come back and here's the report we are amazed at what the holy s excuse me we are amazed at what the american church has accomplished without the holy spirit i look at what we've done in america and think thank god for what's happened but what would the church the bride truly look like if we yielded to the holy spirit what would mom and dad and brother what would the home look like if we said holy spirit have your way what would our churches look like what would leadership look like if we stop following church growth textbooks and human reason and and health coaches what would the church look like bob jones came and visited me several years ago in a dream while he was alive and in the dream i saw bob jones i thought it was interesting isaiah shared his encounter last night with bob jones and i saw bob jones in this dream and i said is that you bob jones you apocalyptic prophet you that's what i said you apocalyptic prophet you and he looked at me in the dream and he said boy i'll give you an apocalyptic prophecy turn to galatians chapter 3. now don't go there for the sake of time because i want to finish in matthew 15 so we can jump in tonight fully into what i believe god wants to do but in galatians 3 paul rebukes the church and he says you began with the spirit why are you trying to finish in the flesh how many pastors and leaders and individuals you were born again and you started following the voice of the holy spirit it was fresh it was exciting it was an adventure and somewhere along the line you traded freshness for programs you traded having to dig your own well i remember being 18 years old sleeping in a room with my dad him in one bed me and the other the holy spirit came to me and said jeremiah you've been digging a well of your father your entire life it's time to go dig your own come on how many folks in here are grateful for the well that you've been allowed to dig in but you recognize today it's not about mom or dad or even whatever church i attend i've got to begin to dig for oil in the secret place there is a man who lives between the lines of scripture again i get in trouble because i'm not a big fan of the 365 day bible reading plan and i'll get your tomatoes ready i think that's that's a a good suggestion and if you need more structure praise god my problem is what happens on february 6th when the holy spirit falls on exodus 32 and he says read it for the next six months see folks what we're talking about i'm not preaching against structure i'm preaching against life without structure i'm not preaching against form i'm challenging form without power such a humbling thing as a pastor to come up with ideas in the church that god obviously was not breathing on and the more i just kept telling people to do it just because we were gonna do it and they were gonna get bored and dry and stale i had to stand up and say you know what i missed it is it okay for mom and dad to come up with a plan for your kids about what you're going to do and then you recognize the holy spirit isn't on it and you say you know what i'm sorry mommy and daddy missed it is pride contending against the fresh move of the holy spirit in your life i feel the holy spirit here you guys ever seen that old you know who it was and associate with kenneth hagin where he just gets up and says yield yield and the power of the holy spirit broke out for several hours what would a life look like of yielding to the holy spirit taking our hands off our kids our services our lives i mean what if what he breathed on is what the structure is what if whatever god breathed on that's what we did and i'm going to keep doing it until he breathed on something else now i know by experience just pray he doesn't breathe too hard on your money because when god breathes on your money and he tells you to sow and keep sowing and keep and you're like oh god it's it's decreasing it's getting lower as if he doesn't know but folks when we obey the lord when we follow his voice it releases supernatural joy and encouragement and excitement god wants to breathe life into your spirit today isn't it so tragic i'm almost done isn't it so tragic that there are millions in america who are done with church and i've been crying with them lately saying yeah you tried church but you never tried jesus they they were they never got an encounter that this is why you come into these environments and i'm like my god pastor paul i'm this this is incredible do the people here realize how precious and how costly if this is all that you knew growing up you know we killed off an entire generation of evangelists in the church the evangelists the soul winners radical encounters set people free from sin they sent them to church and then they rotted on the back pew and so the evangelists stopped winning souls and put them and sending them to church and what ended up happening is evangelist planted churches you know what happens when evangelists plant churches the church becomes a mile wide and an inch deep because they're called to win souls not anointed to make disciples hello those are your mega churches in america [Applause] they should have never pastored churches the shepherds of the flock should have been feeding the people on the knowledge of god not taking for themselves more bentleys in five houses are we doing matthew 15 the religious manifesto that jesus confronts then some pharisees and scribes came to jesus from jerusalem saying why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread and he answered and said to them and why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of god for the sake of your tradition for god said honor your father and mother and he who speaks evil of father or mother let him be put to death but you say whatever shall whoever shall say to his father and mother anything of mine you might have helped by has been given to god and i'll explain that in a minute he is not to honor his father or mother and thus you invalidate the word of god for the sake of your traditions you hypocrites rightly did isaiah prophesy of you saying this people honors me with their lips but their heart is far away from me but in vain do they worship me teaching as doctrines the precepts of men and after he called the multitude to him he said to them hear and understand and he tells them and then just lastly in verse 14 speaking of the religious leaders he says let them go their blind guides leading the blind let me give you six points today as we close i want to give you the religious manifesto jesus exposes it here and so that you and i know when we awaken the sleeping church and we make war on the religious spirit we need to know what exactly we are warring against now real quickly traditions and traditionalism there is always more danger in traditionalism than there is in traditions traditions are the living faith of dead men traditions are the living faith of dead men many of you in your family in churches and denominations there are things that you have always done it's been passed down through leaders or families that kind of thing traditions traditionalism is the dead faith of living men the dead faith of living men in other words there are so many denominations in churches there are so many lame beggars they're just doing it it has no life they don't even know why they're doing it it's just the right thing to do anybody ever felt that tension where you always grew up going to grandma's house for thanksgiving and it's a family thing and then you get married and your spouse says now i don't think so and you got to go to mama and daddy and say you know what we've got kids now we're going to do our new traditions how many of you know that doesn't go over real well and for those of you that are saying heck no my kid ain't doing that let me expose to you there could be some religion in there because we love to talk about the new we love to talk about the fresh we love to talk about the spontaneous until it knocks on our doors right we love the revival and awakening and hoorah in the house of god what if it means telling your kid no and giving them more of a time out at spanking time i believe revival could hit the charismatic church if parents would just learn how to disciple their kids doorkeepers of revival how about mom and dad learn how to pair [Music] oh boy we're almost done number one religious traditions create transgressions of god's commandments verse 3 traditions create transgressions of god's commandments it has become a religious tradition in america in many ways to go to church people just go to church and because we celebrate going to church we transgress god's commandment to have no other gods before him i could give you so many examples we have celebrated the concept of going to church and being religious at the expense of actually following the commandments of god which by the way say do not murder so if we're going to church and supporting politicians who support abortion we are accomplices to murder oh i wish somebody get free this morning come on do you love your church attendance more than the bible folks we need a revival of the word of god politics are not my god it's allowed for double lives check check check go to church religious traditions checking boxes transgressing the commandments of god number two traditions invalidate the word of god there's this conversation jesus is having with the religious leaders where he's saying to them why don't your disciples wash their hands he's speaking of traditions and then he gives them the example because the law says to honor your father and mother but they say because i already gave an offering in a bucket a tradition i don't have to honor my mom and dad you don't hear this scripture talked about very often but you know that one scripture that talks about like it's you know you might as well be an unbeliever if you don't take care of your family so many religious traditions that we've gotten into that invalidate the word of god the needs of people number three traditions religious traditions create lip service to god i'm reading to you the religious manifesto that god is calling this house to make war on religious traditions create lip service to god we've given into an entertainment spirit in the church we're bored with the god that we really don't even know with every head bowed and eye closed which is not in the bible we allow people to give lip service to god privately when they shouted for satan once publicly number four verse eight traditions create distant hearts one man said the greatest distance to ever conquer is around 14 inches from your head to your heart the difference between a doorkeeper of revival and a doorkeeper of religion is they have god down cognitively in their mind wesley called this mental ascent but they're actually lacking a true heart encounter with the son of man number five religious traditions create empty-hearted worship they not only create distant hearts but religious traditions can create empty-hearted worship he said they worship me in vain this swam bam thank you ma'am one hour in and out the lame crippled beggar wanted in a drive-through encounter what peter and john had paid for with their lifestyle they had been with jesus they were in the upper room they walked with him religious people are just looking to do the least that they can do to get into the kingdom of heaven whereas doorkeepers of revival dare to ask what's the most amount of heaven i can have on this earth come on folks embrace the civil war this morning and know that god is blowing a trumpet in america he is saying come out from among them you are not babylon you are a bride and there is a bride who's making herself ready there are friends of the bridegroom peter and john i feel a fresh mantling and commissioning here this morning many of you as door keepers of revival god is about to put a little extra pep in your step there's more of an exuberance that's going to come in your worship there's more of an anointing that's going to come on your preaching because you had an encounter with the holy spirit and fire come on the only thing keeping you from another encounter is you thinking you already had it [Applause] and finally number six hope this is helping us religious traditions elevate the word of man above god folks part of the power of religion is that it makes people believe loyalty to man means loyalty to god they are not the same thing we have people so bound by denominations and ministries being scammed and pimped and wounded and hurt and god is sounding an alarm in this nation i'm raising up an end time army i want you in it jess will you guys come i know this morning has not been the most fiery the most it's been teaching it's been words [Applause] but i believe that god wants to write something upon our hearts today where vision of jesus is present deep in continual worship will never cease it's interesting to me that in many of these points that jesus rebuked the religious leaders for in many of them it had to do with worship one of religion's strongest attacks has been against the worship in the church notice in religion they still preach the bible but the worship is 15 minutes and 3 seconds notice how we give religious or revival we usually make time for the word but we're going to shut down the worship time we are in a house this morning where they have fought and they have contended to create a place where no one that walks through these doors will ever engage in empty-hearted worship lip service is banned in fresh start church there's no religious devils that have permission to enter this house i want you to ban religion in your home i want you to break ties with it in your religion and your region come on would you stand with me i believe that god just give me one more minute i believe that god has raised up fresh start church as a prophetic sign to a nation i believe that this house is mantled to wake up the sleeping giant who is the church and to make war on the religious spirit i believe there's a sound coming out of this house that is piercing religious darkness [Music] i had several dreams before i came here of this worship team of of jess and the team and the lord has said he's very pleased at the sacrifice at the hidden commitment that you've made and i believe that the well that you're digging has been dug for a nation and there's rain that's gonna come that's gonna be a great blessing around the world and as a prophetic sign of what i believe god is doing and what he's asked me to do i saw a recording coming i saw an album coming and so i today am going to sow 25 000 into an album come on we're gonna break the back of the spirit of religion in this nation believing god has raised up this team the lion of the tribe of judah is going to roar in america there's an awakening coming come on somebody give god crazy praise in the house [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on let's just begin to pray in the spirit god wants to shift something on the inside of you today there's a sound that's coming forth god wants to mantle some peter and john's in here some bold courageous intimate filled with the fresh fire of the holy spirit if that's you i want you to run down here now come on god is calling us to the front lines something is shifting and breaking in the heavenly realms i believe finance can shift things in the heavenly realms come on victory is the lord's there's a holy jailbreak [Music] is is the lord victory is lord i want to thank you so much for joining us today on the watchmen's corner i pray that the message that just went forth was a blessing to you that you were strengthened and encouraged we're going to go into a time of prayer but before we do that i want to ask you to consider sewing into the watchman's corner television program the ministry of jeremiah johnson ministries we are impacting lives on a daily basis we're witnessing salvation miracles and deliverance be the portion of this generation there's gonna be a prompt that's gonna pop up on your screen you can follow the directions be sure to check out our website jeremiahjohnson.tv let's pray now father we just thank you for this opportunity today to gather and hear what you're saying to the churches we lift up every need to you those that are sowing financially into the program god we just ask lord for greater blessing to be ours today in the name of jesus christ amen thank you so much for joining us in the watchmen's corner we'll see you next time bye-bye hey there it's jeremiah johnson and i have the privilege here today of having becky fisher with me founder of kids in ministry international if you've seen the movie jesus camp that launched in 2006 she was the lead role there was nominated for an oscar listen we're launching a brand new e-course called raising supernatural kids and we have such a powerful burden for grandparents and parents aunts and uncles that if ever there was a time in the earth where kids need to walk in supernatural power it's right now becky it is it's like we've got to get out of the traditional sunday school mindset and understand that we are actually to raise a generation to walk in the supernatural not when they become teenagers or young adults but we need to equip them now as boys and girls so when they grow up they're already experienced and flowing in their calls amen amen well listen there's practical tools there's prayer and impartation there's lessons to be learned we want to encourage you right now register today

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