The Enemy of Truth - Robert Tisdale

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] raise those hands in heaven right now and tell him lord the one thing i seek is you david said that i may dwell in the house of the lord forever why don't you just lift your hands toward him and tell him lord there's nothing i want more than you would you do it just love him all over this house right now [Music] if you mean what you're telling him just send up a little praise to him right now hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen amen you may return to your seats if you choose it is an honor to be at the pentecostals of america it's a delight to be with you here and to all of our elected officials that are worshiping with us today thank you for your service to the united states of america and its people all of us are servants all of us are called to be servants jesus summed up the ten commandments and two love god first love you neighbor second and we love our neighbors amen and one of my neighbors happens to be anthony mickey lane gentry and lexi mangan and i love the mangans love you folks amen amen you might all be seated it's a delight to have my wife deborah tisdale my handsome son roman tisdale and my beautiful daughter riley tisdale with me today along with gus and pamela morales from tampa nice to have them with us today in the house thank you for that it's always a delight to return to alexandria to be with a church that is very very close to my heart i thank you for the opportunity to minister pastor mangan and i am delighted to be with all of you whom i call friends it is a privilege to serve the king of kings in his kingdom with all of you thank you for your excellence say this with me say the enemy of truth lean over to your neighbor and say are do are you doing your best you know ask it one more time perhaps of a different neighbor say are you doing your best and now would you ask them are you doing the best that can be done if you would imagine a world without pizza for some of us this would be a dreary place not a drop of spaghetti sauce no lasagna no raviolis no ketchup on your french fries no tomatoes or tomatoes whichever you prefer on your salad no hamburgers no blts just bl's no tomato soup and god forbid no fried green tomatoes no salsa i mean what would we do at a mexican restaurant without salsa and chips no spanish rice and vegetable soup would be also boring without a tomato base no chili cook-offs you know we would live in a world without the love apple that's what the french call the tomato they love apparel wee-wee my sweet sherry i am sorry i have no love owls for you today you see in the 1500s tomatoes were wildly popular in european countries like italy the spaniards actually brought them to their colonized countries in asia and the caribbean but when the fruit reached england those englanders the white people carefully avoided the tomato because the tomato was believed to be poisonous in fact john gerard cultivated and studied the tomato he was and i quote from history a barber surgeon that's exactly who i want to cut my hair you know when you're doing my heart transplant could you could you just trim me up a little bit before i come out of surgery truth true barber surgeon and mr gerard studied tomatoes and believed that tomatoes contained tomatine a poisonous chemical and mr gerard was absolutely correct tomatoes do contain tomatine but the level of tomatine in the fruit of the tomato is too low to be harmful as you and i have experienced and yet mr gerard's toxic view became so widespread that people from england and the north american colonies refused to eat the tomato and avoided it like some red plague true that the tomato plant is a member of the deadly nightshade family nightshade can kill you rather quickly if you ingest it so mr gerard's thought pray process was that the tomato plant was poisonous so therefore the tomato must be poisonous and he influenced people with his poison his thought process for over 200 years northern europeans and american colonists held fast to this belief that the tomato plant being highly toxic while that is true no one could argue the fact that the tomato plant is highly toxic because people had seen their livestock their animals their pets become sick after eating the tomato plant and the fact that the tomato plant is toxic is a valid scientific fact if you eat enough of this plant it will cause you digestive issues and if you ingested enough you would become violently ill and perhaps even die but you see only the stalk or the leaves are poisonous not the fruit and only the stalk on the leaves if you consume an absorbent portion of the tomato there's a reason it isn't in your salad only the tomato the fruit of the tomato plant is edible and quite dare i say most delicious you see we have a new world they are colonizing america but it's a world without tomatoes something has to change and the year is 1820. and there is a brave colonel by the name of robert gibbs johnson and almost single-handedly he turns the tide of this poisonous public perception it is the peak of the tomato growing season incidentally he's a tomato grower and the colonel mounts a stage in front of the old salem county courthouse and with a gathered estimated audience of 2 000 people he has an assistant bring him a basket full of tomatoes and he proceeds to eat them one by one now in a stroke of great faith he has a doctor standing by just in case and the doc and the crowd is anticipating his quick demise but to their shock he consumes the basket of tomatoes and lives and single-handedly he destroys a false reality let me state again the tomato plant is poisonous true but it's not the truth more often than not we as human beings cease any further search when we arrive at what is true why because it's true we believe we have found the only answer because it's true and the enemy of truth is true how many times have we disavowed the supernatural because we believe we know the truth some semi-qualified expert told us something we should believe some of you are doing it right now in this service does your definition of what is true limit what you are willing to embrace does your definition of what you believe to be true hinder your faith when ascending the heights of the supernatural are we intoxicated on the wine of our own intelligence and thinking processes is what you believe to be the limit keeping you from attaining more in life and more in god so i asked this congregation if you do not know more is possible are you missing anything the answer is yes absolutely yes ask simon peter if it makes any difference what he believed to be true in the middle of the night neck deep in the waves rain and lightning flashing on every hand he hears a word come and away from the relative safety of his boat as safe as a boat can be in a storm he is soaked he is disheveled he is frightened he is overwhelmed but suddenly simon peter is walking on the water what was walking over him moments before it's true you cannot walk on water it's true if you try it you will fail but there was a higher level of truth available for simon peter the enemy of truth is true mark 10 and 27 says it this way and jesus looking upon them sayeth with men it is impossible but not with god for with god all things are possible i'm here to rewire the circuits in your brain today i've come to set someone's neural pathways on fire because i want someone in this house to go beyond what you think is possible have we lived with true so long we've stopped searching for truth have we lived with what we accept as reality for so long we've stopped searching for another level of god his presence his power and miraculous manifestation i don't know about you but i'm hungry for another level i don't know about you but i refuse to live a life without the tomato you ought to shout it right now say god can do anything and if god can do anything perhaps i ought to quote philippians 4 and 13. i can do all things through christ with strengthening me i'm here to take the limit off someone's life i'm here to speak faith into someone's spirit that you have not yet lived your best day can i say it to you p.o.a your best days are not behind you they're in front of you can i say it to you pastor mangan and pastor cox the best days of this church pastor ryan they're not yesterday they're not ga-manged they're not lane that's the manga they're not mickey and anthony mangan you don't believe what i'm saying the best days in front of you but you're stuck on a little true when you need to be searching for some truth if you're the same as you've always been spiritually under this ministry something's broken i'll say it again if you're the same as you were when you arrived at poa five years ago 12 years ago 12 months ago something's wrong you need to be growing the impact of this ministry ought to be pushing you to another level changing something in you shifting your faith causing you to search for something more hungry for something you've never experienced after all we've seen after all we've experienced surely we can ask god for another level john 15 and 16 one of my favorite passages says it this way you did not choose me for a moment step down from the intoxification of your own thoughts you didn't get here because you're a good person you didn't get here because you made an intelligent choice you are a recipient of the grace and the mercy of god you did not choose him he chose you you don't do it by your efforts you are drawn by his goodness and when you're drawn by his goodness you respond to his mercy and his grace you didn't choose me jesus said i chose you and i purposed you i ordained you i established you when i chose you i had something in mind i didn't choose you to have an average ordinary mundane life jesus said the thief comes to steal kill and destroy but i came john 10 and 10 to give you life and life more abundantly he said i chose you to go to a level you never lived on i chose you i chose you that you should bring forth fruit my life is to be abundant someone shout abundance say it again abundance my life is to live in abundance that i should bring forth fruit and not only should i produce results my fruit should remain it lasts and stands the test of time because of the integrity of god's promises in my life say my fruit should remain and then this is it this is the part of the scripture i really like so he told me he said you didn't choose me i chose you i ordained you i purposed you that you should produce fruit and your fruit should remain and i like this part that whatsoever you ask in my name that will the father deliver he said i blessed you the way i blessed you not to make your life better i blessed you so you could find the faith to ask for another level i blessed you so you could say hey this is really good but how about this i bless you to say the church is being blessed but how about how about multiply a little more how about a little more influence how about a little more grace oh you don't believe me you need to take the reins off your faith and the limits of your spiritual experience and say god i want more you sing about it but do you mean what you're singing [Applause] your faith must go to another level the word should be challenging you to change if you're dealing with the same problems spiritually and emotionally you were dealing with last year or 10 years ago you need to grow if you're fighting the same devil you were fighting when you came to god you need to grow you said pastor tizzle you're hurting my feelings i don't want to hurt your feelings i just want you to go to another level what we teach and believe is true but is it all the truth i will remind you that the enemy of truth is true you don't know everything there is to know about god you haven't experienced all there is to possess in the kingdom and i refuse to allow what i think i know to keep me from receiving what i haven't yet discovered in god oh i feel the spirit when i said that you see i i'm not just satiated with a little bit of miraculous i'm not just satiated with a few people getting a miracle jesus walked into his own hometown and when he walked into that home his own home the bible said there he could do no mighty work except heal a few sick there were cities where every demonically possessed person and every infirm or diseased person was dramatically healed by jesus christ but in his own hometown where they perceived him to be nothing but a carpenter's son and the bastard offspring of a girl who had intercourse outside a marriage they would not let him do the supernatural let me make it plain i refuse to be satiated with a few people getting a miracle i refuse to say that's good enough for me what person got out of a wheelchair what person had a miracle what person got delivered i want everybody to be free i want every drug addict delivered i want every person in alexandria baptized in the name of jesus i want every one of your relatives filled with the spirit and the liberty of holy ghost i don't know anybody like me you're so hungry you're tired of being limited by what you know is true romans 11 and 33 says it this way oh the depth of the riches both of his wisdom and knowledge of god none of us have plumbed the depths and the riches of his goodness how unsearchable are his judgments his ways are past finding out for who hath known the mind of the lord or who have been his counselor psalms 147 and 5 says it like this great is the lord and of great power his understanding is infinite as smart as you may believe yourself to be you don't know all there is to know about god you will spend eternity learning his mysteries learning of his creativity learning of his ingenuity his power his dominion his authority and his realm no wonder the writer of isaiah 40 and 28 said have you never heard have you never understood the lord the everlasting god the creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary for there is no searching of his understanding let me tell poa something as great as the move of god has been in this assembly there is more [Applause] let it resonate in your spirit pentecostal there is more for just one brief moment simon peter's gaze shifts off of his savior to the wind and the waves and in that moment he begins to sink regardless of the success he had been experiencing already walking on top of the tempetuous sea that was sinking his boat in direct opposition to the word of jesus he begins to sink because he saw the wind he saw true he saw the waves he saw reality he saw what was about him rather than what was for him i wish you could see who was for you rather than what was about you and even simon peter living in the midst of a miracle when what he believed to be true overrode the truth he began to lose his footing and sink in his doubt can you take your eyes off the storm can you get your eyes off the calamity can you shift your focus from and your perspective from the frustration and the fear and can you get your eyes on jesus christ again because anything is possible in this room right now it's true you cannot walk on water but the truth is walking on the water and truth spoke a word to him and he did what no other human being had ever done no wonder jesus said i am the way the truth the life and no one coming to the father but by me if you'd known me you should have known the father and from henceforth you know him and have seen him simon's walking on the word he's not walking on water he's walking on the word of god because it's true you can't walk on water but you can walk onward how many times have we done this hear me clearly how many times have we done this we traded a higher truth for what is true do we even know it are we sensitive enough to it when we trade higher truths for what is true how many times have we decide ourselves denied ourselves a miracle because the doctor said something that was true why would you take the word of a human being over the word of god because the enemy is truth is true i don't deny that medical science knows what is true in our bodies it's true they just don't understand truth it may be true you have a disease in your body right now but there is a higher level of truth at work in this room right now it may be true that you're struggling with addiction and you can't find your way out of that repetitive cycle but there is a higher level of truth speaking over your life right now the truth is calling someone to believe for another level the truth is saying hey shed your doubt your fear your worry take a step outside of the relative safety of what you know to be true and walk in confidence on my word it may be true that your relationship is upside down but can god speak a word of peace to your chaos and turn your situation in a moment i don't know does anybody want truth or are you content to live with true have you forbidden from yourself a higher spiritual experience because you only embrace what is true and the proof that people offer themselves as confirmation is the answer they have found is accurate that's why we cease pursuit it is accurate my blood white cell count is off it is accurate my high blood pressure is out of control it is accurate that that that your heart's missing a beat it is accurate that cancerous cells are raging in your body it is accurate that you have turmoil emotionally at home it is accurate that financially your numbers are upside down true true true true but is there another level of truth that can shift your reality in one day in one moment in a moment in a 24-hour period in a week in a month is there another level of truth what you're dealing with may be accurate but is it the whole story the woman with the issue of blood sick 12 years spent all that she had nothing better but rather growing worse the friends who denied the accuracy of his paralysis and they ripped the roof off when they couldn't get in the room and they lowered the boy down to jesus blind bartimaeus who heard something in mark 10 and said jesus thou son of david have mercy on me the woman with the alabaster box the perfume of her illicit profession from her prostitution she broke it at his feet and worshipped the man with a demonic son what if they stayed in their lane what if they just accepted society's diagnosis what if they had not pressed beyond what if they had given up at the first sight of failure i'm asking someone in this house to push past what you know to be true today when the law of gravity was in dispute the idea of flight manned flight air travel it was a thing of dreams fairy tales fanciful men with ideas however wilbur and orville wright said we know what's true the law of gravity but certainly there's a higher level of truth and wilbur refused to accept the law of gravity he traded what was true for a higher level of truth and because of those two brothers there's an entire field of science and engineering possibilities and opportunities arose when the limit was refused to be accepted as the last word on the subject the air force aviation schools private aviation air travel air flight did not cancel gravity but air flight learned how to overcome gravity making the impossible a reality right now because of two men who dreamed to refuse what they knew to be true those two men there are approximately ten thousand planes in the air right now worldwide one two million one point two million people are living in a reality and what once was an impossibility 102 000 flights a day with the average of eight million people moved around the globe because two men said we know what's true but surely there's another level of truth out there how can it be because people like you said i've had enough of living below my privilege i've had enough of accepting what others define as my success my future and my potential why is it that even you and i believers spirit-filled struggle with the miraculous realm the bible paints as available to us the reason we struggle like the law of gravity the law of doubt the law of fear traditions rituals relig religions large segments of christianity reject large themes of the supernatural as simply historical theoretical no longer available however in the dimension they deny i fly in the dimension they refuse i live and the dimension they reject i live move breathe and have my being i'm challenge someone push past your traditions push past your fear push past your doubt and say god if there's more to this thing i want it if there's another level for my life i'm hungry [Applause] i speak in another language when i pray with the evidence of unspoken tongues although some say that's not possible that no longer happens that's not for you today why do they not all speak with tongues as paul said i would you speak in tongues more than me why because someone was uncomfortable because someone was in denial because someone read and interpreted something one way and established an idea of what was true and he placed people's faith in a box in a container no further no long no more believe and be saved true there is more truth believe and be baptized true but there is more truth repent be baptized be filled with the spirit true but there is more truth fruit of the spirit nine fruit speaking in tongues the initial evidence of the spirit the continuing evidence of the spirit that one fruit manifests nine ways truth and yet only true gifts of the spirit prophecies and dreams and tongues and interpretation and words of knowledge and wisdoms revelations anointings ministries true true true true but not exclusively oh i feel the spirit right now i'm here to tell someone i know you got a lot of god but there's a whole lot more left on the other side of what you possess i know you got a lot of the spirit but there's another level for god in your life there's not a person in here that has obtained all there is to get in god hear me i will scream it at the top of my lungs today there is more god has something better for you you say pastor this is enough for me i'm good shame on you shame on you to let life satisfy you with the level of attainment you've received in god so i'll ask it again are you doing your best but are you doing the best that can be done and i don't know about you but i refuse to settle for best when there's another level of best out there when there's a level hear me i refuse to settle for great when i can do my best i refuse to settle for true when there's another level of truth hear me in this house there's more to life than the heartache you're experiencing there's more to life than the frustration you're in i refuse to stop at the discovery of only true it may be an answer but it is not the only answer you see the higher you are as an achiever hear me close the closer to the top of any field or endeavor you are acknowledged to be because of the results you've already produced you are less likely to attempt thinking to go beyond what got you where you are in the first place because you become cautious and hesitant and safe listen to me true can and often produces great results but not the best results true can be spotted easily even by crowds casually looking for an answer but the truth the best is often easily seen only by those who are looking in the places where no one else has been willing to go a location beyond where everyone else has stopped i'm asking someone go where you've never been in god today go where you've never experienced his presence move beyond what you're comfortable with and step into the power and the manifestation of his spirit i know you've experienced true but can we move a little farther in his truth put your hands in the air let the spirit of god sweep over this house right now go ahead let your spirits rise right now [Music] his name is henry cecil henry cecil is listening today he's from tampa henry is the brother of richard cecil that worships here at the poa henry has stage four colon cancer and the doctors have exhausted all avenues of treatment so they've admitted him to a hospital in washington dc to do experimental treatments on his body to try to curb that aggressive cancer i sent him a video recently i've never met him and i just told him a little bit of what's happening in tampa in the two years since we've been there more than 16 people have been healed of stage 3 or stage 4 cancer people are driving from out of town just to be in the worship setting to be prayed for because people are desperate for a higher level of truth people are so weary of what people say is true you see i'm here to preach to someone you've been living your life under someone else's assumption about what is possible for you your family and your future and i'm here to preach to someone there is another level for your life if you can step beyond the allure and the temptation to be satisfied with what you know to be your reality there is a breakthrough for your life today so i i would like right now richard if you'd come richard cecil i'm going to pray for your brother as i anoint you with oil and i'm going to believe that in that hospital in washington d.c god's going to do a work in that man's life right now but it's not just it's not just henry i want to pray for it's those of you in this house that you need a breakthrough desperately and something is churning in your spirit saying i'm no longer satisfied i want another level i won't live my life without a tomato i won't live my life laboring under some false assumption pastor would you help me would you grab a bottle of oil and bring it please i want you to say it with me like this reach your hand this way you ready repeat after me say henry we're praying over richard but i want you to say henry by the authority of the name of jesus by the dominion say it by the dominion and the power of the holy spirit in me i speak healing over your body speak healing right now and by the sovereignty of the word sovereignty of the word that empowers my faith i command every cell command to obey the obedience [Applause] of the word of god in the name of jesus jesus receive your miracle henry in the name of jesus be healed go ahead say it right now like you believe it say it like you mean it say it like you believe there's another level for your life right now oh yeah raise your hand and begin to speak in the spirit [Applause] what you need sir what you got you ready right now god you bring order to the chaos in this family by your power and your authority let healing flow through these bodies go on reach your hand this way and say in the name of jesus by the authority of the word and by the power of the holy spirit in you release a miracle into their body right now it doesn't matter if you have a little cancer or a lot of cancer it's the same to god it doesn't matter if you have a little trouble or a lot of trouble [Applause] is there anyone in this house willing to move toward this altar because you want something more today are you willing to come to this altar say god i don't want to have just what i know is true i'm after something different come on that's it come on p.o.a you're hungry for a breakthrough in your life you're hungry for something to happen in your home you're hungry for something to shift in your marriage oh that's it that's it that's it that's it something's happening right now don't trade truth for what's true [Applause] let me have your attention all over this house let me have your attention i'll let you pray in a moment look right here let me have your attention listen i want you to get quiet for just a moment listen listen listen i'm going to lead you through what i like to call a prayer of positioning we're just aligning ourselves with god mentally and spiritually and i'm going to lead you to it listen close i want you to repeat after me you ready you're going to repeat after me put your hands in the air as a sign of surrender close those eyes and here's what i want you to say jesus i submit my life to your purpose if i am living below what you have for me forgive me if i have accepted things in my life as the final word the limitation if i haven't fully embrace your mercy receive your forgiveness if i have not forgiven myself from what you have forgiven me i'm asking you today help me go beyond the things i know to be true forgive my fear forgive my doubt forgive my anger forgive my hesitations forgive me if religious rituals traditions have stolen promises from me forgive me if doctors reports have taken my faith forgive me if negative words by critical people by those that mean me harm have hindered my belief in you forgive me i don't want just what is true i want what is truth i want all you have for me i want to live my best life i want to be free i want my life to reflect your liberty your freedom and your deliverance so with my hands raised i repent of my sins my thoughts my mistakes my actions and my habits and as i repent i know you are faithful to forgive me you are releasing me from the limitations of my thoughts and my fears and i receive your forgiveness i receive your purpose i receive your abundance right now go ahead let it happen right now let your let god's forgiveness and mercy wash over you let his deliverance wash over you right now let his healing wash over you right now let his deliverance wash over you right now raise your hands and let the spirit speak raise your hands and let his mercy impact you [Applause] go ahead believer go ahead guest let the spirit transform you right now [Applause] now with a little passion pursue him a little bit with your worship right now receive what you've prayed receive what you've asked for receive it right now oh come on that's it let it rise like a noise yeah like a roar in this house let it rise right now [Applause] you were doing pretty good when you were praying for others but i want you to pray for yourself right now just put your hand right there and say god take the limit off my thinking take the limit off my face take the limit off my life go ahead say it in the name of jesus i'm going where i've never been come on that's it pray pray pray pray pray pray pray [Applause] please come on that's all over this house you're praying for someone right now you prayed for yourself now put your hand on somebody and say lord take the limit off their life take the limit off their family take the limit off their home take the limit off their situation in the name of jesus in the name of jesus come on you're praying right now somebody make a determination you're going to move into something in the spirit you've never experienced regardless of how long you've been saved regardless of how long you've walked with god let's go somewhere new today let's go somewhere new today in the name of jesus in the name of jesus let the miraculous sweep this house right now let healing flow in this congregation let the power of the spirit manifest come on that's it that's it that's it that's it let your hunger rise let your faith rise let your belief rise [Applause] hallelujah [Music] you need a miracle in your life you ought to be seeking after it right now if there's a belief system or a fear if there's an idea that's been hindering your faith you ought to be pushing against it right now thank you jesus thank you jesus hallelujah hallelujah i want everyone in this house to put your hand on someone near you right now and i want you to pray a prayer of faith over their lives right now that god would take the limit off their life right now [Music] that they would never settle for only what is true come on pray hunger over them pray healing over them pray deliverance over their lives pray hope into their family lord i'm asking you to heal marriages to mend relationships to bring children home to restore prodigals to heal bodies to bring deliverance i believe god somebody ought to shout and i believe well somebody ought to be praying right now

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Published: Sun Sep 22 2019