The Gathering 2021: Seek First the Kingdom

see you i want to see you [Music] open the eyes of my heart lord open the eyes of my heart i want to see you [Music] i want to see you [Music] to see you hiding lifted up is shining in the light of your glory pour out your power and love as we sing holy holy holy the eyes in my heart lord open the eyes of my heart i wanna see you i wanna see you open my eyes lord open the eyes of my heart lord open the eyes in my heart i wanna see you yes lord [Music] [Music] shining in the light as we sing holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy i want to see you you are holy holy holy for the only holy holy holy holy i wanna see you i wanna see you i wanna see you i wanna see you [Applause] [Music] you are god we praise you you are lord we thank you all creation worships you father ancient of days to you all the angels all the powers endless praise you are holy holy powerful and mighty your glory fills the heavens your splendor fills the earth you are holy your glory fills the heavens your splendor fills the earth servants the apostles honor you and praise you the fellowship of prophets your greatness glorifies the army of the martyrs broken white adores you throughout the world your [Music] [Applause] infinite [Music] you are holy holy powerful and mighty your glory fills the heavens your splendor fills the earth christ son of the father king of endless glory you came among us lowly birth mary's womb you rob death of its power you opened heaven's treasure now you said [Music] come lord jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are holy holy [Music] the slender builds glorious infinite majesty sun victorious spirit comfort and god [Music] your glory fills the heavens the splendor fills the earth yes your glory fills the heavens your splendor fills you here yes lord your splendor we love you lord [Music] give thanks to the lord our god and king his love endures forever for he is good he is above all things his love endures forever [Music] for the life that's been reborn [Music] forever god is faithful forever god is strong forever god is with us [Music] god is faithful forever god is strong forever god is with us [Music] forever the rising to the setting sun his love endures forever by the grace of god we will carry on his love endures forever god is faithful forever god is strong forever god is [Music] forever god is with us [Music] forever forever [Music] there's a countdown thing that you probably saw four three two one we just blasted off so yeah it's really great to see everybody here tonight at christ the king catholic church in ann arbor michigan but it's absolutely amazing overwhelming humbling and scary to welcome the 4 500 people who registered tonight to be with us and we're just welcoming people from all over the world and this is the easter season and the risen christ is so present right now in the church the holy spirit is so eager to be poured out uh the word of god is straining to be spoken and we're just gonna really have a time tonight where we want to open our minds and hearts to the lord we want to welcome the holy spirit we want to ask god to speak to us individually personally and uh strengthen us for our mission strengthen us for the battle we're in strengthen us to resist the evil one strengthen us to love the lord even more and love each other even more we're going to uh peter and i have been praying for a while asking the lord to give us understanding and wisdom that we can help people tonight so we've asked the lord we believe he's going to answer that prayer you pray for us too and then we're going to have a wonderful time of praising worship a lot of us are isolated a lot of us are in places in the world and places in the united states and canada where we don't have fellowship we we don't have a place where we can really honor god in the way we'd like to in terms of our whole heart and we're so fortunate to have a music ministry that can lead us in that tonight and then we're gonna uh have a time for praise and worship we're gonna have a talk have another time for praise and worship and another talk and we're gonna in between the lord's gonna be working through all of this i'd like to start tonight by uh playing a message that sister ann shields has recorded especially for us tonight as you know sister ann's recovering from a stroke she had a while ago she's back to doing her daily radio programs which we're so happy about and she just felt like the best way of her being present tonight was to record a special message just for us hello brothers and sisters welcome to the renewal ministries gathering it's been quite a year for us hasn't it we are probably anxious about many things and concerned about many things but what did jesus tell us do not be anxious about your life i know i can get anxious do not be anxious about your life what you shall eat or drink or about your body what you shall wear life is more than food and clothing really it is look at the birds of the air says scripture they neither sow nor reap and yet your heavenly father feeds them are you not of more value than they which of you by being anxious can add one cubit to the span of his life why are you anxious about clothing therefore do not be anxious saying what shall we eat what shall we drink what shall we wear your heavenly father knows that you need them all but seek first and here's the clincher seek first his kingdom seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things shall be yours as well brothers and sisters god wants to really teach us so that our faith may grow and our trust in him may grow so let's join with one another in this weekend to experience the grace and the power and the strength that god will give us for the coming months trust him trust him amen thank you sister anne i do think one of the most profound prayers that we can pray is what jesus revealed to saint faustina it's so simple and it's so powerful so real it summarized the truth of what sister ann was saying what the gospel is saying jesus i trust in you jesus i trust in you my name is ralph martin i'm president of renewal ministries for those of you who have just stumbled across us on youtube or wondering what's going on renewal ministries is a catholic ministry uh under the guidance of a board of directors including bishop bob mcclury and uh deacon dan foley and various other wonderful people and we have a branch in canada that's under the guidance of cardinal collins and monsignor greg smith and a wonderful group of people there and what we do is evangelize what we do is proclaim christ what we do is call people to conversion and holiness we try to provide resources to make that possible we have the longest-running catholic television program right now on ewtn called the choices we face we have two daily catholic radio programs peter herbeck's sister and shields we have our outreach to young people now with young adults called id intentional discipleship to high school girls called beloved revolution and to high school boys called zion and we do mission work in about 40 countries around the world we just met by zoom with a bunch of our country coordinators from different countries and it is so inspiring to see what they're doing even under the restrictions of covet we'd like to invite you to engage in the dialogue that's going on in the chat you know you can say praise the lord you can say hello to long last long-lost cousins that you're finding are on the same thing as you are and it's just an interesting way of kind of participating and so would encourage you to let people know where you're from it's inspiring to find out where people are from and you can do that on the chat uh right now we're gonna have an extended time of praising worship maybe 15 minutes or so maybe 15 or 20 minutes or so and uh then after that first talks coming up so let's welcome dan dirks and the wonderful music ministry to help us lift our minds and hearts to the lord are turning to you we turn to you oh disney [Music] when we see you we find strength to face the day and in your presence all our fears are washed away they're washed away [Music] you are the god who saves us [Music] we is you here lord jesus hear the sound of hearts returning to you we turn to you yes lord we turn to you in your kingdom broken [Music] you make us you make all things new and when we see you we find strength to face the day [Music] and in your presence all our fears [Applause] [Music] worthy of all our praises [Music] [Applause] [Music] we welcome you lord come have your way in our hearts tonight we love you lord we worship you lord thank you jesus we glorify your name o lord we worship you lord thank you jesus glory to you lord glory to you lord hallelujah [Music] see what we see we find strength when we see you we find strength to face the day and in your presence all our fears are washed away and you when we see you we find strength cause when we see you we find strength to face the day in your presence lord in your presence all our fears [Music] worthy of all [Applause] [Music] [Music] among us we welcome you here lord jesus come have your way come anyway among us we welcome you here lord come out your way lord come every way [Music] lord [Music] come have your way in our lives lord thank you jesus glory to your name o lord god we thank you lord our king we glorify you lord our god we love you jesus you are the word you're the way thank you lord our god let no one caught in sin remain inside the lie of inward shame but fix our eyes upon the cross and run to him who showed great love and led for us freely you bled for us christ is rising from the dead trampling over death by death come awake come awake come and rise up from the grave christ is risen from the dead we are one with him again come awake come awake come and rise yes lord come rise up from the grave [Music] beneath the weight of all our sin you bound to none [Music] hold you down in strength christ is rising from the dead trampling over death by death come awake come awake come and rise up from the grave christ is risen from the dead we are one with him again come awake come awake come and rise [Music] [Applause] where is your victory oh church comes in the light the glory of god has defeated the night where is [Music] is from the dead trampling over death by death come awake come awake come and rise up from the grave christ is risen from the dead we are one with him again come awake come awake come and rise up from the grave christ is present from [Music] from the [Music] [Music] rise with you we love you lord we worship you [Music] glory [Music] where is your sting oh hell where is your victory oh church comes down in the light the glory of god has defeated the night singing [Music] where [Music] where is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] we die with you we rise with you [Music] hallelujah [Music] thank you [Music] you are worthy of it all you are worthy of it all [Music] for from you are all things and to you are all things you deserve the glory that you're worthy you are worthy of it all you worthy lord you are worthy of it all for from you are all things you deserve the glory [Music] all the saints and angels [Music] [Music] you are worthy of you are worthy of it all [Music] for from you are all things to you are all things you deserve the glory day and night [Music] right [Music] rise [Music] [Music] is [Music] you are worthy [Music] you deserve you deserve it all you deserve it all you are worthy lord [Music] you deserve the glory [Music] [Music] lord [Music] that one being the lord who does not slumber and does not sleep is here and he's speaking to us tonight fear not fear not i am the lord i'm the living one i'm dead and now i'm alive forevermore says the lord blessed be your name lord there's also a sense as well that the lord is opening the heavens that there's flowing from him are is the grace of his spirit gifts tonight receive wherever you are around the world in rome and in india and these people are just tuned in every person even if you're alone tonight watching open your heart because the kingdom is open he's opening heaven tonight he's pouring out his holy spirit tonight to ask him open your heart he wants to free you he wants to heal you he wants to deliver you and encourage you he wants to baptize you in his holy spirit he wants to to touch the depth of your heart tonight so lord we just receive that word we receive it we say yes to it because you're worthy of it all lord we praise you and we bless you and we glorify you amen [Music] rise [Music] rise [Music] day and night night and day that is [Music] [Music] day and night [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are worthy of it all [Music] [Music] of it all [Music] to you are all things you deserve the glory you deserve it lord for from you are all things to you are all things you deserve the glory from you lord pour from you are all things to you are all things you deserve the glory bless you the lord our god lord you do deserve the glory because you are worthy of it all we love you lord we bless you we praise you and we do welcome the power of your spirit we ask that you would cast fire on us tonight our brothers and sisters all over the world who have joined us and those of us who are here increase our love for jesus father increase our freedom in you increase our courage and come holy spirit deliver us tonight empower us tonight and glorify your name amen amen god is good christ is risen christ is risen he has risen indeed amen well it's my pleasure to be able to introduce who you already know ralph martin is going to give our first talk and i just want to say i'm so grateful and i know many of you are too for the way that the lord has used ralph not only all these years but really in this period you know the new book church in crisis emerged during covet 2020 it was not a book he planned to write but the lord did with him like he did the rest of us he just got us out of airplanes and shut us down and got us in front of him more and more and he suddenly had time and he was praying and the lord put that book on his heart now it's made its way all around the world it's a tremendous prophetic reading and i think one of the great gifts that the lord has given ralph is a prophetic understanding of what's going on in the world today and so ralph's going to share a little bit about the things that the lord's put on his heart specifically for us tonight but i think also dimensions of the larger picture of what's happening so let's welcome our brother ralph thank you well i was just looking at the chat a little bit and uh there's somebody from amarillo texas who says he's at his son's baseball game and it's only 45 degrees down there and our our time together here is keeping him warm i guess 45 degrees is cold for texas and we got a number of brothers and sisters from australia and ireland that are kind of joining us here tonight and praying for ireland praying for australia well i was thinking of a title for this talk and uh here it is is there any hope for us guess what the answer is yes yeah it's a fantastic hope but people are deeply troubled right now people are deeply troubled by what's happening in the world by what's happening in the church there's an unease under the surface i'm getting more and more emails every day from people saying what's going on so i'm going to try to be as honest as i can in terms of what i see what the lord's given me to see about what's going on not yeah so i'm going to do that but then we're going to talk about the hope so dark clouds are gathering over the world over the church there's more and more talk about we need to have a global reset we need to have a world authority that can handle these problems that no individual nations are handling this more and more open calls for world government more and more in our country and in canada and in many countries around the world all the levers of power are now in the hands of people who are radically opposed to the christian view of life you know whether it be government all the agencies of government right now professional sports entertainment universities the schools it's getting harder and harder for christian kids to survive in public schools because of brainwashing that's going on there and there's no question about it that radical brainwashing is going on trying to liberate people from the authority of their parents oftentimes openly saying let's figure out how to do this without letting the parents know what we're doing whether it's trashing christian aspects of our foundation as a country or whether it's sort of promoting the the latest sort of leftist agenda and i'm not talking politically here i'm really talking about spiritual realities lots of people are saying we can't waste the coved emergency we can't waste this crisis i think hillary clinton was the first one to say that george soros who's been funding radical organizations for many many years has called this the opportunity of a lifetime he says this is the crisis of my lifetime even before the pandemic hit i realized that we were in a revolutionary moment where what would be impossible or even inconceivable in normal times had become not only possible but probably absolutely necessary and then came covet 19 which has totally disrupted people's lives and required very different behavior it's an unprecedented event that probably has never occurred in this combination and it really endangers the survival of our civilization so a few months after the black lives matter movement came to prominence soros's foundation committed 220 million dollars to progressive black led organizations and another 70 million dollars to organizations working to change policing and to train young political activists patrick gaspard the president of his foundation said now was the time for them to double down on their investment in social and political change this was quote the moment we've been investing for for the last 25 years so it's time to double down and we can understand we can place a bet on these activists who see this as a moment of not just incrementalism but of whole scale revolutionary reform what kind of reform do they have in mind they'd like to see abortion made legal in every country of the world and publicly funded they'd like to see the traditional christian view of marriage and sexual sexuality totally overturned into where anything goes they're investing big money in the lgbtq agenda they're supporting local political candidates attorney general barr warned a year or so ago that soros was funding local political races trying to get prosecutors elected who would empty the jails and really work for social change so this is like serious money serious radical agenda seriously opposed to some very very important realities about human life and christian life high tech is weighing in in a really massive way the founder of facebook zuckerberg spent 300 million dollars in the most recent american election bloomberg another high-tech guy high finance guy spent 100 million dollars trying to influence the election in florida the founder of twitter is aggressively deleting accounts that differ from the reigning secular orthodoxy books that used to be considered non-controversial because they were exploring in a serious academic ways different sides of different issues are now being delisted from amazon and and other other places as well surveillance technology is growing china is leading the way with hundreds of millions of cameras everywhere so that there's hardly any private place where people can be anymore without being picked up by the cameras and they've now created something that they're explicitly talking about as a social credit score depending on how loyal you're seeing seen to the party that determines your opportunities whether you can get a good job or they can go to university and things like that unfortunately something like that is beginning to happen in our western countries as well i was just talking to a chief executive of a major bank who just called me up and he said i don't know how much longer committed catholics are going to be able to survive working in fortune 500 companies they're kind of sniffing us out they're trying to eliminate any resistance to this agenda that we're talking about american corporations are falling in line i i asked people how could that be why do you think that's the case and they say it's all about money it's all about money somehow they can protest social inequality here in the united states while closing their eyes to the extermination of a whole muslim country culture in china they can import products that are made with slave labor and they can completely close their eyes to the persecution of christians in all religions in china that aren't in subservience to the communist party one really troubling thing in all this is that there's not a word coming from the vatican protesting what's happening in china some kind of agreement was entered into a couple years ago which has never been disclosed cardinals then the former archbishop of hong kong says it was a sell-out of the underground catholic church in china he comes to rome and the pope won't see them there's more billionaires now in shanghai than in new york city it seems that leaders of revolutions do very very well for themselves recently there was a fairly shocking story in the new york post about how one of the co-founders of black lives matter has bought three houses in the los angeles area and some a few more in another area and spent millions and millions of dollars with her with the person she calls her wife uh you kind of wonder where the money comes from and the answer is there's a complex interlocking series of corporations and it's really hard to trace the money i'm totally for racial justice i'm totally for removing any trace of racism or discrimination but i'm not for using this legitimate cause to radicalize the united states and to do away with the nuclear family and to advance the lgbtq agenda which was right on their website as their purposes they taken it off now because some people don't like that canceling de-platforming firing not hiring shutting up getting along to go along this is not just a political development at heart it's a profound rebellion against god it's a profound rejection of the order of reality it's a launching into a make-believe fantasy world where you can decide what reality is even though it totally contradicts what we used to call reality we see this in the whole insistence on uh tell me what pronoun you want to be called no matter what your biological sex is and the whole trance movement people who are gender confused need support need compassion need help need love need counseling but little kids who are eight years old don't need to be mutilated don't need to be on drugs i just read an article about this and 97 percent of young boys who experience gender dyphoria grow out of it as they grow up a very high percentage 80 something percent of girls grow out of it as they grow up and now we're seeing kind of uh clusters of outbreak where groups of young girls decide all together that they really are boys it's sort of insane it's sort of sick it's sort of like departing from reality but there's so much money there's so much pressure there's so much power against it when our new president was asked whether an eight-year-old boy should be allowed to do she said of course of course unfortunately we also are having challenging times in the church just when the church needs to speak a clear word with authority and power to the world to call them back from their foolishness the church has been beaten into silence we don't have a clear word coming out and saint paul said if there isn't a clear sound given from the trumpet who's going to come for battle or like jesus said a house divided against itself can't stand we now are a house divided unfortunately in the catholic church you know not a number of years ago john paul ii and his famous speeches that he gave here in the united states and he later put it into his book called the sign of contradiction said a lot of people don't realize it yet but we're entering the final confrontation between the gospel and the anti-gospel between christ and the antichrist between the church and the anti-church and this isn't just a battle that we're finding in the world but this battle is going on right in the church there's a false gospel that's in in the church there's a false church that's in the church there's a fake jesus that's in the church i just heard a video from a very famous franciscan priest who peter sent it to me and he's a raving heretic he's so far off the reservation it's hard to believe he doesn't believe the gospel and people are cheering him on he's one of the most popular spiritual writers i can name his name richard rohr there's a sickness there and it's spreading and people are cheering it on and people are eating it up shouldn't there be some correction yeah is there no just when god's people need to hear a clear word we get ambiguity we get political correctness we see it right here in the united states and i know it's true in other countries as well just before the recent election the american bishops put out their usual statement that says you know well we abortion is the primary issue and we should never vote for a candidate because of their pro-abortion but there are other important issues too and we need to take it all into account do a calculation and decide who we should vote for which basically is you know kind of do what you're planning to do anyway after the election archbishop gomez president of the american bishops conference came out with a statement saying wow we've really got problems now the the new president is trying to expand abortion and pay for it with federal funds all over the world uh the new president is trying to really advance the lgbtq agenda and really undermine marriage and family life the new president really isn't allowing for religious conscience exemptions but he wants to submerge religious freedom below these ideological goals now my question is that's exactly what he said he was going to do why didn't you say this before the election before the horses got out of the barn i mean what kind of game is being played here then of course cardinal shampoo got outraged that archbishop gomez would would say this i felt like was totally inappropriate he didn't follow proper procedure and then when cardinal gregory was in rome the new archbishop of washington dc and archbishop gomez had just appointed archbishop vigneron here in detroit as head of a committee to try to figure out how to address this new terrible situation that we're in with the new administration and while this committee was meeting cardinal gregory with the backing of rome announced in rome that of course he was going to continue to give communion to president biden of course you know he wanted to engage with him and wanted to dialogue with him of course people been dialoguing with politicians like this for 40 years then archbishop shapu the former archbishop of philadelphia came out and said no we can't you know we can't do that people who are advocating to violate the fifth commandment and the sixth commandment killing babies and sex for everybody uh outside of marriage that's opposing fundamental revealed truths of god and people are advocating grievous serious sins and they shouldn't be going to communion so war is breaking out the bishops are trying very very hard to pretend that they're unified but they're not so that's a really big problem that's a really serious problem it's going to be really confusing for a lot of catholics what do you do who do you listen to who do you trust that's why we really need to know the word of god we really need to know the real jesus not the fake jesus who tells people what they want to hear but the real jesus who challenges us who calls us to repentance who calls us the conversion who calls us to holiness some really good news archbishop aquila from denver just came out with a statement who said for so long we've been trying to accommodate the culture we've been trying to affirm everybody and everything and we've made a big mistake and he says i'm guilty of this too it's time for us to start talking about the consequences of not obeying the lord and the reality of eternal punishment and condemnation it's time for us to start preaching the gospel oh i suppose better late than never right better late than never then in rome just when you think it can't get any crazier it gets crazier like like i said i'm getting emails out saying people are saying is this real is this a hoax this really happened is this really going on you know there's a lot of stuff we were already familiar with all the ramifications of that original comment of pope francis about who am i to judge that he later privately clarified that he was referring to somebody who maybe had homosexual activity in his background but was trying to live a good life but in the meantime the leading homosexual magazine in the united states chose him as man of the year because they were getting a certain vibe from him that led them to believe that things were going to change that a more permissive approach was going to be taken we were going to maybe de-emphasize some of these hard teachings and welcome people and be inclusive so then a couple weeks ago when the congregation for the doctrine of faith came out with a statement saying we can't bless same-sex unions because they're sinful all hell broke loose 200 theologians in germany uh protested bishop in belgium said this statement isn't worth the paper it's written on it doesn't even reach the level of high school theology talk about insulting condescending approach to a vatican document and he said anyway theologians now these days really don't know how to explain what sin is anyway that's that's part of our problem that's part of our problem and then the whole belgian bishops conference supported him and of course the german bishops totally ignored it and says we're going to continue with our accommodation to the culture in the area of sexuality cardinal schoenburn in austria who used to be a real light came out and said this is an unfortunate communication era and he can't support the statement what he probably means by that is why don't we be a little bit more sophisticated and not use words like sin and you know not really kind of get in people's face about this you know why don't we be a little indirect very very unfortunate recently the german bishop said it's going to be a big special blessing of same-sex marriages in uh may 10th in germany and he's not going to discipline any priest who participates the motto of this country-wide multi-city ceremony ceremony is love wins blessing service for lovers now love wins happens to be the title of a book that an evangelical theologian wrote when he was going over to the other side basically everybody's going to be saved and it's really interesting to see homosexuality and universalism the virus the sickness of universalism that says that everybody no matter how they live is going to go to heaven come together we just saw another instance of this in a pretty shocking way we're on the cover of the vatican newspaper the observatory romano april 1st and it wasn't april fool's joke they don't have that there in italy there was a picture of a nude jesus leaning over judas and the explanation was that pope francis has in his apartment a picture of jesus carrying the dead jesus on his shoulder the dead judas on his shoulder and when the pope explained that this was in his apartment he says people are going to think i'm a heretic but actually this is a picture that's on a pillar in the cathedral at vezilla france so i'm not a heretic because some medieval architect or sculptor decided to sculpt this so somebody was so inspired by that they did this living in color new jesus leaning over judas because pope francis has said we don't really know that judas is lost this is an ongoing kind of thing that pops up in theology periodically cardinal dulles said the scripture isn't true and jesus isn't telling the truth if we think that judas is saved not to mention the dozens and dozens and dozens of other passages that so clearly over and over again say unless you believe you'll be condemned unless you repent you'll be lost there's going to be a division the final judgment's coming and it's going to really divide the sheep from the goats the good seed from the bad seed the wheat from the chaff the good fish from the bad fish it's there it's there the door's going to close and people are going to be inside people going to be outside it's just there over and over and over again not only do we have bishops and cardinals fighting each other but we also have whole bishops conferences recently the bishops in ukraine and the bishops in poland wrote a letter to their counterparts in germany saying please stop the direction you're moving in because it's weakening our own people's motivation to live a chaste life they they're getting the impression from you that sexual sins are no big deal so please stop because you're weakening our people so on one side of the german polish border you have them interpreting pope francis's document and maurice leite in a very liberal direction on another side of the border you have a whole bishops conference saying the only way we can interpret this any ambiguity in the document has to be interpreted in harmony with the tradition which is an established principle in in the church one more one more one more little thing little problem here before we go on to the hope but we need to know what we're facing we need to know what's coming against us we we need to know because we're going to run into it it's going to come down to the parish level it's going to come down to city and villages it's coming to every it's coming to a country near you because there really is a global effort to take advantage of the covid crisis to install install a world authority run by the elite on totally secular principles and they can't brook the absolute claims of jesus christ they'd like to there be dialogue amongst religions they'd like to be cooperation amongst religions you know everybody be nice nobody kind of say anything too radical or too absolute but you know what jesus is radical he says he says i am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father except through me he says if you don't believe me you're going to die in your sins i mean and dozens of other things as well just a week or two ago pope francis sent a letter to the world meeting of the world bank in the international monetary fund this is what he said there remains an urgent need for a global plan that can create new or regenerate existing institutions particularly those of global governance and help to build a new network of international relations for advancing the integral human development of all peoples he talked about green policies climate change he called for universal vaccination and he says it is my hope that your discussions will contribute to a model of recovery from the coveted crisis capable of generating new more inclusive and sustainable solutions to support the real economy assisting individuals and communities to achieve their deepest aspirations in the universal common good where is there an acknowledgement of what the deepest human aspirations really are we're we don't just long for clean water we don't just long long for the carbon footprint being reduced we don't just long for government handouts we long for life what does it profit a person if he gains the whole world and he suffers the loss of his soul is there a solution to death even people who get the best medical care are going to die is there a solution to death that's a fundamental question where is the cry of the apostles where is the call of saint peter on the day of pentecost saying save yourselves from this wicked generation when are the shepherds going to wake up and start calling people out of the deception and out of the darkness and out of the illusion of man being able to create a paradise on earth by themselves we've tried that we've been there we've done that every time human beings try to create a paradise on earth or solve the problems of the human race apart from god they create hell on earth go back to the tower of babel go back to soviet union go back to nazi germany one last thing before we get to hope there's going to be a health summit held may 6th to 8th globally by zoom sponsored by the vatican the name of the conference is exploring the mind body and soul the keynote speaker is anthony fauci fresh from assuring the world health organization that the american government was committed to funding abortion throughout the world chelsea clinton is going to be a key speaker the chief executive of salesforce whom time magazine has described as one of the most outspoken executives for lgbtq affairs is going to be another speaker and cindy crawford the pro-abortion model is going to be another speaker deepak chopra the new age guru is going to be a presenter rock guitarist joe perry is going to be presenting his wisdom last year katy perry gave a seminar on transcendental meditation at the vatican health conference there's only two priests out of the 114 speakers one of them is monsignor dario vigono not related to other vikings that we've heard about who was fired from his position in the vatican after it came down that he doctored a letter from pope benedict to make it appear that pope benedict was endorsing a book about pope francis theology which he wasn't doing he was forging part of the letter and cardinal ravasi the head of the pontifical council for culture isn't going to be the emcee of all this but leading secular journalists including journalists from cnn msnbc cbs are going to be leading the conference what are we doing what are we doing we're giving the prestige of the vatican the prestige of the catholic church to an assortment of individuals who are openly outspoken against the catholic church and are pro-abortion and everything else what are we doing what's going on is somebody asleep at the switch or somebody skillfully moving things in a direction to turn the catholic church into a chaplain to the u.n after the amazon synod which had its own problems in fact i i do need to share this mary healy drew that to my attention i think mary's with us tonight and it's um there are a number of things that happened in rome before and in connection with the amazon synod and it's on page 175 and 176. a big statue of the god malik was erected outside the coliseum malik is one of those gods that demand child sacrifice before the amazon senate a special light show was developed to be kind of shown on the facade of saint peter's basilica the people who developed it were openly talking about how they appealed to pagan gods and goddesses to inspire them and they tried it out on the empire state building before they brought it to rome and they actually had pictures of the goddesses there and when they went to rome they took the pictures of the goddesses out but they left in the snakes and the lizards the seeing eye of the masons and other kind of things and eerie new age music and deep breathing and other kinds of things and uh it was really it was really a problem and this is what mary healy found she found a passage from ezekiel he said to me son of man do you see what they're doing the great abominations that the house of israel are committing here to drive me far from my sanctuary and they said to me go in and see the vile abominations that they're committing here so i went in a sore and they're portrayed upon the wall round about where all kinds of creeping things and loathsome beasts and all the idols of the house of israel each had his sensor in his hand and the smoke of the cloud of incense went up then he said to me son of man have you seen what the elders of the house of israel are doing in the dark every man in his room of pictures for they say the lord does not see the lord has forsaken the land he also said to me you will see still greater abominations which they commit some of these things are so disturbing that very responsible people in the church are starting to talk about could this be the end times cardinal mueller who is head of the congregation for the doctrine of faith before he was fired or his term was not renewed by pope francis put out a manifesto of faith saying this is what we believe and it was about the death and resurrection of jesus it was about the reality of heaven and hell it was about the antichrist the antichrist is in the catechism of the catholic church because it's in the scripture cardinal casper was so freaked out by cardinal muller mentioning the antichrist particularly as a purveyor of false doctrine that he said quote this could unhinge the catholic church this is an attack on pope francis whoa stating the faith could unhinge the catholic church repeating the truth about the final judgment and the reality of the antichrist could unhinge the catholic church it just shows you where some people are at cardinal ike head of the catholic church of the netherlands also began to speak about the antichrist benedict the 16th said who would believe what we've seen happen in the last 50 years he said nobody could even dream about something as homosexual marriage or widespread funded abortion you know 50 years ago could this be a sign of the antichrist even somebody like benedict xvi would say that okay the nations are gathering the church is confused and divided what shall we do where is our hope what we are facing is overwhelming but look at what the world and the first false church is facing jesus is going to return in glory to judge the living and the dead [Applause] psalm 2 a favorite psalm of peters why do the nations protest and the peoples conspire in vain kings on earth rise up and princes plot together against the lord and against this anointed one this is happening let us break their shackles and cast off their chains from us let's get their laws off our bodies how does the lord respond the one enthroned in heaven laughs the lord enthroned in heaven laughs at the folly and futility of rebellion against god the lord derides them then he speaks to them in his anger in his wrath he terrifies them i myself have installed my king on zion my holy mountain i will proclaim the decree of the lord he said to me you are my son today i've begotten you ask of me and i'll give you the nations as your inheritance psalm 118 the hand of the lord has struck with power the hand of the lord is struck with power how did the hand of the lord struck with power through the incarnation of jesus christ in the humility and the hiddenness of bethlehem in the humility the hiddenness of mary's womb the hand of the lord struck with power and then it came into fullness in the manhood of jesus and his crucifixion and then his resurrection now let me tell you about the resurrection we celebrate it we love it we love the easter songs but what does it mean what it means is that truly evil has been defeated truly satan has been crushed truly the victory has been won it's over it's been decided the lord has come to our rescue and he's done the deed that's going to get to the root desire of the human race the desire to live and not die now you might ask if the victory has been won why is the devil still roaming about like a lion seeking to devour souls why are we still getting sick and dying why are we returning to dust because we have to accept our punishment this is the punishment for the rebellion of our race against god the lord said if you do these things you shall surely die the devil said no you won't you'll be like gods what a what a disaster we believe the devil we tried to separate ourselves from god and we die all the sickness all the illness all the pain all the suffering all the broken relationships all the decaying bodies are because of rebellion against god and the punishment is you will die and life on earth will be hard childbirth earning a living life on earth will be hard so we have to walk out the punishment but the eternal implications of the punishment have been taken away and for a christian when we die it's no longer separation from god dying in our sins if we're christians there's no condemnation if we're christians death truly is a doorway into us experiencing the fullness of the victory but we have to walk the path all of us have a path of pain in some way right now all of us are dealing with things right now all of us are tempted by the devil all of us have weaknesses of the flesh all of us are influenced in different ways by the world and what we have to do is walk the walk but we got to be encouraged by the fact that the victory really has been won it's been decided it's been settled the devil's days are numbered evil's days are numbered and like it says in the hebrews it says for the joy that was set before him jesus endured the cross keep the joy of the final victory before you keep the joy of the resurrection from the dead before you keep the joy of the forgiveness of sins keep the joy of the communion of saints in front of you as we have to take up our cross every day and following jesus now jesus does say that we need to be worthy of him jesus does say that those who those who are his disciples need to take over the cross every day and follow him we need to pass the test there is a test we have to pass that's why we're still on earth that's why we're still walking this path it's the test of deciding whether jesus is worthy whether jesus is our treasure whether jesus is the lord the test of who wants salvation the test of the who will truly freeze them choose them the test of those who are willing to endure hardship rather than deny him the test of those who truly have him as lord as their treasure who in their right mind wouldn't want him eternal life or eternal disaster well our pride our blindness our darkness our rebellion our selfishness our foolishness hold us back sometimes and if your pride if your darkness if your sin if your foolishness is holding you back from complete surrender to our lord jesus christ your fools your fools your choosing death rather than life this is a chance if you hear his voice today harden out your hearts none of us are worthy none of us can make this journey our own strength but jesus is here to travel the journey with us to travel our own path with us to make us worthy how does he make us worthy by dwelling in our souls by feeding us on his body and blood by teaching us through his word but listen to what he says matthew chapter 10 verses 37 and 38 this is in the context of persecution and that's going to become very relevant for us he who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me and he who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me none of us are worthy but we have to ask the lord to make us worthy to give us the strength to love him above all things to give us a strength not to deny him before men jesus says everyone who acknowledges me before men i also will acknowledge before my father who's in heaven but whoever denies me before men i also will deny before my father who's in heaven the world is closing in on us they're going to pretty soon ask us to burn incense to the emperor we have to prepare ourselves to not betray christ when the test comes to us these are serious words everyone who acknowledges me before men i also acknowledge before my father who's in heaven but whoever denies me before men i also will deny before my father's in heaven we've got to want jesus more than anything in our life and we've got to ask him to give us the grace to persevere and to face the test to face the trial and he'll give us that grace we're preparing for pentecost we need to ask for more of the holy spirit we're going to be actually doing a pentecost mission we did an advent mission we did a lenten mission now we're going to do a pentecost mission so on pentecost sunday we're going to start a four-part mission where we're going to ask the lord for more of the holy spirit the theme of the mission is receive the holy spirit and we believe that god will give the holy spirit during the mission we'll we'll you can uh register for the mission starting today it's um it's on our website go to our website renewalministries.net and you can register for the pentecost mission it's free but we need to send you the link so register i've been reading from this book tonight only half of what i wanted to it's called the church in crisis pathways forward uh you can get it from our website too it kind of talks a lot more in depth about what's happening about what the truth is and the last six chapters talk about how to move forward and then we're gonna offer a free booklet tonight called the final confrontation a lot of you have seen it already a lot of you have read it but a lot of you haven't and if you go to our website click on free booklet the final confrontation it talks about are we in the ten end times are we not what what signs should we be seeing if this is the end times how to conduct yourself in the end times and what to do if this is not the end times the answer is always the same love jesus more and more and more uh you're watching this on youtube tonight if you haven't subscribed to our youtube channel all you have to do is click the little red thing there below the screen says subscribe and again it's a free subscription but we'll let you know when we uh post the new new video peter and i are doing new videos every other week and uh a lot of what i've talked about tonight we've elaborated on more in in the videos uh it's a lot of encouragement as well and uh so subscribe to our youtube channel so we can stay in touch so i'm just going to end with a little prayer and then uh peter and i are going to start talking a little bit we'll see what happens this is not rehearsed this is not scripted lord we thank you we thank you for letting us face the reality of what we're facing we thank you that we don't have to face it alone that we have brothers and sisters which are more important than ever we really need to join together brothers and sisters we need to find our fellow disciples and start supporting each other start praying together start doing bible studies together finding each other and strengthening each other and supporting each other lori thank you for not only asking us to come take up our cross and follow you but that you're going to be lifting the cross with us we thank you jesus for finally destroying evil finally banishing the devil we know it's a done deed we know from scripture that the day of judgment has already been decided and we're looking forward to it because we know for a christian there's no condemnation that those in christ jesus have nothing to fear and if we become like little children and depend on the lord we'll receive everything we need for everything we're going to face amen amen [Applause] all right ralph wow thanks for delivering the mail yeah we are glad there's gonna be another talk though we're having another talk yeah i'm glad that you're gonna do the next talk because i'll have more yeah yeah this is kind of rough i i think you can kind of yeah yeah okay yeah yeah that's what i'm getting paid for that's what i'll do yeah yeah couple thoughts i have just to start out with i know we haven't scripted any of this so are you nervous about what might come out of my mouth no okay correct i like almost everything that comes out of your mouth okay you know you're talking about the final confrontation the words of john paul ii now the you outline what some of this conflict and confrontation looks like but he says something in there that i always try to remember all of this is within the hands of divine providence amen and god who is unstoppable god who is almighty god who is all love god who is perfect god who loves all of us he sees in his wisdom that this needs to happen so if he sees it i'm okay with it amen i mean i am i there's all kinds of things i would rather not see happen but i know it's in his hands right god's you guys don't look too convinced about that are you looking at me like are you sure can i hear it say it's in god's hands see god says okay you at home i didn't hear you let's say it it's in god's hands okay so lord we trust in you that's why faustina the miracle jesus we trust in you so that's just one thing i want to say yeah okay good well i totally agree with you peter and i actually had it in my notes to say that you did but i had to hurry towards the end but it's absolutely true that everything that's happening right now god is permitting for purpose and he permits evil things confusing things painful things only because he's got a plan to bring good out of it no question about it now he's obviously exposing wickedness confusion darkness in the church maybe he's getting ready to judge the world but he's trying to purify his people isn't it he's trying to get us kind of get our heads straight on and get our hearts right and you know it's hard for us to see but the reality of what we're seeing is god's judgment is in the nations it's happening and his divine redemptive discipline is in the church he's coming to purify he's coming to expose our weaknesses he's coming to em he's gonna show the emptiness of the world before the church it's going to happen scripture says prophet isaiah says when when god's judgments are in the land men learn righteousness and what's our theme for this night tonight seek first the kingdom of god and his righteousness we need god's help that's why he's coming right and so we need to be able to trust him because he's leading us to the place where from the church there's going to be a hard cry the church is getting purified because the church has to because many people in the church who are baptized even some leaders unfortunately are clinging to the world and looking for approval from the world and trying to fix the world on their own strength and it can't happen only the radical surrender of our lives to the beloved son of god is going to bring that about so the lord in his mercy is bringing us to the place where we we we experience our own poverty and a heart cry is going to come from the church itself calling on the name of jesus now one of the things you you were pointing out ralph is the rise of polytheism you might say that many gods why are the pagan gods appearing again especially among the the glitterati you know they mean their son they're kind of fascinated with the old pagan gods the reason it's happening you guys is when christ when the church came alive jesus was raised up and christendom appeared and all the pagan gods got scattered and got exposed as empty but what is pope benedict xvi and i was reminding us there's an anti-christ spirit that's rising behind all of it in the world and christians who are worldly who are attached to the world astounding like that and what does the antichrist want to do he wants to always deny that christ has come in the flesh that god's son has come become one of us and he's conquered it all and makes all things new that's what's going on that's the fundamental battle that's going on underneath everything friends does that make sense yeah and i think that we're gonna we who maybe know the lord already need to get ready to help our brothers and sisters kind of deal with what's coming uh there's a chapter in the book called stop straddling the issue and a lot of our fellow catholics are are straddling the issue they've got one foot in the world one foot in the church and and there's a gap opening up we no longer have a christian society and people were used to kind of there being this nice kind of harmony between the culture and the church and no big contradiction and everybody you know was sort of on more or less on the same page but that's not the case anymore so catholics are going to have to figure out which way they're going to jump who they're going to trust who they're going to believe and so we can help them that's why we need to know what the truth is we need to we need to really know what the truth is we need to know the word of god the catechism of the catholic church is solid they're nibbling around the edges but nothing serious has happened yet but it's solid it's it's really what the church really believes it doesn't leap off the page which is why we're leaping around a little bit tonight peter you know you know we got to give some energy to to the truth of the faith you know but we got to help our fellow catholics we got to help them we got to help them get get their heads clear we got to help them know that need to make a decision because the only way catholics are going to be able to remain catholics in the future is if they answer the question that jesus poses to us who do you say the son of man is we got to answer that question the only right answer to is jesus is the lord if jesus is the lord the only sensible response is total surrender amen to that [Applause] you said something that i want to mention in your talk you said i just want to give a little correction this is the first time i've ever corrected you in my life no i'm just kidding the no the uh you mentioned that uh cardinal uh shapu had um usher shampoo yeah archbishops have you but you call that you said cardinal shaft somebody wrote this in that song just did i say that yeah you meant cardinal cupich called into question yes the archbishop from la's los angeles yeah yeah yeah right yeah cardinal did that not archbishop sash so elizabeth edit that out [Laughter] yeah i was during your talk i felt the lord just kind of prompt me to go to first corinthians chapter one and this reveals the lord's plan kind of how he always does things remember in the old testament how often the lord reduced the size and the influence of israel before he did something mighty and great that's how god works listen to this you guys have all heard this because it's about you this chat this section is about you specifically so listen up so consider your call brethren not many of you are wise according to the flesh not many of you are powerful not many of you are of noble birth have i insulted anybody yet i don't think so but god chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise god chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong god chose what is low and despised in the world even things that are not to bring to nothing things that are that no flesh might boast in the presence of god there's a lot of people today in the world who think there's something and the lord because he loves him so much is gonna bring it to nothing that's what it says so that no man can boast i fix the world i'm gonna do we're gonna do it with our technology with all our smarts with all our bucks we're going to do it in fact in order to do it that's what the kings of the earth are saying in order for us to really do it we got to get rid of the the christian story it's too binary it's too dualistic it's too full of commands it's too judgmental it doesn't fit to the world we're gonna make and fix everything that's what's going on and the lord says it so clearly and what the lord's gonna do he's gonna choose what's weak in the world he's going to choose what the world thinks is foolish and the wisdom of god is foolish to the world now and the saints that the lord is going to use and raise up the world hardly even notices and we need to know in our souls you guys he's in charge he's totally in charge what needs to happen is those who know him live like they know him i'm going to save this for my talk in a few minutes but the bottom line is is for the christian people to have amazing confidence in god yes it's hard we'll shed tears we'll be confused we're going to wish it didn't happen here or there we're going to have anxiety at most we got to keep coming back to the truth that christ has risen and everything's in his hands he's love itself he's the unstoppable one all this was made for him and all of it's in his hands right this is it we got to know it in our souls and and so we become flames of fire he's the fire caster jesus come and cast fire on the earth when the bishops of the world are on their knees and priests we're out of solutions where our scholarships have got us nowhere our money and the rest send your fire lord test fire on the earth lord god come holy spirit when we cry out yes father he alone is the answer there is no other answer when he does it he's going to reveal his glory and whoa baby watch what happens only christ right and guess what somebody i don't know who it was prophesied in 1975 in rome at saint peter's i think his name was ralph martin but i'm not sure about that but not just ralph father mike all kinds of people because i love you in the moment of all the great rejoicing that was going on at that conference the pope came to welcome the catholic charismatic renewal this grace that the spirit of god was making a revelation to our hearts that jesus is lord that jesus is the one and we come alive to him right at the time when the devil's trying to say he's nothing come follow me right god is birthing fire and fire is opening our eyes to see the majesty of jesus and everybody's celebrating and dancing and then after communion that holy moment ralph i didn't we didn't talk about this and i just have to say it you did it you prophesied but others have because i love you i'm telling you what's coming a time of great darkness is coming upon the world but a time of glory is coming for my church and a time of evangelization the world has never seen anybody feel that in their heart honestly i mean this this word is all kinds of prophetic people across the world have felt this know this prophesied this many who don't even know who ralph is right and we've been trying at church we're writing you know volumes on evangelization and we all are experts in one book after another and one statement after another and one workshop after another it's not the exchange of information it's a people in the earth that are on fire with love of the living god and are crying out for him and they're going boldly in the power of the spirit relying on him radically like all these wonderful things we're reading around from the acts of the apostles i keep reading them and i go these apostles they just keep testifying and they're doing signs and wonders every day almost it seems like or great things are happening and the supernatural is happening around that i'm thinking the other day how come how come present-day apostles almost never even talk about it where's the testimony that's happening of the supernatural of god revealing signs and wonders because paul said that's how evangelization goes forward in the power of the spirit through the confirming signs and wonders it's happening in places like but not exclusively like the charismatic renewal because it's a movement and a grace in the power of the spirit that's giving glory to jesus and that's open to the lord moving the way he wants to move yeah you know yeah you know peter we we talked about a lot of problems in the church but you know there's a lot of good bishops and a lot of good priests i was so encouraged by archers of aquila's finally breaking with the affirming everybody to really preach the gospel you know and we just got to pray for the bishops and priests to rise up you know the fake unity's breaking down and we need more and more bishops to not be afraid of what their fellow bishops are going to think of them or afraid of what the press is going to do to them or yeah even afraid of how their own priests are going to respond to we need more and more bishops and priests to stand up and just proclaim jesus christ and his truth you know yes just like you know and and you know we if any bishops or priests are watching you know we love you i mean i know there's another lay leader that loves the bishops more there's none more for bishops than you have so we're not bishop beat we're not beating up bishops right we know it's a tough situation and we and we love the fact that catholic church has a pope really important for unity right right but we're confused about some of the things going on right now yeah yeah yeah anyway so i think i'm yeah i'm going to save the rest for later yeah yeah yeah not too long yeah good yeah yeah [Applause] peter and i actually talk like this several times a week believe it or not we we we call each other off and say did you see this and what about this and wow you know so anyway we just thought this is the ongoing dialogue out of which what we do at renewal ministries happens well anyway um we're going to i gotta check my watch and check the schedule okay we're pretty much right on schedule i'd like to show you a very short video now and then just tell you a little things about how you can help support our mission we got a phone call from the holy father john paul i remember giving him a copy of my latest book at the time he took the book and he said you know i read it already i almost became speechless then he turned to ralph and he said ralph tell me what is the spirit saying to the church i think what the spirit is saying to the church is jesus we just stood there for a couple of minutes saying the name of jesus and it was just a very very special moment of communion with the lord and communion with the pope and just proclaiming the name of jesus together we just began to pray we get together every week and just pray and say lord will you help us will you lead us and that's when we got the sense of the first countries we should go to so here we're in the basement of a house here in ann arbor sister anne gets a sense we're supposed to go to lithuania we don't know anybody there two weeks later the bishop of the cultural center of the country calls us and said would you come and help me and what we had heard prophetically from folks who prayed for us said don't go only go through doors that god's going to open he will open the doors for you it started in lithuania and then it went to slovakia and then it went to hungary and then it went to ukraine and now it's 40 countries around the world clearly god's calling us what are we going to do so we formed an organization renewal ministries that's what happened the holy spirit is alive and well i mean he's acting today and when people call out to jesus and call out to the holy spirit he's going to do things the hour of the laity has struck the spirit seizes us lays hold of us and i'd say that's exactly what we experienced and he said it's happening all over the place what does god want from us who are his sons and daughters how are we called to live in this generation in this time and all of the challenges that we're certainly beginning to face we're living in quite a time of conflict and decision it's for such a time as this that we've been called to do what we're doing i hope that renewal ministries can help people make the decision that they're going to be friends of jesus christ and they're going to be loyal to him even in the midst of tremendous oppression and difficulties it's now it's time this is it we didn't come together to create a religious organization so we could have jobs i mean renewal ministries is just the form it's the way we do it but what it's all about is what's burning in us it's what god's put into us it's what the holy spirit has given to us and we want to give it away to other people and we've seen it pass like a contagion to people all over the world the countries all over the world and just like the lord said he brought people to us that that same fire that same exact conviction was burning in and we've we've joined forces together and that's why we've been able to do the work so broadly across the world because the lord's given us other people to run with us we use all different kinds of means and methods to share the message but the message is god is and that's what we're about that's what we do on radio that's what we do on television that's what we do in the conferences the seminars the clergy convocations in the classrooms at the seminary and all over the world [Music] [Music] well we've been doing this for 40 years and longer and people keep joining us and new generations and why don't you uh show the slides now elizabeth we'll just kind of quickly go through the slides i told you a little bit at the beginning about all the different areas that we're working in and uh the the engine of it is the word of god in the spirit of god the engine of it is all of us praying studying the word of god together uh and yeah so uh yeah good okay good the slides yeah all of us are studying the word of god together we have a bible study as a staff there's about 20 or 22 of us when we get together uh we that's this is our outreach to young adults yeah just keep moving through the slides yeah this is our outreach to high school students we love revolution they have a table in the back and you can talk to debbie herbeck who's here he's leading it zion you can talk to joey mccoy he's leading our outreach to high school boys and then uh just mission all over the world we've been shut down this last year but uh the mission is going on we have trained people in these countries that are carrying on mission one of the guys in romania that's our country coordinator there just got invited to prepare all the kids in the city for confirmation he's over the moon he's finally been asked to do something really really significant other other other guys are doing tremendous things in africa and other places as well so we do a lot of stuff for priests have a lot of opportunities sometimes to help bishops peter's doing a conference for bishops pretty soon i just did the canonical retreat for the friars of the renewal in their european province and just got a call today to do it for the american province as well so we just get lots of opportunities to help strengthen priests strengthen bishops i just preached the gospel but the only way that we've been able to do this is because the lord's provided you know and uh the way he usually provides it usually doesn't come with a bird flying in with a check but usually people help us so we'd like to ask you particularly those of you who maybe have been kind of benefiting from the youtube videos but haven't known about the whole scope of our ministry we'd really like to invite you to actually kind of become a part of us and join us by giving whatever you can you know some people make it a recurring donation every month or some just give one time but every single bit helps and this is how we're able to support all the stuff we're doing overseas and all the stuff we're doing here in the united states and canada as well so if you go to our website renewalministries.net you'll be able to contribute donations in the united states and canada are tax deductible in those countries and uh we just really appreciate whatever you're whatever you're able to do some of you have been supporting us since 1980 believe it or not i just signed a thank you letter for somebody today who's been donating through renewal emergency since 1980 it is so inspiring you know you know it's it's it's so inspiring it's so encouraging and people have been donating for through the 80s to the 90s to 2000 and i just signed a bunch of thank you letters of people who have donated for the very first time in april of 2021. so the lord just keeps bringing people what we need to keep doing what we're doing so really appreciate it if you could do what you can those of you who are doing what you count already i don't want you to do any more i only want anybody to do what seems good to you in the holy spirit so thank you for your consideration now i'm going to introduce peter herbeck i have a chance to get back at him no i i i'm just thrilled to have a brother like peter that we can kind of like romp in the vision together that we can praise the lord together that we can discuss what's going on in the church together and and then share that with with with others and we're just really glad for what the lord has given us and being able to serve the lord together at a difficult time in my life the lord brought peter into my life and we've been able to serve the lord since then and uh just like he brought father my scaling into my life years ago and the lord's just given us what we need to kind of carry out the mission so very happy to introduce peter uh he's the vice president of renewal ministries and as a special bonus tonight you can get peter's new booklet give god the fear god and give the glory uh by going to our website and just clicking on give me the new booklet from peter herbeck uh fear god and give him glory and also i'd like to recommend peter's book uh when the spirit comes in power which is really an excellent book will prepare us for the pentecost mission [Applause] okay before we do anything we're going to take some time to worship the lord a little bit we're going to turn to him if you want to stand and those of you at home if you're a lazy boy you have a hard time getting out just have somebody help you out let's just stand and we're going to just sing and give thanks to him a bit before i begin my sharing come holy spirit [Music] come holy spirit you are here moving in our midst i worship you i worship you you are here working in this place i worship you i worship you you are we make a miracle worker promised keeper light in the darkness my god that is who you are you are waymaker a way make a miracle worker promised keeper light in the darkness my god that is who you are you are here touching every heart i worship you you are here healing every heart i worship you [Music] my god that is who you [Music] are god that is i worship you you are here bending every heart [Music] my god [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that is who you are and that is even when i don't see it you're working even when i don't feel it you're working never stop you never stop working never stop never stop working even when i don't see it you're working even when i don't feel that you're working you never stop you never [Music] you never stop [Music] working [Music] [Applause] that is who you are [Applause] [Music] miracle worker promise keeper light in the darkness my god that is who you are who you are we make a miracle worker promise keeper light in the darkness my god that is who you are yes lord we love you we worship you we give you thanks we give you glory lord glory to you we are worthy lord you are worthy lord thank you lord lord you lord our god thank you lord our god thank you lord our god leads us in another song i just want to share something that uh during mass today by the way it's been a great day for me one of my grandkids my new our new grandson jacob was baptized today he was claimed he was claimed and then able to celebrate mass and during mass it felt like just out of the blue the lord said i want to tell those who are watching and those who are here i'm going to release a gift of tongues and a special grace for a gift of receiving the gift of tongues tonight because he wants to help weaponize you in a healthy way you know i mean he wants to equip you he wants you to use it as a weapon so what i'm going to do is say a little prayer for release of the spirit and for release of gift of the gift of tongues and as dan leads us into worship i want you wherever you are if the lord's touching you you've got to ask for that gift you can ask for it and just be able to receive it and sing along or whatever language the lord puts on your tongue just sing it out in freedom okay in the name of jesus who is lord forever and ever we pray lord you ascended to the right hand of the father and you poured out your gifts the endowment of your glory on your people and lord you sent your spirit and you said you were the one who baptizes in the spirit so we pray right now we pray right now lord for anyone who's listening who's crying out i saw someone saying they were crying out for the baptism in the spirit lord we ask that you baptize them in your holy spirit and those who are at home listening and maybe you don't know what it is you can just pray with me say lord jesus say lord i ask you to forgive me for all my sins lord i want you to be jesus i want you to be the lord of my life i believe you're the baptizer in the holy spirit and i ask you to baptize me in your spirit i ask you to send fire cast fire into my life burn away my fear burn away my intimidation burn away my addictions burn away my bondages lord set me free come holy spirit and lord i ask you for the gift of tongues as we pray lord give me a new language to proclaim you and equip me the way you want to equip me lord i'm wide open come holy spirit come holy spirit this is a new season and new tongues new spiritual warfare weapons in this battle receive these new gifts of tongues tonight [Music] lord open the heavens send your fire pour out your charisms some of you at home in particular maybe here your heart's on fire you feel like something god's touching you you're just feeling your heart burning even your tongue is tingling a little bit you're experiencing the presence of god the lord is saying i'm casting fire into your heart i want you to speak the truth i want you to live in the truth i want you to live in the freedom of the sons and daughters of god i want to lift your fear tonight i want to lift your bondages tonight i want to lift your intimidation before the world tonight that you fear not man but that you fear the holy god that in you is a pure and holy fear of god a gift of the holy spirit come lord come lord yes lord stir up those confirmation gifts lord yes in the fear of the lord you said that your delight lord and the messiah was in the fear of the lord let our delight help us know what that is lord to delight in the holy and pure fear of god come holy spirit come holy spirit come holy spirit will ever come close no thing can compare you're our living hope your presence lord [Music] i've tasted and seen of the sweetest of loves where my heart becomes free and my shame is [Music] your presence lord [Music] your glory god is what our hearts long for to be overcome by your presence [Music] [Applause] [Music] there's nothing worth more that will ever come close nothing can come [Music] your presence [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] your glory god is be overcome by your presence [Music] let us become more aware let us experience the glory of your goodness let us become more aware [Music] let us [Music] [Applause] [Music] let us [Music] let us [Music] this please until the end must fear your glory god is what our hearts long for to be over [Music] by your presence lord yes lord yes lord we're overcome by your goodness and your mercy and lord we ask that you do reveal your glory in the in the suffering in the challenges and even the persecution that may come may you be glorified saint peter said when it comes to you like that when you have to suffer for the name of jesus peter said don't be shocked and say wait a minute why is this happening to me i signed up for comfort and safety and total protection that's not what it means to be a follower of jesus i mean that was my translation of what he says in first peter chapter four he said don't be surprised by the fiery ordeal that comes upon you but if you are persecuted because of your faithfulness and witness to jesus rejoice because the glory of god has come upon you that's an a that's an apostolic mind that's not a guy who's hiding at home scared and being afraid of everything that moves oh now what now what there's a man who's alive he understands the battle he understands that this is what that the earth is a battlefield and it's a battlefield between kingdoms and he knows the one who's won the victory over it amen and he's and he knows the enemy can't do anything to him and oh god if something like that happens to us because god's permitting it and he's going to give us the power we need so we don't have to be afraid we don't have to fear that day we don't have to fear being canceled amen i kind of had a feeling like i shouldn't give this talk tonight so i think what i'm gonna do ralph is that okay i'm gonna i think we're supposed to keep moving in and out of worship and then a few words from me i'll kind of blend it in and just be open to the lord you open with that you open to that okay you can be seated if you want just for a minute i'm gonna tell a little story and then we're gonna go back to some more worship and responding to the lord i want to thank outside the box who's producing this for us tonight we're keeping them on their toes and they're earning their money thanks be to god yeah one of the things is we were worshiping i hadn't thought about all you know today at all but i feel like the lord said that he wants us to understand we have he has everything the church needs for this hour but leaders and i know i'll say this about myself too many leaders are crippled by fear and we're locked up and we're used to controlling and in the catholic church one of our great strengths is our our intellectual history and our culture and one of the things that also constrains us because sometimes our greatest strengths are our greatest weaknesses and they limit our capacity to live in freedom and leaders don't know they believe everything jesus teaches some of the you know many of the leaders but they don't know how to release or to minister or to help people connect with that power of god in the people who are right in front of them because no one ever taught them number one i want to tell you a story i'm not going to name names and my friend i have a really really good friend who's going to become a deacon in may he's brilliant he's a neurosurgeon he's a friend of mine and uh very close and he and his wife are amazing people and he has been warmed to the outpouring of the holy spirit he loves jesus he's a real disciple and he went on an eight-day retreat in a state i won't mention in a diocese i won't mention of all the deacons who are going to be ordained in may it's kind of a normal a very traditional sort of conservative diocese and he's on this eight day retreat and the priests who are leading it are god are wonderful priests who themselves just in the last few years have come into a greater freedom in the holy spirit and as they're leading these men through it they took them through you know unbound as one of the things that they did they prayed for more of the holy spirit they prayed for the baptism the spirit which they never have done in that context right and so this friend of mine was powerfully touched and he never in his own by his own words would say he's never quite experienced he's always believed it happened to other people but he didn't believe it could happen for him at a certain level because he's just he's like maybe i'm just not geared that way you know but to his great surprise the god of heaven even could touch him in a way that he could have an experience of the grace of the spirit in a fresh and a new way in his life so he's just enjoying that and then later they're praying with other guys and that's something that he's done to some degree but never quite like this and he said here i am i'm praying over this guy and i'm feeling like the fire of the holy spirit and believe it or not he said i just started shouting freedom freedom and he goes is that me saying this i mean this guy's a top level doctor and a big time intellectual and he's being freed up and he's so happy and he's shouting in front of all the deacons and usually in those clerical situations guys are kind of nervous to be different it just happens that way a lot isn't that beautiful someone want to ask you do you want to be free those are at home you want to be free we're going to ask more just boldly for more of the freedom of the holy spirit to come and dan if you guys want to lead us in a song you can stand again friends you might you can sit you can kneel you can lie prostrate you can do whatever you want to do here but i just want to pray to begin this next few minutes of just being with the lord lord we we begin with praying for ourselves lord that i confess sometimes i don't step into what you're prompting and what you want me to do because i'm a little bit afraid and i feel more secure when i can control what's going on when i think i'm controlling what's going on and lord many many leaders are like this it's just human nature because we're scared or afraid of failing or whatever and so lord we i confess tonight and i ask you to forgive me lord for the ways that my own pride or vanity or whatever would hold me back from just responding to whatever you want lord we want to just give you the keys to the car we want to give you to put you in the driver's seat and we ask you lord to pour out your spirit and to break the power of the bondage of the need to control you and to control your spirit at work lord give us a new freedom we pray for all our bishops and we pray that you give them an amazing freedom and renew their strength and renew their freedom and give them tremendous confidence in you lord we ask that you would open up more of the storehouse of your gifts and give dreams and visions and signs and wonders to every to all those like you said in acts 2 through peter that your flesh is your spirit's being poured out in all flesh that dreams and you know signs and wonders would come we pray for it come holy spirit lord bring the freedom of your spirit and say with me lord jesus i surrender any way that i'm inhibiting the flow of your spirit and i release lord any fear of men any fear of failure any pride that holds me back just humbly obeying you like a child come holy spirit receive the spirit friends just welcome the holy spirit come holy spirit lord for a new freedom we welcome it lord come holy spirit dan you want to lead us someone just [Music] received [Music] our god o praise his name forever for endless days we will sing your praise [Music] i cast my mind to calvary where jesus pled [Music] that cursive tree [Music] his body bound and drenched in tears [Music] heavy [Music] oh messiahs the name of the lord our god o praise his name forever [Music] [Music] [Music] at break of dawn the son of [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] oh god forever more foreign [Music] [Music] praises have them share it if you could come on up here so you're in the light so you can see this is my lovely wife debbie go ahead and share what you feel like the lord is giving us come holy spirit i will stand at my guard post and station myself upon the rampart and keep watch to see what he will say to me and what answer he will give to my complaint then the lord answered me and said write down the vision clearly upon the tablets so that one can read it easily for the vision still has its time presses on to fulfillment and will not disappoint if it delays wait for it for it will surely come and it will not be late [Music] and the lord says to us why am i not enough for you why am i not enough for you have i not given you all things in christ jesus my son why do you not trust me my son and my daughter for if the vision delays i have said it is so and i have said i am victorious and it will surely come and will not disappoint says the lord why do you put your trust in man why do you put your trust in your own strength and your own power place it all in me says the lord for my word is sure and true i cannot lie says the lord place your hope in me for i will not disappoint wait for me says the lord wait for me amen dr mary healy as the word also just when the lord wants to speak to his people you know the lord says don't despise prophecy but test everything and cling to what is good and we hadn't planned to do any of this tonight we're just trying to be open to the holy spirit so let's just hear the word of the lord peter prayed a prayer for us to be freed from fear and as we were worshiping i had a sense the lord wants to also free people from something else that has been coming upon people especially this year because we've heard so many negative things and so many things that can discourage us and get us down and we we've also heard so much anger expressed in social media and in the public forum there's a spirit of cynicism that has come upon many and i i almost felt like some are actually it's as if there's a ball and chain attached to you it's weighing you down you may not have even realized as you were picking up this cynicism and and with it comes a bitterness and and an anger maybe about all the things that are wrong in the world and in the church but the lord says i want my children to be walking through their day and their life with a lightness of heart with a purity of heart you will not be able to fight this battle effectively unless you have a pure heart free from cynicism free from anger and bitterness free from any spirit of complaining that's what the israelites did in the desert they complained and they grumbled a lot and you know we can all tend to do that i i was convicted by the lord a couple of months ago when i was complaining about the situation and the lord really led me to repent so i just want to invite people to pray a prayer of repentance and then then i'll lead a prayer breaking that spirit of cynicism that is upon some of us lord jesus i just invite you to pray with me lord jesus i repent for any way that i have absorbed the cynicism the bitterness or the anger that are in this spiritual atmosphere today lord i repent for any spirit of complaining and grumbling i ask you lord to set me free and make my heart pure and give me the joy and the lightness of heart that belongs to your children by the power of jesus's mighty name amen amen thank you lord so lord we just pray against that spirit in the name of jesus we break that chain of cynicism that is binding any of us here or any of us watching we break it by the power of his cross and resurrection and we proclaim hope in its place we proclaim the joy of the resurrection of jesus and his utter victory over sin and satan and death his victory in the church and his victory in the world and we break the power of anger of bitterness of of complaining and grumbling and lord we just ask you to to lift up our hearts and and just give us that holy joy lord that holy simplicity that is our inheritance as your children and i i want to um i just proclaim this scripture from the end of the prophet near the end of malachi that the lord gave me tonight where it's a situation where the wicked are prospering and uh evil people are being called blessed the arrogant are called blessed and then it says then those who feared the lord spoke with one another that's what we're all doing right now and the lord heeded and heard them he heeded and heard them and a book of remembrance was written before the lord of all of those who feared him and thought upon his name that's us that's us and the lord is saying i am writing your names in my book of life amen amen amen dan let's just respond to that with a song you give that to paco friend so the lord speaks if you felt like he was that word was for you just receive it into your heart he wants to settle that issue in you tonight he wants to give you grace to give it to him and to to walk more freely in his spirit as we sing this song just give it to him as we celebrate and declare his goodness his power is freedom [Music] he shall return in robes of white the blazing sun shall pierce the night and i will rise among the states my gay transfixed on jesus face he shall return he shall return in robes the blazing sun shall pierce the night and i will rise among the sea [Music] who praise the name of the lord our god o praise his name [Music] forever [Music] [Music] forever [Music] the name of the lord [Music] oh [Music] [Music] the lord our god oh lord oh lord [Music] amen let's be seated for a few minutes i'm going to try to take the next 12 minutes or so to kind of condense what i was going to talk about tonight then we're going to go back to a little more praise and worship before we close the night okay um four basic areas of scripture or passages i was going to talk about tonight of course that our theme matthew 6 33. i'm saying these a lot so you can write them down because you can go back to them at some point matthew 6 33 and then a brief touch on philippians 2 and then john 15 the divine in the branches and then finally first peter and so in summary friends what i when i was seeking the lord about the talk tonight the thing i felt like the lord wanted me to communicate most was to say don't waste a moment don't miss the opportunity of what i want to do in you right now the lord shut down the world he permitted it to happen that is the lord opened doors for people to have more time to be with him because he wants all of us now to understand he's pruning us purifying us he wants us to be still and know that he's god he wants us to draw near he wants to help us see that the way forward is actually pretty simple but it's hard at the same time what do we mean matthew 6 33 seek first the kingdom of god in his way of holiness and everything will be added unto you so we ask ourselves lord what are we going to do look at all this stuff that's going on like all the stuff ralph talked about what should i do where should i go what should we do it's like we feel then we feel powerless and we get discouraged and then we just kind of uh jesus saying what i want you to know is it's all in my hands my timing will unfold on my timetable but what i really want right now is the attention of my people a faith gaze on the lord that is welcoming this time of purification and training for your own life and what he wants to do what he's doing is leading us to seek first seek is to yearn to search to crave to go after to have your heart set on that don't let the anxieties of the world don't let all the noise of every day don't let all the unnecessary conversation steal your focus now on seeking him let that be your hearts that's what he's saying to you because if you ask the lord what do you want me to do i want you to seek me right now i want you to have quiet and solitude every day i want you to be in my word every day i want you to believe i'm going to come and help you i'm going to heal you i'm going to free you i'm going to train you i'm going to give you what you need as we go forward but the only place you can get it is with me in me so all the basic stuff every day brothers and sisters a prayer time of quiet before the lord scripture just just letting him talk to you through the word of god frequent sacraments frequent confession adoration get there right he hasn't unfolded all the answers and mobile he's mobilizing us to listen to him he wants to take some stuff out of us and he wants to put some stuff into us and if we're not anticipating that we're not expecting it we're not going to him with great trust knowing he's in charge and that he doesn't want us to be afraid we're not going to get what he wants to give us and we're going to miss the moment and the opportunity that he's putting before us right so seek first first means before anything else and what is jesus doing he's putting first things in first place he's putting the first commandment in the first place in all our hearts do you see where the world is going it's ignoring god all the wise teachers in church say man is creating a world apart from god man is forgetting god man is ignoring god which is deeply offensive and what the lord jesus wants us to do is say okay i'm going to use my church i'm going to purify her and she's got the answer is going to come through her through my grace and glory but only if her loves are rightly ordered only if she's loving me first loving my father trusting us and having the first commandment in the first place so he's saying seek me say okay what does that look like let's go to john 15. jesus said what i'm the vine you're the branches and my father by the way this is something people often forget my father's the vine dresser and one of the things he says in there is my father is cutting off dead branches he's talking about pruning too but when he talks about that part it's not pruning he's cutting off dead branches and he throws him into the fire now we're going through a time of pruning of people of faith to deeper maturing so they can we can be what god wants us to be but he's also cutting off dead branches in the church for their sake and for the sake of the church a lot of people are leaving the church lots of people are going to go with the tide and go with the flow because they're not living for the lord they're not yet disciples they're baptized but they're not christian they're not given over to the lord they're not living as disciples and they're not listening to the lord so the father has to cut out cut them off so that what so they can experience their condition and they can see a church that's now being pruned and alive and radiant and not a compromised lukewarm gigantic umbrella everybody fits under the umbrella of the church but no a church that's radically centered on jesus and living with him and listening to him following scripture following catechism feeding on the sacraments and following the saints people what do we do well read the scripture and obey it what do we do what do we do read the catechism and obey it what do we do be fed by the sacraments where do we go how do we do it follow the saints right and there's a the devil wants to distract us and just fill us with unbelievable number of conversations that are completely meaningless meaningless anxiety anxiety producing so we don't get the solitude and this and the time to feed from him and we don't do that because we don't believe we need a faith that knows the master's calling me now my lord is the captain of the armies of heaven and he's gathering his army and he's he's he's preparing us he's training us he's feeding us that that's that that's the central thing of every day for us living with him in that way so jesus i'm the vine you're the branches you can't do anything what jesus wants to produce through us that is fruit that will last fruit that the father will reward and honor it's impossible for us to do it on our own energy on our own strength it's a gift that's going to come from him as we abide in him right and so he calls us to abide in him that's the thing he wants us to do right now in a deep way make sure that's happening in your life in abiding in him i was looking up you know greek word you know what is the greek meaning of it all you know one of the ways that the greek term talks about stay in stay in what in him in love what does abiding look like on a daily basis practically talk to him talk to him from your heart in little simple words and simple phrases and be attentive just talk to him every day that's living like he's actually in you and guess what he's actually in you and he wants to have a conversation with you and he wants you to he wants to help you but if we can't hear him and we're not living with him in the quiet of our heart and simplicity we're not being fed by him so that's the first weed to abide in him second way to abide in him is to believe his promises his promises have power in my family when i was growing up i grew up in an alcoholic home and you know we went to church my mom prayed to rosary every day she read the bible but when the spirit of god started entering into our family in a new way someone got baptized in the spirit the word started traveling through the family we started coming alive in a new way and my mom who was a saint anyway she was touched by it but something happened in her and she was a little bit like she kind of heard the lord she didn't use the language she didn't know how to do it but she was like you know this quiet mom who kind of said i've had enough and the lord is with us and we're going to talk like it and we're going to act like it so all of a sudden these little 3m stickers you know those little pink those little yellow they started appearing at different places like on a mirror in the bathroom all the promises of god my mom was posting around the house and she started talking that way and not like overbearing or anything like that but she said enough of the negative talk enough we've got generations of alcoholism we've got generations of discouragement we've got all that stuff enough's enough already and she it like helped change the climate in our house she believed the promises so we have a conversation to be had we have promises to believe and share with others talk about the promises of god now list them out let them come out of your mouth instead of oh how we can't stand this guy or that guy or the troubles in the land again to speak it out and lastly just follow his leadership his obedience like he's saying here this is a command this is this is uh unusual for me to write something down like this but where is it okay seek is in the this is for my friend laurie manhart who's a a bible person and mary healey who's a bible scholar but the word is in the present tense the active voice in the imperative mood that means it's a command seek right so we have commands to obey we have promises to believe and we have a conversation every day we need to have right that's what it means to abide in the lord and those are ways there's other ways too but i think those are practical helpful things and jesus then says if you abide in me he's got promises attached to that are you aware what's the promise if you abide in me you will bear much fruit in a time like this friends when the flesh is of no avail when the only way to conquer the world and the powers of the world is what what has conquered the power of the world scripture tells us our faith is what conquers it our belief our confidence in god's word it's in there right greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world okay now let's shift to first peter just for a moment oh the last one is jesus said you'll bear you'll bear much fruit and later in 15 just a few verses later he says and you will be filled with joy full joy here's another way to understand that uh full joy where did i write it down here oh i love this calm delight how many of you could stand a little calm delight in your life right now come on problem is you can't fake it right it's a gift and the lord who never lies says if you abide in me i'm gonna i love you so much and i want you to be fruitful because it's gonna glory my fine my father it's gonna make you feel great and i'm gonna be so happy i'm gonna i'm gonna bear fruit for you that will last for all eternity and i'm gonna give you calm delight in your soul how about that we gotta go to the lord to get it it's a promise okay now ephesians earth uh first peter 1. now i just want to read the beginning of first peter here we are celebrating the resurrection verse 3. here's peter speaking to who small little communities in the gigantic roman empire pagan empire they got no power they got no influence they got probably probably don't have any money they they are being persecuted they're experiencing all kinds of trials they're facing difficulties on a regular basis that's the condition of the circumstance of their life and so here's peter writing a letter to them here's what he says he's rejoicing because he's amazed at what he's seeing god do jesus do in his people in that circumstance blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ by his great mercy we've been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of jesus christ from the dead and to an inheritance which is imperishable undefiled unfading that's kept in heaven for you who by god's power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time peter's seeing in them faith hope and then he'll talk about love that the lord's producing in him and they're by faith they're seeing the resurrected humanity they believe and that faith is a faith that believes the truth about the fact of who he is and what he's done but it's also a faith that entrusts themselves totally to him and it's hope that says what i see is what i'm going to become that's my destiny what i what's being revealed to me by god's grace and faith a way of seeing and way of knowing that jesus is lord he's alive he's passed from death to life he'll never die again and he's united to me that's my future and future's coming real soon because we're all going to be dead soon right i got to say this almost every talk every year say with me i am going to be dead soon all right look to somebody next to you social distance and say you're going to be dead soon and what sustains us a faith that gives birth to hope and whether that faith is a deep abiding surrender trust to the truth of what's revealed and hope is a big confidence that comes from god that what i see is where i'm going what i see has already begun in me and its fullness awaits me and so i want to live to please him every minute of what i got because he's got my life now so peter then goes on to say he said now you're you're facing trials so that the genuineness of your faith more precious more precious than gold which still perishable is being tested by fire so are you going through some trials are we going through some trials we're going to go through even harder trials in the days ahead but what's it about do you actually have this perspective in your life you're going through these trials so that the genuineness of your faith is going to be tested our faith is being tested right now can i really confess his promises do i really trust his commands am i really surrendered to him this is a test for us he wants to purify our faith to glorify him do you get it does it make sense in the midst of trials and then there's a lot to this i can't go in but i'm just going to end here because peter acknowledges their faith again and again then he said he kind of marvels he says you know without even having seen him you love him now peter i can imagine peter saying i saw him i saw him in the flesh he was i saw him after he rose from the dead you have never even seen him but you love him and what he's noticing in them you are filled with unutterable and exalted joy even though you're in trial even though you're being persecuted do you see what the lord can produce in a people no matter what the circumstances are right now so many baptized people we either are worldly and we look like the world or we're so scared and frightened we live as if god is far away like it's a deism that we're living under remember that christian smith talking about a lot of christianity america is like how does it go moralistic moralistic therapeutic deism like christianity's moralism you know just do the law it's an imposition from the outside right therapeutic i got i'm just constantly preoccupied with i don't feel right and things aren't good and am i going to be okay and somebody help me somebody please come help me right and deism god's out there he started the clock but he's far away he's not personal he's not with me that's a lot of what the church is like or it's worldly and people are leaving the church because they don't know what they don't know and i'd say it's imperfect but all over the world we have seen brothers and sisters catholics thousands of them thousands of them who've been baptized in the holy spirit in countries all over the world but many who are suffering and living in poverty and difficulty and imperfect broken people like you and me but there's something different that's going on inside catholics who have been baptized in the holy spirit and that have come alive and they're sharing and they're moving more deeply in the spirit it's the grace as father francis martin said this is the grace of this generation this is what renewal is renewal is coming alive in the spirit of pentecost and that being stirred in us in the fire of god coming alive he's father cardinal kantola mesa god blessing you guys we have to thank the lord he was standing he was speaking to the courier of rome during his lenten sermons and he told him get back essentially like you need we all need to be baptized in the holy spirit so we can understand who jesus says have a personal living vital relationship with the one who is the lord of all amen amen okay wow are we done we're done oh shoot okay anyway we're on the clock and we bless you brothers and sisters we're gonna hopefully have at least a song or two before we're done okay great okay thank you peter we're gonna end tonight with uh the blessing song you probably we're not gonna end quite yet i have some announcements but we're gonna end tonight with the blessing song one of the blessings of the covet has been countries all over the world who the choirs weren't able to get together in one location they figured out how to simultaneously sing songs that was a blessing and it started the united kingdom and lots of countries have done it and dan's going to lead us in the blessing song but first we have to we want to make some announcements peter just put in a passionate plea for everybody to be baptized in the holy spirit now uh that's true everybody should be baptized in the holy spirit you don't have to join a movement you don't have to join the charismatic renewal movement you got to join the movement of the holy spirit i mean the catholic church is charismatic and it needs to be welcoming all the gifts of the holy spirit the purifying action of the holy spirit the contemplative gifts of the holy spirit the mission gifts of the holy spirit you know just all the multitude of gifts of the holy spirit not focusing on one or the other but we want it all we want all the holy spirit so i want to invite you to our pentecost mission starting on pentecost sunday of all times and for the next four weeks mary healy who ministered to us tonight is going to do one of the sessions pete burrick who's over here leading our id he's going to do one of the sessions i'm going to do one peter's going to do one but we're not going to just do teaching teaching is really important people need to know the truth about the holy spirit but we also we're going to call on the holy spirit every single week at the end of the teaching to to really come down and all those who are with us uh i want to say too that uh it's inspiring to me as usual to look at the chat a little bit over there and uh orlando decosta from rome not rome new york but rome italy is staying up late tonight to be with us and uh lou's engineer from mumbai india is uh getting up early in the morning to be with us and it's just so inspiring to see brothers and sisters all over the world so we want to move forward together uh renewal ministries isn't just an organization but we're trying to be a voice we're trying to be brothers who are encouraging sisters who are encouraging we want to help people who are isolated we want to people help people who are oppressed who want to help people who are alone we want to help people who are not getting the encouragement that the lord wants to give them and and so we'd like to remind you again uh subscribe to our youtube channel right below where you're watching click on subscribe and uh we'll send you a notice uh whenever peter i or anybody else from renewal ministries does a new video and uh a lot of the things that we're trying to talk about tonight we developed that at more length uh in our youtube videos so a lot of people are getting a lot of regular encouragement for that so get connected with us subscribe to the youtube video join our email list so you can be notified of things like this when we do things like this or like the pentecost mission go to our website renewalministries.com and everything we mentioned tonight uh is there uh peter's free booklet fear god given the glory we're doing two free booklets tonight not only peter's booklet but my booklet on the final confrontation because that's what's going on right now and then we also want to just tell you we appreciate everything you're doing to support us in prayer pray for us we need your prayers and we also want to thank everybody who's supporting us whether you started in 1980 uh somebody in the chat mentioned they were there for since 1981 or whether tonight's the first time that you've done anything to help us continue so thank you thank you thank you dan would you oh his father right here oh fantastic our pastor of christ the king parish is here and he is letting us use his church for this amazing thing father ed could you come up and give us the final blessing and then we'll sing a blessing testing one two you have to come up here to be in the light [Laughter] i'm used to being up here now they're not actually using my church um we're all this church together thanks be to god we're in this amazingly special season between eastern pentecost so now is the time to ask for more fire to prep your hearts from our fire to just plead with you with jesus for more fire because the word that i was getting as as we were singing earlier was just jesus is not nervous you have no reason to be trust and spend time with the king so let us pray lord jesus i thank for my brothers and sisters and the love you have for them we just bind every power of the evil one that would seek to rob them of their love their joy their peace during this special time we know lord that you want your sons and daughters to stand as images of hope and mercy and faith during this time so i ask you lord to continue to empower all of us that we would be a witness to what it means to have you in our lives and because you love them all so much lord i ask you to open their hearts for pentecost let that fire that raised you from the dead give life to them as well and because of your great love we commend them all to the care of the great mother of god the protection of saint michael the intercession of saint joseph may your peace and blessing rest on them now in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen you know there's not too many charismatic parishes around but we got one thank you for being with us tonight thank you for all the hard work the music ministry has [Applause] [Music] and done you make his face shine upon you be gracious to you the lord turn his face [Music] lord bless you and keep you make his face shine upon you be gracious here the lord turn is [Music] i [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] man [Applause] lord bless you and keep you make his face shine upon you be gracious to you the lord turn is give you peace [Music] again [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] then [Music] i love you lord [Music] his favor be upon you and a thousand generations and your family and your children and their children their children may his favor be upon you and a thousand generations and your family your children and their children and their children may his favor be upon you and a thousand generations and your family and your children and their children and their children these presents go before you let me find in the morning he is for you he is for you he is for you he is for you he is for you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] huh [Music] [Music] generations in your family and your children and their children and their children these presents go before you and behind you every [Music] [Music] he is for you he's for you [Music] he's [Music] amen [Music] um [Applause] [Music] who am i the highest king would me i was lost but he brought me in oh his love for me oh his love for me who the sun sets free o is raining i'm a child of god yes i am [Music] free at last he has ransomed me his grace [Music] sets free o [Music] of god yes i [Music] am [Music] yes i am i'm chosen not forsaken i am who you say i am [Music] i am chosen not forsaken am who you say i am you are for me not against me i am who the sun says [Applause] there's a place [Music] i have chosen not forsaken however you say i am you are for me not against me i am who you say i am i am chosen not forsaken i am who you say i am you are for me not against me i am yes i am [Applause] [Music] i am o is free in me i'm a child of god yes i am [Music] there's a place for me i'm a child of god yes i [Music] am [Applause] you

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