The Kingdom of Joy | Kevin Wallace | Redemption to the Nations

let's start in first samuel chapter 18 and i'm going to begin a series today called let there be joy because i believe it's time for some joy among the people of god and i want to preach this message for the next few weeks this series of messages for the next few weeks on joy and today i want to start this series with a message called the kingdom of joy the kingdom of joy i want you to look at first samuel chapter 18 verse number five and when you've got it say word and i want you to look at your neighbor before we get into this and tell your neighbor say neighbor come on and just talk to him i know some of us don't like talking to people but look at your neighbors say neighbor i won't touch you at all but you look 12 pounds lighter today than you did last time i saw you come on compliment them tell them something nice they looking better today than they have in a long time it's so good to get out of the house and get some vitamin d in the sun amen first key first samuel pardon me first samuel chapter 18 verse 5 reads like this so david went out wherever saul sent him and he behaved wisely and saul set him over the men of war and he was accepted listen in the sight of all the people and in the sight of saul's servants now it happened as they were coming home when david was returning from the slaughter of the philistine which we know is goliath that the women had come out of all the cities of israel singing and dancing to meet king saul with tambourines and with somebody to say joy they came out with tambourines and with joy and with musical instruments so the women sang as they danced and they said saul has killed his thousands but david has slain his tens of thousands they came when david came back home from defeating goliath they came into the cities of jerusalem from every place in israel and they sang and they beat tambourines and the people of god had joy i want you to flip over to romans chapter 14. verse number 17 and most of you know this text it simply says this for the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness peace and joy in the holy ghost can you say that scripture with me the kingdom of god is not in drinking and eating but in righteousness peace and joy in the holy ghost i'm going to say it one more time because i sense heaviness getting ready to leave this building today the kingdom of god is not what you eat and what you drink but it's righteousness peace and joy in the it's not just the kingdom of joy the kingdom is joy this is the kingdom of joy how many thank god for joy in this room today that comes from knowing jesus somebody give him one more good praise [Music] father help us today to preach the word help us to be able to hear it and i pray today we would be transformed by it all of the time and preparation is in vain if the spirit of god doesn't come and help me preach so today stand up in my heart god and may the anointing that you have poured out may it quicken us maybe we be seated together in heavenly places may dead souls come to life may weary pilgrims find strength in the presence of god today and i thank you that there's joy in this journey and for the next few weeks i pray that a manifestation of joy would break out all over the church let a spirit of heaviness be chased out of lives and let the joy of the lord come and be our strength in jesus name and everyone said amen amen you can be seated in the presence of the lord as i thought about the idea of joy the concept of joy and how i would introduce this message today i did not have to travel far back in my mind in fact i went back just this week to uh what was initially a pretty rough week for me i i woke up at the beginning of the week knowing that this is the week i had dreaded for about 18 years just to be quite honest with you you say you've dreaded this week for 18 years yes it is the week that my son my oldest son jeremiah would move to lee university and so we did that on wednesday and tuesday night like i do every night of his life for the past 18 years i walked into his bedroom his mother was sitting on his bed and i knelt down beside his bed like i do every night getting ready to pray and my face is red and my eyes are puffy i've done a decent job of cleaning up myself before i walked into his room and his mother looked at me and said are you crying and i just i just lost it again and i commenced to sitting on the side of his bed and it wasn't one of those hallmark cries that you can take care of with a little corner of a of a kleenex it was one of those nasty cries those ugly sobbing fall apart and jeremiah has never in 18 years of existence seen me in that place i'm uncontrollable i can't get a sentence out i'm sobbing i can't breathe my face is puffy and i commence to praying for him and devin is just looking at me like i'm losing my mind and i'm thinking this i'm having flashbacks of coaching him in baseball and coaching him in football and disney world and oh my the motion just overcoming tomorrow i'm taking him to drop him off never mind that it's only 26 minutes away it didn't matter that it was just up the road about 15 miles it felt like my world was coming to an end it was sad i was heavy amy i was like processing this i felt like i was getting old i felt like what's wrong with i'm four i'll be 41 in four weeks i'm thinking my life is what is happening i'm falling apart and then devin comes in on thursday night and she says jeremiah may come home tomorrow may come see us tomorrow and i thought oh this this is not going to be all that bad i'm actually going to be able to process this and deal with this and see him more than i think i'm going to see him we're actually going to be all right and and i'm out getting some things on friday afternoon and she said jeremiah will be here in 10 minutes and the girls are excited and i say it's how we're all excited and i i'm excited i'm gonna get home i'm gonna come see jeremiah and i pull up to my house and there are 16 cars there are 16 cars in my front yard and i walk into my home and there is a mass of ravenous beasts standing in my living room and i thought where's jeremiah and jeremiah's in the middle of it all and jeremiah brought jeremiah came home it was a great it was a great thing jeremiah came home and he brought the entire freshman class with him and they're all standing in my my living room and i'm having a moment of great joy i went from sadness to joy jeremiah's home and then it hits me someone has to feed these bees so i call my favorite pizza place i said how many pizzas do you have in the store pastor we we have plenty of people no no i need to know how many pizzas there's a series how many pizzas do you have in the store jeremiah brought the whole freshman class to my house and they said well we can we can get you some pizza i said that's not enough pizza how many chickens do you have in the store we need some wings we need some pizzas we got to feed these people and in 30 minutes they drop the food off and everybody has joy jeremiah's friends are there we got luke and we got jabe and we got we got zach and we got the whole i think i saw paul khan in my living room we got everybody at the house and joy has been restored and we're all having the time of our life and you know what everybody was eating food and i walked to all the places and they're all around the pool they're and they're eating their their pizza and they're eating their chicken wings and how many know it no matter how much you buy they're eating it all the dogs that i have were looking for leftovers and i just had this the only two people that got no joy this weekend were the dogs because there was nothing left over for the for the dogs to eat it was a moment of joy everybody needs joy everybody needs joy and what i want you to understand today is that there is this this indescribable sense of gladness and happiness and i know we don't like to talk about emotions in the church but can i just tell you that joy is indeed a part of your emotional well-being you don't have to think about having joy joy is a natural response to a reality established in a relationship with god say that again joy is a natural emotional response to a reality that you and i live in because we have a relationship with god through his son jesus christ joy is an emotion when you're in the woods if you ever go camping when you're in the woods with the with with your family or you're by yourself or whatever if a bear comes up on your camping site you don't think about being afraid you don't see a bear and hear it roar and think now i should be very afraid you just become what afraid because fear is an emotion right well joy is in many ways the same way we get to thinking about too much and try to think our way into joy but you can't think your way into joy because joy is a reality it's an emotion it's an experience it's a reality that we experience naturally as a byproduct of a relationship with god through jesus whenever the spirit of god is working in your life certain kind of things just happen certain kinds of things are experienced that's why the bible says in the book of galatians that the fruit of the spirit is love joy joy is not the product of you thinking yourself there joy is not the product of you working yourself there joy is not the product of you doing enough to get to a place joy is the product of knowing you belong to him and he belongs to you and i want you to understand that the kingdom that jesus came to give us is a kingdom of joy every person in this room with a pulse needs joy that's why the bible said in the book of nehemiah the 8th chapter the 10th verse the writer of nehemiah is speaking to a people who have come from 70 years of babylonian captivity they have been in babylon for 70 years and your bible says that when they come back home under the leadership of ezra and nehemiah they begin to rebuild life and rebuild their relationship with god and they've been in bondage so long that they don't know how to live in joy and in the eighth chapter and the tenth verse nehemiah reminds the people of god you've been in bondage but this is not bondage anymore you're back home now and it's not time to sorrow but have joy because the joy of the lord is your strength family i want to tell you that one of the greatest truths you will ever come into in your life is the truth that strength in life comes from joy in the holy ghost if you want to have true strength in life if you want to have vitality if you want to know how to fall down and get back up and keep moving forward then you've got to understand that strength comes from having the joy of the lord and one third of the kingdom of god is called joy in the 17th verse of the 14th chapter of romans paul says the kingdom of god is not in what you eat it's not in what you drink but the kingdom of god is in righteousness peace and joy in the holy ghost now i want you to think about that if you're a mathematician you understand that what paul just articulated in the 14th chapter of romans is that one-third of the kingdom of god is joy so all you joy haters all you people who don't like happy folk everybody who always kind of looks down and cynical at people who constantly have an upbeat uh outlook on life and you think they're just so giddy they're not giddy they have tapped in to a supernatural reality that is a product of a relationship with a risen jesus who conquered everything for me and you and it means that no matter what i go through at the end of the day hey i've read the back of this book and we're going to win [Applause] and because we know we're going to win we can have joy and i have found that most people they don't want you to here's the thing most people who don't like you having joy they don't want your joy they just don't want you to have it i don't know about you but if jesus came to pay for my joy i think i'm gonna have joy how many are gonna have joy i i want you to know that it would seem common sense and logical to feel like we just survived the season we're in and we get through all this and then we go back to life as usual and we get a restoration of joy i want you to know right now you won't need a restoration of joy if you never lose your joy and you don't have to lose it just because the world is in a mass panic and in all kind of fear i'm telling you right now in the middle of this mess there is nothing about the lordship of jesus that has changed he's not abandoned his throne he's not out on vacation he is still el shaddai he still has all power he's still the god of all might and he's still the god that runs the world that put the stars in their place he's still on the throne and he's in charge somebody say amen this is a kingdom of joy righteousness peace and joy righteousness it's a kingdom of righteousness the kingdom of god is righteousness and i'm not going to preach on righteousness and peace except to tell you the kingdom of god is righteousness because it involves a king who paid the price for our sin so that we could have righteousness right standing with god because of the shed blood of jesus sister yay and brother flip flop didn't get saved by their works they got saved because jesus died in their place we are not here because of of what we deserve we are not saved by our works we are born again by the spirit and because we trusted in his sacrifice jesus has imputed his righteousness to our spiritual account we were bankrupt people on our way to hell but today as i'm seen by god in heaven i'm not seen by my failure i'm seen by the work of his cross and because he conquered sin in the flesh i am called righteous by god and i give him praise for it anybody want to join me this morning and giving praise to god and when you have righteousness watch when you have the righteousness of god then you have the peace with god that's why the kingdom is righteousness and peace because righteousness produces peace there was no peace with god between god and man until jesus came jesus didn't make a down payment jesus paid the whole price he didn't say i'm coming back to finish the job and when he hung on the cross while he was dying he said it is finished and i'm thankful today because he finished it not only do i have the righteousness of christ in my life but i have peace with god his blood has covered our sins and as far as the east is from the that's why paul may i feel like preaching right here that's why paul would say who is he that condemns you it is christ who died yea rather that is risen no one can bring a charge against the elect of god let me walk around here and preach for a minute nobody can walk into your past and pull something out of your closet that makes god change his mind about you you ought to praise him every time you walk through the door and every time you get in your car you ought to praise him because it was the lord's sacrifice that caused god to accept you and now you have peace with god and you're free this is the kingdom of god righteousness peace and then there is this thing this emotional this reality of gladness that comes from a relationship with jesus christ it's this sense of satisfaction and fulfillment it's this thing that makes us smile i always say it like this i've said it for 30 years well not that long i'm only 40. but 20 years if you're happy notify your face that went over well so i'll say it again if you're happy notify your face we have too many saints who claim eternal life and they look like they're on their way to hell something is different about the child of god we're not oh listen i know we're not what we're going to be but we're not who we used to be and there ought to be some sense of joy and gladness about us because of the work jesus has done in our life this is a kingdom of joy a third of the kingdom of god is joy another third is peace tell me a day in your lifetime when peace and joy were under greater attack than right now it is precisely the reason why several weeks ago i went on a media cleanse no twitter no fox no cnn some of you are wishing you'd have done it with me why did i do it because i have found that thieves want to come and take joy and oftentimes we hand them the keys to our heart and let them in the joy of the lord is our strength if you take that truth and invert it the heaviness of the world is defeat it's weakness and and and if we're going to live in strength and if we're going to live an overcoming life and this is not just a spiritual pep rally today this is not just a halftime talk this is not just chicken soup for the christian soul we have people who have been in the kingdom of god and in the church for years i talked to a dear brother this past week one of his family members been serving god for decades and all of a sudden he feels defeated and so far away from god feels like god doesn't love him anymore and and i'm sitting there listening to this guy tell me this and and i know it's not true but the dear brother was convinced that he's done something he that that there's something so wrong in his life that god doesn't love him anymore where does this come from i tell you where it comes from it comes from the devil now you don't want to talk about the devil on sunday morning and it's pastor appreciation and i'm supposed to make you feel warm and you know cozy on the inside but there's a devil loose in america you don't want me to talk about it but there's a devil loose in america he came to steal kill and destroy this i told you several weeks ago that evil men are not evil because we're living in perilous times but the times have become perilous because men have chosen evil over god i want you to understand today that every time someone mocks the lord disobeys the lord hardens their heart against god it opens up this world for more and more evil and i know that sounds old-fashioned but it is the reason why god has called us to live pure and holy lives to slam the door shut on the enemy who came to destroy our lives everywhere you look there's another report assigned to steal your joy every time you turn around and just to be honest with you we're all reading the reports on coronavirus we want to hear that cases and deaths and hospitalizations are dropping but they know that so instead of telling us it's getting better they're saying things like don't get too excited don't be optimistic but we think we're flattening the curve why because no one wants us to have joy this isn't political i'm watching people who are becoming suicidal they've been serving the lord for years and they're living they're living a disconnected isolated life it's exactly what satan has designed to separate you and to pull you away and to bring a sense of hopelessness in and and and there are too many people who are born again and citizens of the kingdom of god and have forgotten that the citizenship that we have in heaven is more than just a name on a church road dear lord jesus this is about eternal life not just in the there and the by-and-by but in the nasty now i have joy right now i don't have to wait till my feet touch golden streets i'm living in the middle of the kingdom of god my sins are forgiven my enemies are under his feet my mind has been renewed my family is blessed my god we are the people of the lord and the citizens of the kingdom of god listen to me we have access to a promise called joy and when i think about the kingdom of joy it is seen i i i often like to find it in the old and the new testament because if you see it in the old and the new you recognize that it really is the intention of god from the beginning and this is one of those places one of those things that we see the heart of god from old to new testament it really is the heart of the father to bring you and i into a kingdom of joy it's interesting to me that the word joy the first time the word joy is used i read it to you this morning first time the word joy is used in your bible is in first samuel chapter 18. you might find that hard to believe now i will be the first to tell you that if you're a hebrew scholar you know that the same word used for joy in first king first samuel chapter 18 is also used three other times in the old testament before first samuel 18 but the word joy itself and the description of that feeling i'm talking about is first used in first samuel chapter 18. it's the first term in the whole bible that joy is used first samuel 18 verse number 6 and it says when david came home when david came home now understand david had and we'll talk about this in just a minute david had just won a great victory and the first time the emotion of joy and the celebration of joy is experienced and talked about in the entire bible it's found right here in first kings chapter 18 verse 6 after david wins a battle this is interesting because what we see in the life and the reign of a man named david is an old testament foreshadowing of a kingdom that would come and be established through his great great great great great grandson jesus christ the old testament foreshadow and type of what was coming in the new testament was established through the life of a man named david why well if you're going to have a kingdom of joy then you have to have the right king on the throne now when david comes on the scene sorry you will remember that saul is the king at this time saul was king but the problem is he wasn't god's king saul is the product of people choosing a king it's all found in first samuel chapter 16 when the bible says that the people of god came to samuel samuel had two sons and neither of them operated in the integrity or the honesty that samuel himself operated in and they began to take bribes and they began to act unjustly and they began to mistreat the people of god and when the people of god experienced leaders who didn't have a pure heart man there's a message in that but when when the people of god experienced leaders with an impure heart they came to samuel and they said we want a king like the rest of the nations of the earth the problem is this the problem is not that they wanted a king the problem is they wanted a king more than they wanted god and you must be careful in life that you don't crave a leader before you crave god because if you crave leadership more than you crave god you'll get a leader that don't love god and there's a lot of people living life right now because they have one they wanted to seek man and they got a man that didn't know god i got news for you if you seek god he'll give you a man or a woman somebody who can help lead your life with a pure heart say amen somebody they wanted a man they didn't want god and he told god told samuel they haven't rejected you they rejected me and because they rejected god god gave him a man who didn't know god his name was saul saul was sitting on the throne of israel the problem is that when you have a king that doesn't have the heart of god you may have a kingdom but it's not a kingdom of joy and if you trace the whole life and the whole reign of king saul you will see that the life and reign of king saul produced a nation that did not know joy and it is not until another king comes in place and and becomes anointed for the throne of israel that israel for the first time in its existence experiences the emotion of joy why did israel have joy in first kings chapter first samuel chapter 18. i'll tell you why because they got the right king on the throne god took the kingdom away from saul and he gave it to his anointed david there's a reason why some people listening to me right now don't have any joy you got the wrong king on the throne of your heart oh yeah you'll never have joy until you get the right king on the throne of your heart you'll never have true peace you'll never have true joy until you get the right king on the throne of your heart some people have no joy because they have selected the wrong king your king is a democrat your king is a republican and if you think this i'm going i'm going to hammer the kingdom of god for the next two months because as we race to november 3rd the most divided place in america is the church on sunday morning because somebody's going to stand up and call him the king and somebody's going to stand up and call him the king and your joy fluctuates every four years because you have forgotten that your king is not in washington and your king is not in orlando and your king is not in montreal my king was not selected king he was not an elected king he was not voted king he was born a king of the jew king of the gentile i just want to say his name so that every demon spirit is reminded that at the name of jesus every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess i wish somebody would praise the king oh i feel him in this room right now the king is the king of glory the king of the jew the king of the gentile he's the king of heaven he's the king of earth and if the church doesn't quit preaching this garbage about men being the king and yet are you going to vote yes i'm going to vote and you should too and you should read the bible and pray before you vote but at the end of the day those jokers will one day be put into a tomb and we won't remember them throughout history but there is one that they tried to bury they tried to kill him they tried to take his life and three days later he arose because he's the king of glory and the kingdom of life and the king of the kingdom of joy somebody give god praise in this room got to get the right king on the throne way too much fluctuation in joy in the kingdom of god it reveals you forgot who the king is at the end of the day there's only one there's only one who settled the score who overcame the enemy conquered there there is a reason why israel has joy in first samuel chapter 18 it's because they got the right king on the throne it's a picture of the kingdom of god when they put the king jesus right in the place he's supposed to be on the throne of their hearts when that happens when you get the right king on the throne you begin to experience the kingdom as a kingdom of joy there's another reason why it's a kingdom of joy and why the people of god had joy when david come home first time in the bible they have joy why are they having joy they're not only having joy because the king is on the throne the right king is on the throne but they have joy because he's carrying the head of goliath i want to tell you right now joy comes as a product of victory over enemies there is a context there's not only a king of joy there's a context of joy joy isn't realized in the deepest degree that it can be until you get into the middle of a conflict that it doesn't look like you're going to come out of some people don't have much joy because they've not been delivered and experienced gratifying victory but david has something in his hand as he walks off the battlefield it is the head of a giant now i know this is graphic and some people want me to present the pg version but listen here's the bottom line i'm thankful that that this that this story in the bible doesn't cut out this particular part and you're going to see why in just a few moments david has the head of the enemy and the people of israel have joy the kingdom has joy why because their enemy has been overcome how many in this room have ever experienced the thrill of victory how many have ever been in a situation where a doctor told you it was inoperable where the bank told you you couldn't afford it where a lawyer told you you didn't have a case come on where did you where the boss told you you didn't have a job and it looked like life was piling up on top of you you think for a moment that when that happens this is certainly not a cause for joy but that's not what your bible teaches joy has a context if you're going to experience great joy it will always come when surrounded by great trial y'all don't want this one do you james chapter 1 verse 2. i think i'll read the bible to you on a sunday like this my brothers and sisters counted all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience and let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete lacking nothing there is something about the trial of life that actually produces and invokes in you the response of joy that doesn't even make sense it sounds like an oxymoron it sounds antithetical it doesn't even fit together how can you be going through a trial in the context of a trial and at the same time count it all joy who wrote that scripture how do you count it all joy when you're in the middle of a fiery furnace you know what you do you know how you count it all joy when you're in the middle of a fiery furnace you make room for the fourth man if i'm gonna go through this fire if i'm gonna go through this trial then pardon me while i scoot over and let the fourth make god i feel like preaching let the four just just high five somebody in the air and tell your neighbor make room for the fourth man you've been waiting on joy to come when there is no trial but joy's getting ready to come because there's a trial and you're gay and you're getting ready to see joy in the context of adversity let's wait till we get a vaccine pastor why so they can tell us how it doesn't work i think i'll take joy right now i think in the middle of hell breaking i'm gonna walk around here for a minute i think i'm gonna have some joy right now i'm not waiting on a vaccine i'm not waiting on a cure i found the cure his name is jesus and i'm telling you right now if you find yourself in the middle of a fire make room because god is about to give you joy for your trial [Applause] he comes back with the head of his enemy because the battlefield is a good place to find joy wouldn't it have been amazing if goliath just looked at david and said you know what you're going to whoop me so let me just turn in my sword and let's call it a day it doesn't have it's not how it works you actually have to release the rock you you actually got to release the rock god actually god is actually waiting on you to understand that it's not just going to magically disappear i feel god standing up in me right now i feel like the church is afraid and paralyzed and we've lost our praise and we've lost our joy and i'm prophesying right now i'm not even preaching right now some people have lost their hunger and they've allowed this pandemic to rob them of their fire but i come to tell you the devil is a liar in the middle of this battlefield i'm finding joy it doesn't have to end before i get happy i've already read i read the back of the book and we're gonna win we're not going out in a cave we're not going out hunkering down we're not going hiding from the devil we're leaving this planet saying look what the lord has done somebody open up your mouth and give god praise i said open up your mouth and give god a praise [Applause] i i gotta quit but i i'm nervous i'm getting real nervous because now i'm hearing preachers talking about a new normal and for years we may not go back to church zoom in on my face right give me that camera and come on in here i want to make a statement to somebody watching me right now some preacher your church has told you you can't open the doors and they told you there's too much bad happening i want to tell you preacher god is about to give you a breakthrough from the spirit of fear you getting ready i better quit cause i feel something swelling up i feel something rising up greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world this is a kingdom of joy somebody give god praise if you've got joy give him praise wow you got to stand up there and sweat and all that hollering because we're asleep in the kingdom too many people are on vacation we've disconnected from the source somebody gotta jump back in the fight today somebody gotta pick up your sling today this is a kingdom of joy [Applause] and we're losing i'm telling you right now we're losing some joy and on this sunday morning before i walk back in that door somebody's getting ready to get their joy back somebody's getting ready to get their fight back somebody's getting ready to get their faith back somebody came like david today and they're saying giant to fear you came to me with a spear and a sword but i come to you in the name of the lord look i just got a flashback of when i was 11 years old and they see when i was growing up we went to church as a hobby all these kids today they they play xbox and playstation we didn't even have an atari so when i was growing up my recreation was camp meeting y'all can't handle this church i'm talking about the kind where you go and they got sawdust on the ground hot enough for everybody to pass out big mosquitos big enough to carry you off and i remember oh god i feel like preaching right here i remember on one hot summer night sister dot showed up in a silhouette oldsmobile van and five prayer mamas pulled up to my house i was 11 years old and they said kevin we wanted to come by and take you to camp meeting i said mama can i go to camp meeting with mama dot she said yes you can i got in the van and they took me to camp meeting the camp meeting tent was packed all the preachers were there all of the saints were there and they said there's a 10 year old boy in this building somewhere where are you at brother kevin and i walked up to the pulpit and they said we heard you sing a song i said i only know one song to sing and they put that microphone in my head and i was 10 years old and i opened up my mouth and said i've got a feeling everything is gonna be all right i'll feel the lord on me right here slap your neighbor and say neighbor i've got a feeling everything's going to be all right somebody giving praise in this world right now [Applause] the second i'm closing the second verse that said a little boy named david went out to fight the giant everybody laughed at such a funny little sight a little shepherd boy armed only with a sling but sad mighty goliath seemed such a puny little thing but david said you come to me with a spear and a sword but i come to you in the name of the lord he put in a stone and he gave it a fling and when he left his hand david he began to sing i've got a feeling [Music] everything is going to be i i still got that same feeling i got joy on this sunday morning i've got a feeling come on somebody stand up and give him praise if you know it's gonna be all right i said somebody give him praise if you know it's gonna be all right and the third verse can i tell the third verse and now for the greatest story of them all jesus was dying and hell had a bone all the demons were rejoicing they thought they'd won the war but soon they would not be laughing anymore for on the first easter morning when the sun woke up the earth the caverns of the deep opened up to give birth to a resurrected savior with healing in his wings and now all god's children rise and sing i've got a feeling [Applause] whoa somebody said i don't understand why he's like that i don't understand why you're like that i don't understand why the church has got luck joe i don't understand why the church is hiding i don't understand why the church is afraid the kingdom of god god is not fear and defeat the kingdom of god is righteousness peace joy in the holy ghost [Music] so today i want every person that needs fresh joy [Music] to lift up both hands to heaven right now and to begin to thank god that the kingdom that jesus gave us is not a kingdom of defeat and fear it's the kingdom of righteousness peace and joy listen y'all are you saying pastor with all this that the virus ain't real i'm not saying the virus we know the virus is real but the fear attached to this virus is blown way out of proportion are you suggesting that we shouldn't take proper man oh no we're being safe that's why you're eight miles away from your neighbor we believe in taking pro faith without works is dead mix some works with your faith there's nothing wrong with taking precautions but dismiss this report that i'm hearing about a new normal in the church and we're not going to be having church for months and years the devil you better hear what i'm telling you that devil is a liar you know what the lord showed me this ain't this ain't preaching this is the end of it you know the lord show me when this thing began and it's gonna sound morbid and some of y'all gonna freak out and disconnect but you better hear me through the end of this thing god began to show me in this pandemic that the fear of death was surfacing in the church there are people who are living the american dream and all of a sudden this thing came and everybody starts getting afraid to die i'm getting ready to lose some people right here i am certainly not asking you to stand up and invite death into your life i'm praying for all of you in here and all you watching online and i'm praying for my family and myself that we all live to be 120. how many can receive that amen i'm praying you might have to prop me up over there but i'm praying for 120 years but i'm gonna tell you why the new testament church was the devil's worst nightmare because they were not afraid of death listen to me we should not invite death we should be wise and we should use wisdom and we shouldn't take precautions and we should take but when you start telling churches they can't have church and people people are afraid of death and you don't have to be afraid of death because hebrews chapter 2 verse 14 and 15 says jesus came to deliver them who all their life were subject to the fear of dying there's somebody listening to me right now you're afraid of dying because you know in your heart you're not right with god here's the deal jesus came to take that fear out of your life do you know why the new testament church was the devil worst nightmare because you can't kill a dead man they were already dead to themselves they were alive in christ and when you're alive in him even death do you know why david brought the head of goliath why that was such a big deal because scholars i can't verify this but i'm just telling you what some biblical scholars believe they believe and we know this for a fact he took the head of goliath back to jerusalem we know that some people believe that he took the head of the skull of goliath and planted it on a hill near jerusalem buried the skull and some scholars would tell you that it was at that place on golgotha gol gotha g-o-t-h sounds a whole lot and there's a reason why it sounds a whole lot like gath where the giant goliath came from jesus died on a hill called golgotha some believe he died just above the place where david planted the head of his defeated giant why why why would jesus what does it matter if that happened because what jesus was saying to you and i is that just like his great-great-great-great-grandfather david defeated the goliath in his life jesus became the king that defeated the goliath in my life and in your life he he took him out he took the enemy out here's the deal we're living in a pressure-packed world that's doing everything it can to steal joy i just want to remind you for the next few weeks and starting this morning that you're a citizen of the kingdom of god and that the kingdom you belong to is the kingdom of joy listen to hands and ask him to give us his joy again and refresh us in your joy today come on take just 30 seconds we're getting ready to go but can you just ask him and have some faith in your heart while your hands are lifted and your mouth is open as you talk to god can you just ask him to refresh your joy focus focus on him looking unto jesus the author and the finisher of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despised the shame and has sat down on the right hand of god you can go through a trial you can go through a challenge you can find yourself on the battlefield of life it's in that place where fear is racking your mind some of you are wrestling with fear today i believe god wants to replace your fear with joy let's lift our hands one more time jesus give us fear over fear give us victory over fear give us victory today and give your people divine joy i want you i want you right now there's some people that you came with i know that we're not comfortable necessarily going and praying for people that that we don't know uh in this season but but there are some people that you came with can you just reach your hand over gently and lay your hand on their shoulder if you came with somebody can we do that before we leave i want us to pray the joy of the lord would just be increased in us today come on i want you to pray for them your families your friends come on they're fighting fears they're they're dealing with confusion some of them are wrestling with their faith and they're going through troubles come on god is god is just moving in here right now he's he's coming in this room right now i believe that i believe he showed me he would before we left today he would give somebody victory he would give somebody victory he would give somebody victory hallelujah we give you praise god we give you come on just pray for another minute pray for another minute pray for them pray for them lord they need strength some of them are dealing with fear and their minds are wrapped with concern and confusion and they're worried about it but today god today god we thank you for it right now lord we bless you right now for giving them strength [Music] we bless you right now for giving them strength break off of them every fear of the enemy break off of them every lie of the enemy give their mind deliverance today oh god every day i look to you to be the strength of my life jesus you're the hope i hold on to to be the strength if you needed strength receive it just lift your hands and say be the strength of my life be the strength of my life be the strength of my life [Music] come on you sing today oh be the strength of my life be the strength of my life just one more time before we leave everybody sing every day come on every day i look to you to be the strength of my life [Music] somebody tell god you're the hope come on you're the hope i hold on to lord be the strength of my life come on lift your hands and receive his strength today oh be the strength of my life [Music] today come on tell god be the strength the strength of my life [Music] i'm gonna release you i'm going to do two things there are people watching online right now and people in this house who need jesus to save them and salvation is made so difficult sometimes by religion but paul reminds us this there's nothing like the simplicity of the gospel of knowing jesus and it really is just asking him to come and be the lord of your life there's some in this room and some online and here's what i'm going to do i'm going to pray for those who want to give their heart to jesus today and i recognize that that we're in a little bit of a different situation right now but salvation is available to everyone right now and tomorrow's promise to no man if you're in need of a savior and you know you need christ to come into your heart every head is about every eyes closed if you're in this room i'm just going to simply count to three as a as an invitation to you to say i want to give my heart to jesus and when i say three if if you just know you need him i don't care if you've ever been to church or you've never been to church if you've known him or you've never known him i just want to know right now are you right with god and do you want him to be the lord of your life and if you do when you hear me say three just shoot your hand up if you're in this room i want to pray with you if you want to serve god and give him your heart one two three just lift your hand if that's you anyone god bless you sir god bless you ma'am god bless you anyone on this side of the room just lift your hand and pull it down god bless your friend i saw that everyone yes sir i see you back there god bless your friend every everyone everyone pray this prayer with me and if you're watching online i want you to pray this prayer and then when we get through praying it i want you just to put in that in that caption box something like saved or i gave my heart to god just let us know because one of our pastors wants to reach out to you and we want to make sure you have a bible and we want to make sure you know you have a church family that will love you and pray for you everyone in this room i saw at least seven or eight hands i know there are people online everyone just pray this prayer with me right now even if you're saved i know most all of us are but this is a great day for people who want to come into this kingdom of joy say dear god i need a savior and i confess that i'm a sinner and i'm asking you lord to come into my heart by faith i believe jesus that you are the son of god and that you died for me and that you rose again and gave me victory because you live now say this say live in me lord jesus and be the lord of my life for the rest of my life in jesus precious name i'm yours today thank you for forgiving me of all my sins in jesus name amen now i want us to give him praise all over this room right now come on for those of you listen very carefully for those of you we're getting ready to dismiss and we do that orderly here we do it as orderly as we can but if you want to come to the altar some of our pastors are going to stay in the church for you and we're going to minister to those of you who just gave your heart to jesus or those who need prayer for anything and when your robe goes out instead of going out if you'll just take a right and come to the altar we have places marked if you want to stand there someone's going to come and greet you we want to let you know we don't have to lay hands on you but we're willing to pray if you need prayer and are willing to receive prayer we're willing to give it and we'll do that very cautiously but we'll do it in faith because we believe people come to the house of god with needs and this is a place where god can meet needs if you believe that's amen so i'm going to release the front row first and as you turn left those who need prayer can come to the altar and just turn right listen remember no wednesday night service this wednesday but next sunday we'll be back here how many are thankful to be back together again i love you go in the peace of god devin and i and our family love each of you have a blessed week if you need prayer you can feel free to come as you are released [Music] [Music] you

Channel: Redemption to the Nations Church

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Keywords: kingdom, joy, kevin wallace, chattanooga, tn, redemption, nations, redemption to the nations, redemption to the nations church, deven wallace, pentecostal, spirit-filled

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Length: 63min 24sec (3804 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 17 2020