The Lamp - Pastor Nathaniel Urshan

[Music] oh praise the lord everybody welcome to fbc after on a wednesday night doesn't it feel good just praise the lord but why don't you do that right now hallelujah have to leave the heap he is pleased when his people praise him oh hallelujah come on let's lift him up let's lift up our hands let's lift up our voices let's clap our hands whatever you feel right now just do it unto jesus oh we love you god hallelujah we praise you we've come to worship you hallelujah how many are happy to be in the house of the lord tonight oh i've come to give him the highest praise hallelujah for he is worthy to be praised for he is [Music] for he is worthy he is worthy to be lifted up for he is be hallelujah 15. [Music] [Music] here in the higher foreign is is somebody whipped up your voice hallelujah [Music] tower [Music] oh oh i feel the holy ghost in this place i believe that god jesus has the name that's about everything for there is no other name on the heaven given among men whereby we must we must be saved that's the name that we're lifting up here tonight does anybody know what the name is somebody shouted from the top of your lungs what's that name what's that name jesus will lift you up in this place somebody give him a hate clapper praise me [Music] oh hallelujah he's been too good to me he's been too good to me that's why i can't stop giving him praise that's why when i come into this place i don't have to wait until somebody pumps me up when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me oh somebody lift up your voice like a trumpet if the lord has been good to you is is hallelujah this we every time is [Music] is is victory is [Music] christ is lord forever take time yes [Applause] we're not going anywhere is somebody do that right if now need something from the lord this is the right moment right now i know that we use we follow protocol and we usually go into the third song and then we get you to pray but i feel like right now is the right moment if you need a blessing from god if you need a blessing from the lord if you need healing if you need deliverance if you need the holy ghost whatever you need it's in the house right now come on yes somebody at home right now we're gonna sing this one more time and if you need something from the lord lift up your hands lift up your voice like a trumpet come on we're stepping in the enemy's camp and we're taking back everybody belongs to me and what belongs to my family somebody do it in jesus name for power in the name of jesus christ jesus heal make your way no we know that you are the great physician we know these two god in jesus name jesus said yes in advance foreign is [Music] so yes yes close your eyes and throw your hands up and just shout into the lord come on shout yes the bible says that he inhabits in the praises of his people hallelujah in the midst of chaos in the midst of confusion in the midst of his certainty in the midst of all that is going on in the world right now the the the strongest weapon that you can use against the enemy are not bombs i'm not grenades it's not an ar-15 it's not an m16 it's not a bazooka it's not a missile it's not a tank or not check the water but it's your praise whatever comes out of your mouth comes to life in the midst of your problem in the midst of your insanity somebody lose your voice that's the strongest weapon or mass destruction that you can use i can't see anything somebody lift up your voice if you're sick right now just lift up your voice and just knock on heaven's door again to the lord here i am again here yes just for a few more moments just lift up your voice and just lift up your hands oh i feel the switch spirit of the lord in this place hallelujah oh hallelujah hallelujah we praise you lord we worship you lord oh lord we're not being needed we just saw that you're a miracle worker we're not being needy lord we just saw that you are the great physician lord we're not being needy right now lord we just know that you're still on the throne oh that's it right there oh let's lift him up i feel your spirit in this place jesus he's walking right hello he's walking by right now just reach out just reach out and talk to him [Music] i'm [Music] just reach out just reach out and reach him and just glory glory to the king [Music] we [Music] jesus we live today [Music] oh yes we've come to bless you long we've come to pass [Music] does anybody here wanna praise the lord [Music] we've come to bless you lord [Music] we've come to bless you lord [Applause] holy [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] you know oh can we do that right now and just give him a hand clap for praise in this place [Music] let's continue to clap our hands unto him tonight jesus is worthy ah he's worthy of praise worthy of glory hallelujah i want to lift my voice to him you know he's worthy tonight you know that he's [Music] he's able tonight hallelujah i came to give him a little praise [Music] i came to lift him up just a little bit higher [Music] well well thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus oh somebody speak that name of jesus in the middle of your trial speak the name of jesus in the good times speak the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah amen amen amen let's give the lord a handclap of praise [Music] tonight amen amen god bless you you can be seated it is good to be in the house of the lord i'm glad i came to church tonight amen it's good to be with god's people we had a wonderful time last night wonderful time in the holy ghost we had a new brother received the holy ghost last night and you just don't know what god's going to do you just don't know what god's going to bring to pass god's working i like the song it says even when i don't feel it he's working even when i don't know it he's working he never stops he never stops i'm glad he never stops [Music] amen amen so it's good to feel the presence of the lord it's good to have everybody with us tonight those of you that are watching online those that are here welcome to the house of god welcome to the praises of god's people if you're visiting with us online uh we're glad that you're doing so we've had a lot of comments left on the internet and we're so glad you could come and join in worship with us online and also we have a visitor tonight um carol gatlin carol gatlin is carol right here god bless you it's great to have you with us here in durham tonight amen we welcome you and others of you if i don't know who you are we're glad you came to worship god glad you came to give god praise with us tonight to hear the good word of the lord amen i'm excited about every good thing that god's bringing to pass there are things coming down the pike that i just can't wait for them to take off one of the things that we're dealing with is our seed money initiative tonight we're going to be serving food for that again we had a good turnout last night thank you for your support and those of you that are able to help us tonight grab some food take it home it's going to be spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic toast made by sister betty webb and sister sandra britt has cinnamon pecans five dollars a bag so all of that goes to the missions projects we have in the missions house that we're purchasing an investment that is going to pay great dividends in the kingdom of god amen so keep that in mind i'm excited about it also want to announce there's a baby shower that is going to be uh tonight in the back and on to this coming sunday for for the michael and sister erica woods so make sure you let them know that you love them you appreciate them and this is for little emerson ray so we're excited about that new little lives in the kingdom of god and because of covet we had to cancel our baby dedication but we're just going to rebuke that in jesus name and we're going to reschedule it for sunday morning august the 9th that is our rescheduled baby dedication please see sister gail by tuesday august the 4th if you want to add a name to that list so we're going to dedicate little lives to god in the name of jesus christ church growth addition to the sunday school new little jesus name one god saints amen and also this coming saturday we have our bible quiz tournament here in the sanctuary it's going to be streamed uh live online so that's going to be from 4 to 6 p.m you don't want to miss it and finally brother doug walker's going to be here this coming sunday a dear friend of mine from yucaipa california he has a love for the word of god he has a love for souls and you're going to be blessed by his ministry so let people know let friends know about it because god's going to use him mightily amen this coming sunday we're going back to our regular schedule so amen wear your masks don't hug elbow bumps for jesus and we're going to do our due diligence if you have trouble breathing with a mask on can't wear a mask there's room up in the balcony for you or back here on the to my right in the back there'll be some room if you can't climb the stairs but but i'm glad god's people can come back together again and we're just going to have church we're going to have a move of god let's fill this house amen let's glorify god let's sing god's praises amen let's continue to sing and worship the lord tonight why don't you stand with me why don't you lift your hands let's glorify god in this house hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] why don't you make it your praise [Music] tonight [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is up i want more [Applause] and hearing brothers no place i'd rather hear [Music] is [Music] that i can't control [Music] anybody whatever our god [Music] [Music] follow me right here that is is let it rain oh let it rain on me anybody feel that way tonight me me [Music] let it rain [Music] let's love him in this place tonight hallelujah i wanted to rain down in this house the former rain the latter rain oh let's praise him somebody lift your voice and help me glorify him lift your voice let him hear your praises hallelujah hallelujah jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise god praise god praise god [Music] i want him to open up the floodgates of heaven hallelujah i feel the holy ghost right now glory to god glory to god amen remain remain standing with us tonight praise god god has an answer god has a blessing god has a purpose for everybody in this room tonight amen and he is going to have his way i want to be part of that don't you amen i want i want god to have his way in my heart [Music] very quickly i want to announce tonight if you are part of the visitor follow-up ministry if you could stop by the visitor welcome stand tonight we have your information for you and people for you to follow up on so if you could take a moment and do that also uh this coming saturday morning at 9 00 am brother spencer jordan is going to be meeting here at the church with young men if you're a young man and you want to be a part of some of the exciting things that's happening they're going to be meeting here and praying and then they're going to be going out for a little breakfast and then weather permitting we're going to do a pilot bible study acquisition excursion means we're going knocking on doors [Music] we're going to get home bible studies and we're going to i know it's coveted i know i know i know people are are on edge right now but we're just gonna see what god does there's a place where jonathan looked at his armor bearer and said let us go up who knows what that the lord can work i believe god can reach somebody i believe we're going to get testimonies about what god's going to do i'm excited about the kingdom of god so young men if you are able to meet us here we're going to have a great time there hallelujah proverbs turn to proverbs chapter 20 and verse 27. proverbs chapter 20 verse 27 one of our seed money initiatives we are doing we are selling the tickets for the picture you can see uh brother wayne or sister ethel about that we'll have those for you and it is seven dollars for one two for 12. and it's for the seed money initiative it's a good cause it's a beautiful picture of the titanic and so keep that in mind as well god's using people to do good things proverbs chapter 20 verse 27 if you have it say amen the spirit of man is the candle of the lord searching all the inward parts of the belly the candle of the lord newer translations do not use the word candle they use the word lamp it is the lamp of the lord and i want to take a few moments tonight i'm going to take my time i i'm going to try to give a little bit of information i want to talk about prayer and i want to talk about bible reading that's something that a lot of folks around the world that profess christianity they don't do it as much as they should and you have a lot of ideas and a lot of new ways of thinking that are creeping into what people call christianity and they don't know the bible has very powerful things to say we're going to talk about that tonight and i want to come at it from the perspective of the lamp that's what i'm going to talk about tonight i'm going to talk about the lamp amen god bless you you can be seated i never cease to be amazed at the things that get spoken about as if it is the bible ideas and phrasings and wordings that people think of the bible but are not the bible if you've ever heard the phrase god helps those who help themselves you might think that's in the bible it is not it is not cleanliness is next to godliness that's not in the bible either although cleanliness is a big deal spare the rod spoil the child it's not in there it does say he that spirit the rod hateth his son and it says that the blueness of a wound cleanseth the heart of a of a child it tells us to chase in our children while there is time but but the actual wording that people use a lot of it the puritans and the quakers came up with it uh in in the early colonial days but the bible actually doesn't say that god works in mysterious ways his wonders to behold again it's not in the bible i um when i teach bible studies i like to illustrate this for people because some folks think they know the bible but when they get down to it they find out they haven't read it quite as much as they ought to and so i asked them what kind of fruit did adam and eve eat eight out of ten say it was an apple it was an apple and i have to tell them well we don't know that it was an apple the bible doesn't say what it was now my personal feelings i think it might have been a fig because all i can go on is what the bible says and it says they use fig leaves to cover their nakedness i don't know but we don't know that it was an apple and i i point out various things that are in the bible things that maybe they don't know about like how many wise men came to the baby jesus and they say three and the bible actually didn't say that they came to the baby it says they came to the child and so that word child is different than infant and it means that jesus was likely two to four years old when they showed up and the bible never says there were three every every holiday play i've ever seen there's always three they say that because of gold frankincense and myrrh there were three gifts but there could have been 75 wise men and wagon loads of gold frankincense and mark we don't know but you just got to know what the bible says and sometimes i'll point out to them you know i'll ask them questions like how many animals did moses bring onto the ark two of clean or seven or two of unclean seven of clean and they'll think about it i'll say it was two and now i'll say well the bible does say that there were seven and two but actually moses didn't bring any on the ark noah did just a little preacher joke there for you just waiting to see if everybody's awake and if they're all paying attention and i have a very corny sense of humor that i believe is great but my wife well we'll just keep on here talking the word of the lord the bible reading the bible and and and praying those two things are two of the most important things you will ever do in your life they they are foundational and there's a lot of people that are going to miss out on heaven because they listen to what somebody else told them if you read your bible you would never be baptized in the name of the father son and holy ghost you wouldn't do it because if you read your bible you would know that overwhelmingly they were baptized in the name of jesus christ and you would know that the name of the father is jesus the name of the son is jesus the name of the holy ghost is jesus it's repeated over and over and over again you would know that there is one god amen and and you would learn the voice of the shepherd if you would read his word and pray if if we take the time to do that then we go sensitive to his voice we learn how he talks we learn his methodologies people ask me oftentimes how do you see what you see in the bible how do you pick that out it came from reading the word of god i'll say it better than that it came from devouring the word of god in my young ministry for about 10 years i read nothing but the bible just chapter after chapter after chapter regimented reading i wanted the word down in my heart and i'm talking about reading leviticus praise god plow your way through leviticus we're going to talk about leviticus tonight because every word of god is good amen every jot in every tittle the dotting of the eye the crossing of the t it's all gonna come to pass hallelujah his word is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit of the joints and the marrow and it's a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart and we're living in a world that's dominated by media it's dominated by easy entertainment young people are being conditioned to fall in love with the blips and the blinks and the flashes and the sounds of electronics and they don't have the patience of mind to sit down and hear the still small voice of the spirit god's got something to say amen god's talking to us amen and i want to know what he's saying the bible says he that hath an ear let him hear with the spirit saith unto the church if you have a dream and and you want to know if it was god or you think it was from god be careful because it better line up with the word of god you can't just grab some dream out of the air and say god told me how do you know god told you you got to know his voice before you know what what he's saying before you go off on a dream or a vision you got to grab a hold of the word of god and submit everything to the word of god every message is submitted to the word of god every song is submitted to the word of god hallelujah [Applause] and prayer praying without ceasing a continued state of prayer calling on the name of the lord being sensitive to the holy ghost if people don't pray and they do not read the word of god they are not going to heaven if you're bored with prayer then heaven is not for you because you can't be bored with the presence of god amen and and i'm afraid that we're entering into a world where where people are so easily entertained and are addicted to entertainment that they can't slow down long enough to develop a taste amen i can remember when i started liking coffee i hated coffee brother newton i didn't know why anybody in the right mind would drink coffee it was it was terrible stuff mom and dad would have it i'd take a little sip of it and i'd i'd jerk back because i couldn't handle the taste of it and then somebody introduced me to a frappuccino and i thought well i don't like coffee i'll give it a shot and they put so much sugar in there i had a little coffee with my sugar they sweetened it up amen i believe we should sweeten up the things of god amen i think there's a reason why the seed of the word of god is found inside the fruit of the spirit i think you catch a whole lot more flies with honey i think you attract people by love and joy and peace and when they fall in love with the sweetness they're going to find out that there's good doctrine inside of that they're going to find out that that his words are sweeter than honey and the honeycomb amen and so i i drank those frappuccinos and i had just a little bit of a coffee bean taste to it it was good i liked it if you could sweeten it up and then it got a little stronger then it got a little stronger got to where i quit putting sugar in there just cream and then one day somebody somebody showed me some coffee that was real coffee not that car engine oil i'd been drinking and it's like somebody just opened up the drain pan and just let the oil out and served it to me and i found out that there was good coffee and and now i drink it straight black coffee and and and yeah lord i never thought i'd get there i never now there's just that there's i'm telling you that you develop a taste for something and you can you develop a taste for the word of god you develop a taste for the spirit of god you develop a taste for the prayer room and the voice of god you'll find out that you're not forcing yourself but you can't wait to get to the prayer room you can't wait to open up the word of god i want him i desire him more than my necessary food hallelujah my my heart longeth my soul longeth for the courts of the lord when shall i appear before the lord as the heart pantheth after the water brooks so pant of my soul after thee oh god i'm talking about falling in love with jesus i'm talking about developing a hunger and a thirst for righteousness i want to hear the master's voice god's got an answer for everything you're going through right now but you got to find your love for it praise god praise god we need young men and young women that are full of the word of god that have taken the time to talk to the lord but david if you could put on the screen the picture i got for you i want to talk about this because the bible says that the spirit of man is the candle or the lamp of the lord this is the lamp that you'll find in the old testament it was in the tabernacle we're going to take a little time on this tonight if that's all right i want to share a few things because this is a physical representation of bible study and prayer that's what you're looking at right now you're looking at bible study and prayer god to teach his principles would give physical objects to carnal people he would teach spiritual principles through physical manifestations hallelujah the bible called them figures of things to come shadows and types we would call them metaphors today but i'm telling you if you want to see in the darkness you're going to need a lamp you're going to need a lamp praise the lord i i could talk about the dark ages i could talk about that they were considered the dark ages because the catholic church had made it illegal in europe for men and women to have access to any book except actually any book at all even the bible if you were caught with a bible you would be prosecuted and possibly killed the reason why is because because they said that common men couldn't handle that which was holy you would distort it you would pervert it you couldn't understand it and to make matters worse it was only written in ancient languages that no one spoke anymore and the general population you can leave it up on the screen guys the population was largely illiterate they couldn't read and during that time ignorance flourished during that time uh there were witch hunts and people this they called it pre-modern there's pre-modern modern and post-modern we're in post-modern right now this was pre-modern times it was a time of great ignorance it was a time when they thought that diseases were called by ill humors and you could you could suck the disease out of people by leeches and and they had all kinds of crazy ideas and people died in mass because of ignorance and they call it the dark ages it wasn't until johannes gutenberg created the printing press that he realized that you could have an invention with movable type up until that time the bible was a rare book because you had to write it by hand hand-written documents were very valuable they were very rare because finding somebody that could write was hard enough finding somebody that could understand what was written was even harder and then finding somebody that had the discipline to write the whole bible was almost impossible and so they would write by hand well johannes gutenberg created this printing press where you could take little letters and you could arrange them in a little board and you could stick a piece of paper on it and run a roller over the top of it and it was the first copy machine it was the first way to mass produce the word of god because they take a piece of paper run the roller over it boom one page run the roller over another paper boom second page run the roller over boom third fourth they could print out a hundred pages of the same page in one day and then they'd move the type around on the board to to reflect the next page and they'd do it again and they could mass produce bibles that way and this is not a knock against any religion i'm not speaking critically i'm giving you historical fact the catholic church tried to find him and kill him and if you got caught trying to print out anything they would kill you they would burn you at the stake they would crucify you they called it the dark ages and during that time superstition thrived and ignorance thrived and and all kinds that's the darkness that holds men and women in its brawl that holds men and women in in a lack of revelation and understanding and i want to tell somebody don't you let anybody take the light away from you amen if somebody tries to talk you into some other way of being baptized you open up this bible and let god talk let god speak because there's no salvation in any other than the name of jesus hallelujah none of the name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved hallelujah hallelujah don't you let anybody talk you out of the holy ghost by the time we get done tonight we're all going to know you got to be a tongue talking fire baptized child of the most high god the bible doesn't work unless it's given line upon line and precept upon precept and it takes somebody that has a lamp and when men got a hold of the word of god and women got their hands on it they read it in secret and they realized that over that thousand years there'd been a lot of garbage given to them they somewhere in that time because men didn't have a bible they started baptizing babies it's not in your bible somebody said can i come and have my baby baptized i said no not here at this church well why not i want my baby baptized well that's i understand we bet we dedicate babies we do that but we don't baptize babies well why well babies don't have faith number one number two they don't have the power of choice that's necessary and number three it never happened in the bible it never happened in the bible it's like it's like the story of of the little girl who was asking her mother mom why is it that when you cook the christmas ham you cut the end off the ham and throw it away every christmas when they when they bake the ham they put it in the oven she slices the end off and they put it in the oven they cook it and and they throw away the end of it why do you do that she said well baby that's just the way you do it why well that's the way mom did it so they went and they got grandma grandma why did you cut the end off the ham she said well sweetheart that's just the way you do it well but why mom why grandma well that's the way my mom did it so they went back in the back room and they found great-grandma she was in a shawl she was hunched over she's god bless her heart hadn't cooked a ham in 30 years but she remembered and and and they said great grandma why did you cut the end off the ham she said baby my pan was too small [Applause] you get what i'm talking about don't you be baptized in the father-son holy ghost just because mom did it just because grandma did it just because great-grandma did it don't you let tradition rule you don't you let the the actions and the traditions of men spoil you but you got to grab a hold of the lamp and say i'm going to take it to my unsafe family i'm going to take it to my neighborhood i'm going to take it to the people on my job there's some folks that don't know that there's power in the name of jesus christ there's some folks that don't know that it'll wash your sins away that it'll write your name in the lamb's book of life there's some folks that don't know and it takes somebody with a lamp praise god praise god god said you want to know how to bring light it's going to look like this right here moses saw that the bible says that god told him see that they'll make it according to the pattern that was shown to thee in the mount so when he was when he was at the top of mount sinai he saw heaven opened up and when he saw heaven opened up he saw the same stuff john the revelator saw you know what john saw the bible said he saw seven candlesticks and one stood in the midst of them he saw that and there was light there were flames of fire the bible called up the seven spirits of god and god used it to manifest his will and his purpose and moses when he saw it he went and he got the the the craftsman and he said i want you to take it and i want you to make it out and i want you to to to develop this and and the bible says that this was all one piece oh i love that it was all one p they didn't take pieces together and cobble them together and screw them on and bolt them on but the bible says it didn't just say it was one piece this is what it said it said it was one beaten work why does that matter because i believe that's why when jesus was laid out and they were beating him and they were punching him they thought they were hurting the king they thought they were hurting an insurrectionist and a rebel but jesus knew that this candlestick was going to provide light in darkness it was going to drive away barbarism it was going to drive away superstition and insanity and it was going to bring light to people in a dark place your bible says those that have sat in darkness have seen a great light and as they beat him they were making the candlestick one beaten work they were hammering on him just like the ancient old testament craftsman one beaten work praise god i know you can fall asleep when you're reading leviticus but you'll find it tucked away in there as you read about the almonds and the knops and the bowls and it shall be one beaten work it'll be continuity to this there'll be a completeness to this there'll be a oneness hallelujah i'm not bolting on the father i'm not bolting on the sun i'm not trying to arrange the holy ghost to fit into something that's not in there now this is a oneness message this is one beating work and you can't pull it apart and you can't disassemble it and you can't stop it moses i want you to make it like this praise god let's go to isaiah chapter 11. i i'd like to take my time tonight if that's all right i want to treat the topic properly and for those of you that are recording this make sure you tell your friends on on the internet hey go to go to facebook go to the website look at this because this is going to help somebody you've got to pray every day you've got to read the word of god every day why do i say this is about bible study this is an example of bible study because his word is a lamp into my feet and it's a light unto my path [Applause] the bible describes the five foolish virgins it said that they had lamps they had the bible they had the word his word is a lamp that's what the bible says they had lamps they were virgins they were undefiled they were pure they were keeping themselves but they didn't have any oil in their lamps amen the oil is the holy ghost ladies and gentlemen the oil is supposed to fill the lamp you don't need a lamp without the oil and you don't need a church without the holy ghost there's a lot of people that have bibles but they don't have the holy ghost there's a lot of people that are keeping themselves pure but they don't have the holy ghost there's a religious world out there that's waiting on the bridegroom to come back there's a genomic world that has it all figured out except the one thing they need they need the oil of the holy ghost they need the stuff that makes the fire burn they need the stuff that makes you run the isles and clap your hands and shout unto god if you read that bible and somebody says oh the holy ghost isn't for you it was just for that first century church you something something's got to rise up inside of you that say i've got a lamp and that false doctrine comes from a long time ago and i'm going to shine the lamp on that doctrine let me let me let me show you acts 2 39 that this promise is unto you and it's to your children and it's to all that are afar off even as many as the lord our god shall call don't tell me i can't have the holy ghost don't tell me that what the prophets and the kings and the sages waited for was only going to last for 30 more years no sir but it gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go by it's the strength of my soul it's the joy of the lord and so if you can see a man carrying the lamp then you see somebody who reads their bible and prays isaiah 11 scriptorians and theologians will tell you that this these are the seven spirits of god the bible says verse 1 and there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots that's what this represents the rod and the branches hallelujah and the spirit of the lord that's the main trunk in the middle that's the spirit of god himself that's number one shall rest upon him and then the spirit of wisdom and understanding three the spirit of counsel for and might five the spirit of knowledge six and of the fear of the lord seven i don't have time i preached on it a few weeks ago but i i just i need to say it this goes to those seven spirits that are in heaven this is tied to seven days of creation this is tied to all of the works of the spirit always being accompanied by the number seven and what it means is it's a work of the spirit what it means is it's a finished work is on the seventh day he finished the work amen god's outpouring of the holy ghost is a work of the spirit and it's a finished work it's a good work and it will provide light to everybody that needs it when you get the holy ghost you get the opportunity for god to light your candle you get the opportunity for god to light your fuse it allows light and fire somebody needs to catch on fire in the holy ghost we sing that song i wish somebody's soul would catch on fire and that comes from an ancient levitical concept that comes from from a tabernacle plan where levites would carry in the candlestick and it would provide light in the darkness and when you first get the holy ghost you might just have that main trunk so i just want to share this with somebody tonight if you if you are struggling and you're going through trials and you think the devil's attacking you god's going to let you go through stuff so he can kick start your lamp it's like it's like those guys that turn on the gas range stove and and the gas starts running they got to take that lighter and it's like when your car won't start and the older models and they spray the whatever they call that ether or whatever it is into there and and then it fires up you there's something that will light your fire hallelujah and you might go through some tough times you might go through some things where your ignorance is taken advantage of in your naivete and your lack of knowledge if anybody's ever been taken advantage of then then you know what i'm talking about you might think that's the devil i'm telling you god will use that to bring you to a place of wisdom and he'll give you the spirit of wisdom and your light will shine in one of those candlesticks amen and then as you talk to your pastor and you have a bible study pastor what does this mean saint of god what does this mean sunday school teacher what does this mean bishop what does this mean then understanding begins to thrive in your heart another light shines on your candlestick and as god begins to develop you and prepare you oh thank you jesus the spirit of counsel god's gonna god's gonna let you go through it there's people in this room right now you don't know why you went through what you went through you didn't do anything wrong you were praying you were going to church you were fasting you were paying your tithes and offering and why in the world would god let me go through it it almost killed you but in that time god gave you grace and god gave you power that you never had before that and you overcame it and you learned the wiles of the devil and now it's five years later and somebody walks in and they have no idea why they're going through it you're going to look at them and say i've got counsel i've got counsel for you the next flame comes up on your candlestick ah you were taught by the wonderful counselor you were taught by the mighty god and i'm gonna walk with you god didn't bring you through it to kill you he brought you through it to save somebody coming down the line i'm talking about the candlestick i'm talking about the spirit of the lord [Applause] that's what it looks like i'd like you to notice that the first one is the spirit of the lord that's the one in the middle that's the main trunk oh praise god jesus is the only upright one and he's in the midst of the seven candlesticks he's the only one that's upright when the revelator saw the people that wanted to take the book and to open the seals thereof he found that there was none worthy moses as good as he was he he was a good man but he wasn't totally upright zechariah zephaniah malachi they were all good men used of god but they weren't totally upright and there's been many a man that has been good and a woman that has been good but there's only one hallelujah that is upright amen who shall ascend into the hill of the lord he that hath clean hands and a pure heart that has not lifted up his soul unto vanity that's a question who shall do it well it sure isn't you and it should ridden me because neither one of us can we can we can fit that description but there is one who's got clean hands there is one who has a pure heart there is one that in the wilderness that he said men shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god shall men live there's one who walks through every trial who walk through every temptation who says suffer it to be so for i must fulfill all righteousness there is one who is upright there is one that when he died sin had no hold on him and the writer looked the the the visitor in white looked at john the revelator and said weep not because there is one the lion of the triumph of judah the root of david he is worthy to take the book and to open the seals thereof don't you try to put your faith in political figures don't you try to put your faith in entertainment figures and god help you don't put your faith in sports figures put your faith in the one that stands upright put your faith in the one that is righteous from beginning to end alpha and omega beginning and end first and last the spirit of the lord is the middle of the candlestick and those crooked ones that's us that's me first of all i can't stand by myself i can't stand by myself for everybody that thinks that you can go a day or two without praying you can't go a day or two without praying because you don't stand by yourself hallelujah for those of you that people don't know why we want to come back to church we want to come back to church because i need my lamp filled i need the oil to be poured down into my spirit my fire doesn't burn bright unless i got oil down in my lap it's an old song said give me oil in my lamp keep it burning burning burning give me oil in my lamp i pray somebody needs to get another touch of the holy ghost hallelujah it's not that sin is too hard it's not that the world is too wicked it's that you need another infilling of the holy ghost because i can't stand on my own [Applause] he told them except you abide in the vine you will bear no fruit except you abide in me we're connected to the trunk we stand by jesus you ever wonder about daniel's decree where and i don't mean to take too long guys i i just i'm excited about jesus tonight i know i know it's getting a little late but i just feel like there's some fire in a lamp tonight i feel like god's filling some oil into some people's hearts and minds [Applause] the king said you can't worship anybody for 30 days except the king for 30 days can you imagine the options that they could have taken they could have said well you know i mean 30 days isn't that long 30 days isn't that bad i i guess there's some folks wouldn't mind that if they're carnal i can get by for 30 days at the end of the 30 days i'll come back i'll worship god or maybe maybe just don't open your window daniel just get it get in there in your closet and do it in private but i i believe that daniel had a hold of something we need to grab a hold of that i can't go one day without god i need to call on his name when i wake up there's there's unclean spirits waiting to attach to me when i don't call on his name there's devils from the past that used to have dominion on me that that when they were cast out of me they go looking for rest and when they come back they better not find that house empty they've got to find the house occupied they've got to find that jesus christ has taken up residence in my heart so when i wake up i'm filling myself with jesus when i wake up i'm filling myself with oil when i when i feel myself getting a little bit dry i gotta go back to the prayer room say fill me up again did you know that they filled this up one time in the morning and one time in the evening because you've got to stay full of the holy ghost if your lamp's not full you give the devil room if your damn's not full did you see the stuff daniel saw daniel saw a lion with eagle's wings he saw a bear exceeding great and terrible he saw a leopard with four heads he saw a beast that was exceeding fearsome and more more wicked than the rest and horns on the top of his head one horn was more stout than his fellows anybody remember reading about this and he stamped the residue of men daniel saw stuff in the holy ghost let me tell you tonight brother let me tell you tonight's sister if you knew the stuff floating around your head you wouldn't take time off from praying either if you knew the devils that wanted to tear your family apart and tear your children apart and tear your marriage apart if you knew the stuff that was floating around that hell has vomited out of its mouth you wouldn't take one moment off of prayer daniel said lions i'll take the lions over that i'd rather face lions than face the unclean spirits that can destroy my life fill your lamp [Applause] fill it with prayer fill it with bible study fill it with the stuff that'll let your light shine they're crooked they're not only dependent on the main trunk they're crooked and you're gonna find out people are crooked well i'ma go to the church that's perfect and if i find one hypocrite i'm leaving you ever notice that nobody does that with the car mechanic anybody ever meet a hypocrite car mechanic thank god we got brother floyd he's he's upright but i've met a few that are crooked in my day hey they they'll come back well i took my car in to get the wiper blades changed i go in i got to overhaul the whole thing for five thousand dollars maybe that doesn't happen in durham but it happens in places i've been to and nobody leaves the car mechanic because they're crooked if you find somebody in some walk of life a banker a salesman god help us with the salesman by the time they get done talking the thing cures cancer they're basically saving the planet you're gonna not just save money you're gonna make money by the time it's all done and they have you signed the contract and you find out you locked yourself into something for five years at 40 interest and and you can't take it back and it breaks on the second day and you call customer support and wait for three hours and they drop the call i'm just talking i'm just i'm just telling you we live in a crooked world we live in a crooked world that's what this is they are the people in the bible they were bent they were misshapen i wish i could tell you that david was upright but that's why he wasn't worthy to take the book and to open the seals i can take you to uriah i can take you to bathsheba i can take you to the rooftop i can take you to the baby that dies and i can show you that as great as he was he was still bent in his spirit i could take it to moses and the anger that overtook him as israel chided with him and he smoked the rock rather than spoke to the rock like god commanded and because of it he had to walk to the top of nebo and could only see the promises rather than experience the promises i could take you to get in i could take you to samson i could take you to every crooked branch in the bible and if you're honest you would realize that you and i have the crookedness inside of us thank god for the one that is upright thank god for the one that lets us be grafted in thank god for the one that lets us be partakers of his spirit thank god for the one that lets his light shine through us thank god that fills us with his spirit [Applause] remain standing musicians can come i'm talking about read your bible and pray read your bible pray every day pray every day pray every day read your bible pray every day and you will grow grow grow hallelujah men and women saw this and they identified with it they they [Music] they revered it it was holy unto the lord but god never he never wanted it to remain a physical symbol of a spiritual truth but god wanted men to be the candles of the lord so on the day of pentecost when it was fully come cloven tongues like as a fire sat upon each of them and god led them on fire because it never was about the gold it was always about the hearts of men and women so when you wake up in the morning sir take 30 minutes take an hour and pray and call on the name of god well i don't have time to do that brothership you don't have time to not do it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i'm talking about a lamp i was at a beautiful wedding this last weekend and i saw a beautiful young lady beautiful a handsome young man they stood together in holy matrimony and they they they had nice things the wedding was done well and they they had nice blessings that god had given to them very classy very beautiful very handsome and the pastor got up as her father and he said you might criticize the blessings that have been given to them he said but not one time have the police called my house and said i have your daughter down here at the station never one time have i been to a rehab clinic and spent thousands of dollars you know the world will think that's normal the world will celebrate recover recovery but when it comes to giving tithe and offering and investing in the kingdom of god and praying every day and reading the bible to look at you like you're crazy i'm talking about a lamp that can drive back darkness and you can live a blessed life a godly life i'm not knocking people and criticizing it all i don't mean to be insensitive i'm just telling you come out of the darkness into his marvelous light and let your light so shine that men may glorify your father which is in heaven when i walk in on my job i want to walk in on fire in the holy ghost when i walk into my friends i want them to see god burning bright inside of me i've been praying that morning i've been reading the words of my heavenly father and it lit a fire in my heart [Music] and when your lamb gets low and your fire starts to sputter and carnal friends start pulling at you come on crooked branch and let him fill you again partake of the oil that runs through the upright one ah let's lift our hands in this house somebody speak the name of jesus in this house somebody pick up your lamp the spirit of wisdom and understanding and of counsel and might and of courage and of the fear of the lord let the spirit of the lord guide you in the name of jesus as we sing somebody help me glorify him somebody lift your voice in this [Music] where you are that's fine if you want to step out into the aisle but somebody lift your hands and let god light your lamp tonight the spirit of man is the candle of the lord and it searches the inward parts of the [Music] belly how somebody connect to the branch somebody connect to the king of kings and the lord of lords somebody let him feel you all over again and tomorrow fill it again and the next day you feel it again and in the evening time when your light is low feel it again open up your heart let his spirit baptize your [Music] ah somebody help me glorify him right now somebody lift your head right now right now thank you jesus let him fill you up again let your flame burn bright light up the room light up your house light up your home light up your job [Music] i'm connected to him i'm dependent upon him yes somebody lift up your boy me we need to [Applause] now right now we need you oh that's the holy ghost i think god's putting some oils out in somebody's [Applause] heart is one more [Applause] in time name of jesus let's lift our hands all across the sanctuary let's lift our voices let's ask god to fill us let's ask god to allow us to burn brightly let's ask god to baptize us with the holy ghost and with fire well then you ask god to fill your lamp hallelujah ask god to drive back the darkness in your life hallelujah hallelujah oh hallelujah oh let's just feel laughing for just a moment i'm not in a hurry tonight i know in a moment the lights will be off and the parking lot will be empty but let's just take a moment and entertain his presence there's people seeking for the touch of god tonight have your way jesus some of you have been through things today some of you went through things yesterday and you just need god to feel you again let him feel you one more time let him feel you to overflowing [Music] my mind [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah let's give the lord a hand clap of thanksgiving tonight god is so good [Music] god is so good thank you jesus [Music] there's a limited supply of oil in the lamp and so you've got to let god feel you again and again and again but one day a trumpet's going to sound and you're not going to be a temporary receptacle but you're going to be with the one who gave it all to us and you won't need any light there and there won't be any sun there won't be any moon because he is the light hallelujah he is the light amen thank you jesus i need to meet with the music and the tech team in the ladies prayer room immediately following the service music team tech team meet me in that room very briefly we have some things to talk about some some exciting things coming down the pike but take the spirit of god with you tonight as you go tell somebody about jesus let's come sunday morning but the doug walker is going to be here you're going to be blessed your friends are going to be blessed if you're praying you're welcome to continue to pray god bless you tonight in jesus name so [Applause] [Music] wonderful wonderful jesus is to me counselor prince of peace mighty god [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] keeping me

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