The Proof Is In the Power

[Music] wait texas [Music] [Music] [Music] how y'all doing this morning [Music] come on let's stand to our feet let's put our hands together there is a river [Music] rising [Music] [Music] the tide is [Music] [Music] we come on [Music] deep inside [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] we come river [Music] [Music] is [Music] come on [Music] spring [Music] [Applause] [Music] we come alive me [Music] in yes [Music] it's good to be in the house of the lord this morning are you ready to get your worship on church i searched the world [Music] you put me back together [Music] hope there's nothing better oh there's nothing [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] to show you my weaknesses [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you turn shame into glory [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] nothing better than you there's nothing better than you oh there's nothing in this world nothing is [Music] is [Music] you're [Music] me [Music] me [Music] [Music] shout to the lord under this tent this morning ladies and gentlemen lift him up give him praise in this house today are you glad to be here shout amen shout hallelujah you can be seated all over the house thank you so much for being here full house folks still coming in and we're excited to host you today but most of all we're excited to host the presence of the most high god amen god's going to do something in this place if you came walking into this room looking for a life transformation experience i promise you the word of god is going to give it to you global vision can't offer it greg lot can't provide it but the power of the spirit of god and the power of the gospel will radically dramatically change you forever and ever we tell people everywhere we go we're a church where broken people find new meaning to life now brokenness is not the destination right brokenness is really just the journey that gets us to the des hope and healing and wholeness and all of those things are the destination but we don't care how broken down you are all of us have issues all of us have temptations all of us have addictions all of us have struggles and i say often that because the bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of god if you deny you have issues then your issues have issues we're all jacked up the ground is level at the foot of the cross i don't care what your background is i don't care where you were last night last week or last month i'm here to tell you there's a god in heaven that can radically set you free and do things in your life like you've never imagined i don't care what your marital status is i don't care what your health status is i don't care what your financial status is doesn't make any difference i'm telling you god is going to give a breakthrough to some people in this tent today there is no doubt and the reason hundreds and hundreds of people keep showing up every single weekend is because this hitting the greg lock show this is the power of the spirit of god on full display in a tent we don't have to have some fancy bill we ain't building no fancy bill we ain't wasting our money on that nonsense we'll give our money away and bless people and honor people and so i'm telling you people just keep showing up and showing up and showing up sometimes i get so ahead of myself i get to talking so fast my tongue gets wrapped around my eye teeth and i can't see where i'm going amen so sometimes i forget to do this but i always love to do this if you are not from the great state of tennessee we want you to be you can come back right we'll take you if you are not from the state of tennessee and you have traveled to be in our sunday service today and you're not from here would you stand up oh we want to honor you in this house all over the room pennsylvania loves you right there i love you guys thank you look at all of the people from other states all over the place good grief many many many of you thank you we honor you thank you for being here and what about everybody under the tent whether you are from this state or not this state why don't you welcome the tens of thousands of people watching us right now on our live streams let them know how much we appreciate them being a part of our service today so many of you even watch and watch and watch and if this is the first time you've ever been here and all you've done is watched nobody's ever walked away and said well the book was better i'm telling you there's something about being in the house there's something about being under the spout where the glory comes out and so i believe god's going to radically do some things in all of our hearts today we want to get into our time of giving so often we're taking up offerings for other people and blessing other people and we have radically been doing that i mean i can promise you if you look at any given month we give more away to the community and to single moms and to hurting families and to the homeless and the missionaries and other church plants we we do way more for others than we ever do for ourself and it's always been that way and it's always going to be that way i tell people all over the country and under this tent in-house and online if you are looking for a stingy church go to another one because this ain't it we give we bless people we love people crazy the crazier the better we love people amen and so we want to be faithful in giving today you know that we've just we've just closed out and paid cash to god be the glory for all of the land that surrounds us they told us that we would never be able to do that that we would never be able to expand and we don't want building expansion we just want parking expansion amen so we can just keep making the tent bigger and bigger we had a a prayer team in here yesterday we have a lot of folks come through they don't even go to our church and this lady sat right in the middle and she she prayed and she she wanted to start praying at 333 jeremiah 33 3. and she prayed and prayed and prayed she sent me an inbox message afterwards and she said i i've not been to one of your services and the tent was empty on a saturday other than some workers and people around the campus she said i'm just going to tell you right now pastor she said i hope it don't make you nervous she said you're going to need a bigger tent there's no doubt about that she said god's just going to keep bringing folks you're just going to keep seeing people saved in baptismal celebration so it's beautiful and so we've we've closed on all of that god let us pay cash for it we don't have a dime's worth of debt the borrower's servant to the lender we ain't borrowing money from the bank we don't need all that mess we don't need their money god will take care of us let me tell you something gracious you know wednesday nights we're now in the tent so we'd love to have you on wednesday nights obviously it's not the same crowd that we have on sundays because not as many people can come in from around the nation and such but we had a great crowd fill up these whole sections here in the middle this past wednesday but it was an impromptu service and we had pastor artur palowsky with us from canada that we've had here before you remember the guy that ran the ran the police out of his church get out nazis get out nazis we're not closing get out the stopo i can support a man like that so i had him speak just really for a few moments this past wednesday night and i get this we're not talking about sunday crowds we're talking about wednesday night so we decided just to take a impromptu free will offering for that dear pastor in his church in canada he's facing four years in prison for keeping his church open that's it that's his crime kept his church open during all this covet nonsense did i say nonsense just making sure you heard me all right kept his church open servant going to serve four years in prison he doesn't know if he has to go or not he already lost the case he has two lawyers now and they're trying to get him to lawyer up more and pay a bunch of fines but you know what i love that man of god and i want to give you a report this past wednesday night in a wednesday night service in an impromptu offering we gave him one hundred thousand dollars from this church for his church in canada we took up a hundred thousand and gave the whole thing away didn't keep a dime of it hundred thousand dollars on a wednesday night offering sometimes i walk away like who does that god's people do that that's who does that so man what an honor to partner with those folks but we just want to give today and just be faithful to the house and just be faithful to what god's given us and provided for us there's a lot of obligations and responsibilities but you can know when you give here it's good soil because we ain't sitting on it we're blessing other people we're giving it to other people we'll find people today we'll find people this week we'll find people throughout this community that need to be blessed and so let's be faithful today and let's give we have needs we always have needs we're trying to get more chairs obviously we're out of chairs and so last week we kind of started a little bit of a chair fun you'd think in little plastic flimsy things you're sitting in or cheap they're not for some reason amen and so we're going to have to buy a whole bot double the chairs that we have in here reconfigure some seating and figure out what we can do we're even looking into aluminum bleachers in the back amen so we can we can put people in the grand stands they can get the nosebleeds so we're just trying to figure out what we can do to get this many people in this room at the right at the same time amen so it's a good problem to have and so just let's be faithful in giving and we know the lord is going to bless i'll be saying more this wednesday but we do now have a boots on the ground team and a little bit different from what we did a few weeks ago when the whole afghanistan debacle with the obama administration when all that went down there's still a lot of people over there dying there's still a lot of people that need to be rescued there's still a lot of folks who get those planes that have been grounded with glenn beck and all of that and we have one boots on the ground group that we're working with right now and they have another like a seal team six of five more men that are going back over there to meet with the other ones and so i'll be talking a little bit about that wednesday night i told them that we would certainly as a church be helping them don't you think we ought to rescue people amen in the other side of the world you say that sounds like supporting mercenaries i don't care what you call it we're going to save some people because biden sure ain't going to do it he's going to let them all die we going to save some people over in afghanistan whether this wild demon possessed government does or not so we'll talk about that wednesday night and we'll get some people on some helicopters and get them out of there right get to the chapa where we're going to get to the choppa we're going to take care of it right some of y'all like oh my goodness how in the world did i get involved did you hear this man's just given the announcements and he's already said crazy things about politics you're mad now wait ten more minutes you're gonna have a great time under the tent there's no doubt [Applause] so let's pray for the offering and let's give and let's be a blessing to the house here at global vision and i know god will bless father i pray you bless the offering extravagantly abundantly do exceedingly abundantly above all we could ever ask or think as you broke the loaves and the fish and you fed five thousand men and then women and children with just a few hush puppies and sardines lord we know you can do exceedingly beyond what we could ever imagine we got a lot of people to bless a lot of people to help a lot of obligations here but you'll take care of that you know the needs that we don't even know about so father i pray you'd bless the offering in-house and online today extravagantly but even more than that as we continue to worship and sing and lift you up in the word of god and preach and pray and fellowship and baptize converts lord we pray that you would redeem you would heal you would set free you would move in this place as only you can move we want the power of the presence of god to arrest us so mightily that when we walk out of this place we cannot be the same men and women that we were when we walked in be with all the young people down below the hill that are meeting with their workers and volunteers and people that are serving them right now in their service bless them as well and those in the nursery protect us in this place we lift you up and we honor you and when our praise goes up may your presence come down bless the service bless the gift and the giver and we'll thank you for it in jesus name and all of god's people said god bless you as you give [Music] as we're taking the offering i just wanted to chat with you a little bit about habits and the verse came into my mind this morning it was a little more difficult getting up and ready and getting to church i think i ate something a little there was a disturbance in the force and i have two toddlers and i just thought you know it's it would be so easy if i wasn't leading worship to stay home and i think a lot of times on sundays it's early it's the weekend and and and every once in a while i think that we go you know what let's just stay home let's just you know i just i need a moment but the bible says in hebrews 10 25 and i and i'm doing the niv because it's just really powerful today not giving up meeting together as some of you are in the habit of doing but encouraging one another and all the more as you see the day approaching and can i tell you when i got here i was so encouraged um greg borchers prayed for me and i immediately felt so much more peace and that is why we get up on sundays and we come to church to meet with him and to encourage one another and that is what is so heart-wrenching when people are being forced or being asked to close the church because the bible clearly says do not forsake like how i'm used to the assembling but do not forsake meeting together because it's important [Music] to our hearts it's important to ourselves and sometimes you know if you got kids or man gas is a little more expensive or you live a little further away there's there's always going to be an excuse but god says do not get in the habit of forsaking meeting together because also when we meet him there's two kinds of praises there's praises and then there's sacrifice of praise and this morning as i was leading worship the more i sacrificed my praise during rehearsal the more i sang through a little bit of nausea the better i felt so i think if we can just come together and encourage one another like we're supposed to do because we're the body and if we show up he'll show out because the reason that we're here is to meet with him and to love on one another let's stand up let's worship him together because we can because it's our honor it's our privilege to meet together and to serve the king of kings father we're here for you today [Applause] [Music] the mountains are still being moved [Music] are still what you do and parties are still being raised and giants are still being slaves yes we believe it and yes we can see it wonders are still what you do we are here for you [Music] cause we need [Music] oh we're here to meet with you we need to move [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we are here for only you [Music] what you know [Music] [Music] cause miracles happen is [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] this is [Music] this [Music] [Applause] [Music] what you do we are here for you come and do what you do set our hearts set our hearts [Music] oh we're here waiting this is [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you raised [Music] are here [Music] [Music] this [Music] is me this is [Music] oh lord oh lord [Music] oh come on let's lift our voices together [Music] oh lord it's a sweet sound entirely [Music] oh [Music] father we're here to meet with you today we come just as we are imperfect we come to meet with the perfect holy god not having to change anything about ourselves coming just as we are and you meet us just that way father would you bless this message that our pastor is about to bring would you give us eyes to see and ears to hear would you let us not forsake one another in gathering together so that we can encourage and lift one another up while we praise the lord as one people united under the banner of jesus [Music] bringing honor and glory to the king [Music] we are here for you come and do what you do we are here for you come and do what you do we set our hearts on you come and do what only you can do this is a move oh this is a move this is [Music] a moon come on church amen you may be seated all over the house thank you so much for being here i want to invite you in the word of the lord today to the gospel of luke and the seventh chapter for just a little while as we chit chat out of the word of god and preach the bible for a bit luke chapter number seven is where i want to turn your attention i'll give you guys that fan that way so it ain't blowing on me luke chapter number seven shout amen if you're glad to be here it's always beautiful every week to see who the lord brings and what the lord's doing and how the lord is moving in our midst and i just want you to know it's an it's an honor to have you here today truly it is whether you've been here a thousand times or it's the first time you've ever be bopped and sat under the tent and walked in the door we just want you to know that we're honored you're here and we thank god for you i thank so many of you for for watching the videos and sharing the live stream and we we have people literally right now and some of you are part of some of these groups we have people right now literally around the world that are in their living rooms with whole groups of people that i've never met we have people in their in their backyards like the the country church just outside of fresno california where i just was in a big theater there we have people literally every single day as i travel and they come here and people visit and talk to us and message us and call us and text us people are watching not just you know a couple in a room that's enough thank god for that i'm telling you they're bringing their friends and family there's these little network global vision churches that have popped up literally around the planet and what an honor it is to know that even something as crazy and as vile as the media and social media has become god has been able to allow us to use it to harness the power of the gospel and reach multitudes of millions of people that we don't even know anything about and we will never meet them and shake their hand and look into their face and hug their neck until we get to the judgment seat that is a beautiful beautiful thing that's what we're supporting here at this church and i thank the lord for it we'll have something on my heart that in its originality i was going to say a few things about it this past wednesday night but just did not feel liberty to continue to preach after pastor artur polowski had talked to us about all that is going on both in america and in canada and continue to pray for him as i said a moment ago and we're going to be talking him a little bit more before he goes back on the 27th of this month but i was going to say a few things but i wasn't quite ready for it it wasn't it wasn't fully baked in my heart yet and over the course of the last few days several experiences have happened in my in my life and in my ministry and in my marriage in such a beautifully god-designed way that it wasn't time to preach that you know sometimes our timing and god's timing are two very different timings you understand that right and so i just want to really share some things that are on my heart today from an unusual passage but perhaps for many of you a familiar passage and just kind of by way of a testimony share where i believe we are as a church and where we're going and i believe the lord's going to honor it so luke chapter number seven is where we are let's pray together and seek the favor of god in his presence and then we'll jump right into the text father in heaven in the mighty name of jesus i come to you through the power of the holy spirit asking that you will do what greg locke and global vision cannot do lord if we could bring revival if we could manufacture it we would have done it ourselves but we can't we're bankrupt without you all is vain unless the power of the spirit of god come down so father i pray that you would settle our minds and our hearts and our eyes upon the text of the word of god may the word burn passionately powerfully and practically in our hearts today for every person that's been here many times or just for the first time in-house or online i pray right now that you'd captivate their heart captivate my heart captivate our spirits today so that we would not be distracted but we would by faith focus on the message at hand lord it's easy to focus on all the things going on around us but today we focus on the power of the holy spirit within us and so i pray that you should move as only you can and we're going to thank you for it in jesus mighty name and all of god's people said when you get to luke chapter number seven you have a very discouraging and a very dismal context john the baptist finds himself in prison awaiting absolute utter execution he knows it's coming he doesn't know exactly when it's going to be but he has a moment of doubt he has a moment when things aren't nearly as clear to him in prison as they were when he was in a pulpit and i remind you john the baptist literally had the personality of a rock you could have never sat down at a starbucks and you could have never went to dunkin donuts or just went out to a movie to chit chat with this guy over pepsi and popcorn he would have been what you would and i and you and i would have called a jerk for jesus he had a very demonstrative hard personality and yet all of jerusalem all of samaria all of jordan all the regions round about that middle eastern area came to hear john the baptist preach because three times the bible says he was a voice crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the lord and he was a voice of a man that literally paved the way for the glory of the messiah a first cousin to jesus six months older than the lord jesus christ but when he showed up he said look it's not about me it's not about my preaching it's not about my platform it's about one that's going to come after me that i'm not even worthy to stoop down and sandal up his shoes as it were to latch the sandals upon his feet i'm not even worthy of that but he's called me to be a voice and he paved the way for the son of god and even when jesus showed up to be baptized at the end of matthew chapter 3 you remember john the baptist was perplexed and confused by that he's like wait a minute jesus let's throw on the jake breaks here we got a problem i need to be receiving baptism from you and jesus oh no suffer it to be so so that we can fulfill the word of god because how many of you know the word of god and the son of god will never contradict each other i hear a lot of bozo the clown people in churches these days behind pulpits with microphones saying well i know what the bible says but hey when it comes to the bible you keep your butt out of it and say amen right there huh [Music] if the bible contradicts what you are saying i'm going to stick with what the bible says not with what dr bottle stopper and sister wiggles you always saying and some of y'all got some papa and granny theology you got some pentecostal theology you got some baptist theology you got some catholic theology you better jump that stuff and get you some bible theology ladies and gentlemen we got to get back to the bible back to the word of god i don't care what your parents taught you i don't care what some church or some christian school taught you i don't care what some out of context preacher taught you that hurts you at the end of the day the bible will clear up a lot of nonsense i tell you often around here at global vision and that's this the bible will mess up a lot of good preaching i've heard people say things through the years and i thought wow that's preaching then i read the bible like wow that was bull crap we got to get back to the word of god and so what john the baptist said was look jesus i need to be baptized of you and jesus said oh no we're going to fulfill the bible we're going to fulfill scripture because not one jotter one tittle of the law passed away jesus did not come to abolish the law he came to fulfill the law because he knew you couldn't do it and he did for us what we couldn't do for ourselves because he that knew no sin became sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of god in him and jesus tells us over and over and over and over again he is not one of many ways to heaven he is the only way to heaven [Applause] the world and the culture may say that is bigoted they may say that is narrow-minded but jesus said narrow is the way that leads to life and few there be that find it and if you trust anything but jesus to get you to heaven you ain't going heaven is reserved for those that have trusted the grace of the gospel of jesus christ so jesus then goes into the wilderness of temptation for 40 days john the baptist continues to preach and cause a fuss and calls a ruckus when the religious people would come to john the baptist revival meetings and tent crusades if you will he would say you bunch of snakes you bunch of vipers you bunch of hypocrites who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come john was a hard guy to get to know personally but you know what jesus said about him he was the greatest prophet ever born of a woman now i don't claim to know a whole lot about the bible i've been preaching it for a while but i got enough hillbilly sense between my two god-given earlobes to figure out if jesus said you're the best preacher in the business you're the best preacher in the business jesus said john the baptist is the greatest prophet that ever walked out of the womb of a woman that's a big recommendation you get a job at any church when jesus says that about you that's big stuff right and yet here's what we hear all the time well you know if you guys preach more like jesus if you guys preach more like those people in the new testament people would love you more you ought to actually read a new testament if i preach more like jesus there wouldn't be five of you show up we sure wouldn't be filling this tent to overflow and that's for sure if i really preach like john the baptist i'm here to tell you i'd be kicking this pulpit off the platform throwing the monitors i'd be throwing the baptism of water on everybody in the first few rows i mean this place would be inviscerated with power if i really preach like john the baptist and so be careful what you wish for well if you would just follow the lord like the apostles did then everything would be better in the culture you do realize that all the disciples died a martyr's death because they stood against a buck wild government you do realize that right the only one that didn't die martyr's death was john the revelator and they bowled him in chicken grease and we got this idea that all the people of the new testament were these limp wristed man be pamby individuals that walked around dilly beloved thank you for coming to church today listen to what your government says because your government's telling you the truth your government's lying to you but the gospel is telling you the truth somebody said i need to get a shirt [Applause] corruption and yet jesus said hey that's the greatest man i've ever lived that's the greatest preacher the greatest prophet the greatest heralder of truth of the gospel that's ever lived and they cut his head off because he called out the king and because he equally preached the gospel of jesus now i'm going to get into the text in luke chapter 7. but i want to talk to you for a minute you would think this far into the whole pandemic i wouldn't have to say things like this anymore you would think after the debacle in afghanistan i wouldn't have to say this to you you would think after everybody figured out the election was stolen then and has still been stolen now then i wouldn't have to say things that i'm about to you would think after a while you'd get it and wake up and pay attention but you know there's some weeks that are crazier than others you know the last two weeks we told you what happened you know two weeks ago put on nancy pelosi's hit list you know there's three preachers on there my dearest friends in the world and you know then last week we talked about the house getting broken too it's it it's been a mess but you know what we know what really bothers me i'm just going to be honest with you i got the microphone then people don't don't bother me you know what bothers me the people that still come to our church and gritch i said gritch and complain and judge and criticize because apparently i'm just he's just too outspoken politically you know he used to preach the bible but now he just all he does is preach on politics a couple of things i'm gonna defend myself whether you like it or not number one if i preach a 45 minute sermon other than today because i'm going out of my way to make sure i say what needs to be said because there's a big door on this tent you can use any time you want to bucko we ain't got no seat belts in this tent i ain't keeping you you can leave any time you want jack if you take a 40 or 45 minute message there might be maybe newsweek there might be two minutes of politicking on wednesdays there's very little if ever any politician so let me just say this i don't need nothing i'm good i'm gonna sit just for a minute and here's why i'm gonna sit we got some people under this tent right now you have the hardest time keeping your mouth shut about your church so i'm gonna sit here for about 15 seconds and just give you a chance to leave anytime you want to because we need your seat anyhow you complaining judgmental pharisee you can leave any time you want to i'm just going to sit here for a minute let you walk out [Applause] if you can call me out behind closed doors why don't you be man enough put on your big board pants stand up and walk out right now for everybody you coward [Applause] whoa i'm about fired up this morning turn this microphone up i'm fired up that's a big tent door you can leave any time you want to you critical hypocrite you pharisee if you think i'm gonna stop just because you want me to you have lost your mind i'm just getting started good i'm just now calling out joe biden i'm just now preaching against the lgbtq community i'm just now calling out abortion i'm just now talking about election fraud i'm just now talking about antifa and black lives matter i'm just now calling out this wicked nonsense [Music] you might as well leave rabbis clapping so nobody will see you [Applause] i'm done with it [Applause] oh we love you pastor then you sneak around behind my back like a double tongue snake did you hear what he he told a certain family that they couldn't come back to the church we did that for a reason if you think we just willy-nilly kick people out of church because we ain't got nothing better it breaks my heart as a shepherd when people leave this church but if you think for a second that i'm gonna be okay with fighting everything we're fighting people breaking in my house my family having to stay in a dadgum motel room cause they're stared to death to stay at their house listen if you think that i'm going to be able to fight all that and all this nancy pelosi hit this mess and look at it going to jail look i'll fight all that i ain't fighting people that go to this church i ain't fighting people that go to this church well we just gonna leave you've been saying that for months i wish you would have left a long time ago i could sleep better at night i'm sick of it i'm sick of it you think we got a crown problem go ahead and leave you say oh my goodness that's arrogant no it's not arrogant it's truthful this woman yesterday under this tent she don't know the first thing you don't know jack sprout about i didn't get to the text yet i'll get there i ain't talking about constructed criticism you can come to my office and say anything you want to pastor look i don't know about this hey that's cool then talk to me don't talk to anybody else i got a phone number i got an office i got a secretary of the book you let you sit right down you got to run me in the church down like so look go somewhere else that's cool i like what the other guy's saying that's cool listen i like what i am saying more than what they're not saying i can tell you that right now that's the truth but she came here yesterday and she prayed and prayed she said i'm telling you you'll need a bigger tent she said the glory of god's in that place she said there's one thing then god's gonna reveal it she said there's one thing that i just sense in my spirit god's gonna reveal it she said you still got a little pocket of resistance you've got a traitor spirit under the tent because everybody's got a judas at the table right [Applause] so just go ahead and knife us and get over with i don't have to deal with the anticipation of it i've been stuck before i know how this thing works this ain't your average church okay i'm just not you got to be more like a church down the road then go to the church down the road okay you know the apostle paul there's a few times he defended his apostleship and i'm just defending what we're doing here because although i've taken a little longer this morning i don't take all my sermons and preach on politics you got to rewind them and actually watch me listen to what i say rather than criticize five minutes of what i say it's a whole new level it's a whole new shift there's a whole new day up at this place so we're going to keep calling it out and we're going to keep saying what needs to be said because look when your family's starving to death and they're taking your kids away and you lost your job because you wouldn't take a sheep shot in your arm you're going to thank god that you had a man of god who wouldn't like some compromise and joel osteen that's going to stand up in the pulpit and tell you what needs to be said and say what needs to be said and do what needs to be done i'll go to jail for what i believe i'll go to the cemetery for what i believe i live by this stuff and i die by this stuff my family lives this stuff every day so if you want a private meeting with me i'll love you i'll help you i'll answer your questions and we'll work through that but if you just want to be a snake in the grass get out [Applause] get out and don't leave a church through a text message we think we're going to leave so we would communicate through text message won't you get in a fight with your spouse and communicate like that and see what happens huh and you gonna leave the house of the anointing and the blessing that has done things for your family we got people on facebook right now three weeks ago i gave them fifteen hundred dollars and right now they're running me down like a dog so i told them look don't you come crawling back to global vision when everybody starts showing up here because we're the ones feeding people and we're the ones housing people and we're the ones clothing people and we're the one healing people and we're the one helping people so i i thought i would just remind i'm not a john the baptist but i i do have biblical clarification for the things that i say i just thought i'd get that out of the way right up front so now we can preach a little bit verse 19 luke chapter 7 everybody all right always ask like it matters and john it's john the baptist he's sitting in jail and john calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to jesus saying art thou he that should come or look we for another now i know sometimes i'm rah-rah bish kumbh and i know what to say to get people riled up i get it but let's just slow down and dial things back for a moment this is john the baptist jesus just called him the greatest prophet that ever lived ever born of a woman he's about to have his head cut off for the gospel sake most powerful preacher in the land the whole nations multiple in that area came to hear what he had to say and all of a sudden now in a moment of reality in a moment of raw humility and fear because all of us face some fears in life it's not the fact that you have them it's the fact that you got to face them and walk through them and john the baptist is in jail and he calls two of his disciples two of his elders if you will two guys that have been walking with him and learning from him learning the ropes as preachers preacher boys we would call them and he brings two of these disciples and he they're they're visiting him in jail they he got three hots and a cot right there they're looking through these bamboo bars as it were and john the baptist pulls two of his guys up and he says hey uh i need you to do me a favor guys i need you to go get a message to jesus email's all jammed up i need you to ask him are you really the one or am i looking for somebody else this guy had just spent much of his ministry if not all of it in the reality of the narrative the little short books that we have of the new testament preaching prepare ye the way of the lord prepare you the way of the lord prepare ye the way of the lord this man gave his life and he died for jesus but in a moment of weakness we all have it in a moment of doubt in a moment when things weren't nearly as clear and the media was all about him and his mind and his heart you can imagine you're in jail you can't figure out what people are doing where people are going what people are saying and he's having a moment of uh a freakout attack a little anxiety built up he's just as human as the next one he may be john the baptist but he put his shoes on one foot at a time like you me and everybody else and he said hey i need you to go ask jesus if this is really worth it i i've put my neck on the line literally and it's about to have a dotted line around it they're going to chop my head off now i'm willing to do it if he's the one but i got to ask you to go ask him do we look for another or are you the predicted prophesied messiah that we've been waiting for all this time you ever felt like that ever felt like is it really worth it to lose my job is it really worth it to have people not invite me to a family reunion is it really worth it to have people criticize me and not give me the thumbs up but give me the thumbs down and unfriend me and castigate me and bully me and call me names and back me in a corner threaten my life is it really worth it listen we all get there we all get there just don't live there it's kind of like discouragement you can get there but don't live there you can get discouraged but don't stay discouraged because even when people don't encourage you you can encourage yourself in the lord the bible says so john the baptist said hey fellas i need to ask you to go ask him are you the one are you the one so watch this or do we look for another because he was willing to if that's what jesus said verse 20 when the men were come unto him they said john baptist hath sent unto thee by the way that was not a denominational tag that was a dunk them in the water tag okay ain't no denominational hierarchies in the bible everybody's like well you know john was a baptist so you ought to be one john was a baptizer and you ought to get baptized okay that's what the bible teaches so they came to john baptist and they have sent us unto thee saying here's the question lord this is what john the man you said was the greatest is asking art thou he that should come or look we not just him look we for another because they were looking to john as john was looking to jesus and somebody's always looking to how you are going to respond to jesus there's no doubt about that whole another message in itself so they said jesus we have a question to ask you and he gave them an immediate audience just personal private sat down and they said hey john the baptist wants to know is it really worth it are you the one or do you want us to stand up break him out and let him go preach about somebody is there another one that's coming verse 21 and in the same hour i love how he answered them by doing something jesus wasn't a lot of talking he was a lot of action and in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues and of evil spirits and unto many that were blind he gave sight isn't that crazy jesus actually laid his hands on sick people jesus actually congregated with people that had contagions somebody says well be like jesus okay take that stupid mask off and start laying hands on people in the name of god then if you want to be like jesus you better be careful what you asked for did you know leprosy was the most dreaded and contagious disease of the day and the bible says he healed lepers he healed blind folk folk raised the dead as we sing bodies are still being raised giants are still being slain god can still make a way when there seems to be no way and jesus said well let me answer that question by showing you this be healed be healed be saved be redeemed be restored put that crack pipe down put that dope down be delivered be delivered put your home back together and jesus went around healing people and they're like oh now we get it it was a seeing situation not just a hearing situation and so he went out and he healed people and he preached to people look at the end of verse number 22 to the poor the gospel is preached not to the rich not to the elite to the poor the gospel is preached and this is not just a money context it's a practical context because without jesus you're bankrupt you can be a multiplied billionaire with a capital b but if you don't have jesus you can sit on a dime and dangle both legs you're broke as a joke you have jack spratt nothing because what shall it profit a man if he gained the whole world and lose his own soul what shall a man give in exchange for his soul and the answer is nothing a soul is the most valuable commodity in the universe there's no price upon a soul verse 23 it says and he and then he said excuse me verse number 22 then jesus answering said unto them watch this go your way say way so at the end of the verse he said look i want him to know the gospel's being preached but then he backs up in the context and says look i want you to go your way go back the same way you can because you got a message you got to deliver to this man in jail to encourage him because he's not going to get out he's going to lose his head he's going to successfully get his head cut off for what he said herod had him locked up in prison on his birthday his daughter herodias came in the bible said that in so many new testament king james word she's a stripper she's shucking her clothes off gyrating dancing around looking all netflix crazy and the bible said that it pleased the people that were there and herod said oh i see how this pleases my friends which by the way shows you what a pervert he was let his daughter dance half neck in front of all of his buddies and then go with it think it's cool and so he said uh come here herodias i will give you anything you asked for up until the half of my kingdom and the bible says she went and conspired with her mother so jezebel jr went to jezebel senior because she got that nonsense and wickedness from her mama anyhow so be careful what kind of spirits you let up in your house because your kids will get it every single time there is no doubt about that and harry's wife said well hell i'll tell you what you need to go tell daddy on his birthday tell him i want the head of john the baptist on a platter chop his head off it was inevitable it was gonna happen john knew what's gonna happen he's in jail and he's kind of chewing his fingernails a bit and he's got these basketball-sized ulcers he's got a little little nausea like miss monica was saying he's a little nervous he's full-blown human he'd been taking a stick or a nail and writing on the wall how many days he'd been there he done graffiti and everything he done laid up in his bunk and wrote john the baptist was here for whoever else is going to be laying in that bunk right he knew it was coming they ended up chopping his head off in just moments before it happened just days before the reality of this massacre this martyrdom that was heard the world round jesus said go your way go back the same way you came tell john what things you have seen and heard now wait a minute why is that important because he just did it so they would see it and hear it it wasn't secondhand information they said hey are you the one he said sit right here watch this started zapping folks don't you wish sometimes you had someone jesus zapping power and he started healing folks and saving folks redeeming folks and preaching the gospel to poor folks so he said you go back you tell them what you've seen and heard how that the blind sea the lame walk the lepers are cleansed the death here the dead are raised to the poor the gospel is preached you see the proof is in the power let me say on this side the proof is in the power of course there's no power without the process that's another message the proof of who god is is in the power of what god does and the manifested presence of god was on full tilt display for these men to see and he said now here is what i want you to tell john the baptizer you go back and you look him in his beady eyeballs through them bamboo bars and you tell him the dead are raised the lepers are cleansed the blind see those that can't walk are walking again the gospel is being preached the lepers are being cleansed the contagions are being healed you go back and tell john what you've seen and what you've heard because the proof is in the power and sometimes i lay awake at night tossing and turning like a toothpick in a bathtub wanting to sleep pretending to sleep and then everybody says you've been sleeping oh yeah am i and sometimes you ask yourself the question is there another way is there like a way around the red sea is it like a helicopter that could carry me across the red sea do i really got to walk through the red sea do we look for another surely lord there's a less abrasive way surely we can just comply like everybody else surely lord we can't have that many detractors and that many rebels and that many haters and that many pharisees and that many leftists that want us dead and want to burn our campus to the surely surely surely there's got to be another way sometimes we think like that let's just be honest i do i'm just super short sleeve honest in a long sleeve jacket just letting you know hey sometimes i just need to give you my vulnerabilities and my weaknesses and my fears and my frailties and let you know that i got just as much problem in life as you got problem in fact right now i probably got a lot more problems than some of you got and sometimes we can ask ourselves the question man is all this worth it now understand i'm not publicly questioning that now i've privately questioned that in my heart you get that i've already got my answers i wouldn't have the mic if i didn't have the answer but sometimes i think man how much can one man drag his family through how many friends can my kids give up because i'm their daddy how many more parents will not let their kids hang out with my kids because they contaminated by greg locke how many more dadgum articles on newsweek and cnn and fox and forbes and washington post and the wall street journal and the l.a how much more scrutiny can we go through are you kidding me there's got to be another way then i get up and put on my preaching shoes and come to church never know what to expect never know what kind of crazy folks are going to show up i figure if you're here you're just as crazy as i am and if you're a visitor and you're a first-timer then come back you'll be just as crazy as we are you you can't help but not like us i can tell somebody like man i'm telling you i'm trying not to like them you like us we got this thing streaming to a hundred thousand people you might as well not hide they've seen you on camera you guilty by association you ain't going to family reunion next year either praise god huh you might as well just buck up put on your big boy britches and figure it out if i knows you here like we said a few weeks ago somebody's watching me yeah they watching you they got your number [Applause] but then all of a sudden i read here in the bible that the proof is in the power in what god's doing that's why hundreds of people are showing up that's why we've baptized 15 or 1600 converts in just a little more than a year that's why we're watching people take us to a whole new stratosphere and get healed and get turned around and get set free we're watching god put homes back together we're watching god do something over that's why on a wednesday night we can give a hundred thousand dollars to a ministry in canada of all places that's why there's a spirit of generosity under this tent that's why the lord's moving that's why the lord's blessed because the dead are still being raised and the lepers are still being cleansed and the blind are still seeing and the lame are still walking and the gospel is still being preached to the poor ladies and gentlemen the proof is in the power of what god's doing you can't deny what god's doing in this place it's worth the protesters it's worth the death threats it's worth the news media it's worth what the newspaper said it's worse it's worth what the trolls on twitter say somebody said in the meet and greet line earlier we'll have one in a minute but they said oh we found you through twitter i thought whoa that's the worst place to find us right there through twitter there's other avenues but i think to myself sometimes lord is there another way and he says you just be reminded son the proofs and the power i'm doing something in this place i want to say something you know the only person that knows in the whole room when i'm either about to shut things completely down or i can't figure out when i'm going to shut things completely down is my wife because she knows when i'm circling the airport to land the thing back on the tarmac right because it's one thing to get off the ground as a preacher and soar around but you'll run out of gas after a while you got to land that joker so sometimes in my mind i scramble for opportunities from the holy spirit to know exactly when to land the plane because i got so much that i'm full of that i just want to say say say but in light of this text in a lot of recent events and experiences in my own life i want to just give you a snippet little snapshot not a bunch of details on why this text could not have been preached by me this past wednesday night and it had to be this morning instead i've been in a conference i'm i got conference hangover some of y'all are from the we the people i've been to one since then two since then i mean i'm every day somewhere in the morning at 6 a.m courtney's restaurant guys let's be there let's pack that place out have breakfast let's pray let's read the word of god i'll be there at six o'clock but at 7 30 i hop on the bus tomorrow night i'll be in north carolina tuesday night i'll be in west virginia wednesday night i'll be right here friday i'm thursday i'll be back here friday i'm going to be in bedford virginia saturday i'm going to be in fort lauderdale florida sunday i'll be right back here because i always preach in my favorite place praise god and that's right here under this tent it's just day after day after day and it's just a very busy season for me right now very busy season for our family and it that provides a lot of logistics and a lot of difficulty a lot of planning a lot of praying a lot a lot of fasting a lot a lot of stuff right and so friday morning actually thursday night but also friday morning i preached at the we the people reunion in powderly kentucky some of you were here from that that is the smallest town i've been in a long time that is a poke and plum town poke your head on the corner you plumb out of town i mean it's a little video place right it's redneck they sold about 12 1300 tickets and all these people showed up and so i preached that morning outdoor event and artur was there and general michael flynn was coming in candace owens had to end up canceling she wasn't able to be there michael and dale just a lot of the same people that we hobnob with people we've had here people we all have in here and so it's just one of those type of reunions it's fun but i was going to be coming back that friday afternoon back back to the house and we had the rv with us and all of that but my friend brian gibson many of you know brian gibson with his church he has campuses in amarillo where i just preached but he also has campuses three of them in fact uh three other ones two of them are in kentucky one's in owensboro he said hey he said i've got this this preacher coming that i've been wanting you to meet for a long time this guy's from colombia not down the road i mean the nation colombia he doesn't speak a lick of english just just he got his little google translator he'll type things on it'll talk to me through siri you know and so he brings an interpreter named ricardo with him i like that ricardo so ricardo comes with him and so this guy they call him prophet gustavo now i'm going to be honest with you there have been a time not too long ago in the not too distant past that i would have thought this this is crazy this smoke and mirrors this is this is a spooky business prophet gustavo from colombia right he said i think you ought to come to the church and just come to the service you know how many times i just show up at somebody else's service that i'm not preaching at i just i just don't have time for that i just i'm just running i'm preaching somewhere every day of the week nearly right now and this season won't always be that way i said yeah brian i'm going to come over i said i just feel like we should so we went over we got there a couple hours early long story short and so mind you this guy walks in 20 minutes before the service we're in the green room in the back talking with brian and me and my wife greg and lisa and we're in there and we're this guy walking just he's his country's cornbread but he's from colombia right he's talking through an interpreter i've never met him i've never been to his church we've never preached in the same conference at the same time we've never shook hands we never looked at each other never hugged each other i meet this guy 15 minutes for the service even stars i didn't know him from adam's house cat okay he is full-blown 1 000 hispanic does not watch my videos because i have no interpreter you know mode on there i don't know this guy brian said you need to show up he said he might not even say one word to you he's just going to preach and he's going to do it for a couple of nights but maybe god's got something for you maybe so we show up we walk in during the music because my wife can't miss the music because she's a masterful worship she loves to worship so we're in there and he he walks in like halfway into the music and he sits down you know with everybody and he's just in there and brian introduces him and he gets up and he starts talking about the fact that you know the word of god we have the written word and we have the the the living word jesus christ they will never contradict contradict anyone we've been taught you know the word is a thing but the word is a person it was a beautiful beautiful message doctrinally sound as could be about the word became flesh and dwelt among us and that's why the word is so important from god that we read and studied today it was beautiful it was a message i would have preached and so about halfway through it before he would just walk over to people and just start reading their mail now i'll be honest with there's been a time i'd have been like man this little wacky but these people just start crying and i know we've seen different levels and different that kind of stuff and so then he said look he said i'm here to tell you he said what's wrong with a lot of you is that you've believed a lot of witchcraft and sorcery in the church and it's caused you to not want to listen to what the word of god says and what the bible says and when god gives somebody a word of wisdom for you it makes you get freaked out and he's saying all this in spanish through ricardo and i'm like wow he's spot on because that's exactly why i didn't believe some of that nonsense because i thought man this is spooktacular foolishness but i'm going to tell you when i knew it was real he doesn't have them in a puddle of tears over there didn't know them at all had i mean i said some things i ain't gonna bring up i was just like what i preach everywhere i know every trick there is i know when to get you to stand up and i know when to get you to throw maters i get it i understand car salesman manipulation i can sell you anything and you'd like it so you gotta be careful with that so i'm looking for my antennas are up so he's just to preach in a big way he'll he'll stop and he'll go right back to the word of god right back to preaching right back to interpreting and he walked over to me and he stood in front of me and he started to lay his hand on my head right here and he started to say in through the interpretation you understand you'd have to watch the video it's powerful that through you flows a gift of the prophetic i i'll tell you when i knew he was legit he started to lay his hand on me and say that and then he shook his head no and he turned to my wife and he put his he said through you there is a gift of the prophetic through him flows the word of god i'm telling you it was it was the most surreal moment of my ministry because look i've had people say oh yeah yeah you're a prophet you know you got the prophetic ability but but i've never really walked in that and so i knew when he stopped and shook his head and put his hand on my wife's head i knew right then this guy's legit because i know she flows in the prophetic and he said to her you have been good for him and he has been good for you because you flown the prophetic and he flows in the word and since the word of god is supposed to be prophetic when they too shall become one flesh you have a spirit of prophecy in your home and you're able to preach and you're able to be bold and you're able to say things that a lot of people don't get away with saying and i'm just like okay that's like super surreal right there now here's what you don't know five minutes before that five minutes before that i'm sitting over there and i'm like i hope this is a real deal i'm just being honest it's new to me and i put my hand right here on my heart god strike me dead if i'm even exaggerating the truth i put my hand on my heart i said lord look i said i don't know how long this cat's gonna go but if what he's saying is real and you've got a word for me then i need him to come over and lay hands on me and give me a word if this is real then he needs to call me out in front of all these people now i understand a lot of people in bronze church know me and know us already and i'm just there and i said lord in five minutes he pulled that deal with ty on myself then he starts talking to brian gibson the pastor then he comes back over grabs me by the hand pulls me up in front of everybody now i got the sweaty palms i'm like man i hope i said my prayers you're gonna call me out for some crazy thought i had ten years ago or something like oh my goodness what's he going to say so he pulls me up there this guy never met me he didn't know two squats about greg locke and he begins to talk you know in his colombian tongue ricardo begins to interpret he says you have been a man of books you've read books and read books and read books and read books and you put god in a box all those years and if it did not fit in the box it wasn't god now you know my testimony i so baptist born in baptist bread when i died i was gonna be baptist dead i figured baptist was the first class seed on the plane praise god that's all i ever knew my whole life and any stuff i'm talking about right now to me it was utter charismatic nonsense it was nonsense and he sensed that god bless you amen and he said he's had god in a box he's had god in a box and then he brings ty up and he said you have been able to speak into his life you have been the only one that has been able to speak into his spirit because you've flown in the prophetic and he flows in the word because you flow in the prophetic and he flows in the word and he kept saying he said now god is going to take you out of the box and god is going to elevate your church more than he's elevated your church he said more people are going to come more miracles more signs more wonders more baptisms more salvations more healings more movement of the spirit of god this guy's talking in spanish through an interpreter he's reading my mail i never met him let me tell you how yes i knew it was true he put his hand on me he said when you were eight months old in your mother's womb you weren't supposed to be born the devil tried to kill you everybody in this room that's ever been around the amount of time knows that i have a video called the aborted crack baby when my mama was eight months pregnant she went to an abortion clinic and the doctor in 1976 talked her out of having an abortion to god be the glory i turned it okay for an aborted crack baby he said the enemy was trying to kill you there was a call in your life he said when you were a young man god called you to the ministry i was 16 years old when god he just kept on and kept on and kept out telling me things that people just do not normally know especially when you've never met them and they're on the part of another piece of the world that speaks another language and has a whole other culture and then one of the most beautiful things happened he had a jacket that he had he had taken off for a second he was talking about he wasn't trying to be an elijah but he was talking about elijah passing the mantle to elisha and he was talking about how symbolic that was in the bible so we're both sitting there crying standing there crying and my hands are shaking i'm like this is crazy he's telling us things about our home he's prophesying prophesying things about a daughter that he doesn't even know we have that has an anointing upon her that's going to shake people and all of you know that kiki is mildly annoying she doesn't just do announcements that she preach she's a powerful teacher of the word and he's saying you got a daughter and god's going to use her to shake nate and all this stuff so we're listening to all this right he walks over wayne he said there's a lot of noise in your life right now there's a lot of people against you right now there's a lot of things happening in your church and he took that jacket and he put it over both of our heads his weirdest thing put it over both of our heads standing there in front of everybody and he said i feel like the lord wants me to tell you you are no longer going to see the attacks of the enemy you are not going to pay attention to what the news media says you are not going to scroll through social media and waste any more sleep and any more time and any more energy you're not going to see those attacks god's going to put men and women around you that are going to protect you that are going to be so surrendered to the work of god and the ministry of the local church that they're going to undergird you and they're going to hold you up and they're going to strengthen you and i'm telling you it was one of the most powerfully fire filled services i've ever been in my life [Music] because there's no way around the fact that what he was telling me was 100 correct even as much as spooky as it is and i know all the tricks we ain't talking about david blaine street magic we ain't talking about las vegas chris angel certain desolation we talk about god's man saying something the holy spirit said to him for me i'm not gonna tell you what they were and when they were he called out two months in my life and said these are the two most life transforming months that you've ever had and they were the two most life transforming good and bad months i've ever had in 45 years of existence i ain't talking about sorcery and harry potter witchcraft nonsense i'm talking about in a moment in my mind when i'm thinking lord there's got to be a less abrasive way maybe these people are right maybe i'm crazy why are all these people showing up do i really got to put my family through this and in those moments of looking through the bamboo bars god sends a messenger says hey i want you go tell greg lot the dead are raised and the blind see and the death here and the lepers are cleansed and the gospel is being preached to the poor [Applause] and i'm here to tell you the proof is in the power the proof is in the power would you bow with me please our heads are about our eyes or clothes all over the auditorium this morning do we look for another lord oh no the proof's in what you see and what you hear i believe god's put a divine protection over this tent and over this campus like never before i believe if it were not for the grace of god that it got all of us weeks ago i'm telling you we're living at defcon level like you've never seen with the threats and the intensity and i know we've had to step things up security wise but at the end of the day although these men and ladies do an extraordinary job great job you better know one thing we're to the shadow of the almighty and god's protecting this place the nefarious plans of the evil ones shall not prosper he didn't say weapons wouldn't be formed he said no weapon formed against you will prosper the weapon will be formed but it won't prosper he gives that promise to the nation of israel you've seen that happen historically and prophetically and i believe he gives that promise to every one of god's people and let me tell you one of the things he said he has no idea and i haven't even talked to golod ross again he's watching right now guarantee [Music] he has no idea because we ne i don't even think we've ever said it from this pool but other than working from with gilad in radiant israel he has no idea the desire of my wife's heart for the nation of israel do you know by the way when god turned on the financial spigot at our church it wasn't when we just gave gate here here here we give a lot it's when we gave the original fifty thousand dollars to radiant israel a year and a half or so ago when all this started and we stepped out in faith and we gave fifty thousand dollars to jewish people and to the ministry over there i'm telling that's when god turned the wheels on and while he was praying for us while that cloak was over our head he prophesied and said i'm here to tell you there is something about this family and something about this church and god tells me it's also going to have to do with the nation of israel he said you're going to bless israel and god's going to bless you because of that love for israel and he said i am convinced that he doesn't know the name of our church he said i am convinced that you and the church are going to have an office set up in the nation of israel now look i'm here to tell you gilad rossinger is one of my best friends on the planet sitting on his back parts watching us right now on the sea of galilee [Music] and so some of the stuff that i would question within myself there's no reason for me to question when i know it's a valid a valid point from the lord that doesn't contradict what the bible says and some of you this morning have been struggling is it worth the fight is it worth pulling my kids out of public school is it worth this whole mass fight is it worth fighting to lose my job because i'm not going to get the sheep shot in the jab is it worth it is it worth i keep saying these things about jesus people keep hating me i keep talking about election fraud i keep talking about all of the corruption in the government is it worth it is it worth it is it worth it let me tell you something the dead are still raised the lepers are still cleansed in a moment of fear a moment of anxiety and a moment of weakness may god send people into our lives to speak a word in due season to remind us it is very much worth the fight it is very much worth the effort here's what i want to do is we're bowed before the lord i'm going to ask some of our folks to come our folks that will be willing to pray for others in our prayer team we have some men we have some ladies people that will pray for you people that i pray with you or people that will leave you alone if you just want to spend time in god's presence by yourself as they begin to come forward and make themselves readily available under this tent i wonder how many of you would say right now pastor lock there's something in my life there's a need in my heart there's a need in my life i've been struggling with some stuff i got some fear some doubt some dread some bitterness some anxiety i'm facing a job loss i'm facing a situation with my kids i'm facing something in my marriage i'm facing something at school it's been rough it's been hard today solidified some things and baptized me in boldness and furthered me in courage today and if that's you all over this room and the spirit of god use this message to speak to your heart would you slip your hand up high just so i can pray all over the room wherever you are just hold it up high all over the room many many hands everywhere hands all over the place dozens and dozens and dozens of them hands everywhere i want to invite everyone to stand our heads are about our eyes are closed right now sir right now ma'am if you raise your hand i want you to come maybe you just need to to kneel down here and just pray before the lord maybe you want one of these people to lay hands on you as they're doing right now with some maybe you just want somebody to pray with you and pray for you maybe today you just say look i need god to do something in my life maybe you've been struggling with something financially or physically you're walking in some horrible sickness and you know today you just want somebody by faith to pray for you and pray over you i want you to come right now all over this tent all over this house all over this place and i want you to come down to the front if you just want to kneel and pray if you want to stand and pray if you want to lay and pray but as you need people to pray for you i want you to slip out right now just slip out right now come on people coming from all over if you are here for baptism or celebration go ahead and make your way to my left your right go ahead and get stand in line miss billy will show you about the towels and signing up if you're here today to be baptized and follow the lord jesus christ in believer's baptism to be discipled in those waters i want you right now to slip out of your place just go ahead and start lining up and we'll get to you here in just a moment when my wife prays we'll get to you in just a moment but if you need prayer slip out right now slip out right now come on come on let somebody pray over you let somebody pray with you we're still seeing the day of god releasing people from bondage this is not the end this is not the middle this is the beginning of what god is doing in this church it's just the start we've just scratched the surface of where god wants to take us biblically come on many people coming many people praying many people being prayed for we're in no rush you come people are lining up for our baptismal celebration i want to ask you this question all over the room church i want you to listen to me carefully and closely [Music] jesus christ as i said a few moments ago is the only way [Music] hope in eternity there's a heaven to gain and a hell to shun hell was not created for you or me it was created for the devil and his angels if you go to hell sir if you go to hell ma'am if you go to hell young person church member non-church mirror if you go to hell you'll be a trespasser because god didn't make it for you he made it for the devil god wants you to be saved and set free he wants you to repent and believe the gospel mark 115 first message jesus ever preached and i wonder whether you're seated or whether you're standing all over this auditorium if there would be someone here today who would say pastor locke the real need of my heart is the gospel the real need of my soul is to be saved to be forgiven of my sin i know i don't want to go to hell i want to go to heaven but it's more than that i want jesus to be my lord i want jesus to be my savior and my master i need to be set free and forgiven of my sin if that's you today and you would let me pray for you and pray with you you've never trusted jesus christ whom to know is life eternal it's not about church not about denomination it's not about what you do or what you've done it's about what jesus has done for you and if right now today the best you know how if you'd be willing in this house and online to receive the grace of the gospel of jesus christ to repent of your way and trust him as the only way if that's you today and god's speaking to your heart sir ma'am young person wherever you're at would you right now hold your hand up all over this auditorium i want to trust christ today i need christ today as my savior god bless you god bless you thank you i went over here god bless you god bless you god bless you to the back god bless you there god bless you thank you hold him up just for a moment god bless you here here and here now here's what i'm going to do let me tell you something you can put your hands down i do not have a hocus pocus bag of pixie dust that i could sprinkle on you and just because you've come into this tent you're going to walk out saved don't know the bible says you must be born again that is a command of something that you must respond to i can't do it for you you could pray a thousand ways because the bible says you believe in your heart that god hath raised him from the dead and confessed with your mouth and you shall be saved it's a heart issue it's a confession issue so i don't have words that can save you every week i emphatically remind you that a prayer didn't leave heaven and die for you but a person did and that person is jesus and that person today wants to hear from your heart the cry of repentance [Music] and right where you are if you raise your hand even if you didn't but if you raise your hand specifically those of you that did and were unashamed i want to help you carry on a conversation with the lord right now as you're bowed before him in that seat standing or sitting i want you to simply say father in heaven i know and acknowledge that i am a sinner and for my sin i deserve hell but i asked lord jesus that you would forgive me of my rebellion i repent of my sin [Music] i believe that you died for me i believe you were buried for me and by faith i believe that you were resurrected from the dead to take away my sin and lord jesus the best i know how i trust you and you alone as my lord and savior forgive me and cleanse me [Music] i trust you to take me to heaven when i leave this world but most of all father change my life by the power of the gospel of jesus christ [Music] now with our heads bowed and eyes closed i want to ask you a question it's between you and god but we want to rejoice i wonder how many of you of course i can't see the many online but i wonder how many of you under this tent up front towards the back left middle right standing or seated i wonder how many of you would quickly quietly but unapologetically and unashamedly slip up your hand and say pastor i believe today god's spirit met me right where i'm at i've trusted the lord jesus christ i've repented i believe the gospel today i've trusted the grace of god slip your hand up high all over this tent god bless you god bless you god bless you god bless you thank you thank your hands everywhere hands everywhere god bless you thank you thank you people i met him this morning i knew god was going to do something in their heart just before we pray and continue in worship and go to our baptismal celebration we've got a line of folks over there look you're a saved right now if you just got born again you're as saved right now as you have ever been but the next step is to follow the lord in believers baptism so whether you come back next week or you come back next month you ought to follow the lord publicly jesus said don't you be ashamed of me before me and or i'll be ashamed of you before my father in heaven some of you hey we got towels worry about your change of clothes later if you got born again and want to follow him today go get in line we'll baptize you today and let everybody know that you're following jesus christ lock stock and barrel with your life you can slip out and walk over there right now and we'll get you set up we'll get you set up [Music] you know this is the truth i really love corporate prayer there's something so special about god's people getting together and praying and letting our cries go before the throne room together just that bond of unity and family and who we are in the lord jesus but i'm going to be honest i really don't feel liberty in my spirit to pray today and i know that i normally do and i'm gonna tell you why because i was praying before service and i told the lord i was like lord sun just feels off in me for some reason and i realized as the service went on that there is someone underneath this tent today and i understand you more than you would probably realize because you would look at me and you're like oh man she's got on a nice dress and high heels y'all i promise if i was not married to the pastor i'd be in some flip-flops and some leggings on any given day amen and so i understand where you are and i feel this tug in my heart so strong to tell you wherever you are and whoever you are you have searched and searched and searched for so long in your life and you have went down every wrong road and every wrong relationship and every wrong job and you have been specifically drug addicted for a very long time and you are tired you are so so very tired and today today the lord says to you i see you i know you and i love you and it does not matter where you have been and it does not matter what you have done because the lord found me drug addicted overdosed in a ditch okay it doesn't matter to him you don't come to god because you're clean you come to god because you're dirty and you need a savior and you need the living water of who jesus is to wash over you and to cleanse you and to redeem you and to name you and to give you an identity and a future and a hope because you can look around at the world and it is so super discouraging but god knows your name god knows your name because he knew you and he formed you in your mother's womb and today god is saying to you you don't have to search anymore have you ever felt like god just came right down from heaven and sat down next to you because who you are in this tent today that's how you feel you feel like the spirit of the lord has met you in this place because he has because he has so listen we're going to go into a time of baptisms but afterwards my husband and i go right over there into that tent and i'm gonna be honest i have a lot to do today but it doesn't matter because your soul and your brokenness i feel so deeply to the core of who i am so i don't care if i stay here until tomorrow to minister to you i will be in that tent and i will love you and i will cry with you and i will speak god's word over you and we will stay here all night all day tomorrow all day the next day look i'll figure it out i'm good on the fly okay i will figure it out i promise not because i have something for you but because the spirit of god within me has something for you today so we love you thank you so very much for coming please do stay and celebrate with us all of these beautiful people that god has redeemed back to himself and they are going to make a public profession of their faith today we have got to celebrate what god celebrates even the angels rejoice at the throne room of god for salvation [Music] amen let's have some baptismal celebrations amen what a blessing whether there be worship with the band they'll be popping up on here so you can see them and it's going to be a beautiful time and then my wife and i will be meeting right over there in that tent and we love you guys all right sister amanda upon your public profession to faith in jesus and the power of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried in baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] [Music] my dear brother jimmy upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel it gives me great honor my brother the lord to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness [Music] we are here for you come and do what you [Music] jesus is the part of do gospel it's my great honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] [Applause] [Music] we need to move [Music] gospel it gives me great honor my young brother in the lord baptized you in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism raised us alive [Music] gospel what a great beautiful honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit bear in baptism praise to walk in newness alive [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] of faith in jesus the power and glory of his gospel it gives me great honor before these witnesses baptize your name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] healing is coming in [Music] is [Music] what a great beautiful honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism raised us alive [Applause] [Music] of faith in jesus the power of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] all right sister shannon upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you my sister the lord in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] [Music] all right miss kelly upon your public profession of faith in jesus the power and glory of his gospel gives me a great honor to baptize you my sister in the lord in the name of the father son of the holy spirit we're in baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] yes we love you oh [Music] upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel gives me a great honor my sister in the lord to baptize you in the name of the father son the holy spirit we're in baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] [Music] upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power of his gospel it gives me a great honor my young sister in the lord to baptize you in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in his life [Music] all right brother jacob upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel gives me a great honor before these witnesses to baptize you sir in the name of the father son the holy spirit bear in baptism praise to walk in newness of life [Music] [Music] hey man this is uh sister jasmine i know it's cold this is brian lane's daughter amen in this a blessing praise the lord he had the privilege of leading her to christ himself and this is beautiful i'm going to ask brian to kneel down and help me out as we baptize miss jasmine together sister jasmine upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power and glory of his gospel it gives us a great honor today before these witnesses to baptize you my sister in the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit bear in baptism grace to walk in this [Music] all right yes all right my brother justin is cold upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power and glory of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you sir in the name of the father son the holy spirit baptism raised to walk in newness of life [Music] what a glorious and beautiful opportunity to baptize you sir before these witnesses in the name of the father son the holy spirit bear in baptism raise to walk in newness of life [Music] [Music] yours is the kingdom [Music] the praise of your glory for you are raised [Music] [Music] yours is the glory [Music] my system will end upon your folk profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel what a great and beautiful opportunity to baptize you my sister and the lord before these witnesses in the name of the father son the holy spirit bear in baptism raised nothing well praise the lord give the lord a good shout amen any good my wife and i will be in the ten we'll see you guys love to see you men in the morning and we'll see you on wednesday night into the tent we love you god bless you you are [Music] name dismissed jesus

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