Victory Online | "Remarkable God" - Smokie Norful

this is still the day the lord has made the bible says rejoice and be glad in it for the next 10 seconds i'm not asking for much but for the next 10 seconds give god what you know he deserves oh that's all you think he deserves it that's fine but he deserves greater than that he deserves more than that come on give him what he deserves honor him bless him thank him lift him praise his holy name he is worthy to be praised from the rising of the sons of the setting of the same he's still god and he's still good anybody glad to be in the house of god today make some noise for jesus glory to your name god hallelujah to god be the glory i don't know if you've gotten the news but i want to make sure that i remind you we are celebrating 16 years of victory y'all you got to do better than that 16 years of god's faithfulness god's favor of our prayers and our pressing of lives change of soul saved 16 years of god making ways out of no way showing the miraculous 16 years of god granting us favor and enlarging our territory and giving us the capacity to make an impact to live to be missed not just remembered 16 years bet you never thought church would be like this 16 years if nobody else is shouting and celebrating let me just tell you first lady and i are shouting celebrating daily because we know how much of a god thing this is let me just say this my wife and i we started the church together i actually started as the pastor it was a little tenuous but she finally joined and became the first member she said i didn't sign up to be a pastor's wife i said i didn't sign up to be a pastor but god has a plan and his plan is perfect and i'm so grateful that he gave us parents on both sides her parents and mine who gave us a foundation that we had sense enough to say yes when god said go and because of that i have so seen the hand of god on so many fronts he has just been good as a matter of fact he has been remarkable he has been extraordinary and uncommon in his favor and his blessings upon this church and upon the ministry uh who would have thunk it i i'm looking back 16 years through a portal of of of just confusion and bewilderment over how good god has been because i could not be i cannot believe that the inception of this was uh in my bedroom with my wife just having a private discussion that honey i think i'm gonna have to do this and jump out of the boat and i'm the number one artist in the world in gospel music at that time and i'm saying i'm gonna walk away and i'm gonna give up probably all this money that we're making and the salary that i have amassed and all the achievements and accomplishments um i have to put everything on hold to go and plant this church because this is what god is calling me to do and get this i didn't do that for me i did that for this reason get this and she says okay [Music] don't y'all miss that yeah it's one thing for me to be able to say hey this is what we're about to do but it's a brothers y'all can testify if your honey ain't with you if your wife don't say okay you got issues you can do it if you wanna but to have a wife who was willing to just say okay whatever we have to do i said well i'm gonna have to take all of our money out of the account in order to do this and i spent it all i mean a w a double l i spent it all and not once did she complain murmur grown not once did she lament not once did she doubt not once did she try to dissuade me from doing it not once did she try to hinder me from doing what god called me to do she believed the god in me she didn't put a trust in man because i have failed i am a faulty failing frail man just as every other human being she didn't put her trust in me but she believed the god that was in me strong enough to say i'll trust you with all of my heart and our resources and lean not to our own understanding and that's why if you want to know why let's say 16 million dollars worth of assets properties in the western the only black owned that i know of the only black owned strip mall in the western suburbs of chicago the far western suburbs of chicago properties in the south side of chicago which is land locked we have parking lots with an s on it we have uh 39 000 square feet worth of space on the south side of the inner city of chicago we have seen over a million worshipers we have seen souls i can't even tell you hundreds of thousands of souls saved not just locally we reach over 29 countries around the world listen if you really want to know why i shout the way i shout while i'm celebrating why i'm celebrating the way i'm celebrating why i'm excited about 16 years it's because i know god is remarkable he is faithful he is magnificent it is the lord's doing i don't take credit for it i don't glory in it god did it and he did a marvelous and wonderful thing if you're excited with me just come on and celebrate 16 years yeah 16 years of faithfulness and favor and god's remarkable hand upon this ministry to god be the glory grab your bibles let's get to work and talk about the remarkable god we have turn with me to luke the fifth chapter verse 26. luke the fifth chapter of the verse this is verse 26. this is on the heels of a miracle that jesus had performed and this is going to be the foundational text for this particular sermon six uh luke the fifth chapter verse 26 and i'll read it from you i'll read it to you aloud and then we're going to jump back over to psalm the 145th number of psalms everyone was amazed and gave praise to god they were filled with awe and said we have seen remarkable things today i wonder if anybody else can testify to that they were filled with praise and filled with awe and said we have seen remarkable things today just in case you hadn't figured it out the fact that you got up was a remarkable thing today the fact that you're still here come on somebody is a remarkable thing today jump back to the 145th number of psalm and it's going to be our somali spotlight for today we're going to shine our focus here 145th number of psalm verses 1 through 3. psalm 145 verse 1 through 3. if you found it shout hallelujah okay i'll read it aloud to you as you read along with me silently it's the psalm of david he simply says i will extol you my god and king and bless your name forever and ever in verse two he says every day i will bless you and praise your name forever and ever then it goes on in verse three and he re-emphasizes great is the lord and greatly should he be praised and his greatness is unsearchable i love the niv translation when it comes to that particular portion of the scriptural text because he says his greatness no one can fathom he is mind blowing great he is out of this world great he is uncommon he is extraordinary he is above great as a matter of fact he is remarkably great pray with me father god in the name of jesus right now it's a preachable moment and i cannot do it without you speak through me unto me let the power of the holy spirit overtake my mind and my members your servant god i've already become i've yielded myself unto you that you might get the glory as much as much as we think so this moment is not about us as much as we came to get god we brought to give and we give you our undivided attention we give you our heart our head and our hearing that you can speak to us speak in a way that transforms our thoughts [Music] invades our hearts and controls our behaviors speak god so that you realign us with your truth your will your way and your word and speak god until demons tremble and fear disappears speak in such a magnificent way we receive this word that those who are lost will be found those who are broken will be mended those who are hurting will be comforted those god who are in need of a savior will find you and receive salvation speak god because we're listening and we're listening for a word that will liberate our lives and cause us to live the abundant life you so decree and declare that we should have and be glorified that the power of the holy ghost fall in this place that revelation knowledge will transcend our human capacity and we'll be better for it in jesus name come on i'm talking to a believing house in jesus name come on all over the victory spectrum right now atlanta houston come on in jesus name dallas in jesus name decree and declare it declare the victory don't wait till the battle is over but shout come on victory cathedral don't wait till the battle is over but declare it like you already got it it's already done it's already turned around it's already working out it's already working for your good it's in your favor in jesus name you think i think some of you still think i said in smoke his name no in jesus name in the name that is above every other name in the name that shall can and that will in the name that is all powerful i need you to release a shout in this room come on we'll come on all over the victory spectrum release a shout like it's already done in jesus name hallelujah and amen amen you may be seated in the incredible presence of our awesome god he is remarkable god is remarkable come on that was my thesis for the day it's real simple this is probably not going to be the deepest and the most heaviest scriptural text to unpack and to unload because it is loaded with simply praise it is david's moment where he finally gets a glimpse of the greatness the grandeur the phenomenon and the magnificence of who god is and as a result he sits down to pin this particular psalm and in doing so he decrees and declares by the evidence of his praise that god is remarkable and it's amazing to me because over the course of david's life you'll see faults you see failures shortcomings hang on hang-ups hiccups you'll see all of the incidents and all of the the the occurrences that take place to make david who he is and in the midst of making david who he is let me help you remember that god called him a man after his own heart which to me in itself and in the very essence of a context is mind-blowing that somebody who is full of fault and failure somebody who has human frailties somebody who has the capacity to to destroy an entire militia at the at the behest of god but at the same time hands are too dirty to build the temple that god desires to have built somebody whose hands are so dirty somebody whose heart has failed somebody whose head has escaped him and he's made some foolish decisions like sending uriah to the front line so that he could have his wife somebody that is so wretched and so undone if we want to be real and talk about it in today's context somebody who was ratchet not just wretched and god would look at him and say this is a man after my own heart so it becomes now my discovery and my my chore of disgust my task of discovery to figure out why what is it in david's life what is it in david's experience that causes him to come to this place where he sits down and writes psalm 145 which begins a whole litany of praise and thanksgiving it begins a whole thing a whole a whole song of of honoring god of giving god what god deserves for god being who god is and has been in his life he starts by simply saying i will extol you my god and my king if you look up the word extol you see that the literal definition is to praise enthusiastically in other words it is to praise god in a sense or in a way that you don't care who's looking or what it looks like if you recall if you read the scriptural record you'll find that david did not really care and was not consumed about other people's thoughts other people's opinions because he knew the goodness and the glory of god as a matter of fact david danced so that he danced right out of his clothes until his bride was looking out the window and saying you're embarrassing the family and he said listen i'll become more indignified than this if you did not know if you knew rather what god had done for me you would understand how i've got to praise him why i've got to praise him and why i don't care if you look at me while i praise him i just want to see if i got i'm going to take a power people pole in the room right now do i have anybody in here with a david hart with a david dance with a david mind that you'll look at your neighbor and the people around you and the folk in the grocery store and the people in the mall you'll be driving down the street and it'll get good to you on the radio and before you know it you don't have your whole praise party for that 10 second light break anybody in here that does not care that you think i am uncouth uncool undignified let me tell you i will walk through the airport and there were times when my children would say dad stop quit embarrassing me but if you knew the hell that he brought us through if you knew the times that i didn't have money to put food on the table but god made a way out if you knew sit down sit down sit down say i got too far to go sit down [Applause] think of his goodness [Applause] and everything that he's done for me i feel like david joe david says i will extol you i'll praise you enthusiastically my god and my king and bless your name forever and ever and every day i will bless you to bless means to speak well of and praise your name forever in other words did you hear me he says i'll extol you i praise you enthusiastically and then he goes on and saying every day i'll bless you in other words he repeats himself he said did you hear me you didn't hear me because i said i'll praise his name forever and ever greatest the lord and greatly is he to be praised in other words he's worthy of what i'm going to give him and his greatness is so unsearchable it is unfathomable according to the new international version translation or in other words david had figured out that god is remarkable god is remarkable and so on i broke it down into this finite concept and the psalm of david the praise of david in the 145th number of psalms simply says this he says in verse 1 i'll praise you in verse two he comes back and he echoes his symptom and he adds something to it he says i'll i'll i will praise you but to bless you means to speak well of so i'll praise you and i'll promote you i won't just praise you but i'ma pump up your name i'm gonna make sure everybody understands this is why i'm praising and then in verse two the sea part of that he says i'll praise you i'll promote you watch this in perpetuity not only the people who have legal backgrounds and insight might know what that means but perpetuity means forever and ever that means perpetually ongoing without fault failure or ending in perpetuity so i'll praise you i'll promote you in perpetuity and then he answers the question of of himself and he gives the explanation as to why he feels the way he feels i'll praise you i'll promote you in perpetuity get this because your greatness is unfathomable david had figured out that god is remarkable so he made this declaration so to be remarkable let me define it and give you the foundation and foundational understanding of what it is to be remarkable is simply this it is to be worthy of being or likely to be noticed especially as here it is don't miss this part being uncommon or extraordinarily worthy of attention another way to say it is to be striking it is being uncommon or extraordinarily worthy of attention somebody say uncommon worthy of attention let me say it one more time uncommon worthy of attention that's what it is to be remarkable that's what remarkable means and so i started asking the question because i wanted to find out why david felt the way he felt how did david come to this conclusion how did he get to the place where he was able to make this demonstrative declaration of praise and invoke and invite others to become enthralled with the remarkable nature of who his god is now i asked a very simple question this became this became my research for this discovery what makes god remarkable and it is amazing because i've asked many people over the last two three weeks i've been asking people i would bump into friends and family and co-workers and colleagues and and i would ask them all the same thing what makes god remarkable what makes god remarkable and all of them had some difference in their in their declarations they would say that it was because of his his omnipresence and and he was able to be here and there and everywhere and and some would say it was because of the miraculous things that he's done some people even said as recently as this morning i think pastor tim says it's because of who he is to me so i i loved all the answers but when i got to the conclusion of the matter i realized as magnificent as these things are i don't think they're the answer what makes god remarkable is it his magnificence in creation is it the ability that he has to step in the concept of nothingness and speak and something becomes the result is that what makes him remarkable in colossians 1 16 and 17 it says for him by him all things were created in him heaven and earth in heaven rather and on earth visible invisible whether thrones or dominions rulers or authorities all things were created through him by him it is no mystery that god it is no wonder rather that god stepped out and created things with the power and the authority of his word he simply declared let there be and it was so perhaps and quite certainly this could be why we conclude that god is remarkable because of the magnificence of his capacity to create all things or maybe it's because of his sustaining power if you read the 17th verse of colossians the first chapter it says and he is before all things and in him all things hold together so maybe it's his ability to not just speak things into creation but to throw things into creation the stellar suns the galaxies the breath and expansiveness of this universe and hold them all together with the authority of his word as a matter of fact eons later the sun the moon and the stars are in the same place that he spoke them into existence and they have not fallen yet why because his word has sustaining power not only does he have the capacity to sustain all things and sustain the universe but please understand that he's holding you together your molecules don't dissipate and you remain a cohesive conglomerate of cells tissues and organs that are so fearfully and wonderfully created that scientists are still studying the complexity of what makes up your body for many decades and they still don't have all the answers one might say this is what makes him remarkable or perhaps he is remarkable because of his ability to be transcendent because he is able to simply be because he is able to be in yesterday today and tomorrow at the same time because he is able to be on the present and navigate the full spectrum and breadth of existence without having to contend with the hiccup that we call time perhaps he is remarkable because he is from everlasting to everlasting and he vacillates on a spectrum and a pendulum of eternity with no regard to tardiness whatsoever perhaps he is remarkable because he is both alpha and omega the beginning of all things and the ending of all things he transcends time he sees what he is what was and what shall be at the same moment one might say and easily conclude this surely is what makes god remarkable well maybe the argument could be that his ability to displace the satanic provinces of hell by leaving his headship taking on the form of sonship in christ jesus and literally becoming god incarnate within the earth now that surely is what makes him remarkable or perhaps it was not in that form of god-head and perhaps it was in the form of his sonship through christ jesus and the others that he makes you concede god is remarkable maybe it was his ability and capacity to part the red sea by having moses lift up a staff maybe it was his ability through his son jesus christ to raise people from the dead surely that was remarkable maybe it was because he calms the sea perhaps it's because he subdues gravity and was even able to walk on the sea maybe it's because he takes authority over the elements and silences the nature just at the mere authority and capacity of his voice maybe it's because he's the one who was able to turn a funeral procession into a resurrection party maybe it's he's remarkable because he was able to raise his friend from a dead level to a living perpendicular by simply calling his name and then calling him forth maybe it's because he multiplies a little boy's sack lunch and feeds over 5000 people maybe it's because he emanates power from the hymn of his clothes sufficient enough that if a woman in the crowd reaches out and touches it then something that has been bothering her for 12 years is miraculously healed now surely that makes him surely that's why he is remarkable maybe it's his ability to cast out demonic spirits and principalities and do what his disciples were not able to do and immediately the thing has to leave the boy alone maybe it's because he can change the periodic table and manipulate elements to the point that he turns water into wine now surely surely that's what makes him remarkable or maybe it's because of his capacity to command schools of fish to leap out the water into the net where they will be taken as a prize for the disciples surely that's what makes him remarkable or perhaps he said he destroys the bondage of sin and declares forgiveness to the believers and heals the paralytic that was lowered through the roof maybe it's because he uses unorthodox tools like spit or saliva and heals a blind man's eyes one could easily conclude from all of these things that this is what makes him remarkable or perhaps it's not the grandeur of his ability and capacity to captivate nature maybe it's not his authority in a capacity to manipulate chemicals and atoms and molecules or his authority over spirits and his command over the elements or perhaps it's not even his ability to transcend time or show forth evidence of his lordship over the universe perhaps these things are too lofty these things are too grand they're too great to claim as the reasons he's remarkable maybe it's more personal than that maybe it's because he has shown you what true friendship really looks like that in the moments of isolation and loneliness he's been a friend that sticks closer than a brother maybe it's more personal than all of the grand things he has authority and capacity to do maybe it's because he has shown you the value of grace and mercy in other words he did not give you what you did deserve but he gave you what you didn't deserve grace and mercy perhaps it's because he has shown you that his grace is sufficient to sustain you when nobody else is around to help you when you're left to raise the children on your own but he some kind of way steps in and gives you everything you need in order to be fruitful and successful and all of your endeavors seem to come together perhaps that's why you look at him and say this is why he is remarkable maybe it's more personal than that maybe it's because he kept you during a pandemic millions of people have died but some kind of way you are yet hold it on by a wing and a prayer maybe [Applause] that's why you say he is remarkable or perhaps perhaps he you feel he's remarkable because when you wanted to take your own life he sent the right word the right person the right way at the right time to speak life over your dead situation and help you declare tricks are for kids and you were able to stand in victory over death hell and the grave because you had a savior who had already defeated and conquered your final enemy maybe he had to remind you of who you are in him you are more than a conqueror you are the righteousness of god in christ jesus you are beautiful and fearfully and wonderfully created maybe that's why you are able to declare he's remarkable one might say that all of these things makes him remarkable however these things are amazing they are not however what makes him remarkable don't get me wrong please don't misread it these things are miraculous but they alone are not what makes him worthy of attention affections appreciation or makes him uncommon in his demeanor i see these things are outstanding they are incredible they are astounding they are mind-blowing they are awesome they are spectacular but i want to argue that they are not what makes him remarkable see to be remarkable if i take you back to the definition that we began with in a literal sense according to the formal definition is simply to be uncommon or extraordinary to be striking or worthy of attention now again i'm not discounting or demeaning the value the essence the marvelous nature the amazing thing that is the miracles that he's performed his authority over nature his capacity to manipulate things and cause things to be what they are not his lordship over the universe i'm not discounting diminishing or devaluing that at all i'm simply saying that if we use the literal definition that what makes something remarkable is that it is uncommon then you have to concede based on literature and history that these things as marvelous as they are in our eyes are not uncommon among other religious sects for the first century palestinian or even the roman citizens of this particular day these were ordinary stories of the gods which would explain how they can see these things happening on a regular basis or hear of these things taking place and you still had people who did not believe because in the early centuries from virgin births to miracles healings to the descent of of people among the dead the ancient religious literature is filled with stories of gods small g gods and divine men doing the same things that jesus had done you read it it was required the iliad and the odyssey you read it greek mythology you even watched the movie uh crash of the titans released the kraken these were not things that were unheard of unthought of and unfathomable or uncommon in the minds of people who had experienced these stories in other places so these miracles as remarkable as they are to you and to me are not what make jesus uncommon and the god he makes incarnate remarkable they are in fact the ordinary exploits of any god small g god and in the face of abandonment and betrayal in the face of denial and unfaithfulness i think it is in that place that we find what makes god remarkable i was amazed i was stunned and stuck when it hit me that it it it was not the magnificence of the miracles that made him remarkable it wasn't even the phenomenon of his sustaining power in my own personal situations that made him remarkable but it was that in the face of abandonment in the face of betrayal in the face of denial from the disciples who had been with him the entire time in the face of unfaithful people whom he came to save who yet declared crucify him who knew no sin jesus does what no other god or person would do this is what makes him uncommon here it is brace yourself are you ready it's not very hard it's really simple he returns [Applause] he comes back it's it's really not it's not heavy i know i know that was such a letdown and a deflation because you were expecting me to say well he's the only one that has stepped out of eternity and subjected himself in time clothed himself in flesh i know you were expecting the deep the heavy the theological thing that is going to be a conundrum and cause you uh to be titillated in your sensations but please understand it's not that hard what he does that know the god and no other person would do in the face of that type of opposition betrayal failure unfaithfulness is that he comes back watch this amidst the miracles of the resurrection what is actually remarkable about jesus is that he refuses to abandon the disciples who abandoned him oh you better let that sit in for a minute he did not give up hope he went back for peter and thomas and all the other ones that were locked up in the upper room he came back and revealed himself to the two walking sorrowful along the mayor's road he came back and he returns to give them not just the evidence of his his authority and his power but he came back to give them hope and no matter how many times you have fallen short how many times you have failed him how many mistakes you have made how many times you know you have let god down how many times he gave you a chance again and again and again and again and again and again and again no matter how many times you have lost your way no matter how many times god i came to give you this hope i came to give you what god came back to make sure you understand god has not left you he has not forsaken you he has not forgotten you he has not abandoned you he will not let you go he will not let you down but he still keeps coming that's what makes him remarkable is that he comes back consider for a moment just how remarkable it is in the world that we live in now it's not enough for us to quietly disagree and dislike somebody we got to kill them on social media it's not enough for us to simply walk away and leave stuff alone but we got to show them who we are no today it's socially acceptable if not encouraged for us to publicly denounce whatever or whoever it is is is that we've got to show the world that we dislike them otherwise the people that don't like them they start to dislike you and that's what we do to those whom we simply dislike or disagree with heaven forbid they actually do something that harms us or hurts us or hurts somebody we don't even know like george floyd let me let that sit in for a minute yeah i know they ain't gonna be popular preaching but it's real it's still good we live in a society now in a cultural context where coming back to offer hope to somebody who has offended us is not even an option but we are believers in jesus christ and what one of those people who betray us the people who cause us pain what then what what happens what what what does our heart say that we should do as a result of what they did to us we encourage retaliation we celebrate their failures and we call for their punishment doesn't matter what the cost on either side of the spectrum all we want is blood and all of us are just like the people who on one corner shouted hosanna lord save us and if you walk down the block on the next corner they will shout the same folk crucify him let barabbas go crucify him [Applause] you want to know why he's remarkable it's because he's not like us he still comes some of you are still in the mind said i owe them this i owe that to them i got to get them together because i oh oh they they deserve every bit what i'm about to unleash on them who among us when we are betrayed deceived abandoned humiliated turns and says i need to go off of forgiveness and hope i need to seek out this individual to offer forgiveness and hope to them no that's not how we do it what makes god remarkable is he comes back and he doesn't come back just for any reason but he comes back to offer hope to give forgiveness to give you restoration to give you another chance i just want to make sure that i call your number because you you you definitely fit in one of these to to give you a an opportunity to recorrect to redirect he gives you he gives you a new day he gives you a new mercy he gives you a new level he gives you a new chance he gives you a fresh opportunity he he lets you start all over he gives you a reset he gives you a revival he gives you a refreshing it does not matter how it's fallen and how you failed in the past god comes back to make sure you understand i'm not like your friends i'm not like your your co-workers i'm not like your colleagues as a matter of fact i'm not like anybody that you're accustomed to so i need you to understand how remarkable i really am i come back i come back to offer you hope healing and empowerment i come back to offer you grace i come back to offer you mercy i come back to offer you forgiveness i come back to show you what long suffering looks like i come back to bring you to another level i come back to put you back together again i came back to mend your brokenness he sent me to remind you that he's not just a god who came back for the disciples but he's the same god that showed up right now in this service for you and for me so wherever you are and whatever you have gone through god told me to remind you i don't just come back ta-da i'm here i'm here with your breakthrough i'm here with your miracle i'm here with your next level i'm here with your promotion i'm here with your elevation it does not matter what they say it does not matter how you falling somebody give god glory because he came [Applause] he came back so now i know now i get it y'all now i understand why david reacted the way that he did now i understand why david who had committed adultery david who had fought and killed men david who had fallen short david who had hid in fear and walked outside of faith david who disguised himself because he forgot who he was in god now i understand why david said i will praise you i will promote you i will do it in perpetuity in other words i will extol you my god and my king i will bless your name forever and ever every day that's when i wake up in the morning and open my eyes i will bless your holy name lord i thank you lord i give you glory lord i praise you lord i honor you lord if nobody else understands why you're worthy you are remarkable in my life thank you for coming back thank you for delivering me thank you for saving me thank you for healing me i need about a hundred people to open your mouth and do like david dance if you wanna shout if you wanna but bless his name bless his name bless his name somebody give him what he deserves right now shout out to this place i'll praise you i don't need any rocks crying out i'll praise him i know i didn't deserve it i'll praise you i know i'm not worthy i'll praise you i bless your name i lift your name i'll magnify your name i'll explore your name i'll glorify your name i'll praise you i praise you if nobody else goes god here am i you are remarkable you are remarkable you are remarkable somebody give him glory somebody bless his name hey glory to your name god thank you for coming back thank you that you didn't leave me when others did thank you that you held me when i couldn't hold myself thank you for coming back god i praise you i'll praise you and promote you i'll praise you and promote you in perpetuity [Music] because your greatness is unfathomable i can't even wrap my mind wow why you would still see the pest in me who am i who am i god that you are mindful of me that you would even take the time out of eternity to come and spend time with me i'm not worthy to gather the crumbs beneath your table [Applause] but you still me god me [Music] 16 years me the house you live in [Music] you know your credit was unworthy because you were a poor steward not god he didn't lack blessings you lacked strategy me [Music] how many times have you had to walk around and say god i'm so sorry [Music] and he does not hold it against you but he still comes me me god you would do all of this [Music] you would even send your only begotten son to die a horrible death on the cross and you would do that [Music] this is what makes god remarkable [Music] god is remarkable god oh you're gonna get it after a while he is remarkable god [Music] he's like no other you ain't ever had a friend like it you've never had a family member closer than him you've never had any authority on this level as great as he is you've never had anybody who had the capacity to do and did what he said he was going to do on your behalf god is uncommon he is remarkable just take a minute think about the greatness of god i know it's unfathomable but do your best search the etherium of your own mind and just try to wrap your mind around how good he is i promise you if you do if you just look at how good he is to you you're not going to be able to sit still tears are going to flow down your face because you can walk back through the testimony of your own time and you can see every time that he came back when folks left you he came back when the doctor wrote you off and said we don't have the answers god came back and he keeps coming back and he keeps coming back and he keeps coming back and he keeps coming back folk have left you friends have betrayed you folk have stabbed you in the back and they left you dead but god keeps coming back he keeps showing up he keeps showing up he's showing up in break rooms he keeps showing up in hospital rooms he keeps showing up in your prayer room he keeps showing up in your bedroom come on he knows the secret things god keeps showing up he keeps showing up and he's handling the fights that you don't want people to know you having he keeps showing up god keeps showing up when you feel like the little lamb when you feel weak when you feel like the little girl or the little boy and you need strength but you've got a lion of judah face on in front of the world you've got this thing that you put on when you leave the house so that nobody knows the pain and the hurt that you're feeling but god told me that he's keeping he keeps coming back and he's coming back to give you hope he's coming back to hold on to you he's coming back to love on you he's coming back to encourage you he's coming back to lift you up he's coming back to bring you out he's coming back to restore you he's coming back to give you everything that the devil has stolen everything that the locusts have eaten everything that the counterworms have eaten god says i keep coming back for you and i'm just coming back to remind you i love you i got you i'm here i'm yours mind we're together we're not apart i'm close i'm closer than you think he keeps coming back [Music] he's in the room there's a thick spirit of god in this room right now come on his presence is in here come on i know some of y'all are watching me on the screen but that's no escape for the fact that he's in this room god is in this room he's in this room he's in this room he's in your living room he's at home he's watching you in your device you feel that oh you feel it you feel that i know you do you feel it that's the sweet spirit of god i love him because he's omnipresent that means he's here and there and he's in here and he's out there he's everywhere and he keeps coming back for us he's here [Music] and where the spirit of the lord is [Music] there is liberty [Music] where the spirit of the lord is [Music] there is liberty [Music] where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty there is releasing this atmosphere there is freedom in this atmosphere you are no longer going to be in bondage he is here if you need god to do something incredible and extraordinary if you need jesus fill his touch if you want us to agree with you in prayer where two or three are gathered in my name he says that shall i be in the midst of them we're here we're here i'm gonna pray for you on the on the airways i'm gonna pray for you all of you in my global campus family and all of my different campuses victory cathedral i'm going to pray for you and while i pray for you i just want you to lift your hands and stretch your hands now i need my intercessors all of my intercessors that are present i need you i need you in the aisles and don't don't touch anybody we're going to stay safe but we're going to walk down the center aisle and we're going to just slowly pray over every row every row that's what we want to happen here you see him coming here but you see him coming out there and you're going to have me praying for you up here come on walk down the aisles right now if you need god to do something lift your hands towards heaven lift your hands towards heaven that's a sign of surrender that says god i give it to you i give it to you i know this is different but we're in a pandemic it's not going to stop our prayers it's not going to stop our praise come on we're not touching anybody we're just gonna walk down the aisle stretch our hands towards those aisles while they lift their hands i'm praying for you at home i'm praying for my global campus family father god in the name of jesus i cancel every demonic attack that has been unloosed and loosed on our minds i bind it in the name of jesus christ the battlefield of our minds it belongs to you let this mind be in us that is also in christ jesus with power with love and with a sound mind cancelling demonic fear that has caused us to be held hostage and we didn't think we would ever see this day of restoration come but say to the lord rebuke you right now you have no authority over that brother you have no authority over that sister you have no authority over that marriage you have no authority over those children you have no authority god i blame i bind him in the name of jesus christ saying to the lord rebuke you you said god that if we resist the devil he has to flee and so it is that we stand in faith today believing that our god is able to do exceeding abundantly even above what we can ask or think we believe our god is a healer our god is a refuge and a very pleasant help in the time of trouble so it is that if you are for us who in the world thinks they have audacity and power to be against us lord we claim our victory we claim our healing we claim our restoration we decree and declare we shall have everything god says belongs to us we cancel every generational curse we cancel the attack on our children we cancel the attack on our loved ones i beat the blood of jesus around them i draw a hedge of protection that is covered in jesus blood his life-giving life-altering life-changing blood shading you lose we win lord i thank you that you came back today to remind us that we are more than a conqueror because you love us that no weapon from the goodness shall prosper that great around you that is in us than anything we've been wrestling with in the world thank you for coming back thank you for doing it god and thank you for victory you are remarkable you are remarkable you are remarkable so we bless you we extol you we magnify you not because we see it but because we see it not because it's already manifested but it has already done we praise you in advance we lift you in adventure we give you glory in advance somebody anybody everybody shout like you got it [Music] yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god and it is so well and it is so and it is so [Music] and it is so and it is so and it is so don't you stress about it anymore don't you worry about it give it to him and leave it alone cast that means to throw to fling cast your cares on him fling it on him because he cares for you he can handle what you can't he can do what you cannot and he's a remarkable god lord i thank you for what we've seen what you've said and what's been done i praise you i honor you and i give you glory and honor for what you have reminded us upon today thank you lord for being a remarkable god thank you for starting us on the journey of restoration healing revival elevation promotion and increase thank you thank you for your remarkable ways which are wonderful filled with awe we are in all of you and we're grateful and appreciative today for this word that has given us evidence and greater confidence of your remarkable nature and very simply put god thank you for coming back in jesus name clap your hands all over the room clap your hands at home it doesn't matter where you are clap your hands and tell them thank you for coming back god is remarkable god is remarkable said with me god is remarkable here's the other thing i want to leave you with i know many of you will be watching me from around the world you're watching me on screens everywhere but here's one thing that i want to leave you with he comes back to deal with you now but he also came back so that he can deal with your then we will all transition [Music] from life as we know it we will pass through portals of death that will carry us into another sphere of existence and according to the bible that i read it says that you will either spend eternity in heaven or you will spend it in hell it makes no sense for you to miss heaven when it's free the other thing i want to leave you with is he came back for you now he's also coming back for you then but get this he's coming back again in the same way that he came for the disciples there is another formula that will be implemented and executed and it will seek it will signal his return he's coming back in other words this world that we know will come to an end and here's the here's the real catch we don't know when it will happen the bible says he's gonna come like a thief in the night in a moment in the twinkling of an eye he's coming back the trumpet will sound sky will roll back like a scroll the dead and christ will arise first he will descend from the clouds with a shout and we who remain will be caught up to meet him in there he's coming back in other words eternity is at hand so do not miss eternity and spend it in hell do not miss eternity in heaven and spend it in hell when he came he came back through the power of his word today to remind you that he still loves you and he died for you and that he wants you to spend eternity in heaven with him that's why he came to provide you with the hope of salvation well pastor i want it i need it i need to make this choice this decision and i need to make it formal and official now great it's easy here it is romans 10 9 10 says if you confess with your mouth believe in your heart the lord jesus is raised from the dead you shall be saved you mean that's all i have to do pastor that's all you have to do is it's the confidence of your heart the profession of your mouth and the exercise of your body put those together and he seals your salvation and gives you eternity in return don't miss it family all over the world right now everywhere everywhere pray this prayer with us say lord come on everybody standing lord thank you for this day and for preserving my life for this very moment i admit i've made some mistakes but i'm so grateful that you came back for me i believe that you were born i believe that you died and by faith i believe you were raised from the dead with this confession i'm excited to say come on stay with confidence you you got this he came back for you he came back for this i am saved somebody rejoice for the salvation of jesus i'm praising god with you i'm praising god for you i'm thanking god on your behalf lord i bless you yes god yes god lord those who prayed the prayer for the for the first time let them step out on feet on faith not on feet and let them now make a decision not just to own you in private but let them own you in public let them declare in the methods and the channels provided to us that they believe in jesus christ so that we can walk alongside them equip them with what they stand in need of and help them to be fruitful and victorious in their walk in jesus name give them that boldness move on their hearts and make it so we declare it and claim victory on in it and say amen if you pray the prayer for the first time in here in victory cathedral victory city in in all of global campus if you prayed it for the first time listen text the word saved s-a-v-e-d text the word saved to three eight four seven zero three eight four seven zero text the word saved we will immediately connect with you and we will start equipping you with everything that you need in order to be fruitful and successful there are many of you who have asked over the over the year and some change i want to join i want to join this church i know especially my global campus family trust me you can still serve you can still start a life group i got some college and young adult people start a life group connect with us we'll equip you we'll arm you we'll pray with you we'll be a part of this process but get the college kids all the victory walking college college kids around the globe get them together and start live groups that's cool start started on your campus but you can still serve and be a part and we encourage you and invite you to be members and that means that you have covenant with us it's more than the gym membership that you don't use amen amen everybody all over the building and all over the it's covenant is saying i'm uniting in covenant fellowship with this body of believers this assignment this anointing that is on this house that's what it means and we want you to be in covenant with us that's deeper that is a divine promise that's between you and family you and god all right so you are welcome to do that and i want you to do that here's what you're going to do because everybody's been asking me so here's the answer you're going to text i know right take your phones out if you want to join take it out now text it around get your text messages open if you want to join because i'm going to hook you up this is how we got to do it it's pandemic y'all we got to do new things new ways and we're going to make transition we're not going to be stuck because of a change and choose not to transition we're going to make the transition and make this work for our good come on somebody amen amen so we're going to do a little differently here it is text 3 eight four seven zero type it in if you want to join today i got you come on every people been asking me three eight four seven zero but you're going to text a different word you ready here it is connect that spelled c-o-n-n-e-c-t okay i gotta make sure we all know cause you'll be i tried to join that church and pastor never text me back text connect c-o-n-n-e-c-t to 3-8-4-7-0 that's everybody in here everybody in my global campus family around the world everybody 3-8-4-7-0 text the word connect and i promise you we're gonna reach out with you reach out to you with such love and excitement because we're so happy to have you here and we thank god for your presence amen amen come on all over the room all over the world all over the victory spectrum clap your hands and just give god praise

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