Welcome to the City Sanctuary 11:00AM Service

[Music] [Music] blessed be the name lord good morning city sanctuary let us stand to our feet as we honor the lord in this place but the good news is that the lord is alive and well for he sent his son for us and we celebrate him in this place you want to put your hands together drink of the water [Music] come to the table he will satisfy [Music] is is [Music] oh jesus [Music] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] to praise god from whom all blessings flow praise him praise him for the wonders of his love praise god for the wonders the world [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] forever [Applause] [Music] come on put your hands together in this place [Music] our god is in control of all things we make this declaration to the atmosphere that there is no god like our god there is no god like jehovah there is no god like jehovah there is no god light jehovah there is no god like jehovah there is no god like jehovah there is no godliness there is no god like jehovah there is no god that's taken out there is no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah there's no god like to hold up there's no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah there's no god like jehovah our god [Music] [Applause] here's why [Music] bring all your failures bring your addictions come lay them down at the foot of the cross jesus is waiting god so loved the world somebody give god some glory this morning hallelujah lord jesus he's worthy and worse worthy to be praised in this place amen i wish somebody would just lift up your voice and sound i bless your lord i thank you lord give him praise like you really mean it we'll raise up the highest praise in the name of the lord we give you glory and praise you [Music] bless it be your name jesus there is no one like you and we praise you in this place i raise a hallelujah [Music] in the presence of my enemy [Music] i raise a hallelujah [Music] louder than the unbelief [Music] i raise a hallelujah my weapon is a melody [Music] oh i raise a hallelujah and heaven comes to fight for me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i will watch the darkness [Music] fear [Music] is with everything inside i will watch the darkness we declare this place [Music] [Music] [Music] is gonna see [Music] is a little louder [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is now with hands up raised in this place just lifting up your hands and singing i'm going to [Music] gonna hear sing [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah regardless of the situation i'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm [Music] [Applause] hope will arise [Music] regardless of what i face i'm gonna sing in the middle of the storm oh [Applause] oh i don't think you heard what you just said but i'm gonna sing it one more time i'm gonna sing [Music] [Applause] just to make the devil mad i'm gonna [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is we're not done yet i'm gonna [Music] oh is now somebody give god some glory in this [Music] place [Music] i'll sing a little louder [Music] i'll sing a little louder i will sing a little louder i'll sing a little louder [Applause] how many people will join with me and just say i'll do that to you lord i'll sing a little louder [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] glory in this place today in the name of god oh father we thank you right now for your holy presence [Music] we lift up our eyes to you oh god for you are our help and our strength you are our very hope everything that we are lord god we commit ourselves to you even in this time and when it seems that everyone else has lost hope law that we will trust in you we will believe in you we will honor you lord god for you are the only rock that we can stand on all of the ground is seeking sand let the atmosphere be filled with the expectation of a living god who's worthy to be blessed oh blessed be the name of the lord for you're truly wonderful you're truly excellent you're truly marvelous there is no one greater than you oh god we commit ourselves to you this morning to honor you in spirit and in truth we thank you for your presence lord jesus be glorified even in this place today lord [Music] hallelujah [Music] let's lift him up he is worthy he is worthy [Music] worthy of every song we could ever see worthy of all the praise we could ever bring he is worthy worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you hallelujah thank you lord jesus the name above every other name oh jesus the only one who could ever save say he is worthy worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you sing holy holy there is no one like you there is none beside you open up my eyes in wonder show me who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your love to those around me come on let's worship him this morning church raise your hands he's worthy worthy of every song we could ever sing worthy of all the breath worthy of every praise we could ever bring oh he is worthy worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you say the name jesus this morning let me hear you oh jesus the name above every other name jesus the only one who could ever save he is worthy he's worthy of every breath we could ever breathe we live for you oh we live for you he is holy oh holy there is no one like you there is none beside you open up my eyes and i wonder show me who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in [Music] there is none beside you open up my eyes in a wonder show who you are and fill me with your heart and lead me in your love to those around me we praise your name we worship you lord jesus you are magnificent you are righteous and you are mighty and we thank you in this place today we build our life upon your love today father god because you are worthy of praise you are worthy of glory and you are worthy of honor hallelujah we praise your name we worship you let's sing together listen build our life upon you lord i will build my life upon your love it is a fur foundation i will put my trust in you alone and i will not sing it again i will [Music] there is no one like [Applause] [Music] [Music] there is [Music] [Music] with your heart and i will build my life upon your love i will put my trust in you alone and i will not be shaken [Music] thanks god [Music] this remains standing for prayer raise the hallelujah song is special this weekend because it was john and miller who used to stand over here along with sue bonifuco and raise their hands and praise and worship every single sunday as they were battling cancer together we know john is with the lord sue just had a new body skin there's absolutely no trace of cancer in her [Music] body there's a there's a benefit for them tonight as i'm saying that at uh in deltona i think at five o'clock a benefit for uh helping them with medical bills and so forth and so forth but i just can't help but think that was just such a powerful time i i battled with coming up or not i was just letting the spirit of god do his work in us i want to tell you that that singing that raising the hallelujah you know hallelujah is the only use four times in the bible and it's only used in revelation and it's about deliverance right it's always used about deliverance and the fact that it is in that song like moses sang the song of deliverance you know in that song of deliverance and that is the equation to hallelujah and it is that very thing like with king jehoshaphat when there was a great battle multitude against them it says that they went out to sing and they're saying the lord is good and his mercy endures forever [Music] there's something that is undefeatable you become unconquerable when you're able to have a song in the middle of the storm hallelujah to god and i know john is in heaven with the lord but what she did is she left us an example that no matter what we're going through that we do not fear even if death awaits us we know that we have heaven to gain there is nothing to fear in your life but fear itself god don't let me be afraid of fear don't let me be afraid of all the things around me but today i want to raise a song of deliverance i raise the hallelujah i raise a hallelujah lord i sing hallelujah lord you've got to give that praise in your heart would you join me in whatever you're facing would you just give that to the lord right now father in the name of jesus we raise our hallelujahs come on just say hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah oh come on it's out of your hearts hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] lord hallelujah to you today we praise you for the deliverance we say hallelujah for our health we say hallelujah for our family we say hallelujah for our finances we say hallelujah for our nation we say hallelujah in all things today devil you're defeated in the name of jesus we raise our hallelujah and we sing hallelujah to the lord today praise be to god thank you for your deliverance thank you for your victory and today we give you all of the praise and all the glory as they sang we trust in the lord and we give praise and honor and glory to him if that's how you feel put your hands together with me and give him a praise [Music] [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah to god such a powerful such a powerful time in worship today praise god amen well we have name tags now they bring the house lights up just turn around to two or three don't shake hands but just look at the tag get reacquainted with who's here give him a wave welcome somebody back to the house of god look at their name tag say hi hi hi hi praise god praise god greet somebody and wave high [Music] thank you lord for your hallelujah in our hearts today awesome job the praise and worship team we you might be reseeded i want to just worship god in this back to church sunday and god bless you for being online and also being in the house today great attendance in this second service no matter what the weather praise god for your faithfulness we want to connect with you though and ask you to go on our city sanctuary church app you'll find that app and press the connect tab and then also press the check in tab we'll be able to hear your praise reports your prayer requests and connect together and so god bless you for again connecting together with us we also want to turn our attention to worshiping god and our giving god's been so good to us somebody say amen to that we know that our nation has been through a lot with the coronavirus and many have lost jobs many have regained jobs but you know in the midst of it we have seen god be faithful it was during this corona period that we were some months back within a thousand dollars of a new tithe record but in the month of august which is usually the worst month for church finances people are going on vacations their last vacation before summer ends buying back-to-school items for their kids et cetera et cetera but last month in august the city sanctuary because you're blessed set a brand new all-time tithe record during the corona period right here because god is blessing the people of god amen awesome you say well pastor you're you're bragging on the church no i'm bragging on god blessing you you're the one that worships him with what he blesses you with and so our businesses have had some record times and also the people of god have been blessed and so we thank god for that god is faithful god is good so we thank god for his blessing upon you and it was isaac who sowed in the time of famine some would have a time of famine these times some people have lost jobs but he sowed anyway in the time of famine and he received a hundredfold return that just tells me like we said last week never start reasoning or start your prayer with what you lack always start your prayer with what god has in his bank account and philippians 4 19 says that my god shall supply all of my need according to his riches in glory through christ jesus he said he supply all my need and he always has and he always will so we give honor to him the bible says that we receive everything from above so as you worship in giving you can give online text to give or give in to model church but let me pray a prayer for you lord bless your people as they worship as they give as they operate by faith as they trust in jehovah jireh the lord my provider lord may you again open the windows of heaven over their lives their finances and prosper them in every regard may everything their hand touches prosper lord that's not just material things that's family things that's emotional things that's spiritual things so lord prosper your people for you said you want my people to prosper and be in health even as their soul prospers so we receive the blessing of the lord through jesus christ today for them and everyone said amen god bless you as you get hey good morning city sanctuary family let's take a couple of minutes to make sure you're staying connected this week the west volusia cancer aid is hosting a silent auction today from 5 p.m until 8 p.m at the center at deltona the benefits are going to help sue buttafuko and the jonah miller family so make sure you pick up your tickets today they are only 15 they're sold in the lobby and know that you're supporting an awesome cause hey you don't want to miss next sunday we have special guest speaker dr brian cutshall will be with us in both of our services dr cutshall is an accomplished author with over 48 books he serves right now as the president of the international school of the word and has served as the lead pastor for twin rivers church in saint louis you don't want to miss this time with dr brian it's going to be next sunday both services you can take a look at your special event bulletin to hear a little bit more and read a little bit more about him but one of our services special guest dr brian cutchell with a very special event coming up october 3rd and 4th special guest speaker messianic rabbi jerry miller will be with us and he'll be speaking on israel and the end times on saturday we're going to have a special lunch and learn seminar so make sure you sign up for that you can sign up now for that free lunch and learn seminar where he's going to be speaking and then he'll be with us both services the following sunday that sunday evening so this is israel and the end times with messianic rabbi jerry miller october 3rd and 4th go ahead and make sure you sign up for that free lunch and learn seminar and then make plans to be with us that sunday [Music] amen praise god our own mark omran will be speaking here on wednesday night you don't want to miss that in person or online so be sure you remember that that's this week on wednesday and then on friday it is national uh recovery month and on the 26th this friday night our celebrate recovery is going to be having a special meeting here and it's going to be celebrating all those who have victory and certainly bring their victory over any kind of life situation bondage or addiction and so you're all invited to attend samurai renee melinda say so again that's going to be on uh this coming friday here at the church also in the lobby you see some of the uh jesus matters shirts we just had a tremendous time of racial reconciliation between pastors black and white pastors in particular and that was at the sanborn center last sunday afternoon we did a history of racism in our area we also had african-american pastors testify of personal experiences with racism both personal and systemic and then there was a prayer of repentance about the racism that had been in our community and then there was a sharing of communion together a new covenant of love and then one of the greatest experiences is when we had the uh leader of the african-american uh ministerial uh alliance and uh also the white pastor who was heading up uh the other ministerial uh alliance in town and they washed each other's feet it's one of the beautiful most beautiful things i've seen since i've been here in deland and so we praise god for that and then there's an event coming up on next saturday in earl brown park it's an expression of the unity it's called with you know black lives matter one african-american pastor had the idea he said we've heard about black lives matter we've heard blue lives matter we've heard all lives matter he said the lord told me that jesus matters and we want to have a rally to celebrate jesus matters amen praise god that'll be on saturday at 8 00 a.m for all of you that like to sleep in you'll have to roll out and join us there at earl brown park we're going to look at stronger together and we welcome you back online we both welcome you back in church and we believe that god has already told us that we are stronger together whether we're online or whether we're in house that we're together in the spirit john 14 12 truly truly i say to you jesus said he who believes in me the works that i do he or she will do also sila and greater works than these they will do because i go to the father jesus we thank you for your word of encouragement to those disciples in context but also to the church i praise you that you cannot lie the bible says it over and over again it's impossible for god to lie if you said it it's possible and you gave us the spirit to make it probable amen so lord make it personal right now make it personal by walking through these chairs walking through the people online and where they view this and visit us with your presence uh lord may you indeed do greater works in us and through us than ever before we ask that in jesus name and everybody said amen beloved god bless you i look today at this book cover by dr jerome groupman he wrote over a 30-year medical career of treating hard cases in particular cancer patients and he wrote about the anatomy of hope he found out that there was a physiological response to belief and expectation you remember some experiments that began in the 50s but then they did their experiments that dealt with those that needed pain relief and they would inject them with shots of morphine dead in the pain they would do this repeatedly and the people would receive a relief from pain and then they would interject a saline solution which was simply table salt and water and it wasn't morphine it wasn't any kind of powerful painkiller it was just simply salt water and when they did those patients who expected the same result all of a sudden testified that again there was no pain they qualified are you sure there's no pain no pain whatsoever so he as a medical doctor began to look into this and as he began to study it he found out that in our physiology that there is the endorphins that are released and also in foul and foul and fallons that are released they go down the spinal column and that go to the nerves that are causing or feeling the pain and coat those nerves so that it actually deadens the pain he said it's a actual physiological fact in reality that in our own body when we believe in that case that they're getting morphine and we expect it to take place that it deadens the pain that that releases in our anatomy those two things the endorphins and fallons that actually do relieve us of pain now i say this about that if if we can see the victory in the natural world with regards to pain can we not believe and can we not expect god to do great things in our spiritual and material lives and can we not see him do a miracle because we do believe and we expect him to our problem many times is that we don't believe and we don't expect him to do something about it this is what is referred to as the tomatis effect uh dr alfred tamatas studied the selective deafness and particularly in that we're opera singers opera singers at some notes have an extremely loud decibel level because they belt out the note and as they belt out the note it reaches high decibel levels and over time it begins to deafen uh their hearing on those particular notes so that he discovered that some came complained they couldn't hit a note they have hit for years and he didn't know why until they'd done a did a sonogram of sorts and discovered this these particular areas in the hearing were deadened because the decibels over time were so loud that it deafened them he found out that they couldn't sing what they couldn't hear that if they couldn't hear the note they couldn't hit the note so it is that we know that the disciples couldn't hear the good positive promises of jesus before he was going to leave them because the bible says in this discourse over four chapters in chapter 16 in verse 6 that their hearts where faith really comes from was filled with sorrow how many times does someone have a traumatic event loss of a job a bad report from the doctor etc etc and yet when you try to encourage them they won't hear it it's like jacob who refused to be comforted he refused him for what he was the death of joseph sometimes we fall prey to the same thing in fact if you ever find yourself not having any hope about a situation then either you don't have a belief in god about that and an expectation that he will come through or you are believing a lie instead because an absence of hope is really an absence of faith it's an absence of believing that god can and will do what he promised he will do so it is when we look at how jesus poured in the context of this was the last supper and how important that time was for jesus to impart he realized that they didn't have the capacity in fact he said that i would tell you other things but you cannot bear them you you have a certain capacity for the word and your capacity is all used up and you can't only go to a certain point in your faith because your capacity is only so big because we look at these disciples we know that they were like us they were ordinary people we look at some of their challenges we know that they were slow learners slow learners matthew 15 16-17 jesus says do you not yet understand chapter 16 verse 9 do you not yet again fully understand what i'm saying to you luke 24 25 oh foolish ones how slow you are to believe in your heart so it is that he still was committed to them and he's committed to us acts 1 and 3 after the resurrection the bible says he spent 40 days still continuing to pour into them about the kingdom of god let me tell you this is not a game this is not just a routine or religion the word of god is alive and it's powerful it's there for your abundant life it's there for your victory it's there for your blessing we aren't just playing pattycake because the evil one is out to destroy you and your faith and your family your finances but jesus came to give us life and to give it to us more abundantly so when we look at what he says the first thing we notice and that we're stronger together is that we are to do greater works together that we are actually in the spite of corona in spite of the the national election uh divide in spite of the racism that we have had and the divide over all these things guess what god's not phased by any of any of it he's not limited by any of these circumstances it's only if we are filled with all the negative news it's only if we are filled with fear and doubt it's only if we haven't really spent time to really hear from him that we end up being in a lack of hope about our future or a lack of faith about what is coming ahead you see we look at what he says in the book of john 21 times john records the works of the lord in fact in john 10 jesus said believe me for the works believe me for the works that i do that is that he is wanting to show that what god promised he came through and provided through his that god is going to bring you that work that god is going to release that work upon you if you will keep on believing in him if you won't just listen and be filled with sorrow about the things that haven't been answered about the situations that are dismal in your life but you will believe because 17 of the 21 times we find him talking about works he's talking about miraculous works that the miraculous works of god that works will you do because i go to my father i'm here to tell you that this is good news is that god wants to usher in greater works in your life through your life through city sanctuary in city sanctuary i never will forget that i was so small in my thinking when i pastored in another state and we had less than two acres of property and my big dream was to build a a parking garage because we ran out of parking on a drainage hole that was over there off the edge of the parking lot you know i mean the building's jammed we have two acres of parking and i'm praying two years i'm driving to charleston i'm talking to other civil engineers about will you please approve that they never would and guess what i got aggravated at the lord lord why don't you do this come on can't you help me out here i mean i'm trying to do it work for you come on this isn't hard it's a drainage boat for goodness sake you can certainly give me this approval so i can build my little parking garage in this draining hole right and so god probably is up in heaven laughing nudging the sun get this one down here he's really something and all the time god has something much greater than i had he had 17 acres right in the center of town on the highest hill of the city that overlooked the entire city that he was going to pay for debt free clear of all the trees debt free and we were going to build a great work to the kingdom and glory of god i never will forget that and i said god help me never to think small again help me never to think in a way that's lower than the kingdom of god or lower than what you can do and this is what he said that god is able to exceedingly abundantly above what you ask that's what you're praying and above what you think that's your imaginations that's what you're dreaming about no matter how great your imagination is guess what god can do exceedingly abundantly above whatever you can imagine he can do exceedingly abundantly above all that it's time for us to enlarge our capacity and say you know what corona is not going to depress me i'm not going to be filled with sorrow praise be to jesus they're still thrown in heaven and i know who sits on it and i'm going to do greater works and this fall greater works in this next year than i've ever done before i'm allowed god to do a greater work in me have a greater capacity for the things of god than i've ever had before because that is the will and testament of our lord jesus christ don't cower down but get ready to do greater things before i come again i'm looking for a great church and a great work of god by my great spirit come on and praise him today so many times though we feel like some of these students that these new york teachers put some very demeaning comments on their report cards you know we're going back to school so i wanted to do something back to school and remember when you see these these all these teachers were either reprimanded or they were fired for such comments these are actual uh things they put on report cards one teacher said since my last report your child has reached rock bottom and has started to dig and they get worse one teacher wrote i would not allow this student to breed this is the worst one if this student were any more stupid he'd have to be watered twice a week i know oh wow when your daughter's iq reaches 50 she should sell your son sets a low personal standards for himself and then he consistently fails to achieve them and finally your child has delusions of adequacy demoralizing you guys have such a great heart i love that but how many of us who have such a great heart also have delusions of inadequacy how many of us really feel the empowered life that christ came to give us how many of us really possess that kind of faith and confidence in god that really we see what jesus was trying to give to disciples you see i'm here to tell you that it's good news today because jesus wants to raise all of us up to do greater things than ever before but to do that we do feel inadequate unless we know the secret unless we know the secret of how to do greater things i pray that you will receive what is going to be said to you right now and the lord will change your life my life and change our congregation ed siegel is a guy who's on ted talks and basically ed does a lot of things with visuals and he had stencil drawings and asked people what they see he had a stencil drawing of a husband and wife in a loving embrace and adults got what that was but kids did not kids would say something like it looks like dolphins to me or one kid said it looks like nine dolphins and again he concluded this that you can only see what you understand or what you know you can only see what you understand or what you know when we understand that in a spiritual sense we can then see how the disciples were not overly thinking they could do greater works because the disciples were only maybe looking at themselves the disciples were not looking at the plan of intimacy the stencil drawing of again the couple warmly embracing they weren't seeing the intimacy by which they could do greater things you see jesus would say in john chapter 15 verse 7 he would say that i am the vine and you are the branches actually this is verse 5. and that if you abide in me if you have a close connection to me that then you can bear much fruit but without me you can be inadequate you can do nothing we look at marriage i got marriage not i got married not to put a certificate on my wall that hey i've got married i got married to enjoy an intimate relationship with my wife you may have your name written in heaven but you know that that name written in heaven is not just about you having an eternal destiny in heaven it's about you then signing up for an intimate relationship with jesus christ where he is able to lead you into the greater works and the greater things that you are supposed to accomplish on the earth we look at a presence driven message that jesus gave to them that presence-driven message was about the holy spirit coming you see what we find out is that every time god wanted to do something great he would always make a promise of his presence being with that person you look through the bible it goes from exodus chapter 33 where moses was supposed to lead the children of israel through the wilderness to the promised land he says i'm not going to go unless your presence goes with me joshua 1 9 josh will lead these people over the jordan and possess the land that i promised to them and he said i will be with you psalm 23 verse 4 even though i go through the valley and certainly our nation is going through a valley even though i go through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil because you are with me you see when god gives you an impossible thing to accomplish like drive out demons and heal the sick and do all these things that he commissioned us to do he realizes that it's it's impossible with us but what it does is it creates a greater dependency in us upon him right and that's what he said in the great commission in matthew 28 and 20 i want you to make disciples of all nations 12 guys actually 11. then they'd add matthias to 12 guys to make disciples of all nations it is a complete impossibility without the presence of jesus christ with them so it is we come to look at what he's going to try to tell them about not just greater works but it's got to be a greater worship that you enter into to have the greater works take place in your life and just like the kids who basically couldn't see the intimate picture of a man and woman they didn't know what it was the reason that we don't go more intimately after god is because we're too immature we don't understand we don't get it we don't see it if we don't see it there we don't understand it we don't understand because we got so many things in america we've got great medical care we've got great amenities we have more square foot per person in their home in our home than anybody in the world we have all this stuff and so yes we don't see the need to press into the presence of god we don't see the need for our need to get closer and more prayer and more time in the word of god we don't understand how important it is to see greater things take place is that when we see a greater dependency and a greater worship is needed so that we can enter into the impossible realm the spiritual realm and invade the impossible both for us and through us for somebody else but so it is when we come to what he says in john 15 look at john 15 verse 7 and verse 8 he said this he said if you abide in me and my words abide in you you shall ask what you will and it shall be done unto you now again we look at that phrase in three chapters that is used four different times ask what you will and it shall be done unto you now again many of us scoff and read that like you know i've tried asking for whatever obviously sometimes we don't ask uh correctly we ask according to our own selfishness as james 4 says but see it's not so much about your particular pet prayer but it's really about your capacity it's really about your faith it's really about you understanding that jesus is laying it out there you can ask anything and i can do it there's nothing you can't you can ask that i can't do is anybody getting this today there's nothing that you can't imagine that i can't do for you he's really raising the category wide about when you when i go you need to realize you can ask anything there's nothing impossible with god and the key was he said you got to pray the word you know he talks about if my word abides in you uh you know you shall have what you uh what you ask i mean look at that word we even know that the word brings presence you know that he said in john 6 and 63 he said that the words i speak to you are spirit and they are life the words he the logos in john 1 and 2 was the eternal logos that came and was made flesh so he created all things right you read about it in hebrews 1 3 that the worlds were framed by the word of god well he is the word of god but when he came as the word of god in fleshly form when he spoke praise god it says that the words i speak are spirit in their life the same way he created when he spoke he created new things on the earth and so it is when you pray the word it brings presence hallelujah to god you see it's zechariah 4 6 it's not by might it's not by power but by my presence by my spirit says the lord of god so when you pray the word of god you're bringing the presence of god when you begin to present my word abides in you and you abide in me you shall ask what you will and shall be done why is that luke 1 37 it says that nothing shall be impossible to god that word nothing be impossible is the word no rhema rhema is the word for word of god it means no word will be without power to fulfill it why is that because the word has the spirit of god hey it has the spirit of god in it and the spirit of god moved over the earth in the very beginning and brought chaos about order out of chaos and when you speak the word of god praise god everything starts with a declaration when you confess jesus is lord you shall be saved when you believe in your heart right when you begin to speak and pray the word of god he said then in verse 8 he said in this you shall bear much fruit and in this my father is glorified in what when you ask anything in my name when you when you believe me for great answers to prayer come on we owe him fruit we owe him prayers answered we owe him to believe we owe him to trust him that god you can do greater works come on somebody we bring him glory when we have the fruit of asking anything in his name god i believe you can do it do the greatest thing in my family do the greatest thing in my fight do the greatest thing in my body do the greatest thing in this church do the greatest thing in our nation do it because you can do anything come on somebody and praise him today hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah would you just worship him for just a minute before we praise you we praise you we praise you we praise you we praise you we glorify you bring your presence lord bring your presence may we have greater worship than ever before he said how are we going to be greater together we're going to be greater in worship the bible says in psalm 22 and verse 3 that god inhabits the praises of his people of his people this is what david said in psalm 132 verse 4 and 5 he says i will not rest until i make a place for your habitation now the place for habitation is not only in our praise but it's also ephesians 2 and 22. we not only have the holy spirit in us but we also have a manifest among us he says that the lord builds the church together so that he might become a holy habitation when we gather together as one that's why you can't get this kind of worship just on your own at home when you come together with a body there's a greater dimension of the manifest presence of god that's why we are stronger together that's why you read of the tens of thousands that are praising god in the heavens friend the glory of god demands the praise of god one day every knee will bow and every don't confess and right now if god were to show up by his glory we would all hit the floor and maybe the reason he doesn't show up by his glory he's waiting on us to decide i'm going to praise him until the glory comes i'm going to worship him until the power of this presence i'm going to look for his presence and his glory and make his worship greater than it's ever been before come on and please hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah to god [Applause] jesus has to release his peace and presence as we wrap up he has to release his peace and his presence because when he's having this discourse he begins to say to them peace i leave with you john 14 27 not as the world gives give i unto you let not your heart be troubled don't let it be afraid john 16 33 these things have speak spoken unto you that in me you might have peace he's talking about peace in a time when their hearts are filled with sorrow you see the kingdom of god the bible says in romans 14 17 is righteousness peace and joy in the holy spirit peace is one of the dominion emotions of the kingdom of god peace in your heart is not a lack of of conflict it's not a lack of trouble in your life it is in spite of the trouble that you still have kingdom peace in your life i told a joke in the first service about the quaker who was a farmer he kept milking this cow and a cow kept tipping over the bucket and so he got mad but quakers aren't supposed to get mad so he basically said to the cow he said madame cow you know i'm a quaker i cannot raise my voice to you madam cal you know that i'm a quaker and i cannot beat you but madame cow if you knock this pail over one more time i shall sell thee to a pentecostal and they will beat the devil out of you that's right [Applause] go to pentecostals right peace in the kingdom is not an absence of conflict it is the presence of the king it is the presence of belief jesus could be on a storm toss d and be asleep and at rest because he had an assurance of the love of the father i don't have time to reference this and he had an assurance of the promise of the father his assignment and so he could rest through any storm because he was confident in the lord's peace and plan in his life you see no matter what's going on you can have peace when you are confident about the lord and his plan and power and presence in your life his presence brings peace don't have time to go through that but that is really the foundation which shows this you until you get a peace a kingdom peace you really aren't ready to do some of the greater works because a kingdom peace is the foreshadow emotion of how you're believing in god and you're believing in his character that it's god's will to demonstrate his glory it's god's will to be good it's god's will to be compassionate oh if we're begging god for something we're saying god i'm more compassionate about this than you are oh no you see when you have peace you know who he is when you have peace you understand that he will be fulfilling his promises and so he said in john 20 when he appeared to them after his resurrection he said first in verse 19 peace unto you the first thing he said and then they examined his wounds they said it's the lord they rejoice and then again in verse 21 he said peace again why he is laying a foundation for the presence you see when the dove came from uh the open of the heaven and landed on his you know the holy spirit's like in the form of a dove a dove gets spooked and so he said that the holy spirit basically needs you to be at peace that means he needs a foundation to work on he needs a foundation to know that you are not in fear and that you are not going to disturb him by all your fear and your worry and anxiety but you have peace and he can rest on the peace and the faith you have in god and then he can bring the power then he said receive the holy spirit after the peace is there he said receive the holy spirit now you can receive the greater presence of god because you already have a foundation of belief you already have a foundation of assurance and the character of god now receive the greater manifestation of the presence of god now receive the power of god now receive the move of god now receive the greater works of god now i'm empowering you with a greater power and presence because you already have a peace and a faith that god is going to be counted on for the greater works in your life would you come to the piano please domino effect was brought by lauren whitehead in 1983 he was a mathematician that wrote about the power of dominoes many of you like to play dominoes we're not going to ask you to raise hands if you like to play dominoes i'll tell you what the catholics play bingo the pentecostals play dominoes right but it's not just a simple linear mathematic equation where two plus two equals four where you knock one down and knocks two down it knocks three down et cetera but he said it's also exponential in that a domino can knock down another domino that's one and a half times its size so where it becomes exponential is when you start doing the math because if you start then knocking down things that are one and a half times the size of what is used to knock it down then in 18 dominoes you have a domino that's tall enough and big enough weighs enough to knock the leaning tower of pisa over and 23 dominoes you have enough to knock the eiffel tower over in 20 uh a six or 28 dominoes you have enough to knock over the the empire state building it's exponential because it is multiplied compounded not just added you see the last thing he says not just greater works not just greater worship but he's talking about greater unity and relational unity brings greater glory in in john chapter 17. this is the end of his discourse and he says that there's something spiritual and supernatural about when my people get together that's why he started with just two or three right matthew 18 20 of 2 or 3 are gathered in my name i'm in the midst brings presents that's why the bible talks about it in psalm 91 verse 7. in deuteronomy 32 30 that one shall put a thousand flight two will put ten thousand to flight leviticus 26 and uh verse eight how that five will put a hundred to flight and how that a hundred will put ten 000 to flight it's a spiritual compound of the presence of god well i'll tell you what i just i'm getting excited you see he says in john 17 that the world is your location yeah you're in the world use the word world 18 times i'm not praying that you are taken out of the world some of you may be praying the lord comes back and that's okay but guess what he has a plan for you being in the world don't have time to harp on that too relational unity is our concentration he says i'm praying that you would be one i'm praying that you'll be stronger together i'm praying that you won't be all divided because you want to know who's the greatest i'm praying that you will become one because there's a compound in the kingdom the compound in the kingdom i just mentioned to you that when we are one even in the worker day world there's all kinds of stats that isolation will kill you and that the more productive the more happy people are when they work at home whatever is when they're in unity with each other so he calls us to be stronger together he calls us to be stronger together because of our capacity with the singers come please get ready to listen to song the capacity of the glory of god the glory of god is used nine times in chapter 17 alone our vocation or our calling is to bring god glory hallelujah but see we we have to go back to john 15 verse 8 that we bring him glory and fruit when we do what when we have answers to prayer by faith read john 15 24 when you go home jesus said i've done works that have never been done before hallelujah i'm telling you god wants you to do works that have never been done before i'm going to tell you again god wants you to do works that have never been done before let me tell you again god wants you to do works that have never been done before [Music] so so we see that kind of this relational concentration about what he goes into the fact that in chapter 17 that he's talking about the glory of god is going to be revealed by your capacity to carry the glory you see the word for glory in the old testament it means weightiness so it is that one person can carry so much because of the weight but guess what one person's with another person and with another person with another person guess what our capacity to experience the glory of god becomes exponentially greater i don't have time to preach more on that but the vocation then is that we are to be stronger together by coming together whether we're online or whether we're in house we're together in spirit that we believe we believe god wants us to do what one greater works right now this fall while corona's going on while the election stuff is going on while the racism is going on come on somebody i'm going to appreciate it anyway and he wants us to do greater works next year praise god and the year after that in the afternoon because he's coming again praise god amen he also wants us to have greater worship than we've ever had before greater greater time and his friends more oh i believe god to do something miraculous in my family something yes [Music] come on worship him lord we want your presence amen oh yes [Music] this is the prayer than ever before in the name of jesus christ we find doubt and unbelief we bind fear and worry in the name of jesus we bind sickness and jesus name for everybody online for everybody in the house for everybody that's a part of this church in the name of the lord we receive the kingdom of god oh hallelujah may the kingdom of god come and may your will be done on earth as it is as it is in heaven right now we receive it by faith in the name the my name of jesus christ i'll come on and pray some more pray some more right now pray some more all right man we're saying holy spirit sing it again spirit you are welcome oh come on now [Music] please feel the atmosphere [Music] if you need to be safe today you want to be safe today you're not sure if you were dying today where you'd go if you go to heaven or but please prepare for the devil his angels you can know that today online if you're watching you okay hallelujah lord as we prepare they course through her flesh deliver her from every the negative and we release our faith and the positive belief that jesus we receive it by faith and give you the praise and glory in the name of the lord one more time give him a praise clap today come on and praise him lord we thank you we praise you amen they're going to sing god bless you you are dismissed have a great lord's day next week brian cut shall this wednesday mark army let's sing together you

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