Will You be Made Whole - Pastor Nathaniel Haney - February 21, 2021

amen been reflecting on the service today in the spirit just praying and i'm convinced that something special is going to happen today amen something powerful is going to happen today hallelujah you may ask here maybe you're visiting us for the first time first few times what could be happening today we're about to meet with god today amen and god's going to meet with his people jesus christ is called emmanuel god with us hallelujah and he is still with us today how many know that this morning hallelujah i just feel the unction of the spirit hallelujah brother obrego how can i meet with god how can i know that he is here the word of god says that our worship is a sweet savor to him how many know that it's like a perfume that is sent forth unto god and it's only it's only valuable it's only valid if it's connected to something in your heart something real a testimony a knowledge a knowing that god is good that god is wonderful that god is powerful that god is faithful when it comes from something on the inside and we release that sweet savior to god something happens right almost like if you're driving down the street you smell something and it starts stirring up a hunger in you right it stirs up a hunger because you smell something that's so good i want to find out what that is that's what happens with god amen when we release our worship hallelujah when we release our praise to him something begins to get stirred up he says i want to be there i want to be where they are i want to be where my people know how to worship me know how to lift up my name and are worshiping not with their mouth alone but in spirit hallelujah and in truth come on right now can we just lift our hands just release it to god in the holy ghost it's going to get stirred up just release a praise right now release of worship to the lord somebody lift it up to god release that sweet savior god you are wonderful today father and my soul knows it god you are good today god and i know it look for myself god today we've come to worship you today we've come to lift you up god your people have gathered from the four corners of stockton we have gathered from all around the region there are yet people online right now we release a sweet savior of worship to you today god receive it in your throne room today oh receive it lord god because we want to encounter you today god we want to know you today hallelujah we want to know you more god than what we have known you before we want to know you more jesus solo [Music] [Music] oh something is stirring up in the atmosphere today it's because god's people have come to worship him we've come to exalt him we've come to praise him today let's not stop this church let's go right into the service just worshiping god just simply praising him just simply giving him worship let's glorify him today thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus the whole reason we've come this morning is to honor the king does anybody feel that way this morning come on you took all that time to get dressed up you took all that time to get ready go through whatever ritual you went through come on there's nothing more important right now is just letting him know that he is honored he is worthy of praise worthy of glory worthy of majesty hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah whatever place you are in this morning if you've struggled getting here this morning or you're just walking in this morning on cloud nine no matter what place you're at this morning you say i'm i'm the one that needs jesus more than anybody this morning that's okay you're at the right spot or if you've come in this morning you're on cloud nine and everything's good you're still in the right spot or if you're anywhere in between you're still in the right spot because he's still worthy hallelujah praise the name of jesus a simple scripture says that we would enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise being thankful unto him and bless his name for the lord is good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations hallelujah would you journey with us today would you take a journey with us here this morning and would you enter into the gates go right down through the gates and go all the way to the throne room with us this morning can we do that today together i think it'd be a beautiful journey together we can make you may be seated if you want to let's worship in song together amen hallelujah [Music] [Applause] grace like me [Music] lift your voice and sing that again grace how sweet how sweet the sound is [Music] [Music] i was blind but now i see twas grace that taught my heart to fear and grace it was grace that my fears released that grace when it did appear oh the out i first believe lift your voice and sing it's amazing grace how sweet [Music] [Music] was blind but now i see through many dangerous toils and snares [Music] i have oh yes you have already come to his grace that brought me it brought me safe thus far and it is grace that will lead me home lift her voice [Music] amazing grace like me [Music] lost see the lord has promised good to me his word his word my hope is secure he will my shield and my poor should be as long as lie indoors [Music] and when we've been there [Music] ten thousand ten thousand years bright shininess the sun we know to sing god's praise then when we first begun [Music] grace [Applause] [Music] [Music] see oh it's amazing grace [Applause] was lost let's sing it again lift your voice all over the building no music [Music] that's it lift your voice like me i was lost [Music] [Music] it's sinking into somebody right now lift your voice and sing it again [Music] that's it lift your voice come on sing those words out that saved me that saved the wretch like me [Music] [Applause] oh it's seeking in somebody right now i once was lost let's sing it one more time unto him amazing grace [Music] me [Music] is [Music] oh hi [Music] love here because he first loved me and purr just my [Music] salve [Music] trees hallelujah would you love him this [Music] morning love him because he first loved me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me him lift your voice and sing it to him oh i love him all because he burst he first loved me [Music] [Applause] [Music] in your own words right now would you tell the lord you love him in your own words right now just let him know how much you love him come on all across the building [Music] he loves to hear your voice oh i feel the breath of the lord in here i love you master blessed be the name of jesus [Music] ah yes [Music] [Music] oh lord my god [Music] when i in all some wonders consider all the worlds thy hands have made i see the stars [Music] i hear the rolling thunder thy power throughout the universe display then sings my soul [Music] my savior [Music] how great [Music] how great [Music] then sings my soul my savior god to thee how great thou how great thou [Music] art my soul my sake your god to thee how great thou art when christ shall come [Music] with shout of acclamation and take me home [Music] what joy shall fill my heart then i'm gonna you know what i'm gonna do i'm gonna bow in half and their proclaim my god how great thou art would you lift your voice and sing it again o then sings my soul my to savior how great thou art [Music] how great [Applause] [Music] my savior [Music] how great thy how great [Music] hallelujah hallelujah come on somebody lift your voice somebody let him know from the depths of your soul come on somebody love him huh somebody love him from the depths of your soul [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah don't we serve a great god this morning amen there's something about those old hymns amen something about those old hymns that know how to usher in the presence of god and sometimes we wait till the beat of a drum to start worshiping sometimes we wait for an electric guitar solo or or some great singer get up but i'm telling you god doesn't respond to the beat of a drum god responds to worship god responds to hearts that lift up and say god i was a wretch i was lost but that amazing grace came into my life hallelujah and there's something about it you could feel jesus moving down the aisles right now and when was the last time we had a good blowout in song service amen when i remember growing up in this church amen there'd be times we couldn't even get to the preaching because there was worship there was there was praise there was a heart that says jesus i don't want to move on i don't want to wait to the offering time i'm getting something right now and i know we didn't have a mass choir up here this morning i know we just had uh we had someone up here singing his hymns but i feel the presence of god here this morning so can we lift every hand to heaven right now can we just thank him lord thank you for that amazing grace thank you for the presence of god we feel here right now [Music] oh yes hallelujah [Music] come on i don't feel to move on just a few more minutes could you just push for god i know being at home watching online it's kind of put a spectator mode in our heart but we're in church this morning and jesus is here and i just think his presence deserves to be recognized this morning i think when the king of kings comes in i think we ought to recognize him i think we ought to respond to him oh jesus you can move if you want to lord you can have your way today if you want to god [Music] whew [Music] hallelujah it's been a long time since some of us have got lost in the spirit amen since we got drunk on the holy ghost you know you can still get drunk on this thing called the holy ghost amen [Music] thank god hallelujah praise god you know those times where it comes on you and your body begins to contort it begins to shake let me tell you that kind of move of god is still for 2021 amen i i still think i'm in a pentecostal church amen i believe i'm in an apostolic church amen and i thank god brother meek saying those old songs because it reminds us of where we came from amen hallelujah i feel the holy ghost right now one more time could we just lift every hand to heaven from front to back and just say god i give you an opportunity to move on me today i give you i give you permission to take over me this morning lord amen hallelujah hallelujah the lord is here amen this is what stockton needs amen stockton doesn't need religion stockton doesn't need a format stockton doesn't need just a just a service but they need a move of god when sinners walk in when backsliders walk in they're going to feel the hot presence of god they're gonna feel the holy ghost all over them shut up don't ever forget that this church was birthed in an upper room amen it was birthed with people praying 10 days waiting for the holy ghost to pour out amen [Music] thank you jesus and now we're to we're going to take that spirit and we're going to pray for our community we're going to pray for our city we're going to believe that god's gonna pour out his spirit on this city like we've never seen before amen i believe it with all of my heart so if it's appropriate if you're with a family member would you link up with them right now and let's go to war for stockton one more time in the name of jesus we come before you lord asking that you'd pour out your spirit on stockton like never before lord i pray you'd send laborers into the harvest send them to the backsliders lord send to those that have lost and have never heard this gospel god that there would be a revival of righteousness a revival of right doing in these last days let there be a revival of biblical morals oh god that you would turn america back give us a third great awakening lord in these last days wake us up lord god wake our cities up lord that we would turn back to you that we will repent and turn back to you oh god i pray for our leadership god i pray for our governor and our mayor our congressman and our senators lord i pray for our president and vice president lord i pray you'd give them wisdom but above all that you would save them send a preacher to them that they might be saved god that the church could live a quiet and peaceable life god that we could do this thing called revival and peace lord god send laborers into the harvest send laborers of christian life center send us down to the homeless lord send us down to the hungry and the hurting o god send us to those that are ready and are thirsty for this gospel lord [Music] oh hallelujah if you believe it would you clap your hands to the lord one more [Music] time [Music] amen we serve a miracle working god amen i'm not just talking about a good feeling i'm not just talking about positive reinforcement i'm talking about miracles amen i'm talking about miracles that defy what the doctors say amen i'm talking about miracles that defy what the divorce lawyer says amen it's not over until god says it's over amen i don't care what any man says it's not over until god says it over hallelujah jerrius your daughter might be dead but to god she's just sleeping amen praise god so if you've got a need this morning and you walked in these doors saying man i've got an impossible situation well i've got a god that specializes in the impossible this morning so that's you in an act of faith which you lift your hands all across the building amen there's hands lifted in faith all across the balcony amen god's getting ready to do a miracle for somebody this morning so christian life center could you reach your hand in that direction and share your faith with them right now in the name of the lord jesus we come before you knowing that you're a miracle worker that you took the stripes on your way to calvary god for our sick and battered bodies so lord i plead the blood over every sick body right now we command healing not by our authority but by the authority you've given to us lord that every sickness in the building that everyone that has faith will receive a miracle right now god i pray that you we are the counselor you would restore marriages this morning restore those that need peace that are struggling with depression and anxiety those that need financial miracles lord you are the waymaker and the miracle worker god i pray and move from the front to the back down every aisle lord jesus and touch those that need the impossible this morning and god we believe you're gonna do it and we thank you lord we'll proclaim it and shout it from the rooftops lord woo hallelujah hallelujah [Music] oh praise god clap your hands one more time to the lord hallelujah thank you jesus [Music] [Applause] amen praise god the lord is good amen amen praise god you could be seated this morning we're going to take our wednesday evening our sunday morning tithing offering amen praise god i got three little kids give me a break amen and we're going to take our son thank you so much for uh those that have been faithful in this time we're to continue with our online giving and we'll have ushers in the hallways uh in the aisles at the end of service to take your monetary gifts let's bring this offering before the lord dear heavenly father lord jesus we thank you so much for the opportunity that we have to give god you have blessed us so abundantly lord i pray that you would bless the giver as they give lord jesus bless those that give sacrificially lord that you would open up a window of heaven and pour out a blessing that cannot be contained lord and we we know that you're our provider god so we come to you obeying your word with our tithes and our offerings or we love you and we give you all the glory and everybody said amen praise god god bless you as you give christian life center i notice there's a lot of visitors here this morning a lot of a lot of new faces let's give it up for our guests and our visitors this morning amen i know we're not doing greeting time as usual but after you give would you just turn around in your seat and wave to somebody you don't know tell them it's good to see them in the house of the lord god bless you [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] let's bless the lord this morning wonderful wonderful wonderful jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah is nobody like jesus and you will search the world over and if you had a hundred lifetimes to do it you still would never find anybody like jesus christ he is the finest most precious most valuable possession that any earth and vessel has when his spirit is inside of us praise the lord well i do feel the holy ghost i feel god's presence here this morning and god has done a tremendous work you can feel that moving that undercurrent that is somehow made it to the surface in this service that we are in and god is here to meet needs he's here to heal bodies he's here to heal souls he's here to heal minds and to bless and bless and bless and bless and blesses people convict sinners that they might be part of that wonderful bride that is going to spend eternity with jesus christ and so it really doesn't matter what starting place you're at in this service before this day is over you will find that you have had the opportunity to know him in a way that hitherto you had not known the lord amen i want to read today from the book of john chapter 5 and we often term john as john the beloved because he is said to have been loved beloved five times in his book he is the writer of 1st 2nd and 3rd john which is a tremendous group of writings to the church and then he wrote the last book of the bible that was put into the canon and was accepted by the early church and there are several criterias for that and he met every one of them and even surpassed them and that book was the book of revelation written somewhere in the year of 96 to 100 a.d so he was responsible for writing of five different books outside of daniel the prophet john the beloved saw further into the future than any other writer in the scripture of old and new testament his only rival which or contemporary from a different area of time but contemporary in material was daniel in the old testament that wrote during the exile of the babylonian and the persian empires and often when you study revelation you need to study the book of daniel these two are meant to work together and one commentaries on the other in the other commentaries reciprocates back and so forth but today we want to read a story in chapter 5 or just a portion of the story and we want to talk about it because i believe that it is extremely relevant for us as christians and we'll discuss that in this word of the lord that's going to go forth here oh i feel god's presence i feel the lord today hallelujah verse 1 of john chapter 5 says after this there was a feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem and now while he was at jerusalem there is a pool down by the sheep market and in the hebrew tongue it's called bethesda and it has five different porches it actually has five separate pools that kind of uh flow together with little uh rock ways in between them and then it has a large surrounding because of the many transactions that were conducted there and it says that in those uh in this lay a great multitude of impotent folk of blind halt the word halt is people that have um disabilities physically formated formation crippled and so forth and there were people that were withered and much like maybe a polio victim today or someone that had an arm or a leg or a body part that did not fully develop and was more shriveled and it was hard to use because it was not functional to the way that it should be and so there was quite a mixed multitude of different types of people with different illness and different sicknesses that were here at the pool of bethesda the bible says in verse 4 that or verse 3 they were waiting for the moving of the water they were waiting for the moving of the water for an angel went down at a certain season into the pool and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole and whatsoever disease of whatsoever disease he had and a certain man was there which had an infirmity 30 and 8 years 38 years when jesus saw him lying and knew that he had been now a long time in that case he saith unto him wilt thou be made whole and the impotent man answered him sir i have no one when the water is troubled to put me into the pool but while i am coming or making my way to that pool another steppeth down before me someone beats me to it jesus saith unto him rise take up thy bed and walk and immediately the man was made whole and took up his bed and walked and on the same day was the sabbath the jews thereof said unto him that was cured it is the sabbath day it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed he answered them he that made me whole the same said unto me take up my bed and walk then answered the hymn what man is that which said unto thee take up thy bed and walk and he that was healed did not know who it was for jesus had hid himself away a multitude being in that place afterward jesus found him in the temple and said unto him behold thou art made whole sin no more unless a worst thing come upon thee and the man departed and told the jews that it was jesus which had made him whole and jesus said or jesus and therefore did the jews persecute jesus and sought to slay him or to kill him because he had done these things on the sabbath but when jesus answered them my father worketh hitherto and i work therefore the jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the sabbath but said unto also that god was his father making himself equal with god then answered jesus and said unto them verily verily i say unto thee the son of man can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the father do for what things whoever he doeth these also doth the father like wise so we're going to look at this story for a little bit and there are some tremendous truths that john recorded that by the grace and revelation of god i'm going to break the bread of life in this service that we might be filled with jesus and his words praise god amen get a little water here for my throat so the story begins at bethesda a place where the sheep market took place and there were five different pools that were there they're not large pools at least what archaeology has been able to uncover and expose for when you're on a tour to israel you can go down there you can see the area you can see the small pools and you can see a general layout of what it looked like in the times of christ obviously there is not been the ability to do a full dig there because there are many structures that surround it and it's very hard to do archaeology work in israel in the city of jerusalem in fact in the 67 war 1967 when the jewish people were able to take back jerusalem from the jordanians and unite the city of jerusalem it was a long time ago i was three years old at that time it was a fantastic war they call it a six-day war because the supernatural power of god stood with israel and against the jordanians and five sovereign nations many of them having the british doctrine and british military equipment had tried to stop them from taking jerusalem the most fierce fight happened at the entrance of the lion gate there's several several gates in jerusalem fighting their way down toward the temple mount and when they took the city they realized that there was much that needed to be explored but the time that they had to explore was limited and the provisional government that had become the elected government decided to give the archaeologists the scholars two years to dig and to have freedom in this city and for two years they furvishly feverishly worked hard to uncover after two years they allowed the development of jerusalem for the jewish population to move in there so today when they want to do an archaeology dig they have to buy the homes they have to buy the property and they have to get special permissions to dig and to try and find out what is actually under what layers of civilization or what areas of time of the jewish civilization civilization lies underneath that it's amazing you can be on the ground surface and be seen as if you are in a total jewish and hebrew culture and then you can take a pair of steps and go 50 60 feet down into the ground and find yourself in roman times this is extremely visible in what we call the burnt house in the jewish quarters behind behind the western wall and so it's quite uh quite a hard thing to do the city of david which was is today is covered or was covered in in partly is still covered by uh arabs that live there the jews have tried to buy homes from the era populace they offer a high amounts of money that is really beyond the value of that property as far as real estate goes but uh the arabs the muslims if they sell their property to the jews to be used to dig down and to find the remnant of israel and the kingdom of david and the ancient kingdom of the jewish or judean kings fear for their life they can be killed by other radical muslims that do not want there to be an uncovering however they have been able to buy certain tracts of land and remove the surface and dig down and you can actually take tours through the jewish uh city of david the uh and you can see what is below the surface they believe that it's much uh broader in width but they're still negotiating trying to buy these homes but the arabs there have a lot of pressure from the muslim community not to sell their homes no matter what price they get because they know that underneath those homes is the witness that there was a kingdom of david and that there was a jewish community to help you understand these sorts of things for a civilization to pre-existed there has to be the remains of that civilization there has to be pottery pottery because pottery was what was used there has to be structures that people lived in there has to be roads that people traveled on there has to be temples or houses of worship that people came to their gods and serve their gods there has to be coinage that was minted from that air of time and then there has to be a number of other life elements but as important as all that is they also need to find uh inscriptions or writings or tablets that have the writing that give witness to that existence in other words there has to be a language of those people that they call an ancient people and so when you go to israel and you dig into the soil especially around the city of jerusalem but even beyond that in the area of lakeish or uh the uh ulin valley in different places where they're doing much archaeology work they have found the hebrew script it's not the block script that was used from about 600 bc forward but it is what we call a paleo script of hebrew which is an older form connected to moabite uh ancient old aramaic phoenician and it was a shared alphabet with different variances depending on the people that were there and this solidifies that that is a legitimate ancient people and it also is the strongest proof that that people existed in that area of the world at certain stratas of time pottery is very important in archaeology when i was in taking some of my classes in archaeology and i consider myself an amateur archaeologist i've always enjoyed archaeology going to the dig sites reading and studying and talking to the professors and it can work it's just a rewarding thing because so much of it proves the bible and it is infallible proofs you can't wipe away whole civilizations that you uncover with the spade you cannot destroy an entire you may wipe out one little village but you keep digging in an area where there's stories of the bible and you find this village and you find this town and you find the stables of this king and you find the inscriptions of this uh particular people and the stories that our bible has that are confirmed by records not only from the jewish people but from their enemies that fought against them who wrote their own and why they may vary a little bit they give clear proof that these stories in the bible actually took place and so archaeology is a tremendous area that is strong for the apologist to defend the word of god in 2020 and in 2021 and so forth [Music] but in this they noticed that pottery uh changed with different errors of time and some pottery that changed with time and maybe a particular bronze age the pottery would be made a certain way and in the early bronze age it had a certain uh strata that most of the nations had a similarity to in the canaanite shift and then you go a little further into the middle bronze age or the late bronze age and you find where it begins to change much like we have styles of the 70s and styles of the 50s and styles of the 30s now we change a lot quicker you got to remember back then fire you know was discovered a wagon wheel was discovered i mean the inventions when they discovered are more big but it took hundreds of years before it changed so there's not as much variance so you can take a strat of several hundred years and say it was in this air of time and they do that with pottery and so they've been able to prove well much of that pottery also has many times pictures on it that depict errors of time or scenery or they'll have inscriptions which are extremely valuable to the archaeologists to the scholar to the professor and ultimately that travels down to where it's very important to you and i because those inscriptions will align themselves many times with the air of time and the stories in that time that many times align themselves with the bible and you say this is proof of 3000 years ago that this story in the bible is not been changed through the years and uh king david is one of those stories that the more they find out and the more inscriptions and the more stones and the more they uncover they realize that king david really was a historical figure he was not just a little tribal chieftain or some story from the folklore of the hebrew mind or some uh epic like that of gamish or one of the other gods of the ancient world but he was a real live person that god raised up from the sheep coat that he would rule as a shepherd over the hebrew people and so forth and so this is the value of all of this when you go to the pool of bethesda and i've been there many many times they have buildings uh many of them may be a few hundred years old there's a few that's a few thousand that are still there been restored but most of them are within the last hundred years and less and they built around there they would have to literally buy all of that and move that and then begin to dig down to get to that strata of ground where that era of time that jesus or before him or a little after him existed financially it's unfeasible it just the the finances are not there and secondly there's some structures that are absolutely beautiful or owned by different groups of people there's a particular church there that they would in no wise ever sell or allow to be tore down so they would have to work around it but what they have uncovered is absolute proof that the way the story is recorded in john chapter 5 can be unfolded with what they have been covered and it can be shown to be accurate by the geographic by the settings of everything that is around there now if something 2 000 years ago was recorded in a book a book like you hold in your hand if you get your bible just this book has stories that go back for thousands and thousands and thousands of years the first recording of the first stories and the first words of god started in the sinai desert about 1446 bc that is about 3 000 500 years ago do you know that's a long long time and uh the story that i read to you was recorded by john who was a participant in this story and that story was written over 1900 years ago and people for years have found ways to attack the story and to explain it away and they have tried to say that it is just a story of folklore what do you mean by that pastor there is a large number of scholars christians denominations that do not actually believe that an angel came down once a year touched the water troubled the water caused the healing waters to flow and the first person that would get in it they thought that that was folklore they thought that that was something that had been told an oral tradition but didn't actually happen i remember the first time i was a young man when i heard a preacher preach that there really was not an angel but in the bottom of the pool they had through mosaic tiles they had a picture of an angel there and so it was to commemorate the belief that something in the past had happened etc and so forth i was greatly disturbed i thought this is a preacher of the gospel someone that's supposed to tell me the bible's true and he's sitting here explaining away what the bible clearly says happened and i did not believe him i believe the word of god i got angry with him [Applause] and i as i used to do i don't much anymore but i was kind of belligerent at times i went up and very belligerently give him a piece of my mind and told him what i thought about his study and so he began to talk about dr so-and-so and this commentary and this and that the other how they all did not see it this way and i just simply said were they there were they there how can someone 1800 years later rewrite history revise history and say that the eyewitness is wrong and 1800 years later living in a western culture not understanding the eastern culture never talking to jesus one on one personally never laying your head on his breast never seen him multiply some loaves and fishes and never seen him call lazarus how can you say that that man doesn't know what he's talking about when he picks up the pen and by the inspiration of the holy ghost writes a story as such i'm sorry as simple as i am it makes a lot of sense to me that i just can't figure out how these people with all this education can be that stupid and that was one of the things that got me into archaeology that was one of the things that kind of charted my path god used it to make me become a defender of the faith and become an apologist god will allow certain things to stir things up as part of your call and your direction and the anchoring of your faith and instead of becoming disillusioned you need to say thank you god for stirring me and giving me a desire [Applause] i was reading uh about hitler yesterday and world war one and world war ii and it's a would be a major history lesson here today so i won't get into all of it but there was a couple of things that just kind of jumped out uh churchill winston churchill wrote a series of books and one of the books he wrote they're big thick books they're a little hard to read and you have to tediously take your time but one of the books he wrote is called the finest hour anybody ever hear of it or anybody ever read it some of you read it it's a great piece of literature there's actually 10 books that he wrote and but the war between the allied forces and the axis before america entered into the war started out really in world war one not world war ii and it took this great build up to get us to the point where rural uh world war ii could have its launching pad and so that's that's a lot of history but as you see the pieces coming together but they kept trying to court the uh uh the friendship and the uh relationship with america and eventually the french who was considered a very powerful army of that particular time and uh several other armies there was the belgian army that fell there was the which was a neutral country uh of course there was poland that was attacked which began to start there was check that uh lost its sutter lands and then began to move in and there was the uh just a lot that went on in there but it got down to where there was the british were the only ones left fighting this massive german axis force of evil as we call it and we didn't understand how evil it was as americans until we got to the consecration times with and we begin to see exactly what had actually been done and uh it looked like that the british even though america had finally agreed to lease them a 99-year lease of some ships send them munitions that they were not going to be able to hold out and churchill was a fierce fierce fierce fighter and uh he stood against all odds it's just a great story of of evil that failed to triumph over good and but it came to a very dark history in the war time and churchill had tried to persuade roseville and other leaders to join the war with them not just give them some supplies they had a spitfire they had developed which was a little better than the average fighter but they didn't have the bombers and what they were lacking was they didn't have the resource to replenish their military and especially their munitions as they were using them up now december 7th uh general of the high court of the japanese devised a plan with the war cabinet of japan to attack america and he guaranteed him he said i can give you six months of victory against the united states of america after that he said i can't promise you anymore so you'll need to get in there and diplomatic lee you'll need to make uh some agreements come some sessions get them to make concessions and japan had a history of doing this there were three nations that they had come in attacked very hardly they hit hard and then the leaders made concessions and they were able to expand their empire they were dependent upon america for import because we had a lot of industrial and so forth well all that eventually fell and so they attacked and our strongest fleet was the fleet that was in the pacific at pearl harbor we did have three uh ships and some squad of ships that were out there uh some fleets of ships that are out there but our main ships were there and uh when they came in we were expecting bombers and some planes coming from california to be flowing to hawaii that would be taken further into the pacific arena and so when they spotted it even though the planes were coming from the wrong direction america was very uh unprepared for war we didn't want war we wanted to be neutral we did not have a strong military we did not build up like we should have because we thought we were not going to be in the war and in fact i think it was 1936 we only had 110 000 active military personnel that sound just unbelievable today but i believe those were the figures and of course we had reserves and we were doing some training in that time they attacked us at pearl harvard for us as americans it was a great tragedy and we should never forget not with the hatred to the japanese but with an understanding of what arrogance and unpreparedness and the attitude of being invincible the kind of mess it can get you into and i think we are coming for a full circle back to that kind of attitude that brought us to our knees at the pearl harbor and uh everybody was just absolutely there were over 4 000 deaths that took place and ships were sunk and the world was like just blowing away of what happened america was in shock and we were trying to rally our forces it was just it was a major deal there was one man that was in england by the name of winston churchill and he said i haven't had a good night's sleep for three years but that night i went to bed and slept like a baby because i knew that we were going to win the war america was now in it with us he writes in his memorials he writes in his books sometimes god allows things to happen because we will not do what god is drawing and pushing us to do because we're stubborn now someone says how in the world could god have allowed pearl harbor to take place you must go back a little bit before world war ii started there was a tremendous anti-semitic spirit that was sweeping europe some of the bankers and some of the aristocrat and the ruling class was a small minority group of people that were jewish they had literally taken the reigns of the european nations and they were in charge behind the scenes financially they controlled the banking industry they controlled much of the politics etc etc and there was an opportunity for israel to become a nation and israel chose not to leave europe because everything was good they offered them a place in africa that was uninhibited except for some of the jungle tribes and said we'll give you this land that fell through they offered them to come and have a small community in canaan or israel which at that time was under the turkish rule and they didn't want that either they didn't want to leave that place so god raised up hitler now i love the jewish people and um jewish people as a whole the hebrews have a covenant and the hand of god upon them it doesn't mean that every jew is a great person in any group of people there's good people there's bad people there's honest people there's dishonest people etc but as a nation they are an apple of god's eyes with a future and in that sense i love them i also have some jewish friends which i very fond of and they we've talked about this and it has got heated at times because they have the holocaust to remind them of how vile that hitler was but had hitler never risen up and brought the persecution to the jews the jews would have never came to the land that we know today as the nation of israel because they would have been secured in european countries with their ability to run and live the high life and the financial life and so god had to bring them to a place where they were getting on old dilapidated ships the most famous the exodus ships that actually sunk and they lost people ships that were not capable of the crowds or the numbers that were put upon them and they came for relief and those people that once said we'll never leave our lofty towers and our lofty places of business and give up and go to that desert land and believe me it was a desert back then it wasn't the israel you know today it was a wasteland full of malaria in many places they didn't have the water resources and it didn't seemed as if there was anything there that could draw them or make them or sustain the wealth that they had and so it was that god raised up hitler but god did not expect hitler to wipe out and kill that all the jewish people he expected there to be a remnant that would be left that he would take and this is the way if you read through the bible oftentimes god said i'm going to punish this i'm going to do this raise up the assyrians race but i'm going to spare a remnant and the same thing happened in 1948 they became a nation etc the problem was at a certain point god had raised up america several hundred years earlier not necessarily when they were a nation but when he began the formation of it and then of course they did become a nation america's 244 years officially today but it's much older in its coming together and america was god's assurance that hitler would not wipe out all the jews and that britain would stay its course because there were other issues that had to take place and so america was not doing because they wanted neutrality they didn't want the war they didn't want to be involved in the war and so god moved into the japanese people as terrible as it seems now let me say this when people will do the will of god none of this has to take place but when people decide that they're going to pilot their own life live their own way do their own things god has ways of sending storms to your life to get you to surrender to the higher wheel and the purpose by which he has created you he does this on individual levels he does this on family levels and he does it on national levels and he does it on global levels he is absolutely in charge of everything and so churchill not knowing all of that did understand one thing now that america was in the war there was going to be a great uh uh reversal of the losses and there was going to be the sustaining of that little nation on that rock over there in the atlantic ocean and history has now come and gone and the story has been written and the allied forces uh prevailed against the axis evil and there is a nation of israel that is in the land of canaan awaiting the messiah not knowing that he's already come once and when they see him it'll be the second time we've already accepted him and believe in him praise god so this is how god works here we find people that want to blatantly ignore and to refute the word of god so let me read to you something here verse 3 says in this lay a great multitude of impotent folk that was not just some a a kind of poetic writing to express what was happening around there but this was a literal record that when you got down to those pools and you walked around those pools there were people that were sick and people that had leprosy and people that were crippled and people that were blind and people that had all kinds of diseases and plagues in their body that lay around on these little mats that they called beds kind of like your yoga mats but made out of a woven uh leaves of different particular plants and they would lay down their waiting and they couldn't move and if they were if they were lucky if they were blessed they had family members that would help them or they wasn't is bad off as someone else and they would get as close as they could and then of course what happens is after someone is healed everyone expects to be healed and and to be in the water and so everyone pushes in there but then time comes and time goes and the clock ticks and the hours pass and the days pass the weeks pass and all of a sudden that red alert that any day the angel could show up and trouble the water and so i fought my way here but now i'm going to move back it's so crowded and i know we have another year and and then all of a sudden people kind of let down and then the unexpected happens and the angel of the lord unannounced shows up and touches the water and the water begins to bubble and begins to churn and begins to stir itself up and people who a year ago were so close to the edge now are sitting back uh hundred feet with hundreds of sick people between them and the water and quickly they rise up and they try and get to the water so if they could get there but by the time they get there someone else has stepped in and the waters become calm and still and that person comes out rejoicing and then the same cycle happens and everyone gets excited and they push in and say we're not going to miss it this next time but time comes and time wears people down it wears down expectation it wears down hope it wears down faith it wears down the stories that you've heard and even things you've seen god did this great miracle and god did this great miracle and so we come to that place where people kind of just oh yeah that happened and i saw that but uh and then it happens again and the cycle repeats itself i want to propose to you today that time is a great friend when it comes to healing and preparing for the things of god but it is a tremendous enemy against faith trust expectation because as the days go by and god doesn't do it in the time that you saw it a long time ago you get to the place you start letting go and you start letting it pass by and you think well that was a year ago or that was 10 years ago or i remember when we had some services like this but you know now it's it's not happening and you get further and further away from the fires and the hope and the desire and the passion of what god wants to do it's like divine healing you come in a service and there's someone that gives a testimony maybe in your to you and their testimony rings true and you believe god did it for them he can do it for me and you really pray and get in your word and say god i'm gonna believe you i'm gonna believe for that miracle i'm gonna believe for that uh but time comes and pretty soon the prayer changes and pretty soon the prayer drops off and you get busy and you move on you get all excited and you get up in the morning boy i'm gonna be i'm i'm gonna pray that i'm gonna i'm gonna have a prayer life and you go to prayer in the first week man it's just it's sweet and wonderful and the presence of the lord comes and after a couple weeks it kind of dries up on you and because you can't feel it you no longer have the drive inside to break through and be faithful and consistent and expectation this is human nature none of us in this building including the pastor are without this kind of weaknesses in the constitution of the sinful nature that we live in and so god has to do things that are out of the ordinary to get us in position because we get to rely on the tradition we get to rely on the timing of what we have seen in the past and say it's such and such time i can see those men and women that are crippled there and all of a sudden nine months goes by 10 months go by and about the 11th month they start saying you know we're getting close and they start trying to work their way through it maybe i'll be the one and then they get discouraged because they get up close and it's day after day and they get hungry and and and they get uh they get pushed and shoved and everybody's touching everybody and there's maybe some bad attitudes and some fighting and some desperation and and it's an unpleasant situation someone said i'll just back up a little bit and let someone get in front of me or i'll just i just you know maybe it's not going to happen i thought it was going to happen last week but it didn't happen and maybe maybe maybe it's all over now maybe i didn't really see that person get healed maybe when the water was troubled it was just a wind picked up and put a little white caps on it maybe when they jumped in there it was a farce maybe there wasn't really anything wrong with them in and but they got out and shouted and i didn't i don't actually remember hearing their testimony i just remember they were shouting and we just assumed because they were here with us but you know that probably really didn't happen and your mind begins to work and the devil comes in and begins to speak and talk and try to get you off course and in this story that i'm reading to you the bible says that there was an angel that came down at a certain season into the pool it didn't say that there was a folk lore that there was a oral tradition that there was a jewish tradition that this it said the angel actually came down and he got into that water he went down at a certain season into the pool that means the angel walked down in the water i don't find any wiggle room there that it was just what the theologians and the unbelievers and the agnostics and the faithless group of people that try to read this and and and come to their own conclusions it doesn't say that it says and he troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole and whose whatsoever disease he had i want to tell you something and we're going to go on record as a church you may not have seen a miracle for a year you may not have seen a miracle for three years you may not have seen a great move of god in the way maybe you remember something back in the future or excuse me the past but just because you haven't seen it lately and just because you have not [Applause] he cut allah does not mean that it's not real and that these signs shall follow them that believe in my name shall they cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues they shall take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them hallelujah and they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover i want to tell you it may have been a while since we've seen some of the manifestation of the scriptures and the stories that have been written in your book but don't you allow yourself to get too far away from the waters because there is a troubling of waters that is going to take place again and what god has been faithful doing through the years god has not changed for he is the same yesterday today and forever and if he said he was going to pour out of his spirit upon all flesh in the last days you can be assured that god is going to do what he said he was going to do [Applause] and you see when the angel becomes the focal point and do we believe in angels oh yes we believe in angels do angels partnership with the church oh absolutely they partnership with the church do angels interact themselves with god's people absolutely they were they were created to be ministers for the heirs of salvation and i and you are heirs of salvation and they minister to us and they minister for us and they work with us to achieve the will of god in this world that we live rather you see them or not the kingdom of god is not running short on angelic partnership because god's got a people god's got a people god's got a people that he has created angels to work with to accomplish the will and the purpose of the almighty to advance the kingdom of god out in hostile territories that his name may be lifted up and that his banner and flag may fly and that people in this world that are searching for hope and searching for a place to go and looking for a light with nowhere to travel to that's why it's important that christian life center never close its doors and never shut down and say we've had an 87 88-year-run 90-year run but now it's time to move on i'm telling you god has brought us to the kingdom for such a time as this uh there is a hunger in the land because there's a famine in the land for the word of god and god has brought us up at this time that the world may know that he lives and he lives among his people and that you and i have been chosen to demonstrate the power of the mighty god of heaven and this man in the story 38 years older than jesus christ was in his flesh as god manifest in the flesh jesus was eternal but as the flesh that god manifest in he was born in a manger born of a virgin and lived to be 33 to 36 years old depending how one interprets the scripture and before jesus was even a bump in his mother's stomach there was a child that had been born that was suffering a disease and possibly was even older than that and the disease come upon him because it just simply says he suffered for 38 years it doesn't say he was born that way so he may have even been an older man and longer than jesus had lived on the earth this man was sick and diseased and someone says i've been sick most of my life i've been diseased most of my life i've had a problem most of my life i've prayed about it i've hoped for it i've tried to get in when there's been a service in the move of god has happened and the waters spiritually speaking have been troubled i've tried to get down in the altar when the preacher preached faith i lifted my hands and confessed my belief and trust in him when i was in prayer and i had those special visitations of god i told god i still believe in you no matter what oh yes you've been one of those that have carried this a long time but you can't seem to ever get to the angel before another brother or sister and it seems that no matter how hard you try your story is god has done it for others but he hasn't done it for me and then the man begin to make an assessment of why he hadn't been healed he said you see lord when the water's troubled i'm too crippled to get to the water i need someone to pick me up and to carry me and they have other family members but i've been at this so long that my family has given up on my healing i feel like preaching today i know it's maybe a lengthy message but i feel the holy ghost coming on my family give up on me they they've seen me in and out of the church they've seen me addicted to drugs and i've walked away from the drugs but i go back to them there's something and i just can't get that deliverance and i hear this testimony and i run over to that brother that testifies how god hoping it'll rub off on me but but six months later i'm back on the street and and i can't get away and and i hear this brother or sister tell about how god delivered her from that immorality and i get over there hoping it'll happen to me and and then nothing happens and i find myself falling back into the sins that i'm trying so hard and then this one over here in this situation and my family they just about given up on me they they loved me but they just they've tried for so many years and i've just been up and down like a yo-yo i don't have any stability i don't have a backbone i can't seem to find healing in the troubled waters i come to service and i'm always hoping it'll be one of those goalie washes where it just seems all heaven comes down and the lord just moves among us and everybody seems to get touched but me and i get a little splash over and i tear in my eye and i feel a few goosebumps but when i walk out that door i'm pretty much the same person i was when i walked in and i've got to the place i just don't believe i'm ever gonna get to the troubled waters and be healed of this 38-year disease because it's my lot and there's no one to help me what are you gonna do how you gonna face it how you gonna deal with it now the bible tells us that there was a multitude of people that were around the pool waiting for the waters to be troubled there were people there that were blind that couldn't see there were people that were deaf and dumb they couldn't hear and their tongues were locked and they couldn't speak there were people that had been born deformed there were people that had been crippled and hurt on the job or hurt through life and they were not able to work a regular job there were others like the woman with the issue of blood that that was so weak that she could hardly rise up on an elbow to look to see if the waters were being troubled there were those that had fits and epileptics and then there were the demon possessed that were in their mind part of the time and when they were in their mind they thought if i could get to the water i can get delivered of this and then there was this man that was crippled how do you know he was crippled because he couldn't get up and run to the water his legs were gone maybe it was paralyzation maybe it had been a bad case of polio maybe he had been run over by a wagon maybe he had jumped off somewhere and broke a leg and it grew wrong and and he just we don't know exactly what the the the problem was but we know that he said i i want to get there but i don't have anybody to pick me up and to carry me i'm in a bad way i don't have anyone to turn to my family's deserted me my friends no longer believe i have a chance they've went on about their business yeah they bring me some food and tell me they feel sorry for me and think they've done their good job as a is a jew doing a good work to help someone that's helpless uh they throw a few coins in my cup and if they make me feel like they love me but there's no one to help me and i lay here all alone and i lay here with sickness and disease ravishing my body my limbs are crippled and twisted and and i look like an absolute mess and i have to crawl where i want to go and drag my self because my legs won't work and we're preaching and living and and working among a world that may look perfectly normal in the physical but they are as crippled and they are as helpless and they are as paralyzed and they are as sick and diseased as anything we ever read about in the new testament and the sad thing is many of them feel the same hopelessness and feel that there is no way god is going to help them out of the mess they're in you imagine what a christian feels like at times when you've sinned and when you've struggled and when you've been through something and it's so hard to believe god can forgive you and god can save you or god can use your god can restore you and you hear preaching and you have history and you get finally get back to god and you know god many of you got the holy spirit and you walk with god you have brothers and sisters that pray for you have a preacher that preaches to you and other ministers that come by and lift you up and here's a sinner that has none of that his world is totally despair the clouds are constantly gray the discouragement is so heavy upon his soul and he knows not where to turn and where to go and he just can't make it happen on his own but he feels like he's a slave to life and he's on his way to a road to hell and there is no way he can get turned around because he doesn't have anyone to turn to but jesus saw him [Applause] jesus saw him lord there's thousands or at least hundreds of people how in the world can you pick him out they all look like a disaster they all look hopeless but jesus saw him oh his eyes on the spiral the bible says he was up in the mountain praying and he looked down and he saw him toiling on the sea that's pretty good vision friend you're never too far away from the gazing eyes of the savior [Applause] and he saw him lie laying and knew that he had been now a long time in that case that situation that condition and he said unto him will you be made whole i didn't ask you do you want me to heal you i didn't ask you do you believe i can heal you i didn't ask you for a sob story of life of why you're in this condition i just want to know i just want to know do you want to be healed do you want to be whole do you want to be and boy if this is not like humans and the impotent man answered him sir i have no man when the water is troubled to put me into the pool but when i'm coming another steppeth down before me that's not what i asked you i didn't ask you why you were sick don't you think i know why you've been there 38 years i didn't ask you why you're laying on your bed i didn't ask you about that i simply said do you want to be made whole why is it that we have to explain to jesus why we haven't been able to obtain the promise the miracle the supernatural now is there a time to lay it out before god yes there is is there a time to present your case like you're in a court of law and you have to oh yes there is in prayer but here was not the time not the place he was supposed to simply answer yes or no will you be made whole and jesus verse 8 said unto him rise take up thy bed and walk now i want to go back to verse hallelujah there's so many good verses here but i want to go back and i want to read a few verses verse 5 let's start over after this there was a feast of the jews and jesus went up to jerusalem now here at jerusalem by the sheep market a pool which is called in the hebrew tongue bethesda having five porches in those days a great multitude of important impotent folk of blind halt withered waiting for the moving of the water for an angel went down at a certain season unto the pool and troubled the water whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole and what of whatsoever disease he had and there was a certain man with there that had an infirmity 38 years and jesus saw him lying knew that he had been there a long time and in the case he said unto him will you be made oh oh hallelujah the world is so sick with sin and spiritual diseases the world is so bound in fetters and chains they're blinded in whom the god of this world hath blinded them that they might not see the glorious light of jesus christ i come to tell you something the church has many facets of operation but one of the greatest facets of operation as that we are to be christians now when the world says christian they don't mean what the biblical meaning of christian is it has always amazed me i've said this and i'll say it again for some of you that are new it's always amazed me how old reprobates people that take the name of jesus in vain hate christianity get on a soapbox whenever a child of god stands up for something and says you're being judgmental judge not that you be not judged if you were a real christian you would turn the other cheek and let me knock your teeth out if you were a real child of god you'd lay down like a doormat and let us stomp all over you they want to shame you and take scriptures out of context because they don't want you to fight against them or stand up against the evil that is prevalent in the world but i want you to know that the world doesn't hold the definition of who you are when jesus saved you and put his name on you and you became his sons and daughters he identifies and dictates who and what you are i'm not the blind one i am the man with sight the scales have been removed and i want to be like jesus i want to walk like him i want to talk like him i want to live like him i want my conversation to be above yes and i don't want god to have to cause world war iii to get me or this church off a dead center to do the works of him that sent us and so i come this day as i'm closing in the next just few moments to tell you you have answers that the psychologist doesn't have for the human mind you have answers that the doctor sometimes doesn't have for the human body you have answers that self-helps and positive thinking and confessions don't have for the soul and the spirit that god give you not only do you have them for yourself but you have them for those that god puts in your path you are a people you are the chosen ones and god has ordained that you would be the people of the name now let me explain quickly in acts 2 38. some people don't like acts 2 38 i like acts 2 38 it's a good passage of scripture because it is the first response of any apostolic preacher to a people that were under conviction asking how do we change and make right what we have done here's what it says in verse 37 now when they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said unto peter and to the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do until people ask and seek direction you often cast your pearls before swine and this truth is too precious to throw in the mud and let them trample underfoot but if they're hungry you see the gospel only works on the hungry and if they're hungry you can say as peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sin and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost for this promise is unto you and to your children and to them that are afar off even as many as the lord are god shall call and with many other words to testify and exhort saying save yourself from this untoward generation church we have a mission in 2021 it's a beautiful mission and that mission is that when the waters are troubled people are discouraged the angel has only allowed one to get in and find its healing we come in the stead of christ as jesus told us go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature you see our world is where we live sometimes people think you know i gotta pack up and go overseas somewhere and become a missionary no no no where god plants you that becomes your world and the people around you become the ones that god expects you those are the creatures those are the people that you teach preach and train and talk to about jesus christ and for us at christian life center the beginning of our work is not over in some third world country or some first world country whatever it may be it's in the valley here where god has called us for such a time as this uh and god wants us to raise up as a mighty marching army that has both the warriors hand and the compassionate touch of the lord reaching for those that are laying there in hopelessness and despair saying i can't get to the water but if you can't get to the troubled waters we can get to you we can bring jesus to where you're at and to where you're living we can bring hope to that dark night and cause there to be a moving back of the clouds of grayness and the rays of sunshine to come through and to give you a new perspective on life everything is going to be all right when you get to jesus for he said if i be lifted up i will draw all men nigh unto me what we have to do is we got to lift up jesus christ we've got to tell the world how wonderful he is uh how great he is and what he can do for them because there is nobody and i mean there is nobody that is like jesus christ uh this is the day of the apostolic age and we are here by design and by purpose because god has ordained that you and i would bring forth the gospel that he left the apostles to this world that we are living in [Applause] church this is the year of harvest we have sowed seed we have planted a harvest we have watered some of you that may be new we have literally organized in this church taking huge maps that you would find in the fire department and putting them on the wall and marking every neighborhood until we walk through the city the breadth the length the depth and the width knocking every single door yes we still believe in door knocking even though it's an obsolete and there's a lot of gated communities but we've been through and knocked on these doors not once not twice not three times but to the best of my recollection in the last 20 years we have knocked on and done this over five separate times making sure that the populace of this city in this area has had an invitation and an understanding leaving them tracks leaving them material talking to them when they would talk to us inviting them not only to church but inviting them to pray inviting them to know about jesus uh i'm to tell you something you cannot sow that much seed and you cannot reach into that many homes in a city and god not reward the work and the labor of love for his kingdom we have went to the hospitals on a daily basis praying for the sick we have taught bible studies i was looking at some of my old notes uh in about 2002 2003 and i taught for six months search for truth how many remember that when i taught search for truth and i ask every one of you it's a 10-week bible study 12-week bible study it takes me really a year and a half two years to teach it but i condensed my ability my part down to six months and then every one of you got a chart and you bought those charts and then we taught those lessons in our homes and then we tried to get small groups in this neighborhood we had groups all over town i'm telling you that's what we call sewing sewing sewing sewing we had 24-hour prayer we had four to seven hours a four to seven in the morning prayer we had all night friday night prayers we had quarterly prayer and fasting we still pray and we still seek god if you think that doesn't have an effect and if god hasn't taken notice he's got a little book in heaven that he's writing down we've opened these altars we've preached jesus time and time again we've told people there's another way than the way of the world and we've sowed the seed we've witnessed on the job we've passed out tracks we've even lived the christian life to the best of our abilities and the devil would have some of you believe that the waters are troubled in the past but only one person can be saved i want you to know jesus has changed that all up in his mind where there's seed there's a harvest uh where there's faith there's a miracle where there's hope there's chains and sunshine and god's looking down with a smile on this church and he's got you in mind i said he's got you in mind he has ministries to pour out upon you some of you are going to be used in the gifts of the spirit this year like you've never been used before well i gotta say it again some of you are gonna be used in the gifts of the spirit uh you're gonna operate in the word of knowledge uh discerning of spirits uh prophecies and tongues and interpretation the working of miracles and the gifts of healing and the mighty outpouring of faith god's not going to abandon us abandon us in this time oh hallelujah as long as the earth remain there will be seedtime and harvest as long as the earth remain there will be seed time and harvest as long as the earth remain there will be seed time and there will be harvester oh i want you to know there is a harvest that is at hand there is a people that are waiting to be brought to the cross waiting to hear one more time god is stirring the depths of the city that we live in the county we live in the region we live in we are on the greatest verge of a move of god that we have ever had in the last 87 eight years of the existence of christian life center and i want to tell the doubter today not only in the building but those online or those that may tune in and listen later and say we've heard that kind of preaching before we've heard that that's just a bunch of excitement or trying to motivate and stir people up i want you to know you or live on another planet you're so out of touch with what god is doing do you think god has shaken up america and changed the scenery and put us in a place to get our eyes off of what's going on in this world and to get our eyes on jesus christ without divine purpose [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well i feel a spirit of intercessor prayer coming in here god loose the gift of faith among your people huh give us the marching orders today put in our hearts the will and the purpose of god open a door that no man can shut uh [Applause] [Applause] low this week this week is going to see changes uh this week is going to see changes in your jobs and the people you work with uh things that you have only dreamed things that you have hoped for you're going to begin to see some changes uh some open doors are beginning to creak open high because god is calling at this time in the world of people to do the mighty works of jesus in 2021 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] let me say just a few more things some of you in the past have prayed that god would use you with certain ministries certain giftings certain areas and you got wore out because the time was long you waited and you waited and you waited and you felt like it's passed me by everything's changed and the dream has died could some of you go down memory lane to think about prayers you prayed years ago desires that were so passionate in you and prayers and you believed it was gonna happen but it didn't come to pass it wasn't that god wasn't answering your prayer it was that his timing was not quite right some of you are so far gone today i can't reach you i can't get to you you're sweeping it away you're shutting doors you're closing windows putting blinds down you don't want to hear it because it means change in your life it means going back to sacrificial times it means going back to more prayer and pushing the plate away it means changing a lifestyle that you've gotten accustomed to as a as a way of occupying because no longer do you have that drive but i'm telling you god today has showed up in this building and he is looking for men and women that are willing to say god my dreams died my prayers dried my hopes dried i never thought i would see it but may you remember when baby jesus in the arms of mary walked into the temple there was an old gray-haired man that they bumped into who had spent his life in the prayers and in the temple of jerusalem and he said may i hold that child mary may i hold that child mary marian joseph didn't really know who he was but he looked like a harmless old fellow looked like a righteous man someone that did sold his life out and just kind of hung around the house of god and just stood around the things that god was doing and mary said yes and he took that child and he held it up and he said mine eyes have seen i am ready some of you some of you your eyes are fixing to see it your hands are fixing to hold it you're not going to the grave you're not going into the future without touching the bread of life see the name and the power for when he's lifted up he draws all men and when simon lifted him up that was the beginning of a ministry where the multitudes would gather until they were numbers that could not be numbered because there was a man by the name of simon that had prayed who had grown old but he kept his faith and he took a little baby that didn't yet know how to speak his words on the eighth day of his circumcision and he lifted the child and when he put him back in the hands of mary from that day forward israel was never the same today in this service jesus is here and some of you some of you are going to touch him some of you are going to lift him up and while you're praying and weeping and worshiping prayers even things you have forgotten god's going to bring back to your memory and you're going to realize that god is faithful you're going to realize that god is faithful and your prayers did not fall by the wayside but he heard every prayer the ministry and the things you wanted to do for his name you will you will you will do those for jesus [Applause] thank you for letting me preach a little extra today i had this on my heart now i put it on yours [Applause] my house should be called a house of prayer [Applause] my house shall be called the house of prayer [Applause] would somebody do would somebody made god's house a house of prayer [Applause] let's make this the house of prayer let's make this the place of dwelling let's make this the shekinah glory let's make this the presence of god man join together today my house shall be called the house of [Applause] prayer [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] so [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] 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