Zion - Thursday Evening Service

he uh graduated from our private christian school this past year and we're really proud of him and then also of course we always love to appreciate brother marcus tario [Music] and then sister ashley marshall and sister hannah brackett will be singing along as well all right y'all ready all right let's do this but here's the thing there's ain't no show and we're not trying to entertain you or have you all judge us to give us you know hold us up a sign that was an eight or a ten or a six this is for the lord so i want you to stand and clap your hands and celebrate with us as we sing unto the lord all right let's clap our hands together oh god we invite you into this place god we celebrate you we welcome you in this place this is for your glory it's for your honor we sing up to you oh god we celebrate you tonight [Applause] who came to celebrate the tonight because i don't know about you but i dream to break tonight [Music] he's a ruler of everything let's lift his name on heart come on zion we praise our king [Music] come on is [Music] raise our keys [Music] he's worthy is [Music] glorious victoria he's a great guy [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] crazy [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh is [Music] [Music] right [Music] victoria [Music] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah praise god he's a great guy you may be seated this next song is called have your way it's on brother draylen young's project and uh it's a duet two of our most well i love all of our singers but i brother justin harrison uh he's amazing in case you didn't know he has a single that came out a little while a while back called in the night it's so wonderful beautiful song that my savannah wrote that he uh recorded so check that out and of course uh oh no where's brother z cause he got here and brother zeke you may not have heard much from him he's a wonderful singer awesome part of our music team and uh so let's it's a wonderful song of worship this could be easily a praise team song we're doing it as choir but um i know when you're sitting here you're thinking can we do that what does my team sound like that who can sing that and so just think of ways you could adapt it to your team it's a beautiful message of consecration have your [Music] [Music] come and move [Music] [Music] come and breathe [Music] [Music] come and breathe [Music] [Music] the spirit of the living tower [Music] [Music] [Music] hey [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] i am [Music] i am i am [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] spirit of the living god [Music] again yes [Music] [Music] again [Music] [Music] praise god sister ashley marshall such a wonderful beautiful addition to our church this song is called no one like you [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Music] jesus opened for me [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] like you here [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] there [Music] your is nobody like you lord [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] jesus nobody else but jesus the same god who created the universe kept me healed me save me delivered me my god you may be seated for the jennings once you come on up we've got one more in this segment of the service spirit of the lord is already here this song was written by brother mark crowder and my daughter savannah mckee uh maybe and somebody else kurt ken hai helped out on this one too wherever he is beautiful song it's called anything can happen come on brother jennings and brother cameron rollinson oh my goodness this guy right here [Applause] we have a very supportive culture um he has a badge that says the tenor because he is holding it down at all times but he's our resident josh groban singer he's amazing um so he's going to sing a part of it but he said i don't want to see the whole thing to solve to this part if you want me to and i did want him to so we appreciate him in fact him and another tenor brother reagan waving him [Music] they just uh released a duet called you have a purpose and it is astoundingly beautiful you really need to stream that or download it's called you have a purpose cameron rollinson and reagan mills it is so beautiful anyway let's sing this song anything can happen [Music] with lifted hands we're ready for a brand new demonstration of your power we want more than stories we're declaring and believing for it now we'll prepare the atmosphere so you can be welcome here anything can happen anything can happen anything can happen the moment [Music] anything can happen anything can happen the moment is [Music] [Music] we want more [Music] so you can be [Music] is [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] healing power [Music] [Music] me [Music] hey [Music] he's here [Music] on the first night [Music] is yes [Music] [Applause] anything can happen the [Music] anything can happen the moment that you're walking [Music] in jesus name [Music] amen right now everyone lift your hands to the lord we're gonna prepare to begin the service tonight thank god for the presence of the lord we already feel in this place but there are represented needs in this place if you're sick in your body i believe that the lord wants to heal him why don't we begin this service with praise and thanksgiving let's just thank him for his goodness in our life father we thank you we enter into your gates with thanksgiving into your courts with praise lord we shouldn't even be here today but we're grateful lord you've brought us into this house lord i thank you for this opportunity that we have hallelujah jesus i thank you for the miracles that will take place i thank you for the breakthroughs the encouragement the reviving the ministry that will go forth tonight i thank you for it in jesus name amen amen standing among us are people with infirmities with sickness with needs in their life if you have a special need and you need god to do something for you tonight maybe you're struggling it's pulling at your attention because it's a it's it's it's it's an issue that you can't ignore i want you to simply lift your hand right now amen standing him up keep your hand lifted for a moment all right look around you right now if there's someone nearby that has their hand lifted i want us to get ready i want you to turn around we're going to reach out to these individuals come on make contact with them let's begin to pray one for another right now hallelujah come on let's pray god touched my brother god you know the need in their life i speak healing i speak deliverance right now in jesus name hallelujah i speak strength right now in the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus for what you're doing right now lord thank you jesus thank you jesus hallelujah lord [Music] hallelujah hallelujah i'm asking at this time for our ministers to come and i want you to stand across the front all of our ministers i see several pastors here if you would please join in with us if you're a pastor and a minister would you come forward and stand with us amen i want us to i want us to pray for anybody that needs prayer i want i want you to have an opportunity to receive what you need from the lord right now in the name of jesus god amen if you're here and you need a breakthrough at your home church maybe you want to stand in proxy for someone back home that is sick in their body i want you to step out in the aisle and make your way to the front right now come on amen as we move forward in this service amen i believe that god wants to minister i realize this is a music conference but i believe that god wants to minister tonight hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus amen for everyone else i want you to take your hands and stretch them out to heaven we're going to pray that god would anoint our hands as instruments of worship tonight god i commit my hands in worship lord i i will give you the very best praise i'll lift up my hands in the sanctuary i'm going to clap my hands i'm going to worship you lord god with everything i have i will lift up your name hallelujah jesus thank you lord thank you jesus god i'm gonna give you my hands in worship tonight now i want you to pick your feet up put them down let's commit our feet now lord i dedicate my feet as instruments of praise hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus amen amen i want you to turn around now and find somebody else maybe somebody that came with you or someone that is standing nearby we're going to pray for one another right now god knows and needs amen of our brothers and sisters come on find somebody let's pray for one another right now let the holy ghost work through you in the name of jesus lord i want you to touch my brother i want you to touch my sister god i'm asking to be with them encourage them lord you know the needs of their life i'm asking to minister to every heart right now in jesus [Music] [Music] god said revive god renew every mind every heart in jesus name [Music] hallelujah [Music] i want you to take your hand and put it on your mind right now we're going to pray against every stronghold and every thought that would exalt itself against the knowledge of god some have come weary in their mind they need encouragement let's pray right now god give me liberty in my mind i come against anything that would bring discouragement and doubt lord let there be renewing in my mind god before i leave this place tonight strengthen my mind more help me to have my mind stayed on you cod renew my mind tonight renew my mind tonight hallelujah hallelujah i rebuke every spirit of stress and worry every anxiety in the name of jesus lord loose liberty our minds tonight in jesus name i pray god do a work in our hearts right now in jesus name in jesus name i wonder is there anybody in this place that you have been wrestling with a deficit in your life you you need something in your ministry back home you need god to meet a need a particular need of ministry we're not talking about healing and deliverance personally right now we're talking about a need that you have back in your home church or in your ministry how many have a situation like that you need god to meet a need here's what i believe if we're honest we all have an area that we would like god to work out i want you to take your hand and hold it out amen just kind of hold your hand down just like this amen i want you to imagine your need is sitting in your hand right now whatever that looks like whatever the the situation is imagine it is in your hand right now hallelujah i believe that we serve a prayer answering god there is nothing that he can't do hallelujah i want us together now we're going to lift it up and release it to the lord come on just lift it up lift your other hand now and thank him god i thank you that you know god you know the needs that we have and i thank you in advance that you will provide you're going to make a way you're going to work it out thank you jesus for what you're going to do with this place thank you for your glory thank you jesus for your provision you are our jehovah jireh you're our provider we love you lord god you're great hallelujah and now for the next 20 seconds let's thank god for what he's going to do for us tonight with a loud voice [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you jesus [Applause] let's continue to lift up the name of jesus how many are thankful that there's power in that name [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey tell the world oh [Music] [Music] do you believe tonight [Music] [Music] way back oh is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] the name of jesus [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh we lift your name [Applause] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah come on continue to lift him up god we exalt you we worship you lord god we want your will to be done here on earth as it is in heaven god where they cry holy around the throne lord you are worthy of all our praise we exalt you we magnify you lord [Music] [Music] cast their crowns before the lamb of god [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] you are [Music] [Music] yeah our praise let it rise before the throne of god as sweet incense lord day and night night and day we want to reverence and honor you god we send up our praise let it be an acceptable offering hallelujah day and night night and days [Music] day and night night and day [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh you're worthy is [Applause] of it all foreign [Music] you get the glory you get the praise [Music] [Applause] you crazy [Applause] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] your eyes [Music] [Music] glory in his presence [Music] one time you were [Music] to deserve [Music] come on and magnify the lord we're standing on holy ground where's my camera hallelujah some of you have come in here from all kinds of situations and i believe that in this moment god is going to send a spirit of refreshing and encouragement to you he wants you to know you're not alone that in his presence there's fullness of joy that even though sometimes we suffer loss and difficulty we never suffer the loss of his presence or his mercy or his grace come on mckenna it's a song called valley and i believe it's gonna minister to your spirit can you just worship as we sing [Music] a strong tower [Music] so i praise you [Music] matter where i am you're worthy and that won't change [Music] take away but still blessings be your name my whole life is in your hands lead me lord i trust your plans for [Music] take away [Music] take everything and take all of me i surrender in the valley i know you are for me would you make that your prayer say take everything me [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the pain [Music] your garden rejoicing oh [Music] [Applause] me [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] cause you see what i don't see me [Music] cause you know what's best for [Music] me lord [Music] hallelujah if it had not been for the lord where would you and i be tonight i don't know about you but i'm thankful for a god that when i can't see him at times and at times when i cannot feel him he's never forsaken and he's never forgotten me hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus we welcome you tonight to zion music conference 2021. this time you can return to your seats my name is justin gage i am the student ministries pastor here at the pentecostals of katy and we just want to say it's a joy and honor and a privilege to have each and every one of you here tonight we need some room in the congregation it's starting to fill up a little bit so if you have seats or maybe there's some areas there that are available near you we would ask at this time that you would maybe move towards the center or toward towards one of the ends so that our ushers can seat some people there this time we're going to take up an offering there are many ways that you can give here at the pentecostals of katie as you will see on the screens beside me and behind me here in just a few moments if you need a contribution envelope you can lift your hand at this time and our ushers will get one of those to you but while you're getting your offering together tonight we have just a few announcements that we want you to be aware of [Music] all of our vendors are open tonight after service in the children's wing of the building that is if you go down this hallway outside of the sanctuary you go all the way down and up the stairs into the children's wing we have apostolic vendors there that will be selling clothes and all kind of stuff we have but god merchandise that we're selling zion music conference shirts how many of you appreciate our apostolic vendors we asked tonight that at the conclusion of the service that you go and you shop with them in the children's wing of the building also those of you who are seated in the first three or four rows of the sanctuary tonight at altar call we need you to be ready to move because we are expecting the power of the holy ghost to move in this place in a mighty way so we will be stacking those chairs up and we will be making more room to have our altar call so please do not leave anything on the ground when altar call happens just take your belongings set them a few rows back because we're believing god to move in a powerful way tonight how many of you came here expecting god to strengthen and the lord to touch you in this conference this time you can stand we're going to pray over our offering ask that god would bless it [Music] how many of you love being able to give into the kingdom of god in a world that we live in where the stock market is at times shaky cryptocurrency sometimes is a bit risky and god's economy there is always a steady return always god is going to bless you when you put your money into his kingdom and tonight we're going to pray over our offering and let what's going to ask god we're going to ask god excuse me to bless our offering why don't you lift your hands to the lord at this time jesus we thank you for your many blessings we ask tonight god that you would bless the gift and the giver bless your people as they sow faithfully into your kingdom god bless them on their jobs in their homes and their families and bless their churches and everybody said in jesus name come and bring your offering to the front [Music] no [Music] kindness your endless [Music] oh [Music] oh your name is [Music] and is turn me [Music] is [Music] anybody know that there's no one like him tonight he stands all by himself and he's all alone yes he is we sing jesus you're so amazing and all i can say is there's no one like women [Music] [Music] is you're so amazing [Music] cause you never uh [Music] [Music] oh know the name of jesus praise god amen i do not believe in reincarnation but if i did i would want to come back as a blend between court chavis and david jennings my word as they say they can sing amen it's so good to have you here with us this evening you may be seated my name is eugene wilson i'm the executive pastor here at the pentecostals of katie also recently started serving as the president of texas bible college and uh looks like we either have some texas people here or there's a few students around whitney is working the we have a table set up in the lobby and if you are uh looking to go to college uh stop by if you want to go back to college stop by amen i want to take just a few moments and find out where you're from is there anybody here from louisiana they're not proud of that [Music] anybody here from arkansas i'm sorry for you now i lived in tennessee for some years and in tennessee we used to tell jokes about people from arkansas we said that's where the toothbrush was made said if they'd been made anywhere else it would call them the teeth brush [Music] that's horrible isn't it i know but that's what we did anybody from tennessee to kentucky when i grew up in indiana we told jokes about kentuckians too anybody from indiana yeah we got a few at the ground okay who came the farthest florida let's hear it from florida anybody else where'd you come [Music] maine oh my word anybody come from alaska we have two that said whoo there's still tire they got jetlag alaska wow wow wow and maine anybody from like way out in california i knew we had a couple right over here anybody from mexico canada seriously yeah that was arkansas all right anybody from texas my wife says that she's born and raised in texas born in texas she says i'm a texan i said well you moved away when you were two years old you were raised in indiana you are a hoosier and she looked at me and pointed her finger in my face she said once a texan always a texan [Music] i found that to be true my goodness okay let's stand let's have a little bit of fun for the next five minutes or so yeah if you want well yeah i think we'll skip that one it's gonna say if you want stickers don't want your hands shake but this is what we're gonna do if you don't want to shake hands just kind of like do this uh just kind of motion back at them like hey no high five short high five but anyway this is what i'd like for you to do i want you to meet at least three people that you've never met before in your life okay three people tell them where you're from tell them your name tell them what you do your name where you're from what you do three people find three [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] the name of the lord he's a strong tower a strong tower for me [Music] [Applause] is [Music] there is a shelter a joy is [Music] is no other name but the name of jesus it's in the name of jesus it's in the name of jesus is [Music] it's not the name when i speak [Music] yes is jesus [Music] they me it's [Music] [Music] oh yeah i'm [Music] come on i wonder if we could just do that right now if we could lift up our hands god cares for us so much why don't we just cast our burdens on him for just a moment i know that we've got to move forward but i'm running in [Music] when everything's falling apart i'm running it i still need you jesus day after day after day i can't make it oughta run into the name of the lord right now [Music] [Music] can we just dwell in his house right now for a second jesus you're the strong tower lord you are our hell both jesus you are our comfort you are our provider jesus we give you all the glory and all the praise have your way in this earth [Music] let's just lift up our hands and worship him tonight [Music] through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil yeah for the lord it's my role in my stuff [Music] to the valley of the shadow of death [Music] [Music] tower [Music] is [Music] [Music] is unchanging jesus does not change this world is gonna fade away people will come and go but one thing will remain and that is jesus he is our comfort if you that then sleep with us tonight is and i will dwell in your house dwell in your house dwell in your house [Music] and i will dwell in your house dwell in your house dwell in your house just lift him up tonight sing it with me and i will dwell in your house no place i'd rather be [Music] [Music] right now thank you jesus we worship you we lift you up [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen thank god that we have an opportunity to dwell in the house of the lord amen i i am so glad to be here today thank you all for coming as you make your way back your seat i want to give an opportunity to be seated just for a moment and i would like to introduce myself if i haven't met you yet my name is shara mckee's husband and it is so good and mckenna mckee and savannah and sophia's dad but it's so good to have each of you here with us at zion music conference record registration this year we're so thankful everybody's here every year it continues to grow and uh i hope that you have benefited something thus far from the classes of all the people involved in this conference i'm probably the least musical of them all i've told several folks i do play the saxophone i really do but i play it really poorly and i used to have it sitting up here and uh on the platform and i would play occasionally only because everybody was afraid to tell me i couldn't but uh i i i enjoy i enjoy what we're experiencing here it's just an honor to be here with each of you i'm enjoying the presence of the lord that i feel and so our prayer is that something that said this week would not only equip you but it would revive you and renew your passion you would go home with a fresh vision fresh desire to to do the work of god that he's called you to do in your local assembly so many incredible churches represented here and i know that we have some pastors in the crowd all of our pastors if you were a pastor if you would please stand all of our pastors please stand amen let's give all of our pastors a great big hand amen [Applause] you know for the last eight years there are certain traditions that we have um had here at zion i i love the busyness of it i love the excitement of it amen i like it too that's all right um and uh but it's just you know there's a few other things that you know we have done every year one of those things is every thursday night they have asked me to speak and i have i enjoy i love to preach don't get me wrong i absolutely love to preach but i've been doing this long enough that i i don't have to do it anymore i mean i i'm okay i want the will of god in every uh every one of these meetings and um and so last night i was having a phone conversation with um an evangelist and uh someone that you're going to get a chance to to meet tonight be introduced to his ministry brother warren finney we met him several weeks ago in knoxville i believe it was or pigeon forge at a concert y'all play y'all make me nervous getting quiet over there we met him several weeks ago and his ministry impacted everyone that was at that meeting in a very deep and profound way he shared his testimony and he wasn't supposed to be here tonight it was just a coincidence i was i wanted to book him but he's booked you know for quite a while out and i came back i told my wife we've got to have him gotta have him come and and speak and then last night he mentioned that he was going to be stopping in katy and he's only going to be here one night and i i want to do something a little unusual and um and so tonight i have asked brother finney to come and i want him specifically to share his testimony now he is not only is he a very gifted preacher but uh and has a tremendous testimony he's also a very gifted singer and you're gonna you're gonna hear that in just a moment and but i am not on the schedule tonight i've kind of taken myself off the schedule for all of those who are deeply disappointed no all those that are disappointed that i'm not preaching tonight i will apologize to both of you personally to after service and i love my mama and my wife i just do i always count on their support but uh i i just felt in the holy ghost to do something i have never done before and that is just to ask someone to come in and speak and so i know you are about to be blessed by this man and his amazing testimony amen he is a he is a full-time evangelist travels the country he is very busy but god has has brought him into this glorious truth and he is licensed with the united pentecostal church doing an amazing job but i want us to stand together in honor of the preaching or the whatever he feels like doing it it's totally up to you brother finney we're just so honored to have you here this man has complete liberty to do whatever he feels and if y'all really want to hear me preach go online and take a pic but i i am completely turning this over to him and i want him to share his testimony tonight and why don't we put our hands together and let's welcome evangelist warren finish honor to have you here today [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i started for the kingdom since my life he controls said i gave my heart to jesus the the sweeter he grows [Music] the longer i serve him the sweeter grows [Music] [Applause] [Music] serve him the sweeter he grows [Music] [Music] jesus supplying [Music] plant his grace he be stoned every day my way gets brighter [Music] [Applause] i serve him the sweeter jesus grows the more that i love him is [Music] the sweeter he grows each day [Music] my heart overflows i said each day is [Music] the sweetest [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] i'd rather be an old-time christian than anything i know for i reckon that the suffering of this present world is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be real with us thank you so much brother for allowing this unknown fat ohio god to be with you guys tonight and i give honor to brother and sister mckee great churches like this don't just happen [Applause] [Music] [Applause] a church never rises higher than its leadership and if you look all over this campus you will see that visionary leadership anointed by the holy ghost birth by god is happening right here through a great man and his great wife i travel all over the united states and i see a lot of buildings and facilities that honestly i wish our name wasn't on [Music] the restroom smell the church isn't cleaned oh come on somebody everybody in that church lives in fine homes and the house of god looks like a shack and we wonder why we can't get the world to come join us over at the apostolic church [Applause] i'm already in trouble and i hadn't even started but you folks have made me proud to be united pentecostal here in katy texas amen [Music] [Applause] while you're standing would you please reach for your bibles only a heathen goes to church and don't bring his bible thank god for cell phones that we have them on now it's like going to the table without a fork [Music] even thank you band man i love you guys i'll trade my motor home and get a bus we'll hit the road how about that haven't you enjoyed every worship singer on this platform tonight [Applause] amazing i know music that don't just happen either there's hours invested in what you've seen displayed tonight i believe that if we prepare for revival god will send it you know holiness is not something you buy at walmart or j.c penney i'm going to be honest with you as a matter of fact you can't even make yourself holy that's why you need the holy ghost it's our job to make ourselves acceptable but once we make ourselves acceptable then god puts his holiness upon us and takes ordinary things and makes them extraordinarily effective amen so tonight i'd like to thank everyone that had a hand in allowing me to be here and i really need to be like elizabeth taylor told her last husband i really don't need to keep you alone i'll do the best i can where i am with what i got so while you're standing would you please go to the book of hebrews chapter 12 and i want to read something i want to share with you what the lord has done for me tonight i didn't have months of time to know he's doing this your pastor kind of sprung this on me last night about 11 o'clock and i'm so honored to get to do it but i know i'm going to do well because my knees are applauding right now i heard all the nice things that he said about me and i thought man i can hardly wait to hear what i have to say after that i thought you know if my daddy had been here he would have laughed if my grandfather had been here he'd have stretched to see who they was talking about but if my mother was here tonight she'd have believed every word of that stuff he said hebrews chapter 12 and we're going to begin in verse 6. would you read this out loud with me family style for whom the lord loveth aren't you glad he loves you he chasteneth that word means correcteth and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth would you read the next verse aloud with me all done good but if you be without chastisement whereof all are partakers then are ye bastards and not sons let's go to verse 11 please no chastening for the present seem it to be joyous but grievous nevertheless afterward it yielded the peaceable fruit notice that word fruit is singular the fruit you know the only thing that made jesus curse was when he reached into a tree and there was no fruit we live in a very exciting and charismatic world that's all about gifts they're like the christmas tree all lit up blinking all kinds of gifts around the base the lord's look not looking for christmas trees he's looking for fruit trees when you read the listing of the fruit of the spirit in the new testament it's not like the gifts of the spirit where he says to one has given this to another is given that to another is given you understand i can't teach you how to have faith and i can't teach you how to love out of all the things that scientists has made they've not figured out how to make a banana yet you can fake gifts but you can't fake fruit it's the real stuff and i'm convinced that jesus said if i'm guilty of one i'm guilty of it all so in that case paul said if i give my body to be burned but i don't have love i'm nothing so instead of saying there are multiple fruits of the spirit i'm convinced that everything that paul listed love joy peace long suffering gentleness goodness meekness temperance and faith is the ingredients and the dna of the one fruit of the spirit and if you don't have it all your fruits rotten and he said if he can correct us it will yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness to them which are exercised thereby lord jesus brother mckees asked me to come tonight and i really want to do a good job i'd like to give him what he's desiring for me to do tonight and i need to do it in a timely fashion lord so i pray that you will anoint me and bring only to my mind that that should be said and let this service edify you and god if there's one here tonight that needs a holy ghost may they not lead this building without being filled with the holy ghost [Music] god give us weapons to be able to win our world with tonight and i pray that you would help me as i share with them what you shared with me in 2010 i'll give you praise in jesus name and everyone said amen you may be seated i am the son of a military man i was raised in church all my life literally all my life when i say i was raised in church all my life honey i was in women's ministries nine months before i was born and all the things i heard in there i was raised by a godly family who loved the lord with all their heart godly mother and dad my dad was from had been through the vietnam war and my dad run our house with a rod of iron my brother and i used to my dad didn't have much of a still to this day doesn't have much of a sense of humor and i'm just a nut but and my brother is as well and we got it from our mother's side the family and we used to tease and say that my dad apparently quit school because they had recess because he just don't play and because of my dad's seriousness it made it that much more fun for my brother and i to pull pranks on him i well remember when i was turning 18 it was the 15th of november it was getting close to midnight the 16th of november i was going to be 18. i planned me a little strategy that i would wait for y'all know what a cuckoo clock is you know they pull them chains and it winds it up and uh they were they were i heard that thing at midnight called my brother's name 12 times and i set up in the bed and i yelled as loud as i could there's a man in the house my dad come down the hall with a gun and said where my dad was a is a generous man a very kind man a few weeks ago i was at home and we went to a huddle house it's a kind of a knock off of waffle house you can still get the marlboro smoked eggs and all that there we went there to that place because it's the only place in town to eat and when we got there to eat my dad got up and he was looking over my shoulder sitting across from me looked out in the parking lot and he got up and he went outside and and he sat down on the curb and i finally got up after a while to look and saw my dad sitting beside a homeless guy a few minutes later my dad brought the homeless guy in and when he brought him in he said keith's gonna be eating with us today he has nobody to eat with and so my dad bought him a meal and then my dad took him to walmart and bought him some clothes and then my dad found out he had no place to live so my dad took him and put him up in a camper trailer that he had so the guy wouldn't be homeless and that boy didn't even know my dad until that day my dad is known as a generous man over the years my dad has helped me he's given me neckties and clothes and when i was a teenager i seemed like a new pair of shoes every week because my foot just kept growing and and so all of those things that my dad done for him my dad has done for me but there's only one thing that i can think of that my dad has done for my little brother and i that he's never done for anyone else and that's my dad has never took anybody that i know of to the bedroom grabbed out a belt and warmed up the seat of their understanding with his rod of education i don't know if anybody else said he did that i remember one morning we were in church and and we were i'm gonna i'm going somewhere if y'all give me just well how many will give me 10 minutes anybody give me 10 minutes thank you 10 20 30 40 50. i can do this i i want you to understand one sunday morning my dad was our sunday school teacher and and and there was a boy that went to our church by the name of todd allen mckenzie and todd mckenzie's dad had walked out on him when he was an infant and he was raised without a dad and so my dad run the school sunday school kind of like you'd run a boot camp and he told us all to be quiet don't nobody say nothing well he went over to another room and got something when he while he was gone todd mckenzie reached in a bag that he had pulled out a red towel put it around his neck jumped up on the table he sat at the far end jumped up on the table started running to the opposite end crying i'm superman when he gets to the other end of the table his weight picks the table up it stands straight up in the air todd mackenzie lands in the floor with a bloody nose my brother looked at me and i looked at him as if to say in just a few minutes todd mckenzie's fixing to meet jesus face to face my dad come back in the room and when he did my dad went over helped the boy up took the towel dried the blood up asked him was he okay pled with him to sit down and be quiet and just be a good boy for a few more minutes until sunday school class was dismissed then my dad reached in a box and got a snicker bar and gave it to the boy now i'm gonna be honest with you i see parents that they they count to their kid i'm gonna count to three one one point one one point four one point two my dad couldn't count i don't guess as a matter of fact i was in walmart yesterday in odessa and i saw a couple of kids i wish my dad would just do a drive-by weapon on when he come through i remember setting that day and here goes my dad picks that boy up and starts talking real nice to him and and on the way home me and my little brother had some questions and i said dad i got a question i want to talk to you about today in sunday school had that been me or curtis you would have tore our heads up he said absolutely don't you ever try i said but dad you would never give us a snicker bar he said absolutely not i said then why did you treat todd so nice when you would have tore my behind up and every parent in this room knows my daddy's answer y'all want to take a stab at it y'all want to take a stab at it what'd he say because he's not my kid has anybody ever had the holy ghost spank you has anybody ever had the preacher get up and preach right where you was and walk on your toes and still come on somebody i come to tell you dear friend that's not the time to walk out of the church get bitter and get mad and get angry that's the time to lift your hands because god has just done something for you that he doesn't do for anybody that he doesn't consider his child and so my assignment for this evening is to come to this pulpit in katy texas and preach to you for a few moments that correction is the surest mark of sonship that there is for whom the lord loveth i don't know that sam finney is my dad because he bought me clothes because i've seen him do it for a lot of people i know that he's my dad because he said no because he said you can't do that because he corrected me because he would take me by the hand and say this is wrong and this is right i don't know that god's my father because he blesses me financially i don't know that god's my father because he heals my body he's healed sinners i know that i'm his child because he feels very comfortable to guide my course and change my life that's how i know for sure that god is my father sometimes correction's not fun but it's comforting because the bible said a child left to his own will bring his mother shame come on somebody you go ahead pastor don't do any correction don't do any discipline because you want them all to like you and love you let me remind you does everybody know who your father is everybody know who their father is our father which art in heaven we know who that is does anybody know who your spiritual mother is your spiritual mother is the church she's called zion and the bible said when zion travails sons and daughters are born and if you let a church go by itself that child will bring its mother shame the lord doesn't run a lawless academy the lord doesn't want to rule his house judgment must begin at the house of god [Applause] are we okay i wish i could be like brother chavis when i grow up if i do you want to finish this brother jesus i want you to understand that the only way that i can tell you that i know for sure that i'm the real deal legitimate child of god is i watch the charismatics do things and i say god they're still talking in tongues why don't they get by with it and i can't god i see this group over here and they're doing it and they're still prophesying and casting out devils but the lord said there will come a time and i'll say i'm sorry i never knew you i know that this church tonight is a real apostolic church because we walk in covenant we live by the word of god we walk under the rule and the pattern of the name of jesus we've let the lord take us from a life where we lived on our own to a life that's lived for his glory from a life of our own pleasure and a life of our own understanding to a life that's lived for his glory by his grace somebody on a shout and give the lord a clap offer to pray brother harper if you're listening this may make you embarrassed to say you're my pastor i want you to understand dear friend that when the lord wants to partner with you he's going to have to have the control of your life to be your lord he's got to have access to your record rack he's got to have access to your wallet he's got to have access to your thoughts he's got to have access to your internet he's got to have access to it all if he's your lord he's got to have the right to get involved in your doctrine and decide what you believe he's got the right to have an opinion about how you're baptized he's got a right to be choosy about what doctrine you believe come on somebody ah doctor doesn't matter they say i'm so tired of hearing preachers say i don't preach doctrine i just preach the bible honey you can't preach the bible without preaching sound doctrine just can't happen i'm tired of hearing a generation say it doesn't matter god has an opinion and if he's going to be my lord and my master he's got the right to tell me everything i do uh uh i want to give you a quick illustration right quick and then i'm going to move into my testimony just quickly are we okay so far okay so all right i just i want to make sure now i seen brother and sister mckee appear tonight and and they had a daughter on the stage how many children do you have brother three children all right anybody got five or six children out here starting your own race but brother mckees got three children and i'm going to tell you there's only one way and i don't want to get too graphic here tonight there's only one way that they can legitimate all these children yours they're not adopted right they're all you're their daddy okay is that right all right there's only one way that they can have three legitimate children you all know what a bastard child is don't you it's an illegitimate kid that somebody said oops don't look don't don't i'm not quite now you'll look guilty there's only one way that there can be legitimate children born in their home and that's the mother has to have a relationship with the father and the father has to impart seed into the womb of the mother and the mother gives birth to the child by the power of the father there's only one way the legitimate christians are born that's when the church who is the mother has a relationship with the father and the father empowers his church and we bring forth sons and daughters by the power of the father only way it happens but there is another way that another child could creep into their home and it's going to take an act that goes something like this the mother has to have a relationship with somebody other than the legitimate father she can still birth babies but they're illegitimate i come to tell you that all over houston texas there's churches every sunday baptizing people signing them up on the church roll claim they're still birthing babies but what's born of the flesh is the flesh i'm looking for another revival where we're born of the spirit where god gives us divine revelation and sons and daughters are legitimately born in the kingdom of god now with that said please sit down i'm fixing to take you to a boring place my testimony starts out very simple i was born at an extremely young age and i was born in a little community called hamburg arkansas anybody ever been to hamburg arkansas anybody know what you got a couple people it ain't nothing to clap about i promise you [Applause] it is a great place to be from it's not much of a place to live but it's a great place to be from there's not much in our town there's one traffic light and an intersection there's no much not much for business there our big industry is a 400 pound avon woman that's about as big as it gets in hamburg arkansas i shouldn't have said that should i that's i was born and raised in that little town in an assembly of god church now what i'm about to tell you is not a bash the assemblies of god's session okay we'll never get anywhere bashing the church down the road matter of fact we'll never get anywhere acting like we're better than the church down the road you're never going to win i'm walking into the restaurant never speaking to them because you're the apostolics that makes you too good to talk to anybody because you got a better standard i ain't got time for all these people honey i'm a missionary in a very unique field [Applause] i just going to say that the things that and let me let me just stop right here and say the views expressed here tonight are not necessarily the views of the staff and management of this station but let me let me just help you just a moment i i've seen people walk in with such an arrogant attitude that nobody wants what we have we walk around with such a long frown on our face honey if you've got a long frown on your face you've not got religion you've got indigestion they make medicine will help you smile the joy the lord's our strength i've seen people walk around with so much religion and i thought man if it makes them look like that and feel like that makes them that sad and i don't need none of that brother i want you to know the joy that i have and the relationship i have makes me happy to be an apostolic i'm not mad that i don't do what the world does i'm glad for the joy that's placed in my heart and i want the whole world to experience what i've experienced so so it's raising that you know if if if i had left the united pentecostal church for the same reason that the sinners of god had and i went that way this youth united pentecostal church would have to do the same thing they did so i'm not here to bash them i want to tell you i love those guys some of them and please don't think i'm i'm deleting or anyhow diminishing our doctrine and what i see now but i am what i am because a lot of the teaching and mentoring of good men in that fellowship are you here they taught me character they taught me principles they taught me ethics come on somebody we need ethics in the ministry don't we so i was born in that little church and at the age of 10 we had disadvantages come through his name's l.m reed he had big old broad shoulders had a bad hand could reach up took a diesel battery up out of a car and he come to preach us a revival and he preached on hell every night every night it was hell hell hell every night every night and you could see the flames and smell the smoke and hear the screams and you know you hear people say i made a decision for jesus i don't knock that honey because i did and i pray everybody in this room made that same decision i decided that night whatever i have to do i'm not going to hell [Applause] i wish everybody is building make that decision i'm not whatever i got to pick up whatever i got to do you just tell me what the bible said and that's what i'm doing i'm not going to hell so at the end of his sermon he said everybody stand and he had a military tone of voice very authoritative and he said no one looking around ever head bowed ever i closed no one looking around but me that's when i decided i want to be a preacher so i could look around then he said if you have a need in your life make your way to the altar honey the miracle wasn't wasn't trying to find jesus miracles finding my way to alter my head bowed my eyes closed scared to look around i got down there and then he said you want to be saved yes sir then he said repeat after me and we done the poly parrot thing dear jesus dear jesus i'm a sinner i'm a sinner and we went through all that but he called the sinner's prayer when we got through i thank the lord for saving me and he grabbed me by the hand and said congratulations son welcome to the family of god you're saved now please don't go to sleep on me tonight adam went to sleep in church and woke up married so don't don't go to sleep on me so he said i'm sorry someone prayed that prayer and i'm supposed to be a christian so i'm gonna start doing all the good stuff and i didn't feel nothing to change me for eternity i still the same honorary kid down at the schoolhouse i'm the one who put the electric dog collar in the teacher's chair and made her dance in the spirit so i'm still the same rowdy kid the next week the same preacher comes back and he preaches next year he comes back and preaches every night on the holy ghost and he preaches it i run i flipped i flopped i've done everything he said to do i went up to the altar and they totally confused me one would say turn loose now they say hold on let's say surrender i said don't give up want to say send the fire i'll say send the right and then they would say something that i still hadn't figured out how to do to this day they would say turn your tongue a loose figured that one out yet then that preacher come off of that platform and had that big old huge hand grabbed a hold of my head anybody ever had anybody lay hands on you like this i mean it didn't have to be the holy ghost you was going down whether you wanted to or i thought i was going to get the holy ghost of self-defense that guy was going to break my neck i still didn't get the holocaust the end of that revival he said if you'll fast and pray it'll put you in a position where you'll be hungry for the holy ghost and you're when you get hungry and thirsty you shall be filled i got a hold of that went home and said to my parents i'll not eat again until god fills me with the holy ghost my dad said it's a tall order for such a short little boy i didn't eat sunday night monday monday night tuesday tuesday night wednesday wednesday night by now i'm so hungry when i got to church wednesday night i could have ate the pulpit if it'll give me a chance at it but all day long brother i thought i'm gonna get the holy ghost tonight i'm going to get the holy ghost tonight we get to church at night and we have we run about 35 or 40 i'm okay so far we run 35 or 40 in sunday church but that night there was over 300 people packed in our church and we had never seen it that full and i didn't know what was going on and so i began to ask where all these people come from as a little kid and they informed me that our church was hosting a community easter ecommunical easter service y'all know what that is that's where the baptists and methods of whiskey pay and piss compupians we all come together and pray for colonel sanders to be resurrected and have a wonderful chicken dinner because it's a great day when we could just all get along and so we get there that day and they start the service the apostolic choir sings all that sounded good our ker church choir song oh that was so good catholic priest got up took the offering bless his heart hail mary mother of god and then when he got through they invited dr jack foss from the first church of the refrigerator over on freon avenue a church where many were cold and a few were frozen they had an icicle to put popsicles into pews and they invited him to come and preach that night and he walks to the pulpit and puts everybody to sleep but i'm going to tell you something you don't mess with a boy that's been fasting for the holy ghost for three days [Applause] and so sitting on the front row center section where my daddy made me sit afraid that if i blinked my eyes i'd go to hell or at least my daddy would make me feel like i'd been there i was sitting on that front pew and while that preacher's preaching i realize that in this environment i'm not getting the holy ghost ain't gonna be no holy ghost here tonight and it broke my heart because i thought something i've done god is punishing me by having this kind of service when i've just fasted and so i put my little face in my 11 year old hands and this is the one the prayer i prayed dear jesus i do not know what i have done that's keeping me from getting the holy ghost but whatever i've done will you forgive me for it and will you take it so far from my life that it never returns honey that's the night i repented [Applause] i realized later you can't get saved on a covered prayer it's going to come from your heart it's going to come from your spirit it's going to be a cry that rises deep within you while i'm sitting there with tears running down my little face in a dead air communical service i don't know what happened because i had a two hour out of body experience i thought everybody got the holy ghost that way i found out they didn't but they said it looked like a lightning bolt hit me in the top of the head i began to dance and shout and talk in other tongues in front of my entire community as god fill me with the holy ghost in an economical service with the baptist preacher in the pulpit it scared that preacher so bad he ran out the fire door out the side people spilled out the door a year later on a saturday night in my little bedroom and that single wide run-down house trailer had them crank out windows you know you crank them out you may not get them back in and when did by when did dad drill the rivets out and pull the windows down and take them down and window by when do we become certified rednecks nobody wanted to visit us son are you listening to this i was 12 years old you just turned 13. would you stand up i want y'all to give this boy a good hand his pastor gave him a high recommendation and entering the ministry 13 years old i was 12 years old and on a saturday night it blows my mind to this day to think about it the god who needs nobody to do anything come to my little bedroom and ask a 12 year old kid to carry his gospel for the rest of my life that may not mean much to you but it still blows my mind that the god who needs no man to do anything would ask me to carry the gospel son it's a high calling it's a holy calling take god another hand he's going to correct you you're going to have pain you're going to have knights you're not going to understand but if you can let him guide your course he'll be your father and you'll be his son i said to the lord that night lord i i want to preach i love to think about preaching but i don't be like everybody at our church i could finish their sermon before they got done i didn't know i was asking god for revelation i just didn't want to be boring like the rest of them and that night the lord promised me these words son if you'll take me by the hand i'll lead you places and i'll show you things your own family doesn't even know that was a sacred covenant that i still hold in my heart to god this day the age of 16 i went full time on the evangelistic field that's been 30 something years ago i hadn't had much of a real job in my life i've been high i've been low but i've not been in and out i don't have a drug testimony i don't i i never killed anybody i wanted to two or three times but i never got around to i have been kept by the grace of god to me it's the greatest testimony it's the greatest testimony so i remember starting on the field in the age of 20 years old i was the youngest man ever ordained in our district the age of 22 i would marry the district superintendent's granddaughter we will become the golden couple of our district because of who my grandfather-in-law was doors began to open in extremely prominent places even to the point of preaching most of the district conferences of our organization and preaching at general conference twice i remember at the age of 28 i started pastoring a church and god blessed that little church we had a hole in a standard and we went from five to over 300 in sunday school and god just blessed the little church over 18 year period 2010 april the 15th i went to drop off you know what you know where i guess y'all pay taxes down here i dropped off my taxes and went to my office to finish my easter sermon and when i walked into that office that day at 2 30 in the afternoon i walked in a trinitarian assembly of god minister i did not know that on the other side of that door was that god who said i'll take your hand and show you things your family doesn't even know a neighbor that evening at 8 30 i walked out that same door a one god apostolic jesus name preacher there was no preacher in that room i'm going to quickly tell you i'm going to quickly tell you because you're tired i'm going to quickly tell you what the lord showed me that day when i got in there that day the lord that i was asking me i what i didn't know was our church had grown there was three families that were apostolic that had moved in and set on our pews they never caused many trouble but every tuesday night they met and prayed that god would show their preacher the oneness of god the mighty god in christ baptism in the name of jesus and those three families prayed me in to this doctrine [Applause] i was writing the easter sermon and someone had asked a question why did the body of jesus have to be ascended and resurrected why didn't he just leave his body in the grave and go back to the father and i wrote down on the paper that day because the body was not god the body was just the house that god lived in i still didn't get it i said because our god is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth and had that body been here when i went to the tomb and we had to worship the body and we'd have made an idol out of the very body of jesus christ and that wasn't god god is a spirit i said it's just like when i die somebody will roll my casket to the front and say ladies and gentlemen grieve not this is just the shell the nut went on to heaven and as i looked at that i thought oh my god i can't write that that's a oneness thing because i was the trinitarian teacher down at our bible school for the arkansas district of the assemblies of god and i said i can't write that and i started to scribble it out and god said let it alone don't move that i said god i can't that's a oneness verse and the lord said go to genesis i want to show you something beautiful i opened my bible to genesis and i said all right lord before we start your question i want to ask mine in the beginning you said god said let us that's two or more make man in our image and likeness that's two or more the lord said that's true i said who was you talking to lord said go to isaiah 11 2. i don't know what isaiah 11 2 said i read the bible but didn't it stand out so i fled my bible to isaiah 11 2 and there i found the listing of the seven spirits of god the lord said write them down i wrote them down on a paper with a trembling hand thinking where are we going with this god the lord said now go to proverbs chapter 8. i went to proverbs chapter 8 and he said as you read proverbs chapter 8 check off every time one of those seven spirits are listed and as i did i checked them off he said now look every one of them has a voice understanding speaketh wisdom cry are you all here [Applause] every one of those seven spirits has a voice but what son if you keep reading after a while they'll quit addressing each other as singularly and they'll come together as one and say i was there when he formed man from the dust of the earth nassan you know who i was talking to i was talking to the fullness of the seven spirits of god gonna put them all in the dna of one man all right lord we got another question here he said but wait before we go your question we got mine now all right he said notice how i made man i made him in my image and in my likeness now son we need to talk to you about the dual nature that jesus has okay lord let's talk about the dual nature of god he said as a man i got so tired i slept in a boat but as god i spoke to the wind and they lay calm as man i thirsted at the well but as god i saved the woman before she left as a man i hung on a cross and died but it's god i saved the whole world that's beautiful jesus but what about this image and likeness he said it's a flesh and spirit thing son your image is your flesh you got eyes just like i have my eyes run to and fro in all the earth you got hands and my hands not short that it can't save you got feet and so do i because the earth is my footstool but son not only do you have an image you also have a likeness that likeness means you are like whatever you're made to be and son do you remember that a few times in the bible when they come to try to kill me and they started looking for me i still standing right among them but they couldn't see it because i just took off and i'm still there but they can't see me yeah lord that's cool he said i made you in my likeness when you die you're not gonna die you're just gonna take off mortality you're gonna take off the dirt suit it's going back to the dust and you're going back to the god who gave it but son here's what i could do at any moment i wanted to i could take up the dirt suit remember i said no man can take my life but i'll lay it down and if i lay it down i'll put it back on again and son on resurrection day you're gonna come right back to your dirt suit and you're gonna put it right back on because you're not only made in my image you're also made in my likeness you are flesh and you are spirit and if you want to know who i am look at who i made you is that all right look at who i made you you're not two men and that's okay lord now we got this other problem i've heard some of these apostolic preachers pray and here's what to do oh god we pray in jesus name and another one says jesus would you help us and another one says oh holy ghost now i'm confused the lord says son that's easy to figure out when you got through preaching last sunday you walked out of the pulpit and on the front row was your mom and daddy and they hugged you and said good sermon son you walked down the aisle a little bit and your uncle reached up and said great job nephew your children said we're hungry daddy before you got to the back somebody said pastor i need to talk to you but you're only one man with one name but you've got a lot of titles you got a lot of positions and my name shall be called wonderful and my name may be called counselor and my name may be called the everlasting father somebody that don't mean that is my name it means they may be called that there's only one name whereby we must be saved i gotta hurry that hurry so quickly i said okay god i got a second question what about the the blasphemy the holy ghost if i bless you and the father can be forgiven and blessed be in the son i'll be forgiven became the holy ghost and the lord said you need to go back and read that verse again it don't even mention the father it says whosoever shall blaspheme the son of man it'll be forgiven the flesh they'll hang my body on the cross because they don't recognize who it is but they better not speak against the essence of who i am your god is a spirit and if you speak against the essence of the spirit of god there's nobody to draw you there's nobody to pull you oh come on somebody then the lord threw this one on me he said what is the greatest commandment anybody want yes so i said thou shalt the lord thy god with all the heart with all the soul with all the lord said that's part of it but go back and look in the book of mark and i think i gave you all that scripture to lay on this on the screen here one of the scribes mark 12 28 having heard them reasoning together proceed that he answered them well asked which is the first commandment of all and jesus answered him the first commandment is [Applause] the greatest commandments knowing who your god is and knowing how many of them there are come on somebody i want to tell you when you figure out who your god is you'll never run from the devil again for they that do know their god shall be strong and shall do exploits that's okay lord i got one last question what about the thief on the cross what about him there wasn't enough water to baptize a duck around nobody so you said he's going to be in paradise lord said now we've got to talk ages and dispensations so he reminded me that in genesis in the bible there was four ways of salvation throughout the scripture genesis they followed their conscience no set uniform way of salvation leviticus numbers in deuteronomy god institutes a plan of salvation if you want to be saved in the old testament we've got to have your w-2 form we need to know how much you make because your salvation depends what you do to get saved what you offer depends on how much money you got if you're rich like brother chiefess you better bring a bullock hallelujah now i'm scared to point out any poor class people the lord said and i said that would go all the way to john the baptist law and prophets to john the baptist but after that the kingdom of heaven would be preached and each dispensation had a unique way to find me and he said there was a three and a half year dispensation because jesus came preaching the kingdom every parable the kingdom of heaven shall be like the kingdom of heaven shall be like the kingdom of heaven shall be like and he's forgiven sins and the lord said now but look at matthew mark luke and john and think of all the people that got forgiven and name me one person in matthew mark luke and john that ever repented nobody repented not a soul they didn't have to because for the plan of salvation in that three and a half years it you had to be willing to do just what the blind man said if he's a sinner i don't know kick me out of the synagogue if you have to but all i know is once i was blind but now i see you had to be willing to stand up and that's why john 3 16 said for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son to whosoever believeth in him son they didn't have to repent they didn't have to fast in that three and a half year dispensation because jesus is right with them when they need the savior he's right there just look at him and believe and i said oh yeah i've been preaching that the lord said you wouldn't preach to tell him get a bullock a turtle dove or a lamb would you i said no god that wasn't for us he said john 3 16 didn't for you either it was for a unique three and a half year dispensary i said okay lord that's beautiful i had thought of that and he said you remember this few weeks ago you run a stop sign down the road yes i remember that lord you remember it was used to be a two-way stop and now they made the four-way stop i do remember that two weeks ago i ran through and our guy little boy blue was watching and lit up and gave me a ticket and i said i don't need a ticket that's for 20 something years i run through this intersection and never stopped and i it's just hard for me to think about doing it now and the policeman said to you it doesn't matter what happened for 20-something years two weeks ago the law changed they put up a stop sign now you got to do sign that thief on the cross whistle through that intersection 53 days before the law changed but son when the holy ghost fell everybody in that room knew what john 3 16 said everybody in that room knew what the law said but something so cataclysmic happened that everybody in that room knew that the very plan of salvation has now changed because their question is what must we do to be saved and peter said and be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of your sin and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost i ain't got time to get all into the testimony i'm i'm gonna have to shut down because it's okay okay i got time to get into all this this takes too long i'm sorry i didn't mean to are we okay you promised and so as i sat there i sat down in my chair my now my face looked like a baboon's gallbladder has exploded i'm weeping i'm crying every hair on my head is standing at attention and and the lord says to i said lord now what and i thought for sure i was going to hear joel osteen's voice shout out to heaven this is your best life now but instead brother wilson you know what i heard when i asked god what do i do now arise and be baptized and wash away thy sin calling on the name of the lord now lord we've got a little problem when i was 10 years old they took me to the muddy pond and that preacher was strict he believed you had to go all the way under nothing could rise up had a guy smear the day said do you do you have anything against sprinkling i said absolutely not if you just got religion and spots that's all you need then he said well it's water baptism an act of faith or an act of works i said i don't know you tell me i baptized a 400 pound man one time it started out act of faith and turned into a whole lot of work before it's over are we okay so they took me that pond my hand flew up they said we're going to dunk you again that time of foot flew up they said we're going to dunk you again it took three dippings and two preachers lord they gonna kill me they're trying to drown me while my family stands in applauds they want the tadpoles to know my social security number the lord said the problem is they didn't do it right you've got to be saved to be saved you've got to be baptized in the name of jesus christ now that's going to be hard for a trinitarian assembly of god pastor pastor and half of his community god are you sure and the lord says now we need to talk about the doctrine of remission can we talk about this now y'all may have preached this for years but i've never heard that the lord said when i handed the keys to peter it was a sign of handing them to the ministry and i said whatsoever you bind on earth is bound in heaven whatsoever you loose on earth is loosed in heaven and i said god if baptism is my salvation then i can't be saved without a man god said you can't even be married without a man because i don't care how many vows you say to your girlfriend until that preacher says i now pronounce you man and wife [Music] well that's pretty good i understand that the lord said but you need to keep reading then i said to the preacher and whosoever sins you remit that's a medical term take away whosoever sins you preacher remit they are remitted but whoever sins you retain they are retained and you are baptized for the remission of sin and so forgiveness is between you and i but i give remission to the hand of the preacher am i in the bible am i in the bible so i said okay god i don't understand this because the oneness people believe that you ain't saved until you spoke in tongues so that can't be right we pray a sinner's prayer and then we and we're baptized as an outward sign of an inward work and the lord said take me anywhere in scripture and show me that one. and i hunt it it's not in the bible there's nowhere in the bible that speaks that baptism is just an outward sign of an inward work as a matter of fact peter said baptism doth now save us and the lord said here's how it works can i give you what he said with me that day this is what the lord showed me here's how this works he said if you come in you spilled coffee on this carpet right here and he was in somebody's nice house you would look at them with a sincere heart and say i'm sorry and you know what if they wasn't anything other than a jerk they'll say you're forgiven you'll be just as forgiving as you ever are but that stain is still there but somebody will bring you some solvent and you'll spray it on it and what that does is it loosens the stain from the fabrics of the and the fibers of the fabric of that carpet and he said son this is why people's repented 100 times for pornography and never got over it they repented 100 times for alcoholism and never quit drinking they need to take it to a watery grave and have it removed from the very fabric of their have that stain released and the only way those sins can be remembered is in the name of the one that died for you i said in the bible is christ divided or are you baptized in the name of paul are you baptized in the name of apollos no they didn't die for you son you're supposed to be baptized in the name of the one who hung on a cross and died for you so now i said okay i got it i got it but talk to me about this holy ghost infill and why is that so essential the lord said okay isaiah 28 says that with stammering lips and another tongue would the lord speak to his people and this is the rest wherewith he calls the worry to rest this is the what the refreshing is that right do y'all remember peter saying repent and be converted that your sins may be blotted out when when the time of refreshing that stammering lip and another tongue is comfort the lord he said after you've loosened that stain from the fabric for the fibers of the fabric you don't smear it they'll bring you a towel and you're blotted until everything in that carpet comes out in a rag that's what the holy ghost does he blocks he doesn't smear it he doesn't spread it he blots it out unto the sin that was in you has been removed from your life by now god's got my full attention and i reached on the corner of the desk i'm gonna show my age and grab to something we don't use anymore a rolodex and only in gospel music we had sung with a group that was an apostolic group from the state of kansas he had asked me to sing for him he's an independent guy dead and gone now he left me to sing and preach for him and i never understood why later on i would ask him brother white why did you have me sing and preach for you when you knew i was a trinitarian he said all i knew is the first time i saw you god said get as close to that boy as you can because there's going to come a day i'm going to do a work in him and he's going to need somebody i didn't know any apostolic preachers i didn't know nobody that believed this doctrine that was the only guy i knew i picked up the phone and i called him i said brother white if i come to kansas will you baptize me in the name of jesus he said son i can't do it till you get here i hung up the phone i called a travel agent because i traveled and preached quite a bit at the time and i said i need a flight to headed headed to where i need to go in kansas i need to be back here by sunday a little bit later my travel agent called back and said i found the flight it'll have you back here by saturday morning but it's going to cost you 1440. i said you got my credit card on file i don't understand why people could be baptized in jesus name for free and never do it i paid 1440. flew to kansas the next day and by seven o'clock the next night i was baptized in the name of the lord jesus christ for the remission of my sins the next night when i come out of the water y'all remember what god told me when i was a 12 year old boy when i come out of the water that man of god laid hands on me did not know what god had promised me but this is the words he said son now that you have followed this revelation the lord says he's going to give you more revelation he's going to show you more things come on that your family doesn't even know i come to tell you something friend if you'll take god by the hand you'll let him alter your course you'll let him guide you and lead you in the ways of righteousness he'll be your father he'll open mysteries he'll show you things you never understood before i'm almost done pastor i know you're sitting quenching shut up so i'm fixing to i thought everybody would like it i thought everybody would be happy that sunday morning i moved the pulpit out of the way set in a chair in there i told our congregation what had happened to me my wife had told me that morning before i went to church i'll not be apostolic i'm not going oneness my family's died in the wool trinitarian and we're not going that way i sat on that platform that morning wept and cried and told those precious people i didn't need to lead you wrong but this is what god has shown me i've been wrong this whole time ah i watched this expressions across the house 40 percent was like uh uh it ain't happening we're trinitarian we're a similar god we'll get rid of you another 40 was like that's a cool and amazing and i baptized 40 of them in jesus name that night the only thing that kept me from getting throwed out that particular day was the fact there was 20 percent in the church that didn't care if it was 42 in the godhead they just like me y'all got them in your church too if you're a healthy church a call was made to grandpa i get a call what are you doing i made you who you are you're embarrassing our whole family the next thing i know i'm brought up on charges of doctrinal unfaithfulness i still got the letter of dismissal where they released me from that organization due to doctrinal unfaithfulness i've almost threatened to frame it and hang it on my wall as a trophy [Applause] i went to see them that day i'm almost done went to see them that day met with 14 men that i loved they were gracious but let me know in knowing certain terms that after i explained to them what i saw they told me they could see in the bible where i could get that but this was the answer tradition of our fellowship has said tradition will send you to hell let me just say this right quick a lie can be around so long it becomes legend it becomes tradition and it can even become doctrine but a lie will never become the truth and jesus said if you know the truth the truth will set you free they gave me six weeks to make a decision and not just rent my papers from me i left that day and i drove to little rock out of little rock arkansas and i drove to an exit and there i laid my head on the steering wheel of my van and said god help me show these people this truth please help them see it in the next six weeks and the lord spoke to me and said bigger men than you has tried to change his fellowship and they refused to see it the question is not are you going to be able to change them the question is what are you going to do with the truth that i have shown you will you give it up and i said god it's going to cost me everything i turned around and went back and with tears handed them my certificates and my ordination papers this is in 2010. forward that 10 years later a man who knelt at my feet and begged me not to leave the trinitarian way said i would be like a man in a boat that was paddled out in a sea by myself and nobody would ever hear from me again he died five years later and i don't necessarily think his judgment he just old he's an older man but can you content like two days being 10 years to the day that that man said that god let me baptize that man's widow that man's daughter that man's son-in-law and all of his grandchildren in the name of the lord jesus christ may i tell you that as of tonight god has let me re-baptize 14 trinitarian churches in the name of the lord jesus christ hallelujah hallelujah yes i spent four months in a mental hospital trying to put it back together but in that middle hospital god sent an angel to me i'll believe it to the rest of my day that told me that my ministry wasn't over that god was going to give me another ministry let it be greater than the one i had i come to stand on this platform tonight to tell you i'm a busy evangelist not because of who i am but because i took him by the hand he changed my course and he's gave me a ministry and let come on somebody i'm here tonight because he could correct me let me give you this right quick before i go if anybody knew about being an illegitimate christian i did was you raised in this i wasn't you take this for granted more than i do because i know what god showed me alone in my office you see i was raised in illegitimacy of a religion i meant well but i found out all i had to do to be legitimate was just let him be my father and if anybody in the bible knew about illegitimacy it was david history says that david's father had a fling with a servant girl when he was old and thus was the birth of david this is why david's so much younger than all of his brothers when david was born he was born with deuteronomy 23 law hanging over his head that said a bastard is not allowed in the congregation of the lord for 10 generations following him he's not allowed around a priest around the holy anointing oil or any of that are y'all with me here that was the law david confessed it in psalms 51. i was all together shaping iniquity and sin did my mother conceive me and can you do you understand that in the old testament when a priest was going to a grant mercy he had to stand up while he did it the mercy seat the seraphims had to stand up as if discerning mercy was it was going to be granted are you all here but did you notice that when jesus died and they was resurrected when the when the disciples came to the tomb they saw the blood sprinkled on the stone where the body of jesus had laid but they saw an angel just like on the mercy seat at the head and the feet but now they're sitting down because nobody has to determine if mercy can be granted because now mercy's free for everybody and six times samuel almost this explains why when samuel went to anoint the king david wasn't invited to the party he wasn't allowed to be there but the man of god said i will not set down mercy's gonna be granted i will not sit down till he comes and can you see that illegitimate boy that said i can't even be around this priest but when he heard the priest wasn't sitting down till he came he knew mercy's going to be granted he comes running in and the priest the legitimate priest of israel takes a legitimate horn of anointing oil and pours it on the head of an illegitimate boy where it was never supposed to go and made that illegitimate boy the legitimate priest of israel no wonder david cried in psalms 122 i was glad when they said unto me of all people let us go to the house of the lord i wasn't supposed to be here but mercy musicians come you may be here tonight slipped in somehow with apostolics and feel illegitimate but i got good news for you we have a god who moves in the spirit of adoption whereby we cry have a father i wasn't born in this [Music] but i'm adopted here and when you hear him preach and you hear him preach and you hear me preach you can't tell but what i've always been apostolic because mercy didn't just adopt me it made me legitimate [Music] i'm done preaching i'm sorry i preached a long time restaurants are closed ain't got nothing else to do anyway i wonder is there anybody in this building that would say preacher i've been struggling with this doctrine [Music] but tonight i'm ready to embrace it with everything i've got i know some apostolic young people that you're still you're you're being so questioned you don't even know for sure what you believe and god has sent an outsider in here tonight to tell you young people you got a treasure in earthen vessels and you need to embrace the oneness of god you need to realize that that baptism in jesus name wasn't just something you're supposed to do because the preacher said but it saved you there are three reasons to be baptized in the name of jesus christ acts 2 38 says it's for the remission of sin john the revelator said to a church that went so far from god they had lost their identity to come back and do your first works again but maybe you're here tonight and i don't know i we assume that everybody here is apostolic but we don't know who may be in this room tonight and maybe it bothers you because they've told you it didn't matter maybe they told you we but we may be okay but what we preach doesn't matter it doesn't matter how you're baptized and tonight you never give it a thought until you hear a sermon like this and tonight your conscience rises up and says i wonder how i was baptized i don't really know should i be re-baptized or should i not peter said the baptism does not save us not the putting away the filth of the flesh but of the answer of a good conscience toward god and if you're here tonight and your conscience is bothering you and you're not sure how it was done you need to take another trip to the water and you need to settle the answer of a good conscience in jesus name i want to ask everybody tonight that you're thrilled that you're a one god apostolic i want you to step out now until you come stand around this wrong if you're here and you're not sure that you've settled the issue in your heart i want you to come if you're not ready to give every man a reason the hope that lies within you i want you to come [Music] i want y'all to start playing bishop is this okay [Music] i want you to understand that when you have accepted the authority of the name of jesus you stand in a moment that you can receive unprecedented glory come on press on forward come on press so forward today [Music] a preacher we all believe that come on come on don't be afraid this front don't be afraid of this friend come on i think they're gonna move some chairs but you come on down there comes a time that we need to be assured of what we believe [Music] and preacher it's not a time to be rude to people but it's time to quit being ashamed of what we believe there is no salvation in any other name young person you ought to study to be able to tell your friends at school why you believe that your god is one we're not a group of people that believes in a multiplicity of gods but we are complete in him who is the head of all principalities and in jesus in him fulfilleth all the godhead bodily he is the express image that's what we're made in image of the invisible god politeness and if you want to know who your god is take a look at who you are tonight i want you everybody in this building lift your hands toward the lord and if you know the truth and you believe the truth and you've assured of it in your heart i want you to thank god that you know it because there's people in this city that hasn't rejected it they just don't know it they mean well and if you're here and you're having a problem with rebellion and with the world would you just slip your hand up and say god tonight i give you free right to correct me if you're having trouble submitting to your pastor why don't you say god today i lay aside all rebellion [Music] because correction is by far the surest mark of sonship maybe before you came your pastor had to correct you why don't you thank god for that right now why don't you worship him for something you've never worshipped him before that he loved you enough to convict you that he loved you enough to send a preacher to you that he loved enough to let a church have standards and rules come on that he loves you enough to call you out that we're not having a worldly music conference but we're having a set of park music conference thank you for holy music thank you for worshipful music that he called you out of darkness come on pray in the holy ghost all over this room finding the holy ghost i throw my hands up right now believe god to baptize me shalom [Music] that's it come on worship him all over this building thank you for the truth that shall endure to all generations why don't you now begin to thank him for dealing with your trinitarian friends and say god if you can do it for that preacher you can do it from my preacher buddy across town come on pastor why don't you start praying for your trinitarian friends in the churches across town [Music] when the devil told you give up on your loved ones point to this platform and say if god done it for warren finney he'll do it for my grandpa he'll do it for my mother he'll do it for my cousins [Music] i surrendered i surrendered [Music] [Applause] to the lord for them right now come on let's pray for revival in the name of jesus [Music] revelations everything i am [Music] [Music] everything i am everything i [Music] i am [Applause] [Applause] me oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Applause] please [Music] my friends [Music] [Applause] everything else [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] god give us a love for truth give us a love for truth hallelujah [Music] hallelujah this was the will of god tonight thank you brother penny for sharing your testimony amen look out a lot of church leaders from different backgrounds i think the message tonight is twofold one [Music] yes we need to love truth thank god we can love this apostolic doctrine we have a truth that will change lives we need to pray for others that they would have this same kind of truth same kind of revelation but then the second truth that we need to pull out of this is we need to be willing to sacrifice for this truth amen from a man who lost it all over this truth what looked like at the time losing it all but what you get in return that god gives is so much greater i am thankful for this glorious message amen praise god to all of those i mentioned this sunday but all those that were so devoted to the law the days of jesus so devoted that they would show up to every meeting jesus preached for the sole purpose of trying to find words to use against him they were devoted to the law they're in their mind the law of moses those pharisees they wanted to find something because they called them they called it devotion to judaism but jesus said accept your righteousness exceed that of the pharisees you can no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven amen if if the pharisees were devoted to the old testament law of moses our devotion can't be less to this truth we've got to be even more committed to the glorious truth that we have received [Applause] amen i know in our world it's there's a lot of people that make the law competitive with grace but it's not it was it was it was the previous level but grace is a much more uh of a blessing hebrews talks about the better thing that god has given amen hebrews 11 they that without us should not be made perfect amen i'm thankful for this better thing that god has provided amen thank you so much brother finney did you enjoy that amen i'm thankful amen i believe that you would i want to thank publicly thank brother finney for uh for his his willingness to uh share his testimony today thank you for being here i hope you're enjoying it i realize you got classes today there are restaurants around we're in houston man everything stays open late so uh there's there should be restaurants around uh and check your your notebook folder binder there are some several places that are open land i know bj's and other places so amen you shouldn't have any problems there's even waffle house we heard about it tonight so we have that too amen but thank you for being here make sure that you visit all of our vendor tables before you leave we will see you back here tomorrow morning at what nine o'clock tomorrow morning amen get you something to eat go get a good night's sleep we'll see you back here at 9 00 a.m in the morning thank you for being here outside [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] to all of the clinicians all of the clinicians please find uh the person that's working with you huh yes find your pa that's what they find your paw and uh they're gonna help you find your pawn be led and guided by your paw [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] 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