Day 2 ☀️ AM w/ Pastor Chad Erickson of FAC Maryville.
by Chad Erickson
July 22, 2022 · First Apostolic Church of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Exodus 13:17-18, Exodus 13:21-22, Romans 6:13, Romans 6:16, Exodus 40:36-37, Hebrews 11:1, Hebrews 11:2, Hebrews 11:6, Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:8, Hebrews 11:22, Hebrews 11:23-32

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amen you may be seated praise the lord everyone man what a great host of men what an honor it is amen to have the opportunity to speak to the men of the tri-state district and the elite of the tri-state district because you are here this morning and there's a lot of others but i appreciate i appreciate those that come out to the day services at camp meeting as a special a special group of people and i'm glad to be a part of that group aren't you amen and so so thankful for this invitation uh to speak to you and and i want to i do want to give honor first of all i want to say to of course bishop carpenter and uh pastor loveless and pastor bridges wow what what word we have already heard this week amen i'm so excited we still got a whole nother service to go the music has been absolutely phenomenal i'm blessed i'm going to leave this week this camp meeting um absolutely blessed by the word of god well let me begin and i do want to i do want to just take just a moment and and just give honor where honor is due the bible bible says to give honor amen where honor is due and so if you will bear bear with me for just a moment i do want to begin uh this this seems a little unnatural but i want to begin by giving honor to my wife and to my daughters all right this is this is a men's session but i do i want to give honor because i'm very blessed and i realize i recognize that i'm blessed i recognize that i'm married up and i have no problem admitting that and uh because of that there are things that that i'm i'm privileged with because uh god has blessed me and and i also am thankful that they are not in this session today i really am um and and probably not because of of what you're thinking right now but but i'm glad that they understand what gender they are i'm glad that i have a wife and daughters i'm talking the day we're living in that realize that this is not their session and i fear and i fear and i know it sounds funny but i fear there's coming a day when there might be some ladies that attend churches in the tri-state that might show up to this meeting because they prefer to relate to this gender they identify with this gender more than their own gender follow me with this because i believe as fathers and i see mostly fathers grandfathers in this room today that there is a responsibility that we're going to have to take on i i'm a father of three daughters y'all i i got a shotgun i've got two glocks i i i i got one in one in my car out here if i need it probably need to get a carrying permit i don't know but listen we we it used to be we we feared we used to just fear that to protect our daughters from a society of crazy rapists and kidnappers and but dear god in heaven go to your local public school they don't even know what a woman is what is a woman i'm thankful i'm thankful that i have a wife that's helped me raise daughters to understand what a woman is and it's not just a birthing parent i'm thankful that my mother-in-law is is across the campus here teaching a bunch of ladies how to be ladies and how to identify as a woman give honor i give honor amen fathers we got some major work to do amen in this house today and and speaking of fathers i give honor to my father amen who's here today and endearing during the colvin season brother gray during the covet season i was so happy uh when my father moved his license into the tri-state district and the aljc i'm so glad dad i'm so glad to have your part uh the assemblers of the lord jesus christ and a part of the greatest district of men aiming leaders ministers in this place i i give honor of course to my father-in-law my bishop my pastor my visionary my teacher my trainer my mentor because your pastor ought to be your mentor my hero my favorite preacher and listen your pastor ought to be your favorite preacher but that's not why he's my favorite preacher he's my favorite because he's amazing give him honor and uh give honor wow uh pastor mccool um i give you honors our district superintendent and of course bishop mccool to the bishop of us all we love you we honor you we follow you we look up to everything that you do bishop uh pastor whitley pastor anthony i'm just gonna i've got so many people i want to give i'm gonna give honor to because it's important it's important we understand honor uh our general youth president uh pastor zach hammond pastor nolan our district our district youth president our our district board you say my goodness get on with it listen i've got leaders in my life i've got leaders that are older than me i've got leaders that are younger than me i've got no problem following after these young guys here listen these guys are visionaries these these guys are imagine you disney you know disney they they they feel like they're the ones that the imagination station right listen we have in pentecost we have in tri-state district we have some of the greatest imaginations people that are coming up with stuff that i'm 46 i'll never i'll never be able to come up with and i'm thankful to have leaders in my life and some of the greatest leaders well if you'll stand with me exodus chapter 13 um listen i i'm blessed to be a follower anybody else blessed to be a follower this is going to tie into what i want to speak on today but i'm blessed to have leaders and i kind of mentioned a lot of them i'm looking out and seeing so many friends and thank you for being here today in this men's session but uh i've got so many leaders in my life i'm just blessed to be a follower i'm blessed to be a follower exodus 13 and 17 says this it says and it came to pass when pharaoh had led had let the people go that god led them watch us right here not through the way of the land of the philistines although that was near although that was the obvious way to go verse 18 says but god led the people about he he took them on a detour through the way of the wilderness of the red sea and then skip down to verse 21 and the lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud and he led them that way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light to go by day and night and one more verse verse 22 and he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night from before his people i i want to just speak today and i don't know i might preach a little bit might teach but i want to this is my men's session topic today simply where you lead me i will follow so simple where you lead i will follow and and then i want to subtitle it because this is very important simply if you don't go i won't go because that's important because there's a lot of following that goes with having a good leader but you also got to know when to stay when to stop when to wait upon the lord just lift up your hands before we see it come on let's pray father we love you lord i'm thankful all for the men of this district i'm thankful lord god i uh lord i stand before pastors and ministers and and saints of god leaders of churches lord god that are doing great and mighty things lord up and coming leaders lord god who will be our next superintendents and our our next presbyters and our next youth presidents and i'm thankful lord god to be among men lord god who are not only great leaders but god i believe that you've called us to be followers i i believe that you've called us in this place at this time to be followers of your spirit lord i want to be a a spirit-led man of god lord that's my desire that's my prayer lord god today make me just that i pray it in jesus name and everyone shout amen and you may be seated in this place today as of this past year i did a little research and there's an estimated 394 million books that have been written on the subject of leadership 394 not no i'm sorry i said that wrong not written that have been published god only knows how many books are are being written right now on the subject but but published it whether it's kindle or or apple books or or in print there's 394 million books on the subject of leadership and i i ask you why and then i'll answer the question because everybody has an opinion of what a leader is and what a leader should be in the qualities of a leader because why because obviously our society pushes us to the point to believe that everybody ought to be a leader you got to look the part and act the pardon and you got to go to the right universities in the right schools and and you got to have you got to have have the right pedigree if you will and so anybody that doesn't have those things there's books written to us on how to be a leader but i just believe today that that when the bible was given to us when god allowed the infallible word of god was given to us i believe it was for a people that understood the importance of being a follower i'm not against leadership i i believe in leadership i love leadership books please don't get me wrong i'm not against any of that however i feel sometimes we work so hard on being a leader that we are horrible followers the temptation we fight is is and where we're sidetracked is with our relationship with god it's god i don't ever want to get in the place where i feel like i'm on my own like i'm a i'm an island or somehow i'm some leadership guru in the fact that i don't need you leading me every day of my life there's an important word in the bible it's a small word but it's a powerful world where the word is simply yield the word yield matter of fact in romans 6 and 13 the bible says neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness under sin but yield yourself unto god look down in verse 16 says know ye not that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey his servants he are to whom you obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness the word yield simply means to give up the contest to submit or here's another definition to give way or not to oppose think think think for a minute of a yield sign on our roadside on our roadways it's not a stop sign god never said stop he said yield there's a difference because stopping when you stop you gotta collect yourself and you gotta you gotta hold hold up and and i i don't know about you but i can't stand stopping at stop signs i mean there's something about you know it's it's the weirdest feeling and uh when you see a police officer that's at the intersection with you and you got to come to a complete stop until your car goes i mean i mean who does that normally i don't maybe you do maybe i don't but i i do like yield signs i i like when you when you go around when you're coming around the roundabout and and all you got to do is yield you don't have to stop and that's i believe that's really what god expects of us it's not so much he's not so much trying to stop us or trying to uh prohibit us from from being a leader he just says i need to go first and if we will yield our lives to god again oh god help us i don't want to i don't want to try to sound like i'm against leadership and i'm not against young people getting degrees and young people getting an education to be a leader please understand what i'm saying today we just got to allow god to get in front of us so we have something to follow that's going to give us an expected end [Applause] i personally i desire lord more than ever before i want to be spirit-led because let me tell you something as a man we are already naturally a leader we i understand we're the priests of our home we're the leaders of our home we're naturally leaders but oh my god i never want to lead without your spirit leading me i want to be like paul who said what do you say he said follow me as i follow christ don't just follow me you got to follow me as i'm following the spirit of god i want to know what is my personal thus saith the lord for me where's god leading me where is god guiding me is there any other man in this place who feels that tug on your heart that says god if you don't go i don't want to go if you don't leave me in this area in this direction to this place to this location i don't want to go unless you go there first i don't want to be a self-made man oh god i need you to lead me it's not of my abilities that i want to depend god i want you to lead me every time i pick up a microphone every time i lead worship every time i preach every time i teach a bible study it's not my education it's not my knowledge it's not my wisdom god i want your spirit to lead me what is my thus saith the lord you may be seated i don't want to be a culture driven or a culture-led man because that's the only other option you have if you're not spirit-led you become culture-led what's society doing you start to you start to go in ways of man's philosophy and man's ideas it's either the spirit of god leading you oh my god there's such a listen oh there's a new craze going on it's this non-denomination of ministry ethics and and ideas and philosophies and if we're not careful we can go to youtube and get ideas that that god never led us to get start listening and start watching and start following on social media uh these men that god never intended for us to to lead us into to guide us in our ministries god help me i don't want to copy and paste something out of safari into pages and preach somebody else's message i don't i don't even want to sing other people's songs i'm not against it but i want to write things that come directly from the spirit of god i want to follow after god's spirit time i want to heal to god's spirit and i believe this morning and i'm not speaking to pastors because i understand that pastors realize they got to be spirit-led and ministers i i'm preaching to the man of the tri-state this morning because we've all got to be spirit-led now i will i will say i will give this interject this disclaimer that god will not lead us to a place he has not first revealed to our pastor okay so as i'm beginning to teach today i i don't want you to think in your mind that i'm trying to tell you to go around your pastor or that god is going to lead you in a direction that your pastor doesn't know your pastor understands exactly where you need to be you're never going to get to a place where where your pastor uh thinks to himself well i didn't know that he would get there no no that's not going to happen god will always reveal it listen any big decision or seemingly insignificant decision i want to be spirit-led but to be spirit-lit i've got to be in order with my pastor i got to be in submission with my pastor amen because here's the fact and i'm going to kind of preach about this in a moment but the fact is that the flesh sometimes can speak just as convincingly as the spirit and sometimes it makes more sense it makes more sense to go directly to the promised land because we don't understand that the philistines live between here in the promised land and when god is trying to bring us a different way that that seemingly seems oh god surely you don't want us to go by the red sea that's a trap when you go to the red sea even anybody knows that's a trap going to the red sea we can't cross the red sea that's a trap and sometimes in our minds logistically it makes more sense to go the way of what makes sense than it does to go away of the spirit of god but my god he understands exactly what you need he understands exactly what i need he understands what's before us he oh somebody help me today i've been to situations in my life where i got myself in trouble because i didn't rely on the spirit of god i don't know about you i've i've had issues before i've had a lot well i've had a lot of issues before with with with cell phones man hitting a button and nothing happens you know get a little crack in the glass and and man it starts to jitter and you you hit a button and it keeps on repeating and everything inside of me says get a screwdriver open that thing up tinker around with it surely jiggle some wires up in here and move on some uh but every apple employee you bring that into the apple store brother jeremy and every apple employee will tell you the same thing they'll say if you mess with it if you open it no longer is the warranty valid you disqualified yourself from your warranty because you try to put things in your own hands and try to take care of it in your own ways and so therefore we won't even touch it apple care is no longer valid for you you say what are you talking about i'm saying if you go outside of your pastor you've got no warranty you your warranty let me tell you something i'm thankful for a pastor that i can go to when i have a problem or a question because my pastor will say listen i'm glad you came because you've been paying 9.99 every month for apple care and now you can come into my office and i'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do to fix your situation you may be seated there listen that was just a disclaimer all that was because i don't want nobody up here thinking that i'm up here telling you to do something outside of your pastor's care god always reveals it to the pastor i want to live spirit-led but here we go the only way to have a spirit-led life is to have a relationship with the spirit and listen i oh god i i rebuke the spirit i'm gonna feel on me right now of people that are bored when i start talking about prayer god i i rebuke that spirit right now in jesus name prayer creates relationship listen to me i'm a worship leader and i know a little something about the subject of worship praise is necessary because god deserves worship is necessary because god deserves it but neither of those two things create relationship i say this to my team all the time i say we pray before service because how can you worship a god you don't pray to it makes no sense to worship somebody that you don't even communicate with communicate listen prayer is a two-way street and here's a problem here's the problem the problem is humanity is trying to communicate with the spiritual realm that's hard to do that's hard to do it's hard because here we are and we're praying sometimes and listen i'm just going to be i'm going to be transparent because i get in my morning prayer and i feel like i'm just praying to just just wide open air i feel like i'm praying to the ceiling and i begin to pray and and everything on my to-do list begins to expand i might be the only one but but all this the things that i couldn't remember yesterday oh dear in prayer i've got my memory is wide open every thought of oh i need to call someone so i forgot to call them yesterday oh i didn't respond to that email everything and you know why the it's simple it's because flesh is trying to communicate with spirit but we can't feel bad about that because even jesus own disciples they didn't say jesus he just teach us to heal somebody peter never said said jesus show me how to turn water into wine but the disciples came together and they said jesus teach us to pray and in our culture it was jesus we need a tutorial make a youtube video on prayer because we don't know how to pray however we see you going to prayer i got to believe that it was a common it was a common conversation between peter and john and and james i believe it was it was common for them to say hey hey james have you seen jesus this morning yeah i saw him go up towards that hill to pray afternoon brother vickers came along and john said hey hey peter we're supposed to be going on we're supposed to be headed towards galilee where is jesus at oh he he went up to the garden to pray the disciples saw the man christ jesus and the importance the man christ the flesh of god the importance that he made in prayer he prayed in the garden he prayed in a cemetery he prayed over food he prayed over babes he was always praying and they realized there's something about this prayer going on they thought to themselves and here's the deal they didn't even have a full revelation of who jesus was but they did realize that he had power when he prayed they realized there was power to prayer there was communication something was going on between this miracle worker that they were following and between the father that they called god they understood there was something going on between the man christ jesus and the spirit of god oh i want you to know today we can worship the father we can praise the father but nothing can come between us in communication with our god jesus i need you to teach me to pray jesus i need you to teach me how to commune with the father jesus i don't ever want to get to a place where i rely on my own ideas and my own will i want the father's will to be done in my life and the only way the father's will is done is when we pray to the father and say god let your will be done in my life somebody clap your hands and just give him glory and honor [Applause] god help us first thing we've got to do if we're going to be spirit-led we've got to communicate with the spirit in prayer life it's difficult to establish it it's a difficult hurdle to cross over because sometimes and i hope this is okay sometimes the spirit does not move and that's when prayer is so hard when we ask god over and over again god have your will have your will in my life god lead me god guide me and we pray those prayers over and over again yet we feel like we're always in the same place and we're not moving oh god in this fast-paced lifestyle that i have i hate to wait anybody else hate to wait oh i can't stand it listen somebody listen i know i will tell you one thing that god blessed me with god blessed me with a wife that i no ever weighed on she waits on me y'all i don't understand it i hardly got any hair to come and she got hair down to here and she got three girls to get ready and i'm like the last one i'm not i don't know i get up first and i'm still the last one ready i guess it takes more work to present myself than it does for herman but i can't i can't stand the way but our text describes this pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire and i'm not going to go into detail because i believe i'm in i'm standing in front of a bunch of bible scholars and you know why god presented them with a pillar of cloud and you understand why god gave them this pillar of fire by night and it was a beautiful thing it not only gave them the presence of god to know that god was with them but it also lit their way through the night it also was something that they could follow after and they could trust to believe and to know that it was taking them somewhere and everything was okay as long as the pillar was moving but there came times in the wilderness when the pillar stayed when it would just stay over the table to stay over that tabernacle and it wouldn't move and i could i could just i could just see the frustration of the people exodus 40 and 36 says and when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle the children of israel went onward in all their journeys but verse 37 says if the cloud were not taken up then they journeyed not to the day that it was taken up and sometimes we we we don't we just kind of pass over that we just kind of read right over that and because we know the back of the book we know how the story ends we know they go through the promised land we know they cross the jordan river but don't you know that there had to be such frustration within the body of people because they're thinking themselves this is a 40-day journey and this is your number 17 and we haven't made it yet come on god won't you move come on god won't you lead somewhere why don't you go somewhere but as i'm preaching this morning i keep on going back to my title because i simply want to say god if you don't go i won't go i know i'm called to do great things i know you've spoken to me in miracles signs and wonders you you've spoken to me in dreams and visions but god if it's not time yet i don't want to go because the only thing the only alternative to not following the cloud is going somewhere that god is not you may be seated i thank god for people like brother found brother alex fallon who who just about on his knees with the best spirit you can imagine cut down before pastor carpenter myself and said please can we start a church in cleveland the man had already taught probably 30 to 40 people a bible study in cleveland we had already seen converse they were bringing up a caravan three or four cars of people an hour and a half to maryville every single service they had they had probably had 25 people they were already coming to maryville campus that they had personally won and they said pastor carpenter can we please i think it would be what about what about june the 30th would that be a good date to start the church to we want to launch this church and pastor carpenter said brother family i i'm just not i just don't feel the release of god yet and brother fallon with the best spirit the best spirit you can imagine he said pastor if you tell me to wait i'll wait six months turn into a year he oh he had a good spirit matter of fact he would text me and i knew brother salinas i knew what he was texting me he would just text me these little things like hey brother i saw a real nice building in downtown cleveland i knew what he was saying and i would text back i said brother found i said hey i'll come down and i'll look at it with you i'll come look at it we look at we looked at two or three buildings but god his spirit didn't move his spirit stayed right there and because his spirit stayed brother fallon stayed he could he could have gone rogue and said you know what i've got 30 people i'm headed south to cleveland pastor carpenter thank you but no thank you i'm to go ahead and plant this church and start this church and get this thing rolling but let me tell you something today it would not be a revival church today if he had gone without god but since he waited oh shut up because he waited i'm looking at ministers that they've won in their church licensed ministers that are coming out of the cleveland church they've got a strong church today because they said god if you don't go i won't go if you don't reveal it to my pastor i refuse to go they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength waiting on listen you may be seen and waiting on god is not for the weak it's not for those that are worn out it's not for those that have been doing so much or they can't do no more that's not what it means the hebrew word wait simply is what we refer to as a waiter or a server all that simply means is while you are in the place that you're in serve god like you've never served them before do it with the best attitude you can do it with give all you can give uh work is do hard things that's what waiting means it doesn't mean maybe it doesn't mean sit on the back pew and and cry over your pastor not calling you to come up and preacher or not telling you to give you a solo in the choir or whatever oh my god waiting is what you do in the meantime you shall renew your strength you're going to build up power david in the field was building up power he wasn't wasting time with his father's sheep he was building up power he was learning how to fight bears and lions he was learning how to stand up for sheep because the rest of his life he was going to have to stand up for sheep i feel the holy ghost in this place i i feel somebody in this place you've been called to do great things and you're in a time of waiting and i want to encourage you today stay with the spirit follow the spirit obey the spirit understand that the spirit knows what's best for your life but i want to come to my last point and i want to share with you that there is even one thing harder than waiting and that's following the spirit when it doesn't make sense communication with the spirit necessity waiting on the spirit necessity but what about when the spirit leads you in a place that you know ain't right are you thinking right sure man i got to thinking about what god did for the people when he led them into the trap of the red sea i don't have time to read it but you know what your bible says it says that god put the people in a place that pharaoh could see them that their enemy could see them that their captor for over 400 years could see them put them in a place that made them look vulnerable so that that army would come up after them listen god is wanting to show you he is able to do exceedingly and abundantly more greater oh so much more that we can ask in or think we we look at listen we look at ministries we don't think big enough god said i'm not just going to take you out of egypt i'm going to let you watch the very people your slave your cast masters i'm going to allow you to watch them drowned in the very thing they thought you thought was trapping you you thought was binding you you thought was holding you back i'm gonna allow your enemy to drown in the very thing oh god i'm just believing there's ministries in this house there's men in this place today who are waiting who are working hard and you're about to lead them to do some crazy things that they can't even imagine that they are going to think don't make a lick of sense but god when they see when they see the enemy drowning the very thing lord god that trapped i just believe somebody in this place is going to receive revelation of god today you're going to receive god's going to say i'm taking you to places you never dreamed of going i'm not going to be a whole lot longer but i want to get to the best part you may be seated because following the spirit in a direction that doesn't make sense builds up your faith oh yes it does hebrews 11 1 says now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen the evidence of things you can't imagine the evidence of things that don't make sense faith is not an emotion faith is not a feeling faith is a substance it's an evidence faith is us acting like god is telling the truth that's what faith is faith is just put into action like god is telling the truth well god if you want me to go here i am send me i'll be your huckleberry look at verse 2 verse 2 says for by it by faith the elders obtained a good report they gained approval they testified look at verse six but without faith it's impossible to please him for he that cometh to god must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him or if i can inject this that diligently follow him hebrews chapter 11. oh i love this right here the faith chapter we call it is nothing more than a good old testimony service that's all it is paul says uh i need our patriarchs and our matriarchs to come line up this wall right here we're gonna have we're gonna have testimony service i can see bishop mccool doing this pastor mark we're gonna put this right here check one two yeah i like it i can see and you gotta visualize this with me please help me don't think i'm crazy how many how many y'all remember testimony service everybody right except unless you're a youngster as dr nelson would say unless you're a youngster you re you remember testimony service there's a reason why we don't have it anymore but that's another that's a whole other subject i don't have time to go there paul he says all right boys line up and look with me look with me here we go verse 7. he says okay noah you're first he says this he says by faith noah being warned of god of things not seen as yet moved with fear and prepared an ark to the saving of his house come on i feel the holy ghost in this place but i want no come on come on buddy we need you to come testify i believe that noah steps up he pulls us rolling together and he says by faith i built a ship in the middle of the dry land i was warned about something that i couldn't see and i acted on what i was told and you want to know what the result was i saved my family i believe no one would get up here and no one say i want to know tri-state district men what are you willing to do to save your families no one say i built a boat i built a boat in a desert i built a pole and i didn't even know what rain was god told me it was going rain and i didn't even know what rain meant but i did it because he told me to do it i obeyed him when everybody else made fun of me because i had three sons and three daughter-in-laws that i loved so much there was no way i was going to let them die in a flood [Applause] oh my god hillary you may be seated i don't want to get out of control here i'm not testifying moses noah noah's testified what length are we gonna go to save our family dad what are you gonna do when the public school teacher starts referring to your daughter as a z starts referring to your son as a z throw up that oh man you are so good listen i studied that for 15 minutes i'm still confused but maybe you can you can listen to me while you're studying uh i went to i don't suggest this but i went to an lgbtq plus official website because i wanted to know what is this pronoun thing about well here's a guide and see if you can understand yet subject object possess it possess a pronoun reflexive you kind of see where it has a number one blue number one you can any of those number ones there fey he per she they they not sure that's not what it looks like and then yeah yeah ain't none of it what it looks like i'm gonna tell you that right now but i read in there and i'm gonna read this directly from this website it said what are some commonly used pronouns here they go they said she hurt hers and he him his are a few commonly used pronouns i we got that i was good from there some people call these feminine and masculine pronouns but many people avoid these labels because not everyone who uses he feels masculine can't relate to that at all there are also lots of other pronouns in use some of them more gender neutral here are a few you might hear they them theirs or shea s-h-e-a so so for instance shea ate their food because they were hungry this is a pretty common gender-neutral pronoun and they've been used in the singular in fact watch this right here the word they t-h-e-y the word they was voted as the word of the year in 2015. because in 2015 this is when we started pulling away from he or she him or her the word but i could come up with a better word t-h-e-y you're telling me that's a word of the year z her her h-i-r now this means tyler ate her h-i-r food because z was hungry z is pronounced like z-e-e can also be spelled z-i-e or x-e there it is right there x-e it really means it's z suppose z-i-e or x-e and replaces she he or they her hir is pronounced like here oh my bad here and replaces her hers him his they theirs now now it gives a little it says here says do not refer to a person as it or he she these are offensive slurs used against trans and gender non-conforming individuals oh i hate that right there non-conforming purposefully misgendering using wrong pronouns or ignoring pronouns and use is also offensive and disrespectful to the trans and gender non-conforming individuals um and let me say this i'm not bashing you want to please understand i i love i love all people i'm not bashing here not making fun this is real this is real this is not this is not back to the future that this is coming in year 2050 or what this is this is us and i believe noah is telling somebody today i i know it doesn't make sense to build a boat in the desert oh my god this world is coming after our family gentlemen please hear me this world is after our family so goes a family goes to church listen the devil the devil's wise he's a schemer he's gonna he's gonna infiltrate through disney channel for the nickelodeon he's gonna infiltrate not he's not coming after he's not coming after our age he's coming after our kids he's coming to the school districts he's coming after teachers he's coming he's coming in children's hospital y'all you go to children's hospital they they got name tags right here knoxville name tags and it says either he him or she her male or female can have whatever pronoun they whatever they want to be called even in our own children's hospital y'all we're talking about east tennessee they're after our children they're after our families oh my god i believe there's men in this room that are going to stand up and say ask for me in my house i'm going to build a boat when it doesn't make a little sense i'm gonna do it because there is coming a time there's coming a day there's coming an hour when we're no longer gonna be here on this we're gonna be right we're gonna be raptured up out of this place god help us to build a boat i'm going to hurry i'm going to hurry to an end you may be seated come on abraham i need you to testify verse 8 says by faith abraham when he was called to go out into a place which he should have to receive for an inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whether he went i'm talking about god leading us to a place that doesn't make sense come on abraham testified to us today i believe abraham would say by faith i got my little wife sarah and we left a land where i was a millionaire and we went into a wilderness place where i had to live in a tent i had to live as a nomad i went from being the richest man in the east to being a poor roaming no oh my god i wish somebody in the tri-state district would understand whatever you do for your family it's worth it [Applause] i believe abraham and sarah if they were here today testifying it would be a bishop billy and betty mccool saying whatever you have to do if you have to put up a tent in king's court if you have to put up a tent in knoxville if you have to have church in a basement somewhere do whatever you have to do just follow the leading of god and god will save your family [Applause] you may be seated does it have to make sense absolutely not can we be inconvenienced you better believe it whatever it takes god i want to follow after your spirit i want the patriarchs i want you guys to come on and get ready verse 20 says by faith isaac and isaac testified and then he brought up jacob and by faith in verse 21 jacob testified in verse 22 one of my favorite bible stories in the whole bible by faith joseph when he died and made mention of the department of the children of israel and gave a commandment concerning his bones joseph i wish you'd come over here and testify before the brethren and i believe joseph would get up and said this world is not my home i'm just a passing through all egypt was for me was a vehicle to get my people out of salvation and get them into a promised land oh god help us realize that this world is not our home we're just passing through and things might not make sense but as long as we stay faithful as long as we follow the spirit of god everything is gonna be okay somebody clap your hands in this place today i'm almost finished i'm almost finished you may be seated by faith moses in verse 23 when he was born was hid three months of his parents because they saw he was a proper child and they were not afraid of the king's commandment i just believe if moses got up here and began to testify he would say verse 24 by faith when i was come to years i refused to be called the son of pharaoh's daughter choosing rather to suffer affliction with my people than to enjoy pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of christ's greater riches than the treasures of egypt i had respect unto the recompense of the reward by faith i forsook egypt not fearing wrath of the king for i endured as seen him who is invisible through faith we we kept the passover in the sprinkling of the blood lest he that destroy the firstborn should destroy us by faith we pass through the red sea as by dry land which the egyptians are saying to do were drowned by faith the walls of jericho fell down and were compassed about seven days by faith the heart of ray have perished not when them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace and then he ran out of time and paul concluded the testimony service and said listen i'm going to go ahead and testify for the rest of y'all and he said this in verse 32 and what shall i more say for time would fail me to tell you gideon and barack yeah brock and samson and jephthah oh david also in samuel and the prophets who through faith subdued kingdoms wrought righteousness obtain promises and stop the mouths of lions do you see where i'm going with this these people follow the spirit of god and god did miraculous things through them and with each and every one of them not a one of their directions made sense we could preach for four hours daniel you would rather pray and go to a lion's den david oh my word we can honestly we can get up here and just take turns preaching about all these all these at paulus allowing to testify in this place god help us so many people that god has given us he's given us life examples to understand we're not going to understand what god wants to do in us and through us sometimes we're just by faith i'm going to have to keep on walking by faith where we're walking blindly but we know as long as god is before us is god as long as god is directing us as long as god and the pillar is before us we will be all right stand stand your feet with me reason why there are so many men that fail to be spirit-led and i don't believe they're here in this room but i believe there's a lot of men oh they're led by this culture and lord knows i'm not against listen i if you know me you know i love sports i love you tia i love following man i i i couldn't stand baseball until this year i don't know why man i love music i go to christian concerts and man just kirk franklin i don't know he doesn't know truth but he can't sing but he ministers to me i don't know i don't know i'm not against any of that thing i'm not against any of that oh please understand i'm not up here preaching against anything i'm just preaching for the spirit and i'm saying the culture of this world with people who have no spiritual bone in their body what they follow and what they allow to give them gratification and joy and pleasure is not what gives us gratification and joy and pleasure for we are spirit-led men come on and just conclude just lift up your hands and say god i want to be a man of prayer hit it up okay it's not easy it's hard to be consistent but god i'm going to fight through because i know lord khan unless i communicate with you daily unless i study your word daily unless i pick days of the week where i fast in meals and i skip oh god my relationship will never be what it should be come on somebody say god help me be a man of prayer god help me lord god i know my flesh says no but i want to follow after the spirit of god and i will be what god calls me to be and what god calls me to do come on somebody in this place some man in this place say god i won't move unless you move i won't move unless the spirit moves i believe there's somebody in this place today you're fighting with a calling and god may be trying to move you or he might be trying to give you power and hold you where you are but whatever you do only move with the spirit and then i want to pray faith into this place right here i believe men that stand before me are going to have so much faith well up inside of them that no matter what god asks them to do nothing will be too easy nothing will be too simple nothing will be too great nothing will be too heavy lord god ask me to do it and i will do it lord lead me and i will follow guide me and i'll follow after you whatever you need whatever you want i'm gonna pick up sticks i'm gonna pick up sticks i'll be the guy lord i'll be the guy on saturday working i'll do whatever you want me to do even if it doesn't make any sense hit up on your show and one more prayer i want you to start praying for your wives and for your children i want you to call them out by name if you're not married or if you don't have children i want you to call out your parents names i want you to call out your brothers and sisters and names we have siblings that are unsafe come on call them out right now god i pray for fallen god give her strength god mind body soul and spirit lord i want you to lead me as i lead my family horrible so my wife has someone to follow i want to be a spiritual authority in my home i want to be an example of prayer an example of bible study