Sunday Morning Worship & Live Broadcast | Ministering Rev. James Wilson
by James Wilson
First Apostolic Church of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Luke 2:8-15, Luke 2:16-17

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come on why don't you put your hands together for Jesus in the room come on he's worthy of the praise and the glory why don't you just take a few more moments this morning and just lift him up Jesus we worship you Jesus we praise you we magnify you'll come on for a few more moments right now come on all the glory and all the honor belongs to him oh God we lift you up in this place hallelujah hallelujah amen well praise the Lord everyone amen what a tremendous honor it is to be back at fac Knoxville feels so privileged to be here amen I'll give a few introductory remarks but as I'm doing that why don't you turn to your Bibles to Luke chapter number two and we will begin reading at verse number eight and uh as you're turning there let me say what a tremendous honor it is for my wife and I to be back here and I'm so glad that she's with me this time amen I think when we first got married I might have come without her I think and I just I told you guys that like it wasn't a myth I actually was married and then I think she came and then I think some of you might have been wondering well is he married I am married I promise you and uh definitely the better half and I'm glad she's with me this time and we feel so privileged and so honored to be here with you all we honor your leadership the McCool family Bishop McCool Pastor Mark McCool sister Jamie the entire family the whitleys can we just give it up for them they're just incredible incredible people we love and we appreciate them and we just we do every time we get an opportunity to come here we feel so privileged and so fortunate and we just honor them and their leadership and I gotta tell you I didn't know I didn't know Pastor Mark McCool could sing like that I I I snuck in and watched the first night of NYC and I thought man he needs to be doing a live recording not me and he just got up there and tore it up so I know who to call to cover for me if I ever need somebody to cover I'm going to call Pastor Mark I'm cool and just have him cover for me amen such an honor to be here and we honor them and their leadership amen Luke chapter number two we'll begin a reading at verse number eight amen very familiar passage of scripture we've read this before I'm sure most of us amen hopefully we can kind of take something today that that will encourage us and I believe it was brother Matt total that said it this way he said you know today I'm not I'm not going to preach anything new but I am going to preach something true and uh sometimes we want to hear something new but can I tell you we ought to get just as excited about something true that said how come I ain't got nothing new to say this morning but I got a bunch of true things to say this morning [Applause] amen and hopefully we can get some encouragement from the word of the Lord this morning somebody said amen Luke chapter number two verse number eight and there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field keeping watch over their flock by night and lo the angel of the Lord Came Upon them and the glory of the Lord Shone around about them and they were sore afraid and the angel said unto them fear not for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people for unto you is Born This Day in the city of David a savior which is Christ the lord and this shall be a sign unto you you shall find the Babe wrapped in swallowing clothes lying in a Manger and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly hosts praising God and saying glory to God in the highest and on Earth peace Good Will toward men and it came to pass as the Angels were gone away from them into heaven the shepherd said one to another let us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass which the Lord hath made known unto us verse number 15 says came to pass that the Angels were gone away sometimes Heaven leaves [Music] sometimes the glory leaves but whether or not we see the Fulfillment of everything that God has spoken to us is not predicated upon what we do when Heaven Is With Us many times it is predicated on what we do when Heaven leaves I want to preach on that simple title This Morning When Heaven leaves When Heaven leaves why don't you put your Bibles down let's lift up our hands one more time and let's pray and let's ask God to be with us God we thank you for your presence thank you for your spirit that we feel in this room now God I pray right now let your word go forth with power and anointing Lord anoint our ears to hear our hearts to receive I pray let your word find good ground that seed of your word find good ground Lord that it may bring forth fruit for that is its purpose and its intent oh God we pray this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ be the glory and the honor unto your name in Jesus name one more time clap your hands and give the Lord some Praise In This Place oh come on clap your hands a little bit louder a little bit harder hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen you may be seated in the presence of the Lord it had been 400 years of Silence Israel now had become perhaps accustomed to God not being with them for years he had been with them for years they had seen his hand move in their life they had seen him push back the Waters of the Red Sea that they might walk through on dry ground they had seen that very same God cause for for for the for for the the the sun to stop in the sky and and so that they might have Victory they had seen this God do many miracles among them they had seen this God cause for the Manna to fall from Heaven and quails to fall so many miracles and signs and wonders in addition to this they'd heard the voice of God speak through their leaders through prophets through judges through men and women of God but now 400 years had passed and God had not spoken one single word to the children of Israel you know how it is whenever God hasn't spoken in a long time you begin to think he'll never speak you begin to think God must have forgotten about me perhaps the promises of God are no longer valid or true in my life perhaps God really isn't going to do everything that he said that he would do but we find here in our scripture text that finally God begins to speak again we know that the shepherds are gathered in a field the Bible says at night darkness is blanketing them all around but in the midst of that Darkness the Bible lets us know that the Angels show up on the scene and what's what once was a dark and Bleak place now has become illuminated by the glory of the Lord can I tell you that what in fact the the physical Darkness being illuminated by the light is in fact a simile of the of the spiritual condition that the children of Israel were in darkness had blanketed them for 400 years there was no way that they could see or experience God it was dark it was hopeless it was Bleak but in one moment the glory of the Lord shows up on the scene and it erases every bit of Darkness that would come and try to destroy them can I tell somebody all it takes is one moment in the presence of the Lord and the Darkness begins to scatter and flee I don't care how long you've been in darkness I don't care how long you've been in bondage I don't care how long fear has crippled your life I don't care how long anxiety has crippled your walk with God can I tell you all it takes is one moment in the presence of the Lord all it takes is one moment for the glory of the Lord to show up and all of a sudden the darkness will begin to flee the darkness will begin to I'm preaching to someone right now that's been in darkness for a long time can I tell you trouble will not last forever weeping may endure for a night but joy it's coming in the morning God there's getting ready to be a light that's getting ready to break through let's get ready to be the Gloria of the Lord that's getting ready to come in your life I've come to preach to somebody the glory of the Lord is getting ready to show up in your life but what you have to do is you have to remain faithful in the in the waiting time don't you give up on God don't you give up on what God has called you to do and what God said he will do can I tell you it takes one moment for the glory of the Lord to show up and everything will begin to change in your life I know the enemy's sitting on your shoulder right now telling you to give up on God give up on your purpose give up on everything that God has told you he's getting ready to do but I've come to tell you don't you give up now don't you throw in the towel now the Gloria of the lord it's getting ready to show up in your life glory of the Lord shows up can I tell you the reason why every one of us are here right now is because God's glory showed up in our life we were in the midst of Darkness there was no way that we could ever see we've been in periods and moments of time where there's been silence and it seemed as If Heaven is all shut up but when the glory of the Lord begins to show up on the scenes that's when things truly begin to change in our life but here's what I would say to you this morning the glory of the Lord doesn't just show up just so we can have Goosebumps just so we can have a great time and go home yes I'm thankful for the power and the glory of God I'm thankful that the glory of God shows up and we can feel God and we can feel its presence but let me tell you this many times in scripture when the glory of God shows up it is also accompanied by a Divine word from God the glory of God doesn't just show up on the scenes just so we can have a great emotional moment but the glory of the Lord shows up to let us know there is a word that I'm trying to speak to you the glory is here so that you know that it's me speaking to you but don't you miss in your in your moment of reveling in my glory and my power don't you miss what the spirit is speaking here that happened here let him hear what the spirit is speaking unto the church the Bible lets us know that the Angels show up in the glory of the Lord is shining all around about them and the Bible says they have an emotional response the Bible says they get afraid they're fearing and the angel says to them listen you need to fear not what is the angel trying to get them to do he's saying listen I know right now you're having an emotional response to the glory and to the power that you're but I need you to settle your emotions just long enough that you might hear what I'm trying to say to you can I tell somebody in the apostolic church we must have a move of God we must have the glory of God we must have it in most there's nothing wrong with shouting there's nothing wrong with dancing there's nothing wrong with lifting up the name of Jesus I believe in that I said I believe in shouting I believe in dancing I believe in running the owl but can I tell you the reason why the glory shows up the reason the glory shows up it's not so that we can have a holy ghost party and not here but there's a word that's being spoken there's a hey Church don't miss it let's have good church but in our good church Heaven don't miss the word that is being spoken for it is the word that will give you life it is the word that will sustain you on your journey it's the word that will keep you Angel says don't miss it the glory is here so that you know it's God speaking to you but every time the glory shows up is accompanied by a word Bible lets us know Solomon is dedicating the Temple of the Lord the glory of the Lord shows up the Bible says as a matter of fact the glory of the Lord was so strong that the priest could not stay can you imagine the glory of the Lord being so strong that you literally cannot man I got to get out of here the power of God is so thick and so strong in this I can't stay it's so powerful in this place I got to get out it's too much foreign Bible says the Lord does the same thing with Moses Mo said I want to see your glory god that says okay I can't I can't I can't show you all my glory I'll just show you a little bit of my glory the glory of the Lord is so strong but let me tell you the glory of the Lord didn't appear to Moses just so Moses could have the glory of going about his business there is a word that God was trying to give to Moses there was something that God was trying to hand now the glory of the Lord shows up that his word might be given Solomon is in the temple they get out the glory of the Lord is there but it doesn't stop there the glory wasn't there just so they could have a good time and say wow that was awesome what a great service we just had what a great move of God we just had no but the Bible lets us know that as soon as that as that great display of Glory happens with Solomon that the Lord comes to Solomon at night and that's where we get that passage of scripture that we like to quote if my people which are called by my name will humble themselves in prayer and seek my face and turn from their wicked God said Solomon my glory is here because I have a word and my word is this if you'll begin to pray I'll send Revival my word is this I'm trying to establish your kingdom forever though come on somebody I know the glory is here but the Glorious here that the word might be heard and I've come to preach to somebody a word in this place God is not done with you God is not done with your home God it's not done with your family oh I need somebody to worship God for that right now come on I said there's a word there's a word that's being spoken glory of the Lord shows up power of the almighty God is on display in front of the Shepherds here's what the Bible says the Bible says after the glory of the Lord shows up on the scene and he gives them that word that word that they have been waiting for for years this day in the city of David in the in in the city of Bethlehem this day there's there's a savior that's been born the reason I've shown you my glory the reason I've shown you all all of heaven today the reason that I've shown you my powers that you hear the word that I'm speaking I'm trying to declare to you that the promise has finally been fulfilled my word has finally been fulfilled and this thing the savior's been born but here's where the rubber meets the Rope after the Angels leave because here's the thing we are so good about experiencing the power of God feeling God's presence and even listening to a word I mean in that moment we have great faith we're believing that God is going to do everything that he said that he was going to do because the angels are still with us the glory is still with us the power is still with us I believe that as the shepherds are sitting there and there's Glory all around and then all of a sudden the Angels begin to sing Glory unto God in the highest in an or on Earth peace Good Will towards men I believe that that the shepherds are getting excited they're getting excited about everything that God is getting ready to do but then the Bible lets us know that it came to pass that the angels were gone away there came a point in time where the glory Departed there came a point in time where all the tangible evidence that God was with them was gone there came a point in time wherein the power of God that was on display seemingly departed from them and it was at this point that they truly became who they were supposed to be it is not what you do when Heaven is with you that determines whether or not you will see the Fulfillment of God's promises in your life it is what you do when Heaven departs Now understand what I'm saying I'm not saying that God literally will leave you we know the Bible says God will never leave us nor forsake us but what I am saying is this sometimes you're not going to have tangible proof that God is with you sometimes you're not going to feel like God is with you there are going to be times yes where the glory of the Lord is all around you and you're going to be on a spiritual height you can feel the power in the presence of God but can I tell you there are other times where you're not going to feel God there are other times where you're not going to see God there are other times you're not going to know that God is with you and can I tell you it is what you do in those times that will ultimately determine whether or not you see the hand of God in your life it's not what you do in Heaven's with you it's easy to shout when Heaven's with you it's she did a worship when your family's on the Pew with you it's easy to praise God when everything's right but my question is answer what will you do when Heaven leaves what will you do when the glory departs the glory is not going to always be with you where you can feel it yes God is by your side but God is not always going to have an outward proof that he's with you sometimes God will remove his glory sometimes God will remove its touch from your life sometimes God will allow there to be Seasons where you cannot feel him Seasons where you cannot sense them Seasons where you do not know where he is I believe that he's with me but can I be honest I don't know where he is I believe that he's for me but in this season he's allowed some things to happen in my life and I'm not quite sure he's with me can I tell you it is what you do When Heaven leaves that will ultimately determine whether or not you see the Fulfillment of promise that God has made unto you can I tell somebody in this place you may feel like heaven is not with you but don't you give up don't you throw in the towel for some of you it's been a long time since you felt the presence of God [Applause] can I tell you when you don't feel the presence of God it does not always mean that you've done something wrong when you can't feel the spirit of God it doesn't always mean that you're in sin and that there's something in your life that's wrong sometimes God will intentionally remove his presence from you to allow you to go through a season of testing and can I tell you it is what you do and that season that will determine whether or not you arrive in your next season I've come to preach to somebody and the Holy Ghost just don't you give up right now don't you give in right now you may not feel anything but when Heaven leaves you make up your mind I'm going to stay I'm going to be faithful ha I'm gonna be faithful in this thing I believe that the promises of God are in him yes and amen he's faithful he will perform his word I'm not moving I will be steadfast I I'll stand on the word I'm going to be here even when Heaven leaves somebody lift up your hands right now somebody lift up your voice and just begin to praise him [Applause] [Music] somebody lift up your voice right now and begin to worship him I feel the Holy Ghost in this room [Applause] foreign at this point I can imagine just as quickly as Heaven had come Heaven has now left they're looking around I can imagine one of them looks at the other did you did you just see that or was I dreaming did I just make art am I awake no I saw it like you saw all the angels and them singing in the choir and all that yeah I saw everything is it just me or did it just get really bright in this field no I saw everything that you just saw but now it's gone and they have a decision to make are we just going to kind of just stand here and just kind of looking at each other because here's the thing about it the angel spoke to them but here's what I find it's we don't have any any recollection or or any any anything recorded in Scripture that tells us that the angel told them where to go the Bible lets us know that they're in the same country another translation says in the same neighborhood so perhaps he's close but how close is close we don't really know we don't have any type of recording in Scripture that the angel tells them where to go but can I tell you this these men believe the word of God so much that even when the Angels Departed the Bible lets us know that they make up their mind to do this one thing and the Bible says in verse 15 it came to pass as the Angels were going away from them into heaven that the Shepherds said one to another let us now go even unto Bethlehem can I tell somebody what will determine whether or not you see the Fulfillment of the promises of God in your life it's whether or not you will go When Heaven is not with you will you still make up your mind to Goa as the Shepherds were going there were no choirs of angels singing anymore as the Shepherds were going it was dark again the light had now faded away but can I tell you there was still something in those Shepherds that said I believe the word of Kata therefore I'm leaving behind this old field and I'm going I said I'm going I've come to preach to somebody in this place it's time for you to go I know you don't feel like heaven is with you right now but let's go there's a promise waiting for you huh there's Destiny waiting for you there's a future but you gotta go you gotta go I know Heaven is gone but what will you do when Heaven leaves you got to make up your mind I still will go I'm gonna go after my calling I'm gonna go after my god-given purpose I'm gonna pray for my family I'm going to pray for my home I'm not packing down I'm not giving up I'm getting ready to go oh there's somebody that's getting ready to go I want you to clap your hands right now but here's the thing that I like about it the Bible doesn't say they stopped there the Bible says not only are we getting ready to go but the Bible says they say we're getting ready to go unto Bethlehem and see they said there's no there's no wavering in US we believe that when we get there everything is going to be just as God said it unto us the Bible says it this way they said when we get there we're going to go and we're going to see this thing which has come to pass which the Lord hath made known unto us you know what they said they said you know what we're just crazy enough to believe that when we get there we're going to see not what is getting ready to be done we're going to see what has already been done God has just made it known unto us now it's already done God just let us sin on the secret It's Already Done God just kind of peel back the curtains a little bit so that we can see can I tell somebody in the Holy Ghost right now it's already done God is just God has just wanted to know her are you going to go and see it it's already done I'm just letting you know that if you go you're going to see is there anybody with expectation in your heart that when I get there I'm going to see the Hakata I'm not going just to go through the motions I'm not in this church just to go through the motions but I believe we're getting ready to see Revival I believe we're getting ready to see the supernatural I believe when I get there I will see it come on somebody the reason you pray for your family it's not because Pastor said so it's because you believe her when I pray I'm going to see something happen the reason I shout and worship it's not because everybody else hears her but it's because I believe when I too I will see something happen I said I'm going to see it now come on huh is there anybody that believes my family's coming in I'm going to see it that's why I'm on this journey that's why I do what I do huh because I have enough Faith to believe I'm getting ready to see it [Applause] so many times we're on the journey we're going because everybody else is going but we're not really going expecting to see something y'all know what I'm talking about all right Pastor McCool says at the beginning of the year we're going to do a Daniel's Fast or Pastor I'm gonna go but we've been doing this for 20 years and I ain't seen nothing yet you know what I'm talking about y'all looking at me real weird right now like y'all are so spiritual you don't ever think that oh man I'll go because if I don't go somebody might roll up and see me eating that chipotle and then I'm in trouble then you know I'll go pastor but we're not really expecting to see something but I wonder what would happen if while we're going with there would be an expectation that I'm not just going to go because everybody else is going but when I get there I'm going to see something when I get there I I'm going to see the come on church I'll tell you what would happen we begin to see Revival like we've never seen before we begin to see Miracles like I'm not just going because everybody else is going I'm going because I'm going to see something I'm going because I'm getting ready to see me come on church I said I really believe that God is getting ready to pour out a Revival at a harvest I'm going but when I go I'm believing that I also will see see here's the thing here's the thing that I need to leave with us this morning the Bible says this the Bible says that the Shepherds say something very profound sometimes we we kind of just kind of look over some things that are said in scripture because they're used to it but they say something so profound here they say listen we're going to go to Bethlehem we're going to see this thing which the Lord hath made known to us it's already come to pass God has made it known unto us what they're saying is it's already done we just hadn't seen it yet but when we get on the journey and we get to the end of it we're going to see what God has already done it was in the future for them their eyes seeing it was in the future but it was already done here's the thing that God does the Bible says that God sees those things calls those things that are not as though they already are because here's the thing about God God is Not confined within the Realms of time and space God that can I tell you the past the present and the future are all the same to God God is right now in this moment God's Back 40 years ago and God is also in the future in 2025. right now God is there and you might not be able to see what God sees in 2025 but if he can get you on the journey if he can get you to believe that as I go high I'm gonna when you get there in that moment you will realize it was done the entire time he's making it known to me if I just kind of get On The Journey can I tell somebody it might be in 2025 but it's already done it might be a 2024 but it's already done it might be in 2023 but right now to God it's already done oh yes your family being saved is already done your body being healed it's already done come on there's no difference with Kana between the past present and the future to him he calls those things that are not as though they already are to our god it's done you just got to go and see it's already done God I don't know how you're gonna work God is like how I'm going to work I've already worked God I don't know how you're going to make a way I'm going to make I've already made a way well I don't see it right now God's like that doesn't matter you're confined by time and space I'm not so to me I'm looking at you like man what's the problem it's time for you to start believing this thing it's already done for me I'm already living in the future where your family's saved I'm already living in the future where your body's healed I'm just letting you in on the secret I'm just letting you know my Divine will and purpose and plan for your life it is already done but here's the thing about the promises of God Promises of God the word of God it is a declaration of God's purpose and God's intent and just because God makes you a promise does not always mean that you will be a recipient of that promise many times whether or not you receive the Fulfillment of words that God has spoken to you is dependent upon what you do God can make you a promise but you can miss out on that Promise by your actions and by your response but it's the will of that that that it's the will of God that that all should come to repentance that none should perish yeah that's the will of God but we'll all come to repent and snow the Bible lets us know that there are going to be people that don't don't don't get this thing is it the will of God still that they be saved yes but their actions God is God is a gentleman God is not some dictator that's going to Lord over the people of this world and say you're going to do everything no when God makes you a promise whether or not you see the Fulfillment of that promise many times is determined by your position waiting for that promise oh God you made me a promise I'm gonna just sit here and wait until it happens you might be sitting there waiting for a long time oh God I'm going to see everything that you said that you were going to do I'm just going to kind of just going cruise control for a little while I was like no no if you want to see what I'm trying to do you got to get on the journey you got to go and you got to see y'all remember that story that that's a a few verses on of that man named Simeon the Bible says the Lord speaks to Simeon says Simeon you will not die until you see that promised child the Bible says that the Holy Spirit reveals it unto him the Holy Ghost tells him send me in you're not going to die until you see Christ but here's what I find very interesting about what happened with Simeon the Bible lets us know that Simeon Waits his entire life for this one moment to see the Fulfillment of the promise that God had made to him but something very interesting happens the Bible says that when Jesus and his mother and father are at the temple one day that the spirit of God speaks to Simeon and says Simeon it's time for you to get down by the temple the Tabernacle it's time for you to go the Christ child is at the temple because here's the thing Simeon would have never seen the promise of God fulfilled in his life had he not been sensitive to the spirit of God it was the will it was the purpose that he'd see it but can you imagine what would have happened if on the exact day that Jesus was at the temple that Simeon says I don't know if I'm gonna just pray I don't know if I'm gonna pray today I'm just going to kind of relax and coast and and now it was a will it was the purpose it was the intent of God for him to see the Christ that that Christ child but because he was not sensitive he did not see can I tell you if you want to see you must be sensitive how many things have we missed out on not because God didn't do what he said that he was going to do but because we just weren't sensitive and we missed it oh God didn't fulfill his word god did fulfill his promise God is not a pro well were you praying were you seeking the face of God well no not really I was kind of struggling perhaps you missed your moment now does that mean that your moment's Gone Forever that's not what I'm preaching no I believe that God is a god of second third fourth fifth chances I believe that God wants to fulfill his work but can I tell you sometimes I believe we miss out on things because we're not sensitive to God they're Divine orders and and divine plans that God has and can I tell you it is dictated Upon Our response if you want to see some things you also must be sensitive to some things if you want to see the Fulfillment of God's promise you also must have that thing inside of you that says God when you speak I'm going to be sensitive enough to hear when you say move I'm going to be sensitive enough to move when you say it's time to go I'm going to be sensitive enough I want to see it I want to see it but are you sensitive I haven't seen it yet have you been sensitive can I tell you you can't be sensitive to God if you don't spend time with God oh I just come to church and just kind of lift up my hands and I hadn't really seen anything happen I I would ask you this question do you think it's not done what he said that he was going to do or do you think you just probably haven't been sensitive enough consider the fact that maybe God was waiting to do everything that he said that he was going to do but in that moment he was waiting in that moment where the time was right and everything had been perfectly aligned and it's divine and perfect will we might we just weren't sensitive enough to see it the Bible here's what I believe God didn't tell God didn't tell we don't have any recollection any recording in Scripture that God tells that that the Angels tell the Shepherds where to go here's what I believe I believe the Shepherds were sensitive and as they begin to walk and as they begin to move the same spirit that guided Simeon to that Temple where Jesus was Was the Same Spirit that began to lead and guide these men as they began to find the place where Jesus lied can I tell you the Bible lets us know that the steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord when you get on the journey you begin to walk and you begin to move in the Divine will and purpose of God your steps are ordered God is ordering your steps you just got to make the decision that while I'm walking I'm going to be sensitive while I'm walking out I'm going to see the will of God done in my life I'm not going to be distracted by what's going on around me but I'm going to walk and I'm going to see [Applause] Bible says they came there they came with haste and they found Mary and Joseph and the Babe lying in the manger man what an amazing feeling it is when you find everything that you've been looking for anybody ever remember what that was like the first time you came into the presence of God God had been leading you to a place and all of a sudden it been a long journey it's been a long time but but when you get there there's this sense of just gratefulness and gratitude that I found that what which I have been looking for some of us know we know what it's like years and years waiting on God to fulfill a promise in our lives but when we get there and we experience it and we see it with our own eyes we believe that it was true we believe that God could heal like that and set free like that and bring Revival like that and do the impossible like that but there's nothing like when you finally see it the Bible says they see it they've declared it that we're going to see it but then they get there and they actually see it but here's the thing Shepherds were not content simply go and see but the Bible says this that when they go and when they see after they go and they see the Bible says they do one last thing they bring because the mark of someone that is truly seen the hand of God move in their life is by them bringing somebody else and saying you got to come see what I've seen you got to come experience what I've experienced the hand of God is moving in my life and I got on the journey and I didn't know whether or not God could do this type of thing but can I tell you I am a witness that God is a man of his word everything that he said he will do come on I need you to come and see how I need you to come and see that God is still on the throne I need you to come and see it it's not over for your family is there anybody in this place that would say I'm not going to be content to just go and see her but I'm also going to bring somebody I'm also going to tell somebody this is the place that you can be delivered this is the pleasure where God can change your life come on Church in the year 2023 it's not about just going and seeing her it's also about bringing God forbid we go and see and not tell anybody what we've seen God forbid we see the power in the hand of God revealed in our life and we not tell anybody about what we've experienced my Lord I wonder what would happen if everything that we see we begin to tell everybody about it I wonder what would happen in this church if everything that we see God do we begin to not only tell everybody but we begin you better get to fhc Knoxville there's something special going on there God is able to turn your family you better get there I know it seems hopeless it was hopeless for me but I've already gone and I've already seen it's possible it's possible that you can be delivered from drugs it's possible that your marriage can be put back together it's possible that God can change your life forever I've already been there I've already been there I've already seen oh somebody praise him right now oh somebody give them worship right now I want you to stand all across the room [Applause] Hallelujah see that's what Christmas is truly about it's not about just us Pastor Nate I'm so glad that I can go and I can see I've been so fortunate my entire life to have a front row seat to this thing hey when I first started going I didn't have much of a choice I was forced to go I was probably like maybe some of the Shepherds that when they first went out went on that Journey like man I don't really want to go but everybody else is going so I guess I gotta go I want to really expecting to see anything but somewhere along the way this thing got real to me and when I when I made up my mind that I'm not just on this journey just to go but I I'm expecting to see some things that's when God began to reveal things unto me that's when God began to do things but Pastor nape Pastor McCool I'm just not content to just go and see but what Christmas is all about is when I get there and I see I don't just stay there just basking the Bible the Bible says they get there and it's almost as if the moment they get there and they see it they immediately take off I mean those guys don't have time to to become good you know perfect Pentecostals they're like man I gotta go and tell somebody this is amazing this is great can I tell you that is what this season is all about God forbid that we get so used to the blessings of God and the things that we have seen that we forget to go and bring I don't want to get so used to this that I forget to go and tell my lost world that there's hope for them I don't want to get so used to this I gotta get locked inside my own world and forget to tell people that there's hope for them but I want to be so consumed for the lost that when I see her I go out and I make sure I bring people with me [Applause] but it all happens When Heaven leaves all of this happened see we think we think sometimes that we got to have the glory of God With Us and the power of God there were no angels singing anymore when they went there were no angels singing when they saw and there were no crazy Goosebumps when they went and they brought people with them God I'll invite somebody to church if you just like you know give me a sign in the heavens and I feel Goosebumps like if I feel that one thing you know what I'm talking about you're like God if you just touch me right now and this grocery store I feel something you know I do the holy ghost hucking book I'll go invite him to church ah it's what you do when Heaven leaves oh we get it twisted so many times oh God I I got a feeling no no you don't have to feel anything for you to invite somebody to church [Music] as a matter of fact [Music] matter of fact I gotta I gotta feel something for me to get on the journey no it's what you do when there are no Angels around no glory around no Heaven around that will truly determine whether or not you see the Fulfillment of every promise that God has made to you and for you so I wonder is there anybody in this room today I would say I'm living in a season perhaps right now where Heaven doesn't seem to really be with me I've experienced the glory before I've experienced the power before there's been a Divine prophetic word that has been spoken to my life to my family to my home to my church to my youth group but I don't feel anything right now it's what you do in this moment that will determine whether or not you will see the Fulfillment of the word of God so is there anybody that would come to the front right now and would say you know what this is what I'm going to determine that I will do this Christmas season I'm going to get on the journey and I'm gonna go I'm gonna praise God like it's already done I'm Gonna Worship God like I've already seen my family saved I'm going to give God glory and honor like it's already happened in my life come on I want you to come with expectation in your heart I want you to come with expectation in your spirit come on I want you to praise God like somebody that's going but not only somebody that's going but I want you to praise God like somebody that's getting ready to see something cause I believe when you get there you're going to see the hand of God moving I believe when you get there you're going to see your family set free by the power of God I believe when you get there you're going to see your body healed huh come on I want you to praise like I want you to pray like it right now I want you to worship like it right now come on all across this room would you lift up your voice come on all across this room come on somebody pray right now in the Holy Ghost [Music] s oh come on somebody lift up your voice right now and pray with expectation come on somebody pray with expectation that God is going to do everything that is said come on [Music] in the name of Jesus my family shall be saved in the name of Jesus my family shall be saved in the name of Jesus the glory of God is going to be revealed in my life video oh yeah [Music] we know that hope is never lost [Music] [Applause] that we believe the Bible lets us know that God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him if you have a heaven in your life whether it be a physical need perhaps you need God to heal your body or perhaps you need the Holy Ghost so you've never had the Holy Ghost before can I tell you how you experience the power of God in your life it's by you praising and worshiping God with diligence with Hunger that means you need to right now begin to praise and worship God like it's already done like you've already seen the Fulfillment of everything what am I saying you need to praise him like you've already seen it just like the shepherd said when I get there I believe it I'm going to see something there needs to be somebody in this place that's what say her when I lift up my hands I believe it I'm going to speak in other tongues when I begin to praise God I believe in that the Holy Ghost is going to fall on me yeah when I pray in the holy ghost stuff I believe that my body is going to be healed up so here's what I want us to do here's what I want us to do if you've never received the baptism of the Holy Ghost before specifically that's what this is what I feel in this moment if you've never received the baptism of the Holy Ghost but you believe it and let me tell you this there's so much word that we have that lets us know that the Holy Ghost is for everybody can I tell you it is the will of God that you be filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost that you speak with other tongues as God's spirit gives you the ability to speak well but let me tell you this the decision is up to you will you go and when you're going will you have that anticipation that I'm going to see if you don't go and if you don't have that anticipation that you're going to see can I tell you that you probably you will not see but here's what I want us to do in this place some of us feel like well I in order for me to see something I gotta have Goosebumps and I gotta feel something and and I gotta have complete 100 Faith No doubt exists as a matter of fact you can't have faith unless there is doubt so if you're feeling doubt right now can I tell you everybody in this room feels doubt doubt about whether or not our bodies can be healed doubt about whether or not God can fill us with the baptism of the Holy Ghost thought about whether or not God can truly forgive us of our sins we all have that but can I tell you what faith is Faith is moving beyond that doubt and lifting up your hands and still praying and saying God I'm going to give you a chance to do what only you can do in my life the Bible says it this way faith without works is dead that simply means if you want to see God do something in your life you got to begin to move so here's what we're going to do if you need the baptism of the Holy Ghost in This Place I want to there's I wonder if you would be so kind as to raise your hand we want to kind of pray but is there anybody that has never received the Holy Ghost before you've never spoken with other tongues but you'd like to receive it I want to give this moment right now I believe that God is in this room all right here's what I want us to do whatever you have need of if it's you being filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost if it's a physical need in your body if it's a family member that's not saved and they need to be filled with God's spirit whatever the case may be here's what I want us to do I want us right now they're going to begin to play and sing again but I want us right now to begin to pray and I want to begin to praise as if we're already on the way and we're getting ready to see everything that God is getting ready to do [Music] I said did you hear me I said I want you to pray and I want you to praise like you're getting some of us are facing insurmountable impossible situations but I just I'm just crazy enough to believe that you're getting ready to see it come on how would you pray huh if you already show it how would you worship if you already saw it how would you lift up the name of Jesus if that mountain had already been moved up I want you to praise like that right now I want you to worship like that right now [Music] I feel the power of God by the authority of your word and the power that's in the name of Jesus in this room let healing flow foreign [Applause] [Applause] We Believe foreign [Music] cause you said and I believe you said and it is [Applause] done [Applause] you said [Applause] it is done you said and I believe you said he is done you said and I believe that it is [Applause] stand and I believe [Music] [Applause] it is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] God we've been leaving God we believe foreign thank you foreign [Applause] [Applause] you are alone when there seems to be [Music] the way we trust in you God you have the final say [Music] God we [Music] we'll see a miracle God We Believe [Music] God We Believe [Music] foreign [Music] you said [Music] it is you said it is [Music] would you love Jesus together right now would you just love him would you thank him for the calm assurance that we have when the Angels aren't here he's here when the Angels aren't shining bright lights he's still here when the Miracles are unseen there are still Miracles taking place Deliverance is in this house today I am expecting I am anticipating testimonies of miracles in relationships healings that the enemy thought he had destroyed I'm expecting healings physically we got to give God praise we got to tell somebody about it God's doing a Work First Apostolic Church [Applause] [Music] oh yes it's the Christmas season and this is what Christmas is about we're celebrating our Christ oh we're going to have all kind of nice songs and neat things that gives you those Goosebumps but when the Goosebumps aren't here he's still here he's still with us he's still working