The Island of the Colorblind
by Jimmy Toney
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Revelation 1:9-16, John 4:35, 2 Kings 6:17, Revelation 4:1-5, Ezra 5:1-3, 1 Chronicles 16:29, 1 Corinthians 11, Deuteronomy 22:5, Romans 10:14-15

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turn around and shake your neighbor's hand and tell him say I am glad you came to the movement you to grab your bibles if you will we're going to quickly turn to the Book of Revelation chapter number one little unknown fact maybe for you I used to for a short while Pastor brother Irvin Baxter's church and so it was written in our contract that anytime I would preach out I'd have to preach from The Book of Revelation and so I want to honor that tonight Revelation chapter number one it is always great to be back at what we like to affectionately refer to as Mecca and uh we make our annual P pilgrimage here to marville and uh what a great place and what a beautiful church and what a tremendous family aren't you thankful for the Carpenters and this great church amen we come here to make sure that our investment into our daughter work here is uh is sufficient and uh I wanted wanted to talk with him today privately but was unable to do so so I will just really carent at the end of this year we're going to start giving our funds to another work I think you're okay here and so we're going to move our support elsewhere we love this family so very much he they serve as our pastor to to myself my wife my daughter son-in-law and I appreciate their love and support even Lauren has a special place near my heart it's it's usually in the form of heartburn but it's a special place nonetheless she greeted me last night the first words out of her mouth was how do you get uglier every time I see you and uh so it made me feel good it's great to have my family here my wife and I now we're nowhere near the M's yet but yesterday we celebrated 29 years of marriage and that is a long time to put up with me and then my daughter is here and my son-in-law is up here playing the Oregon and appreciate that now in my opinion they are just the best of the best and now they've given us Adeline our first granddaughter and we're just happy about that that's a good good day got some great friends in this room I can't mention all of you but brother and sister BR I love you dearly brother St Clair thank you for making the the drive to come see see me tonight and somewhere in this audience some people I used to P there they are brother and sister shepher I love them so very much and I'm glad they are here amen Revelation chapter number one and also from our church brother Austin Graham is a great young worship leader and I am so glad that he came with Caitlyn and Caleb and get to experience this great church Revelation 1 ver9 Madison happy birthday tomorrow is your birthday so happy birthday we love you very very much I John who also am your brother and companion in Tribulation and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ was in the island everybody say Island that's called Pat Miss for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ and I was in the spirit everybody say in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet saying I am Alpha and Omega the first and the last and what thou see us everybody say what you see write it in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia I was in the island called patmas I was in the spirit and God said what you see write it down I'm not going to announce the title just yet but if you will by faith help me preach for a little bit would you shout amen amen God bless you you may be seated islands are special places they are remote mysterious and most of them are in intensely attractive they are usually both beautiful and positioned in exotic locations they are plush tropical colorful green inviting exciting and enticing there have been many popular and well-known Islands over the years that that we are probably familiar with take a look on the screen because this is Neverland this is the magical Island where Peter Pan lived and then of course those in the aljc who grew up with television would remember the famous phrase from a old television show the plane the plane when a new group of visitors would arrive on Fantasy Island and most of us would know the old old southern gospel song that we used to sing in church man I wish I could sing I come to marville and I'm like man I wish I could sing but I'm I'm going to try it anyhow this when we used to sing in church I grew up in a just a good old traditional Church you'll understand I think you'll remember this one when a little something like this just sit right back and you'll hear a tale A Tale of a faithful trip that started on this Tropic Port aboard this time the mate was a mighty sailing man that Skipper Brave and sure five passengers set sail that day for three hour tour help me out choir I feel something the weather started getting rough and that tiny ship was tossed if not for the courage of The Fearless Crew The Minnow would be lost the ships set ground on the shore we didn't even practice that of this Uncharted desert aisle with Gilligan a millionaire a movie star the professor an maryan and so our kids have learned about the island called Neverland and some of you have watched Fantasy Island and most of us know about the shenanigans on Gilligans Island but you have probably never heard of the island I want to preach about tonight and that is this the island of the colorblind there are about 300 million people who are colorblind in the world one in 12 men experience this while only one in 200 women have this problem proving that women can see the scope of things better than men can can I get an amen color blindness can cause some unique problems I read where an artist had become totally colorblind after having a stroke he lost color vision through damage to the parts of the brain which construct the sensation of color in other words he lost the ability not only to see color but to imagine it or remember it or even dream of it in Romania people who are colorblind are not are not allowed to obtain a driver's license in England colorblindness May prevent you from becoming a doctor here in the United States one cannot get his pilot's license if he is colorblind and in many parts of the world it's difficult to become an electrician if you are color blind because we all know that when the time is ticking away you must always cut the red wire somebody shout color blind and in the middle of the South Pacific there is a tiny island called pingelap its total land mass is less than three square miles its highest elevation is just 10 ft above sea level so when a typhoon swept over the island and 7 1755 it destroyed all of its vegetation and drowned 90% of its inhabitants the 20 survivors resorted to fishing as the only means of survival until the island revegetated however after the typhoon after that horrific storm a genetic abnormality evolved a surprisingly large proportion of the next generation was born colorblind elsewhere in the world less than one in 30,000 people are color blind but on the island of pingelap one in 12 are born with this condition the high percentage can be traced back to the fact that several people in the surviving genan pool carried a rare genetic mutation responsible for this issue so this island pingelap is literally known as the island of the color blind and the sad irony is that few places on Earth are as beautiful or colorful as pingelap one author said it like this it was striking how green everything was on this island not only the foilage of trees but their fruits as well and when I read that I thought how horrible to live in such a gorgeous gorgeous place and yet have something passed down to you that stops you from seeing the beauty of where you really are and how sad and how tragic it must be because of a storm from Generations ago it somehow impacted the survivors and now they just keep reproducing people that's got the same problem that they have and they can't see the beauty of where God has them because of a storm that has happened to them and then it hid me like a ton of bricks there will be good people at the movement people who have great Ministries people who are in great places people who have tremendous opportunity people who are leaders in great churches but they will come to this conference battling color blindness because of storms that they are in or because of a storm from the past and they will be unable to see all that God has planned for them and they will be unable to see the beauty surrounding them because of a storm and make no mistake about it it we've all had to endure some storms there's not a stormless saint Among Us there's not a preacher who hasn't had to endure the wind of deception or the rain of persecution or the Thunder of misunderstanding or the lightning of frustration and failure and storms are not Prejudice they are not partial and they are not pretty it Reigns on the just and on the unjust on the wise and on the foolish and storms can blow in in a minute and be gone just as fast but cleanup and Recovery can last for a long long time after the storm has passed on and it's usually during these Seasons that we begin to lose lose vision and lose sight and lose hope of what could have been Jesus told his disciples he said get in the boat and go to the other side now you would think that with such a commanding word and such a reassuring promise that they never thought that they would have an immediate storm in their future and yet they endured a storm we've all got in the boat expecting fully to go to the other side and then a storm we all got in the church expecting God to do great things with us and for us and through us and then a storm we bought that building expecting to fill it but then a storm we bought some land expecting to build but then a storm we preached faith we Anointed with oil we believed for healing but then we had to plan a funeral and the storm has left our vision skewed sour and shortsighted and because of a storm because of some trouble from a few years ago because of some issues from the past it created a cycle things begin to spin out of control it left us with something missing and instead of enjoying we are enduring and instead of thriving if we were to be honest some of us are barely surviving instead of increase we are experiencing decrease but something is is going to happen this week at movement and you're going to have a fresh Revelation that you're in a good place that you have a good Ministry and that you have a great church God's going to anoint somebody's eyes with isav that you might see somebody's going to make a fresh Covenant with their eyes this week somebody needs to declare I will set no Wicked thing before my eyes and somebody needs to have the Revelation that your promised land is an exceeding good land it may have some Giants but it's also got milk and honey it may have some inhabitants but it's got crops you didn't plant it's got houses you didn't build and it's got Wells you didn't dig you're in an exceeding good place Jesus said it like this in John chapter 4 and verse 35 he said say not that there are yet four months and then cometh the Harvest listen what he said he said behold I say unto you lift up your eyes and look and I feel like that's a word from the Lord for somebody lift up your eyes and look get your vision back see how God wants you to see dry those tears from your eyes you're too important to be colorblind you're too valuable to not see as God sees you're too beneficial to lose your vision and believe the lie of the enemy I rebuke that in the name of Jesus Christ I want to encourage somebody tonight our cities are not burnt over fields our communities are not unreachable our country is not too far gone uh your city is not too liberal I know you may be going through some stuff I may it it may not look like what you want it to right now I know your attention has been diverted I know you cried a lot of tears but I want you to wipe your tears and lift up your eyes and look one more time you are in a good place and you have been called to the kingdom for such a time as this you may have pulled in the parking lot crying but your cry has an expiration date weeping may endure for a night but joy somebody's going to get some hey I'm not going to let the Democrats the only one have some Joy somebody's going to get some Joy back in this place tonight the joy of the Lord is our strength lift up your eyes and look get your vision back we got a world to reach we've got churches to plan we've got strongholds to pull down somebody shout amen and so I'm asking God to touch our eyes let us see AR fresh the awesomeness the awesomeness of our great God let me pray like Elisha did in 2 Kings chapter 6 Elisha said Lord I pray thee open his eyes that he may see and the Lord opened the eyes of the young man and he saw and behold the mountain was full of horses and Chariots of Fire God open somebody's eyes this week I just feel in the Holy Ghost somebody's going somebody's going to get their Vision back this week don't let a storm in your past distort how you see God or how you see his church or how you see your his calling oh no wonder the Bible says great is the Lord and greatly to be praised you know what we need to do right now we need to take a 30 second break and we just need to give God some praise because of who he is some of you showed up wanting to be entertained but you're going to have to come back next week we need a move of God tonight go ahead and forget about everything you've been seeing in the news he's a great God and he's greatly to be praised just stay where you are for a second we're going to need to forget tonight about the RNC the DNC forget about the donkey forget about the elephant and we need to focus our attention back on the lamb get your eyes back on the Beauty and the blessings of God it's time to bring some clarity back to your vision it's time to see God as he really is and not through the lens of some hurt and pain and disappointment come on somebody make some noise in this house if he's been good to you you ought to make some noise when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me my soul cries out anybody got a Hallelujah in you anybody got a thank you Jesus in you anybody got you I'm glad to be sa somebody shout amen the island of patmas was the first place to which the or was the place to which the Apostle John was banished but it was also the place where he would have the revelations to write the Book of Revelation patmas is located off the Southwest coast of what would be modern day Turkey patmas was a place where people would lose their hope their sense of belonging their vision and if they stayed there long enough ultimately they could lose their life banishment to an island was a common mode of punishment if the enemy couldn't kill you then at least he could get you far enough way to silence and this is still how the enemy operates you see the Bible is true when it says that the thief cometh not before to steal to kill and to destroy but if he can't do that the next best thing is to get you off on an island by yourself I rebuke isolation in the name of Jesus I rebuke isolation in the name of Jesus this is not this is not a time to be drawing lines that divide Apostolic Oneness Apostolic Church this is a time to be coming together this is a time to be crossing over a little we do not have time for being to be isolated we don't have time to get off on an island by ourself right so the devil would love for none of us to ever step foot in church again if the devil had his way he would have preferred for none of us to to have even shown up tonight but since he couldn't stop us from being here the next thing he will try to do is to silence our praise and worship in the church right and that's why some will get a check mark by their name for attendance but will get marked absent for worship and so since he couldn't stop us from getting here and since we made the effort to spend a little money to come all this way and since brother drayen young already noticed that we got all dressed up and we've invested time and money I might as well since he couldn't stop me from getting here I might as well go ahead and make up my mind that the devil's not going to silence my praise and worship while I'm here and the problem in America tonight is we have churches that are full of people but empty of worshippers but the the Bible says God is looking for worshippers he's looking for true worshippers the Bible says that we're two or three would gather together in his name he would be in the midst one two 3 God's on that front row one two 3 God's right there one two three God a matter of fact I've looked I think God we've got a church full of people tonight God's here it looks like we got enough to have a move of God and when we begin to praise God God is sure don't you let the devil silence your praise the first thing the devil attacked when he came after job was his livestock tried to get as animals you say why is that important because the way you worship God in job's day was through animal sacrifice and the devil was saying if I can take away his ability to worship God he will curse God and die and that's the same trick the devil is trying today he's trying to take away our ability to worship God don't you let any devil silence your praise don't you let any storm silence your praise if a man had 2,000 demons in him and that did not stop him from running and wor quit letting your little excuses stop you from worshiping God we are full of people tonight but let's make sure we are full of praise and we are full of worship somebody can get a healing tonight somebody could get a breakthrough tonight somebody could get delivered tonight somebody could get their Vision back tonight God could turn the light switch back on for somebody's ministry tonight come on you're just we're just going to have to camp out here for a few minutes because God's trying to Prime the atmosphere for something Supernatural somebody needs to one more time lift up your voice and give God great Praise In This Place hallu you're too important just to sit there on an island by yourself you're too important to lose your vision you're too important just to sit back and say well it's already passed me by the devil is a liar God is able to do exceeding and abundantly above all we can ask for than the first murder in your Bible was a man killing another man a brother killing a brother over the way they worshiped and the brother Cain killed the brother Abel and the devil is still trying to kill our able and if we ever allow him to convince us that he's not able then we might as well just but I want to tell somebody today get your Vision back he's able whatever prophecy has been spoken over your life he is able whatever dream God's given you 10 years ago he is able whatever God has spoken I don't care how many people have left your church if God said he's going to do it Wave by to him and open the door for somebody else to come in because let man be a liar but let God be true and let's stand on the word of God so John so John was just trying to do the work of the Lord that's all just just matter of fact the Bible says this for the testimony of Jesus Christ and a storm began to blow through they put him on an island isn't it amazing how we can be doing the right thing and still suffer consequences that doesn't seem right fair or just as a matter of fact I'm preaching to people tonight the only thing you were guilty of was just trying to have Revival you were just guilty of trying to do what God wanted you to do and a storm begin to blow in and now you're struggling to see what God wants you to see and the storm can make your vision hazy and it can it can alter the landscape and make things foggy and not as clear as they used to be listen to our text I I John Revelation 1:9 your brother and companion in Tribulation and Kingdom of patience of Jesus Christ was in the aisle that is called patmas that word patmas just means my killing a real encouraging place for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ now think about this because this is where most of us would have backslid this is where we would have changed organizations this is where we would have gotten bitter we would have changed churches we would have posted some stuff on Facebook this is where we would have more concerns now than consecration this this if that would have happened to us our vision would have became tainted this is where we would have lost sight to see what God was really trying to do but not John listen to verse John or verse John listen to verse 10 Revelation John said I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet and when he turned to see this voice this is what else he saw and this is where it gets good Revelation 1:12 and I turned to see the voice that spake with me and being turned I saw seven golden candlesticks he could see color even in the midst of his storm he had not lost his vision let's keep reading verse 13 and in the midst of the seven candles there's one like to the son of man clothed with a garment down to the foot and Girt about the paths with a golden girdle I mean if you're going to wear a girdle if you going to squeeze in one it ought to be a a golden one don't get cheap on me with my girdles uhh don't get me a silver girdle or a bronze girdle that Devil's a liar if I'm getting in a girdle it's going to be a golden girdle Luke St Clair came and preach for us and that was blowing the place up you know and people in my church was texting me during churches like hey can we vote him in true story and he had on a nice suit with a little you know vest on and this one lady the matriarch in our church she may be watching matriarch in our church sent me a text said but Tony he's a phenomenal preacher and I said yeah and then you know when people got it all they show out and so like during his sermon he also started singing you know and then she text me back and said he can sing too and I said hey slow down we're not voting on him and she said we may I saidh would you want to vote on a man that wears his girdle on the outside of his clothes but if you're going to wear a girdle it ought to be a golden girdle let's keep reading verse 14 his head and his hairs were white like wool as white as snow his eyes were as a flame of fire verse 16 his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength even though he was on an island to die even though he was banished for no wrong even though he was was enduring the storm of his life it did not change his ability to see God as he really was listen to me it's how we respond to the storm that will determine what happens to your vision John was there to die but during the experience the lord gave him letters to write to the seven churches and after that and that's that's chapters 2 and three he begins chapter 4 by stating that there was a door open in heaven this door this open door was an entrance into the prophetic somebody shout open door open what was supposed to be a place of punishment and slavery became a place of divine revelation and encouragement on a remote island during the worst storm of his life when he have ever reason not to believe when he had every reason to close his eyes on the things of God God showed him an open door now listen ver chapter 4 verse one and I looked Behold a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which I heard was as it were a trumpet talking with me said come up hither and I will show thee things which must be Hereafter and immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne was set in heaven and one sat on the throne any one this people in here and here here's where it gets good again and he that set was to look upon like a Jasper that's a stone of various colors purple blue green brass and sardin stone that's a red color and there was a rainbow multicolored round about the throne in sight like un to an emerald that's green round about the Thrones 4 and20 seats and upon the seats I Saw 4 and20 Elders sitting clothed in a white rment and they had on their heads crowns of gold and out of the throne proceeded Lightnings and thunderings and voices and there were seven lamps of fire on this island of death he could clearly see color I want you to understand Revelation 1:10 it says that he was in the spirit and then it talks about his vision being clear and colorful and then again in Revelation 4:2 it says he was in the spirit and immediately it starts talking about his vision being clear and colorful and I want you to get this simple Revelation when we are in the spirit we see things differently than when we are in the flesh in the flesh you just see negative In the Flesh you just see an island of abuse in the flesh you see doubt in the flesh you see unbelief In the Flesh you don't know how it's going to work out in the flesh you just see cancer report after cancer report in the flesh you don't see how you could ever get enough money to build that building in the flesh you don't see how you could ever start that daughter work in the flesh you don't see how you could support those missionaries in the flesh you can't see things as God sees them in the flesh you're colorblind but you see things differently in the spirit oh God baptize us with the spirit and let us see things from your perspective tonight I don't know what I'm preaching to tonight but if you're going through some storms some tribulations you feel banished I'm begging you don't lose sight to see Jesus in the midst of your storm Jesus came walking uh on the water during a storm uh if you're in a storm start looking for Jesus you're not by yourself you're not alone uh he's an everpresent help in a time of trouble when he got in the spirit on the Lord's day don't you downplay Church don't you minimize your pastor's voice don't you be little faithfulness don't you short Change who we are don't let the devil convince you that worship isn't a big deal that prayer is not needed and that Holiness is outdated and irrelevant somebody shout the devil's a liar this is how we keep our vision this is how we keep our sanity in the storm this is how we see in color this is how we see how God wants us Peter if you want to sink start looking at everything around you but if you want to walk on the water keep your eyes on Jesus somebody if you want to be part of the supernatural keep your eyes on Jesus I'm preaching to some Saint tonight keep your eyes on Jesus I'm preaching to some Pastor keep your eyes on Jesus somebody shout amen God says I'm G to help some Pastor right now God says hey I'm going to show you an Open Door see the unique thing about a door is that a door is both an exit and an entrance it just depends on which direction you're going isn't it amazing that some people can get upset and leave the church out of the same door that Sinners are so happy to walk through some folks make up their mind they're going to leave and they say stuff like I'm tired of that church others folks comes in the same door and says I wish I'd have found this place sooner some leave saying can't believe all that church wants is my money but others come saying man this is cheaper than any club and any addiction that I've ever had in my life some leave saying it's too loud other Stadium or that Country Concert I went to they leave out of the same door others come in the same door and sometimes it happens at the same time and if we're not careful this will drive us crazy make a preacher want a drink smoke a cigarette this long that's what we do in the UPC I don't know what y'all do in the aljc but that's what we do when I used to work at headquarters we'd all take a mandatory smoke break whether we needed it or not somebody shot at the same time I don't have time to chase this but I ran across this little passage maybe this encourage somebody Ezra chapter 5 then rose up zerubabel and josua and they begin to build the house of God which was at Jerusalem and the prophets begin to help them and then verse three says at the same time at the same time showed up enemies and showed up people to distract them and said who has given you who has commanded you to build this house and make up this wall in verse two they rose up and they begin to build in verse three the Bible says the enemy showed up at the same time and started harassing and trying to intimidate and trying to convince them to stop the work at the same time you rise up at the same time you have a vision for Revival that's when the enemy shows up that's when the distractions come that's when intimidation happens that's that's when the vision the devil tries to make you think the vision is unattainable but God wanted me to give somebody a word of encouragement and remind you this is the devil's ammo he always attacks at the same time God's getting ready to reveal his power in your situation Gideon don't let the midianites push you in a cave look at the calendar son it's Harvest Time so the attack ought to be encouraging the onslaught should be a barometer that God is showing up in my situation at the same time at the same time they're leaving God's going to send you somebody else at the same time that says you're in a cold God's going to send somebody say this is exactly what I've been looking for get your eyes off of everything else going on and get your eyes back on Jesus clear your vision a little bit somebody Shout at the same time Abraham's climbing the mountain with his son Isaac but at the same time God's allowing a ram to climb up on the other side Joseph is sitting in a prison but at the same time God is stirring up his release by giving Pharaoh a dream a decree had been made that every male Hebrew boy should die but at the same time Moses is drifting down the river in a man-made Ark to be discovered by Pharaoh's daughter it's dark in all of Egypt but at the same time there's light in Goan God gives Moses the words and the plan to deliver the Israelites From Slavery and at the same time God hardens Pharaoh's heart the people are backsliding and worshiping around a golden calf but at the same time God's given Moses the law that would preserve a nation Jericho is being destroyed the walls are falling flat but at the same time Rahab and her family's being saved and Spar for a greater purpose Goliath is mocking the people of God fear is rampant but at the same time David's picking up some rocks in the valley Daniel's thrown in the Lion's Den but at the same time God is sending angels to shut their mouths the three Hebrew boys the furnace is heated up seven times hotter but at the same time God CHS up in the furnace waiting on them to get there a lady with an alabaster box comes and worships Jesus and at the same time some of his closest disciples are being critical in Acts two they are amazed and at the same time others are mocking Paul and Silas are in prison but at the same time they begin to pray and worship James is killed with the sword but at the same time the church is praying and Peter is spared the Bible says in the last days perilous times will come but it also says at the same time God's going to pour His Spirit out upon All Flesh John was put on an island to die but at the same time God said I'm going to give you revelation God begins to speak in color God begins to make it clear concise precise I hope you understand what I'm trying to say if all you can focus on is the bad the negative and the tricks of the devil you're going to lose your vision but if you can turn your eyes on Jesus and at the same time see him working in a way that you've never seen him work before God wants to give us an Open Door Revival God wants to give somebody fresh Vision again God wants us to see how he sees how long are we going to Halt between two opinions God wants to give us an Open Door there was one time that Jesus healed a man prayed for him healed him you know how Faith healers are you know they touch you with the microphone where you hurt that's so stupid I don't know why we have to make the supernatural goofy I don't know why we have to make it weird I don't know why we have to make it about us so Jesus touches a guy with his microphone and he prayed for him now look here if Jesus prays for you there is nothing wrong with Jesus's prayer and Jesus did like all Faith healers do how do you see and you know I feel like the man wanted to be like a good Saint you know like he he he wanted to kind of get throw him a little something like he knows he's not healed yet but he doesn't want to say well hey nothing's happening so it's like he just kind of pictures him this idea well I can I I I don't think I'm seeing as I'm supposed to but I'm not seeing like I used to I see men but they look like trees and Jesus prayed again there was nothing wrong with Jesus's prayer the first time and let me help some of you there there's nothing wrong with your prayers either you're not the Healer I'm not the Healer we just pray and we cannot stand in between God and his sovereignty he is going to heal who he heals he's going to deliver who he delivers and then the rest of us just going to have to deal how to work with it and he said how do you you know he said let's pray again and he said how do you see now and he said I see correctly I see men as what what are you saying preacher you may not be able to see it just yet but close your eyes and pray again let God touch you again you may have come here colorblind but something is going to touch your eyes this week you may not get everything you need tonight but I dare you to show back up in the morning and pray again I got a little bit last time but I need another touch now there there may not be a cloud on the horizon yet but climb that mountain and look again you do not have to dwell on the island of the color blind God can touch you aresh tonight and I want somebody to Pray Again worship again believe again touch God again go home and preach Revival again go home and do Outreach again this is too good of a life for all you to see is negative doubt and un I rebuke that I want to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living let's all stand I came in here and I'm in a storm I don't see any good in my storm let God touch your eyes somebody walked in feel like quitting but lift up your eyes again I shuddered to think what would have happened if John had not got in the spirit on the Lord's day would we have a book of Revelation would we know what to would we have a road map for the end time would he have ever seen that door of Escape would he have ever had that heavenly vision would he have never known that God didn't really forsake Him would he ever seen the Beauty and the revelation of God Almighty what are we missing as church leaders what are we forfeiting because of how we are viewing our certain situations some of you are seeing things in a colorblind way that God has designed to be beautiful some of you are scared to do what God's calling you to do you're scared to move you're scared to go you're scared to do what God because you're afraid it's not going to work or somebody's going to say this or this is going to H you're looking at it in the flesh tonight God wants us to get in the spirit there are too many people who say well I just can't live like that and I can't give this up and I can't let that go and I can't dress like that no you're on colorblind Island and you can't see the beauty for what it is because some family member got bitter at the church in the past and now they have passed that spiritual genetic anomaly down to you and Holiness is ugly to you and you are colorblind to the good things of God but you know what your Bible says about Holiness 1 chonicles 16: 29 says Worship the Lord in the beauty Holiness is beautiful anybody in this room still believe in Holiness separation godliness anybody still believe that Holiness is beautiful hey Holiness is still worth getting excited about this lifestyle is still beautiful and we ought to be able to get excited that we're no longer in Egypt and that we no longer look like the world and we no longer longer act like the world and we no longer talk like the world and we no longer dress like the world uh and we're no longer enslaved to this world thank God for the beauty of Holiness thank God that we've been called out of Darkness into this Marvelous Light let's not be ashamed of who we are quit letting a handful of self appoint Ed Pentecostal Elites or what I call the Kardashians of Pentecost to Define to us what Holiness is God's already defined it I'm thankful in 1 Corinthians chapter 11 that it teaches a man ought to have short cut hair and a woman is supposed to have long uncut hair that's beautiful to me I'm not going to see that in any other way except the beauty that it I'm thankful that Deuteronomy 22 and5 teaches that a man ought not to dress like a woman and a woman should not wear that which pertaineth to a man that's beautiful to me and I refuse to isolate myself on some Island and see that any other and if God didn't want us to wear the same clothes surely he didn't want us to have surgery where we can wear the same body parts don't let anything or anybody make you look at Holiness any way other than beautiful and I'll take it a step further don't let anything or anybody make you see Ministry or make you see your pastor in a colorblind way Romans chapter 14 how shall they hear without a preacher you heard brother Ericson how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel don't you dare let anyone make you view the preacher or your pastor in any way other than Something Beautiful yeah preacher you don't understand no you're just on colorblind Island you need to get your vision back this is a beautiful life eye hath not seen ear hath not heard neither has it entered into the heart of man all that God has in store for them we used to sing this song now this is for Real how beautiful Heaven Must Be sweet home of the happy and free Fair Haven of Rest for the weary how beautiful don't miss Heaven because you're stuck on the island of the color blind don't go to heaven without Vision walls of Jasper streets of gold Gates of pearl No More Death no more sickness No More Night get off a colorblind Island let's look for an open door tonight I reckon that the suffering of this present time is not worthy somebody shout Heaven you can backslide if you want to you can get bitter if you want to but my heaven I I'm going to go to heaven my family as for me in my house we made up our mind we're going to see Heaven get off the island of the colorblind let God touch your vision this week I close with this fifth grade Sunday school class was asked to go home and count the stars and the sky as part of their next Sunday school lesson they came back next week with various numbers some said they counted a 100 some said a th000 one boy said he counted a million finally the teacher asked little boy said nothing said how many how many stars did you count he said three teacher said how did you only see three stars he said I guess we have a small backyard and that's our problem when it comes to Vision some of us have a small backyard but tonight we're moving off that Island God's going to give somebody a bigger backyard I want you to slip your hands up all over this place and before we just flood the front I I want to do a couple of intentional things if you're in a storm if you're in a storm and the devil's been messing with your vision and the devil's been planning thoughts in your mind that you know should not be there and if you've been contemplating things that you didn't think you would ever contemp plate I'm begging you to swallow a little pride right now step out of that Pew where you are and I want you to come down here husband if it's you and your wife and it's been a family battle I want you to grab her by the hand and I want you to come down here nobody's going to ask you what's going on it's just a step of Faith it's a step you feel isolated you feel like you've been banished you feel like you nobody knows what you're going through it's just it's colorblind you don't have Vision like you used to have you can't see things like you used to see things God wants to touch you God wants to heal you God wants to give you a fresh Vision tonight get off of that Island come on get off of that Island if God be for us who can be against us come on young man come on young lady let God use you let God give you a vision let God give you a vision let God give you a vision in prayer it may not come through for another 5 6 10 years but see something tonight grab a hold of something tonight come on young preacher fall in love with Holiness fall in love with your pastor fall in love with Spiritual Authority see it as it really is I got to forget all of the great things you did when did I throw away faith for the impossible how did I start to believe that you w sufficient for why do I talk out of seeing mirales cuz you do mirales you are more than you are more come on let God touch your vision tonight we need you preacher come on pastor's wife we need you to have Vision get off that is get off that is let God touch you it's easy for come on I feel healing in the room right now see all that I got my I put my trust in the world lay your hands on somebody next to you and pray for them God touch their eyes that they might see lift up your eyes and look you are more you are more Jesus more the of you are God yes you are God not finished you are more than you are more than you are to all over this room lift your hands up and ask God to give you a fresh touch with all of the in the room what the it's okay to ask him to pray again just the way Pro he's going Tove he's going Tove can you imagine all the the what the do what the can do and it's going to happen just the way they through he's going to move he's going to move he going Tove you on my all the is the what the what he wants to do the do it's going to it's going to just let the way make just let the way make move he going to move he's going to it's going to anything anything anything possible anything is possible anything is possible anything Who Am I who am I to what the anything is possible anything is possible everything is who am I to what the possible anything is possible work very am I to one more one more Anything is Possible everything is possible everything is am am I to what the am I what the can do I've come a long way I've seen how you were H there's so much goodness and pra more cuz I know who am come on reach over and pray with somebody again the Holy Ghost is not through right here you have no idea what some people are going through right now Minister one to another give them Vision give him fresh Vision this week you know every storm they've been through Jesus not come walking on their water right now to yes you're not he's opening up somebody's eyes right now so you're not done with me you're not done with me over till you say it not you're not with you're not with me this story J you're with me there's so you're not done you're not done what the am I to what the can do God is able to do just what he said he would do he's going to fulfill every prise to you don't give up on God cuz he won't give up on to you cuz he's able yeah see he's able He's Able yes he is he is he is come on lift up your hands and your voice say God is is to just what he said do he's going to ful he's going to f every every Pro to you so don't you give up on God don't give up God cuz he he w't give up on you so don't give up on God give up on God cuz he won't give up give you give up on God don't give up on God he cuz he won't give up on you cuz he's a yeah said he's able He's Able yes he is you are more than you are more than help me sing it say you are you are God who to what the am I am I to the am I am I am I am I to come on let's just worship him in this place if you know that he's worthy if you know that he's still able to do exceeding abundantly above all he can ask for can you imagine it's going to just let the way make it's going to move it's going to move can you imagine with all of the faith in what the Lord can do what the Lord can it's going to happen just like the way it's going to move it's going to move going Tove see can you imagine you imagine of the Fai the F it's going to the it's going to move would you take the hand of somebody next to you and would you lift it up to heaven for just another moment to receive the word that you've heard tonight come on can we make it our prayer before we leave this place Lord Give Me Your Eyes to see come on give us as a church as a move movement as a body Lord give us your eyes to see come on could you lift that up as a cry Lord we receive your word tonight we receive your healing tonight we receive the Harvest that's coming Lord I want to see it the way you see it oh God come on pray it over your city right now come on pray it over your family right now