Heaven On the Earth | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Deuteronomy 11:18-21, Ephesians 1:16-17, Acts 16:13-14, Luke 4:3-4, Deuteronomy 8:1-3, Exodus 16:27, Luke 6:46-49, John 9:3, Revelation 20:12-15

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if you're a sports fan you know there's a difference there's a difference in the tone of the sound that is in that Stadium for that arena there is a sound from the fans when their team pulls ahead but when that buzzer hits and game over and there's a wind it's a different sound than just when we pulled ahead it's a sound of Victory and tonight I've read the back of the book we already win in God's eyes we're already on streets of gold so I don't want you to give a shout that you pulled ahead I want you to give a shout that you have the victory tonight that's what I'm talking about that's what I'm talking about tonight we win done read the back of the book we win Deuteronomy chapter 11 verse number 18 to all of our guests here tonight thank you for coming to First Apostolic Church on this beautiful Sunday evening only Jesus Christ could maintain the centuries of Praise like he has because he's God some may Gather in an open field for a few months hoping to get a politician elected but after a few months the crowd begins to wne but Jesus Christ 2,000 years or however many years you've been serving God it doesn't get old doesn't get old it doesn't get old God is good Deuteronomy 11 and verse number 18 listen to the word of the Lord God says therefore shall you lay up these my words everybody say my words in your heart and in your soul and bind them for a sign upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes and ye shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sest in thine house and when thou walst by the way and when thou liest down and when thy riseth up Thou shalt write them upon the doorpost of thine house and upon thy Gates I want you to really listen to verse 21 glue your eyes on your Bible of the screen that your days may be multiplied and everybody say and the days of your children in the land which the Lord swear unto your fathers to give them as the days of Heaven upon the Earth tonight I want to preach to you it's heaven on Earth father I love you tonight thank you Lord for your beautiful presence your wonderful spirit that we feel in this place tonight oh God you're wonderful oh God you're magnificent oh God there is none like you never has been and never will be you're the only true and living God I love you tonight and I ask you for the next few moments father to anoint your servant that I may speak your word Hearts may be open and lives may be changed in jesus' name we pray amen before you're seated I want you to shout it's heaven on Earth heaven on Earth I want you to shout it's heaven on Earth heaven on Earth I'm talking about your salvation I want you to shout it's heaven on Earth you may be seated it's heaven on Earth I've had Saints go to certain vacation spots around the world how did you like it oh Pastor it was it was Heaven it was Heaven on Earth certain restaurants how did you love it oh man it was it was it was it was Heaven it was Heaven on Earth newlyweds how y'all enjoying marriage oh what it's Heaven on Earth it's Heaven it's heaven on Earth you got to understand something with me tonight you do realize that What Makes Us Heaven on Earth what makes this Heaven on Earth is the word of God the word of God is the conduit which brings to us the good things from Heaven that's why we ought to read the word that's why why we ought to desire to have the word taught preached in our lives cuz anytime the word of God is going to be preached you better get ready get at the end of the pipeline because at the end of that pipeline is heaven on Earth God told his people they're about to go into the promised land and he said I I want you to lay up my words in your heart I I like how that's written I want you to lay up my words as if my words is something precious and it is and something valuable and it is he said I I want you I want you to lay up my words in your heart and and then he said I I want I want and I like Verse 18 if you'd follow me on the screen he said I want these words to be in your heart and I want these words to be in your soul now we must understand we we M we must understand we as Pentecostal sometimes have to defend the outward appearance to somebody that's standing there telling us God looks on your heart well the truth of the matter is that's where God starts but if it's in your heart it'll come out on the outside anything that's inside of you is going to come out on the outside for the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks if it's in your heart it's going to come out on the outside and so God said to his people he Saidi want you to lay up my words in your heart and in your soul I want it to get in your heart first oh if something ever gets in your heart oh my friend when it gets in your heart when it gets in your soul when it gets in the fiber of your being you see when God's word gets down in your heart and your soul how does that happen it only happens by Revelation because I am convinced tonight that if there was a revelation of how good God is in this County we could start service at Daybreak every morning and go all the way 247 and never run out of people to come in here if they had a revelation of how good God is if people just had a revelation of how good God is why they'd stand around this building for hours to get in to hear the good word of God preach but you see the matter is God's word only comes by Revelation it is a revelation it is a that word is is revealing it is a something that is revealed it happens to you you read ink you read words you read verses but they're all just simply a story or a verse until you receive a divine revelation of God this is a living book it's not a dead book it's a living book it's alive it has promise prises it's a living it is a living book but Revelation Revelation only comes by prayer listen to the Apostle Paul in the book of Ephesians chapter 1 and verse 16 listen to Paul speaking to the apostolic church he says he says cease not to give thanks for you said I don't cease to give thanks for you making mention of you in my prayers I'm praying for you what are you praying for us Paul what are you praying for us the Apostle Paul verse 17 that the god of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of Glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of him he says I'm praying for you that you would receive a revelation through his word about the knowledge of God I'm praying for you that the veil will be removed that you will be be able to see this is how you get something deep down in your heart and when you get a revelation you get a revelation of how good God is God begins to open up to you a brand new world when you get a revelation of how good God is people can't talk you out of it when you get a revelation of how good God is it goes with you when the choir comes down and the preacher done preaching and the lights have been turned off in this place and this property's pitched dark it's a revelation to you when you lay your head down tonight to go to sleep you know that God is a good god see Revelation only comes by prayer everybody say prayer Revelation comes by prayer and scripture say scripture prayer plus scripture equals Revelation you will never know how good God is without scripture but you'll never see how good God is without prayer if you had prayer that's why he said I want my word to be in your heart and I want my word to be in your soul because if you will pray and you will read your Bible God will give you a revelation of how good of how good that he is and you'll sing the song you don't know like I know what he's done for me you can't tell it like I can pray plus scripture equals Revelation why it happened in the 16th chapter of the book of Acts a good-hearted woman good-hearted women Acts chapter 16 verse number 13 women that love Jehovah God but they didn't have all the truth women that love God but they didn't have all the knowledge of the truth no one had preached to them no gospel preacher had preached to them but they knew there was a god and they knew they need to pray to that God and so these women in Acts chapter 16 verse 13 the Bible said on the Sabbath day we went out of the city by a Riverside where prayer was want that means accustomed to be made we sat down and spake into the women which resorted thither there was a spot that Holy Women void of Truth would meet by a river and there they would have prayer there they would seek after Jehovah God they were hungry but they didn't have a revelation but one day a man named Paul and Silas came by in verse 14 said and a certain woman named Lydia a seller of purple of the city of thara which worshiped God heard us whose heart the Lord open look at this just like I'm telling you prayer plus scripture equals Revelation they gathered there for prayer and when they gathered there for prayer God sent them a preacher and when the preacher began to preach the word they received a revelation God opened their heart but can I tell you the beautiful thing about Revelation Revelation always leads to action you can't have Revelation and be Idol if you get a revelation there will be action that will follow the Revelation I talked to two young ladies last Sunday night about right over here in the altar about baptism in Jesus name they were hungry they had been searching and they had read about baptism in Jesus name and at the end of that these young ladies said we see it we understand it that's why this morning there was action that followed Revelation and they were baptized in the name of Jesus I want you to know tonight if you've got a revelation you've got some action that's why we lift our hands that's why we clap our hands that's why we sh out for Joy why we've got a revelation of how good God is do you have a revelation tonight why don't you prove it by doing something do you have a revelation how good he is why don't you why don't you show it by doing something tonight I'm glad to have a revelation well brother Carpenter I don't know I've been attending that Apostolic Church uh I think that Apostolic church is radical yes we are radical we are radical what do you mean we're radical well what I'm trying to say is we're radical about the word of God we're absolutely radical about the word of God well what do you mean you're radical about the word of God well well how radical are we about eating Point well proven how radical are we about eating I guarantee you I'm not getting on to you but I guarantee you that there's probably already been conversations held tonight before service started where we going to go eat at church I guarantee you this sun this Sunday morning there was conversations in the lobby that went something like this where we going after church why because it had to do with eating well where you going Pastor well just hang on to me for a moment how many wants to be radical about God's word do you know the first Temptation Satan throwed at Jesus in Luke 4 and3 and the devil said unto him if thou be the Son of God command that this Stone be made bread Jesus answered him saying it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God but by every word of God how radical should we be about the word how about radical should we be about the word as radical as we are about eating we don't miss a meal do we come on now I'm preaching to you tonight you know I got you treed right now I'm preaching to you tonight we're radical about eating we're going to go to the store and heat things in a buggy and take it back home because we got to eat and if we can be radical and if Jesus said man does not live by bread alone he he put it on the same level as natural food I got to have the word I got to have the word I got to have the word can I tell you something I got some word on Sunday but I want you to know I'm not going to wait till Wednesday to get me some more word I'm going to open up my Bible in the morning and I'm going to get me I wish somebody shout it's Heaven on Earth where did the scripture come from it came from Deuteronomy 8 And1 all the Commandments which I command the this day shall You observe to do that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which the Lord swear un your fathers Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God LED thee these 40 years in the wilderness to Humble thee and to prove thee and to know what was in thine heart whether thou wouldest keep his commandment or no he humbled thee and suffered thee to hunger and fed thee with Mana which thou knewest not neither did thy fathers know that he might make known that man doth not live by bread of alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God doth Man live can I tell you it was the food test that God took them through God said I want to see if these people are going to obey my word and so I'll connect food to obedience and they had no bread and they cried out for bread and God gave them Heavenly bread called Mana it fell like snowflakes from the from the sky it fell like snow from the heaven and it laid on the ground in the morning and they called it Mana guess what the word Mana means it means what is it what is it that's what it means what is it you know why because they had never eaten it before as a matter of fact their fathers had never eaten it before and God said okay I'm going to give you bread but it's really a test you don't know it but it's really a test he said for six days every morning you're going to get up and there's going to be this what is it there's going to be this what is it laying on the ground and I want you to go out and take a certain measurement and it was a certain measurement for every man in the family it was a certain measurement for every man he said if you got four people in your home take this measurement times four and go out and gather up the Mana but you got to realize you you got to get out in the morning and get it because when the sun comes up it's going to melt and it's going to go away but for six days or for five days I want you to go out and I want you to gather this Mana now I want you to gather a certain amount for each family member and then I want you to eat it all that day I don't want you to leave any of it till the next day because if you leave any of it to the next day which would indicate you have a doubt that it's going to come again he said if you have doubt that I'm going to bless B you again tomorrow like I blessed you today and well I could stop right there and just just about prophesy to people there are people that living they're living right now knowing I know God blessed me a year ago but I just don't know if he'll bless me right now that is a Lie from the pit of Hell that that that is a lie he said now just in case you decide to get a little bit more you get greedy and you get a little bit more than what you should get and you try to keep it overnight he said you're going to wake up in the middle of the H middle of the night what in the world is that puying odor and you're going to go into the bread the Mana and you're going to open up the bread box and worms are going to be in there and a horrible odor is going to be in there so don't save any if you don't want your house to stink if you don't want your life to stink don't save any of it till the morning but then God flips it around and he says but I want to tell you that on day number six day number six I want you to go out and I want you to gather double the amount for each person I want you to times it two I want you to gather double the amount and then I want you to only eat the amount of one day but I want you to save that double day that double portion and I want you to let it set up during the night because the next day which is the Sabbath there'll be no mana on the ground and you can eat what you saved on the sixth day well wait a minute God if I save what I if I save what I gather on the sixth day to the seventh day then it's going to breed words worms and it's going to stink and God says no I will put my hand upon it and it it won't breede that corruption I'm trying to get you to see that you're going to obey my word now he said in his word he said if by chance you do not gather twice as much on the sixth day get ready for disappointment because there's no man are coming on the seventh day but the Bible says in Exodus 16:27 and it came to pass that there went out some on the Sabbath day I thank God it didn't say all and there went out some on the S some of the people on the seventh day for to gather and they read that with me and they none now look there's no neutral ground with God's word we either obey it or we don't you're either eating mana on the seventh day or you're out wandering in the field you're either satisfied or you're hungry but I'm preaching tonight to tell you it's heaven on Earth obey the word of God the way he says to do it and it'll be heaven on Earth lean not to your own understanding don't put your own understanding up against the book don't take what you feel or you've heard on some crazy unano podcast about God and say yeah I kind of see it that way it doesn't matter how you see it it matters how God says it and if God says it we are to do it because that is what we'll bring somebody shout my title heaven on Earth you're either eating satisfied or you're searching disappointed as a matter of fact in Luke chapter 6 and verse number 46 it's interesting here because I just want you to know tonight there's no place in God called neutral God only has two gears for us that's forward and reverse now about I about showed you my each Tennessee upbringing forward and backward all right we're either going forward or we're either reversing and it all can be indicated by how we adhere to the word of God listen to this people going people going in reverse can think they're going forward verse 46 Jesus said and why call ye me Lord Lord boy you emphasiz it I'm the Lord and do not the things which I say whosoever cometh to me and heareth my sayings and doeth them I will show you to whom he is like he is like a man which built an house dig deep laid the foundation on a rock and when the flood arose and the stream beat beh imminently upon that house and could not shake it for it was founded upon a rock but he that heareth and doeth not is Like a Man Without a foundation built a house upon the Earth against which the stream did beemin beat beemin and immediately fell because the and the ruin of that house was great no neutral ground in your life you're either building on his word or you're not building on his word don't confuse building with don't confuse activity with anointing you can have activity in your life but do you have what you can build your life we can get busy with everything in the world but church we can get busy we can we can go do things we can set for hours Springtime will come little league will come we'll go listen we will go set for hours to watch our grandchildren and our children knock a little ball around and run around three little bases or whatever and make it a home run I'm not preaching against it but I am preaching against it if you can you fail to come to the house of God and give God his praise and his worship you can have activity in your life but is it anointed activity is it things getting ready for the storm because I'm going to tell you the old fairy tale is right I'm going to Huff and I'm going to puff and I'm going to blow your house down oh no you're not because I am built upon the unshakable Eternal Word of the Living God let the rain come let disaster come let things come I'm not going to be shaken it's it's heaven on Earth God is no respector of persons Moses Moses hear my words Moses Take Your Rod go up to the Rock Smite The Rock watch water come out Moses takes the rod smites The Rock and water comes out sometime later the people thirsted again the people ask for water again but they ask it in a chiding way they asked it in a way they were just chiding Moses oh Moses would the God we had died in Egypt oh Moses you're a sorry sight for sore eyes oh Moses I wish we would never listen to you Moses and they bickered and they bickered I have a little I have a little bible study that I preach I preached if I'm asked to do a little Minister session at a conference and I entitled it don't let the jerks get the best of you cuz I'm going to tell you I believe in the apostolic church for every one Jezebel we have we have 10 virgin Marys I believe in the apostolic church for every one Judas prowling around the congregation we got 10 Apostle Paul's out there but if you get your mind on Jezebel and you get your mind on Judas and you get your mind on the non-w worshiper and the non-faith people all of a sudden they'll cause you to act out of character Moses taking his Rod he walking up to the rock this and that you know what you're doing Moses and you're alterior motive Moses God said Moses I want you to speak to the Rock I don't want you to Smite the rock this time I want you to speak to it Moses if I could tell you if I could reveal to you that rock is going to be used in my new testament bride I'm going to use this symbolism that I was smitten I Am The Rock and I was smitten at Calvary and when I was smitten at Calvary blood folded from my side but now now they don't have to crucify me again and again and again now they just have to come and call on my name and I will forgive them of their sin and I'll lead them in the right way but Moses Moses allowed the jerks to get the best of him and he got up there angry and he rared back with that rod and he smoked that Rod I don't question God water came out of the rock water came out of the rock water came out of the rock because the people were thirsty but God said hey Moses come over here a second what you want God hey let me tell you something Moses while the people over there were drinking while the people over there were drinking being satisfied he said let me tell you something Moses you're not going going into the promised land I'm not going to allow you to go into the land flowing milk and honey you're not Crossing Jordan you're not living in Canaan you're not going into the land because you didn't obey my word you didn't sanctify me before the people you messed up and you messed up a beautiful typology that was going to be taught in my in my bride my new testament church so you're not going to go in it's going to be a lesson let me tell you something friend we're either obeying God or we're not obeying God so well how will I know let's get our nose in the book it's a good book it's called you ever wondered why they call it the because it is a good book it's the Bible but it it is a good book Because when we obey God's word it causes us to live in heaven on this Earth I'm talking about if there's a reward of being disobedient then there's a reward of being obedient let me talk about that for a moment we find the story in John chapter n we find a man Bor born blind we find a man that his occupation now is a beggar we find him begging on the side of the road the disciples came by and they asked the Lord they said Lord who did Sin this man or his parents that he was born blind and Jesus said this man nobody sinned don't don't look to his parents or him said but this happened and I I like I like the wording in verse n or chap chapter n of John verse number three Jesus answered neither have this man sinned nor his parents but that the works of God should be made manifest in him the works of God I'm here to tell you God would like to go to work on our lives but it all hinges on our obedience to the word of God it was God's will to come by and to heal that man it's commonly believe brother Hammond that the man was born without eyeballs that his eye sockets were empty and when Jesus spit on the ground and took clay moist it with his spittle and mixed it together when he mixed spittle and the clay together and he pushed it into the empty eye sockets of this blind man he then spoke the word of God to him and he said go wash in the pool of salom you've got to do something you've got to act upon the word if disobedience is acting against the word obedience is acting toward the word I'm here to tell you that story would have been differently written by John had that blind man said I don't believe I have to do anything I don't believe I have to do one thing to receive my sight he would have died with mud balls in his eyes but because that man got up where you going I'm going to the pool of salom that's foolish you're blind why are you going to wash I'm going to the pool of salom can I tell you that there is nothing that sin that we have inherited from sin that obedience to God's creative word cannot reverse I don't care how foolish it seems I don't care how you standing you say well that's foolish to keep going to church Sunday morning Sunday night Wednesday night it's only foolish if you don't know the goodness of our God that it is church it is heaven it is heaven it is Heaven on this earth oh would you give him praise right now hallelujah hallelujah ah you can look at a good marriage you can look at a good marriage and you can say oh you all are so blessed to have a good marriage our good marriage is only because a good god of a good word told us how to treat one another we don't have a good marriage because just genetically and two good personalities met and it's not the Stars aligned it was the scriptures aligned if we've got a good marriage it's because sister Carpenter we heard a good God from a good word speaking into our lives I begin to treat you the way that God wanted me to treat you and you begin to treat me the way that God wanted you to treat us and because of that oh praise God we have heaven on Earth do you want a good marriage get your nose in the book and find out I want us to praise him for a moment I want us to praise him for a moment wait wait a minute wait a minute wait minute just hold up hold up I'm GNA tell you I'm I'm gonna tell you something God help us to fight a spirit that wants to get in this church that wants to look up here at me preaching the Eternal lifechanging powerful word of God and say listen to our cute little preacher and he cute up there he's he's saying that we obey God's word we'll have a good marriage you will you can laugh at it and you'll be out on the Sabbath day looking for a good marriage and you're so discontented or you can obey it and you can be walking around saying my God it's heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth hey let me tell you something you remember a few years ago that fellow that came out with a saying you might be a redneck if you might be disobedient if you refer to your wife as the old lady you might be I don't think you heard me I said you might be disobedient if you refer to your wife as the old lady you might be disobedient if you refer to your husband as the old man because that's terminology that came from the world it didn't come from the word of God she not an old lady she's your bride she's not an old lady she's your wife she's not an old lady she's your helpmate she's somebody that loves you more than anybody else but God she's some I guess a little little pastoring coming out in a at night little Pastor coming at in I despise seeing I despise seeing this in the mall and I despise seeing it when some of our people I despise I despise a man walking up and his wife's like a little puppy dog five or feet five or six feet behind him nothing being you won't see me in the mall that way I know my True Value my true value is not having my wife way behind me but my true value is having my wife right here by my side that's where your wife belongs your wife belongs with right here right here by your side he he's not an old man he's somebody that works and brings home the money so that you can have a roof over your head and shoes on your feet and your children can be clothed and God's house can go forward if you've got a husband that lives for god sister you ought to shout the victory with me me right now if you are sitting beside your husband tonight lady you ought to be thankful if your husband brought you to the house of God yeah we ain't going to let that cute little Spirit get in this church we going to understand I got a good marriage because I got a good God that's why I got a good marriage oh lady lady tonight lady tonight if you got a husband that brought you to church get on your feet and praise God get on your feet and worship God if you're a wife here tonight without your husband get on your feet in faith that God's going to bring him in and God's going to put him beside you a good God oh brother Carpenter you all are such good parents look at all the children that you have look at that beautiful family that you got hey don't pat me and sister Carpenter on the back it was a good God and a good word that told us how to raise our children he told us listen he said make your home a church this is the issue that we've got today we only have church a few hours a week and sometimes what I'm trying to preach here you're deprogramming them at the house don't expect your children to ever buy into this if you're not bought into it if the preacher says amen you ought to say Amen if the pastor gets up now this is some oldfashioned preaching right now you hear me this is some oldfashioned preaching right now but I still believe people ought to obey their Pastor I still believe people I still believe people ought to let the pastor feel in the gray areas where God might have left it out I Still Believe We ought to have a pastor stand up and say I don't think we ought to go here I don't think we ought to do this and if you're going to sing in this choir you're not going to do it and if you're going to oh my god oh my God I still believe in that and it's a good church it's a good way to live I wish you would have wrapped in praise tonight it is heaven on Earth it is heaven on Earth is heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth oh my God it's heaven on Earth it's Heaven on Earth come on I'm going to do some oldfashioned preaching tonight you may be seated where Carpenter at house you live in y thank God that car you drive praise the Lord them clothes you wear thank you Jesus now let me tell you how I got him good word of God came along and he said I want you to give me a dime out of every dollar that you make don't start at what you see start oh God what is it Mana brother Ben Mana amen we put that to women Souls praise God don't look at what somebody's got look at what somebody's doing because if what we got is you're not connected to what we're doing then what we've got can be taken away that's folks I don't know if I can stand it much longer I just don't know if I can take it much longer I'm talking about heaven on Earth heaven on Earth why why I wasn't like sister Carpenter I wasn't like sister Carpenter oh how I wish I'd been like her even before she knew this good Apostolic way her mother her mother taught her as a child tithe her mother taught her as a child of tithe I wouldn't like that I got in church I didn't know the tithe I'm GNA be transparent with you tonight but I got in church I didn't know the tithe I didn't know how to tithe let me take that back I I began to hear about tithing but I didn't couple it the way that I should with prayer I going to promise you if you'll take scriptures you don't understand and pray about them God will give you two things he'll open your eyes to the scripture and he'll give you power to obey them James Stevens James Stevens told me emphatically I don't believe in speaking in tongues Point Blank Bible study chart I don't believe in speaking in tongues I said brother J James I said would you just make me a promise me and sister Carpenter coming to your house every week teaching you a Bible study would you just make me a promise would you just pray this simple prayer with me Lord if there's such thing called the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues I want it I said if you'll pray that sincerely I said God I'll show you some things and a man that sat on one side of Revelation I don't believe in it got to praying over there at the McGinley Street Church Lord I'll never forget the night he come everybody remember brother stev used to wear that white suit I'll never forget the night he come to the altar it so thrilled my heart that he walked down the aisle notice I didn't say aisles we just had one he walked down the aisle sister Thorp mother Thorp he bent down in that altar in that white suit threw his hands back and I man I was I was a gun in evangelist brother Nolan man I went over there pm his head father in the name of Jesus I I went after him and I heard him say my father my father fillest thou thou servant With Thine Holy Spirit you going to take a little work right there but God showed me something that night it's not on what happens on the outside it was what was going on on the inside yeah cause when I I turned and thought I got to loosen him up before he get the Holy Ghost he got to shake his chin rattle him rock and roll him we got to do the combination seven thank you Jesus is to the left 13 Hallelujah to the right pops off and he gets it I turned around I thought we're going to have to work on Old James and I heard people start screaming and I looked around and he done fell out talking in other tongues can I tell you it is heaven on Earth I heard the heard the man of God preach on tithing there's two things I'd like to tell you tonight well I'd like to tell you a super duper testimony oh man brother M taught it one Wednesday night I've been paying tith ever since can't tell you that I'd like to tell you the night God filled me with the Holy Ghost I instantly was delivered from cigarettes can't tell you that one either but I can tell you I'm standing here tonight A tither and I'm standing here tonight nicotine free because you know what I did when I failed I got back up I didn't get a bad Spirit about it I didn't say I think I got a better Spirit than people that are not spoken I didn't I didn't go around and try to say well anybody could tie if they lived and dressed the way they did I didn't do it every time I tried and I failed I just got back up again every time I tried and I failed I just got back up again matter of fact I shared this with sister Carpenter the other day I finally figured out how to get victory over smoking and I'll give it to you tonight I figured out that smoking a cigarette a Winston cigarette took me about seven minutes to smoke and so every time I got a desire to smoke I started praying for seven minutes I was delivered almost instantly I don't know if the didn't say hey leave him alone leave him alone he going to really be a prayer Warrior just just leave him alone but God gave me the victory because I kept trying and it is heaven on Earth I told you that my daddy died 46 years of age of lung cancer I'm 64 years a of age and I'm in perfect health tonight it's heaven on Earth come on if you believe it shout to it if you believe it praise God to it musicians would you come along with our singers let me go ahead and try to help you tonight let me try to help you tonight in those early days of tithing and then skipping and tithing away week and missing a month and tithing a month and missing a week and tithing and missing and tithing and missing I'll tell you another thing that woke me up brother Holland I noticed that when I tith I had this unusual energy and auction to get up and go to work I noticed when I tith I noticed when I tith doors started opening up doors started opening up I learned how to roof Terry Garrett showed me how to roof brother Lee paid me so much for roofing so when we would quit and the summer months were beautiful when we would quit the summer months were beautiful cuzz we would quit about 5:00 but it didn't get dark about 9:00 and boy I could every more put some Roofing down between 5: and 9 that was extra money then I overheard brother Lee say one day I heard him over say one day we've got some thieves coming and robbing Building Material I'm going to pull a trailer on the building lot going pull the trailer on the building lot and uh I'd pay somebody to stay in that trailer but you can't lose with the word of God I was making a wage from 7:30 to 5: Sister Paula from 5: to 9: I was Roofing and then I'd go get something to eat and come back and go to sleep and they' pay me for sleeping it'll work for me it'll work for you I don't know if brother Perry's thinking about a story tonight so help me God they tell they tell but I was there I know they pulled up on the building lot one day one morning where the trailer was parked where I slept through the night and all the shingles were gone I think they even took a door they said you scaredy cat you knew they were out there I said I promise you I didn't know there was out there I promise you I don't know and still this day God my righteous judge I didn't know they were out there but on the other side of my heart I'm thank God I didn't know there was out there not because I would have hurt them because I would have probably hurt myself trying to get away from them that that's that's that's the truth but it's a good life God will do it for you too you can live to where in your marriage with your children in your finances in your walk with God you can live to you say man this is heaven on Earth if you get your mind on what's important in life you can say man I go to a church you ought to go to church you ought to go to fac Maryville it's it's heaven on Earth and it's only heaven on Earth because we obey God's word the only the only reason I'm blessed the way that I am and I promise you that's going in the offering the only way I'm blessed tonight my marriage my family this church is because of the good word of God don't you want to have heaven on Earth don't you want to have heaven heaven on Earth well I want you to know that there's coming a day there's coming a day that the Book of Revelation Revelation chapter 20 and verse number 12 oh I love you God I I feel the spirit of the Lord right now I feel the spirit of the Lord right now in this place let him speak to you right now sir let him speak to you right now young lady let him speak to you right now God is able to do miraculous things for you right now come on Church let's just offer up a prayer right now oh I feel the I feel the glory of the Lord right now it's heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth there's coming a day John wrote about it in Revelation chapter 20 verse number 12 John said and I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books please notice that's plural the books were opened plural and another book singular was opened which is The Book of Life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books plural according to their Works Sea gave up the dead which were in it death and Hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their Works death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire this is the the second death and whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire plural books look up here tonight John what did you see John saw this book he saw this combination of 60 six books in one cover covering several dispensations of time of which God dealt with man and God says on that final Judgment Day the books will be open and whatever dispensation small and great Caesars presidents movie stars multi-billionaires are going to stand before God and the books are going to be open they won't be judged on their ability to draw crowds into a stadium they won't be judged on how much money they gave to feed the poor they'll be judged according to the books everyone's name that was not found in the book of life was cast into the lake a fire now I want you to know tonight that's the white Throne judgment I do not plan to stand at the white Throne judgment I'm going in the Rapture I'm going to stand before the Judgment seat to where we receive the rewards of Jesus Christ but I'm not going to the white Throne the great white Throne judgment and I got good news for you you don't have to go either don't miss your opportunity Let Me Tie let me tie my Sunday morning message altar service into my Sunday night message please listen to me please please please I beg you I beg you if you don't make the Rapture you'll stand before God and you'll give an account and when you begin to say God have mercy on me God please you see on that day he's not a Merciful Savior he's a judge and it could be possible probably more than likely God could direct your attention to a stream to a Sunday night service where what you refer to as a fanatical preacher you refer to him as a just a radical preacher you you you even said things like who couldn't get up there and do a work like that he asked you to come to the altar as a matter of fact I even dealt with your heart look look at that haze around you look at that haze around you that was me trying to deal with you but you said no I didn't recognize I didn't recognize my opportunity I pray to God tonight I want you to stand with me right now I want everybody that knows the value of a soul I want everybody that knows and feels my heartbeat tonight Heaven on Earth I want you to begin to pray an intercessory prayer right there in your Pew I want you to begin to pray right now right there in your Pew I want to open this altar up oh my dear friend would you please come down that aisle tonight tonight and surrender your life to God would you please come down that aisle tonight haven't you been living in turmoil haven't you been living in what maybe you refer to as hell on Earth misery I don't look forward to a new day I promise you tonight in Jesus Christ there is life and there is life more abundantly come on right now come on right now if you're here and you don't have the baptism of the Holy Ghost if you're here tonight and you've not yet been baptized in his name the altar is open oh God In The Name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus oh God in the name of Jesus oh in the name of Jesus hear me tonight church church you're coming you're coming and I thank you for coming but please come to recommit your life back to God will you get up here around the altar push in as close as you can I want to get all the church in the altar tonight I don't want to be a church attender I don't I want to be I don't want to be somebody just comes to church I I want to know God I rededicate my life we've got some marriages in trouble there's some marriages in trouble in this church there's some marriages that are in trouble come on God's trying to help you tonight God's trying to help you tonight please sir listen to God please listen to God tonight please listen to God tonight come on crucify your flesh oh listen to God tonight sir you've not went too far there's still hope for your marriage There's Hope for your marriage there's hope for your marriage God come on come on young person come on young person let's rededicate Our Lives to God tonight let's rededicate Our Lives to God tonight Church come on we've let our prayer life slip we let our prayer life slip we've let our dedication slip come on it's time to rededicate our lives come on it's time to rededicate our lives right now you know what I'd like to hear tonight and I want to ask your musicians I may ask you to start playing in a moment but I'm going to ask all you musicians to start praying right now I want to ask all you singers to start praying right now I'm going to ask everybody up in the broadcast room just take your hands off the screen take your hands off the keyboards what good is it for you to webcast if you lose your soul come on brother ASA oh come on First Apostolic I give my life back to you God I give my life back to you right now come on push outside your flesh come on crucify your flesh with praise right now crucify yourself with worship right now push out that worship right now oh push out that worship come on come on come on I know you can leap with the choir I know you can leap with singing but can you worship right now oh can you worship right now hallelujah hallelujah come on Daddy come on Father come on Father come on Father there's no way to have a home that's heaven on Earth without a worshiping father come on Father come on that's right that's right father that's right father that's right father that's right come on Father get your hands up come on mother get your hands up get your voice lifted right now Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah go ahead back him go ahead Beck him cry out to God cry out to God the name of Jesus the name of Jesus the name of Jesus come on Father tonight come on Father tonight come on break loose in Praise come on break loose in worship I want to ask every mother tonight please in the name of the Lord if you want heaven on Earth in your marriage I Want You To Worship right now oh worship worship worship come on mother lift up your voice lift up your voice lift up your voice oh yes yes yes yes yes hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Heaven on Earth it's Heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth oh my God hallelujah hallelujah I want to ask every young person that was at NYC I want to ask every young person in this church right now I want you to lift up your voice in worship I want you to lift up your voice in Praise I want you to lift up your voice in worship Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh hallelujah hallelujah Come On Come On Heaven's coming down Heaven's coming down Heaven's coming down Heaven's coming down as the worship goes up Heaven's coming down as the worship goes up Heaven's coming down yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I feeling change in the atmosphere right now I feel a change in the atmosphere right now Heaven's coming down hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Heaven's coming down Heaven's coming down my God Heaven's coming down if you're standing close to your mate if you're standing close to your mate reach over and get them by the hand Heaven's coming down right now yes Heaven's coming down right now it's heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth being baptized in Jesus name is heaven on Earth receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost is heaven on Earth coming into the house of God is heaven on Earth come on come on come on come on come on it's heaven on Earth sir it's heaven on Earth sir it's Heaven on Earth you're going to battle hell in your home until you learn how to bring Heaven on Earth down oh my God my God it's heaven on Earth you stand standing close to your mate reach over and get them by the hand if you're standing next to one of your children reach down and get them by the hand is heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth it's heaven on Earth oh it's heaven on Earth oh in the name of Jesus come on parents would you find your children is heaven on Earth if you don't have any students if you'd find a young person to pray with in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus God come on parents we've been fighting a casual spirit in our Chapel Services let your students see just how passionate you are about the things of God just how important it is right now that they see some tears flowing from your face that this is a this is more than just another service this is more than just another day of the week this is something we take serious come on they need to see the passion flow from you they need to see the prayer come from your mouth come on let them see how important it is that we pray fervent fervent prayers God let us never take for granted the goodness Lord let us take for granted oh God oh your presence oh God come on I think we can do a little better than that on a Sunday night in an Apostolic Church could we let this place Roar with the Cry of our heart right now come on dad lead your family come on Mom lead your family come on that's it there's a shift taking place there's a shift taking place right now you can feel it in the atmosphere come come on surrender it there's nothing more beautiful than an entire family speaking in an unknown language in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Lord let there be a breakthrough in every home Lord let there be a breakthrough in every home tonight come on dad lay hands on your kids come on mom lay hands on your kids tonight this is the most important thing we'll do in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus God God In The Name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus father we love you tonight father we love you tonight father we love you tonight father we need you tonight let your glory rest Glory rest oh mighty God Mighty God open our eyes oh God God open our eyes as fathers oh Lord oh the spirit that we're battling of distraction Lord the spirit Spirit oh God that we're battling of a casual Spirit oh God lord open our eyes as parents in an age in a day where we feel like it's just enough to be in it oh God let us see the spirit at work God let us see what we're up against oh God Lord let us be passionate about the right things oh God Lord let us be passionate about the right things oh God holy God yes God yes God yes God yes God yes God yes God yes God yes God yes God come on lift up your hands one more time the Lord's not done just quite yet come on the Lord wants to break through that Spirit right now come on we're not here just to go through the motions we're here to see God demonstrate his power Lord sh change us oh God lord change us oh god oh change us oh God change us oh God change us Lord my God my God my God I want you to hold up for just a moment I don't want interrupt you pray pray but I'm going to interrupt your prayer tonight W you hold up for a moment we got one to baptize but won't you hold up for a moment because God's speaking to me I was down there praying I heard the gentle voice of God from his word I heard him say my spirit shall not always strive with man but the fact that God would strive to turn us ought to be enough for us to want to turn if God would strive and that's what's happening right now I see it all over the altar I see God trying to strive with people and and and and some are locked up some are you you know no not no not me I'm I'm not made up that way sir I'm not asking you to LEAP I'm not asking you to run I'm not asking you to turn flips or turn circles I'm just asking you to lift up your hands and pour your heart out to God but God is striving he's driving he's driving could I get an amen could I get a thank you Jesus could I get anything oh could you give God something he will not always strive the hour is late the coming of the Lord is night oh my God oh my God listen to me tonight he's striving he's striving he's striving he's driving he's saying why don't you turn why don't you let me bring Heaven down to you one more time one more time before we baptize this show right now I have preached tonight until sweat has filled my shoes I have preached tonight until I am physically exhausted but I do it because God is striving with somebody that marriage doesn't have to end you don't have to go down that slippery slope Jesus Jesus Jesus Don't Pass Me By Jesus don't give up on me Jesus don't give up on me please that's Glory you feel right now that's the glory of the Lord you feel right now you can't see it that's a CH glory of God I declare I declare peace over our marriages right now I declare victory in every man that goes to church Jesus would you give me every man here tonight to worship I declare freedom for my family I declare Freedom over marriages right now oh my God Hammond lead us a little bit more lead us a little bit more brother Hammond lead us a little bit more lead us to just a little bit more we'll baptize in a moment in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus we baptize in just a moment sister Harrison come to the piano right please I declare freedom from my family I declare freedom for my family the name of Jesus tonight I I declare freedom for my family right now Jesus we love you Jesus we love you Jesus we love you Jesus we love you Jesus we love you oh in the name Jesus the glory of the Lord is here Jesus God church family if I could have your attention for just a moment we had a slight breakthrough at our Chapel service this Friday and it's something we've been struggling with for a few months now and it's just uh I can feel this same exact thing right now and I can't help but just say what I feel like the Lord has told me to say as I look across there's a spirit that has crept into the church that just says either I'm okay or I'm too far gone and pride is the only word doesn't matter if it's a six-year-old or a 60-year old doesn't matter if I'm first generation or I'm sixth generation to come in and look smug in this presence of the almighty God is pride there's one password it's Heaven's password and he says if my people who were called by my name will humble themselves and pray seek my there's a lot of things that Happ happen in scripture but you don't get anywhere until we humble ourselves if we think for one second that we can come in and just act like that I'm okay I don't know how you could be in this in this kind of atmosphere and not just something well up inside of you that causes a tear to flow from your eye that causes something to over just to come out of your mouth that it at least just to cause you to lift up your hands and to close your eyes and just focus for just a moment that it just ought to well up inside you and say God I need you more than anything else I know there's things going on tomorrow I know there's things that happened last week but I need you God I'm humbling myself in your sight tonight and whatever you want to do with me as an individual God I set myself aside I set my pride aside I set what I've got together aside come on I'm asking every man woman boy and girl every kid's Quest through today every Trend Setter tonight would you just lift your hands one more time and would you put yourself aside and would you cry out to the King of Kings I think we could do a little bit better than that tonight I think this place ought to erupt with just the love of God that I don't know where I'd be without him God I don't know where I'd be without you come on that young people cry out come on that mom and dad be that leader that God's called you to be come on he'll hear you from Heaven he'll heal your body he'll heal our land oh he's hearing you right now come on remove that Pride away for just another moment be renewed in the Holy Ghost right now forget who's around you just lift up a praise to him from The Cry of your heart right now huall I want you to hear me for just a moment I think it's a good time some time ago I was asked by a young woman she making some decisions in her life she wanted to meet speak with me of course as my custom has always been I never meet with a woman by myself behind closed doors and the way our culture is getting I may add mail to that also but I told Brother Hammond I said sister Carman I was I think she was somewhere I couldn't get to her and I said brother Hammond I need you to come with me be in the office with me I sat there and I listened to a young woman whom I preached her family into the faith I preached her into the faith baptized her watched her get the Holy Ghost drove church vans to youth rallies Strong Tower I watched her sat there and matter of factly tell me what she was going to do it wasn't a pastor it wasn't a pastor would you help me pray it was just I've already got this set I've already put the deposit on on this I've already done this and I didn't feel good about it at all and I kept wanting to present to her you better be careful about changes you better be careful about getting uh uh by yourself you better be careful about all these things he remained silent here I was going back and forth with this young woman you really better pray about it you really better think about it you really better when he broke the silence he said I have heard you for the last 30 minutes tell your pastor what you're going to do but not one time have I heard you say how do you feel Pastor what do you think about it well I wish I could tell you the young lady turned her life and said hey forget it all but she didn't she left and she wrecked her life she wrecked her life and her life is a wreck today we're praying for her to come home but her Life's a wreck I wonder how much different times haven't changed but if Satan has his way he'll regulate the pull pit and dumb it down to the place to where you just come and socialize and you don't ever give any thought about I just wonder what our pastor think I wonder what my pastor thinks about that you wonder what I think need to come and ask me if if I don't make it clear across that pull pit if I don't make it clear across that pull pit you ought to think enough of your family to come and say hey Pastor I want to ask you about some things I do ABC what do you think about it now I know I I know that if this is still being webcast tonight the Demonic yes world of haters of Truth are going wild they're feeding all this cult cult cult see there they're going to hell I'm going to heaven we're going in two different directions tonight notice I said there was some on the Sabbath day that was looking around but not all of us we're going to heaven we're going to heaven listen to me tonight I'm going to have them sing that song I'm going to have them sing that song I declare freedom for my family but I only want the males singing right now I only want the men singing you you you ladies don't sing right now because true biblical leadership brother Namy true biblical leadership does not come from our wives it comes from our husbands if we don't watch it in the church world today and I and I I don't apologize but I do apologize but if we don't watch it in the church world today we're going to allow the female voice that was in intended to be at home to come into the church I'm not saying the female voice doesn't have a voice in the church but it's not the primary voice in the church it is God's will for the husband for the father to be the voice in the church no women singing right now only males singing sing it now I turn up turn them up turn them up only the moken I feel what I see I declare Every Chain is broken we going to be come on mes if you want that for your house iare for my de fre for my I on Earth I de now the women let's go yes yes yes come on now all the children all the children come on let's let's do it iare for my iare freed for my home I declare freedom for my I declare fre for son spoken I I thank you so much tonight thank you so much tonight thank you so much tonight for coming out to the house of God thank you for the bottom of your pastor's heart thank you for letting me preach to you tonight thank you for letting me be your pastor tonight now I want to dismiss with a good old fashion neck hugging service that's where men hug it's the only time we're segregated that's where men hug men and women hug women unless you're hugging your wife or your children or grandchildren God bless you we love you see you Wednesday