The First Man Adam | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Genesis 2:7, Genesis 2:21-23, Genesis 3:7, Psalms 139:14, Genesis 3:8, Genesis 3:6, 1 Timothy 2:13-14, Genesis 3:21, Isaiah 53:1-8, Philippians 2:7, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Acts 20:28, Revelation 1:12-17

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if you have your bibles and return with me to the book of genesis chapter 2 genesis chapter 2 and verse number 7 then we'll be reading from genesis chapter 2 verses 21 21-23 then we'll be reading from genesis chapter 3 and verse number 7. genesis 2 and 7 and the lord god formed man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul genesis 2 and 21 and the lord god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and he slept he took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh instead thereof and the rib which the lord god had taken from man made he a woman brought her into the man and adam said this is now bone of my bones flesh of my flesh and she shall be called a woman because she was taken out of man genesis 3 and verse number 7 and the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons i would like to walk us through a journey this morning in the bible class i would like to walk us on a journey which is entitled the first man adam the first man adam father i ask you this morning to anoint my lips of clay god i am here desiring to know you i am here today god because you placed a calling upon my life to preach and teach the gospel god you called me into the ministry and i'm here today to fulfill the calling to teach your word to people of light precious faith i pray today god that our hearts would be open our ears attending to the words god that we may come to a deeper more fuller understanding of you and i'll give you all the praise and all the honor almighty god in jesus name i do pray amen and amen i'm going to ask you before you seated to clap your hands in anticipation of what god is going to give you this morning go ahead go ahead and tip him right now before he even blesses you go ahead and give him a tip go ahead and put the chip down on the table right now you may be seated the first man adam stand with me for a moment not literally but in the garden of eden and watch thank you i'll clarify that and watch with me as god takes and forms from the residue of creation dust watch with me as god forms the first man adam watch with me as first he appears in the color of red dirt or clay watch with me as god forms his head his chest his arms his legs his fingers his toes his ears watch with me as god then breathes into the nostrils the man miraculously becomes a living soul watch with me as skin begins to come from the dirt and the chest begins to go in and out as he breathes watch with me as he blinks his eyes a few times and our first man adam wakes up to his creator now when adam was created i want you to know that adam did not have to go to school to be educated he was already educated when he was made in the image and the likeness of god he was made with a brilliance that has never been matched health journals and doctors say today that we actually only use about 10 of the power of our brain only 10 watch with me as adam is born or adam is created and i'm going to tell you brother white adam had the brilliance of einstein he he was created with the brilliance of einstein he was created with the creativity of michelangelo he had the music ability of beethoven he would shame bill gates and elon musk combined are you getting what i'm saying unlike the false narrative of creation that or the false narrative of evolution that man with some caveman being who started out grunting and slowly evolved into language hogwash glorified baloney when god made man he woke up with the brilliance of an einstein he woke up in the creativity of michelangelo he woke up with the ability sister erickson i adam could have walked over to the piano and played upon the first moments of creation all of the bill gates and elon musk combined would pale and compare pearson to adam but if that isn't enough he is immediately showered there with almighty god giving him dominion giving him the spirit of empowerment to rule creation and not only that god gave him something that we use off the cuff but when god blesses you you are blessed adam wakes up he flutters his eyes and he wakes up and beholds his creator no wonder the psalmist tried to explain this what adam went through in psalms 139 and 14. the psalmist thought much about what i'm talking about and the psalmist said i will praise thee for i am fearfully and wonderfully made marvelous are thy works and that my soul knoweth right well the psalmist tries to tell us what i've spent a little time he said i want you to know when god made us it was a miraculous work when god created man it was a miraculous feat that he did but what i enjoy most about going down this journey of the first man adam is adam saw god like no one has ever seen god before adam saw god in the purity of innocence adam saw god you know what do you know what adam's garment was do you know what adam's clothing was light of the shekinah glory of god was his covering light was his covering all the animals had covering animals had fur and feathers and scales man did not walk around visibly naked man had clothing of light had clothing that designated him or identified him as the highest created being of god no wonder the scripture says blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god adam saw god in a way that no human being has ever seen god but that wasn't the only time adam opened his eyes the bible says that god saw that it was not good for adam to be alone and so god put adam to sleep god caused a didn't just say god caused a sleep to fall upon adam it said that god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam and when god caused a deep sleep to fall upon adam god made an incision and god took a rib from the side of adam closed up the incision the bible says and god took a rib and with the rib god made and the word is used made a woman the word for man the word for man is formed it means pressure it means it means pressure and as this man was made with divine pressure or could i say man was made with a divine drive in him to lead man was made with a divine pressure in him to be the head of his house a divine pressure was upon the man to lead my good men of first apostolic church let's never take our divinely giving given pressure and let it lead us in another direction god gave us that pressure that drive to lead our families in the ways of god man opens his eyes for the second time and there standing before him was the most beautiful of all god's creation there standing before him was a creature that he would later call woman and immediately the man with the brilliance of einstein looks at the woman and describes her within and without he says you are bone of my bone that's inward and you are flesh of my flesh that's outward therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave there was something when god created the woman there was something about her that caused adam male to have an attraction to eve female i don't care what you're hearing today that's the original and that is absolutely god's ultimate plan oh yes there was an attraction that adam felt like none other he had never been attracted to anything like he was attracted to this creation that god had made he said a man shall cleave want to be with have a desire for her and these two shall become one flesh what a journey we're on thus far adam and eve first man and first woman our first father and our first mother there they stand in paradise of eden both are clothed with the shekinah glory of god both see god like none have ever seen do you realize they saw god before sin was able to tank the vision of man they saw god before sin was able to rob us of our image in our likeness of god as a matter of fact what a beautiful what a beautiful scene this is god did communicate with adam and eve their creator did in some form or some fashion communicate with them genesis 3 and 8 simply says and they heard the voice of the lord god walking in the garden in the cool of the day now i know this is in reference to the fall but i also believe that this is scripture telling us how god fellowshipped and how god interacted with man because let me tell you something about our god whose name is jesus he desires fellowship with us he did not create us like an inventor creates a clock and puts it on a shelf and walks away admires it every now and then he created something that he had a desire not only to be around but to also be inside of that's how much god loves us this morning that's how much god cares about us today the bible says that in the cool of the day when when they heard the voice now notice that in verse 8 again they heard the voice of the lord god walking in the garden in the cool of the day how do you hear a voice walking how do you hear a voice walking they heard a voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day now that word they're cool and the hebrew has a different meaning than what we think about we think about a temperature change but that word in the hebrew means when the evening winds begin to blow when the evening wind began to blow they heard the voice of the lord god now i personally believe that it happens something like this just like when we hear thunder we know a storm is coming i believe that adam and eve that god communicated with adam and eve through the blowing of the wind that when they begin to hear the rustling of the weed the leaves and the tops of the trees begin to blow when they begin to feel the wind begin to blow they knew that the voice of the lord would soon follow that i don't know if they had a place in the garden i don't know if they had a spot that they would go to or it was just something that the wind announced god's presence can i tell you the book of genesis starts off with by saying and the spirit of the lord moved upon the face of the deep that word in the hebrew move means to hover or it means to flutter much like an eagle or much like a bird flutters its wings in other words the spirit of god begin to trouble the waters the spirit of god begin to move and then the next thing happens and it says and god said let us make and so i have no doubt in my mind that god fellowship with adam and eve that he wanted to as much as adam desired to be with eve and as much as eve desired to be with adam god desired to be with both of them adam and eve met their needs one to another but they were incomplete without having their spiritual needs met with god god told them god told them do not eat of the tree of the garden in the day that you eat of the tree of the garden you will surely die boy death is an ugly thing isn't it you will surely die but the bible tells us that for the third time man will have his eyes open and in genesis 3 and verse 6 and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and that it was pleasant to the eyes a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did he gave also and to her husband with her and he did eat follow this now and the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons now for the third time adam's eyes are open was opened the first time to his creator it was opened the second time to his wife and now it's open the third time to the shame of his sin how did they know they were naked it's simple the light went out in their lives that shekinah glory of clothing that light much like the light that radiated from the jesus christ on mount transfiguration the light that they had been clothed in that that thing that set them apart from all other creatures when they took and they ate and they disobeyed the light went out in their lives and now they're living a life of shame they themselves look and recognize the shame animals the creation around them hides their heads because they see the shame of their nakedness they see the shame of this and immediately they go to work man goes to work on religion he goes to work on covering his shame but he can never cover his shame no matter how hard you try adam and eve you'll never cover your shame you'll never take fig leaves and cover your shame i'm going to tell you something let me take you to the book of first timothy chapter 2 verse number 13 because i'm going to tell you something about adam adam was not deceived eve was deceived eve truly felt that if she ate of the tree she would be like gods that she would have something that she was missing but not adam adam knew very well what he was doing was flat out wrong what he was doing the bible says in first timothy 2 13 for adam was first formed and then eve verse 14 adam was not deceived but the woman being deceived was in the transgression now let's face it both of them have sinned both of them have lost their light both of them are lost but one of them knows that they're lost one of them knows what i have done is wrong but i did it anyway eve is deceived and she believes she's waiting on this god enlightenment to come doesn't that pretty well cover the two categories of sinners today there's two categories of sinners there are people that sin that know they do wrong they absolutely know what they do is wrong they absolutely there's there's no and ifs or buts about it they will tell you i know i'm not living right but then there's those that are so deceived that believe that down is up and up is down and bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter and good is bad and evil is good there are people that just simply they're deceived but yet whether you know it's wrong and do it anyway or you're deceived your light is still out in your life and you're still lost the loving hand of god came down the wind began to blow adam and eve like two children run out to the field or wherever it is that god spoke to them and would commune with their god but on this day when the wind began to blow to announce the arrival of god adam and eve hid themselves they were fearful they were ashamed and they hid themselves from god but oh what a god we serve because he came looking for them he knew that they had sinned man was filled with na we're filled with shame guilt condemnation inward shame outward shame man was afraid and god began to ask the question who told you that you were naked after god pronounces the curse upon man and a curse upon woman and a curse upon the serpent the bible shows us a beautiful picture the bible shows us a beautiful a beautiful picture in genesis chapter 3 and verse number 21 and unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothe them what a beautiful picture what a beautiful picture of god saying this is going to have to do until the fullness of time it's filled with all kinds of typology but what god was saying i'm not going to leave you here in these fig leaves i'm going to give you the form the formula of how to worship an innocent animal is going to die i don't know if i don't know i think i've got as much much ground to preach that he saw it as you might have to stand and say that he didn't but adam had never witnessed the death of anything but could it be possible that god allowed adam to witness the animals that god took their lives could it be possible that god summons one of the angels with a sword to come down and slit the throats of the animals and adam and eve because now listen adam woke up to his creator and he woke up to his wife and now he wakes up to the ugliness of sin can i tell you sin has an extreme ugly side to it i don't care how they try to beautify it i don't care how they try to educate it and what name they call it it's still sin and it still renders an ugly outcome the blood flows the animals gurgle and squeal adam witnesses red blood flow on the floor he watches god create coats of skins and clothe them but can i tell you let's stop for a moment let's stop for a moment and let's look at adam let's look at adam for a moment do you know that he is the only man that would ever live that would know both sides of sin he could tell his descendants i remember when i saw the purity of god i remember i remember when i saw the purity of our creator i remember when i opened my eyes and saw eve he was there and he could say now we're living now we're living on the ugly side of sin we're living on this ugly side of sin but can i tell you i do have praise to give to adam i do have praise to give to adam some people fail and they allow their failure to be fatal they become victims they become frozen in what area of era of time that they fail and the rest of their life is defined by all their failure but not adam adam had failed that's that's written in the bible but the bible gives us ample proof that adam taught his sons his descendants how to worship how do you think cain and abel were not born in the purity side cain and abel were not born before the fall they were born after the fall they were born in sin who do you think taught cain and abel how to worship i'll tell you how who taught them how to worship adam taught them how to worship adam had to step out there and say boys there was a day that i saw the purity of god there was a day that i walked in communion with god but your mother and i failed god and were disobedient to god and now we're living on this side but god made us a promise that he would crush the head of the serpent and god showed us how that an animal had to die and blood was shed and clothing that's how we knew to wear clothing and skins and not some kind of leaves he taught cain and abel he taught cain and abel how to worship he taught them how to worship you say yeah but cain failed failed god that's exactly right you see today moms and dads stop beating yourself up because your children are not walking close to god stop allowing the devil to wear you out you raised them the best you could you did the best you could but you've got to understand you're flawed your very self you're flawed in your very self you you are flawed in your very self so don't just write him off that cain fail because i got news for you abel worshiped god right abel worshiped god right where did where do where did abel find out how to worship god right his father adam and adam lived some 900 years and do you know that adam's life lapped over a man by the name of enoch enoch adam and enoch's life if you do the if you do the timeline sister carpenter adam and enoch's life overlapped but the bible says something about enoch the bible says that enoch walked with god and was not for god took him for before god took him enoch had this testimony that he pleased god 54 years before he was translated into heaven he communed with his first father adam i submit to you who taught enoch how to please god was the first father adam i submit to you enoch was heard the word you better obey god you better obey what you know you better walk uprightly before god adam dies and 54 years later brother hammond oh enoch's just walking one day and god says you know what enoch you please me so much i'm just going to take you from the earth and enoch becomes an old testament prophecy or typology enoch becomes the old testament topology of the rapture of the church because enoch is translated into heaven because he pleases god while noah goes through the tribulation or the flood and comes out on the other side i'm telling you i want to be in the enoch group i want to please god but i've got to have somebody speaking into my life well i've come all the way to this point the three times adam got his eyes open are once again typology or once again typology adam now lives and humanity now lives in the ugly side of sin the ugly sight of sin they remember a day when i saw eve for the first time and i saw god but now i live in the ugly side of sin let's look in the old testament follow me now adam begins with the beauty of god the beauty of his wife and the ugliness of sin do you know that god has a plan right now in this dispensation to restore us back to the beauty of the church in order to restore us back to the beauty of god but we have to go about it in reverse man saw first the beauty of god then the beauty of his wife typifying the church and the ugliness of sin so now we go about it a different way the ugliness of sin you nor i will ever see the beauty of the church while fellowshipping with the ugliness of sin you will never enjoy church songs as long as you fellowship with worldly songs never if all you listen to is music of the world you'll come out here and be bored out of your gourd it won't make sense because you cannot fellowship with the ugliness of sin and come in and see the beauty of the church you have to first deal with the ugliness of your sin some folks don't want to deal with the ugliness of sin they want to go to a church that has a life coach instead of a pastor they want to go to a church where that preacher makes me feel good about myself i know i'm ugly in sin but he sure does make me feel good hey you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig you can make sinners feel good but they're still sinners some churches are nothing more than glorified you know what a good mortician is don't you they make dead people look good you go up and say man don't they look good that means they did a good job some churches just try to make dead people look good feel good feel good about themselves but you'll never come out of your dilemma you'll never see the beauty of what i'm talking about today until you're willing to embrace the ugliness of sin the ugliness of sin as a matter of fact when the second adam came when the second adam came the first adam i believe the first adam was without one blemish i believe that your mind cannot comprehend the beauty of adam and the beauty of the i don't think we have the ability to comprehend the beauty of that man and the beauty of that woman but when god said it's time now to address the ugliness of sin it's going to go something like this isaiah 53 and verse number one isaiah 53 verse number 1 who hath believed our report to whom is the arm of the lord revealed for he shall grow up before him as a tender plant as a root out of dry ground this is talking about jesus christ now he hath no form nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows acquainted with grief we hid as it were our eyes our faces from him he was despised we and we as a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief we hit let me say that again we hit as it were our faces from him he was despised we esteemed him not surely he had borne our griefs carried our sorrows yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of god and afflicted but he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed all we like sheep have gone astray we have turned everyone to his own way and the lord had laid upon him the iniquity of us all he was oppressed he was afflicted yet he opened out his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter as a sheep before his shearer is dumb so he opened not his mouth he was taken from prison and from judgment and who shall declare his generation he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgressions of my people was he stricken can i tell you that when god got ready to save the world he did not send a blemish-less adam he sent someone that you would look at the lovely lord jesus christ there was nothing handsome about him there was nothing good looking about him there was nothing about his physique that you would notice him he had no form he had no comeliness why because he came to address the ugliness of our sin let me preach to you today you can never psych yourself up enough to conquer sin you are not strong will enough to conquer the ugliness of sin you want to come out you want to live a free life but i got to tell you today you have got to embrace the lord jesus christ he came in an ugly form to address an ugly situation you'll never come out of sin without jesus christ you've got to worship him you've got to pray to him you've got to believe in him you've got to trust in him i wish somebody loved him in this house i wish somebody that has been healed would worship for the 39 ugly stripes upon his back i wish somebody would praise him this morning the ugliness the ugliness of sin calvary's ugly crucifixion was ugly the bible says in philippians 2 and 7 jesus made himself of no reputation and took on him the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men can i tell you you will not make it out of your dilemma unless you embrace jesus christ he's alive he's the living lord he's as close as a prayer and the mention of his name you don't need 12 steps you need one step toward jesus you might need listen you might get in some training courses but i wouldn't give you a plug nickel for a training course that does not elevate the name of jesus christ well i just don't know if we love him this morning because we don't want to deal with ugly but i'm going to tell you something if you want to embrace jesus christ you got to embrace the ugliness of your life he wants to come in and help you with the ugliness of your life you'll never stop destructive behavior you hear me you'll never stop destructive behavior until you invite jesus christ into your life to help you second corinthians 5 21 for he hath made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of god in him he was made to be sin now i understand that john the baptist i understand that the spirit of god spoke to john the baptist and i understand the spirit of god told john the baptist that you're going to baptize a man and when you baptize a man you're going to see the spirit of god like a dove coming down on him and when you see that that's the one that's going to baptize you with the holy ghost and fire john baptized him john saw him but john made a declaration about him john saw him coming and said behold the lamb of god which taketh away the sin of the world now stop with me and think for a moment how in the world can 99.9 of rabbis and religious leaders miss him and not know him or see him for after all it was told that a virgin was conceived for after all it was told in bethlehem it would be born how in the world can 99.9 of rabbis who study the word miss him i'm going to tell you how they missed him is they were looking for an emperor to come from rome they were looking for an educated man to step off of the steps of corinth they were looking for this sharp chin broad-shouldered charismatic leader to come in and pronounce that i am the christ but when god came with no form or no comeliness they totally missed him but john didn't miss him because john knew why he came john knew that he came to address the ugliness of sin how in the world do people not have an altar in their church because they have refused to acknowledge that what's men made wrong with sin what's wrong with man isn't the economy it isn't the political circle it isn't our education what's wrong with man my god help me this morning what is wrong with man is s i in sin that's what's wrong with man come on help me this morning come on help me this morning all hell would like to fight against this message all hell would like to fight against it come on all hell would like to fight against this right now we get our kids super analyzed and psychoanalyzed well ass don't seem to be happy i think i'm going to take them down here into the clinic think i'm going to take damn the therapist you ever thought about dad you ever mom mom dad you ever thought about asking junior if he's got sin in his life boy isn't that a brainstorm you ever thought about asking if they got some stuff on their phone they shouldn't be looking at you know porn is sin well she just seems to be depressed you ever thought about asking her hey you and that boy you're dating you all are kind of keeping your hands where they belong right surely god we haven't got away from this you take these kids well he's just not bill carpenter he's only six years old but he's not been acting right has he been lying to you has he been taking things that don't belong to him we were thought about before we haul them off to some kind of clinton get them peeled up we thought about addressing sin of their life man i got something treated right now i i don't know i'm gonna leave this part right here or mom and dad are you afraid to ask them those questions because you don't want to deal with ugly i got news for you if you don't deal with minor ugly you're going to deal with major ugly well it's just you know it it's not it's not i hear things like this and i think well i don't say it but i think where's your brain well it's not you know it's not like yeah yeah it really not a hardcore porn oh is it like uh mild strip nine uh medium streak nine come on moms and dads jesus christ will help you to address the ugliness well something's just not right in our marriage y'all ever thought about you don't need a marriage counselor to find out who's opening the car door or you know did you did you come from a divorce or did he come from or or whatever this is you ever thought y'all just need to sit down and say honey there's nothing in your life right that's the ugliness but we will never see the beauty of the altar unless we're ready to address the ugliness of sin hear me sin will take you further then you want to go keep you longer than you want to stay and cost you more than you want to spend and when you're done with sin sin is not done with you come on let's pull some weeds this morning i would rather spend a few minutes pulling some weeds than to have to dig up the whole flower bed help me this morning church come on help me this morning why do you want to pay the high price of low living you may be seated now i love you this morning i love you this morning but until we're willing to face the ugliness there is nothing there is nothing that's going to help us you hear me tell your will you get peeled up shot up you can get analyzed up you can go to college and let some reprobate professor tell you that your issue was that little pentecostal church you were brought up in but you're still in the ugliness of your sin you can paint yourself up you put yourself behind a locked gated community you can start running with the social lights but when you go to bed at night you know you're still dealing with the ugliness calvary was ugly artists are very modest there was not a loincloth around him the dear lamb of god hung completely nude naked from a cross most people that have studied the crucifixion says that his bowels would have moved and he would have urinated on himself that's the ugliness of sin but he understands i've got to face the ugliness of sin if i'm going to buy a church because now adam went from god the church to the ugliness but now jesus christ where we're at takes us from the ugliness to the church and i can't buy a church unless i'm going to face the ugliness of sin but let me face the ugliness of sin and acts 20 28 will say it this way take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the holy ghost have made you overseers to feed the church of god which he have purchased with his own blood can i tell you something friend if we can embrace the ugliness of sin we can get into the beauty of the church and we can look at the church and say you are now bone of my bone and your flesh of my flesh i desire you i crave you i gotta be with you are y'all seeing this today you don't need to attend church here you need to get in church here it needs to be bone of your bone i wish somebody helped me i know i keep saying that but i feel like i'm really hitting something this morning come on just don't attend church here get in church here let it be bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh you get up on sunday morning my god i gotta go to church i gotta get in the house of god i gotta be there come on praise him with me you will never see the beauty of the church without seeing the ugliness of sin but oh once you see the ugliness of sin you find out that everybody fits here oh you may be a little intimidated for a while you may be a little intimidated you may come in all addicted marriage broken you may come in suicidal you may come in all perverted and god baptize you with the holy ghost and you'll get to thinking like i did oh lord all these people are perfect ain't none of them been to the depths of sin like i have but they'll have a testimony service and that nice looking man in that nice suit with that nice looking wife and those pretty kids he'll stand up and he'll say i want to thank god that 20 years ago i staggered in here drunk god sobered me up filled me with the holy ghost gave me a good job found my wife we got in church real good you know what that'll cause you to do you'll look across there and say if god could do it for him god can do it by me and i'll tell you i want to tell you those of you that are battling with the ugliness of sin today for such were some of us that we've been washed we've been sanctified hey there's busted marriages all over here that jesus has got to hold up hey there's ugly situations that he made everything beautiful in his musicians would you come hallelujah thank god for the beauty of zion i said thank god for the beauty of the church thank god for the beauty of the house of god thank god for a place we can bring our troubles and our triumphs thank god there's a place that i can bring the hang-ups thank you jesus the beauty of the church the church gets a lot of criticism some people that have never dealt with the ugliness of sin in their life always want to point out the hypocrites that we have one sure way to know that you've got something hidden in your life is judgmentalism it's times when people judge everything we do they judge everything on the platform they judge everything they're always just judging judging judging you know what i want to ask them what are you hiding because evidently all you can see is a sprinkled hypocrite here there you can see the one young person that's not living for god never mind the 150 that get up here and lay on their faces brother hammond your your strong tower why didn't y'all dismiss at nine o'clock on wednesday night like the rest of us do oh pastor i tell you spirit of prayer moved in they laid on their faces all over the youth auditorium but you get something in your eye oh you you you just get one and number one i could say you get your eyes on a young person that's not doing right or you get your eyes on a young person you perceive is not doing right you know what i'm about to say right now about hypocrites i'd rather go to church with a few hypocrites than to go to hell with all of them let me see if you've been listening to me adam saw the beauty of god the beauty of eve the ugliness of sin but we do it in reverse we have to look at the ugliness of sin see the beauty of our eve the church we can't see him right now we can't see him right now but can i tell you where jesus is at this morning revelation 1 and 12. i turned to see the voices spake with me and being turned i saw seven golden candlesticks that's the churches and in the midst somebody say midst of the seven golden candlesticks somebody said that's the churches one likened to the son of man clothed with the garment down to the foot gird about the paps with a golden girdle his head and his hairs were white like wool as white as snow his eyes were as a flame of fire his feet like into fine brass as they had been burned in the furnace his voice is the sound of many waters he had in his right hand seven stars you know what the seven stars are don't you the ministers he's walking in the midst of the churches and boy some of them are pretty messed up some of them are pretty messed up they got sin in them and out of seven of them there was only one that didn't get a rebuke the six other churches got a strong rebuke as a matter of fact he told one church if they didn't repent he would remove them out of his presence but he's got seven stars in his right hand and that's the ministry out of his mouth when a sharp two-edged sword his countenance was like the sun shine up in his strength when i saw him i fell at his feet as dead he laid his right hand upon me saying fear not i am the first and the last. do you know where jesus is at this morning he's walking up and down the aisles of the church and the key word that he has repent repent repent the broken you're broken because of sin repent the troubled you're trouble because you want revenge and he says no no no no no just repent just repent because right now he's in the midst of the church but the final finality the grand reinstatement of man is now that he is in the church walking one day every eye is going to see him and he's going to bring us right back around to that original place that adam was oh i want to see him oh i want to see him would you stand with me would you stand with me this morning and would you begin to pray that if there's someone in this room right now that wants to deal with the ugliness of sin would you pray with me right now that they'll make their way to the altar right now i open this altar up right now i give you an opportunity to come and lay the ugliness down on this altar there's one that will meet you here his name is jesus his name is jesus come on church would you pray with me right now oh ma'am would you step out of your pew you're troubled oh you're so troubled oh you don't sleep well things are not going good for you you're trying as hard as you can but you've got to deal you you've got to let the lord begin to help you today you've got to let the lord begin to help you today would you slide out of your pew go ahead go ahead slide out of your pew right now and make yourself a place in this altar jesus is here jesus is here right now jesus is here right now oh they're coming all over the building they're coming right now come on would you come would you come would you please come jesus is here this morning would you come church help me pray church if you'll help me pray there'll be a climate that'll make it a whole lot easier to make it a whole lot easier for people to come if you'll help me pray right now oh thank you lord let's deal with the ugliness of sin today oh blood of jesus oh blood of jesus blood of jesus blood of jesus oh calvary come today oh god you know the hidden corners of our lives oh god you know the hidden corners of our lives lord you know the secret sins god lord you know what's hidden lord you know what no one else knows today god loves you too much to let you be lost please come this morning please come this morning please come to the altar this morning jesus waits for you at the altar jesus is here to help you jesus is waiting for you to come oh yes lord yes lord yes lord church family there's a huge gap right here in the front here come on let's fill this place up today let's fill it up today the ugliness of sin the ugliness of sin today the ugliness of sin oh the ugliness of sin oh the ugliness of sin today oh the ugliness of sin today in the name of jesus oh god in the name of jesus today god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh i tell you i feel redemption i feel redemption oh i hear the voice of the lord i feel the cool of wind blowing right now oh i feel the cool wind blowing right now he said if you confess your sins i'm faithful and just to forgive you i feel redemption in this house i feel redemption in this house pray to him this right now pray to him this morning oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yes hallelujah hallelujah i feel redemption in this house don't you feel it oh hallelujah oh the redemption go ahead praise him go ahead praise him right now he's lifting your sins he's forgiving you of your sins go and praise him right now hallelujah oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on crazy with me it's the cool of the day it's the cool of the day the winds are blowing the winds are blowing don't you feel the chains breaking don't give me all the guilt lifting come on it's redemption time yes god oh it's redemption time oh it's redemption time it's redemption time jesus please forgive me i've done some ugly things god i've done some ugly things god please forgive me oh yes god oh god i've done some ugly things god i've done some ugly things guys i've done some ugly things i feel feel redemption i feel redemption i feel redemption i feel redemption lord i've done some ugly things done some ugly things god oh god i've done some heavy things god i've done some ugly things oh what a savior i've done some ugly things yes i feel redemption in this house i feel redemption in this house i feel redemption i feel redemption hallelujah there is forgiveness there is forgiveness oh yes church i feel redemption i feel redemption in this house i feel the redemption of god here come on i feel redemption today i feel the joy of the lord today i feel the joy of forgiveness oh my god my god my i feel redemption redemption oh my god my god my god my god my god i feel redemption in this house right now i feel redemption i can't get off of this right now i can't dismiss you because i feel redemption dancing up on top of our heads today oh i feel the liberating power of god i feel the sin lifting redempting power of god beginning to pull us out of the ditch i feel the redempting power of god yes hallelujah my my my my my oh i feel the redempting power of god hallelujah hallelujah if you have to go i understand it but i gotta tell somebody that the redemptive power of god is dancing upon our heads right now just waiting for us to accept it you don't have to earn salvation you don't have to be good 10 days if you'll just begin to worship him right now there is redemptive power yeah yeah yeah yeah let me tell you it'll come true wait am i gonna change that i'm gonna change that song for a minute because here's where we don't understand here's what we don't understand why we praise god is to entice that in redemptive power to come down in our lives you hear me today you can't earn salvation well i think god is going to trust me again if i'm a monk free from this or i'm a month free from that again not true what you need is not 30 days of good behavior but you need right now to begin to worship jesus christ you don't go get any help if you don't worship him you're not going to get any help if you don't worship him worship is not just for a few emotional people it's for everybody this is how we overcome this is how we overcome this is how we overcome it's more than about soul it's inviting the redemptive power of god yeah go ahead go ahead go ahead go ahead jesus come on lord yes god my god my god my god oh this is how we come on if you want deliverance you got to worship come on if you want deliverance you got to worship you gotta worship hallelujah i can't help you if you don't worship god can't help you if you don't worship you gotta hallelujah dancing