The Five Levels of the Will of God
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Psalm 109:6-10, 1 Timothy 1:15, Ephesians 3:7-8, 1 Corinthians 9:26-27, Matthew 10:1, Acts 1:18, 2 Timothy 3:15, Proverbs 22:6, Judges 13:12, Romans 2:16, Romans 16:25, 2 Timothy 2:8, 2 Timothy 3:10, 2 Corinthians 4:13

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this is not an ordinary worship this is not an ordinary song cuz we're not serving an ordinary God tonight and this is not an ordinary church because when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were in one place in one Accord and suddenly there came a sound from Heaven as of a rushing Mighty Wind and it filled all the not an ordinary Church filled all the house where they were sitting they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin to speak with other tongues No Ordinary Worship You may be seated tonight no ordinary worship No Ordinary God no ordinary place tonight my the presence of the Lord is here this evening man in the Bible made that statement he said surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not I'm glad we have something better than Jacob had well we will say surely the Lord is in this place tonight and we know it and we give him we give him praise tonight what a tremendous meeting we've had this week starting with the message Pastor Erikson 12 plus s equals a multitude to just now book in not so not so you know if I was going to get me a license plate pay a little extra and have some letters put on it boy that would be a good one not so what a word what a word tonight um Solomon lived off of the benefits of his giant killing father and it was meant to be that way it was meant that Solomon would live in a kingdom and enjoy the blessings of God Solomon allowed Ed the wealth to turn his heart married many strange women and sered many strange gods and the kingdom was divided you know anytime that we lose our main objective and focus it will always lead us to division and I'm glad tonight to be in an Apostolic church because that's what was birth that is what was birthed on the day of Pentecost was an Apostolic church we appreciate all the different fellowships we appreciate all the different places people belong and support but I appreciate so much when we get together and we just forget about those things and we focus in on our main objective of being the apostolic church I want to give honor tonight um obviously our my Bishop is here Bishop mul and we give him honor this evening and uh we have Bishop DJ shoulders and brother sister shoulders would you stand they're they're over an Apostolic fellowship and we're so glad to have you with us tonight I love you Bishop Alvar would you stand you are a Pentecostal icon Bishop Alvar and uh we're so honored so honored Bishop to have you here I want to thank my precious family I want to thank this awesome church staff and this unbelievable choir all these workers that have worked so hard then while you're clapping I want to thank all you people that have spent your time time and your money to come to the movement to advance the kingdom of God would you all stand with me tonight thank you thank you so thank you so very very very much tonight um I have a the last time I felt this way I got a check in my spirit today several years ago I was asked right before right before I was going to preach a few hours before at our national youth convention I was asked if I would raise an offering for our church in Russia to buy a building and um they told me the amount that they needed I think it was a I think seems to be around a quarter of a million dollars is what they needed and um I told Bishop walls or it was either Bishop walls or brother log um I told them I said well I I really got my mind on the message and if you could if you can't find anybody else then I'll I'll receive the offering for you and uh hung up the phone and immediately God smoked my heart and I called it's either Bishop log or Bishop walls and I said I I take that back don't find anybody I I'll receive the offering tonight I said I don't believe we'll I don't believe that we'll get all of it but I'll I'll do my best tonight and the Lord spoke to my heart in prayer and he said at the end of your message tonight I will work among the people I will work among the people and at the end of a message at our youth conference the Lord begin to move and I'll tell you now that we did not receive the quarter of a million dollars we needed we didn't receive the 250,000 God be to move and work and we received $327,000 that night now I tell you that because I have had that same check in my heart that at the end of this message tonight that the Lord wants to work among the servants God cares about the church we preach a lot about The Sinner and we should but I want you to know God loves his church and I felt a check in my spirit that God is going to work among the servants tonight there's some of you here that need a physical healing in your body there's some of you here that are troubled in your soul and in your spirit there needs to be a healing of headship and what I mean by that by the name of Jesus our families need to be set in order to our Satan no longer has an open door to our homes The Book of Psalms chapter 109 and verse 6 Psalms 109 and verse 6 it is written set thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand at his right hand when he shall be judged let him be condemned and let his prayer become sin let his days be few and let another take his office let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow let his children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places I'm going to share with you something the lord gave me many years ago about my life I want to preach tonight on the five levels of the will of God the five levels of the will of God if you put your Bibles down you'd be so kind maybe put your hand on your heart tonight let's ask God to speak to us right now God here is the Gathering of your servants God we have come to study we have come to sharpen our sickle we have come to tonight God to better our ability to minister God in the name of Jesus I ask that you would shine through me tonight Lord God I thank you for everything we've heard I thank you for every classroom but Lord we want you to move and send us home send us home tonight God may we work for you in Jesus name we pray amen you may be seated thank you for standing I will open tonight by being transparent with this congregation that there will be parts of this message that is painful for me personally to deliver because I don't consider myself successful in certain areas of my life it is not my intention tonight to cause pain but rather preaching is intended to correct and to bless the lives of his people our scripture text tonight tells the story of Judas isaret in the New Testament it is recorded that Judas was called of God to be an apostle it is recorded that he was not only called of God but also given a position as a treasure it is recorded that he missed the meaning behind the expensive ointment that was poured out and allowed an offense to enter his heart having an empty heart Satan would soon dwell there he goes to the wrong company and there he betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver which was the price of a slave he really sold him for what he thought of Jesus just a slave but when he sees that Jesus is condemned to die his hard heart is softened he repented himself and brought the 30 pieces of silver back to the priest wanting Jesus released and when they refused he was filled with hopelessness deep despair it's heart was filled to such the extent that he went out tied a rope around the tree and around his neck and he hung himself he was originally called to go into the Harvest field of the world and preach Judas was called to go into the Harvest field and preach but instead he would be buried in a field which forever will be a reminder or a warning to us of someone who wasn't on the inside what he professed to be on the outside God's will for Judas life was to preach life to the field of the lost and dying but instead his life preaches regrets from the field of a TB of what could have been is my opinion tonight that the Apostle Paul would be God's replacement for Judas would be God's replacement Apostle Paul one of the greatest most sold out preachers of the Gospel I personally believe the key to his spiritual success was that he never forgot or lost sight of where the Lord had brought him from he never forgot the pit from which he was drawn he never forgot the Rock from which he was Sho I believe that a lot of people lose their relationship with God because they simply forget where God has brought them from and that it would be possible to return back to where God found it us Paul just bear with me for a few moments Paul would write in the scripture 1 Timothy 1:15 this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save Sinners of whom I am chief Ephesians 3: 7 wherefore I was made a minister according to the gift of GRA of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power look at verse eight closely unto me who am less than the least of All Saints is this Grace given it doesn't sound like Paul had a real overly exalted opinion of himself I've often said if you don't have an overly exalted opinion of yourselves you won't be disappointed when you find out that others don't either would be in 1 Corinthians chapter 9: 26 that Paul would say I therefore so run not as uncertainly so fight I not as one that beateth the air but I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I have pre prach to others I myself should become a Castaway this word cast away is actually it actually would refer to as Paul says preached it actually refers to an announcer at the Olympic Games but not only an announcer but it would be one that would preach the rules it would be one that would tell what was required but it could also be a contest Paul said I don't want to ever be somebody that's told you what to do and then one day fall away from what I told you to do Paul replaces Judas Paul is continually reminding himself that he could easily fall out of a relationship with God just because I had had lightning and a voice on Damascus Road is no Eternal assurance that I'll always be right Paul knew he had to keep on guard he had to watch himself over and over again and I just picked a few verses that he would use to tell chief of Sinners less of the least to the Saints you see we never hear that from Judas we never hear Judas not one single time rehearse the day that Jesus called him we never hear him one time say I I don't know why he would choose me I don't know why he would tap me on the shoulder how about in Matthew 10:1 when he called the 12 disciples and gave them power over unclean spirits and to cast them out and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease what about it Judas that day that he came down from the mountain and you went from just being a disciple of Jesus Christ to having the title of apostle placed upon you and what about that day Judas when God robed in flesh gave you power to rebuke demons and he gave you power to heal the sick what did it feel like Judas the first time you rebuked an evil spirit and it had to obey what you said because of the power because of the power of God what did it feel like Judas when you came up on that blind man and you simply spoke the word over him Judas and the blind man was healed there there had to be something about that that power that was given to rebuke Devils that power that was given to heal the sick there had to be something that Judas felt I know that the Bible said they came back rejoicing there had to be something but brothers and sisters you'll never find Judas one time saying I'm so glad that he chose me I'm so glad that he walked by my house that day I had no idea he even knew my name I'm so glad that he would choose me I don't deserve to have the power of God pulsating through my body to where I can cast out devils and see sick people heal no no no no we we don't hear one thing about that one of the few conversations that we know of they we're setting at dinner and Mary brings a pound of ointment Mary brings a pound of oil of nard liquid Mary spirit costly Mary pours the liquid the ointment the spikenard Mary pours it on the feet of Jesus then she bends down and takes her hair she wipes the ointment off his feet with the hair of her head then the Bible said the house was filled with the odor of the ointment you know how it was filled with the odor of the ointment a true worshipper that gets in the presence of God will take the the glory of God with them as they walk about you you you see it we it would be in vain if we just came here since Tuesday night had some good choir singing and a good lecture or two and go home I I I hope that doesn't happen I hope what the glory that we have felt in here tonight we'll go to our churches and our Ministries and and it will go with us but Judas Judas all he had to say what a waste you see anytime we can't comprehend the meaning of worship we really have no place in the ministry you see my friend it is worship that we preach for it is worship that we sing for for if we can get people to worship the King of Kings and the Lord of lords lives will be changed but when Judas viewed worship as a waste as a waste there's no greater purpose under Heaven than worshiping Jesus Christ say why don't we just take a second lift up our hands and why don't we just worship him right now oh mighty God I love you God oh God I want to take the aroma of Glory home with me God I want to take God your your fragrance your presence god with me oh let's love him for just a moment let's thank him for just just a moment you see the tragedy tonight of judas's life is one thing to be lost and know you're lost it's another thing to be lost and not realize you're lost where the Last Supper when Jesus was saying I'll be betrayed by one of you somebody sitting at this table will betray me Judas asked the question is is it is it I telling me that possibly he had Justified why he was taking money out of the treasury he had learned how to justify his life and maybe he thought he was just as good as James or just as good as John or just as good as Peter when he finally woke up saw that Jesus was condemned possibly he thought Jesus would perform a miracle and slip out of the crowd and he could part ways but make a little money as he parted the ways something happened when Jesus saw Judah saw that Jesus was condemned to die he goes back begs for the release of Jesus they would not release Jesus he takes the 30 piece of silver that he coveted and he threw it at their feet he went out and he hung himself acts 1:18 now this man purchased the field with the reward of iniquity falling headlong he burst aunder in the midst of them and all of his bowels gushed out you know sin has never ended pretty the old saying is sin will take you further than you want to go cost you more than you want to spend and keep you longer than you want to stay sin sad thing is when you're finished with sin and most the time that happens we get finished with sin but I got news for you sin's not finished with you we have classes around here for men and women who are suffering with addictions in their lives and don't you ever go around say well if they you know they really just wanted to get off that they could no they can't it's not just that easy if they really wanted to get off they couldn't know they are addicted their eyes are opened up but thank God for No Ordinary church thank God for No Ordinary God thank God for No Ordinary name cuz last night at the end of the service you saw two of those men go down in the name that is above every name but the full effects of sin Judas your decision the full effects of your decision is not yet complete although you lay in the middle of the path with your insides and your body burst open the full effects are not yet complete the book of Psalms informs us that Judas was married and that Judas had children The Book of Psalms would tell us that the aftermath of his sins would be passed onto his wife did you read it with me tonight the effects of his sin would be passed on to his wife she would become a widow and that his sons would Wander from place to place to beg bread I wonder if we could enter the life of Judas and his wife who's unnamed he comes home one day and he tells her of the Galilean the Nazarene he tells her of the Man Called Jesus The Miracle Worker Emmanuel honey he tapped me on the shoulder and he said follow me I wonder if there wasn't a conversation with that unnamed wife that went something like this I'm so proud of you Judas I'm so proud that you're following the rabbi the teacher I'm so proud that you're you're going in the direction and I'm I'm so happy for you I wonder brother Anthony M if the little if his if his little boys didn't go to school and say our dad now follows the Nazarene our dad now follows the rabbi our our dad now has been chosen by God our our dad now has power to to rebuke Devils our dad y'all see my dad my dad has this power my dad is a special man I want if the unnamed Widow of Judas didn't brag to The Other Women I'm so proud of my husband I'm so proud I'm so proud of what he is doing I want you to know now Judas if you could just woke up when that pinch of greed hit you I don't know what it was Judas that made you thought you were entitled to some of that money I don't know if you got your feelings hurt I don't know if you you I know I know you weren't in the Inner Circle of Peter James and John I don't know what hurt you but Judas stay close to God because it's not worth it Judas don't allow a pinch of a fence to grow into a mountain of a wound God gave me this many years ago and I share it I try to live by it we have a lot of people they'll call oh could you tell me the will of God I'm looking for the will of God I'm searching for the will of God I want to be in the will of God will you come to the right place because I'm going to tell you that the will of God has certain levels of priority to it and the number one priority of the will of God for Kenneth Ray Carpenter and you put your name to it the number one will of God I must be shame my relationship with God has got to be healthy I can't be a faker I can't fake it till I make it I've got to have a personal daily relationship with an almighty God that's my number one part party if I lose that superintendent means nothing if I lose that pastor means nothing if I lose that conference this means absolutely nothing I must be saved would you just pray it right now I must be saved I got to be real I've got to be honest with myself I can't allow thoughts to be there I've got to have a prayer life I've got to have a soul searching I've got to be saved I got to be honest with myself how long's it been since you spok in tongues how long's it been since you really prayed no I'm not talking about church prayer I'm talking about really prayer praying talking about praying to your bottom lip Quivers I'm talking about praying until you lose words and sounds just gutter out of you God help me God help me God help me you know we're real good praying with corporate Gatherings but we need to work on our private prayer time our hearts are deceitfully wicked it may be self-righteousness that causes me to pray at the corporate prayer time but if I don't have a personal private prayer time what good is a corporate prayer time I got to have some all alone moments I got to have some me and Jesus moments I got to have some me and him moments I want I'm just going to throw this out here I'm just going to put this out here I don't even know how it's going to go right now but I wonder how many honest transparent people if I if I was very transparent with you and told you tonight that the last 6 months of my life has been a battle to keep a daily prayer life I mean I had battled I think all of us battle none of our flesh wants to pray I don't know maybe some of you maybe you need to be up here tonight but when I get up in the morning my flesh doesn't say why don't you go to prayer when when I get up of the morning my flesh doesn't say Sweet Hour of Prayer Sweet Hour of Prayer when I get up of the morning my flesh doesn't say now I want you to hurry up now don't answer that cell phone I want you to hurry up now I want you to hurry up brush your teeth Get Ready Get on Up to church have some prayer get over no no no no no my flesh doesn't do that my flesh is telling me every reason go ahead and answer that call go ahead and answer that call go ahead and take care of this go ahead and do this do that do that little chore around the house oh well it's you you can pray at noon you you know Kenny you you can pray at noon I I I know it's I know it's 8:00 right now but you can pray at noon and I okay flesh I'll pray at noon and you get to noon and you you got something else going on and you got something else going on and your flesh says well you you can pray tonight you can pray an evening prayer the evening get there and there's something else until you're so far gone in the day that you simply surrender and say I'll start tomorrow I'm just being very transparent with you tonight and I believe the greater the battle the more the victory is there Satan never battles unless he knows there's a prize on The Horizon come on the number one will of God for your life forget about a position forget about all that the number one will of God for your life you got to be saved number one will of God in my life I got to be a preacher oh the number one will of God in my life I got to have a church those are not the number one will of God in your life they're not even the second level of the will of God the second level of the will of God is our marriage must be maintained and must be healthy our marriage our marriages must be healthy we must be connected to one another we must be in a healthy relationship with each other we must share the same goals and I'm going to tell you something I feel sorry for any man that doesn't have his wife on his side and if she's not on your side do everything you can to get her on your side because there's nobody that can take the place of your spouse don't call me for a prayer covering don't call me uh you're you're the closest thing I got don't call me get your wife on your team get your wife on your side and if there's something you're doing that causes her to lose respect for you repent repent repent repent repent repent until your wife can walk in beside you and say I've Got Confidence in that man I've Got Confidence in what he says he's not one way in the pull pit and another way at the home I Got Confidence come on praise him right now receive it right now come on praise him right now we got to have holy marriages we got to have healthy marriages come on we got to have healthy marriages we got to have holy marriages we we got to we we got to have we got to have good marriages the Hebrew word for man in the Hebrew word is ish i h the Hebrew word for woman is AE pronounced a here's the difference between ish and Ashe in the Hebrew language there is one Hebrew letter in ish man that is not in Ashe woman and that is the Hebrew letter yah and the Hebrew word for Ashe woman there is one letter that is not in aish man and that is the Hebrew letter yay when you place man and woman together you have yah way can I tell you in a mixed up culture that has redefined marriage in a mixed up culture of gender identity dysfunction the devil's have after my marriage no he's not he's after your image two men cannot be the image of God and two women cannot be the image of God and one man by himself cannot be the image of God and one woman by herself cannot be the image of God you got to bring them both together and when you put them together you have yah way no wonder the devil's fighting us I don't mean to hurt anybody's theology tonight but God is neither male nor female now God came as a male of headship but God is neither male nor female God is Spirit there's sometimes God is spoken in masculine like a mountain and then femininity like a woman tender kind strong like a mountain is the man and when you you put them both together you have the full image of God hell is trying he's not after our marriage he's after our image that goes from the pull pit to the saints of God in the Pew he is after our image pastors tonight if I can humble myself and not come across is trying the Lord over you get your house in order get your marriage healthy for if your marriage isn't healthy you won't produce healthy marriages in the pull pit we have got a disease in Pentecost we have got a disease of headship it is God's will that God has a man in the pull pit a preacher a pastor a leader a spiritual guide and it is God's will that every man that is in that church would attach thems to that man and if that man says it in church it goes in the home if the man says it in the house of God it goes in the home we're crazy to believe we're crazy that to believe that all I got to do is get my family here to church we're crazy to believe that I can live my own way and hope to God my kids will fall in love with the church it'll be a miracle if they do and it'll be none to your credit sir but if you'll get in the house of God find you a Bible believing Pastor man of God a righteous man a holy man a good man a man with no blemish a man that is blameless and you'll attach Your Wagon to that man I'm going to tell you he'll take you your wife and your family to Heaven oh Lord don't send your name into headquarters for the possibility of a church if you don't have a good marriage don't be one wandering around trying to find a place to preach when you got a home that's going to hell in a hand basket before God ever called Noah Noah was a good husband and Noah was a good father that's God called him you know the Bible calls the Bible calls Noah Bible calls him the eighth person that's right the eighth person as far as I can read that and study that out I found out that when the flood came when the flood came he got his son and said come on son and daughter-in-law get on in the ark come on son and daughter-in-law get on in the ark come on son and daughter-in-law get on honey come on get on in the ark and when he got them all in the ark he say it's time for me to go in cuz what good is for me to go in if my family's still out there I'm responsible for my family I'm I'm responsible for my family second will of God P our marriage is got to be healthy we've got to keep a we got to keep a a healthy marriage we we have got to keep our marriage healthy we have got to fight the enemy wants to bog our brains and our minds down we got to stay healthy and I'm not in the flesh tonight I'll stay in love too you know you I don't always talk to Penny in that preacher tone praise the Lord honey would you like some coffee this morning praise the Lord Praise no I don't say praise the Lord praise the Lord honey would you like some coffee we need to be in love l with our wives and our husbands I still remember the first kiss we got I could I could take you to the place yeah what you Sears I think they probably tore it down over at Westtown her mama brought her there her mama didn't know we were liking each other her mama brought her there she got her mama shopping somewhere and she came met me and we held hands never forget we held hands we got to the top of the escalator at Sears at the F at the furniture department when I got off I turned and I faced her and we kissed and when we did my feet began to tingle so help me God my feet began to tingle can I tell you something your wife married a husband not a prophet your wife wife married a husband not a preacher your wife married a lover a husband oh God somebody helped me right now I'm talking about the levels to the will of God let me go on we got married and I'm bringing you the third level of the will of God it is the will of God that our children must be saved and serving in the kingdom it is not the youth pastor's job to make sure your child is living right the church is an additive it is never designed to take the place of the home this is what I want to leave movement with tonight the church is an additive it's an add-on but we cannot battle in the church what you import into your home it is not the youth pastor's job it's not even the pastor's job God help me second Timothy 3:15 come on Timothy and that from a child thou Hast known the Holy Scripture which are able to make the wise un salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus Proverbs 22:6 train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart if an Old Testament man manoah in judges 13:12 manoah said now let thy words talk about Samson let thy words come to pass he's talking to the angel how shall we order how shall we order the child how shall we order a child my children have to be saved it's left up to me that our children don't go to bed at night listening to the television waking up to the television it is the will of God that our kids go to bed tonight hearing Mom and Dad saying God keep your hand on this home God don't let my kids back God don't let my kids lose out with you I'm just going to tell you something tonight if Paul said I fear lless after preaching to others I myself might be a cast away I will tell you I fear losing my children to the world oh tell us about no no no no no no they're flesh that's why every time I preach on Holiness standard brother AR I'm right Zach am I right Nolan am I right when I preach on standards of Holiness and why we don't go here and do this and why I want you to wear that and not wear this and why I want you to do this and I want you to do that and after I after I have the teaching I'll come around to you and I'll say Nolan do you understand what dad's trying to say Nolan I don't want you to go through life agreeing with me if you've got questions I want you to ask me and not some reprobate on the internet I want you to come and ask me you won't hurt my feelings noan if you don't understand why we don't go to certain places and why we don't wear certain clothes and why we do this and we do that if you don't no one ask me I want you because I don't want my children to be lost come on dad come on Mom connect with your children come on connect with them I pray the creation prayer before I start praying for the people of this church I have what's called The Creation prayer and before I start praying for the people at this church I ask God to touch my wife I ask God to touch Fallon Chad Paris London wisdom uh Windsor wisdom that might have flowed out right there that might have been in the Holy Ghost right there wior Zach Lauren Beckham Hampton Nolan Flanery Magnolia they mean my world if Satan worshippers can say in their meetings that we when we get get a prize when we convert a Christian to the Church of Satan but they absolutely Triumph when they can bring somebody in and say this is a preacher's daughter you know why I don't care if God's plans are for this church to run three or 4 thousand what good would it be for me to step up here and wonder where my children are at and again I want to tell you something I want to tell you something I don't want to preach hurt to anybody tonight if you got a child out there I pray with you and I pray for you but if you're a parent you've got young children right now you're a young pastor and a wife you've got young children right now they don't have to go that way and if they go that way may it be over your prayers your faithfulness to the house of God your your living for God may it be over that the fourth level fourth level to the will of God and I I I taught this one time and I got Anonymous mail and I totally disagree with you the call of God on a man's life is greater than anything in his life I'm sorry I disagree with you it is not the fourth level of the will of God is my calling into the ministry fourth level of the will of God is the apostolic Doctrine repentance water baptism infilling of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues being baptized for the remission of sins hero is of the Lord our God is one in him dwelleth the fullness of the godhead bodily without Holiness no man shall see the Lord forsaking not the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is it's got to get in your fiber it's got to get in the fiber of your soul you need to bleed Apostolic Doctrine stop looking and searching for new sermons and I'm sorry tonight to call names but the TD Jes and the rest of them and we're bringing those sermons in and we're wondering why we don't have outpourings of the Holy Ghost and we don't have changed lives oh they shouted oh they ran oh that was a good thought good thoughts don't transform lives truth transforms lives and I'll join my I'll join my district superintendent Pastor Martin MC that was told well you better watch what you say about Jake he's Apostolic and I'll quote you Pastor you said well if he's Apostolic he needs to preach it don't tell me what you believe Show Me What You Preach oh Lord I hope I'm not coming across mean tonight cuz if I'm if I'm if I'm stirred up I'm stirred up at the Devil right now the fourth level to the will of God is the apostolic Doctrine the fourth level of the will of God God called you to that town to be an Apostolic preacher God called you to that town there's ever flavor there's ever flavor in that town right now and you don't know need to go and be another flavor you need to go and be the Apostolic Church in that City that's what you need to be needs to get personal to you you need to get it inside of you until it's your until it's personal listen to this listen to Paul Romans 12 Romans 2:16 listen to Paul in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men's heart the secrets of men by Jesus Christ look at these last few words according to that sounds personal it's not the gospel it's my gospel well yeah that's just one time oh no it's not Romans 16:25 now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery which was Kept Secret since the world began well that's just the book of Roman oh let's go to Second Timothy 2:8 remember that Jesus Christ of the seed of David was raised from the dead according to I wish somebody shout that second Timothy 3:10 but thou H has fully known my Doctrine manner of life purpose Faith longsuffering charity patience you see I'm glad tonight my Bishop's here everything I know about God God he taught me from the word of the lord well eyes enough years ago why is enough we he he would have I never forget he would have Bishop JT pay from padell Georgia remember that come to church and preach on the godhead I mean he just Ever every night JT pay would preach on the godhead Bishop M would preach the godhead Bishop M would preach baptism in Jesus name Bishop M would preach Holiness I start pastoring and I got a wakeup call I want a man to God he was a air traffic controller and I want him to God with a search for Truth Bible study brother heel and he began to ask me about questions about the church I said well my pastor says my pastor says my pastor my he just stopped me didn't the kind brother Stevens he didn't the kind way later became a truste at the church he didn't the con way he said well carer I'm not interested in what your pastor taught I'm interested in what you believe it's a sad day when our organizations have to tell us what we believe well most of the people are doing it as far as I know we're not in a democracy with God God just needs one man standing for what's right if everybody wants to go a different direction that's Lo up to them that ask for me in my house come on Pastor tonight come on preacher tonight and I hope I'm not coming across as a bragard but I want you to go home and I want this to be personal to you I want it to be your gospel my goel James Steven so set me on my head that day in that office that I went on a fast and I begin to fast and pray and I begin to read the scripture I begin to read it over and over again I begin to read the scripture and I fast and Fast and fast I'm not saying that tell you I'm a guru at this but I fasted so long until I found out I had ulcers in my stomach because I began to spit up blood but I fasted until it became my gospel I walk to the pull pit and I begin to tell people from the word of God why it was God's will for a woman to have uncut hair and I began to tell men with with confidence of the word of God why it was the will of God for them to cut their hair and I walk to that pull pit don't get quite on me tonight now I walked to that pull pit and I didn't do it in a hate ful way Holiness and hatefulness don't go together I I did it I did it in a I did it in a loving way I begin to tell them and you know what I begin to notice that changes started happening in the church women that had been doing this stuff and men that had been doing that stuff and they begin to talk to me brother Whitley about when you Tau this I got convicted did we were living in an apartment at that time working on the church up on the hill that we built in the middle of the night my wife woke me up in a panic our baby girl Lauren was running a fever of over 104 she was convulsing I grabbed her I panicked I grabbed her and I grabbed her and I held her and I ran out the door sister car said we got to get her to the hospital she was convulsing I reached and I got her and I ran out the door and I was in such a panic I didn't even wait for sister Carman to come I took off out the driveway listen just hear me tonight I don't believe in this spooky goofy stuff but I'm not going to get so far over there that we forget that God does still speak and evil spirits are still on the prow and the gifts of the Spirit are still in operation and the gifts of the Spirit are still in operation and there's still Miracle signs and wonders available for the church today I don't care just because some goofball has abused the gifts of the Spirit I'm not going to throw the gifts of the Spirit Away just because somebody just because somebody is abused God said this and God said that I know what happened may be seated I know what happened I that little girl and I pulled her to me I got in the car and I started driving to blun Memorial she was convulsing in my arms somewhere on Alco highway I felt the wicked Spirit enter that automobile and I heard not audible that I Heard a Voice in my mind say if you don't stop preaching Holiness I'll kill this baby I'll kill this baby in your arms if you don't quit I drove for a little while I squeezed her and I said I rebuke you by the authority of the name of Jesus Christ and if I get to the hospital this Baby's dead in my hands I will still preach Holiness the fourth level of the will of God be Apostolic be Apostolic be who we are I'm coming to an end you may be seated I'm coming to an end musicians would you make your way to the front I'm coming to an end right now could we just love God for a moment I rebuke right now that spirit I rebuke the spirit that has deceived you and you're worried about other people being offended at this and you're actually the one that's offended not other people come on right now in the name of Jesus Lauren was Lauren was convulsing in my arms I got to Blunt Memorial emergency room I jumped out of the car I just ran in and I handed her to the nurse she got 104 fever the nurse just took her from me and went back in they said sign her in over here the nurse took her I was signing her in about 30 minutes later he said come on back to this room I went back to the room and the nurse said why'd you bring this child here see she couldn't breathe she's convulsing with fever so she don't have any favor she'll have favor there sat Lauren on that hospital bed with a popsicle in her mouth smiling from ear to ear I'm here to tell you I believe that we sounded something to Satan to say I am bold enough to withstand you I am bold let me let me say this oh God I feel the Holy Ghost right now I am sick and tired of hearing the diagnosis of Jezebel I am sick and tired of hearing some of you say say and I got a woman tearing my church up she's got Jezebel she all she done I'm tired of that I want you remember this Jezebel gets trampled underfoot by horses Elija goes out of here on a horse don't you be afraid of Jezebel don't you be afraid of preaching the gospel they're not going to leave they're going to stay if you will preach stand with me right now First Apostolic marville Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ of which I I'm living the dream being the superintendent for the last 12 years to be able to pour back into something that poured into me in the empy of my Ministry I've lived the dream of being your superintendent First Apostolic marville First Apostolic severville First Apostolic Madisonville First Apostolic Cleveland sorry to tell you but you're number five you're number five doesn't mean I don't pray for you does it mean I don't love your children does it mean I'm not burdened for you but how many shipwrecks of Ministries have we seen when number five becomes number one and number four comes number two and number three number three remains three but number two that's me and you babe becomes number four and number one comes number five what good is it to have a preacher he doesn't have a relationship with God just for a moment could we pray would you put your hands on your heart you need to repent of something just go ahead it doesn't take a long time I'm sorry God youve woke me up tonight God you stirred me tonight above all else I got to be saved I got to have a healthy relationship with God I got to know him oh I got to know him I got to know know him I got to know him I got to know him just stay in your pews right now stay in your pews please I got to know him I got to know him come on Pastor was the last time that you got more concerned with how you stood before God and not how you stood in the congregation God Lord why canot we cast this devil out because of your unbelief verily I say have faith is a grain of mustard seed you shall save to this mountain remove Hint it shall be removed and nothing here we go Pastor Woodward and nothing shall be impossible unto you 2 Corinthians 4:13 we having the same Spirit of Faith as it is written I believe therefore I have spoken we also believe and therefore speak you'll find a pattern through scripture you'll find a pattern that they did not speak to get Faith they spoke because they had Faith they did not speak to get Faith they spoke because Faith was here in the heart and it came out the mouth if you're in this room tonight and I ask everybody just flow with me in the Holy Ghost for a few moments God wants to minister to the servants tonight if you're in in this room tonight you have a physical problem in your body and you believe that God can touch you I want you to make your way down to the front right now only those that have a physical need in their body right now