The Value of an Older Saint | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter by Kenneth Carpenter First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN) Kind: sermon Scripture: Leviticus 19:32, Proverbs 20:29, Psalm 37:25, Psalm 71:18, Philemon 1:8-9, Titus 2:1-4, 2 Samuel 21:15-17, Revelation 1:12-17 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/kenneth-carpenter--the-value-of-an-older-saint Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ oh magnify the lord with me and let us exalt his name together would you be so kind if you're not already standing to stand with me right now and magnify the lord with me come on let's just put a cap on our praise and worship service right now it's about time to hear the word glory to god glory to god glory to god glory to god thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus all glory and honor and praise and thanksgiving be to the name that is above every name i give you praise almost high god thank you jesus thank you lord let me mention why you're turning to leviticus chapter 19 and verse number 32 let me remind you of may we pray may we pray is prayer every monday through friday in the month of may from 7 00 a.m to 8 a.m here right here in this auditorium we meet and we have prayer is a prayer preparing us for the summer any of our school children will be out of their normal routines many of the families will be traveling on vacations etc etc many things can happen and we just want to get a jump on the summer 7 a.m 8 a.m in the morning monday through friday may we pray i dedicate this message tonight to our trendsetters i dedicate this message tonight to our elders i dedicate this message tonight to elders that are here and elders that have went on to be with the lord i dedicate this message and cap off the 40th anniversary because we need to realize tonight the value of our elders leviticus chapter 19 and verse number 32 thou shalt rise up means to stand up thou shalt rise up before the horry head that means a grey-headed person thou shalt rise up before the horry head and honor the face of an old man and fear thy god i am the lord father i love you tonight god thank you for your spirit that came down and kissed us thank you god that our faith was stirred during the praise and worship god as we entertained your presence entertain your great name for all the worship is unto you lord tonight for the next few moments help me to help me to make an on impact culture help me to do this tonight in jesus name amen you may be seated proverbs chapter 20 and verse number 29 the glory of young men is their strength and the beauty of old men is the gray head thou shall stand up before the whorehead you shall honor the face of an old man for i am the lord what causes attention to a young man is his strength what causes a attention to an old man the beauty of an old man the beauty of an old man is his gray hair that's why i have never and by the grace of god staying in my right mind i will never put anything in my hair to take the gray out never do my wife will never do it we'll never put anything in our hair to take the gray out why not did you not just read the last two verses with me the bible talks about god gives us this coloration change to denote that we have something called time and experience i've already lived my youth and mighty god i never want to go back and live it again right and this tonight this kind of be some bouncing around in scripture isn't it good in scripture to know why you stand for certain things somebody once said it and i really believe it if the world fits you you're the wrong size i'm not trying to not trying to find my place in the world quite honestly could care less about what the world just thinks about the first five minutes of this sermon because i'm not trying to please the world i've got a book here called the bible and i want to do everything i can to line my life up to this book a young man mouthed off in a business meeting with these words gray hair doesn't always denote wisdom which that can be true but it does denote something he doesn't have and that's experience time time and experience teach you a lot of things if you're young tonight if you're young tonight i want you to know that there's some time and experience in some of these elders sitting around here they can tell you a few things they can testify about a few things they can tell you i went through it made it through it you can too the psalmist in psalms 37 25 said it this way he said i have been young and now i'm old yet have i not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging for bread now old age is not time to quit it's time to shine the world tells us it's time to fade off into the sunset have i told you how i feel about the world it's not time to fade although our natural complexion might be fading our faith cannot fade the psalmist once again said in psalms 71 and verse number 18. listen to what he says psalm 71 and verse number 18. he says now also when i am old and gray-headed you didn't know the bible had so much to say about gray hair did you now also when i'm old and let me say let me let me know what i'm talking about gray hair tonight there's only one time is gray hair mentioned in the bible in a negative light it simply says a gray-headed a gray a gray-headed person it's it's it's an honor only if they be found in the path of righteousness it's the only time it ever says anything negative about it in other words the bible says what's on your head needs to match your feet your walk 18 now also when i am old and grey-headed oh god forsake me not until i have shown thy strength unto this generation and thy power to everyone that is to come you know what the job is of us trendsetters tonight we got to show a generation coming up that god is still worthy to be praised that god is still worthy to be believed that god is still worthy to be magnified some of you young folks don't have arthritis in your knuckles but some of us wide hidden folks do and can i tell you i want to tell you you got to praise him tonight you got to seem worthy to be praised and i'm going to tell you so i want to preach something else to you tonight i'm just going to kind of give you a goulash message tonight because i got an appointment in the in global grounds with some pretty important folk when this is over but covet is set out to do one thing to the church it wants to take our young and take our old it's telling our old don't get out it's telling our old you don't need to get out you don't need to come back to church and it's telling our young you can stay in your pajamas and sit on the couch and watch it on the big screen at your house the devil wants our young and the devil wants our old but i believe i preach i pastor an unusual congregation that we would like to serve hell and notice tonight that you're not going to get either one of them you're not getting our young you're not getting our young you're not getting our youth group you're not getting our teenagers we're going to be on fire for god we're going to be in the prayer room we're going to be seeking the face of god and you're not getting our older people either we're going to be on the sidelines saying come on get with it let's praise him i have got to tell a generation to come about the goodness of our god it would be paul writing to philemon about a runaway servant and paul wanted philemon this young successful businessman paul wanted philemon to give mercy to him and the bible says in philemon's one and eight in verse eight and nine he says wherefore though i might be much bold in christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient now he's he's saying i could be bold i could just come in and tell you what you need to do about this runaway slave that i have converted i could just come in and say i paul need him and he's staying here with me he says i couldn't be bold and do this but verse 9 yet for love's sake i rather beseech thee and they said yet for love's sake i want to beseech thee being such as one as paul the aged and now also the prisoner of jesus christ when he was telling onesimus what he needed to do with philemon he says i want you to know you're listening to the voice of an old man to our youth group tonight hell would try to poison your mind with entertainment from this world and college textbooks that old gray-headed wrinkle-faced men don't know what they're talking about but that could not be farther from the truth tonight the reason hell wants to keep you away from a white-headed wrinkle-faced old preaching man is because he knows that old wrinkle-faced wide-headed man can tell you how to save your life can tell you how to marry the right one can tell you how to raise your family can tell you how to stay in church can tell you how to be ready for the rapture of the church you see i want to resurrect i want to resurrect and i want to empower the trendsetters tonight because your job isn't done when your hair turned gray and you didn't have the the sheen on your face that you had as a young woman i want you to know you're not ready for the junkyard i want you to know that god says to you it's time for you to graduate to a teaching class and in titus chapter 2 and verse number 1 it says but speak thou the things which become sound doctrine i didn't say doctrine that sounded good i said sound doctrine too many people are listening for a message that sounds good and not sound doctrine i'm i'm looking for sound doctrine something you can build your life on but speak now the things which make for sound doctrine that the aged men be sober grave temperate sound in faith in charity in patience he says don't get caught up don't get caught up in all the commercials you see don't get caught up in all these pills they want you to take to recapture your youth don't become an old fool the aged men need to be sober understand you got age on you but that's not a bad thing in the church of the living god that's a good thing listen to this as paul goes on that the age men be sober grave temperate sound in faith in charity in patience listen to this now that the aged women likewise that they be in behavior as becometh holiness that the older women be in behavior as it befits you as it become of holiness as an older woman not buying her clothes at forever 21 you had your 365 days at forever 21. you had your days that god help us when mama dresses like daughter and daughter dresses like like mama god help us when all of that comes about we need to understand that the strength of the apostolic church is when our old men understand they've entered into a teaching career and our old women understand that god wants them the old women likewise to that they be in behaviors become of holiness not false accusers not given to much wine teachers of good things hold on now verse 4 that they may teach the young women that they may teach the young women that they may teach the young women to be sober to love their husbands to love their children to be discreet chase keepers at home good obedient to their own husbands that the word of god be not blasphemed i know when it comes to the world they look at me like i just fell off the turnip truck somewhere going down the road but i'm here to tell you if we'll listen to this old black leatherback book tonight and gauge our teaching of the apostolic church and you you you women to get some age on you look around here be an example to a young woman be an example in praise be an example in worship the older men be an example in praise and be an example in worship let's recognize the value of these older saints let's recognize the value you're valuable trendsetter young people you got to understand if you're sitting by a wide-headed person tonight you're sitting by beside someone of value this evening you're sitting beside someone about you you're sitting beside young woman you're sitting beside some somebody they had marital issues too young man you're sitting beside a wide-headed man that got laid off too his factory somewhere shut down hey some of these wide-headed people you're wondering how you're going to raise your children they some of these white-headed people done took some of their children out to the graveyard they could tell you a few things about raising children we've got a wealth here if we can just connect them but that devil of which i hate him and i i don't mind to tell you tonight i hate the devil i hate what he's doing i hate this culture that we're living in it's a godless culture it is not a friendly chur culture to the church we must save ourselves from this untoward generation we've got to stop listening to the narratives we have got to stop watching commercials that glorify homosexuality and lesbianism we've got to stop watching this world and begin to believe that it's okay it's all right oh oh as long as they love it they don't number one they don't love each other they don't love each other it's perverted their mind is whacked up but somewhere an apostolic church has got to fight the hounds of hell and say i'm glad to be in the church hahaha just feel it i just feel it i just feel it second samuel ii samuel chapter 21 verse number 15. moreover the philistines had yet war again with israel and david went down and his servants went with him and fought against the philistines and david wax faint now nolan i want you to know something tonight david's not a young whippersnapper like you he's lived his days he's killed his lions and his tigers and his giants he's fought in battles but age has taken its toil upon david it took its toil on his strength but not his faith he took his toil upon his strength but not his faith so he goes down and he fights and verse 16 ish bob benab which was of the sons of the giant whose weight of whose spirit weighed 300 shekels of brass in weight he being girded with a new sword thought to have slain david now evidently this young culture brianna this young culture this young philistine bright educated skilled with war this young philistine boy thought he had killed david he thought that he had killed devon now stop stop the film right there it doesn't matter you're touching your little boy to bed at night telling him about david killed a giant it doesn't matter israel singing songs about about david sounds like i preached up a storm and you know what i can add this to my sermon as long as the world stays out there we're all right and as long as the storm stays out there we're all right aren't you glad we got a church in the time of a storm oh we might get to reeling and we might get to rockin but thank god we've got something in the time of the storm i stopped the film right there he thinks he is he is slain david he has not david off his balance david is laying down and who knows what he's talking to david and saying you killed goliath i'm going to be the man that brags that i killed the goliath killer what a way to go out what a way to go out it doesn't matter i killed my my lines my tigers and my giants if it only will be remembered that i died in my old age some of us whiteheaded folks tonight have some wonderful stories to tell and we need to keep telling them and keep telling them and keep telling them because we've seen god do some mighty come on how many seen god how about some of you whiteheaded folk helping me out how many of you have seen god do some mighty things i've seen god do some awesome things i have seen god do some awesome things i don't want to die like this i don't want to die like this i'm not going to die like this i'm not going to die like this and abyshia verse 17 the son of zeruah secured him and smote the philistine and killed him this this young israelite boy saw david knock down on his back and he saw the giant about to kill him and he comes in behind and he slays him pulls him off david when he pulls him off david he helps david up and then verse 17 barabichi the son of zeruah secured him and smoked the philistine and killed him then the men of david swear unto him they got david aside and they said thou shalt go no more out to battle with us thou shalt go out with us to battle no more that thou quench not the light in israel they said david you're our light david you're our testimony david when we get ready to go fight goliath when we get ready to go fight the philistines we get pumped up on somebody telling us about you killing goliath and you killing a bear and you doing all these things they said david you you're not going to go out to battle with us anymore you're not going to march with us you're not going to fight with us no we're going to keep you in a place because you are a light listen let me explo expose a lie from the pits of hell the devil tells our whiteheaded people you're not needed any longer you're no good you're absolutely you're not in good health you're spending more time at the doctors you're spending all this and even our good old insurance companies kind of frown on putting much money in you because of your age that's a crying shame that's a crying shame when an insurance company but that's your good old world that just loves everybody they kill the unborn before they get here and now they're going to determine your value by how old you are but i've come tonight to flat-footed tell you that's not how god's gonna treat you that's not how god's gonna treat you you might be feeble you may not move like you once moved but you're just as valuable to god at 77 as you were at 17. that's the way god loves you i'm not going to die like this kovit you're not going to kill me kobe you're not going to take me from the scenes while there have been some old and young that have used covet as an exit out of the church my record is not going to say that covet gave me permission to stay at home when i could go every place else that was packed and crowded but i just simply couldn't make it back down to the church that's not how my story's going to end my story and you're i'm preaching for you tonight our stories are not going to end that way tonight my story is going to end i wouldn't mind matter of fact i'll already tell you my funeral arrangements in case you want to know i have left instructions that upon my death that my funeral my viewing is not to interfere with wednesday night 7 30 sunday morning 10 o'clock or sunday night six o'clock they know do not if i die do not cancel midweek bible study well what do you want us to do get here and have church is what i want you to do because i really believe what i preach what you mean to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord get in here and have church get in here and have church i don't want to go out living in some retirement center watching church on an internet i want to go out if i can't if i can't stand in the altar very long my god propped me up at the pew and let me just sit there and say bless up jesus bless up jesus bless up jesus bless of jesus bless of jesus bless him jesus i don't want to go out that way you know i'm about to say something and it might not sit good with some of my contemporaries but i ain't ready to retire oh man just slip on out let somebody else slip on in i don't see it that way i say harness me up to somebody harness me up to chad erickson harness me up to zach hammond or harness me up to an older carpenter and i'll say come on boys let's giddy up and go let's keep this thing going let's whoa hallelujah let's keep this thing going oh my god hallelujah praise god thank you jesus i'm telling you i don't want to die like this i don't want to die like this oh go ahead brother he got some white head on whoa he got some white hair on him tonight praise god praise god praise god praise god come on praise him tonight i'll put that in the building thank you sis i don't die like this that the light we need a light we need a light now he'll get on to me for this but i'll remind him i'm his pastor brother croucher you wouldn't believe the weeping in his voice his wife's sister croucher has to be absolutely quarantined weak heart i could go into a long list of things he'll call me weekly little carpenter i never miss this much church in all my life you can almost hear the crying in his voice and i by no means tonight i certainly by no means tonight i'm trying to shine a light on an isolated situation such as that it's not a question would she survive covet it's not a question it's not a question i'm by no means i want to just back up for a moment and tell you there are genuine cases of people that for health reasons and that's why i thank my god there's another little sweet lady we one to god several years ago you know what i think it happened right now if mary crowder if mary crowder is watching right now go ahead and type in how many years you've been in the church and then when she she's watching which i i'd say she is when she types in how many years she's been in the church somebody just hollered out just just just just tell me but several years ago we were given the opportunity to sing in the mall at christmas down here at foothills mall and our choir sang that day this saturday mayor crowder had went to the mall and had left she got in her car and she left the all and for she says a strange feeling come over her that she need to go back in the mall so i guess like any normal woman she went back in the mall at this time she began to hear his music and she said i just followed the music i just followed it and said i got down there and said this choir was singing and i stood and listened to him sing and then they took a break she said i walked up to a woman and i said say man you know anything about these people up here she said i should i'm the pastor's wife where's your church at claude and mary crowder started attending first apostolic mary we baptized mary crowder she didn't get the holy ghost that night she came to a prayer meeting that we were seeking direction on on outreach she came to a prayer meeting of which we were seeking god for how to reach people and it had that low hum of a prayer man you know how prayer meetings have that i listen and all of a sudden brother dwayne i heard somebody say that's it that's it that's it that's a holy ghost that's it i turned around mary crowder had her hands lifted and somebody prayed mary crowder through to the holy ghost oh claude got baptized oh claude got baptized i think brother kyle long baptized him claude got down in the water brother perry and claude went to talking in tongues he talked in tongues for five minutes ten minutes he kept talking in tongues brother long give gave me this right here like what do you want me to do i said he baptized claude just talking in tongues he baptized oh claude he was talking in tongues when he went down when he came up so help me god he spit water out and he kept on talking in times he just kept on talking in tongues you see what we didn't know claude was an alcoholic and claude went home and poured every bit of the liquor down the drain and never touched another drop of liquor till the day he died you all need to hear that claude crowder was an alcoholic until he got baptized in jesus name and filled with the holy ghost and when he got it he never touched another drop in his life covet covet as far as our trendsetters our elders covet took two of our trendsetters out of our midst that are not here tonight brother james stevens i don't know if you got his picture you can put it on the screen brother stevens came to the church answered an ad answered an ad that we put in the newspaper for home bible studies james stevens was the pastor's adult sunday school bible teacher at friendsville first baptist church he answered that bible he answered that ad in the paper because that church did not teach them to get the baptism of the holy ghost nor the proper way to baptize i put brother stevens through a lesson of search for truth i'll never forget the night on mcginley street that he came to the altar to get the holy ghost nolan you're real good you got a gifting of praying folks too oh james stephens come to the altar that night man i preached it i mean i preached it oh james came to the altar and he knelt down and i was getting ready you know whoo hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise god praise god turn loose let go turn loose come on girl hallelujah hallelujah and i went down and i heard brother stephen say my father my father phillisthou thou servant with thy holy spirit thy father and i thought buddy i got my work cut out for me he wasn't rocking i couldn't slam he was my father my father and god taught me a lesson because god looks at the hunger in the heart not what's coming out the mouth brother uriah i laid my hands on him and prayed with him my father my father fill us out thy servant with the holy ghost i prayed with him a few moments i turned to walk away and i got back at the pulpit when i heard people start screaming james stevens was laid over in the altar he was talking in tongues as the spirit of god gave him the utterance the man faced persecution he faced persecution for coming out and embracing the apostolic message his life changed drastically because he embraced this message he was an faa controller over here at the airport he was the man he was the man that that that that uh sit there and guides the the the commercial jets in and tells them what what runway and and and all all of this he was he was fa controller he he had been on the swat team in atlanta he's very educated man and he he was faa we started building the church up on the hill and that man took early retirement so that he could devote his time to wiring that church and seeing that that church would be completed he took early retirement so that he could spend five six days a week up at the church we got into you all need to hear this tonight young people we got in the new church and we didn't have any money concrete floors brother mccool the knoxville church gave us 150 folding chairs from a closet they had and those were the chairs that we set in there was no carpet on and brother stephen said we got to have a pa system i said brother james we don't have the money to buy a pa system he came back to me a little bit later and he said brother carpenter if i would go ahead and pay my tithe up for an entire year would it be enough to buy the sound system and i said yes and he wrote a check he paid his tithe up a whole year so that the church could have a pa system can i tell you tonight we don't need to let those stories die we don't need to let those stories die out in this church young people tonight you need to know what put you on a padded pew you need to know what put you what put you and i i'm going somewhere with this you need to know paris you need to know what put you on a padded pew tonight and in a mighty country cathedral like this oh i could go on and tell you a lot more stories brother stevens got so aggravated all of us up at the church building one day he got so aggravated i guess some of us got the horse playing around and throwed something hit a wall put a dent put a dent in the wall he got so mad and he said brother carpenter there's none of you that would have been allowed to work on solomon's temple then there's brother earl caseboat his brother earl caseboat moved his family up here from florida had lived in ohio he and his wife and his family were instrumental there in the church in cincinnati brother frank kurtz church a legend he had worked went to florida helped out brother kennedy in florida decided that they were going to spend the last leg in maryville visited our church one time one time he said this is home this is home although he was up in age when he came here the majority of the concrete that was poured up on the hill for a parking lot that man right there well up in age went up there and would pour concrete anything need to be built that man right there would build it a drywall hanger a man that would get his feet hands dirty i'm gonna tell you what a man's man earl case boat was we ordered we had to do it on saturdays to get the concrete company to open without charging us money because us men were pouring the concrete we'd have to order a hundred yards ten trucks ten yards a piece we'd pour that concrete but if there's more nights i could tell you of more saturday nights i woke up with charlie horses in my leg i mean but i couldn't tell you the days that we would just be in between trucks matter of fact there's even a picture of me and chris johnson laid out on the front porch our come along and we were so tired we were laid out and the picture was taken by yours truly that comes dancing by with a trowel in his hand when y'all when y'all get your beauty rest come on and help me over here y'all come on and help me over here we need to keep stories like this alive these need to be the light these need to be the light in our church i wonder tonight i'm not done preaching but i wonder if god wouldn't be pleased if we wouldn't stand and just have a moment's silence for these two great men wasn't able to give them what wasn't able listen to me we wasn't able we was not able to give them the funeral earl caseboat and james stevens should have had funerals with this auditorium packed and it would have been they should have had the choir coming in in their regal robes but because sister jimmy had covet sister davis it was me sister carpenter i believe brother erickson and i think um parker and chad we drove to morristown and committed his body back to the ground men that deserved oh my friend if there's ever two men that deserved a going away celebration they did well i'll tell you what i don't want to have a moment of silence could we have a moment of just praise yes lord i thank you god i thank you for brother stevens god i thank you brother chasebo y'all i thank you lord for their labor of love that they give i thank you lord for the their wives god their children and grandchildren that are still here oh god i thank you lord i thank you god there's some memories we need to keep alive you may be seated there's some memories can i preach on a little bit longer there's some memories we need to keep alive some are not so serious we're building the old church up on the hill i had left to go get some refreshments some drinks for the workers brother sean ammons with some other brothers decided that they would play a little prank on pastor when he got back and they would lay down in the lobby the lobby hadn't been sheetrock yet and when i come through the lobby they were either going to holler or reach down and get a hold of me well they heard the car pull up they heard somebody get out of the car and just as brother amos was getting ready to clamp down on me he recognized it was bishop mccool that come in or what about the time the kirby has not been able to be with us due to to bad health but i'm going to tell you something when that brother kirby comes in here on that cane and that walker you better understand some things we talked about he wore his shoes out he wore his shoes out working up on the hill we were going to have them bronzed but the odor was too much brother kirby had brother kirby had a little issue of falling asleep just at random sister kirby told me that he actually had fallen asleep one time at a traffic light it it he had stopped in a traffic light and he just fell slap asleep they called us one day from apartments across the from the church and the woman said reverend i think somebody has died in your parking lot somebody has died said yes i drove over there and said there's a man the wind has rolled down he's got one foot out and said i think he is dead i drove down here as fast as i could i pulled up in the rock parking lot identified by the kenneth kirby's car and i walked up brother kirby hadn't died he was just sleeping i said get up brother kirby and neighbors think you died y'all remember brother kirby's the only man tell you a joke you tickled his own joke and you can't understand the word he says but the kirby and i were burning trash up on the hill one day and we had opened all the doors up on the church we hadn't got in it yet but the period was out back and we built a fire and had the doors open and the smoke went through the church and out the front door of which to the neighbors it appeared that the church was on fire of which they called the fire department and here came the fire department what a man brother kirby is i reasoned with him i had the lighter and the gasoline in my hand i said brother kirby it will not look good in the newspaper for me to get the ticket for this i said you need to get the ticket for you and i'll see you later and i walked off thank god they didn't give him a ticket but anyway things we need to keep alive young people we want you to know we've had fun doing this things we need to keep alive let me bring this to a close tonight in luke 2 12 jesus is a babe in matthew 2 11 jesus is a child in luke 2 42 jesus is a 12 year old in luke 2 52 jesus increases in wisdom stature favor with god and with man in mark 4 41 brother hammond they say about the babe the child the twelve-year-old never a man spake like this man are we followers of jesus i said are we followers of jesus if we're followers of jesus we don't quit from a babe to a child to a 12 year old to a man to revelation chapter 1 verse 12 and i turned to see the voice that spake with me and being turned i saw seven golden candlesticks and in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the son of man that's jesus clothed with the garment down to the foot and gerd about the paps with the golden girdle his head his head and his hairs were white like wool as white as snow his eyes were a flame of fire his feet like a defined brass as if they had been burned in a furnace his voice as the sound of many waters he had in his right hand seven stars out of his mouth when a sharp two-edged sword his countenance was like the sun shineth in his strength and when i saw him i fell as dead at his feet what i'm trying to say to you right now if we are followers of jesus christ we never stop he was a babe he was a child he was a 12 year old he was a man but he didn't cease to be that when he went into eternity he had hair sounded like some white heads tonight he had hair like wool eyes like fire feet that looked like brass he was ever growing in his divinity let's not stop but here it is here it is here is what will keep us going if i can get you if i can sell you on this tonight i would like to have i would like to have we're celebrating 40 years i would like to have i'm going to try to have tonight 40 people over the age of 60 that would wouldn't mind to come up and stand across this altar facing me 40 people and i'm going to need to count brother nolan come here and help me help dad count all right 40 people over the age of 60. would you come would you jump you're over the age of 60 would you come over the age of 60 all right just come all right over the age of 60 or the age of 60. just come on stand side by side maybe come up put your toes maybe just put your toes right at the altar tonight right right at the altar stand side by side all right probably gonna have 140 before it's over god i love you 40 yes 40 right here right right here okay all right huh mary's watching tonight in what december first december 20 years mary's been serving god here at this church sister crowder we love you sister crowder we love you we know you can't be with us we know you can't be with us tonight but we love you mary crowder would you all care over here would y'all care maybe to go as far as you can maybe even over over to the wall over to the wall those of you on the end i want to try to get a side by side if i can and i you know me i don't know where sister carter is at and i can't organize a yo-yo to come back could you all do the same over just go that way just go that way all right that's it that's it that's it that's it that's it now step on back in step on back in sister r wood sister harwood would you come over and be right here in the middle would you come over here and be hey this is our founding pastor's wife right here sister judy r wood you are beautiful you are beautiful sister our world oh thank you god thank you god now you all if you could just just move just forward just a little bit just a little bit all right all right god i'm just asking you lord keep us safe tonight in this altar just keep your hand on us god god you know i'm gathering us in i want a spiritual analogy right now i want every i'd like to have at least 40. under the age of 20. 40 under the age of 20 right now if you're under the age of 20 would you come and would you try to find somebody and line up with them start way over here by the castile keep about six feet from the person all right from from the from the person that's 60 and over keep about six feet from them okay keep about six feet from them come on spread across the front you young folks are used to congregating that's your section over there come on all the way across the front under the age of 20 under the age of 20 right now under the age of 20 spread out spread out under the age of 20. god lord jesus let there be a spiritual impartation god oh god let there be a spiritual impartation tonight god let there be a spiritual impartation right now 60 and over tonight look at me right quick lucas look at me right quick i need you if we're going to keep this thing going how many churches how many buildings tonight are 25 full that say we used to have a choir one day oh we used to have a choir i hear this all the time i hear it all the time oh brother carmen we used to have choir like yours what happened to it what happened to well it used to happen we used to have church like yours but times have changed people don't want to come to church on sunday night anymore give them something worth coming for ain't nobody wants to watch the ice truck go by but everybody wants to see the fire truck come through town oh god 60 and over would you turn right now and face the 20 and under right now would you turn right now and would you face the 29 would you stretch your hands out 20 and younger would you step into them and let them pray over you right now would you let them pray over you right now father in the name of jesus christ may there be a divine impartation right now may one generation touch another generation may the spirit of holiness that's upon our elders lord may my god have mercy oh my god have mercy my god have mercy my god have mercy go ahead go ahead trent setters go ahead i need you right now i need you right now trent setters i need you right now i need you right now i need you right now oh god i need you right now lord let there be a spiritual impartation let there be a spiritual impartation lord let there be a spiritual impartation right now may i not die until i have taught a generation to come on may i not die until i have declared your power your works to another generation god we lived in the day that speaking in tongues was made fun of we lived in a day when demonstrative worship was made fun of god this generation has come up in a time that it has been approved it has been it is something they knew god put it in the young people's hearts lord god let it gush out of the trendsetters tonight let it gush out of our tree centers tonight let old anointing come out of our trendsetters let old anointing flow out of our trendsetters tonight let old anointing that old anointing that old anointing that old anointing come on let an old anointing come out let an old anointing come out you got to understand right now brother sweeney you're getting an anointing from bishop clark right now you're getting an anointing you're getting an anointing from a man that's went on to be with the lord bishop james stark right now you're getting the anointing from his son and his wife and his daughter-in-law there's an anointing flowing upon him right now mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty god mighty god that's right sister alice pray over them right now that's right you're getting an anointed you boys right here you're getting an anointing from a bishop cartharp you're getting an anointing from a bishop kothoff right now you're getting an anointing there's there's rich anointing flowing tonight the men that poured into you as young people and now you're pouring into them there's an anointing there's an anointing there's an anointing there's an anointing there's an anointing there's an anointing sister richmond would you go over there and lay hands on caitlyn right now i want the anointing of bishop billy mccool to get on caitlyn right now i want to i want an anointing caitlyn we love you caitlin we love you we love you we love you we love you we love you hell is not going to have you we refuse to say that we refuse to allow that tonight in the name of jesus christ come on there's some old anointings flowing right now oh there's some old anointings flowing right now there's a mixture of some old anointings flowing right now oh god i want you to listen something to me i'm about to close now pay attention to me for just a moment please and i hope i say that sweetly i hope i don't have to call any of you all up tomorrow elisha asked god to give him a double portion elisha said o man of god elijah give me a double portion brother dean elisha said give me a double portion of what you've got elisha is old and dying and a young man comes to sing and a young man parker listen to this real closely elisha eli elisha asked for a double portion and he got it elisha's dying he's in bed and a young parker came to see him and the young parker said to him my father my father the horsemen of israel and the chariots thereof you're our strength you're our strength the old man of god got out of bed and said bring me a bow and bring me an arrow and the young man brought him a bow and arrow and he said open the window and the young man opened the window the old man of god put his arms around that young king he's just pointed out that direction he didn't have enough strength to pull the ball back that he put his hands on that young man's hands and he pulled the bow back and he shot he said now take the arrow and smite the ground and the bible says that young boy smoked the ground thrice tap tap tap and when he did that old prophet's blood shot up he said what did you just do you should have smitten the ground five or six times but because you smote it only three times you'll only defeat your enemy three times and they'll circle back around to get you here's what i'm gonna tell you the old man had one miracle left in him but he didn't give it to that king because that king did not show any enthusiasm well what happened to the one miracle okay i'll tell you what happened they laid elisha out in a tomb in a grave they dropped his body down sometimes later sometime later war broke out and they had to bury a soldier and they were looking for an open grave and they just found an open grave and they threw that body that dead body in the elisha's grave and when that dead soldier his body touched the bones of elisha he resurrected but don't shout to that because that's not what the last miracle is meant for the last miracle was meant for you if you all dare think if you dare think that brother kenny carpenter has built the biggest that's exactly what he'll want you to think but god wants me to tell you there's one more miracle in me and i want to give it to you there's one more miracle in me but i'm not going to give it to a half backslid worldly looking group that's afraid of what people think about him and what people say about him i want to find me a young girl and a young boy that'll let tears flow down their eyes a young girl that doesn't care if she shouts or curls down a young boy that doesn't care what he looks like that's the man i want to give the miracle to i don't think it's a coincidence and i'm going to baptize but i got some souls to baptize why don't y'all just pray with each other right now