Three Levels of Serving God | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter
by Kenneth Carpenter
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
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Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-8, John 12:21-24, 2 Chronicles 26:5, 2 Chronicles 26:15, 2 Chronicles 26:16, Luke 19:8-10, Acts 22:13-16, Philippians 4:15-19, Revelation 7:9-12

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If you have your Bibles this morning and would join me in Isaiah chapter number six, we'll begin reading at verse number one. Isaiah chapter 6 and verse number one. I feel we're in a holy moment today. I feel as if God has got us in his hands today. feel like we're being pleasing to God, that our focus is on reaching. You know, you really can't spell preach without spelling reach. That's what preaching is all about. It's reaching. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon the throne, high and lifted up, his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphones. Each one had six wings. With twain or two he covered his face. With twain he covered his feet. And with twain he did fly. One cried unto another and said, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory." And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried. The house was filled with smoke. Then said I, woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips and dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the king, the Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the serapams unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongues from off the altar. He laid it upon my mouth, and said, "Lo, this had touched thy lips, and thine iniquity, sin, thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged." Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying whom shall I send and who will go for us then said I here am I send me precious God today thank you for your word thank you Lord for this holy moment that your spirit has laid upon this service. Thank you, God, for this time. Lord, for the next few minutes, would you anoint my mind, anoint my lips, give me strength in my body, clarity in my mind that I may articulate your will in your word. Lord, open the hearts of your people here today and to those that are watching online. And Lord, let your spirit open the heart today that we may be part of this great end time worldwide harvest that is taking place. In Jesus name we all pray. Amen. And amen. You may be seated today. For just a few moments I want to talk to you or preach to you on three levels. Three levels of serving God. Please come to the realization with me this morning that peace, contentment, fulfillment in life can only be found in God. Peace, commit, commitment, com contentment. Fulfillment in life can only only be found in God and in God's plan. You see, today, brothers and sisters, we ought to be more interested in God's plan than our plan. The prophet Isaiah had a vision of heaven. He begins by saying, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord high and lifted up." The three levels of serving God very quickly. The first level is seeing God. Seeing God. You'll never You'll never walk with a God. You'll never trust in a God that you don't see. I'm not talking about with the ability of eyesight. I'm talking about through the eyes of faith that you see that God and that you walk with that God. The Bible said that in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord. That's verse one. I saw also the Lord. Let me introduce you to a divine principle that when it comes to God, someone has to die before you can see the Lord. This is a God principle. There is life that comes after death. That's a God principle. Now, I know the way that we see it, it's that death comes after life. But not with God. God has a principle that someone or something has to die before we're truly able to see him like he wants us to see him. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord also. That's interesting. John chapter 12 and verse number 21. The Greeks, the educated, the educated minds of the day. They came in verse number 21. The same came therefore to Philillip these Greeks which was of Bayeda of Galilee and desired him saying sers look look at what the educated wanted to wanted to see. Sirs we would do what? See Jesus. We desire to see Jesus. Follow me in verse 22. Philip cometh and tellth Andrew and Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. Now they come and they tell Jesus, Philip and Andrew, they come and they say, "Jesus, the Greeks are here and they want to see you." Watch how he reacts to this. And Jesus answered them, saying, "The hour is come that the Son of Man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, except except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." We want to see Jesus, Philillip, Andrew. Jesus turns around and says, "Well, in order for you to see me, it's like a kernel of corn that first before it brings forth life, it has to fall into the ground and it has to die." You see, Isaiah said, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord." In other words, he's telling us today that Uzziah had to die in order for him to see the Lord high and lifted up. It's not that he becomes into existence when Uzziah dies. He's there all the time. It's just that something has to die in order for us to see the Lord. We find this king Uzziah in 2 Chronicles 26 and verse 5 tells us a little bit about his life. It says he sought God in the days of Zachchariah who had understanding in the visions of God and as long look at the wording here. It kind of kind of kind of hints to the way his life is going to go. And as long as he sought the Lord, as long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. Verse 15 of the same chapter, he made in Jerusalem engines invented by cunning men to be on the towers and upon the bullwworks to shoot arrows and great stones with all. His name was spread. His name spread far abroad. For he was marvelously helped till he was strong. Circle all these today. As long as he sought the Lord, God made him to prosper. He was marvelously helped until he got strong. Can I tell you the biggest demon of prosperity is that sometimes we can become prosperous in North America and forget the main cause of our prosperity. We can begin to lean on the God of materialism and not the God of the blessings of those materialism. But God doesn't give us the blessings that he has North America for us to see how plush we can live, how fine we can live. And let me go ahead and tell you today, boast on God. We're all living pretty good. Compared to the world's standards, we're living far, far, far above what the rest of the world is living till he was strong. Was marvelously helped. Then something happened. Pride in entered his heart. In verse 16, but when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction. That's pride. for he transgressed against the Lord his God and went into the temple to burn incense. And there's a whole story there. He wasn't allowed into the temple. It wasn't his place to burn incense. He got out of the will of God. He got out of his place. And because he was angry with the priest that stood strong on the word, the judgment for his rebellion would be leprosy. And the Bible simply says that Uzziah died a leper in his own home. You know, it's possible, brother Ericson. It's possible that the prophet Isaiah witnessed the death of Uzziah. It's possible that Isaiah had visited Uzziah. It's possible that he saw his skeleton-like face. It's possible that Isaiah smelled the stench of rotting flesh that was the product of leprosy. as he sees his king. As he sees his king, he sees his king dying and he sees his king dead. But something marvelous happened. The Bible said in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne. I want you to understand something. It say the Lord sitting on a chair or a stool. He's sitting on a throne because a chair is temporary. A stool is temporary. It can be moved around the room. But when we start talking about God and his throne, there never has been and there never will be another God like our God. His throne is forever settled in the heavens. He's the same right now, today, that he was 6,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago, or however far you want to go back. I'm glad our God is upon the throne when we have a world full of war. We have a country right now full of hatred. We have a world that's a seeping pot of of of hatred. We have a world that's a seeping pot right now. Upheaval in the world. All kinds of things going on in the world, wars and rumors of wars. I'm glad to gather today at 1331 William Blunt Drive, the home of First Apostolic Church, and walk in here today and know it doesn't matter what comes goes out there. We serve a God who is seated upon upon a throne. He's forever settled. His word is forever settled in the heaven. But Uzziah had to die. Uzziah pride, selfishness, being stingy, being self-centered, had to die in order for Isaiah to see the Lord. You know, the first level is seeing God. I believe you heard and saw what you did today from Beirut to this backstream because this is a congregation today that is generous with its giving. It's generous with its heart today. It realizes we've been blessed above measure. Because we've been blessed, we want to become a blessing. So the first level is seeing God. You really can't see yourself till you see God. You see, a lot of people look good or they think they look good as long as they don't look at God. A lot of people think they're good and think they're all right until they begin to hear God's word being preached. Then that word that's a mirror begins to show them the ugly flaws that sin has so deceived their minds to believe. You see, we cannot see oursel until we see our God. It was there. The second level Isaiah sees Isaiah sees himself. We hear it in his cry. We hear it in his cry. He says, "Woe is me. Woe is me. Woe is me. For I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of glory. You see, there was great fear in Isaiah's heart because of the belief that if a man ever saw God with sin in his life, he would die. So Isaiah is believing that any moment, any moment, death is going to seize him. And he just cries out, he cries out, "A woe." You know why he cries out, "Woe? He is convicted." The presence of God has a way of convicting us. That's why we need the presence of God. That's why we pray before every church service. One main thing, not necessarily that the choir sings good or the musicians do well. No, no, no. Or that we have a full house of people. We don't pray for those things. What we pray for is God, let your presence be here today. Because when God's presence comes, it's it's it it is the it is the thing that every sinner needs to set in the midst of the presence of God. Well, the Bible says in his presence there is fullness of joy. So Isaiah is convicted. He cries out in conviction, "Woe is me, for I have seen the Lord. I'm a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. I I dwell in the midst of unclean communication when my eyes have seen. It's amazing. It's amazing what the presence of God can do. As a matter of fact, the preacher doesn't even need to preach on what you're doing for you to be convicted. He doesn't even have to get up and say XYZ ABC. He He doesn't even have to say it. The very presence of God in our midst comes down and first convicts us. There's a man in the Bible by the name of Zakius. The Bible said in Luke 19 verse number eight, Zakius wanted to see the Lord but he couldn't because there was a crowd and he was he was short of stature and he couldn't see over the other people. So he finds himself a sycamore tree and there he climbs that sycamore tree to to get a view of Jesus. I just want to see him. I just want to see him. And I climbed this tree to get a bird's eyee view of Jesus. The Bible says in Luke chapter 19 verse number 8, Zakius stood and said unto the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him four-fold." Jesus said to him unto him, "To this day is salvation come to this house. For as much as also is the son of Abraham, for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost." Zakius is up in a tree. All I want to do is see Jesus. That's all I want to do. I just want to see Jesus. That's all. But you see, Jesus saw him first. And Jesus comes to the sycamore tree and he looks up and he says, "Zakius, come down from there. I want to go to your house and have supper." And as Zakius heard those words, he came down from that tree. And when he got to the bottom of the tree and faced up with Jesus, guess what? What he began to do? He began to confess his sins. He began to say, "If I've taken anything," and he had, he began to confess his sins to him because that's the wonderful presence of God will convict us of our sins. So please today, don't get out of here. Please today, don't choose another place to go worship. The greatest thing you could have in your life is for a church to let Uzziah die and a church that'll see Jesus high and lifted up and his train fills the temple. Oh, I would rather somebody walk out today and say, "Woe is me." than to pat themsel on the back and say, "I'm all right." So, there's a first the confession, the conviction. There is the conviction of sin. You say you you're you're you're convicted by sin. And when the conviction comes, you give the confession of sin. What did he do? He saw the Lord high and lifted up. And then what does he begin to do? He's convicted. But now he begins to confess. Lord, I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. He begins confession. And as he confesses, God, I'm a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. He makes that confession. So now something begins to change. The seraphones that had six wings, with two they covered their feet, with two they covered their face, and with two they did fly in the presence of God. And they had one eternal job to say over and over around the throne, "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty, holy, holy, holy, right now. Right now, church." If you could be allowed to listen into heaven, this would be the sound. They rest not day and night saying, "Holy, holy, holy." But when a sinner on earth begins to cry out, woe is me. I confess my sin, woe is me. Then one of the angel, one of the serapones moves over, goes to the altar with tongues, takes a live coal off of the altar, brings it back. And and you just study this out. The Bible said he laid the coal upon his mouth. Doesn't say he touched his mouth. It says he laid the coal upon his mouth. It doesn't just say he touched it, let it go. He laid it there. In order for anything to lay on my lips, if you put something here and I'm looking this way, it falls off. But if I'm looking up at the King, the Lord of glory, and and another thing that's one of the things wrong with people why they can't serve God long today is they get their minds on other people around them. You see, it's not your outlook that you need to have. It's your uplook that you need to have. And so Isaiah's looking up and the angel lays the coal upon his mouth and it burns. But the angel says, "This cold has touched your mouth and it has cleansed you of your sin." So, so follow me now. Follow me in this short Bible lesson today. He's convicted by the presence of God. He confesses his sin and there is a cleansing that takes place. Wasn't this the ministry of John the Baptist? The Bible says John the Baptist came preaching the word. They were convicted of the word and then they were baptized in Jordan confessing their sin. Isn't that Isn't that the way that it goes? We're convicted. We see God as he is. And we see ourselves. I can't judge anybody in this room. I can't I can't I can't look this way and say I look pretty good beside you. I I look pretty good beside her. No, no, no, no, no. That's not how God works. When I keep my eyes on a holy God and then when I do look out at the congregation and regardless of the sin, I have one statement. There go I. If it wasn't for the mercies and the precious precious grace of almighty God, I'm not I'm not a fingerpointing preacher because you'll find out when you're pointing one finger, you've got four more pointing back at you. But when we keep our eyes on the Lord, we can just say, "Woe is me." And he says, "That's what I'm waiting to hear. I'm going to cleanse you. I I am going I am going to cleanse you." Could we just worship the Lord for a moment? Come on. Could we just worship? If you're thankful for the marvelous grace of God, if you're thinking for If you're thankful for the loving mercy of God that God saw you in your sin, God saw you in your misery, God's brought you through, God's brought you out. Could you give him a worship this morning? Oh, thank you, Lord. We could follow the cleansing. Paul the apostle, writer of over half the New Testament, followed the same standard that Isaiah did. He was first convicted by the presence of God on the road to Damascus when God let that bright light shine and knock him off of his animal. He's arrested. He's convicted because he says, "Who are you, Lord?" That's conviction. Who are you Lord? The Lord says, I am Jesus whom you persecute. Then he gave a confession. Lord, what will you have me do? There's a confession. And later on in Acts 22 and verse 13 comes the cleansing. Paul's rehearsing his conversion. And he says in Acts 22:13, he came unto me and stood and said unto me, brother Saul, receive thy sight. The same hour I looked upon him, and he said, The Lord, the God of our fathers, hath chosen thee, that thou should us know his will, and see that just one, and should hear his voice of his mouth. For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. And now why terarious thou arise and be baptized wash away thy sins calling on the name of the Lord. Look Isaiah went through the same thing that that I mean Paul went through the same thing that Isaiah did. Isaiah was convicted. Isaiah confessed his sins. Isaiah was cleansed of his sins. Paul was convicted. Paul confessed. Paul was baptized in that only saving name of Jesus Christ for the remission. But it's not over. The first level in serving God is for us to see God. The second level in serving God is for us to see oursel. But the third level, the third level of serving God, it's not all in the conviction. It's not all in the confession. Thank God for our water baptisms. But we don't stop there. There's a commissioning. There's a commissioning. Isaiah saw the Lord high lifted up. His train filled the temple. Then I said, "Oh God, I'm a man of unclean lips." The angel flies and touches his lips and says, "Your iniquities and your sins are purged." Then Isaiah said, "I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send and who will go for us?" Israel is lost. Israel is going to be damned. Israel is going to hell. Israel is deceived. I need somebody to go preach the word to Israel. And God was giving the call. I submit to you that the call of God was there all the time. But when Uzzaiah is kept on life support, when we fail to bow our knee to the global needs of evangelism in our world, we keep pride alive. We keep selfishness alive. We keep comfort alive. We keep as long as I've got a little more than you, I'm okay. But God has got a whisper. And I believe that FAC Mville has buried our Uzziah. And we are hearing, we're hearing the word of the Lord saying, "Who will go for us and who can we send?" It was a little girl. There was a young woman now, but there was a little girl, missionary's wife to Mexico, Becca Berriak, that grew up in this church and she heard the call of God. And I wish you could have been with me and first lady a few weeks ago in Mexico as as Becca knows the language now. And Becca goes around the altar and leads praise and worship and it's a wonderful thing to see. But we don't hear God's voice if we're just thinking about God bless us for and no more and God I've got to have it all together in my life. Who will go for us? Oh, I want to say he heard God saying, "Whom shall we send? Who will go for us?" And God, Isaiah said, "Here am I. Send me." You see, there's two ways we're going to reach our world. Some go by giving. Some go by giving. Did you really think? Did you ever really think that when the missionaries come by or we present needs here to the church, whe Do y'all remember that miracle Sunday night? You remember that miracle Sunday night? that Luke that that Jordan Stumbbo Stumbo was here on deputation and uh he preached at the Severeville church and brother Hammond I believe you had the service that night and he he's up here and we just the church you just feel a spirit move in. So we asked we asked I kind of I think I come up and stopped you from the service said can we find out if he's got a need we find out there's something going on he's got a need and we sat right there on the front row and said Jordan what's you have a need because God was here God was there that night just like he's here right now and do you have a need and he said we want to build a house we want to build a house and and Mr. wisdom here says, "Hey, Jordan, they're in war in Russia. You want to build a house? They're in war." He looks over to me and quote scripture. He said, "They were in they were in all kinds of war, but Jeremiah bought property all over Jerusalem." I said, "No, see." Yeah. I want you to begin to pray. I want you to help us pray. They've asked the first lady and I to come to Russia, St. St. Petersburg in the fall of the year and help them celebrate an anniversary and um I'm praying and I'd like to see things settle down and uh because they need the gospel there. Right. They do. God, what do you need? We need $160,000. And I've never seen an offering raised. I have never seen $160,000. Maybe it was even more than that came in. I don't know. But I know at least that much came in in a few moments. You know why it did? Because there's some of you sitting there living in fine homes and God has blessed you with surplus and you looked and you said, "I'll give. I'll give. I'll give." So when we write the check out, yes, we will applaud our missionaries. Yes, we will we will thank them for being there and thank them for going. But I'm telling you, one waters, one plants, but God gives the increase. And so many of these people could not be where they're at today. What had it not been for some of you sitting right here in this auditorium that said, "You's died in my life. I'm going to give." Let me keep on. Let me read on for a moment. Paul in Philippians chapter 4 verse number 15. Listen to Paul for a moment. Talk to the Philippian church. Oh, I like to just say, listen to Paul as after he talks to the marvel church. Now you Philippians know also that in the beginning of the gospel when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but you only. When I left to do missionary work in Macedonia, I had no other support but you. You were the only ones that supported. You were the only ones that stepped up. Verse 16. For even in Thessalonica, ye sent once and again unto my necessity. In other words, he's saying you you sent once and again, you kept giving to my necessity. Not because I desired a gift. He said, I wasn't wanting a gift, but I desired fruit that may abound to your account. Now, here's what he's saying. Fruit is souls. The account is what God is going to reward us on judgment day when he brings us into that great judgment seat of Christ. And he begins to say to you, I don't know, it probably be individually. I don't know that it may be collectively as a church but he will begin to say you gave currency that turned into preaching that turned into souls and he refers to that as fruit. Can I tell you today Paul said it wasn't that I wanted a gift. It wasn't that I needed something. I just wanted more fruit to go to your account. But he's not through. But he listen to what Paul says. But I have all and abound. I am full, having received of Eperoditis the things which were sent from you, an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God. But my God, listen to me, Marville, listen to me, Maryville. But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. My God. Can I tell you? Can I just ask for a little participation here today in this room? We're living good. God has been good to the Marble Church. God has been good to individual families. Come on now. We're dressing better. We're driving better. We're living better. We're more secure than we've ever been. Why? Because my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches and glory. My God shall supply all your needs. Didn't we go on a journey? Didn't we go on a journey several years ago? Did God not absolutely show himself God? when several years ago up on the hill when God spoke to us as a congregation memo when God spoke to us as a congregation when we're sitting on top of each other when we're getting to church two hours early to get a good seat. When people in the church have been designated to give up their seat if somebody comes in when folding chairs were pushed to the front. I I mean I could literally when I was preaching the people that were sitting in front of me they needed a spit guard. I mean, they were right there in front of me. Altar calls, they stood up, folded their chairs, moved to the corners. We called for people to come in. And God speaks to us as a church. And God says, "My coming is soon. I want you to begin to give to missions as never before, and I will take care of the new auditorium." Now, in the natural realm, that seems foolish. Don't you know, brother Carpenter, we're getting to church two hours early to get a good seat, and you're wanting to start piping money. You You want us to start giving money? I'll give I'll give for a building. I'll give for a pew for me and my family and my little Uzias to come and set. I I'll I'll give if you I'll give for a parking spot for me and sister Uzziah to not have to park so far away. But you're asking us to give. But we obeyed the Lord, did we not? And now years later, are we not here in a beautiful edifice to the name of Jesus Christ? Were we not in the front page of a newspaper claiming to be the Mville miracle? Did a reporter not come down here and ask this is a time of recession and you're building by faith? It listen, it wasn't really us. It was that we said we see the Lord high and lifted up and we give him praise. I promise you I'm not going to preach much longer. The old that the old saying is proofs in the pudding. You can't convince this church that missions giving is not right. You can't convince us that it's not right. Several years ago, Gary and Sheila Hunley pastored the church in Lefallet, Tennessee. Brother Hunley was actually our district secretary. Got three wonderful children. One of the boys that he has is Adam. Adam Hunley. Several years ago when Adam was single, Adam got a burden for the world. Adam got a burden for the world. His mama would tell me, "Adam's going places and sleeping in tents. He hears of these thousands of refugees that are caught between countries and a backpack and a tent and off Adam would go." She told me once, she said, "I I picked Adam up at theos at the airport one day. Adam didn't have any clothes other than the clothes he was wearing." Adam had all kinds of What' you say? Lice. Had all kind of lice in his hair. Adam, where's your Where's your clothes? Somebody broke in the tent, Mom, and stole all the clothes. Adam keeps going. And if we were not the first, if we were not the first, we were the first church, brother Mayo, that saw something in that young man and said, "Adam, we're going to start supporting you on a monthly basis." Goes on, we're supporting him. Adam has been in places that I can't even because of webcasting and the fear of it getting told. Adam has made his ways into countries that would blow your mind that he has been at this place. Adam, matter of fact, I I text Adam this morning. Text Adam this morning. I I really didn't think I'd get a hold of him, but I I just text him and I asked him I asked him I said, "Adam, because so now let me I'm kind of ahead of myself. Adam is now Adam Hunley and his wife are now global missions directors for the United Pentecostal Church. He's leads that department in the UPCI. I said, um, Adam, I reached out to him and I said, how many um how many churches do you have outside of North America? He said, 'Right now, Brother Carpenter, somewhere roughly outside of North America, we have 40, 40, 500 churches and preaching points outside of North America. He said, I'm in Musket, Almond at the moment. I'm about to get on a plane and I'm about to head out. I'm about to head out to Pakistan. I called our world missions director and he reported also, we have thousands of churches. We have thousands of churches. This let me stop here to new people to Pentecost. This may this may not you may not understand this but I refuse to allow a competitive spirit to get in the apostolic church. When the United Pentecostal Church baptized somebody in Jesus name, we just baptized somebody in Jesus name. When the United Pentecostal Church does something, we do something. And and we're not in a competitive race. We're a different fellowship with the same church. So, we're not competing because we got a lost world that we got a hold of. And I I'll I'll tell you something else, too. We not only although I'm the superintendent of an organization, all of our support doesn't go solely. We're not so tunnel vision that we're saying, "Oh, we only support those that are in the ALJC. Oh, we can only give to that hogwash." It's not an organization. It's the global church of Jesus Christ. Get the job done. get the job done. You know, Pentecostal Church, the Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ. And then this might blow your mind, but do you know, and I don't believe I'm far off from this, that the largest church in North America, the largest apostolic church in North America, and if they're not the largest, they're want They're the they're the second or the third, if not the largest. The largest apostolic church in North America doesn't belong to the UPCI nor the AOJC. They don't even belong to any group. They're what's called independent. But the homes in Little Rock, Arkansas are some here you go now are some if not the largest. the other day. Matter of fact, I don't know if you could see the picture, but brother sister Holmes and brother sister Carpenter stood in Beirut, Lebanon with a banner when we bought the property because the homes are helping buy the property and First Apostolic is helping to buy the property. And don't send me an anonymous email. And I'm not saying this for you. I'm saying it to somebody online. Don't send me an anonymous email. Well, you're supposed to really be promoting. I'm promoting the kingdom of God. You know why? Uzziah's got to die. Uzziah's got to die. So whether it's a UPCI, the ALJC, or an independent Brother Holmes, let's get the job done. So we support UPCI missionaries here and we support ALJC missionaries here and we support independent missionaries here because the hour is late. I'm about to read to you and musicians would you come? But I'm about to read from you a passage of scripture that I have looked at on many occasions and I have thought and prayed to myself, God, help me to put some people in this crowd. The scripture reading is Revelation 7 verse 9. John is allowed through the prophetic eye of God to see the grand and glorious end of time. John is allowed prophetically to see what eternity will look like around the throne. In Revelation 7 verse number nine, John says this. After this I beheld and lo a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne and before the Lamb clothed with white robes with palms in their hands. and cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation to our God, which siteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb, and unto the Lamb." And all the angels stood round about the throne, and the elders, and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshiped God, saying, "Amen. Blessing and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power and might be unto our God forever and ever. Amen." John through the prophetic eye saw a massive crowd of people of all nationalities, tongues and tribes. He saw the diversity of humanity around the throne and they were saying hallelujah salvation to our God. And what just haunts me, I hope that somewhere in that crowd is some people, brother Snitzer, some people from Africa, some people from Africa. Help me tell it right. Help me tell it right, brother. Just last week, someone, a pastor from Africa was watching online, sent a message online. I want to know more about this truth. Brother Spitzer, you you reached out to him. Can somebody get a microphone over there to him real quick? You You reached out to him. Now, this is a man. This is a man. What an awesome tech team we have. What an awesome tech team that we have that's able to stream this right now. Tell us you you reached out to the man. So, he was very hungry. He's very educated. He is a pastor for 14 years in his early 40s. I taught him the spirit, water, baptism, the lesson baptized in water and spirit. He received it. He's wanting to be baptized in Jesus' name. He's excited about the message. Yes, he translated it for his church. He taught it to them today. He is linked with a group of 50 or 60 pastors that he wants to get this message to. He's tired of the message that he's been hearing from these other pastors in groups. He's been hungry. He has been praying for somebody to come and teach him. And I'm excited. Thank God. How's your calling? As you calling, Brother Sniter. We've already got a large church in April. It's our day. If Paul was alive today, he would be online. If the apostles were here today, they would be online. Would you stand with me right now? I got to see God. I got to see myself. Would Would you just worship for a moment? I'm so careful. I'm in the presence of God. I'm so careful today. Thank you, Lord.