The 41st Day
by Kenneth Carpenter
July 22, 2022 · First Apostolic Church of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Genesis 7:12, Genesis 7:17, Genesis 8:6, Exodus 16:35, Joshua 5:12, 1 Samuel 17:16, Numbers 13:25, Exodus 24:18, Exodus 32:1, 2 Chronicles 32:31, Luke 4:1, Matthew 4:10-11, Luke 10:19, Romans 16:20

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hey oh my come on could we just give the lord a praise right now god is great [Applause] you may be seated for just a moment i'd be very foolish to attempt to give bishop anywhere near the recognition that he just did but if i was going to he quoted first john 3. let me quote from first kenny chapter 3 i have no greater joy than to watch my pastor not only bring me the truth over four decades ago but now tonight he's still preaching embracing believing and teaching the same truth no confusion here aren't you thankful to have our bishop tonight aren't you thankful so very very thankful you know we have heard some preaching this week and not only we heard preaching but we have seen a congregation several congregations that come together and make one and we have watched you receive the word of god because truly preaching preaching is just half of it if you don't receive what's being preached then god doesn't get the full glory but not only have we had preaching like we had brother erickson today and sister carpenter she'll tell you she'll say don't refer to me as a preacher she preaches at home but she teaches at church all right and not only have we had that but in this congregation several congregations coming together to make up the tri-state district you have received the word of god and that's the very reason in the weeks to come our churches are going to blossom with revival that's why we're going to go home sunday and we're going to have a high day on sunday because we have all received the word of god we've all received the word of god as a matter of fact when you read the book of revelation chapter one two and three deal with the church it all deals with the church you don't after chapter three you don't hear of the church again to the end of the book where the bible refers to her as a bride and the spirit and the bride say come but in chapters 1 2 and 3 the church is being preached to the church is being addressed but then a symbolic thing happens john says i heard a trumpet i heard a voice and i heard a trumpet which said unto me come up hither and i looked and it was a door open in heaven and immediately i was in the throne room you see you can't be ready for the trumpet of the rapture unless you're receiving the trumpet of the word of god so the next sound that you could very well hear could be that trumpet sound sounds just like the same word of god that you've been hearing you're going to receive that word and you're going to be changed in a moment in another twinkling of an eye and immediately we're going to be in the drum room i'm so thankful i'm so very very thankful for that tonight when we came in and the choir was singing welcome home welcome home god's getting us ready to do a great work here in east tennessee god's getting us ready to do a great work in western north carolina virginia god's getting ready to visit this area like never before but he has prepared a people that know how to witness has prepared a people that know how to be a soul winner interesting i'll read my text in just a moment but just kind of feel this in the lord but an interesting thing pastor mccool jesus told his disciples emphatically do not go into any of the cities of the samaritans don't don't go to the samaritans but then later the lord turns right around and he goes to the cities of samaria so is this the lord contradicting his word absolutely not you see they were not ready to embrace people that were different than them they were not ready for the samaritans the samaritans didn't look like jews they didn't act like jews didn't talk like jews they were samaritans and they weren't ready to embrace diversity so the lord said now there'll come a day when i'll give you the holy ghost and power and you shall be witnesses unto me in jerusalem judea and samaria but not now i know how to deal with samaritans and when he came that day to that whale that woman said to him how is it that you being a jew you're a jew i can tell by your outward clothing you're a jew how is it that you being a jew asked me a samaritan to drink for the jews have no dealings with the samaritans and he said woman if you only knew who it was that asked you for a drink you could ask of him and he would give you we got something to give this community he would give he would give you when people walk into our churches on sunday we're not looking at them for what we can get out of them but we're looking at them what can we give you we want to give you something i'm telling you pastor mccool god is getting ready to do a great work in east tennessee and western carolinas well when the woman was told she was going to receive something she didn't call him a jew she said sir the well is deep sir and you have nothing to draw with sir was a title of respect then he went further and he began to talk to her and he said why won't you go call your husband she said i don't have a husband and he said you have well spoken and he he said he just opened up her life he said you've had five husbands and the one you're with now is not your own and you know what he had first made her a promise then and then he opened up his life her life and then she says to him she didn't say well you judgmental jew you know what he said she said i perceive you're a prophet and then he kept on until she got her water bucket full and it was time to say goodbye to the prophet she said well i know that one day the messiah is going to come and he's going to tell us all these things and he said woman he that speaketh unto thee am he she forgot about her water pot went running into town saying come see and hear a man that's told me everything i've ever done truly this is the christ of the world tri-state district god is getting ready to do something god is getting ready to shake east tennessee god is getting ready to shake western carolina god don't you want to be a part of it god is getting ready you want to be a part of it stand to your feet and shout yes shout yes yes [Applause] i mean that in the name of the lord if every bibles and would turn with me to genesis 7 verse number 12. didn't our youth well they don't call them crusaders now they changed the name didn't it apostolic student ministries or just student ministry they said stop calling us crusaders said people in other countries think we're coming to kill them so uh [Music] but didn't our crusaders director for the tri-state district brother nolan carpenter didn't he do a good job tonight y'all do know that's my only begotten son in whom i'm well pleased right [Applause] we hired years ago we needed a youth pastor we hired brother erickson he came along and brother erickson married our oldest daughter fallon a few years later we needed an athletic director and we reached down in georgia and got brother zach hammond and he came along and married our baby girl lauren brother jeremy that's when nolan come to me and said daddy if you get ready to hire a woman let me see her before you hire all right let me see hey would you do me one favor before i read my text i have one of the one of my the newest friends that i have tonight i met him some time ago uh god brought our paths to cross and he has connections and loves god has connections in washington dc and i believe that god has used this young man and i believe that god will continue to use this young man but brother tony swore as it is so good to see you you and your family here tonight and i i appreciate those connections i appreciate those connections with god genesis chapter 7 verse number 12. and the rain was upon the earth 40 days someone say 40 days 40 days and 40 nights slide down to verse number 17. chapter 7 and verse number 17 and the flood was 40 days upon the earth and the waters increased and bear up the ark and it was lift up above the ark or the earth excuse me i want you to pray with me right now remember last night when you pray loud enough will you pray loud enough how about this section over here will you pray pray loud enough that you can hear yourself pray can we all do that together don't don't don't just stand there can we all pray loud enough that we can hear ourselves pray mighty god of heaven lord we come before you tonight lord jesus we want your spirit to be in this place jesus we want your hand to be upon us tonight god lord we are the people of the name we are the people of the truth lord it is time in east tennessee it is time in western carolina it is time in virginia that the people of the name will have their day lord we know that at any moment your trumpet could sound and lord we would be caught up to meet you lord may we labor while it is day god used the last night of tri-state camp to touch and challenge our hearts lord i pray for the young and the old alike lord you said your spirit would be for the young and your spirit would be for the old oh mighty god come down upon us tonight lord whoa come down upon us tonight god hebrew hosha glory to god glory to god spirit of the living god we invite you in this house that's just tonight in jesus name we pray you may be seated in jesus name i'll explain my title in just a few moments church but my title is simply the 41st day the 41st day i don't know how long ago it has been but in my private prayer time for a sunday evening service i was asking god in my private prayer time what the church needed that evening i'd sought the lord and i was asking god as we do in the ministry we ask god before we go to the pulpit before we study we asked god what the needs of that hour would be what the needs of the congregation would be you see there are several ways that you can show you love jesus but there's one way that the ministry shows that it loves jesus jesus said if you love me feed my sheep if you love me feed my sheep and so i was at a time in my pre private prayer time of just asking god what the miracle church needed that evening and throughout the day the lord kept bringing numbers different numbers and the symbolic meaning of numbers in the bible we understand that the number one in the bible is symbolic of unity god is one jesus and the father are one we understand that one is a number that symbolically speaks of unity we understand that the number two is symbolic of a witness christ sent them out how he sent them out to by two he also said wherever two or three are gathered together in my name for judgment there i am in the midst we understand that the number three is a symbolic is symbolic of perfection and completion jesus rose from the dead on the third day the earth brought forth vegetation on the third day the number four's symbolic of the earth there's four directions and four seasons the number five is symbolic of grace there's five types of offerings in the book of leviticus the book of psalms is divided into five sections five books of law we find that there's strength in the number five the number of grace six is the number of humanity we understand that number six six six the number of humanity seven is the number of spiritual perfection seven churches and seven spirits number eight is symbolic of a new beginning christ appeared eight times eight times after his resurrection eight souls were saved by noah in the flood so i'm getting ready i'm kind of taking you on a little tour of my study that i was in the office and i was i was studying 10 symbolizes earthly government 12 symbolizes spiritual authority 30 symbolizes dedication to a calling then i came to the number 40. the number 40 symbolizes trials the number 70 symbolizes judgment but i must admit i got hung up on the number 40. 40 symbolizes a trial or a test moses lived 40 years in the desert 40 years in egypt was on mount sinai for 40 days jonah preached in a nineveh 40 days and oddly god told the prophet ezekiel to give an illustrated sermon and he told the prophet ezekiel to lay 40 days on his side so i'm preparing this bible study on sunday night and been in the office and i'm just thinking i'm going to present a bible study tonight in this evangelistic sunday night service i'm going to present a bible study sister mccool on numbers all right you know i got a i got a sermon on the choir it is going to be jumping and shouting and sunday night it's going to be going and i'm going to step up because i've come to talk about numbers tonight so it was about 5 25 and it was time to have public prayer of gathering down around the front of the church for a season of prayer before the service starts i took my bible up under my arm and i opened the door to the office and i stepped out into the hallway and i heard that sweet gentle voice of our savior that way that he can talk to us like none other i've got several names for it i call it the green light it's just something about the sweet voice of god that speaks and when you know that voice you know that it is god i heard the sweet gentle voice of god say these words it's not about the 40th day it's about the 41st day it's not about the 40th day it's about the 41st day now you got to be a preacher to understand the dilemma that i'm in i'm going between my office at 7 20 or 5 28. give or take a minute to go into the public prayer of the church and i've got the holy ghost in one side of my head said it's not about the 40th day it's about the 41st day and so all through the service i'm having to cut and paste in my mind what do you mean about the 41st day and then i begin to examine that things happened on the 41st day they were 40 days and 40 nights of rain falling upon the ark where noah and his family were but it was the 41st day that that ark lifted up from the earth it was on the 41st day that noah possibly heard the the ark as it as it is it lifted up and began to float it was on the 41st day not only that after several months of the flood when the ark came to rest the bible says in verse number 17 in the flood and the flood was 40 days upon the earth and the waters increased and bear it it bear up the ark but now it says after several months of the flood it says in genesis 8 and 6 and it came to pass at the end of look at this number again 40 days that noah opened the window of the ark which he had made which meant it was the 41st day for several months they had been inside of this ark but now on the 41st day and i i know you may be thinking where is this going just just just bear with me for a little bit there's something symbolic if we believe there's something symbolic about one and two and three and four and seven and eight we have to turn around and see that there is a symbolic meaning in the number of 40. 40 represents trials in tests but 41 must represent the beginning and the ending of the trial and of the test i believe tonight that someone is here and proverbially you have been in the 40 days of a trial and a test but i am here to tell you that your 41st day is just around the corner the bible says weeping may endure for the night but joy cometh in the morning could you give him some praise [Applause] give him some praise in the house 41st day they got some fresh air 41st day they saw the sunlight 41st day they let a dove go it was on the 41st day exodus chapter 16 verse 35 the children of israel did eat manna how many years 40 years until they came to the land inhabited they did eat manna until they came to the borders of the land of canaan joshua 5 and 12 and the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land neither the children and neither had the children of israel manna anymore but they did eat the fruit of the land of canaan that year 40 years they had manna but god said i've got something better than manna i've got the fruit of the promised land you see in egypt they had not enough in the wilderness they had just enough but in the canaan land they had more than enough i believe god wants to take us from not enough to just enough to more than enough my god is more than enough he can supply all our needs we have got to evangelize east tennessee we have got to evangelize western carolina we have got to evangelize a lost in a dying world and we're not barely going to do it we have entered into the 41st day [Applause] let's stop talking about our trials and our woes and our tests and our vexation first samuel 17 16 and the philistine drew near morning and evening and presented himself 40 days that's that giant of goliath 40 days and 40 nights goliath ballard his insults and his reproaches he embellied all of his cursing and intimidated everyone until a little shepherd boy by the name of david showed up on the scene and i do declare he didn't show up on day 38 day 39 or the 40th day he showed up on the 41st day it's gonna be different now you have listened to all this cursing and all of this reproach some of you've been beat up by mistakes you have been beat up by condemnation but i have come on the 41st day to silence the mouth of goliath and tell you you're going to have victory on the 41st come on somebody tonight is there somebody in this house that needs a 41st day is there some pastor that's been going through a trial you've lost a few members told it has turned you upside down in the name of the lord step into your 41st day i wish somebody shout yes [Applause] come on pastor say that your baptismal pool has been empty come on pastor say that you've had some families leave come on pastor say that you've been hearing goliath say write that resignation you've been hearing goliath say you're never going to grow a church in this city you've been hearing goliath say you're really not a preacher you're really not been called but somehow somebody's going to step out on the battlefield on the 41st day and say it's time to shut your mouth i am going to build a church in this city souls are going to be baptized in jesus name we're going to still see miracles signs and wonders because it's the 41st day i believe he's getting it tonight it's the 41st day my god whoa it is the 41st day come on i feel the holy ghost moving right now i'd like to talk to a young person that may feel like you don't have a future maybe your dad's not in church your mom's not in church you don't have a pedigree you don't need a pedigree you need calvary you just need the 41st day you can't have revival you can build that church you will make it through this trial that 40 days will end you'll have your authority first the most unlikely little boy brought the head of goliath back and said is this what you're looking for 40. [Applause] you may be seated in the name of the lord haha yeah pastor mark mccool i feel like there's a 41st day gonna sit down on this district i said i believe there's a 41st day gonna sit down on our district [Applause] [Music] you you don't you don't know about my goliath you don't know about my goliath that's right i don't have to know about your goliath because he is an uncircumcised philistine he does not have a covenant with jehovah god and when god has allowed goliath the belarus last time there will be somebody to step out on the 41st day and say now it's time to end it it's time to shut the condemnation out you've been whipped by goliath long enough you know they they really they really gave him an intimidating name goliath because if he ever got his hands on you that's what you did you goliath somewhere you know have you seen the man you see how tall he is you see how white he is you see in his beer we got it measured we got it all measured don't you know the stats of my city don't don't you know the stats of my city is that that that people don't want pentecost anymore they just don't want this anymore and if we're gonna if we're gonna build a church we gotta we gotta change everything we're doing around here why well we can't have that fellow coming down doing that and that that just wouldn't can i tell you something we don't need the stats of the world we don't need the things of the world we are not a user-friendly church we are a god-worshipping church does somebody want their 41st day 41st day i'm telling you the 41st day is a comfort the 41st day is a comfort bishop mccool tonight jonah went into nineveh and he preached and buddy he had the spirit he wanted to see him burn up too he preached 40 days and god's going to get you don't you know that those people were counting down on the 40th day but they got to repenting and they got to asking god to forgive them don't you know what a comfort it must have been when them ninevites woke up on the 41st day and they said we're not going to die we're going to live that's what i want to have happen to you this coming sunday morning when the sun comes up and you wake up instead of saying oh it's church again it's it's the 40 day again i want you to wake up and say no it's my 41st day i don't know who's gonna walk in i don't know what god's gonna do it is my 41st day but let me say this to you let me sound an alarm of caution let me sound an alarm of caution don't mess up your 41st day you can mess up your 41st day the bible says in numbers 13 and verse number 25 and they returned from searching of the land after 40 days it's time for them to come in and say we're ready it's there let's go in the promised land but they messed up their 41st day being negative can mess up your 41st day having a cynical critical negative outlook well i've heard that sermon before go ahead and abort your 41st day 41st day well i've seen the church stirred before go ahead and mess up your 41st day because a negative spirit will absolutely send the 41st day back in and you will not reach that day again but hear me tonight regardless of how low you are how tall the walls are how many there are how all the giants of the land are there is more with you than there is against you if god be for you who can be against you praise him right now stop feeling sorry for yourself stop sucking your thumb stop getting on facebook talking about how bad you got it you're going to abort your 41st day talk about victory and shouting and praising god i am going to shout again i am going to laugh again my marriage is going to thrive again my kids are coming home again my church is going to grow again [Applause] don't mess your 41st day up exodus 28 excuse me it's just 24 verse number 18 i feel the holy ghost in his house exodus 24 verse number 18. moses went up moses went into the midst of the cloud and got him up into the mount and moses was here it is again moses was somebody said with me moses was 40 days and 40 nights you know what moses is getting in the mouth don't you he's getting the law of god he's getting the tabernacle he's getting a way that man can access into the presence of god moses is up there 40 days and 40 nights please don't mess up your 40 days and 40 nights please don't mess up your 40 first day and the bible says in exodus 32 and 1 and when the people saw that moses delayed to come down out of the mount the people gathered themselves together unto aaron and said unto him up make us gods which shall go before us for as for this moses the man that brought us up out of the land of egypt we wrought not what has become of him forty days they're about to experience moses coming down and saying look at the tabernacle shekinah glory is coming to this place there'll be a watery labor there'll be an altar god won't be shaking a mountain anymore there'll be a day of atonement where we'll know that our sins have been pushed up they were about to receive the law of god but they messed up their 41st day they stripped themselves naked reverted back to the lifestyle of egypt and they aborted their 41st day can i tell you that during this time of testing during this time of trial sometimes you'll pray you'll feel like your prayers don't even go to the ceiling you'll lift your hands and worship god when you did the sunday night before that and you felt the glory of god but you cry out with your voice until you don't have a voice left you'll walk in a dark prayer room and say god would you touch me just one more time you've blessed me with so much god you've blessed us here with this beautiful building 50 20 pleasant ridge road god it's a miracle building god you blessed us with growth but god i'm in a season now where are you god i don't feel you like i once did god what do you do during that time i have an interesting verse of scripture hezekiah had been healed hezekiah had a miracle happen the sundial went back to the beginning of the day hezekiah had been healed of an incurable disease and then after that great miracle the bible says in second chronicles 32 and 31 follow the wording follow the wording howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of babylon who sent unto him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land look at this god left him to try him that he might know all that was in his heart i'm not one that brags much on miriam grabbing a tambourine i don't really preach much about the women that got on the other side of the red sea and grabbed the tambourine and started shouting that really don't move me very much and i'll tell you why who can't grab a tambourine and shout after the victory who can't praise god whenever time you say the name of jesus you feel a chill bump run up and down your arm who can't praise god when you get unexpected bonuses and increases and all of the things they want to talk about bonuses increases inheritance unexpectedly who can't praise god like that but can i tell you tonight god finds strength in us when he leaves us for a minute [Applause] i'll tell you what i'm going to do to that anthony mccool boy i have blessed him with a wife i have blessed him with children i have blessed him with a calling but i'll tell you what i'm going to do i'm going to leave him for a season and i'm going to see how he acts then man i blessed that clinton church i blessed that la follette church i sent honey i i sent money they wasn't expecting i did all kinds of things in those churches i blessed them they knew that i was god but you know what i want to do for a season i want to take my hand off of that lethal church or off of that clinton church or off of that hall's crossroads or off of newland off of johnson city i want to take it off and all of a sudden you come in on a wednesday night and you clap your hands and you don't feel god the choir sings that song they're coming home but nobody moves the choir sings that song devil under my feet but nobody moves you got the prayer room people trying to get them to pray but nobody moves can i tell you during that 40 days is not the time for you to look for another church don't go internet surfing because your church is dead i'm telling you god has left you that he may try you to see what is in you that's what he's doing right now you're not backslidden god hasn't forsaken you he just wants to see how you'll act right now in this season lift your hands and pray loud enough you can hear yourself pray right now there are [Applause] yeah anybody can praise him on the other side of the red sea but can you praise him when they just repossess your car anybody can praise him when your prodigal son comes home but can you praise him when he has just walked out the door anybody can praise him when you get a good doctor's report but can you praise him when you've got a spot of cancer i want to know what you're like god says things break in life i say things break in life i know how you act when the man with the 200 000 car parks in your driveway i know how you act when the guest card says it's senator or mayor i know how you act but i don't know how you act when i send you broken people bro pastor i broke my district superintendent i don't know why i keep getting drawn to you tonight but i'm telling you something god is going to send to the tri-state broken people broken people and we won't ascend on this friday night of camp meeting through the world wide web a message crystal clear we welcome all broken people we welcome broken people if you're somewhere in the united states tonight or the world and you're broken and you haven't found a place to fit in come on we welcome broken people we looking for broken people broken broken people god broken people broken you may be seeing broken people we in the tri-state district welcome bro broken people we are not a museum for the perfect we are a hospital for the broken [Applause] we are not a place you can come and see how polished that we are how all together we got it no sir we're looking for the broken [Applause] i had an event i have traveled all my all my mind my memory to try to figure out how old i was maybe between 10 to 12 years old when i saw an event in my backyard that scarred this 10 year old boy i had watched i went outside and i'd watched a beautiful bird that had somehow broken its wing it had somehow broken its wing and i watched it for a little bit and as it had one wing that was perfect and would try to fly the broken wing dangled down and you do realize don't you that the only form of defense that a bird has is flight it's how a bird gets away from its predators it flies away but if a bird has got a broken wing it's only a matter of time before a predator predator finds them and i remember as hard as i could when the dogs came into the fence i remember trying to fight the dog off and shoe the bird away fight the dog off and shoo the bird away but the bird wouldn't let me catch it the bird was running from the very man but the vickers the bird was running from the very man that was trying to save i was fighting the dog and finally i lost the battle i remember sitting on the back porch and crying because i watched that dog eat that bird it would be years later that god would bring that back to my memory because in pastoring you begin to deal with broken people and the only defense they have is flight but their wing is broken and somehow the devil gets in their mind to run from the preacher run from the saints run from them and the very people that are trying to reach out with one hand and help them and the other we're trying to stave off the hounds of hell that want to finish them off please if you're broken don't run from us please if you're in this building tonight don't run from us we mean you no harm we can stand for truth but have mercy at the same time we can have the truth that have love at the same time we do stand for things but we also stand the love at the same time come on praise him one more time come on god's gonna do something here tonight [Applause] be years later that i just did some research on is a bird hopelessly lost if it breaks away and as i begin to read the steps to take it says when approaching a bird with a broken wing be very cautious be easy and gentle you will not catch the bird the first time you must be around him long enough to earn the trust you must be willing to put up with the broken wing until you earn the trust and then it says once you have taken the bird be careful and gentle how you handle the bird for you do not want to bring further injury remove the bird from the environment that it's in and take the bird to a safe place gently take the broken wing and pull the broken wing into the natural position and bring it close to the body take a cloth loosely and bind around the healthy wing and bind bind up around the broken wing but hold the broken wing close to the body broken people need to be brought in close to the body may god put an anointing upon us tonight when we look out in our congregation may it may we have a motto that no broken person sits alone in our church if you look around on a sunday night and you see a broken person come in and maybe sit on the back row you would say no not in this church there will be no broken people sitting alone [Applause] it goes through several things but it says to release her and let her fly again broken people can fly again there is life after your fall there is a 41st day for you there's a 41st day you've been through 40 days of a broken wing god has watched every time you've limped into this room god has watched every time you have limped into your congregation god has watched your 40 days when you came to church with the hounds of hell telling you backslider god doesn't love you you ought to just quit right now everybody knows you're a hypocrite god has seen that and you are about to experience your 41st day of flight you're gonna fly again let me bring this to an end tonight how many would like to get in this altar and pray tonight let me let you get in this alternate plan luke 4 and 1 jesus being full of the holy ghost returned from jordan and was led by the spirit into the wilderness being 40 days tempted of the devil and in those days he did eat nothing and when they were ended he afterward hungered matthew 4 and 10 puts it this way the 40 days it ended the 40 days it ended but on jesus fast on the 40th day satan showed up satan showed up satan came to him and after three temptations satan gave the final temptation he said look at the world all you got to do is bow down to me and worship me i'll give you all these things matthew 4 10 then saith jesus unto him get thee hence or get behind me satan for it is written thou shalt worship the lord thy god and him only shalt thou serve then the devil leaveth him and behold angels came and ministered unto him you can't have the 41st day until you put the devil in his place you got to take authority of the name of jesus stop letting him push you around you have got to say right here tonight i take apostolic jesus name authority over the adversary i don't put you in front of me i'm not defeated you're the one defeated get behind me satan you need to get behind me get behind me we need to put satan in his place we have the authority the name of jesus wasn't just to wash away our sins but the name of jesus was to give us apostolic authority luke chapter 10 verse number 19 behold i give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall any by means hurt you can i tell you where you're at tonight you wasn't just baptized in a name you're wearing a name tonight stop letting him push you around put him where he belongs i wish somebody would shout put him in his place come on put him in his place it's where he belongs staying with me tonight oh my god hallelujah romans 16 20 and the god of peace shall bruise satan wear under your feet shortly that's where he belongs stop thinking you and the devil are equal i said stop thinking you and the devil are equal stop thinking the boogeyman is some big big bad enemy can i tell you about the devil he couldn't live for god when there wasn't a devil can i tell you about the devil the reason he wants the keys to your house is because jesus christ took the keys from his house if he don't have the keys to his own house why should he get the keys to your house put him in his place i wish you'd turn around tell two or three people put him in his place put him in his place put him in his place put him in his place just put him in his place put him in his place put put him put him i missed a little i missed a little comment i want to make he said i'll give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions you know a scorpion can either bite you with his head or with his tail and jesus said heads or tails you win he can either bite you with his head or a tail he said it don't matter whether it's something coming in the future heads or it's something coming from the past hells it don't matter because you're going to have your 41st [Applause] i believe it's time to shout hey i believe it's time to dance hey i believe it's time to run i believe it's our 41st day yes i feel our 41st day coming off i feel the 41st day coming on [Applause] yes yes come on musicians i feel my 41st day put the devil in his place put the devil in his place you don't need to be standing back there tonight you've been fighting hell all week long get out of that aisle get down to the altar put him in his place [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] victory [Music] all right all right pastor mccool you be ready thank you for allowing me the honor of being here the last three nights the bible said jesus appeared unto them and spoke of them for forty days pertaining to the kingdom of god and on the 40th day he said i want you to go back to jerusalem and i want you to wait until you be endured by power with on high their 41st day jesus put satan in his place now the church needs to get in its place we need to get in our place now here's what i want to do we live in a world that's got a bunch of crazy challenges all kind of crazy challenges i don't endorse any of them i've heard the ice bucket challenge i've heard this challenge i've heard that challenge i don't i don't i don't embrace any of them but one and i got permission by our district superintendent tonight to make the tri-state district a challenge would you take the 41 day challenge with me [Music] would you take 41 day challenge well what is it that is that this coming sunday be day number one and for the next 40 days we begin to have prayer we begin to have bible reading we begin to witness we begin to call prodigals for 40 days [Applause] somebody take that challenge with me maryville maryville we've already done this once we've done it once and god did some amazing things to our congregation your district superintendent said i've got permission to challenge the tri-state district starting sunday morning to 41 days i believe in god now it's interesting because the 41st day just so happens to fall on september 2nd which just so happens to fall on a friday night which just so happens to fall there'll be a rally in section c there'll be a rally in section b and there'll be a rally in section 8. could you and i believe god that god is going to move in a great in a mighty way come on praise him tonight challenge the 41 day challenge the 41 day challenge