In This Generation
by Raymond Sloan
March 19, 2023 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Genesis 1:1-2, Revelation 22:18-21, Genesis 7:1, Hebrews 11:7, Genesis 7

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before we take a step further in the word of the Lord I am certain that after last week's message that the Lord so graciously shared with us that some of you have faced battles this week that have been tremendous and your faith has been questioned and the LIE the seed of the enemy has been thrown to you and looking for a place to stick because when you identify where the problems come now you've got to deal with it so before we go to the word today it's a different word today I need you to put your hand on your head I need you to pray God let me have Clarity of mine today I rebuke the LIE of the enemy that's trying to take up resonance in the name of Jesus come on somebody plead the blood of Jesus over your heart and your mind today oh God I want to receive from you great God anoint my mind Lord help me today oh God I believe you Lord there is a right mind that you put us in it is from your hand you still answer prayer you still intervene you still move mountains yes you do Jesus today Lord we pray we come to your God in faith believing we have gathered Lord and we have sung the songs we have testified of your miraculous work we have sung Lord we have worshiped together we have prayed and we have brought needs to you but right now Lord we so need the word in our lives help us God let us receive today Lord once again I make myself available to you Jesus I must have you God speak into our lives Lord I pray that the holy ghost power reveal itself in this place for the journey ahead of us in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus somebody shout amen so let it be done in Jesus name thank you to our singers and musicians our worship leaders thank you to everybody that's involved at Cornerstone from the front door to the back door and everywhere in between teachers and workers those helping at the front those making sure cars are there and still there after service those working in the places that we can't even really see thank you all so much everybody involved at Cornerstone I love you those who need to be involved I love you but get involved amen there is a place for everybody so find that place and connect to it you can be seated if you feel like you need to today an amazing yet eye-opening establishment of information that's been presented to our world if you will in an attempt to Define different generational things that have shaped the world in which we live stay with me for just a moment according to the powers that be those that were born 1901 to 1927 they're called considered to be the greatest generation 1928 to 1945 is considered by most to be called The Silent generation 1946 and 1964 considered to be baby boomers generation 1965 to 1980 considered by most to be Generation X 1981 to 19 and 96 is known as the millennial generation 1997 to 2012 is simply known as Generation Z and in 2010 until we here we stand today is called generation Alpha some would even refer to it or have referred to it as the glass generation in an effort to understand and track how changes of humanity progress and how those changes affect people these systems that I just mentioned to you they've been put into place to help demonstrate the ebb and the flow of humanity and how that things change after the passing of time the points that the researchers look at they vary from one study to the next of course there's social interaction levels of Education climate there's the internet and it's influence the media and its influence knowledge of world events cultures uh all of the fear and the anxiety the crossing of cultures it's very intriguing how they come up with this information many things can actually alter the cause and the effects of humanity and people and they're coming together how much time is spent on a farm for an example how much time is spent traveling between one destination to the other what groups each what classes of groups and what they eat what the times of years of the year does to a group of people those Foods if you will people eating for an example if I asked you today for a raise a lifting of your hand a rising a lifting of your hand anybody here like Mexican food but you're not Mexican anybody here like sushi but you're not Associates Japanese notice the cross cultures how that foods and things that my wife and I we love to go to World Market and shop for Stuff there's some strange things in there of course she and I and as you guys know being missionaries on on another soil you kind of just went in Rome kind of thing it describes the information that raises you that connects you to someone else some of this can contribute if you will to the development the growth of a system of human interaction for an example points on the chart that these guys put together allow me just a couple minutes to put some groundwork down today those points can be changed or altered depending on where you are and what's more important to you only time will tell just one example that all of us can relate to only time will tell the effects of covid-19 on Humanity only time will tell the effects face-to-face communication the innuendos of words and their inflections and their meanings these things are no longer assumed it was once considered disrespectful to cover your mouth talking to somebody but yet we had a whole culture that had to wear a mask over it now when you're eating please another story but the explanations now that people are looking for they have changed the way that our generation sees information it fascinates me now I know I'm the weird guy in the room but I'm fascinated by the changes and the adjustments that have been made in our world how quickly the moving of things have happened and manipulated information the human mind for an example is stretching and reshaving its thoughts and its abilities to consider and to look at things researchers claim listen to this this is so interesting researchers claim that children that are born or that have been born since 2020. those babies they will live their entire life past covid and all of the changes that have happened since covet it will be natural to them my world never had sanitary wipes it was called Grandma's dish towel we never had to worry about rubbing down in fact some researchers even claim that listen to this this was so interesting I read a whole bunch on this because my brain wouldn't quit that the allergies children now are born with more allergies than any generation previous why because they don't have the natural ability that they pick up out and we're running around in the Backwoods somewhere to fight off sicknesses and diseases come on my mom and dad had no idea what cured my ailments because I was told on a bright Sunday or a bright summer morning to hey guys it's eight o'clock in the morning the Sun's Up yes Mom get outside and be back tonight and my brother and I would stand outside and go what we gonna do come on some of y'all some of you Generations you don't understand a word I'm saying but I had a bicycle and I could ride anywhere that I wanted I would ride six or eight thousand feet y'all thought I was gonna say miles right we would ride bicycles we would walk all the back roads we'd go down to the creek we would find a turtle and that was the job of the day was to harass this turtle oh yeah yeah and and now a day oh Lord don't let me get started now nowadays we have a whole the reason they called generation Alpha the glass generation anybody want to know why because from the time they're born they will only know what a glass looks like only generation that will know what a glass has in the life that they will expect through watching that glass the glass generation y'all thought it was something about drinking something or whatever the way that you interact with others it's interesting to me it's very interesting brother Dan that an eight-year-old in this church likes Starbucks how is that even possible that a child can like Starbucks any of you kids in here like Starbucks see that don't make no sense to me how do you even know what a nine dollar cup of coffee tastes like I miss asking I'm just asking I'm just asking and some of these kids in here give me some space here Mom and Dad just for a moment I'm not gonna ruin your kid listen there's some children in here that love just all these strange foods that they can't even read the labels on yeah if I were to ask him do you like peanut butter oh come on peanut butter with banana and mayonnaise oh that's the will of God in Christ Jesus my granny was so good at that with tomato soup come on I'll make that at home and my wife's not there she looks at it and does that same thing but boy I'm all up in it all right listen to me just think it's strange but yeah these kids they'll eat some of the weirdest things today and I'm like where did that come from it's from Thailand or it's from wolves how do you even can you spell Thailand T.I land things change I didn't say if it was better or worse it simply change it simply put friend of mine things are different the measuring the meaning the way that they interact with people and so in my generation to where we are today things have changed the only reason today that I bring this information to you is I want us to understand something about time in God's timing everything has a place and the changes and the interactions between generations and cultures have a way of adjusting who we are and what we do simply put from what the kids eat or what they don't eat from what they learn or what they don't learn from what is successful and what is failure from how many children do you have to how many are dealing today children are dealing with their aging parents to how many school buildings are effective and how many are schooling at home to all the ways you spend money to the traveling that happens all of the little details and all the little ways how job interviews are done whoever heard of interviewing somebody online come on I can put on my Jets and outfits then online I can sit what I feel like is yeah come on I can I can ask somebody else to sit in for me man I show up on the job and they're like no you ain't at all what we was looking at yeah what had happened I got a little little you know listen to me listen to me from the way that you sell fruits in a market if I were to ask this younger generation today do you even know what an ax is do you know how to build a fire could you boil water in-house or out of house okay okay here's the great one that all you kids need to understand you need to ask somebody about this do you know what a mosquito is life's changing issues are changing but yet they all interconnect and the systems of our world have to bring us to a place where we realize we are all at different generations and different ways of thinking and different ways of dealing with things when a young couple for example decides to move away from a family most of the time listen to this they'll go and start their new life but they'll never reconnect with their family I am thankful today that I stand here at 57 almost 58 years old and I can tell you that as a child the greatest influence is in my life were around my grandmother's table on Sunday afternoon because me and my brother's sister my mom dad my Aunts Uncles cousins and nephews and nieces and all those folk gathered around granny and Paul's table on Sunday I got to learn all kind of stuff sitting there now keep in mind I was never allowed at the big table see we got all messed up I watched parents today fix their kids plate first and I'm like my granny would smack you my grandmother would finish all the cooking come on I'm gonna help somebody today in the K in the kitchen and see with her dish towel she'd wipe her hands y'all men folk come on and all them men would get up and come to the table we'd all sit down when I got older and all the wives all the moms all the ladies guess where they went to the kitchen and guess where all the kiddos went to the bench at the piano in the living room we all gathered around in my life all right Tim you were at my grandma's oh Tim come on help me with food today Tim was calling that little boy because that's all they could call him here listen to me listen listen now now we live in a day listen where Mom and Dad will go to a restaurant and buy their food but they'll stop first at another restaurant so their kids will have something because they won't eat what's at that restaurant I'm not trying to get in anybody's business I'm telling you things have changed things have changed I want to share something with you the reason that this is on my mind and my heart that I think the Lord knows exactly what he does every time I'm driving down the road this past week and I made a mistake of turning on the news on the radio I was trying to fill a little bit of Gap at times so I'm listening and there was a talk show going on there were three voices I heard and they were talking about events in the world these guys are probably they sounded like they might have been in their 20s maybe they even one of them referenced to he had doesn't have kids yet but they're considering it so in my mind I'm trying to image put an image together for who's on the radio talking I want to share with you what this what one of the talk show people said in our city of Chattanooga a young person I call them a young person that works on the talk show that's one of the the voices on this talk show this was the statement that this young lady made quote old people are so ignorant and stupid they simply need to go away and let us young ones set the rules for the future she said on the radio she said this they messed up our world now leave us alone let us fix it not what I said and then I had Church now listen to me listen to me it's a different generation today that we live in so enough about that standing here today with a purpose to allow us as a church to look into the facts of how our world has changed just over the last hundred a little over a hundred years we understand the principles and the Dynamics of growth and prosperity we live and still listen to me one of the greatest countries the greatest nation that's ever been on planet Earth is our country in which we live I don't care if you believe it or not it's true you can make investments if you want to you can study you can give yourself into the things you can make yourself successful you can make yourself proud that you're who you are because you have done what you have done we live in a wonderful Nation called the United States of America see 20 years ago the place would have erupted at that mere statement but things have changed mentality's changed I don't want to get sidetracked today but I ask all of us or all of you who who watch shows on Netflix because your TV doesn't matter anymore it's all irrelevant do you not even think or consider the fact that men and women are sleeping together or men and men are women and women it's just natural and none of us even blush anymore at information has caused us to be enlightened generational change the question then I pose to you today with all of the things that are happening in our world all the influences all the information all the media all the presentation all that stuff listen to me carefully I have my job you understand my I do this as a living sometimes and not just preaching or passion but when I need a change of pace or I need my mind to rest I'll go install sound systems I install these kind of things and I've been inside and outside all around there man the devil want on that thing not a devil one now I've had some audio sound systems that I knew there had to be a devil in that thing because it's all popping and crackling okay yeah Josh and Duron they're here every Sunday beating the Devils out of this one not sure what's going on but one thing I know this technology and all is not the issue it is not even an issue in the reality but my question then for today is simply this and all the information and influence of our world where do we as a church go from here how is this generation called generation Alpha Generation glass power the interaction be when when there's a young person that has no clue what it's like to live without gel that they put on their hands and mom and dad you know our kids used to smack us when they were little we lived in Bolivia we made our own baby wipes because there was no such thing that we knew of at least there if you take a roll of total of a total paper towels and cut it in half put it in a bowl put a cap full of Downy a cap full of bleach and a cup of water in it and let it get soaked in there's your baby wipes worked didn't it that's what we used because collar was so rampant in Bolivia and the average age they died before they were 46 years old because of Cholera rampant and all the everywhere you went so when we go to churches and stuff brother Herbert we'd go into church and and and and they say we got yeah we got we got Latin that's in here quantities on a man they're very affectionate and they come up and they smooch and they don't smooch on One Cheek they smooch on both it ain't nothing better than some old grandma coming up to you with a beard to smooch on you I mean it's just the coolest thing but uh you don't know what what to expect right then you turn around and our kids are all covered in kisses so at a year old and three years old our kids we pull out one of those wipes and wipe their face with it and or every picture you see of our kids they've got big old round Rosy Cheeks that are red red that ain't that's because of all the junk we had to put on them come on I've told y'all before my daughter she would get lice bless her heart and her hair is this long and so you go to the pharmacy and get stuff they'd sell it to you we put it on her head and he had to leave it for 20 minutes and she's standing there in the bathtub wrapped up in the towel this is still dumb this is so dumb this is so dumb only to find out when we left that country we went to buy some of that so we could take it with us and they said oh that's been that's that's illegal now you can't why because it's dangerous to the health Hallelujah we use that stuff for two three years yeah oh no that that causes this and that my daughter now at 20 whatever she looks and goes see that explains it all dad Sam I got something to tell you we had this chemical we put never mind I'm joking where to from here what do we do in the midst of all the change what do we do in the midst of people doing things in different ways how do we make adjustments for that as humans how do we understand it as humans I don't know I'm going to tell you this probably the majority of the younger Generations they may not physically even know how to open their Bible and read it they may have one because grandparents thought it was a good idea to get it for them but they may or may not understand the value of that Bible but instead they can quickly go and find it on there and then they've got 45 translations on there and then they got it in other languages there and they're expected to understand it let's look to the scripture listen to this Genesis chapter 1 verse one in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth somebody say Amen the Earth was without form and void Darkness was upon the face of the deep and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters in the beginning God created we understand that to be true somebody say first of the Bible but if you go to the end of the Bible Revelation 22 verse number 18 for I testify unto every man that heareth the words of this prophecy of this book If any man shall add unto these things God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book and if any man shall take away from the words of this book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in the book he which testify of these things saith surely I come quickly amen even so come Lord Jesus the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ savior be with you oh amen does anybody's Bible say the end mine does I don't know if they were just generous and said what are we going to do these two words okay listen to me listen to me from Genesis God had a plan from the end to the very end you can go to the scripture and you can read in there how that if anybody doesn't live by this book if anybody tries to add to or take away there's going to be confrontation with you there's going to be consequences with you you're going to have to give an account for what you've done that said I've come to declare to somebody in 2023 this book is still very important in spite of whatever generation you might find yourself in spite of whatever you've been taught or however you've been educated I've come to tell you you're going to have to give an account because in the beginning God created but at the end of it something's going to have to happen to where you decide everything in between I have followed why because it is still God's plan when we see that the climax of this book was everything that was written in between and all the chapters and all the ability that was put there for Humanity to understand it when you and I wrap our minds around the beliefs and the understandings and the teachings of what we call the Bible then we have to understand apparently God wants us to have tools in our hands to understand in every generation what to expect give me give me a moment to make a reference here there was a man the Bible said his name was Noah everybody say Noah everybody say Noah look at your neighbor and say there was no one come on are you awake do you know the story about Noah Noah the Bible said it was in the scriptures and you can read about the life of Noah the the the bulk of it in the Book of Genesis the book of Beginnings that Moses penned because he did the first five books we understand that right through history how that God chose Noah to be the one that would survive the coming destruction of the World by water notice here how the author pinned the words in Genesis chapter 7 verse number one listen to this and the Lord said unto Noah Come Thou in all thy house into the ark listen for thee have I seen righteous before me and this generation I have seen in you in this generation righteousness so I'm telling you verse seven now we read this in several other accounts but we read here in the book of Beginnings here how that God spoke to Noah and said in this Ark that you did get in there because in this generation you're the only one that I have found that has righteousness I've come today to tell you friend in the world in which you and I live there is still instruction for us to receive God had listen to this God had instructed Noah to enter into this Ark that he built listen God did not say Noah you have found favor in my eye I need you to back away clear off a field about three miles by three miles I'm about to drop something out of Heaven onto the Earth boom and an ark Fall Out of Heaven Wasn't that way at all but instead God said Noah if your family is going to be saved you need to get out in the woods and you need to get an ax out and you need to get a saw out and you need to cut down all these gopher trees that you need you need to make sure that you get the understanding and the knowledge of what it's going to take to build an ark to get you out of here know what you need to know something only thing that I find in you is righteousness your desire to do things right but in that understanding the Bible tells us for over a hundred years that Noah labored and he worked day in and day out Generations coming and generations going things happening daily things happening yearly Noah had his mind made up I've come to ask somebody today if the Lord God were to speak to us in this hour is there really something within us that would say hell or high water I'm gonna do what God has told me to do why because I've believe in the voice of God I believe in the command of God therefore I'm going to learn what I need to learn I'm going to submit to what I need to submit to I'm going to embrace what I need to embrace why because my family is depending on it ah now I'm sure that Noah was a smart guy I'm sure that Noah had a whole lot of things that he knew how to do but there had to come a point brother Daniel where Noah stood out amongst a big old Forest of trees and he decided within himself there's only one way these trees are going to come down and I can use them to build an ark with it I've got to cut them down and as the trees fell he began to assemble all that wood it wasn't enough for him to take a big tree like that but he'd have to hewn it down he'd have to peel the bark he'd have to listen to this he'd have to understand there's no Home Depot nor Lowe's to get to there's nowhere else to go there's not an internet to find it out but I'm gonna have to do one thing rely on the voice of God if he spoke to me then I'm gonna understand I will get what I need from him and him alone I've come to you to tell you today friend I submit to you that the generation in which we live that the Lord God has given us what we need to make Heaven our home it's in the word of God and if you and I are going to be saved it's because we got in there and we decided what no preacher that put it in me what no ancestor that put it in me but I got into the word of God and I decided whatever generation came and whatever generation went I was going to listen to the word of God it's not dependent on what you look look like it don't matter what you smell like or how you act as for me in my house we're going to serve the Lord why because I am determined my family can be saved this generation is what God spoke Noah in this generation I'm going to help you save the future Generations I declare to you the Bible does not say that no one went out and had a Revival trying to win all these people that was not what God told him to do Noah this boat is for your family now God help me stay on track the beauty of the statements that were made that we have in writing from the hand of Moses for you and I to understand was this Noah built an ark according to the plan that God gave him agreed I mean how did he know slime was good because he pitched it in and out whatever he had to get to make it happen it was slimed let me say ooey gooey come on if we had a work day at church today I need y'all to come all right within the Slime this building oh most of us I know most of us would go to the outside Ministry you know what we're going to go outside and sweep how did Noah know how to do that stuff because when he'd wake up in the morning the first thing on his mind was my family must be saved when he would face an obstacle and he didn't know what to do he'd scratch his head and pray and he would say my family must be saved when he laid down at night on the bed and before he closed his eyes he would pray that last prayer God whatever you do let my family be saved why because listen to me because if you'll read in the word of God somebody better hear what happened in that day in that day they were turned to themselves they followed their own lust they turned to themselves and all the things they heaped upon themselves all the gods and idols and stuff that they wanted they declined all the things of God they walked away from the voice of God it didn't do anything for them they were living in their own self they were marrying heaven and marriage they were doing what they wanted to do there was no principle there was no standard they were simply living their lives but there was a man that found righteousness with God and he would decide you know what regardless of what that generation does or what the one did before or what the one's doing right now as for me and my house we're going to follow the ways of God therefore I'm still today going to go out in the woods and I'm going to cut down another gopher tree because I believe I've got an ark to build there's only one way my family's going to be saved and that's when I'm doing the work of God that's when I'm understanding this world is not my home why would I build upon this surface when there is a heaven to gain and a place to go to that he is preparing for us Hebrews 11 and 7 by faith Noah being warned of God of things not yet seen not seen as yet moved with fear prepared an ark to the saving of his house by the which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith Noah worked in his generation Noah did the work that he had to do for his generation in the midst of it all listen carefully the Bible tells us very clearly that the voice that he had was specifically for his family now listen 2023 I'll ask it this way and I'm coming to a close look at the generation in which we live godlessness shunning the right way and running towards the wrong way deciding that old people just need to go away and we'll fix all the mistakes you made the mindset mentality of a generation that says they know more they understand more don't think they don't for one minute when I hear the generation of my mother speak and say about the Young Generation they don't ask us for our opinion they don't want to hear it when we give it to them because they know more than us when I listen to how my wife and I have to talk about things that's going on in our world and she and I say you know what there is an answer but they won't listen then say was the perfect answer of simply saying it's an answer come on I've come to tell you do you realize you listen this is so incredible fascinating to me that the generation in which we are right now this one called the alpha generation the those that are born since covet 19. do you realize the challenges that they're going to have because the one prior to them on all the internet and all the stuff of the information and all do you realize the greatest challenge for our world this has hit national news and it's here in Chattanooga now as well the artificial intelligence thing that's taken off come on these young folk they're embracing it because that's just what it is it's just natural it's just how it's going to be and us old folk are looking at going wait a minute we're going to be looked at as the ones who are old and don't know nothing and you broke it on we'll come to fix it okay fine I don't mind saying I can become righteously indignant in moments when somebody says something like that to me because this is what I say in my mind now you give me a microphone on the platform I might say excuse me while you sat there in that chair just now and spoke into that microphone and it went out over the Airways of people listening they want to Dime of that out of your pocket spent to make that table that you sat at to make those shoes that are on your feet to put the clothes on your back and the lunch that you ate in that nine dollar cup of coffee you just drank and yet you're gonna sit there and bellyache about things and say we didn't know what he was doing that's like that's like the guy oh Jesus help me we're living in a world today again it's amazing I'm reading this information I'm going Lord I help me not to judge and help me not to point fingers but even scientists are saying we better be very careful of raising a vegan generation I don't make sense to me I'm like wait a minute I mean there's nothing wrong with eating vegetables right here's the thing those that are believing that the younger generation because there's a lot of those they couldn't grow a plant if they wanted to where are they going to get that vegetable you understand the mix-up and mentality now again I'm not putting down vegan stuff I don't understand it because I'm you can tell by looking at me I'm okay with meat Logan I ain't a salad I'm good for an hour it's kind of like when my lovely wife said baby this morning for breakfast we're having oatmeal oh Lord I'm gonna be hungry by 10 o'clock I know it's heart healthy but long about 10 o'clock I'm going for that two sleeves of Girl Scout cookies come on somebody now listen listen carefully I'm not advocating any of that what I'm telling you is this simply listen Generations come and go I've said this a multitude of times and I still stand and scratch my head about it at my grandmother's house at any any Festival any celebration or whatever my granny had this big old fat juicy ham that she would fix big old country type ham come on somebody and because this again because of what she was doing the size of people that's coming in she cut some of the fat off of it herb and she put it on a plate before she put it in the oven okay that'll go good and she's there'd go as a young toddler young guy six seven eight nine years old my granny said I'd run in the kitchen and my little short Grandma standing there with a towel in her hand she'd say I need you to take that plate over at Uncle lava okay I'd pick up this plate of all this great looking greasy sloppy messy looking raw ham and I take off across the way and I'd go and my old Uncle awful 87 years old will come to the door and he'd look at it I say granny sent this to you he'd go oh wonderful he'd pick it up and go died at 87. I don't Advocate eating all that stuff for you I don't know all I know is he died at 87. my dad who would run four five six eight miles a day and eat all the healthy stuff and it was a whopping 130 pounds died at 47. I don't know I do know this I do know this that as a generation we can look at things and we can try to understand it the more I read the more questions I had so I had to back away from all that data and information and I had to get back to the word and I had to say Lord are we going to be found being righteous in this hour because out in this world Lord there's a lot of craziness and there's a lot of silly things going on there's a lot of godlessness there's a lot of things happening people have lost the fear and the reverence of the house of God I think people have lost the ability to believe and trust in the promises of God and instead they would rather run to this and run to that listen to me carefully friend if we ever back away from the truth of the word of God we have just lost it we might as well be like anybody else why because it is the promises that's in the word and the plan that God established in the beginning God created God had a plan at the very end if you try to change it add to or take away you're going to deal with it so you know what you and I should learn to do in this generation get into the word and figure that Lord where is it God how does it affect us Lord how do I teach this to somebody else God give me the ability to understand the power of a prayer room help me Lord to understand the power of sacrifice and giving help me God to realize that somebody has invested in me and I owe it to the Next Generation to invest in them why you want to know why we're in such a I'm trying my best to get a church building built a facility put together because we got little ones that were up here today and they're going to be looking one day where are we going to have church where is church for us right now I've said it a multitude of times I'll say it again when I was a kid I went to church all the time and then it went down to two nights a week now we're down to Sunday maybe and Wednesday maybe what's going to be for the next Generation what do you mean go together and meet in a church I can do that online look what kova did for us I just got buzzed on my watch we have 77 watching online today I never would have thought my grandfather I could see him now we got 77 lining up today no pause online huh no they better not be online they may be lining up for the baptismal that's what they need to do get in line right here him and his third grade education he'd look at you he said you know what you need is the name of Jesus applied to your life you need the blood of Christ to fly you need to set yourself in the ways of God you don't need to be running around with it well come on that's foolishness and all come on some of us oh God a whole lot of questions going on in the church why does the church do it this way it's not important past gender here's here's one ready I'll just I'll just throw it out here's one that I've been presented to many multiple times Jesus had a beard Jesus wore a rope too and I look terrible in a robe come on Kevin help me now listen to me listen to me I'm not saying there's anything right wrong good about or ugly about those things but when I'm faced with questions like that I have to wonder is that the same person that asked about the blood of Jesus that can heal the body and put them right back together or are they more worried about those kind of things as opposed to getting in the word and finding out you know what what the Bible tells me that if I will pray and I will seek the face of God that the heavens will open and answers will come and I'll be able to stand to give an account to the Next Generation and I'll be able to reach to the one that just came before listen friend I've come to tell you we're too close to the end to decide that you know what it ought to die with this generation no friend it's too close to the end the more we live the longer we're here on Earth the closer we're getting to the coming of the Lord I'm telling you it could happen any moment the Trump of God sound the voice of the Archangel blast out those that are in the ground coming up those that are alive and well will gather to meet them in the air and together so shall we be I've come to tell you you've come too close to it now don't get off on this tangent or that tangent but get into the word of God and decide for yourself I believe what they believed I believe and I understand well I'll just change it for where I I am but I don't offer the message I don't alter the anointing I don't mess with the doctrine and truth I don't come up with the understanding of what was once delivered to the Saints but instead I will contend for it I'll fight you for it this was once given to the church I'll Stand in the face of the enemy and I'll declare devil you're a liar get away from my children get away from my wife I get away from my grandbaby get away from the church family why because I believe there is still the word of God to lead us foreign with me it's 124 for us clock Watchers this generation it's what was said of Noah Noah with all the stuff that you faced all the negative all the naysayers all of those who simply pointed a finger and laughed at you in this generation Noah I need you to go inside that Ark that you built and I need you to wait there so the scripture tells us you can read it Genesis 6 and 7. so Noah enters the ark with his wife his sons and their wives and they go in the ark and they wait the Bible says seven days they're standing there waiting and we all know the story how all the animals came everybody knows why there was two by two of the clean and seven by seven of the unclean anybody why oh did I say why of the clean and the unclean there were seven of the clean and two of that why what sacrifice what was Noah doing the silliest thing is to survive almost a year on a boat with animals and to come off the boat and to take the clean animals and sacrifice them but the very first thing that Noah was doing in the eyes of God was saying I put it back the way you gave it to us so believe it or not your children are going to ask you why does that guy get up there and sweat and scream and you know holler and you're welcome to tell us because he don't know no better why does that teacher get up there and talk about the the cross and the value of helping others and the love of Jesus and the Ten Commandments I'll tell you why because before she hands you the cookie to eat or the snack that you have to eat and if you've got a peanut allergy she has to give you another snack you know all those things that our generation had they want you to know children that Jesus loves you this I know the Bible tells me so now today is Alice 1 26 now this altar is open for a generation that will rise to say you know what I don't understand everything that went on before I don't comprehend all that's going to happen in the future but one thing I do know as for me I'm going to serve God I'm going to get the word of God in my heart so that I might not sin against God and I'm going to live my life according to what the word is and I'm going to decide now that this generation is going to know who I am I'm a blood-bought Child of God I love him I serve him I believe in him he has all precedence in my life he is first and foremost come on this altar is open if you need the Holy Ghost he's here today if you need a cleansing in your mind and body it's here today if you need forgiveness of sins it's here today if you need a word from God to help you from this day to the next day it's here come on come on this altar is the best place you can be mom and dad you ought to be bringing your kids down here you ought to gather up next to them as close as you can and pray with them come on pray that the word of God gets established and planted and buried in them come on pray that the power of the Holy Ghost will do its job in their life come on Mom and Dad pray with your children come on grandparents pray with your grandbabies in the name of Jesus pray that God will use them pray that they will be an ignition of Fire Within them of the Holy Ghost and they'll understand the beauty of sacrifice they'll understand the power of giving unto God first fruits they'll understand the ways of God Jesus Give Me Jesus oh come on that's right that's right come on that's right come on in the name of Jesus come on believe it Lord God I know you've got a plan Jesus I plead your blood over my babies I plead your blood Jesus over my family I please your blood Jesus over what we do God give us wisdom Lord understanding Lord let us find the ways of God let us discover in the word your promises your faithfulness your goodness your kindness Lord help us Jesus come on say pray call on the name of the Lord God Jesus let me get it Lord let me serve My Generation Well Lord I pray Jesus oh come on that's right come on Generations come and go the word of God stands Generations come and go but the promises of the word stand Jesus help me to understand it Lord help me today God to connect with the Lord and to understand this generation needs you Jesus you don't let us throw it away don't let us move Lord the ancient landmarks don't let us oh God let us Lord fall in love with you your principles your word your promises your power your anointing Lord help us Jesus come on Church hey come on bring something with you make it a sacrifice Lord I give it to you Jesus I give it to you today the name of Jesus I need you Jesus Hallelujah thank you Jesus come on Generations come and go things change the word never never changes in the reading that I some of the research I did on Generations when it's talking about this new generation the 2020s so very interesting the research done the the power the smart guys if you will the data they introduced was if your baby is under a year old and you expose them to glass screen phone or iPad or computer whatever that they will become enticed By the Light by the color and they even went as far to say that the people who put the content out there for that age group they do it according to how the brain waves work How Sound Works how noise Works how voice inflections all of those things and it's it's very pleasing to a parent that's young because remember where they came from and so to to that parent of the young ones it's just part of society and so it's just what they do but that same research said that if you expose them before the age of one by the time they hit Age Two that will become a nutrient in their life and they will have to have that in order to sustain themselves because it's been put in them from the time that they were little three and four-year-olds it goes up like 40 or 50 percent the effect that it can have on their mind now listen carefully I'm not a doctor I don't you know everybody here said you wake every grandchild okay I will it's coming yeah yeah it's all different then okay I saw something a few about a year ago that just blew me away I saw a lady in a grocery store with a shopping cart and she had her toddler in the little seat where the toddler sits and she's pushing her and her kids are sitting there probably a year old maybe a little older and I looked at that and she's coming by and I'm like man baby got face all down in that screen because you know the mom's trying to shop that's all the mom pushing the cart and then I'd see her do this and and I'm down at the end of the aisle I saw her do this and I saw her dude so I got closer sister Renee and she had a book paper a tree right there and that child was sitting there and that book was facing her and she's looking at it and she's pointing and Mom's reading the book turning the pages while she's shopping and I had to stop and go no world y'all we're going to take up an offering to get her an iPad now again understand where I'm coming from Pastor sometime can be the bad guy and you can blame me because I'm calling all your parenting skills bad and stuff no I'm just simply telling you when I hear and I read these kind of stories and I'm like Lord where are we headed help us to understand your children will not be saved by osmosis you cannot get up next to them with the Bible and then receive it it's going to have to be because you put it there you give them the experience of it mom dad you will never give your child the Holy Ghost but if you've caused them to fall in love with God they'll get it at an altar with hands lifted up and listen carefully the data suggest that each generation is changing but the Bible suggests I'm God I do not change testimony requires us to understand he is the same all the in between so it's for us to decide get in the word and let this generation say about the apostolics y'all they bunch of crazies but buddy they can show prey they can sure sing and the glory is there and I can't tell anything else about it but it's real grab somebody's hand close to you we're going to pray to go home Lord thank you for our time together today thank you for the word of God that is a lamp to our feet a light to our pathway I pray Lord for this generation I pray in anointing God would rest upon this generation I pray the glory of the Lord would reside in this generation let the power of the Holy Ghost be found in this generation in the name of Jesus Lord help us God Revival in our day truth God in your word in our day help us Lord to love you and to serve you and to believe in you God for great things there is nobody like you Jesus the word is powerful and can do any job in Jesus name keep us this week Lord I plead your blood over the church in Jesus name let us have Revival in our church so that Revival hits our city in the name of Jesus we pray come on love the Lord before you go home I love you Jesus I worship you holy God Hallelujah I love y'all shake hands be friendly and go home happy don't forget the announcements for the week