What Is God Up To?
by Raymond Sloan
July 16, 2023 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Colossians 2:9-10, John 18:33-37, 1 Corinthians 2:9-13, 2 Peter 3:9

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I like church anybody else like church oh come on I like church I enjoy the time that I get to come to the house of the Lord I I like to spend time with you I know that's hard to believe isn't it for today's sake though I'd like to take a moment and I'd like to Simply remove the church Factor Stay With Me I I want to I want to simply enjoy the times that I get together together with you just the times to be together you guys have a way of making me better I'm a better person when I'm around most of you you guys you make me laugh you guys you make me cry sometimes saying occasionally some have made me not cry you rejoice with each other you worry about one another I can tell by the communications that you guys send between one another I I can tell that when you use the CAC app that you're really honestly concerned about one another anybody else read the wording on some of the texts that come through praying for you huh I'm not I'm trying to learn the Emoji thing I know some don't I Logan yeah I get that one I can do that I can do this one but on the other ones I'm I'm trying to figure out the guy that's got two blue dots or one blue I'm not I'm worried I'm figuring this out praying for you that's a common reaction love you and pray your day is blessed today Emoji Moji Emoji those are those are responses I like the fact that as a church family we have the ability to encourage and to help one another now I am speaking sincerely from my heart it does my heart good when you guys interact with one another and you're okay helping one another sister Stacy you'll send out a prayer request and it could be the whole world's falling apart but all she has to Simply say is will you pray for this need and a hundred of you guys jump on and breathe Lord whatever that is God I I pray you would help them huh Church culture is unlike anything else in the world in our natural families for an example you you may or may not tolerate some of the things that your natural family does but you'll put up with a whole lot of things at your church family does it's an interesting Dynamic it only exists in a church family listen to me you won't see that same thing on your job imagine imagine you guys that work in a plant work in an office you ladies that go out and and hit a clock or go sit at a desk imagine tomorrow you show up at the plan or the office and you walk in and you hug all your co-workers okay everyone that be cool well then would that be something else so y'all are so nervous right oh shoot Horton whatever you would not be neat to go in your office tomorrow hug on people oh man imagine you walk in you hug all your co-workers everybody you go in you give them a kiss on the jaw wouldn't that be just interesting to see uh there's only really a handful in here that could do that but Sam can do that with his co-workers because he works by himself yeah he can do what yeah kiss the mirror that's right how do you think that would go huh all right all right all right five five five let's go let's go this route how about after church today you leave this place everybody's done you're leaving you go home you're going to stop at Publix to pick up a few things for supper you just walk in the produce Island and hug out guy standing there with a melon in his hand can you just sound he would do it wouldn't you all right how about you go in public go to the back of the store or the meat market you just walk about everybody huh when you do that come on I'm talking strange outside the family of God but inside family God it's very it's very different let me show you how different is Logan come here buddy come here Logan come here come on slowpoke watch this he don't think nothing about that why now how he won't do that with some of his family members tell me I'm lying huh you are famous all right see it's different right but in a church family things are different y'all y'all understand where I'm at today Logan I want you to go hug somebody go hug herb over there going go hug her he's right there watch this hang on hold on watch this huh I mean they can't even touch hands thank you Logan thank you buddy listen to they don't feel bad they don't they don't look bad that don't look out of place well somebody's joyful right now because in the family in the church family things are just different than things going on in the rest of the world now if some of you wind up and look at the husbands going on everywhere turn your turn your neighbor and say I let it love you and I want to hug you if you go to work tomorrow or you go to the store this evening and you end up in jail please don't call me you you have you what is different about a church family than the family that you spend eight or nine hours a day with at work huh there's a factor that comes into the equation when you decide whether or not to hug that person or rub them on the back huh I had the opportunity yesterday to go to a a funeral a visitation a friend dear friend of mine and two several for anyone I know the whole family but their mother passed away and I I went to the funeral home yesterday to to just encourage them best I could hug their neck and just let them know us I was praying for him anybody ever been to a funeral it feels a little different even at a funeral that time lost doesn't it feel different there's something I noticed though yesterday come here Israel come here you're on the front row you're on my side now come on this is what happened you walk into the funeral home and you know the family you walk so sorry for your life you may notice this and then they wait wait am I right yeah come on I stand there I count the patch thank you Israel I'm like hey really like them there was several and then now again go go to work tomorrow and try it go to your boss and come here listen to me listen to him I'm going somewhere today when it comes to situations to where you as part of the family of God there is an understanding and an agreement in your spirit the spirit of God that is within you identifies you with someone else that has that self-same spirit you remove doubt you remove the walls you remove the separations because listen to me when the Holy Ghost spirit is in your life you feel a connection with people that are in the church family it is a spiritual expectation and an experience that only comes from being part of the family of God y'all listen to me you can leave this complex today and go to a different place where there's a house of worship and you may or may not feel that same connection I walk into a camp meeting see somebody I hadn't seen in 10 years and I'll go up and hug their neck and Pat him on the back and tell them how much I appreciate them man I was at camp meeting this week there's so much love people just swimming in it you know we're going out to eat at a restaurant we leave the restaurant but I'm so glad I got to eat I love you I love you too man I got people standing waiting on tables going there's a love going on around here is peace people looking at you like your strange man I got no qualms about anybody here ever seen me outside these four walls at the store I'll tell you I love you man I'm so glad to see you here today I feel better standing in the middle of this park with all these people standing around but I love you and I want you to there's something about the spirit that connects you it is a spiritual thing there's something about the spirit of God that changes you how many of you known hateful people ain't nobody ever come up to want to love on them's Pat them I don't even want to be near them but they come into the presence of the Lord and the spirit of God changed their lives come on Brother David Abdallah used to go to this church he used to talk about a guy in his church that hated everybody nobody wanted to be around him he was known in the whole Community as that hateful old man but it came into the house of God came to an altar God filled him with the Holy Ghost he was baptized in Jesus name he walks out the doors and everywhere he's go he's like this come here I need to hug somebody I need another like who you're weird old man he used to be mean he said but he ain't mean no more he's not upset any longer so I'm about the guy that's changed in his demeanor and his makeup come on some of you sitting in here may be that same person before you came to know the Lord you was hateful grouchy mean didn't care about life but all of a sudden some spiritual activity began to work within you and now you stand on your feet you bow on your knee you hug people neck and you realize that you need the church you need one another there was a reaction that happens under the power of the Holy Ghost as you thrive and as your spirit begins to move you work week in and week out but when you come into the house of the Lord there is something that draws you and pulls you here anybody glad when you're pulling the parking lot I mean you just pull on the parking lot you get out you're coming I watch some of y'all Pastor looks at a few things I'll watch some of y'all come into the house of the Lord this is such a cool thing I looked out this past week and I saw my little sister Eloise get out of the car wheels barely stopped moving and she jumped out and here she comes as fast as she could get down the sidewalk and I'm like where are you going I got to get into church I'm like why is she so excited about I bet if Daddy said go mow the grass and anyway yeah yeah your dad won't let me right I watched some of y'all climb out of the car and you're all down you had a hard week and as soon as you touched that door no door comes open ah I said how are you how was your week you know what it was okay but I'm here in the house of the Lord why there is a spiritual activity that is working listen to me carefully you can miss two weeks of work and you get back to the job and it is all you can do to put one foot in front of the other just to get through the door get back into the same routine anybody know I'm talking about anybody have a vacation you go out of town with your family you got to go back oh oh you can go to a two-week Camp meet and come back here like whoa it's all loose you've been in the presence of the Lord you feel different why because when something unfolds in your life like a spiritual awakening listen to me it changes everything about you why did God do that to the church now why did God make the church family to be something that nothing else in this world could actually be to you why is it that the spirit of God develops within you and there's a love that begins to unpack itself within your spirit and in your demeanor in the way you act that once you are full of the Holy Ghost something happens does anybody here recall remember even slightly can go back to the point well point of reference in your life when you met Jesus Christ anybody can can you go back that far come on what was it like what happened what transpired within you come on anybody here remember the joy that just overshadowed you and overwhelmed you to anybody realize the effect that the spirit of God had in your life is there anybody here that can remember when you fell in love with Jesus and he began to work in you and he began to manifest himself and oh come on to anybody here remember when the Lord Jesus came into your life and everything began to look good all they wasn't all hunky-dory and all the boxes of this and that but it was joy that you couldn't speak about there was peace that came in and flooded your soul you couldn't explain it it didn't make sense yet for some reason you were alive in Jesus the letter that was written to the Colossians and two and nine says this for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily ye are complete in him which is the head of all principality and power come to tell somebody when you understand who Jesus is finally your life becomes a complete finally your life becomes complete there is wholeness there is completeness you don't walk around with gaps in your mind you don't walk around with cracks and holes in your demeanor but instead you are complete in Jesus Christ he puts it all together for you let me show you all something we we all recognize the family of God look around you come on look around you we got tall ones short ones fat ones skinny ones bald ones long-haired ones we got ugly ones no we won't stop we'll stop right there right and you look around and you're like you know what I don't see a whole lot of connectedness in here if I look in my flesh eye but if I pull back the blinders and I open up my spiritual eyes when I look across the room at somebody I can see you know what there's a prayer warrior in my life right there I love that person or you look across the room and you say hey there's somebody who came by and shook my hand hugged my neck in spite of all the junk that I've been dealing with this week I'm so glad that they're here why because the completeness in the family of God is so that you and I can understand that this world and all of what it can offer and all the things that can transpire here on planet Earth on your job in your family at the market out of the market whatever does not compare to the place that he has gone to prepare for you and for me therefore I don't know about you but I'm not building my kingdom here on Earth but I am looking for the kingdom whose maker and who's the founder is Jesus Christ and when I look around this room today I see that you have the same vision and you have the same desire higher and you have the same dream you're looking for the day when he says come home so here's a question I'm okay just ate after why did God design us with the desire to want to be together with those who in the spirit make us better why did God put that within the church family why were we created as different and distinct and from different walks of life as we are why did God put that within us I will tell you today it is part of God's process it is part of the plan of God he designed you and me with this end in mind listen to me what has happened though as Sin has entered into the lives of humanity and Disobedience and sin have separated us from God's spirit working in US listen to me there are some even right now sitting in this room under the sound of my voice you may or may not feel that same love compassion desire to want to be with one another in this room in fact some of you are half asleep and you're waiting patiently for me to finish so you can step out the door and go about your business because you don't feel the same way that the person next to you might feel I'm going to tell you what's the distraction and what's going on is simply this if the spirit of God is actively working in your life it is going to demonstrate itself in ways that your flesh cannot explain but some of us in here we want to all here Pastor I love you we want to qualify justify our bitterness and our anger and our strife and all the while wondering why can't God speak to me why can't God move in my life I'll tell you why the voice of God may actually sound like somebody you know it might come to you in a way that sounds like somebody that you've been cursing the week before y'all listen to preacher today I'm trying to help somebody today to recognize the fact that God has put something in the church that will pull us and connect us and put us in the right Spirit one with another but if sin comes on the scene and if disobedience comes on the scene there is a separation there and God's saying if you'll just throw your hands up repent of your sins I could come in and change it and you can feel the joy and the Peace of the Holy Ghost as it moves in your life listen to me sin will separate you from God it will put a wall listen to me and the loneliness and separation you feel will come because you're not walking in Harmony and unity with the spirit of God as a church family listen to me we find ways we search for ways to get together we call it Sunday church we call it Wednesday Bible study we call it camp meeting we call it North America youth congress we call it youth camps we call it Bible studies hey come on we call it a picnic at the park we're just fine trying to find a million ways that we can Fellowship why is that because something says in your spirit I am better when I'm together with you one can put a thousand to flight scripture reveals but two can multiply that to ten thousand what is the premise there the premise is if you and I will come together in harmony in unity in the spirit of God then we can't stand and declare the whole counsel of God and we can become Overcomers listen there are folk that walk through these doors today to come into this sanctuary and they're dragging with them sin problems Disobedience junk garbage lies and all this stuff some are bringing into here hurts and pains and sufferings that others have put upon them I've come to declare to you if you'll simply let the spirit of God work in your life he will release that thing that's in you and you can put it on an altar and the sacrifice of that thing on an altar can be accepted unto God and he'll come down and he'll accept it and he'll turn around and say I bless you now I feel you now there is joy in you now why because when you turn loose of it you give it to God he will replace it with completeness and wholeness anybody ever had a hard day huh come on you may know what it's like to walk in and out of your job every day and to live according to the processes and the things that are made anybody just working to put food on the table come on somebody is trying to put put food on the table pay the bills just live life according only to find out that at the end of it all you missed it I mean honestly if today you were to pull your mind or you would ask yourself questions what is the meaning here some of us would declare you know what I thought it was this and this but it's actually not when when my I told this testimony multiple times I'll share it shortly today when my father was in the hospital I know his deathbed at 47 years old bad dad had man he was a hard worker he'd work two three shifts in a row 16 hours a day was very common for him he'd come home and sleep a few hours get up he'd go to a ball game that the one with us kids were playing whatever dad was trying to be there for us it was a challenge the house was always neat and kept dad had a way of you know the yard way that was dad's way the things that you had to put up and pull you know that was dad's way a lot of the things I do come from my dad my dad's 47 laying in a hospital bed and he's soon to die they've told him that all of us kids are standing around the bed and dad says you know what I regret most I spent too much time worried about the grass what's happened to mow the yard so much wish I would have just spent time with y'all he died a few days later brother Dan and I remembered that to this day that mean you let your yard go no it means the priorities have to be put in place guys you are a priority to me I value you I don't have all the answers a lot of them I don't even know where to go to get the answer some of them I don't even want to give you an answer some of them I wish you'd ask someone else here's the thing though about the family the family says I love you in spite of you when you begin your walk with God something happens notice John wrote it like this y'all follow I'm gonna read a few verses that's okay it's Bible today John chapter 18 verse 33 then pilate entered into the Judgment Hall again he called Jesus said unto him Art Thou the king of the Jews 34 Jesus answered him say us thou this thing of thyself did others tell it thee of me pilate answered I am I a Jew thine own nation and the chief priest have delivered Zeon to me what has thou done verse 36 Jesus answered my kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now is my kingdom not from hence pilate therefore said unto him has anybody ever read this before art thou a king of thin hmm Jesus answered thou sayest that I'm a king to this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth everyone that is of the truth heareth my voice Jesus is standing we know this story he is being falsely accused Jesus is standing in front of the then-known leader of the world pilate can speak anything and it'll happen he can declare anything and it will transpire he comes to Jesus and he he Jesus speaks and he says I want you to understand something pilot I came into this world for this reason Jesus is talking so pilate can hear but he's also talking so the rest that are around can hear Jesus speaks and he says you need to understand something truth is what separates you from me truth is what separates your kingdom and the kingdom that I'm talking about I came into the world for a reason here's the question then for today how does one know truth isn't truth dependent on the situation does it truth change depending on how the evidence is presented come on our children are raised from this high up and they they begin to to test the lines and you ask your child who broke the cup what do they say well you know what I was running by and I thought it'd be a good idea and he goes goodbye there went do they do that no what do they do they go it broke well who broke it what how is it y'all know all this huh and then you get the infamous explanation what happened they don't want to declare the truth they want to make up something close that gets them out of it come on when you're adults don't don't look around I want y'all say don't look around saying he does that or she does that the fact is is that Jesus is truth and when pilate was standing there that day looking at him he's saying do you know who I am and Jesus says but do you know who I am I am a king of a kingdom that you don't understand pilate but whatever word whatever word comes out of your mouth right now pilate you need to know something all that's going to happen next is my kingdom is going to continue if you drop the gavel and say kill him now I'm going to say all right that's why I came here so my blood could be shed you know what they couldn't have kept the anointing of God and the plan of God and check instead Jesus simply says you know what if you know truth you're going to what hear his voice I've come today to declare to somebody that if you are in the church and you're in the family of God there is truth that is working in and out of the word as it's taught as its priest as it's sung about why because something has to be established within each one of us that says I want to know truth why because it is in truth that I feel the love of God in my life and when you come up and hug me I don't have to worry about what knife you've got to stab me in the back but because you understand truth and I can understand truth the word of God can work within us and instead of you coming to harm me you're coming to do what to strengthen me and lift me up come on it's what kids want when they stand in front of me go e e e what they're wanting is for you to pick them up and do what with them I like my daughter my daughter's over there today I can say what I want about her because she's the one I love she she would come in I love Stephen Moore but I'm just saying well she was little sister you know she covered and I just reached down and pick her up she don't remember this I'd hold her she'd go I said well I've got you there's just much distance between us and I'm saying what I'm holding you is that what you wanted and she's like Michelle look at me say what are you doing I said all she wanted to be picked up right she said no she want to be hugged I know I'm trying to demonstrate to myself and to her the difference because there's a big difference normally when I was just gonna hug her you're gonna act you don't remember but normally when I was just going to hug her I'd come down to her level and I'd say come here sweet pea and she didn't have to reach she didn't have to wander all she had to do was come up and dad got her huh and then of course as she got bigger I'd pick her up and hold her and her leg dangling down here and she and then I'd be mean to her and go anyway sorry listen to him listen to me Jesus was demonstrating that to us in the flesh he's demonstrating to us in the spirit I will hug and hold you when we hug and love on one another as a church again you won't do this at work you probably won't do it at Walmart unless somebody says something anyway but in the church house you'll love each other you'll spend time together you'll tolerate one another's weaknesses you'll look for one another's strengths because in the family of God there was something about the king of this family I want to read to you another portion of scripture will you let me it's 22 after First Corinthians notice this letter that was written chapter 2 verse 9 but as it is written I have not seen nor ear heard neither I've entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him but God hath revealed them unto us by his spirit for the spirit searcheth all things yea the Deep things of God for what man knoweth the things of man save the spirit of man which is in him even so the things of God knoweth no man but the spirit of God now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of god that we might know the things that are freely given of us of God to us of God which things also we speak not into words which man's Wisdom teacheth but which the Holy Ghost teaches comparing spiritual things with spiritual the Holy Ghost is what teaches us to love one another the Holy Ghost is what ignites a passion within us to want to know one another and spend time together to know Jesus is to start a relationship with him that the effects of knowing him and the spirit of God working in your life it will cause you to want to love others I know right now every one of us want to reach out into our world and we want to change this world and there's one way that we will do it there's a scripture that reveals this to us as the church they will know you are his how by your love who this is not established by how you hug the homeless guy or how you hug the guy across the ocean this is established by what how the family loves one another I'll ask you this question today what is God up to what is God up to why is it that he is working and every one of us today to become more and more and more in line with his word why does why does he work within us I'll ask his wife do we desire today to be not only with him but with each other why do we desire to be with God's people and allow the love of God to work within us I declare to you friend of mine that God is up to something and he's got a plan that is working out in second Peter the letter said this in chapter 3 verse 9 brother Duran would you come please the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slackness but as long suffering to us word not willing listen to this that any should perish but that all should come to repentance listen to me friend I have to bring this to a close in this way God does not simply want you to come into the family of God and then sit down and say I got my seat I hope the best for the rest of you but if you will today take a moment look to the left and look to the right there is room here for someone else so what is God up to why does he let you feel his love why does he allow the love of the Spirit come into this room and to move in and out of all of us and just kind of intertwine itself with us why is that because those that are standing outside if you will looking they may be at another church they may not even know what church means they may be on the other side of the world they may be listening to me full of the devil right now but God's saying the love that you have towards one another is how they're going to know who I am And when they see that love working in you they're going to stand there and say and that is truth there may be somebody in this room somebody online today watching that your life is so chaotic and confused right now you don't feel the love that I'm talking about God has a plan God's up to something he is doing a work in humanity because he wants for Humanity to know there's a plan he went to prepare a place only for himself for what for what for those that call him Lord for those that love him for those that are full of him for those that are hungry for him I've gone to prepare a place so that where I am you can be also I want you to come you know he doesn't want anyone to perish but the decision is not up to him he's already made the complete promise if you want to be a part of something full of love something full of Mercy something full of grace I call it the church the body of Christ so what you're a part of today sitting here under the sound of my voice I asked you earlier would any of you have any issue at all the brother or sister in the church to go up and hug them to greet them to Pat them on the back to tell them how much you love them but to those outside the family it's a greater challenge do you agree you agree what if tomorrow the Lord says I'm going to add that one to the family I need somebody that'll love them you know what God's up to he wants to fill you with his power and his spirit so that when you walk away from the family for the day or for the week that they don't leave you you don't leave them you simply go out and share with others that don't know him and you say to them you know what there's a love there's a peace there's a joy that you need to know about I'm not asking to go to a hug the big old brute at work and because I love you man I just think you're the best I got all the answers for you yeah he might crush your head but if the spirit is working in you there is something that's happening and you can walk five feet in front of that man so he can't reach you and with all the love inside you can say you know what I've got an answer for you and his name's Jesus you listen to me every human every human alive is born with a void they try to fill it with so many things drugs alcohol lifestyle money Fame Fortune they just try to pack it in here they put oh here we go and now I'm complete and I'm whole watch watch I got 40 million dollars in my bank account I got thirty thousand dollars in my wallet right now hey I'm complete they pull their hands away and he goes does it fit there it was never designed to go there I've got 17 homes I got 35 businesses I'm worth 40 million dollars I am complete you can be poor living on the side of the road but when the Holy Ghost comes in and changes your life it fits right there and it makes you complete and hold y'all listen a preacher for a minute I don't mind being foolish I've seen so many people in this world try to put all this stuff in there and then they take it off and it falls to the ground and it falls apart and it just busts up and they pick it up and they try to put it back and it's not there but I've watched people come into an altar and begin to pray and call on the name of the Lord and that space get full and it hey you know you know the challenge what happened to you let me ask you this I don't want to divert right now but let me ask you when you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and you spoke in tongues what did you do what was your reaction could anybody remember did you what else what else come on some of y'all nervous right now because you're like I don't remember it's been so long or somebody else I wasn't watching have my eyes closed I don't know I can tell you what I did I was 12 years old at a junior high Youth Camp on hole in this hill I was busted up broken in an altar I didn't know how bad my life was until Jesus began to breathe into me and then I realized that oh I just I need you God and as that whole brother Ethan began to be filled in with the spirit I can tell you what I did you know what I was doing I was testing it is it going to fall out no it's it's still there no somebody come on some of y'all aren't Old-Timers like doron and I girl and I remember shout down meetings don't we draw we remember when people used to shout in the island and run around and enact all that we do anybody my only one in here huh now see we all dignified now Logan if we used to run now we hurt ourselves we just trying to be cognizant of everybody else my little granny with her four foot 11 self she didn't care who saw her she wasn't concerned on how many bobby pins were gonna make at home she just simply said I got a third grade education I barely got bologna in my refrigerator but I know one thing is I am a different I am a different person and as she began to shout and move around the church there was a glory that began to descend upon her and if you got to Simply within proximity of her it was going to jump off of her and on to you and there wasn't nothing you could do but simply yield to it and begin to work see I know that today we're in 2023 and we want to love each other by text I love you heart heart that's enough communication right there thumbs up I love you yeah okay yeah that's how we have developed our society today I'm challenging somebody they write you an emoji that shouts oh look look they shouting look a video yeah it'd have to be one of those gifs right huh it ain't funny y'all know what that means but hey some of y'all can't even explain what it means to shout your hair down I'm just saying y'all think I'm old I would tell you what oh Lord don't let me meddle this is 130 y'all got to go to the restaurant let me tell you something the love that I feel right here in this place today is so real but I'm just going to tell you pastor's heart y'all ready for a pastor's heart pastor's heart there are so many things that I cannot give to you there's so many things that I can't wish and hope that you would have there's so many things that I cannot pray for for you but one thing that I do pray for this church is that God would allow us the opportunity to not simply demonstrate our love by a hug or buy a pat on a back but that when you come into this room there are some of you today sitting under the sound of my voice you are hurting in pain you have an illness or an ailment that's causing you to have to reserve yourself because of strength and I get that there are some of you that are challenged with pains in your body and things that you're going through I get that but I want you to know something friend with all the love and pastor's heart that if we want Apostolic movement of God in our assembly and our family it is going to be when we see God work you and God move in you my brothers and I we'd wrestle around the floor we'd jump on each other we'd body slam one another come on anybody have brothers yeah we did man I always won because I was bigger than 80. but I'm gonna tell you what else changed when I saw my dad come in there and want to wrestle with me I was bigger than my dad but I was scared to death of him there was a different thing when Dad come in here come on I'll take you on I said well I can't do that come on he's wanting to joke around with us man he was just wanting to spend time with us some of y'all don't have a clue what I'm talking about but it was totally different somebody with experience as an elder came in and just wanted to spend time with me that's my dad I'd back up there and say hey I was waiting on Dad to do that yeah he got me in a headlock it hurt boy it hurt a lot but why was my dad I cried for a day I was my dad listen to me I'm convinced right now in this room that somebody in here holds the key the apostolic explosion and Revival for our church come on we're the family we love one another we hug on one another God is Desiring to demonstrate himself in this place I just wonder who's going to yield to it I just wonder who's going to allow God to move into your life to where you consider your pride and your position to be nothing it's just all you want to do is love God because I'm going to tell you what David did when he got in the presence of the Lord the scripture reveals as a king he twirled as a king he twirled he danced before the king of glory and all things and he just worshiped he put aside all of who he was and the whole family's watching him and listen to listen what his wife say oh you have embarrassed me for the last time y'all study that story yeah what's the last verse say and she did bear no children why because there was no relationship between them God's looking for somebody to break loose and say you know what I don't need to act a fool I just need to love the Lord and what it looks like I'm not certainly sure what that's going to do but instead of being dignified and establishable synonym so happy to be a child of God some of y'all right now laughing because it's a mirror thank you but I just so I didn't mean that listen to me I remember vividly watching my mom watching my dad watching my little grandmother watching my grandpa he played guitar watch I watched my uncle one time roll from this side of the altar to that side of the Altar and roll back listen in a tent meeting with sawdust oh that's foolish that was back then we no longer do that okay fine let's not do that does that mean the next thing that we say is not necessary anymore is salvation come on it's a slippery slope when you start removing the things of God stand with me would you what is God up to right now some of you are wondering what in the world was this message about today I can tell you what it's about y'all feel that love and connection in here if you feel like pastors come by today and simply just talk to you in your heart listen to me listen to me I'm sitting in my office today and I'm trying my best to contain myself because the Lord is revealing that there is something that is happening in the church I've asked God a million times why did you allow us to build a building and then take it y'all know this why didn't you took that you put us here then you put us there then you put us here then you put us there and here we are look around you we've got about 25 or 30 open chairs the rest are filled up but I'm standing here going Lord you know our desires to grow and to multiply and I'm saying God this don't make sense and the Lord's saying fine then stop thinking it the way you think it and think of the way I think it because God said if they'll love me and if they'll cherish their time with me and the people that come in they where are they going to run to come on if a visitor guest came in here hungry for the Holy Ghost where are they gonna go they turn left and there's you they turn right and there's you they can turn around there's you they're going to stand aside I got nowhere I just won't give it to the Lord I Got No Escape I don't know all I'm telling you is this God is doing a work in some of your lives and you are questioning why is it at this point that I feel this love and this desire to serve God I can tell you why because God knows the future listen there is still a place called Heaven he went to prepare it for us and that place called Heaven is where he's designed it for you and for me here's the thing am I ready for heaven if so I got to get ready down here and it's more than just being baptized in his name and filled with a Holy Ghost speaking in tongues it's got to be Lord if I am going to go to heaven then I need to know what to expect and he's already said to us I hadn't seen ear hadn't heard but there's something about the heart of man that says but God if I know the joy and I know the power and I know the power of the Cross that's in my life that I am running to Heaven as fast as I can get there today in this place if you don't have the joy of the Lord in your life if you have ought against somebody you need to fix that because the family of God is complete and salvation when it comes to the family because we work it out how we get in an altar we lay it down and we say Lord I refuse to carry the bitterness and the pride I give it to you we don't pass judgment Point finger we don't have to we let the spirit of God work it out I've come to tell somebody walking around in darkness Somebody's Watching online you want to know how do I get completely whole you get in the spirit of God and you let that Spirit come in you and change you you let the power of the Holy Ghost work in your life and through that you can stand and you can say Look What the Lord Has Done he's healed my body he touched my mind he saved me just in time oh I'm gonna praise His name I'm gonna rise in the morning and love him I'm gonna shout when I get to the family of God I'm Gonna Worship Him and magnify his name he's the only reason I'm here today it's not to please anybody but him but in the process I get to encourage somebody around me come on Worship the Lord with me come on bless the Lord with me come on magnify the name of Jesus with me why because that's the family there is something that God wants for us he wants to take all of us to Heaven one day this altar's open for anybody that will come and pray maybe you've got to just worship God today into your Miracle maybe there's something that you're fighting with this is the altar the greatest place to lay it down and let God work in you brother John's gonna play something but this is worship time in the house of the Lord come on church family will you come and love Jesus come on church family will you come and magnify the Lord oh God I come to lift you up today I refuse Lord I refuse to let things get in the way this is the church family this is the church family this is the body of Christ I choose to love you Jesus I choose to live for you Jesus I choose oh come on somebody pressed past all the doubt and fear push past all the stuff that you don't have an answer for and simply love the Lord God with the family of God bless the Lord forever come on it's worship time in the house of the Lord would you lift your voice to him right now come on would you lift your voice to him right now in the name of Jesus I've come to love you Jesus I've come to Worship You Holy One I've come to magnify your name I've come to lift up your name Lord you are doing a work I know you're up to something God you're doing something in my life in my family in my home you're doing something Lord in my church family you're making away God you're opening doors God you are Jesus you are doing great things Lord you are doing great things Jesus come on somebody pray Lord thank you for allowing me to be a part of the family I come to love and worship you today I've come to bless you today Lord I've I've come to lift up your name holy God because in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus be glorified Holy One be magnified Holy One be exalted Holy One we love you Jesus it is our heart's desire to love you Jesus to Love You Lord God as you love us oh come on that's right hello prayer Warrior come on prayer Warrior pray come on get a hold of God right now I need you Jesus I've come to Love You Lord come on church family why don't you go find somebody and pray with them come on love on one another through prayer right now come on call their name out to the Lord Lord I Thank you that you allow me to worship with him I speak peace Lord into their home I speak peace into their lives Jesus you have answers for them Lord you are up to something more you are up to something Lawrence you've got a plan you've got a purpose you know God you know Lord Jesus oh come on there's healing in the house there's completeness in the house today there is completeness in the house today oh come on Reach Out pray with somebody close to you reach out pray with somebody close to you come on we're part of the family of God there is power in unity there is power and authority in unity oh that's right that's right that's right I love you Lord I Trust You Lord I believe you Lord I believe you Lord my soul says yes to you I say yes to you Jesus I desire Lord God your spirit Lord your truth in my life your spirit God working and being transformed hell I don't know in your name in your name in your name in your name Jesus oh that's right come on we are the family of God go pray with somebody else come on let the spirit use you right now let the voice of God use your right now I love you Lord I trust you more I Believe In You Lord I Believe In You Jesus come on that try Lord you've gotta work to do Jesus you are able Jesus you're more than able hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I worship your name I lift up your name I magnify you Jesus I Need You holy God I need you holy God great is your faithfulness oh God I bless you Lord Jesus transform I need you Holy One I need you oh come on let's try go pray with somebody else come on let the spirit use you right now Jesus thy kingdom come thy will be done Lord thy will be done Jesus thy will be done Jesus thy will be done Jesus come on that's right God's working in your life come on this is a family this is a church family come on we love one another come on let the love of God work in your life right now Jesus we are complete in you Lord we are completing you Jesus Jesus Holy One Holy One Holy One foreign Holy Savior Jesus Jesus oh yeah he's a Waymaker he's a Healer he's a deliverer he is perfect everything about him is right come on would you find somebody else to pray with them before you go home God do a work in their life I love them Lord I'm glad that they're part of the family Jesus come on encourage them Lord and oh let your spirit work in them I pray we are complete in you Jesus we are complete in you sweet Jesus we are whole Lord in you yeah I love you Lord I love you Jesus bless the Lord forever are you thankful for the family today come on y'all y'all are you thankful for the strength that comes from the family turn around hug somebody's neck if it's appropriate tell them how much you love them come on tell them I love you and I believe in you and I'm trusting God for great things in your life oh come on that's right in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus so glad that I know you I'm so glad that we're in the same family today I Believe In You Lord Jesus and I trust you Jesus Jesus Jesus I love you Lord Lamb of God are you thankful for the family of God today I'm so glad you came today the Lord bless all of you as you leave here today greet somebody encourage someone come on God's working in our lives God is moving we need one another right there is a connecting Spirit that's the spirit of God so you go in that Spirit tonight I love you don't forget the announcements for the week greet One Another Love on one another until next time God bless together