I Have Decided | Student Pastor Zach Hammond
by Zach Hammond
First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Joshua 24:14-15, Joel 3:14, Genesis 12:8-12, Matthew 1:2, Matthew 1:16, Ruth 3:7-8, Ruth 3:14, Isaiah 66:1-4, 2 Thessalonians 2:11-12, Judges 2:8-14

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it's my honor privilege to stand before you tonight give honor to all of our our great people here that make up first apostolic church of maryland what a great great great church if you're a guest tonight you are among some of the greatest people walking on god's green earth and we welcome you why don't you give yourself a hand for just a moment i know that don't really feel right but you're god's greatest people and god bless you tonight give honor to pastor sister carpenter pastor sister erickson our entire family i get to serve you great people with it is my honor give my wife honor i'm so thankful to be back home i was gone last weekend and i apologize was thankful to be able to get back in time monday for school orientation and we have had a great a great might not be a good wonderful amazing first week of school all of our teachers and students and parents everyone just working together and i'm just believing it's just the beginning we had a great rush hour on friday and the lord moved in a great way and that's just going to be the building block of what god has for us i'm going to attempt to tag on to the end of pastor's message um from sunday night and i know you could say well you weren't here well thank god for the internet because i was here in in the way of of listening and so when i go to joshua chapter 24 and be a little bit different tonight i will go uh beyond just one passage of scripture we will jump to joel chapter 3 after that for just a moment joel 24 i mean sorry joshua 24 to begin with in verse number 14. so now therefore fear the lord and serve him in sincerity and truth and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood and in egypt and serve ye the lord and if it seemed evil unto you serve the lord choose you this day could you say that with me choose you this day whom you will serve this is joshua speaking to the children of israel in the closing verses of the book of josh we said whether the gods which your fathers serve that you on the other side of the floods are the gods of the amorites in whose land you dwell but as for me and my house we will serve the lord he said don't go back to the gods of the past don't go back to what i've already delivered you from but even at that when you get into a culture and you get into an environment don't serve those new gods either there is only one lord choose you this day whom you will serve and then he follows it up as for me and my house in other words he says you have a decision to make but i've already made mine and the people answered and said god forbid that we should forsake the lord and serve other gods sounds pretty pretty strong there god forbid now turn to joel chapter 3 and verse number 14. the great prophet joel that peter refers to that this is that speaks of one verse here i'd like to pull joel 3 and 14 multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the lord is near in the valley of decisions simple but we will walk through this tonight with our students but i believe this word could apply to all of us tonight i have decided i have decided to lay your bibles down and lift your hands to the lord tonight and let's ask the lord to speak to us god we love you i thank you for what you've already done in this room tonight come on would you lift your voice up and pray i have felt your power tonight i have felt god your glory come down in this room tonight god is so powerful so rich god lord i pray that you would continue to move in the services you already have i pray god that your word would not just be god revelatory but relevant to every heart to every mind every soul tonight god to every man woman boy and girl in this room tonight god i pray that you would pierce our hearts you would stir up the gift within us so god and we would leave here god changed not just a service but a shift in your spirit tonight lord let it happen we ask it all in the wonderful name of jesus we pray but everybody shout amen you may be seated i have decided some would say you're not really sure sometimes what to preach you give yourself a topic where you could preach anything pretty sure we could go from genesis to revelation and preach on a decision tonight and so i'll be very uh very to the point in the few areas that i feel in my spirit to direct this at tonight but i'd like to say you know this is something that i would struggle with in different areas of my life and i'm not i have to be careful that it doesn't it doesn't creep into my spiritual life but physically i'm not one that really likes to make decisions sometimes like i don't really there's very few times that i'm gonna speak up on where we're gonna go to eat it doesn't really matter to me i'll drink diet coke coke sprite sweet tea it's all pretty good you know there's certain things that i don't like but i'll figure out something to eat i'm not because ultimately for the schnitzeler it really becomes down to me that i would rather eat something that i don't like then speak up against what somebody else wants so my decision becomes manipulated by who is in the room or who it affects so many of us have made many decisions in our lives and that decision was a decision that really had nothing to do with what was in your heart but rather in the heart of the people in the room ultimately i believe tonight that the difference between a student a parent anyone living for god and the person who isn't is simply just somebody who's made up their mind the people that aren't sitting on these pews tonight made a decision they made a decision ultimately they didn't have enough invested it was easy to walk away so somewhere at some point there that there's there's there the difference is a decision that you making up in your mind as joshua says that i'm not turning back landry that landon even though i just walked out of the apostolic christian academy and i'm now surrounded by people that don't look like me talk like me think like me that i have made a decision that i will not turn back choose you this day whom you will serve but for as for me and for my house we will serve the lord he says you're in the valley of decisions the prophet said what i love about this is he paints a wonderful picture he says you're in a valley of decisions the only way you get a valley geographically is that you have uh two higher levels of land that create a lower plane of land so ultimately you find yourself in a place of decision with a mountain on each side you've got a decision tonight and one may seem easier at the moment but ultimately they're both mountains one might seem like the pleasures of sin is quite drawing and luring to your flesh but it's going to be a mountain you say living for god seems so difficult right now young person it's a mountain no matter what the decision you choose he said multitudes stand in the valley of decisions so i want to encourage you but also remind you that there's a mountain on both sides choose a mountain there's a cost no matter which decision you make there's a cost of sin there's a cost for consecration i heard it said this week in reading that you're gonna drive a nail it just depends on whose hands it's in you can crucify your flesh or you can crucify him afresh it's ultimately just who you choose to crucify you choose your mountain you choose your battle you choose your consecration will you kill your flesh or will you crucify a savior it's just a decision ultimately many people think that no decision is the best option that's not a thing no decision is a decision you can't you can't not make a decision you can't just stand in the valley and live in the valley that's a decision in itself and the reason that joel says multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision is because the valley is crowded by people who think they're not making a decision but ultimately they're just valley people victim people always in the mullygrubs people trying to climb and the the residue of people's redemptive walk of righteousness falls down and crumbles at their feet sometimes and they wonder i wonder if i ought to try the old church thing i really ought to try serving him but they just stand in the valley of decision making no decision is probably the worst decision you'll make is to stand there because ultimately pastor referred to it this morning you'll find nothing more doctrinally wrong than not making a decision in fact there's so many things throughout the bible and we'll address a few of them tonight that we can't put ourselves in a place where we think that god is going to do something for us god don't just take you and put you on the mountain god don't take you and put you in the valley god don't take you and put you in destruction god don't put you on either mountain top and he don't put you in the valley in fact that's why the doctrine of predestination is probably one of the most obscure doctrine most messed up logically biblically found doctrines in in the bible because god don't make decisions for man you make the decision there's no attribute in all of god's logical reasoning throughout the bible this equals that that plus that there's nowhere you'll find where god steps in and makes a decision for man now he might put man through persecution and then move on to substitution but ultimately he's not going to make a decision for you there's promptings there's pushings but i have to make a decision so let's pick up where pastor left off sunday night young person if there's anything that i can preach to you in the season of life that you're in desire is a decision the scripture says don't be drawn away by your own lust your own not somebody else's huh set your affection on things above not on the things of this earth ultimately it's your desire that you choose you this day we are limited in god's kingdom by our passion that's why last week we see the prophet elijah is so frustrated why because when elijah come by and ask him what would you have of me i'll give you one i just want a double portion he was a passionate individual ultimately is why that mantle fell on him passion desire is a decision tonight it's not ultimately the student that comes out here and passionately worships god passionately comes up here and does their thing and they don't care what anybody else thinks the only difference between you sitting on the back row or sitting back there having a conversation is this person made a decision it's it's not it's not something it's not something fanatical it's not something you feel the same power the same presence the same goodness the same god is accessible to you you just didn't choose to step out you just didn't choose to come up front you made your decision and ultimately the servant that day when elijah said hey smote the ground elisha said come on come on let's see how passionate you are let's see how bad you want it the double portion prophet wanted somebody tyler who wanted it it's bad or more than he did god forbid a generation sit here and look over a group of students and that half-heartedly want to serve god you can't even we can't even meet the mark that was set by our forefathers we can't even meet the mark that was set by our pastors and leaders to even think about exceedingly abundantly above that mark i wish tonight that we had some students that would make up in your mind that every time that there was a rush hour every time there was an altar call every time there was a service every time there was an opportunity to pray i'm not going to be in the coffee shop i'm not going to be out in the hallway i'm not going to be looking for an excuse to get i'm going to be smoking the ground it shouldn't be a trendsetter that's up here landry it ought to be a group of young men that says hey i want to serve him i want to serve him no matter what anybody else is doing desire is simply a decision well that's not just my that's not my personality no it's a decision your decisions daily create the character that everybody sees well i'm not just really known as a worshiper be known as that if you want to but tonight you could step out of your seat and become known as somebody else that says hey i'm going to worship him why because i see the goodness god forbid parents that our kids see us be more passionate and have more desire of the things of this world than they do the things that happen in this house there's nothing billy that little [name redacted] sees it's greater than you i know we had t-ball practice i know we played ball with him i know we taught him some things but when you take off running around this building that's the greatest lesson that you can teach your son that says oh this is what gets my best this is what we do in the house of god we give it all we got passion desire is a decision i want this youth group to be explosive when somebody wants something done around the house of god we ought to be smoting the ground but something needs to be done around here we ought to be beaten down the pastor's door texting whoever brother jacob hey is there anything needs to be done today it's saturday i got a few hours between work shift i've got a few hours where i could come do something at the house of god be passionate have a desire to serve god he said smite the ground not only is desire a decision destiny is a decision genesis 12 and verse number eight tells a story abraham he says he removed from thence a mountain on the east of bethel and pitched his tent having bethel on the west and hay eye on the east and he built an altar unto the lord and called upon the name of the lord and abram journeyed going still toward the south but there was a famine in the land and abram went down into egypt and sojourned there for the famine was grievous in the land and it came to pass that when he had come near and entered into egypt huh i guess egypt was down south and he said to sarah his wife behold now i know you're a fair woman to look upon therefore it came to pass the egyptians shall see that just say this is my wife and they'll want to kill me and i need to be saved so the story goes on he convinces his wives his sister uses his wife as leverage to get a bunch of riches and cattle and all these things a man in the valley of decision abraham standing at an altar with bethel on his right and hay eye on his left bethel means house of god hai means heap of ruin he had the house of god on one side and he had people going through a mess if you could look at it that way on his other side and he said i'll go south to egypt and one trip to egypt one trip south to egypt one trip to a place where he's standing at an altar before god with the house of god on one side the heap of ruin i don't know if you could be in a better place where you could reach somebody that's going through a mess and you could grab hold of the house of god on the other hand seemed like a perfect place to be but he goes south to egypt and there's not one time in egypt that it seems like anything goes well there one trip to egypt young person can cost you something because your destiny is a decision it's not some hocus-pocus thing that happens when somebody prophesies in your ear prophecy is no good if it falls on bad ground it's a decision said i'm going to get up i'm going to fulfill i'm going to walk in the ways of god you have to make up your mind where you're headed there's too many times i hear people i guarantee you tonight everybody want to go to heaven right well come on remember desire is a decision somebody will raise your hand right now hallelujah everybody wants to go to heaven amen there's times i look at people and they say oh i want to go to heaven i want to be like hey heaven is that way huh sorry to be so blunt but heaven is through the prayer room heaven is for the worshiper heaven is for the passionate heaven comes through sharing the gospel heaven comes through at 5 30 the coffee shop is a nice place to be but it comes through the prayer room heaven's a place where i've got to make some decisions for my life if i'm going to make it destiny is a decision today it's just a decision we got a world to win a church to build too much going on we got a world to reach and hey we got a church to build in bethel too much going on for us to be going down to egypt i got to go down to egypt make some money we're in a famine i understand making money but by all means make a difference tell somebody about jesus teach a bible study don't be deceived by this me my and i christianity today my for and no more i'm responsible for no it don't work that way you head down to egypt on monday you're setting up your destiny find you somewhere whatever your gifting is to find yourself seniors find yourself where there's an altar that you're standing at and you're building a house of god and you're reaching the lost you don't have to go down to egypt to make money you don't have to go down to egypt to figure it out you don't have to go down to egypt and take a few season off college students and say i'm going to step back from the choir a little bit till i take all these tests i'm going to be late for church a little bit on wednesday nights till i take all these tests you'll end up in a heap of ruin you'll end up being the one in hai that needs the church to reach out to them when it comes to why because you made one trip down to egypt once it profited the man to gain the whole world and lose his soul your destiny is a decision so abraham he leaves egypt rich with cattle after giving up his wives saying his sister there's so many odd things that happen in the bible you think my wife would let me show up in a city and say hey you're going to be my sister for a few days i think that's going to go over brother john stone i don't think so i mean sarah was just a different different woman i don't know how this goes over but here he comes back with cattles and herdsmen and all these things and if you keep reading your bible you keep rightly divine in the word you'll see that that one decision led to some chaos and lots herdsmen and the herdsmen that weren't abraham's he had got him out of egypt get up and they get in strife and so well abram says well lot since all these things aren't worth giving up for our relationship let's just split ways so abraham goes one way and lot goes another way and lot ends up in sodom and gomorrah because one trip down to egypt because your destiny is a decision and so your bible then becomes a place of reading sometimes that stumps you every year when you try to read through the books of your bible and this one begat that one and joe begat jim and jim begetsham and begat jethro and she begat this one and on and on and on and on and on and if you look at those characters within the lineage there's one major point within most of the passages usually making sure that we understand that there's people that made a good decision and there's people that made a bad decision it's not there for you to just get stumped up for you just begat the gap the gap begat but rather to see that there's good and bad in both lines in fact you know how the new testament opens up matthew 1 verse number 2 abraham begot isaac and you start reading new testament you think man i just i thought i got rid of i thought i'm past all this stuff i'm ready to hear about unto us a child is born unto us sunday well here we go again matthew 1 2 abraham isaac isaac jacob jacob judas and his brethren and judas and fairies and zara thamar and zeros of esrom and salmon man somebody has had this pregnant salmon salmon however you want to say that um that's a great one it's it's salmon begat boaz a rake rackob and boaz we got obed of ruth and obama we got jesse and jesse began david and the king and the king david the king we got solomon and of her then the wife of uriah should skip all the way down to verse 16 so that nobody falls asleep and jacob begat joseph the husband of mary of whom was born jesus who was called christ this would have made perfect sense reading through the lineage getting down to david man david was the man ultimately the lineage of jesus christ we read here abraham and there's judas and perez and boaz and obed and then jesse and david then we got down there and there's this name thrown in there that doesn't really add up and and it says boaz of ruth it's very interesting here because the nations of ammon and moab the moabites and the ammonites they they came from ultimately we talk about lot's decision but it was a domino effect of abraham's trip to egypt and lot and him split up and he had desires elsewhere and he ends up and through lot leaving sodom but his wife not being willing to leave sodom because it seems like every time abraham walks off lot got hold out lot walks off but his wife got held up because your deficient your decision always messes up somebody else your decision always affects somebody else so then his lot it locks leaves but his wife turns into a pillar of salt ultimately becoming a pillar that's referred to and lot's wives because it remains nameless because she's just this is ultimately this pillar that we look back to and refer back to but then lot goes and gets drunk and the place where lot's wife should have been now his two daughters go in and you have an incest through perversion born the ammonites and the moabites and through the trail of ancestry.com lot's wife being gone ruth becomes the granddaughter of england the king of the moabites moabite princess ruth moabite means god's wash pot abraham judah all these different people in the lineage of jesus but if you really trace it back so is lot lot's got a line that comes in because ruth three verse number seven it says that when boaz had eaten and drunk this this is this is a powerful moment here because they've also given you the begats and the bagats and the begats and the bagats and the gats and you don't really know why they keep telling us all this because we want you to realize something that when in ruth three and verse number seven remember this is the princess of the moabites that was birthed in incest and perversion she's got a long begat begat begat begat of mess up crazy slept with mama slept with daddy i am my own grandpa thing going on over and over and over and over again you've got the princess of god's wash pot that finds herself with the kingsman redeemer boaz who's from the other lineage of abraham who shows up and boaz has he's shown her he's showing her some attention and she finds herself she says boaz had eaten and got drunk sounds like a lot her heart was marrying he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn and she came in softly ruth and uncovered his feet and laid down and it came to pass at night the man was afraid and turned himself behold there was a woman at his feet huh a moabite woman it wasn't no it wasn't this wasn't no israelite woman this is a moabite woman this is god's wash pot done snuck in your tent huh this is one of them when you walk in the room you kind of slip to the back huh easy princess of the moabites sleeping at your feet first 14 skip down and she lay at his feet until the morning and she rose up before one could know another and he said let it not be known that a woman came and i feel so strongly in the holy ghost to say this but dysfunction is a decision because so on can begat so on and so on can begot so on but ultimately you can come from the lineage of abraham or you can come from the lineage of life but ultimately you just got to decide hey i'm not going in to do what my great great great great great great great i'm not gonna keep doing you say well granny she was a smoker and mama she was a smoker well you don't have to be because you could just simply make a decision not to live in dysfunction well mama's negative that is negative but you don't have to be oh i don't know if i can outlive the dysfunction in my family you are a decision away from dysfunction you can't change who your daddy is you can't change who your mama is but you can make a decision to be who god's called you to be dysfunction's not a disease it's a decision choose you this day you want to do you want to live in the dysfunction huh oh i hope i'm stirring somebody up tonight i know you're sitting in here all by yourself mama didn't come daddy didn't come they dropped you off maybe they sent you on the way with somebody they don't love god that's for me and my house i don't really know it's just really up to me to make a decision there's too many you're surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses a night that says hey i just made up my mind no matter what mama did no matter what daddy did no matter what it looked like around me i am going to make it i knew how to stop run speak up whatever it took i have decided to follow jesus and nobody no thing no atmosphere no situation young person child of god is gonna change my mind you know just say how do i do that be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you know i wake up i made up my mind brother nichols i made up my mind young person you got to make your mind up i had a good daddy i had a good mom i had a good grandparents i got a good lineage but ultimately i got to make my mind up for myself don't matter if you're in abraham's lineage or you're in lost lineage you can have the excuse of dysfunction we have higher statistics of divorce in our family you don't have to be that marriage is the decision you get in and marriage is a decision you get out it's just a decision dysfunction is a decision you don't have to live in it if you're living in it it's because you choose to you say it's a mess it's because you choose it you don't have to let me let me venture on deception is a decision isaiah 66 1 says thus saith the lord the heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool where is the house that you build it unto me and whereas the place of my rest for all those that have mine handmade and all the things that have been saith the lord but this man will i look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit and trembleth that my word word and he that killeth an ox is if he slew a man and sacrifices the lamb if he cut off a dog's neck and he offereth an obligation if he offered swine's blood and birth incense as if he blessed an idol yay have you you've chosen they have chosen their own ways they've made a decision in their own ways that their soul delighteth in their abominations the devil didn't do it mama didn't do it daddy didn't do it they've chosen their own ways young person you've made up your mind that you're going to be rebellious you've made up your mind you've chosen your own way you've chosen that you've got you're just not going to be a worshipper you're just not going to be involved you've just made up your mind and you delight in the abominations and i will then choose when you make a decision plant reap you see it god has a response to your decision be not deceived god is not whatever a man that willie also that when i make a decision to sow then i'm going to reap my decision be not deceived when i make a decision to be an abomination i will also choose their delusion and i will bring their fears upon them because when i called none did answer when i spake none did hear but they did evil in my eyes and chose that which and i which i delighted not there are people deceived because they choose to see it that way you there's people in this room you've been deceived that you have a view of somebody or something or some situation in this church and it's been that way maybe it's on your job maybe it's in your family and you have this delusion or this deception that you chose to live in because you chose you've made your decision to live there the devil was convinced the devil was so that the devil has you convinced the devil has manipulated your mind and caused you to think and you you didn't have enough in you that you begin to trust and you begin to listen and everyone is wrong and everybody's against you and you don't love the truth because you chose delusion he says god will send them a strong delusion that they believe a lie in second thessalonians chapter 2 and be damned because when we make a decision god makes a decision you choose there's people that have stepped outside of the walls of the church that have made a decision to be deceived you can pray and you can pray and you can pray and you can pray but they have to choose truth you can have something in your mind to get somebody else in this room but you have to choose to free yourself of that whether it is true or false deceived drawn away deception forgiveness ultimately is this concept choosing to make up your mind to not have things within your mind that is keeping god from it's just simply a decision i've made my decision now here's where we want to finish tonight and maybe we can take a little turn here desire destiny dysfunction deception all just decisions here's one i want you to make sure that you leave here with tonight deliverance is a decision simply a decision joshua 24 where we started these famous words joshua's warning the people choose you this day whom you serve and don't serve the gods of your fathers on the other side of the flood don't serve the gods or the amorites don't serve don't you ask for me in my house we've got to serve the lord turn the page judges chapter 2 verse number 8 joshua the son of nun the servant of the lord died being 110 years old and they buried him in the border of the inheritance of tim natharas and the mount of ephraim on the north side of the hills of gash and also all the generations were gathered under their fathers and they arose another generation after them which knew not the lord young people another generation after their fathers who knew not the lord and the children of israel did evil in the sight of the lord to serve balaam they forsook the lord god of their fathers which brought them out of the land of egypt followed other gods and the gods of the people around about them and bowed themselves unto them and provoked the lord to anger and they forsook the lord and served baal and asherath the anger of the lord was hot against israel and delivered them into the hands of the spoilers and spoiled them why were they conquered by the culture huh why they made a decision delivered people chose bondage we've got to shake our mindset up that we're not in some kind of chains being held back because some kind of some kind of principality of the air or something that's going on no we are in bondage only because we choose bondage if you sit here in this place tonight and the devil has convinced some of us that we're going through something in order to have victory there's a great multitude in this place that you're not in something because god has put you in it you're in it because you chose to be in it you made the decision to be negative you made the decision to associate yourself with those people you made the decision tonight to not worship you made the decision to sit back in your seat and you made a decision to do this you made the decision to be bound and it's simply a decision to be delivered i'll say it again because i think you need to leave with it the character that you've become is daily decisions that you've made god told moses you're the man moses said i'm not i stutter i'm not the guy he said yeah you are huh god told gideon he said you're a mighty man of valor obedience like hey i'd be more like on the loser my god if gideon didn't fight i don't know who would he gave him every sign you could give him he's like i want it to rain everywhere but right there huh just kept doing it kept doing it kept doing it kept doing it god says you're his god says you're chosen god says you've got more power in your mouth than the devil has in all of hell god says that you're a woman of power god says that you are a man of god god's come down in this place tonight just like he put a burning bush at the feet of moses and said hey i need you to step up i need you to step out i need you to be the young person that god says you are i need you to be the father and the mother and the saint of god that god's the same spirit that raised jesus christ out of the grave rolled back a two-ton stone come out with the keys to death in hell lives in you and you're telling me you need confirmation from somebody around you to say that you're delivered i'm here to tell somebody tonight deliverance is simply a decision you make the devil's got so much convinced that we're supposed to be here we're supposed to be in this valley we're supposed to be here no you need to make a decision to climb i'm going through this it's just who i am it's just another statistic of me i'm just it's just another sickness i've got to put up with this i've got to go through this i just it's just who i am no you're a decision away from deliverance some of you've got the spirit of infirmity on you the lord spoke to me very clearly tonight in prayer before walking in this room that you are here tonight and you have authority over that spirit but you have to make a decision up in your mind that you're not going to carry around every single thing that the devil tells you in your ear that you have so you're telling me you have the same spirit that raised jesus christ from the dead living in you but you're just gonna be in a ba bound bound situation that don't make any sense to me greater is he that's in me than where i'm at i don't have to be in any kind of change i don't have to be held back i don't have to be it's a decision tonight no matter what anybody thinks i've got the power of the authority and the dominion over whatever i'm dealing with don't let him convince you by circumstances and culture around you that that you're something other than who you are my god you're in a place tonight you say well i don't know about all that well you're in a place tonight you walked in to a place that has authority that says hell will not prevail against the church you say i don't know how to do this or how to do that you don't just walk around bound and associate yourself with the church it's a decision just as much as you made the decision to get up out of the bed put your keys in the car and drive down here to the church's decision to say i'm going to leave here without what i walked in here with this decision i've made my decision i'm not leaving the same way i came the devil is okay with our common core christianity in the united states who claim christ but don't walk in his power you claim to have resurrection power inside of you but you get bound by any and everything it's it's you claim to have jesus inside of you but you'd struggle with this and this and this you're telling me he lives inside of you and you're okay with just being okay he lives inside of you and you're just taking a break from being involved he lives inside of you young person and you just smoked the ground three times because desire destiny dysfunction the list goes on and on on believe it or not even the stuff that don't start with d on and on and on and on if you walked in sick you can walk out hope if you walked in bound huh why just a decision you can choose to say exactly who you are you can choose to keep those chains around you yes the adversary is fighting you yes the adversary is against you tonight but you have a decision to make you've got a mountain on both sides and in the name of jesus christ tonight when the enemy comes in like a flood the spirit can raise up a standard huh we're in a spiritual battle but once again i don't know why i'm still holding these arrows tell me where you read in your bible that that spiritual battle is not already won we wrestle not against but against principalities and powers and rules are yes it's true but guess what he's already conquered them jokers they don't even have the keys to their own house so ultimately he just tells me hey if you'll step out and do something you ever done before if you'd step out and worship a little bit i could deliver you from that why because i already conquered that when i allowed them to drive nails through my hands and put a crown of thorns on my head i've already delivered you from that if you'd make a decision to be delivered it's just a decision tonight i'm going to stand to your feet for a moment ah i feel the holy ghost there seems to be a shift in this room right now if you could only hear the conversation the hell has about you huh well whoa the devil whispers in your ears something that's quite opposite what's what's going on down in the halls of hell about you jared huh they're devising a plan he's seeking figuring out he's got one devil in your ear whispering saying hey you you don't you don't have to serve god you don't have to keep doing what you're doing you just sit back there in the back you know you don't have to lift your hands he's whispering these things in your ear that you you're this and you're that and down there in the halls of hell you've got a whole gang up down there hey what exactly is the plan if my boy walks down to the front and throws his hands up and begins to say the name of jesus what happens if she decides the night that she's going to come down and say hey i want to get in the waters of baptism and take upon that what exactly we supposed to do there i can tell you what they're going to do there's no plan b because when we speak the name of jesus every one of them have to go every one of them got to step back take a back seat and let whatever you choose to happen happen in this place because if you walked in i don't care if you got sickness i don't care if you got a problem i don't care if it's what it is if you walked in this place and you right now said hey i'm not leaving with that i'm not i walked out with some fear i walked in with some anxiety i walked in with this i walked in with that but i've decided tonight whoa i don't vote yellow say i i've decided come on now i'm asking you if you're coming around this front i want you to be serious i'm not leaving the same way i came for some of you that might be taking a lap around this room for some of you it might be falling on your face before god for some of you it might be finding an elder and having him anoint you with oil but i'm not leaving the same way i came in i'm not leaving thinking the same way i thought come on come on come on you're in the valley of decision right now come on you're in the valley of decision choose to climb choose to take a step tonight you can be free in jesus name it's just a decision it's just a decision come on that's it come on that's it come on let your defeat your decision affect somebody else reach over and grab somebody's hand and say that's for me and my house ask for fac maryville we're gonna see heaven come down in this room tonight oh come on young people oh come on young people it's a new school year it's a new you it's a new day it's a oh come on worship him come on pour your heart out to him come on have passion you're going to get all that i got god i'm going to give you all of me help me tonight if you see a young person next to you grab a hold of them grab a hold of them and pray over them right now we can't have another generation we can't have a generation that don't know the gods ask for me in my house as for me and my house will serve him come on come on be delivered in jesus name come on make a decision tonight come on make a decision tonight yes you're gonna walk just a minute hey is there's another level spiritually that god wants us to go to right now and i know there's some of you that are just worshiping and kind of looking around but if you'd help me and find a younger person and grab the hand of them and could you lift it up and i believe before we start singing here again if we would lift our voice up well this generation has to know that as for me and my house i've made my decision i'm standing and i'm not i'm not moving i've made my decision come on come on help me come on trent setters help me come on parents help me grab a hold of somebody and lift your voice up speak the name of jesus over them we've not come to deal well we've not come to deal with what god's already won come on let him fight the battle right now come on let him fight the battle right now in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus hallelujah hallelujah come on take that step come on make up your mind god i'm not going back god i'm not turning back god i'm not gonna be that person i am who you say i am