Sunday Evening Worship Service

keep that same spirit as you make your way back to your seats and you can be a seated across this house thank you praise team thank you musicians as pastor mccool mentioned earlier all the hard work of all the technical staff just absolutely unbelievable thank thank you for taking us just to another level i give honor tonight uh just the great teaching and preaching we've heard uh over the past always but in particular just starting back even at our men's conference pastor whitley blessed us mightily and then this past sunday night and i think pastor mccool preached along the same lines as he did this morning there they're always on the same page like i've mentioned before and if they're preaching about holding on i'm preaching about letting go and if they're [Music] if they're if they're preaching about goal and i'm preaching about waiting but one of these days i'll get all get all in sync no i i honor them tonight and i honor each and every uh one of you it's the the greatest honor in this world to uh to preach behind this podium with the greatest saints of god on the on the face of this planet and i i truly mean that and i uh i welcome all those joining with us by means of the internet tonight on our facebook live and on our youtube and anyone that may stop in to the archives i welcome you and it's an honor to have you joining uh with us this evening if you've got your bibles we're going to look at two verses of scripture to start off with first one taken from the old testament in the book of exodus chapter one verse number eight and in the second passage of scripture we'll take from the book of acts chapter 19 verse and we'll kind of go back and forth between these two verses of scripture and thoughts throughout the duration of this of this sermon exodus chapter 1 verse 8 it says now there arose a new king over egypt which knew not joseph acts 19 15 states and the evil spirit answered and said jesus i know and paul i know but who are you for a few sec for a few minutes this uh moments this evening i want to preach to you on the topic who are you why don't you point at yourself as you reflectively ask yourself this question who are you let's pray over this sermon mighty god we thank you we thank you for the opportunity you have given us to a symbol here together to study your word lord we seek in every facet of our life to be grounded upon your word steadfast in the apostles doctrine living breathing every facet of our life centered around you lord i ask that whatever need that was brought into your house tonight that transformation take place and lord let us recognize and realize our identity in you in this last day that we're more determined and more passionate than ever to extend this gospel across this world and be the witness that you would have us to be in jesus name we pray amen who are you we live in a day that truly no longer remembers joseph a society that no longer remembers or acknowledges god brother blevins and god we trust it's just a minor thing just to remove it from uh the everyday life of the the citizens though our country was founded upon these principles and ideals it's not going to be something that just takes place overnight but it's going to be an incremental digression and a slipping away until there's a time that a new king came up over egypt that no longer remembered joseph a society that no longer remembers god and it seems as if we are outnumbered and sadly the churches that do exist many have cheapened the gospel down to the extent that satan himself doesn't even know what it is or even acknowledges its existence james tells us thou believest that there is one god and thou do us well the devils also believe and tremble and churches in many instances today have diluted the gospel down where the true power of god is absent and it's nothing more than a cheap copy a a wannabe knockoff a counterfeit gospel with its main aspiration as just to appease the masses these movements are of no concern to satan in fact he doesn't even acknowledge them and will overpower them when the time comes second timothy tells us for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lust shall they heap themselves to teachers having itching ears finding those who will tell them what they want to hear and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall turn unto fables but watch thou in all things endure afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry so i ask you this question tonight in a society that no longer remembers joseph we face an enemy that knows jesus and and knows paul but asks who are you an enemy who says i know jesus i know the move of god you had at 123 west columbia i know the the miracles that have taken place through the saints of this great church assembly through the years i remember some of the outpouring of the holy ghost and the revival that took place in what we now call the events center but i ask you ufac knoxville this congregation on 2022 we have an enemy that looks us face to face and asks but who are you we are products of modern day josephs that had big dreams and although they have been thrown into a pit at different times in their life by unexpected circumstances all although they have sacrificed suffered defeat at times and were falsely accused and some of them felt like they were in a metaphorical prison trying to get a work of god started they all had their pits but right in the depths of their pit in their prison there was a dream a dream for the future of their children and a dream for the future of their grandchildren and like joseph this this uh and like joseph this blockade did not deter this turmoil did not block their determination in seeking the plan god had for their lives and i could go through this audience tonight and talk about some of the great families that stood by and founded this church and i'm not talking about biological sons and daughters through the years but i'm talking about a church family who was birthed and disciplined and discipled saints of god throughout the years where we have daughters and sons in christ and great saints of old who have allowed us the opportunity to have what we do today not just biological heirs but sons and daughters in the gospel there's been some josephs who have fought for you and you are a product of their uh of their sustainable unwavering relationship with jesus christ and joseph these josephs in your life did not know what was to come but they had this dream to support them this dream comforted them to the dark times there was a dream by our bishop and sister mccool to come to knoxville a dream to get into 123 west columbia a dream to come to 50 20 pleasant ridge road a dream to come now into this state-of-the-art sanctuary and time would not permit me to list all of the ministries that have flowed out of this church body but joseph represents what got us here joseph represents the celebration that we that takes place in anniversary services and joseph represents the testimonies from previous times that we hold sacred and they build our faith joseph represents those times when we needed steps and we had to depend on god to miraculously provide joseph represents those times when we didn't have anything to eat but he brought groceries and set him right at our front door joseph represents the determination and the passion for a work and a move of god to take place even if my bathroom has to be at the gas station where i get ready every single day nothing is going to deter me from having a move and a work from god and that's what joseph represents joseph represents the thousands that have been baptized through the years joseph represents the thousands that have received the holy ghost by means of this and faithfulness of this church body joseph represents all of the years of being on television and on the radio every single day whatever modern mean and method to get the gospel out that's what joseph represents joseph represents apostolic christian school joseph represents church's birth joseph represents the many missionaries now around this world because of you and saints of old joseph represents the pastors joseph represents and the list goes on of how a church body has been faithful and how they've been impacted and how god has moved from this entire congregation and that is what joseph represents joseph was the road paved by a previous generation it's someone that came before you that we now find and we know the story of joseph how he was through his economics and his dreaming and unwavering faith to god that he found favor with pharaoh who who raised up and just delivered the nation but now in exodus 1 8 it states there arose a new king over egypt which knew not joseph and though we honor joseph though we celebrate and we will always honor and never forget we live in a world at your workplace at the campus where you're educated we fight against the enemy who looks us right in the face yeah i hear all that but who are you the success the notoriety the prosperity that joseph brought to his people has now been forgotten by the society and there's now oppression by a new pharaoh fac knoxville we can't face our enemy today with an entitlement approach oh look what we have we've made it haven't we oh i'm a third or fourth generation pentecostal so a move of god is bound to take place guess what the enemy does not care who your dad is enemy doesn't care who your mom is enemy doesn't care how much your grandmother prayed now i don't diminish those things and it's great to uh acknowledge the heritage that you have but it doesn't matter because you're going to be faced with hell and satan's going to look you right between the eyes and say i remember jesus oh i know about paul but who are you who are you the evil spirit answered and said paul we read here we find this verse is very busy at ephesus to do good and like he always does when he gets off in a new city on his missionary journey he starts uh in the synagogue with the jews that he might gather the lost sheep of israel where he preached to them he preached in the synagogue just as christ used to do and he went and joined them in worship with hope of winning them he uh went out into the society there and tried to speak and minister to them and in whatever means our method he could to try to relate to them and just like the apostle does he preached argumentatively he disputed he gave reasons scripture reasons for what he preached he answered objections for the convincing of men's judgments that they might not only believe but might seek cause to believe he put questions to them in that city and received their answers gave them leave to put questions to him and answered them he would go and give them every opportunity he would become friends with him he would create a relationship with him he was unwavering in the truth of god's worth he preached affectionately he persuaded he preached undauntedly and with a holy resolution he spoke boldly as one that had not as one that had not the least doubt of the things he spoke of nor the least distrust of whom he spoke from nor the least dread of those he spoke to paul preached the gospel with much contention yet he did not fail nor was discouraged and god confirmed paul's doctrine by miracles which awakened people's inquiries after it and he fixed their affection to it and it engaged their belief no matter where he went he didn't he wasn't worried about the what the repercussions were of what he said he preached the truth of god's word just as it was handed to him and satan's servants we read when they saw the success that paul was having some vagabond jews they were exorcists who made use of christ's name profanely and wickedly in their diabolical enchantments they were vagabond jews they were of the jewish nation in religion but went from town to town just to try to get a quick buck conjuring they strolled about to tell people their fortunes and pretended by spells and charms to cure diseases and they prayed off of the desperation of the people of that city they called themselves exorcists because in doing their tricks they used forms of aduration by such and such they would say commanding names a particular account of some in ephesus the bible tells us that they were the seven sons of one skeva a jew and notice and chief of the priests they had a lineage they had a heritage they were of the house of jacob the house of aaron how sad a family like this called into the priesthood with this great lineage we now see trying to get a quick book going from town to town casting spells diversions to desperate people they were guilty of profaneness they took upon them to call over evil spirits in the name of the lord jesus not as those who had a relationship to christ not of those with an unwavering confidence in his name but or perhaps thought these people would perhaps know oh well this is the lineage of that great priesthood so surely they know what they were talking about and i just believe that some of them uh had just enough arrogance to them would say well i'm of the priesthood i can just go out and say whatever i want to for the people and they will believe and give me money for what i have to say no true relationship with jesus not interested in hearing about this resurrected messiah even though they had a great lineage even though they had a great last name even though they had every opportunity available to them they were content with just going around with a counterfeit wannabe copycat gospel just to try to appeal and appease the masses of ephesus they said we adjure you by jesus whom paul preaches and the evil spirit gave them a sharp reply jesus i know and paul i know but who are you i know that jesus has conquered principalities and powers and that paul has an authority in his name to cast out devils but what power do you command us in his name or who gave you such power that demon didn't care who their daddy was that demon didn't care of what house of aaron they came from that demon looked them straight in the face jesus i know paul i know but who are you fac knoxville upcoming generation we face a real enemy tonight we face an enemy this evening and i've got news for you that joseph isn't here paul is not here it's up to you to cast the enemy out it's up to you to preach the gospel it's up for you to dig out a revival it's up to you to bring the fight this gospel no longer falls on the shoulders of your parents or your grandparents it's going to be up to you to keep this thing going in the last day you want to see miracles you want to be see signs and wonders you want to see deliverance take place in the city of knoxville guess what it's up to you yes because of jesus christ but you are the vehicle and i ask you tonight as hell looks you straight in the face as demons stare you straight in the face and they say jesus i know paul i know but who are you who are you when you think about what got us here we probably shouldn't even have pews in this place who we should probably just come in shouting non-stop but i know that's a little bit extreme but if you think about what got us to where we are at conviction should strike our heart whether you were raised in church or not you face the same question who are you and i ask every father in this place who are you father are you the leader of your home are you doing everything that god called you to do you're the only one that can answer that for yourself who are you mom are you the proper example and leading your family to the house of god in every single area of life you're the only one that can answer that who are you saints who are you students because we come to this crossroads in our life where we are going to face an enemy will we have an entitlement weak soft response and let the enemy overtake us because he will if we do will we have a cheap counterfeit watered-down version of the gospel or will we be like david who says goliath comes out onto the battlefield and david says though you come with me with a sword and shield i don't care what modern means of weaponry you come at me with i come to you in the name of the lord so i ask you tonight what's your response going to be because you will face hell and you will face a demon and it's not going to matter who your dad is it's not going to matter how much your grandmother prayed it's going to be up to you in your walk and in your relationship who are you [Applause] we all have to answer this question and when i think about myself and how i got where i am i'm a product of a sharecropper who grew up in absolute poverty and felt the call of god so strongly the sharecropper did at an age of 11 years old he began to preach this gospel and preach it as the prophet jeremiah would call it though there was fire shut up in his bones no formal training no financial backing no direct mentor responsible for his ministerial aspiration but it was the edification of the holy ghost and the teaching of the word of god i guarantee you hell knows his name i guarantee you if he's faced to the enemy he wasn't going to ask any questions who that was i'm a product of a bivocational pastor a sawmill worker who he and his family were voted out of their local assembly for receiving the baptism of the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in another tongue but this did not diminish his faith this did not cause him to have a hateful spirit towards those that voted him out but he built a church and he didn't even have the holy ghost yet but he had so much faith that he would get up and preach about it every service and then after he would preach he would be the first one in the altar and then one night god filled him with his spirit and revival began to take place in that mountain town and a tent would be set up and you know the story and his daughter would become bishop mccool's wife i guarantee you hell knows his name i guarantee you satan knows his name i guarantee you when faced with the question that demon fled i'm a product of a mighty prayer warrior a prayer warrior who would also work night shift after night shift after night shift after night shift as a nurse to ensure that her girls would have a means to attend functions of the church in dayton ohio and she would eventually go on to make a way for her daughter to come to knoxville and go to school here at apostolic christian school and that her daughter jamie would become pastor's wife of this church and only by means of her prayer and her faith and her determination and she would bring her whole family down i guarantee you hell knows i owe the seller's name i remember about the age of 12 years old stay with me for a second my grandma cellar's at the bedside of the love of her life jim sellers my grandfather he was on his last stages of alzheimer's they had moved down here to retire oh what would have been the story book retirement here in east tennessee with their three girls close by but upon moving here alzheimer's begin to slip in and creep in in the last years of her life she stood by the bedside of her husband caring for him as he incrementally digressed and at the final stages of his life no control over his movement or responses she would still come to church while the girls rotated out to watch him even when he couldn't even remember where he was he didn't have a competent mind at that time to even know where he was but she would still bring him into the house of god one time she brought him into the house and he was in a hospital bed and i began to think about about those times and if my grandmother can get to church while keeping her husband who's got alzheimer's what kind of excuse do i have i guarantee you hell knows her name i guarantee you hell knows his name what excuse who are you are you going to have the same faith and determination and passion that they had each and every day we're faced with this question every single service every decision we make this world's not going to remember about joseph this world's not going to remember about the power of yesterday oh i know hell's going to acknowledge the power of god and satan's going to look you in the face and say jesus i know lily and betty i know jim and iola i know mark and jamie i know nate and ashley i know but anthony they're not here beside you who are you and what are you going to do [Applause] and i believe this generation and every person under the sound of my voice we've got to replace entitlement with conviction we've got to replace lethargy with tenacity and we've got to replace any sense of passiveness with a passionate pursuit we can't afford to come in here one time and just say hey i'm going to let just the service come at me today i'm going to see if they play my favorite song i'm i'm going to may everything's got to be perfect for a move of god to take place i got to come out here no matter what's taking place in my day no matter what's going around me no matter what hardships existed i'm going to give god praise i'm going to look to that joseph of the past oh i wish he was here beside me but they're not going to be here forever i know this world don't remember joseph oh paul's not with me oh but the enemy is going to ask me who are you and i'm going to tell the enemy who i am i come to you in the name of the lord yes they had a great influence on my life but i've been baptized in the name of jesus i've got the holy ghost and satan get behind me you must flee greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world would you give the lord a great big hand who are you you better be ready to respond you better be ready for a fight because you're going to be asked [Applause] shame on me when our luxuries are the source of my frustration i have so many blessings that i complain about their weight i've got to have that relationship with jesus i've got to have that same determination they had another family i'd like to make mention of tonight that i've been greatly impacted by i'm a product of at the age of five years old i was in sister philippia's kindergarten class and my dad came and and got me out of class on an afternoon day and he took me to mcgee tyson airport reiterating to me over and over that we are going to welcome home a hero and it was a hero from the gulf war brother kevin hudson he and his wife sister eve hudson who's taught in the school here for over 20 years have impacted countless individuals and i'm greatly influenced and have the privilege of going to school with the fruit of these heroes who possessed the same heroism their son tyrus who's gone on to meet the lord i witnessed he had epilepsy and i witnessed on several occasions him have an epileptic attack sometimes they would be so severe that he would strike his head on a wall or a step and it would cause him to bleed profusely but i always remember the next day at school he would be there not one time do i remember him ever being late to basketball practice not one time do i ever remember him complaining about anything not one time did he ever use it as an excuse and he greatly impacted this joseph my life their younger son taylor who god is healed of cancer and is now just a mighty impactful man of god with a beautiful family and a famous son camden now in our house every picture that's posted and i've had the privilege of teaching their youngest daughter tierra in school and she possessed these same traits and if she'd be making her way up here at this time she's educated at tennessee state university the same college that oprah winfrey attended she's had internships in washington d.c but she gave her testimony to our project at our project 180 launch and she was faced with this question and she's going to give you the answer to it tonight she was faced with the question jesus i know kevin and eve hudson i know tyrus and taylor i know but tierra who are you give us a response to that question who am i well i'm the product of kevin hudson an invited friend who am i i'm the product of eve hudson who came from a campus ministry but that's not who i am that's their story we're not here about them i went to school here i've attended church here all my life but this is this is my story in this life i was blessed with two older brothers tyrus and taylor tyrus my eldest brother at the age of seven years old was diagnosed with epilepsy and my brother taylor when he was a high school freshman was diagnosed with leukemia every day it just it was the same go to school go to the hospital leave early enough for the hospital to go back home so you can get ready to go to school again and repeat so but despite all that my brothers worshipped they danced on the floor they sometimes rolled around the floor but yet for me i i had the thought why do i need to stand out when my brothers already make an impact why do i need to stand out when they are already have such a great ministry what could i offer but yet i was going through the motions and there needed to be a shift in my life from the very from day one my parents taught me of the goodness of the lord and they taught me that the church was my home and i will always know i always know that and i always feel that especially in the year 2010 i remember that so clearly especially june 2010 because that sunday my family was all here from all over celebrating taylor as he was graduating high school you know he was cancer-free it was a great celebration you know bless god that same wednesday though god thought it time to take home my eldest brother tyrus it was a wednesday because i know because my dad took me to wednesday night bible study and he made sure that even though we were hurting that we were going to be here in the house of god [Applause] even though i knew of the goodness of god my whole life it was never really clicking so and yet continually i had these thoughts like why am i even here like you took my my brother tyrus and yeah i'm still here why'd you not take me you know you get you've tested my brother taylor time and time again and yeah he's dancing and i'm here what's my story and yet when it comes to this church my my families look to to be the epitome of faith my mom encouraged people even though she was hurt through past trials and tribulations my brother did everything he could do in the church and i'm still here what can i do oh god like i'm here do you hear me i'm here yet i was i was not really fully committed my friends had left the church for their reasons what am i what do i have to show for my faithfulness well my brother he's cancer-free my mom she's she's mentoring other women you know my dad does any job available to him no matter how tired but what do what do i have to show for my faithfulness i'm here i i've never cut my hair my skirts like they're as long as they need to be yet what do i have to show for my faithfulness where is my story what i realized is i never truly put my faith all my faith in god because i felt if i put my full choice full trust in god what calamity would happen next over time i started to isolate myself and when you are left to your thoughts you begin to doubt worry and stress there was a time where i thought i should be grateful to be alive but i didn't want to exist i tell i kept telling myself to get up but yet i would lay in my bed and i'd watch the day turn into night the day turn into night the day turned into night i would keep telling myself to get up you are you should be ashamed of yourself you have no reason to complain there are a lot bigger problems than the darkness you're feeling don't tell anyone and through all this i continue to go to church because i trusted my faithfulness and not trusted in the full capacity of my god i would come into church tiara how are you doing today i'm great thank you knowing that was a lie i just spent three days in bed working up the streets to get up to be here today hey sister tierra how are you today oh i'm great i'm blessed i just spent about 10 minutes crying in my car before i walked into here this chaos i created last created lasted for almost two years of my life and there was a time where i did not want to be here but yet sometimes god allows you to hit rock bottom so that you know how to find your way back to him because he called me out of the darkness into his marvelous light so i did what i finally should have been doing from the very beginning and i called on god i put my full trust in god not allowing for negativity to propagate my mind i was reminded of the verse in philippians 4 6 do not be anxious about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication and thanksgiving let your requests be known unto god because so i started praying i said god created me a clean heart it renewed within me a right spirit a spirit that wasn't filled with doubt with a spirit that wasn't full of stress the spirit of feeling worth it so who am i i am first a child of god i am living proof that sadness grief or anxiety will not overtake you i improve that your step back will not hold you back i can speak with words filled with life and joy to others because i have faith in the one who has been faithful to me that is who i am why don't you stand and give god a great big praise for what you just heard kevin and eva i know tyrus and taylor i know and he knows who tiara is as well just remain standing for although joseph had been forgotten a time passed had been forgotten oh there would be a redeemer that was raised up he wasn't raised up in a pit he didn't have to go through the trial of being light upon in potiphar's house oh he didn't grow up in a prison oh but there would be a moses who right under their nose right and the court of pharaoh would be raised up and this pharaoh doesn't remember joseph this world might not remember joseph but hell get or get ready because there is a moses on the way and you just heard the testimony tonight oh we celebrate the great miracles of the past oh we acknowledge it and they build our faith but i just believe in 2022 right here in the city of knoxville that there's a moses that's getting ready to be broken loose across this house musicians come and i believe satan is finding out who this generation is i believe satan is finding out maybe maybe there's some people under the sound of my voice that had put some some things in neutral or an idol for a little bit but but i feel like there's a revamping and a regeneration maybe we even use that term revival in our lives to realize i've got to answer that question for myself as a father and as a mother because face it a lot of the things we live on are some of the great miracles that have taken place in the past but we can't live off yesterday's manna we've got to declare it for this day for my family for future generations and i believe hell is going to know who fac knoxville is in 2022. i believe we've got the same passion i believe we've got the same determination the same grit this is not going to be the weak link generation this is not going to be the generation that drops the baton leaving it clanking and crashing in the race this world is about to find out who moses is in this house a few weeks ago i made mention of some some young men young to me because i'm getting older stephen blevins and hayden briggs and drew flannery just needed some renovation to take place down here in the event center and here these guys come and hayden's built their prayer rooms and they just know how to do all these amazing just craftsmen and i the other night i was looking i was going to make mention of them i was seeing if stephen was here and i started looking back there where he sits and he didn't i didn't see him i was like well shoot i'll i'll catch him next time i want to thank him publicly well i was looking too far back because he was up here at the altar with his hands lifted high with tears coming down his face now now he's a he's a man's man he's he's masculine he he sprinkles a little dirt in his water before he drinks it you know and the world would say hey you're not supposed to act like that you're the you're the man you're supposed to sit back with your arms folded and not ever give god a praise but you know what he was saying the enemy probably been confronting him with some questions in his life like we all do said jesus i know paul i know steve blevins elder steve blevins who gave that great testimony earlier who i saw him in the uh in the events center on the broadcast got so excited he he ran around the pulpit praising god when a miracle takes place in your life for your daughter you'll do that but he's he was confronting some things and said yeah but who are you well you're about to find out who i am because i know where to go when i have a need i know who to turn to as tierra told about we've got to get a hold of this thing it's up to us it's up to us be free you saw that awesome video this morning ryan and stacy and all of you all that are in be free do you know what you're doing every time you assemble together you're answering that question you're walking right into the court of pharaoh where it seems like all power the most powerful empire in human history to ever exist that you're going up against addiction and devices of this world and all of you are walking right into the court as you meet into this in this class and you're saying let my people go because even though egypt has forgotten about the miracles of the past there's a moses there's a moses that's been raised up and there's a spirit of moses that's in this house [Music] i could go through tonight and name off family after family member talk about some of the great elders of the church and now how their sons and daughters how their grandchildren have now got a hold of this thing and i preached this to us tonight to keep us reminded because i know you are determined i know you do have that same tenacity and i know you like i we're not going to quit and we're going to be unwavering in the apostles doctrine we're steadfast in this thing that's not up for debate we're not going to compromise not one inch i want to do something tonight the apostle paul and i know you've been standing for a second so i'll hurry the apostle paul in second timothy said i have fought a good fight i have finished the race and i have kept the faith i heard a story where john maxwell the the great leadership author and speaker relayed this story he said the apostle was most likely not pulling a random metaphor out of a hat i'd never thought about this before nearly every person in the roman empire would have thought about one specific race when reading paul's words paul was in fact given a jab to somebody when he wrote this in fact it's possible these words of paul spread beyond the christian community and might have ultimately hastened his death the roman emperor nero had demanded the olympic games be held in ad67 so he could compete in the games while on an extended tour to greece he included in the games and paid he included in the games poetry reading and music because this was his strong suit he made large bribes to ensure that he would become the victor he ran a race where his chariot crashed yet the judges still proclaimed him the winner this overweight neglected poor outfit of a king would then run and use caesar augustus chariot and ride right into his town proclaiming himself the victor and it paid the judges off and soon after nero's return to rome paul concluded his testimony he said i finished the race i've fought a good fight and i have kept the faith we're called to be keepers you heard the sermon this morning about being watchmen were to be keepers keepers of this thing so don't you be discouraged i say oh let's say this don't you be discouraged by the perceived success of this world don't you be intimidated by the fake victories of the enemy this world may define something as a win but we know what true winning looks like and like the apostle in 2022 fac knoxville stands committed to preaching and teaching the doctrine of the apostles fac knoxville stands committed to living a life of holiness with biblical principles and i believe there's a spirit of moses in our midst and we are as our theme for this year is capable of answering any enemy any demon in hell satan himself when he asks who we are because the race we run can be manipulated by man it's a continuation from joseph to moses from jesus to paul from generation to generation and i hold here these batons and i hold here a symbol of commitment in 2022. these are used in a relay as one person runs a race they hand it to the person that's next in line as one generation runs a race they hand it to the next generation and i wonder after the sound of my voice and i'm proclaimed tonight that this generation is not going to drop this baton and leave it clinking on the ground i wonder if somebody from adultish would tonight would come forward and say give me one of these batons there's one right here i don't drop it i wonder if somebody from the turn would step forward tonight with the spirit of moses and say give me that baton oh the campus may have forgot who joseph is oh but they're about to find out who moses is oh they're about to see the power of god unleashed on that place i wonder if somebody from project 180 high school or middle school would come up here right now and say i i know my grandparents walk i know my parents walk but the enemy's going to ask me one day he might be asking you right now but alex who are you and you're going to look that into me right in the face and say i've been baptized in the name of jesus i know jesus for myself i'm grateful for my heritage but hell you better get ready i know you know my name and you're gonna have to flee seven ways i wonder if a mother would step up here right now and say i'm gonna leave my family i'm gonna make sure my family stays committed and in church i wonder if my father would step up here right now and say this is on behalf of my family we're going to stay faithful to the house of god oh don't be don't be shy right now out of our father and step forward i wonder if a real man's man would step forward somebody whose wife gets onto them if they wear their boots into the house somebody that's a man man it says hey i got two of them for you it says hey i know how to worship i know this world just stereotypes me to be somebody that should just sit over to the side and stow it and not ever lift my hands not ever lift my voice but i know what winning looks like i wonder if anybody else here if somebody who's going through a trial right now would say hey i'm going to stay committed i'm going to stay committed i'm going to remain faithful though the enemy might be throwing some things at me right now nothing's going to keep me nothing's going to stop me i'm going to remain faithful in this last day oh would you step forward right now if you believe that there's a spirit of moses in this house there's revival taking place oh we've been asked a question tonight who are you how are you going to respond what you're going to do oh if you're seeing it right now hell you're seeing it right now [Music] he's still proving just how great he is [Music] [Applause] [Music] respond [Music] is there anything [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] for them [Music] [Applause] he is [Applause] how brave [Applause] [Music] [Applause] let's hear the prayers for just a second the enemy's asking some people tonight jesus i know paul i know but who are you i wonder with one unified voice of praise tonight if you've got the holy ghost you ought to unleash it in this house if you need the holy ghost it's ready to open up to you tonight i wonder with one mighty response tonight could we respond to hell when he asks us who we are tonight oh there's no music going there's no praise team singing there's nobody cheering me on it's just you and your response you and your response how you gonna respond when tribulation comes how are you going to respond when hell stares you right in the face oh don't you know who my granddad is don't you know who my grandmother is oh no who are you who are you can you pray out a revival can you fast out a revival oh it's only going to come by prayer and fasting are you going to see miracles in this last day are you only going to talk about them from the past oh do you believe can you worship can you worship without any music going can you praise without anybody sing it right there on your own can you feel the joy of the lord even though i'm down to nothing as sister tierra told us if i'm at rock bottom i want you to know he's there he's there he's there and he's ready to fill you up tonight yes jesus yes jesus yes jesus oh would you pray in this place listen to that response oh i believe hell knows we're here tonight [Applause] i believe he's going to have to flee seven different ways tonight greater is he that is in this church that he that is in the world flee right now flee right now flee right now that's jesus under the authority of the name of jesus oh you see every senior saint that's watching online right now i ask you to give them a special blessing lord we're thankful for you thank you summit seniors thank you for providing us with the opportunities we have oh we honor you tonight and we honor you by being passionate by continuing on oh we thank you tonight yes jesus yes jesus god [Applause] [Music] oh you hear that response yes jesus that's jesus yes jesus who are you who are you yes jesus yes jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes yes jesus yes jesus yes jesus can you dig it out yes jesus yes jesus [Applause] god in your name jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] come on dad come on mom come on student come on student we've been given the baton we're not going to drop it i'm going to hold on to it firm i'm not letting it go i'm not letting it go that's not what success is that victory was fixed i don't care what the world tells me is a win i'm fighting the good fight i'm finishing the course the gates of hell are not going to prevail against me i'm not intimidated by the fakeness of this world i'm not scared of perceived success by this world we know what winning looks like yes jesus yes jesus yes jesus oh [Music] oh oh hallelujah would you give high praise to jesus in this house right now hallelujah hallelujah