Never Forget Your Future | Associate Pastor Chad Erickson

Genesis chapter 37 verse 19. amen again give honor to senior pastor and first a lady give honor to our pastoral team uh just got to spend about uh I don't know 13 12 13 days uh shut in a in a house with them all our pastoral staffed together and I don't know too many pastoral staffs that would get along for that amount of time together but I want you to know we did we got along somebody said praise the Lord no not only do we get along but as Pastor I heard him tell the church you know we we first we try to you know we're just gonna make this family time and and we're just going to talk about family and but don't you know about three or four days into it we start talking kids ministry and we start talking student Ministry and start talking small groups and all the things that are going to take place and you just naturally talk about what you're excited about it just naturally comes out and we had just a great time of of not only Fellowship together as a family but also uh just doing a little bit of dreaming about what's going to happen this year at First Apostolic Church well let me get right into the word Genesis chapter 37 verse 19 we're gonna we're gonna read about a dreamer and they said one to another these are the brothers of Joseph behold this Dreamer cometh come now therefore and let us slay him and cast him into some pit and we will say some evil Beast hath devoured him and we shall see what will become of his dreams we're going to see about these dreams he's having then in Exodus chapter 3 and verse 6 and you may not have time to get there but it'll be on the screen it simply says moreover he said I am the god of thy father the god of Abraham the god of Isaac and the god of Jacob it was December of 1772 in Olney England that at the age of 47 John Newton began writing a hymn that would grow increasingly more popular over the next 250 years his song was entitled Amazing Grace Newton writes about Grace that is immense he writes about Amazing Grace one that saved him out of his wretchedness now you you know verse 1. Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretched like me I once was lost but now my found was blind but now I see that's verse 1 . it's not the chorus some people think it's a chorus it's not that that's his past he's talking about what God saved him from but then in verse 4 he begins to tell us his dream he said when we've been there Ten Thousand Years bright shining as a son we even know less days to sing God's praise and win we first begun and then the author begins to write about his future his dream he starts off with his past of where God had brought him from and then brings in the dream of where God is going to take him I just want to preach simply in your hearing tonight never forget your future never forget your future why don't you lay your Bibles down let's just lift up Hands to Heaven Come On Let's worship him once again choir has brought us into his glory and in his presence but come on let's just tell him Lord we love you Lord we honor you tonight Lord we praise you Lord God we've praised you in song Lord we praise along with the choir along with the worship team Lord we've given you glory we've given you honor Lord God we've extolled your name we've adored your name and Lord God now we ask you to minister to us slow we need to hear from your throne room we we need to know that you're in this place and Lord God that you have a word for each one of us I I believe God that you've given me Lord God something for someone tonight that's going to leave this place change they're going to leave this place different than the way they came into this house oh come on somebody if you believe that today why don't you clap your hands and give God praise with your lips with your voice with your mouth oh we bless you father in this house never forget your future you may be seated the human immune system is our protector its job is to defend the body against disease and any other damaging foreign bodies it's the immune system it works by first identifying alien bacteria viruses fungi parasite any lurking thing that would come into our body that does not belong it it soon after sins its troops it sends the white blood cells to destroy the Invaders and and also the tissue that's been infected by those Invaders the next part I I want to stop and kind of read this a little bit slower because this is what really jumped out of the page when I began to research the immune system it says the immune system keeps a record of it remembers every germ it's ever defeated so we can recognize and destroy the microbe quickly if it enters the body again now it's very important that we keep good record amen it's important to remember things that maybe caused us to fail or cause us to falter in our past if you haven't already picked up on it yet I'm going to go spiritual with this with this immune system topic but God gave us a memory for a reason and we remember great things that happened in our past and and we have good and pleasant memories but memories are already also used as reminders of ways we can defeat things that we defeated in the past somebody said amen it's a Memory that kicks in to tell a child not to touch a burning stove again the term the term herd immunity was a Hot Topic during the pandemic the theory the theory was if our bodies could be infected and survive then our immune system would know how to defeat the virus when it was attacked the second time because it would come again we understood and that was something that was very hard for us to grasp we were we were trying our best not to get the virus and and it's hard to understand the idea that receiving the virus would somehow help us but now we're beginning to realize here in America that because we have started to have immunity to the virus I don't know too many people personally that have the virus right now I talked to a missionary in in in Taiwan and and he said it's affecting us again so bad he said we're still not allowed to come out of our Apartments we're not allowed to to leave our buildings unless we have a pass and and what has happened in Taiwan and in China where where it started to kill people by the hundreds and thousands is they have never created this herd immunity their bodies are not used to this disease and so when that when the virus comes into their bodies their bodies cannot reject the virus we understand we we see we see reverse effect and this hurt immunity that takes place or when when a person is sheltered as as a first-time mother's instinct is to shelter their child from sickness we understand this most of us have had a first child you remember the first child that's the one that you don't want anybody to touch and you don't want anybody to breathe on and you you want to somehow protect them and keep people keep people away from them and you come late and you leave early you remember how that was and if you look back and now I've gone through three now now my third one we just passed it around like a hot potato but if you look back over your children you'll probably realize that the first one was the one that was at the Children's ER the most it was the one that was it was going into the walk-in clinics the most it was the one that the first three or four years it was always getting sick and always staying home from school staying home from daycare but over time we we begin to realize that if the child now I'm not saying that we take them to the ER and spend the day in the ER I'm not saying that we're not we're not looking to catch something but at the same time there's a natural immunity that the body it has to face antibodies and different things that come into the into the body in order to be able to learn how to fight off those things the immune system I'll read this one more time this is so important the immune system keeps a record of every germ it has ever defeated your body the memory goes far beyond just your mind and they save the immune system it just it's just not it's not held in one part of your body it's not in in your heart or in your mind or it's it's not it's all throughout the body your immune system is working back and forth everywhere that you have a white blood cell you've got an immune system that's ready to sick those white blood cells on anything that comes in the body that's going to affect the body to despise past tests and trials that you've gone through I want to talk about the past a little bit I want to talk about memory make sure you remember how you overcame that trial that test what you might have considered tribulation you got to keep records of how you got through it and how you made it out and that's how we build up our spiritual immune system because when the very same test in trial arises again in our life our spirit has to rise up inside of us and say oh no not this time you know a lot of times you've heard the term common sense but but common sense is not always common you would think that people would learn from mistakes or or people would be able to learn I I wish that I could learn from other people's mistakes that would keep me out of a lot of trouble but some reason somehow man if you've got kids if you've got teenagers it's like you can say man listen you just you just saw a person in your class do the same thing and you saw what happened to them why did you do this you knew it was going to happen but what is it about that the the idea is this they have not created the spiritual immune system they've really got to create in order to fight off of those things there's some things listen I look back over my life at things and and a lot of people you could be ashamed of your past I don't want to talk about my past I don't want to talk about that divorce I went through I don't I don't want to talk about that sickness I went through listen sometimes you got to go back to those moments in order to break through and the next time something comes along that's going to fight you the very same way that fought you I just believe I can help somebody today realize that if you're going to live for God and become immune to The Wiles of the enemy you've got to remember who you are and where you came from you've got to have vision of where you're going and you've got to have a dream of what you're trying to reach to if I had been Joseph's next door neighbor Joseph we know the story of Joseph son of Jacob the son of Israel oh this is Joseph the firstborn of Rachel the loved wife of Jacob the woman that he really wanted to be with the woman that he really wanted to raise a family with but here he he would raise the family with her sister and and with different handmaidens of the wives but but here he is now with the firstborn of the lovely Rachel and Joseph man Joseph didn't have a lot of sense Joseph in it and I guess I begin to to look and when I read a Bible story I try to put myself into the story I try to just climb inside the story I will I want to sit at the dinner table and just listen to Joseph explain to his brothers how they're about to bow down to him in the future I'm talking about Brothers now a lot of times we think of Joseph and we think of a family we think of our family and I you know somebody might have a 17 year old and a 14 year old and 11 year old and a in a nine-year-old and an eight-year-old and and you kind of think of that eight-year-old talking to this eight nine-year-old and the 17 year old and telling them they're gonna bow but that's that's not really how this went see Joseph's brothers were a whole lot older he had Brothers they were in their 20s and 30s and probably even in their 40s by now and he's looking at them across the table and he's explaining to them now he's already wearing a coat of many colors everybody else is wearing boring colors everybody else is wearing black colors but you got Joseph he's wearing those those colors that are catching people's attention if you will and here he's already they don't like them they they already will they already come together and say you know we hate that guy we don't like him I don't care if he is our brother that's oh that's Rachel's boy my mom was ugly he's got the pretty mama there there he don't like him don't like him and now he's talking about how they're gonna bow down to him he's talking about sheaves my sheaves stood up in your sheaves bowed down to my sheep he's telling about dreams that he's having and these brothers want nothing to do it but but then but then he goes a step further and he starts saying behold the Sun and the Moon and the 11 stars made he said he said all y'all bow down to me and now Mom and Dad say now you you talking about us Israel said you talking about me and your mother you talk about me and Rachel we're gonna bow down to you and Joseph starts talking about his dream and I guess if I if I could have been his next door neighbor friend I would have just said listen Joseph man there's some things you just shouldn't tell people I would be a good friend well listen I put my arm around and say listen number one you wear this coat way too much you like wearing it every day of the week this might be your Sunday Garb okay dreams that a little bit just tell me don't tell everybody else just tell me your dreams I'm big enough I can take it you know if you want to talk about your brother's bow and down to your mom and dad bowing down to you just tell me about it it's okay we'll we'll talk about your dreams and I'll Pat you on the back and tell you you keep on dreaming but that's not what happened Joseph said man listen I've got a dream and I've got to tell everybody about it but before we go too far about the dreams because the dreams uh we know they came true we we know the end of the book we know the end of the story we know they came true but let's talk about his past let me talk you talk to you about his Heritage we read about it in our text Abraham Isaac and Jacob this word usage is used 20 free times in the Old Testament at least five times God himself said I am the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob these three men are what we call the Patriarchs they they Define a whole period of time in the Bible Abraham was Joseph's great grandfather Isaac was Joseph's grandfather and we know that Jacob was Joseph's father he had what we would call a beautiful Heritage he understood his Heritage he understood I've got big shoes to feel he understood I've got gold running in my veins and here's what I've really come to preach about today and I just believe that there's people that are here tonight that if you could get a hold and find out exactly who you are and have a dream and a vision of where you're headed I believe that life would be a whole lot Easy Living today I believe your Christian walk would be a whole lot easier if you just understood your true identity but there's too many people they're all about their natural identity and they don't really understand their spiritual identity I begin to think about this young man named Joseph who gets sold to Israelite Traders by his own flesh and blood I begin to wonder myself how was he able to mentally process this fact that his own brothers were willing to sell him as Slave how did Joseph how did he survive the Chain Gang headed into Egypt how did Joseph mentally handle going from being father's favorite to being Potiphar's a little servant boy how was it that Joseph could overcome the temptation of Potiphar's life I'll tell you how Joseph did it in his mind every day that he lived he would just simply say I am Joseph I am the son of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and I had a dream how is it that Joseph could be put into the prison of the king how is it that he could be put in for some 13 years he would live in a prison cell in the dirtiest rankist prison that you could ever imagine we're not talking about over here Blount County Jail we're not we're not talking about getting fed hot food we're not talking about a clean cell to sit in to sleep and we're talking about a dungeon type lifestyle we're talking about being locked up abroad here he is but he says you know what what I cannot forget is who I am I know who I am he kept on telling himself over and over and over again I'm Joseph I'm the son of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and I have a dream he knew who his Heritage was he knew what his Pastor looked like and he also knew I've got something I've got a vision that I've got to see fulfilled Joseph Joseph what a beautiful Heritage Joseph now listen we we understand it and this is what sometimes you gotta get into the word you gotta you gotta get into the story and you've got to realize that we we understand that Joseph became second in command in the greatest country on Earth at the time we understand that he was second to Pharaoh in Egypt we understand that his brothers came and bowed down to him we understand all these things but in those 13 years that young man had no idea was living her life and probably thinking to himself I know I have a dream I know who I am but God is this really how everything's gonna end well I never see my dream fulfilled but he kept on going the Bible talks about that he was the best he was the best person in that jail he was he was locked up but he said I'm gonna do whatever I can to help whoever I can I want to add value to everybody around me a lot of people think that the only way that you can add value to others is if you have something to offer and Joseph said I ain't got nothing I don't got money I don't got riches I don't even have a family that loves me I got nothing but I'm still gonna do everything I can to help encourage you the king's servants came down I'm not going to go through the whole story you know the story but the King's Service came down and when they came down Joseph let them know exactly who he was and I just believe he shared his dream with him what about you what about your heritage now listen some of you got a testimony uh we're at the pressing the present wedding uh just a couple weeks ago and they're talking about being I believe it was fifth generation Apostolic Pentecostal listen that's a beautiful thing man you can look back over your past and you can look back over the generations before you and you can I mean five generations that's parents that's grandparents that's great grandparents that's great great grandparents that's great great great grandparents that's unbelievable but then there's other people in this room your first generation you ain't never hurt you you ain't never heard any of this before all of a sudden you walked into the church you walked into First Apostolic you walked into 1331 William Blunt Drive didn't have a clue what you were getting yourself into all you knew is you felt something you had never felt before you saw people praying out loud and that was that was questionable and you saw people look like their lips were moving but you couldn't understand any words that were coming out of your mouth and well that was a little question upon and you saw a choir dancing and shouting you saw you saw Ben Lee come running around the aisles going 50 miles an hour like a cheetah you thought what just happened but you felt something but you knew something was different but you knew I never felt this before I've never experienced this experience before and then you found yourself coming closer closer to the altar until you threw your hands up and and somebody started praying for you and you couldn't contain what was inside of you and you repented of your sins you were filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost you made the best decision you could ever make you went into the water in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins and the rest is history and I wish that I could I could tell you tonight that as soon as you go into the water and as soon as you feel with the spirit as soon as you repent of your sins and change your lifestyle I wish so bad I can tell you that it's all roses from that point on but I hate to tell you it gets harder after that and so some of you first generation apostolics you you're caught you're caught in a generational curse for the devil thinks he's got you caught in a generational curse your daddy Drinker your granddaddy was a drinker great-grandfather was a town drunk your mama can't keep out of jail can't keep out of prison your grandmother couldn't keep out of jail your daddy your daddy could never come to church your grandfather he could never come to church your great-grandfather he wouldn't come to church and you're caught in this generational curse that wants to try to tell you because of them that's who you are and if we were going by our physical heritage I would say you're right you're destined to be a drunk you're destined to be you're going to be in and out of jail the rest of your life you're destined to be a church Hopper you're destined to be uh but because we don't have to go back to our physical heritage because we have a spiritual Heritage it's not the natural heritage that we look upon we look back at our spiritual Heritage second Corinthians 5 17 says therefore If any man be in Christ he is a new creature all things are passed away behold all things I have become new Galatians 4 and 4 says but when the fullness of time has come God sent forth his son made of a woman made under the law to redeem them somebody said he redeemed me that were under the law that mean we might receive the adoption of sons and because you are Sons because I'm a son God has sent forth the spirit of a son into your hearts that's the Holy Ghost and we cry Abba Father wherefore Thou Art no more a servant but a son and if a son then an heir of God through Christ Jesus don't you look back at what your family used to do in your family name let me tell you something if you're a first generation Apostolic you want to be excited about it so you want to be saying hey as for me in my house as for me and my future as for me and my children and my grandchildren we're going to live different we're going to look different we're going to be different oh somebody shall yes you babysitter we gotta stop allowing Satan to beat us up and bring back our physical biological heritage when he wants to remind you of your natural Pastor you ought to remind him of his eternal future say devil oh you've been talking a big talk they talk a little smack been trash talk a little bit to me listen I know who I used to be but I also know who I'm about to be oh Mom and Dad can't give me my identity my Grandma and Grandpa can't give me my identity the only one that can give me my identity is my God my Lord my savior my father of all things and his name is Jesus clap your hands and give him praise if you know the name above every other name with all power and authority that's all in the name of Jesus our spiritual Heritage cancels out our natural heritage talking about cancer culture that's something we can cancel out that natural heritage I believe it was Bishop James husband I remember him preaching I believe it was one of our Tri-State Camp uh years ago he said I've been researching on race horse breeding if you know Bishop James Osborne he researches some crazy stuff foreign he'll sit you down at a dinner table he'll give you five messages in just about 10 minutes he said I was researching race horse breeding and I found out that when you purchase a thoroughbred racehorse you are purchasing his past his parents Define his worth a stallion in America come together and they produce a cult in that cult is worth 400 000 dollars I'm not talking about that little weak wobbly horse that's born they can't even hardly walk straight and wobbling and little little legs can't hardly hold them up come on you've watched natural geography you know what I'm talking about I don't have to have farmers in the house you know what I'm talking about that thing ain't worth four hundred thousand dollars that thing's heritage is worth four hundred thousand dollars cause a mama is and daddy is fast and they produced a bloodline of power and speed and there are people not me there are people that are willing to buy that thing ugly wet slimy can't even walk yet they walk up and go that's beautiful I'm like do lie check what that's the ugliest thing ever said looks like an alien oh no I'll give you four I'll give you a half a million for him because they understand what that thing is gonna become because they're not looking at his present they're looking at its past oh my God if we could realize who our father is we are Kings kids we're the children of a king devil you might be looking at me my brother and sister gonna First Apostolic you might be looking at who I am don't look at me I'm a little wobbly I can't hardly stand sometimes look at my daddy and look at my mama oh Joseph said I'm the son of Abraham Isaac and Jacob I want you to know today he fell back on his Heritage and we can fall back on our heritage Jesus Christ he said I am yours I'm your pastor and I'm your future I'm your helper and I'm your Omega I was before you I'm coming after you hey I'm in you and you are in me you maybe say that Jesus said Hey listen I'm in your bloodline and you're in my bloodline we got to move on quickly listen that's your pastor you got to have a valuable Heritage and you do if you've been born again if you've been washed poured out of the water in the spirit that's your heritage that's now your new pastor but what about a dream what about a dream frustration and dissatisfaction and discouragement are all symptoms of a person who has no dream a person who has no vision for their life we know the we know the verse in Proverbs 29 18 verse says where there is no vision the people I read another translation that says if people can't see what God is doing that's the vision they stumble all over themselves oh yeah Matthew Matthew Henry says in his commentary commentary he says without Vision the people are idle i d l e or they play as students do when the teacher is absent we got any Academy teachers in this place today no more sick days for you I listen when I was in school that was like my favorite day we've got something it wasn't because we didn't have good teachers because we knew we could take advantage of the substitute oh yeah man we I can't even go into stories of substitute teachers because we we weren't right we sworn right a Mather Henry Henry he he looked at this verse and he said listen people become idle when they don't have vision many times we read in in Proverbs 29 18 and we want to say well if Pastor doesn't cast vision for the church everyone's gonna die yeah as if we pastors are are the only ones who are are supposed to be Visionaries and I want to disprove this mindset because every single person in this house has got to have vision for their life Pastor Carpenter Can't spoon feed your student Pastor young people he can't spoon Fina your vision our kids quest Pastor young person they he they're not gonna spoon feed you your vision you've got to have vision for your own life because people they can't see the future and can't see themselves in the future those same people become idle as if they're as if they're a horse wearing blinders all they can see is their feet all they can see is where they are today that's why they make such stupid decisions because they don't look to the Future to see what what's going to happen if I make that decision they can't see that because all they're doing is is they're just walking along they're like a horse that's pulling some kind of plow all they can see is its feet all you can see is the ground right where they are and they can't make good decisions because they're idle oh I began to think of our student body I thought my God people make wrong decisions when they don't see themselves as anything when they don't realize their identity when they have no future no future plans it scares me when we have too many high school students when when you ask them what what are you gonna do for a living what are you going to do when you go to high school and they'll I don't know uh come on hey you got the internet at your disposal figured out you've got YouTube I didn't have YouTube figure it out be an entrepreneur I don't know go to college get your degrees whatever but have an idea of where you're going because if you don't care and you don't know you find yourself idle and people that have no life goals they make dumb decisions they forget who they are they forget who dad and mom are they forget whose they are what about us what about us what about us middle middle age we can get Idol too we can become like the person that says you know what I'm just gonna I'm gonna get out of my Ministry I'm gonna get out of the choir I'm gonna get out of small groups ah you know what I used to work in the coffee shop but you know they got enough workers there I'm just gonna I think I'm just gonna sit in the Pew for a while and we become idle and when you become I listen every single person that gets out they think of themselves well one day I'm going to get in but if they don't come up with a vision for that if they don't if they don't come up with an exact time you know as well as I do that's kind of like saying you're about to go on a diet on Monday you're just not sure which Monday you're going to go on the diet plan have an idea of what you're going to do the last thing we need to do around here is to be idle listen this brand new year this will be a great time for you to say you know what I dropped out of some things in 2022 but in this brand new year I'm going to get back in if you're a student I'm gonna start coming to youth events more often matter of fact every time there's a Youth Event I'm going to start going to Youth Event choir practice hey if you want me to come on a Saturday morning at 10 o'clock I'll be here on a Saturday morning at 10 o'clock because I want to keep busy for the Kingdom small groups I'll be a part of small groups are you telling me that I'm gonna have to give up a night of my week yep there's two type of people that go to small group there's the type of people that need small group they need the fellowship they need the word they need people talking in their life and then there's another type of person which maybe some of you don't realize that you need to be and that person is the person that goes and talks into people's lives it helps other people and brings somebody with them to the group we need more of those people listen nothing wrong listen our groups they're for all people I'm so thankful if the group feeds you if you've got to have the group to survive please keep on coming that's what it's for but if you're a type of person that says I want to be a disciple maker but I can't find no disciples come to group you're going to see all kinds of people that have real legitimate needs that you could play a role in you could come to group and you could say Hey listen I've been there before I used to do that I used to be addicted to that I used to be in that same situation but God set me free get back involved get back involved I'm coming to a close quickly what would happen if we as Apostolic Pentecostals really had a good understanding of who our father really is what would happen if we truly got a vision of what God wants us to become oh would we still struggle with the same insignificant struggles that we deal with day after day I don't think so people get stuck in what I call a sin cycle over and over and over again come to church on Sunday God forgive me God I'm sorry and write again the next week same thing again in the next Son of God I'm sorry God forgive me and the same thing happens but if you knew who you were if you were like Joseph if you could be in Potiphar's house and have some slick woman come after you come trying to get you to come in her bedroom and you can say hey I ain't falling for that one because I know who I am I'm not falling from that trick because I know who my father is I'm not falling for that because I know who my grandfather is and my great-grandfather is I am the child of Patriots well Joseph I've got one better than that I'm a child of the king whoa I believe every little Temptation we can remember I ain't doing that again every child that came away we remember ain't doing that again when Satan comes and tries to trip us up I will remember I can't do that again oh no because I understand who I am and I understand where I'm headed Joseph's brother said let's see what will become of this Dreamer the dreams not only saved Joseph's life the dream saved his brother's life also it's interesting to me that the 12 sons of Jacob we know more about the life of Joseph than the other eleven however it wasn't even Joseph's bloodline that brought our Messiah we know it's the bloodline of Judah it was the brother of Joseph but without Joseph there would have been no bloodline of Judah for the Messiah to come through if Joseph wouldn't have had a dream I want you to stand and stand to your feet because we've been told that we can't fix our past oh yes we can we've been told what's done is done oh no it's not I've been preaching I've been preaching tonight from the assumption that every one of the sound of my voice has received the gift of the Holy Ghost and The Heritage I've been preaching about I've just been preaching as if everyone in the house has but I just so happen to know that everybody hasn't if you're here in this place at night listen I want to be the greatest opportunist you've ever met I want to give you an opportunity to have a brand new Heritage and I'm not talking about your parents your your biological parents I'm not you you might have the sweetest you might have the sweetest mom and dad and never ain't never done wrong in their life you might have the greatest grandparents I I'm not saying that this is only for those who have had a hard upbringing this is for all people when Peter began to preach on the day of Pentecostal he said it's for your children it's for you it's for your kids it's for your kids kids and your kids kids kids it's for all that are far off even as many as the Lord Our God shall call I want you to know tonight he's calling you he says I want you to be in my family tree I want my name applied to your life I want you to go down in water in my name I died for you I shed my blood for you I hung on a cross for you I was despised I was ridiculed I was hated I was spit upon I want a crown of thoughts because I love you acts 1 and 8 says but she shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost there's so many benefits in being a child of God to being a True Believer you receive authority of the name the power that's in the name becomes yours when you take on the name of Jesus in baptism and then he said I want to fill you with my spirit I want to put my spirit inside of your body I want your body to be my throne room I want to have a throne right in the middle of your heart if you're here tonight oh and you've never received the gift of the Holy Ghost so let me tell you this very quickly this is so important this is the most important decision you're ever going to make you could come down to this altar and you could just lift up your hands and say God I don't ever understand everything this preacher's preaching but what I do understand is I want a different pastor what I do understand is I'm not happy with the Heritage I've been living under all these years oh the bloodline that I'm a part of it's a tainted bloodline but oh God he told me that if I would receive your spirit into my life if I would allow your spirit to enter into my body that I would be a new creature and old things would be passed away and behold all things would become new if that's you I want you to come I want to be very patient and maybe if you're standing next to somebody that you know wants to receive the Holy Ghost wants the spirit of God in their body I wish you would bring them down come on sometimes sometimes people just need somebody to walk with them maybe you could turn to somebody next to you and say how I want to go had a beautiful couple here this morning I wouldn't pray with him this morning and he told me he said please pray pray that my wife would receive the spirit of God come on I know that you're here I want to be patient church family can we just pray right now and just say God would you open minds and Open Hearts oh God I believe this Sunday night there's going to be lives that are changed right here in this Sanctuary that's right come on they're coming I love this right here oh I love this girl I love this horrible yes yes yes yes yes oh come on yes I believe in Jesus name come on is there anybody else come on oh come on baby yes I feel the Holy Ghost Church Family come on help me pray right now come on begin to pray in the spirit let your immune system I'll call it it build up right here begin to say God God feel these people with your spirit huh let the Holy Ghost fill this place right now in Jesus name let it fill this place come on they're still coming I love it they're still coming we need more people praying right here come on help us pray right here yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah in Jesus name hey come on now I want to make an altar call for all the dreamers in the house come on dreamers where are you at today Joseph's brothers called him a dreamer I wonder if there's any dreamers that would take this altar by force and you would come running and you would say I have a dream from my future I don't know if there's future preachers and singers and Sunday school teachers there could be future Church planners in this house they're gonna be future missionaries in this place bible study teachers I believe there's musicians future musicians you gotta see yourself I'll choir directors and youth pastors and children's leaders come on somebody I believe you're here today but you've got to have vision for your life huh you've got to see yourself in the future and you gotta say God I cannot die in this day but I'm gonna have Vision I will not perish in this day but my future I feel the Holy Ghost wanna break out in this place the Holy Ghost is wanna move in this place he's one to fill you if you've never been baptized in the name of Jesus for the removal the remission of your sins tonight would be the greatest night tonight tell somebody missed you oh say I want to be baptized I want to be baptized I want my sins washed away Tony's here huh he's here he's given power right now he's given Authority right now he shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you receive ye the Holy Ghost come on Sophia hey receive it in Jesus name open up your heart open up your mind up open up your mouth praise right now that's right come on Peterson is for your children Peter said it's for your children come on your people this is for you hey be empowered to do plenty things in your life Break Every Chain Break Every Chain I know who I am coming right now we're in this place right here come on Holy Ghost can't break through chains falling be free be free be free be free I hear the toys break every change surprise all right falling forward tonight tonight I Wanna Know come on the Holy Ghost is being poured out in this house come on church family can we break through just a little bit longer can we break through in our worship just a little bit longer yeah I believe this is a generation of curses I believe there's some generational curse of some Bloodlines that have been tainted by sin I I believe they're being broken right now I believe in Jesus name p he filled with the Holy Ghost be filled with the Holy Ghost receive ye the holy ghosts hey you're gonna begin to speak in some language you've never heard before your tongue's gonna stop moving in a way you've never moved before let that spirit let the Holy Ghost let those tongues come forth in Jesus name foreign language they could not understand oh a tongue they could not understand but it gave them power it empowers them it built them up pray in the spirits allow your spiritual immune system come on let it build up inside foreign yes yes yes yes yes come on some begins to happen we pray in the spirit something begins to happen we pray in the spirit when you don't know what to pray you can pray in the spirit foreign I began to study what builds up the immune system I'm talking about the physical brother Amazon I'm not talking about the spiritual immune system I'm talking about the physical it talks about getting the right kind of rest it talk about eating the right kind of foods putting the right type of things in your body it talks about getting a amount of sunlight and vitamin D it talks about all these things and then it said one more thing that blew my mind study after study they said that they found out they did research and found out that people who pray in the spirit I can't explain it except it's a God thing but they said that builds up the immune system if they took listen the research said I'm not look it up Google it they researched 150 it said Apostolic Pentecostals from the state of New York I don't know who they are I don't know who they got but it said they did research on them to test on Sunday when they had been in church and then they did the same tests on Monday and they said their immune system was so much stronger on Sunday than it was on Monday and they said oh we can figure out is there something about this praying in the spirit I wish we could leave this place with hands are lifted is there Apostolic Pentecostals is there about 550 Apostolic Pentecostals they would like to build up your physical and your spiritual immune system right now come on not only are you gonna fight off sickness of your body you're gonna fight off The Wiles of the devil you're not only going to fight off those things that will want to come in your body and cause disease oh but instead you're also gonna fight off those spiritual things hey come on I'm talking about people with phds I'm talking about researchers that said I can't explain it but there's something about praying in tongues it builds up the immunity system build it up build up your faith the joy of the Lord is your strength if you've got the spirit of God you ought to have joy and joy is going to build up strength in you physically and spiritually oh foreign I hear them I hear the days on me rising down the Holy Ghost is being poured out thank you Jesus right here first time thank you Jesus I believe it can happen right here I believe it can happen right here hey receive you the Holy Ghost receive ye the Holy Ghost Jesus name change the lives right now change Hearts right now change Futures right now give visions and trees get visions and dreams right now