Protecting the Culture of the Church | Associate Pastor Chad Erickson

oh I tell you what we've had a great day in the Lord already because the Holy Ghost has already been moving from the very first song this morning if you were here this morning God God just walked through this house if you came in here needing something I hope you're left with whatever you needed because the Lord was here and because he was here who our cup was filled yeah the empty was filled and while we were singing this morning I feel God impressed on my mind he told me he said worship will protect the culture of the church worship will protect this culture that we have right here you see I didn't know the church had culture oh yeah the church has culture I'm thankful for culture culture culture is who we are what we believe what we stand for what we do as a body and it's the worst of it's it's it's it's it's worship and I looked out this morning and I kind of looked out from my view up here this afternoon and I I couldn't help but some people were getting it and some people just weren't to some people it was just a tune to bop two oh this is a good one this is my favorite YouTube videos right here this is good this is good and then some people just got lost in the spirit because they understood the name whoo just the mention of his name Everything Will Change everything will whoo I'm coming to preaching out about the culture of the church and what we have to do as the body has the body and as the church today you may return to your seats and turn with me to Nehemiah chapter four I don't intend to preach long but I believe that the Lord has given me a word for the church so excited what brother Schnitzer already brought to us today let me tell you something that's revival going on across over 1400 in attendance that the conference state has had I I don't know if you realize that or now that's a lot of people who they brought him in from the cities and the streets and The Villages I'm thankful man well since you've been when you've been there well over a hundred maybe almost 200 have gotten the Holy Ghost just just with you there in the team that you brought Brothers I'm excited about Sierra Leone thank God that the Holy Ghost is being poured out to all people all kindreds in all tongues are you thankful First Apostolic that you play such a great role in that thankful the revival going on in Mexico and I'm thankful for the Rodriguez is and I'm thankful that God is doing great things cannot wait to experience what is happening in Mexico amen looking forward to seeing that Nehemiah chapter 4 verse 1 the Bible says but it came to pass that when sand ballot heard then we builded the wall he was Roth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews and he spanked before his brethren in the army of Samaria and said what do these feeble Jews will they fortify themselves will they sacrifice he's mocking will they make an end in the day will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which had been burned now tobiah the ammonite was by him and he said even that which they build if a fox go up he shall even break down their stone wall that's what's happening here they're being mocked right here skip down to verse 15 15 says and it came to pass when our enemies heard that it was known unto us and God had brought their counsel to naught that we return all of us to the wall everyone unto his work verse 17 says they which build it on the wall and they that bear the burdens with those that elated everyone everybody say everyone with one of his hands wrought in the work and with the other held a weapon one hand was working one hand was defending my assignment tonight is to preach on the subject protecting the culture of the church that is our job we have got to protect the culture of the church I want you to put your Bibles down and just lift both hands to Heaven I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place oh thank you thanks for inquire thank you worship team and Van for bringing us Before the Throne Room of the Lord thank you oh God I feel your presence in this house can I just believe you want to move Lord I just believe Lord God that you want to open minds and Open Hearts and I believe worship is going to break out in this place in someone who who's not felt a breakout in a long time I I just believe worship is going to come out of their mouth and out of their lips and Lord God things are going to be loosed in their life I Proclaim right now in Jesus name I even prophesy right now in Jesus name there's someone who's going to be set free from an addiction tonight I believe with your power Lord this culture of this world is not going to overcome the culture of the church oh the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against the church oh in Jesus name somebody shout amen somebody shout amen and you may be seated are you going to give me tonight are we going to preach for a little while is that all right if you'll preach fast I say if you're South fast I'll preach fast there we go if you get with me fast I uh I'm gonna be gone I'll be gone because I just gotta I gotta word from the Lord and I believe it I I can quickly I can quickly share that with you the Bible the Bible talks about the walls I'm thankful for the walls in my life amen I I'm thankful for protection in my life I'm thankful for a pastor in my life if I'm thankful for the church here that's a protection to my family I'm thankful for kids ministry and youth ministry I'm thankful for small groups I'm thankful that I'm a part of a culture that's protecting me from a worldly culture cause we're fooling ourselves if if we think the enemy is not after this Apostolic culture this month our country is is celebrating pride month it used to be it used to be just one one day on the calendar a year but but now we have the whole month of June has been designated as pride month and even in our in our in our nation's capital we have a a gay pride uh rally going on right now and there's a March going on right now matter of fact in our nation's capital our own president who's who's gone woke himself or our own president it was reported today by Fox News that President Biden said that he saw more courage at the White House LGBT plus Pride event than any time in the recent past 10 days after he addressed the cadets of our of our Air Force y'all read that today I was studying today that popped up and and I caught up president he said here's some of the bravest and most inspiring people I've ever known and I've known a lot of good people Biden said at the pride event on Saturday he said I see more courage in this lawn then I'm seen in any time in the recent past I think to myself that that's our commander-in-chief of our Armed Forces they just called this community of people more courageous than his own Airmen settle down don't get nervous we have a culture that's after us we got to learn how to defend ourselves because the moment that we're quiet the moment that we're passive the moment that we just turn our head and ignore what's happening around us is the moment that our children start to read into and buy into what this worldly culture is trying to feed them I feel like I've got your help but some of you are kind of sitting on pins and needles I'm not here to offend anybody I'm not here to offend uh any group of people I'm not here to to make fun of anybody I I'm not laughing there ain't no smile on my face I'm not laughing this is a scary day that we're living in but a decade ago they started talking about gay marriage and we couldn't even comprehend that did it actually be legalized in in certain States and we couldn't and they're talking about letting boys use girls restrooms and girls using boys restrooms and we couldn't fathom that but it happened and it's happening all of a sudden that's decided they're gonna allow little girls to decide if they're a boy or a girl little little boys decide for themselves with their boy they're going to allow them from school without even a parent's permission go get Counsel on what they are and what they think they are and just to identify however they want to identify we are living in a sick culture and if you think that culture is not after our church culture you've got another thing coming thank you the lgbtq movement as has one main agenda listen to me closely that is to create a society where one view is shared by all people and that view is that nothing is considered wrong everyone has seemingly uh bought into this and bowed down to this ideology beer companies and box store companies and Disney and coffee companies and restaurant chains and news media outlets and professional sporting teams and seemingly everyone's bought into it except for world religions Islam hasn't bought into it Hinduism hasn't bought into is it Buddhism Judaism Confucianism hasn't bought into this but I'm sorry to say I can't say that Christianity has not bought into this because we have we have denominations in the Christian faith I'm talking about people that that read and preach from the same King James Bible that we preach from we have we have denominations who are bleeding in half in in thousands and hundreds of thousands of constituents are leaving their movements because they have not only accepted it but they've allowed it into the pulpit I'm not talking about Islam I'm not talking about Buddhism I'm not talking about Hinduism I'm talking about Christianity and if we're not careful saints of God if we're not careful and I know I'm appearing and I probably sound foolish to some of you season saints of God but if we're not careful there's going to be what's called a slow drift my family our family we love we love to go to the coast now now the world calls it the beach we call it the coast but we like to find a secluded area where we can get all by ourselves we found this we found the state park we found the state park on on Highway 30A if you've never been uh on the 38th Corridor in the Panhandle it's it's probably the most beautiful place I've ever been it's amazing just little town and City and Village after a village is beautiful found a state park that has three and a half miles of of just desolate so we said sign us up so we walked out there man you've been here you know you know where I'm going with this we're playing volleyball with the girls I got my nephews out there we're throwing a football and pitching a baseball having having a great time and get kind of hot so we decided let's go out into the water we'll just get I don't know we'll just get about I don't know maybe 100 100 feet or so out into the water and man it feels so good and you ain't never felt sand like that sand near the Destin area and you you ain't never been in Clear Water I felt like I was in Jamaica or something it was beautiful oh it was so beautiful and we're out there playing and I look up and when I thought I was was not where I was I looked up and when we got in my wife was sitting right there on the chair I was soaking up some sun and I looked up and my wife was no longer here now my wife was way down there and one of the two things happened either they got their chairs and moved down the beach oh we had what's called sea drift I'm not talking about a car I'm not talking about uh Oceanic current I'm not talking about something that pulls you out to see I'm just talking about it's just called a sea drift it's it's when the water is pulling you in One Direction usually the direction to the winds are blowing and the water and it's ever so slightly that when you're playing when you're throwing a football when you're hitting a volleyball you don't even realize it's happening but what my fear is all Church spammy what my fear is if we don't protect the culture of the apostolic church if we're not in this thing 100 percent and believe this thing with all of our heart mind soul Spirit if we don't follow it with our body and the outward if we are not 100 in this culture it's just a little bit of time and without us even realizing that we've been in the drift away from truth it's called cultural drift you say I don't know I oh believe me listen I remember the day I was I was talking to somebody the other day I remember the the date the first time in the mall I ever saw two men holding hands y'all everybody the whole Mall stopped and I know it's probably over attention I get that the whole Mall stopped and turned around and watched people walk by couldn't even fathom it but today I'm sorry to say it doesn't Shock Me Anymore I remember I remember when shows when sitcoms would come on and have an infinite band would was the funniest character on the sitcom he got the most laughs and the most claps and and here the most viewing audience right here you know what I'm talking about and and what that does is that helps us if you will from the worldly culture it helps us to begin to accept it it was no accident they didn't put that man on there they didn't they did not realize that he talked to feminine when they were trying them out for the park it was on purpose our kids watching Disney Channel Nickelodeon well Sally has two mothers Billy has two dead you think that's on accident oh no that's a culture drift is what that is and they're trying to they're trying to pull us in and accept their culture but I want to talk about it because it seems like everybody's gone woke what's the latest term go won't go broke wokeness is is introduced to society as an innocent belief that all people should have equal rights it sounds so good and that all people should be inclusive but that isn't where it is at all here it is right here it was conceived in the halls of Education decades ago universities began to teach that there's no such thing as truth but what they really meant was we're going to undermine the objective truth that you believe in that's why I Warner students who who are graduating from the academy I've warned them it was a few years back we had a student that he said I want to go I'm going to major in Psychology I said you better be careful because of psychology you took in an Apostolic Christian School it's not the same psychology you're about to take in the world they're going to start messing with your mind and they sure did and they won't it was conceived in the universities they began to tell young people there's no real truth or objective truth and and the truth is just relative but eventually they follow up with their truth brother Josh they go from telling you there's no such thing as truth then they tell you you know what truth is is whatever you make it but then they follow up by saying now let us tell you what real truth is oh they pretend it's relative oh no it is not relative you see we we've got about 15 to 20 years of wokeness that has been taught in our universities and and students are graduating and they think that nobody is allowed to disagree with them that's why cities we saw last year that's why cities were being burnt down that's why we saw we saw police cars there were they were set on fire in riots breaking out against Civil Authorities and the governments just stepped back and said well they have a right to voice their opinion I'm not being political some of y'all look at me like I'm being political I'm not being political the lgbtq community has teamed up with the woke community and we're faced in a society there's wanting to take over the education of our future and try to not indoctrinate them with the belief that there's no right and there's no wrong indoctrinate our future generations with the idea that there's no such thing as truth let me tell you what we're we're dealing with right here this Paradigm being taught is Antichrist some people are looking for a man they're looking for a throne with one person sitting on oh no this is a culture that is anti-christ it's far greater than one man it's far greater than one ruler that people can choose to follow or not choose to follow this is a culture that hates Christ they're against everything he's for oh yeah because Jesus said I am the way the truth so if you Proclaim there's no such thing as truth what you're really saying is there is no Jesus you see why he made such a big deal about being the truth you don't think that he looked down over 2 000 years into the future and saw people that would say what is truth is truth relative is it objective what is truth in Jesus oh he said I I am the way if you're looking for a way that's me if you're looking for truth it's not about facts and dictionaries and encyclopedias oh no he said I am the truth I am a life but there's nothing new taking place today that didn't take place in the 60s and 70s I think my older generations to help me right here I was born in the 70s but I don't remember the 70s the walk movement is a descendant of the hippie movement the hippie movement was born in the very same universities as the wolf movement was born the hippie moon was nothing more than a counter-culture movement that tried to take over Christian culture let me tell you I began to watch a documentary yesterday of someone who came out of the hippie movement and began to explain exactly what their motive was and just like the woke movement they appeared to be innocent and coexistent those are such beautiful words innocent and coexisting you you've seen the coexistent bumper sticker coexist has all the different belief systems and has the different logos of all the belief systems and just coexist and it sounds so good it really does it sounds like peace and love and harmony matter of fact the motto for the the hippie movement was Make Love Not War some of y'all remember that some of y'all look at me like what drugs sex and anti-god were birth out of that movement free and open sexual acts was the objective of the hippie generation it tore down the biblical sanctity of marriage rewind and think about think about Woodstock I grew up about 30 minutes from where Woodstock took place we'd support Tennessee New York excuse me weed support were tens of thousands I just had this thought to get a hand to see who was there but I'm not going to do that I'm afraid that somebody might be excited about it so I'm just not going to ask that question but their whole movie was was a lot like today sex with anyone anything confusion of gender the agenda was to tear down the family unit open free sexual acts don't have to be committed to you or you enough to marry you I'll live with you could have children with you and you and you it doesn't even matter you see where this all started I see where it all started it really didn't start there because even in the Bible this was coming there was a sex goddess named asherah that the Israelite Nation allowed her to influence them generation after generation this was the sex goddess Heathen people would worship on the streets and openly perform all kinds of debaucherous Acts on the street corners of the cities and it was the Israelites that allowed cross-culture they would marry into these people and these Heathen Nations and they would create a culture of children they were half Heathen and half Hebrew and it's no wonder why why they would grow up and you'd have king after king after King where they said the Bible talks they did wickedness in the sight of God and just about every one missionary naming every one of them it all came back to they followed these false gods bail astroth all these gods of self flesh selfishness all about me my what I feel like and what I want to do and where I want to go and what makes me look good that's what all the bail and ashtraf that's what they were all about it was about serving yourself and so here we were and this is where our text our text takes place because it had been 70 years that the children of God the Israelites have been in bondage to the Babylonians they had been there for some 70 years because God allowed them to be taken captive because they were Wicked Beyond Wicked you think it's bad today oh just wait because if we if history repeats itself and I'm sad to say it's probably gonna if history repeats itself we're gonna see a nation that we can't even let our kids go out on the streets anymore so God said okay if that's how we're going to do if that's the culture you're going to allow into the church if you will or into the Jewish people or into my people the Hebrew people if you're going to allow that kind of culture into this Godly Jehovah culture you know what I'm going to do I'll show you what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna step back and I'm gonna let foreign powers come in and take you captive and not only take you captive but they're going to tear down everything you've built everything that you've worked all your life to raise up they're going to tear down your walls they're going to burn your cities they're going to tear the temple down every stone is going to fall to the ground and burn and we think to ourselves God why would you allow that to happen God can't stand it when we allow that culture into the church's culture the world's culture has no place in the church I'll say it again the world's culture has no place in the church so they're let off there they're LED captive and for some 70 years he allows them to be held bondage by the Babylonians but there arose a man named Nehemiah and Nehemiah refused to live the woke Babylonian lifestyle Nehemiah was a cub Bearer for the king but he refused to live like the king he hears about the condition of Jerusalem and his people and he begins to weep before the Lord and Nehemiah because of the favor he had with the King he's granted permission to return to Jerusalem to rebuild the walls he's also given the right to be the governor over that Province and in just 52 days the unthinkable takes place and all the city walls are rebuilt and the gates are bolted back into place but it's during this time they were introduced to this man named Sam ballot in tobiah two residents of the country who did not have the authority to stop Nehemiah but hated the fact that the Jews were trying to rebuild what they had torn down so follow me back to our text in Nehemiah chapter 4 verse 1. it came to pass that when Sam Ballard heard that we builded the wall no listen they're hearing some things don't you think that the world doesn't know what's happening in this building and don't you think that their culture doesn't know what's happening in this building and I'm not just talking about this building I'm talking about the church as a whole the worldly culture knows and they hear what's happening and when he heard that they builded the wall he was Wrath he was a man man he was Furious and took great indignation and mocked the Jews listen as long as you agree with Sam ballot everything's okay as as long as you conform to what he believes in everything's okay but the minute you disagree the spirit of mockery begins to break out in the enemy's camp verse 2 says and he spanked before the Brethren and the army of Samaria and said what do these feeble Jews will they fortify themselves listen we can only preserve what we protect if we don't protect there's no there's there's no reason to rebuild the Temple if you first don't rebuild the walls that protect the temple if we're going to preserve holiness and separation from the world if we're going to preserve this great Apostolic Bible doctrine that we believe if those things aren't going to be preserved we've got to learn how to protect them and the way to protect them is we gotta build walls around them I'm not talking about living in some Fortress and and being some comments somewhere all to ourselves I'm not talking about that I'm saying spiritually we gotta build walls around what we want to protect because we cannot preserve that which we do not protect and Nehemiah understood this and so he began to build these walls Sam Bella said were they fortify themselves and then he said this and this is what I've come to preach tonight then he said will they sacrifice he was mocking right here and here it is because the enemy despises worship when he said will they sacrifice what he was saying was oh so you're going to build this Temple back and you're really are you going to bring you're going to try to you're gonna try to build an altar to worship are you going to try to bring in and build a Laver to wash him are you gonna are you gonna try to recreate the candlesticks and and the show bread or are you going to try to recreate the altar of instance is that what you is that what you're playing under and he was mocking them but I come to believe tonight that if we could ever learn how to worship the way the father seeks to be worshiped come on you know the story of Jesus and the woman at the well they start talking about well well our our people worship here on this mountain your people worship on that mountain and some we you all believe in Jerusalem and you believe in there's a messiah coming and she's going into all these different things and Jesus just said whoa whoa whoa whoa he just simply said I'm just going to purify he says the father's seeketh such to worship him but he's looking for somebody to worship Him in spirit and in truth and if you look at that verse the word Spirit there is not a capital S it's a small s let's talk about we gotta we gotta get into emotions if you think that worship is not about emotion you've missed something I thank God because worship God gave us worship he gave us the instrument of worship in order to get our emotional cells in check and allow his Spirit we open up our bodies and open up our minds and open up our spirits to him through emotions that's how we worship in spirit emotions and in truth but this counterculture this worldly culture this woke culture our worship Sam palette hates it he wants us to feel stupid he wants us to think to ourselves if we try to rebuild the Temple we're just wasting our time but that reminds me because there was more than than one despised of worship in the Bible we know that the very first worship leader had a wife named Michael there was a despiser of worship remember her remember as David dance before the Lord with all of his Almighty he's bringing the ark into Jerusalem he's bringing it to his own Tabernacle the Tabernacle of David that he's set up for it in his own wife looks out and despises him in her heart why because she saw him leaping and dancing before the Lord but David oh I love it I love David because David I believe that he loved Michael oh I believe she was a beautiful woman I she was Saul's daughter and that says a lot about her already but I believe he really she was a trophy she was a war trophy he went to battle for her and here she is looking out her window and mocking him and the world wants to mock the Pentecostal worship but I got news for you we got to do the very thing the same thing that David did we can't care what they think about our worship listen if you were here this morning or here you were here tonight and you failed oh I wonder I'm looking around I wonder what my neighbor's thinking about why worship who cares what anybody thinks about your worship you're only trying to please an audience of one David's bed I'll worship with all of my might I worship with all of my strength when I give God praise I won't do it half-heartedly and whatever I do I won't have any Pride we are some people celebrating pride and we got David saying I won't have any Pride I'm a king I'm a giant killer I'm a warrior and I refuse to allow those things titles offices I refuse to allow any of that to get in the way of My Worship listen you're in a culture drift if you've got an issue when people look at you and make fun of your worship yeah something's wrong something's wrong when you when you got to look to your right and look to your left David David said I'll tell you what I'll tell you I'll tell you whose side I'm on Michael the Bible says that he never even went up unto her again she died a barren woman but I believe it was David all it was David that he pitched the tent just like Nehemiah was rebuilding the temple so that he could offer praise and worship unto his God once again after 70 years of having it burnt down it was David who brought the art back after Saul didn't have respect for it he just left there sitting in storage somewhere it was David that said hey I'll be the first worship leader you want to know about worship oh if you want to see what worship looks like he said look at me matter of fact as you begin to see this this atmosphere that David created for worship in his kingdom and we begin to see that that our Pentecostal worship was not invented on Azusa Street it was not invented somewhere in a Revival service but our Pentecostal worship that we've got to protect was invented by King and David himself there was others in the Bible that played instruments there was others that made musical instruments there was others that praised and prayed I get all that but you won't find worship like you'll find with King David because David just understood if I could protect worship oh David David was Victorious because his God knew where he was at all times and you know why his God knew where he was at all times because he was worshiping at all times if he was on the backside of the desert he was writing songs about his God if he was fighting Goliath he was calling on his God and giving praise to his God if he was in the King's house in plain an instrument for the king just threw them from the spirit he was given God praise and when you're given God praise he's gonna show up in your situation oh he was from the plan of David he began to write Psalms and most of these poems were written from his house of worship they they were not written in gibeon and Moses is Tabernacle but they were written in David's Tabernacle Psalms like Psalm 27 and 6 it says and now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of Joy I will sing yes I will sing praises to the Lord Pentecostal movement didn't come up with choirs we need to come up with string instruments and keyboards and drums and symbols and high sound and symbols we didn't come up with any of that stuff we didn't come up with singing that wasn't us we just realized that if we are if we're gonna protect if we're gonna protect this great faith that we have there has to be something that goes with it and that which protects faith is the worship of God's people I'm gonna prove it to you I'm going to prove it to you in David's Tabernacle they clap their hands and shouted Psalm 47 and one we we all we quoted all the times it says oh clap your hands on all you people shouting the god with the voice of in Davis Tabernacle they lifted up their hands and worshiped maybe you're here tonight if you're here tonight and you're you were called off guard a little bit because the church that you came from didn't worship like this church and believe I grew up in Upstate New York we had we had 90 percent was Catholicism and they they were just as shocked and my Pentecostal worship as I was there as I was at their Catholicism worship I know I know how it feels to be in a worship service in a little little church building that sat about 120 people we didn't have enough money to get stained glass oh no we had him clear windows that you could see through I remember we were we're located on Genesee Street which was Highway 20. going from Skaneateles to Auburn we're right there smacking the middle our church was right up on the road and I remember cars parking on the side of the highway to watch us worship through those windows you talk about intimidation I heard stories in McGinley Street people in the neighborhood watching brother Amos watching from the front porches they see people running that aisle they didn't have two eyes they had an aisle which meant that when you ran that aisle you had to end up somewhere which was outside and people were watching the front porch going woo there comes Roger Claiborne again busting out that door wow people on their front porch spilling tea tailed let me go back to what I was saying so if you're here tonight and you think what we're doing is kind of crazy promise you we're just we're just now really kind of getting to where David started he said we're gonna clap we're gonna shout we're gonna sing Psalm 134. it says behold bless Thee the Lord all ye service of the Lord which by night stand in the house of the Lord you kidding me they're there at night oh yes they were there at night lift up your hands in the sanctuary y'all ever seen any of that going around here and bless the Lord the Lord that made Heaven and Earth bless thee out of Zion that was David's Tabernacle oh you say well I saw somebody listen I I can understand lifting hands I can understand man I can't even understand clapping hands I've seen that on TBN but I saw somebody doing this two-step dance surely that's not in the Bible let's look Psalm 149 3 says let them praise His name in the dance let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp oh oh David liked instruments First Chronicles 23 and 5. I love this right here moreover 4 000 were Porters and four thousand praise the Lord with instruments which I made said David to praise there with brother Danny I just believe David was man he had he had an assembly line he had people lined up hey this is going to be the tambourine assembly line we're going to make Harps with this this was going to be a little more intricate over here we got some hearts we had a lot of strings up in here we're gonna have some banjos here we're gonna have some symbols we're gonna cut out some some tin and some metal some brown we're gonna make some symbols over here and he had people making it four thousand instruments don't make fun of us we get like 10 up here but David said I want everybody to experience the same feeling that I experienced when I worship my God David knew it it felt like to play a tambourine David knew it it felt like to play a stringed instrumental I believe David has symbol David had all sorts of instruments and he thought to himself if I have felt the power of the Lord when I play instruments I gotta fight it whole I find a tambourine up here we don't allow these in the church but we allow it up here I'll talk about we don't allow it in the congregation because the only people that bring tambourines to church can't keep y'all know I'm telling the truth we're here to summer I don't remember where we a few months ago we were somewhere I could even brother altar I couldn't even sing on beat that lady was so far off of me she wasn't like you know like sometimes people playing the one in the three instead of the two and the four or whatever no no she was like on the one and a half and the four and a half but Dana said listen I know what it feels like to be all by myself in a desert Wilderness Place watching a bunch of sheep smelly sheep but when I got my instrument out and began to strum and began to play to my God I remember what that felt like I just believe David fought to himself if that felt that good with me and my one instrument what would it be like if we filled this Tabernacle with 4 000 people playing an instrument and people started praising and he said come on tamarines I need to hear the tambourines come on string the instruments play I need to hear a trumpet I need to hear a high soundness feeling let everything that have breath praise be the Lord I think I preach this here before but I like it so much I'm gonna preach it again and maybe you didn't hear me good the first time but first Chronicles 9 and 33 says this it says and these are the singers chief of the fathers of the Levites who remaining in the chambers were free that means they had no other job they were free for they were employed in that work day and night David said no no this was he was he was not paying for performers I just got a feeling that he looked out brother Johnstone he looked down over the congregation and he said okay let's see this is section one over here right he's like I said section one row four person two I'm gonna hire him worshiper section two row seven on person six all worshiper I believe he picked out worshipers in the house and he hired them and the Bible says that day and night he had I'm talking about first shift second shift I'm talking about graveyard shift I'm talking about 24 hours a day David had worshipers in that house they were worshiping and I know we find it in the New Testament but I believe that somehow David understood that in heaven the Angels were crying holy holy holy is the Lord God Almighty and I just believe he thought as in heaven here on Earth as in heaven here in my Tabernacle if the angels are going to cry constantly day and night night and day if the angels are going to worship God I'm gonna set up right here on Earth right here in my Tabernacle and we're gonna praise day and night and night and day and day and night and night and day and day and night in night and day you this thought hit me the other day it blew my mind cause I thought to myself I was praying I said God God we got to do something like that how can we pull that off I think your name is still worthy it's always been worthy of Praise day and night and night and Daya but oh God I if I'm not mistaken there's churches that are cutting out services sorry but then I got to thinking about the Philippines I got to think about Manila I got to think about a couple time zones over I started thinking about Singapore some more time zones over into the africas and all the nations of Africa as we have churches and every one of those Nations going from time zone to time zone and then I thought about South America because South America picks up the time zones and I thought about all our churches in South America and Central America in the United States and then we kind of come over into Russia and we come back around again back to the Philippines again and I thought to myself any given day day and night night and day there's a church service going on in one of the time zones there's a church whatever it's gone there's Holy Ghost Revival taking place in every time so day and night tonight and day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday all day long all night long or God's name is being praised and being lifted up foreign verses because David penned these one Psalm 122 I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord Psalm 27 and 4 One Thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life Psalm 84 says how arable are the Tabernacles oh lord of hosts my soul long is yeah even painted for the courts of the Lord my heart and flesh cry out for the Living God first Force says blessed are they that dwell in the house they will be still praising these persimmesis they go from strength to strength on every one of them in Zion appeared before the Lord for a day in thy court is better than a thousand so I quickly I quickly I'm quickly coming to an end because I'm going to bring this back because here's name here Maya some 500 years after David lived after David give us gave us the Supreme example of a worshiper here Nehemiah is and he's saying we gotta build this wall because we gotta build the church we gotta build this wall because we gotta build a house of worship we gotta build this wall so we can protect the people as they give Praises unto God so in verse 17 the Bible says they which build it on the wall like this they bear the burden some bear the burns they carry the lows while those elated and everyone with one of his hands he wrought the working he had a hammer or a chisel or a trial in one hand he did work but the Bible says with the other hand he held a weapon I just imagine brother Joshua now I'm not good with Heights if I get up on a stepladder trust me there's no holding two things there's me holding my body in place and then I'm nervous reaching with the other hand but these guys said this wall is worth building in our families are worth protecting Nehemiah he got everybody on board everybody I believe he had a meet in the Town Square he said listen guys we got some more gaps to feel in the wall we got some more Stones we need to build up and pile up we got some more we got some more building to do but we can't just be building because there's an enemy there's a culture that's after this culture and so we're gonna have to have a sword in one hand and we're gonna have to have a tool in the other hand and I got to thinking about my family I thought to myself I've got to train them my children in the way they should go so within their own they will not be depart from this great truth but at the same time I've got to have a sword of the spirit that's defending my family I've got to have something in my hand this is devil you may try to bring a barrage through a television set through a billboard you might try to bring it through an internet even try to bring it through a game system he will try to bring us through a teacher somebody in a secular school but I'm gonna have the sword of the spirit in the Holy Ghost that's inside of me and the Holy Ghost is inside of my children we're going to defend off every spirit in every culture that would try to come into the church somebody give God praise if you're willing to do whatever it takes to save your family you never see that I'm almost done I do got to clear some things up here because I I don't want anybody thinking that I'm preaching a hate message Sam Ballard and tobiah they are not people they are worldly influences trying to demand toleration I'm gonna say that again they're worldly influences that are trying to demand toleration don't get me wrong listen huh this is not a hate message uh uh I'm preaching this tonight because I want to defend this church culture I love listen I'm gonna go and tell you I love every every person that declares herself as a lesbian or a gay or a bisexual or a transgender or a queer or questioning or a plus whatever the plus sign I think that means that anybody else that wants to identify with that Community if that's what you identify as I love you because Jesus loves you and I can't be a Christian if I don't love you it has nothing to do with you as a person it's the culture that you bring with you so what are we gonna do Bible never says that Nehemiah and the builders on the wall left the wall to go fight they were there to defend so this is what I have to say this is what God gave me for this I'm not going to get on social media and blast anybody that doesn't follow the same doctrine that I follow oh no I'm not here to hurt anybody I'm not I'm not here to come after you that's not our job our job is to defend the culture not to try to come after you and your culture because this is what I see with our dear transvestite with our dear homosexual with our dear lesbian with our dear gender neutral oh my goodness I've seen forms to fill out that had some of the craziest check marks that you can check on on genders that are not even human but this is what I want to get out it's a message of love I love those people people because I'm just smart enough to realize that when they're not marching in a parade they got some things they got some deep hurts they've lost a lot of friends people making fun of them listen I if I have a waiter a server at a restaurant then it's obvious that they're that they're of that Community I kept them better than I tipped somebody who's not of that Community because I want to show love please don't take this message wrong I I love those people I talk to them I befriend them if I have a hotel clerk that comes up and it's obvious he's a feminine I'm going to go out of my way to talk to him just to share the love with him so please please please please please don't read into this message and think that I'm preaching against that Community I'm not I'm preaching about a worldly culture that's going to cause us to sway to shift if we don't recognize what it is and call it out for what it is because I opened by saying this Erica if we turn our heads and we don't even make a big deal about it and act like it's no big deal then over time maybe not you but maybe a little younger brother or maybe in the future maybe your niece or nephew of yours they're gonna say well if they're okay with it I guess I'm okay with it but we as a as I bring it all back around because listen Holiness I thank God for Holiness I I thank God that our men look like men and our women look like women because you better believe that helps the Next Generation identify what they are I'm thankful for the distinction of sexist I'm thankful for modesty I'm thankful I don't have to come to church and look down at the ground because we got a praise team member up here with a low-cut blouse you know how many people have come here and they said that they said we came here because we just got sick of looking at the floor of a church we came from like man thank you thank you that your women are dressed modestly up there singing it's a compliment I thank God I thank God that we're modest I thank God that our women don't dress lascivious and I thank God that our men don't try to attract uh women and try to and try to do things to attract people they shouldn't be attracting all those things are good but what really separates us and I know some of you are going to say I don't know if I believe this but what really separates us is true worship is what separates us because let me tell you something you go up to Pigeon Forge and you're going to see people that look just like us and just because they look like us don't make a mess that's nice I can say that however there is nobody else that worships in the spirit like we worship in the spirit oh no you say well you should see some YouTube videos I'm watching listen surely to God you can see through that surely to God just because they got a drum setting and because they jump up and down surely to God you can see through that I'm talking about the worship that took place this morning and the worship that took place tonight when I looked out and I saw people whoo in the Holy Ghost I'm talking about real worship now they were to smile and looking around doing this right no no no no no no no I looked I saw tears coming down I saw people weeping I saw people lay profit on the ground this morning I saw people waving hands I saw people running aisles I saw people worshiping like nobody else the worship song because that's what God I believe gave the church he said I'm going to give you something that nobody else has anybody can dress holy anybody can look right but when the people of God come in my presence and start to feel me and start to know I'm in the room there's only one people there's only one church that truly understands how to worship there's only one church that really understands how to praise oh stand your feet today I feel the Holy Ghost in This Place and like I only said if you've got a need in your life the quickest way to get the attention of God is to give him some praise and to give him some worship now listen if you've got everything going good you can just stand there you can just be a bump on the log you can just do whatever you do but if you really have a need in your life I don't know if it's healing I don't know what you need maybe you've got a lost child or a lost parent maybe you have Financial issues maybe you're struggling with an addiction I wish right now you just lift up your hands I believe the healer is in the house right here I believe Mind Body Soul and Spirit can be healed if we would give him praise and offer up praise right now I'm not gonna I'm not gonna cheerlead y'all I'm about to put this mic down but I want to see how mature you are I want to see what kind of culture you're from I want to speak what kind of church we have in this place do you need music to cheerlead you into worship or can you worship God Hall on your own come on we gotta protect this culture we gotta defend this culture we gotta stand up for what's right and we've got to defend and we gotta build we gotta build a house of worship the house of worship it's not a location it's a state of mind it's a state of worship the father seeketh such to worship Him in spirit and in truth come on what do you mean shout unto the Lord with the voice search for Triumph shout Praises unto him give him praise sing songs in Melodies and spiritual songs give God the glory give him the glory that's do his name let everything that have breath praise ye the Lord Praise he the Lord Praise he the Lord foreign your kids some of your children need to see you praying Mama some of your children need to see you praising Daddy some of your children haven't seen you praised in a little while it would do their heart good to see you praising it would do their heart good to know that their parents had bought into this Apostolic culture it would do their hearts good to see there's no drift going on in their home hey come on we're doing War we're doing spiritual warfare right here huh we're doing spiritual warfare right here we're doing spiritual warfare hey for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities against Powers against the rulers of Darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places come on somebody draw your sword other Spirit cause somebody take out an action take out take out a chisel come on take out a shovel work fight work fight work fight work fight right here come on now I want to challenge all the students some of your moms and dads need to see you worship you might do their hard good if they saw you lift up a praise you haven't lifted up in a while if they saw you Worship in the way you have been worshiped in a while I know it's easy to worship when the choir's singing I know it's easy to worship when the drum is beaten but can you worship all by yourself hey hey show me a worshiper and I'll show you assuming this is gonna hold on to truth show me a praiser and I'll show you somebody that's gonna hold on to truth show me a worshiper I don't have to wonder where you're gonna be in 10 years you're going to be on the Queue because you are bought into this culture you bought into this way of life you brought in the Bible Doctrine you brought into God Jesus is truth and you've gone into it I don't know come on come on we're not scared of the world's culture God has told us we've been commissioned by Jesus Christ to go out into the world we've been commissioned oh he says started Jerusalem come on Stalin my people start by the people that are called by my name Jerusalem going to Judea going to Samaria going to the uttermost parts of the earth go into America we're not scared of what's happening in this culture we're going to win this culture we're going to reach this culture we're going to win them to God you're not going to influence me the church is going to influence you come on that's got to be what our prayer is that's gotta be what's going on in our minds I'm not gonna hide behind a wall I'm gonna get up on the wall and I'm gonna defend I'm gonna reach I'm gonna believe that what I'm doing today is gonna affect the generation tomorrow I want you to join hands with somebody put your arm around somebody come on this is the church we're not by ourselves we're no longer David's on us field we're together God's blessed us with an amazing Church huh God's blessed us with an amazing body of people in this house today come on we're gonna bind together come on you're my brother you're my sister so take me by the hand together we'll work until he comes there's no fool that can defeat us if we're walking side by side as long as there's love we're gonna stand all right together together we can do this come on we can make it together we can fight together oh whoa one can put a thousand a flight but two can put ten thousand of light the very person you're linked up with right now you can do exploits you can do Mighty things in the kingdom of God you can do it together together we're powerful together we're powerful hey we're two or three are gathered but we're here in the name of Jesus Christ creating body things are gonna take place he's gonna be here in the midst of us and when he's here there's power thank you come on he's showing up right now in the marriages he's throwing up right now husbands and wives he's showing up right now he's healing things and restoring things the Holy Ghost is here whatever you need if you've never been a filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost huh it's for you it's for you the Bible says it's for you they're understanding the word huh our kids are buying into this our kids are buying in the truth hey Come On To The Next Generation against it we're okay you're the next generation gets it we're okay come on we're protecting our culture through worship we're protecting our culture through praise we're partaking our culture by being a people of the name of Jesus staying true to the Bible Way no other day between the grips this is the place that makes the difference this is the place with the rips of sins I'll stand for true things I could do oh God stay true through the name of Jesus staying true to the Bible the whole life oh God I'm saying true staying true numbers come on make this declaration I'll Stand it's my reasonable service the least I can do I can do with my heart oh God come on could you clap your hands in the house tonight just give God one more shout of praise for all that he's done today oh we Bless The Name of Jesus Lord I Thank You for Your word today I thank you for what we felt in this place today Lord we thank you for the lives that's been changed today Lord we praise you it's thankful to be a part of the truth the church amen