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The Cancel Culture of the Church

October 13, 2023 · Eastwind Pentecostal Church, Palm Bay, FL

Winds Conference 2023

Transcript of a published conference session by Dannie Hood, transcribed from video. An attributed primary source — not Acts 2:38 Life doctrine text.

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Summary prepared by Acts 2:38 Life from the transcript below — the preacher’s words follow in full.

Grafted In: A House God Built

  • He opens with an encouragement to some young person: human heritage does not decide it — with a hunger for God and the spirit of David, the Lord will graft you in.
  • He is not a preacher's son, and neither was his father-in-law; yet God did for Bishop Hale what He said He would do for David — He built him a house: a brother-in-law and sister-in-law pastoring for over 30 years, with all four of their kids mightily used of God.
  • His oldest, Natalie, has a gift of prophecy; his oldest son Adrian works behind the scenes and has spent a year and a half building up a Friday congregation in one of the most dangerous areas of town — a catalyst of revival for their church, with over 70 baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost from that community.
  • Barrett was set on the organ bench at the age of two and was directing the choir while handling his cell phone at five — an anointed, hard-working heart of worship; Colton, the youngest, runs a P7 club in a liberal, left-leaning school with about 17 to 20 meeting.
  • The stories of the Andrew Urshans, the G. A. Manguns, the J. T. Pughs and Brother Kilgore are not somebody else's history — 'that's my history, that's your history' — because of the name of Jesus, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named.
  • The charge lands on belonging: you may not like it, devil, but I belong — I am not giving away my heritage, not sacrificing the name, not giving up my apostolic lineage.

Pulling Down and Casting Down

  • His text is 2 Corinthians 10, read from verse three: though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds.
  • Pulling down is demolition — destroy it, break down all the rocks, burn up the fortress until the devil has nothing left.
  • Casting down is the same word with a different application: not only tearing the stronghold down but replacing the strong man — casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.
  • His subject, the cancel culture of the church, is not a political statement about woke-ism but the church's own practice: there are some things we resist, some things we stop, some things we take to the trash.
  • The devil's product is refused at the gateway: that is not coming through my threshold of faith, not getting in my eyes or my ears or on my tongue.

Scriptures: 2 Corinthians 10

Led of the Spirit into the Wilderness

  • Jesus, in Luke 4, was filled with the Spirit of God — and then he was led of the Spirit, not first to Jericho walls and giants, but into the wilderness, to be tempted of the devil for 40 days with nothing to eat.
  • He came out in the power of the Spirit and went into the synagogue, where a devil could no longer keep hiding once the light shone into the darkness.
  • Doctors of the law, scribes and Pharisees who could quote the entire Torah were in great number, and that devil always felt right at home — but when Jesus walked into the house it could not stay: in the kingdom of God we don't keep devils, we cast them out.
  • The call to the young person and the apostolic millennial: I don't want any of your sales, any of your product, any of your substance — I cancel my subscription to the darkness; I have something better.

Scriptures: Luke 4

How Long Halt Ye Between Two Opinions

  • In 1 Kings 18, Elijah confronts Ahab to settle the matter: is God monotheistic, and who really is the Lord of lords and King of kings?
  • A people who do not know who this one God is are crippled — that is what it is to halt between two opinions; the remedy is to get Deuteronomy 6:4 down in your gut: Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one — He will never be three persons in the Godhead; there will only ever be one, and his name is Jesus.
  • So many in the religious world are limping around, crippled by the commentaries of men, for lack of that revelation — and that revelation was the confidence of Elijah.
  • The odds were 850 to one — 450 prophets of Baal and 400 more — but if you have God on your side you are in the majority: if God is for us, who can be against us?
  • Elijah lets the other side go first, and insists it be real: no manufactured fire, no flint of imagination, no tricks.

Scriptures: 1 Kings 18; Deuteronomy 6:4

The Empty Show: Nobody Was Home

  • The prophets of Baal jumped and gyrated, clapped and hollered, walked in circles and beat their chests, imploring an absentee god — if Baal's throne room had been a motel, the vacancy sign was shining bright, because nobody was home.
  • Elijah could not help himself — the first stand-up comedian of the Old Testament: maybe your god took a sleeping pill and keeps pushing the snooze button; maybe he went on vacation; maybe his wife rang the dinner bell — one thing is for sure, he ain't gonna bail you out.
  • In their frenzy they began cutting themselves, sprinkling their own blood on an altar, sacrificing themselves to a non-existent god, while the coppery scent of blood mingled with the stench of their worked-up bodies.
  • You can only do fake church so long — cosmetics, carnival acts, a tightrope walk between the lies and an absent god — and then the energy is gone: gaunt, expressionless statues with nothing to show for hours of show.
  • Millennials, just because you have movement doesn't mean you have manifestation: they had the stage, the spotlight and the numbers, but no fire — we need fire in our altars, our prophecies, our pulpits, our singing.

What a Bush, What a Fire

  • Back up in history: Moses on the back side of the desert first walked over asking, what in the world is that bush — and when he left, he was saying, what a fire.
  • The only thing that gave that bush its value was the fire; without fire it is just another bush, just another church, just another conference, just another bunch of young people.
  • When folks walk in it is fine if they say, what a church — but when they leave they need to be saying, what a fire: I felt something real, something that would burn the sin out of my life and break the shackles of shame, the alcohol, the drugs and the spirits of this age.
  • Young people have the power to lay hands on the sick and watch them recover, and to cast a devil out — you don't have to call your pastor or hunt for the great evangelist; you don't have to stand in the smoke of the fake when there is a real glory God will reveal on this generation.

Repair the Altar: Water Before the Fire

  • Elijah got down and repaired the altar: you want the promises of God, you want the Lord to show up — fix your prayer closet, fix the absence in the altar, fix the emptiness of the prayer room; he pulled the rocks and the wood back together like a puzzle of prophecy — order restored, destiny reshaped, revival ready, prayer empowered.
  • He counted out the stones — twelve, Israel's God-given number — and ordered the whole sacrifice saturated with water out of those barrels, not once but again and again, until the streams were running everywhere.
  • There is something about a baptism of water that brings the promise of the fire: you think I'm gonna give up an Acts 2:38 message now — a repentance, water baptism in Jesus' name? If you don't do it that way you don't get the fire, and you don't get to keep the fire.
  • The death, burial and resurrection is not just symbolism; it is a reality of redemption, the only hope of humanity — he will not preach a partial gospel that has human acceptance or is socially acceptable.
  • With a preacher's humor he builds creation's band for the dramatic moment — a horse stomping in perfect rhythm, doves rattling the branches, an owl lending her alto, a mountain lion on a rock — then Elijah steps forward alone: a man of God needs no sleight of hand, no rabbit out of a hat, no magic tricks; what you have is superior to everything in the world.

Scriptures: Acts 2:38

The Closet Before the Stage

  • Billy Lewis, the first of three great pastors in his life, taught him a love for the Word of God: in that pastor's office he studied the lexicons, the Greek and the Hebrew, and at 13 years old he could argue the oneness of God with anybody — a whole lot of zeal that needed tempering.
  • He tells of hauling the big Search for Truth chart — this was 1981 — and teaching his next-door neighbor twice through 20 weeks without ever getting her to church, while his cousin down from Illinois got baptized in Jesus' name and filled with the Holy Ghost after one hour: go ahead and plant the seeds, even if you look goofy doing it.
  • Thomas Craft, his spiritual grandfather and the apostle in his life, taught him a love for apostolic ministry; and in the last 34 years none has challenged him like Bishop Hale to a love of prayer and fasting — at 79 years old the man fasts anyway, defying the doctors, because the spirit of David in him is hungry for a move of heaven.
  • Stay submitted to your pastor: you'll never have the supernatural without submission, and what you do in secret will be rewarded openly — stop looking for the stage and find the closet first.
  • Do what David did: kill a lion and a bear where nobody is watching, and He will let you kill a giant where everybody is watching.

Nevertheless: Cancel It and Take Dominion

  • Back at Mount Carmel, Elijah stepped forward and prayed — not a long prayer: that God would reveal Himself and turn the hearts of the people back to Him; he had done everything he was supposed to do, the altar repaired and everything in order, and when the fire fell it instantly formed a burning column that consumed the sacrifice, the wood, the dust and the water, and left nothing.
  • The fire did not mess with Elijah: the fire only gets rid of the stuff that needs to be gotten rid of — if your character is true, your integrity pure, your heart right with God, it won't use you; it will burn through you and empower your generation with a revelation of the one God truth.
  • He has the young people write on a slip of paper what has been hindering them — is it doubt, is it fear, is it a broken home — and bring it to a trash can to cancel it.
  • Peter's word is the word: Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing — nevertheless, I'm not living in last night; cancel everything I just said; I will let down the net. And when David went to take the city of Zion, the Jebusites laughed that their lame and blind could hold it — and nevertheless, David took the stronghold.
  • This generation is not only going to tear strongholds down but take them over — a bar room that becomes a church, a liquor store that becomes a church, a casino that becomes a Bible college, a soccer stadium in Brazil that becomes a revival of 12 to 15,000 getting the Holy Ghost; we are going to cancel the devil's membership — pack your bags, this is your eviction notice, get out.
  • It is a 3D experience — deposit, dance, dominion: dancing on the devil's head, canceling fear, anxiety, loneliness, suicide and drug addiction, and declaring dominion over your house, your school, your church and every square inch of your neighborhood in the name of Jesus — the recording ends with the altar call still running.

Scripture index: 2 Corinthians 10; Luke 4; 1 Kings 18; Deuteronomy 6:4; Acts 2:38.

I want to be an encouragement to some young person here today that it doesn't matter What your human heritage is? If you have this hunger for God as Bishop Hale talked about and you can get a spirit of David He'll graft you in See I'm not I'm not Of the son of a preacher But neither was my father-in-law And I just think about him, you know, he's been in this movement so long and was raised by godly parents But I look now and if you see I thought about in the spirit That God was was doing for my father-in-law for Bishop Hale What he said he would do for David He built him a house.

I look at my brother-in-law and sister-in-law Who have been longtime warriors over 30 years of pastury? You don't you don't really find that as much now You find the longevity and the endurance and the stamina and all four of their kids that are mightily used of God and Then Mike I want my kids to stand all in fact all the Elms in the hoods Might as well just stand if you're in here see I will build for you a house and These are all preachers kids These are all preachers kids. I look at my oldest Natalie The blondie over here who who when our last one was born when we went in for the ultrasound and Found out the gender of the baby. She was like yes Because she maintained that she was the queen the princess because then we had three boys after her But she has such a gift of prophecy and has been used so mightily In in this regard I look at my oldest son for the Adrian hood in this lineage in this house Who has worked behind the scenes? He has he's done physical labor for the church. Nobody would see he has been going down for a year and a half to one of the most dangerous areas of town and has built up a church and In their Friday congregation It has truly for landmark tabernacle in the last year and a half to two years has been the catalyst of revival For our for our church baptized over 70 filled with the Holy Ghost just from that community And that's because he has a heart of missions and I thank God for Barrett hood. He is he is the other blondie and He was set on the organ bench by my wife and mother-in-law at the age of two He was directing the choir While also Handling his cell phone while he was five He's one of the hardest workers. I know he is anointed of the Lord He has a heart of worship and And he just can do just about anything He worked so hard behind the scenes people don't see a lot of times was taking place And then I look at I look at Colton our youngest Who is is a dynamo in in his young age and in hungry for God and has that passion? I see a lot of my father-in-law and mother-in-law anyway gonna leave my mother-in-law out He's got he's got hell in hood blood in him I appreciate But he's been doing a p7 club in one of the most liberal left-leaning Schools and he's got about 17 to 20 That meeting that and I I say all this I hope you get get this in the right spirit It's not it is just to show you an example of any one of you out there can have this You can have this I I

didn't necessarily be long in this line but the Lord took me out and Grafted me in so when I hear about The Andrew urshins and when I hear about the GA mangan's and when I hear about the JT Puse and when I would hear the Stories from brother Kilgore and and I hear my father-in-law talk about these things of the past. That's my history That's your history Because the name that you need above every name is the name of Jesus of whom the whole family in Heaven and earth is named Praise God.

I want you to understand that you belong I Wish somebody in the spirit right now would just rise up and throw up your hands and say you may not like it devil, but I belong You may not want me in this house, but I belong I May have been through some darkness and self-destruction, but I belong I May have run after sin and been defeated in the shadows and had to crawl back to the altar But I'm still here and I belong I Ain't giving away my heritage. I'm not sacrificing the name. I'm not giving up my apostolic lineage He has brought me out of darkness in the marvelous light Praise God Okay, I'll get I'll get to the preaching second

second Corinthians 10 Such an honor every message every message I've heard has been the message of the meeting That's kind of the way that God does it And I appreciate all these great men of God that I get to get to be a part of and be here and do this second Corinthians 10 Verse number three for though we walk in the flesh We do not war after the flesh For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds Then there is a very similar phrase and in the Greek It really is the same word, but it has a little bit different application There's the pulling down of strongholds. That's the demolishing that's destroying it Nothing left pull it off the mountain break down all the rocks burn up the fortress the devil's got nothing left But then there is casting down Imaginations and every high thing that exalted itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity Every thought to the obedience of Christ the casting down same word, but a little bit different tense or Application and in this application it's not as much about Tearing down the stronghold as it is replacing the strong man

I come to preach to this conference for a little while today the cancel culture of the church It's not a political statement. I'm not here to talk about what's right or wrong about that politically or in a world of Woke-ism, but I am gonna talk about it in the church Because there are some things that we resist There are some things that we stop There are some things we get rid of There are some things we take to the trash. There are some things we get rid of in the junkyard In other words, you ain't doing a matter out here devil That don't belong at my gateway, that's not coming through my threshold of faith That's not getting in my eyes or my ears or on my tongue praise God You may be seated for a moment.

We walk into the house as like when Jesus the Bible said he was Filled with the Spirit of God and Luke 4 and then the Bible said he was led of the Spirit Well, I want to be led of the Spirit. Where are we going? We're gonna go have great victories. We're gonna bring down Jericho walls We're gonna knock out giants We're gonna be the three Hebrew children that are inflammable in the furnace He was led of God into the wilderness. Oh Isn't that great? I'm being spirit-led. Where we going going to the wilderness. Oh great What are we gonna do in the wilderness gonna be tempted of the devil for 40 days? Not on that don't have nothing to eat gonna be in hunger Gonna be insulted But the Bible said he came out in the power of the Spirit and one of the first things he does is he goes into the synagogue and Then when he walks into the synagogue, there's a devil that can't keep hiding Because when the light shines into the darkness when the fire begins to burn when the passionate Pentecostal walks into the house You can't just have churches normal and when he walked into the house. Oh, they've been doctors of the law There were those that could quote the entire Torah There were scribes and Pharisees and they were in great number But that devil just always felt right at home But when Jesus walked into the house that devil went Was in the kingdom of God we don't keep devils we cast them out I'm telling a young person in this place. I'm telling an apostolic millennial It's time for you to let the devil and his show and his circus know I don't want any of your sales I don't want any of your product. I don't want any of your stuff or your substance I cancel my subscription to the darkness. I don't need it. I Got something better praise God You may be seated. I I

think about in the Old Testament first Kings 18 That old gruff-looking prophet He's not gonna be on the gq magazine His robe is all disheveled He probably didn't have a wife to tell him to iron his clothes He just shows up out of the jungle It's not gonna rain He's got like this long scraggly beard you could probably cut some off and use it as a brillo pad Put it right back in place. It's like Velcro right back in there He's tough I Mean I I just imagine, you know Most of the time we think of these guys having resonant voices, but he might not he might have talked like this I don't know seemed quite as intimidating But one day in first Kings 18 He confronted a have he said I Think we need to settle a matter here We need to find out if God is monotheistic and Who is who really is the Lord of lords and the King of Kings around? So We have said well, okay, we'll get all the prophets together and when he got he stood out there before all the people He cleared his throat. He said how long would you haunt between two opinions that word haught is be crippled The nation was just crippled. See if you if you don't know who this one God is You need to get that Deuteronomy 6 and 4 down in your gut Shema Yitzrayel Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad Here oh Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one he will never be three There will never be three persons in the Godhead that will only be one revelation and his name is Jesus He is the full definition of the all mighty God Hallelujah That's why there are so many in this religious world. They're just limping around They're just they're decrypled by the commentaries of men, but when you get a revelation of who God is That was the confidence of Elijah and so he said all right let's get them all together So they got 450 prophets of Baal and then they got the other 400 from his wife as Tyra So now we got 850 to one. I like those odds when you got God on your side It's 850 to one that you're gonna get out of this mess It's 851 that that you're ever gonna get out of this trial that you're in or you're ever gonna Break through to be what you need to be if you've got God you're in the majority If God is for us who can be against us

You could just you could you could just see on his face. You could just see that quiet confidence every now and then just kind of a smirk He knew where it was headed He said I'll tell you what here's what we're gonna do and I'm gonna let you go first You're gonna get a bullet. I'm gonna get a bullet. We're gonna build an altar I'm gonna let you go first If Baal is God then let's serve him But if Jehovah is God let's settle the issue today Let's let's figure it all out. And so they got their bullet He said you go ahead and go first I didn't notice eight or nine in the morning sun just kind of come up out of the sea over the hills Everything was looking really good. Weather's nice. He said here's one thing. We're not gonna manufacture this We don't need any fake fire. We don't need anybody over here You know scratching some rocks together and bringing us the flint of imagination. We need this to be real

Well that kind of disappointed half of them is like, oh man, I had some tricks in my sleeve And so they took that sacrifice and they laid it out on the altar and I'm telling you it it was a mess They 850 them. Can you imagine they're going nuts? They jumped and gyrated. They clapped and hollered They walked around in circles. They slapped the ground. They kicked the dirt. They beat their chests They did everything they could to appeal to this absentee god they implored they ran around in circles. Come on, bell And if if bell's throne room had been like a modern day motel the vacancy sign Was shining bright because nobody was home Nobody was coming. There wasn't a god on the premises But this didn't stop these nuts From going crazy in their pagan ritual Think about it They're dancing around they had michael jackson over here doing the moonwalk They had Elvis shaking a leg See i'm telling my age. I understand Who's who's more modern? Yes, I got you. I almost got you in a trap. Did you were like, I don't know who to talk about I don't listen to nothing but gospel music myself. I'm not good lucky They they brought out all the tricks that they could and and when they they did Oh, oh, Elijah, he couldn't help himself As he watched this 850 crowd they looked like a they looked like they turned into a blues choir singing mournfully Where oh where Are you tonight? Why did you leave us here all alone? We searched the world over and thought we'd found the true god You must have met another and you are gone They tried everything they could There's nothing happening. Oh, oh, oh, Elijah. He couldn't help himself. He was like the first stand-up comedian in the old testament He stood out there He said hey You reckon somebody gave your god a sleeping pill He can't hear the alarm going off. He keeps pushing the snooze button Oh, wait a minute. I know what it is He got in a fight with another god And that god rang his bail Sorry Wait, wait, wait. I know what it is. I know what it is Your god went on vacation didn't tell you the plans you didn't see it on the calendar never saw it coming He's in the bail hammers I can't believe y'all would be bail levers in a false god Then he said wait, wait, wait. I got it. I got it. I know what it is. I know what it is Ask terry, you know, she's a pretty bossy wife. She's been in the kitchen cooking all day. She she's got Beans and cornbread and turnip greens That's not doing anything for some of y'all. He's got pizza and hot dogs and Hamers and she just rang the dinner And i'm telling in his last his last deal. He couldn't hard to catch his breath He was slapping his knees and all bent over and he finally got up and he said I don't want anything for sure He ain't gonna bail you out Now by this time They were out of their minds They got so frenzied That they started cutting themselves And now you see blades flashing in the sunlight and blood oozing from knife wounds and gashes and log jagged Lines and lacerations and the arms and the legs and the torso And and they're sprinkling their own blood on an altar sacrificing themselves to a non-existent god

It's like they've gotten into a battle with themselves and they're losing The coppery scent of blood mingles with the stance the pungent odor of well body odor Because they are worked up these desperate seekers of a god who's not going to answer you're not going to get his attention He's nowhere to be found And they are upset And they've given it everything they've got They've put on quite a show. It's been an entertainment. They brought out all their carnival acts You can see jugglers of bones and rocks and useless charms They got they got balancing dancers and they've got they've got these false prophets walking the tightrope between the lies and an Absent god you can only do that so long. You can only have fake church for so long You can only just live on the cosmetics of religion so long You can only just put on a performance so long after a while they're going to catch on But i'm preaching to a generation that says oh no no, we've got what is authentic. We are real Epistolic, we are not going to give in to just the show We've got a dissension of the holy ghost We've got a power of an epistolic faith We've got a doctrine that won't let up It didn't matter what they did Crimson stains on an altar, but it has no power The coldness of the altar The wind carried no voice of a deity everything is quiet They've given all their energy for hours and nothing has happened and finally all they can do With barely any breath in their bodies. You can look at some of them. They look like they've been poured into a mold of shock Morbid looking statues just gaunt faces and Expressionless and their sleepy eyes and lifeless and they've no energy in them. They're like automatons. They've just run out and all they can do now is hang their heads and Drag their feet along the path of humiliation and just go over here and just stand and watch

It's almost like we set the scene just for a moment It's just one small cloud and I hadn't hardly rained for three years But there's this one. It's not a rain cloud. It's just one little small cloud and it just momentarily pulls a curtain right over the sun The stage is empty And it's ready for one contestance of truth left The eclipse of bail has been removed and truth is ready to burn ready to shine steps forward When he first looked at it that altar It was a mess It was just a heap of scraps it disjointed wood and scattered rocks and blood soaked spinners and sweat washed remains It was chaos and madness were these 850 heathens had danced and jumped and done all their show and had nothing but empty expressions and empty enchantments And blank stares and nothing to show for because i'm going to tell you something church Millennials just because you have movement Doesn't mean you have manifestation They had all the movement they went through all the motions. They had the stage. They had the spotlight. They had 850 They were in their own unison But you and I better be a movement that has fire. We need fire in our altars We need fire in our prophecies. We need fire in our pulpit. We need fire in our singing We need fire to burn He seated for a moment.

Let me veer off just for a moment and go back a little further in history Think about moses when he showed up on the back side of the desert and he looks over there What in the world is that when he first walks over there? It's like what a bush When he left What a fire It doesn't matter how we do it It doesn't matter how many songs we sing and sermons we preach and how much show and praise we give When folks walk in it's okay if at first they say what a church But when they leave they need to be saying what a fire What a fire I felt something that was real I felt something that would burn the sin out of my life I felt something that would break the shackles of shame off of my spirit I felt something that would deliver me and the alcohol and the drugs and the sin and the suicide And the spirits of this age. It's real Somebody shout it to the top of your lungs. It's real Shake it up. I hear you condo. Oh, my gosh The only thing that gave that bush its value Was the fire If there's no fire There's no real attention drawn to it. It's just another bush It's just another church. It's just another conference. It's just another bunch of young people. No No, we've got a fire. We've got a revelation We've got a message at the whole world must hear I'm telling some young people standing right now You've got the power to lay hands on the sick and watch them recover You've got the power to cast a devil out. You don't have to call your pastor up You don't have to look for the great evangelist. He said if you follow him These signs are gonna follow you You don't have to make it up You don't have to stand in the smoke of the fake That feels shakana. There's a real glory That god is going to reveal upon this generation and so You may be seated

So he got down and he started To repair the altar You want the promises of god? You want the lord to show up? Fix your prayer closet Fix the absence in the altar Fix the emptiness of the prayer room Find that place where you start that's what he did. He got down there. It wasn't fancy He just started pulling rocks this way and pulling the wood in that way and and and like a Like a like a puzzle of prophecy. He started putting the pieces all back together just like it should be fitly formed tightly mounted Order restored destiny reshaped revival ready prayer empowered and when he got it all together in place He stood up and he he stabbed the air with a prophetic finger and he started counting one 12 Israel's god-given number And he smiled in satisfaction He looked up toward the heavens that were about to descend Then he scanned looked at the faces of his opposers these devil worshipers He smiled again. He said Hey Get those barrels right there and fill them full of water And we ain't just doing it one time. I want you to saturate this entire thing. I want you to baptize it Because there's something about a baptism of water That brings the promise of the fire You think i'm gonna give up an x238 message now? You think i'm gonna give up a repentance water baptism in jesus name if you don't do it that way You don't get the fire. You don't get to keep the fire We've got to keep the death burial and resurrection what it is It's not just a symbolism. It is a reality of redemption. It is the only hope of humanity. It is the only choice Ah Jesus Jesus Take a moment and lift your hands and say i'm gonna stay faithful to the gospel message I'm not preaching a partial one. I'm not preaching one that is Got human acceptance or is socially acceptable or finds its way into some religious stage That lets me have what I want to have We've got to have the fire

They saturated that altar You could hear gurgling just a little bit Streams of it running everywhere Don't you know that those False prophets over there. They ain't been much rain for three years Hadn't been any rain for three years They're like I am so thirsty You can't have this This river flows with the truth He stood back there For all this time that they had put in they had nothing to show for it. He's the man of god Here's what I think the bible said nature itself teaches us It was a god so

Let's use our imagination for a moment 850 voice choir took their seats One solo act left and the chords of truth will resonate The glory of god mingles With the steady drum beats of the prophet's heart and to add to this dramatic scene Is the white noise sound of the wind blowing through the olive trees It's kind of like this Can I get a few Thank you Over here on the side there was a there was a horse And we're now in the end just in perfect rhythm He would stomp his his hoof I need a few stompers Now we're just getting the band together In the tops of the trees There's a few doves scrambling around they're rattling the branches and they're scratching just enough to give it a little percussion But there's some more Way back in the hidden part of the forest There's an owl She's a hoot And she lends her alto Do we have any altos around here? She lends her alto to a hoot See I can't I can't it mine comes out baritone This is the background music for this dramatic moment And just when he thought he got the band together and he was like getting ready to you know getting ready to step up there Kind of like when a preacher's trying to get the pulpit and the Praise singers don't seem They're still singing one more time and so the preacher acts like he's part of it now Praise the lord I don't know the words but I love jesus And we walk back and forth and are you done yet? There was a mountain lion showed up on the perch of a rock. He had to get in this All right. I need my sound altos He coming there like Now he was young in a little week Now we got all this band together go I'll tell you Jehovah Jesus is his name The one god apostolic tongue talking holy rolling born again heaven man believer in the liberating power of jesus name That's who Kind of just like what I did he lied to step forward And he motioned the band to pause open up your eyes over there He's standing out there on the stage by himself because sometimes Sometimes the lord will let the deceivers And the fakes go ahead and put on their show Give it their best shot until the world gets sick of it. I'm telling you I believe God is getting ready to empty out churches of performance And they're going to come flooding churches of power They're gonna they're going to leave the manufactured And the tricks and the magic and the illusions Because this man of god he didn't need sleight of hand He didn't need a rabbit out of a hat He was a man of god with anointing We don't have to do it the way the world does it what you have is superior To everything else in the world I'm telling you if you do this long enough in the spirit with your heart You don't have to do it on some show You don't have to do it for applause But the power of god will show up And always will show up

I have been blessed With three great men of god that were pastors in my life My first one billy lewis Taught me a great love for the word of god I attended his ace school Y'all may not know what that is Accelerated christian education He would open up his office He loved to debate oneness And trinity So that was his candlestick. It became mine. I'd go down to his office when I got my work done I would study all of the lexicons and the greek this and the hebrew that and i'm telling you at 13 years old I could argue with anybody about the oneness and I would I'd walk down the street What you want young man? Hey, you got the holy ghost No, you're going to hell I'm not i'm not kidding you. I had a whole lot of zeal that needs some tempering I took that big old this is in 1981. This is this was the first search for truth chart You know, that was about like a story tall Here I am i'm not that tall to begin with at that point Or at any point I got that big old search for truth I went over and taught my next door neighbor twice We went through 20 weeks Never could get her to come to church I tried to get a third one But my cousin came down from illinois I had one hour with him and I just opened up the bible and started talking about my experience And he went with me to the church. He got baptized in jesus name and filled with the holy ghost You just go ahead and plant those seeds You can go ahead and look goofy while you're trying to do something for the gospel Your pastor will help you your teachers will train you but I'd rather have somebody Trying to do something messing it up and for somebody to sit back and do nothing But he taught me a love for the word and then I had who would be my spiritual grandfather and the apostle in my life Who's now going on both of these men have gone on for the thomas craft taught me I love for apostolic ministry And I I'm hungry for it. I wanted I prayed and fasted for it. I wanted it more than anything But I would tell you in the last 34 years Nobody outside Of bishop hail the one you just heard speak a little bit ago Who's been my pastor? Has challenged me to have a love for prayer and fasting Praise god. I see this man Is 79 And he fasts He's supposed to fast But he fasts anyway defies the doctors Because the spirit of david in him is hungry for for a move of heaven That's who i'm connected to and that's who you're connected to You think i'm going to trade them for some little olimp? Wristed some little ol fake some little ol johnny cum lady shooting star That wants to show up and try to get you out of that church Try to get you to come over to some show No, you give me a man of god That has prayed for me a man of god that has stood in the gap for me a man of god that has paid the price And it's just one that's paid it for a few days. These are men that paid it for decades This isn't even in my notes, but i'm telling somebody in the holy ghost right now You stay submitted to your pastor. You stay submitted. Don't you talk about i want to do missions and i want to preach and i want to sing And i want to get on that stage and i want to be a i want to be somebody that's well known You want to be well known? You do it in private You get on your face before god What you do in secret is going to be rewarded openly stop looking for the stage and find the closet first i'm going to tell you you'll never have the supernatural without submission And the high places are made for the humility for the umbil Mountains are made from ministers not those that just want to be seen But tell i will tell you this in the holy ghost Do what david did Kill a lion and a bear Where nobody was watching and he'll let you kill a giant where everybody is watching i'm trying to finish this story of elijah, but Be seated just for a moment

Meanwhile back at mount carmel After all these scriptural commercial breaks Eli just steps forward and begins to pray he doesn't pray a long prayer He basically is asking god to reveal himself and turn the hearts of the people back to him Milden stood there He did everything he was supposed to do He repaired the altar. He laid the bullet. He put everything in order and he stepped back And when it fell a burning column instantly formed Can you see it? Heat sizzled and the atmosphere cooked and when this incinerating wave hit the ground a tongue of fire licked the altar Things started cracking smoking rocks popped that sacrifice that he put on that bullet The flesh of it it started to go crisp And then you watch it curl up into charred little old crispy bits until it vanished into thin air Like it had been swallowed into invisibility of vortex of ashes It sprung up and swept across the floor and then disappeared When that fire fell it consumed everything it consumed the sacrifice it licked up the dust it left up the water It consumed everything That wood on the altar It turned black and became soot in a matter of seconds and there was nothing left Nothing left Except elijah You ever think about that? Elijah was standing there by the altar That fire licked up everything else It licked up the wood licked up the dust licked up the water. How come it didn't mess with elijah? Because the fire just gets rid of stuff that needs to be gotten rid of But if you're right If you're righteous before god If your character is true If your integrity is pure if your heart is right with god The fire won't get rid of you. It won't use you. It will burn through you It will empower your generation with a revelation Of the one god truth

Let's lift our hands across this place for a moment If you've remembered my name I also remember your name The children of the palace Before the time of jesus Come on lift your voice If you've remembered my name I also remember the rumors of your name If you've remembered the rumors of your name I also remember your name But i feel something building in the spirit I feel something building Somebody bring me that trashman Let me tell you what I feel in the spirit. There was nothing left. I come to tell some young people, some millennials in this room that when God gets through with the fire burning against your opposer and the liar and the accuser, there will be nothing left. There ain't gonna be anything left to you. It'll all be burned out. Be seated for a moment.

You got that slip of paper. I want you to write something down right now. I want you to write something down that's been hindering you. Is it doubt? Is it fear? Is it a broken home? You call it a miracle. It looks after five. The fisherman's on the boat. Jesus borrows his boat. Launches out a little from the land. He teaches for hours when he is fisherman that have worked all night and were washing their nets. They have no energy left. Peter is wore out. He's tired yawning. When Jesus gets through, the rabbi turns into a fisherman and launch out into the deep. Let down your nets for a draft. The scripture says, Peter looks at him and says, master. Everybody say it with me. Master. You gotta get a master. Get that forelawing look on your face. Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing. Who could tell me what the next word is? Never the last. In other words, cancel everything I just said. Nevertheless, I'm not living in last night. I'm not living in yesterday. I'm not using the nets of failure. I will let down the net. I preach to the cancel culture of this generation. It's time for a 3D experience. I mean, it's written something down. Give me the first 10 right here in a line. Just give me 10 right here in a line in the name of Jesus. Here's what the Holy Ghost told me. I want you to tell him I'm here to give him a 3D experience. Deposit, dance, dominion. When David went to take the city of Zion, the Jebusite king laughed and said, if you could get through our lame and blind, you could take the city. They went up through the water ducts and the shaft took the city. And the Bible said, nevertheless, regardless of what the enemy said, nevertheless, David took the stronghold.

I'm preaching to some millennials. You're not just going to tear down strongholds. You're going to take them over. There are some that need to be demolished. But there are others like a bar room that becomes a church. Like a liquor store that becomes a church. Like a casino that becomes a Bible college. We're just going to take it over like a soccer stadium in Brazil that becomes a revival of 12 to 15,000 getting the Holy Ghost. We ain't going to tear it down. We're going to take it over. We're going to cancel the devil's membership. Pack your bags. This is your eviction notice. Get out. Get out. Get out. Get out. But young people, it's time for you to cancel some things. I want you to come by this trash can just a simple illustration and I want you to cancel it. Deposit Dance Dominion. Come on. God has given your turn. Your turn. Don't wait for somebody else. You got some fears. I'm preaching to a young person who's scared to go back home because of what is in your house. What may happen to you when you get home. But I come to cancel what the devil said. I come to cancel what the devil did. I come to cancel what the devil says he's gonna do. You take the minion over it. I'm gonna have revival in my house. I'm gonna have victory in my home. I'm gonna defeat. I'm gonna take over. I'm gonna stand my ground. There's gonna be revival where there's never been revival. Come on. Don't stop. Don't stop. I'm dancing up on the devil's head. I'm canceling his subscription. He ain't coming in my house. He ain't gonna be on my phone. He ain't gonna be on my computer. He ain't gonna be on my gaming station. Canceled. Canceled. Fear. Anxiety. Loneliness. Suicide. Drug addiction. As you're dancing and when they begin to sing I want you to begin to dance and I want you to begin to declare dominion over your house over your school over your church over every square inch of your neighborhood in the name of Jesus.

Scripture references as spoken: 2 Corinthians 10; Luke 4; 1 Kings 18; Deuteronomy 6:4; Acts 2:38.