It Really Is Simple

don't you know we're saving a great God but he's good and His mercy endureth forever hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on why don't you love him right now double nothing right now love me right now I love you Jesus I love you Jesus come on he's good he's good he's good he's good at spite of our problem he's gonna try to the circumstance he's great and he's greatly to be praised and I

love this good God hey man have you have your Bibles even in the book of first Corinthians chapter 1 verse 18 and wonderful to be able to feel the presence of the Lord we've talked about it a couple weeks ago he's an omnipresent God and so it doesn't matter if you're in your home if you're on your job he's still God and he's still good I'm thankful to know that I'm certain that God that it doesn't matter where we are that he still in control I don't know how I could serve a god that wasn't in control I don't know I could serve a god to where to which that I could go and still see his body buried in a tomb relic of him and you know thank God that he died but more than that thank God that he got up so thank God he gave us power and he bought us with his own blood now he's alive and sitting over the throne amen again if you have your Bibles the book of first Corinthians chapter 1 thank you pastor Samantha love you very much appreciate you verse 18 the Bible says for the preaching of the Cross is unto them that perish foolishness but unto us which are saved it is the power of God for it is written I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent where is the wise where is the scribe where is the disputer of this world hath not God made foolish the wisdom of the world for after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not god it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe the Jews require a sign and the Greeks seek after wisdom but we preach Christ crucified and unto the Jews a stumbling-block and unto the Greeks foolishness but unto them which are called both Jews and Greeks Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God because the foolishness of God is wiser than men the weakness of God is stronger than men you see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty verse 27 says again you've chosen the foolish things simply meaning the simple things dawn has chosen the simple things of the world to confound the wise if God will help us today I want to preach to us for a little while it really is simple it really is simple would you help me right now by lifting your hands and your voice and asking God to move in this place God we love you we appreciate you we're so thankful Lord to know you because you are God and you are God alone there's no one like you you're wonderful you're perfect in all your ways we thank you Lord right now that you're moving in our homes you're moving in our families you're moving on our jobs we thank you God for doing what you do thank you for being all-powerful thank you for helping your people in Jesus name and everyone said a man man you may be seated we live in a world that clearly does not understand the culture and the family life of the Apostolic Church I would just step out on a limb just a little bit and say that there are even some that have been ostracized and thought of as strange for being apostolic and because of this we in a sense have built our own world in Pentecost and rightfully so here to tell you today that I love being around the people of God I love spending time with God's people as the book of psalms says how perfect it is for brethren to dwell together in unity I stand with each and every sane of God proud to be called the Church of the Living God apostolic Saints and thank God we have progressed even as the world has progressed and that for the most part wherever you go Pentecostal people are known for their class and kindness and again I say I am glad to be a part of the church look back over my life and the majority of the best memories that I have are youth counts and fellowship meetings count meetings and the likes I love being a part of the church send those times in those settings that I can tell

you that I have heard some of the best apostolic preaching that anyone could hear I have wept in travail with messages when like brother Ken Bo preached the door to the fourth dimension I have was there when Pastor Wesley Jackson preached broken crayons color best and I've shouted with preachers as they have preached sermons like brother Nathanael ocean sometimes it's like the snow I was there when your good pastor preached the war for more I was there for so many and I don't have time to name them all but so many masterpieces in their own right so many messages that were timely so many messages that spoke with revelation and that we in a sense would yank the covers off of the dark things that we cannot see clearly in the Bible some things that were mysteries were revealed in those messages and I consider myself to be a student of preaching and I don't want this to come out round today but as a preacher we live our lives under constant pressure within the world of Pentecost to preach something that no one has ever heard before and rightfully so I believe that we should preach with revelation and constantly reaching into the depths of God's Word to tie things together and to put the pieces of this puzzle together I believe that as a minister of the gospel that it is my duty to study to show myself approved and God help me that I spend the time that I need to in the word and every time I step behind a pulpit I do my very best to be anointed and prepared to preach what God has given me but Wow we do all of that God don't ever let us to forget that you took the foolish the simple things to confound the wise and the simplicity of the gospel will always stand alone please again don't misunderstand me I'm not telling you that we don't need to have good preaching we need good preaching but at the end of the day my pretty words might fail me and might fail women might fail saints of God night fell but the Word of God will never fail the Word of God will never falter the Word of God will constantly do what it was sent to do can I tell a saint today you just need to turn the Word of God loose huh and let it do what God ordained it to do that's power in the Word of God Almighty let me tell you something you don't need to be able to give somebody a revelation to let him know that there's power in the word you don't need to be able to stand up and preach the ten thousand to tell somebody there's power in the word of the Lord hallelujah Paul told the church in Corinth in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 he said I'd fear by by any means as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty that your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ he's speaking to a problem ridden church he's speaking to a church that is broken in a sense they have problems within themselves there's this unity and the church they are practicing things they have no business practicing and Paul begins to write to them and as he's getting ready to set all of these things in order as Paul is getting ready to tell them and line them out if you will he begins to tell them my greatest fear it's not that you get caught up in prophecy it's not that you mess up my greatest fear is that somewhere down the line you try to make this harder than what it really is he said in his acute arguments were enough to beguile Alleva and that's what I fear is that somewhere somehow you look at the gospel and say this is really hard no it's not whatever you do Carla don't make it harder than it is Christ died rose again and received in the Gloria he filled us with his spirit huh and he's saying don't let the devil take that away from you let me tell you something tonight if you're not careful you'll let the devil jump in your mind and try to add all this stuff in and tell you what you gonna do about this huh and what you're gonna do about that huh you need to stand on the Word of God and say I've repented of my sins I've been baptized in his name filled with the spirit I'm I'm a part of the body of Christ now I know it's simple but God took the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe you might not be a preacher but baby you can be a proclaimer of the goodness of Jesus huh of the power that's in his word you don't have to be a preacher to tell somebody 2:38 Deuteronomy 6 and 4 it

might be simple but it still works huh it's still saving people people are still message we want to be some great revelation where when somebody begins to preach there's this bomb going off and your mind explodes because I've never seen that before and again and please don't make me qualify this again and again but we need to be like that we need to preach like that but at the same time I want you to remember what it was like the first time you ever heard you got to repent of your sins and you got to be baptized in Jesus name and you got to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost huh do you remember the bomb that went off in your mind never seen that before I've never heard that before I know it's simple to you now but don't ever forget to there's power in the message of just the simplicity of the doctrine in my own opinion if anybody should have preached on the day of Pentecost the message it should have been Matthew or Simon the tax collector or the Zillah both were in some sort of political campaign they were smarter they were better with words but in Matthew chapter 16 we see that there's a man that has something that they didn't get at this point in time Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples and he said who the men say that I the Son of Man and they said and some of them said you John the Baptist some said Elias and others said Jeremiah the Prophet and he looked at them and he said but who do you say that I am notice that he's talking to them collectively Mathew was there mark was there John was there he's speaking to them in a collective group all of them have begin to say the Bible says and they said they were speaking in a group when they said some say you're John the Baptist huh and some in liars and some Jeremiah but when he said who do you say that I am the Bible said that Simon Peter steps out in front of the brethren he said I know you got your opinion up but let me just say that thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God and it's in that moment that sees the simplicity of who God is and that makes him the poor mother and the anointed preacher that when they would stand in Jerusalem and say what shall we do Peter would stand up with the Brethren and say you wanna know why because he got the simplicity Jesus I'm just a little old school teacher that's all right baby if you know who Jesus is I think that because you work minimum wage that you don't have anything to contribute to the work of God but can I tell you if you know who Jesus is it doesn't matter how much you make it doesn't matter where you came from or what welcome light you live that when you know who Jesus is I you can share the simplicity of the doctrine you can lay hands on the sick and see them recover when you know who Jesus is you can cast out Devils when you know who Jesus is you're joined with a heavenly host that is singing holy holy holy is the lamb when you know who Jesus here's you walked around expecting a miracle because you know that Jesus is a miracle worker when you know who Jesus here's you walk around expecting a healing huh because you know Jesus is a healer holy ghost now you know who Jesus here's how you walk around expecting deliverance because you know that he's a deliverer you walk around looking for a way because you know that he's a waymaker you walk around looking for provisioner because when you know who Jesus is you know he's a provider he's a protector he's a savior I know it's simpler but Peter when you're right and I've learned but you begin to preach about who Jesus is 3000 are gonna be fiora and that's gonna add to the church daily Oh Peter you're not a doctor but you got the revelation up the body works you see my personal opinion Luke would

have been there he would have been a little bit sketchy to think about it when he sees the man that's laying by the gate that's called beautiful he's been laying 30 years he's never walked and walking as we know is a process that's learned and Luke could have looked at him as a doctor and said well if God heals him it's gonna take him six to eight weeks before he learns how to balance herself if God heals him it's gonna take him a couple months before he learns how to walk and within six months he might be running Peter don't know all Peter knows this who Jesus yes Peter don't know how the body works Peter don't know that this man's bones are probably soft because he's been laying by the wayside for thirty years Peter don't know that he don't have any strength in his muscles he's never leaked before in his life and so it's impossible for him to leap and so it's Peter walks in and the young man asks for money he looks at him and says silver and gold have I none but let me tell you what I do have I have a revelation I have a revelation of who Jesus is and what's inside of me it's greater than the thing that's holding you down so rise up and walk in the Bible says that that young man that had never walked her began to leap and runner glod took the process of learning to walk the sinner took six eight months a year and he confined it down to just a moment because somebody had a revelation that this is simple but faith still works huh faith can still move mountains huh faith can still heal you faith can still help you faith will reach down to where you are and pull you up off of that kada and get you to walk in a and singing praises unto the Lord let me just show you that there's a God that's greater and there's Peter begins to set the pace he's unlearned but he's showing he's setting a way for people that are going to come after him because there's a man that's gonna be real smart behind it and he's gonna set at the feet of the male and he's wise and he he knows exactly how to win acute arguments he knows what to do in a court of law he's a Pharisee of Pharisees he's got it all figured out Paul sets down and he struck out because he can't figure it out his intellect ain't working this time his intellect is not telling people how to be saved his intellect not reaching people and getting them into the baptistry into the baptistry tank it's not reaching out and it's not getting people to the altar and so Paul after he struck out just a couple times he finally comes to us with sin and stands up and says all I came to tell you is Christ Jesus Christ and him crucified see Paul got the revelation that my wisdoms not working because my wisdom is the wisdom of this world my wisdoms not working because as long as you try to argue with people with earthly and ideologies you're never gonna win them over but once you start talking to them I know it's simple but if you just try it I'm telling you it'll change the way cuz in the end at the very end of the moment there's nobody can deny what you've experienced you might you might be smarter than me or any other preacher in Pentecost now I'm not very smart but there's some smart ones out there and you might be able to somehow or another put them in a corner I highly doubt it but you might be able to you might think you're smart enough to get somebody that know that really don't know much about the Bible and turn them around and get them convinced that this is not real but let me just tell you something you will never get anybody that's experienced the Holy Ghost to deny its power because once you've tasted of this great Holy Ghost there's nothing in the world you'd be like Paul and just stand up and say all I know to tell you I'm not smart enough to figure it out but Jesus Christ and him crucified and he's living inside of me and there's not a devil in hell or out of hell that's gonna take that from me you might be smarter than me but you can't take my experience huh you can't take what God has given me it's simple but it still works it still works it still works it's so simple that even the devil can preach it because you find and Luke chapter 4 I'm

gonna take your Excuse today there's a lot of people that are there connected to the church that say well I would but I just don't know how to explain it I would I would help and I would teach Bible studies and I would outreach but I don't know how to explain it but read the Bible and Luke chapter 4 and verse 40 it says now when the son setting all day that had any sick with divers diseases brought them unto him him being Jesus and he laid his hands on every one of them and He healed them what's this verse 41 and The Devil's also came out crying out and saying thou art the Christ the Son of God what's happening here is the Devils are running around and given a testimony to who Jesus is and if the devil can testify of who he is why would you have any excuse to sit down and say I'm not gonna tell anybody about Jesus huh why would you cross your arms huh and get a better attitude and say I'm not gonna reach out and help anybody I don't know what to say well has he ever healed you has he ever delivered you has he ever made away you just tell somebody I know the oume because I've tried him and he works huh your testimony is the greatest sermon that anybody could ever preach your testimony is the greatest message he can put your broken family back together again but it's simple John chapter 5 and verse 16 and therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus sought to slay him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day but jesus answered them my father worketh here too and then he said these words and I work you know what you need to tell him same thing Jesus told him Jesus works he works if you're broken he works if you're not he works if you're rich Jesus works if you're poor Jesus works in the morning and Jesus works at night it doesn't matter where you are Jesus so working that simple preacher yep it is but you just tried and watching see because it works you just opened up the Word of God and begin to read the words of read and watch and see if they don't start speaking to you Watson see if they don't start working in your situation well I need a no no you don't need to know you I guarantee you if you woke up in the morning and somebody had deposited a million dollars in your bank and you called the bank and said how did he get there and they said somebody put it in there and you said well who did it and they said well we can't tell you I promise you you're not gonna not spend the money because you don't know who gave it to you you gonna take what you was given to you and you're gonna use it how in the world would you use that monetarily but not use it spiritually but you don't have to know how everything works huh you just need to know that it works huh you just need to know that it'll heal you I'm not here today to beat you over the head and tell you give you a study of 17 hours of this is how you gotta do it and you gotta go through all these steps and we understand that there are steps that you got to go through but you need to believe in one God get baptized in his name repent of your sins gonna fill you with the Holy Ghost you start figuring it all out because revelation I'll start coming up this really does work it really does work it really works okay that's fine you sentence in your dysfunction all you won't do but I'm gonna keep living for God why because it works explain it no just try it just keep trying I'm telling you I'm 28 years old and I'm still trying it and it's still working and there's still things that are as the musicians are coming I'm almost done but there's still things that I'm opening my eyes huh and God just starts making way after way after way after way after way I'm still watching now I'm still amazed as God starts working and God starts healer and I thought I knew all I could know about him but then I start reading his word and I find a little bit more about him and I thought he'd done all that he could do but then I turn around in another miracle after the Holy Ghost I

thought I saw all that I was gonna see but in the midnight hour when somebody called on the name of Jesus huh something began to happen something begin to move kappa get the heal God showed up and begin to work I'm telling you tonight happens that what you need to do is stop sitting on your couch and stop being depressed and just try Jesus cuz he's alright just try Jesus he'll make a way just try Jesus they really wanna come on if you've tried about you are to praise Him and let God come down where you are bless your spirit he works he works P words ha if you need a healin Jesus words huh if you did a miracle Jesus words huh if you need a breakthrough hey why it's really that simple just try and let it lie