Wednesday Night Bible Study

why don't you put your hands together for jesus all across the room come on if you know he's worthy of the praise why don't you lift up your voice a little bit louder god we thank you oh lord we worship you oh come on i feel this presence in this room right now god come on from the rise you've got the sun to the going down of the shame the name of the lord is worthy oh jesus we praise you oh jesus we magnify you come on could we just thank him for what he's done this week come on students why don't you just thank the lord for what he's done this week come on children why don't you just magnify the lord for what he's done this week we praise you god we worship you we adore you o god you are great lord you are great and greatly to be praised o god we worship you amen god has done some incredible things this week and i never want to fail to give him the glory and the honor and the praise that he is due how many know the lord is worthy of the praise [Applause] i know that's the saying that we say in church but have you ever thought about what that is actu what you're actually saying the lord is worthy i'm not worthy of praise i'm just a man i have frailties i have weaknesses and flaws but there is only one person who is truly worthy of the praise and that is jesus christ that's why i praise him that's why i worship him because he's worthy he brought me out of darkness into his marvelous light he's worthy he healed my body he delivered me he's worthy [Applause] amen he's worthy of the praise and i just want to give him glory today for everything that he has done this week it's been such a tremendous honor for uh to be here with you all for code orange revival at first apostolic church of knoxville and acs it's just been such an incredible honor for me to be here and i've been blessed i truly mean that i've been blessed by by being here and just got a chance to meet so many wonderful students and uh you know i've i've been denied a few times some some fist bumps and some handshakes i don't know tough crowd i don't know man i tried to get one guy in fist bump he was just like nah all right bro cool i mean that's the way it's gonna be you know but it's been such a it's there's nothing like chilling with students and kids you know they don't they don't really care about you know all the all the pleasantries sometimes they're just very real and raw and uh there's something that i really love about that because when god moves and god touches them you know they're not faking it very rarely the kids fake that's right now i know they imitate you know what i mean kids that can imitate but when god really touches them they're not faking it it's a real sincere authentic thing that's happening in their life and there's been such a tremendous authentic move of the holy ghost that we've had in the code orange revival and what an honor what an honor it is i i cannot state how much it's been an honor for me to be here with you all honor pastor and sister mccool can we give them a round of applause what tremendous leadership you have love and appreciate them so very much these are truly special people amen and to have just the legacy and the leadership that they have and to just treat some random guy from maryland slash mississippi slash louisiana the way that they have amen it's just made me feel right at home and i love and appreciate them i want to also say it's been such a tremendous honor to hang out with my great friends brother nate and sister ashley whitley can we give them a round of applause honor them these people have become great friends of mine i mean that sincerely and very rarely and we've talked about it brother nate used to travel and evangelize as i know most of you know and we just kind of talked about how you know you just you don't always connect with people when you go places and that's neither a good nor bad thing it just kind of is what it is you're there to try to help and to minister and to be effective in what god has called you to do but it is a bonus when you can go somewhere truly connect with someone and i gain a friend in the process and i feel like we've done that myself and even my wife even though she hasn't been here i know she feels the same way and so i honor the whitley's and of course brother anthony and sister kelly mccool we honor them bishop and sister mccool we honor them one more time can we just give the entire mccool and whitley family a round of applause we honor them amen and i honor everyone from the acs staff thank you so much for allowing me to be here and you guys just do it top notch it's incredible what god has allowed to happen here just a sustained spirit of excellence and just the generations that have been impacted by an apostolic school man what a tremendous tremendous vision and uh just a just a god thing that god has done here and i'm just i'm honored to be here truly why don't you turn your bibles to matthew chapter six start reading at verse number 25 matthew chapter 6 and verse 25 [Music] amen the bible says therefore i say unto you take no thought turn to your neighbor and say take no thought some of you are like man i don't know about that the person next to me maybe needs to think a little bit more but the bible says take no thought for your life what you shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what ye shall put on is not the life more than meat and the body than ramen behold the fowls of the air for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly father feedeth them are ye not much better than they i want you to turn to first samuel chapter 21 we'll begin our reading at verse number 10. we find king david a very familiar character in the bible is fleeing from king saul because he fears for his life we pick up the story at this junk shirt the bible says then david arose and fled that day for fear saul and went to achis the king of gath and the servants of acres said unto him is not this david the king of the land did they not sing one to another of him and dances saying saul has slain his thousands and david his ten thousands the bible says after david hears these words spoken by the servants of achis the bible says and david laid up these words in his heart and was sore afraid of achish the king of gath now i've said it several times since i've been here and you probably know what i'm about to say i don't speak fluent king james ease so i gotta break it down a little bit that last passage of scripture where i really want us to focus our attention on and david laid up these words in his heart that's just good old king james for this david thought about what they said the translation says when david heard the words he thought and when he thought he was sore afraid of achish the king of gath with the help of the holy ghost i want to preach on this message this title this evening put off your thinking cap i want you to turn to your neighbor and i want you to say that to him teachers are like don't you say that i've been telling my kids all week to put on there go ahead i want you to tell your neighbor put off your thinking cow one more time why don't you put your bibles down lift your hands in the air let's just pray one more time god we thank you for your presence thank you for your spirit for your anointing that is in this room right now lord i pray in the name of jesus that you would let the gift of faith be in operation tonight let there be a demonstration of your power and of your presence lord i pray in jesus name that we will believe you to do the impossible tonight god i pray in jesus name that you would release oh god miracles in this room i believe that tonight people can be healed i believe that tonight people can be filled with the baptism of the holy ghost for the very first time i believe tonight god that families can be restored and situations can be transformed by the power of your spirit god i thank you i declare it i decree it i say it's done in jesus name one more time why don't you clap your hands one more time i'll let you lift up your voice oh somebody just begin to worship the lord in this room right now somebody just begin to magnify the lord in this place hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen you may be seated can i have just a hair more monitor thank you guys so much for helping me amen i was a pretty good kid in school i didn't get in that much trouble um i mean there might have been a time or two where i got in a little bit of trouble uh maybe one or two times i went to the principal's office one or two times i got a paddle and now see some of y'all kids y'all don't know what that's about but i'm just i was just on the line where they like we're still giving kids paddlings uh-huh if you were bad in school it wasn't just mom and dad that gave you a little something on the bottom but you could get something at school and i i gotta admit i got a few of those but i was i was a pretty good kid honestly the thing that got me in trouble the most brother mccool was this i was a musician and in the midst of school i would have this tendency to be translated into a realm where i was surrounded in a stadium playing the drums i was a drummer and some of you know what i'm talking about because you play the drums this right here is what i would get in trouble for right here you know what i'm talking about it would be so quiet in school and all of a sudden i start doing this man i start playing those drums brother nate and all of a sudden i would be translating into an auditorium filled with people i mean front to back side to side people were all there just listening to me to deliver the greatest drum solo of all drum solos i mean brother mccool you should have been there i was i was tearing it up man i mean i would get to the apex of my drum soul i was getting ready to shut the place down and all of a sudden there will come a slap on my desk and abruptly i would be jolted back into reality and my teacher would say to me james will set what do you think you're doing you need to sit back straight in your chair put your back against the chair put your feet on the floor and put your thinking cap on son you're in school because you see the purpose of school is to hone and cultivate one's mental faculties so that their reasoning and thinking skills are competent however can i preach to someone tonight that we are not in a schoolhouse right now i know this might be during the day a school house but right now this is not a schoolhouse this is the house of god and the purpose of the house of god is to hone and to cultivate the supernatural so that miracles can occur in order for that to happen sometimes as a matter of fact most times our reasoning and thinking have to go out the door first corinthians says it this way for you see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called but god has chosen the foolish things of the world to compound the wise that no flesh listen no flesh should glory in his presence what's the bible saying the bible saying sometimes god has to make things so bad god allows things rather to be so bad and so difficult and so dense that when you get out of that situation all you can say is it was nobody but jesus god will allow things to happen sometimes in your life so that he will get the glory god will allow things to happen sometimes in your world so that when you get healed when you get delivered when you get set free all you can do is throw your hands in the air lift your face to heaven and say thank you jesus i shouldn't be here right now i should have lost my mind but god you brought me out god you delivered me god you set me free oh it doesn't make logical sense how you could come into the house of god when your children are losing their mind it doesn't make sense how you could come into the house of god when you just lost a loved one lift up holy hands and begin to magnify the lord but can i tell you how god will allow things to happen sometimes so that he gets the glory i remember y'all remember that story in the bible i believe it was blind bartimaeus they said has it what has this man done that he could be blind from birth what has his family done what has what have they done jesus looks back at them and says they've done nothing but the reason i've allowed for this to happen is so that i can get glory out of this some of you right now been asking for god to use you you've been asking for god to do miracles and signs and wonders god i want to see your hand god i want to see you do awesome things and god is saying okay if you want to see me do great things i i gotta allow some things to get off in your life i gotta allow some things to happen in your life but don't you worry when those things get off with situations begin to arise i'm going to be right there beside you and i will bring you out and i will get gloria i will get praise i will get honor out of this oh somebody clap your hands at this place if you believe it oh somebody lift up your voice [Applause] so if you come into this place expecting to understand everything that's going on can i tell you you've come to the wrong place to try to understand everything a pentecostal apostolic church is the wrong place to try to figure out everything that goes on can i tell you you might not understand why sister so-and-so is doing the huck and buck right across the front of the pew you might not understand how somebody is worshiping god when their body's afflicted but can i tell you how they have the testimony you don't know like i know what what the lord has done for me it might not make sense to you but i got a reason to shout it might not make sense to you but i got a reason to dance i got a reason to rejoice i got a reason to worship or somebody lift up your voice and praise god hallelujah [Applause] but if you need something from god tonight just for tonight i dare you to just put off your thinking cap i dare you for just one moment to quit trying to make logical sense of anything and everything that's going on and just give god a shot in this room just give god a try in this room and i promise you if you will give god a try if you will give god a shot in this room god will prove himself to you it seemed as if this was another normal day for david there was no handwriting in the heavens signaling an adjournment from the mundane no thundering theophanies that would elevate his expectation no prophecies for telling that this day would be any different than any other day not one but can i tell you today was not another normal day for david today would be the day that david's life would change forever he'd be vaulted dare i say enshrined into jewish folklore by the working of a bonafide miracle his slaying of that philistine giant goliath and as david marches out onto the battlefield i know that there are some that might argue that he was not a it was not a miracle that he killed goliath because david was not the underdog but was indeed the favorite to emerge from his skirmish with goliath victorious and to those who would align with this sentiment i joined in agreeance with you today for no person anointed by god is in any way at any time under any circumstance the underdog however this does not negate that through the lenses of human logic and reasoning david had no business believing that he could defeat goliath and so when david arrives in the valley of elah and hears the defying challenge of goliath his response to what he hears is not what anyone expected but david did as our scripture text commands us to do as christians and the bible allows us to know that david took no thought for his life because you see david understood this fact my response to what i hear will determine what i will have i said your response to what you hear will determine what you will have and while the men of israel responded by scattering and hiding themselves at the sound of goliath's bellowing voice a boldness lacehold of youthful david and he responds by advancing to the battlefield to face goliath there was no fear or trepidation in him there was no deliberation or hesitation in him for although david was a youth he was no novice he had slain a brownie para in the verdant pastures where he attended to his father's sheep and silenced a mighty lion's roar in those same pastures with the sharpness of his sling and david knew although my pack is against the wall and this giant stands before me i serve a god that is well able to deliver me [Applause] therefore i'm not going to stand here and cower but i'm going to respond in faith and i'm going to believe my god for a miracle in my life can i preach to someone right now at the very beginning of this message your response to what you hear will determine what you will have see it doesn't matter what the doctor says you might have heard the doctor say that there is no hope for you you may have heard your spouse say that they're never coming back to church again you may have heard a bad report but can i tell you just because you hear doubt just because you hear the threats of the adversary just because you hear a bad report does not mean that things have to turn out that way huh but if someone would get a boldness in your spirit if someone would say huh i believe that my god can deliver me there's no devil in hell that could stand up to you but you got to respond you got to respond you got to make up your mind i'm not going to sit here i'm not going to cower but i'm going to respond in faith and believe my god for a miracle i don't care how high the odds are are stacked against you you are not an undertale guy you're a child of god you're not defeated you're victorious you have the power you have greater issue that it's within you but you got to respond you got to respond you got to stand up in the midst of adversity and say my god is still a miracle worker my god's still a way maker i know the way it seems i know what i've heard of but i've decided i'm going to believe the report of the lord oh somebody needs to hear that for your family because the devil's told you that it's over but the devil is a liar it's not over till god says it's over and god is speaking a fresh word to somebody in this place say respond respond respond respond with your praise respond with your worship respond with your prayer and i will move in your life oh somebody lift up your voice and begin to pray right now i've come to tell somebody you need to get a resolve a determination in your spirit today that says i will not be moved i will not be swayed i will not fear for god hath not given me a spirit of fear but a power and of love and of a sound mind i'm gonna come out of this thing i'm gonna be victorious oh brother james you don't understand what i'm facing right now i may not understand what you're facing and can i tell you many times you don't have control over what happens to you but you do have control over how you respond to what happens to you and some of us for too long have been allowing the enemy to be on our shoulders telling us that it's over can i tell you it is not over you just got to respond come on david don't you see goliath standing before you yeah i see goliath standing before me i see goliath with all his power and all this might but i am not alone i'm not by myself goliath i'm coming to you in the name of the lord jesus christ i'm responding i'm responding i'm coming out in faith i'm coming out swinging i'm going to respond [Applause] because david responded in faith didn't look at the optics and allow and allow the optics to determine his faith because david moved beyond precedent and believed that god could move even when there was not a precedent we have no record or precedent that anyone had ever done what david did in killing a giant before david said i'm not going to think about this i'm just going to believe and because david believed a great miracle was performed in his life of david i wish that i could tell you that from this moment on that he was always this courageous always this bold that he never doubted that miracles such as the slaying of goliath never died in the life of david but if i were to say this i'd be telling a lie for miracles at one point did die in the life of david and we find in chapter 23 of first samuel a very different david than we find in chapter 17. in this chapter we find david fleeing for fear of king saul you see saul's jealousies of david's victories had caused him to seek david's life and so david flees to the one place he knows saul will not pursue him to achis in the city of gath king achish was the king of the philistines and gath was the capital city from which he reigned and so david that courageous warrior that we find in chapter 17 is now seeking shelter amongst the very enemy he had defeated numerous times hoping that no one would notice hoping that no one would recognize who he was but when miracles have been performed in your life can i tell you you cannot remain in obscurity you might think that nobody can recognize who you are saint of god but when god has done something in your life his mark is all over you and you are absolutely recognizable to the adversary as a matter of fact the bible says that they begin to say something over david the bible says that the philistines they say in verse 11 is this david the king of the land did they not sing one to another of him and dances saying saul has slain his thousands and david his ten thousands now what i find very interesting about this particular passage of scripture is this david has been anointed king but david has not yet been appointed king yet the adversary looks at david and says hey there goes the king because you see the enemy sometimes can see what we even cannot see some of you view yourselves as a weak anemic powerless christian but if you could just see through the lenses of the what the adversary sees you as you wouldn't take his stuff any longer can i tell you in this place can i remind you who you are you're a royal priesthood you're a holy nation you're not average you're not ordinary but the anointing and the power of god is on your life hey there needs to be a boldness that you walk in this place with there needs to be an authority that you walk in this place with the power of the risen savior it's on your life the anointing of god is all your power and the spirit of god lives on the inside of you some of you need to have a conversation with the devil and he would remind you who you are see some of us think some of us think that the devil is this big powerful creature and that the devil's walking around all boldly and can i tell you when you have the power of the holy ghost hell is literally terrified of you this is what i believe i don't believe that what the philistines spoke over david was a pronouncement of david's impending doom i believe that their pronouncement was a pronouncement of david's ultimate god destiny but see when we allow our thoughts to meditate on things what was supposed to be a pronouncement of our destiny becomes a pronouncement of our doom but i've come to tell somebody in this place there's a divine destiny there's an anointing on your life and don't you allow hell don't you allow your thoughts to convince you of anything else there's a purpose on your life there's an anointing on your life there's power there's authority that god has given you and you need to rise up come on you can lay hands on the sicker and they must recover you could come on you can cast out devils in his name that power that authority it rests on the inside of you [Applause] miracles didn't die in david's life because god removed his anointing off of david's life but the bible says when david hears the words of the philistines what should have been a pronouncement of david's destiny that should have encouraged him it actually became the very thing that caused david's ultimate downfall and it all began when david began to think a little too much the bible says when david hears the first time when he hears goliath he doesn't think he just responds david understands my response will determine what i will have the first time there's no doubt he just responds but this time upon hearing david does something very different than he does the first time upon hearing this time upon hearing the words of the philistines spoken over david the bible says and david laid up these words in his heart david began to think about what they said he dwelled on it he meditated on it before he had responded in faith no hesitation with goliath just sheer courage and boldness but this time he begins to think about it he begins to take thought for his life david begins to think oh my goodness i'm surrounded i'm literally surrounded by philistines and if they know who i am if they realize who i am they're going to kill me they're going to take my life and i got to get back to my wife i got to get back to my children i got to get back how can i get back if they know who i am oh my goodness they're going to kill me they're going to kill me they're going to take my life bible doesn't say how long david pondered the words spoken to him by the philistines but it was long enough for him to become comfortable with them long enough for him to take ownership of his doubt long enough for david to lay up those words in his heart why david thought about it this time when only four chapters earlier he had responded in faith i cannot tell you i really i really cannot explain to you why he did but i can't tell you where david's miracles died david's miracles died when he allowed human logic and reasoning to outweigh his faith david allowed his human logic and reasoning to outweigh his faith can i tell you it would have been nothing for god to deliver david out of the hands of the philistines had they attacked him if god used samson to perform a miracle by single-handedly killing one thousand philistines with the jawbone of a donkey before david ever came along it would have been nothing for god to do it again if god had used david to kill goliath just four chapters earlier it would have been nothing for god to do it again but because of david's thoughts an opportunity for miracle died i've come to preach to someone today that human logic and reasoning are killers of the supernatural when we allow our minds to dwell on how hopeless and how impossible and how ineligible we are for a miracle can i tell you that is when our miracle begins to die but i would to god that there would be someone in this place that's in desperate need of god to do a miracle that would say i don't know when i don't know how i can't explain it all i can make sense of it all but i have enough faith to believe that my god is going to make a way for me somehow come on somebody i said you got to have enough faith even in the midst of your trial to say god's going to come through her he's never failed me and he never will he's never failed me he never will he's going to come through he's going to do a miracle in my life on out come to preach hope to somebody if god can pull back the waters of the red sea and cause for the israelites to to go through on dry ground god can do a miracle for you huh if god can use a donkey to speak to balaam i don't care how long it's been since you heard the voice of god god could speak to you tonight if god can save us all and change his name to paul my god it's capable of saving you tonight but you got to respond you got to have enough faith to put up your thinking kappa and say i might not understand it i might not comprehend it but my god he's still in the miracle working business oh somebody lift up your voice somebody begin to magnify the lord in this place [Music] i said our god is still a miracle working god come on i can make sense of why a god will fill me with this spirit i don't deserve it i'm not good enough i don't have the pedigree i don't deserve it but can i tell you he still saved me anyway i'm not trying to make sense of it i'm just going to receive it i'm not going to try to make sense of it i'm just going to have enough faith to believe that he can do it in my life [Applause] oh somebody lift up your voice right now come on i want you to respond come on i want you to respond in this place right now oh i'm preaching to somebody i'm preaching right to where you're at i'm preaching right where you i'm right on somebody's doorstep right now because the enemy's trying to convince you through your thoughts that god is done with you but i've come to tell you god it's not done with you god is not finished with your home god it's not finished with their life god is not finished with your marriage god is not finished with their ministry you need to tell the devil devil not today i'm going to believe the reporter i know what it seems like on the outside but i'm not going to allow my thoughts i'm not going to allow my thoughts to deceive me i will believe i know it's hard to believe when your pack is against the wall i know it's difficult to believe when nobody else believes when nobody else believes but can i tell somebody in this place god is for you god is in this place there's a miracle with your name on it [Applause] there's a dimension of the spirit with your name on it but you gotta believe [Applause] oh somebody lift up your voice right now huh [Music] can i tell you why some of us have never seen a miracle because miracles require you to move beyond the realm of logic and reasoning miracles can't be miracles if they seem plausible miracles can't seem miracles cannot be miracles if they make sense it doesn't make sense that somebody can be healed of cancer see some of you you've allowed your thinking you've allowed your human logic and reasoning to convince you that god cannot do things can i tell you right now god can do miracles i got i had a friend give me a praise report the other day that god healed someone of hiv-3 [Applause] see some of you don't want to believe that because you don't think that's possible i don't mean i don't mean they think i mean there literally is no sign there is no trace they prayed in the name of jesus and god miraculously healed that individual can i tell somebody in this place our god is still a miracle working god but you gotta oh but that doesn't make logical sense i know it doesn't but you got to move beyond what makes lots of logical sense to the realm of faith and belief i want you to lift up your hands right now i want you to begin to pray allah come on would you lift up your voice and pray oh come on right now lift up your voice come on there's something flowing in this room right now there's something moving in this room right now come on come on would you take the limits off of god would you take the limits off of god in your mind come on would you get to a place come on would you get to a place of hunger and desperation that you're going to believe god to do the impossible come on right now come on god is moving in this service right now come on want to tell somebody don't let your miracle die bible lets us know before david ever has a conversation notice david doesn't ever have a conversation with the enemy and already he convinces himself that he's ineligible for god to do a miracle in his life that's what happens when we begin to consult ourselves instead of consulting god we all have the tendency to do this when things happen in our lives the first thing we do is we begin to mull over it and think about it how impossible how horrible when's the last time you got a bad report and immediately in the doctor's office in your bedroom right where you are you begin to pray and plead the blood of jesus most of the time what happens we get a bad report and we do what david did we lay up those words man what strong language that is david in his heart he stored up those words it became a personal thing to him david took ownership of it no no no this is my doubt this is my problem this is this is this is mine i i i god you can't have this i'm taking ownership of it this can't happen how many times have we done that and right there the impossible ceases in david's life i've come to preach this is not a message of gloom and doom and i want you to stand i'm coming to a close this is not a message of hopelessness tonight i've come to preach to somebody in this place i've come to preach to somebody in this place who's maybe had that old thinking cap on for a while and miracles have died in your life just like they did for david and your behavior has changed and you maybe grew up believing that god could do this type of thing maybe even in your youth you saw god do those types of things maybe as a young man a young woman you saw god do miracles and signs and wonders but now through human logic and reasoning in the cares of life your faith has been killed if that is you can i tell you god specializes in resurrecting miracles i said god specializes in resurrecting miracles or maybe just maybe this is your first time into an atmosphere in an atmosphere like this and the world through his systems of belief have convinced you that god doesn't love you you've walked around with the world system the world's thinking cap on your head and you believe that god doesn't love you god doesn't care about you your family can't be saved god doesn't have a purpose in a plan for your life and because of that miracles have laden dormant and miracles have been dead in your life can i tell you i've come to preach a message of hope to you today i've come with a word from god for you today god specializes in resurrecting miracles it's not over it's not done it's not impossible god can save your soul god can turn your life around god has a plan and a purpose for your life [Music] find david samuel chapter 23 faced with a familiar phone that philistine army this time david remembers i tried tried this whole human logic and reasoning thing before so this time quit thinking about things so much i'm not going to worry i'm not going to fret i'm not going to consult myself i'm going to do the one thing that i should have done in the first place i'm going to consult my god the bible says in first samuel chapter 23 and verse 2 therefore david inquired of the lord saying shall i go up and smite these philistines and the lord said unto david go smite the philistines and save goliath see when david stopped relying on his own human logic and reasoning to figure out how to handle his problems consulted god god speaks to david and says david i'm getting ready to resurrect miracles in your life you're going to be victorious i've come to preach to someone today that if you'll quit trying to figure it all out how everything is going to work out in your life and turn to god can i tell you god will give you the victory that you have been longing for come on it's time to consult god in this place i know it's hard human logic and reasoning has killed miracles in your life but i'm telling you if you will just consult god he will shatter the crippling effects of human logic and reasoning on your life and give your restoration of miracles god is in the business of restoring miracles in this place [Music] i end with this [Music] human logic and reasoning cannot suppress when someone makes up their mind human logic and reasoning cannot suppress miracles rather when someone makes up their mind to consult god the greatest miracle of all time was killed by human logic and reasoning say what do you mean brother wilson jesus christ [Music] born of that virgin mary how can it be that a god who is outside of time and space can come and dwell within a finite being how is it that the god that spoke the worlds into existence can come and humble himself and be born of a virgin mary what what greater miracle is there than this the fact that god could come down and be born the greatest miracle of all time jesus christ [Music] but you know what happened human logic and reasoning killed the greatest miracle of all time they looked at jesus [Music] you mean to tell me that this man is the messiah jesus man you've got to be kidding me that doesn't make any sense you mean to tell me that joseph's boy the one i saw rolling in the dirt and getting dirty the one i saw running around whose breath stank and all this stuff you mean to tell me that this boy is the messiah man that don't make any sense you've got to have lost your ever-loving mind and because human logic and reasoning could not wrap its mind around the fact that jesus was the messiah they killed him that day but you see god had already consulted with himself before the foundations of time in the beginning was the word and the word was with god and the word was god that word in the in the greek simply means the plan in the beginning was the plan and the plan was with god and the plan was god god had already consulted with himself and said one day human logic and reasoning is going to kill me human logic and reasoning is going to take me out but i've already got a plan i've already consulted myself that on day three i'm going to come out of that grave with power and authority [Applause] [Music] the greatest miracle of all time cannot be held down by human logic and reason and god has been consulted what makes you think that your miracle can be held down to the front of this altar lift up your hands and say god i can't do this on my own i need your help can i tell somebody if you will consult god in this place there is a there's going to be a resurrection of miracles there's going to be a resurrection of miracles and signs and wonders [Music] come on all across this room i want you to come and i don't want you to think about how horrible your situation is i don't want you to think about how impossible your situation is but i want you to come to this front with your hands lifted with faith and expectation in your spirit and say god resurrect miracles god resurrect miracles in my life come on lift up your voice and begin to pray right now