God's House - Where Dreams Come True, Part I | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

i want to say as you're looking for the scripture genesis 28 and verse number 10 is where we begin reading this morning i want to thank the trendsetters of first apostolic church every year with pastor appreciation month they always um go above and beyond putting an article or picture in the paper of first apostolic church and once again the first apostolic church trendsetters again in 2021 want to recognize our pastor kenneth carpenter and first lady penny carpenter on the completion of 37 years of ministry dedicated ministry to our growing congregation the year of 2021 has thrown many unnecessary challenges continued challenges to our church school and daycare we want to recognize our entire ministerial staff for great leadership in meeting the many and varied challenges thrust upon us all in these trying times all are welcome at fac maryville welcome home thank you trendsetters would you give our precious trendsetters a hand thank you so much and i say this every year i probably say this every year and if i don't i need to see it every year but i really truly mean it every month is pastor appreciation month here at first apostolic church because right here and right now is the greatest gift that you could give to a pastor is to serve the lord it's the greatest gift you could give to a pastor is to serve god it's better than a car with a bow on top of it it's better than a this church i think we stopped counting at three uh during um special occasions this church is has said pastor we want you and first lady to take a trip to hawaii and i think i had three trips saved up right now i'm trying to hold out to get the whole family over there all right but uh it's it they're so kind here but right here your bible in your hand brother burkitt is the greatest gift that a pastor could ever be given and i i do thank you today i thank all of our guests that are here if you're a first time guest with us today either local or out of town thank you so much for coming to first apostolic church if you're watching and worshiping online with us today we welcome our online congregation we hope you feel the wonderful presence of god before i read one verse of scripture i want to tell you this simple phrase god has your answer this morning god has your answer this morning turn with me to genesis chapter 28 verse 10 and i'm going to read one verse of scripture and pray and then let you be seated and continue to pray and jacob went from both sheba and went toward haran pray with me right now father anoint your servant today that i will be able lord to break the bread of life and give the word of god lord you have the answer you are the answer and you have the answer god help us to recognize help us god to look at something that has literally been at our fingertips lord help us to see where our answer lies i ask you today god to touch me and anoint me and anoint our ears may we receive your word lord your word today may we receive in the name of jesus i do pray amen amen you may be seated let's continue to read in verse number 11 he lighted up on a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and laid down in that place to sleep and he dreamed and behold a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of god ascending and descending on it and behold the lord stood above it and said i am the lord god of abraham thy father and the god of isaac the land whereon thou liest to thee will i give it unto thy seed and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed and behold i am with thee and will keep thee in all the places where thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for i will not leave thee until i have done that which i have spoken to the uh and jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said surely the lord is in this place and i knew it not and he was afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god and this is the gate of heaven and jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone and took the stone that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it and he called the name of that place bethel but the name of that city was called luz at the first jacob vowed a vow saying if god will be with me and will keep me in this way that i go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on so that i come again to my father's house in peace then shall the lord be my god and this stone which i have set for a pillar shall be god's house and of all that thou shalt give me i will surely give the tenth unto thee can we say amen to the reading of god's word today for a few moments i feel very strong on this subject i want to minister to you today on god's house where your dreams come true god's house where your dreams come true let's get into the story now let's slip into this story with jacob and his brother esau his father isaac and his mother rebecca the family was at great turmoil for there was a division rebecca the mother favored jacob the father isaac favored esau when it came time to get the family blessing and the the blessing rebecca moved and gave jacob the orders of how to be deceptive and how to get the birthright and the blessings by way of deception after esau wakes up and figures out that his brother has deceived him once again then anger which birthed the thoughts of murder entered the heart of esau isaac was soon to die he had gathered up his feet in his bed and it was at any time that the nurse would tell us that isaac was dead esau had a little heart about him he was going to kill his brother jacob but he had a he had an ounce of compassion he said i'll wait till after my father has passed and after father passes i will certainly take the life of jacob it was then that the mother rebecca heard the story rebecca heard that esau was plotting for murder she comes and whispers in the ear of jacob that he has to leave and travel several hundred miles to her family and there among her brother laban she can find he can find rest and he can find safety your brother is going to kill you if you stay here there will be murder in our family tension was so thick in that family that you could cut it with a knife it would be jacob that would take out on a several hundred mile journey to find safety probably jacob looked over his shoulder every few moments to make sure that esau was not in hot pursuit but he ran as far as he could that first day that first day he put as many miles as he could between him and esau he walked until it became dark and when darkness fell he had enough light to see to take the stones of that place that troubled man that fearful man had enough light to take the stones of that place and arrange them to where he would have elevation to put a few of his clothes on and make a little bit of a comfort and there in the night jacob probably from exhaustion fell asleep but you see god has always had a better plan than our family plan god has got a plan for us today god has got a plan i heard a minister yesterday at a singles conference and he said something very simple but it's yet it's profound he said he was praying the other day and he said the lord asked him said shelton what did i have before i had a boat an ark brother shelton said i i i i don't know god what did you have and he said i had a man named noah he said good that's good god before you had an ark you had a man and then he said the lord spoke and said shelton what did i have before i had noah he said god i i don't know what did you have god he said i had a plan i had a plan before i had a man and i had a man before i had a boat and he said shelton and this really stuck with me he said shelton do you know why i chose noah he said why god he said i didn't choose noah for what he could do i chose him for what he would do there's a lot of difference between what you can do and what you will do god has a plan today and that plan has a dream attached to it but that plan and that dream has got and is without fail connected to the house of god he began to sleep and the first thing he noticed as he began to dream this god-given dream now i'm not talking about a dream that you had a pepsi and a pizza before you went to bed all right i'm talking about a real god-given dream you know you can really tell god-given dreams you can interpret them but i've had some folks come and give me dreams and i just have to say brother we don't have to pray about this all right we got to pray about this so this was a god-given dream this is no pizza dream this was a god-given dream he began to dream and there was a ladder set up and he noticed that the foot of the ladder was set it was fixed it was fast it fastened to the earth it was fastened to the earth and as he looked upward he begins by telling how it was fastened to the earth as he looks upward he notices that the top of the ladder rests on something that he calls heaven and as he looked at the ladder he looked at this ladder he noticed that the angels of god almighty were ascending on this letter going up from the earth and coming down from heaven but then what captive all what capped it all off was god was at the top of the ladder and god said jacob i am the god of your grandfather i am the god of your father and jacob i'm here to make you a promise i'm here to make you a promise we live in a time of great frustration satan has attacked the family as never before rebecca and isaac and esau and jacob are not alone the hatred the stripe the division that was in that family still prevails today but i want to tell somebody that wants to walk out of fear and you want to walk out of being dysfunctional i want to tell you that in god's house is a place where dreams come true it's a place where your dreams will come true god is awesome god is almighty if i could just convince everyone to totally sell out to god he will allow things to come to your life that you cannot even imagine he is and pardon me today he is a mind mind-blowing god it's a place where your dreams he said jacob i know that you only have your clothes in a bag over your shoulder but the ground that you lie on is your ground and jacob i know right now i know right now that it's just you but jacob your descendants are going to be as numerous as the dust of the earth and then he begin to tell jacob i'm going to be with you i will never leave you i have made you a promise and there's one thing god can't do god cannot lie i have made you a promise and i will stick with you until this promise has been fulfilled well you know with every dream there must be our response can i tell you today that god is not sonic you don't pull up and place your order and he brings it out you're going to if god promises you bread he's probably going to put a plow in your hand if god promises you land he's going to give you the ability to get the land but god's not like a drive-through restaurant he's not like a fast food restaurant where you come up and see the food and drive on by and get it if god promises you bread then you put a plow in your hand because he's going to have you work for it so i don't want to leave you today and make you think that all you've got to do is nothing for your dream to come true this is a place where dreams come true but it is also a place where you and i respond to what god has promised us there's got to be a response to what god has promised us so he wakes up he wakes up from this dream and verse 16 verse 16 of chapter 28 of genesis he wakes up from the dream and jacob awake out of his sleep he's not in a dream anymore he is fully awake just like we are today or maybe most of us all right he is he's fully awake he awakes out of his sleep and he said surely the lord is in this place and i knew it not isn't it amazing those of you that have stayed in the house of god long enough for your dreams to come true you look back on the first time you walked into the doors and now you're living in your dream and you think i i listen when so-and-so invited me to church and i came that first time and i really didn't know why i was even here i even questioned myself when i pulled on the parking lot why maybe even here a lot of people are like that the lord is in this place and they don't know it they just think it's a place of rest they just think the sun went down it's just an ordinary place can i tell you the house of god is not just an ordinary place you're not here this morning because somebody invited you here you're here today by divine appointment the lord is in this place he awakes and he says surely the lord is in this place and i knew it not look at verse 18 17 and he was afraid he was afraid now don't don't don't don't that's not afraid like god's going to hurt me it's not afraid like he's going to hurt me because why would a god that made you promises that i'm going to be with you hurt you god is not in the hurting business he's in the helping business he's in the helping business he's not in the hurting business he's in the helping business so now jacob is not afraid like god's going to hit me with a lightning bolt he's more like reverencing the place he reverences wait a minute i came in here and moved things around wait a minute this is god's house now we live in a generation that tells us that god is everywhere and god is everywhere but god in his word has designed that we would create a special meeting place for our spiritual community it's called the church building this place is the community our women spiritual community our spiritual community meets here it's ordained of god god has directed it why two times twice twice god just has to say it once you know but when god says something twice it's for emphasis leviticus 19 and 30 listen to god you shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary i am the lord he said i want you to give reverence to the community i want you to give reverence to the spiritual community we are a spiritual community i want you to reverence the place that that spiritual community meets again in verse chapter 26 verse number two once again god says you shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary i am the lord he says it again in other words when you build me a house when you have a tabernacle for me to dwell in i want that tabernacle to have reverence this is not an ordinary place this is not uh this is not some kind of place where a crowd meets it is not a theme park we are not a baseball field park we are not some kind of place where people go this is not dollywood here today this is a special place oh this is the place where your dreams can come true jacob was afraid jacob was afraid he reverenced he stopped he paused and then he said how dreadful is this place this is this this is chapter 28 verse 17. he was afraid and said how dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of god and this is the gate of heaven what is the house of god the gate of heaven the gate of heaven the house of god has the gate of heaven he said this is none other but the house the house of god this is the gate of heaven but now wait a minute that word dreadful doesn't seem like he's happy about it no you've got to understand what dreadful meant back then is not what dreadful means now what dreadful meant back then we could we could we could switch the words out and do no harm awesome awesome how awesome is this place how unbelievable is this place how unbelievable how awesome is this place he began to talk about how awesome it was how beautiful it is this is none other but the house of god church the house of god is awesome the house of god is beautiful listen what happens here what happens here walt disney world cannot hold a candle to what happens in this house the seven wonders of the world i don't know you've been to paris you've been to france you've been around the world good for you but it cannot compare to what happens in the house of god how awesome he said i want you to reverence it i want you to respect it this connected because we got to have a response dreams don't come true without response dreams don't come true without response there's got to be a response for the dreams to come true when god gave joseph when god gave pharaoh the dreams the dreams had something to do with work and farming and time and seasons so you got to understand if you want your dreams to come true you can't get in a hurry but why would you want to get in a hurry when you have found what your soul is longing for why would you be in a hurry to leave here this morning why would the house of god ever become a place that we wouldn't want to come to when we really understand i'm telling you today if at the end of this service we baptize somebody and over that microphone you hear the words i now indeed baptize you in the name of the father and of the son and holy ghost you got a lot of mad people in this place you got a lot of angry people in this place now i've just set you up because the same god that puts emphasis on his name put puts emphasis on his house you know now let me say this now i don't preach that long y'all clap quite a bit let me just say this all right we are now living and we're dealing with the culture we're dealing with a culture that for years has marinated saturated the believer with this simple phrase jesus christ is your personal savior well now wait a minute if he's my personal savior we now have vast millions of so-called believers that do not attend or are attached to a church can i inform everybody that the church is a spiritual body of members not member but remembers plural we are a spiritual body and there's nothing more exciting than to find a church that is christ-centered scripture centered the only star here is jesus the emphasis here is jesus the compass of our church is the scripture we are his body and all the house of god is a place where our dreams come true jacob got up jacob got up from there and he rearranged the pillows and he stacked them up for a pillar and he poured oil out on it now that may just that that just pouring oil you just may pass over that but oil was currency in that day oil was worth money that day he took the rocks he stacked them up he poured oil over it and then he said this he said this place has been known as luz luz lust simply just means light light or information he said this place has been known as love's light he said but i changed the name of it today i changed the name of this place to bethel which means god's house he said this is god's house my prayer starting today and praying until we break the cultural spirit is that we will have a new revival of the value of the house of god a revival of the house of god it's not just the church it's the church it's just not a church it's the church it's a building that we ought to long to get into it it's a building that we ought to count the days down today's monday i can't wait till wednesday i get to go back to the church oh today's friday oh i'm not happy because it's the end of the work week i'm happy because sunday's coming and i get to go to the church the church the church the culture has been telling us that we can have a relationship you cannot love jesus and not love the church you cannot love jesus and not love the church can i inform you that the church is his body and we don't have any hands let me tell you something if i step outside today and a leg that's not connected to a hip goes walking by i'm stepping back in the building i step out here today and a hand just goes kind of flopping down the sidewalk i'm saying something weird is going on outside but if i step outside today and a body walks by a person walks by i think nothing about it you trying to live for god without being connected to the body is as weird as a leg walking down the sidewalk that's not connected to a hip i'm going to preach it until we break the back of the cultural demon that tells us we don't need church we do need church we do need church jacob poured oil out on it he said this is the house of god and the tenth of everything that i make i'll bring it to the house of god this not only stayed true with jacob this love for the house of god flavored the israelites of which the church the church is the fulfillment of the nation of israel the church is that fulfillment but they loved if you got among if you got among a dedicated jehovah worshiper in the old testament there was a place they loved there was a place they talked about and that was the tabernacle you couldn't get among you could not if you lived thousands of years ago four thousand years ago and you walked with e you walked with israel with the israelites and you got with the jehovah lover they talked about the house of god they talked about the house of god with sweetness as a matter of fact turn with me this morning to psalms 1984 and verse number one somebody say praise the lord clap your hands if you love the church this morning come on clap your hands if you love the church this morning psalms 84 verse 1 some of your bibles may not have this in it may not have it in it some do but it starts out by saying to the chief musician upon gideth a psalm of for the sons of korah now that right there alone says a whole lot because this was a special song for special musicians this was the sons of korah what's so special about the sons of korah well what's so special of them is that they were part of a genealogy that came against the leadership of the church or they came against the leadership of moses they came and told moses there was nothing special about him they came and told moses we're all on the same level as you moses all god's people are the same and god because of rebellion god opened up the earth and swallowed the rebellion but their descendants of korah lived on somebody told the tale of what happened and that horrible tale of judgment led a generation of korahites to be some praising and worshiping people do you know today what ought to spur us on to worship god is his mercy and his judgment what ought to spur us on to live for god is how merciful god is but i have seen judgment fall on people and if you've ever seen the judgment of god fall on somebody and the favor of god come off of them you know one thing i never want to be anything like that i want to stay as far away from rebellion i want to stay as far away from that because there is something special about spiritual leadership there is something special what's special about spiritual leadership is spiritual leadership emphasizes scripture spiritual leadership emphasizes scripture not think your way to a better life not think your way and be positive the spiritual leadership is not a life coach but he is a preacher of the scriptures of the almighty god bring me the scriptures god i'm gonna preach this till i break the back of our culture let me tell some of you that don't have time to come to the house of god let me tell some of you mothers with one or two kids that you decide god blesses you i never have understood this how god will bless people with things and then they get uninvolved at church bless them with jobs they start missing church bless them with babies they get out of the choir i just don't i don't understand that that's not i'm sorry i don't understand my daughter my oldest daughter pardoned me for the personal reference but my our our oldest daughter was born on a saturday right yeah this morning on saturday a little church on mcginley street and i walked in on that sunday morning to be met by somebody that said what are you doing here what are you doing here you ought to be at the hospital with your wife why do i need to be there it's what we pay big money to keep nurses and doctors and then i just came out of my mouth probably didn't come out the right way but it came out i said sister so-and-so dare our god bless us with a healthy child and then i turn thanks by not coming to church this is not just a meeting place this is not just another place this is oh it's quiet in here this is a place where your dreams come true how admirable psalms 84 1 how admirable are thy tabernacles o lord of hosts don't tell me you're going to dance like david if you don't love god's house like david how hammerable are that tabernacles o lord of hosts my soul longeth yea even fainteth for the courts of the lord my heart and my flesh crack out for the living god yea the sparrow hath found a house in the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young even thine altars o lord of hosts my king and my god blessed are they that dwell not visit that dwell not visit that dwell not visit blessed are they that dwell in thy house they will still be praising thee sealah david walked around god's house and he saw a nest he saw a sparrow and a nest and he saw a little bird sticking their heads up and mamas were feeding them he saw birds that had built nests and he said oh how how wonderful it is that they brought their young here can i tell you if you want children to serve god you must bring them to the house of god can i give you an indicator that you're not doing right if your children had to ask you this morning are we going to church if they have to ask you if they have to ask you this afternoon dad we going back tonight you got an issue if they have to ask you are we going midweek service you got an issue listen if they ask you you've got to work on that it's got to be in that child's mind that they just know sunday we're going to the house of god i may be a part of little league but if you have little league on sunday i won't be playing i might be part of a beauty pageant but if you have it on sunday i won't be there i might be part of football or whatever but if you have it midweek 7 30 i'm sorry i'm not why because i got to bring my children up in the house of god the house of god where your dreams come true the sweetness of god's house listen to him in psalms chapter 84 verse 10 for a day in thy court this is listen this scripture right here is for folks that wear their arm out looking at their watch during church i had a neighboring pastor tell me he said anymore i'm fearful to have folks bow their head and close their eyes because folks find that a good exit out the door that's terrible that's terrible that we've allowed our culture we have allowed our culture to devalue the house of god because after all you can have your personal relationship with jesus christ you know why we have cliques in the church can i tell you why we have clicks we have cliques in the church they're like hypocrites if they weren't in the church they wouldn't be hypocrites all right if you want if you were not in the church click you'd be a club you know why clicks get together because they're all the same they're all the same you know why they like running in a clip click because they affirm each other you know why they don't want to be a part of the body because the body challenges you see there'll be some meetings and some clicks this week and they'll say now we know brother cartman said this but you know what my doctor said can you meet me at starbucks did you see that cell at target i know he talked about that but you know what our doctor said for us to do like you obey everything some folks only obey the church part of their doctor doctor been telling them to lose weight for a long time ain't done nothing about it but a doctor will tell you it'd be good for you not to get in the crowd next thing you know come on y'all know i'm just preaching this morning right i'm not your life coach this morning i'm not your life coach you said when you you kind of preach like you don't care folks like you or not i got over that a long time ago i'm not here for you to like me i'm not here for you to be in love with the leader i'm here for you to be in love with the lord that's that's my chief objective today i want you to get a relationship with the lord clicks like hanging together because they affirm each other oh your flaw's not that bad no your flaw my flaw your flaw we got the same flaw together we be sisters we got the same flaw girlfriend we be sisters we got the same flaw together but don't you be running with somebody over on that other side bring me every new convert in this church because they inspire me they inspire me to be a worshiper bring me young men and young women in this church on sunday mornings and sunday nights and wednesday nights that's trying to break hey don't you realize that god began to god began to prepare this church brother james and sister ashley god began to prepare this church sometime before you got here because god gave us a message be open with the broken be open people people ought to be be able to come to the house of god with real struggles we got real flaws yes you do i do we all do we got real flaws and the only hope we have is the scripture well you ought to just you ought to just express your heart oh let what's inside girlfriend come out let's what's on the inside come out i need redeemed for what's on the inside i don't need to express what's on the inside preach to me the scripture preach to me the scripture put me in the presence of god choir would you sing singers would you sing tell me about his mercy tell me about his grace preacher would you preach tell me about having a love for the house of god preach express yourself no not express yourself redeem yourself because your heart's sick your heart is sick we've got flaws hear me hear me hear me and the only thing that's going to help us is the church for a day in that courts is better than a thousand i'd rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my god than to dwell in the tents of wickedness for the lord god is a son and a shield of the lord will give grace and glory no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly o lord of hosts blessed is the man that trusteth in thee can i just tell you this morning that if you will get fall back in love with god's house and what goes on here at this house let it listen everything redundancy redundancy is for a reason we don't have any new rabbits to pull out of a hat it is the same old same old but it'll get the job done it's jesus in our prayer you ever thought about prayer prayer is us telling god we need him you ever thought about prayerlessness prayerlessness is you telling god you don't need him but pray every service that's why i want somebody to pray of a service if i'm out of town some of my last comments are make sure you have prayer before service because it's going to be prayer that'll change our life it's going to be spiritual things that'll bring about a transformation jacob didn't get changed to israel overnight it took time you won't be changed overnight but god can help you come sing with us it's the same song come hear me preach it's the same message come hear us preach it's the same thing god's house where our dreams come true 10 and 21 having an high priest over the house of god who's that high priest jesus christ having a high priest over the house of god that's hebrews chapter 10 verse 21 please having a high priest over the house of god remember what i told you when jacob saw the ladder saw the angels heard the voice of god it was time for him to respond because just because god says it doesn't mean you have it you have to respond to it you have to respond to it we have a high priest over the house of god look at verse 22 say the first two words in verse 22 say it out loud wait a minute this just stabs in the heart this personal jesus business see if i have a personal relationship with him that means i don't have to gather with you lesser vans if i have my own thing me and jesus got her own thing you know jesus let me tell you you and jesus do not have your own thing going you and your clique might have your own thing going but you and jesus don't have it all going because jesus runs with the church say those two words again please you better be to us here's our response let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water verse 23 let's say the first two words please let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for he is faithful that promised first three words verse 24. sounds like this is an us business here doesn't it and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works so when i'm looking around today i'd like to provoke you i'd like to provoke you to love i would like to provoke you if you don't know that god loves lifted hands i hope i provoke you to do that if you don't know that god loves hand clapping i'd like to provoke you to do that if you don't know that god loves tithing offerings i'd like to provoke you to do that some of you are looking at me like a mule eating briers through a picky fence this morning i'm here to tell you that the job of the church is to make one another better let's look around how can i make you better i don't want to run you off i don't want to run you off are you discouraged i want to encourage you have you got some issues i want to pray with you today oh i wish you'd help me i wish somebody just helped me preach i wish somebody shout let us let us consider one another to provoke and to love and good works well how can i provoke you to love and good works not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is some is man i want to be a part of the us not the psalmist i want to be a part of the let us not a part of the psalmist right am i making sense today i'm going to tell you the sum is is not being led by the holy ghost the sum is is not being led by the spirit of god the sum is at the same old clique they were 20 years ago they're the same old click today because they're the same as but let us run with the letters somebody's going to show me a better way somebody's going to show me how to act when all hell breaks loose in your life somebody's going to show me how to shout somebody's going to show me how to dance somebody's going to show me how to worship god hallelujah hallelujah let us not forsaking the assemblies of ourselves together as the manner of some is some is but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching now tonight i'm going to read a letter i'm going to read a letter tonight that's the agenda for the u.n for the next 10 years or so and man everybody's going to be on the edge of their seat but can i tell you there is something that's already happening and that is fragmenting from the church i understand covet and i'll be thankful to god when we can go through one service without mentioning that word but the truth of the matter is my heart hurts today because there's still people not back they can go to every place in this town but not here no i know chuck's i might as well go for it all kind of crazy things happening alabama got beat last night i might as well go for it all right is it a restaurant the other night and walked a family that hasn't been to church before the pandemic my wife said you can go speak to him i said no i'm not i waved at them no i know i know i i see the captions over your head i can't believe i imagine i mean you know i'm trying to send them a signal get back to church you're watching this morning and you can go every place in this town cracker barrel malls waffle house walmart home depot lowe's you can go every place in this town but here get back to church we need you we need you and don't satisfy yourself by saying i mail my tithe in god wants more than your time he wants you here in the church get back to church i'm talking to you i'm told you get that popcorn off your lap get on your feet get down to the church come on get back to the church say man yeah you lower the volume if you want to get back to church you know why they need to get back we need them we need them and i want to say it again don't comfort yourself by saying i mail my tithe in i'm glad you do that but i would rather have you bring on your tithe to church because you're actually sending a guilt offering it's not first fruits it's a guilt offering you know what i'm saying is the truth you know i'm saying the truth today get back to church tonight six o'clock get back to church and so much the more as you see the day approaching jesus is coming jesus is coming jesus is coming jesus is coming get back to church we need you i know you may not understand this we need you here our heart hurts you're our brother you're our sister we're not playing church membership for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body and have all been made to drink from one falcon you're my brother come home i want to see you again here i want to see your dance i want to see your shout i want to hear you say man we need you and i know you've been gone long enough you may not understand this but you need us you see it's easy to have a tele evangelist oh that's a perfect church you ever noticed all these big tv evangels the only problem i got with tv evangelist tv evangelists are like tv dinners they come frozen when thought out they still ain't no good all right all the pretty people go there that's right they staged it that way they don't have a real church here at this church these cameras they get kids picking their noses they get all kind of things all right you know why because we're not here to video pretty people we understand we're a place full of faults it's a lot easier to sit and watch a program because i don't have to have the awkwardness of shaking a hand we have learned to function and communicate behind the screen you may can shop doordash you make an amazon at in baby but there's something you can't get from behind the screen and that's the house of god turn to your neighbor and say pastor's preaching turn to your other neighbor and say that's why i come here as you see the day approaching now listen to this statement the church the people of god is second only to the bible the word of god as a source of reliable and transformative wisdom yeah that's what i thought you the church is second to the word of god that's right you know how that is when the word of god changes your life you are an epistle known and read of all men uriah you have had a jesus christ life-changing experience since you've been coming to first apostolic church how long you've been coming son it seems like you've been here forever how long have you been coming six months i remember the night you received the holy ghost you remember that when the holy ghost hit you son you lit up you lit up like a light it was joy that come across you i remember the troubledness that was in your eyes when you came to this church i remember the trouble you had a troubled look about you but you listen to the word the only thing that can change you not a pep talk not a motivational speech not a club to where everybody can get together but an old-fashioned gospel preaching message and it changed your life and uriah right now you are being a witness to a world the second thing to this world first is the word of god it's the only thing that'll change you the word of god is the only thing gonna change you the word of god is the only thing that'll change nothing will change you nothing will change you you're an alcoholic you go to a.a here's what they're gonna tell you they're gonna tell you that if you'll follow their steps that you can get free from being an alcoholic but they will end it by saying but you will always be an alcoholic there's something different about the church in a.a is when god rebirths you he can take the desire for alcohol drugs you say man i shake when i don't get my fix i i i i i start getting in trouble and i i just want to have me a little shot of liquor to knock the edge off of it i tell you this is the place where your dreams come true if you'll stay in the church stay in the church you're not the first person god is delivered from drugs there's men here today that came here drug addicts years later they got businesses in town they are respectable businessmen that own companies but their dreams came true in the church oh god help us to love the church stand with me the church the church church hear this now there is a difference between anointing and emotions there is a difference between what touches your heart and what touches your head and i want you to know the church is a place that you get your values i said the church is a place you get your values oh the movie star oh the movie star the other day thought he was so wise he attends a bible believing church and when this movie star word came out that this movie star attended a church that preached against the lg sexually perverted community that's right they keep adding alphabet listen no no they're sexually perverted well you're not very loving oh yes i am oh yes i am very loving the one that's not loving is a fellow that can smile and show all of his teeth and tell you that it's just not the best life god wants you to have that dude doesn't love you that dude just wants to be politically correct and i know i'm a little crude this morning you come back next sunday i'll put some honey on my tongue or something all right but you ought to get your values from the church your family values ought to come across this pulpit in a form of the word he was so slick when the sexually perverted community began to uh cancel him out and all that stuff oh that's that community that claims to be so loving that's right come on that's that's just right my wife and i got i'll try not to tell the airline or the flight because we fly with a certain airline we always just just buy the coach tickets you know you might end up on row 498 you know whatever but if you fly with them enough you fly with them enough we got upgraded to first class man that's that's george jefferson buddy i'm telling it's a big league you know yeah i'm moving on up that's it moving on and it was a sexually perverted steward that could be kind to everybody in first class but a man and a woman that walk in holding hands isn't it amazing the sexually perverted community can have all kind of displays of their affection toward each other but when a man and a woman do it and yeah i put my arm around her we're in first class this is the big league and i watched that man you know you're supposed to treat people different in first class we asked for the garbage we actually were running late took our lunch on the plane and we asked for our garbage to be picked up not once not twice but three times we watched come and serve everybody in first class but us so i don't really want to hear that the sexually perverted community has mercy they're not gonna love you until you do one of two things you either put your seal of approval on them or you become like them but as long as i got breath in my body it's still considered sexually perversely he thought he was real slick when he simply reach to compromise he says i want you to know i'm my own man and my church doesn't set my values now on the surface that sounds good doesn't it but it's not the scripture and what happens in this building ought to set your values you ought to get your values from this building well i guess what i got in my heart you better get that out because you have nothing but rottenness you have nothing but rebellion and sickness in your heart you better get all of that dumped out on an altar well i i don't really in the spirit in the spirit i don't really feel like an altar call this morning because i don't feel like this message was for the sinner as much as it is for the church could somebody tell me my title again say it again i mean he's got troubled children today say my title do you have a dream of that girl coming to church could we just i don't really want to have an altar call i just want us to stay right in our pew and have a course or two and just love god's house i hope you grip your pew a little tighter today god's house god's house go ahead and sing here in the father's town oh yes chronicles come home oh yeah is through the way anymore lay your burdens down is in the father's house love is on the moves miracles take place the father's in the house today amen he's in the house today the lord's in the house now