Living in Light or Darkness | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

1st Peter 5 and verse number 8 first Peter 5 and verse 8 attempts somebody on the shoulder in front of you say hey there's going to be a miracle folks MOT God did something to me this morning God did something to me this morning be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour will preach save yourself tonight there's going to be a miracle said again you said to yourself going to be a miracle living in light or darkness praise God you maybe see be sober be vigilant your adversary your opponent your enemy the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour do you know that in the natural rim that a lion in the natural a lion will not attack you because he hates you that lion will attack you and try to kill you because he's just doing what's natural said natural it's not that he hates you she's the lion he's just doing what's natural the devil is just simply doing what's natural he wants to devour you that's just his natural that's just that's just the way that he is he's just a natural you can never live on neutral ground you never can live in between light and dark there's no such place as in between light and dark you're either living in life are you living in darkness and I want you to know now your opponent he's a steel fist in a velvet glove he has no peace for you he has no happy contentment for your life he just wants to do what's natural and kill you he's just doing what's natural John 10:10 the thief come up not but for to kill and a steal and to destroy to steal and kill and to destroy I have come that you might have life that you might have it more abundantly you know why the thief coming he cometh to take what's not his what a thief does right our fleet just takes what doesn't belong to him he wouldn't be a thief if it belonged to him he wouldn't be stealing but a thief by Nature I know this is his this sermon tonight this message is as deep as a parking-lot puddle but I want you to grab into it the devil's just doing what's natural it's not if I get out of church I may get in trouble you will get in trouble it's not bad things might happen to me they will happen to you because that's his nature because he always wants what does it belong to him we don't belong to the devil we are God's property and he's not going to have what doesn't belong to him my praise is to God my life is to God second Corinthians chapter 2 and verse number 10 second Corinthians two and ten to whom you forgave you forgive anything I forgive also for if I forgave anything to whom I forgave it for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ look at verse 11 lest Satan should get an advantage on us no I'm gonna stop right there I don't want the lion nor the thief to have the upper hand man I want you to know it's hard enough fighting I sure don't need to leave the door in Lock can I get a witness man I sure don't need to add to I don't need to hate him in any way because that line is going about seeking whom he may devour that verse leads me to believe there's some he would like to devour but he knows he can't devour that's the way I want to be when old Satan comes around and wanted if I were somebody he gonna go by the prayer room he gonna say can't get nobody in there he gonna come by the altar and see some hands lift it up and he gonna say can't get nobody in there he gonna see people shouting and singing the songs of Zion and say can't get nobody in there you know what he's looking for he looking for somebody ain't praising somebody not praying somebody not involved and he starts licking his lips oh he just he just lickin he just he just he just he he just licking his lips man I'm gonna tell you you ever been hit you ever been out either fishing fishing and somebody has caught some fish early in the morning and they start four I'm just no good or how about when then backyard grills get to go on in the summertime man my kids my kids bought me for my birthday one of them green eggs man I'm gonna tell you something that's a grill if you don't know make you slap your mama I know I don't mean I'm gonna make you I mean oh lord have mercy I'm telling y'all about row down the window I get off the plane at the airport and I bet roll down the window can I tell you something the old devil he gets to smelling them folks that used to come to church all the time then folks that used to not miss a service then folks is was that church every time the doors open but hey you know they got him some jobs now and we're in the 21st century now and there's more than just me you know and and other people are you know other people are getting all they need on one service and there's a lot of this shutdown mode business and convenience and get you get you in and out we're not going to special orders they're not going to listen we're not going to keep you very long and it's going to be nice and comfortable in here and we're going to have a nice little positive message to talk to you and we're not gonna we gonna oh oh oh we now going to have church on Sunday night cuz that's family time can I tell you they know better family time than what we've been doing here tonight oh he just he just lips his chops he just loves them people that too sick to go to church on Sunday they can show up to work on Monday I guess the healing angel comes through town on much Sunday night heals all then people cause you see them going to work the next day can I tell you something tonight you're going to be an easy prey for the adversary he said oh I see I see I'm not saying you're not sick but if you're too sick to go to church be too sick to go to work oh my god preacher I got to make a living you don't understand I got to make a living what you don't understand you've got to be saved more than you got to make a living oh he just loves oh I tell you something are you ready for this he always smells it he says to one of his demons rouille oh he's at Louie oh you know it's Thanksgiving week down there carpenters place and you know about you them are going to youth conference but you know he'll tell them they need to be a church on Wednesday night but Louie oh you know there'll be a lot of them they'll come to church on the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving they claim to be faithful to the Lord but they're really in love with Brooke carpenter they're really in love with him and if he ain't there they ain't gonna be there can I tell you he already smells you he already smells you but he doesn't walk by sister Colleen woods house because she gonna come on Wednesday night whether it's Thanksgiving Christmas real carpenters there he don't matter she gonna go to the house of God he'll be able said I can't mess with that right there but all Brioni already all right you see don't ever think that we're gonna get fanatical I saw shoes flying around here tonight it's a real car you better watch this is gonna get out of order it's gonna get this go get wild we don't get some wildfire in our church ain't no wildfire that this kind of preaching they'll take care of it you want to be somebody that the devil says hmm I can get her you might get him I can get them because they don't that Bennett they done went that and changing things and and they too sick to go to church on Sunday but they sure can get up and go to work on Monday I'll not be Church just ought not be you ought to be in love with God so much y'all you go to listen y'all y'all come to church sick I have can got here yeah now I know sometimes people got people got you know we can't come we think we can't come to church because they got something that's contagious well don't go to Walmart either because you don't get the in folks here see how deceitful our hearts can be I don't want to come to church because I'm contagious but I can go out and go shopping you may be seated when did I tell you this morning the spirit moves the word is spoken in creation right moving of the Spirit God speaks and creation comes I was coming home I have never I have never felt this brother him and all my life I was coming home from Sevierville today and the Spirit of the Lord says the same way that I work Satan works the same way that I work Satan works God says I move with my spirit I speak with my word and I create what I've spoken my word and he says the devil works the same way says the devil brings a spirit there's always a spirit before a temptation you will never hear a voice in your head until a spirit moves in that's why it's so important to keep the right spirit don't ever get a bad spirit we call it a bad attitude all we want to but it's a bad spirit don't ever get a bad spirit because of the bad spirit Satan's got a messenger that's going to come to you with the word just like God moves in with his spirit speaks his word creates good things Satan moves in with his spirit speaks bad words and creates bad things I don't want to listen to Satan because Satan moved in on Eve with a spirit and then he spoke the word and there was yeah keep a good spirit don't get a bad spirit young folks don't get a bad spirit toward your parents they tell you to be an 11 o'clock tonight you be in at 11 o'clock tonight they asked you to do certain things don't only do it with obedience don't only do the ACMA do it spiritually do it with submission pay respect to them honor them because they love you they love you more than you the only time you know when you're gonna realize how much you look you know when you're gonna realize how much your parents love you is when you have kids yourself and you're gonna realize exactly how much your parents love you honor them and respect them don't get a bad spirit or my brother told me my brother told me where he went wrong and he said you know a lot of people think I went wrong when I started dabbling with marijuana and I got into drugs and I started you know he said you know where I went wrong he said I went wrong when the man of God when the man of God told us not to go to governor skating rink now we can leave back at that and think oh that mean man of God oh that mean can you think how archaic is that how our cake is that that that I pastor would get up and tell us a place we couldn't go you know what we got some old wood here tonight and blow your mind with some of the stuff there pastors told them and you know what they wouldn't even live in our generation our generation wants to know why they came up in a generation if you that's why that was a sign of rebellion and you better be outside of arm's reach if you ask mom or dad why you know Jerry said but makuu said that skating rink unless we rent the whole thing out don't go there Jerry went there Jerry went there because it was a so-called Christian night Christian night it must be all right no it's not all right man of God said don't go there but he went there and you know what I believe he picked up on a spirit then he began to date a girl that wasn't in the church doesn't that right he had never violated God's Word until he got in an atmosphere and a spirit got on him you need to be careful getting spirits on you well say how do you know that I'm in the right place it feels good is it in line with the word because I don't care how it feels I don't care how sincere they say they are and how many crocodile tears they can pray if it's not in line with the Word of God run from it because the only way something good is going to come out is God's Spirit God's Word and creation but I get it a place of a wrong spirit and I cannot discern it feels good it's kind of like what I've been used to they don't say all the things that we say get out of it there is the wrong spirit there and it's going to be the wrong word there get out he said I didn't go wrong when I started smoking marijuana I didn't go wrong when I start taking pills he said Kenny you tell every young person you can I went wrong when I got a bad spirit toward brother makuu he said I got such a bad spirit toward him I couldn't stand to see him come in the room I couldn't look up at him when he was preaching because I got such a foul spirit with him and he said dad Kenny is where I started going wrong folks tonight keep a good spirit because Satan works the same way God's work spirit word and work saw committed suicide fell on his own sword you know when it started it started when he believed in his heart something that was not true they sang about David and Saul got jealous and said what more could he want but the kingdom that boy didn't want the kingdom so whatever Saul was believing in his mind was a lie he listened to the wrong spirit Coe bade the wrong word died he and his sons on the same day died thief cometh not but to steal kill and to destroy the devil is a rollin roaring lion seeking whom he may devour I told you as a miracle gonna happen tonight did I not tell you as a miracle miracle is I preached fifteen minutes and I'm done standing go home god bless you in Jesus name