Parable of the Seed | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

do you love him this morning if you have your Bibles and would join me it now comes the time in the service where we turn our attention to the word of God without the word of God we have no Direction without the word of God we have no growth it is from the teaching and the preaching and proclaiming of the word of God that God will speak to us worship and praise is US speaking to God the preaching of the word is God speaking to us how many would admit today that you want you need God to speak to you I I need God to speak to me today how many's ready for just a good oldfashioned prob probably a slow paced Bible study how many just like to get up around the Bible today and hear what the Bible has to say Matthew Chapter 13 and verse number 31 ma Matthew chap 13 and 31 now I like this verse of scripture for a number of reasons but a reason that would be the second reason I like it or the third reason I like it it's Matthew 13:31 the address of this church is 1331 all right so I like the scripture another Parable put he forth unto them saying the kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed which W which a man took and sowed in his field which indeed is the least of all seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becometh a tree so that the bird birds of the air come and Lodge in the branches thereof simple title the parable the parable of the seed precious lamb of God today we have asked you for your presence to be here as we lavish praise and worship upon your worthy Name Lord we have asked you today to heal our sickness we have ask you today God to give us wisdom to navigate decisions we've asked you today God to strengthen and help us but Lord now this prayer is we ask you to speak to our hearts speak to our minds God help us to comprehend the kingdom today and God we'll give you the praise and the honor and the glory in jesus' name we all pray amen and amen you may be seated first let me tell you what a parable is you will hear this word throughout the New Testament the word a parable many times it will say in Jesus spoke a parable it will say like our text today another another Parable another Parable put he forth well let me tell you today what a parable is a parable is a placing beside a comparison a similitude an illustration of one subject by another in other words you take you take an object an Earthly object what a parable would be Jesus would take an Earthly object be it seed soil pearls what have you and he would teach a principle a spiritual a spiritual precept a spiritual principle about his kingdom about his kingdom now now that we have Parable down let's look at the word Kingdom look at the word Kingdom the word Kingdom appears 300 and6 times in the old and the New Testament 36 16 times in the Old Testament the word kingdom is used 1606 times in the New Testament the word kingdom is mentioned 150 times kind of balances it out 316 times the word kingdom is used 166 in the Old Testament and 550 in the New Testament it's kind of a a good balance a good balance there but an interesting thing is when you take the four gospels you take the four gospels which is the life the uh works the teaching the death the burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ the four gospels center around the Lord Jesus Christ the four gospels from ma Matthew Mark Luke and John the word kingdom is used 19 times now again the word kingdom is used 150 times in the entirety of the New Testament but in four short books the word kingdom is used 119 times leaving from the book of of Acts to the Book of Revelation only 31 times is the word Kingdom mentioned this word Kingdom by definition it means royal royal power royal power it means kingship it means Dominion it means rule it means the right or authority to rule rule over a kingdom so when we talk about the kingdom of God we're talking about Royal or God's authority over you and over myself we're talking about God's rule of authority and God's dominion over you and over I we'll say well we understand that but it doesn't stop when we comprehend the kingdom Roy Royal Authority and power Dominion when we understand that God rules over us but it doesn't stop then we're able to rule over the things that are around us we are creatures that in the very beginning God made man to have dominion over creation Man was created and God God did two things before God gave him Dominion before God gave adam Dominion the Bible simply says and God blessed Adam now that word there doesn't need to be lightly taking taken that word there means that God placed favor upon Adam that God surrounded Adam with favor and the blessings and the watchful care and the Jewel the Crown Jewel of all God's creation God blessed God blessed Adam when you look at a picture of Hebrew words that describe the word blessing the Hebrews the Hebrew alphabet in a picture form when it wanted to denote what it means to be blessed had a basket a basket and inside the basket was a house a home and so what God was saying and what God was doing when God said I bless you God was saying I place you in my basket I place you and your home inside of my basket I place you inside of my care I thank him today that God has blessed the church God has blessed the church you see man lost lost his Dominion privilege man lost that privilege he forfeited Adam and Eve forfeited their Dominion Spirit when they yielded to the serpent or they yielded to Satan they forfeited their right to be creatures of dominion and when they forfeited because there was only two words in the garden God's word and Satan's word God's word led to life Everlasting Satan's word led to death if man submitted himself to God's word he would have dominion he would have peace and joy and blessedness because he submitted because whoever you submit yourself to is the one that you serve and the one that serves you that's why there's no one like God there's no one like Jesus Christ and that's why we today when we understand the word we want to submit Our Lives to him because it is a kingdom principle because not only do we submit our lives and serve God but God turns back around and God serves us and can I get a witness in the house this morning that he's never done us nothing but good I've not always been all that I should be back to God but I want to tell you even when God was chastising me he was only doing it to make me a better person amen has God been good to you today aren't you glad you're a house is in a basket this morning I am you see the sole purpose the sole purpose that God became human flesh when God became human flesh was for the sole purpose of redeeming everybody say say redeeming redeeming redeeming buying back why we had forfeited our right and we became the Servants of sin we became the Servants of the adversary himself we served him and he served us but he didn't serve us with life Everlasting he served us with misery pain and Agony and eventually death so he came God came in human form for the sole purpose of redeeming but not just redeeming restoring mankind back to our original condition and our original position with God now when we understand no wonder Matthew Mark Luke and John of the 150 times that the word kingdom is used in the New Testament no wonder 119 of those times is talking about the kingdom of restoration and the kingdom of redeeming the kingdom of bringing man back from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of the Kingdom of Light now it was prophesied about when God would become a man it was prophesied his purpose in Isaiah 9 and verse 6 look at this with me very familiar passage for unto us a child is born unto us a son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name Shall be Called wonderful counselor the Mighty God the Everlasting father the prince of peace now watch this in verse 7 of the increase of his government and peace that there shall be no end I'm glad today to tell you that our God hasn't stopped redeeming and our God hasn't stopped restoring the increase of his government there shall be what no end to this upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with Justice from hence forth even forever the Zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this in in other words can I tell you something God is excited to love you God have you ever seen anybody enthusiastic you ever see that they got a spring in their step and I mean they're just enthusiastic I mean the glass is half full it's not half empty I mean they just see the good in everything I mean I I I mean they would uh uh uh uh they just see the good in everybody they see the good in everybody can I tell you that God sees good in all of us and he is very enthusiastic to serve you this morning he has got the Zeal to want to love you and to want to serve you he is not a god get this out of your mind he is not a God that you got to talk him into loving you you got talk him in to bless you as a matter of fact he wants to love you more than you want to be loved he wants to work for you more than you want him to work for you he's he's zous to work for you well no wonder Christ was born in Bethlehem lived 30 years was baptized and started his ministry but before his ministry started he had a forerunner which was his cousin on the fleshly side John the Baptist and John started his Ministry off in Matthew 3:11 or excuse me Matthew 3 and verse number one in those days Came John the Baptist here he comes preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying what you going to say John what you got to what you got to say John John says repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand you see how you see how quick God was to go to work John didn't come along John didn't come along telling a big long list of todos and not to do John come up and said I got to open my message and tell you that the kingdom the rule the Dominion of God is at hand what did that mean it meant it was close by you could just about Reach Out And Touch it it is at hand well John John was put in prison John was put in prison his voice was silenced John was the only voice at the time that was preaching repent for the kingdom the rule the authority of God is at hand John is put in prison his voice is silenced he Jesus is baptized and in between the baptism that John baptized him with Jesus went into the Wilderness and John went into prison Jesus goes 40 days to be tempted of the devil and John goes into prison but when Jesus comes out of the Wilderness and hears that John has been put in prison he speaks a few words about John talks about a great prophet that John was but immediately after he speaks about John Matthew 4 and 17 takes place from that time what time the death of John because John is the only voice that is saying that the king Kingdom the Dominion and the rule is close at hand and I'm here to tell you today I am here for one reason to preach to you and tell you that the rule and the authority of God's power is available to you you don't have to live in bondage any longer you don't have to live in misery any longer through the Lord Jesus Christ God has restored the kingdom of authority and Rule and peace and I don't know about you but I believe he deserves a hand of Praise right now thank you for your rule thank you for your Authority from that time John's voice is silenced from that time Jesus began to preach and to say repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand somebody's got a witness to this Jesus said somebody's got to preach that the kingdom is at hand Lord would you teach us how to pray sure Matthew 47 excuse me Matthew chapter 6 and verse 10 Lord Would You Preach us how would you teach us how to pray sure I will here's part of the prayer that you to pray thy kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven do you know that part of our prayer life should be praying God's God's kingdom God's Dominion God's rule God never made us to be the tail God made us to be the head God never made us to be beneath God made us to be above God never made us to be ruled by sin God made us to be Overcomers and more than conquerors through his blood that he shed so he said when you pray say thy kingdom come thy will be done on in Earth as it is in heaven he said don't even you're going to mention the kingdom more in prayer because when you end the kingdom praying in Matthew 613 you're going to say these words and lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil for thine here's this word again is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever amen you see how that Rose the kingdom comes what comes after that God's power comes what comes after that Glory what's the opposite of Glory shame the adversary wants you to live in shame but God wants you to live in his kingdom and if you get a hold of his kingdom you get a hold of his power and if you get a hold of his power you get to live in his glory that has no shame attached to it at all as a matter of fact he said when you live your life when you live your life and you go about your day he said live your life from Matthew 6:33 but seek ye first the what kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you can I tell you God doesn't have anything against us being wealthy but wealthy money cannot be your cheat objective God doesn't have anything against us having material things but material things cannot become our chief objective what must be our chief objective it must be him he said if you will seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness then I'm going to give you the wisdom to handle wealth some people can't handle wealth wealth kills them drowns them destroys them but God said if you'll seek my kingdom first I'll give you the wisdom to put money in its proper place and you can you can actually you can actually be wealthy and still serve God you can actually have material things and still serve God Matthew chapter 7 verse number 21 I told you it's just an oldfashioned bible study this morning Matthews Matthew chapter 7 verse number 21 this kind of May pinch a little bit not everyone that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven can I tell you you're not going to live the kingdom because you talk the kingdom you're going to live the kingdom because you have action behind it words are cheap words are cheap you can talk about what you do all you want but God's looking for some action he said not everybody that says on that day Lord Lord is going to enter the Kingdom of Heaven only they that do that's an action word they that do the kingdom as a matter of fact Jesus knew Jesus knew that he would suffer bleed died die and be buried and and and raised from the dead and would Ascend back into heaven to be the great mediator of man between man and God so God Jesus said I've got to delegate this out to others I've got to give this message out to others so the Bible says in Matthew 10:7 that he spoke to his disciples and he said I'm sending you all out and he said and as you go Matthew 10:7 as you go here's what you to preach as you go preach saying the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand I'm saddened today to think that too many of our pull pits are nothing more than self-help gurus that are trying to tell us that we can pull ourselves and make ourselves and there's a champion within us and you can do blah blah blah well let me tell you something you can't do anything until the kingdom gets a hold of you you you can't do anything until you enter into the kingdom of God you are blind spiritually and you are crippled spiritually you can't walk without him if you knew where the kingdom was you couldn't get there because you can't walk if you knew where the kingdom was you can't find it because you you are blind and he said here's what I want you to preach I don't want you to be a self-help Guru I don't want you to I don't want you to be into that kind of Market I want you to tell my people that they should repent because the kingdom The Authority the rule of God is close at hand can you say Amen now if you try to fit in the world and fit into the kingdom it's like trying to mix oil and water the world's Kingdom and how the world World sees things is not how the kingdom sees things all right it's not how the kingdom sees things Jesus is put on trial pilate is questioning him pilate starts off with the say you're a king is that right you're a king and Jesus said back to him he said uh did you come up with that yourself self or did they that deliver me tell you to say that he said pilot leans over it says listen to me you're in deep trouble your own people have delivered you for crucifixion Jesus said this back to pilate in John 18:36 Jesus answered pilate my kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that I should not be delivered to the Jews but now is my kingdom not from hence pilate you have the rule and the Dominion of Rome you have the rule and the power of the most mightiest Nation on the earth at that time but Jesus simply said to pilate who thought he had it all in control my kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom was a worldly Kingdom my servants would rise up and fight but my kingdom is not of this world a church that wants to be acceptable in the world is a church that has lost its direction it has lost its purpose and ultimately it has lost its power this world is not our home I'm going to say it today I don't understand the world I don't understand their ways I don't understand a lot of things of their way of thinking in the world they're trying to come together and have one mind and they're getting more confused as the day goes by but that's okay everybody say that's okay the world doesn't understand us we don't understand the world and the world doesn't understand us and that's okay we're not supposed to understand each other because I have been born again I can't see the things of the world and because they've not been born again they can't see the things of the church but I would rather be in God's kingdom than to be in any other Kingdom on the face of this Earth I would rather be in his kingdom oh I would rather have my house in his basket I would rather have his blessings he's about to ascend into heaven he's about to ascend into heaven he gathers his disciples around them and he says in Acts chapter one in Acts chapter 1 verse number three he says these words to whom also Jesus showed himself alive after his Passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days this is after the crucifixion and the Resurrection being seen of them 40 days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God some of the last things he was teaching for 40 days was the kingdom the kingdom the rule the power the the the the the Dominion and being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father which saith he you have heard of me for John truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy G ghost not many days hence when they therefore were come together they asked of him saying Lord will you at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel they're off based already and I'm going to tell you why they're off based they've not been born of the spirit yet when he said the kingdom he says Lord when we get this power is it going to break the Roman the Roman government off of us and I hate to bust anybody bubble here today but things in this world are not going to get better there's not a Utopia coming to the planet Earth now some of you believe that some of you don't let me say it again they're not going to get better here I don't care listen has it listen hasn't the last four decades proved proved that more education and more money doesn't make us smarter I got a chill bump on my arm right now you could put a coat hanger on I'm so glad I'm in the kingdom of God things are not going to get better down here you better get in the kingdom of God where there's power there's Royal Authority and God is coming back for his church he is coming back for his people and oh I want to be he say Lord are you going to break the Romans back when you when we get this Holy Ghost are you going to break the Romans back off of us he said unto them verse 7 it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father had put in his own power but you shall receive re see Power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be Witnesses both in unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost part of the earth they said Lord we're going to get involved in government we're going to get involved and we're going to overthrow the government he said no you leave that in my power all governments will fall one day there's a stone Daniel said it Daniel preached it in the book of and in in the book that bears his name there was a large statue had all kind of material the head was gold the shoulders of brass and silver and it represented all the empires of the world the feet were a mixture of clay and iron and it represented all of the kingdoms of the world and Daniel looked and out of the mountain was a stone cut without man's hands and that stone which is the stone that the builders reject Ed and that stone which is the Cornerstone of the church come rolling down that mountain and struck the image on the feet and all of it come crumbling down I don't know when and I don't know where but every kingdom is going to submit itself to the lordship of Jesus Christ it will either become a goat Kingdom or it will become a sheep Kingdom it will either be a government that is friendly toward God or it will be a government that is against God but all the kingdoms are going to fall but wait a minute don't want to spend much time on that today because that's in God's power but I tell you what I want to spend time on today I want to be a witness for Jesus Christ I want to tell all men you don't have to live in darkness you don't have to live in bondage hear me today in the name of the Lord you don't have to live in darkness you don't have to live in misery you don't have to live in all of that there's a kingdom a Heavenly Kingdom and it is the kingdom if you know him today give him a shout of Praise oh if you know him today give him a shout of Praise he's my everything he's my Alpha and Omega he's my bride and Morning Star he's my lily of the valley he's my midnight comforter he's my he when I'm sick he's my lawyer when I'm in trouble he's my savior when I was lost and he is my soon coming King are you enjoying this cozy little bible study today the Pharisees not only does the world not understand the church religions religions don't understand the church Matthew excuse me Luke 17:20 follow along very closely here the Pharisees was a religion Luke 17:20 and when he was demanded demanded of the Pharisees when the kingdom of God should come now that word didn't say they were asking about the kingdom did yall pick that up to what were they say they were demanding when the kingdom should come he answered them and said the kingdom of God cometh not with observation now this word observation means scrutiny it means inspection harsh inspection it is not man inspecting God it is God inspecting man when is the kingdom of God coming Jesus said well let me just tell you something inspectors he said the kingdom of God doesn't come with observation said you're not going to inspect the kingdom of God and scrutinize the kingdom of God and figure this out then he said this and this is prophetic this is prophetic to the day of Pentecost Jesus said in verse 21 neither shall they say loow here or low there in other words they're not going to say oh the kingdoms over here and the Kingdom's over there for behold the kingdom of God is within you he was speaking prophetically of when he would put his spirit inside of man the kingdom of God Paul had to break up a bunch of people that were bickering over do we eat meat do we eat meat offered to Idols do we eat this do we eat that oh yes you shouldn't eat meat offered to Idols oh don't you know to the way to serve God is you got to eat the right meat you got to drink the right drink and all this Paul Come Paul came along in Romans 14:17 Paul Paul came along and said these words 14:17 for the kingdom of God is Not meat and drink the kingdom of God is not over here and it's not over there and the kingdom of God is Not meat and drink but what is it righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost look at those three words righteousness Jesus Christ died on the cross so that we could come and repent of our sins and be in right standing with God being right standing with God why because before we come and confess our faith and place our faith in the death burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ we are sinners and the Bible says God is angry with the sinner every day God is angry with sin now God does not let me tell you God does not hate The Sinner but God hates the sin and you can't separate The Sinner you can't separate The Sinner from the sin it's like the cancer in the body God hates the cancer but he doesn't hate the person but if the cancer goes untreated it takes down the person and the only way to remove Sin from our life is to come to a right standing with Jesus Christ what good works must I do to appease the wrath of God what good works how much money could I give what do I need to do how many years do I need to live right in order for God to give me the right standing you can't do it we can't save ourselves a bit more than we can jump flat-footed and touch the moon we are hopelessly lost without any hope within ourselves of saving ourselves but praise be to God who became a man and PID the ultimate sacrifice for our sins not by works lest any man should boast my hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness when I come and I believe upon him and I place my faith upon him I'm automatically at a position of righteousness God doesn't see me as the sinner anymore God doesn't see me and God doesn't see that in me I'm in right standing with God but look what right standing with God does right standing with God gives us peace oh people are looking for peace today they're tormented they're troubled over their past over their present over their future they're troubled they're stressed they're tormented but what this world needs is to get at the right standing place of God and God will give you peace like a river as a matter of fact he'll give you peace that surpasses all understanding you'll be in the middle of a spiritual hell storm and you'll think why have I got my sanity how do I have peace of mind when this is falling apart and that is falling apart but God is saying little child I've got you in my basket I've got you right here I'm going to give you peace I'm going to give you peace but peace doesn't stop peace and joy in the Holy Ghost now let me take you it will probably be the remainder of my Bible lesson today but let me take you to a conversation was held between Jesus and a religious man the conversation is found in John chapter 3 verse number one there was a man of the Pharisees it's a religion named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews the same came to Jesus by night and said unto him Rabbi Rabbi Rabbi that's like saying Reverend Reverend didn't call him Lord didn't even call him Master called him Reverend rabbi we know we've inspected you and we know that thou art a teacher come from God for no man can do these Miracles that thou doest except God be with him now first off Nicodemus is coming to give uh Rabbi Jesus endorsement my little sect over here Rabbi Jesus we we endorse you we we have inspected you and we have just understood that that that no man could do what you're doing teacher uh unless God was with him all right um verse three Nicodemus was expecting um it to read something like this and Jesus answered and said unto him well thank you than thank you very much thank you but that's not what Jesus gave him Jesus answered and said unto him verily verily I say unto you except a man be born again he cannot see the what what was Jesus saying he was basically in a tactful manner saying you haven't seen anything yet you've seen me heal you've heard me Teach but you haven't seen anything yet and you haven't seen anything because you cannot unless you're born again you cannot see the kingdom of God now church this is how it important it is it all gets derailed right here it all it all gets derailed right here if we don't keep preaching and teaching the Born Again message message it's not well we're just different from this over here no no we we got to get our mind off the difference and we got to get our mind off in the book because what people need when they come to fac they need to hear that they can be born again they need to hear that they can be born again he said I say verely I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God in other words Jesus basically said Nicodemus you you you don't see nothing listen to Nicodemus Nicodemus saith unto him how can a man be born when he's old can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born now I personally believe that Nicodemus is insulted because he was wanting a thank you and he got he got a message that he's seen nothing yet except he's born again and Nicodemus I can see him saying well what do you think how could I be born again do I enter the my do I enter my mother's womb the second time to be born well that's ridiculous if your mother caused you to be a sinner in the first place if it were possible to be reborn by your mother you would just be twice The Sinner that you already are Jesus answered verily verily I say un to thee except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God church family today don't ever don't ever get critical or cynical when you repeatedly hear this pull pit preaching water baptism in Jesus name don't ever what don't he have another message he's always preaching on that baptism in Jesus name he's always preaching about that infilling of the Holy Ghost you listen what you need to sit there and say is he's trying to get somebody to see the kingdom this morning that that's what brother that that's what the pastor trying to do he's trying to get somebody to see the kingdom he trying to get somebody to be born again today because you can't see the kingdom until you're born again of the water and of the spirit baptism is not a church ritual it is a part of being born into the kingdom of God you got to be born again of the water and Born Again of the spirit and if that gender any questions see me after church today I would love love to dive into the depths of the purpose of water baptism and spirit baptism Jesus said in verse six that which is born to the flesh is flesh that which is born to the spirit is Spirit Marvel not Nicodemus that I said unto thee it would y'all follow along your Bibles with me y'all y'all believe ought to be a Bible preacher y'all following along right you're following along uh start verse 7 again Marvel not that I said unto thee it'd be a good idea for you to be born again what'd he say you must be born again and now he tries another Parable the wind bloweth where it listeth you hear the sound thereof but can not tell whence it cometh and whether it goeth so is everyone that is born of the spirit being born of the spirits like the blowing of the wind you don't know where it's coming and where it's going all you can hear is when the wind you don't hear the wind unless the wind touches an object you don't hear it on its own unless it gathers some kind of object to make a sound as a matter of fact that word sound there he said Jesus said you hear the sound the Greek word there is fetto and the Greek word fetto is where we get the word phonic from he said you you hear the language when the wind blows you hear the language when the wind blows you hear the language is it any wonder that on the day of Pentecost when God let 120 be born again of the spirit of God that there was first the sound from Heaven as of a mighty rushing wind and it filled all the house where there was setting and there appeared to them clothing tongues like as a fire and it set up on each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues fromet they begin to speak another language as the spirit of God aren't you thankful it's in the book I'm thankful today for the kingdom of God oh my oh my let me let me just let me just go on musicians would you come and singers come and come all the way out on the platform when you come the wind bloweth where it listeth you you hear the sound thereof but can't not tell whence it cometh and whether it goeth so is everyone that is born of spirit Nicodemus answered and said unto him how can how can these things be watch's this Nicodemus is still standing there saying I still don't understand what you're saying I still don't understand what you're talking about verse 10 Jesus answered and said unto him art thou a master of Israel and knowest not these things Nicodemus have you been reading Ezekiel haven't you been reading Ezekiel and have you been reading Jeremiah and Isaiah where he God said I'm going to take out of you the Stony heart and I'm gonna put a heart of Flesh in you I'm GNA sprinkle water over you haven't haven't you been listening to that Nicodemus verse number 11 verily verily I say unto thee we speak that we do know and testify that we have seen and ye receive not our witness he speaks of himself and he says I've been trying to tell you these things but your group wants to inspect me your group wants to try to tear it apart and understand it he said but we speak and we know what we speak look at verse 12 he's still in the conversation he's still in the conversation with Nicodemus if I have told you Earthly things and you believe not how shall you believe if I tell you of heavenly things in other words he said I've tried to use Earthly examples born being born when he said how would you believe if I told you Heavenly things but let's give it a try let's give it a try verse number 13 I tried to tell you about the birth and when but now let me try to tell you about a Heavenly thing verse 13 no man has sended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven what no man had to send it up to heaven except one that came down from heaven even the son of man that is in heaven wait a minute you're you're right here on Earth with me but you're saying that you came down from heaven and that you're on Earth and you're back in heaven right now how could that be as man it's impossible But as God he's omnipresent as God he's in this room today but as God just like Friday night I was preaching in Cleveland all the wonders of technology I was preaching in Cleveland and I had accepted to preach or to pray at an all night prayer meeting in Augsburg Germany Friday night at 8:50 I was to to go cuz they're like 6 hours ahead of us and I was supposed to pray of course technology pray on a zoom internet call over an all night prayer meeting now here I was matter of fact I got to preach and I forgot about time and when I looked at my I got done preaching I looked at my phone and I just had one text from Brother Krauss it was a question mark so I called him and we got on and we stood in Cleveland and the Cleveland Church prayed for the Saints at the Augsburg Germany church and the Augsburg Germany Church turned back and prayed for the saints that were Cleveland Tennessee can I tell you as man he only covered the ground he stood on but as God he was both had come from Heaven standing on the earth and was back into heaven as God as God he said he said yes I came down yes I'm standing here but as God I'm already let me finish as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not should not perish but have everlasting life now let me tell you something a lot of people will go and say now brother Carpenter you talking about baptism today you talking about Spirit baptism all you have to do is to believe upon Him John 3:16 please please read your Bible correctly Jesus is talking to Nicodemus and Nicodemus doesn't understand birth of water and birth birth of spirit he don't understand deity of Jesus Christ he's a rabbi he's not God he's God with you he's not God In You Jesus had to say to some me tell you something come down stand in here and I'm already back in Heaven Is God all right and then he came down he said Nicodemus let's just start at the ground floor for God so loved the world surely you understand love Nicodemus oh yeah everybody wants to be loved surely you understand love for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life you know where it starts this morning it starts with do you believe that God loves you today would you stand with me right now and I I I want I normally have you bow your heads but I want you to fix your eyes on pastor this morning because I'd like to catch eyes with as many people as I can today and I'd like to make one phrase to you God loves you God loves you God God loves you God loves you God loves you today God loves you today and somewhere in that heart of yours a tear is beginning to seep out because everybody in this room today is looking for love everybody is looking for acceptance can I tell you that Jesus Christ found a man demon-possessed self mutilated naked shamed naked cut up the Bible says that when Jesus got a hold of him and it goes in this order they found him clothed in his right mind and at the feet of Jesus what is clothed I want to give you your dignity back I want to give you your dignity back back I know you might have done some things that that have a title on you and people know you as that title but can I tell you today God knows you by name God doesn't know you by your mistakes God doesn't know you by your sin God knows you by a new name today God knows you by a new name today God loves you God wants to wrap his arms and give some D dignity in this house to today and if you believe that God wants to do that won't you close your eyes with me right now and why don't we begin to pray right now in this house God there's a woman here this morning Lord there's at least one woman here today God that has no dignity at all there's a woman here today God whose life has been a living shame and God she has lived her life trying to trying to somehow erase the shame of her life but Lord you brought that woman here today for the sole purpose to wrap your arms of love and dignity around her this morning come on pray right now there's at least one man in this audience today that you have lost all the dignity that you have you have hit rock bottom in your life today you need to be born again you need to be born again of the water and you need to be born again of the spirit today come on Church come on pray with me right now let's pray them out of our pews today let's pray them out of our pews today there's a heavenly father that wants to wrap his arms around you there's a heavenly father that wants to put you in the Kingdom this morning there's a heavenly father that wants to break the domain the rule of Hell over your life today come on pray with me right now oh God touch them oh God touch them right now God oh God the guilt the shame God the guilt and the shame God lord the stench the guilt the shame God the sleeplessness God In The Name of Jesus God oh man if you'll just let go of the back of that pebe and if you'll just walk up this aisle this morning there's a God whose name is Jesus and he waits to wrap his arms around you he waits to wrap his love around you today he waits to wrap his arms of Love around you today would you come would you come ohmighty God would you come church pray right now come on pray right now let's let's create an atmosphere that causes people to come oh God In The Name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name name of Jesus oh let him wrap his arms around you right now let him wrap his love around you right now let him wrap his arms around you right now and I want you to listen to me church I want you to listen real closely I want to get as many people in this altar today because God is going to wrap his arms around some people right now and I want us all to start coming down these aisles right now I want us to start coming down these aisles right now God is going to wrap his arms of Love around us there's going to be an atmosphere of love there's going to be an atmosphere for God's so loved the world for God so loved the world when you get in the altar push up as far as you can we're going to get as many people as we can in this altar today push up as far as you can today God is going to wrap his arms around you God is going to wrap his love around you today God is going to God is going to begin to break the domain God is going to begin to break the Dominion there's going to be a Breaking of the Dominion today there's going to be a release of the power of sin and there's going to be a release of the power of God right now Lord I love you God oh Lord I love you God right now right now is a good time to tell God about that habit you got right now is a good time to tell God about that destructive habit you got right now is a good time to allow God to wrap his arms around you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on church family be the body of Christ today come on church family be the hands and feet of Jesus today be the hands and feet of Jesus today be aware of people standing around you right now oh the God is going to clothe in love today God is going to clothe in love today yeah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah come on be mindful come on Church be the hands in the feet of Jesus this morning be the hands in the feet of Jesus this morning somebody needs to have the Dominion broke somebody needs to have royal power over them right now oh God in the name of Jesus Jesus how I you you st the same you are good in your way Jesus Jesus how I need you you are in love all my trust is in you Jesus Jesus how I need you you stay the same you are good in your way Jesus Jesus how I need you you are in love all my trust is in you Lord me you f my heart you search my soul and know every thought love so great but never to oh thank you Jesus Through the stor and you're the call and every word you've already won life secure in your Ling Jesus Jesus Jes oh how I need you you st this you are good in your way Jesus Jesus Jesus oh how you are all my trust all my trust is in you all of my trust all of my Fai Jesus Oh you wor you're worthy in this house Lord You Are Powerful God above it all I believe in you I believe in you you can do Miracles The Impossible I believe in you I believe in you you are powerful God above it I believe I believe I believe you do you I believe in you I believe you're so powerful above I'm believeing we stand on your word I believe Jesus Jesus you stay the same you never change you never will God is moving here this morning God is moving here this morning the power of God is in his place the power of God more than you're more than love my trust is in you oh yes you are powerful God above it all we stand on your word you do mirales impossible I believe in you I believe he's so powerful he's so powerful you're of everything we believe in you Lord all of my all of my yes we do Jesus how you you never changed you never been you are he's so good yes he is I my life in your there is power in this house right now there's power in this place right now the kingdom is here the kingdom is here restoration God is going to restore what the enemy took God is going to restore the years of Rong decision come on Praise Him Church come on Praise Him Church come on the Holy Ghost can move as you praise him the Holy Ghost can move as you praise him right now you you my stress is in you Lord fall feel Here and Now Jesus you change everything lies he and hope and found and heal and now Jesus you change everything change will fall fear in has the here Jesus you change CH everything can I'm here I jesus you Chang Everything Jesus you Chang Everything Jesus you you changed everything Jesus you changed everything Jesus you Chang fear you will B right here right now you will your hope is in this house right here right now Jes all right all right all right all right can you say praise the Lord come on can you shout it can you shout it now this is the second Sunday that I've done this the Second Sunday that I've done this I'm not let us carry for a long time talking about our sin and talking about you know confessing our sin and asking God to help us with strength I'm not let us do that for a long time because I believe God gets in a hurry when we praise him I believe God gets in a hurry when we praise him as a matter of fact today I can tell you I believe that when people are repenting and repenting and repenting and repenting and repenting I believe I know what God's standing here saying I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I do I do forgive you I do forgive you I do forgive you I do forgive you and God is saying now I want you to move from being broken I want you to now become full by Praise And by worship and by magnifying my you've asked him to forgive you he's quick to forgive you you asked him to help you he's quick to help you now let's praise it oh yeah crazy crazy here we go here we go oh yeah your light broke through my life rest exceeding Jo that's get your hands up get your hands Grace like the rain made this your life through my smile on my morning is you have you you he Jo Jo Joy the Lord your hand Lifted Me Up say your hand Lifted Me Up stay on High Ground yeah your praise Ro in my heart and by your head LIF me up go ahead LIF me up I STR on Higher Ground your prise your prise my heart I want everybody I want everybody to welcome Mark today Mark wants to be baptized in Jesus name Mark told me Mark told me before service today he said pastor can I get baptized this morning I said absolutely he said pastor he said I got to have some relief he said I fought demons all night long in my mind you know what the devil knows he was contemplating that's where the devil can work is in your mind he knew the man was contemplating baptism and the devil gets nervous around a birthing center he gets nervous around people becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus father in the name of Jesus today Lord I believe that you have already filled Mark with the Holy Ghost but God if not let Mark come up out of that water speaking in a Heavenly language as he is both Born Again of water and of the spirit let Mark become a new creature today by way of the new birth message let Mark go from the kingdom of darkness from the kingdom of bondage from the kingdom of death and destruction from the kingdom of hopelessness let him be transferred this morning into the Kingdom of Light into into the kingdom of Life today in Jesus name we pray amen of your the Jesus yes yes you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost in Jesus name in Jesus name is how we over this is how we overcome this is how we over this is this is how we overcome this is how we over this is you morning you have strong you you will you sing it one more time would you sing it one more time the bottom of your heart you have turn you have come morning you turn oh you have hey can anybody find me in the Bible can anybody find me in the Bible Well Roy there you go there you go Roy can anybody find me in the Bible where God's against us having fun huh and what I was going to do Roy Roy said you want to get baptized this morning you want to get baptized tonight and I was going to say we ended with the baptism and we're going to begin with the baptism tonight but that's all right brother Roy because the authority of the kingdom of God in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the kingdom of darkness has had you long enough the adversary and his vices have had you long enough but in the authority of the name of Jesus Christ I speak to all of the vices of hell today you are no match for the blood you are no match for the spirit you are no match for our God In The Name of Jesus completely delivered today completely set free today with the birth of the spirit and the birth of the water in Jesus name amen confession of your word god Inus your hand lifted me up I stand on Higher Ground your praise Ro in my heart made this your hand stand on high it God it God PR Ro my heart you have my morning is to you have to you have my morning is to you have all right all right how many have enjoyed the house of God this morning come on how many are glad to be in the Kingdom today how many are glad to be in the Kingdom this morning so glad to be in the Kingdom today before you leave I want you to tell three people I want you to tell three people I'm glad to be in the Kingdom then be back here tonight at 5:30 for prayer 6:00 service God bless you dismissed in Jesus name tell three people I'm glad to be in the Kingdom glad to be in the Kingdom glad to be in the Kingdom