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What makes this church special
- He greets the Sunday-evening congregation and says what makes this church special: they worship him in spirit and in truth, and there is an anointing that comes when God's Spirit is welcomed into the house — an anointing that breaks every yoke and gives liberty to worship.
- He says another thing that makes the church special is that they baptize in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, because there is power in that name, and he loves that name.
- He welcomes a guest pastor and his wife from the Apostolic Church in Cleveland, Tennessee — a work about a year old that is baptizing people and seeing them receive the Holy Ghost — and tells how God already provided them another building with room for a midweek Bible study.
- He asks the congregation to sing with him before he ministers, saying he needs the Lord every hour.
Two head texts: the Gibeonite deceit and the day of deception
- Standing, he reads from Joshua chapter nine: the inhabitants of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, worked deceitfully — old sacks, rent wine bottles, old shoes and garments, dry and mouldy bread — came to the camp at Gilgal claiming to be from a far country and asking for a league, and Joshua asked them, 'Who are you, and from whence come ye?'
- He turns to Matthew chapter twenty-four and reads it: Jesus tells the disciples not one stone of the temple will be left upon another, and on the Mount of Olives they ask when these things will be and what will be the sign of his coming and of the end of the world.
- He announces his thought for a few moments: the day of deception — and urges anyone not yet baptized to come at the end of the message and be baptized in Jesus name.
- After prayer he declares that the church is unbeatable and unstoppable: fire could not burn it, waters could not flood it, lions could not eat it, and the only thing that will take the church out of here is the trumpet and the rapture.
- He says the one word the church should fear is deception: Jesus answered the disciples' question plainly — beware that no man deceives you — and the Greek word means to be pulled off the right track, taken off course.
- He warns against cheap knock-off Christianity and counterfeit churches that look like the church but are not: people buy knock-offs because they want a name in public without a relationship in private, but being in the real church costs everything.
Scriptures: Joshua 9:3-8; Matthew 24:1-4
Stay in the church: everything you need is in it
- He retells Israel's deliverance: Pharaoh and Egypt could not hold God's people; God sent plagues, drowned Pharaoh's armies in the Red Sea, led Israel by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night, brought water out of a rock, rained bread from heaven, sent quail, and made the bitter waters sweet with a tree.
- His application runs through the sermon: stay in the church, because everything you need is in the church — he will be the pillar of cloud by day, the pillar of fire by night, the fourth man in the furnace, and the God who shuts the jaws of the lion.
- He retells Jericho: six days marching in silence, seven times around on the seventh day, the ram's horns and the shout — and tells of visiting the site of Jericho, where the tour guide said the walls were found still intact, as if a great hand had shoved them down into the earth.
- He urges the congregation to stay in the church when she is rejoicing and when the bottom falls out, when the prayer room is crowded and when you are the only voice in it: he is closer to his miracle today than he was last week because he kept his marching shoes on and stayed in the church.
The league exposed: ask counsel at the mouth of the Lord
- He retells the Gibeonites' council: knowing no one could stop Israel, they decided their only chance was to deceive — they staged worn clothes, old shoes, aged wine bottles and mouldy bread like a Hollywood production and presented the evidence of a long journey.
- He says the worst thing the church can do is make a league with the world: the world must come through the blood, through repentance, baptism, and Spirit baptism; the church is in the world but not of it, and mixing worldliness into the church makes a concoction nobody should want to drink.
- He preaches the church's power to deliver: God can take away the desire for nicotine, drugs, and pornography, and the church can stand between a man and destruction.
- He goes back to Joshua chapter nine and reads the Gibeonites’ own plea: the men of Israel took of the Gibeonites' victuals and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord — the biggest mistake of a life is taking things at face value instead of prayer-meeting value, making spiritual decisions on what you see.
- He retells the third-day discovery: three days later Israel found the Gibeonites were neighbours, but the oath stood — an agreement made with a lie cannot erase the fruit of the lie, and they had to let them dwell among them.
- He applies it to the vital decisions of life, above all marriage: do not judge by appearance or income — pray about it; find someone with convictions, who loves God's house and believes in repentance, water baptism, Spirit baptism, one God, and holiness.
- He cautions the young people about role models and dress: heroes should be people in the church, not people on television; he urges them not to lower standards to attract someone, and restates the old rule that new converts are off limits for six months from their conversion so they fall in love with Jesus, not with a person.
Scriptures: Joshua 9:13-14
Do not just come to church — be the church
- He presses the congregation: where did you get that from? Dress, habits, and attitudes picked up from magazines, television, and the world did not come from the prayer room or the Bible — decisions taken to the prayer room come back with an answer from another world.
- He warns against the deception of mere attendance: you can go to hell on a church pew just like on a bar stool; it is not enough to get here — you need to worship God, lift your hands, and pray.
- He calls the church to demonstrative worship like the day of Pentecost: if you need something, do something you have never done — run, dance, shout — because whatever you need, deliverance, healing, a miracle, is found in the church, and he asks the whole house to be in one accord.
- He says deception dresses itself respectably: it tells believers the day of shouting and praising is over and that demonstrative worship is odd, when it is actually the thing that touches God.
- He returns to Israel's burden: they had to live with the Gibeonites all their lives because somebody made a decision on face value — and stresses that none of us, however long we have been in church, is beyond deception.
- He warns parents that children will overwhelmingly become what they see: they will pray, worship, and attend like you, so change now, call a family prayer meeting, and admit where you accepted things that were not of God.
Revelation 17: the harlot the church competes with
- Closing with his proof texts, he reads from Revelation chapter seventeen: one of the seven angels shows John the judgment of the great harlot who sits upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and whose wine has made the earth drunk.
- He reads on: the woman sits on a scarlet-coloured beast full of names of blasphemy, arrayed in purple and scarlet, decked with gold and precious stones, a golden cup full of abominations in her hand, Mystery Babylon the Great written on her forehead, drunken with the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus.
- He says there are two women in Revelation, a bride and a harlot: the church is the bride, and what it competes with is a religious system with a cup full of false doctrine — appealing to the eye, comfortable, and inoffensive.
- He notes that even John the beloved marvelled and admired her for a moment until the angel interrupted him — so the church at Maryville must not get its eye on that system for one moment, or on counterfeit religion that claims to believe the same while baptizing without the remission of sins.
- He names himself: if anyone thinks he is going to change how this church has church in this last day, they do not know Kenny Ray Carpenter very well — the only thing that can stop the church is deception.
- He closes by calling out Wednesday-night absence as a deception to break: some are truly shut in, but others simply miss church at the drop of a hat and ought to have been in the house of God; he announces Wednesday night Bible study at 7:30 and says he will sleep well because the church received the word.
Scriptures: Revelation 17:1-7
Scripture index: Joshua 9:3-8; Matthew 24:1-4; Joshua 9:13-14; Revelation 17:1-7.
Transcript
praise the Lord everybody so good to see you this Sunday evening in the house of the Lord wonderful beautiful faithful people that gather here every Sunday morning and Sunday night and Wednesday night at 7:30 they gather here to worship the one true and living God whose name is Jesus Christ you may ask what makes this church so special one of the reasons is that we worship Him in spirit and in truth there's an anointing that comes when you welcome God's Spirit when you're welcome God's Spirit into the house you there's an anointing that comes that breaks every yoke there's an anointing that comes to make men and women feel at liberty to worship to worship God if you're here tonight and you've not been baptized in the name that is above every name that's something else that makes this church special is we baptize in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ because this power in the name this power in the name of Jesus and I love that name I love that name tonight we're so glad to have brother sister Fallon with us tonight they pass through the Apostolic Church in Cleveland Tennessee and they're right out of this church and we love and appreciate them they are doing a fabulous fabulous fabulous job for the kingdom of God both sister Fowler was so godly proud of you tonight they've been having church for about a year at the Holiday Inn Express and for just a hundred dollars they get her they get a room there and it's a beautiful room that they have they've had church and have been privileged to preach there myself but they came to him the other day and they said corporate is having us to remodel and so you only have a few more weeks here and that's alright because God already had another building and this building they're going to be able to have midweek Bible say they've been having midweek Bible study in his home but now he gets to have midweek Bible study at the church God's doing great things good baptizing people people getting the Holy Ghost the church is growing would you just sing this little course before I minister for a few moments I need come on don't you feel that way tonight Oh every hour Oh me 9 much god I come Lord I need you mean it Hey nice Lord I come thank you lord thank you lord thank you God huh a carry-on on a ghostie thank you lord thank you Lord they have your Bibles who would stand with me tonight for a few moments God has been so real in this place look of Joshua chapter 9 and verse number three Joshua chapter 9 and verse number three God has been so real in this place tonight you've not yet been baptized why don't you do that at the end of my message tonight why don't you walk to the front of this room and tell someone you'd like to be baptized in Jesus name and we have clothing and we've got everything we got everything you need tonight but the one thing we don't have is you all right and if you'll give us you tonight will baptize you in Jesus name and God as God is good verse number three Joshua 9 and when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto jericho and to a eye they did work while alle that is deceitfully and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sex acts upon their asses and wine bottles old and rent and bound up and old shoes clawed it upon their feet and old garments upon them and all of the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy and they went to Joshua under the camp at Gilgal and said unto him and to the men of Israel we become from a far country now therefore make a league with us and the men of Israel said unto the high veidt's peradventure he dwell among us and how shall we make a league with you they said unto Joshua we are thy servants Joshua to them who are you who are you and from whence come ye turn over to the New Testament Gospel of Matthew chapter 24 and verse number one someone say praise the Lord you do realize you cannot be saved without the word correct and Jesus went out and departed from the temple and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple and jesus said unto them see ye not all these things verily I say unto you there shall not be left here one stone upon another that shall not be thrown down and as he set up on the Mount of Olives the disciples came unto him privately saying tell us when shall these things be and what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world for a few moments tonight sends you home with a simple thought with a profound impact the day of deception the day of deception would you say that with me the day of deception put your Bibles down bow your heads right now let's call on God tonight father we love you Lord night Lord you are great you are greatly to be praised you ought to ask you tonight to help me to plant a word in the hearts of all the people that are here Lord bless the guests that have come to worship with us tonight God that your spirit touched their minds their hearts y'all let them leave here with an anointing that they may they leave here God with an answer you know I give you the praise and honor Jesus helped me preach tonight Jesus name Amen you may be seated thank you for standing the church is unbeatable the church is unstoppable by the words of the founder of the church upon this rock I will build my church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it hell cannot has not and will not stop the church the church the church has been through the fire but the fire couldn't burn the church has been through the waters but the waters couldn't flood the church has been fed to the Lions but the Lions could need it it's the Church of the Living God and the only thing that's going to affect the Church of the Living God is a trumpet and when that trumpet sounds God's going to take this church out of here the only thing gonna take the church they're gonna be the rapture of the church I'm glad I'm in the church I said I'm glad I'm in the church I'm glad I'm in his church I'm glad I'm in the Church of the Living God I'm glad I'm in that church I won't get to sink in for a moment I'm I'm glad I'm in this church it's an unstoppable Church diseases cannot eradicate the church famines cannot do away with the church the best Satan has to give cannot stop the Church of Jesus Christ I'm glad I'm in the church I'm glad I'm hearing the word that's preached in the church I'm glad I'm feeling the spirit that's inside of the church nothing can stop the Church of Jesus Christ I'm again I'm glad I'm in this truth there's only one word that we should fear there's only one word that we should be on guard we should be on guard for the word deception deception Jesus was asked plainly in Matthew 24 tell us about the signs of thy coming and of the end of the world these are questions we we should be concerned with Jesus Christ will come again he will come again we should be concerned we should be getting everybody ready for that great day we should make sure that we ourselves are ready for that great day that word called deception is the only word that can stop the child of God when is your coming what is the sign of the end of the world and Jesus plainly spoke it out he said beware that no man deceives you that word in the Greek deceived means to be pulled off the right track to be pulled off of the right track to be pulled away from to be taken off course jesus said if you want to know about the end of time if you want to know what to look for be on guard that no one deceives you be on guard that no one brings you something that appears to be truth but that is not true this age will fight the cheap knock-offs this age will fight Christian counterfeit we will fight what looks like the church but it's not the church but I've come to preach for a few moments tonight and tell you that we need to be on guard let's not settle for a cheap knockoff experience a cheap knockoff Church let's be in the genial one Church of Jesus Christ I want you to know that it's going to cost you more to be in the real one reason people buy knock-offs is they want a name in public but they don't want a relationship in private they can buy the cheap off knock off creased Christianity for just mere pennies it doesn't affect them very much but if you want to be in the church it's going to cost you everything if you want to be in the church he can't be half-time three quarters of the time if you're going to be in the church he's got to occupy your mind Jesus has got to be the first thought of your name Jesus has not occupy your mind Jesus cause of deception because the perception yachts people come out of Egypt and want to draw a parallel here yachts people came out of Egypt Egypt Pharaoh most powerful kingdom of the then no world the most powerful Kingdom could not hold what belong to God Pharaoh had God's people had the seed of Abraham in his bosom but when the time came God toyed with with Pharaoh like a cat does a ball of yarn when God got ready fellow Egypt was just the refining furnace of the people of God and when God's timetable clicked on that moment God chose him a man that stuttered God chose him a fugitive from the law and God sent that Moses down to Egypt with a speech impediment and a rod in his hand and God turned Egypt upside down because when God gets ready to deliver his children he's not playing he means business you're gonna come up out of it you're gonna come up out of Egypt he sent on plagues he broke the whole back of Egypt he drowned them all in the Red Sea he let him by a pillar of fire by night and by a pillar of cloud by day Red Sea's could not stop them very long because God had a wind to blow and the children of Israel went across the Red Sea on dry land when Pharaoh tried to use the same route that God's people did God brought the waters crashing crashing back in on Pharaoh and his armies and Egypt was no more let him get thirsty God can bring water out of a rock this is why I want you to stay in the church because every thing you need is in the church everything we need is in the church that's not one thing outside of the church that you got to have everything you need Egypt Egypt Israel needed water God brought water out of a rock Israel won't eat bread God rained bread down from heaven like snowflakes Israel wanted meat God called the quail to come flying in from the east and commentaries of the Bible say that every morning quail was stacked up around the camp four foot deep around the camp and the children of Israel went out picked up quail they had water out of a rock snow flake bread coming down from heaven and fresh meat delivered around the camp it was no one that can stand before them when they came to a body of water that was bitter and could not be drink they cast a tree in because God told them to cut a tree down and they catched the tree in to the waters and the waters were made sweet every nation that came out against Israel Israel wasn't known for fighting Israel was known for worshipping Israel wasn't known for fighting they were known for worshipping every nation that came out against Israel was defeated why because they were God's people and there's nothing tonight that you're fighting that you're not going to ultimately defeat you hear me there's nothing you're fighting tonight that you're not going to not ultimately going to defeat but you got to stay in the church you got to stay in the church he'll be your pillar of cloud by day he'll be your pillar of fire by night he'll be the fourth man in your furnace he'll be the God that shuts the jaws of the line he'll be everything you need but for God's sake stay in the church come on let's worship him for a moment stay in the church stay in the church I'm in a battle right now you don't know what a battle is until you wake up without the church you don't know what a battle is until you wake up spiritually alone can you talk to me about battles stay in the church because when one can put a thousand to flight two can put ten thousand five stay in the church stay in the church when she's rejoicing stay in the church when the attendance is high and stay in the church when the bottom falls out stay in the church when you can't get a seat in the prayer room and stay in the church when you the only voice in the prayer room stay in the church turn to your neighbor you say stay in the church turn the other neighbor and say stay in the church come on Jericho come on to Jericho march around Jericho silliest thing you ever heard for battle tactics march around Jericho but March and don't say a word don't say word six days once a day march around the city one time and go back to your camp don't say a word seven days on the seventh day march around the city seven times and at the end of seven times when I give you the signal the ram's horns are going to blow and I want you to shout tells me that if we don't get Jericho to come down there's a whole lot more marching going on than shout but stay in the church because we're marching to victory we're march of the victory stay in the church I'm closer to my miracle today than I was last week I'm closer to my breakthrough right now than I was last Sunday night you know why I still got my marching shoes on stayed in the church they come to Jericho and just like y'all told them seventh day seven times around ram's horns blows and Israel shouted and the Bible said two walls fell flat I was privileged once to go to the side of Jericho and the tour guide there told me a very interesting thing he said most archeologists began to study the mound here where Jericho was at and said we was for sure that we would find debris from these tall walls that had fallen fallen outward and he said we've discovered no debris there was no debris and upon further examination we found the walls of Jericho still in Tyre perfectly intact said but it was as if a great hand had reached down and shoved those walls into the earth said they're still intact there - ugh we can't explain it but it seems like something just shoved them almost the earth opened up and something this shoved them in the ground I tell you it wasn't a freak earthquake it wasn't a freak of nature when God got ready God just simply said I'll treat you like a Tonka toy I'll just take you and shove you down in the earth how I'll treat you like a tent peg I'll just take you and shove you down in the earth because when God has got a people on their way to Zion Jericho's walls are no match for our God can I tell you what you see is a wall of impossibility it's a flick of a finger to God and God can just shove it down in the earth I'm preaching about my god tonight there's nothing that my god can't nations begin to fall Israel begin to fight and nations begin to fall nations would come out and Israel would fight them and they would fall as a group of men got together the Gibeonites they circled around and they said fellas our goose is cooked men we don't need to get our swords sharpen our Spears sharpen this unusual people that have come out of Egypt no one is stopping them red seas can't stop them a lack of water and the desert can't stop them shortage of food we don't even know where they're getting their food supply they're getting their food supply from a mysterious source nothing can stop them we are dead men in their pathway the only chance we got is we got a dis evil we got a dis evil we got to tell them that we are people from hundred as of miles away we can't tell them we're chaining ovens we got to tell them that we're of another people miles away we have got to D see them we have got to deceive them we are dead unless we can deceive them and they put on the first Hollywood production they got together and they made them some old clothes that look like they had been wore out they made them they made some I don't know if they took axle grease from their chariot wheels and rubbed it through their hair they had old clothes and old shoes that look wore out they got old bottles of wine and they made it look oh they they rub stuff on their face they think they did all these things old shoes old clothes hair a mess face with dirt and grease upon it bottles of wine that looked like there were hundreds of years old old pieces of bread that you'd break a tooth if you tried to eat it and they went walking into the camp they went walking into the camp and somebody said hey who are you all you all or not you or not that you're not Israel who are you all and then they begin to say what we're people from a far country and why look at these shoes here that are wore out and they look at these old clothes and look at my hair look at my face you can tell I've not had a bath and look at this bread and they broke it look at this wine here while I work we're from way off we're from hundreds of miles down the road and we come to get you to make a league with us we've come to get you to somehow let us join your group can I tell you can I stop here for just a moment and tell you that the worst thing the church can do is to make a league with the world we don't hate the world we're not judgmental of the world but when the world wants to come to the church the world has to understand it's gotta come through the blood it's gonna come through repentance it's gonna come through baptism it's gotta come through spirit baptism we are in the world for the chase but we're not of the world and the last thing we can do to destroy the church Satan rubs his gnarly fingers and he's hoping that we'll buy in to let the world come in but we can't let the world because we're the Church of the Living God we're marching to Zion come on we don't need a worldly Church somebody said I'm not the originator of this they said the problem with our culture Nolan is the world has gotten churchy and the church has gotten worldly we don't need such a mix you don't need life but you don't need to be like the man that got him a new thermos jug he went to work braggin on his thermos jug and said what about that thermos jug he said man it'll keep hot things hot and cold things cold so they said George what do you got in it he said I got iced tea and chili in it this morning that's what I got in it can I tell you I would want to drink such a concoction but there's too many churches that are trying to mix the cold formalism of worldliness denied sin denying deliverance let me tell you something God's Church believes in deliverance God's Church believes in deliverance we don't believe that you're gonna have a patch to get off nicotine we believe that you can repent and you can get off nicotine pull my god I'm talking about the charge it's got power in it talking about the church he can change the desire of nicotine he can take the desire about the hole he can take the desire of drugs he can take the desire of pornography and talking about the charts somebody help me praise Him tonight okay you come over here I'm talking about the church the church do you take a man who's got a 357 cocked his head and the church can stand in between him the church the church oh thank God for the church the church would you just praise him for a moment just the church my god I'm so glad I'm in this church Oh Lord I'm glad I'm in this church hi I'm glad I'm a worshiper an appraiser in this church see where we're from a far country said make a make a league with us just will smelled something that smelled good he said who are you and where are you from that same deceptive measure go back with me to Joshua nine thirteen Oh hallelujah Oh hallelujah I feel the presence of the Lord here talk about the church who are you who are you are you from they went through this Hollywood production again look at these shoes look at these old bottles of wine look at verse 13 here they are here they are these bottles of wine which we feel we're new and behold they be red and these are garments and our shoes have become old the reason of the very long journey and the men took of their victuals of their food and asked not Council at the mouth of the Lord the biggest mistake you'll ever make in your life is taking things by face value and not by prayer meeting value the worst thing you'll ever do in your life is to make spiritual decisions based on what you see they looked at the most shoes yep the old wine bottles yeah though the old pieces of bread yep they said you know what just come on in come on in we swear to you that you'll be protected by us we swear to you that you'll be protected by us but they asked not counsel at the at the mouth of the Lord and then it didn't take but about three days later because you know what that's the way sin works three is the number of Resurrection when you make decisions based on only what you see and not the prayer room you better get ready for a third day appearing of something you weren't banking on because three days later three days later they came up over a hill where they were supposed to take some cities and as they begin to man up to go fight one of them men turned around and said not so quick I know so what do you mean not so quick he said that's where I live that's my city you lied to us i mighta lied but you made an oath I'm out alive but you made an agreement you see there's some things that an agreement that we make cannot erase the fruit of the lie the agreement that you make there's a lot of things if you don't get yard in your prayer life and you don't get to understand and you don't make decisions based on face value just what you see you've got to have some time in prayer to the great head of this church you got to talk to God about it you got to ask God to give you an answer you got to ask God maybe to speak to your pastor they didn't preach on I'm not gonna go telling what it is I'm just going to see if God will land on my pastor's heart into Wednesday nights it goes by and the pastor gets up and he says I send my prayer room today and God told me to touch on this subject and you begin to shout in the pew because it's what you ask God about can I tell you you will make an agreement with sin and when sin tells you I lied you still have to eat the sour fruit of sin oh no no no no no you can't attack that city because you made ally with us you have to let us dwell among you you have to live the rest of your life with us dwelling among you can I get a witness tonight how many men and women sit on these pews tonight that under your breath you're saying Amen preacher that's the God's honest truth I made it I made some decisions of my life based on just simply what I've seen I made a decision upon my life I didn't take it to the prayer room you know one of the most important vital decisions of your life is who you're gonna marry I don't care what her body shape is I don't care how much money he knocks down at alcoa for God's sake pray about it pray about it I'll tell you that's some strong preacher but that's a pretty weak response right there I want you to know you better pray about it well she's been coming to church I don't care if she has been comin to church you better pray about it you better pray about I'm gonna tell you it's not God's will for any of you to marry anybody that doesn't believe in repentance water baptism spirit baptism one God holiness hey maybe see I'm just gonna preach a little bit when I get done I'm gonna get done but some of you cute little girls have often told me I'm on a husband I want a man just like pastor what if you want a man sugar cakes just like me you better find you one that's got some convictions just like me you better find you a man that loves God's house I come to God's house I come to God's house friend he said oh yeah but you the preacher you're supposed to do that come on young people come on young people I don't even care if they go to an Apostolic Church I got you so sad for me to have to preach this but not all apostolic churches have kept the world out of them don't let the world come in hey we don't need to be dropping the standards we need to be lived in the standards it's not a day to be letting down it's a day to be building up my god we're facing here like we've never faced held aboard we need to be lifting up a stand about carver he's been coming for three weeks bill carpenter man have you seen her man she just knocked your eye out yeah she sure enough might do that for it's over there too can I tell you I have seen in my life some pretty ugly people you know I mean by that cosmetically they were pretty cosmetically they were handsome cosmetically they look just like the movie star that they pattern in their life over that's another thing I preach about our heroes ought to be people in the church not people on television you know what I'm just preaching to the young folks tonight huh I'm just preaching to you I love you I really love you but you're heroes don't need to be Madonna and ladies get gang huh can I preach to you young lady that doesn't need to be your role model young man that doesn't need to be your role model kept your hair like him wear your hair like him wear your pants like him wear your clothes I can wear your dress like her or maybe to her I don't know nowadays no no no no young people keep that stuff out get you some role models in the house of God Luther Aaron here some of these older ladies look around in some of these any carpenters some of these Sandra elements some of these ladies in this church suddenly Sherri John serves up look around some of these women say that's what I love them look like we don't need to left that in the church girl you made me see girl if you have to lower your blouse lines and up your hemline to get a boy he ain't worth yet he is not worth heaven he's not worth heaven if you got to start revealing yourself to him wearing dress is so tight you could put a dime in your back pocket read that read the gate on it that's not the way God will just for me God will just a me a holy people God will just to be a righteous people hey it wrote on grandmas and grandpas here it brought our grandparents here and it brought them here I believe and boy maybe see when that girl comes in here that doesn't know God looking like Chiquita banana mama you won't go shake anybody's hand but you feel led to go shake her hand you leave Chiquita banana mama to some of these well-seasoned young people well I just been praying for my girl to come around she the one and I mean let me just stop it oh let me do the desktop let me just stop an old pastor old standard that may need to be that may need to be brought back yeah I'm that I know I never said that I've gotten rid of it I just think preached on it in a while somebody come in the church off limits to you for six months don't go messing them up they don't need to come because you're here they need to come because they're gonna get in the church they're gonna get in the church they're gonna fall in love with Jesus Jesus I don't wanna travel because of you I don't want to come in because of you I want them to turn because they love leave them alone they'll respect you for it they're off limits for six months from the time of their conversion not from the time they first started because when they start when they get converted can be a few years apart from the night to get the Holy Ghost and get baptized in Jesus name you can let the clock start but don't catch them don't get around them until they catch six months of lovin Jesus will be if it's a young man will man with E if it's a young girl we'll put a young girl you say man I'm afraid they're gonna get out of church and I'm afraid they're going to get in church for the wrong reason and when they get in church for the wrong reason they never leave by themselves they take you out the door with them I'm just telling you okay it is well you got some guests on front row they must not be too uncomfortable their standing the man standing thank you brother hey you know that dating business not only belongs for the teenagers that belongs with these 50 year old folks who find themselves soon there that was real weak since we don't need the world tell us the worst thing we can do brother Justin the worst thing we can do if this close an hour of the church is to start being deceived let's let a little this come in the church let's a little of that come in the church let's little bit can I ask you where did you get that from who are you where did you get that from you may be seated who are you where'd you get that stuff from some of your women have decided to dress a little different here in the last few weeks where did you get that from you didn't get that from a church what what hellah vision did you get that offer what what what demonic pill-popping rockstar did you get that offer what magazine that glorifies your body is a piece of meat did you get that offer I'll tell you where you didn't get it you didn't get it in the prayer room you didn't get it reading your Bible I wonder Oh this is till enough I wonder if we took our decisions to the prayer room and ass held so at the mouth of the Lord if the Lord wouldn't answer us and we can walk out saying angle put that on my face anymore I'm not gonna wear that anymore I'm not gonna do that anymore why because I got something from another world where did it come from where'd it come from I'll tell you another deception don't just come to church be the church don't just come and settle up to you to teach and everything I don't lock the asset lock man and I'll I think that what oh hush up get your hands lifted and begin to worship God that's why you're in the church where in the world did we give this where'd you get that if you got a physical problem I understand but if your hands weren't good pop them in your hands what a good race home if your mouth works good pray to Him that's the church that's the church don't me see that's the church the church I promised the guy to make you feel better I promised the guy to make you feel better it's the church I'm sophisticated we got preachers on prilosec right now and I say that right we got preachers on prilosec right now walking out over congregations trying to have a revival Church trying to please people would that come in come in and up the nominal church well yeah that's just how I was allowed to do can I tell you don't just come to church don't be deceived some of us are deceived as long as we get here God's gonna save us listen you can go to hell on a church pew just like you can a bar stir huh I'm up I'm gonna preach tonight they'll ever have another ancestor in my third message of the day how about preach tonight cannot have another hands X deception that's the censored that's deception let's have obedience camp obedience as always fool disobedience it's not just that you got here you need to worship God you need to worship God now if you've never if you've never been a demonstrative worshipper I'll let you off the hook right now if you've never been a hand wave or a Handclap or a shouter I'll let you off the hook right now but if somewhere in your walk with God you've ran aisles you dance you've spun you holler till you didn't have a voice if you're not doing it now you're a backsliding get backsliding if you're not doing it down come on where is oddysey where's our teas Israel we're coming through the land we're like no other Church we're coming through the land you won't see anything rocket in town he won't see anything rocket in eternity that's me cause we're the church where the church you only get a microphone priest for a few minutes that dad take a break it gets your microphone go out and give me the microphone somebody get in the minors don't go at it buddy come on some money I believe the Holy Ghost is in this place how do you think they were acting on the day of Pentecost do you think they had their arms folded when the Spirit of God was fallen do you think they were just sitting there when the Pittock when they they have been accosted fully come no I believe it was loud in that room I believe there was people jumping luckily there was people dancing because they were desperate for something they never experienced before if you need something in your life right now I want you to do something you've never done before if you've never ran you to run if you've never dad treating the death because God's presence is in this race if you need something it's in the charts if you need a miracle it's in the church you need a healing in the church right now come on you gotta act in a way that you're desperate to get the faith is in this house right now but get the faith is in this house right now if you are a guest welcome to church if you are a guest in this house welcome to the church come on God's presence is in this place come on God presence is in this house let's entertain the presence of God hallelujah hot oil all over your shop I believe they get too famous in this house whatever you need is in this place if you need deliverance it's found in the church if you need it's found in the church hallelujah hallelujah come on let's all be in one Accord tonight I wish there would not be one person that is not worshiping in this place because they are all in one accord of the day of Pentecost get it from a charge didn't get it from the charge would you go I have knowledge anybody did it that's right go ahead Maggie go ahead Maggie well as I only go to here where'd you get it out where'd you get it out where'd you get it out where'd you get it out who told you you didn't have to pray who told you that you could go much without talking in tongues who told you you could do that let me show you something I'm gonna show you why we don't need to take things at face value I'll show you why we don't need to take things at face value don't you ever worry don't any of you ever sit here and worry I think it's getting a little bit too wild in here well let me tell you something when they start accusing us in town of being drunks what's our guest gonna think why do they think about you claiming to have something I'll say I'm gonna say why you can't I'm gonna see why you can't judge things by face value all right and just bless my heart don't put Chad here nah he just doing I ain't preach along you're clapping too long Justin he knows it that's okay but tonight when he's doing I went back and hugged him he said pastor he said I'm pregnant right now I'm interceding he said there's a lot of hurting people in this room wouldn't that be just like the devil to tell you that's odd when it's actually the thing that can touch God for you and tells you to rejoice wouldn't it be just like the devil to convince us that the day of shouting the day of praising the day of worshipping the day of demonstrative worship is over and leave us without our touch from God deception deception deception don't just come to this church be the church be the church leader don't just come to this church be the church don't be deceived because only thinking stop us is for us to look at things at face value think man we never gonna grow with this crazy that's going on oh really oh really oh really how about my brothers from the house is that right y'all like this craziness goes on around here don't you y'all like this because when we begin to worship God not my emotions but because there's one Lord his name is Jesus I want to get you to the water I want to get you baptized I want to get you Holy Ghost field I want to get you living with God I want to get you little the holiness waiting have one last DVD rise that Israel Israel Israel had to put up with them all their life because somebody made a decision on a face value deception Lord tell us about the end of time in the world when you coming beware that no man deceive you so you don't know how long I've been in church there I you you think you've been in long enough not to be deceived I've seen some changing around here you didn't get it from me don't tell your kids to grow up to be like me when you want you don't work that way do you mean you don't work that way you can't want your kids to be something that you're not just go ahead and send me right now 95% chance your kids are gonna be just like you they're gonna pray like you worship like you attend church like you and if you don't like how you're doing right now change it while you got chance change it while you got some chance set your family again in a family prayer meeting and say look dad got to see and dad accepted some things it was not of God but my eyes have been open and I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna do that where'd you get it where'd you get it you didn't get that from me ain't you dead for me what'd you get what'd you get you know how long I've been in the church I want you to hear this none of us tonight I don't care if the Apostle Paul baptized you none of us tonight are beyond deception none of us and I'm gonna close with about four or five verses to prove it John the Revelator John the disciple that Jesus loved John the writer of the book of Revelation John in revelation 17 and verse 1 there came one of the seven angels revelation 17 one there came one of the seven angels which had seven vials and talked with me saying saying unto me come hither I will show unto thee the judgment of the great that sitteth upon many waters said come on John I'm going to show you what the endtime Church is going to compete with you see we're a bride there's two women mentioned in the book of Revelation a bride and a harlot were the bride we only have a relation with one but what we're competing with brother Harris is a religion that will go to bed with anything so come on John I'm going to show you the great that sitteth upon the water it is a religious system we're fighting tonight with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication that's her false doctrine this harlot has a cup full of false doctrine she's got men drunk with it so he carried me away if he got that on the screen so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet scarlet colored Beast a woman was sitting seated upon a scarlet cook covered colored Beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication upon her head upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the Great mother of harlots and abominations of their and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints well she killed the apostles she killed and martyred she killed and martyred those who carried the name of Jesus she's drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondered with great admiration and the angel said unto me wherefore did thou marvel Shaunda Revelation John the beloved of Jesus rather the gospel took the mother of Jesus hope he gets a glimpse of this harlot religion how beautiful it looked to the OP she's dead with golden pearls she's kept in all the right places she's not peeling to the eye everybody wants to attend there she's appealing to the eyes and when John looked at her John began to admire her for just a second John got caught up in what he saw until the angel had to interrupt him hey wait a minute John wake up John why did you marvel why would you call her can I tell the Apostolic Church of Maryville something tonight we cannot get I own that mother harlot religion not for one moment and no they just have a half-hour service I know they're comfortable I know you're not gonna hear anything offensive nah God don't utilize up all night Helene they don't have Church for an hour I got our preacher preach us right you get your eye on it and you'll get your eye on a system that'll take you straight to hell you get your eye on that friend they'll tell you they believe just like we believe all we believe just like we believe we'll just baptize you that way all will yes we we just shoddy I talking in tongues - and we believe all we even dance can I tell you do they do it for the right reason or is it another Louis Vuitton cheap knockoff so down at the gas station telling you it's a real thing you hear me tonight and I'm done I'm done tonight but you hear me I love you I thank God you attend this church but if there's anybody in this room thinking I'm gonna change how we have Church in this last day then you don't know Kenny ray carpenter very well you don't know me very well Steven the only thing can stop us is deception the only thing by the Thomas that can stop us is deception that's the only thing that could stop us so I'm gonna be back here Wednesday night because some folks have got out of the habit of coming on Wednesday night where'd you get that run where'd you get that where'd you get that we do Sunday morning only and I wish that he's not turned me off by accidentally touching I wish I hadn't even I wish I hadn't even looked at my phone tonight because I know somebody will say well he's talking about me and I am i under stand people have car wrecks i understand people have sicknesses that they're contagious I understand all that I understand all that but man they suppose just miss Church a drop of hat thank you thank you bro thank you thank you thank you thank you brother Greg's brother Briggs at you right that's what though just miss Church a drop of a hat just slippy and all we just took a nap and didn't wake up come on can we just get real here tonight what'd you get that from makes people that should have been here tonight so if I've been here I've been I'd be accountable for what I heard know you're still accountable for it because she had the opportunity to hear it some folks and they may be watching tonight and if they're not watching I go back on archive some of you all are missing Church no allowed not I won't say this don't allow they some of you that are truly shut-ins Mary Crowder Nolan happened Anthony Wilson they states truly people Lyle and Phyllis Leigh truly shut-ins but there's some of the rest of you tonight and I know you're going to get to the switch real quick to cut it off as if I've seen you but I'm telling you you ought to been in church tonight you are you ought to come to the you oughta been in the house of God another not sitting there with your computer over here your television here bouncing back and forth you need to be in the house of God don't need you need God's house you need the house of God because if we don't watch it we don't want you we gonna let the world come in here they gonna marry our kids you know marry our kids they gonna get our daughters believe in they they let they love Jesus just like we do we pastor teaches that just like just like this thickness now they baptized in Jesus name you know what as a man called me of the day told me she live baptized I baptized just like you in Jesus name I said further remission of sins he said I baptized in Jesus name I said for their mission he said when I baptized in Jesus name I said for the remission of sins because it ain't just baptized in Jesus name it's baptizing for the so we don't we don't believe they say because he doesn't believe that baptism has anything to do with salvation don't be deceived the Bible says it does huh I'm a god I may have my second wind on my second anointing I don't know but I'm on let y'all go home but I love you I'm gonna go home tonight I'm gonna sleep well because this church has received the Word of God well tonight I'm gonna sleep well god bless you Wednesday night Bible study 7:30 let's have a pact that crowd here on Wednesday night
Scripture references as spoken: Joshua 9:3-8; Matthew 24:1-4; Joshua 9:13-14; Revelation 17:1-7.