The Process Of A Changed Life | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

if you have your bibles and would stand with me this morning for a few moments i want to go to the word of the lord the book of john chapter number 11 verse number one is where we're going to begin john chapter 11 and verse number 1. now a certain man was sick named lazarus of bethany the town of mary and her sister martha it was that mary which anointed the lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother lazarus was sick therefore his sister sent unto him saying lord behold he whom thou lovest is sick are you all hearing the word sick when jesus heard that he said this sickness is not unto death but for the glory of god that the son of god might be glorified thereby turn over to the old testament the book of psalms chapter number 50 and verse number 15 and i did not give this verse to those that are operating the screens so psalms chapter 50 and verse number 15 and i'll wait just a second because i'd like for us to read psalms chapter 50 and verse 15 all together all right i want us to read i'd like to have 110 participation start reading with me at verse 15 of psalms 50 and in the day call upon me in the day of trouble you want to stand on a promise right now call upon me in the day of trouble anybody got trouble this morning let's call on him let's call on him in the day of our trouble and he shall hear and deliver and we will glorify him father in the name of jesus christ this morning i ask you lord to anoint my lips of clay with your spirit god anoint me lord to minister your word today god i give you all the praise and i give you all the glory in jesus name amen and amen clap your hands into the lord real good come on real good before you're seated jesus christ is the life changer jesus christ is in the business of changing lives if you're here this morning and you need your life changed i have great news for you you are at the right place jesus is the changer of lives but i want to minister today on the process of a changed life the process of a changed life it begins my sermon begins today with a story in the 11th chapter of john john's an interesting book because john has recorded seven miracles of jesus christ seven in the book of john there are seven miracles that are listed and what is noteworthy about these miracles is that they all have they're a sign of salvation they are a sign of what the lord is going to do in the church of course we know the church was birthed on the day of pentecost we understand that water was turned into wine and that god saved the best for last and there is nothing that can be compared with attending an apostolic church that preaches still today that god is the mighty holy ghost baptizer he is still pouring out his spirit seven signs seven miracles seven indications as a matter of fact the vast majority of the book of john records the last week of the life of jesus christ it is called the passion week it is called that week that god showed his passion to love a lost humanity and so here is the seventh sign here is the seventh sign the seventh sign had to do with a man named lazarus he wasn't just any ordinary man he wasn't just any ordinary man he had two sisters one was named mary the other was named martha we really don't know how the acquaintance was made but we find through scripture that jesus many times went to martha and mary's house and there martha and mary ministered to him or their house became a place for him to minister we also know that their brother lazarus fell into the company and if we could just say it this way because the bible says it the bible says that lazarus was a friend of jesus christ he was a friend of jesus christ they came and they said lazarus your friend is sick your friend is sick now i don't want you to to to rule this out today if you're sitting here and you're thinking well i i guess i can check out of this message because i mean i i'm nowhere near a friend of jesus christ you you don't know how i've been living you don't know how messed up that i am i i i'm nowhere so i i guess i can check out of your sermon right now please don't do that because he is not only a friend of the believer but one of the things that they criticized jesus about is they got together and stroked their judgmental beards and said these words why he is around harlots and he of all things is a friend to sinners so our god today is not only a friend to the lazarus those that are well acquainted with him but he's also a friend to those that are as far away from him as possible it's interesting how this reads lazarus got sick he's about a day's journey away from jesus at this time he's about a day's journey by foot if you didn't stop i map this out if you didn't stop he was about a day's journey but really what is distance with jesus i mean hasn't he proved before that he didn't even have to go to the sick man right he didn't have to go there he just simply spoke the word and miles away someone got healed so distance is really nothing to him and if distance is really nothing to him then he could have prevented lazarus from being sick you would he would accept that wouldn't you that he could have prevented very well he could have prevented lazarus from being sick but he allowed it he allowed it do you know that the lord he doesn't always pamper those that he loves sometimes he allows things to come to our lives so that one thing can happen we can have an increase of our faith sometimes he allows things to happen things that we really can't see the rhyme or reason something things we don't understand he's he's he's he's in the quiet he's not spoke to me and i don't really understand why but he allows this because this was the seventh sign that he wanted to show beyond any shadow of a doubt that he was the son of god he wanted this seventh sign to be of such power that there would be no doubt in anyone's mind this is the son of god now jesus had raised the dead before jesus had raised the dead i find it very interesting to tell you that according to matthew mark luke and john no one ever died in jesus presence no one no one ever died while he was there and so as the story begins and unfolds in the mind of god in the mind of jesus he already knows what's going to take place i already know that lazarus is sick i already know that lazarus is going to die i already know this but yet i am allowing this to take place i'm allowing this to take place because i want there to be a seventh sign given that will be with without a shadow of doubt without a shadow of doubt some could say with thee and i i i've looked at this when you you look at the times that jesus raised people from the dead was jairus's daughter 12 years old that was laid out in the room and she was she had died and jesus came and took her by the hand and raised her from the dead and then there's the time that the widow woman's son that lived in name that he died and they had laid him on a cot and was carrying him out to the sepulcher to bury him jesus stopped and touched the equivalent of a casket and the boy resurrected but you know that in all of those in all of those there could have been the skeptic that said well the little girl wasn't really dead she was just in a coma the little girl wasn't really dead she was just in a deep coma you know oh the the man the young boy he really wasn't dead and and you you read all of you read all their they they go to great lengths sometimes the critics do to disprove the miracle of jesus christ some call it a swoon theory that jesus really didn't die on the cross he just went into a coma on the cross and woke up in the tomb and you know that really don't make any sense at all here a man that's almost cut in two with 39 stripes nailed his hands and his feet hangs for hours and bleeds has a gaping hole that opens up his kidneys and his heart the blood flows that man revives rolls away a stone and fights 16 roman soldiers and runs off yeah right you believe that i've got some oceanfront property up in towns and i'd like to introduce you to all right but they could have said they could have can you hear the critic now well the girl wasn't really dead brother nolan well the the boy wasn't really dead he was just in a coma just he was just in you know he's not conscious but lazarus i'm going to allow something to happen that will remove all doubt and at the same time draw a crowd i want there to be a crowd this on this seventh final miracle i want there to be a crowd and so they send this servant mary and martha send a servant to go to jesus now follow with me now it takes one day for the servant it takes one day for the servant to get to jesus when the servant gets to jesus if you follow the the time table here when the servant got to jesus lazarus died on that day he died on that day when the servant reached jesus and said he whom thou lovest your friend is sick lazarus had died two things we want to look at for a moment number one they sent the servant mary and martha sent the servant go get jesus and while he's gone in a day's journey their brother lazarus dies the servant does not know that lazarus has died here is the message in john 11 and 4. when jesus heard that that lazarus was sick he said this sickness is not unto death you say well wait a minute pastor he died correct but what jesus is saying is death is not going to have the final say you see church if jesus had not conquered death it really didn't matter that he opened blind eyes unstopped deaf ears caused the paralyzed to walk if death ultimately held the ace then what good was any of it you know the bible caused death you know what the bible calls death the bible calls death the last enemy sickness is an enemy but it's not the last enemy problems are the enemy but they're not the last enemy but praise me to the one we worship whose name is jesus this morning that he conquered not only sickness but he conquered death hell and the grave so he is saying he is saying this sickness death is not going to be the ultimate ruler of this sickness this sickness verse 4 is not unto death but for the glory of god what is this sickness all about what is this sickness all about this sickness is about the glory of god can i tell you you short change your life when you think god blessing you is about you you really don't know the bountiful rich blessings of god that you live a life to say lord if you let me go through that if you get the glory out of it god then i'm satisfied but god has never used a container that he didn't more than bless when he got through with it he said this sickness this sickness is not unto death look at verse 4 with me for the but for the glory of god that the son of god might be glorified thereby now jesus loved martha and her sister and her sister and lazarus and when he had heard therefore that he was sick he about two days still in the same place now as we look at the time now here's the servant the servant doesn't know lazarus has died here's mary and martha a day's journey away they are burying their brother they are wrapping him up like a mummy and putting him in a tomb the servant comes bouncing into town on day two he comes bouncing into town on day two and guess what he's got he's got a wonderful resurrecting message what is it can you see the servant with a smile on his face as mary and martha walk out to greet him and all of a sudden he begins to say to them hey i spoke to jesus he said this sickness is not unto death but for the glory of god that the son of god might be glorified and they just stopped him right there and they just said hold the news we just come from the cemetery hold the news we just buried our brother lazarus can i tell you that times of bringing glory to god sometimes the message does not fit your situation you have a situation that you have put a period in you have wrote the last chapter of your life you have written the last chapter and you have written the end and you have closed your book only to stumble in an apostolic church on a sunday morning and hear somebody tell you that god can make all things new god can make all things new come on now god i said god i wish somebody helped me shout it today god can make all things new you don't know my life you don't know how i messed up you don't know nobody has confidence in me nobody has faith in me but i've come to tell you today that there's one whose name is jesus and he has faith in you when the when the message doesn't fit your situation can you see that with me brother or can you see the servant can you see him running back into town hey death is not going to have the final say this is for the glorification of jesus christ this is for jesus to get glory he's not just the son of man he's the son of god and they say hold the sermon we just buried him we just buried him now news news gets out jerusalem is about two to three miles away evidently mary martha and lazarus was a very popular family not only with jesus but with the pharisees and that they must have been a very popular family uh let's just find a family here in the church the bryants there they are very popular family they have a bed and breakfast out there i i mean they're they're they're a very popular family all right it'd be like one of their kinfolk dying word gets out mary martha lazarus has died three miles away in jerusalem people begin to go to house to house lazarus has died lazarus is dead people begin to say well we'll come for the viewing we'll we'll be there for the viewing you see can i tell you something the lord knows how to orchestrate a processed life he knows how to orchestrate he's getting a lot of attention and all of a sudden here they come they're they're baking bread they're they're they're fixing things and they're coming down and a large crowd gathers around the house of mary martha and lazarus and and they're weeping they're crying and and they're they're talking about the life like we do at the funeral homes we're standing around and we're talking about what he did or what she did and the crowds just keep growing and growing and growing and the lord waits another day he waits another day he waits to the third day he doesn't move and boy i could talk about some typology here he began to move on the third day he did he did more than just me he just did more than just a one-third day he rose from the dead on the third day matter of fact if you go all the way back to creation and read the book of genesis it was on the third day that the earth resurrected with vegetation that sprang out of the earth the third day has always been a number of typology of resurrection so the third day hits and he begins to tell the disciples our friend lazarus is asleep and i've got to go wake him now please stay with me today in this narrative he says to his disciples hey thomas hey john lazarus is sleeping and i must go and wake him and they begin to say wait a minute why would you want to wake him up if he's sleeping if he's sleeping that's good it's good for him to sleep but what they did not understand is how the lord views death they did not understand how the lord viewed the death of lazarus you see god does not see the way we see we see finality we hear the doctor's report we hear the words i'm not coming back we hear the words we hear those words of tragedy that happen but just because we hear them doesn't mean that god hears the same words somebody heard lazarus has died but how the lord looked at it was he's only asleep he's only asleep do you understand today that your life that you're losing sleep over your life that you're so stressed out that you've got ulcers growing in your stomach right now on this sunday morning your life that you're wringing your hands over and you think it's just a total failure and you don't even want to get up in the morning you don't even want to try anymore do you know there is a god whose name is jesus that i have come to preach about today that does not look at death as death but he says oh that's just sleep you realize he just walks through the congregation today he could stand at the end of your pew and you could tell him your life's problem and you could tell him why you can't do what you need to do and you know what he would say to you oh that's nothing for me just give it to me oh that's nothing for me just give it to me oh that's nothing to me just commit your life to me oh that's nothing to me just worship me would you do enough would you do enough you know many times you know you know that god has never asked us to do something that we don't do for other answers there's not a doctor there is not a doctor that you just simply call him on the phone listen you call him on the phone call him up right now doctor you go visit come visit him a doctor you tell your trouble to tell your trouble to jesus today and the difference see jesus listen to me now he's never asked us to do something we wasn't already doing for something else people said well i i'm just not gonna get all involved in that that emotional stuff would you know be careful when you go to your ball games well i just don't get emotional i'm just not the kind that lets my emotions show up the next time that the bank teller shorts you 50 bucks don't say a word about it all right they didn't mean to do it either all right you see he's not asking you to do anything today that you haven't already done for something else but the difference is today he can solve your problems the difference is today it's not taking a chance on jesus he is the answer he is so he just walked by your pew today and you can say well i got this going on and i messed up this way and i messed up that way you know what he said well just call upon my name just worship me just get to know me and watch me little by little i'll change your life i may not do it overnight but if you'll just watch me little by little i'll change your life you just come on back tonight come on back to the prayer room come on back on wednesday night come on back that matter of fact on monday and tuesday have a little talk with jesus on thursday friday and saturday just have a little talk with jesus you begin to look you see sometimes let me add this in sometimes the enemy little by little steals from us right under our nose i read a story this past week about a man that worked in a high security complex and this man this man when it came time to leave at five o'clock he had to go through security and so one day he shows up at security he has a wheelbarrow in a small box about a shoebox size of sawdust he pulls up to the security officer the man says whoa whoa whoa wait just a minute he got in a wheelbarrow he said a shoebox of sawdust he said yeah right he opens it up runs his hands through it looks at it says i don't understand you but going through day two same man shows up wheelbarrow box of sawdust all right now what you trying to take out of this factory right shoebox box of sawdust day three day four day five finally the security guard stopped him he stopped him and he said you're stealing something out of this place said five days you've showed up with a wheelbarrow and a box full of sawdust what in the world are you stealing confess up and the man looked at him and said i'm stealing wheelbarrows sometimes the enemy's stealing things right under our nose and we can't see it see the bigger picture it's not just a small phrase praise that he's after he's after the whole wheelbarrow it's not just a day in your life that he's after he's not just after your sunday he's after the seven days of a wheelbarrow he's after all of but oh i want to preach him today your problem can become the background for the glory of god it's a win win the win is jesus is glorified and the wind is you are resurrected all praise be to him the process lazarus is dead day three jesus moves toward the house of mary and martha he arrives on day four four days he's not a little 12 year old girl that's laid for a few hours on the bed he's not a young boy that's laid for 12 hours and is being carried out to the cemetery this man has been dead for four days he has been dead in the tomb for four days on the fourth day he arrives at the house in verse 18. now bethany was nigh in jerus unto jerusalem about 15 furlongs off many of the jews came to martha and mary to comfort her concerning their brother then martha as soon as she heard that jesus was coming went out to meet him but mary set steel in the house then said martha unto jesus lord if thou hast been here my brother had not died can i tell you we've got to leave the past in the past because only jesus only your relationship with jesus can go back and correct things in your past you will never drink enough shoot enough make enough be enough to correct the problems of your past the only way you can get your past corrected is to invite the one who is the same yesterday today and forevermore you will never there's too many people here this morning trying to do it on your own you will not do it without jesus if you had been here my brother would not have died verse 22 but i know that even now whatsoever thou will ask of god god will give it thee now look at this today and this is where i think it reveals sometimes we say things we don't mean she said but i i know that whatever you ask god will give it to you jesus saith unto her thy brother shall rise again martha saith unto him i know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day jesus saith unto her i am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live now watch this mary had the doctrine of resurrection martha had the doctrine of resurrection where did they get it from they got it from the book of daniel they knew from the book of daniel that they which sleep in the dust shall rise again they knew they were jews that knew there will be a physical resurrection they were well versed with that there's going to be a physical resurrection and so jesus said your brother is going to rise again and they went to a paper doctrine they went to the scrolls they went to a piece of paper and they said oh yes we have this document and this document says he will rise again but can i tell you something jesus said i'm not talking about a document i am the resurrection i am the resurrection when you want to document i am that resurrection i am the resurrection of life i am here it's like this if i'm sick i don't need a medical book i need a doctor if i'm sick burned up with a fever don't come through a medical book in my lap and say read this and get better if i'm sick bring me a doctor if somebody sues me i don't need you to bring me a law book from ut i need a lawyer i need a real person if i'm drowning in this in the in the ocean i don't need a book about lifeguards i need a lifeguard to come and get me can i tell you today i'm not preaching a book i'm preaching a real resurrecting savior he met us up here in this baptismal pool yesterday at about six o'clock and he baptized my sister-in-law with the holy ghost you need a person today you don't need a doctrine a paper doctrine oh can we worship him right now jesus is here jesus is alive jesus is here jesus is here right now oh yes he is would you worship him please come on would you worship him please especially those of you that have something dead in your life in the name of jesus christ oh come on praise him right now come on praise him right now your answer is not coming by a person your answer is coming by jesus christ or if somebody would call me i would feel better jesus is calling you right now pick up the phone and begin to talk to him right now jesus is here right now just reach out and touch him i know my brother shall live again in the resurrection at the last day jesus saith unto her i am the resurrection and the life he that believeth in me though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die believe us now this she said unto him yay lord i believe that thou art the christ the son of god which should come into the world look at this he says do you believe this he's not talking to a harlot he's not talking to a wine bibber he's talking to a believer today some of you have got wrapped up you're a believer but you're wrapped up with a dead lazarus right now you're wrapped up with something you sent word listen you had prayer requests you had prayer chains you had everything going on because you knew that jesus could come and heal but because jesus said i'm going to use your your situation to bring glory to me and resort wrecked what's dead in your life because he didn't do it the way that you thought he should do it you have put him in a distant life you have put him in the in the future of your life but not now can i tell you yes now yesterday yes right here if you will only believe jesus will come to your pew come to your life today and begin to intertwine with you and he will make all things better if you can just worship him right now it's easy to worship when the doctor comes in the room and heals my sick brother but now you see today there's some of you sitting here with dead lazarus there's not enough people that could convince you the rapture is not going to take place there's not enough people that could convince you that god is not real you believe god's real but you're turned upside down right now because your lazarus is dead come on martha yes i believe you're the son of god verse number verse number 28. it's amazing how the conversation just ends abruptly and when she had so said she went her way and called mary her sister secretly saying the master is come and calleth for thee now let me tell you why it's called secretly is because earlier in the chapter i didn't read the verses but the very place that jesus was at the very vicinity of jerusalem there were backroom meetings that were scheming and plotting to crucify him they knew it was a very dangerous time they knew it was very dangerous they were scheming of where they could catch him at they didn't want to do it at a crowd they didn't want to do it here they didn't want to do it on a certain day but they were scheming to kill him it was dangerous she comes martha comes and whispers in mary's ear jesus is here why did she secretly tell him because down in her heart she knew that they're trying to kill him she whispers in martha's ear jesus is here mary gets up and runs to where jesus is at those that were gathered those that had that had come to comfort but to also to kill jesus if they could ever find him they said when mar when mary got up and ran out they said oh she goes to the grave to mourn she's going to mourn let's all get up from the couches let's all get up and let's all follow her out to the tomb and to the tomb they went but when they got to the tomb they not only found martha and mary at their dead brother's tomb but lo and behold they saw jesus can you see me you see them they're just weeping up the storm they're just crying up a storm and all of a sudden do you see him that's jesus that's the one we're going to kill and the conversation begins mary goes right back in that same old rehearse thing if you had been here my brother would not had died verse 33 when jesus therefore saw her weeping and the jews also weeping which came with her he groaned in the spirit and was troubled and said where have you laid him and they said said unto him lord come and see jesus wept then said the jews behold how he loved him some of them said could not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused that even this man should have not died jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to a cave it coming to the grave it was a cave and a stone was laid upon it jesus said here's where it's going to get real this morning this is where it's going to get real because the obligation and the weight today sister angelic is not on me come on preacher you're not doing a good job this morning come on you're really not moving us very well today if jesus cannot move you i do not wish to move you if exalting the lord jesus christ does not move you i shall never live my life is a positive mental uh instructor a positive mental attitude and believe in yourself listen i am where i'm at today because i believed in my rotten sinful flesh but when i began to believe upon the lord jesus christ he began to bring me out little by little by little and the devil said what are you trying to take out of this way and the lord said just a little bit of sawdust but the whole time god was developing a preacher and the whole time god was developing a man of god oh come on would you worship him would you worship him today oh this is where it's going to get real this is where it's going to get real today this is where it's going to get real take away the stone no i've heard better preachers than you doc and i wouldn't debate that with you for one bit but if your faith is in the excellent words of men's wisdom no no wonder you're still circling the same old trouble you've always circled no wonder well roll away stone roll away stone lord it stinks in that cave it stinks in that cave he's been dead four days corruption has already begun to sit in you do understand that on the fourth day when when when a person dies corruption sets in on the fourth day prophecy said that jesus christ would see no corruption that's why he resurrected on the third day corruption had not begun to take root but on the fourth day lazarus is already starting to decompose there's already things that he has lost there are already things in your life that you've lost the spiritual corruption has taken things away from you and taking things away from you and he says she says lord i'm not going to roll away that tomb this stone it stinks in that grave he is decomposing he is not what we put in there he is beginning to decompose and he's beginning to stick yes for just a while today you're going to have to take that rock of pride it's pride the reason you don't call out on the name of jesus it has nothing to do with your religious persuasion it's got everything to do with pride well i don't get emotional like pentecostals do it has nothing to do with the religious uh perception it has everything to do with pride it's pride that keeps your hands down it's stubbornness that keeps your hands down it's stubbornness and pride that keeps your mouth shut but if somehow the lovely lord could walk by your pew today and say roll the stone away that's all i'm asking roll the stone away oh how god could help you if you would just lift up your hands and say help me he has never turned anybody away that cried out help me come on say it help me help me a little frail a little frail jeanette carpenter rolled up in a ball in her bed with oxygen running to her her body is wasting away but somehow in their little frailness she said i want to be baptized can i tell you what a god we serve what a god we serve because as long as you're breathing and your brain is functioning he's a god that'll step there yes he could say you should have come five years ago but i'm glad he's not how i told you so god i'm glad he doesn't rub my nose in it i'm glad that when i'm ready to say help he doesn't stand there and say you just tread water a little more you just endure a little bit more trouble you just kind of beg me to get you oh he's a wonderful god oh help me i knew what it was yesterday the water was as warm as any water could ever be but when shane and cheshire walked down into that pool with his mother-in-law bowed up in his arms and sat down in that water she said this water's cold i reached down and i knew it wasn't cold i knew exactly what she was feeling in that water what she was feeling as cold was the presence of god and when we put her down in the name of jesus christ and she come up the holy ghost begin to hit her and she began to speak in other tongues she began to magnify the lord and he's no respecter of persons if he did it for aunt jeanette he will do it for you this morning there's no inception believe upon jesus christ trust in jesus christ but it stinks i've tried religion before i've even tried the apostolic church before i've tried it i get back in church and somebody offends me you know why they offend you you got your eyes on them and not on jesus you ain't gonna steal my wheelbarrow because it ain't about you liking me it's about the lord loving me is all that matters at any one time a church this size at any one time i'm personally going to have one person and many times several people that are not happy with me thank god we don't have elections praise god i had a minister call me he said i'm having a vote of confidence and i want 100 vote or i'm leaving this church i said you're foolish so what do you mean i said jesus god and flesh had twelve one was a devil one curse and said he didn't know him and all ten of them left god pastored the first church two saints adam and eve and both of them backslid so you just better hush your mouth and preach the word you can't steal my wheelbarrow because i got i'm gonna be blessed of god in this church you can't talk about ridicule well i've tried that church people stink i don't know what i disagree with you yeah you because when we get away from the sweet rose of sharon and the lily of the valley we can begin to emit odors of our flesh roll away stone could he have wrote it away absolutely and it would roll away he said no i need you to roll the stone i need you to get involved in this if i'm going to change your life i don't need eight people that can come around you and pray for you i just need you to pray oh i'm thankful when people come to the altar and we come up around that's wonderful but can i tell you their power and their deliverance is not in everybody around them their power and deliverance is in their own mouth well i just wish somebody go up there and pray for them i'm going to tell you something there are some people that need to be that need to be instructed on how to pray and there's other people that just need to get the stubbornness out of their life and pray and until they until they roll away the stone of stubbornness and pride they're going to be locked up listen they can be the apostle paul the apostle peter and jesus christ standing around them and they'll never get any better because they've got that stone of roll away the stone he said all right but it's going to stink they rolled away the stone he prayed one prayer why'd he pray i tell you why he prayed he wanted to pray to show the earth that he was in connection he was god in the flesh and then he said and i've heard this even said and i i believe it he didn't just say come forth he said lazarus come forth because had he not said lazarus some believe that entire cemetery would have resurrected that entire cemetery would have come lazarus matter of fact matter of fact hold years if you want to lazarus come forth why'd you have to do that because he did it why'd you have to get loud because he got loud you know what sometimes you need to get loud because your problems are louder and you got to pray loud enough you know why i pray loud there's a lot of voices and distractions so i just keep turning up the volume until i tune it all out lazarus come forth i'm not trying to hype anybody today but i would like for you to try this to ask for help loud enough that you can't hear anybody else in this room that you can't hear anybody help help me lord i need help today i need healing today i need deliverance today i need help on stand with me right now ah knee help the process of a changed life is little by little is little by little god wants to walk you out of your prison today by your taskmaster that's going to say wait a minute what are you trying to take out of here and god just wants to say just some sawdust but the whole time he's changing you lazarus come forth i want to end the story lazarus come forth he that was dead came forth bound since it's a sign brother hammond see what you can do with this since the seventh miracle is a sign i'd like to hear from you in the days to come since the seventh miracle is a sign he's bound in three places his feet his hands and his face the lord has to say because lazarus came forth bound hand and foot how did that happen because the seventh is a sign of the rapture you know how i believe it happened i don't believe lazarus was moving his feet i believe he was swept by the power of god i don't believe he i don't i don't believe he took one step out of that tomb i believe that he was just swept by the i believe what they saw coming out i think they just saw lazarus just being swept out and then they said jesus said loose him loose his feet some of your feet need to be loose this morning oh i'd like to go to the altar loose them right now in jesus name loose them right now in jesus name i listen god's already swept you into this building your feet you've got to roll the stone away and you've got to unloose your feet today i'm going to go to that altar i'm going to use my feet and i'm going to go to that altar and when i get to that altar i'm going to unfold my hands thank you thank you cecelia that's it that's it that's it that's it watch it now when i get to that altar i'm going to unloose my hands i'm going to get my hands and loose why brother snip watch this because until my feet get loose then i get here until my hands get loose and i raise them i can't take the napkin off my face to reveal who i am come on today loose no speed in jesus name come on today in the name of jesus come to the altar right now come to the altar right now jesus loose your feet come on son loose your feet right now come on son lift your hands right now come on take the napkin off your face come on take it off your face right now oh yeah let us pray for a minute let's pray for a minute come on find your place in the altar so so so come on let it happen this morning come on let it happen this morning roll the stone away throw the stone away oh wrong stone away come on you've got the power you've got the power oh roll the stone away god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus oh god in the name of jesus oh would you put your hand over on someone come on pray for him right now jesus is here jesus is here jesus is here oh the healer is here the savior is here oh god he's here oh he's here lord let there be healing lord nothing be healing lord never be delivered lord touch our minds touch our minds oh yes yes yes yes yes come on church the lord is here the lord is here he wants to help you oh yes god right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes oh yes yes yes yes yes yes go ahead praise him go ahead crazy ahead crazy diet praise it roll the stone away and i want you to listen to me just a moment i i haven't had them lead our praise yet because i want to finish this sermon listen to me real close the devil steals our victory one alter service at a time just like the man got the wheelbarrow stove we don't think very much about just one altar service it's just one altar service we got tonight he'll call us up in the altar tonight i can pray hard tonight i can reach hard tonight we miss it one altar service at a time and i'll show you the devil wants to kill you the bible says in the 12th chapter of john lazarus is resurrected and the bible said they served a dinner in the 12th chapter of john they served at dinner and it said lazarus sat at the table we do not have one recorded word from lazarus there is nothing recorded he said when he came back from the dead there's only two things mentioned about him he was seated at a table and the bible says the second thing it said and the jews got together and decided that they would not only kill jesus but they would kill lazarus also can i tell you today that the enemy wants to kill every last one of us he wants to kill you this morning and he's so glad that he's got the wheelbarrow with the sawdust and you're about to let another altar service go by not understanding the enemy just stole something from you hey he's taking it out the door right now the climate is right the climate is set the word has been preached the lovely lord of heaven is walking through the crowd right now and he's just saying is somebody gonna praise me is somebody gonna worship me is somebody gonna let me help them today come on for the next few moments as loud as we can