They Don’t Know, That They Don’t Know | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

this my prop today for my sermon i got a prop this morning somebody i think his brother tony said that um props in a sermon make a bad preacher better all right so i've got a i've got a prop this morning and i will put my prop here for just a moment i didn't give those scriptures this one scripture i didn't give the team this morning but there is a scripture in acts chapter 2 and verse number 40 that after peter told them and answered their question men and brethren what shall we do he kind of ended it by saying save yourselves from this untoward generation and toward meaning a perverse a generation that is not going toward god save yourself from this untoward culture the first century church lived in a culture and the 21st century church lives in a culture we are the church we are the church but we are living in a culture that is unlike any culture before and what can best describe this culture is that everybody's right and nobody's wrong unless you tell them they're wrong we're living in a culture we're living in a culture when everyone is right everyone is right and you're only wrong if you claim exclusively to have the right way then you're wrong kind of goes kind of goes like this there's three categories there's the god care category and that's where god expresses himself through his word and whatever god's word says that's it the bumper sticker says god said it i believe it and it's so you could leave a lot off that bumper sticker but i just simply said god said it and it's so whether we believe it or not doesn't add to or take away from what god has said so there's a category of god's word it is absolute it is absolute and then there comes the column there comes the column of where people derive what they believe and perceive to be right by numbers by numbers majority everybody don't we hear this sometimes when we're trying to tell people about category number one god what do we hear why everybody's doing it so they begin to base their morals and decisions based on numbers majority and the third category the third category is people that will say i know what i believe in my heart i know what i believe in my heart i know what's in my heart and they're all right with that until you tell them what's in your heart and then you can't stand there and have the difference they want to go to the category of the majority they bounce back and forth save yourselves from this untoward generation the bible is the absolute final say for man it's the absolute final say you see this is a level and any building that has been built has been built with a man that knew how to use this level because the structure of the building windows opening and closing correctly have got to do with this doors closing and opening correctly have got to do with this the the ability of a wall to be able to hold weight has got to do with this they take this this level and they read and they get it right in the center and they get it level and that's where they'll nail it down that's where they'll nail and make sure that everything is level you know today this this is really like the word of god this is really like the word of god because this word of god comes into our lives it's the only thing it's the only thing that can build you up a life worth living is the word of god it comes into our lives and sometimes we come and we hear the word of god and the word of god tells us hey you're a little off you're just a little off so i have to start conforming to the level i have to start conforming they take the they may have to to get a hammer out begin to hit until i begin i conform to this but you see we live in a day is it amazing how crazy the world is the world expels god's word in god's prayer 1960-something from from schools students were no longer allowed to pray and teachers and all that business in a classroom now nowadays they can go outside and go around a flagpole if they want to you know but god forbid that a teacher would stand there and lead that class in prayer so they they push god outside of the public schools and then years later we start having school shootings and bombings and the first question people want to ask is where was god well i can tell you where god's at way back there in 1962 you told him to get out and this is what a school looks like with god out of the life right what happens in our world today because there's no absolutes because to stand and say you absolutely believe something you better get ready for some fire you better get ready for some bullets to come because here's how the world does the bible today see my life's a little out of square so guess what i do brother randy i won't do this to your level i begin to bend this to fit me so i get a lifestyle that the bible calls an abomination so what do i do i leave column one where it's god's word solely that says the final word and i go to the majority and i begin to build and bend this to say look now it reads correctly well it only reads correctly because you've been you've bent this so today i want us all to understand something we must have the word of god in our lives we must listen to it taught we must listen to it preached we must have personal times of reading and when we find that our lives are out of square we must allow the word of god we must bend back to this and not have this been to us if you have your bibles and would stand with me for a few moments today isaiah chapter number one verses two and three isaiah chapter one verses two and three are you ready for the are you ready for the level here o heavens and give ear o earth for the lord hath spoken i have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me the ox knoweth everybody say knoweth say it again please the ox knoweth his owner and he asked his master's crib but my people doth not no would you say that word again no my people doth not no my people doth not consider john chapter 1 and verse number 10 and verse 11 and the gospel john 1 and verse number 10 and 11 speaking of jesus christ he was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not he came unto his own and his own received him not more than just a ritual would you put your bible down would you ask god today to help you to receive the word of god father help us to receive the level of the word of god today help us god to have a revelation that your word is the sole authority in any matter in our life lord we believe today that you're one god because your word declares you to be one lord we believe today god what we believe because your word declares what we believe we do what we do god i pray today that you would help us to receive the word of god it's the only thing that can change us jesus name we pray amen and amen you may be seated it was yesterday morning i've been having such wonderful fellowship for the last month or so with brother darren and his mother and grandmother moved here from california along with brother darren we've been having such a wonderful fellowship um brother darren his father was an apostolic minister and his grandfather was an apostolic minister and sister boy we began talking yesterday and your son gave me my title uh your son gave me the title because he said my grandfather used to say they don't know that they don't know and that's what i want to preach teach a few minutes on they don't know that they don't know would you say that with me they don't know that they don't know now we live in a world today that can be categorized by that statement they don't know that they don't know it's nothing new israel lost out with god through rebellion israel lost out with god because when he said you'll have no other gods before me and worship no image somehow they justified it i don't know if they started saying things like what those are such good people down there at bell's temple do you know there are some matter of fact some of those folks down there at asteroth's temple that temple where you take your firstborn baby and stoke the furnace hot and take your firstborn baby so that you'll have the blessings of of the goddess asteroth how you if you're going to raise a family and and you attended the pagan uh a temple of asteroth and you were going to raise a family the first child was the seed blessing now what that meant was asteroth demanded that you take your firstborn child stoke the furnace hot it was a furnace that had two arms that stuck out like this and you stoked the furnace as red hot as you could do and so that asteroth would bless the rest of your children that would come out of your wife's womb you laid your firstborn baby in the burning arms of asteroth all right now i wonder if some conversations didn't go on such as this you know so many people down that asteroid's temple they're they're they're better than some of the folks at jehovah's temple you know they they live better and do better as if that justifies us to be able to bend this but you see we live in a world today have i told you we live in a world today where everybody's right everybody's right everybody's right and you're only wrong if you claim to have only one way then you're narrow-minded divisive guilty of hate speech because you're standing up and saying that there's only one way can i tell you today that we can bend the bible to say anything we want it to say but if you want to build a life that will stand the test of tribulation and time you better bend your life to line up with this and don't bend this to line up with your life over the years i've tried to get a little wise in my speech and stop saying well this is what i believe because that's where the world wants you in the arena of man to man but our power today comes in the fact that we say this is what the word of god teaches see the bible says that god he said i nourished up children i brought them up he said but they rebelled then he used an analogy in verse three he said the ox noah look at that word knoweth the ox knoweth his owner and the ass knows his master's crib in other words animals knew number one who they belonged to and where they belonged oh if we could just learn if we could just get on the level of the animals today god said at least the ox and the donkey know who they belong to and know where they belong he said my people don't they don't know either can i tell you we belong to god we are god's property it's not your own life to live you belong to god but god gave you a free choice he gave us free choice today and we can use that free choice to please him or we can use that to displease god it's our choice it's our choice nobody can make you nobody can make us do anything we choose to do it but i want you to know something i i if if you do if you don't hear anything that i teach for the rest of the the bible lesson i want you to go home with this you do have the power of choice but you don't have the power of consequence you can choose what to do but you can't choose the consequences of it when you choose what to do that's where god either steps in and says i'm going to bless that or i'm going to give you some consequence choose whatever you want to do you can you don't choose how it have the outcome that's left up to god they know they don't know they don't know that they don't know i don't want to fit in that category that we don't know that we don't know and the only way that we can fit in that category that you don't know that you don't know is not to know the word because if you know the word then the word's going to tell you what you need to do the word's going to tell you who you belong to the word's going to give you some dignity about you that you're not some product of a cosmic collision called a evolution you're not the product of some monkey some tadpole and some evolution of man you are the product of the creation of an almighty god who had an almighty plan who loves you in a way that is unimaginable he loves you today oh he loves you today i know who my i know who my owner is i know who my owner is today but if i decide i have the choice not read not concentrate not obey i can do all of those things today i can look at this and say it's old-fashioned it's outdated it's old-fashioned it's outdated it doesn't work in this culture doesn't work in this culture you you do realize today that our foundational papers the constitution of the united states i personally believe i personally believe that it is an anointed document i believe that the united states was prophetically foretold to be the nation that we are now do not put the constitution equal i did not say it's infallible and inerrant but i do believe the constitution of the united states of america is an anointed document because those men were seeking to be able to worship the god of the bible not the god of the state they wanted freedom to worship the god of the bible so i believe today the constitution is an anointed document but there are several people that look at the doc the constitution differently some teach and they have the power to interpret it that it is a living document and by living they say that document flows down through the history of the united states and whatever circumstance or situation that document comes over as we as a nation that that document has the answer to solve whatever problems we may have while striving to have a more perfect union that that document can help us to overcome civil wars that that document can help us to understand that all men are created equal and are endowed by many inalienable rights but then there's others does this sound familiar there's others that teach that the document must be reviewed and changed as cultures change they do the same thing with the bible the bible is the eternal word of god jesus christ said heaven and earth will pass away this is another sign of his deity this is another sign that jesus is god heaven and earth will pass away but my words shall never pass away that's it he's god that he's eternal so when god speaks his word is eternal so when god gave us his word his reason his instruction we cannot as a people in a different culture in the 21st century look around we're influenced by what we see we're influenced by what we hear we're influenced by what we've been taught we cannot look at this and say well i know that the bible says this but you've got to understand where we're living today can i tell you that we need to go back to this level and allow this level even in the church today even in our church it would amaze you the ruffled feathers that come when we lift up our voice against sin well brother carpenter i know somebody and and and and and and and they're just so good and i just hate that they they they i just hate that they came to church and they heard you say what they are they heard you say that and now they're not gonna come back let's just bend this then because after all we need to have a seeker-friendly church don't we don't we need to have a secret friendly church don't we need to have a church you know what's wrong with the secret friendly church you know what's wrong with that mentality to have a secret friendly church you know make everything relevant don't have anything that resembles a church no crosses i mean the preachers got to have a square group tea and square glasses and and have a shirt tail out and have some mood candles lit and some dark things because we got to be relevant man crosses make people uncomfortable bodies of water make people uncomfortable talking about blood nails and sin that'll make them uncomfortable can i tell you what's the the number one problem the seeker friendly movement is they assume everybody's seeking for god can i tell you what the level says the level says there's none that seeketh after god there's none that seeketh after me as a matter of fact the level says in ecclesiastes 7 and 9 would y'all like to know what the level says about humanity the level says in ecclesiastes chapter 9 verse or excuse me ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse number 29 lo this only have i found. that god hath made man upright but they have sought out many envisions this is what to say that everybody's seeking after god is a fallacy humanity is not seeking after god they're seeking after satisfaction they're seeking after pleasure so isn't it just like the old devil to get churches so seeker friendly that we forget why we've come in the first place i didn't come here today so that a sinner could feel comfortable in our presence i'm just going to be flat honest with you today i came here brought my family here raised my family here because i wanted to give praise and honor to the one true and living god i want it to be said on this sunday morning that i lifted up my voice and gave god present praise because the word said enter it to his courts with thanksgiving and into his gates with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name come on praise him with me for just a moment would you please come on love him with me just a moment i i didn't come so a sinner would feel comfortable i didn't come here today so a sinner would feel feel comfortable in this place i came here to worship god can we forget well honesty what i'm just so concerned you know i'm gonna bring some people with me brother carpenter what would be the most reserved service we have we know you can't hardly tell one of our services for the other we may have a camp well i'd like to bring so and so in a night where we're not doing all you know because after all we want to be a secret friendly church no we don't we want to be a god-fearing god-worshiping church because my level says my level says if we try to be a seeker sensitive church their back door is bigger than their front door they're losing more people than they're gaining but my level says if i be lifted up i will draw all men unto me can i tell you what your neighbor needs today is not a quiet church that resembles what they come out of it they need a bunch of people on every pew fervently passionately praising and worshiping god that's whatever pew needs because after all the reason i'm here today is to praise him no other reason but to praise him i didn't come to socialize i didn't come to see who's wearing water who's not wearing what i didn't come to see who showed up and who didn't show up i came to praise ye the lord to praise god in his sanctuary to praise him in the firmament of his power to praise him for his mighty acts to praise him according to his excellent greatness praise him with the sound of the trumpet praise him with a suffering heart praise him with the timbrel and dance praise him with stringed instruments and organs praise him upon the loud sounding symbols praise him upon the high sounding symbols let everything that had breath praise ye the lord that's what i came to do today oh i want to be on the level am i praising the lord like i ought to am i living for god i know i'm tired i know i've been in the church a long time but do i still have my praise do i still have my worship oh i forgot to tell you that secret friendly bible reads this way let everybody new to the church praise the lord that everybody just got in but folks that have been in for a while you have the right to sit as observers and judges are we going to let this change us or are we going to change yes you get it right i'm being clear as muddy water today are we going to let the word change us or are we going to change the word come on that's why a lot of folks walk crooked that's why the windows of heaven won't open for some folks that's why you always feel like you got a shut door in your life if you don't use a level you doors won't shut good well let me go on god made us upright but we have sought after many inventions we've got to find something else to make us happy see in jeremiah chapter 10 let me tell you about us today let me tell you about us today in jeremiah chapter 10 verse number 23 listen listen to oh lord i know that the way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps i'm sorry but you can't make life all alone you don't have the ability to do that you don't have the ability psalms chapter 119 verse 133 here's the prayer you ought to pray order my steps in thy word order my steps in thy word and let not any iniquity have dominion over me look at this it's not in you to direct your steps you don't know i don't care how educated you claim to be you don't know how to live you don't know i got it together no you don't have it together if you don't have a word you don't have the ability to direct your steps but if you'll pray this prayer lord show me how to walk lord show me the steps ought to take god show me my behavior how ought to live lord when i get a when i get a spirit inside of me that shouldn't be there tell me what i need to do lord tell me about how i need to repent and break myself before you and allow your spirit to expose my heart for what it is and lord if i can have the blood to wash me i can be a better man i can be a better christian i can be a better husband i can be a better wife you see what happened in the garden genesis 3 verses 4 and 5 the serpent said unto the woman ye shall not surely die now if i could say anything to you today and try to use a little analogy i could tell you don't eat the devil's sandwich don't eat the devil's sandwich because the devil's sandwich the first layer of bread is a lie the serpent said unto the woman you shall not surely die that's a lie for god doth know that in the day that you eat thereof then your eyes shall be opened now that's the truth that's the truth so now we got the first slice of bread that's a lie and now we got the truth laying there your eyes will be open sin will open your eyes sin has opened a many a person's eyes to the value of the ways of god they didn't appreciate the prodigal son you preached about it taught about him for several weeks the prodigal son didn't get the revelation of the beauty of the father's house until sin opened his eyes he puts the truth out your eyes will be open and here comes the final piece of bread that makes the lie and ye shall be as gods knowing good and evil that is where the lie comes in you will not be like god sin will not elevate you the bible said righteous exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people please don't be deceived today get you the level of god's word and build your house according to god's word and when you know that it's it's the word of god speaks against it don't try to make excuses for it don't try to rationalize it out don't try to explain it away when the bible calls something the way that it is you need to stand up and say god if that's the behavior you want me to walk in then i will walk in that way your eyes are open let me tell you something about our eyes today the primary purpose god gave us our eyes is so that we could read his word so that we could read his word primary reason god gave us the eyes and do you know that many scientists that do not embrace christianity stumble at evolution when studying the eyes they say that there's no way that this could have ever evolved this wonderful thing of eyesight you say oh no brother karma god gives us eyes so we can see where we're going yes but that's not the primary reason god gave us eyes god gave us eyes so that we could read his word god gave us eyes so that we could read his word and act in accordance to god's word god didn't give us our eyes primarily for pleasure of entertainment see that's a problem too many people see things they're not educated about they see acts of sin on television and they're not truly it they're not truly understanding those acts of sin there lead to misery and destruction and death but when we don't have the word of god as our level we process this through the eyes of pleasure we look at it through the eyes you see when you look at something for pleasure and not information why a lot of people are dwarfed today in their walk with god is we spend too much time with our eyes looking at pleasurable things to the flesh and not enough time studying the word of god oh satan he sure did it that day because in a lot of ways their eyes were open their eyes were open but in a lot of ways their eyes were shut because in second corinthians chapter four and verse number six or excuse me verse number four speaking about satan it says in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not lest the light of the glorious gospel of christ who is the image of god should shine unto them for we preach not ourselves but christ jesus the lord and ourselves your servants for jesus sake for god who commanded the light to shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light of the glory of the knowledge of the glory of god in the face of jesus christ satan had blinded the minds he had blinded the minds if we get all the things that are coming across entertainment and we never read our bibles we never read our bibles we never engage in the spirit we never truly dive deep into god's word then we're left wide open for the god of this world and he blinds our minds he he blinds you know what back to my title they don't know that they don't know they don't know either they're blinded that that part that the bible's a hard book to read that part that you really face something when you try to read your bible it's easier to sit down and watch two hours of television but you can't hardly have 20 minutes of reading your bible that's more than just it's a hard book there is a god a little g that wants to keep you as ignorant from that book as possible because he knows that the power is not in your shout the power is not in your prayer life the power is not in your church attendance but the power is in the preached word of god that's where you'll get your power from you'll get your power from the word of god ephesians chapter 1 verse number 17 that the god of our lord jesus christ the father of glory may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding being enlightened the eyes of your understanding being enlightened there's no time to waste we need to get our eyes open we need to get our eyes open to what the level says that we need to do spirits that we've allowed to come into our lives rebellious spirits you ever noticed you feel a whole lot better when the preacher says you may be seated than he than you do when he says would you stand of course unless i ask you to stand when it's about time to close you ever notice some of the things that you would never question in a doctor's office get up on the table stick your tongue out say ah thump thump thump on your back takes a little hammer out hit your knees you never think one thing about that man or woman asking you to do that but come to church and somebody say would you raise your hands well i'll raise my hands when i want to raise my hand i don't know i don't know the time i don't raise my hand that's a spirit yeah i say hey you know that because my level says obey them you see we've got enough jim jones and david koresh and cult leaders that give us permission not to want to submit ourselves to the man that stands behind the pulpit may be seated god help me to have a i just heard the preacher say your word says submit myself god help me to submit myself god help me not try to bend this you know there was a preacher that went wrong and there was a guy that wasn't everything he said he should be because you'll never build a life you'll never build a life for god god help our eyes to be open god help us today to understand the value of the word you see why aren't we saying the same thing there's one god father son holy ghost in the name of jesus i baptize you in the name of father son holy ghost aren't we saying the same thing not when you read the word not when you read the word you see when you read the word you find out that baptism has nothing to do with joining a church baptism has nothing to do with saying you're following after christ well then what does it have to do with it has to do with a step in your salvation why because the word says be born again of the water and of the spirit and the word says he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved he that believeth not shall be damned and the word says then peter said unto them repent be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of your sin and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost and he commanded them to be baptized have you received the holy ghost since you believe come on it's not this come on young people come on students get you ahold of the word of god well father son holy ghost and he was talking to his father and for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily and ye are complete in him and great is the mystery of godliness god was manifested in the flesh scene of angels preaching to the gentiles believed on in the world received up into glory show us the father jesus and we'll be satisfied have i been so long time with you phillip and you don't know me he that has seen me has seen the father can i tell you i don't care how you cut that there's no three persons in the godhead and it matters and it matters and it matters what's that aren't we saying the same thing and it matters how do i know it matters because the word says jesus said unless you believe that i am he you shall die in your sins if you don't believe that i am he come on religion can bend religion can bend this to fit them but i don't want religion i want an apostolic a pastor-driven church i want to be in my life come on it does matter it does matter you may be seated musicians would you come well brother carpenter we're we've slipped off down the road here to so-and-so's church well brother they don't even preach the truth down there well they do they they they do everything uh they they've got they've got a little card it's amazing how people are bending this try to fit them he said there's a little card that when you go back in their room to be baptized that you can mark on it you can check on it the traditional mode and that's repeating the words father son holy ghost or you can mark you want to be baptized in jesus name or you can mark that to say nothing at all like i said they don't preach the truth i didn't say they're not good people i didn't say they're not morally good people but i am saying they don't preach the truth because heaven and earth will pass away but my word shall not pass away that's why you're here today if you're here today if you're here today and you've not been water baptized in jesus name i've got water i've got a change of clothes and it don't matter if it's before 12 noon or after 12 noon this church would love to see you obey the truth and to be baptized in jesus name today well i go down there to that church that we we shout we talk in tongues we don't have to do a lot of the things that you say we have to do as a matter of fact i couldn't tell you when's the last time i've heard even heard the word holiness because that's that's a word that's a word that gets people uncomfortable if the intellectual gets uncomfortable at the blood then the backslidden apostolic gets uncomfortable with the word holiness they don't really matter they don't without holiness no man shall see the lord well it only matters what's in your heart that's not what my level says my level says therefore glorify god in your body and in your spirit which are gods i'm not only to glorify god in my heart i'm to glorify god with my body there are certain things about my body that the culture may say that's old-fashioned the culture may say we don't do that anymore but i'm not being led by the culture i'm being led by the word of god come on up here son-in-law come on up here daughter-in-law come on up here granddaughter come on up here i'm going to tell you something this man wasn't a god in my house if you hadn't leveled up with that right there you know how you can keep your kids from marrying folks that don't believe this size them up before they get in i got so aggravated one night as you maybe see that little has a boy come around here from another state he got sweet on on lauren and he was out of my ballpark when he sent worked here i want to fly you to where i live you come stay the weekend we'll fly you and you can stay with some people in the church let me tell you something bum some of us are more protective over our car than we are our kids you wouldn't just hand your car keys just anybody you wouldn't just hand your car keys to somebody you saw for the first time at church oh here's my car go ahead dear god we'll give our kids away two legs two arms two eyes man you know then we we asked the pertinent important question where you work you almost got right but you need to finish the word it's not where you work it's how do you worship he gonna he gonna fly me down there daddy and i'm gonna stay with some people in the church and i said first off he ain't flying you nowhere he loves you boy i sound mean to dough i see you let me talk to him on the phone i got him on the phone i said i said i need to know i said the church you attend i said there's some things about i see about the church you attend i don't like some things i see and and he said well uh pastor so-and-so and of course he made another strike he called his pastor by his first name pastor you know kenny didn't even put pastor just kenny kenny lets us do this i'm using a different name to protect the guilty okay all right he said he he we we're core this is what we we're apostolic i said now what you mean about core epistol will we believe that you know acts 238 and and that's the core and he kept the whole conversation while i try to pin him down about about women and men and places and all that he kept coming back to the core and finally i said boy i'm not talking about an apple religion i want to know when i eat an apple i eat everything but the corn all you've given me is the core i don't know if i'd want your religion or not but all we would have had to do is to glorify that young man oh yeah tell you who his parents are tell you who his grandparents are tell you this boy comes from a line of wealth you know what we'd have maybe i had my grandkids out here getting baptized in a place they wouldn't even baptize them accordingly you said today you said today said the carpenter loved me the first time she had seen me it's because she wanted a daughter-in-law you see this this right here yeah this right here that right there yeah turn 13 get in the choir baby that's right yeah yeah that's right that's right be in the prayer room baby be in the prayer room baby be in the prayer room come on come on where your kids at in the prayer room where your kids sitting up here my kids will tell you they've got family text he says i'm in the prayer room where's everybody at you know we all need fathers today we need to quit thinking we can raise our families without the church and we need to understand that we need the church today come on would you stand with me for a moment sister flannery sister paris brother erickson if i embarrassed anybody today i do i give my apologies y'all can take me out to eat after church for it okay i'll tell you i want to end today if there's anyone in this room that wants to be baptized in jesus name line yourself up to the word of god because in the third century when they changed water baptism they changed this to fit their paganistic ideas of being so inclusive to everybody see a lot of folks don't even know the origin of the trinity they don't they they see good and there are good sincere people they are good sincere they're sincerely wrong but there are good sincere people that believe that doctrine if they only knew where it came from it came from a group of men that were trying to be a seeker friendly and include all of the pagan god and all of the they were not listen you didn't have to give up your pagan gods you could add christianity to your list but they knew that the pagans will never accept such an exclusive gospel listen to the leader of our church i am the way the truth the life he didn't say i am one of the ways i am one of the truths i am one of the lives if you want to be baptized today we're going to do something for about a couple of minutes but if you have your bible today we need to rededicate ourselves back to the word of god father i rededicate my life back to reading i rededicate my life back to your word the reading of your word god i rededicate my life come on help me this morning i'm praying that prayer to lead us all right now i i believe if you have your bibles if you'd hold it up with me right now god i rededicate my life back to your word i rededicate my life back to the word god lord i love you god i rededicate my life back to believe i believe that you died for my sins i believe god that you rose on the third day and that you've paid the sin debt and that i have been justified and that there is a pathway back into heaven i believe in the death burial and the resurrection of you jesus christ i believe it i believe it i believe in lord god i believe it this morning god i will bring my bible with me tonight back to church god i will begin to read my bible i'll get a method of reading i give you praise and i give you honor in jesus name would you before we go home and just sing a course or two let's let's let our hearts marinate in this word today they don't know that they don't know oh god you want to be baptized in jesus name come forward right now if you want to receive the gift of the holy ghost come forward right now oh god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name i is come on let's rededicate our lives back to this world my trust there is who you are driven by anger oh god will deliver you of that skepticism god will deliver you of that judgmental spirit god will deliver you of that lust god the name of jesus it's time it's the time the word is said oh i will put my trust in you there is there is who you are upon i will put my trust come on church let's take advantage of this time let's take advantage of this time right now oh god i yield my life to you right now come on i like everybody to lift your hands with me right now pray along with me god i yield my life to you god i yield my life to you guys god you know the stubbornness that i have god you know i think i know more about my life than anybody else oh god god help me to see where our pastor wants us to be god help me to see where the man of god wants me to be with your heart come on come on i beseech you in the name of the lord today i beseech you to pray with me right now jesus i just feel the spirit that we ought to pray for a moment i just feel like the lord wants us to pray right now oh god spirit god's spirit is moving upon us right now oh but you have the choice to let him in or not come on just open your arms like you're opening doors god help me god shake me wake me lord thank you lord i need you god oh god i pray over the people right now lord oh god i pray over every man god in this building oh god i pray over every man god god i pray for those that are not even here today hallelujah god i have those faces in front of me god have chosen not to submit their lives to you lord yeah they're going in the wrong direction god no good will ever come out of it oh god i pray holy spirit go to them right now this very moment lord god i love you lord i love you lord i praise you god thank you father i thank you for this precious young man that has attached himself to this church this precious young man god you know his heart god i if he doesn't already have the holy ghost baptize him with the holy ghost today god as he came of his own voluntary will walked out to be baptized in your name today not to join his church not to show that he's following you but to have every sin that he's ever committed by the blood of jesus to be washed away in regeneration god you're going to make a new creature out of this young man by the power of the gospel you're going to make a new creature out of it today