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I give uh honor to all. It's almost 1:00 for the clock watchers. I got to make sure everybody's aware of the times instead of the beware of the times. But uh today I am on a mission from this pullpit from this podium. I do not bring magic potion. I have no phrases, no catchphrases to use. I'm not selling snake oil for your health. I'm not trying to convince somebody that you need something spooky and ooey gooey in your life, but I am under a mandate from God. What I am here today to simply do is remind you of the greatest thing that has ever happened in your life, in this church, in our world, and that is directly put God's goodness to us. God has been good to you. I say that a lot from this podium. I I know that. And some of you perhaps tire of the fact that pastors always saying God's been good. But I think that the overwhelming response that our world is trying to do is trying to distract you from the goodness of God. Often in the hour in which we live, folk distracted. They get discouraged about the happenings around us. I was even reminded as I sat early in my office the how God works in people's lives and then lo and behold in the midst of coming to service and people coming and joining us people are saying things to me. They are confirming what the Lord has already told me. It can appear sometimes that we are swimming upstream against the current of the day. So much of the current of our world today is trying to push you to a place to where you try your best to stand and to fight by yourself. You declare maybe in yourself, you know what, I'm just going to do the best I can with what I've got and we're going to see where the chips fall and let them fall where they may. And sometimes you could feel alone. Listen carefully. Choices you make, questions that you have, decisions that you have decided on, sometimes they come under question. For an example, why do you believe in what you believe?

I I again I I am reminded that uh going to church really does make a difference. But sometimes we have to be reminded of why it is important to congregate in the house of the Lord. Because uh quite often, if I may, we we have spent a lot of money here at CAC through the years trying to produce, if you will, content to where those who do not come into our walls, they can still see and watch and experience what we are experiencing in here. And that is the power and the presence of God. But I I still call it old school if you want to. There there still ain't nothing like getting up and under the spout where the glory is coming out. That's just my opinion. I I can get a blessing from the Lord in my jammies in my recliner. Yes, I can. But I get a greater blessing coming to the house of God and worshiping together with you and seeing for myself, hearing for myself what God is doing in your life. I I've come to tell somebody contrary to what our world system might try to tell us. We are not all going to heaven. >> I'm not coming to discourage anyone. If there is really a place called heaven, then you better believe it is part of the plan of God. >> I have in in days recent, I have heard that even some folk, YOU KNOW WHAT? Where is this heaven that y'all talk about? The the question may is there really a place called hell? I mean it is hell on earth for some folk and so how could it get any worse sometimes is a sentiment that you approach. You might be saying right now that you know what there there's not really any reason to believe in the things that we say we believe in because at the end of the day heartache comes, woes come, trials and tribulations approach us, and we all GOT TO SOMEHOW FIGURE OUR WAY THROUGH THEM. Stay with me for a moment. I'VE COME TODAY TO TELL you that right now you may not be receiving these questions from anybody.

In fact, you may not have been asked over the last weeks or months about what you believe in when it comes to the things of God. I I've I've mentioned from this podium many times in your dayto-day activity. When was the last time that you asked somebody, "Hey, explain to me your holy living." It's not really a conversation that happens around the water cooler at on the job anymore. In fact, some of y'all don't even have water coolers. You're working from home. Conversation's pretty boring. Unless you got a camera, then you could put yourself on the screen. Anyway, just a just an idea. New day we're living in right now. Some of you might even be wondering and considering, you know, why does it even matter and nobody really cares what I think? As long as you leave me alone and let me live my life, I'm going to be okay. Don't try to intrude on me and I'm going to let you do what you do and be you. Come on. How many's heard that phrase? You do you and we're going to let that all just happen and everybody's got the end of it all is going to stand there and do the kumbaya kumbaya. My lord k Okay, I'm sorry. I sound I'm getting a little old there. THE FACT IS IS I AM NOT REALLY sure today at what point you stand in your walk with God. I am not really sure today what you know or what you don't know. Perhaps I may think that because I'm up here on Sundays and Wednesdays teaching or preaching that you ought to just know that there's no one like Jesus. You ought to know that. But some of you might be questioning that even right now. Some of you may wonder, why is the enemy chasing me when I haven't poked the bear and I haven't tried to make him mad any way that I can. Come on. I even THINK THAT THERE'S PROBABLY SOME UNDER the sound of my voice THAT FIND IT A CHALLENGE TO SERVE GOD with your whole heart, mind, and soul. You you'd RATHER BE QUIET THAT WAY you don't have to disturb something that's going on around you.

I've come to tell somebody today that that you you don't have to search for a ghost or some wicked thing to pop up behind every bush or every tree. I I don't want you to think that talking about the things of God will generate something in the spirit world and it's now going to come and rest on your porch or your step. No. SOME OF YOU MAY EVEN SAY, "I'm going to leave well enough alone and I'm just going to do the best I can with what I got and one day I'll stand before him and give an account for that." Come to tell somebody again, I'm under a mandate from heaven right now to remind somebody of who you are and why you are in the house of the Lord today in the book of Matthew in your sacred Bible that you hold so dear. Chapter 24:3. And as he sat upon 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 the end of the world? Verse four, Jesus answered, said unto them, take heed that no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many, and ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you be not troubled, for all those things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation, verse 7 says, shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes and diverse places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, shall kill you. They shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. Listen to it. And then shall many be offended and shall betray one another, shall hate one another. Many false prophets shall rise and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. UH BUT VERSE 13, BUT HE THAT SHALL ENDURE to the end, the same shall be saved. AND THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, AND THEN SHALL the end come.

I've come to declare to somebody today. You need to settle some things in your mind. You need to make up in your mind. YOU KNOW WHAT? THEY'RE NOT GOING TO LOVE ME. They're not going to embrace and wrap their arms around me uh and declare they love THE FACT THAT I'M ON THE JOB MAKING THEM FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BECAUSE I DON'T DRINK WHAT THEY DRINK. I DON'T SMOKE what they smoke. I don't shoot what they shoot. I don't talk the way they talk. I don't dress THE WAY THEY DO. YES, I AM SEPARATED FOR THE HONOR AND THE GLORY OF GOD. SOME OF Y'ALL NEED TO RISE UP TODAY and declare to yourself, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT HERE TO ANTAGONIZE ANYBODY. BUT I WILL NOT BACK DOWN OFF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. UH IT IS THE POWER OF GOD UNDER SALVATION. >> I'm not looking for a reason to offend ANYBODY TODAY. I DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT. THE SHEER FACT THAT I STAND IN THE NAME of Jesus, UH IT DECLARES TO EVERYONE LISTENING, UH THAT'S A CHILD OF GOD. UP. THAT'S SOMEBODY BEEN BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF JESUS. THAT SOMEBODY HAD THEIR SINS REMITTED AND WASHED AWAY. HEY, THERE STANDS SOMEBODY RIGHT THERE THAT'S NOT AFRAID TO SPEAK THE NAME JESUS. Y'ALL LISTEN, BIBLE QUIZZERS, YOU GET THOSE WORDS IN YOUR HEART. BUT YOU BETTER KNOW SOMETHING. THE ENEMY'S LISTENING ALSO. AND AS YOU DECLARE THE WHOLE COUNCIL OF GOD THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD, COME ON. SOMEBODY SAID, "LET'S MAKE IT THE BOOK OF PSALM." WITHIN. I DECLARE TO YOU, YOU'RE ABOUT TO RISE UP SOMETHING IN THE WORLD AROUND YOU. UH, BUT YOU STAND FIRM UPON WHO YOU ARE. DON'T YOU BACK AWAY. DON'T GET AFRAID WHEN THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN, BUT YOU STAND THE MORE. WHY? BECAUSE JESUS DECLARED IT. THEY'RE GOING TO HATE YOU. >> I DON'T HAVE TO OFFEND ANYBODY. I can walk RIGHT UP IN THE FACE OF ANYBODY AND SAY, "IT'S all in him. >> It's all in him. >> THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD. >> IT'S ALL IN HIM. >> THE MIGHTY God is G." Oh, y'all going to get me singing old songs today.

>> I'm not going to offend anybody, but I'm also not going to be silent. >> Listen to me carefully. Listen to me carefully, please. Warning signs are given. First of all, make sure you're not deceived. >> See, we are living in a very, very open society right now. You can you can hear about Jesus everywhere. We talk about that. We do. So, some of us in this room, man, we are we are excited about the fact that country music stars and football players and basketball players and and all those kind of folk are speaking the name Jesus. And I hear and I said, "Wow, that's a listen to them go, huh?" Like, man, you know, if I had a microphone, I would have said the same thing. You know, there was a day when they used to throw tomatoes at the churches. Yes. I'm sorry. I'm old again. Um, when I was this big, Samuel's age or or Roman's age, when I was that tall, cuz there I used to be that tall around. When I was like that, there were tent meetings that would go on. I' I've talked about this occasionally and I remember them driving by throwing tomatoes and eggs at the church at the tent set up out. I do. I remember that. I REMEMBER THEM SCREAMING, "HOLLY, >> ROLLERS." >> Jesus freaks. >> And see now people go BY IN THE STREET. WE WANT TO Y'ALL Y'ALL ONE OF US. We all got children. Listen to I'm not throwing stones. I'm telling you, do not be deceived. >> Cuz what can happen in the age in which we live right now so very easily, what can transpire is we can hear what people are saying in those places of high flutin society, if you will, and then we can lower our our our wall a little bit to say, well, they're speaking that. So apparently God is moving in the midst of where we are and God's about to let revival hit this world. >> This is the beginning of sorrows. >> Don't you think for one moment because you live in 2026 and the rest of the world is out there saying, "You know what? The Bible's such a good book.

It's such a neat thing. I just believe that that it ought to be and it ought to do and we ought to be able to read it everywhere." That is a positive thing. Do this. That's right. But if you're negating the power of a risen savior, Jesus Christ, by not allowing him to work in your life, what you are doing is you what you are SAYING IS THIS. I'LL BUY A HALF A HAPPY MEAL. >> And instead of allowing THE FULLNESS OF THE GODHEAD to be manifest in you, you will become one of those who will decide, I'M I'M OKAY WITH WHAT I GOT. I'M ALL RIGHT WITH WHERE I AM. BUT WHEN THE BATTLE really comes and when the enemy comes against ME AND WHEN DOUBT and deception COMES AT ME I'M NOT REALLY sure how I'm going to respond >> again. I I I I today I'm sitting in my office saying, "Lord, I got to get away. I got to preach something else." And the Lord's saying, "YOU BETTER WARN HIM. YOU BETTER WARN HIM. YOU BETTER WARN HIM." >> BECAUSE WE LIVE IN A DAY RIGHT NOW. COME ON. YOU THINK FOR A MOMENT THAT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS an accident? DO YOU THINK FOR ONE MOMENT THE BIBLE IS NOT GOING TO BE FULFILLED AS THE PROPHETIC WORD OF GOD? IT IS. AND IF WE BELIEVE THAT JESUS IS COMING, >> if anybody still believes the trumpet's going TO SOUND, ANYBODY KNOW THAT? IF YOU BELIEVE IN THAT, THEN YOU BETTER KNOW UH THAT IN THE TIMES THAT WE'RE LIVING IN, FOLK ARE GOING TO BE DECEIVED. THEY'RE GOING TO THINK THAT, HEY, THIS IS JUST THAT'S US ALL. WE'RE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN. WE'RE ALL DOING THE SAME THING. AND THE FACT IS JESUS SAID THEY'RE GOING TO DELIVER YOU UP AND KILL YOU. >> COME ON. >> Preach pastor. I WANT TO HEAR THAT. TELL ME MORE ABOUT ME DYING. Just because somebody says they believe the same as you, although their fruit shows something different, doesn't mean they believe the same as you. >> Hang on. I'm not I haven't judged any, but I'm telling you, there are levels and there are places in God that you have to grow.

But woe be it for somebody to say, you know what, I need a life change and come to step number one and decide that it's just safer there. And instead of taking step two, three, four, five, whatever, and getting closer to God, they settle for where they have gotten to. And all the while, the enemy is saying they're no threat. >> They're still living the life they were living. They're still making dumb choices and decisions. Listen to me. Listen to me. YOU CAN COME IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, BE BAPTIZED IN JESUS NAME, BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. But if you won't let go OF THE PAST, GUESS WHAT? YOU NEGATE THE POWER OF THE CROSS. >> The power OF THE CROSS SAYS IT IS FINISHED. >> DONE. >> I DEFEATED IT. I BEAT IT. IT IS OVER. GRAVE HAS NO PLACE HERE. NOTHING'S GOING TO HEY, I'VE DONE IT. BUT IF YOU WALK IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND THEN WALK OUT OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD AND FEEL LIKE YOU'RE OKAY JUST ON ACCOUNT OF YOUR MEMBERSHIPPING SOMEWHERE, I've come TO TELL YOU FRIEND, IT IS GOING TO BE FOR THE ONE THAT DECIDES, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M NOT GOING TO FALL FOR THE TRICKS OF THE ENEMY, BUT I'M GOING TO TAKE A STEP IN JESUS. I'M GOING TO WALK IN JESUS. I'M GOING TO BE FOUND DOING THE THINGS OF JESUS. THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS GOING TO BE IN MY LIFE. THE FRUIT OF WHAT GOD'S DOING IS GOING TO SHOW IN MY LIFE. Even if your neighbors are judging you, even if they're trying to make YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE IN THEIR SIN, >> don't you think the enemy sleeping and leaving you alone? >> It's easy for us to fall into a trap, a snare. The Bible refers to this, beware. Beware. Even says to to get rid of the things the the backpack of sin, the things that so easily beset you. You can believe that you are spiritually at a place that you have superseded the doubts of the enemy. See, I'm all that now. Devil ain't bothering me. Some of us don't understand what the enemy can actually do to you if he believed what you said.

The word of the Lord says that even the devil believes. >> Well, then is he saved? >> The world is not Listen to pastor for a moment. The world is not going to receive you as one of them. Scripture says they will hate you. We have a space of time that we have been given in our generation. And in this space of time, we are to learn some things. Y'all listen for a moment. Number one, we are to we are to learn how to pray. Pray. Pray. We are to learn how to pray. Now more than ever before, mom and dad, you need to be training your children. This is how you pray. This is how you pray. This is how you pray. This is how you pray. This is how you pray. Number two, we need to settle the word of God in our hearts. If it is written in the word of God, it is settled. It is not going to be changed, altered, or negated. It is settled in heaven. There has been a space of time given to us in this generation to be able to instruct what the scripture says and what says the Lord. We need to pray. We need to know the word. We need to instruct what the Bible says. Time will come, friend of mine, that things will change. Things will change. And my fear sometimes as a pastor is that in my generation, I may or may not be strong enough to be able to withstand it. Now, we can stand here all day long and say, "Yeah, come on, devil. I'll give you a black eye." was mentioned earlier today and every time we do something for God the devil we we know that works but the enemy didn't back up and run away what the enemy did was said many time you know what I'll be back and he understands the value of the name of Jesus because he trembles at it but he also knows that if you ever quit praying saint of God then there will be an open door if you ever are deceived to think that you have reached a position to where the enemy can no longer affect you then you have been deceived Listen to me. Hollywood and all of the fame and fortunes of our world around us can say whatever they want to.

But if they are not doing biblical things, then they are not planting biblical seeds and spiritual things are not happening. >> Just because it's on Facebook doesn't make it right. Just because your greatest series that you've been watching on Netflix is showing things that you know might not be appropriate does not make it okay. >> Not hurting nobody. I didn't throw a rock at nobody. I'm telling you this. We got to make decisions every day. We got to make choices every day. It was mentioned earlier. I'll say it like this. It was mentioned earlier. Somebody can mention talk about all the cool things that they have and all the stuff they know, but if they don't have the word of God hidden in their hearts, there is an opportunity for them to sin against God. That's what the psalmist says. I need to hide it that I might not sin against you. Listen to me carefully. Notice what we are told to do. I'm back to this verse and I I I don't know why. Here I am. Second Peter 1:10. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you shall not fall. For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Make your calling and election sure. How can you really be sure about anything? Huh? Are you sure that you have reached the most deepest place in God? Brother Drawn, today he he mentioned it several times. Come on. Don't think that you've reached the end of it, the pentacle, and that's all there is. Don't don't think that you've gotten to the place where you've reached the edge and now there's nothing more. That simply cannot be the case. But I wonder today to make your calling and election sure, something has to happen in you. You have to actively pursue and desire the things of God to lead you. That is active pursuit. It does not haphazardly happen. It doesn't happen out of osmosis. It is leading the way as the spirit leads.

Come to ask somebody today, are you actively working in apostolic authority? To the singers and the musicians, are you singing with apostolic authority? To the teachers in and in and the in the classes, are you teaching with apostolic authority? Do you really believe that the best thing that ever happened to you was Jesus Christ? Or is there room for question? I want to help somebody. Again, I'm under mandate right now. If you understand fully the things of God, then you have to walk in love, walk in faith. You have to apply the principles of the word and you got to make a difference in the next generation. You cannot simply hope that somehow someway they get it. I stand here today and I will tell you I am generations past the first generation in my family that got the understanding and received the understanding of who God was and the oneness of God. And I stand here today because of generations before me that planted in me and that pushed into me the word and the love of the word and the things of God in my life. I stumbled. I fell. I fel I faltered. I have tripped up. I messed up. I know. But I know in whom I believe because I went in the word and got it for myself. I cannot stand here today and say just because my grandfather or my grandmother or my parents or my great-grandmother did something that my grandson is going to do it. It can't be that. It cannot be that. Again, I'm back at this topic and I'm asking God to help me change it. But church, we have got to recognize the fact that your living for Jesus is a daily choice. And if you're not walking in apostolic authority, there is an enemy out there that's going to throw things at you, that's going to try to trip you up and try to make you question the things of God. Come on. Some of you guys need to do the work. >> Come on. Somebody in this room needs to do the work. You need to recognize the fact that if I learn, I will grow. If I ask, I will receive. If I give, I can give more. >> Come on.

We want we want to give unto God because he gives to us. Hey, why don't YOU GIVE UNTO GOD because you want to give more to God? >> Why can't we have a mindset that simply says, you know what? IF YOU NEVER EVER DO ANYTHING ELSE FOR ME, I'm okay. You save me. COME ON. I'VE SAID THIS SO MANY TIMES OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS. I'm going to say it again today. Again, I'm under mandate from GOD TO SAY IT. SO MANY OF US ARE ASKING God to heal us and change us and make a way for us and open doors for us. AND THE FACT IS THE LORD GOD HAS SAID A MILLION TIMES TO YOU THROUGH HIS WORD, I CAN DO ALL OF THAT. BUT WHAT I NEED YOU TO DO IS STOP ASKING ME THAT AND LOVE ME FOR THAT. JUST LOVE. COME TO THE HOUSE OF GOD AND LOVE ME. COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND LIFT YOUR HANDS. QUIT ASKING FOR STUFF AND JUST LOVE ME AND BELIEVE THAT THROUGH YOUR LOVE AND YOUR WORSHIP, I WILL MOVE. I WILL CHANGE. I WILL DO THINGS IN YOUR LIFE. I'M CONVINCED IF WE AS A BODY CAN COME INTO THIS HOUSE AND SAY, "I COME TODAY TO LOVE YOU AND TO LIFT YOU UP AND PRAISE YOUR NAME. UH THAT THE MIRACLES OF JESUS CHRIST WILL HAPPEN IN THIS PLACE." UH THAT THE CANCER THAT'S IN YOUR BODY, IT CAN BE HEALED. UH THAT THE BROKEN HOME YOU'RE LIVING IN CAN BE RESTORED. THAT ALL THE JUNK YOU'RE WALKING THROUGH, GOD CAN MOVE IT. YOU KNOW HOW I KNOW THAT? BECAUSE WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS, THERE IS LIBERTY. AND IF I CAN GET HIM HERE, THEN THERE'S A LIBERTY FOR ME TO LOVE HIM, WORSHIP HIM, BLESS HIS NAME. >> SO MANY TIMES WE WANT TO BRING A LAUNDRY LIST TO HIM AND SAY, "DO THIS, GOD, BECAUSE IT'S WHAT YOU DO. AND GOD IS SAYING, "NO, IT'S NOT. IT'S WHAT I'VE DONE. >> BUT WHAT I DO IS I WAIT FOR YOU TO WORSHIP ME IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH. AND IF YOU'LL LOVE ME, LIFT ME UP. I WILL DRAW. I WILL MOVE. I WILL HEAL. I WILL DELIVER. >> >> Jesus is the best thing that's ever happened to any of us. >> Any of us. I I'll ask the way my grandma used to ask me what more you want him to do.

>> How many more times you want him to show you his love? >> Come on. Some of us are standing in a place of decision right now because the enemy has blinded our eyes and caused us to think that if we're looking down, barely making a step at a time, barely making Y'all want to know why pastors got this 40, as brother Austin said, 67 foot tall stage up here? Y'all want to know why it's here? Anybody care to know? Because that's the way this thing was built. I don't know. Y'all y'all was waiting on something real deep and spiritual, wasn't you? And I walk out this edge so many times. For the first couple months, y'all were nervous as can be. And I may fall off this thing one day. And I hope Oh, God help me today not to be mad. I hope that if that day happens that somebody will not grab their phone and call 911 first, >> but that you will say, "We serve a savior that paid the price a long time ago." >> Y'all don't be mad at P. I I I you know I Oh Lord, help me stay on track. I'm going to get in so much trouble. We we all say we all say, you know, well, I I think doctors have their place. Absolutely. >> Absolutely, >> man. A doctor's got all kind of degrees. It's funny, ain't it? You go visit the doctor and he's got all these degrees and he puts a thermometer in your mouth. That's always funny to me. Anybody else figure that out? How many? Y'all going make the old school go. >> Anybody remember that? >> What was that? >> You trying You trying to take that thermometer and get the mercury in there? >> Can you guys see the mercury in there? I never could see it. Chesty, I'm convinced they were just I mean, what was you doing? I don't know. Now it's all digital. What is it? It's a secret. I go to the doctor and I take my blood pressure. I say, "What is it?" And they go, "You don't want to know." Listen to me. I paid you money to take it. Can I know? No, we got to take it again.

I had a doctor one time, Don, tell me my triglycerides were high. Absolutely. Uh, ain't that good? Apparently, it's not. Listen to me. Listen to me. There's so many. God, help me today. Help me today. We live in a culture, We live in a culture today that so many of us will go to a doctor's office. We will pay them money. They will do tests on us. They won't even come see us. They'll let us see a nurse practitioner or a nurse. And then they will tell us to leave and we will go out and get seven chemicals and drugs they tell us to take and we will pop every one of them and thinking it's helping us >> and then come to the house of the Lord and wonder why God won't heal us. >> I'm not saying anything negative about their medications, but it's always interesting to me that somebody will pay good money for somebody to tell them stuff they don't want to hear, but they'll come to the house of the Lord and when the preacher's trying to preach them out of hell, they'll get mad and angry and walk away. Who does he think he is? >> We live in a day where we are being deceived on every side. >> Deceived on every side. The enemy already knows if the church ever recognized who they were, they would literally burn this earth to the ground with prayer and ferveny of prayer. They would declare the whole council of God would say, "You know what? I believe that God is able to do anything." You want to know how it works? It's in the book of John chapter number four verse number 24. God is a spirit >> and they that worship him must worship him >> in spirit and in truth. Make sure you know what you believe. If you're going to worship God, it better be in spirit and in truth. If you are hoping that a book or some TV show or some podcast is going to keep you out of hell, I'm telling you, friend, it is not going to do it. It is going to take you with AN ENCOUNTER WITH JESUS CHRIST. I PRAY THIS MORNING IN MY OFFICE.

LORD, let there be a convicting POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST THAT'LL COME AND SLAM PEOPLE'S hearts today TO MAKE THEM KNOW IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU SIMPLY JINGLING FOR JESUS, BUT IT'S ABOUT GETTING ON THE FLOOR BEFORE HIM AND DECLARING, "I AM AT WAR. I AM AT WAR FOR MY WIFE'S SOUL. UH I AM AT WAR FOR MY CHILDREN'S SOUL. UH I AM AT WAR FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN'S SOUL. UH I AM DEFENDING THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. I EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THIS. IT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS AND I'M GOING TO FIGHT FOR IT. I WILL NOT GIVE UP. UH I WILL NOT GIVE IN. UH I WILL DO WHAT THE WORK OF GOD IS. UH I WILL PRAY. UH I WILL BELIEVE. UH I WILL WORSHIP. UH I WILL BLESS THE LORD. IT'S GOING TO COME WHEN SOMEBODY GETS ON THEIR FACE AND DECIDES MORE THAN BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT, I'VE GOT TO BE POWERFULLY INJECTED WITH THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST SO THAT WHEREVER I GO, THE WORD OF GOD IS WITH ME. THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST IS LEADING ME. I DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. I DON'T HAVE TO WONDER. I DON'T HAVE TO QUESTION. BUT INSTEAD, I AM SURE. I HAVE MADE MY CALLING AND MY ELECTION SURE. Brother Don, would you come? THERE'S SO MANY things distractions happening in our world. And as needed as it might be that we are living in a point and season in the world that folk are are okay with you saying Jesus in public and if we settle for that we have missed the entirety of the cross of Calvary. See, if you don't depend on the cross, you negate the power of the blood of Jesus. >> And it has no effect. >> That's right. >> And if you build your own kingdom in your own mind and try to make heaven your home, a heaven that you did not make, >> you above above all are going to be miserable. Because if you build your house on sinking sand, it will crumble and fall. >> Amen. When the winds of time come, >> but if you're established upon the rock, >> you're established upon the rock. There's one thing that you can rest assured.

There will come a time when you will stand on the rock and you will shake. But the rock will not shake under you. >> God, help me today. Be kind. You better make sure. Make it sure. Remove the fear. Remove the doubt. Get away from the distractions and the questions. Your calling and your election. Sure. I don't know a whole lot of things in this present world. I'm not sure how that AI is going to affect the next generation. I don't know what chemicals are, what treatments are going to come. I don't know any of that. I don't I don't know what world politics is going to do. I know I can read the Bible just like you. I don't know what one president says against another, what a a national leader says against. I don't know. I don't know. Come on. That's a realm that I don't walk in. I do know this. Y'all okay? I'm I'm gonna go all the way back as far as I can go to me. You may not like this, but I'm going to say it. Jesus loves me. This I know. For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong. They are weak, but he is strong. It's as basic as it gets. Yes. Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. The Bible tells me so. You better make sure that word is so alive in you, in your home, in your life, that it permeates every choice and decision you make. There's going to come a moment in your life when trouble and difficulty comes and you're going to face the enemy, stare him right in the eyeballs, and you're going to smell his old sulfur breath as he breathes on you. You better know what you know that you know that you know that you know who you know. And when that happens, don't back up again. I don't know why I'm back to this. I'm come back to this again. I'm like, God, I got to move on. And the Lord's saying, they got to know. They got to know. They got to know. They got to I got to better know it. Why y'all? Okay, I'm gonna go back. It's 136. I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus. I have decided to follow Jesus.

What is it? No turning back. No turning back. These are old simple songs that matter. Take this whole world. Give me Jesus. Take the whole world. But give me Jesus. Take the whole world. Give me Jesus. I won't turn back. No. No turning back. Would you pray with me right now? Jesus. We've got to be sure. Established on your word, established on prayer, established on the things of God. We've got to be built upon the everlasting word of God. Jesus. Yes, Jesus. Right now, Lord, I pray there would be revelation of who you really are. Truth and spirit working in this place. Come on, somebody. Would you pray right now? Where you are sitting? Would you pray right now? Come on. Would you pray? Come on. Call on the name of the Lord. Open your mouth. Call on the name of the Lord. I love you, Jesus. Come on, open your mouth. Love him. Come on, open your mouth. Love the Lord. Come on, put a praise in your mouth and give it to God. Come on. In the name of Jesus. Yeah. Come on, somebody. Call on his name right now. Call on his name right now. Yeah. I love you, Jesus. Come on. That's right. I've decided, Lord, I'm going to follow you. I'm going to follow you. I'm going to follow you. I am making it sure. I am making it sure today. Stand with me right now all over this place. Lift your voice to heaven. If you want, I invite you to this carpet, to this altar area. Come with a praise. Come on. A declaration. I am not going to be wavering. I'm not going to be faltering, but I am going to call on the name of the Lord. And he is moving in my life. I make my calling and my election sure. Come on. I know that I need him and without him I am nothing. Come on. If you don't yet have the gift of the Holy Ghost, it is for you today. He can forgive you of your sins. He can do a work in your life to change you and make you new. If you have yet to be baptized in the only saving name of Jesus, today you can. There is water. What hinders you to be baptized? Come on. THIS IS A SALVATION ISSUE.

THIS IS a heaven and hell issue. Uh this IS A CHOICE YOU GOT TO MAKE. UH they're going to sing. Uh they're going to worship it right now. Every voice lifted to heaven. Come on. Every hand lifted to Jesus. I am going to make it sure. I'm going to make sure that I know who you are. MAKE SURE THAT I KNOW THE POWER of your word. MAKE SURE THAT I KNOW the power of your name. I'm not going to waver. I'm not going to quit. I'm not going to be distracted. But I am going to stay the course day in and day out. Oh, come on. If you don't have the Holy Ghost, today is your day. Today is your day. Right now, this is your day. OH, COME ON, SOMEBODY call on him. I'm not >> I need you, Jesus. Not anymore. >> >> Oh, come on. That's right. >> Come on. That's right. Jesus. >> Jesus, you are truth. >> You are truth. >> I am desperate. I mercy. >> Oh, come on. That's right. >> I'm not >> a declaration. I need you, Jesus. >> I need you, Lord. I need you, Lord. >> Oh, come on. A declaration. I need you, Jesus. >> That's right. Come on. >> I am dead. >> Come on. Let him do a work in your life. >> Remove the distractions. >> I'm not waiting. >> >> I love you. I >> I need you, Lord. I need you. >> Oh, that's right. Come on, somebody. >> Come on, somebody. Call on his name. >> I will trust you. >> I will hold to you. >> I will establish my goings and comingings in you, >> oh God. I will be an example to the next generation. I will love you, Lord. I will love you, Jesus. I will love you, Jesus. That's right. That tried. That's right. >> Breathe into this house, Holy Ghost. >> That's right. Yes. >> I love you, Jesus. I'm going to trust you, Lord. I need you, Lord. I need you, Lord. I need you, Lord. I need you. I need you, Lord. I need you, Lord. I need you, Lord. I need you. I tried. I tried. I tried.

>> I need you, Lord. >> Hallelujah. >> I need you. >> Hallelujah. >> I need you. >> Hallelujah. >> I need you, Lord. I need you, Lord. >> That's right. Come on. Call on the name of the Lord. Call on the name of the Lord. I need you, Jesus. I trust you in you, Lord. I need you, Lord. I need you. I need you. I need you. I need you, Lord. I need you, Lord. Hallelujah, Jesus. Oh, Savior, Savior, Savior. Pastor, you can't keep coming to church and talk about perilous times. Dangerous stuff. You can't Oh, you need to preach stuff that makes me goosebumpy. Stuff that makes me goosebumpy and all the thrilling things. How good I am and all the right stuff I'm doing. Now, that's that can be done. In fact, the Bible talks about that too, brother Vandy. It says there'll come a time when they will heap to themselves. >> Teachers, >> having itching ears, >> tell me something googly. >> Yeah. Say something to me that's all fuzzy. Oh, give me give me give me something that just makes me feel like I can run through a troop and leap over a wall. And all the while the enemy's going, "Yeah, convince them prayer doesn't matter. Convince them being in the house of the Lord doesn't matter." If we ever really understood the value of who we are, we would be walking in victory. All of us.