Sword

How many glad to be in the house of the Lord on a Sunday? Would you pray with me, please? Lord, today we are hungry for you. Thirsty, thirsty for you. Pray the word of God today would be sharp and powerful Lord and would work in us as we have gathered here Lord. We have sung songs about you to you and for you. We have listened to your word Lord. We've grown. We've spent time together. We've prayed. We've brought needs to you. We've rejoiced and answered prayer. Right now, Lord, as we go to your word, we need the lamp to lead us. Light our pathway. Show us the road.

Don't let us walk, Lord, in confusion or question, but let us stand firm the word of our testimony for the good things that you have done. I love you, Jesus. I speak truth into this house right now. I release truth in this place. I bind up any spirit of division, any spirit of deception and distraction in the name of Jesus. We bind it, push it aside. We come in the power of the Holy Ghost. The word of God does its job in us, Lord. And we're thankful for that. We release that today in this place. Pray Lord for every man in this room that we would be men of prayer and principle.

Men of passion and power Lord that would hunger and thirst for you. The name of Jesus be glorified Lord in all things today. I again make myself available to you Jesus. Take coals from the altar and touch lips of clay. In the name of Jesus I pray. Somebody say in Jesus name. I love all of you and I'm glad you're here today. If you're a guest with us, if you've joined us online, we welcome you. We're so honored you've come. Thankful that you're here. Thank you singers and musicians. Thank you everybody that's involved at CAC.

I appreciate greatly your investment, your influence, your love for the things of God. Whatever level, place, position that is, water, security, teaching, listening, coffee, making, cleaning, whatever it is. Thank you so much. Amen. It takes all of us. Look at your neighbor. Say, "You better get with it." takes all of us. All of us. I'm thankful. I echo the words that's already been mentioned. Thank you all who came out Friday night for the influence that you made on this community. Uh we do have a praise report.

Apparently Bri went to a singles meeting and received the gift of the Holy Ghost yesterday. Yay. Oh, come on, somebody. That's heaven stuff. That's eternity stuff there. Yeah, that's eternity stuff there. Praise God. Aren't you thankful that the Lord is still pouring it out? As you're seated today, thank you so much for being here. I I feel it necessary for a precursor to today's message. I want you to know that I believe God is working in all of us. Amen. And I believe the hand of the Lord works in the midst of even the darkest hour. God moves.

questions and things happen in our culture and in our society that cause people to reimcalibrate to the day in which we live. I I I say this right now because I feel like I need to so that you understand the heart of a pastor. I have no stones to throw at anyone today. I do not. I appreciate and I love all of you for your investment in the kingdom of God. For the last several weeks, I have felt so compelled that the hour in which we live is going to require something else. I don't have a new word because there's not one.

It's already settled in heaven, Brother Lorenzo, and we can stand on the word of God. What I do know though is that revelation comes to us at various times and seasons in our lives and in the church life. And I am convinced that we are at one of those moments of opportunity together. We come here with purpose. Somebody say purpose. Every every one of us probably have had an unforgettable week. If your week was unforgettable, would you simply say, "I'd like to forget some of it, maybe good things and bad things, same old same old things.

You went to work, you went to school, you shopped at the store, you spent time with family, friends, and it's the same things that happened week after week. Some of you may decide today that the past week you've had was a complete disaster. Don't identify with that. It might simply be something that passed through your mind. Some of you would say, "Well, I got a week coming and perhaps it could be better." And you would be the one that would say, "You know what?

I'm I'm going to look for the better things in life." We come together here every week and we through this year of 2025, we have moved through the tabernacle of the congregation that you find referenced in the book of Exodus in your Bible. Would you say that word with me today? Bible. The B I B L E. Come on, young people. That's I the we know that because we learned it in kids church at camps or whatever. We find that in the Bible, the Old Testament, which I truly and dearly love and hold dear.

This past January, we began a journey that took us from the place where man needed God to a place where God wanted to be with man. We started with outside of the tent tabernacle. And we began each month one step, one phase, one portion at a time. If you've not been connected much to CAC over the last year, I would invite you to go into the archives. you can find on our app and on our website and God can help you to understand where we have arrived today. There are many details. There are de dimensions. There are words that were spoken to Moses in the presence of a holy God.

There are a list of materials to be provided. God would make a way where the people would actually have and possess the things needed for the building of the tabernacle, but they would simply need to open their heart and their giving and bring it and give it to God. That's how it worked. Wisdom indeed was given to some and knowledge to understand how to build and how to fabricate the things that God would require from them. the workers, the priests, they were all established as the plan of God began to unfold.

The the methods and the manners and the materials that God required were provided, every one of them specifically for the work of the things of God. Friend of mine, today I think we could all stand and simply say God wanted a place and man needed a space. And so as we look at the word of God, we we can understand better that what we have discussed and we have delved into over the last several months, it brings us allow me a moment today. Exodus chapter number 25 beginning at verse number one.

The Lord spake to Moses saying, speak unto the children of Israel that they bring me an offering of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart, ye shall take my offering. And this is the offering which ye shall take of them. You ready for it? Gold and silver and brass and blue and purple and scarlet, fine linen, goat's hair, ramkins dyed red, badger skin, shidum wood, oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil, sweet incense, onyx stones, and the stones to be set in the ephod and the breastplate. Verse eight.

And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them, according to all that I shoe thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof. Even so shall ye make it. God speaks to Moses, the voice piece, the the ear if you will of humanity, and he says, "I need you to build me a sanctuary, a place to dwell, a refuge, a a meeting space." God told Moses to allow, listen to this, to allow the people to bring the gold and the silver and the brass and the things that would be needed. Notice this.

God did not say, "I will drop them in your lap." God said, "The people have these things and they need to bring me an offering from their heart of these things." Knowing and understanding that God said to Moses, "I want a place, a sanctuary where I can gather with you and I can spend time with you and I can I can lead you and guide you." So the Bible tells us that they brought they brought they kept bringing and then they built. God had given them the knowhow to the men and the women that would needed that were needed to build it.

Every piece, every detail, all of the methods, all of the ways God provided. Somebody say that God will provide. We have spent the past 10 months in this church looking into the wise and the whatfors for this great and wonderful precious place called the tabernacle of the congregation. God wanted to spend time with humanity.

I in particular, I know that I stand here today behind this pull pit much wiser and much smarter than than I was before because God allowed me the time and the ability to delve into his word, into history, into into the the way to study things and gave me a mind to be able to say, "Lord, I don't understand this, but the further I dug and the deeper I went down, God would allow me to understand it." I stand here today a smarter guy. Yeah, I might not look like much, but my wife loves me. And everybody in this room knows little man on the front row. All right, that's what matters to Poppy.

I stand here understanding more about the things of God. If you are following in your journal this year, write this down in your journal for today. Write down three things that you have learned about the plans of God for your life over the past 10 months. I have taken the lot as pastor of the church in the month of November. I will talk over the Sundays and the Wednesdays during this month. I will discuss with you. I will bring to you. I will present to you the most holy place, the Holy of Holies, God's dwelling place.

Brother Sam, this last month, if you'll recall, he brought the priesthood out and he began to discuss how that the priesthood and kingship was different, but yet somehow someway they were combined through Jesus Christ. He began to express that through his lessons. Wonderful. Again, if you missed Wednesday night midweek Bible study, you go back and you listen to those lessons. The fact remains is that God had a dwelling place where the ark of God would sit and in that ark there would be a covenant that was established and represented there in that place. It's called the mercy seat.

Now there's an ark of the covenant that God made and then upon that box there is a seat of mercy called the mercy seat. in between the two cherubs that sat upon the mercy seat, the two angels that were represented there on the mercy seat. You take the time, go into the book of Exodus, you can read all about the detail of it. It is where the orb, the presence, the power, the acceptance of God would be represented in this place called the Holy of Holies. Would somebody say mercy seat is a 15 by 15 room, not so big, not so large.

It was just a room that would was set apart from everything else that happened in the tabernacle of the congregation. The walls were gold. It had a tapestry on the top that was woven in purple and red and scarlet. It was had gold wrapped into it. And there was no light in the room. No need for light because IF THE PRESENCE OF God is with you, there is the light that shines to all men.

Somebody say, "God is that light." And if he's sitting on the mercy seat, the high priest on the day of atonement would not have to worry about stumbling or falling or not being able to see where he was, BUT HE WOULD ACTUALLY COME INTO THE HOUSE AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD IN THAT HOLY OF HOLIES. AND GOD himself would be the light that would shine and show him what to do while he was in there. Stay with me for a moment. Please give ME JUST A LITTLE WHILE TODAY to talk to you. I I've got a clock on the back wall. I I'll tend to it. Y'all y'all hang on to me a minute.

The Bible tells us though, IF YOU GET PAST GENESIS, EXODUS, LEVITICUS, and you get past what God's plan and purpose was in the book of Exodus, and then you come into the BOOK OF LEVITICUS, YOU find the law and the details of the law that God said to the Levites, they will do this and they will follow it this way, and this is how things will be done. It was called the Levitical law. But then you arrive at the book of Numbers. Strange that you would call a book in the Bible numbers. Guess what the book of Numbers is about? Numbers. Thank you to all of you wise folk.

In chapter one of the book of Numbers, verse number one, the Lord spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Si in the tabernacle of the congregation. Y'all know where we are. on the first day of the second month and the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, verse two, take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls, from 20 years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel. Thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

And with you there shall be a man of every tribe, everyone, every head of the house of his fathers. God speaks here as it is written in the book of numbers. And he says to Moses, you take Aaron and you go to all of the 12 tribes and you count the men folk. Everybody say the men folk. The Say it. The men folk. Come on, somebody. Don't be afraid. Say the men folk. The men of that tribe. You number them from age 20 and up. I don't care about the younger ones and I don't care about the other ones. I don't care. Listen, I don't want to know how many children nor women there are.

I want to know how many men are there in the camp. And so the Bible says they began to number them. And you can follow IT AGAIN IN YOUR BOOK. YOU CAN READ IT in about the tribe of Reuben and Dan. You can of Napili. YOU CAN GO THROUGH. HEY, DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE, THIS WAS AN INTERESTING fact I presented to my wife and she looked at me like she does sometimes because my brain works different than others. DO YOU REALIZE that there were 12 tribes of Israel? But when you read it in the book of Numbers that there are 12 tribes listed and the Levites are not counted. So, was there 13?

Some of y'all are like screaming right now. I don't even know what he's saying. It came out of Joseph. Some of you may know because Joseph blessed his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh from there. Come on, SOMEBODY HELP ME. BUT IT IS OUT OF THAT GROUP OF 12 TRIBES that they begin to number the men that were 20 years old and up. And of that, the Bible says in, if you go down through there, you'll find in Numbers 1:45, so were all of those that were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their fathers from 20 years old and upward.

All that were able to go forth to war in Israel, even all that were numbered were already 600,3,550. 63,550 men over the age of 20. Somebody say amen. That's a big number. The listen to this. The intention for numbering those men were for one reason and one reason only. And the Bible tells it right here to be fit for war. Your responsibility. Men of Reuben, men of Dan, men of Gad, men of Ishachar, men of Zepfully, men, you need to understand something. Men of 20 and above, that you are to be a man of war. Numbers 1 47.

But the Levites, listen to this, after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them. For the Lord had spoken unto Moses, saying, VERSE 49, ONLY THOU shalt not number the tribe of Levi, neither take the sum of them among the children OF ISRAEL, BUT THOU SHALT APPOINT the Levites over the tabernacle of testimony, and over all the vessels thereof, and over the things that belong to it. They shall bear the tabernacle, all the vessels thereof. They shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle. Y'all follow pastor for a moment. MY HEART IS SO FULL RIGHT NOW.

GOD KNEW THAT IF I'M going to have a place, I will have to have somebody set apart to take care of the place in which I want you, humanity, to build for me. Notice this. The 12 tribes that I aforementioned, 63,550, they were to be men of war. They were to be men that were not afraid to defend the things that they stood for. They were to be men that would stand in the face of an enemy that would try to come in and CHANGE THEM AND ADAPT THEM AND DISREGARD THEM AND PUSH THEM TO THE SIDE. BUT THE LO AND BEHOLD, THOSE WHO SERVED IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, YOU BETTER NOT PICK UP A SWORD.

YOU BETTER NOT PICK UP A WEAPON. THAT IS NOT YOUR JOB. YOUR JOB IS TO TEND TO THE THINGS OF THE HOUSE OF GOD. LISTEN TO THIS. WE HAVE SPENT THIS PAST year talking about the purpose and the plan and the job OF A PRIEST. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SACRIFICES, ANIMALS, BLOODSHED, ALTARS, CLEANSING, WASHING, RENEWING. WE HAVE DISCUSSED THE SHOWBREAD, THE CANDLESTICK. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE INCENSE that was TO BURN CONTINUOUSLY. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS. BUT ONE THING THAT WE HAVE YET TO DISCUSS AND I PRESENT TO YOU TODAY and I will FOR THIS ENTIRE MONTH.

WHAT DID THE MEN DO THAT WERE NOT IN THE PRIESTHOOD AND THE LEVITICAL COVENANT WITH GOD? THEY WERE WARRIORS WHO FOUGHT AND WHO DECIDED IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A TABERNACLE OF GOD, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIGHT TO PROTECT THE TABERNACLE OF GOD. They wared anybody that would try to come AGAINST THEM. THE MEN OF REUBEN AND BENJAMIN, ISHACHAR, EPHRAIM, MANASSEH, DAN, GAD, NEPALI, JUDAH, ZEBULON, ASHER, AND SIMEON.

EVERY ONE OF THOSE THEY WERE TOLD IF ANYBODY TRIES TO COME IN AND CHANGE THIS, IF ANYONE TRIES TO COME IN AND DESTROY THIS, IF THEY WANT TO COME IN AND STEAL THIS, YOU BETTER RISE TO THE OCCASION. AND YOU BETTER LOCK ARMS WITH THE BROTHER AT YOUR RIGHT AND YOUR LEFT TO FIGHT A WAR THAT ONLY MEN COULD FIGHT. If you ever wonder, this is a question. Anybody taking notes today? It's a question. Why? Why would God require for men to bring a sacrifice for a trespass offering to the house of God if they had ever touched a bloody carcass or been exposed to blood?

Do you think for one moment that there was so much blood flowing around there that these guys had to keep coming back and saying, "Oops, I cut my finger. Oh no, I stepped on a dead dog. Come on. We we take all these things for granted. We we try to understand them. We try to comprehend them. And we think that just because we study the things of God that we are made to understand the things of God. And because of that, we put all of this confidence and all these things upon the people that are called the priesthood.

And everybody sitting in this room today, you will point to ME AS YOUR PASTOR AND YOU WILL TELL ME AT MY FACE IN MY EYEBALLS, "PREACHER, YOU BETTER SAVE ME FROM HELL. YOU BETTER PREACH THE WORD TO ME TO GET ME UP AND MAKE ME FEEL BETTER." BUT I RISE TO THIS TABLE TODAY and I declare the whole COUNCIL OF GOD. THE DEVIL IS A LIAR. IT WAS THE MEN OF THE TRIBE OF GOD THAT SAID, "IF THERE'S GOING TO BE ANYTHING IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD, I WILL STAND AND I WILL FIGHT FOR IT. I WILL PROTECT IT." WHY? BECAUSE THE MAN OF GOD, HE'S NOT ALLOWED TO SWING A SWORD.

BUT I STAND HERE AS A MAN OF WAR, AND I WILL DECLARE, YOU'RE NOT COMING INTO THIS PLACE. UH YOU'RE NOT ABOUT TO STEAL THIS GLORY. YOU'RE NOT ABOUT TO TAKE THIS ARK. THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU, FRIEND. THIS IS MY PEOPLE. THIS IS MY GOD. THIS IS WHO I STAND FOR. SEE, PASTOR'S VERY DISTURBED TODAY IN HIS SPIRIT BECAUSE THE MULTITUDE OF AMENS IS COMING FROM THE LADIES IN THE HOUSE. AND I WONDER MEN, WHERE ARE YOU THAT WOULD SAY, "PASTOR, I'M SORRY THAT I'VE FALLEN INTO SOCIETY AND TELLING ME THAT BECAUSE I'M A MALE, I SHOULD BE SILENT.

I SHOULD BE QUIET AND I SHOULD LET THE WOMEN GO TO CHURCH AND I SHOULD LET THEM SHOUT IN THE ALTAR AND I NEED TO LET THEM DO THAT. I'M A PEACEFUL MAN. I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO GET UP." I COME TO TELL YOU, FRIEND, IF YOUR FAMILY IS ABOUT TO DIE, YOU BETTER RISE UP WITH A SWORD IN YOUR HAND AND YOU BETTER DECLARE THE WHOLE COUNCIL OF GOD. DEVIL, YOU'RE A LIAR. YOU BETTER GET BACK. I AM A CHILD OF GOD. UH I WILL NOT STAND IDLY BY AND LET YOU STEAL MY CHILDREN FROM OUT FROM UNDER MY HOME. UH BUT I WAR. I STAND HERE AS A MAN OF WAR.

AND I DECLARE TO YOU UH I'M NOT ABOUT TO LET MY WIFE BE THE ONE UH THAT BRINGS MY I'M GOING TO STAND UP WITH A SWORD AND I'M GOING TO DECLARE TO GOD BE THE GLORY. ENEMY YOU GET BACK. I WILL FIGHT FOR THIS. WHERE ARE THE WARRIORS IN THIS GENERATION? Y'all understand where I'M COMING FROM TODAY? PLEASE understand why this is so heavy on me. BECAUSE IF WE WERE STILL UNDER THAT LAW, I AS YOUR PRIEST, your pastor, YOUR MINISTER, I COULD NOT BEAT BACK THE AMALOCITES, THE HITTITES, THE ZEBA. I COULDN'T PUSH THEM BACK. I WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO. I'd have to wait on you to do it.

I'd have to trust you to take care of it. I'd have to depend on you men to wield this sword because I couldn't. Please understand something. I will spend this month talking about the dwelling place for the ark of the covenant. Do you realize friend? Listen to pastor. God's place with man, his tribe, his people did not begin at the tent. didn't begin at the altar. It did not begin at the labor. It did not begin at the separation curtain. It did not start at the shoebre at the candlestick and at the altar of incense. It did not start at the veil.

But God said, "Make me a place." God did not dwell by the altar. God did not dwell by the labor of water. God did not dwell in that holy place. God was simply sitting in the Holy of Holies saying, "This is what the rest of the world is trying to destroy. And if I couldn't do my job as a priest because you let down your guard, men and you didn't stand up and fight for the truth of what the word of God established, then everything in that holy of holies would be jeopardized and I would lose everything and so would you. Brother Lorenzo, it was all about the ark, the presence of God.

Brother Nathan, it was all about the mercy seat and the covenant God made. It was not about how pretty the curtain was and how white that the outside was. It wasn't. It was about what they're coming for is me, God said. What was a thing that the Philistines stole from the people of God was the ark. I started this message today with all humility that I could and with all the love that I could to tell you I am not here to fight against anybody. But I will tell you this, men. If we don't get our act together, the church is not going to be the church.

We're going to be a place where people feel good or feel bad. And you're going to be mad at pastor because I'm gonna have to cause judgment to come. Because if God is moving in this place and the word of God is adjusting us and changing us and making us who we need to be, then if I'm going to see heaven one day and give account for every one of your souls, then I'm going to have to start praying the hard prayer. God, they'll either love you or you need to get them out of the way. God, they're either going to stand and wield their sword or you're going to move them out of the way.

Don't you say it can't be done because the two boys of Aaron, what happened to them? There's nobody that would want that to happen. But when those two boys, brother Dan, began to do things with strange fire. God said, "I love my presence more than I love you, and I'll stop them." And he killed them both. Pastor Are you telling me then that I as a man I need to wield a sword and go out there and slay all these people? No. Look, this thing right here don't even have an edge on it. I bought it according because I'm terrible with blades.

But I am making a statement today that every one of you men need to listen to. Some of you men are sound asleep right now. You're no more clear than anywhere else because this world has rocked you to sleep and you've been made to think that I'm a man. So I need to be quiet and with silent love I need to love my family and let my wife and my children do as they do because that supports that is not how this thing works. If the church is going to be the church in the end time, it's going to be the church that will go to war.

It's not going to be a church that will simply open its doors to the community and let them walk in and run over. It's going to be men that will say, "I'm going to let you in this church, but I'm going to defend it. I'm gonna defend it. You're not coming in here with false doctrine and teach them. You're not coming in here trying to pollute the things of God. You're not gonna bring strange fire to this altar. What you're going to do is you're going to have to come in here with the right spirit and attitude.

Some of y'all don't understand a preacher why I stand up here in this corner every service. And while I know that when a preacher comes and takes over, if y'all notice, I'll move around to the back to get out of the way. But the whole time I'm back there saying, "God, you anoint that man of God today and you let him preach without fear or favor." Why? Because if you're going to do what God wants you to do, you've got to raise up to the occasion and you've got to decide this thing is worth dying for and it's worth fighting for.

I'M NOT ABOUT TO LET DECEPTION and deceit in the things of this world come in and water down the truth of the word of God. There is still one God. THERE IS STILL ONE LORD. There is still one faith. THERE'S STILL ONE BAPTISM. IT IS STILL HOLINESS UNTO the Lord. Uh it IS STILL IF YOU'LL RISE TO THE OCCASION, GOD WILL BE WITH YOU. AND THERE'S NO WEAPON THAT'S FORMED AGAINST YOU UH THAT WILL PROSPER. I'VE COME TO TAKE TELL SOMEBODY TODAY I'M GOING TO LOOK THE DEVIL RIGHT IN THE EYE. DEVIL, YOU GOT NO PLACE IN THIS CHURCH. UH THIS IS A BLOODBOUGHT CONGREGATION.

WE ARE CALLED ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD. UH WE STAND UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES DOCTRINE AND TEACHING. WE STILL BELIEVE UH IN REPENTANCE AND BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF JESUS FOR THE REMISSION OF SINS. I I STILL BELIEVE UH IN RECEIVING THE GIFT OF THE HOLY GHOST. I STILL BELIEVE UH HE'S A HEALER AND A WAY MAKER. AND I'LL DEFEND IT TO THE DEATH. UH I'LL BACK YOU DOWN. I'LL PUSH YOU BACK. I'LL RISE UP AT 6:00 A.M. AND PRAY. I'LL GO TO BED PRAYING. I'LL GET UP DECLARING THE WHOLE COUNCIL OF GOD. WHY? BECAUSE I'M A MAN OF WAR.

Before anybody walked in this room today, I walked through that back door and I made a lap and I said, "Lord, I come against any deceitful thought, any confused word. I come against it." Most of the men in our church, Lord, they love you. They serve you because they believe you are the answer. But they are intimidated by what you are not doing. See, we want God to uphold his side, brother Jeff. And God, you better be here when I call. And God standing there saying, "You're the one let that enemy in, not me. You should have grabbed your sword and began to wield it and begin to push him back.

Okay, y'all want New Testament stuff? I'll give it to you. Ephesians, look what Paul wrote to the Ephesians. Finally, my brethren, chapter 6, verse chapter 6, verse 10. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Put on the what? What? See, you think that living for God is just a man be pamby. Let's clap my hands and feel good about it. You got a whole armor of God. a whole armor of God. The whole armor of God. Why? That ye may be able to stand against the ws of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, AGAINST THE RULERS OF THE DARKNESS of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole ARMOR OF GOD, THAT YOU MAY BE ABLE TO withstand in the evil day, having done all TO STAND. HEY, STAND THEREFORE, HAVING YOUR LOINS gard about with truth, AND HAVING THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND YOUR FEET SHAW WITH THE PREPARATION OF THE GOSPEL OF PEACE, ABOVE ALL, TAKING THE SHIELD OF FAITH, WHEREWITH YE SHALL BE ABLE TO QUENCH ALL THE FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED.

AND TAKE THE HELMET OF SALVATION AND THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT WHICH IS WHAT IS THE WORD OF GOD PRAYING ALWAYS WITH ALL PRAYER SUPPLICATION IN THE SPIRIT WATCHING THERE UNTO WITH ALL PERSEVERANCE AND SUPPLICATION FOR ALL SAINTS UH AND FOR ME UH THAT UTTERANCE MAY BE GIVEN UNTO ME UH THAT I MAY OPEN MY MOUTH BOLDLY TO MAKE KNOWN THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL FOR WHICH I AM AN AMBASSADOR IN BONDS AND THEREIN I MAY SPEAK BOLDLY AS I OUGHT TO SPEAK UH IF YOU'LL TAKE ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD UH AND YOU'LL FIGHT THE BATTLE WITH THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD.

UH THEN I CAN SPEAK UH WHAT THE WORD OF GOD IS SAYING. I need some men. Brother Tim, come on. [panting] Right there, Tim. Right there. Choose which one you want. Anybody? Any other men that'll help him? What you got, Tim? What you got? Anybody else? Any other men want to want to be a man today? What you got, Tim? Huh? Anybody else? What you got, Horton? Horton, what you got? Come on. Don't you come up here all man pamby and wishing that somebody Come on. Some of y'all are worried right now.

You're going to leave this place and go out the door and your wives and your kids are going to make fun of you because you came up here and you're going to let the devil win because his testimony was stronger than yours. I've come to tell somebody today when men will stand with the word of God. It is the sword of the spirit. And you men, you can WALK ANY DEVIL DOWN IN ANY ROAD AND YOU CAN DECIDE TODAY MEN THAT THIS church is GOING TO BE A CHURCH OF VICTORY. THIS IS GOING TO BE A CONGREGATION OF BELIEVERS THAT WILL DECIDE. I DON'T CARE WHAT THE WORLD SAYS.

I'M NOT CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THE ENEMY SAYS. UH, BUT I'M GOING TO BE A CHURCH THAT WILL BE ON FIRE FOR GOD. AND I'LL FIGHT A WAR AGAINST EVERY DEVIL WITH THE SPIRIT OF GOD WORKING IN MY LIFE. UH, I LISTEN TO ME. I WILL ALLOW MY PASTOR AND MY MINISTER TO STAND BEFORE ME AND PREACH INTO MY LIFE. AND I'LL RECEIVE IT AS GOD IS. AND I'LL DECLARE IT. AND I'LL TELL MY CHILDREN, "YOU BETTER RESPECT THE THINGS OF GOD. I'LL TEACH IT TO MY WIFE. WE'RE GOING TO PRAY FOR OUR PASTOR TODAY. WE'RE GOING TO PRAY FOR OUR PASTORS. WHY? WHY?

NOT BECAUSE OF WHO I AM, BUT BECAUSE OF WHO HE IS AND WHAT HIS PLAN IS FOR US. Say with me, men, don't you leave me now. I BELIEVE THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT IS WHAT THIS WORLD NEEDS NOW. More than anything, men. More than anything, men, we don't have space in the tabernacle of the congregation for somebody to decide. Well, I guess I'll just hold on and do the best I can. And if I could just have a cabin on the corner of heaven, I'll be satisfied. Friend of mine, I don't want no cabin. And there won't be no cabin as far as where I'm going. I'm going to where there's streets of gold.

I'm going to where there's mansions that are right and pure. I'm going to where there are precious things. I'm looking for a city whose maker is not man, but it's God. And if God does things, God does things right. I'm convinced in this house, every ear listening right now, that our revival is not going to happen until the warriors stand up and defeat the enemy. Pastor, what are you saying? I'm saying you better be a man of conviction.

You better be a man of prayer that will say, "My whole family is waiting on me to make the decisions that are hard." Man, don't you have to be You don't have to be mean. But if you go through your history and you'll find that in this what these tribes would do, God first of all said, "I want the Levites to be around here close enough to me so they can work and protect this thing." And then we're going to line up your tribes, every one of them, behind their banner, what they stand for.

But on the day of atonement, men, you will stand in the tent door with your family, and you will wait to make sure that the high priest has done his job right. Because if he's protected, provided for, and seen after, then you can see the glory of God descend upon the Holy of Holies. Now, I wonder today, men, please know, I started my message today telling you I love you, and I want you to know where I'm coming from. Men, are you okay with wondering if your house is in order? I I think it's okay. I'm pretty sure it's all right. What? Don't you know that you can make your call? your election.

Sure. I'm not condemning anyone today. I'm trying to simply set things in order. This this altar needs to be full of men every service that'll come up here as leaders of worship and say, "You know what? Poppy's going to be ugly today because I'm gonna get up here and I'm gonna walk before God. I'm gonna raise my hands before the Lord. I'm gonna speak in tongues. I'm going to shout down the glory if I can. And if he breaks me, so be it. I'm going to love God and serve him through it. And the sad of it is that most of the people that I walk between up here in this carpet are ladies.

I'm not throwing a rock at nobody. I'm simply telling you men, what you're listening to out in this world, you're bringing it into the house of God. Come on. The media is trying to tell you you're a nobody. Movies and Hollywood's trying to tell you that men, you're not worth it. They're trying to make you a feminine. They're trying to make you something that you're not. That God didn't design you to be. They're confusing you by the lies of the enemy. And the enemy is sitting there twiddling his thumb. And he's like, "Oh, you know what?

All I got to do is just lie to a few of them." And the rest of them will fall right in and listen. You want to know something, friend of mine? The word of God, that thing right there, that book you hold in your hand, there is such a power and a glory in that book. If you open up that word, uh, all you got to do is read that word and get it activated in your life. Uh, and things are going to happen. Listen carefully. You notice one of them's real thin. You notice one's a little thicker. You notice one's got tabs. You notice one, that's cuz Brother Richard needs a bigger one.

You know something going on? When the people of God will pray, Brother Lorenzo, when the men of God will rise up and say, you know what, I'm not in the priesthood, but I've got a sword, and I'm going to protect everything going on in the house of God. Some of you today, you listen to this pastor with a heart that reaches for you. Uh you need to stop all the bickering and the murmuring that you're doing against your pastor's wife or your pastor or one of the other pastors.

You need to understand EVERY TIME YOU SAY SOMETHING negative or downed AGAINST THEM, YOU ARE DOING NOTHING but entertaining the voice of the enemy. And he is going to REACH OUT AND YOU'RE GOING TO WONDER ONE DAY, WHY WON'T MY CHILDREN COME TO THE HOUSE OF GOD? WHY DON'T THEY FALL IN LOVE WITH GOD? BECAUSE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CLANGING OF A SWORD UH IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR THAT SAID, "DEVIL, YOU'RE NOT ABOUT TO GET MY FAMILY. YOU'RE NOT ABOUT TO BRING THAT JUNK INTO MY HOUSEH. BUT I AM CALLED TO BE A WARRIOR. I AM CALLED TO FIGHT FOR THE things of God. My name is in the Lamb's book of life.

Not as somebody that simply knew him, but somebody who fought a good fight. You understand that? Come on. What do you think Paul was talking about? I have fought good fight. You think he was simply saying, I got up in the morning feeling fine. I went to bed feeling fine, too. [panting] Paul would say, "I've been beaten. I've been bruised. I've been stoned. I've been cast aunderder. I've been left in the deep. I've been pushed aside. I've been ignored. I've been walked over. I've been lied on. I've been lied to. I've been made to think.

And all I know is one thing is that I fought through every one of them. I PUSHED BACK THE DESIRE TO WANT TO WALK AWAY FROM GOD. I PUSHED BACK THE DESIRE TO WANT TO GIVE IN TO THE HAND OF THE ENEMY. AND I FOUGHT THROUGH IT. I STILL GOT OUT OF BED IN THE MORNING DECLARING THE GOODNESS OF GOD. UH I STILL TOLD MY CHILDREN, YOU MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THIS RIGHT NOW. UH BUT I'VE COME TO DECLARE TO YOU, UH THERE IS VICTORY IN THE NAME OF JESUS. UH THERE IS POWER IN THE NAME OF JESUS. THERE IS ANOINTING IN THE NAME OF JESUS. UH THERE IS NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE NAME OF JESUS.

UH AND EVEN WHEN YOU COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT, YOU WERE PUSHING THEM BACK. FAMILY, IT'S PRAYER TIME. COME ON, SON. COME ON, DAUGHTER. IT'S PRAYER TIME. WHERE ARE WE GOING, DADDY? WE'RE GOING TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. WHY? BECAUSE I'VE BEEN PROTECTING IT ALL WEEK LONG. AND I'M GOING TO GO IN THERE NOW AND SERVE MY GOD WITH HONOR. WOO! For all you clock watchers, it's 140. MEN, MEN, WHERE ARE YOU? MEN, MEN OF REUBEN, MEN OF DAN, MEN OF GAD, MEN OF NEPTAL, WHERE ARE YOU? MEN OF SIMEON, MEN, WHERE ARE YOU? WILL YOU RISE UP IN THE MORNING AND DECLARE, I'VE GOT MY SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, THE WORD OF GOD.

I prayed early this morning, Lord, let there be an overshadowing spirit that will fall on the heart of a men of our church and they would rise up as warriors today and they would set things in order in their minds and in their hearts. Because if a man really understands who he is in his heart and his mind, he can stand up in the face of his family and say, "I may have failed. I may have had issues and I may have fallen apart. I may have SPOKE WRONG. I MAY NOT HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, but one thing I do know, I'm a bloodbought child of God. AND I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT goes on here.

And I'm going to declare the God OF ALL OF CREATION IS MY GOD. AND WE'RE GOING TO SERVE HIM. WE'RE GOING TO ASK FOR ME IN MY HOUSE. MEN, y'all ready? You You believe You believe God can do it. You believe we can have revival. God ain't going to send us revival until we get our act together and the place of God is put in place. So I'm gonna ask you, see, I can't do this, Ethan. I can't do this. THIS IS NOT MINE TO DO. I'VE GOT TO DEPEND ON YOU. I can't. It's not in my description. What I can do is stand here and open my heart, open the word, and help you understand.

But it's going to take you fighting for it. You're going to have to get bloody sometimes in the battle. You're going to have to sever some relationships. You're going to have to kill OFF SOME STUFF THAT'S TRYING TO PULL YOU DOWN. You're going to have to decide, "We're not doing this in my house. I don't care what Hollywood says. We're not doing I'm not entertaining that in my mind. I'm going TO TAKE EVERY THOUGHT INTO CAPTIVITY AND I'M GOING TO STAND FIRM upon who I know I am. See, I can't, brother Nathan. This I can't. My sword doesn't look like this. Yours does. Will you fight for it?

And you take these men and y'all walk around this perimeter and you push back every devil of darkness and you push back every light that doesn't look like Jesus. Come on, Ethan. Man, you go with him. Come on. You got the word in your heart and in your hand, men. We're going to change the atmosphere of this church. Come on, men. Come on, men with faith. Come on, men. Come on, men. COME ON, MEN. YOU GOT A SWORD IN YOUR HAND. YOU BETTER HEAL THAT SWORD. Come on, men. Where are you? Come on. There's a sword of the spirit. It's the word of God. Men, come on. COME ON, MEN. WHERE ARE YOU?

JOIN THEM, MEN. JOIN WITH THEM. If I'm GOING TO SEE REVIVAL, I'VE GOT TO BECOME A MAN OF WAR. I'VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO PUSH BACK THE ENEMY THAT'S TRYING TO STEAL. UH, THAT'S TRYING TO LIE, THAT'S TRYING TO DECEIVE. I'VE GOT TO GET IT GONE OUT OF MY HOME, OUT OF MY CHURCH. I CANNOT WALK IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD. I CANNOT DO WHAT GOD WANTS ME TO DO IF I'M WARING INSIDE THE CHURCH, BUT I'VE GOT TO COME OUT AND DESTROY. COME ON, BROTHER ETHAN. FIGHT THE FIGHT. COME ON, SWING THE SWORD. COME ON, MAN. SWING THE SWORD. UH, I BELIEVE GOD IS IN CONTROL. UH, I BELIEVE GOD IS IN CONTROL.

I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING UH IN THE ATMOSPHERE OF THIS CONGREGATION THAT SAYS, "I WANT REVIVAL. I WANT THE CHURCH TO BE BLESSED. UH I WANT A MOVE OF GOD UH LIKE I'VE NEVER HAD BEFORE." OH, COME ON, MEN. FIGHT. COME ON, MEN. FIGHT. ALL RIGHT, LADIES. WHERE YOU AT? WILL YOU PRAY FOR THOSE MEN? GOD, GIVE THEM STRENGTH. COME ON, LADIES. GOD, GIVE THEM COURAGE. GOD, HELP THEM, LORD, TO RISE UP. HELP THEM, LORD, TO UNDERSTAND THE JOB THEY'RE DOING. BROTHER DAN, COME HELP ME. FRACT, COME HERE, FRIEND. COME ON, MAN. YOU KEEP WALKING. LADIES, YOU PRAY. LADIES, YOU PRAY. I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP.

IT'S IN THE WORD OF GOD. YOU'RE IN MINISTRY. YOU TURN AROUND, YOU ENCOURAGE THEM AS THEY GO BY. OH, COME ON. LOOK HOW THIS WORKSH. COME ON. THAT'S RIGHT, ETHAN. SWING IT. SWING IT. DEVIL, GET AWAY. DEVIL, YOU'RE A LIAR. LEAVE US ALONE. WE ARE A CHURCH OF REVIVAL. WE WILL REACH OUR CITY. THERE WILL BE A MOVE OF GOD. WHY? BECAUSE WE'VE GOT THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT. WE ARE MEN OF WAR. COME ON, MEN. PRAY. COME ON, MEN. BELIEVE FOR IT. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. COME ON MEN. YOU'RE THE STRONG MAN IN YOUR HOUSE. YOU PRAY. YOU BELIEVE. YOU TRUST GOD. THERE IS VICTORY. THERE IS VICTORY.

THERE IS VICTORY. THERE IS VICTORY. WE ARE OVERCOMERS. YES, WE ARE. IN THE NAME OF JESUS. IN THE THAT'S RIGHT, ETHAN. SWING IT. SWING IT. COME ON, MAN. SWING THAT BIBLE. SWING THAT WORD. I COME IN THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD. I COME IN THE NAME OF THE LORD GOD. I COME IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS. That's right. THAT'S RIGHT. JESUS. JESUS. MEN, MEN, hold what you got right there, man. Hold right there. Let me explain something. Let me explain something right now. I don't got I don't have it in my hand any longer. They've got it. Listen to me. Listen to me. I was standing here just now.

You're on pass number four right now. Is that right? Trip number four around. And I'm looking out at the faces of these ladies sitting here. And most of them have tears in their eyes saying, "God, I'm so glad that men will rise up at this hour and fight. Lord, I'm tired. I'm weary. This is not in me. It's in them. It's what you put in them. God, I pray for them. I pray for them. I pray for them." Ladies, would you stand to your feet right now? And you pray out loud for every man standing over here. Come on, hold on to me, men. Ladies, you pray right now.

Jesus, anoint these men, Lord, to be men of war in the spirit. We're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but there's a spiritual battle going on. I PRAY GOD YOU WOULD IMPUTE TO THEM, LORD, A GLORY that they need FOR THIS HOUR. COME ON, LADIES. LET THE TEARS OF YOUR COMING OUT OF YOUR EYES SAY, "GOD, UH, WE NEED YOU IN THIS HOUR. IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A MOVE OF GOD, GO ETHAN, GO." IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A MOVE OF GOD, UH, IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A MOVE OF GOD, UH, IT'S GOING TO BE BECAUSE MEN WILL STAND AS WARRIORS AND THEY WILL DECLARE, "DEVIL, GET BACK. ENEMY, LEAVE US ALONE. OH, COME ON.

IT TAKES ALL OF US. YOUNG PEOPLE, STAND TO YOUR FEET AND PRAY. CHILDREN, STAND TO YOUR FEET AND PRAY. HALLELUJAH. Where's Brother Don? Brother Don, where you at? Come help me FOR A MOMENT. COME ON, PRAY. COME ON, PRAY. COME ON, PRAY. COME ON, PRAY. OH, COME ON, SOMEBODY PRAY. GET A HOLD OF GOD. COME ON. YOU'RE NOT WALKING IN A WALKATHON. YOU'RE ROUNDING THE BASES BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE GOD IS DOING A WORK. GOD HAS GIVEN US VICTORY. GOD HAS GIVEN US VICTORY. GOD HAS GIVEN US VICTORY. THAT'S RIGHT. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. GOD, DO YOUR JOB. PLEASE, LORD, HELP ME, LORD, TO DO MY JOB. THAT'S RIGHT.

THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. Help me, Lord God. OH, COME ON. THERE'S VICTORY IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD TODAY. THERE IS VICTORY IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD TODAY. COME ON, ETHAN. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DEVIL. GET HIM BACK. DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE ENEMY. HE CAN'T BEAT YOU. THERE'S NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU THAT CAN PROSPER. YOU ARE A BLOODBOUGHT CHILD OF GOD. COME ON MEN. COME ON MEN. COME ON MEN. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. YES. All right, MAN. ON THIS PASS, I NEED YOU TO GET YOUR KIDS.

I need YOU TO GET YOUR WIFE IF THEY'RE HERE. AND I NEED YOU TO WALK WITH THEM. YOU GET THEM. COME ON, Y'ALL CAN MEET HIM IN THE AISLE. COME ON. THIS IS HOW WE TREAT OUR CHILDREN. THIS IS HOW WE TRAIN OUR KIDS. IF I MAY, THIS IS HOW WE FIGHT OUR BATTLES BY LEARNING THE THINGS OF GOD. DOING THE THINGS OF GOD. COME ON NOW. YOU WALK WITH YOUR FAMILY. YOU WALK WITH YOUR FAMILY. YOU SHOW THEM HOW TO TAKE STEPS. YOU DEMONSTRATE TO THEM THE POWER OF AN OVERCOMER. OH, THAT'S RIGHT. COME ON. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY. PRAY THE NAME OF JESUS. COME ON, PRAY THE NAME OF JESUS. HALLELUJAH, JESUS.

HALLELUJAH, JESUS. OH, COME ON. THAT'S RIGHT. That's right, Jesus. We war with you. Jesus, we war with you. The revival we seek, Lord, will not come unless we are willing to fight for it. But I'm That's right, man. That's right, man. You want to join them? Come on, join them. You guys walk This is how I fight my battles. It may look likerounded by you. It may look by you. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I battles. This is how I fight my battles. Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on. Victory. Victory. There's victory. There's victory. There's victory. There is victory in the name of Jesus. There is victory in the presence of the Lord. Come on. YOU CAN GO INTO HIS PRESENCE with victory, KNOWING KNOWING THAT GOD IS GOING TO DO IT. GOD IS GOING TO make a way. That's right. THAT'S RIGHT. THAT'S RIGHT. COME ON, MAN. WIELD THAT SWORD. YES, JESUS. This is how I fight. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight. This is how I fight. This is how I fight my battles. This is how I fight my battles. It may look like I'm surrounded by you.

It may look like I'mrounded, but I'm surrounded by you. It may look like I'm surrounded, but I'm I'm surrounded by you. It may look like I'm Yeah. Jesus. The sword of the spirit which is the word of God. Come on. You don't have to go on Amazon.com and buy this thing that won't do nothing. That's not what it's about. This is a prop. Pastor uses a lot of those because I I don't know how else to get the image there. But I am convinced 100%. That revival will come as we establish order like God gave order. Come on. Just because grace came with Jesus doesn't mean disciplines and education changed.

It is still the whole council of God. Y'all y'all listen to me. I will pray for you. I do pray for you. I want to pray for you. But I cannot fight for your home. I've got my own And I I fall short, brother Nathan, sometimes. I I know I mess up sometimes. And I know that sometimes I instead of pulling out the sword, I'll take it and I'll put it in a sheath and I'll decide, you know what? I've already shined and polished this thing. I don't want to get it messy again.

But I'm convinced that when we will decide as the people of God, the camp of God, that we want him to work in our church and in our families and in our lives, when we decide that, it is not going to come because of how good or how bad of a preacher I am. It is not going to come because of the words that I say. I do not have enticing words of men's wisdom. But I simply can come power demonstration of the Holy Ghost. You're the one that's got to decide. If I'm going to get my family to the house of God this week, I'm going to have to beat down some things in the world.

And I'm going to have to cut down some stuff that's trying to stop me. Don't you call me to come to your house and get rid of a devil cuz you'll be mad when you're asked to leave. I can recognize it in a minute. There ain't no problem here. You're the one. If you'll get in an altar and pray, if you'll sit down in the morning and let the quiet of God overshadow you, you can sit and bask in the presence of the Lord. And you can decide very early in the morning, you know what? I'm going to serve you today. You can ask my wife, my early morning prayer time, I'm not loud and boisterous.

I'm not out, am I right? I'm sitting quietly in my chair and I'm listening more than I'm talking. Jesus, I sure love you. Jesus, I sure need you. Y'all going to let me be transparent for a moment. Jesus, thank you for that hot cup of coffee. When I open my eyes and I look over, Brother Richard, and my wife is sitting there with her notes out, her phone's normally turned on while she's sitting there because she has this whole stack of people she's praying for. She'll have the audacity at times to say, "Honey, I'm sorry to bother you because did you have find out what happened to Lord?

Hold on a second. Why? Why is that the Is that's not wrong of her. It's not wrong of me. I don't know what's behind this sword swinging. All I know is it's about to take something out. I don't care that it's dead, dying, and shriveling up on the ground. I just killed it because it was about to come in and take my family. She'll ask the question, "Honey, do you think No, no, no. Not breathing into that thing." Joking. Because that's why we're different. But I can tell you this thing.

If I understand the power of the word of God, the sword of the spirit, then I understand that what I do is I don't fight against flesh and blood. I cannot, I will not, I will not. I refuse to pray the flesh out of you. I cannot beat your flesh. That's you. What I can do is do what I'm supposed to do. Lord, I'm in the Holy of Holies. And I'm asking for your spirit and power to move upon the mercy that you've given us. I'm asking for the pot of mana and for the budding rod.

And I'm asking for the tables of stone, Lord, to be protected so that everyone outside the camp will know that when your glory descends, they're going to be okay. And tomorrow when the Amalocites, the Zebulite try to come in and Lord, I know I know that I know that they're going to rise up early and they're going to get their sword out. They're going to say, "You're not taking this." The Holy of Holies is not about you. It's about us. It's where God meets us. Listen, I'm gonna take you down if you try to stop that. I'm going to take you out if you try to stop that.

Well, I want to come and see your priest. You're not allowed to. Why? Because he's my priest, not yours. He's He's in there right now asking God to I'll kill you right now and swing a sword and slay every one of them Amalite. Come on. You'll think that living for God is pretty. Every one of you that's ever been to an altar of repentance, you know what it was like. I've never, Brother Lorenzo, y'all, what am I 202? I've never seen anybody come to the altar and receive the Holy Ghost with a good spirit. Yes, Lord. Yes. Oh, okay. Got it. Never. I've watched many of you receive the Holy Ghost.

You know what it looked like. Stop running out of your face. Jesus, you know what was happening? Your flesh was dying and it was releasing its ability to control your spirit. When you got up full of the Holy Ghost, the Lord God said and you get that word, you go home and you protect your family with it. You learn how to swing that sword. How am I going to know? You get to the house of God. That preacher will show you how. You get in front of one of them elders, they'll show you how. You get in front of one of those that knows it. Come on. They'll show you how. They'll talk to you through it.

They'll get you in the word and describe what healing is really about. They'll show you in that word how to fight a battle and to come victorious and not be overcome by the enemy and all the lies and tricks that he's doing and you get up and you blow the snot off your face. There's something about it's what my wife and I my wife and I have considered to be called the countenance change. Things change when the Holy Ghost comes. And what used to be this is now this. Bri, you're my friend, right? Bri got the Holy Ghost yesterday at the church service she was at. Well, ain't that sweet?

Ain't that ain't that good? How you feel today? How you feel today? How you feel today? How do you feel today? Show us how you feel today. THAT'S HOW I FIGHT MY BATTLE. I'M AN OVERCOMER. JESUS LOVED ME ENOUGH TO SAVE ME. He loved me enough to change me. He loved me enough to forgive me. Now, I asked y'all how long you willing to stay. Uh, here's the question. I'm really good at embarrassing people. So, look at the work God's doing. That's just one. All right, for all you hand clappers, who's going to fight for her? Who's going to fight for her? Listen to me.

Jesus spent so much of his ministry reaching out. And every time he'd reach out, Brother Tim, he would say, "You better take care of the widow, the orphan." Why? because they can't swing a sword. But if they'll come into my presence, somebody will stand up and say, "You're part of this. Get in here. Devil, back up." Come on, widows. You know what I'm talking about. You need the church in your life. You need Come on, SOMEBODY. YOUR PARENTS MIGHT NOT LIVE FOR GOD. YOU NEED THESE MEN IN YOUR LIFE. YOU DON'T COME ON, MEN. THEY DON'T NEED TO WONDER IF YOU'RE FIGHTING. THEY NEED TO KNOW.

THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR ME. THEY'RE FIGHTING TO protect the things of God. Get a hold of somebody close to you, please. Sweetie, would you come? Michelle, would you come, baby? We're going to pray one for another. There's only one reason that there's victory in the house of the Lord. It's because the tribes are in place and the tabernacle's in place. I didn't say any of us were perfect yet. Come on. Contrary to what you think about yourself or your children, we are still in this together, fighting to make heaven our home. But the words that every one of us are looking to hear are what?

Well done, thy good and faithful servant. You have done what? Fought a good fight. Pray right now with that one you're connected to. Lord, I love you and I thank you. I plead the blood of Jesus over my wife right now. I plead the blood of Jesus over her mind, over her body and spirit. I plead the blood of Jesus. Jesus, I believe you, Lord, for a move of God and every family in this place. Every family, Lord, in this house, every individual, I pray the blood of Jesus would anoint them, bless them, and raise them up for this hour. Oh, come on, men. Would you pray right now? Jesus.

Jesus, we need you, Lord. We trust you today. We trust you for it, Lord. We trust you for it, Jesus. God of glory, don't let me give up now, Lord. Don't let me give UP NOW, LORD. OH GOD, I am fighting. I am a man of war. I am swinging the sword of the spirit. There is victory today. There is victory today. There is victory today in the house of the Lord. That's right. Oh, that's right. Come on. Victory's coming. Healing's happening. Transformation's taking place. Jesus. Jesus, help us, Lord. Help us, Lord, to get things in order. Help us, God, to establish, Lord, what we need to. Yes Lord.

Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Jesus. Somebody say in Jesus name. Oh God of glory. The sword of the spirit. The word. I'm believing for great things. Believing the God of all creation has put things in place for our generation. This is not the end all. This is part of the journey to get to him. This is part of the journey. So, fittingly, Brother Tim asked if he could start a men's prayer group on Wednesday mornings at 11:30. We told him no, that was too late. We need a little early. So, he decided 9:00 in the morning. And then he said, "Oh, never mind. I get up earlier than that.

So, can we make it six?" And we said, "Sure." I'm joking, right? He just came with six. Men, I have no doubt that you're praying at home and I'm sure that you know all about the sword and you got no issues, right? I'm asking, would you come at 6:00 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and just say, "Lord, teach me to fight with the word. Show me, Lord, how to be a man of war that'll stand in the face of the enemy, trying to destroy my children and my wife and my home and my marriage. And help me, God, to know how to do it and a step at a time." But Tim, are women allowed Wednesday mornings?

Say no. No. Come on. Y'all got your own prayer time. Y'all are doing chaka pakaka. Jaka beded. Sorry. Huh. Pray with me. We're going to put our prayer up. Wow. This is Where was this found? Anybody remember Numbers 6:22-2? Ain't that cool? Y'all think all this stuff just happens? Y'all think I miss smart? Ready for it? The Lord bless thee and keep thee. The Lord make his face shine upon thee. Be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee and give thee peace. They shall put my name upon the children of Israel, and I will bless them. I love all of you.

Shake hands, be friendly, encourage. If you got one of my Bibles, don't you walk out of here with it. Bring it back. Go get your own sword. I love y'all. Have a great week in the Lord. Thank you.