The Code

hallelujah we praise you god thank you the presence is everything it's everything who who was the first one in this place today was it you who thomas were you the first one in this doc was it the auditorium darkened when you came in did you did you rebuke the darkness did you uh go online and make a post about the darkness curse the darkness what did you do to dispel the darkness when you came in first thing you did you flip a switch and you turn on the light all the light has to do is

show up and shine and the darkness is gone i'm tired of the darkness i'm tired of the darkness but jesus said you're the light of the world all you got to do don't curse the darkness you don't have to rebuke the darkness even in jesus name he said you're the light all you got to do is show up and shine just show up and shine i want god to flip a switch in this place today so that we just show up and shine hallelujah oh god i feel his presence in such a great way and

i thank god for his presence i want you to know that you you have a responsibility the light doesn't have to work at it it just is you just show up you just let god flip the switch and wherever you go you take that light i'm tired of race-hating tired of race-baiting tired of political lies and and division and and and the polarization and and all the the coveted and i'm tired of it and god just says just show up and shine that's all you got to do hallelujah i want to flip a switch i

want god to flip a switch today in us so that we magnify the lord i'm going to read from galatians the second chapter and then from philippians chapter one i feel the holy ghost and i feel uh god has worked me over on what i'm about to talk to you about i've spent some uh about a week and a half ago i was i was lying in bed and uh before i ever got out of bed i was i was laying there crying and and just feeling the presence of the lord he's worked me completely

over with this message i hope that i can communicate effectively to you what god has spoken to me and everything is so beautiful because everything the songs i i thought you know i've watched the first service and brother roger did such a great job and and but the songs i was thinking the songs are they're not going to fit but then the songs brother brad were different and they fit exactly it was as if god was saying this is it galatians chapter 2 verse 20 i am crucified with christ nevertheless i live yet not i

but christ liveth in me and i'm going to stop right there philippians chapter 1 verse 21 and the same apostle said for me to live is christ and to die is gain and i want to share with you what god has laid on my heart simply called the code the code god bless you and you can be seated in jesus name in 1942 the war effort was going poorly for the allied troops france had been occupied by germany there were nightly bombing runs from germany to england the united states had just come into the war

in 1941 and it seemed like in the south pacific every time they would try to make an advancement all of their communication was being intercepted and interpreted by the enemy and in 1942 a young man or not so young maybe middle aged at this time he had fought in world war one by the name of philip johnson approached james jones major james jones of the naval office in san diego with a plan he had been the son of missionaries on the navajo reservations in new mexico and arizona and he said i believe that these guys

can help you out on the navajo reservation they spoke the navajo language there was no alphabet it was just a spoken language they understood each other and outside of the navajo nation this language was not spoken at all and so the military recruited 29 navajo native americans to come and and demonstrate their language to these these military people and there's even been a movie made about it called wind talkers uh these men these men ultimately provided the us military with a code that was absolutely unbreakable they had no alphabet they just spoke the language and

so when they when they designated a word in their language it symbolized something else in english and nobody understood that except the ones who had created the code because the creator of the code is the one who gives meaning to the code the creator of the code gives meaning to the code there was a man in the second century bc there was no punctuation at this time in language until aristophanes of byzantium a librarian from alexandria egypt determined that he would put punctuation marks in in scripts for actors so that they would know where to

stop and where to pause and so grammarians picked up on it and it's still in use today what is that dot at the end of a sentence it's a period but it's just a dot until aristophanes said that means you stop talking that dash that's called a hyphen it means you pause right there and then continue your thought aristophanes gave meaning to a bunch of lines and dots in language that's still in use today because the creator of the code is the one that gives meaning to the code in 1821 a young man who had

been blind since he was three years of age entered the school for the blind and as a teenager he built a code out of using aristophanes dots his name was louis braille and he took those dots that aristophanes said their periods and he said i believe i can do something with them for people who are unable to see and so he aligned these dots into a matrix of six dots three on each column and he created an alphabet and created what is commonly known as braille today how could he do that to aristophanes it was

a period but to lewis braille it was a language that would be be read by blind people because the creator of the code is the one that gives meaning to the code you can walk up to a stop light and there's a button on there and it has braille on that button you can go into an elevator and braille is on the buttons on the elevator you can go to an atm and i've never understood this because i don't want to be driving behind the person who's reading the braille on an atm machine i'm just

saying but because of that man louis braille he gave meaning to a bunch of dots that meant a period to a grammarian but then further than that in the 1830s a man by the name of samuel f b morse created a means of communication he created a telegraph which was perfectly useless until there was something that could be devised as a means of understanding the communication that was being sent and so he took the same dots and dashes that to a grammarian meant a hyphen and a period and to the man who understands braille it

represents an alphabet and he turned those dots and dashes into a code that you could hear and somebody on the other end of that telegraph would understand the code that was being sent to them how could he do that because the creator of the code is the one that gives meaning to the code and outside of a creator there is no meaning to the code you with me then there was a huge discovery in the late 1860s by a swiss scientist by the name of frederick misher he discovered these things in cells called nucleotides and

a hundred years of development later in 1860 or 1962 two men james watson and francis crick they finally got somebody to photograph what you're looking at on the screen right now they discovered in every cell of anything that lives there is something called deoxyribonucleic acid d in a it is not a living thing but in all 30 trillion cells in the human body there is a strand of d in a every time a living cell reproduces itself it carries with it this strand of d in a that dna even though it's not alive it carries

a code the genetic code for every cell in the things that live stay with me before your eyes roll back in your head we're going somewhere today they discovered a code in living things get what i'm saying here they discovered they did not create they discovered the code and so what men have done in our generation since the discovery of that code they have made it mean what they want it to mean and the only way they can do that is if they can prove that man is the creator of the code because only the

creator can give meaning to the code and so they say that we some billions of years ago ago climbed out of some primordial soup and we somehow self-developed ourselves and we grew arms and legs and we begin to walk upright why do they say that because they discovered a code that they cannot explain as part from a creator they cannot recreate this code in man but they use the code and they they twist the code and they explain everything about man now by using the code may i tell you again this morning i'm going to

give you the meaning of life the thing that people have sought for centuries and millennia and that is the only thing that can bring meaning to the code in your life is the creator you've got to come back to the creator of the code to find the actual meaning of the code everything that exists has either a code of structure which is molecules that and atoms that bind together to create molecules or living things have a code of life jesus proved who he was with his first miracle you remember that they said we have no

wine he said you got water and since i'm the creator of the code i can give a different meaning to the code if i want to fill those water pots up with water and when they did that somehow on a he didn't have crystal light to pour in there he didn't have some flavoring of an energy drink to pour in there jesus somehow because he was the creator of the code the molecular structure of that water was miraculously changed into that of wine in in theology they call it intrusive ethics it's him doing something before

the actual event takes place remember how jesus used to talk about to a woman at a well he said if you knew who i was you'd ask me to give you something to drink and i'd give you water and you'll never thirst again he stood up on the great day of the feast and he said listen to me everyone that thirsts us let him come and drink of the waters of life freely and he kept talking about this water but on the day of pentecost there was a transformation of the water that he talked about

because when they looked at these stumble bombs and these trunks stumbling around under the influence of the holy ghost they said these men are drunk on new wine he did it again the water of life became the new white of the holy ghost because the creator of the code is the one who gives meaning to the code you realize that apart from man everything in nature glorifies god he said job stand up and answer me where were you when the morning stars sing together where were you when i made the boundaries for the season where

were you in all of this in psalm 19 1 it tells us that the heavens declare the glory of god isaiah 55 12 said the hills and the mountains go forth and they rejoice the trees clap their hands in the presence of god but the self-made man believes that he created the code through some evolutionary process not so the thing that we were doing before all of this that lifting of hands that praising and lifting our voice that is what god created you and me for the praise to be returned to him who gave us

the crown of glory in the first place but man has perpetrated the lie denied the creator and there is a consequence you can read about it in romans the first chapter their descent into reprobacy when they forgot their creator i hope i'm not boring you this morning listen to me there's this man named saul we can take our lives some of us are we we think we're self-made people i've run into people who consider themselves self-made oh if you only knew you've missed the purpose of god but the apostle known as paul who before was

known as saul he he says in philippians chapter 3 verses 5 and 6 watch this he says circumcise the eighth day of suck of israel of the tribe of benjamin and hebrew of the hebrews as touching the law of pharisee listen he he had race pride he was proud of his racial heritage i don't know how people can be proud of their race you didn't have anything to do with it paul was a he said i'm a eighth day man literally it says it i'm an eighth day man i'm not one of those proselytes that

just came to israel i was born into this i am a jew by my racial heritage i am of original jewish stock of the tribe of benjamin i'm proud of my racial heritage i there was a race pride that existed in saul there was also as we go on in in he says concerning zeal persecuting the church touching the righteousness which is of the law i was blameless he not only had race pride he had placed pride he says i'm a proud upholder of the law matter of fact i'm blameless when it comes to the

law i've got this place pride i'm the golden boy of the sanhedrin i had letters from them and i was on my way to the top i was zealous in defense of judaism and the persecution of the church everybody say he had raised pride he had placed pride and he had face pride because he said i've been schooled by gamalia the best rabbi in israel i've been schooled by him i've got my degrees i've got my advanced degrees look at who i am and not only that i am a roman citizen i enjoy privilege i

have race pride i have placed pride and i have faced pride but on a road to damascus while he was on his way to persecute the church some more all in control of his own life paul had written the code for himself but he encountered the real creator of the code and jesus there in that presence the saul became the apostle paul and he came to the realization that his race his place and his face are insignificant when it comes into the contact with grace hallelujah your your face pride your race pride your your your

place pride your none of that matters when you come into contact with grace and when he emerges from that experience he says this i counted all of that as garbage it's nothing but dung is the word that he used he said that i might obtain christ because i've understood the meaning of life and for me to live for me to live this is the meaning of life for me to live is christ yet not i live but christ lives within me oh my god i would have had time to preach this now what does he

say after this experience in colossians 3 10 watch what he says now and have put on the new man which is renewed in the knowledge after the image of him that what i came into contact with the creator and when i did in 311 what does he say remember all that race pride that face pride that place pride it just went away he said because here in this place that i have come to in the creator of the code of my life there's neither greener greek nor jew it doesn't matter any longer what your race

is he said there's no circumcision or uncircumcision barbarian scythian there's no nor free not in the place of grace because christ is all in all oh hallelujah hallelujah those degrees that define you put them away that six-figure income that defines you put it away your status of your place in society that defines you your big house of your cars and i'm not decrying any of that please don't misunderstand me but when it comes into the presence of the creator of the code those are not the things that define your life it's i live but not

i it's christ that lives within me because here where grace reigns the meaning of life changes who i am gets dropped in favor of who he is that me first mentality oh god help me listen we get so busy trying to build our lives that we forget our creator the one who gives us the real meaning of life and we say well like those men in luke the ninth chapter let me first go bury my father jesus said just go home the second man says let me first go say goodbye to my family and jesus

said just go home because me first is a discipleship deal breaker he will not sign the contract where you say me first it's got to be him first he said you got to love me more than you got to love me more than your father and your mother your spouses your houses your land your possessions and if you can't do that you are not worthy of me the real meaning of life is found in the place of grace you remember david when he was bringing the ark back after 20 years of exile the ark was

coming back to jerusalem and second psalm samuel 6 14. look at this it says and david danced before the lord with all his might and get this david was girded with a lenin ephed i wish i had time to talk to you about sheep's eyes their their pupils are are rectangular and they have a field of vision that encompasses about 320 degrees the only thing that they have problems with is seeing behind them this is the same guy that wrote the 23rd psalm later on he said the lord is my shepherd he goes ahead of

me i can see him fine there i trust him to prepare a table before me before me got it before me the shepherd the sheep have to be able to do one of two things they have to hear his voice or they have to be able to see him and so that's why he walks alongside them and in the midst of his sheep but here's david and i think some of these things must have been formulated in his mind in some of these experiences that he was experiencing the ark is behind him sheep have trouble

seeing things behind them the end of that psalm what does he say surely every time he turns around and he sees that ark what does he see there's a mercy seat and there's a goodness of god contained in that ark there is the goodness of god and mercy mercy and goodness every time i turn around i see goodness and mercy mercy and goodness are best viewed in retrospect you can't see ahead of you maybe he couldn't see all the problems he was going to have with michael with with his children with bathsheba with uriah with

the kingdom but every time he looked behind him he could see something he could see the goodness and mercy that are always following me and when that ark was coming back the bible says he started out as a king but he ended up as a priest the thing that defined him were his robes of royalty and so he said i got to show these people who i really am in the presence of the creator and the bible said he began to dance with all of his might until those kingly robes just fell off of him

and he was left with nothing but a garment of praise you know what we sing about it brother brad we sing about dancing what we need to have for some of us is just a good old-fashioned hold down and we dance until all that race pride face pride and place pride is laying on the ground at our feet and we find the me of life in the presence of our creator hallelujah we just need to look back and dance some of us have gotten too far away from where he brought us from we've gotten so

far away that we can't see goodness and mercy following us anymore my god but when i look back and i think of where you brought me from you were a drug addict you were an alcoholic you were hooked on pornography you were in depression you were having see with idle thoughts but goodness and mercy pursued you you just need to look back and have yourself a good old-fashioned dance you say i don't like this brother give me first corinthians 12 13. for about one spirit are we all baptized into one body you know what that

means my one body has only one code and it's shared in all the cells so when i come in here when you come in here you are not the chief of a corporation you are not the manager of a department you are not the president of a company you're not a doctor anything you're not a millionaire when you come in here you share dna with all these other people that are in here you share dna the creator of the code has put one spirit into one body and we should speak the same thing as the

children of god and as the body of christ and we've all been made to drink into one spirit so i'm not doctor anything i'm brother your brother your brother your sister your sister your brother your sister hey we share in this one spirit by which we've all been baptized into one body why should we not as one body then celebrate the presence of the lord times like this i wish i had jack buck here go crazy folks go crazy if they can do that at a ball game why cannot we do the same thing in

the presence of the lord go crazy folks you have found the meaning of life you've met the creator of the code i'm about half through luke 19 luke 19 39 jesus comes riding in to jerusalem he comes riding into jerusalem on a donkey to the day i could go into the chronology i'm not going to heart of xerxes gave the decree to go back to build jerusalem that was the starting point nissan 14 nissan 10 actually in 1832 jesus the messiah comes right again to jerusalem right on time and some of the pharisees people were

doing what we were just doing right now they just went crazy because their king came to them right and they were going crazy and the pharisees said master this is not the way we do things around here you must silence those men they're embarrassing all of us master please make them be quiet and i kinda i'm gonna take a little license here but i can imagine jesus calling them aside and saying that man there came over from gadara he was the original legionnaires disease carrier he had legionnaire to the extreme because he had a legion

of demons in him he lived among the tombs you see oh lazarus over there he looks like death warmed over that's what he is i called him out of the tomb and you want me to silence him you see that woman over there her name's mary she's a woman of high status now but when i met her she had seven devils living inside of her oh and by the way see those ten men over there in their nice robes and all cleaned up you would have thrown stones at them if you had seen them in

their original condition before i changed the code of their lives you want me to silence them what you're asking me to do is make stones of men i can do that jesus says look it look the way it says in 40 verse 40. i can do that if you want me to make turn men into stones i can change the code on men and let them sit there with their lips glued and their arms down by their sides unmoving and unyielding hardened by time i can do that if you want me to but look out

for those stones over there because when i start changing codes when i start giving meaning to things if i shut them up these guys are going to start singing out they're going to start crying out of the praises of god listen to me apc united pentecostal church and whatever we want to call ourselves we don't have a lock on this thing called the spirit of god if we should hold our peace god's gonna take his act down the road to somebody else if we stop moving under the auspices of the holy ghost if we should

hold our peace listen when people come to a pentecostal church they expect to have pentecost they don't expect methodism they don't expect presbyterianism they don't expect catholicism these stones would begin to witness against us if we hold our peace the creator of the code is going to find a heart on which to write a new meaning of life i've got to hurry on there's a man in san diego his name is rabindra sarkar he's from northern india he's out there on the embarcadero he's got a little place beyond the sea wall and he stacks up

stones he just takes ordinary stones begins to put them together don't run ahead on me now this this they call him the rock man and he takes all kinds of he spent several frustrating minutes frustrating for him annoying for me trying to teach me how he could get stones and how i could get stones to just stack he stacks them to six feet high and when he puts them together it can rain the wind can blow they won't come down common most common question is how did you do that and then he tries to show

somebody but he's the creator of the code he's the one that gives meaning to the god so what did god do he took a bunch of stones flat stones fat stones black stones white stones red stones brown stones and he began to put them together in a building fitly framed together and gave new meaning to the stones to the stones because why he can do that i don't know how he does it i don't know how he does don't ask me to explain how red blood can be washed over a black center and washed them

white as snow i don't know all i know is that there is one that created the code that is the only one who's able to give meaning to that goat oh we've heard about some being baptized you need to take it a step further and let that spirit of god that he promised to you come on inside of you and rewrite the code of your life yes you can be what you thought you couldn't be in him because he writes the code let's stand to our feet we tend to build our lives as if we

are the creator of the code we're not i've been to several unique funerals we've heard some strange things at funerals we've seen some strange things i preached one for a guy who was in a biker gang and i walked in a funeral home and they're playing ac dc highway to hell okay and then this stairway to heaven well which one you going covering all the bases here highway to hell stairway to heaven i don't know so they're they're playing all this heavy metal stuff you know i get in the lead car and these bikers are

behind me and one of them has everett's harley-davidson and he rides that bike in procession ever he's laid out in all of his fine colors of his of his motorcycle gang but his hands are like this they grasp nothing he gave meaning to his life through the colors that he wore through the motorcycle that he rode and the gang to which he belonged but when he went out you don't hold on to any of that i was at another funeral a 19 year old young man he was on a tractor pulling stumps out of the

ground and the stump snapped back pulled a tractor over crushed him to death 19 years old i was at this funeral looking i walk up he's dressed in his camouflage he's got his arrow arrows and his bow and a fishing rod oh it was fitting for an egyptian pharaoh he had all of the things that he felt in his life defined his life but his hands were like this because ultimately all those things that you think define you you can't carry them out with you there's only one hope that you have and that is at

some point in your journey you come into contact with the creator of the code and he rewrites the story of your life it's not in what we possess it's not in what we define ourselves listen some of you are are busy with life and you you're trying to build so carefully your life and it requires that but listen to me put him first make sure that while you're building your life that you've consulted with the creator of the code about what he wants to do with your life i was standing in a place and i'm

closing quickly i'm sorry for the length of time but i would the lord just drops things on me sometimes and he let me feel what it was like i'd ask him before what is it going to be like if somebody misses the rapture what's gonna what are they gonna feel like and ironically when i stood there the lord just dropped this on me it wasn't panic brother woolford it was why it was why how how did i miss it and the lord spoke this to me he said most will not miss it by miles they'll

miss it by inches most are not going to miss it because of many things they're going to miss it because of one thing one thing and immediately listen to me after the rapture i'm going to tell you what's going to happen to you your mind is going to go to that one thing that you couldn't loosen your grip on to give it to the creator of the code to yield everything to him the one thing that i guard so carefully it's mine it's mine it's mine that one thing will be the obstacle that keeps you

from making the rapture of the church not many not by miles just inches almost you made it