A Divine Door On Human Hinges | Student Pastor Zach Hammond

what a word that we've heard already today your brother Erickson brother Erickson and the Lord a big hand for the word of God that we heard this morning there is a Revival that is happening and I want to be I want to be a part a part of it I give honor to each and every one of you is all of our guests all of our friends is gathered here some from out of town but the the wonderful saints of God the Church of God here that is empowered because of what you do is what empowers brother Carpenter to be able to preach what he will preach tonight and I give give him honor sister Carpenter honor for what they have done to lead such a great group of people what good is leadership if no one is following them and you are such a great great group of people that have been the model uh for so many other churches I was at a church this weekend and um they said they look look to us and look to you as a body and as a church to model themselves after and you just need why don't you do this once you give yourselves a hand clap I don't think there's nothing wrong with that give yourselves have you if you if you feel bad feel like you're clapping for yourself look at somebody next to you and clap for them how about that huh turn and clap for the person next to you tell me God is God is so pleased I want to preach to you for just a few moments tonight and I believe the Lord is going to to do something for us John chapter 10 familiar passage here John chapter 10. and verse number one verily verily I say unto you he that entereth not by the door into the Sheepfold but climeth up some other way the same as a thief and a robber but he that entereth in by the door is The Shepherd of the Sheep to him the Porter openeth and the sheep hear his voice and he calleth by his own Sheep by name and leadeth them out and he when he puteth forth his own sheep he'd goeth before them and the Sheep follow him and they know his voice and a stranger they will not follow but will flee from him but they know not the voice of a stranger the parable spake Jesus unto them but they understood not the things which he spake unto them then said Jesus again verily verily I say unto you I am the door of the sheep you didn't get the first parable so he says I am the door of the Sheep all that ever came before me are thieves and robbers but the Sheep did not hear them I am the door by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture the thief cometh not but to steal and to kill and to destroy I am calm that they might have life and they might have it more abundantly I want to preach to you about that door for just a few moments tonight my title is a Divine door with a human hinge a Divine door with a human hinge would you lay your Bibles down and could we lift our hands to heaven and ask the Lord to speak to us tonight God I believe in your word God I believe your word is infallible I believe that it's what we need tonight I believe that is God our lamp into our feet our light into our path I believe oh God that we order our steps in your word God and we would find everything that we need God I pray that your word tonight God would be not just revelatory God but it would be relevant to every heart to every individual every family God I pray that you would help us and it's not by anything I'll do or say tonight but it's by your spirit that I am here God I pray that you would anoint me I'll give you all glory and honor in Jesus name Jesus name we pray everybody shout amen you can be seated tonight I am the door the door was not just something that perhaps they didn't comprehend there when he was referring to it as the door of the Sheepfold but anybody that knew about shepherding would have understood that the shepherd would find a place of Passage wherever the Sheep were going to be and he would not just Usher them in or lead them in or call them in but he would literally become the door he would he would post up so to say next to that place where he would lead them in and he would be the door wherever he was at is where the Sheep would enter and so he was trying to speak in terms of a parable but the Bible says that they didn't understand that and so he has to just plainly say it to him that I am the door that the Sheep will come through I am the door and I I think this is a very powerful uh a passage here that we were able to pull from it he says all that have come before me are thieves and robbers all that's come before me have been Liars have been cheaters have been thieves and robbers but the Sheep heard them not I am the door he is the door notice he says the door not a door not a entrance but the door we must get that settled before we get anything else settled tonight that there is the door not a door there's not an option there's not a back door into heaven there's not a back door into the church there's not multiple options there's not there is the door there is one option and I'm thankful to be a part of a church that knows and understands that there is one way to heaven amen through the death the burial and the resurrection of Jesus Christ he became the door For All Mankind Acts chapter 2 and verse number 36 says therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God hath made that same Jesus who you have crucified both Lord and Christ now when they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and the rest of the Apostles men and Brethren what shall we do then Peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost he became that he became the door he was crucified on a cross he was buried in a tomb and he rose again on the third day so that we could repent of our sins and be buried in baptism and we could get up just like he got up and the water in his name and then we received that gift of the Holy Ghost by the evidence of speaking in other tongues for This Promise is unto you and to your children and all that are afar off even as many as the Lord Our God shall call and with many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourself from this untoward generation then they that gladly received the word were baptized the same day and they were added to unto them about three thousand souls and they continued steadfastly in the apostles Doctrine and fellowship and in Breaking of bread and in prayers now that's all laid out pretty plain simple but it's not just laid out in the perfect order of fulfillment of the entire law it's not just laid out in the perfect order that we could understand it and how we would go through it is the Plan of Salvation but it's laid out in perfect order even verse by verse and how that it is written we must understand that he made the door for us to walk through and I know I'm laying down some groundwork and some of you are like man that that's pretty simple we've obeyed that we've got that well there might be somebody here that don't understand that and there might be somebody watching online that don't quite understand that he is the door and he is the way and he is the truth and he is the life in fact John 14 and 5 Thomas said unto him Lord we not we don't know where you're going how how can we know the way Jesus said I am the way I am the truth and I am the life he no man cometh unto the father but by me if you had known me you should have known my father also and henceforth you know him and have seen him I am the way I am the truth and I am the life this is the only option it is the only way I have seen some things over the past couple weeks that have Disturbed me to no end online there is only one door there is only one way it is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth that hero Israel the Lord our God is one Lord we just we can't just experience it we have to know we have to understand who we are brother Dale we have to know without a shadow of a doubt that I believe this and I want to explain something to you tonight I want to make sure it's very clear it's very simple but I want to make sure that everybody understands this the way is our experience the way is what we were known as before we were known as Christians they called us the people of the way that's what the early church was referred to this is the Pentecostal experience the way is repentance baptism in Jesus name for the remission of sins and the gift of the Holy Ghost by the evidence of speaking in other tongues we are Pentecostal in the way that's what we've experienced that's what we preached if you want to take that step with God if you want to follow that Plan of Salvation you can do that and you can do that tonight we are Pentecostal in experience and that Pentecostal experience will open the door when I Repent of my sins I then can step Across the Threshold of baptism and I can enter into once I get in Christ then he can get in me that way will get you in but the truth is what closes the door and keeps you in the way is the Pentecostal experience the truth is our Apostolic Doctrine it's no coincidence that he said repent be baptized every one of you this promise is unto you and your children all that are far off and he says once you've experienced that once you've got in the room you need to continue steadfastly in the apostles Doctrine or you'll walk right back out into the world that he brought you out of you'll go right back into darkness that he just brought you out of so we've got to make sure that we understand not just the way but the truth I've got to know the truth please understand with me this evening I pray that everyone under the sound of my voice can hear and feel my heart we must be careful in our modern day world where the word Pentecostal and Apostolic and our lifestyle the life we won't get too far into it tonight because I don't have the time but this is holiness we've got to understand that Pentecost Pentecostals Apostolic Apostle Doctrine has not just become another name on the list of denominations of Christianity in our world it's the way the truth be like it's not another organization it's not another check on the list it is not something that you click on Facebook it is not something that is optional it is the way it is the truth it is the LIE you are fooling yourself if you think that you could say and make comments and you can just throw Apostolic out there as if it's some group of people it is the doctrine you've fooled yourself we have taken a step back at all the comments and the things on social media that says oh the Revival is not just for apostolics what does that mean Apostolic is not something on the church sign it is the truth that we must live by I guess we just think it's Presbyterian Baptist Catholic Apostolic no where in your Bible does it say the word denomination denomination is a farce it is something where they have created it's like this room right here we can just all agree to be Christians but you can get to heaven that way and you get to heaven that way you can get to the restroom through those doors you can get to the coffee shop through those doors and we're all just going to the same place not the Bible I'm reading he said there is one way it is the truth it is the life it is this no one comes to me you've got to come through the door you've got to understand tonight there's one way it's the apostolic way it's the Pentecostal way it's the Holiness lifestyle and if it's the way I ought not be lost and if it's the truth I ought not be confused and if it's the life I ought to be living it to the fullest once they receive the Holy Ghost they continue steadfast in the apostles Doctrine John 16 13 how be it when the spirit of Truth has come he will guide you into all truth Pentecost God forbid that in the last days he will pour out his Spirit upon All Flesh and all of a sudden people begin to speak with other tongues people begin to experience and see the way oh they're they're experiencing the Holy Ghost that's great but that doesn't mean that we that know the truth and we that know the life all of a sudden step back step back and say well if they can speak in tongues and not live like we live if they could speak in tongues and they believe in the Trinity this is the process we don't step back and all of a sudden compromise everything that we know is true because some people started speaking in tongues that's the way that's the door but it's not just about the door I gotta get in and I gotta stay in continue steadfastly don't stop don't just believe don't just talk in tongues to walk in the truth don't take a step back from Apostolic Doctrine just because some people start that would be the greatest deception that would be the greatest victory of the devil that he doesn't mind for you to acknowledge the door he's been a thief and a robber for years he don't mind for you to come up and try to see if you can pray your sinner's prayer huh and what if the priest could pray me into purgatory huh he's trying to figure out some way he doesn't mind you acknowledging the door after all he believes oh how many times I've been there and it just you know you just come pray the prayer confess it in your heart believe in on him and and you just simply believe on him he doesn't mind you acknowledging the door after all he does that he believes and trembles he doesn't mind you coming up and repenting he don't even mind you coming up and experiencing and acknowledging and coming to church but the moment the moment the moment that you begin to take a step across that threshold the moment that you begin to walk in the truth is when all of a sudden there's some things that there's not three doors there's not one for the father there's not one for the son there's not one for the Holy Ghost he's deceived us into thinking that there's multiple ways it's one thing to experience Pentecost on a Sunday but I've got to get through the door his lies will work if you don't know the word he's the way he don't mind you acknowledging the way but when he becomes the truth you all of a sudden find yourself and you it's not it's not just something where you've misused the mercy of God and you've really lived in that threshold of him am I going to live for God or am I not am I going to serve him or am I not I know my family's not and all my friends are not but once you close that door you all of a sudden begin to see things in the truth that all of a sudden it reveals that he's a lie and you're able to say not today devil not not not in my family not in my life not there's no way that I'm going to step across that threshold and get back into this thing where I have to live in fear and I have to live in insecurities and I have to live in doubt I know too much to leave I know too much to backslide I know too much not to worship I know too much not to pray I've got the truth inside of me I've got to have the truth I've got to have the name of Jesus Christ over my life Paul wrote over and over and over again to the church at Rome to the Church of thessalonica by the spirit of God unto Holiness perfecting Holiness in the fear of God righteousness unto Holiness God has called us unto Holiness Titus said becometh Holiness it is a process of becoming what God wants us to become once you've experienced the way and you know the truth you will start living a life of separation once you once you've stepped across this threshold and you really begin to understand who Jesus is and you start defending you'll begin to find yourself where I got to do everything I can to separate myself from that door because I never want to go back it's scary it's a scary place to be when you see people that have served God for years all of a sudden inching back to that door just inching back to that old lifestyle slowly move themselves back the door over and over again is is referred to we see there in the Old Testament Exodus 12 and 22 and you shall take a a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood and it's in the Basin and you should strike the lent on the two sides of the post of the blood that is in the base and a none of you shall go out that door of that house until the morning for the Lord will pass through and smite the Egyptians and when he sees that blood on the doorpost on the two side posts the Lord will pass over that door and he will not suffer you will not suffer the Destroyer to come into your house and smite you fathers mothers the Next Generation needs us to make sure that we have blood on the doorpost they need to make sure that we have the door closed when the things come that are meant to destroy that are meant to kill that are men we don't want any thieves breaking in we want to make sure that the door is shut and it's secure by the truth Psalms 24 and 7 says lift up your heads owe you Gates and be lifted up ye Everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in the Lord used his doors throughout the Bible a place of transition it's a place of opportunity it's the beginning of something new you'll see doors of Deliverance doors of healings you'll see a door of a prison the doors of bondage that represent so many different things and it's amazing to see the nature of God in the door validating the I am statement in John 10 of our opening text saying he is the door he is the way he is the truth that he is the life I think that we have established I think that we have established that we have a door that is of deity it is divine it is something that we cannot take for granted and so we turn now to Revelations chapter 3. and verse number seven where he's addressing the church at Philadelphia and to the angel of the Church of Philadelphia Delphia right these things saith ye that is Holy is that is true he that hath the Key of David he that openeth and no man shutteth and he that shutteth no man openeth I Know Thy works behold I have set before thee an open door Church of Philadelphia Church of fac Maryville tonight he's I've set before you an Open Door it's not just an open door it's an open door that no man can shut for thou Hast little strength and has kept my word notice so everything that's written there he says you've been holy you've clinged to what is true and therefore there is an Open Door that no man could shut for thou has little strength has kept my word and has not denied my name therefore there is an Open Door no man can shut no man can can can can shut we need to to make sure that there's a door that no man can shut nobody can close that door but you nobody can walk up and close the door to what God wants to do in your life no one can walk up and close the door to what God wants to do in your family nobody can close the door to what God is going to do and wants to do except you so Church of Philadelphia because you understand my name in church of Philadelphia because you have you have lived a holy lifestyle I give to you an open door the windows of Heaven the the power of Heaven is there for you and I I can't open it for you and I can't close it for you but there's an open door and it's just like Matthew 16 he says and I say also unto thee Thou Art Peter and Upon This Rock I'll build my church and the Gates of Hell shall not Prevail against it and I will give unto thee the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven and whatsoever you bind on Earth shall be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on Earth will be loosed in heaven it is a door to Heaven it is the power of anything that you would think uh the The Authority that's been given to us he says that I'll give you the keys I'll give the church the the Church of Philadelphia was the church that Philadelphia was a powerful church and and everything that Philadelphia representative meant the name of Philadelphia Church meant love for the brother and it was just the church it was the ideal church and so God says because you've been holy because you understand my name you have access to heaven and you can swing open the doors and whatever you bind right now in this room and whatever you loose right now in this room you have access to the authority and the power and the Dominion of the name of Jesus everything you need that heaven has you can swing it open for your family tonight you can swing it open as a church tonight because you understand that he is the way you understand that he is the truth you understand that he is the life and you are living it you become that human hinge to a Divine door you become The Voice you become the action the feet the hand that's able to loose that's even able to bind it's the the same idea that we we sing about we read about but how often do we really understand how often do we truly activate that whatever you close shuts up heaven and whatever you open s up heaven I'm not sure that we completely understand the power of the church the power that we have it's a Divine Door to Heaven but it hangs on human hinges it hangs on your choice tonight it hangs on whether or not you see this service as something where it's it's nothing that that I've just come just to go through the motions but I'm going to make a decision tonight to open this door and let God do something in my life open this door and let God fix what's been going on in my family I'm going to change tonight but just 12 verses later Revelations chapter 3 and verse number 14. if you turn in your Bibles over there or look on the screen Philadelphia was a faithful Church love for the brethren but 12 verses later this isn't Philadelphia the revelations 3 and verse number 14. and unto the angel of the Church of the laodiceans right these things saith amen the faithful and the true witness the beginning of the creation of God I Know Thy works and thou art neither cold nor hot I would that you would be cold or hot in other words I'd rather you get in or you get out but stop standing in the threshold I'd rather you close the door and you'll either be out or you close the door and you'll be in but don't stand with the door open and you be hot or cold so then because you're lukewarm and either hot or cold I'm going to make the decision for you and I'm just going to spew you on out because they'll say us I am rich and increase for goods and have nothing and know us not that thou are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked a council need to buy of me gold tried in the fire and may US be rich in white Raymond and thou mayest be clothed and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thy eyes with thy eye Salve and thou mayest see as many as I love I rebuke and chasten and zealous thereof and repent behold I stand at the door and knock If any man hear my voice and open the door I will come into him and I will sup with him and he with me so this is so intriguing to me that 12 verses separate an open door that no man can shut an open door that you have access to be that human hinge of a Divine door to heavens the heavens where God dwells anything can happen to now we have a church do you understand what's I mean you're talking about a theological mess here I'm the door I'm the way I am the truth I am the life Jesus Christ has been locked out of his own house he stands outside of not not the bar not Hollywood he stands outside the church he says I can do what you're singing about I can answer the prayers you're praying you really want to see Miracles and signs and wonders you want to see your your family saved you want to see things happen in your life I I could do some things in your life if you just let me yeah but they've become increased with Goods they even had a the Bible says if you really get into the commentary they had this special isab that they would put on the Blind and it would help them be able to see they they were relying completely upon their own their own uh their own inventions in their own way we see the church has access to bind and lose heaven and then all of a sudden we see God standing knocking saying I'd love to be a part of your life there's people in this room tonight that God has sent me to give you just a simple message that says I'm still knocking circumstances after circumstances week after week knock he keeps knocking he keeps knocking we find ourselves in a very scary place when God has to knock he's a gentleman he's not just going to come barging in we used to joke with my mom I don't know what it was like around their house growing up but my mom just comes in and she don't just come in forgive my carnal reference she comes in like Kramer she's like just coming in you know God ain't gonna do that he's divine he is the door he's everything you need and he knows it but this door that's all-powerful that gives you access to everything the Heavenly Kingdom has to offer swings on the hinges of a human decision just a made-up mind just a simple step just a simple prayer when this Dignity of of of of of of of of of of of all the godhead the fullness of everything that we preached in the first part all just accessible on a right decision I'm here to challenge someone tonight to open up that door you can open up Heaven tonight for your family you can open you can open up Heaven tonight for your own life and we get so caught up with things and I think if we could if we could really look at that whole passage there in Revelation it's really just a warning it's kind of like a an x-ray for the church to be able to look you can look at Philadelphia you can look at laodicea you can look at all the things in between and really see where you find yourself and check yourself but sometimes we get so caught up in looking around well what's their family doing and what are they not doing and I can't believe she's doing that now and I can't believe that they're up there and you really you really ought to know how they act and I can't believe they put that on Facebook and I can't believe we get so caught up and Jesus is just standing outside knocking saying hey I'd love to give you access to the heavens I'd love for you to actually be who you claim to be it's such a depiction it's such a a process here and we we get so caught up in it I I want to declare to somebody tonight some people feel like that they've got to get everything right before they go to this door no this door is for anybody this door is for whosoever will he said it's not his will that any should perish but that all should come to repentance in fact when he says repent and be baptized every one of you not some of you it's his will that everybody and and I found this door just lying around it's kind of a narrow door you can't hardly walk through it sideways but this is not how the door is depicted even even anywhere you see that's a passageway that's a place of his name it really is dependent upon you when he told Noah to build the ark he gave him go for wood in fact some people some people would say that that the gopher wood just wasn't just lying around with Erickson they had to go plant to go for wood to have the bill for wood gopher Woods one of the only Woods that actually takes in water it absorbs water go for wood don't float go for where it absorbs water and sinks sounds like God right you know wood can't even get the credit you know he said Pitch it within pitch it without put three stories in it all these things he tells you to Cubit the width the height all the different things but but he says I just need you to put the door on the side of it and it needs to access all three levels just put it on the side he didn't tell him how big it's just like the labor and the Tabernacle there are dimensions for everything with the labor the place of the water he says I'll remove your sins as far as the East is from the West so you don't let the size of the door be what deters you from coming through the door this is a door that can take you no matter how you walked in this place tonight his mercies are beyond what you and I can comprehend it doesn't matter how bad you think you are how addicted you think you are how far you think you are from God this is a door for everybody all of us had to walk through it all of us had to make a decision that we want to allow that Divine door to swing in our lives John 20 and 26 it's interesting to me brother White that all of us there's times where in the Bible God could but doesn't use a door just like poof I'm here you know and they tell it they they there's I don't have time to go through all of them but like John 20 26 it says that that and after eight days again with the disciples were within Thomas was with them then came Jesus the door being shut and stood in the midst the doors just closed and all of a sudden what's up Hey Thomas I heard you were doubting I didn't even come through the door huh he just shows up there's times where he doesn't have to use the door there's times in our life where he just he just simply and he does it in the Bible he just he just appears in the room it's over and over and over again you'll see that it's pretty interesting that we see that he he doesn't necessarily have to use the door and I think he almost puts that in there for us to understand that he doesn't have to use us but if we want to access it I'd rather not be a doubting Thomas where he has to jump through the door I don't know if Thomas would answer the door but he disappears unto them he shows up on the other side of the door I would rather be that hinge to where I can access all the things that the Divine Heaven has for me everybody with me he doesn't have to use the door but I believe it is our responsibility to open the door and that this is a very interesting story and I won't keep you much longer Acts chapter 12 and verse number five everybody's like my God you've used every door in the Bible Peter therefore was kept in prison but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him the church made a decision to pray that God would move on behalf of Peter and Herod would have brought him forth in the same night Peter was sleeping Between Two Soldiers bound with two chains and the keepers before him the door kept the prison and behold the angel of the Lord came up upon him and the light shine upon the prison and spoke Peter on the side and raised him up saying arise up quickly and his chains fell off his hands and the angel said unto him gird thyselfs and bind thy sandals and so he did and he said unto him cast thy garment about thee and follow me and he went out and followed him so he opened up prison doors for Peter because the church was praying and he went out he followed him and the angel he thought he had saw a vision and you'd skip down through here and when Peter had come to himself and said now I know of surely that the Lord has sent this Angel and had delivered me out of the hand of Herod from all the expectation of the people of Jews and when he had considered the thing he came to the house of Mary his mother John whose surname was Mark and they were gathered there praying for him I hope you guys understand this picture so you got the church on this side of the door praying that Peter would be released from prison it's it's kind of there's there's an interesting play here and then and I I hope I can depict it to you and and it says when they were considering the thing they came to the house and and Mary the mother of John whose surname was Mark they were gathered there praying and Peter knocked on the door of the gate and the damsel came to Harkin named Rhoda and when she knew Peter's voice she opened not the gate for gladness and ran in and told how Peter stood at the gates and they said unto her Thou Art mad you're crazy but she constantly affirmed that it was even so and they said it is his Angel but Peter just keeps knocking rotors inside hey he's out there I'm telling you it's him now it's his angel you're crazy herod's got him locked up just keep praying keep praying God will deliver keep praying God I'll keep he that's not him we're praying that God would touch him we're praying I don't this is so easy to preach I don't know any other like how many times are you praying on the other side of the door and God says hey if you just open the door the answer to your prayers on the other side you pray in and you're praying and you're praying and you're praying and you're fasting and you're fasting and you're losing weight that's about all that's happening huh God's just saying hey Peter's on the other side of the door and not just that I've got a a lady that's trying to tell you he's standing out there and and the the problem here is that we see that so many times action is required action is required but too many times we want to swap roles we want to do God's part but God won't do our part we want to pray and we want to pray and we want to pray and God says hey just go open the door hey just just just stop sinning stop looking at that stop being drawn away by your own lust and entice that's not anything that the Holy Ghost necessarily even has to do you just have to stop doing it and so instead we want to pray about it and we want to spiritualize it because we don't understand it at times and we want to be relevant when we don't truly have Revelation and we get into a place where we just want to stay over here and have a prayer meeting we don't really want to change we'll just stand over here and have a prayer meeting we don't really want to open the door because we know that opening the door will require some things but I'm here to encourage somebody tonight that you must understand that you are that hinge and whether if somebody's knocking on the door if there's something going on in your life if there's something that's troubling you whether it be good whether it be bad if something is stirring and shaking You by all means go open up the door Somebody's Knocking let's just keep praying no go open the door I can't tell you how many times I've seen it happen where Miracles and signs and wonders are standing on the other side of the door but God will whisper a still Small Voice into somebody's heart and say hey if you'll take off running a couple times around this church I'll heal your body if you'll go over there and slap I've seen my grandfather do it so many times he says Hey the Lord's telling you right now to do something if you do it he'd heal you and he said yeah he just told me to go over and slap out walls seven times I stood there as a nine-year-old boy brother Valentine I watched that man run across and slap that wall and he was healed immediately the tumor went off of the side of his arm I've seen it time and time again why because if I'll do my part god will open up the heavens and begin to do what we claim and we we want and the Miracles and the signs and the Wonders they'll follow us it will open the door your answer's at the door tonight your answer is just a decision away your answer is just something that's a little beyond what your faith has ever been before Oh I believe right now in the Holy Ghost there's a miracle in this house right now God's just waiting on somebody to be obedient God is waiting on somebody to do something that you've never for in fact we can end this servant we can end this sermon right now if somebody would just obey what God is telling them to do that Peter's knocking God isn't knocking on the door the answer to your dilemma the answer to your problem is knocking and it's time for you to act oh stand to your feet right now I believe I feel the Holy Ghost I feel the power of the holy ghost moving in this room God's pulling on somebody God's knocking on the door of somebody's heart there's somebody that needs to to experience Pentecost tonight there's somebody that needs to experience water baptism in the name of Jesus tonight there's somebody that needs to walk through that door of opportunity oh I feel it right now I feel the Holy Ghost these altars are open to anyone to everyone to anybody that wants to make a decision oh I wish you'd do something different there's somebody that just needs to obey the voice of the Lord I I've got plenty more to preach but I just believe the Lord wants to do something right now there's a young person that's in the valley of decision and it's your decision stop waiting on God and make a decision do what you know is right come on dad come on you there's things been going on in your family you need to grab a hold of your family and bring them around this Altar and just Proclaim as for me and my house I'm going to serve the Lord It's not up to anybody else no man can shut it nobody else could shut that door you have to close it nobody else can open that door you've got to open it oh if you need healing right now I wish you'd throw your head back and let the Lord touch you if you need a touch from Heaven it is right now you just got to open that door open up your mouth open up your mouth and you'll open up the Heavens in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name ah yeah I'm asking that nobody be looking around I'm asking that every person close your eyes if you need to to not be distracted but there's a move of God that's about to sweep into this place right now the heavens is about to open up the heaven is about to open up right now come on if you'll open up your mouth anything can happen in this place foreign in the name of Jesus there's a door of opportunity there's a door of opportunity right now come on let it be poured out upon you there's a Divine door but it's swinging on your decision right now just how hungry are you just how much do you desire him it's swinging on your desires God changes pour it out pour it out pour it out upon us oh God pour it out oh God you don't have to knock this is an Open Door God do whatever you want to do in this place right now uh oh come on reach across and grab the hand of somebody next to you come on yoke up with somebody right now I believe God wants to lose some things in this church oh I believe God wants to lose somebody in this church from the strongholds on your mind right now you've been battling anxiety and depression long enough open the door let the heavens let the heavens come down right now let the Holy Ghost come down right now in the name of Jesus be loose of that stronghold be loosed of that lie be loosed right now in the name of Jesus come on that's it there's people being renewed in the Holy Ghost there's people being renewed in the Holy Ghost there's somebody right now being healed in the name of Jesus yes yes all right thank you oh that's it there's some of you just need to open up tomorrow right now it's been a while since you let the Holy Ghost overwhelm you from the top of your head to the soul of your feet like you did the first time you need to load you throw your hands up and let the Lord touch you you need to open up your mouth and surrender to that spirit that you claim to have don't let it be knocking thou don't let it be knocking tonight oh refill us revive us tonight revive us tonight oh God revive us an idol God foreign thank you foreign all right thank you oh my God the presence of the Lord is here come on that's it somebody's making their mind up right now somebody's making their mind up right now brother Evan can you give me James chapter five we must understand something before we've got some Souls that are going to be baptized that are going to walk through the door tonight you've got to understand something tonight is Beckham in here babe do you care to bring him up here I want you to understand that they're James chapter 5. and verse number eight verse number eight there's coming a day where it says as it was in the days of Noah he says be patient establish your hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh Grudge not one one against one another Brethren unless you have thus should be condemned behold the judge stands before the door there's a day coming and just like Noah took his family and they got inside the ark it's a perfect picture we wanted he says I want you to stand for the offering with your family and compel others to come in come in it's go it's gonna rain come in it's going to rain you have the ability right now wherever whoever you are you have the ability right now through the hinges of your Humanity to open the door of Salvation to open the door of serving God for you and your family but there's coming a day he said be patient the judge stands and there will be a day just like in the days of Noah where the door will shut and the hinges of humanity will fall off and there will be no more decisions there will be no more opportunities of the way there'll be no more opportunities that the door just like the ark everybody's standing on this side made it everybody on that side had to tread water the Divine door swinging on human hinges but I don't know if you realize it or not the outpouring that we're seeing all across our nation is the judge standing at the door I I I've already been called all the things that you could be called to be to be referred to as a fear-monger emotional you know you're trying to figure the bottom line is it is Heaven and Hell people it's Heaven and Hell and we can play with those human hinges is all we want but sister hot I got to get my family inside that door and I gotta stay inside because I don't know when it's gonna shut and I don't know when the Day's coming but I see God doing things that he says in his word if all the other things are true then the things that are telling me brother Riley that he's coming are true and so I got to grab a hold of the things that I can control I can't control anything else but I can control my family and I gotta get in the door and I gotta close the door and I gotta fall in love with the church I gotta fall in love with the things of God I gotta fall in love with the word of God I wish you'd lift your hands right now come on that get right the door's gonna close there'll be no more knocking foreign people get right come on young people open the door get in obey submit do what you got to do make up your mind tonight can we stretch our hands up here toward the baptistry as Pastor Erickson let's just pray for Sierra right now I believe the Holy Ghost is going to come upon her when she comes about this water this great saints of God lord I believe the best decision she can make in her life she's making right now Lord got a decision Lord God not only to follow after you Lord but to be buried in your name she's being buried into Christ right here she's going under this water Lord oh God it's a symbol of burial of God lord she's gonna rise again just like you Rose again on God but she's going to rise up new to some life oh God when she comes out of your squatter she's gonna be a brand new creature Lord all the old is gonna be washed away all things thought God become new in her life Lord I just believe Lord fill it with your Holy Ghost and she comes out of this water in Jesus name we pray upon the profession of your faith and obedience the word of God I now indeed baptize you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and the Bible says you shall receive the gift of a holy ghost in Jesus name oh thank you Father thank your father right now that's it Church stretch your hands this way in the name of Jesus let the Holy Ghost fall yes Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus yes yes God come on and clap your hands and celebrate all we thank you Lord we thank you