The Illusion of Purification: Why Self-Cleansing Cannot Save

• Purification and Readiness [00:00:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that God requires believers to purify themselves before entering the 'promised land' or experiencing God's work, using the analogy of a dirty house.
• The Temple of the Holy Spirit [00:00:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor identifies believers as the 'temple' and 'house of the Holy Spirit,' implying that God's presence requires a clean environment.
• Active Obedience vs. Passive Knowledge [00:03:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor emphasizes that knowing God's word is insufficient without doing it, celebrating the 'action' of God's people like baptisms.
• Transformation and Testimony [00:04:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor connects the church's activities (prayer, giving, showing up) to the transformation of others, citing the blood of the lamb and personal testimony.
• Joshua Chapter 3 Context [00:08:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor sets the sermon in the context of Joshua 3, where Israel must purify themselves before crossing the Jordan River to enter the Promised Land.
• Divine Wonders and Prerequisites [00:13:12 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that God's 'great wonders' are contingent upon the believer's action to 'clean themselves up,' as God does not perform the purification Himself.
• Purification and Preparation [00:12:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that God required the Israelites to purify themselves before entering the Promised Land, emphasizing that God desires to do great wonders among those who are clean.
• The Ark of the Covenant [00:15:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor introduces the Ark of the Covenant as a real historical object, not just a movie prop, and explains its significance in representing God's presence.
• Contents of the Ark [00:20:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor details the three items inside the Ark: the Ten Commandments (Word of God), Aaron's staff (relationship/priesthood), and a jar of manna (provision).
• God's Presence and Relationship [00:18:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor connects the Ark to the concept of Emmanuel (God with us) and explains that God desires relationship with His people, not just distant observation.
• Building Life on Principles [00:23:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that God's Word provides consistent principles for building a stable life, contrasting this with building on sand or changing materials.
• Access to God's Presence [00:24:21 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts the Old Testament restriction on accessing God's presence (requiring a clean priest) with the New Testament reality where believers can access God's presence through grace.
• God's Provision [00:26:21 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that the manna in the Ark symbolized God's provision for His people's needs, showing that His presence is linked to meeting their needs.
• The Ark of the Covenant and God's Presence [00:26:05 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that the Ark represented God's presence among His people, containing manna as a sign of provision, and emphasizes that approaching God's presence requires purity.
• Purification and Self-Examination [00:27:59 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor urges the congregation to 'purify' themselves, identifying areas of sin such as pornography, jealousy, and financial dishonesty, and calls for deleting social media and substances that hinder spiritual progress.
• The Story of Uzzah [00:33:40 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts the biblical account of Uzzah touching the Ark of the Covenant, using it to illustrate the danger of 'playing' with God's presence and the necessity of strict obedience.
• Jesus as the Eternal Presence [00:36:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor transitions from the temporary Ark to Jesus, identifying Him as the Word, the Wage, the Way, and the High Priest, stating that believers are now the temple where God's presence dwells.
• The Graceland Analogy [00:39:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the story of Elvis Presley's Graceland to illustrate that people visit places not for the architecture but for the presence of the person who lived there, applying this to the believer's life.
• Purification and Sanctification [00:41:14 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that God's presence is inside believers, but they must actively purify themselves (thoughts, actions, marriage) to allow God to work wonders, contrasting this with the idea that God would force purification in public view.
• Worship as Cleansing [00:43:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that long worship sessions are not just for praise but are a mechanism to cleanse minds and hearts, washing believers in God's word to prepare for spiritual battles.
• Setting Up Meetings with God [00:44:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the analogy of Moses, the pastor teaches that God shows up when believers intentionally set up a place of prayer or worship, noting that God may correct them rather than just bless them as expected.
• Four Things That Cannot Enter the Promised Land [00:49:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor lists four specific barriers to entering the 'promised land' of God's next season: worry, wounds (unhealed trauma/sin), idol worship, and wickedness (twisted things), requiring purification before shifting.
• Personal Responsibility for Purity [00:54:51 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor emphasizes that purification is an individual action ('I can't purify for you') and requires personal confession, denunciation of sin, and active choice to live pure, regardless of cultural standards or media influences.
• Purity and Holiness [00:55:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor defines holiness as purification and states that believers must purify themselves to be holy as God is holy.
• Modern Temptations and Media [00:55:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor addresses the influence of modern media platforms (Tinder, Instagram, TV) and asserts that individuals are responsible for their own purity regardless of what is shown.
• Sin and Self-Deception [00:56:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor distinguishes between universal sin and willful, ongoing sin, warning against the mindset that 'this ain't that bad' and that one can make a deal with God.
• Practical Purification Steps [00:57:49 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor lists four methods for purification: worshiping the word, washing by confession, and wrestling with oneself.
• The Danger of 'Little' Sins [00:58:21 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the analogy of a stained white rag, the pastor argues that even small sins like lying or coveting stain the soul, and there is no such thing as a 'little white lie'.
• Dependence on God for Cleansing [01:00:09 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor emphasizes that only God can wash the believer from the inside out, and the believer must admit their fault and need for cleansing.

• Sermon Illustration [00:05:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a story about a woman who watched the sermon on the Pando app, felt convicted, rushed to the church, and was baptized immediately after the service, illustrating the power of God's word to shift lives.
• Sermon Illustration [00:02:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor recounts a story about a woman who was baptized and then got proposed to at the church, highlighting the 'shift' in people's lives.
• Sermon Illustration [00:00:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a dirty house to explain why God needs believers to purify themselves before entering the 'promised land' or experiencing His work.
• Sermon Illustration [00:15:51 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of watching football without knowing what a touchdown is to explain how watching the Marvel series without understanding the Infinity Rings is like not understanding the Ark of the Covenant.
• Sermon Illustration [00:18:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about his four children, explaining that his 'manifest presence' is felt when he yells for them and they don't come, contrasting with just being in the house.
• Sermon Illustration [00:25:04 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor describes the Old Testament practice where priests had bells on their cloaks; if the bell rang, it meant the priest had died inside the holy place and needed to be dragged out, illustrating the strict requirements for approaching God.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:12 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses a humorous analogy about a friend from work coming over and throwing stuff in closets or under the bed, contrasting this with how one should prepare their home (and heart) when God comes to sit at their table.
• Sermon Illustration [00:29:47 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about preaching a 'summer sex series' to teenagers, noting that attendance dropped significantly when he switched to a message on purity, illustrating that purity is serious and not something to be played with.
• Sermon Illustration [00:39:45 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells the story of visiting Graceland in Memphis with his father, describing the house as ugly but noting that thousands of people visit it annually because it was the home of Elvis Presley, using this to illustrate that the presence of a person (or God) is what draws people, not the external appearance.
• Sermon Illustration [00:40:15 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about visiting Elvis Presley's former home, noting its 'ugly' architecture and decor but highlighting that thousands visit it solely because Elvis lived there, illustrating that the 'presence' of a person matters more than the external appearance.
• Sermon Illustration [00:50:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a medical wound: just as a doctor must clean a wound before healing it to prevent infection, God requires believers to purify their 'wounds' (sins/traumas) before allowing them to enter the promised land.
• Sermon Illustration [00:44:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical story of Moses meeting with God, stating that every time Moses set up a meeting, he came back with something, illustrating that God responds to intentional spiritual preparation.
• Sermon Illustration [00:49:04 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts the romanticization of slavery (referencing 'wing stop' and beatings) with the reality of the wilderness, warning against nostalgia for bondage and emphasizing that the promised land requires leaving behind the struggles of the wilderness.
• Sermon Illustration [00:58:21 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the analogy of a 'beautiful white rag' representing a believer's life. He explains that while most of the towel might be clean, a single stain (sin) ruins it, illustrating that even small sins like lying or coveting are significant.
• Sermon Illustration [01:01:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares personal confessions of specific sins, including having sex outside of marriage, lying about his location, watching inappropriate content on Instagram, coveting his wife, sending tempting text messages, and being mean to his baby's father.

• Pastoral Charge [00:11:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor commands the congregation to 'purify yourself' as a prerequisite for God to do great wonders among them.
• Pastoral Charge [00:15:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor urges the congregation to take notes and understand the Ark of the Covenant, framing it as a necessary educational step for the church.
• Pastoral Charge [00:18:06 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor asks the congregation to remain attentive for the upcoming explanation.
• Pastoral Charge [00:29:27 ▶️ 📄]
  > Purchase a ticket for the conference by scanning a QR code or texting a code.
• Pastoral Charge [00:32:24 ▶️ 📄]
  > Delete social media accounts and followings immediately.
• Pastoral Charge [00:41:42 ▶️ 📄]
  > Identify and purify personal sins (anger, jealousy, hatred) privately without seeking public attention or prophetic intervention.
• Pastoral Charge [00:45:02 ▶️ 📄]
  > Initiate a meeting with God through prayer, worship, and Scripture reading.
• Pastoral Charge [00:47:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > Purify oneself of hidden sin regardless of religious credentials or church leadership status.
• Pastoral Charge [00:49:30 ▶️ 📄]
  > Stop worrying about the future and 'shift' into trusting God.
• Pastoral Charge [00:50:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > Purify spiritual and emotional wounds to prevent infection and enable entry into the promised land.
• Pastoral Charge [00:51:46 ▶️ 📄]
  > Leave idol worship (political parties, fashion, money) and wickedness (twisted behaviors) behind to enter the promised land.
• Pastoral Charge [00:54:51 ▶️ 📄]
  > Actively purify oneself to become holy as God is holy.
• Pastoral Charge [00:56:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > Choose to live pure and avoid sin, as the promised land is waiting for those who purify themselves.
• Pastoral Charge [00:56:33 ▶️ 📄]
  > The congregation is commanded to actively choose purity and live it out, as no one else controls their spiritual state.
• Pastoral Charge [00:57:49 ▶️ 📄]
  > The congregation is instructed to actively purify themselves through worship, confession, and self-examination.

[00:00:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:00:00] What's going on family? It is our favorite time of the week where we get to gather around God's words and y'all this week is another level in our It's Time series and it's time to shift. It's time
[00:00:14] to get into the house and this week this message is going to clean up everything in your life because I'm talking about Joshua chapter 3. It's time to purify. Have you ever been in a space that
[00:00:27] was not clean? Come on, let's be honest. What does it do to you? Some people can't concentrate.
[00:00:32] Some people can't study. Some people love it. Some people live in it. What I'm telling you is that God comes into certain homes and needs it to be a certain way. What if I told you you're the temple,
[00:00:45] the house of the Holy Spirit now? What if I told you that God wants to come in and do a work and take you to a promised land, but before you get to the promised land, you have to purify?
[00:00:56] I know this sounds like a lot, but when you listen to today's message, it's going to change everything.
[00:01:02] It's time for me to come clean and it's time for you to come clean.
[00:01:05] So you open up your heart and listen to this message from a place of knowing that there are great wonders on the other side of you doing this work.
[00:01:14] This message is going to bless your life.
[00:01:19] And I believe that God has something specific for you.
[00:01:23] We are in a series right now called It's Time.
[00:01:26] Somebody shout at me. It's time.
[00:01:28] and the under uh idea of this is it's time to shift and if you don't sense the shifting that's happening all around you today in this service I'm praying that the shift happens inside you
[00:01:44] and today I've I've been excited I've been waiting all week to preach to you because I left last Sunday and I'm I like when things work now I don't know about you like some some people put in work
[00:01:57] and then it's like oh it didn't happen but I like when God says something and I say something and I see it come back in the form of transformation in people's lives and so we said it's time to
[00:02:09] shift and we told people it's time to get in the house and can I tell you that last week after church there were 80 or no 73 people who got baptized on the lawn yesterday last Sunday oh
[00:02:24] Can we celebrate people making a shift in their life?
[00:02:30] Baptisms got so good that somebody went down and came up and then got proposed to.
[00:02:36] Only at Transformation Church.
[00:02:39] You get baptized and get a ring.
[00:02:43] Glory to God.
[00:02:44] Somebody say shift.
[00:02:45] She went down single, came up with a man.
[00:02:48] All right.
[00:02:52] Somebody like, where the water?
[00:02:53] Where the water?
[00:02:55] Okay, let me see.
[00:02:58] Oh, God.
[00:03:00] The reason I'm saying this is because the word of God is an active instruction manual.
[00:03:08] It doesn't matter how much you know if you never do it.
[00:03:13] And so at TC, I always celebrate the action of God's people, not just the idea of an action, but the actual action of it.
[00:03:23] Y'all, this has been blessing me so much.
[00:03:24] And I'm hearing the stories and the testimonies from the people who are even on the Pando app.
[00:03:29] We have hundreds of thousands of partners that are watching, that are incarcerated right now.
[00:03:35] Can we say what's up, Transformation Church, to everybody who's watching, who's currently?
[00:03:40] Oh, y'all can do better than that.
[00:03:42] We they family.
[00:03:43] I love you.
[00:03:44] We're praying for you.
[00:03:47] The reason why this is important is we got a letter this week from people who are literally in the penitentiary right now, whose lives are being transformed from content that is being produced and provided and paid for
[00:04:03] by the people that are here it's going into these places and it's transforming people's lives i love getting to go to the lobby and meet people and be like yo what's up pastor mike and i'm like what's
[00:04:16] up and they're like i've been watching you on the pando app for two years and then they just put their arms out and say, I'm so glad to be in the house that transformed my life, y'all.
[00:04:35] T.C., either we're going to celebrate the transformation or not. Guys, come on, man.
[00:04:43] Pastor Mike, why are you telling me this? It's because this is why we pray.
[00:04:47] This is why we give. This is why we show up. This is why we do it, because it's time for somebody else's transformation to happen. I tell you this because the Bible says we overcome by the blood
[00:04:59] of the lamb and the words of our own testimony so we got one more testimony that came from somebody on social media and i want you to see this we were at this point of service last week and the person
[00:05:11] was at home in tulsa watching the message and i said something over the interwebs that convicted them in their spirit so much so that they got their husband up and they came to the church so
[00:05:24] that they could participate in baptisms somebody say shift shifted her out of her bed to the house of God what was the message last week get in the some of y'all would have waited a month and she
[00:05:55] said no no no I got to go now you don't believe me check out this video real quick just it's her

[00:06:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[00:06:01] testimony go ahead testify girl I did something today that I haven't done in a few months I watch church when I woke up this morning something told me to tune into transformation I do not know why
[00:06:11] they haven't even been on my for you page i have not watched church in so long i tuned in the series is called it's time i watched today's sermon in tears because i felt like he was talking
[00:06:20] directly to me at the end he said that they were doing flood sunday immediately i jumped up i told my husband put on some clothes we have to go to transformation right now i was praying the whole
[00:06:29] way there as my husband did almost 100 on the highway that they were still doing the baptisms y'all we pulled up right when they were getting ready to end as i was walking up one of the
[00:06:38] security officers recognized me and he asked me what was up and I started crying and told him I need to be baptized. Immediately he had somebody come grab me and she walked me over and had these
[00:06:48] two amazing people baptize me. Without hesitation everybody gathered around me gave me nothing but love and encouragement and they put me right in the pool. He asked me if I wanted to change clothes I said no I just want to do this. Have you ever felt like God was literally tugging you and trying
[00:07:03] to tell you come back to him that was the tug i got today it was so strong it scared me it's a feeling that i cannot describe honestly pastor todd said you need to be in the house we cannot
[00:07:14] touch you and love on you properly if you're not in the house that did something to me because i remember one of my friends told me the same thing about a year ago when we all started going to
[00:07:23] transformation church to feel these people love on me and to hear me and to wipe my tears and tell me it's gonna be okay and that the shift is coming it felt so powerful because i needed that
[00:07:32] everything that's going on around me right now i feel like god is gonna make that change but he needed me to accept that change and he also was trying to get my attention and obviously i have
[00:07:41] been ignoring it i'm no longer ignoring it now god you got my attention bye y'all church can we give

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:07:50] god praise for the transformation that's happening in people's lives all right i'm ready to preach now if you got your bible get to joshua chapter three I don't know if you have picked up on it, but the series started in Joshua chapter one.
[00:08:07] And then last week we talked about Joshua chapter two and that common sense shift that Rahab made.
[00:08:14] And she got into the house. And right now we're going to Joshua chapter three.
[00:08:20] And I believe that God is about to speak to you in a way that's going to transform your life.
[00:08:26] This is the last thing I'm going to do because some of y'all didn't exercise this week.
[00:08:28] Would you stand up for the reading of the word this morning?
[00:08:31] i'm gonna get them knees the blood flowing in them knees real quick we're gonna start in joshua chapter one i mean chapter three verse one it says early the next morning joshua and all the
[00:08:44] israelites left acacia grove and arrived at the banks of the jordan river where they had camped before crossing three days later the israelite officers went through the camp giving these instructions to the people i need you to underline this if you have this in your bible
[00:09:00] When you see the levitical priest carrying the ark of the covenant of the lord your god shift When you see the ark of the covenant move When you see the ark of the covenant come out of the position you are in
[00:09:16] and follow the ark of the covenant Since you have never traveled this way before The ark of the covenant the presence of god it will guide you stay about a half a mile behind them keep a clear distance between you and the ark make sure you
[00:09:36] don't come any closer then Joshua told the people write this down y'all purify yourself I'm gonna say it one more time for the people in the back purify yourself for tomorrow the Lord will do
[00:09:56] great wonders among you will you look at your neighbor and tell them the title of my message it's time to purify look at the neighbor you didn't like as much the first time and tell them my message title too it's time to purify write it in the chat if you want God's
[00:10:16] word to speak to your life just give God one more cup of praise real quick you may be seated it's time to purify now if I would have said it's time to get paid I would have heard
[00:10:30] And if I would have said, it's time to find your partner, it would have been like, yes, yes, yes, yes.
[00:10:42] Mama Chloe, sit down in your coat of many colors, looking like Joseph out here.
[00:10:48] I see you, girl.
[00:10:50] It's one of our senior saints in here.
[00:10:52] She's always looking for a man.
[00:10:54] Here we go.
[00:10:57] You got to be a part of the family church.
[00:10:59] Get in the house.
[00:11:00] Okay, here we go.
[00:11:02] But it's time to purify.
[00:11:07] Not time to get paid, not time to get pumped up, not time to increase your platform.
[00:11:17] The scripture explicitly says it's time to purify.
[00:11:24] And then it goes on to say, ain't nobody going to do the purification except you.
[00:11:34] Purify yourself.
[00:11:38] I need you to understand the context of what's happening right now.
[00:11:41] So rewind with me through the Bible and see that the children of Israel have been wandering in a wilderness after being saved out of Egypt. God brings them into a holding place until they get
[00:11:56] to the promised land. They disobeyed in the holding place. Their mama and them was idol worshipers. Their mama and them didn't listen to the leadership. Their mama and grandmama and them wanted to do their own thing, and so they died in the place they were supposed to pass through.
[00:12:12] Moses dies. Joshua's a new leader at the beginning of Joshua chapter one. And then what ends up happening is God says in three days, we're going to go possess what everybody has been waiting for
[00:12:23] a whole generation to get. I just want you to see how quickly God can shift your situation.
[00:12:30] You can go from waiting for 40 years and in three days it changes just like, okay, I just need you to see it that quick. Before they cross into the promised land, God says, I need you to do
[00:12:45] something. I need you to purify yourself. And the reason why this is important is because God wanted to do something that could not be done if they weren't purified. Okay. It literally said tomorrow, I want to do great wonders among you. What do you think God would do if he described
[00:13:12] what he wanted to do as a great wonder this is the god who spoke the world into existence this is the god who literally told the sun to stand still and sit right there and it's still coming
[00:13:25] up and doing the same thing off of one word he spoke he don't got to check on the sun no more if god tells you hey clean yourself up because tomorrow i'm about to do things eyes haven't seen
[00:13:39] ears have not hurt you've never written it down in your journal the things that I have planned for you the only prerequisite is clean it up I'm not telling you what you need to clean up because God
[00:13:56] said the pastor ain't gonna clean you up the priest ain't gonna clean you up Joshua's not gonna clean you up it said purify yourself okay I'm trying not to get ahead of myself right now
[00:14:06] okay so let me get in my teaching bag according to Ephesians 4 11 I need some glasses right now There are five gifts that god gives to the church. He gives the apostle. He gives the pastor. He gives the prophet
[00:14:17] He gives the teacher. He gives the evangelist. I dabble in all of them So today i'm going to give you the teacher mic So if I had a professor jacket, I would be a professor today and I want to teach you
[00:14:28] About the intricate parts of this scripture that most believers miss because they don't have understanding The bible tells us in all you're getting get in understanding so it's not cool to just read through your scriptures and your daily bible plan
[00:14:45] to get a streak 98 days with reading the bible but you don't understand it and so today one of the key places i need you to understand write this down because we're in a class this morning okay
[00:15:01] so you need to take notes the church and this church has to understand the ark of the covenant it. Now, I know that sounds like something out of an Indiana Jones movie, and I know that sounds
[00:15:16] like something you've seen, but this was a real thing. I want you to understand the significance of it and how it applies to us today. The importance of this is paramount. That means in Scripture there are a couple of things that are like, you've got to know what this is. This
[00:15:35] is why we have to stay with biblical teaching and understanding so that we can understand what god was trying to say through certain things so the ark of the covenant understanding that is like like like if you watch the marvel series how many people like the marvel series all the things yeah
[00:15:51] church people love that so um it's like it's like watching that and not understanding what infinity rings are it's like watching football how many people like football okay come on all right it's like watching football and not knowing what a touchdown is. Do you understand? Like you have
[00:16:10] to understand the basic concepts of the thing. And so this is why I want to explain to you the arc of the covenant. Cause it's very important. Exodus chapter 20. I'm just going to paraphrase
[00:16:22] it. This is when God gives Moses the 10 commandments. Y'all remember the 10 commandments?
[00:16:28] Y'all watched the Heston movie and y'all, y'all, y'all seen that. Okay, good. The 10 commandments were not just an idea at that time it was God speaking to man so when Moses went up on the
[00:16:43] mountain and had a meeting with God what he came down with was the word of God on two tablets okay but then in Exodus 25 one man and one God met together but our God always desired to have
[00:16:58] relationship with his people and so because he had desire to have relationship with his people he said, I need my presence to be among my people. All these people will not come up to the mountain.
[00:17:10] I need to make a place where my presence resides on earth among the people. So they built in Exodus 25, the Ark of the Covenant. Behind me, this is a picture of the Ark of the Covenant. It was built
[00:17:24] out of acacia wood and it was covered in gold on the outside and the inside. It was about three and a half feet long and two and a half feet deep. It was something that they put a few things in and
[00:17:36] was to be carried on poles. You weren't supposed to come and touch this if you didn't have the credentials to get around the presence of God. I need everybody to understand how important this was. This was God's manifest presence among his people. Write that down. The Ark of the Covenant
[00:17:56] represents God's manifest presence among his people.
[00:18:01] Now, I need you to stay with me because this is going to make a lot of sense in just a minute.
[00:18:06] But without the Ark of the Covenant, God was never with his people.
[00:18:11] With the Ark of the Covenant, God was among his people.
[00:18:14] That's why we sing it at Christmas time, but it's a year-round word.
[00:18:18] Emmanuel means God with us.
[00:18:24] His presence is with us.
[00:18:26] Let me give you an example.
[00:18:27] Um, I have four kids and we have a house that, that, that sometimes you got to yell for people to know, um, that, that they are needed. Any parents in the house right now, you just sat
[00:18:42] down to eat and you could get up and go up the stairs and tell them, but instead of doing that, you just yell. Oh, I'm the only one. Cool. Okay. Now watch my children know I'm in the house,
[00:18:57] but my manifest presence is when I've called for them and they didn't come.
[00:19:04] And then I opened the door and come in a room. That's my presence manifesting. I need you to understand. So what God was trying to say is, you know, I'm God. Just look around.
[00:19:20] You know, I'm God because you've seen me do other miracles. But my desire is to be the God that walks in your situation, and you can see that I am in this place with you. Emmanuel, God with,
[00:19:35] say me. God with me. He ain't just with us. He with me. When I go to that job, he's Emmanuel, God with me. When I don't know what to do with the situation, he is Emmanuel, God with me.
[00:19:53] His desire is relationship with us, and so back in this day, he said, I got to create a way for them to know my presence is with me. That's why in Hebrews chapter nine, verse four, it says in the
[00:20:06] room where a gold incense altar and it wouldn't chest called the ark of the covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides. This is just confirming everything I just told you inside the ark where a gold jar containing manna Aaron staff, and this that spouted out leaves and the
[00:20:24] stone tablets or the 10 commandments. So let me break this down for you. We're still in class right now. Inside the Ark of the Covenant were three things. The first thing were the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments were the Word of God, and it was put in here to represent that
[00:20:40] the Word should always be a part of the presence of God. Do y'all see it right there? The Word of God is in there, and then it had Aaron's staff. Now, Aaron's staff, he was a priest. Back in the
[00:20:55] day before we got our high priest Jesus there had to be somebody that mediated between God and man because you had to approach God a certain way because he's this big word that is four letters
[00:21:07] holy and so he wouldn't let just anybody come and approach him if they didn't approach him right I'm going somewhere with this and so what ended up happening is Aaron's rod represented that God always gave man authority to be able to speak on behalf of the people to God and for God to speak
[00:21:25] to them and and get back in relationship because he always wants relationship with you so that was supposed to represent relationship with God and the priest who would make sure that would happen the last thing that was in the ark of the covenant was a jar full of manna does anybody know what
[00:21:42] manna is the children of Israel didn't even know what it is literally manna means what is it but when they came out of slavery in Egypt they didn't know how they were going to eat every day and God
[00:21:54] said, even in the wilderness, I'm going to provide sustenance for you. So every morning they were going to wake up and this little bread was going to be all over the grass like dew. And it only
[00:22:06] lasted one day because he wanted them to be dependent on him daily. Okay. So he wanted everybody to understand that these three things had to be a part of his presence, the word relationship and him providing for them okay let me break it down even further we're almost out of
[00:22:33] class 15 more minutes and you're gonna get an a okay here we go the tablets represented God's word because God always works by principles he is a consistent God and anything consistent doesn't just get made up on the spot. It has a principle it's built off of. And so when you see
[00:23:00] God's word, you actually see, hold on, there's something I can build off of here. This is why we read this. It's not because I need to prove to anybody that I know Psalms 92 or Philippians 6.
[00:23:15] Forget that. I got to have something to build my life with. I'm not about to build my life on sand.
[00:23:24] I'm not about to build my life with a material that changes all the time.
[00:23:28] I've got to build it on something that is consistent enough to put my family on.
[00:23:33] I've got to build it with something that's consistent enough to build this marriage on.
[00:23:38] Those are what God calls principles.
[00:23:42] The Ark of the Covenant had principles attached to it.
[00:23:45] Then it was Aaron's staff, which represented God's want for relationship.
[00:23:51] This was the priesthood.
[00:23:52] this is gonna make sense in just a moment but the truth of the matter is the presence of God you just felt in worship that thing that just changed you just a moment ago that that thing
[00:24:06] that made that woman she said at the beginning of the video something told me to get up and come to church that was the Holy Spirit access to God's presence was not available to common man back
[00:24:21] here. I want you to understand how good you got it. See, if you don't understand the Ark of the Covenant, these people could not access God. They couldn't just like say a prayer and talk to God.
[00:24:35] You know how we just say, just talk to God about it. They couldn't do this. And you choosing not to do it when you can. They couldn't. You can and you don't. But they couldn't. But you can and you
[00:24:49] don't. They needed a priest who was clean. They needed a priest that didn't sin. They needed a priest, and a lamb, and a goat, and a perfect lamp. They had to do all of this because God
[00:25:04] wanted relationship. Y'all know what? Sometimes they would have to send the priest into the temple to be able to send their prayer request in, and they tied a bell to their little cloak because what they would know is if the little bell rang, it meant that the priest fell dead
[00:25:21] because they wasn't really clean. They would attach a rope to them and drag them out because they couldn't go in and get him, because you had to approach God's presence a certain way.
[00:25:30] But could anybody thank God for his grace and his mercy? That even when I wasn't clean, I just got to take a five-second praise break, that I could still talk to God and ask him for
[00:25:41] his help. When I was still becoming a better person, that I could lift my hands and say, God, I need you. All the perfect people, you can be quiet. But for all of us that needed God's
[00:25:55] grace. I have to help you understand this because the Ark of the Covenant wasn't just a word.
[00:26:05] This represented the presence of God among his people. The last thing that it had in it was a jar of manna because even though God was not providing for them in that same way throughout
[00:26:21] this entire story, he wanted them to know that I'm always the way of your needs getting met.
[00:26:29] you remember when I provided manna for you he said my presence always watch this provides what you need and that was a sign of God's provision this is what was inside the ark of the covenant
[00:26:45] this was important because it was like God coming to sit at your table so now if God came to sit at your house at your table in your living room how would you clean up no I know when your friend
[00:27:12] from work comes over you throwing stuff in closets and throwing stuff out the windows and come on y'all y'all know what we don't need that putting stuff under the bed if your boss came to your
[00:27:26] house you repainting come on let's see depending on the level of authority that that person has in your life, it would be an indication of how you would clean up. If God was coming to put his
[00:27:46] presence in your house, how would you clean up? Because he literally tells him, purify.
[00:27:59] Ain't nobody coming to clean your house. Okay. You know where the stuff is at. You know where you're hiding them lies. You know where that pornography addiction sits. You know where that jealousy is I'm not about to come to your house and look for that purify yourself hold up I know
[00:28:27] you want some more of the word and I know that it's just getting real good but I need to tell somebody right now at the time of this recording there are only 87 tickets left to conference and
[00:28:38] why is this important because I believe that God wants you to be in his presence so that he can change you in this message I'm talking about the presence of God well you know where the presence
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[00:28:58] patterns in your family. And I'm telling you, I want you to join us with thousands of people who are coming from over 30 countries. This is your sign. You're like, I was going to come to the
[00:29:07] conference, but I need to hear Pastor Mike say it. You need to come to conference. This is your moment. And I'm telling you, we are praying for you. We are praying for your family. We are praying
[00:29:15] for the provision that God wants to happen in your life. And I just wanted to let you know, this is your time. It's time. Click the QR code right now or text V5 to 828282. And we're going
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[00:29:33] I remember preaching when I first started at my youth ministry called SoFly. This is the first time I started preaching back at 15, 19. Anybody was at SoFly back in the day? Y'all still rocking.
[00:29:47] I love y'all so much. Yes. Mama Chloe, 15, 19. I just said that somebody get her. Um, when I was preaching, I started off Bishop. You'll remember this. I started off preaching a message to the teenagers called the summer sex series. And when we did the summer sex series,
[00:30:10] everybody was there. I don't know if it was cause summer or sex, but everybody was coming.
[00:30:17] And then the Holy spirit at the end of that eight or 10 week message series, he said, I want you to do a message on purity. And everybody was there. I did a message on purity.
[00:30:26] That next week, half the audience disappeared. Abracadabra. Because purity is not something you play with. Guys, I'm trying to let you know we can yell shift all day and we can say promise land.
[00:30:49] He said it in his word. If he said it, we believe it. We can do that all day, but it comes with a condition. Tomorrow you're about to see great wonders, but today you got to purify yourself.
[00:31:03] This is the last day that some of y'all look at certain things. This is the last day you might have to go through some drawers and throw some stuff away. This is the last day that you smoke
[00:31:12] that, drink that. You don't need a cabinet of those substances anymore. Somebody say, this is the last day because tomorrow God wants to do a great wonder in my life, but today I got to purify myself. There are certain Instagrams or Finstas you need to delete. There's people you
[00:31:34] follow over there that you can't follow where they can really know your name. Oh, I'm in your business right now. Some of y'all need to get off of social media altogether because you know it's
[00:31:43] a cesspool of comparison for you. Jordan, are you willing to give up the great miracle because you like this secret moment? These secret moments are messing up the great miracles. You still having casual sex with people because you feel lonely, and you still keep them numbers in your
[00:32:13] phone. He said, purify. Delete them. Right now, delete them. I'm looking at you. Delete.
[00:32:24] You're sacrificing great wonders for a moment of pleasure, and I do mean a moment.
[00:32:32] And this, you keep lying on your taxes for $2,500 so you can buy some rims or a big screen or go on a vacation. Nobody's coming to do this. You're just holding up what God wants to do in your life.
[00:32:56] Purify yourself. You know, the only reason you go to that gym is to see that girl in them pants on Thursday. Y'all acting like I'm up here making stuff. You got gym equipment at your house. You got a whole total gym. Shout out to RIP Chuck Nordis. What I'm saying to you is
[00:33:19] you could save the money and save your soul if you would purify yourself numbers chapter 4 verse 15 this ain't really my message but I think a couple of people need to understand this the ark of the
[00:33:40] covenant was such a big deal or the presence of God was such a big deal that there was once this guy named Uzzah and and and he touched the presence the wrong way he was playing with the presence of
[00:33:52] God. They already messed up because the Bible was strict with its instructions with the presence of God that you were supposed to have men that were certified carrying it on poles. So there would be
[00:34:03] four men carrying it because it would probably get heavy over a time. There's some concrete tablets in that mug. So they're actually carrying it, but they got tired and tried to help God with what he said. So they put the Ark of the Covenant, the presence of God, they put it on some oxen
[00:34:19] and one of the oxen stumbled. When the oxen stumbled, I call him uh for short, he literally tried to reach out and hold up the presence of God. When he touched it the wrong way,
[00:34:34] the Bible says he died immediately. I thought when I read that in the Bible, that was extreme, but God was trying to prove a point. Don't approach my presence any type of way. Let me
[00:34:57] say it to you in a point. Don't play yourself by playing with the presence of God. I know the people around us was like, they was like, what happened? He touched the presence of God, the
[00:35:13] wrong. Thank God when we have sinned or sending text message of sin in church, when that Snapchat came in and you know what it was, but you sit next to your youth leader, like, no, I'll look at that
[00:35:36] later. Oh, my God, Lord, I'm in your presence. I'm just saying, thank God we don't get killed.
[00:35:46] I mean, this whole section. I'm just saying, thank God we don't get killed because of the grace of God, but he's still trying to prove a point.
[00:36:00] Don't play with my presence, because it's powerful enough to transform your life.
[00:36:07] Let me just tell you one more thing about the Ark of the Covenant. This Ark of the Covenant was a temporary fix. This is not what God wanted to be long-term. That's why it ain't around today.
[00:36:18] The Bible says that this temporary fix was for an eternal problem and God wanted his people and his presence to be together. And this all has to do with one name. What is his name? Jesus. See, you
[00:36:33] could replace the Ark of the Covenant with this name. See, because when you start looking at the parallels between what god was trying to teach the people he says when jesus shows up jesus is the
[00:36:46] word okay he said i'm the word i'm the living word and then it says jesus is the wage that paid for us to actually have a relationship with god and jesus is the way the truth and the life he said
[00:37:01] he's the way that all your provision will be made and then jesus gives us principles every day in his word to live by. Jesus, the Bible says, is our high priest, and Jesus is all that we need,
[00:37:16] so he is provision. Say his name. Shout it out. Jesus. Say it like demons tremble when you say it.
[00:37:25] Jesus. Say it like you know that we don't need a mediator because we got him. Jesus.
[00:37:33] This is why we worship Jesus. This is why we praise him, and the Ark of the Covenant was kept in a temple but guess what the temple that the presence was kept in that was temporary too
[00:37:45] because the bible tells us in first corinthians 3 16 don't you realize that you are now the temple so for every person that gets saved you are the new ark of the covenant this is why you can't
[00:38:07] just look at things and pass them over what he was trying to say because of jesus when you accept him now you have relationship with me and on the inside of me is my presence that's why you can be
[00:38:18] at the gym and meet with God that's why you can be in the shower and meet with God that's why you can be on the toilet and meet with God don't act like he don't speak to you on the throne that's
[00:38:29] why you can be I want us to have understanding this is important because the presence of God is the thing that they have to be led by so I need everybody to understand this from this point
[00:38:47] on it gets real simple that Joshua tells them hey when you see the ark of the covenant or the presence of God that's when you come out or shift from your position and you start following the
[00:39:04] presence of God this means you don't just move because you can don't go without his presence leading you. He's saying, we about to go into the promised land, but you better wait for the presence to pass your tent before you start moving. This is why I need everybody to understand
[00:39:32] why it's so important for us to value the presence of God, to value worship, to value a meeting place with him. I heard this story that really blessed me because I don't know if anybody's ever been
[00:39:45] to Graceland. Has anybody ever been to Graceland in Memphis? Okay. My dad took us to Elvis's old house one day. We used to travel all over the country, and people was lined up to get into
[00:39:58] Graceland. It was interesting because the house is now kind of in the hood. We pulled up, and I was like, this is where Elvis lived. Okay. It's changed over the years. When I got up to the
[00:40:15] house. I was like, this house is kind of ugly. Wow. And then we went in the house and there's rug carpet on the floor and on the walls. And he even has a jungle room. And it was just an ugly
[00:40:30] edifice. But there were thousands of people visiting this place. And every year on Elvis Day in August, people come from all over the world, not because of the architecture and not because of the decor. They make a special trip to this place because that house was once
[00:40:58] the house that had the presence of Elvis Presley living in it. Pastor Mike, what are you saying to me? What makes you special and a threat to the enemy is who lives on the inside of you.
[00:41:14] I need you to hear me say this with all of my might. I need you to understand the reason it's time to purify is because God's on the inside and he's trying to do something so the whole world
[00:41:26] can see, but he has one caveat. You got to purify. What area in your life right now do you know is out of order? What area in your life? You don't need a prophetic word. You don't need nobody to
[00:41:42] pray for you. You can tell me right now, I'm angry. I'm jealous. My words are sharp. I'm hateful.
[00:41:52] I'm still mad I'm indifferent you can identify because nobody knows you like you it's a wonder to me that God didn't say come out of your tents and we're having a purifying session he says stay in your tent because everybody don't need to see this purify this is the grace of God
[00:42:21] because if he did it in front of everybody come on if everybody knew what you was really dealing with. They judge you, but God's grace is so good. He was like, hey, tomorrow I'm about to do great
[00:42:33] wonders, but I need that marriage to be purified. I need your thoughts to be purified. I need your actions to be purified. Pastor Mike, what do you want me to know? The presence of God is where you
[00:42:51] get purified. Why do we worship so long? Y'all got 45 minutes, 50 minutes of worship. Why y'all to be worshiping so long. You've never asked why a movie so long ever. But the reason, if you must
[00:43:08] have an answer, the reason we worship so long is because we're trying to get cleansed in our minds, in our hearts. Some of us had a hard week. Oh, come on y'all. Some of us, some of us are in a
[00:43:23] season right now. The reason we needed to shift is because there's a bunch of, and this is you filled in the blank. I didn't say nothing. All I'm telling you is the reason why we're singing
[00:43:36] these songs and reminding ourselves of God's goodness. It's because I'm trying to wash myself in his word. I'm trying to get purified. I want to fight, and you want me to have faith. I want
[00:43:49] to bust ahead, and you want me to bless them. I'm purifying myself. This is what I want everybody to know. If you set up a meeting place with God, he'll always show up. I'm going to put it in a
[00:44:07] point, put it on a big, on the back screen so they can see you set it up. He'll show up. If you set it up, he'll show up. The reason why people don't see God move is because they won't set the meeting.
[00:44:24] Moses, Moses, when he went to go meet with God, every time he came back with something.
[00:44:32] And if I could be honest, Michael, every time I set up a meeting with God, I come back with something. It's not always what I want. Sometimes I go in for blessing and he corrects me. Yeah. Before you, I know what you're talking about, but you need to go apologize.
[00:44:45] not what I came for. Has anybody gone to God and been like, that was not what I came for today, but thank you, sir. But if you set it up, he'll show up. Set up a place of prayer, he'll show up.
[00:45:02] Set up a place of worship, he'll show up. Set a place up where you get in his word, he'll show up.
[00:45:09] And God tell him, I don't want you to shift without my presence. Why are you saying this, Pastor Mike? Because the new version that you're going into, it requires revision.
[00:45:18] hear what I'm saying to you he said you got to purify yourself because you've never been this way before this is a promise that God's about to bring you into new territory God's about to bring
[00:45:30] you into places you've never been before you've never had the level of influence you're about to have you've never had the platform that you're about to have you've never had the level of connection you've never had it before that's why you got to follow his presence because if you go
[00:45:44] out here just trying to do it by yourself. That's how you get hurt. He said, I want you to follow my presence. You've never been this way before. Purify yourself because God's promises always come with a price tag. And most people never see the promises because they don't want to pay.
[00:46:05] Every person that paid the price tag in this situation of purity, they got to see the promised land today i came to tell you we're shifting thank you for the two person that but you can't shift if you do not purify thank you sir i i know it's sobering i see even say it
[00:46:38] sucks but the bible calls it sanctification he said i'm working some stuff out of you that cannot go into this next season and i see the religious people right now it's like this word is great for them. God blessed them. They really needed that. Some of the most disgusting
[00:47:07] people to Jesus, to Jesus, not to me, to Jesus, were those who were always looking to see how the word applied to others and never trying to see how it applied to them. If I'm saying this
[00:47:22] word to you. This is your next shift instruction. You need to purify yourself. I don't care how many years you've been in church. I don't care how many churches you've led. I don't care how
[00:47:37] many Bible studies you have or followers you have talking about Jesus. If there is an area in your life that you cannot publicly get up and say, this is where I'm at. You need to get rid of it.
[00:47:47] One of my favorite songs is an Elevation worship song that said, I'm going to see a victory. I'm going to see a victory, for the battle belongs to you, Lord.
[00:48:08] I thought about this when God told them to purify, and I wrote it down as a point.
[00:48:13] The battle belongs to the Lord, but the bath belongs to you. Did y'all hear what I just said?
[00:48:21] the battle belongs to the lord but the bath you being washed the purity that the bath belongs to you fight this battle you gotta clean it up not the battle you're sad says when you see the
[00:48:43] levitical priest the ark of the covenant move shift into position since you have never traveled this way before it will guide you i need everybody in this last five minutes to understand these four things because I see too many people romanticizing their bondage. When you romanticize
[00:49:04] the bondage, like, man, it was better back there, man. We was in slavery, but at least we had some wing stop. Man, we was getting beat every day, but at least we, like, anybody ever thought
[00:49:18] that a bad season was better because you're not in your next season yet? Hear what I'm saying to you. Here are four things that can't shift with you into the promised land. This is why you have
[00:49:30] to purify because you can't take the worry into the promised land. You can't be worried about tomorrow. You can't be worried about what you're going to eat and what's going to happen. You can't be worried about this. And God says, hey, I know back there you were worried about all this stuff,
[00:49:47] but I need you to shift. Somebody say shift. Say it with faith. Say shift. I need you to shift into trusting me. I've sustained you all of this time. I'm not going to leave you now.
[00:49:59] I need somebody to hear me say this with everything I've got. The Bible says I was young and now I'm old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children, bloodline generations. I've never seen their children begging for breath. God's saying,
[00:50:19] don't bring that worry. Instead, worship me. Every time you're about to work, get in my presence.
[00:50:26] God, I'm sorry. God, I worship you. Second thing that cannot go into the promised land are the wounds. The worries can't go into the promised land, and the wounds can't. That's why if you ever get a gash or a cut, the first thing that a medical person does is they clean
[00:50:48] the wound. They purify the wound, even if it burns. You put anything in an open wound, I need you to blow on mine y'all know what I'm saying you know it don't even help but it just
[00:51:10] mentally but why it's because if you have a wound which we all are gonna have wounds the wilderness provides wounds to all of us is there anybody in here that could be honest and be like I got some wounds like I know I want to go into the promised land the worst thing with a
[00:51:31] wound is for it to get infected and so this is why God is saying purify yourself because you did get cut, but I don't want that wound to turn into something that takes your life. The third thing
[00:51:46] that was in the wilderness that can't go into the promised land is the idol worship. Oh, God.
[00:51:58] Back in the wilderness, they were making other things that were not God idols. It looks like some of us right now making political parties idols. It's quiet in here. It's quiet in here, but if you get with your group of friends and y'all start talking about stuff that might be an
[00:52:18] idol in your life you're making fashion an idol you're making money an idol and God says guess what ain't going into the promised land y'all worshiping anything other than me you gotta leave the worry you gotta leave the wounds you gotta leave the idol worship and the last thing right
[00:52:38] here to purify yourself you gotta leave the wickedness now this word wickedness is interesting because what it really means is to pervert or twist.
[00:52:53] So it's something that the image is something that is straight that you then begin to contort.
[00:52:58] So whatever is wicked in your life is something that was meant to be done one way, but then you turn it a little bit.
[00:53:06] What God is saying is anything that is not straight in your life, that's just a little twisted, you gotta leave that here.
[00:53:19] You can't go into the promised land.
[00:53:20] That's why he said, purify yourself, because I don't know what you've perverted, but you do.
[00:53:30] Purify, consecrate yourself. That's what we just did this past week in fasting and praying.
[00:53:44] We set ourselves aside from looking at certain things and eating certain things because God's saying, I want to do something great wonders, but I can't do it if you don't purify yourself.
[00:53:59] Pastor Mike, you keep saying the same thing because I don't want you to forget that the promised land being held up is no longer God's fault. When you get to the beginning, you're like, God, you didn't do what you said. You never took a bath. You never washed that off. You never
[00:54:22] cleansed yourself. You never confessed to anybody. You never said anything. You never said, God, search me. If there's anything in me that's not like you, show me. God, I will denounce anything.
[00:54:35] I will let go of anything. I will move anywhere. I'll do whatever you say, but cleanse me and make me whole. I need to purify my... This is the message that won't go viral because it requires
[00:54:51] action from you. I can't purify for you, but I'm trying every day to come to God's presence and purify. Another word for this is holy. The angels cry, holy. It's not just for him. He wants us to
[00:55:18] be holy as he is holy. The only way you become that is that you purify. Okay. And I have to address this because I know this is a very firm message, but I'm telling you for any believer
[00:55:34] that listens to this and applies it, it's going to transform your life. The promised land is waiting on your purity. And there are a lot of people under the sound of my voice. I'm trying
[00:55:46] to talk Tinder. I'm trying to let you know that I get it. I understand how many images are coming into your word. How many temptations are coming into your world? This is a crazy world that we
[00:55:57] live in today, but the standard has not changed. I don't care what they can air on TV. Now you can choose to watch it or turn it off. Oh God. It doesn't matter what platform. I can't believe
[00:56:16] they showing it on that platform. I can't believe they showed us on Instagram. You are watching it because nobody else is in charge of the parameters of your purity. Do what you got to do to live
[00:56:33] pure because the promised land is waiting just for you. And I'm going to say it. There are people right now who have decided to live in sin that are listening to me. And I didn't say people who
[00:56:50] have sinned because the Bible says all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
[00:56:56] But there are some people that are willingly saying, you know what? This ain't that bad.
[00:57:01] And you know what? I'm going to just keep doing this. And watch this. And me and God have an understanding. Show me in the Bible. Show me in the word where y'all understanding is. Because
[00:57:16] he's real clear and wants us to understand. And the reason I'm saying it like this is because I need you to hear me say this very clearly. You cannot claim the blessing of God and live life
[00:57:26] on your terms. Pastor Mike, why are you coming like this on week three? Because I want you to actually live in the promised land, but there is a prerequisite. Purify yourself.
[00:57:49] Pastor Mike, how do I purify myself? Four things. Worship the word, washing by confession, and wrestling, wrestling with yourself. Purify yourself. In my life, I've done a lot of things that I am not proud of. Every time that I sin, it's like taking a beautiful white rag
[00:58:21] that represents my life and putting just a little stain on it. This is the time that I had sex outside of marriage. But I mean, most of the towel is still clean. I could do a lot still
[00:58:39] with the rest of this towel. But then there was that one time that I lied for no reason. They asked where I was at, and I lied. And I said I was at my mama's house. And I wasn't even nowhere
[00:58:53] bad i was just i was eating but i lied why did i lie why did i why did i not tell the truth i guess god will understand hold on the standard is still the same there's no such thing as a
[00:59:08] little white lie and then i watched some things i wasn't supposed to jealous of family members i'm coveting what other people get and where they go on vacation oh y'all didn't know that was a sin on Instagram coveting. I wish that was my wife. I wish my wife was more like her. I wish
[00:59:35] my, and this is what happens. Sin, sin, sin. And guess what? Nobody sees when it happens, but they see the results of it. And this is what we try to clean our kids with.
[00:59:49] When we talk about changing our bloodline, what's on us gets on them. And this is why you are the only one that can come to the presence of God and say, father today, through the power of Jesus and
[01:00:09] what he did on the cross. I need you to wash me. I need you to change me from the inside out.
[01:00:17] Here I am today. Again, I'm waking up to pray because I need you to do a work that I can't do in myself. Holy spirit in this worship moment with this song, I'm going to give you the praise that
[01:00:31] I have. I'm going to give you the worship that I have. I am not perfect right now, God, but today I need you to wash me from the inside out. Here I am again, God. This is me. This is my fault.
[01:00:44] This is my sin. This is my transgression. This is my pain. And what God does through what Jesus did, I need you to see, is he allows us to be purified. Now when I go to touch my coworker,
[01:01:09] now when I go to witness to my neighbor, I'm not claiming to be perfect. I'm just claiming to be clean. Oh God. I'm not saying there wasn't something there yesterday, but I got in the
[01:01:19] presence of God and I got clean. Cause guess what? Tomorrow I might sin. Oh no, the church no, once you clean, you clean, you alive. Cause I approached my wife wrong yesterday and I looked too long at that thing on HBO. I promised I was watching hard knocks and then
[01:01:48] God, I'm so sorry that I sent that text message tempting somebody.
[01:01:58] I didn't mean to be a thirst trap to them.
[01:02:00] I'm just lonely.
[01:02:04] God, I've been so mean to my baby's father.
[01:02:08] And I've been planting seeds of deceit just because my heart is hurt.

[01:02:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:02:18] But here I am to worship.
[01:02:22] Here I am to bow down.
[01:02:24] And yes, here I am to say that you're my God.
[01:02:33] You're all together, earthy, all together.

[01:02:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:02:40] That's why I keep coming back to his presence.

[01:02:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:02:42] All together, wonderful to me.

[01:02:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:02:49] Search me, O Lord.
[01:02:56] Purify me, God.
[01:02:59] Cleanse me from the inside out.
[01:03:00] nobody else can do it but you standing all over this building one thing I want you to see about our sin it never changed God did you see it all my sin when it went in it never made what was holy
[01:03:28] defiled because there's some power in this that's not in regular water if I put this in some regular water it would turn the whole thing the color of my sin but literally I can dump it in here
[01:03:44] and where sin abounds my God today the grace of God is eating up all of my sin my God today it doesn't even look like I feel the presence of God it doesn't even look like this is why the
[01:04:05] presence of God is so important church it's time to purify psalms 24 4 says only those whose hands and hearts are cleaned and purified, who do not worship idols, who don't tell lies, they will receive the blessing of the Lord. The promised land is waiting on your purity.
[01:04:32] Today, if you're in this place, I sense the presence of God so strong. If you're in this place or you're watching online and you know there's an area of your life that you are saying,
[01:04:42] God, I'm surrendering this and I need your presence to purify. I'm about to clean this up, but I can't do it without your presence.
[01:04:51] I can't.
[01:04:52] If that's you, I want you to lift both hands all over this building.
[01:04:54] If you're at home, I want you to lift your hand.
[01:04:56] Nobody gotta know.
[01:04:57] You don't gotta confess right now.
[01:04:59] But today you're saying there's an area in my life that needs purity.
[01:05:03] Today I'm about to pray for you.
[01:05:06] But after I pray for you, listen to me.
[01:05:08] You gotta make a list and purify yourself.
[01:05:12] Father, you see the hands, and more than the hands, you see the hearts.
[01:05:17] My God, today.
[01:05:19] And God, I am praying over every person who has been carrying the heavy load.
[01:05:23] of all of the sin the temptation the hurts the wounds today god we know there are great wonders in this shift that you're doing on the inside of us but today god we are focused on your presence
[01:05:40] because in your presence we can be purified i hear the holy spirit saying worship is the way father today we come not just singing a song we come giving you our lives worship is an act of
[01:05:56] surrender of our lives. So today, Father God, whatever you're telling us to do, if you're telling us to burn that paraphernalia, if you're telling us to give up those addictions, if you're telling us, Father God, to take down a poster, whatever we got to do to purify, if you're asking
[01:06:12] us to delete the app, if you're telling us, Father God, that we got to unsubscribe to that channel, if you're telling us we can no longer go to that gym or that sports arena, whatever we must do to
[01:06:23] purified. Today, God, we are saying yes. We will not miss your great wonders because we would not purify. Today, God, I'm asking you to start the work in me, creating me a clean heart and renewing
[01:06:49] me a right spirit so that I may not sin against you, creating me a clean heart and renewing me a right spirit so that I will not sin against you. In my marriage, creating me a clean heart, God,
[01:07:01] and renewing me a right spirit in my parenting, creating me a clean heart.
[01:07:05] I will not repeat the cycles, creating me a clean heart and renewing me the right spirit so that I may not sin against you.
[01:07:11] When it comes to my money, creating me a clean heart, Father God.
[01:07:15] In my relationship, when it comes to sex, God, creating me a clean heart and renewing me the right spirit so that I may not sin against you.
[01:07:27] I will not let my purity be somebody else's problem.
[01:07:30] today, God, I make the decision to obey your instructions and purify myself. Do the work on the inside. It's a dangerous song to sing, but I feel it. I want to be tried by, by,

[01:08:08] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:08:08] purified. You take whatever you desire. Lord, here's my life. I want to be purified.
[01:08:26] God's doing something.

[01:09:07] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:09:07] Would you just lift your hands if you're in this moment and just talk to him.

[01:09:27] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:09:27] Today, God, take my will.
[01:09:29] said to yours oh lord i heard you do miracles with broken things

[01:09:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[01:09:51] come on and i'm too far i feel the presence of god

[01:10:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:10:11] everybody that wants to purify lift your hands right now i'm here so i'm here right now

[01:10:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[01:10:23] goodbye yesterday

[01:11:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:11:49] I'm living in that's why we purify

[01:11:58] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[01:11:58] if you have not been born again

[01:13:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:13:15] you have not put your faith in Jesus Christ or you've walked away from him for a long time and today you need to come back home this is the first sign of being purified at Transformation
[01:13:27] Church this is what our church is all about representing God to the lost and found for one reason this moment transformation in Christ and if you want to walk in another level of purity you cannot do it
[01:13:37] without Jesus, our high priest, the one who represents everything we talked about today.
[01:13:42] He wants to come and be Emmanuel, God with you. Some of y'all are sick of living the old way.
[01:13:50] Today, you're going to say goodbye to yesterday. You're walking freedom. If that's you on the count of three, I just want you to shoot your hand up in the air, whether you're in the room
[01:13:59] or watching online. Today is the day of salvation, and I need you to begin to pray, church. Number Number one, I already see a hand up there.
[01:14:07] If you're going to make Jesus your personal Lord and Savior.
[01:14:10] Number two, your name is going to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
[01:14:13] I see you, my brother.
[01:14:15] Number three, your eternity in security.
[01:14:16] If you want to accept Jesus, shoot your hand.
[01:14:17] I see you, my brother.
[01:14:19] I see you, my transformation.
[01:14:20] Can we give God a praise?
[01:14:21] I see you, my brother.
[01:14:22] Praise the Lord.
[01:14:23] You're about to be born again.
[01:14:24] At TC, nobody prays alone.
[01:14:25] praise i'll see you my brother praise the lord you're about to be born again at tc nobody prays alone and so at this moment i want us all to lift our hands for the benefit of those coming to god
[01:14:43] and pray this prayer say god thank you for sending jesus to purify me i believe you lived you died and you rose again with all power so that I could live in freedom. Today, I repent and I turn to you.
[01:15:12] I'm yours forever. Change me. Renew me. Transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name. Amen.
[01:15:23] man. Can we give God a big shout in this place? Oh, come on, y'all. Let's give God praise over one person. Heaven is rejoicing. You just made that declaration. I want you to know it's time
[01:15:39] to get in the house. Come on, everybody. Say, get in the house. I want you to text SAVE to 828282.
[01:15:47] Then I'm going to challenge everybody. I want you to get connected. Outside on the lawn, right after, I know y'all are going to try to rush to the garage. You need to go to the front
[01:15:56] because your healing is going to happen. Watch this with you and somebody else. The Bible says in James that the healing comes when you pray one for another, when you talk to each other about
[01:16:10] what's going on. You don't need your pastor to pray for you. All you need is your friend next to you. And many of us, the enemy is taking you out in isolation because you won't get connected.
[01:16:19] And today I want you to get connected, figure out how to join a tribe and find some friends and start serving, become a part of what God is doing. I just ask everybody in the building,
[01:16:30] take 10 minutes. You may meet somebody that transforms your life. Cause listen to this.
[01:16:36] When the enemy wants to destroy your life, he sends people. But when God wants to transform your life, he also sends people. So maybe you need some new people. Hear me say this. I am
[01:16:51] burdened right now. Cause I feel that God is beginning to purify. You're getting illuminations beginning to happen. I'm about to alter. I'm about to open this altar. And if you know that there's something that you need to lay down at this altar and listen, I want to be very practical. Do not
[01:17:07] make this just a spiritual moment. If there are things that you need to dispose of, delete, give away, break, give to somebody. It's time to purify yourself. This is God's instruction to you.
[01:17:31] The breakthrough is waiting on your obedience.

[01:17:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:17:35] Thank you, Lord.
[01:17:41] I want to be altered here at the altar.

[01:17:46] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:17:46] We got to go, but I'm going to let the team worship for a second.
[01:17:53] I feel his presence right now.
[01:17:55] Don't rush out of this to go just do something, y'all.
[01:17:59] For tomorrow, great wonders.
[01:18:02] Who knows what's going to happen this week?
[01:18:05] Oh, my God.
[01:18:06] After a service like this, who knows what you're prepared for now?
[01:18:11] knows what god can trust you with purity was the only thing that was holding up the promised land father bless this people and god i thank you that anybody who's searching for you your presence
[01:18:28] i thank you you change them and purify them and consecrate them today have your way in this place is my prayer if you need prayer altar team y'all come if you need prayer if you need somebody to
[01:18:41] agree with you even if you're online somebody's about to pray with you start putting your prayer request in the chat right now. And we're just going to end this thing. I'm going to pray for
[01:18:50] you who are online, but we're going to let this worship go. If you need to go, go. But I'm telling you, if you need to take a moment and just stay in your seat and just be up there and just repent
[01:19:01] and write down what you're purifying, if you need prayer, I want you to come. Do not let your pride keep you from purifying today. I don't care how old you are or how young you are. Today is the
[01:19:09] day. Come on. People are coming from all over the place. Father, I thank you that you bless us as we purify, God.
[01:19:15] Do the work that no man can do.
[01:19:17] We trust you and we believe you in Jesus' name.
[01:19:20] If you must go, go.
[01:19:21] But if you can purify in this atmosphere, I want you to do that.
[01:19:25] Father, I thank you.
[01:19:26] Thank you.
[01:19:26] Thank you for what you're doing.
[01:19:27] Come on, from all over this place, I feel the burden right now.
[01:19:30] Come on, sing that.
[01:19:31] Lift that up.
[01:19:32] I love you so much.
[01:19:33] Next week, we're going to another level.
[01:19:35] Oh, my God.
[01:19:37] Come on.
[01:19:38] Just lift your hands.
[01:19:40] Create in me.
[01:19:40] Just sing that.
[01:19:41] Purify me, God.

[01:19:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[01:19:50] Just one more time.

[01:20:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:20:17] Purify me.
[01:20:18] Refine me.
[01:20:20] Make me more like you.
[01:20:21] If there's anything in me that's not like you, Father God, I'm crying out like David.
[01:20:27] God, create in me a clean heart.
[01:20:30] Renew in me a right spirit so that I may not sin against you.
[01:20:35] this message was the prerequisite to the promised land.
[01:20:41] This means you may need to get rid of some things that are in your home right now.
[01:20:46] Some websites, some chat rooms, some different paraphernalia.
[01:20:52] If God says purify yourself, that means you have to get these things out of your life.
[01:20:58] And I'm challenging you to do the work because there are great wonders on the other side of this hard work, but you are going to be the bloodline breaker in your family.
[01:21:10] You are going to be the generational changer. You are going to be the first that does what nobody else would do. And God is going to allow transformation to take place through you.
[01:21:19] I'm so proud of you as your pastor, as your pseudo pastor, as an encouraging partner or a coach to you. I'm so proud of you because it's time. It's time to shift and it's time
[01:21:31] to purify. As a matter of fact, I just want to give somebody one more chance. We have less than 80 tickets left to conference at the recording of this video. And maybe some of you need to make
[01:21:43] this decision to come to conference right now. We're less than 30 days away. Literally, it's in a couple of weeks, October 7th through the 9th. This is going to be a place where the bloodline
[01:21:54] changers, the bloodline breakers are coming together to encourage each other and hear a word from God, because this is going to be the shift that you're looking for. So click the QR code and come. And listen, if this message blessed you in any way, would you please do me a favor?
[01:22:10] Share it with somebody. Post something on your social media. Tell people about what God's doing in your life. Record a video, tag me in it, tag TC in it. Why are you saying this? Because the word
[01:22:21] says that we overcome by the blood of the lamb. That's what Jesus did. But the word of our testimony? Do you know that technology testimonies go further today than us standing up in church and giving our testimony to only a few people? I love that too, but you could help somebody find
[01:22:38] this message and it would transform their life. The last thing I'm going to ask you is pray about partnering with us to transform more people's lives. There are people that are touched through this ministry from all over the world, and it's because of people just like you who are consistent
[01:22:52] in giving, tithing, offerings, and sowing whatever God tells you whenever. This is not about amounts.
[01:22:59] This is about obedience. And I want you to be a part of what God is doing here. So if you pray about it and he tells you something, obey that. Well, until next week, we're going to week four
[01:23:08] of this It's Time series. And if you haven't watched all three, you need to go back. This is just like your episodes on Netflix. You need to go back and watch all of them so you can be ready
[01:23:18] for next week. I love you. Go out and live a transformed life.