Sound vs. Selfie: When Worship Becomes a Weapon for Wealth

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[00:06:46] Every living breathing soul who inhabits the planet. Hallelujah, thine the glory. Hallelujah, Amen.

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[00:07:01] Where we got so much to get done this morning. Beginning now. You look around you can like that. See holes. Beautiful spaces where somebody precious is missing.
[00:07:19] We got 42 of our people.
[00:07:22] Back, was it two or three years ago, we had 33 of our people.
[00:07:25] This year, 42 of our people.
[00:07:27] You see the missing in the choir.
[00:07:30] You see the missing.
[00:07:31] This is my soprano section right here on the praise team.
[00:07:40] These are my tenors.
[00:07:42] I got one alto over here.
[00:07:45] Pastor Kaylin is not here and Mina and Kim Hunter.
[00:07:51] and you know used to you could count on people but now it's just now they'll come up with all kinds of reasons to miss church i'm sorry i'll be in jerusalem but we're so grateful and my sound
[00:08:05] of production people who are absolutely amazing all the time i can't even tell you see pastor otis help me out pastor otis matthew pastor uh kaylin who jonathan oh jonathan james over there and then dave and lisa matthew porter and then so i got one i think that camera he's actually moving
[00:08:34] he is alive he just waved we got another camera that's fixed it ain't going nowhere and so and then our kingdom education ministry and then our our business administrator our minister of youth so we got this was really turned out to be a leadership uh trip and i'm so grateful
[00:08:53] i can't think of anything i'd rather have right now than the leadership of this house immersed in one of the most con most important consequential conversations you can have and that is what you're gonna do with israel and you woke up this morning and you were seeing it and hearing it on the news
[00:09:12] what are you gonna do with israel a nation of like was it point two point zero two percent of the population of the world something like that such a small infinitesimal space of land such a
[00:09:25] small infinitesimal population of people uh and yet it is exactly where god has focused his anointing his revelation and his prophetic word you can not get through the book of revelation or daniel for that matter without being obsessed realizing that god's doing something through
[00:09:47] israel you don't have to like it but he's still going to be god you don't have to like it but his word still gonna be true and so we are watching even now you and i about to pray a serious prayer
[00:10:01] back many months ago we began saying that your prayer life has the capacity of shutting down missiles in midair anybody still believe that this has been a trip even before they left of such profound spiritual warfare in every in every way every time they turned around there was
[00:10:30] another obstacle there was another obstruction of some kind or another either the flight getting there or just a host of things you don't get to be a wartime church without battles being a wartime church isn't a trophy it's a mantle and you got to know how to walk in that
[00:10:54] thing and our people they went to mount carmel why wouldn't they this is an elijah church this is a place where the people know how to call down fire against the idolatrous spirit of our time
[00:11:07] this is a place where an elijah can we talk so much about cherith and we talked about confronting jezebel and ahab and going down to zarephath and multiplying meal sustaining raising a dead son we are obsessed with Elijah
[00:11:23] why wouldn't they be at Mount Carmel they went to Shiloh where we just spoke weeks ago took several times talking about Hannah being able to walk into the tabernacle and saying if you'll give me a baby
[00:11:35] I'll give you a prophet how Samuel slept beside the Ark of the Covenant how God raised him up to anoint the first king and the second king then they went to Jerusalem and they touched the wall time and time again
[00:11:49] their schedule has been interrupted it over and over now they've had access to places that other trips would not have had because folk packed up went home when they said listen i i said this maybe it was to this group i know i
[00:12:06] spoke it into them here in america if you're thinking right now even about your summer and you've got a vacation you've you may have it documented we're going to be here on monday we're going to be here on tuesday we got reservations here we're going to spend this
[00:12:18] time on thursday and you got it and for the most part you're going to be able to just go down your list of priorities and that's wonderful but if you're going to go against every kind of demonic
[00:12:29] stronghold there is against nations you have to be able to switch on a dime so i said to them i need you to have your walking stick kept in your hand keep your shoes your sandals on your feet we ain't
[00:12:43] got time to break no to bake no cake you're going to have to have flat bread matzah you've got to have in your mind that anything can change you remember what i used to say to you during 2020
[00:12:54] that i reserve the right to change anything on a dime and that's not because we're failing it's because we're flowing the most resistant spirits against changing are those who are fixated in something and they don't know how to move but our people are in that space and they know one moment
[00:13:15] i think it was thursday or friday i said i need you to go through the airlines find out how el is doing what's the airport in tel aviv what's the status the reason i'm saying that for those who
[00:13:25] may not be is because soon there will be a war and i kept saying thursday night the war is inevitable but the timing is not and we were getting folks saying you need to leave now you need to leave
[00:13:38] now it's going to hit friday it's going to hit thursday it's going to hit and i just kept saying stay i need you to stay i need you to be in that space i need you to hear what god's saying be at
[00:13:47] the wall i need you to engage the glory of the most high god and all those things and since that time they went to the mount of olives with the lord jesus your lord jesus is going to return
[00:13:58] whatever problem he's got with israel evidently he gets over it because by the end he gonna put his foot at the mount of olives and it's gonna split right down the middle and so we're gonna
[00:14:10] pray in just a moment in the next 48 hours i need you to continue remain in a spirit of prayer two things is the president's going to give his state of the union address on tuesday night i
[00:14:27] think i'm correct on tuesday night there is a chance something will happen i think is foolish to happen in the next 48 hours but something could happen militarily in the next 48 hours also if we get them to move early the problem is is in new york city where they're scheduled to
[00:14:43] return at jfk there's going to be 21 inches of snow falling in a blizzard tomorrow that's going keep going till tuesday night so atmospherically whether it's missiles in the air or a blizzard coming i'm appealing to a people who are not intimidated by atmospheres here's what we have
[00:15:04] to know about atmospheres atmospheres are created by words atmospheres are created by a will and so when we come in here the greatest battle we face against atmospheres when we walk in is the assumption assumptions are the most base lowest level flesh of knowledge if you assume
[00:15:31] something and I'm not criticized I say the word all the time I assume blah blah blah and you assume but assumption is the lowest level of knowledge I assume based upon probabilities certain things have happened therefore certain things will happen again and then they will happen again until it
[00:15:47] almost feels like they're inevitable and so when we walk in here if you have dealt with doctors you have dealt with lawyers you've dealt with school teachers or principals or systems that have tried to oppress and pull you down then then because it's happened one time it feels like it
[00:16:02] happened again and when it happens again it creates an inevitability seemingly to where all of a sudden you walk in negative assumptions there's nothing more arrogant than the assumptions the enemy wants to put on your life i'm preaching so fast i don't have it written down but i'm
[00:16:17] hoping i said one of the greatest things you have to war against are negative assumptions what happens somebody spoke over your life somebody said something to don't tell nobody i'm gonna tell you something don't say nothing to nobody but i'm gonna tell you something
[00:16:30] and usually when somebody says that they're lying and the reason they're talking about you so much is because talking about them nobody cares they don't want to talk about themselves because they ain't got nothing to say nobody cares what's going on with their life so they'll put it on
[00:16:48] somebody else assumptions are are when probabilities start to take over and what started out as a bad idea and a bad word becomes a conversation and then becomes a joint conversation in another conversation and when you walk in this space one of the first things you have to do as a believer
[00:17:05] absolutely as a prophetic voice absolutely but as an ambassador of the kingdom of God you have to be able to look in this realm and say wait a minute this is not the world your assumptions out there
[00:17:16] don't belong in here your arrogance of assumptions your probabilities i don't move by probabilities i move prophetically i move by the promises of god the promises of god are yes and amen and they will slap a devil down is this all right what i'm telling you right now you don't have to know
[00:17:38] i'm just really needing very much for every person in this room to understand when you walk in here the reason it seemed like when you first walk in sometimes i feel just as tied up in knots as when
[00:17:53] I was in my car on my way here it's because you have not yet challenged the assumptions you brought him even with you and so what I have to do is walk in here and say wait a minute
[00:18:03] you think you have authority I have supremacy there is no name given unto men whereby we must be saved a name of every devil that's coming against your mind your body your relationship

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[00:18:20] but I know the name of Jesus and if you don't know by now somebody who knows the power of his name the authority of his name then stretch your hands towards heaven and claim supremacy against authority
[00:18:37] supremacy against assumptions.

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[00:18:40] Hear me again.
[00:18:45] Assumptions are the lowest level of knowledge.
[00:18:48] It's based on probabilities.
[00:18:53] a lie multiplied a lie multiplied a lie multiplied a lie until it seems inevitable and it becomes more arrogant every time it's heard and said so the first thing we're going to do is you and i
[00:19:07] together is everybody in this house first of all is everybody in unity i have to believe if there's so many options you could have been somewhere else this morning you could have not gone to church at
[00:19:18] all this i have to believe you stand in unity here even if you're visiting here at some level you're in unity you believe in God you believe in Jesus you believe in the word of the Lord you
[00:19:28] believe in the Holy Spirit you believe in the authority of his church you believe in the power of his name you believe in the blood in the body of Jesus then we're in unity so if we're in unity
[00:19:41] we then have the capacity to speak in agreement don't try to speak words of agreement if you're not standing with somebody in unity it won't work so we're standing in unity speaking in agreement we are casting down every imagination raised up against the knowledge of god this is dealing with
[00:20:01] the assumptions this is dealing with the arrogance the god of this world little g the god of this world the prince of darkness believes he has a dome here but his dome is nothing compared to
[00:20:16] god's kingdom stop the music just a second paul and i'm not going to speak a word for 30 seconds I need everybody's head to get in the same space.
[00:20:50] Balanced, you've tried to not be shaken.
[00:20:56] You've tried to stand sure, but this is war.
[00:21:00] I'm not guilting you at all.
[00:21:02] I'm letting you know we know how you're feeling.
[00:21:05] We know what you're going through, but you're in this place now.
[00:21:11] So you have a right and a responsibility to move whatever needs to be moved.
[00:21:15] First of all, to stand in unity.
[00:21:16] We're one.
[00:21:19] We are one with churches just like this church.
[00:21:25] When I say just like, I mean the same things, believing the same things I just said to you a moment ago.
[00:21:31] Not every church, not every church is sure how they stand on the one God.
[00:21:36] They're willing to embrace Hinduism.
[00:21:39] They think his name might be Allah.
[00:21:42] They think the Messiah could be Muhammad.
[00:21:45] Ain't in my Bible, sorry.
[00:21:49] You got too many books in your life.
[00:21:52] If you can't, if you can't, if you can't stay in the Bible, leave the other books alone.
[00:21:56] Now, we're about to agree that our people are able to leave that space Tuesday night.
[00:22:09] And once they leave Israeli airspace, that whatever happens with principalities, dark spirits, you don't get to go to Israel, Ukraine.
[00:22:23] You don't get to go to France.
[00:22:25] You don't get to go to Lebanon.
[00:22:27] You don't get to go all these spaces and not deal with spiritual warfare.
[00:22:32] You're just not going to be able to do that.
[00:22:34] You know what you feel when you just go on the school campus here.
[00:22:39] You're talking about nations now.
[00:22:41] Our people are able to get on the plane, clear everything that must be cleared, leave that airspace, and when it's time to land, whether it's at JFK or Washington, wherever it is, no atmospheric interference there.
[00:22:55] none from Israel none because of Iran none because of a battle in the atmosphere of missiles and rockets no atmospheric interruption no atmospheric interruption of our people and when it's time to land they land in a safe place where they're able to then leave and come home we have the authority
[00:23:16] to make such statements I don't mean to sound crude but there's a lot of Christians don't even know you can cast out one devil and if you don't even know that how in the world you gonna bring
[00:23:29] down haman over a nation hear me there are persons gathered in buildings today that don't want to talk about war i'm not talking even talking about iran they don't even want to talk about spiritual
[00:23:46] warfare they just want to talk about worship i just love to go somewhere where i can worship and they have totally disconnected the purpose of worship it is to be victorious in battle i'm gonna talk about that this morning and then there are other people who know how to worship but they
[00:24:00] have no foundation of a word. I praise God for the people in this space who were founded, remain grounded and are now sounding the breathing word of God in worship. You and I are going to
[00:24:19] need to remain focused in this service this morning because what I'm going to say to us by the breathing word of God, we're going to look at a lot of scripture, try to move quickly, but a lot
[00:24:26] of scripture this morning. There's a reason you're here and I believe it's to receive something for the sake of releasing you are here to hear something you can repeat ladies and gentlemen with the shofars get ready to blow the trumpet in a moment you're going to see when they blew
[00:24:43] the trumpet the people responded a certain way in the bible get ready to blow the horn get ready to lift your hands clap your hands get ready to declare the goodness and the greatness of god
[00:24:53] listen i said it a moment ago so much volatility this past week uh things shifting this way well it looks like we're going to do this well no we're going to have to do this way no no if if you can't
[00:25:04] moving the flow in this hour but our people move in the flow they are led by the presence and power of the holy spirit when you get ready to make a sound it is not a staccato in other words it's
[00:25:17] not a bam and it's done it is an elongated sound that slapping devil's dead from one end of this building from one end of this property to another and by faith you have a praise strong enough to
[00:25:30] slap down atmospherically anything that would try to interrupt our people two three release

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[00:25:38] of the angelic host of heaven lease your angels your wartime angels release those

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[00:26:14] that will interrupt the strategies and schemes of darkness against our people there and our people here people throughout the world keep them safe let the blood be there you have said these words

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[00:26:59] before. I need you to double it. I need your sound to be heard more because of the absence of those leaders who would make it if they were standing in this space. The body. Now we're going

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[00:27:36] to sing. Give me your belt. Yeah, I left mine at the house. I don't even care. You think this is

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[00:27:59] funny. If I wasn't putting one on. Where's Malcolm? Malcolm, come here and fix this thing for me Cuz I got a mic I walk around my wife says your shoes are untied. I said, it's my shirt button
[00:28:27] She says yeah, I said in my pants zip. She said yeah, I say I'm good Thank you. Oh, I knocked it off again. I'm sorry, sir. Thank you. I got another ear. Anyway, huh?
[00:28:40] This one like the yank mom that went off. Oh go ahead and bug. Okay Let me tell you something. I've been taking care of a 17 month old all week long and she's got a
[00:29:07] her diapers been changed she's had a bath she's been fed so if I forgot my belt I don't care it's all right so first of all I'm so glad to see you this

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[00:29:23] morning and you look so cute and so if I talk like this and preach like this throughout the whole morning you'll know why is that okay you're so cute in the morning i thought you were beautiful last night but it's nothing compared to who i know but i've got a belt on

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[00:30:03] this wasn't the breastplate of righteousness or the belt of the girdle of the but it ain't far from it all right we're going to make a sound again yes sir we're going to blow that thing again
[00:30:21] and then we're going to go and we're going to sing songs that declare the greatness of god and because part of this choir isn't up here you're going to pick up the slack so that nothing
[00:30:32] is missing everybody say nothing's missing nothing's missing nothing's missing nothing's

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[00:30:38] missing let it go it's going to be a point of reference throughout this service it sounds

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[00:41:40] reassuring beautiful we're going to find there's a refrain in it there's this there's this um this repeating part that's used for warfare didn't know that god's not giving us anything for prissy prayers right but for prayers that slap a devil dead set of people strong fill up your hands of

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[00:42:05] faith. Psalm 136. He is good. His love endures thanks to the God of God. His love has made the

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[00:42:38] waters and spread out the land. Give him thanks. Give him thanks. By his understanding, by his mighty hands give him thanks give him thanks who has made the sun to rule and reign the day
[00:43:00] Give him praise, give him praise Who the moon and stars and sky obey

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[00:43:09] Give him praise, give him praise

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[00:43:13] He loves us or forsakes us

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[00:44:17] He loves us

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[00:44:18] But you also need to know That he leads you into battle But it's already won

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[00:44:26] He's conquered

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[00:44:28] And abandoned

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[00:48:39] We have forgotten

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[00:48:40] Rebecca, Elizabeth

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[00:50:33] Your life

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[00:53:14] Jesus will never die on the cross again.

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[00:53:19] And everything you need has already been provided for in the blood 2,000 years ago.
[00:53:26] Oh, hallelujah to the Lord.

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[00:53:29] Hallelujah to the Lord.
[00:53:31] Thank you, choir.
[00:53:32] You were amazing.

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[00:53:34] Bless the Lord.
[00:53:39] None of us could take moments this morning and recount in our own lives what we're blessing him for.
[00:53:45] The benefits that the psalmist calls us to.
[00:53:49] And yet we stand in this room collectively together and he's so much greater in us, for us, through us.
[00:53:57] Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me.
[00:54:02] He's the one who restores and redeems and refreshes and is giving us our youth back.
[00:54:09] I feel 25 and 75 because it's who he is in us.
[00:54:16] It's what he's make of the war.
[00:54:20] And when he nods upon you and he's full of in it, you know the strength in him and you are not weary.
[00:54:29] You are not weary because he is bold in you and you are bold in him.
[00:54:36] Man, I've never worked so hard in a Facebook live in all my life, Bishop.
[00:54:42] Your people in Israel are in church.
[00:54:45] They've never talked this much in church as they're talking this morning.
[00:54:49] But when I tell you that hotel in Israel is a satellite of this house, we are inextricably linked together.
[00:54:58] We worship here and they worship there and he is the one God, the one God.
[00:55:05] They're just getting it tuned up and primed for when he steps back out on the portal and calls the exiles from every corner of the earth and says, come on, Messiah is here.
[00:55:18] is the Lord of us and we's him. Love how every song this morning has said higher than the heavens is above the earth. That's above atmospheres and we call it into being. It is who we are in this
[00:55:34] house. Thank you God that Brownsboro is on the map of heaven. Thank you God. I'm supposed to be telling you about kingdom ed, right? That's what I came out here for. Man, when I tell y'all there
[00:55:47] is something happening every day of the week every week of the month every month of the year God is doing a thing in our generations and if you know something about children they don't take a break so if you know about those if you know about those called to lead
[00:56:05] the children you cannot be on break you are in the fight with them and for them thanks be to God I wanted to let you know about the results of the bake sale. That thing was so phenomenal.
[00:56:20] You blessed Kingdom Ed. You blessed summer ministries in a way, and we only do it once a year, but every penny goes to what happens through this house in the summer months.
[00:56:33] and it was phenomenal. Over $2,200 was raised in that bake sale and that has names on it.
[00:56:43] If you know anything about this house, you know that you will see the eyeballs and the legs and feet of those dollars in just a few weeks running through this building and they will know more
[00:56:57] about Jesus. I am so excited about this year's Vacation Bible School, about this time of summer ministries and we have so much to do to get there but thank you for blessing us we're getting ready
[00:57:09] to have the teachers meeting we were supposed to have it during the snowpocalypse and we did meet by zoom and do some things uh together to get some details out and some dates out but we have
[00:57:23] the meeting a week from tomorrow night for preschool kingdom kids and airborne teachers and this is not just a time where people come and get information and they take notes and they get up and leave there's a grace upon your life that needs to be
[00:57:40] shared at the table with people it's not just about receiving information we could put that out in an email but it's about you are so busy about the father's business week after week and the students are the focus of what's
[00:57:54] happening in those classrooms but when you get to come and sit around the table table together and say hey man sharpen me let your iron sharpen my iron that's what it's going to be about for that hour together and we are so excited miss linda's meeting for all of her preschool and
[00:58:11] cruiser and toddler teachers is just a little bit later in march and they will do the exact same thing it is pastoring those little small people that you see come across that they didn't even
[00:58:23] want to leave this morning did you see the teachers had to make them go back to class like hey guys we have a lesson and they're like no we want to stay and I love that stay in the
[00:58:32] glory it's going to answer all the questions stay in the fire it's going to help you in the fight we love you and we thank God that this is a house that from the oldest to the youngest is so kept
[00:58:47] and so cocooned in the love of God and the power of God we together make a sound that will not be silenced through the generations. God bless you.

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[01:04:41] There was a time 30 years ago, maybe plus, when I spent most Sunday mornings looking at this people and preaching exclusively on the subject of worship and praise and helping us to understand how they are one and yet different

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[01:05:12] and how both are indispensable to living the overcoming life. And why wouldn't I do that?

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[01:05:23] Because even in the first service, when we gathered across the way at Residence Inn, some of the first words that came out of my mouth September 2nd, 1990 was, worship will always be the priority of this people.

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[01:05:42] so that there were times i would stand behind the podium and look at you and ask the question why are you here that tells you how long she's been here because part of it was learned you had
[01:06:05] heard the preaching and the teaching and we had instructed and worked it and strategized then with time it wasn't just instruction or a command it became an instinct and I would say why are you here and the people would not just whisper but even in their own confession their
[01:06:27] response was a pronouncement with force and supernatural oomph and I want to hear it now

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[01:06:34] why are you here to what to what hey i come here this morning your people to preach the gospel to declare your wonders to pray for our people even in israel but primarily i have come just to

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[01:07:33] got no other reason no other goal than to tell you how much i love you in my can i say it see

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[01:08:07] I have come here just to worship God.

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[01:08:17] No reason, no to tell you how much I love and deep in my soul.
[01:08:49] Precious Jesus, let my praise bring a smile.
[01:09:02] Heaven's throne Tell the angels

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[01:09:13] Cause their praise

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[01:09:18] Everybody say it with me

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[01:09:30] Have you got a made up mind Does your praise know the GPS Of the altar Know where the gold

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[01:09:46] They tell How much I love you

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[01:09:58] Redemption song Precious Jesus Let my praise sit down Praises be seen I got a made up mind

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[01:11:35] If you don't know it at the beginning You might have a hard time finding it at the end

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[01:11:46] I have come here for one reason Till deep in my soul

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[01:12:20] need somebody to praise him this morning yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah it's all right

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[01:13:06] sound like a song i wrote a long time ago ain't it all right if i praise him you know the lord has done so much for me i can't hide it i'll never deny it
[01:13:22] That song up yonder. Can you find that one for me? Oh, don't mess with me. I ain't got nobody around to stop me from singing as much as I want to. Ain't nobody looking at the watch. When you find Ain't It Alright, just gonna start it for me. I feel like doing it. I got half a sound crew up there and bless your hearts. That ain't even fair to you. Go find a song I ain't sung in forever and a day. I'm doing this right here because the Chicana is so great in the sound room right now.
[01:14:19] I remember it yeah I'm gonna need a lot more I need to feel it split my split my hair both of them

[01:14:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_18]
[01:14:30] if I pray oh you know the lord much for I can't hide I'll never deny

[01:14:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:14:50] Let me take some folk 30 years back.

[01:14:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_17]
[01:14:59] Given no mercy and thrown into jail.

[01:15:05] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:15:05] Brother Paul and Silas were tormented by hell.
[01:15:10] That in the darkness of night they praised and worshipped the Lord.
[01:15:17] Then the chains were broken and God opened the door.

[01:15:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:15:23] Oh, yeah, if I can, yeah, so much.

[01:15:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:15:34] Anybody got a testimony this morning?
[01:15:39] I'll never, yeah.

[01:15:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_17]
[01:15:48] Now listen.
[01:15:49] Maybe you're wondering, will the night last forever?
[01:15:58] Will the morning ever come?

[01:16:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:16:00] But just lift up your praise unto the Lord most high.
[01:16:07] Hits away the darkness For he is the morning light

[01:16:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[01:16:13] Oh, if I

[01:16:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_17]
[01:16:17] Let me tell you something, I'm going to sing another song

[01:18:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:18:30] By popular, it's popular in my heart right now It's popular in my mind right now So by popular demand I demand it of myself That I'm a singer, you can sit down if you want to
[01:18:46] You'll be standing again in a minute It was, my father died June 12th of 1995 minister of the gospel at the age of 59 cardiomyopathy man it hit me hard and I really

[01:19:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:19:06] didn't hardly get to grieving much because some of you will understand because I needed to

[01:19:10] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:19:10] immediately be there for my mother which is right there 25 years so I didn't think much about his leaving because she was still here and that was my obsession was taking care of her but one day it
[01:19:26] was hitting me hard and and i i was upstairs in the house and i went over into pastor kaylin my daughter kb hope my baby girl i went into her little bedroom she the family was somewhere i
[01:19:39] don't know and i just laid across the bed and i just started crying you know i was just in a

[01:19:43] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:19:43] i was in a mess and the lord said you are never closer to your loved ones who've departed

[01:19:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:19:51] than when you praise me because worship is the ongoing activity of heaven so you got a right and you've got responsibility to do other things, but if you ever want to feel the presence not only of God,
[01:20:04] but to know you're in sync with your loved ones who have gone to be with him, begin praising him.
[01:20:09] Because at that moment, and God said to me, and I don't say this often, I bet I don't even know if I've done it three times in this building in 20 years, but it was at that moment the Lord said,
[01:20:19] I'm calling you to be an apostle of worship.
[01:20:23] I didn't know what that phrase meant.
[01:20:25] I'd never heard it in my life.
[01:20:27] I knew apostle meant sent.
[01:20:29] that's all it means is sent the apostle paul was sent to the gentiles pete was sent to the jews and and i said lord i don't have a clue what that means and he said i'm calling you unto me to
[01:20:42] learn of me and then i'm sending you as you were in me you're to write songs and then you take the lyrics of loss and the lyrics of my praises and most of your music most of my music now i it's
[01:20:58] about worship praise and go to the i'm sending you back to the people and in the songs you sing to them you're declaring my praises and while you're in the midst of the people gather a praise
[01:21:09] and send it back to me and so since 97 that's been going on in my life and this song right here really tells a journey about the people of god we are gathering why what's happening you're piercing
[01:21:26] you're penetrating a spirit realm far beyond what you're understanding right you know you're on brownsboro but heaven and hell know a lot more about that than you do and i do you're already penetrating the spirit realm i said to you where people gather it's a heavenly event on earth
[01:21:42] i'm really having a time talking to you today we're gathered in your name hallelujah and lord

[01:22:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_17]
[01:22:11] We lift up our highest praise Lord, let the cloud of your glory fill this town Let the breath of your spirit fill this place Then something changes Then praise will show us that holy place
[01:22:55] Hallelujah. And we just keep moving. What happens next?
[01:23:21] There we'll bow in your majesty and sing where crowns of honor rest at your feet.
[01:23:47] Let me tell you what that place is like.
[01:23:58] It's where every breath that's released will call you holy.
[01:24:05] And every heart you praise lives here in rapturous song.
[01:24:24] From Johnny Dez, you see it in this place where daughters are dancing.
[01:24:37] Your throne, oh, hallelujah, on high.
[01:24:49] To this place, and we glorify his name.

[01:26:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:26:23] And we are compelled by a testimony.
[01:26:28] Anybody in this space got a testimony of the healing presence and power of God in your body, your mind?
[01:26:36] Has God ever restored a relationship that means the world to you, but it seems to have been broken and destroyed?
[01:26:45] Has God ever come through and helped you pay your bills when where you worked wasn't enough to pay your salary?
[01:26:57] Anybody got that?
[01:26:58] Well, you bring your testimony in.
[01:27:00] And God declares, you declare his goodness and his greatness.
[01:27:04] This morning, we looked at Psalm 136.

[01:27:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:27:09] You know, the other night, Pastor Christy did an extraordinary job.
[01:27:12] Let me tell you something.
[01:27:13] She and Pastor Kalen mentioned it and Pastor Debbie did.
[01:27:18] How interlinked we are.
[01:27:20] We don't even know what the other's studying.
[01:27:22] We don't even know what the other's going to preach next.
[01:27:24] And we walk all over each other.
[01:27:25] What she did not know, God is my witness, as I was sitting there.
[01:27:29] And she started with the Psalms.
[01:27:30] I had two yellow highlighters in a place of Scripture.
[01:27:35] One was in one page and both of them were in the Psalms.
[01:27:40] So when she started, I said, I see you.
[01:27:44] I see you.
[01:27:45] Psalm 136, we sang it this morning.
[01:27:48] It's called the great halal.
[01:27:51] Give thanks, not for everything, but in it.

[01:28:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:28:02] In the middle of the misery, in the middle of the conflict, the adversity, the challenges, the accusations, the pain, the suffering, the abandonment, in the middle of all things, giving thanks, not because of your situation,
[01:28:20] but in the middle of my situation you're still the Lord of my life you did never abandon me you have never forsaken me you are always there beside of me

[01:28:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:28:32] I want to let's see I don't know if I got Ms. Hurtado up there Ms. Hurtado did I put some if I didn't I'm going I'm going to read it myself I don't know if I put that in your notes or not
[01:28:46] I woke up in the middle of the night and scribbled some things down that I felt the Lord would have me say to some folk.
[01:28:54] You know what?
[01:28:55] I'm not sure it was 136 I was going to read because I already sang it.
[01:28:59] But give thanks to the Lord for he's good.
[01:29:05] I wasn't reading.
[01:29:06] I was asking.

[01:29:07] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:29:07] To the God of all gods, give thanks to the Lord of lords, to him who alone has done great wonders.

[01:29:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:29:30] And every time I say something, the next phrase is, for his endures forever.
[01:29:36] Every time a testimony comes up or a request, he's got to say his mercy, his grace, his wonders endure forever.
[01:29:48] And then when I look at Psalm 150, 13 times, 13 times he admonishes us to praise him.
[01:30:07] My point is this.
[01:30:09] The first reason we praise God is because he told us to.
[01:30:13] Because I said so.
[01:30:13] one of the great tragedies of the American church is that too many of them are allergic to praise and worship and then they wonder why the presence his presence follows your praises he inhabits there's too many thrones in your church
[01:30:38] and ain't none of them his he inhabits the praises of his people you're too crowded you got too many Ishmaels in the bedroom ain't nowhere for Isaac to sleep

[01:30:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:30:51] when you look at Psalm 150

[01:31:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:31:00] halal halal you va you are and as pastor christie was noting the other night that last when we say hallelujah it's actually beginning the next word we just cut it off it's halal praise to yahweh
[01:31:16] jehovah so that's the first time then praise god can i just ask you to do something ain't nobody here but us i got a belt and i want people to i can do this now before i was having to use my
[01:31:33] jacket to cover up you know but we're going to look at quickly i mean fast because i got i got things i need to tell you but in psalm 150 every time he tells us to praise would it be all right
[01:31:48] if we obey i think that's a great idea so i'm just going to say the way the word we always do you can't say hallelujah to allah it won't work it's specifically a word for yah you can't say
[01:32:08] hallelujah to Buddha you say well he's not a guy he's not a religion I get all that but there's a reason you got his statue in your house it's your altar no it was just a souvenir I picked up no no you don't know you bought it as a
[01:32:24] souvenir they sold it as an idol and there's a reason you always got this depressing dark thing come on you at certain times and your heads hurting and there's tension and stress in your relationship and you always it's cause

[01:32:37] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:32:37] A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.
[01:32:44] Your heart might be declaring, I believe in the one God.
[01:32:48] Your heart might be declaring, I believe that Jesus is Messiah.
[01:32:51] But the altar that you've erected in your living room, you've got to be careful what you buy from folk, what you bring home from places.
[01:33:02] Photographs and paintings on your wall.
[01:33:05] You can make your house a sanctuary of idolatry that looses spirits of darkness in you.
[01:33:15] You need to purge.
[01:33:17] You need to go through your house.
[01:33:19] Where did I get this?

[01:33:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:33:23] Where did I get this thing anyway?
[01:33:27] Bible said when folk got saved in the book of Acts, they realized they had some crazy stuff.
[01:33:31] And they went and grabbed all this and created a bonfire.
[01:33:36] a bonfire to burn all the things they didn't even know were idols but I'm telling you when you get rid of the idols in your house something's going to break off of you

[01:33:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:33:48] so hallelujah is praise Jehovah so verse 1

[01:33:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:33:59] all it says is praise Jehovah how you feel about that

[01:34:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:34:02] yeah me too I hear you I hear you I'm with you I worship you hallelujah glory to Yahweh glory to Jehovah the one God the creator

[01:34:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:34:19] well then you're going to like this one praise God in his holy place I thought you'd say that

[01:34:31] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:34:31] here's another one praise him in the heavenly dome of his power yeah yep you're right verse 2 praise him for his mighty deeds here's another one praise him for his surpassing greatness praise him with a blast of the shofar we do that praise him with the lute and the lyre
[01:35:05] stringed instruments praise him with tambourines and dancing praise him with flutes and strings praising with clanging cymbals praising with loud clashing cymbals let everything that hath breath praise ye the lord hallelujah again too many people gathered in buildings
[01:35:48] today with the steeple don't realize that worship is a primary weapon of warfare it isn't there just

[01:35:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:35:57] to make you feel better, to get centered. So I'm one of worshiping church, not a warring church, but I need you to quickly look at Ephesians, Mr. Tardo, Ephesians chapter six. I'm going to look
[01:36:16] at it in my Bible while you look at it. Thank you, ma'am. Ephesians chapter six. And I want to begin in verse 10 please finally grow powerful in union everybody say union this is important because in
[01:36:54] the moment we're going to talk about the difference between having a prayer life of intimacy versus a prayer life exclusively of intercession we've had people come through our doors over 35 years who came primarily for the sake of intercession when their prayer request was answered or not answered
[01:37:15] When that objective was accomplished, though, they left.
[01:37:21] Watch this.
[01:37:23] But you want to be not intercession.
[01:37:26] I'm not here to pray for folk.
[01:37:27] I'm here to get closer to God.
[01:37:31] In union with his mighty strength.
[01:37:33] Verse 11.
[01:37:34] Use all the armor and the weaponry that God provides so that you will be able to stand.
[01:37:40] Everybody say, we stand.
[01:37:43] Others crumble.
[01:37:45] Might be crippled.
[01:37:46] But we stand.
[01:37:48] be able to stand against the deception the deceptive tact i've never seen an hour like this in deception what folk you look at folk and sometimes you want to just say you really do believe that don't you i mean you actually you do believe that you're not playing me you're not
[01:38:05] being silly it sounds silly because it is silly but it ain't silly to you you actually and now you're making decisions based upon the silliness. I told you deception is having a religious experience with a lie. It's not simply believing the wrong thing. It's having a religious experience
[01:38:32] with a lie. Tactics of the adversary. For we ain't struggling against human beings. Feels like it sometimes, doesn't it? But we're not. But against the rulers. Now he's talking about spiritual beings, demonic beings, dark beings
[01:38:51] at differing ranks of authority in the kingdom of darkness of the enemy. So you ain't really fighting war and contending against him or her. What you're actually dealing with is against rulers. It might be a
[01:39:08] neighborhood. Authorities. It might be a city. Cosmic powers governing the darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly.
[01:39:16] that's not talking about where god rules and rings but not on earth and not at the throne level but in that second heaven that second tier there are principalities and powers and spiritual hierarchies with certain authorities given to them by darkness to rule a city some some some neighborhoods are
[01:39:33] known for their addiction and the drug and then you go to some cities and they're known for this some nations are known for this and and i'm telling you i'm telling you man when you i i've
[01:39:43] been praying for our folk because when i know what i faced a month ago getting in and out of israel and i thought i'm sending 42 of our best people over there right now and you're going to deal
[01:39:51] with principalities that are over israel that are over iran that are over venezuela that are over all of these spaces spiritual in other words devils demons that are determined to rule and reign in the governments and the medicine and the education and the economies so take up every piece
[01:40:09] now he's writing to the church here if folk in here and you don't know the lord and you don't plan on knowing the lord then this don't make no sense to you i ain't preaching to the world right

[01:40:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:40:17] here this is this is to the people in ephesus take up every piece of war equipment god provides god provides so that when the evil day comes you'll be able to resist and when the battle is

[01:40:33] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:40:33] won don't you love his presumption so when it's how can he say that because he it doesn't want

[01:40:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:40:42] he don't want the thing and when the battle is won you'll be standing therefore stand have the

[01:40:50] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:40:50] battle of truth buckled around your waist put on the righteousness watch this uh righteousness as a breast where on your feet the readiness that comes from the good news of shalom always carry the shield of faith or trust which you will always be able to extinguish all the flaming
[01:41:06] arrows of the evil one take up the helmet of deliverance your deliverance is in your head why you need a helmet on your head for deliverance because that's where i'm getting attacked that's where my bondage is that's where my strong is in my thinking along with the sword given to you by
[01:41:27] the spirit that is the word of god as you pray at all times praying at all times it's just about impossible to literally do that walking around praying at all times he says here pray at all
[01:41:39] times watch this with the kind of prayers and requests in the spirit praying in tongues that's what makes this church pentecostal we believe that what started the church sustains the church it was the day of pentecost the upper room he intends for us to stay in the upper room
[01:41:57] in one level and then go you don't try to go you into all the world until you have the upper room inside of you when our granddaughter hadassah was born i remember like every baby you know
[01:42:08] they go through moments maybe they're teething maybe maybe they're having to adjust uh in their belly to certain foods whatever but she was just crying all the time and all of us went to to the
[01:42:19] water to to the to the beach for y'all y'all's worldly people y'all gonna be when i was growing up we never went to the beach we'd go to the water sometime and so i'm still going to the
[01:42:29] water, but we went to a restaurant, and she just started just, and Pastor Kaylee and Pastor Tut had done everything they'd done, everything right, but they were exhausted, and they needed, they deserved to just sit there and eat and talk to one another, and I
[01:42:41] stood up, and I said, give me that, baby, and so they handed her to me, and I said, y'all going to eat? I'm going to be out there in the lobby, and I went out there in the lobby and sat
[01:42:49] down, and she was a mess, and so I just looked at her. She

[01:42:55] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_12]
[01:42:55] started to slow down. I put her in my arms. I started to run, and I just

[01:43:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:43:01] This wasn't for the cash woman.
[01:43:03] This wasn't for the new customers walking in or those walking out.

[01:43:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_12]
[01:43:06] This was for a little three-month-old or whatever.
[01:43:09] I went on for maybe 30, I don't know how long, 30, 45 minutes.
[01:43:33] and say nothing to her but in tongues.
[01:43:38] And when they finally came out and she was just smiling, not doing anything, what did you do?
[01:43:44] I said, I didn't do nothing.
[01:43:46] But I was praying in tongues.
[01:43:51] And listen, when you're going through some things,

[01:43:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:43:53] you really do need the Holy Ghost as your prayer partner.
[01:43:59] I said, you better have the Holy Ghost as your prayer partner.
[01:44:04] You just begin to pray in the Holy Spirit.
[01:44:07] Well, I don't know what you were saying.
[01:44:08] I wasn't talking to you.
[01:44:10] I wasn't even talking to her.
[01:44:15] By the Spirit, I was talking to the Father.
[01:44:19] And he calmed.
[01:44:22] Last night, you know, her parents had been gone.
[01:44:27] She's been so good, but her parents had been gone, and her papa about to drive her crazy.
[01:44:34] And so before I got in there to take her down, and I laid her down, she popped right back up, put her up, just, so I picked her up

[01:44:41] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_11]
[01:44:41] and walked around with her a little bit more and made sure she's okay, and you pop it, baby.

[01:44:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_12]
[01:44:45] Ain't nobody baby like the papa baby.
[01:44:48] oh baby sweet baby what am I gonna do you that's a song and then I put it down

[01:44:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:44:57] a third time she stood there she reached out again I said all right here we go

[01:45:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_12]
[01:45:01] don't those see other she laid her head right here and started patting me on the back I knew it was gonna be all right then so then I went over there he sat it

[01:45:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:45:18] down if you don't know if I don't if we don't know you'll never defeat what you you don't discern and as long as I as long as I'm thinking that the problem is this then I'm gonna spend my flesh trying to defeat a spirit that was so
[01:45:48] polite thank you for that place that was good this is really good move me stay in the deep place I got I heard you no you didn't I said if we don't know what with
[01:46:02] the darkness, then we're going to think, I can fix this. And the reason you're frustrated is because you can't. The reason you are exhausted, the reason you done spent so much money because you can't. You have spent all your flesh trying to fix the spirit. Can I read some more Bible

[01:46:37] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:46:37] this already? Ms. Hurtado, would you go to please 2 Corinthians 10, beginning in verse 3.

[01:46:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:46:51] For although we do live in the world, I actually should have used this earlier than Ephesians.
[01:46:58] I should have used this before because this brings definition.
[01:47:02] For although we live in the world, we do not wage war in a worldly way.
[01:47:08] Because the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly.
[01:47:12] on the contrary they have gods for demolishing strong hoes we demolish arguments what you just thought you couldn't get along they couldn't get along there's a spiritual thing going on we demolish arguments and every arrogance
[01:47:39] what i tell you about assumption and arrogance every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of god we take every thought captive. That's why I stopped a moment ago and make sure we stand in unity. Okay. Don't try to speak an
[01:47:54] agreement to a standing unit. We take every thought captive and make it obey. Sometimes you got to talk to your mind. You might as well. Everybody else is. You don't have any idea. I don't
[01:48:09] have any ideas. How many conversations my mind is having with somebody throughout the day? You can't, you'll never, you didn't you're not you're screwed that got more response because you hear it more the other ones i i king james for you there's no hope you don't have what it takes that's what my
[01:48:41] mind is talking to junk and it says here look spiritual warfare is about demolishing strongholds we just said you got a helmet why you need a helmet on your head for deliverance because that's where the war is. That's the battlefield. Demolishing strongholds, demolishing arguments,
[01:48:57] conversations that don't do nothing but tear you. You don't have to respond to everybody about everything. If they've been crazy this long, they'll make it without you and probably won't change because of you. Look, I'm telling you, I get on social media sometime and I don't
[01:49:21] know how people get a driver's license. I just don't. And I can spend every waking moment dealing with crazy but then i realized you know what a i'm not going to change them b i don't
[01:49:36] have time to fool with folk i don't know when the folk i do know needs me and i'm i'm not saying don't respond to anybody i'm just saying i can't respond to everybody i pick and choose the battles
[01:49:49] most of the we won't get burned out in obedience burnout is when i get out of my lane i try to do a good the hell don't mind if you do a good thing that God didn't call you to do, but there ain't no oil over there. There's no oil in somebody else's
[01:50:08] lane. Am I still going, baby? Is there more on that one right there? Every thought and make it obey the Messiah. Is there another one right there? If it's not, then let's go to Joshua 6.
[01:50:25] Thank you. Joshua 6, beginning in verse 20. So the people shouted. Now I'm needing you, I'm needing us to understand here the role of sound.
[01:50:38] Well, I'm quiet.
[01:50:40] I'm bashful.
[01:50:40] You were until you went to the race.
[01:50:45] I saw you during the Super Bowl, getting to the Super Bowl, didn't quite make the Super Bowl.
[01:50:51] You had a sound.
[01:50:54] We'll be coming into the Final Four in the next few weeks.
[01:50:58] There'll be some all kinds.
[01:50:59] You ain't that.
[01:51:01] You missed that putt by that much, and you won't be that much from it.
[01:51:06] You made a sound.
[01:51:07] you just ain't yet consecrated your sound everybody's everybody got a got a piece of your sound but god and you don't even know your sound is one of the main mechanisms watch this joshua so they're getting to the the promise so the people shouted the people of god
[01:51:27] shouted with the shofars you know what that is blowing and when the people heard the sounds of the shofars, the people let out grace. Son, you got your shofar with you. Go get it. We're having
[01:51:40] church today. This is what we do at church. We worship and we learn. This is a temple and also a synagogue. This is a teaching place and a fellowship in place as well. Now, what did it
[01:51:53] say it have? So the people shouted with the shofars blowing. And when the people heard the sound of the shofar, the people let out, would you just blow that? And when he gets, when he gets to

[01:52:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[01:52:03] the end of it i want you to make a sound thank you sir wait wait wait wait all right go to the

[01:52:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:52:51] next part sweetheart thank you and the wall fell down flat whatever it is separating you from the promises of god in your life deliverance prosperity health generational salvation Whatever is between that wall that's between you and it came down when they blew the trumpet, which is redemption when they took the, when Abraham took the lamb and, and then they, and the wall fell down flat so that the people went up to the city, each one straight ahead of him and they captured the city.

[01:53:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:53:38] is there anything else in that baby that's it on that one i'm gonna need michael i'm gonna need her to answer because when i say baby i don't want to hear it that was it a little troubling

[01:53:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:53:59] look at second chronicles second chronicles

[01:54:08] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:54:08] i said yes sir yep it's all good no no thank you i appreciate it but just hit that green light for me if you if she runs away just use the green light and

[01:54:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[01:54:25] second chronicles well we go we'll get to them i tell you what this is where i want to go now let me let me do it because i'm just reading up my handwriting and this is what i want to do right

[01:54:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:54:40] now moses and yeah we'll get to that in a minute thank you moses and joshua were coming down the mount of trying up master we're coming down mount sinai because moses had been up there for 40 days
[01:54:55] 40 nights, hearing from the Lord, fasting.
[01:55:00] And I'm going to just tell you something.
[01:55:00] When you're doing that with God for 40 days, you ain't really got time to play with no devil.
[01:55:05] You just really don't.
[01:55:07] And so he starts coming down carrying the tablets, and he meets Joshua, really a lieutenant, a faithful lieutenant, who later on is going to be leading the people.
[01:55:15] And he's coming on down, and as they're getting, can you imagine when Joshua sees Moses for the first time?
[01:55:20] Later on it says that when they saw Moses, the glory of the Lord, the Shekinah was so powerful upon him that that the very pigmentation of his flesh just radiated from being so in the glory of the Lord
[01:55:33] that I don't even know how Joshua was able to do this right here because later on he had to wear a mask just to shield the people because it was just too much but when Moses finally meets Joshua and
[01:55:45] Joshua finally says starts walking they start hearing something and Joshua says it sounds like war in the camp. Did I, did I give that to you, honey? Don't say nothing, Mike. Did I give that
[01:56:02] to you? Look at, look at back at Joshua just a bit for me. I know I'm jerking it all over the place here. I apologize. Yeah. So the people shouted with the shofar and they heard it sound.
[01:56:12] Okay. We already did that part. When, when they were coming down, Joshua said, this hit me last night, about one o'clock. Joshua said, it sounded like war in the camp. Now there were no soldiers
[01:56:28] fighting there were no weapons there was no swords and shields clanging and people screaming out of anguish and suffering because of a battle he said but it sounded like war and when they got there
[01:56:45] they found out moses said that that ain't that it ain't no conflict going on in there i'm here singing but when they got there folk was singing and dancing and what had they done they had taken
[01:56:58] You remember when they were in Egypt and God told them, go to your neighbors and get silver and gold because God fully intended for them to use that later to build him a tabernacle.
[01:57:10] Where did they?
[01:57:11] Out there in the wilderness.
[01:57:12] Get all the silver and gold to build because God told them, go to the people who you.
[01:57:16] Can I tell somebody right now some folk used you?
[01:57:18] is it all right if your mailman moves apostolically this week and brings you a letter that you weren't expecting anymore you've given up expecting somebody owed you i'm talking i'm not talking about 47 and 32 cent i'm talking about thousands of dollars they ripped you off
[01:57:40] and did not even give you to watch but when you got ready you had to leave without the money that you know and they know they i'm not talking i'm not even talking about a blessing i'm talking
[01:57:52] about just getting what's yours i ain't talking about god stepping up and stepping in i'm talking about god returning to you what was taken from you is it all right if the mailman this week

[01:58:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:58:03] brings you something that belongs to you that somebody stole from you would you take it when you get it and just say it is the lord who does this you owed me six thousand dollars an insurance
[01:58:21] company eight thousand dollars where i used to work and you didn't pay me and you told me it was in the mail but i ain't seen it i'm telling this people god's gonna bless you you are not
[01:58:41] allowed to come to this church and be unblessed not allowed not allowed we have a corporate testimony i need some more juice up here we have a corporate testimony and if god's not blessing you

[01:58:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:58:59] you are hindering a thing so i'm telling you if somebody stole something from you get ready for the return get ready for the return say i'm ready for the return i'm ready whatever whatever the
[01:59:12] locusts have eaten away god's going to return i'm commanding by god through jesus a double portion

[01:59:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[01:59:18] for pain and suffering that's what the courts do the courts will say i'm gonna give you what you're supposed to get but i'm also add something extra for pain and suffering did you suffer was
[01:59:28] there pain did you feel a thing then i command by god that you be blessed according bible said

[01:59:43] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[01:59:43] when they were coming down to sound like worship where did joshua get that how did he know what that worship suddenly because he had been around idolatry violent violent idolatry violent idolatry praise god look this is where you go to church i ain't taking up no offering look at this
[02:00:07] this is look don't get used to this don't get used to this seating in the glory and they got down there and they had taken the silver and the gold and they had molded it burn it down and melted it
[02:00:22] and molded it in the shape of a golden calf that they had seen in Egypt.
[02:00:27] But they didn't say Egypt brought us out here.
[02:00:29] They said, look at Adonai.
[02:00:30] Look what the Lord has done.
[02:00:32] You'd better know who your God is.
[02:00:34] That's why you don't need no idols in your house.
[02:00:36] Because if you're not careful when you get in a crisis moment, like they were in a crisis moment and they started looking for God and couldn't find God, you might still call his name Jesus.
[02:00:45] But you might still say he is the God that created the heavens and the earth.
[02:00:48] but your God sure look like a golden calf to me.
[02:01:02] Worship unto heaven and worship unto hell is a confrontation.
[02:01:07] Praise and worship are both on the front lines of every victory.
[02:01:10] Now, thank you so much.
[02:01:11] Would you turn to 2 Chronicles?
[02:01:13] I've got to hurry.
[02:01:14] You've been so good and then I sang some and goodness, you've been good to me.
[02:01:20] I need to move quickly.
[02:01:22] I may not probably read this much as much as tell it.
[02:01:25] Word comes to the king.
[02:01:26] You remember talking about the 10 northern tribes and the two southern tribes?
[02:01:30] One of them was Judah there with Jerusalem.
[02:01:34] The king, good king named Jehoshaphat.
[02:01:36] Word comes to him that says there are certain nations who are looking.
[02:01:40] They're now surrounding and surging, ready for a surprise attack.
[02:01:45] And Jehoshaphat, I want you to look at the humility.
[02:01:48] Let's see if I can find that specific space.
[02:01:53] He assembled when we get to verse 3.
[02:01:58] Sometime later, we'll read it.
[02:02:00] And then when we get to verse 3, Ahasuerus was frightened, and he determined to seek the Lord.
[02:02:04] He proclaimed to fast throughout all of Judah.
[02:02:07] This is a good man saying everybody needs to fast.
[02:02:10] And Judah, all the people assembled to seek help from the Lord.
[02:02:14] They came from all the cities of Judah to seek the Lord, standing in front of the new courtyard in the house of the Lord, among those assembled from Yehudah and Jerusalem, Judah and Jerusalem.
[02:02:27] He said, Adonai, God of our ancestors.
[02:02:30] Do you want to begin your petitions with a praise?
[02:02:35] Don't go to God.
[02:02:37] How do you relate if the only time they call you is when they need something?
[02:02:42] Your hand, watch this, you're the God of our ancestors.
[02:02:45] You alone are God in heaven.
[02:02:47] You rule all the kingdoms of the nations.
[02:02:49] In your hand is power and strength, and no one can withstand you.
[02:02:53] You, our God, drove out the living in the land ahead of the people of Israel and gave it forever to the descendants of Abraham, your friend, and they live our people lived in the land they built you a sanctuary in it watch the built you
[02:03:05] a sanctuary in it for your name and said if calamity strikes us such as war such as judgment such as disease and famine we will stand before this house that is before you since your name
[02:03:21] is in your house 2020 our people they say you couldn't come we found ways to come we leave the doors open for because his name is in his house it's not essential it's not essential to you because his name ain't in your house but his name is in his house and we've come
[02:03:44] and cry our distress unto you keep going on here verse 12 our God won't you execute judgment against the enemies verse 13 and Judah stood before the Lord with the little ones you see we got little ones up here with little ones the wives the children then in the middle of the
[02:04:04] assembly the spirit of the lord came and it says the spirit of the lord said don't don't be afraid or distressed by this great horde don't worry about your enemies that are coming against you
[02:04:15] verse 17 you won't even need to fight this battle god will put you in some battlefields not to win but to watch if you could have fixed that you would have fixed it already sometimes god will
[02:04:34] lead you to a battle not to win the thing but to watch him do it you won't even need to fight this battle just take your provisions Judah and Jerusalem stand still and watch how the Lord
[02:04:50] will deliver you don't be afraid of distress tomorrow go out against them and Adonai is with you Yahashaphat the king bowed his head with his face to the ground while all of the people of Judah
[02:05:02] and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before the Lord worshiping him.
[02:05:08] Pick up at verse 21.
[02:05:11] After consulting the people.
[02:05:12] I'm talking about hope here.
[02:05:14] I'm talking about this is who you are.
[02:05:16] This is the template we use.
[02:05:18] He appointed those who would sing to the Lord and praise the Lord.
[02:05:22] He's talking about before all the other warriors go out with their weapons, I've got singers in front.
[02:05:29] Now, we're comfortable.
[02:05:30] We know that story.
[02:05:31] We know where it's going to go.
[02:05:32] But I want you to imagine standing there.
[02:05:34] and you look and you're surrounded by army after army you're trying to get your little group of folk together and the first thing your leader says is we're going to put a choir in front
[02:05:43] he appointed those who would sing and they went out ahead of the army and what did they say give

[02:05:54] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[02:05:54] thanks to the lord for his grace continues for did we sing that in 136 while ago then during the time

[02:06:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[02:06:04] when they were singing and praising the lord brought a surprise a surprise when your praise is not a surprise to God he'll bring a surprise to your enemy now the reason some of us are
[02:06:24] rejoicing because we discern our enemies some of y'all don't you don't know you're in warfare because you're a POW or worse yet you're MIA missing in action you sat at too many tables compromising with the enemy after night brother I'm telling my wife ain't sitting on the front
[02:06:43] row saying no she don't do that she never did that they were defeated what happened was the people of Amman and Moab began attacking the enemy started coming what's this and they started slaughtering one another now I hate it when people die in wars but it don't bother me when the enemy
[02:07:09] gets killed I'm sorry I ain't got as much Holy Ghost as you if one of us got to go I got a granddaughter and I ain't worried I want you out you you will yeah losing you won't keep me up at
[02:07:25] night set to slaughter one another so went what and judah reached the watchtower overlooking then they saw on the front watch it in front all the corpses none of them had escaped and jehoshaphat and his army came to take the spoil and found among them personal property and abundance and
[02:07:44] corpses would look i'm i'm a simple man i tell i tell people in fellowship all the time look i'm just a simple preacher pastor and a few hundred folk down in north carolina i don't know what
[02:08:01] y'all know mama needs somebody to help me with something how come it is you getting ready to go into war and you put jewelry on how come it is that when the armies is getting ready to march
[02:08:30] you go get your hair did how you make a nice looking corpse how come you had your nails done there's folk preparing to destroy you that just bought a brand new suit or dress or car for the celebration all you need in your mouth is thank things now

[02:09:07] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[02:09:07] that's your necklace now there's your nails now that's your car now I know

[02:09:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[02:09:20] some of y'all needed a kumbaya moment but right now I don't need a kumbaya I I need to kill him dead.

[02:09:27] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_14]
[02:09:27] I got some devils like you that try to war against my mind, my spirit, my family, what I do, where I go, what I wear, all this stuff.
[02:09:39] Did I just give you a testimony?
[02:09:42] So I ain't got time to be cute.
[02:09:44] I ain't got time for prissy prayers.
[02:09:47] Go on and fix your face.
[02:09:49] Go ahead and put on your jewelry.
[02:09:51] If you would, put all of it on.
[02:09:53] so I ain't got to come to your house and pick it up.
[02:09:56] Let me find it on the battlefield.
[02:10:00] God says, don't you dare be afraid till I'm afraid.
[02:10:04] And I ain't never afraid.
[02:10:06] So you go out there, you don't need a sword.
[02:10:09] You don't need a shield.
[02:10:11] You don't need a helmet.
[02:10:12] You just need a big bag.
[02:10:19] took them three days to pick up all the stuff have you got three days to spare said it took

[02:10:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[02:10:34] them three days to pick up all the can you get off work for three days just to go pick up the

[02:10:39] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[02:10:39] jewelry and the all right i like that i like that that was good rusty boy what i wrote last night real late i came back and i had some space here their selfie will not survive your sound

[02:11:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[02:11:02] I got my earrings on, got my hair, got my new bracelet and my rings and my nails, got my shoes, spent a lot of money on them, and my car.
[02:11:23] Take a picture of me right here.
[02:11:27] You know what I'm going to do with it?
[02:11:28] Oh, you ain't going to do nothing with it, we're going to use it for your obituary.

[02:11:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_13]
[02:11:34] I said, there says the good line, their selfie will not survive your sound.
[02:11:41] I like it when I say stuff like that.
[02:11:47] Sometime the worst of it comes.
[02:11:50] Acts chapter 16.
[02:11:51] Let me move quickly.
[02:11:52] Oh, man, I got to move fast.

[02:11:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_16]
[02:11:53] I didn't go five after 12.
[02:11:57] But you know what?
[02:11:57] It ain't 12.
[02:11:59] I'm preaching Israel time, which is seven hours ahead.
[02:12:03] So this is welcome to your Sunday evening service.
[02:12:07] Watch this.
[02:12:08] Let me move quickly.
[02:12:09] Acts chapter 16.
[02:12:13] They're in prison.
[02:12:13] Paul and Silas are in prison.
[02:12:14] I sang about it a while ago in Ain't It All Right.
[02:12:16] They're in prison.
[02:12:17] and and they went in there's assumptions in jail assumptions is you're guilty assumption is you ain't getting out that the assumptions and there's an arrogance to assumption we said a moment ago but there's a sound you make and nobody told him to do it but at the midnight hour
[02:12:33] you interrupt assumptions and atmospheres and you confront authorities with supremacy and the chains aren't broken on you off you so you can run away they got up the foundational stone was cracked ain't gonna be nobody's prison again the foundational stone was cracked the chains were
[02:12:53] broken not so they could get up and say we're free let's go let's go let's go because the jailer came looking for him and he realized if they find out if the authorities find out that my prisoners got
[02:13:04] away from me they're going to kill me so i'm gonna kill myself so he picks up his sword and gets ready to whack himself and paul and silas said no no no no no no we're still here see we got we broke free
[02:13:14] not to run away but to return to our ministry of redemption so next thing you know he's bad they're baptizing this jailer and and his family can i can i tell you about three or four different
[02:13:27] kind of people real quick i'm gonna try number one is fans there were fans who approached jesus we saw it last week in john chapter six that they were there 5 000 people maybe with wives
[02:13:38] maybe 25 000 they were only there because he was performing miracles and they bought a ticket to to show there's folk who just want to come watch the miracle but they didn't see what happened
[02:13:48] they weren't willing to remain at the rest of the same chapter john chapter six is when he said unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you have no part of me and then they left
[02:14:02] hmm that's wow that's hmm there are can i can i put it this way there are reasoners and seasoners that are fans and they came not not not because they fell in love with god they felt
[02:14:17] compelled by the relationship with some this watch this the seat the empty seat beside of you used to be filled with somebody who came with a really good reason it just wasn't good enough they they
[02:14:32] came because something significant in their life was troubled and they were needing it to change not them but it so i've come to warn you against warm altars warm altars that somebody else made fire but you never wanted the fire you just wanted the comforting of the warm you were cold life was
[02:14:51] cold life was difficult stressful and you were aching and the altar was just warm enough and the choir sang just enough anointing that it felt good and and they're not they're not they're not coming to be changed they're coming to get what they need so they can then return to who they
[02:15:10] were what their primary objective is intercession not in intimacy i'm not here because i need a relationship with god but i got it usually it's a child in trouble because nowhere did anybody ever come to jesus saying my husband's in trouble nobody ever went to jesus in his ministry and
[02:15:27] say my wife she's a mess but parents came because of their children at least five times and there's jay iris who comes and says my daughter's sick and then she's dead and then there's that woman
[02:15:37] the Syrophoenician woman who lived down there in that area where Zarephath, where the widow was with Elijah. And then there is that father at the bottom of the Mount of Transfiguration. When they come down, the Syrophoenician woman says, my daughter's full of the devil. And the man down
[02:15:51] at the bottom of the mountain says, my son's full of the devil and the devil's trying to drown him and the devil throws him into fire. And for some folk, you know it, especially in this day we're
[02:16:00] living in, we think we got answers for everything and there's a pill for everything. And until you name the devil if you're moving if you're moving for the sake of intercession and not intimacy you'll usually be moving more in fear than faith you're more worried than warring i just want to
[02:16:32] listen i can't tell you in 35 years how many couples came to this house in 35 years how many couples came to this place because it fit and i talked about this the other day i'm talking about
[02:16:42] it again because it fit into a good pattern that the mom and daddy had we want to expose our children to good things so they'll make good choices we want them to see we want to expose
[02:16:52] them to soccer we want to expose them to softball we want to go all the athletic thing we want to expose them to piano we want to expose them to violin or whatever the musical instrument that's
[02:17:01] wonderful we want to expose them to art we want to expose perhaps to languages we want to expose we want to expose them and and and some of our kids were i got a baby who a baby and and i just
[02:17:12] found out i'm pregnant and and so i'm a little concerned and i think i'm gonna go back to church My child's in middle school, and they've about forgotten who they are because it seems like every kid in that school has lost their mind,
[02:17:23] and the teachers are more scared of the kids.
[02:17:25] So I'm going to go to church, and then I've got one who's in teens, and she's hanging with the wrong people, and he's getting in trouble, and he's shooting up and snorting and doing all that.
[02:17:33] I need to bring my family to the church for that reason.
[02:17:37] When you come for a reason, it's usually for a season.
[02:17:44] So I cannot tell you.
[02:17:46] Listen, I could name you right now over the years, five couples.
[02:17:50] Wouldn't be hard. I could get rid of them and name another five who came for the reason of my child's in trouble.
[02:17:56] I need to expose them to a church. I need to expose them to the word.
[02:18:01] I need to expose them to a choir, to a youth group. Abraham did not circumcise Isaac to expose him.
[02:18:11] Abraham did not take Isaac to Moriah and sacrifice him to expose him.
[02:18:17] Abraham didn't send Eliezer to go find Rebecca for a grown man to expose him but it was to introduce sustain and keep a son in a covenant conversation but too many times what parents do I'm what I'm at my warm altar I'm at my own warm altar and it feels good but when
[02:18:38] the child graduates and leaves and goes and does this and leaves and does that or whatever then the mom and daddy's done why are they done because their reason had nothing to do with intimacy it
[02:18:49] had everything to do with intercession and now i ain't got to pray for them the way i used to pray for them i that they done graduated they done moved on they don't even talk to them people
[02:18:58] anymore they've left that crowd they ain't shot up anything they ain't drinking they're pretty good kids they found somebody they like they've got a pretty good life thank you hope for being there when we thought we need no no no you have no idea what you've done you've just abandoned
[02:19:11] you got you came with the wrong reason so it was attached to a season and when you think your reason was accomplished your season is over and you're gone and you don't even know why there's
[02:19:29] fans there's converts converts encounter eternity but there's no pursuit of his presence they went to a revival they decided they didn't want to go to hell and they wanted the lord jesus to forgive them of their sins who wouldn't i don't i don't want to go to hell i don't want to be guilty
[02:19:44] anymore but when they get up and they sign the card and they shake the hand and they move on they have no intentions of pursuing the lord number three disciples disciples are the ones who yes had the same experience came to the altar called upon the name of the lord but then they
[02:19:59] said you know i want my life to change that disciple and discipline that's where we get to work so i want to learn more and more how how i can grow in grace and knowledge fourth ambassador
[02:20:08] slash apostle the Great Commission so it's not just about me I asked the Lord to save me but if he saved me I'm called to save somebody if he's healed me I'm called to heal somebody if God's deliver whatever God's done in you he's
[02:20:21] expecting you to do for somebody are you the church do you believe in the one God do you believe in the breathing word of the Lord do you believe in the Messiah Jesus do you believe in the message and miracles of his life do you believe in
[02:20:44] crucifixion and resurrection do you believe in the ascension and his intercession now do you believe he will return and reign do you believe in these gatherings do you believe in the body and blood of
[02:20:57] jesus see this is why this is why your worship this is why your worship is different this is why your praise hits different they don't understand you because they don't know all All them things you just said you believe, they assent to, they acknowledge, you declare.
[02:21:27] It's not simply, and then it's not simply what I confess about him, it's what he confesses about me.
[02:21:32] The Bible says on that day, there'll come a moment where folk will, he'll say, get away from me.
[02:21:37] God, Jesus will say, get away from me.
[02:21:39] And they'll say, wait a minute, we prayed for the sick and they was healed and we raised the dead.
[02:21:45] And see, that ain't Baptist folk.
[02:21:48] This is Pentecostal people.
[02:21:49] all them folk that thought they had so much man we ran the aisles are you kidding I had six different tambourines from different congregations and nations and I could speak in tongues all over this city
[02:22:06] there must be something wrong Jesus and Jesus says he didn't say I lost you he said I ain't never know you hey who who wait a minute I can call the preacher now and he'll tell you where I have been
[02:22:24] a member i know him either may never know so it's not enough of what i confess about him but that i do it in such a way that he says that's my son that's my daughter is there anybody in this
[02:22:43] house today that you're fully convinced in your spirit of spirits not only that he's your lord but that you're his child the next 40 hours will 48 hours be critical you continuously engage the glory of the lord declaring he is god in all three heavens all three of them he is the lord
[02:23:23] and command that our people are kept and safe well and whole needs are met i thank you for the apostles and the ambassadors the missionaries in israel now i thank you for the faithful who
[02:23:40] are in this building today we are one we are together we are the believers on brownsboro we are the beloved hope community church and everyone who's part of it declared amen thank you