good morning my friends i'm pastor
stephen brooks welcome today
to our midweek bible study called
morning glory
i'm so happy that you're here why don't
you grab your bible and meet me today in
in isaiah chapter 45.
we're going to start in verse 15. i want
to talk about
a subject that's not discussed that
often but is
certainly still a reality perhaps
maybe even a timeless reality in the
sense of our
journey here upon the earth and
throughout the centuries previously
before our time
but let's talk about it today i'm going
to talk about seeking god
going after god when he uh when you
can't really find him
and while we know that god is on
omniscient
and also omnipresent knowing all things
and being
in all places all at once all at the
same time
perhaps there is an element of god
such as his power that you've heard
about that you know it's a reality but
you haven't found that aspect of god
that's what we want to talk about let's
open up with prayer
heavenly father as we jump into today's
message as we study your word
we ask that your holy spirit would
illuminate your word
so that we can understand it and apply
it
to our lives and in this case find you
in the area in which we need you
and also in which we desire to
see you move in our lives now father
thank you
a little bit of hide and seek going on
today father we thank you
that we will find you and we're going to
seek you with all of our hearts
and we're going to find you in these
specific areas
in jesus name let's agree and say amen
because i know there's some seekers out
there and that's
that's the thing when you're when you're
really seeking
you just cannot be satisfied with
answers that don't um
that maybe soothe you but don't
it doesn't solve what it is that you're
needing to have fixed
now isaiah 45 verse 15
truly you are god now we know that we
know that god is god
truly he is yes he is truly you are god
who hides yourself
oh god of israel the savior well we
certainly know that god is god
but there is also this this thing about
god
where he can withdraw he can hide
himself
and you're left wondering lord is this
all there is to it
because lord is good salvation is good
eternal life is good
but am i supposed to continue my
spiritual journey on the earth
in a state that leaves me wondering
there's got to be more and so you're
looking for that
more you're looking for those answers
and
these questions arise when you get
really spiritually hungry
that hunger is fueled by reading the
bible
and seeing what christ purchased for us
at calvary
and then what the apostles walked in
then what the new testament writers
spoke of as well as the foundation laid
by the old testament
of the mighty miracles and signs and
wonders
that they experienced in the old
covenant
and so that that word creates
hunger god's word creates hunger and
then god's word
can always be proven and validated in
any generation
any time so now you have the word and
now you have
church history and as you look across
the span of church history
you're like wow lord you have certainly
poured out your power at times
and so the hunger is there but
you will look for god
in this sense of his power and you can
explore the
the lights and the neon signs although
hardly anybody
uses neon today but you can
look at all of the glittering lights
of celebrity christianity of hollywood
christianity
that would say here we have the answers
that you seek
but yet for those that are seekers
you will understand what i'm about to
say
yet you realize that after you've grown
in the lord a while
and you're no longer in spiritual
infancy
and no longer in spiritual adolescence
but you're you're running with the lord
you soon realize that much of the
biblical truths
that are taught whether it's through
christian
television or christian radio
or a lot of the good stuff that's on the
internet
you begin to realize that the stuff
that's feeding the masses
cannot feed you any more
and i have heard quite a few
of those that are deeper in the things
of god say
you know what i watch christian
television from time to time but i
really can't find
much that feeds me or will take me from
the level that i'm at
currently onto the next stage that god
has for me and so you begin to realize
it doesn't take long
because i you know when i came in the
pentecost
when i came into the baptism in the holy
spirit a lot of that was being fed
through christian television at that
time
and the landscape of christian
television has changed dramatically over
the last 30 years
when i first kind of got turned on to it
but today you'll realize that if
you use what's meant for mass media to
bring people into the initial stages of
their walk with god
salvation and then the very basics
you'll realize after a while that won't
feed you anymore
and a lot of the messages that are
taught
for the multitudes um while we are still
in the body that's just not really
uh scratching your itch so to speak it's
not giving you the answers
that you need as you have moved on with
god
praise the lord and remember salvation
is just the beginning you're not
supposed to camp
[Laughter]
in that state uh of being a young
believer for the rest of your life
you're supposed to grow
and get discipled in the lord and and
his kingdom
and then be able to go out and you know
minister to others and
explain the bible to others and so forth
and then
even the baptism in the holy spirit is
an initial
experience into the river of god
but it's it's like the ankle deep
experiences
the initial in feeling is just the
beginning
into the deeper walk with the lord so
some people think and a lot
a lot um of charismatics thought
that with the baptism in the holy spirit
and speaking in other tongues that this
is the apex
no not by any means that's just the
initiation into the walk the empowered
walk of the spirit
walking with god and having now
available to you
not only the gifts of the spirit and but
but i would say primarily the the
ability now that to have that closer
walk with god
that you can only have through that help
of the holy spirit praise god
glory to god well in this search for god
truly you are god who hides yourself oh
god of israel the savior
in this search for the lord the savior
in a deeper way
you end up asking yourself where can i
find
the god of acts chapter 2 where can i
find the god of pentecost
where can i find the god of elijah or
even elisha when he received
the mantle and the double of the mantle
said where is the lord god of elijah
where can i find in other words the god
that
does raw power miracles
where can i find this god
today in our
secular society that has drifted
far away from god so much of
the spirits that are at work within our
culture they endeavor to
permeate the church and if they're
allowed that spirit will get its way
into the church
and it will begin to take the bite away
from the message of the cross
and then it will begin to take
completely away
the message of the cross because the
message of the cross is very offensive
in the sense that it it brings the
realization
that we have sinned against god and
because we have committed sin
sin requires punishment and so
you're you're left facing with the
reality of
a heaven or a hell and if you don't do
something about it you're already in
that lost
sinful state so that message
the enemy will try to dilute it and then
get it so diluted that it's not even
talked about anymore
and get it replaced with other types of
topics to the point
where even now in the western church in
the american church
it is extremely rare i mean you're this
is like looking for a unicorn
it is extremely rare to hear
ministers on television talk about
speaking
in other tongues i'm talking about those
that are supposed to be spirit-filled
but you can't tell any difference today
between their church
their message their ministry and any
other type of ministry out there
that doesn't believe in modern day
miracles
praise the lord it's very rare
again we're looking for the pink or blue
unicorn
we're looking for evidence of ministers
that actually
preach on the biblical subject
certified by christ of casting
out demons oh now pastor stephen now
you realize we can't we can't talk about
that
we we can't even mention subjects like
that because
those subjects aren't well we just don't
discuss that anymore that's not what the
people want to hear
and so when you're looking for the god
of power when you're looking for jesus
to drive a demon out of someone
in his name and you're looking for that
power you're wanting to walk in that
power
and you're looking how like how do i tie
into this where is this god of power
that i read about in the bible
and all you have to help you is some
preacher
as they say wearing skinny jeans with
the fog machine
and all of this artificial help
and you know what the all the glitter of
what the modern church can produce
except for the power
and the praise and worship can be
beautiful and the lighting
can be set in a way that creates a very
relaxing mood
and the message can be very smooth and
very nice
and when it's all said and done you're
like
that's nice but why is god hiding
himself
and not showing up here in power now
somebody would object and say god is
here
well yes absolutely he's there his
presence is there
you you perhaps can get saved there
if the gospel of salvation is preached
and opportunity for salvation is given
yes but there are some other things that
are going to that are going to elude you
because they are god hides himself in
that sense from those
that don't want these other things
that he would be happy to give if they
were not embarrassed or ashamed of them
so in that sense god pulls back and that
area
is hidden and you have multitudes
sitting in churches
that have never once in their life seen
a demon cast out of somebody
they have never even seen a minister lay
hands on somebody
and pray for their healing they've never
they've never seen it once in their
entire life
praise god and with all
of the christian media that we have yet
many of these things that are done are
done in a corner
or they're not covered or they're not
mentioned
on the main platforms praise
god it seems like
there are many large churches and large
ministries
listen to me it seems like all they want
to do is have fun
is it just me that's noticed this they
just want to have fun
why because now they're no longer
like the outcast they're no longer
really uh ridiculed
now they've arrived and they say word
out we're cool
we're relevant and we're here and uh
we can do everything the world can do
and we can have
uh we can have a music and lights and
all of this
and we can we can have organization and
structure in our meetings and
we can have uh even even the parkings
all figured out you won't even have a
parking delay we'll get you in and out
real quick
and we won't keep you very long and my
friends
uh there is like this thing now where
many
are happy with that and they're content
with that
and there is no pentecostal power
manifested in these meetings
in these types of churches and yet
now watch this watch how silly this is
and yet these same churches
will invite a guest speaker in and the
guest speaker
will give a good message maybe a good
talk
and then after the the message is spoken
maybe a 50-minute message or something
like that
that person leaves with a gigantic
honorarium or gigantic offering
and not one person was prayed for
well pastor stephen but they ministered
the word well
yeah but that's that's an incomplete
package
where's the power where where is the
proof
that the word will do what it says it
will do
so a message is taught a nice message is
taught everybody claps
the person gets a gigantic offering and
leaves
not one person was prayed over not one
miracle in the name of christ was worked
and the church not you but many in the
church
sit there and think yeah this is it
we've arrived uh yeah you've arrived at
the bottom of the mountain
and if you don't do some serious
thinking and some deep praying
you're probably going to stay there
until you go home to be with the lord in
heaven
and then when you get to heaven you'll
realize you're going to have a lot more
while you were down here and that
earthly life
determines certain types of positions
in the eternal heavenly realm but you
can't change that
once you uh go on to heaven
yes you can still take classes and stuff
like that and you can still grow and
you know you'll be maturing and on and
on throughout the ages i will too
but there are some things that you do on
the earth
that you must take advantage of it now
and step into it
now because it will determine certain
ways that things are set
in the eternal world to come praise god
so god can hide
and while many think this is it this is
wonderful
there are others though that are sitting
there thinking
is this all that that there is to it
when i read the bible i see signs and
wonders and miracles
yet we're sitting here and we're
supposed to applaud this
and act like this is great what's
happened to the church
[Applause]
somebody asked me to watch
a meeting that was taking place just
recently and i turned it on
and happened to be live and this church
had invited
you know and it's fine that that's what
they would like to do so that that's
fine
they had they had invited a person to
come and speak who is a
how can i say like a conservative famous
person for you know uh you know
your your your liberties and your your
freedoms in the nation and so forth
and uh this person had been invited to
speak on a very large
platform in a very large church and so
this person is speaking and talking
saying good things saying good things
that we should have freedoms and stuff
like that that you know
and all of that all that's good and then
the person
says now this statement right here where
who made this statement and uh so he
gives a quote
and somebody in the audience says jesus
said that he goes no
no jesus didn't say that matthew said
that
and i thought here this person is
on this great platform and he's so
stupid spiritually that he doesn't know
that
matthew wrote this gospel of what
happened
in the ministry of jesus and that jesus
actually said that and i actually
thought the speaker up there on the
platform
i don't even know if this guy's saved i
don't even know if he's born again
but oh oh he he's the conservative voice
that people want to hear
and the church yes yes
and so what i'm trying to say is that in
the midst of all of this
and there's a lot of celebrity
christianity today and that that's fine
people can do the church can do what
they want to do
but remember god hides himself
and there are those who
are being served this food and you're
thinking
hey this is really nice this is feeding
all the young
spiritual babies but this is not doing
anything for me
and a man speaking to me that's not even
born again
that can't even re read the bible and
figure out who's saying what
that person is supposed to lecture me
and teach me about the ways of god
what what's going on here well what's
going on here
is a replacement with man's best
for god's best and i'm not saying these
precious people are not
saved these people are all saved all
love jesus but i'm just trying to say
there's more and if you want it
you're going to have to go on a journey
to seek god
because what is pushed right now there's
a large element of god
missing in that form of the gospel
that's being presented primarily to the
western church
well pastor stephen where's god hiding
at if he's not
like really showing up in a sense where
is he
that thought will eventually come across
your mind and settle into your heart
and i want to take you and show you
today
where the fullness of god can be found
at i think
the answer might surprise you
but i think you could also regardless of
what
stream of christianity you're in
regardless of what denomination
you're in i think you could
with me at least agree and say
there is an element of god that's
missing here because
even when i read the old testament
they're having more miracles go on back
there in the old testament than what
we're having in the new testament
and we're supposed to have all of that
in the new testament and i'm hardly
seeing anything so what's going on god's
hiding
and he is revealing himself to those
that
are willing to go to this place
who cannot be just who cannot settle
for just a good form of christianity
yes we need to be good religious people
well
yes we should be but there's a lot more
to it than that
praise god well pastor stephen where's
god
hiding at let's go find out
the book of hebrews chapter 13.
now now before you turn there
if you're willing to go here i'm going
to open some things up to you
that i'm giving you the key
now if you want to go through the door
you can
but if you want to stay where you're at
there's a lot of other things right now
you could click over to there's a lot of
other things you could watch
there's a lot of other options and you
can just maybe pretend
that uh you had some internet buffering
and
it stopped working and you just go
somewhere else because what i'm about to
share with you
is the key into these deeper things of
god
the fullness of god but it's only for
those really who
are supernaturally discontent
in a godly way with
the current state of where they're at
praise god and you want more and you
just can't you can't function
you can't act like this is all it when
you know it's not
[Laughter]
woo praise the lord amen all right here
we go
if you're ready here we go hebrews
chapter 13
verse 12. therefore
of course therefore is a is a sum total
of what has been spoken so it's being
condensed down now in a
shortened format so that we can just
digest it
and meditate upon it therefore jesus
also
that he might sanctify the people with
his own blood
suffered outside
the gate verse 13 therefore
let us go forth to him
outside the camp bearing
his reproach uh pastor stephen
if there is reproach involved if there's
potential for me being insulted involved
if there's any kind of uh maybe uh
uh people giving me dislikes on social
media i
i can't do it i can't do it that that
that's okay
that's between you and the lord but i'm
just saying if you want to find
god as he's revealed in the bible
not a watered-down version then you need
to be willing to go outside
of the camp that that's where he's at
pastor stephen where's god hiding at
outside of the camp that's where he's at
um and if you want to know
him in his fullness and
the beauty of his glory i want to invite
you to come
and meet the lord outside of
the camp i'm not asking you to leave
your church
i'm not asking you to leave your
denomination i'm just asking you to go
with the lord outside this
encampment within christianity
that has a lot of pop and fuzz
a lot of whooping it up
and i want you to see something about
the lord
that will bring answers to you that you
need
therefore let us go forth to him outside
the camp
bearing his reproach
now of course the the jews
the christian jews were under tremendous
persecution to abandon
their faith in christ and go back into
judaism judaism
with all of its rules and rituals
and a system that could never
take away sins it could cover them
through the shedding of the blood of
innocent animals but it could never
remove them completely it's only a
temporary covering it's like using a
credit card
somebody's eventually got got to pay the
bill when the credit
comes due praise god
and jesus paid the bill hallelujah
but my friends they were under great
persecution temptation to go back into
judaism
and paul said don't do that don't do
that you'll trample
underneath your feet the blood of christ
if you do that
and it would be a complete renouncement
of your faith to go back into judaism
praise god in israel let's talk just for
a moment about coming outside of the
camp
in israel i'm talking about the nation
of israel
if you are a jewish man or woman
who is an israeli jew
and you hear the gospel preached
and you you say that's it
he christ jesus is the he's the son of
god
he's the messiah he's already come and
you and you want him and you receive him
he'll save you but the thing is is that
if you take christ as your savior jesus
as your savior
and he of course he is the savior then
get ready
because it uh it's rough going
if you receive jesus as your savior as
an israeli jew
you're probably overnight going to be in
for the fight of your life i'm not
talking about a physical fight i'm
talking about
warfare from family members and the
those in your community and relatives
and i mean it's like
it's like it's gonna go haywire because
you have done something in the eyes of
the jewish people
many of them that is considered just the
most awful thing you could ever do
which is to become a follower of jesus
christ of nazareth
and overnight it's almost instant loss
of family
the christian churches
in israel are severely persecuted
many of them are even burned down some
of the church members are beaten up
and there's death threats and things
like that made against
them and it's very very difficult
so if you're going all in you have to go
all in because you have to know that
cost it's going to cost you
everything well i now pastor steven it
was really like that i don't know if i'd
make that decision well
you know these are things that you have
to walk out with the lord
and you have to be willing to go outside
of the camp
and bear the reproach the verbal insults
the mocking the ridicule and stand with
christ
that's what's paul he's telling them to
do you know take your stand
do not give in to these judaizers and go
back into a system
that god has moved on from and there is
now the new covenant
and so my friends they stood
they stood praise god thank you jesus
for those of you that have gone to
israel
and you've gone on tours and for those
of you that eventually one day will go
and i hope that you go on
our tour of course you'll probably
realize
if you're if you're a student of the
word and you're sensitive to the holy
spirit
you'll probably realize what my wife and
i began to realize
like right around the second tour that
we did
is that most of the jewish tour guides
they are jewish of course and they are
extremely
knowledgeable of scripture not only
watch this
not only of the old testament but also
of the new testament
their knowledge would surpass
most people in the church by far their
their knowledge of the word their
knowledge of the bible and historical
facts and things like that
but the truth is if you listen to the
way they talk and the way they say
you'll you'll realize that most of them
aren't saved
usually only one out of ten i would say
probably about one out of every ten
israeli tour guides with their deep
extensive knowledge of the bible
only about one out of ten is actually
saved because they they all know
if you if you become a christian you you
could lose everything you
you could lose favor with your employer
and you might not have your job anymore
and then you might not have the
connections also that uh
that help you make a living and your
whole world can fall apart
if you give your life to jesus so
uh you'll always see a lot of people on
tours
trying to win the tour guide to the lord
and i'm like
you don't know what you're up against
this is not like you're just trying to
win somebody to jesus and they go
okay yeah you're right i'll take jesus
into my heart this is somebody that
uh and you know a little bit of that
israeli uh nature also as they say you
know
uh cactus exterior but real soft and
sweet on the inside
well you know they hear it all day long
you know why don't you receive christ as
lord
but unless there is a real encounter
uh in a real unveiling by the spirit uh
even with that knowledge there most
won't touch it why
because it means you're going to the
outside of the camp you're getting
booted out by your
your entire family and you lose your job
and then how you're going to pay your
bills and how you're going to support
your family and on and on it goes and so
you know it's real it's real so
my friends if you really want to go
further
with the lord you're going to have to
meet him outside
of the camp
and that doesn't mean of course that
in a sense like your world is going to
be altered
but you're going to have to you're going
to have to dig deeper and go beyond
many things that are very very
superficial
but they are celebrated as being truths
within the camp you get outside of the
camp you think oh my goodness
you know it's just like so much more
so much more that god has available for
you praise the lord
here's a good example let me talk about
saint dominic just for a moment
uh great spanish uh
prophet of god a great theologian
and a man that even with his great
intellect
still understood the power of god and
the moving
of the holy spirit so
saint dominic told about the time
that he was talking with the pope
and the pope pointed to one of his
gorgeous palaces
and said he said
peter can no longer say silver and gold
have i none
and he answered and said no and neither
can we now say
rise and walk
so peter in other words in his eyes
representing the catholic church
could say we no longer can say this we
don't don't have any silver and gold
because we got a whole lot now
yes but as saint dominic noted yeah but
we can't say any longer
hey rise and walk we have now all of
this stuff we have
all of these um maybe we could even call
them blessings
but we don't have any power anymore we
can't operate in that power
now he could he had a very strong walk
with god but for most within the church
now that power was gone god was hiding
himself
and if you wanted to see the power not
not
not uh the splendor of buildings but if
you wanted to see the power
you're gonna have to go outside of the
camp and find those outside of the camp
who had discovered god who was hiding
inside of the camp who is now revealing
himself outside of the camp
think just for a moment throughout
church history about think about john
wesley
where he was in the church of england
and he was endeavoring to minister
and they were not receiving his style of
ministry
which in in a sense he was trying to
yield to the holy spirit
and they didn't want anything to do with
that they wanted their dignity
they wanted their structure and
structure can be good
a certain element of dignity can be good
also um
but when the holy spirit is moving uh
he wants to be in charge so that christ
is exalted they didn't want anything to
do with that within the established
church
so what was he left to do go outside of
the camp
oh and he was reproached he was
ridiculed made fun of
they said you'll never be a success
because we're borrowing
every pulpit within the church of
england you'll never speak here again
and so that meant he had to go out and
just
preach out in the public literally stand
on the stump
and he wasn't very tall i think he was
like five foot two or something like
that
and stand up somewhere so people could
see him and hear him
and he'd preach and the holy spirit
though had the liberty to move and the
crowds came
so if you wanted to really be involved
in what god was doing in his day
you weren't going to find it in those
particular denominational churches
because
they were not going those men were not
going to let the holy spirit move
and so what was taking place the moving
of the spirit was happening
outside of the camp literally out
in meetings beneath the sun
beneath trees outside of buildings
and people were being saved by the
multitude
and then of course in the 1900s
1904-1905
we had the welsh revival but the welsh
revival
primarily as it was sweeping through
southern wells
was hitting all these small churches and
the holy spirit was very selective in
what he was doing he was going to places
where he was invited in a sense and it
didn't matter if it was a church
or if it was at the police station or if
it was at people's homes
the holy spirit was just sweeping
through with glory
lifting up christ and people were being
just convicted all over the place
not only in churches but in their in
their homes in their beds while they
slept they had to get up
and and go go somewhere to try to find
relief of
of their sins for the conviction that
they were under
praise the lord but these were things
that were going on
outside again outside of the camp of the
structured
organized religious system
and then we have azusa street 1906
through 1909 which was very very
unorthodox
in that this was not some established
denomination
with a hidden denomination or well-known
preacher that was there
but yet god was moving in mighty power
and if you want to find god in
pure pentecostal power that's where
you're going to have to go
and that was outside of the camp
praise the lord think about the hebrides
revival there in scotland
1949 through 1952
it was centered primarily in a small
town called barbus
but the holy spirit he skipped
completely over
the capital of the isle of lewis which
was stored away
and he completely bypassed a city and he
only worked in the outer areas
in these small towns small churches
small villages
where there was not an organized
structure
that would resist him he went outside of
the camp and that's where he was moving
well i want him to come here and do it
here well
if he can flow there and move there he
will
but if he's not welcome there
there's plenty of other places where he
can go
praise the lord my friends this is a
i would say systematic continual way in
which
god moves when the church becomes
institutionalized becomes structured in
a sense where
its band's performance man's best
a an effort to replace
the gold with brass
and man's best ability to do without
the pentecostal power of god
and if you're doing without that power
you're going to have these
areas of your life that men can't meet
that the most well-crafted sermons
can't they can't touch it hallelujah
praise god
first corinthians chapter 2
let's go there just for a moment verse 4
and my speech the apostle paul said and
my speech and my preaching were not with
persuasive words of human wisdom
but in demonstration of the spirit
and of power that your faith
should not be in the wisdom of men but
in the power
of god you have to understand there are
multitudes of pastors in america
that want absolutely nothing
to do with the power of god they want
everything to be
presented in the wisdom of men in a very
polished and dignified way
and they love that they love that
element of intellectualism
but there are many many people that are
sitting there
and they're thinking is this all there
is to it when i read the bible i see
power when i see the apostle paul and
how he
governed his life and his ministry it's
not just teaching
it's not just intellectualism trust me
if there was anybody that could pour on
the intellectual brilliance it was paul
highly educated
brilliant mind but even he knew
hey we can't build the kingdom like this
we're going to present the gospel
and we're going to preach the gospel and
and yes we'll try to make it
understandable as clear
and as proper as we can but we're going
to have to have the power here
or or we're not having
the full gospel preached maybe i'm
old-fashioned
but i believe still that if we're not
presenting the gospel as the full
gospel then we aren't presenting the
gospel
praise god well now pastor stephen
if we do it that way though with signs
and wonders following and miracles and
speaking in unknown tongues and casting
out demons
well now pastor stephen we if we do that
we're probably gonna
uh you know we're not gonna be able to
attract you know all the mighty and the
wealthy
well from what i see really a lot of the
mighty and wealthy aren't coming anyhow
right it's not like bill gates warren
buffett and
all these others are trying to get in
the church yes they're coming because
yes because we have so much power here
no they're not coming at all
they're not coming at all jeff bezos is
not trying to get into some church
not that i know of at least praise god
maybe we should preach it in power maybe
we should
pray for the sick maybe we should get
back to casting out demons
laying hands on the sick so that christ
can heal them and so that they can
recover
and then who knows who might show up
praise god and if they want to keep it
kind of under wraps because many times
those type of people do
because if it's not done the right way
you'll have immature
uh you know ministers want to grab them
and use them as
you know verification of why their
ministry is successful or something like
that
you don't just drop the camera for a
moment turn the camera over there
we're not trying to do this for
celebrity status we're not trying to do
this so that we can get on the cover of
a magazine
who cares about that silly stuff
we're doing this because god loves
people and will minister to anybody
anywhere that we can praise the lord but
we must preach the full gospel
regardless of who's sitting in the crowd
or who's not
praise the lord
thank you lord jesus john chapter one
let's go to john chapter one
hallelujah you're going to need god's
power
in this hour in which we're living
and i see the lord anointing his people
with an immunity
against all of the covet strains and
variants
all of the different flues also all of
the other
yucky stuff that will eventually be
popping on the scene
and protection against
any kind of dangerous situations that
might come forth
protection even against economic
uncertainties that could affect things
god will stabilize your your life
because your life is built on
the rock the lord jesus christ
praise god and when you come outside of
the camp
you come into the fullness of the lord
and you're going to need the fullness of
the lord
including the covenant
of health the covenant of
provision the various covenants that are
available
that many within the camp have no clue
about
they they maybe they they say things
like god's our healer or stuff like that
but they don't understand how to tie
into that
listen i used to belong to
a ministerial association of
spirit-filled
ministers and i won't say which one
and i'm not trying to criticize or
anything like that
but i remember um you know this this
association had a lot of members
and you know these were all full-time
ministers and the association was trying
to get
the ministry association was trying to
get health insurance for all of the
members
it was all mentioned and many ministers
were excited about it
the time went by and nothing ever
happened well i spoke
to the president of the association i
said hey
whatever happened to uh that health
insurance that everybody was talking
about
he goes oh brother stephen he said um
he said every insurance underwriter that
we went to
turned us down i said why he said they
said you have too many sick people in
your group he said we
these underwriters said we could never
ensure
a group like yours because most of your
group is sick
so these are the ministers praise the
lord
so my friends there has to be
not just the proclaiming of a truth but
there has to be an embracing of
it a loving of it getting to know
the healer getting to know your provider
praise god so that when shakings and
difficulties come
that you're not moved praise the lord
some of you have you have questions
and you can't get the answers within the
camp
i can tell you where the answers are at
they're outside the camp
the reason you can't get the answers in
the camp is because god's hiding
certain elements certain
how can i say aspects of who he is but
he's outside of the camp if you're
willing to go out there
this ministerial organization that i
enjoyed being in while i was in it
they they would allow
tongues and interpretation of tongues to
come forth but they were terrified of
prophecy the gift of prophecy they were
just like
oh we we don't know about that we better
stay away from that that's too risky
do not let any ministers minister the
prophecy gift and you talking about some
boring meetings boring boring boring
boring meetings because if you if you
say well
we'll let this happen but we won't let
this happen you shut the whole thing
down
you'll shut the whole thing down and
there was hardly ever any
manifestations of the holy spirit
through spiritual gifts
and they had their favorites that they
would try to move in like
gifts of healings or you know tongues
and interpretation of tongues
they would allow that to happen because
that that is somewhat now
established within the broad pentecostal
church
but as far as power manifestations no
you would never see anything you could
you could probably stay there for 40 or
50 years not see one
real powerful miracle ever
well what do you do if you need one or
you
you're seeking god for one and you're
like lord how do i work with you in
order to receive this
praise god you're gonna have to go
outside of the camp
and again this is just in many ways
a way in which god operates when a
system because
a religious uh maybe we could even call
it a former move of god
becomes now institutionalized becomes
now
all rigid becomes governed by
smart men and women who think they're
smarter than god
and you're still sitting there with
needs though that are unmet
and if you were to ask yes they can help
in some ways but there's other ways
you're just not going to be able to get
what you need there
praise the lord especially when it comes
to spiritual things
they don't have a clue because the night
before they
preached that sermon they watched a
three-hour movie full of profanity
maybe even some nudity and now they're
going to stand up on sunday
and they're going to expect you know
explain to you the
this is how it works they don't know how
it works their mind's full of baloney
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praise the lord nothing wrong with
movies long as they aren't garbage and
trash
but you know if you just piece together
a little sermon and
the the night before you were just
engaged
in a bunch of cardinality you just can't
turn on
boom turn on the anointing turn on
spirituality like that
it won't work like that and even if
you're doing that for a while and you're
riding on a former anointing
eventually uh that train will
run out of power and it'll stop and
it'll be dead on the tracks
john 1
verse 19 now this
is the testimony of john when the jews
sent priests who and levites
oh from jerusalem to ask him who are you
who are you we have come from
headquarters we have come from jerusalem
what's going on out here outside of the
camp in these remote places
we govern everything that we do back in
our denominations we got pharisees and
sadducees and we we've got an
order here we want to know what's going
on out here we're hearing some strange
reports
did you know that within judaism of that
day even within the pharisees
you had 19 different splits
within the pharisees
and within the sadducees you had
different
branches different denominations
within the sadducees now they had their
their main points that each group
believed on
but there were splits and there were
divisions
and there were different interpretations
of doctrine
uh that just were i mean it's it's kind
of like it is today we have
a lot of different denominations but
nevertheless
they're the ones there in jerusalem and
they're in charge and
you can't get any answers except from
them
because they know everything and they've
got it all
except for the power because there ain't
nothing going on there now that now
the temple is functioning they're
obeying god's commands yes even jesus
went to the temple
yes even jesus said yes uh you know pay
your tithes and
you know that's all good but again he
rebuked
because they're ignoring the weightier
matters of the law of justice mercy and
things like that of course
but my friends this
originates outside of that
structure and if you really want wanted
to
find god oh he he's his presence is in
the temple
well yes although at the same time we
know that
in the temple that herod built there was
not even an ark of the covenant
in the holy of holies different story
where that went missing that i actually
write about that in my book
i cover that one of my chapters where
could it be
praise god amen books coming out maybe
in about five weeks
okay now my friends
there are certain things that
those within the camp are never going to
accept
because they want it their way
they want it man's way and we're not
going to have any of that casting out of
demons for sure
we don't like that especially when we
have everybody looking dignified
suit tie cologne
yeah and the dude in the suit and the
tie in cologne
uh that smells so good yeah he has a
demon problem
and he's bound and unless you get him
delivered he'll sit in your church with
the suit and his tie for the next 20
years
and he won't change at all
but god's here yeah but he's not there
in power to deliver that person
you gotta you gotta go outside of the
camp well we don't wanna go out there we
don't
we you know look look i've i've done
meetings before i've actually had people
tell me oh pastor stephen please don't
put this on camera because if they see
me on camera back at my church they're
going to get mad at me they'll kick me
out of the church
i said i'm putting it all on camera i'm
putting it all
on camera and if you want me to pray for
you i'm going to put my hands on you
with the cameras rolling glory to god
because i'm not ashamed to meet jesus
outside of the church
where we lay hands on the sick and pray
for their healing
my church doesn't do that and if they
see me in a meeting like this
yeah they'll probably want you to leave
won't they they probably won't like you
anymore
they'll say you're weird maybe they'll
say you're a sociopath
maybe they'll say you're one of those
radical
jesus fanatics aren't you
has council culture snuck into your
church
has the atheistic social socialism
all that wild crazy stuff from the pit
of hell
snuck into your church and snuffed out
the power of god i'm not saying god's
not there
but there are some people i will say
this city than churches where the land
stand was put out put
out literally by the lord he put out
their lampstand
and the church is functioning but ain't
nothing going on
i can't i can't help but think of the
funny story of one minister he was
he was new in the holy spirit and uh
he had gotten baptized in the holy
spirit came out of a baptist church
and uh he was just on fire for god so he
set himself
uh in private for like three months
to pray in tongues and to seek god all
day long for like eight hours a day ten
hours a day
just seeking god praying and seeking the
lord
and after three months he uh kind of
popped out of his seclusion
and he went to some church he was so
happy he wanted to go to church
somewhere
i don't know where it was at but he went
to a church service
and the preacher stood up to preach
and it was one of those real um
intellectual type preachers
who didn't believe in modern day
miracles or anything like that and the
preacher stood up to preach and he
started saying something like this
jesus christ is the cosmic
mediator between god and mine
you know that's that's the way the
sermon was going
boring hello capital b-o-r-i-n-g
major boring so he's sitting there
but as he's sitting there this this this
this guy that's
gotten filled with the holy spirit and
he's really in love with the lord he's
actually being launched in the ministry
by the lord he said
while that that man's up there so-called
preaching
uh this man said i turned around and i
the lady sitting next to me he said
suddenly i could see right through her
and i could see a cancerous tumor
hanging right in this area of her body
and so he's looking at that and he's
thinking lord that's really interesting
but yet the preachers up there go you
know doing his uh somber
sermon and this guy's sitting there
seeing that and uh the holy spirit
began to get on that guy so strong
he just stood up and said ma'am the lord
shows me i see a cancerous tumor on you
right here and she said yes
i've been diagnosed with the cancerous
tumor right there and he says now
receive your healing now in the name of
jesus she was healed and
revival broke out people started running
over people started getting healed
the power of god failed
and that man said that
just a couple days after that he was in
prayer and he said lord
he said i kind of wrecked that meeting
he said that man was preaching and right
in the middle of his preaching
you know i kind of launched into this
and i wrecked the service and
uh lord um but
yet your spirit was moving on me i don't
know what to think about that
uh so how did you know what was going on
and
this is wild but jesus told him
jesus said i wasn't listening
to that man therefore i would never
require you to listen to him
either
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wow can you imagine that a preacher up
there preaching away
and god is not even listening to him
now if you're in a good church you're
being fed that's wonderful praise god
and there are some
excellent pastors out there laboring in
the word of god teaching
the full gospel not ashamed or
embarrassed you know to teach the full
gospel
praise the lord but there's others that
wouldn't dare preach the full gospel
because
that's not socially acceptable and if i
do
they won't like me and my friends will
criticize me
okay we'll stay inside the camp and
you're going to miss
not only major truths that god would
like for you to
discover and walk in guess what you're
also going to miss
the moving listen listen because
everybody says the spirit's moving here
there and everywhere and all this and
all that
but he's going to move outside of the
camp
that's that's his method of operating
he's going to move again he's going to
move outside of the camp
and he will go where he's invited
but the power is going to pop
not where you think it's going to pop
it's going to it's going to be
unusual places oh yes he's coming to the
mega church
with the world famous pastor that'd
probably be the last place he goes
because the mega church with the world
famous pastor is a shame to preach the
full gospel
is a shame to call sin sin because he
knows if he does he'll probably lose
about 80 percent of his church members
because
he wants everybody to like him
including the secular media
and while we would never do things to
try to offend
anybody or anyone or any organization or
any person
but yet even the cross the gospel
in itself is offensive in a sense
because
it says that christ died for sinners
are you calling me a sinner well if if
you don't know christ
and you have not received him you have a
sin issue you have a sin problem
as all of humanity does and he's the
only one that can fix it
and the truth is he's already fixed it
but you cannot
receive the benefit of that unless you
put your faith and trust in him
praise the lord
praise god get ready for the moving of
the spirit
where outside of the camp pastor stephen
i'm looking for a different experience a
deeper experience with god
well get your backpack on and travel
outside of the camp
and that's where you'll find him because
that's where he's at
bearing the reproach bearing
the reproach it cost me everything to
come in the pentecost it cost
me everything
it was years after all the hardships
that i went through
even years after that when i found out
wow how much i really i didn't i didn't
even know how
deep it actually ran my
beam booted out so to speak
praise the lord glory to god
and it might cost you that too to really
go after the lord
in the fullness of who he is the god of
power
the lord who's able to meet your every
need
glory glory
glory glory so
the spirit is going to move again the
spirit is going to move again
i i don't know pastor stephen if i want
to be associated with that
well you're probably going to have to
make that decision
praise the lord but i would say make it
now
go with the lord go with the lord go
with the fullness of the lord
don't be afraid to think don't be afraid
to ask
questions
don't be afraid to realize
the king doesn't have any clothes on
but everybody has to act like he does we
have to act like
this was the greatest meeting ever this
even
outdid the upper room that what happened
in the upper room
that was nothing compared to what we had
here really
i i didn't seem like that to be that
great of a meeting oh yes it was and
we're gonna hype it
and we're gonna we're gonna really push
it because that that will
that will create bigger offerings
praise god praise god
the power's coming back but not
everywhere
the power is coming back yes it's really
what those who've been hungry have been
wanting the whole time
it's the power gifts the gifts of
special faith
the gifts of healings and the gift
the big one the gift of working of
miracles
praise god don't think don't think you
can play that around
within the camp and treat that like
that's some kind of
just you know fun thing not not even
this is this is the um this is like the
radioactive
stuff this is like the uranium plutonium
this is the rare earth stuff this is the
rare heaven stuff coming down
glory glory to god
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god is looking for people to steward
what he is wanting to release in this
next move into the earth
i suggest to you that much of what he is
preparing
preparations are taking place outside of
the camp
outside of what is even being covered or
even being spoken about
today in
i would what i would call celebrity
christianity
and i i thank god for the church the
church is beautiful
but i just know that there's a lot more
than what is being hyped or pushed
as being the ultimate when you're
thinking now that
i've seen way beyond that that that's
there's no way this is quote the
ultimate this is just man
pushing his best
oh praise the lord my friends
we have to understand that john the
baptist
outside of the camp way outside of
jerusalem
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they even came and saw but didn't want
to participate
they wanted to stay in the camp all
those pharisees sadducees
the priests you know the levites praise
the lord
glory glory glory
glory to god praise the lord
the holy spirit is going to be dealing
with many of you
to streamline your life
and make quality decisions to make the
push
and to not be satisfied with status quo
christianity
when christ died for you to experience
so much more hallelujah
glory let me pray for you heavenly
father i pray for those that are
watching
that are saying i get it pastor stephen
i know exactly what you're talking about
thank you father prepare them i pray
that you prepare them
for this great move of your spirit that
has been prophesied
it's coming but there is preparation
father god anoint those with fresh oil
bring them into it let them make the
adjustments they need to make
let them bear the reproach and pay the
price
that you reveal is the price to get into
the glory
thank you father god thank you father
god
thank you father god in the name of
jesus
amen and amen
there's the church is going to have to
learn look we can't be playing games
anymore
we're going to need real answers real
solutions we're actually going to come
to a place where we need
real miracles and we're not going to be
able to fake this with
brighter lights and a fog machine why
don't we just throw the fog machine away
and why don't we just get ready
hallelujah
to step into what god has for us
thank you father god's doing it god's
doing it
praise the lord if you're watching
and you're intrigued by what has been
presented because you're very curious
about
god and his kingdom but you don't yet
know him well you can know him through
his son jesus and if you would like to
receive him
he offers to you eternal life
where when your life ends you'll go to
be with him in heaven
and he offers forgiveness of your sins
and
the strength and the empowerment to live
for him
if you would like to receive him even if
it will cost you
everything this will be the greatest
decision you've ever made in your life
if you receive him you receive his life
if not
you don't know him you'll be lost in
your sins
and you'll go to the place of the damned
where those go
that do not know god if you would like
to receive him into your heart
pray this right now say jesus i'm a
sinner
but you died to save me from my sins
jesus come into my heart
wash all of my sins away
write my name in your book of life
save me now in your name i pray
amen and amen
and he has heard that prayer and he has
answered that prayer you now belong to
him
live for him glory to god
and watch how good he'll be to you
praise the lord
praise the lord glory glory to god
glory to god
some of you have been sitting on the
fence that divides
jerusalem from the outside of that
wall where you go outside
well you need to get off the fence
praise the lord because you can't have
both praise the lord glory to god
take your stand just like the hebrew
christians did
written in the book the letter of
hebrews take your stand
glory to god and you're going to walk in
the glory
you're going to see the greater glory
you're going to see the miracles
and you will see god bless your life and
he'll be to you everything that you need
him to be
praise the lord hallelujah let's take
holy communion
i'm so glad that we can take communion
together
praise the lord grab some unleavened
bread
some grape juice praise the lord
never as a christian walk in an attitude
of superiority
a spirit of pride acting like
you would know more than others or that
you're more spiritual than others
don't always walk with a heart of
humility but at the same
time what i'm trying to say
is don't accept something that's
mediocre
and very mundane as being the fullness
of what god
has for your life when you know that's
not
the full package praise the lord press
press press for all that he has for you
praise god yes don't settle for anything
less than pentecost
the signs the wonders the miracles you
serve a miracle working god
he wants to be active and involved in
your life praise the lord
praise the lord let's pray father thank
you for the bread and the juice
we bless it we consecrate it we set it
apart
it's holy through this prayer and we
thank you that this is now
the flesh and the blood of jesus
and father as we receive the the body of
christ we thank you
oh god for your promises we thank you
that we would dare
to go with jesus outside of the camp
bearing his reproach
we thank you we go as we receive his
body
we go we receive his body now in jesus
name amen let's partake
heavenly father thank you for the blood
of jesus
washing all of our sins away
woo praise you praise you praise you o
god
this is the coming forth of the enoch
generation
this is the rising forth
of those that will have the walk with
the lord in
the secret place even if you're called
to be
in public you will still maintain the
anointing and the flow
through your walk with the lord in the
secret place
praise god praise god
hallelujah thank you father god
this is an anointing that we must shift
into
father we give you praise we thank you
for the blood of jesus
in his name we pray amen
let's receive
praise the lord glory to
god glory to god
hebrews 13 13 in conclusion
therefore let us go forth to him
outside the camp bearing
his reproach my friends when god hides
you know where to find him thanks for
watching