i'm so happy that you are here and i
believe that god's word will provide
the spiritual food that your spirit
needs in order to be nourished
to be strong and to be healthy in the
things of god
now let's take our bibles and go to
psalm 115
and let's drop down to verse 12 we're
going to receive the holy tides and
offerings
we're going to bring them into the
storehouse of god and
you are going to be blessed praise the
lord
psalm 115
verse 12 the lord has been
mindful of us and the lord is mindful of
you he thinks of you
day and night you are constantly on
the mind of the lord and he's god
he has that ability to do that even with
so many of us
on the earth he's thinking of you day
and night
the lord has been mindful of us he will
bless us
he will bless the house of israel he
will bless the house of aaron
he will bless those who fear the lord
both small and great
may the lord give you increase more and
more you and your children
may you be blessed by the lord who made
heaven and earth
now let's jump back to verse 14 just for
a moment may the lord give you
increase more and more
i really believe that that's god's plan
his intention within his heart
to bring his increase into your life
your spiritual well-being yes absolutely
but this is also speaking in context
directly to your
financial situation god wants you
blessed
the jewish people knew that when you
obeyed
the covenant and you followed the
commandments of god
that one of those rewards one of those
blessings
was financial prosperity increase
and god promises increase more and more
when we meet his biblical conditions
now knowing that that's god's will for
your life
let me say this don't let sin
come into your life and interrupt
this beautiful plan that god has for you
of increase
don't let sin interrupt the increase
that god has planted
for you if you play around with sin
it will not maybe not might no it will
destroy your prosperity
you have to understand sin
is very very dangerous it's deceitful
it promises you something and there will
be
temporary pleasure associated with it
but the result
of when that begins to fully play out
is death not just spiritual death but
the it leads to physical death i was
sitting in a business
yesterday that i was going to to get
some things taken care of
and while i was sitting there there was
a song that began to play over the
loudspeaker
radio and this business had uh you know
music kind of being piped all throughout
a certain place and while i was sitting
in that area
and i overheard a song that was being
played this is all secular music or what
we would call
worldly music i heard a song being
played
sung by a man that had a wonderful voice
and the song
was very sensual it was it was um
not trying to hide its
direct i could say maybe the word
implications or maybe the word just do
it
of going out and committing sin
and in the context of what he was
talking about he was singing about
sexual sin and he was
wide open with it
[Laughter]
wild and i remember when that song first
came out
uh some years back because it actually
came out in the 80s
but you know what that man that sang
that song
is dead he died of a
of a disease that's associated with a
certain type of sexual immorality
and he's dead and he's six feet under
now
and you have to think i wonder when he
agreed to initially sing that song
and that song brought millions and
millions of dollars
to him through all the albums and
records that it sold around the world
but oh what a cost what a cost and as
far as i know he never
came to know christ as his lord and
savior
sin is extremely dangerous it cannot
only take you to hell
but it can also completely destroy
the increase the prosperity that god has
planned for you
be very very careful to stay away from
sin
praise the lord now job
who was very wealthy he had tremendous
financial assets knew how dangerous sin
was now he was a righteous man
he went through a period in his life
where he
had a great test but you know what he
passed that test
but through that great trial he learned
some amazing things about the lord
and he also made some amazing statements
i would like for you to see one of those
statements
found in the book of job chapter 31
and let's go to verse 11 job 31
verse 11. praise the lord
job 31 verse 11. now
job is about to make a statement in the
context
of what would happen to him if he got
involved
in immorality but let me go further
he begins with that as an example but
he merges into the context of the
chapter
referring to what happens to a godly
person
if they begin to get into sin regardless
of what kind it is and he
covers many different topics many
different areas
that he was tempted in but he overcame
and he did not yield to
but listen to this in verse 11
for that would be wickedness referring
to sin
that would be wickedness yes it would be
iniquity
deserving of judgment for that would be
a fire
that consumes to destruction and would
root out all my increase now here's a
righteous man
a very godly man who was very close to
the lord
he was very wealthy you can't have
wealth let me say it again
you can have wealth and walk with the
lord
but in order to do that you have to stay
very close to the lord
and you must refuse to allow sin to come
into your life
because job said that he knew that if he
got involved in sin and he goes further
in the remaining verses in this chapter
to open up all the various
sins that presented themselves to him
and he said no to
he said if he got involved in sin it
would root out
all of his increase oh pastor stephen
that's talking about spiritual increase
no it's not
that's talking about his finances and he
was basically saying i made sure
that i did not get involved in sin
because he said i knew that would root
out
that would destroy the financial
increase that god has brought into my
life and he recognized that the blessing
that he was walking in
was directly associated with his
relationship with god
praise god now the word
root out in hebrew is the word
shirash and it means now listen to this
this is powerful
it means to reach down and to the ground
you can either do it with your hand
the reference in the hebrew is is either
with an instrument
maybe like an axe or even could refer to
your hand
to reach down into the ground and pull
out by the roots
the good thing that you had planted
the good thing that you had going for
you that was growing
and doing so well and flourishing and
producing fruit for you and being a
blessing to your life
job said that when you get involved in
sin
and you're practicing sin it's like
reaching down with your hand
and yanking up the blessing the
financial increase of god
and destroying it
think about that now if there's anybody
watching me and you are practicing sin
you are involved in sin
and you say well pastor stephen god's
grace is there for me god's grace is
there to wash away your sin if you
repent
but if you keep on going if you keep on
going as much as god loves you
if you keep on going you are violating
biblical principles
and what's going to happen is that the
devil's going to come in
the devil's going to come in because he
has legal permission and he will touch
your finances and by you
engaging in that sin and enjoying
whatever pleasure that would be that's
being
received through that sin it's going to
lead let me tell you right now it will
lead to financial destitution
stop it right now before it's too late
praise the lord repent of all sin
and very importantly turn from it
walk away from it and be involved in it
no further from this
moment forward praise the lord now when
you do that
and when you're walking with the lord
then my friends
that verse of psalm 115 verse 14
will spring forth into your life with
such
power and such beauty may the lord give
you
increase more and more you and your
children
i see your increase being firmly
established
in your life i see you guarding and
protecting the blessings of god
knowing the seriousness and the dangers
of sin and saying hey
i see you out there i've heard you not
but i'm not answering
i'm going to serve the lord and i'm
going to enjoy the blessings of
the lord amen praise god job understood
this revelation
and i pray that you understand it as
well and that you take your walk with
the lord
very seriously and you protect the
anointing you protect the blessing
because out of that beautiful walk with
the lord
trust me god wants to bless you he's
thinking about it day and night how he
can bless you and get
his increase into your life but you must
work
with his principles you must honor his
commandments
and obedience unto the commandments of
god
it's not something that's optional it's
something
that the lord jesus expects from you
even requires
from you praise god and when you're
walking in the commandments of the lord
increase increase increase will be
all around you praise god thank you lord
jesus now
let me also say before praying for you
today for your finances
use your faith for increase
realize that this is god's word this is
not somebody's opinion this is the word
of god
may the lord give you increase more
and more hallelujah
use your faith for that believe god for
that
lord i see in your word that this is
your will for my life lord i'm believing
you for it
and use your faith god i'm in faith for
increase
whoo praise the lord you don't need any
faith to go downhill
all you have to do is walk in fear and
unbelief
and before you know it you can open
yourself
up to the negative circumstances but
that's not what we're going to do we're
going to stay in faith
every need met every bill paid on time
debts paid off paid off paid off and
gone
praise the lord and overflow
and god's blessed portion fully
operating your life of increase and not
just increase watch this this is the
nature of god
increase more and more
oh the lord is good let me tell you
right now from this pulpit
that the lord is good if you'll walk
with him
you'll have a pleasant taste in your
mouth but if you disregard the
commandments of god
you'll have a bitterness in your mouth
and you'll be like god why is it not
working
because it could very well be that you
are uprooting the very source
of increase by doing things that would
be displeasing to
the lord
i'll never forget when i was a young man
in my 20s
and i had been baptized in the holy
spirit for the first time
i spoke with other tongues and i began
to really
draw near to the lord but i was still
very young in these things and i went
out
and i saw a movie and it had all types
of uh
like horrific images of horror and
violence and things like that and i came
out of that movie and i knew
i knew i had grieved the holy spirit by
what i had just
allowed to come in through my eye gates
and i said
i said holy spirit your presence is
completely gone
i said that movie really offended you
didn't it
and i just felt like in order to bring
the presence of the lord back into my
life
i needed to make a decision i said lord
i said from this day forward
i will never ever watch movies like that
again and i repent it and the presence
of the
lord came back see you have to maintain
the presence of the lord through a
manner of living
that glorifies god that honors the lord
the holy spirit he's not a fog or a
cloud he's a person
yes he's god he is
the third member of the deity father
son holy spirit and the holy spirit is a
person
and you can grieve him
by doing things that are disobedient but
my friends walk
in the light of god's word and enjoy the
presence of the lord
and enjoy the prosperity and the
blessing
and the financial increase of god and
you can use it
for his glory heavenly father i'm
praying for your people
that this be a time regardless of what's
going on there
out there in the world with this problem
or that problem or that situation father
regardless of those things the covenant
prevails
over all of those external circumstances
and we
are covenant people and we choose to
walk
in harmony with your word your scripture
so father we thank you we believe you
for
increase and i'm praying father for your
people that you would give them increase
more and more
as they honor you with their finances as
they bring the tithe into the storehouse
as they sow seed we thank you father
that
increase more and more is a standard way
of operating
for them and your blessing proves true
regardless of any shakings in the earth
your blessing
proves true we thank you father right
now for increase more and more
in the name of jesus amen
and amen now let's do our part
god will do his part let's do our part
of obedience
let's bring the tides and offerings into
the storehouse for those of you that
prefer to mail
your tithes and offerings in please send
them to stephen brooks international
p.o box 717
moravian falls north carolina our zip
code is 28654
now if you prefer to bring your tie then
you're offering in
online you can do so anytime day or
night please go to the ministry website
stevenbrooks.org there's a link on the
home page that says
give it's red has a heart on it and you
can click that
and you can bring the tithes and
offerings in any time from anywhere
around the world
day or night through that safe and
secure
internet portal praise the lord father
bless your people
bless your people father with great
increase more and more
in jesus name say i receive
amen praise god hallelujah
now today let's go over to the book of
revelation
chapter 3 and we want to talk
about working our way into the presence
of the lord hallelujah we want to come
into his presence by faith
we want to know how to get there and
very
importantly how to be a dweller
in that place let's pray father as we go
into your word
for today's sermon today's study
we ask that your holy spirit would come
right now
illuminating the eyes of our
understanding
so that we can move forward with you
thank you father god for new levels of
blessing
new levels of understanding new levels
of illumination
thank you father god for taking us
higher we thank you for this spiritual
vision
in jesus name amen
and amen revelation chapter 3 for those
of you that are new in the faith this
book is very easy to find in your bibles
it is the last book
in the bible we're going to be today in
verse
excuse me chapter 3 and let's go down to
verse 14.
and to the angel of the church of the
laodiceans
write these things says the amen
the faithful and true witness the
beginning of the creation
of god i know your works that you are
neither cold nor hot
i could wish that you were cold or hot
so then because you are lukewarm and
neither cold
or hot i will vomit you
out of my mouth whew
god wants you to be on fire for him
serving him
living for him and i really
want to speak to some that would be on
the fence
right in the fence of lukewarmness some
that are
very settled in what i would call a
mediocre
christian life let me tell you it's a
very dangerous
place to be
and you need to come on with the lord
and and if your brother-in-law won't
come on
you need to go anyhow and if your best
friend won't come on
you need to move on anyhow praise the
lord and if your church
doesn't want to move on and wants to
stay stuck back in the 1700s
you need to steal you need to keep
moving forward in your faith and in your
walk with the lord
praise the lord because you say i am
rich
have become wealthy and have need of
nothing and do not know that you are
wretched miserable poor blind and naked
i counsel you to buy for me gold refined
in the fire
that you may be rich and white garments
that you may be clothed
that the shame of your nakedness may not
be revealed
and anoint your eyes with ice have that
you may see wow praise god
thank you lord jesus we live in an
age that is very much like the church
in laodicea a time where there's
lukewarmness
a time in the western church i can't
speak for the global church but i can
speak for the western church
where there is a lot of ease there's a
lot of comfort
there's a lot of feasting but very
little fasting
a lot of playing around but very little
praying
a lot of religious activity that's for
sure
but very few that are able to
work their way past all the bells and
whistles and all the noise
a lot of times a lot of the rituals in
order to say
lord i know there must be more and
you're right there is more so you want
to make sure
that in a very dangerous age in which
we live in which we find ourselves
that we ourselves don't fall asleep
spiritually
lulled by all the comforts and by all of
the the ease that would be around us
because there are christians in other
nations
that right now as we are together
and i'm sharing this with you they are
in
fierce persecution and the very fact
that a person in these particular
countries would receive christ
means that in order for them to receive
christ
they have counted the cost
and the cost is something that they have
to really consider
but they've counted it and they have
said i want christ
and they are saved washed with his blood
but my friends it comes with an
understanding
that in some of these countries the
moment you accept christ
it means usually number one you're
probably going to lose your job
wow now think about that from the
western church's perspective
and yes prosperity is important and
god's aware
that you have bills to pay god's aware
that you need food to eat god's aware
that you need a place to lay your head
and sleep that's comfortable that's safe
and so forth god's aware of all of that
but right there in
in the case of many christians oh they
they
bail out on god real quick on that one
but you have to understand that many
countries the very fact that you receive
christ if that
is found out and usually it is number
one you're probably going to lose your
job
number two you could lose your home you
could lose your place of residence and
they say
we don't want you here because it's
going to bring trouble and persecution
upon us
number three you could receive
persecution from family members
number four you're probably going to
receive persecution from the government
and you could go to prison that's a very
real
possibility for many believers all over
the world right now
you could go to prison and you could be
beaten you could be tortured you could
be separated from your spouse
you could be separated from your
children they could take your children
or they could take you
and you might be you may not see them
ever again
so this thing is very very real and in
the laodicean age
and in a church particularly in america
where there's a lot of silliness in the
church today
look if you see the swamp in washington
dc
there's a swamp in the church too the
church has gotten bogged down with a lot
of
uh i would just call it uh
going through the routine just a lot of
fluff
messages that are nice and sweet but
they're not preaching the full counsel
of god's word
and giving you what i would call the
full loaf of bread they're just giving
you a piece of this or that
maybe a positive message and we need to
have a positive message
but we also need to share
with the people of god the meat of god's
word and
feed them so that they become strong and
they can stand
when times are difficult praise the lord
you know when i got
baptized in the holy spirit
it was revolutionary for me now i had
grown up in a mainline
denominational church this church
this denomination i won't say the name
of it but it's quite well known in
america
but they they do not they still to this
day do not believe in modern day
miracles
they do not believe in casting out
devils they certainly don't believe in
speaking in tongues they
they actually think that if somebody
would just speak in tongues today they
would actually say that's the devil they
would attribute that to the devil
they're not trying to blaspheme the holy
spirit they just think that stuff
doesn't happen anymore
and they don't believe in what we know
as
the gifts of the spirit and all of the
wonderful things that
you know that we know now that belong to
us in christ the baptism in the holy
spirit
well when i got filled with the holy
spirit
because i found out that what i was
hearing
in the denomination that i was raised in
it was enough to get me saved thank god
thank god that the preacher preached the
gospel message i heard it i
repent i repented of my sins and i got
saved
but i was going through life as a
christian just getting a daylight speed
out of me i didn't know the power of the
cross
i did not know how to have a close walk
with god i didn't know how to develop a
prayer life and whenever i tried
i would be so distracted i couldn't i
couldn't focus i couldn't pray
and i just couldn't get victory in life
i was impatient i was frustrated
i had you know various issues in my life
that i was dealing with
and i did not have the victory that i
that it seemed like to me that the bible
was promising
so there was a major disconnect but when
i received the baptism in the holy
spirit
i knew this is not the end all
this was the beginning of a deeper walk
with god
and you need to also understand that the
baptism in the holy spirit is not a
crowning
moment or that you know like you wave a
pentecostal flag and say this is it this
is the apex of the christian experience
no that's just the beginning
of going into the deeper walk with the
lord but that's just the initial
experience
you're supposed to go on with that
praise god
well when i received the baptism in the
holy spirit
with the evidence of speaking in tongues
i was on fire and i happened to have
received it in a church
that was predominantly made up of a
bunch of us all in our 20s
and even the pastor he was in his late
20s and uh
we were all really wet behind the ears
with the pentecostal experience it was
new to all of us just about
and uh seemed like every week more of us
were
yeah you know more more would come in
from denominational churches and get
filled the spirit
so it was in a sense like a mini revival
that was going on
but we were having a time of our lives
and we were all on fire and just
praying all the time and reading their
bibles all the time we were consumed
with god and the things of god well
when i would get around my parents uh
and start talking about you know
miracles and the power of god and the
joy of the lord and the baptism of the
holy spirit
um i i would notice that the reaction
didn't seem to be very
reciprocating in the sense that they
thought this was as wonderful as i did
and uh you know but a lot of that i was
just naive i thought well
hey we've been in darkness we've been in
a a desert wasteland
everybody would want this well not
everybody did want it and i tried to
share it
with many in my church that i had grown
up with and got that blank stare that
blank look
and uh they you know some some were nice
and just said you know stephen that's
cool but that's that's just not for me
i like it the way it is and they
decided just to stay there that was
their choice but you know i had
revelation
i had an encounter with the holy spirit
and so i knew that i had to go on well
the church that i was going to uh before
i fully committed to
the little pentecostal church the
mainline denominational church that i
was going to
you know the the college youth pastor
just said stephen
you know you've changed and
a lot of the change is just uh it's
incredible
you've come alive with the things of god
but it's just like a little too uh
you know like pentecostal because that
that's not who we are that's not what we
do
i said yeah but it's all true it's all
real and he had a you know
theology degree and all of that and he
said well he said yeah i'm familiar with
all of that
but it's just you know we can't really
do that around here and i said okay that
that's fine
and i i ended up just going all the way
over
with the pentecostal type church so i
could just enjoy it
fully and not you know try to you know
act like this is not who i am when
it really was who i was so uh that's
where i ended up at but my parents
also didn't understand me and i remember
when i
uh sat down with my mom and dad and
talked with them
because they wanted to ask questions you
know what's happened to you and stuff
like that
well the more i talk they just listen
and when i finish talking they said
stephen
we want you to know how much we love you
but
we also want you to know that we believe
that you have lost your mind
but we are willing to pay for you to see
the best
uh psychiatrist that money can afford so
that we can help
you get your your head fixed
and i said and you know what it didn't
phase me one bit
i said you know i what i said this is
very very interesting
because the whole time i was raised in
church
and you know i was saved i i eventually
got saved
but the whole time even after i was
saved
and struggling with all kinds of sin
issues and
you know going through my christian
journey like a bump on a log
uh you know kind of like lost in the fog
you know
you guys never said anything you thought
i was fine
but now that i'm on fire for god serving
the lord
now you think i'm crazy so i just said
like who's
who really is the one that's crazy i
said i just cannot live
this life anymore of you know kind of
like repeating first grade over and over
again
once you've done that for forever you're
just like isn't there something else
and there there is so i was very
respectful to my parents
uh but i said i must go on with the lord
and you know they caught they cut off
all support for college cut off
everything
uh some of the things they were doing
you know like paying for my car
insurance whatever they cut all that off
to and i said it's okay i understand
but i i had to go on with the lord but
from that day forward they pretty much
blackballed me in
other words you're out uh
and if you ever drop this thing of the
holy spirit
and this tongue's business and this
so-called baptism in the holy spirit
if you ever drop that then come back
into the family so it was a cut off
and what i didn't know i found out later
because my brother told me
as that my parents had called all of my
college friends
that i and i didn't know kind of called
them behind my back had called all of
them and said stephen has lost his mind
and uh you know just uh you may if you
see him just be aware he's lost his mind
and stuff like that
so uh uh all this funny stuff was going
on but really yeah it cost me a lot
to move on with god to leave to leave
something that
uh brought me into christ but to realize
they're not going anywhere they don't
want to go anywhere they're they're
still living literally back in the 1600s
they're living on the revelation that
that denomination received back in the
late 1600s and they've camped there
and they're not coming off that till uh
until jesus comes back
and you know what if that's what they
want to do that's fine but i must go on
i must go on because the lukewarmness
that was there um
whoo i i couldn't i couldn't take it
anymore i was about to go crazy i was
about to go stir crazy praise the lord
and it really did
it felt like uh sitting maybe like in
third grade
over and over again when you're ready to
uh go for some master classes
it was just like driving me crazy praise
the lord
so you sometimes you just have to
make that decision and say lord i'm
going to go on
with you even even
if all should just pull back and say you
know what well
we're not going to do it trust me there
are multitudes
moving on with the lord right now praise
god
hallelujah god will bring you into that
that fellowship
that fellowship sometimes there's even
the fellowship of suffering
where you connect with others and they
understand why the same things happen to
them
same thing has happened to them but you
must move on verse 19
jesus said as many as i love i rebuke
and chasten
therefore be zealous and repent now this
is amazing
as many as i love a lot of people would
say that
jesus is just sweet he's nice he's
always just super sweet
that that is one part of him but you're
really
grossly misleading other brothers and
sisters in the lord
if that's the only side of jesus you
ever present
it is a gross misrepresentation of the
character
and the nature and the person of jesus
christ the head of the church
as many as i love i rebuke and chasten
i've talked about some of those
experiences before
the time i actually had a vision of when
the lord appeared to me
and he didn't come to me to release a
blessing
or to share something wonderful he came
to me
to bring a rebuke for something that i
had done i had gotten into doubt
and unbelief and a great trial and a
great trial knowing that the lord was
watching
i i fumbled the ball and i looked at the
circumstances
and the lord saw that and he came to
rebuke me for my unbelief
wow praise the lord but you know what
that set me straight
whoo praise the lord if you're ever in
the trial
don't think god doesn't see just keep
moving forward with the lord
and stay in faith and eventually you're
going to come out of that storm
you'll come out of that situation and
god will bless you
behold i stand at the door and knock if
anyone hears my voice and opens the door
i will come into him and dine with him
and he with me
to him who overcomes i will grant to sit
with me
on my throne now this thing of
overcoming
is very very important if defeat
has become routine in your life
there's something that you don't know
that you need to know
that's why we know from god's word where
he said to the prophet
hosea my people are destroyed
because of lack of knowledge
so if there is defeat failure some
element of destruction or being
destroyed
it could be that there's something that
god wants you to know that you simply
don't know and there's a lot of
christians they've never been taught
how to be an overcomer how to overcome
sin how to overcome temptation how to
overcome how about this one the flesh
praise the lord to him who overcomes
i will grant to sit with me on my throne
as i also overcame and sat down with my
father on his
throne praise the lord
there are those that will face
martyrdom it's a big planet there are
those probably today
who will face martyrdom but for others
god has a different path and it's that
of being a
living martyr where you die to self
and you die to the
pool of a fallen world that says just
come run wild and enjoy
yourself live for all that you can
because life will soon be over and
you'll die and be in the grave
well my friends the living martyr
realizes
that true life can only be found in the
lord jesus christ
whoo and that's where it begins because
jesus said
you have to lose your life
in order to find the life i have for you
and he who tries to keep his life his
own plan
his own i'm going to do it this way he
who tries to keep his life
will lose the god life that plan that
beautiful path that god has for you
you'll never know it it will be veiled
because those that are prideful and
arrogant even though they may be a
believer
if they're prideful and arrogant that
beautiful path god will veil it
he will veil it but you can only get on
it through humility
and seeking after the lord and embracing
what god has for you and you'll find out
you'll find out what true living
really is praise the lord
hallelujah he who has an ear let him
hear what the spirit
says to the churches
praise god thank you lord jesus
lord we give you praise today we're
coming
into a time where
the messenger must
become the message
pastor stephen i want to testify
that's good that's good that you can
testify
but the lord wants you to be a living
testimony
the lord wants you to be able to not
just stand up and say something
and then sit down and go live another
way
if you share the gospel with someone
they're going to be looking at your life
they may never they may never read this
initially now they get saved i'm sure
they will but initially
what they're going to read is you whoo
praise the lord
so the messenger
must become the message
i'm going to step into something just
for a moment i'm going to i'm going to
veer into something by the holy spirit
we have two political parties in our
nation one is democrat one is republican
it's not a secret that for the majority
of those who are
democratic they embrace
a mindset an ideology
a belief pretty much that would run
contrary
to scripture they delight in abortion
and and they knowingly do they they have
no problem with killing babies
and that's just part of their platform
that they
stand on and they embrace and many
things
that god directly in his word god
called an abomination they actually say
it's wonderful
they say it's good and they embrace that
within their party and they celebrate it
and there is an attitude
of doesn't matter if you cheat it long
as you win
and nobody finds out it's okay and so
this whole area of ethics
and morality and there are
absolute rights and there are absolute
wrongs it's really all thrown out the
window
and they know that and they don't they
don't care that's just
the way they are and they also hate
israel and
they don't believe that god has a plan
for israel or that
you know the promises of the bible all
that stuff they just don't believe that
they may act religious but as for part
uh it's just all a facade and they just
just
really want to stay in power
and multiply corruption and that's just
what they do
and they don't mind now that
everything's out of the bag
really it's just a big
it's just a big mess that they uh choose
to live in
cheating lying they don't think any of
that stuff's wrong
now we have a republican party now
here's what i'm trying to say
for the democrats they do certain things
that are that are wrong
and they they just don't care but for
the republicans
you could have a republican that can say
i'm conservative
and i'm pro-life and all that's good
right that that's good
they're endeavoring at least on paper
to more come into a harmony with what
the bible would say
uh these are standards of truth
but at the same time if they're going to
stand there and look over at the
democrats
and say now uh the things you guys are
doing are corrupt
the processes that you carry out it's
unconstitutional
it's unlawful now we know you don't care
you're gonna do it anyhow but that's not
right
well for a republican to say that
the the messenger must
be the message in other words the
democrats are going to look right back
at you
and say well you're telling us that what
we're doing is wrong but
you're over here and you're doing uh
you're making a lot of money
by having these senate or congressional
closed-door meetings where you're
getting top-level briefings
and then you mr republican or mrs
republican senator
you come right out of that meeting oh
and then you call your broker on the
phone
and you make a big stock trade to either
save your
finances or move them over and sell
those shares and reinvest them in
something else
and you make millions of dollars off
that yeah you're going to turn around
after having done insider trading and
you know it's illegal
but you didn't get caught because you
know how to work that system and you're
gonna
you're gonna tell us over here that what
we're doing is wrong so it's like the
uh you know the pot calling the kettle
black it's just total hypocrisy
and it is it is well pastor stephen
what should the republicans do repent
if you're a republican and you call
yourself a christian stop taking bribes
stop taking illegal or illicit
funds stop doing things that are
unethical
even if it's legal it may not be moral
stop doing stuff like that
praise the lord hallelujah the lord
the lord will take care of the
corruption in the democratic party
they're corrupt and they know they know
they're corrupt they don't care
they know that they know that's just how
they operate
cheat lie steal mismanaged money by the
billions they don't care that's just
what they do
and they know that they know that they
just want to stay in power and keep
doing that
but the republicans they don't need to
be so much focused on why
there are so many radical democrats
they the republicans need to repent and
they need to get their lives right with
god
and the lord will take care of the
democrats that's just my take on that
praise the lord how can you say that you
stand for truth if you're a republican
and then you turn right around and you
use profanity
and you're just you know like uh
i don't know you're so compromised in
your life praise the lord there needs to
be
repentance amongst our
political leaders from the white house
down
praise god yes i'm praying for mr trump
but i believe
i believe president trump somebody close
to him some some of these so-called
prophets and ministers that are visiting
the white house
need to say mr president you confess
that you're born again christian but the
scripture says
why why if you profess
that this is your you know your place
that you're a believer
how can salt water be flowing from a
freshwater spring
in other words why why are you using so
much profanity
cursing constantly yet you say that
you're a christian
you stop doing that you need to really
examine
the words that are coming out of your
mouth and you need to repent
for doing that whoo praise the lord see
it's wrong
there just needs to be repentance people
need to live right
now we we see all the phony stuff
because anybody just about can see
through all the phony stuff
but for those that are saying they're
legitimate that we are the offenders of
the constitution we are the ones that
are
upholding ethics and morals and values
then you need to live it
you need to live it and you need to stop
all the corruption whoo praise the lord
see we need some pastors that when they
go to the white house and they're
invited to
to say a few things at the uh at the
prayer meeting
yeah they need to say a few things all
right they need to say you all need to
repent
because you're saying things but you're
living totally opposite of what you're
saying
now if that doesn't apply to you you
should be able to sit here and the
message
shouldn't phase you one bit you should
be comfortable but if you're
living a double standard you should be
wanting to squirm in your seat and you
should repent um
yes we have the we have the far leftists
we have the radicals
[Laughter]
but you know what uh the issue is those
that
say one thing that say this is the right
way to live yet they're not even
they're not even living what they
proclaim it's total hypocrisy
and there needs to be repentance and
that also starts with pastors
in pulpits all across america
praise the lord hallelujah
jesus we worship you today you know
if you'll just start getting close to
the lord
the you'll get into the presence of the
lord
and the wisdom of god will begin to flow
what is wisdom
let's see if we can define it through
several different definitions
the wisdom of god number one
is the ability to anticipate
a consequence in other words if we do
this
this we anticipate is going to result
in this and that's wisdom
you do a good thing it's going to end up
producing good stuff wisdom also says
hey
if we're involved in this over here this
is not good eventually
that's going to produce a consequence
that's not going to be good
we shouldn't do that absolutely now
wisdom is also the ability
to discern difference number one
the difference between good and
evil and the bible gives standards
for what is good and also what god calls
evil and the bible is truth and anytime
anyone anywhere tries to
redefine truth you're going to end up
later
in a big mess whether you tried to re
redefine the truth of biblical marriage
of what god
said marriage is between man and a woman
or you try to
redefine truth on identity
of gender what a man is what a woman is
all of this stuff
anytime you start changing what god
defined as truth
you're going to end up in a real
mess what is wisdom
it is the ability discern to discern
different
difference between good and evil
right and wrong and then it just
branches into all kinds of other
uh areas of discerning difference praise
the lord
and when you are in the presence of the
lord
walking close to him
praise god refusing to be distracted by
all the craziness of the world
and sitting at the feet of the lord
that wisdom will begin to be imparted in
to you and the first thing you'll see
with wisdom is you'll see people doing
crazy things
and you'll see right through it you'll
say you'll see well now hold on a minute
you're saying
one thing you're saying that what there
is doing is wrong and what they are
doing is wrong
but you're doing wrong yourself so this
is you know
uh this is what's diluting everything um
wow praise god
you know the lord he wants us
to go into the holy of holies
most christians are living in the outer
court
the outer court was called the court
of the gentiles and
it's where the majority of the people
were at
but only the levites and only the
priests could go into the tabernacle
itself they were the only ones that
could go into
the holy place and there in the holy
place
you had the table of showbread 12 loaves
of bread
each loaf representing one of the twelve
tribes of israel
and then over on the side you had the
seven flamed menorah
the the lamp stand that was always
burning
and then in the center you had the altar
of incense
but then beyond that beautiful curtain
back behind the curtain was the ark of
the covenant pastor stephen are they
going to find that one day
well it's probably been melted down
sometime in antiquity but even if it was
still
kept and still found it's nothing more
than a
phenomenal ancient relic because we are
now in a new covenant
and god no longer dwells between
the cherubim and an old testament
tent or temple type system he now
indwells the believer so
under that old covenant system when you
went into
the holy of holies and only the high
priest could do that
once a year one day out of the year on
the day of atonement yom kippur
and the high priest would actually go in
four times to carry out very specific
requirements that were addressed in the
law of moses
and he would do those things but in
there was the
ark of the covenant and three things
were inside the ark of the covenant
beneath the mercy seat
the three things were number one the
golden pot
of manna aaron's rod that butt it
and two tablets of stone
my friends god
wants to form us into overcomers
the lord wants to do a work in us
where we are seen as in a sense
the ark of the covenant the carriers
of the glory the light upon you
but the light does not come upon
compromised people even if they're
christians
isaiah chapter 60 the glory of the lord
will be seen upon you
that is the purified church
that is the spotless bride of christ
not the compromised church that says one
thing and lives a completely different
other type of life
praise the lord god wants us to become
an ark of the covenant a carrier of the
shekinah glory
just as there were two tablets of stone
with the commandments
the ten commandments written upon them
god has now written his commandments
upon the tablets of our hearts
and we know inwardly by the guiding of
the holy spirit
what is pleasing to the lord and what is
wrong what is displeasing to the lord
hallelujah glory to god thank you lord
jesus and we need to live
by the spirit of the law the letter
kills but the spirit gives life
and it becomes a privilege and a joy to
serve the lord
his commandments are never burdensome
they're actually
liberating and they're joyful to keep
praise god hallelujah
there's also as we mentioned the golden
pot of manna
and when you step into the the life
of an overcomer walking close with god
living in his presence then you
are allowed and privileged to eat
the secret hidden manna you have
revelation
you have spiritual food that others
who refuse to move on with god who camp
in these mundane levels
of just very very shallow waters
they don't even know that hidden manna
exists
wow but that becomes your food
that's the angel's food that's the
eagle saints food and you are fed
that by the spirit of god himself
praise the lord glory to god
and of course when that becomes your
diet many don't understand you
they don't understand why you don't
listen to the music
that they listen to well it's because i
don't want demons crawling into my ears
you know if you could see into the
spirit
the average christian if they could see
into the spirit it would terrorize them
some of the things that they would see
how demons evil spirits can actually
ride on
the frequencies of certain music that is
unholy
and ungodly and as that music comes in
or as those
movies or tv shows come in it's not just
entertainment
there are evil spirits riding on that
manifesting through nightmares
and bad dreams and just
what we would call maybe bad vibes
because it's all evil from the dark
realm you know i had a friend of mine
one time when i was
going to a a christian college and he
was getting his bible degree and
he had learned hebrew and he had learned
greek
and he had learned theology but
a lot of that stuff was all in his head
he even knew it was he was just like you
know stephen my life is kind of dry
i'm learning all this stuff and i'm
supposed to be a preacher and i don't
even know how to pray
so but yet he and i were friends and we
we had actually he and i had committed
to go
uh on a two-year missionary program uh
the lord changed all of that because we
really weren't ready for that
and the lord redirected our paths and
that was okay
but you know what one day in the midst
of all of his
religious education and learning all of
this stuff
one day he met a satanist
and this is why we're still in college
he met a satanist and this guy said hey
come into my van i want to show you a
few things in my van and he thinking
well hey this stuff can't faze me i i've
got
i've got an education i know i know
everything about the bible this stuff of
the devil is all fake
it's just a bunch of hocus pocus and he
went and sat down in this van
the guy closed the door and showed him
some things and evil such evil power
swept into that van it struck
it struck my my friend with terror and
he came out of that van and and uh told
like i never want to see you again and
uh
and he he said stephen he said i'm
taking
every now this is back in the day where
you had cassette tapes i'm taking every
cassette tape i have
of all this secular music and you know
he had it all because he listened to it
he said i'm burning it i'm getting rid
of it
he said this evil stuff is real it comes
in through music
and it comes in through these different
forms of entertainment and i do not want
to be defiled with this
look this is why many christians they
have deformed souls
their full their souls if you could see
them in the spirit their souls are
literally deformed
it doesn't even look right it's all
messed up why because all the stuff that
they're feeding on
it's warping their way of thinking
hallelujah god wants to feed you with
the hidden
manna and then then you can minister
words of life to others praise god
hallelujah they can read you and they
read the letter of christ on you you
become like the two tablets of stone
they can read the commandments they can
read the love of god they can read the
mercy of god
they can read the judgment of god they
can read the kindness of god the
severity of god
they can read that in you because god's
in you you've become the ark of the
covenant
and you have the hidden manna and you
can feed others with what you have
received
freely you have received freely gift
praise god
and then there's aaron's rod that bud it
and in a sense the lord makes you that
rod
and that rod represented god's choice
and the rod represents authority who
praised the lord
and you step into the authority of
christ
a co-regency a co-reigning with him
and the authority of the lord is
invested
into you and you use it wisely not to
hit somebody
over the head with the rod but no it's
just authority
that you have been given praise god
hallelujah
the church must not just be the
messenger
the church must become the message
praise the lord hallelujah
thank you jesus deuteronomy chapter 34
deuteronomy 34
praise god today verse 9
now joshua the son of nun was full of
the spirit of wisdom
for moses had laid his hands on him so
the children of israel heeded him
and did as the lord had commanded moses
moses walked in great wisdom
and when he laid his hands on his young
protege his young disciple
that wisdom was imparted into
the spirit and into the understanding of
joshua
when you spend time in the presence of
the lord
the wisdom of god is released into
your life it is impossible listen to
this
it is impossible to stay
spiritually ignorant or even spiritually
stupid
if you have been consistently in
the presence of the lord you are very
quickly
discerned the difference between good
and evil
what's angelic and what is satanic
what is holy and what is a religious
fraud
see here's the problem today even in
politics
in politics you have those that are glad
to kill babies
and they'll say but i'm a holy person i
go to church
i'm a catholic or i go to this church i
belong to that church i belong to this
church in washington d.c
see it's all religious fraud there's no
meaning in it
but the wisdom of god the wisdom of god
allows you to see right through all of
the phoniness
and you realize those people don't even
know what they're talking about they're
just using
cliches and they don't know god at all
and you have a lot of churches i'm going
to go further you have a lot of churches
in america
where in many cases half the church
they're not even born again they're just
going there there are some churches and
i've said in a few
where i would probably say 97 maybe 98
percent of the people that are in that
congregation maybe of 2000 people
are not even saved they're not even
saved
i remember that a very godly prophet
said he was in a meeting one time
there's about
500 people in the church
he was sitting in the congregation and
his wife was sitting next to him
and now this prophet was on all over the
world as a very holy man of god
walking in the fear of the lord and he
said that his wife went into a vision
during worship when everybody had their
hands up and she could look in the
spirit
and what she saw was startling
that uh the 500 people there in the
service
that had their hands up only five people
out of that whole group had white gloves
on representing purity and holiness in
their life
wow praise the lord
this is something that the lord
greatly desires for his
people to move into which is a place of
maturity
a place of being the overcomer a place
of knowing
the presence of the lord and spending
time with god in the holy of holies now
the veil
of course has been torn the veil
representing the flesh
the body of christ and so there is way
a way now into the very presence of god
but my friends we need to be going there
on a daily
basis praise god
by not engaging in this walk with the
lord
it is very easy to become lethargic and
to fall asleep
and to be very mediocre and just to
think well this is the way everybody is
but that doesn't mean it's god's
standard
praise the lord hallelujah thank you
jesus
glory to the lord glory to the lord
i have been in some churches
and some organizations entire
i'll give an example even an entire
ministerial organization
that had zero interest in holiness
zero they had zero interest in holiness
they
they never would ever want to hear a
message on holiness or right living
all they wanted to hear was a different
subject which was their
subject that they were a specialist in
they didn't want to hear anything else
about living right
honoring god with your with your life or
with your body
or you know with your your sacrifice
to the lord they didn't want to hear
anything about that ever
and of course i didn't stay very long in
that organization
praise god the times
that we're living in are times in which
we must walk close with god and honor
him
we're in the very late hours we have to
serve the lord
we must walk in the wisdom of god so
that we can discern all the difference
that would be for us the truth and the
lies
praise the lord and you have to take
your stand
even if it's not popular if you're
playing the popular game you're in the
most
infant levels of the christian faith
you're in the you're in the diaper stage
that's like the baby christian diaper
stage
if you're compromising in certain areas
just because
you want people to like you praise the
lord
i have to tell you that
all of your likes on social media
doesn't count for anything pastor
stephen i want people to like me
that's nice but many of those people
that would give you a thumbs up
or like that doesn't mean that they're
going to
agree with you or stand with you should
suddenly
you know there become persecution or
something like that
praise the lord hallelujah
praise the lord glory glory to the lord
hallelujah glory to god
hallelujah see there can be a babylonian
system
that can be operating and you can be in
in that system from the perspective of
you have to
transact in life you have to do business
you have to go places and do things
but that doesn't mean that you just like
become part of that
and you're just you know you're you're
now just operating
just like it because i can't find
anything good about babylon in the bible
except for the fact
that it will eventually be destroyed
there's natural babylon
and there's spiritual babylon but
there's nothing good at all
ever mentioned about babylon
praise the lord hallelujah i think
many of these spirits try to penetrate
and get into the church
and to break the church down to become
worldly to become sensual
to become crude and ungodly and
debased in conduct and in speech
praise the lord praise the lord
but god's doing a work in his people of
holy
separation many christians they live in
the outer court
but then you have the the the uh inner
court now you have the holy place
and the most holy place
and the only true safe place is
in the very presence of the lord and if
you will walk with the lord he'll
protect you
from anything and everything that would
be
out there and there's a lot of yucky
stuff out there and there could be some
other
yucky things that get released but not
only the things that are out there but
also the deception
that's what's so dangerous is the
deception
and the tolerance of
the ungodliness that would
try to be forced upon the church you
must take your stand
praise god hallelujah
and you must be willing to speak the
truth to people
that if they're living in sin and
they're christians and you have the
opportunity to talk with them
that you don't just let that slide
praise the lord you do that you need to
share the love of christ with them and
say that's not right
praise god hallelujah glory to the lord
they'll actually respect you even if
they don't
like you for telling them that and of
course you speak the truth in love
they will respect you hallelujah
thank you lord jesus praise the lord the
lord is moving his people forward
glory to god glory to god
we're seeing many of our freedoms eroded
and taken away but i believe that god
will preserve his people
praise the lord today hallelujah now
in the presence of the lord is joy and
also a release of that wisdom
and what it does for you is that it
causes
everything and i mean everything
everything in your life to become
smooth it's it like becomes like
vanilla it's a very pleasing smooth
life hallelujah regardless of what
you're going through
praise the lord the lord is with you the
lord is with you
walk with the lord and watch him deliver
you from
every situation walk with
the lord praise god
turn away from all sin and walk
close with the lord praise god
move away from
shallow christianity that makes fun of
the reverence of god and the holiness
of god and the greatness of god
praise the lord glory to the lord
move into the most holy place and don't
ever come out
praise god thank you lord jesus
i see some of you you have been pushing
so hard to come into this walk with god
and you're just about to graduate into
the eagle
saint status i would say
don't stop keep going i'm seeing that
right now in the spirit
and that really bore witness with with
some that are watching
you're almost there keep pushing
you're about to get your wings you're
about to get your badge
it looks like uh in the spirit looks
like an air force badge
which is a couple of wings you're about
to get that
praise the lord and so that that's a
breaking free
that's a breaking free and once you
break free you just maintain it
glory to god hallelujah and for others
because you have fought to come into
the overcomer position in the midst of
the late odyssey and
casual lifestyle of not caring of all
the disinterest in the things of god
you have fought through that
and there's a new anointing coming to
many of you
who have pushed on there's a new
anointing coming
a new freedom i said for many of you
it's going to involve traveling
hallelujah and because of your love for
the lord
you're going to be able to go to israel
i believe you'll be able to go every
year
to honor the lord by going on a tour
perhaps you could even come
on my tour but regardless
there's a new freedom coming for travel
praise the lord
thank you lord jesus hallelujah
glory to god blessed be the name of the
lord
praise the lord thank you lord jesus i'm
just kind of
waiting on the holy spirit as the holy
spirit's ministry
i sense in my spirit some of you are
wondering about the
the vaccines pastor stephen would you
take the vaccine
as long as it's a vaccine that's like
you know like a vaccine for measles or
mumps or polio
that knocked those things out and you
you needed to travel yeah i would take
it
um but if there's stuff in it that's you
know
not good then we'll figure something
else there'll be other options
praise the lord this thing of using
stem cell research is very very tragic
very awful because
that's coming from dismembered body
parts of precious little babies that
were aborted
and that's how they're doing a lot of
that research so as long as none of that
is in there
it's not long as it's not in the vaccine
then i believe it's ethical and it's
okay to take it but we want to find out
first
praise the lord hallelujah i was
listening to
uh dr peter daniels and he had
been struggling with um uh
the disease when you you lose your
memory and you can't remember things
and they were looking all over the world
for a remedy remember he's a
multi-billionaire so he has the finances
to
try to look for a natural solution and
they found a remarkable
drug that worked incredible but
when they did research into the drug
they found
out that that drug contained
uh the dna of the stim stem cell
research
the stem cells were in there that's
where that's where they were getting the
origins for that
that drug and he said i could never use
it ever again so he stopped
and he said there's got to be something
else and they found it
they found a device that reverses
all of that type of dementia
and all of that memory loss and he's
been using it and he's been doing really
really well praise the lord
so god has our health in mind and he'll
take care of us he'll always show us
what to do
but i sense a new freedom a new ability
to travel
to many places for the glory of god and
for the purposes of the lord
hallelujah thank you father thank you
father we give you praise
the overcomer sword
many of you are going to sense a sword
in your hand in the coming days
and i'm not talking about months i'm
talking about days
a sword of authority for others it may
it may
be more like a rod of authority that all
goes to the overcomer
father we give you praise there's great
rewards for walking close with the lord
my friends
eternal and on this earth as well as our
true representative of the lord
hallelujah glory glory to god
praise the lord thank you lord jesus
i see many of you taking time to sit at
the feet of the lord receiving that
impartation of wisdom
glory to the lord and you're going to
always know
what to do always praise god
now father we seal these things we thank
you father god that
you gave the solution of what to do when
things weren't going well
out of second chronicles chapter 7 verse
14.
which is to repent to repent if there is
sin
and the enemy's breaking in and things
aren't going right
repent of sin that is being practiced
and turned
to you so father we thank you that that
includes everybody nobody's exempt not
even if they're the president
it doesn't matter who they are if
there's sin that's being tolerated or
practiced
and that person is a christian and
they're continuing to do things that are
sinful
we thank you father there needs to be
repentance and there needs to be
prophets
that will say it and ministers apostles
and evangelists that will say this is
not this is not the way that we live as
christians
lord we give you praise and a spirit of
love these things need to be spoken
father we give you praise father we
thank you that
those that don't live for you and don't
uh desire to honor you we understand why
they live the way they live
and they're they're openly uh proud of
that but father for those of us that
would carry
the flame of truth and the torch of
liberty
and for those of us us that really do
love you your word and
our country we thank you father god that
we must live for you we give you praise
father god
we must follow your commandments
thank you father let there be strength
and grace released
in jesus name amen
matthew the gospel of matthew
chapter 19 jesus said go therefore
and make disciples of all the nations
baptizing them in the name of the father
and of the son of the and of the holy
spirit
teaching them to observe all things
that i have commanded you well now
pastor stephen i want to receive christ
because i want to go to heaven i don't
want to go to hell
but i don't really want to serve the
lord i still want to do my own thing
well then you're not a disciple
because jesus said teaching them to
observe
that means to obey to to intently look
at
and obey and follow to observe all
things that i have commanded you
we must obey the commandments
of the lord praise god sin is sin
it'll kill you it's not a good thing
praise the lord father we thank you
let your anointing come the overcomer
anointing and the grace to continue the
push
father we thank you that many of your
saints are pushing through the
breakthrough
into this new realm and and
there will be the commissioning
and the order the ordination of some new
generals watch out
in the body of christ that is coming
praise the lord father we thank you in
jesus name
amen and amen praise god
if you're watching today's program and
you don't know christ
as your lord and savior my friend you
have a sin problem
but jesus made a provision and
a solution for the sins of humanity
and all you have to do is receive him as
your lord and savior
and commit your heart to him to live for
him and he'll grant you his eternal life
and he'll wash your sins away if you
would like to receive him now
as your lord and savior and fully give
your heart to him
pray this prayer after me
say jesus i'm a sinner
but you died for sinners so jesus
save me right now i give my heart
completely to you step into my life
and lead me and guide me from this day
forward
wash me with your precious blood write
my name in your book of life
thank you jesus for saving me i give my
life to you fully
in your name i pray amen
and amen praise the lord
hallelujah hallelujah praise the lord
can i just say this you know what we
don't need you know what the american
church does not
need we do not need another pop star
hollywood star celebrity
or athlete the so-called get saved
and give their testimony while they're
still living like a rat
we don't need any more of that in the
american church
wow and i would really appreciate it if
these christian magazines and christian
news outlets
would stop putting all of these
pop cultural icons on pedestals who are
baby christians who are still
sleeping around and living ungodly and
thinking
isn't this great that they've become a
christian they're no more a disciple of
christ
than there are mice running around on
the moon eating cheese
it's just not happening it's not
happening and we need to stop
celebrating these fake testimonies
and if they really want to become a
christian let them
turn from their sin and start living
like a christian
woo praise the lord hallelujah
and if they want to give their testimony
they need to
live for a while for christ and prove
that they're the disciple
instead of us putting them up on a
soapbox saying look at them they're
famous
now this will give traction for the
church this will make the church look
good now
since when does the church need
spokesmen like this
we're supposed to lead we we don't need
the world's backing
since when do we need the world to pack
up paddles on the back
and give us their commissioning supposed
to be the other way around we're
supposed to be the light on the hill
whoo praise god it says in the last days
that the nations will stream to the
mountain of the lord why we're the ones
that got the answers we have we have the
solutions
we have the message of eternal life not
them they're lost
in their sins praise the lord
so hopefully some of these uh news
outlets can spare us
the the silliness of another
pop celebrity that became a christian
but they're you know you know still
sleeping around all the time and uh
and still doing all their their
grotesque concert tours and stuff like
that while
supposedly naming the name of christ
and the celebrity pastors that egged
that on
while the truth is many of the celebrity
pastors are committing the same sins
those guys are wow
praise god see i've i've been in the
ministry for
several decades now and i know the yucky
stuff
look if you think there's a swamp in dc
in a political swamp there's a swamp in
the church
you've got pastors that are doing wife
swapping you've got pastors that are
homosexuals
you've got all kinds of crazy stuff
that's just
not only talking about heresies and
false teachings
and we have to start living right what
is a heresy
paul paul listed the deeds of the flesh
and he started off with all the sexual
sins but he also lists heresies
every heresy every false teaching is
rooted out of the flesh nature of
somebody some preacher
that wants to live in the flesh and
enjoy their sin so they create a
heresy if you walk in wisdom and stay in
the presence of god
you can discern so clearly that's a
heretical teaching
that's nothing but a fleshly uh
compensating teaching so that that
person continued to live in their sin
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praise the lord hallelujah
if you'll give the lord all of your
heart he'll heal you
of diseases he'll heal you of sickness
if you forgive anybody sinned against
you you really mean it
healing will rush into your life if you
walk close with the lord
everything everything will start lining
up in a smooth beautiful
way everything will start to smooth out
for you
but you can't keep compromising you
can't keep doing things that are wrong
and expecting somehow that the full
blessing of the lord is going to work it
won't
some of you you haven't taken flight
because your engines
although they are jet engines i'm
speaking symbolically metaphorically
you have like these jet engines that are
ready to take you up
but you've like taken all of this goop
and goo
and you've just thrown it into your
engines and now your engines are all
clogged up
and gooped up and they won't work right
they won't ignite and light right
so you can't you can't fly the way god
wants you to
so you're gonna have to realize the
horrific consequences of sin
and stop playing around with it and
start walking and serving the lord
praise the lord
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hallelujah father we thank you in jesus
name
amen let's take holy communion today
grab some unleavened bread
grab some grape juice and let's pray
father thank you for the blood of jesus
thank you for the body of jesus
we sanctify the bread the juice by this
prayer
we thank you that this is holy this is
the body and the blood of christ
father as we receive the body
of jesus
we just thank you father god that
all that you have prepared for us
belongs to us but father we must
walk with you and honor you in the way
that we live
thank you father as we receive the body
of jesus
we thank you for the the analogy
that jesus gave that if our right hand
causes us to sin
cut it off if our right eye
causes us to sin pluck it out
father we understand that your son was
referring to
a hyperbole which was an exaggerated
statement
meant to make a great impact to deal
seriously
with issues that would beset us
so father we thank you that while we
don't have to start cutting stuff off
it doesn't mean cut the sin off so
father we give you praise as we receive
the body of christ
father we thank you that
in a mystical way we are that body
not just an american church not just a
western church we're a global church
and that includes our brothers and
sisters in china the underground church
in iran in north korea
who lay it all on the line
to have christ as their savior so father
we thank you we're one body
and when they hurt we hurt we thank you
for that identification
of the fellowship of sufferings the
sufferings of christ that are in our
brothers father we thank you that we
there's times we can feel that father
i've been feeling that over the last 24
hours
so we thank you father god we intercede
we intercede for them
thank you father god in a way not that
you would
end the persecution because
sometimes there's an
element of mystery where that can be
your will
and it develops your people in a
phenomenal way that
other other atmospheres can't create
but father even should we be in a place
where there's lots of freedoms
we must still live that life of the
living martyr
to come into the richness that you have
for us in christ
now father we thank you we receive the
body of christ now
we thank you for all of the doors that
you're opening for us to go through
in jesus name amen let's receive
praise the lord somebody you just got
delivered of an evil spirit
and that thing came right out of you i
don't know who you are
but an evil spirit just left you just
like
a few seconds ago praise god it came
right out of you and it smelled bad you
could smell it
it's left you praise god your decision
to fully commit to the lord the lord has
set you free from that tormenting power
that thing is gone
praise the lord
and for somebody it was a condition you
couldn't eat you couldn't
you couldn't keep the food down it was a
digestive situation
and it was shutting you down you
couldn't enjoy
certain foods and just all kinds of
trouble eating that thing has left you
praise god praise the lord
and i believe other healings are taking
place right now as well
father we thank you for the blood of
jesus
glory glory
we thank you for the cleansing blood of
jesus
washing all of our sins away
hallelujah let's pray this together
father we've committed any sins
we ask that you would forgive us and
wash all of our sins away
and we forgive anybody and anyone who
has sinned against us we forgive them
thank you father and father we pray that
you would lead us away from temptation
we pray that you would deliver us from
the evil one and we thank you for safety
and protection
in you hallelujah
hallelujah father we thank you
in jesus name amen let's receive the
blood of christ
praise god glory to the lord
you know joshua got so
attached to the presence of the lord and
the temple of the lord that he just
stayed there all the time
these are personal decisions that we
make to move towards the lord
and as you do it'll move you into an
anointing of leadership
it'll move you into an anointing of
wisdom
praise the lord i think some of you are
going to be very surprised
of where your commitment to the lord
your all-out commitment to the lord is
going to take you
praise the lord give him your all and
then
he will open his very best to you
thank you for watching today i look
forward to seeing you back
next time stay blessed bye