1 00:00:03,280 --> 00:00:08,480 Good morning, Springhouse. 2 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:10,640 I want to just reiterate about this. 3 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,720 One of the reasons why I love Operation Christmas 4 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,780 Child, this particular outreach for Springhouse, 5 00:00:15,780 --> 00:00:18,620 is because this is something you can do on your schedule, 6 00:00:18,620 --> 00:00:20,840 on your time, and with your family. 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,800 One of our favorite things is take our girls. 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,000 We'll go to Dollar Tree or Walmart or Target. 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,420 And they get to pick out the things that they put in there. 10 00:00:28,420 --> 00:00:29,000 They're a part. 11 00:00:29,000 --> 00:00:30,340 Their fingerprints are on there. 12 00:00:30,340 --> 00:00:33,120 And we get to teach our kids what it is to be selfless. 13 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,120 And why we're doing this is to really give the gospel 14 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:38,480 of Jesus Christ across the world. 15 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:39,360 And we've had people-- 16 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:40,480 I've had people that came-- 17 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:41,840 we do this at the school. 18 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,560 We've had people who have come who share. 19 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:48,880 They were one of the kids who received the box 20 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:49,840 at another country. 21 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:51,000 And now they're living in the States. 22 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:52,800 And they're sharing how they know Jesus because 23 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:53,800 of this awesome ministry. 24 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:55,440 So you have an opportunity here. 25 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,240 It's real easy to do. 26 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:58,800 And you can do it on your own timeline. 27 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:02,120 I would love to see every family participate in this 28 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,340 as our Springhouse outreach. 29 00:01:03,340 --> 00:01:04,360 Amen? 30 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:04,840 Amen. 31 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,680 OK, another outreach opportunity that's 32 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:10,240 coming much sooner than this is October 31st. 33 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,800 We will be doing our annual fall festival here 34 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,440 where thousands of people come and are 35 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:19,400 part of what the Lord's allowed us to put on here. 36 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:21,640 Guys, we need help. 37 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:24,080 If you're asking yourself, man, what can I do to serve here 38 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:24,640 at Springhouse? 39 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:25,200 What can I do? 40 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:26,400 How can I plug in? 41 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:27,800 We need your help. 42 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,120 Do we have a spot for you? 43 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:30,000 Absolutely. 44 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:31,920 Do we have vacancies that need to be filled? 45 00:01:31,920 --> 00:01:32,700 Absolutely. 46 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:34,240 We need your help that night. 47 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:36,380 And so here's what I need you to do next Sunday. 48 00:01:36,380 --> 00:01:38,440 We want to feed you a free lunch. 49 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:41,440 And we want to tell you about the event on the 31st. 50 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:44,080 It'd be about an hour, maybe an hour and 15 minutes 51 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:45,520 after this service. 52 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:46,560 We're going to feed you. 53 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,400 And then we want to get you to sign up to volunteer and be 54 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:50,000 a part of it. 55 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:51,880 Now, if you have kids, I understand if you have kids, 56 00:01:51,880 --> 00:01:53,240 you're going to want to walk with your kids 57 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,040 and participate in the event as well. 58 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:55,840 I totally get that. 59 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:56,760 Well, here's the thing. 60 00:01:56,760 --> 00:01:58,360 The more volunteers we have, then we 61 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,920 can put a schedule together so where you can serve 62 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:02,960 and participate as well. 63 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,800 OK, so we have everybody signed up to help. 64 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,960 We have the capacity to do all of that. 65 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,960 But man, I'll tell you, one of my favorite things 66 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:11,500 about that night-- I said this last week-- 67 00:02:11,500 --> 00:02:12,280 is Springhouse-- 68 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:15,000 --a presentation in here and gives the gift 69 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,000 to everybody who comes. 70 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,480 And so just similar to that Operation Christmas Child, 71 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:21,840 we have the opportunity to give Jesus to people on that night. 72 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:23,520 So it's going to be really, really good. 73 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,800 And there's going to be a lot of candy that night too. 74 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,360 And if you're bringing candy, there are buckets out there 75 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,960 that we would ask you to put those in over the next-- 76 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,880 well, I guess it'd be this week or next Sunday 77 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,640 if you could bring candy. 78 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:35,920 After that, just drop it off. 79 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:39,720 My office is right over down the hall. 80 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,240 Anyway, God is good. 81 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:43,920 Last thing I wanted to say this morning, 82 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:47,080 I just wanted to tell you how not just proud 83 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,360 I am of Springhouse, but just how grateful I 84 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,200 am for this body. 85 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:57,520 I genuinely, as your pastor, I feel that for a majority of you 86 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:00,120 I could come to you and say, hey, I really have a need. 87 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,760 Would you be willing to serve in this capacity or do X, Y, and Z? 88 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,640 And so many of you have your yes ready to be put on the table. 89 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:11,480 And I can't tell you what it means to me as a pastor 90 00:03:11,480 --> 00:03:17,040 to be able to know that when I need to call on somebody, man, 91 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:18,120 the yes is right there. 92 00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:20,160 Yesterday we had a celebration of life service 93 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,140 for Alyssa Lockett's here in this place. 94 00:03:22,140 --> 00:03:24,660 And everything turned around just last week. 95 00:03:24,660 --> 00:03:26,160 We were just getting things together. 96 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:28,800 And man, at every juncture we were asking, 97 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,140 would you be willing to serve? 98 00:03:30,140 --> 00:03:31,340 Would you be willing to help? 99 00:03:31,340 --> 00:03:34,760 And it was yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 100 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:37,600 I love the heart posture of this church. 101 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:41,000 And can I tell you, that should be the normal thing. 102 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:43,680 That is what normal kingdom living should be. 103 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,960 And so I just want to tell you I'm so grateful. 104 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:50,680 I want to continue to be a place that loves big, lives truth, 105 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:52,520 and is a healthy family. 106 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,480 God is so good and He's on the throne. 107 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:55,620 Is He not? 108 00:03:55,620 --> 00:03:56,460 Amen. 109 00:03:56,460 --> 00:03:58,880 We are going to continue our series today, His church. 110 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,840 And I am super excited about the word 111 00:04:01,840 --> 00:04:02,960 that's being brought today. 112 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:03,960 And I'm not bringing it. 113 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:06,880 Pastor Allen is going to come and bring the word today. 114 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:08,660 And I'm excited for what he's going to bring. 115 00:04:08,660 --> 00:04:11,220 Would you guys welcome Pastor Allen Smith. 116 00:04:11,220 --> 00:04:14,560 (congregation cheering) 117 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,320 - Love you. 118 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:18,320 - Love you. 119 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:22,280 (congregation clapping) 120 00:04:22,280 --> 00:04:23,120 - Thank you, Michael. 121 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,700 Stay here. 122 00:04:24,700 --> 00:04:29,460 I'm not trying to copy what happened in first service, 123 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:34,020 but I'm trying to be obedient to the Lord. 124 00:04:34,020 --> 00:04:37,900 First of all, if somebody could fulfill Matthew 10 125 00:04:37,900 --> 00:04:39,520 and offer me a cup of water, 126 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:42,420 I still have communion cracker in my teeth. 127 00:04:42,420 --> 00:04:45,740 And I'm trying, if I'm not preaching, I don't care. 128 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:46,740 Thank you, brother. 129 00:04:46,740 --> 00:04:48,400 (congregation clapping) 130 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,480 That's called obedience. 131 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,120 That's called having a yes on the table. 132 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,960 Thank you, brother. 133 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:59,820 I am echoing pastors. 134 00:04:59,820 --> 00:05:04,820 I won't try not to cry for three minutes 135 00:05:04,820 --> 00:05:06,900 like I did in first service. 136 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:09,280 It took me two or three minutes to get going. 137 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:15,920 I want to echo his sentiment about this house, 138 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:20,520 be the family, and how grateful, 139 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:24,280 how grateful I am that you're my family. 140 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:25,800 I know some of you deeply. 141 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:27,220 I know some of you well. 142 00:05:27,220 --> 00:05:29,640 And then there are those of you that I know a little, 143 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,220 and there's some of you that have not had the pleasure 144 00:05:32,220 --> 00:05:33,640 to meet and get to know yet, 145 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:35,240 and my harsh desire is to do that. 146 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:40,120 So here's, there's 400 of us between the two services. 147 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:41,220 Find me. 148 00:05:41,220 --> 00:05:42,340 Hey, let's go get coffee. 149 00:05:42,340 --> 00:05:45,720 Hey, Pastor Allen, I'm Bill, I'm Joe, I'm Sally, whatever. 150 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:47,720 'Cause I want to know you. 151 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:54,080 A week ago, I had the joy of taking my adult children, 152 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:57,900 and I took our kids to the beach and just got away, 153 00:05:57,900 --> 00:05:59,640 and somebody said, "You're an idiot. 154 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,400 There's a hurricane coming." 155 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,280 And I said, "I rebuke that thing in the name of Jesus." 156 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:09,300 'Cause I paid for this back in April. 157 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:13,720 Now don't get me wrong, 158 00:06:13,720 --> 00:06:16,600 my parents survived Hurricane Hugo 159 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:18,040 in Columbia, South Carolina. 160 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:22,800 That's 162 miles inland, and it destroyed their property. 161 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:24,280 So my heart grieves. 162 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:27,720 I've lived through a tornado in my childhood. 163 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,120 I understand devastation. 164 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:31,420 So don't get me wrong. 165 00:06:31,420 --> 00:06:33,920 My heart weeps for those people, 166 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,380 and there are, there are, in fact, let me brief plug. 167 00:06:37,380 --> 00:06:40,280 If you've seen a white trailer out here, 168 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:41,500 there's a brother in the house 169 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:43,800 that if we will keep filling it up with supplies, 170 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:46,220 he'll keep taking it to East Tennessee 171 00:06:46,220 --> 00:06:48,220 and Western North Carolina. 172 00:06:48,220 --> 00:06:51,280 It was supposed to be back today, I'm not sure if it is. 173 00:06:51,280 --> 00:06:54,400 He's working a 40 and 50 hour week 174 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:56,840 and driving on Saturday to drop those supplies off 175 00:06:56,840 --> 00:06:59,080 and come back so that it's here on Sundays. 176 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,620 So I challenge you, if you got water, if you got things, 177 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:05,760 it takes a while to recover from that. 178 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:07,660 So let me get forward. 179 00:07:07,660 --> 00:07:08,760 We're with my adult kids. 180 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,120 We had a wonderful time of fellowship. 181 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,080 Pastor Kevin went with us on the trip. 182 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,180 [congregation laughing] 183 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:16,880 Some of you know him, talk him out. 184 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:19,400 Don't worry, I know the guilty party 185 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,600 that papered my room when I came back. 186 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:23,720 I haven't forgot you. 187 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,140 He'll get yours over the course of a year. 188 00:07:27,140 --> 00:07:31,000 Anyway, we were so relaxed, so refreshed 189 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,740 that we were coming home, we watched the service, 190 00:07:33,740 --> 00:07:35,220 Chelsea and Renee and I were in the car 191 00:07:35,220 --> 00:07:38,320 and we got to hear what a powerful word 192 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:40,200 he brought last week in the worship. 193 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:41,800 There were tears, we were singing, 194 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:43,680 there was worship in the car. 195 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,600 We had great, great, great, great. 196 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,000 I don't mean this in the profane way, 197 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,160 but anyway, I had all hell break loose in your life before. 198 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:55,080 So you know what I mean. 199 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,120 I don't mean just, I'm talking about where the kingdom 200 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:02,300 of darkness comes against you and tries to destroy your faith 201 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:05,540 and rob you of your joy and take your rest 202 00:08:05,540 --> 00:08:07,080 that comes from only God. 203 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:09,440 We say, come unto me, all who are heavy laden 204 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,560 and take my burden for his light and I'll find rest. 205 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,000 And the enemy wants to just steal, kill and destroy 206 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:18,840 and take that from you. 207 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:23,740 We get home Sunday, or Saturday, sorry. 208 00:08:23,740 --> 00:08:25,640 We watched on Sunday, you weren't with us. 209 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,680 I have to correct Sunday. 210 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:29,720 She had to fly out Sunday morning early 211 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:34,720 and Renee goes out to the van and is dead. 212 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:38,480 I just bought a brand new battery the week before. 213 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,480 Mike Dennis is trying to figure it out. 214 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,600 So that's going on this week. 215 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,040 I get a text at 6.20 on Monday morning 216 00:08:46,040 --> 00:08:51,800 about Alyssa's tragic, tragic story. 217 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:54,520 And I'm just crushed at spirit. 218 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:57,440 The Locketts were a precious family in this house 219 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,440 and I was torn up. 220 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:01,320 I only knew him five years. 221 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:02,680 Some of the people in this house 222 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:04,440 have known him their whole time. 223 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:05,600 And it just ripped my heart. 224 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:08,320 And then I get a call from one of my biker friends. 225 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:11,840 And he says, "Hey, Donna's about to go home. 226 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:16,320 She's in hospice, can you come and pray?" 227 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:21,320 So Monday evening, I sat there and I talked to the family. 228 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:23,560 I said, "Are you ready to let her go?" 229 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:28,280 'Cause they were tired of seeing her suffer. 230 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,520 She's incoherent, she doesn't in the physical 231 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,160 know what's going on, but I know in the spirit we do. 232 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,040 And they said, "Yeah, we just wanna see her suffer." 233 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:39,680 So we prayed. 234 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:42,960 I grabbed her little hand and gnawed her head 235 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,480 and I said, "Father, she's yours. 236 00:09:45,480 --> 00:09:49,920 And I just ask you, Jesus, in the name of Christ Almighty, 237 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:55,520 that you would make it swift and peaceful." 238 00:09:55,520 --> 00:09:57,320 She passed away early Tuesday. 239 00:09:57,320 --> 00:10:00,720 So now I've got another funeral this Saturday. 240 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,600 And then all kinds of chaos is going on in my life. 241 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:06,120 I had to do something as a pastor 242 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:07,840 that I don't like to have to do, 243 00:10:07,840 --> 00:10:09,960 but I had to bring correction and an incident. 244 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,920 And I prayed for days. 245 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,000 I asked Pastor Kevin, I even reached out 246 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:15,680 to Pastor Bruce for wisdom. 247 00:10:15,680 --> 00:10:18,320 And I sent an email that I had bathed in prayer 248 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,720 and asked the Holy Spirit to help me to write. 249 00:10:20,720 --> 00:10:23,840 And then I get an email back that's pages long. 250 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,800 And it's just full of stuff. 251 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,280 And even an accusation of a lawsuit in small claims court. 252 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:31,760 And I'm going, "God." 253 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:40,280 But rather than go, "Whoa, it's me and one," 254 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:43,680 I began to praise and sing songs of worship 255 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:48,200 and cry out to God, "You're my Deliverer. 256 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:50,000 You're my rocking shield. 257 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,720 You're my defense." 258 00:10:51,720 --> 00:10:55,560 He just said, "Keep silent. 259 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:59,360 Stand still and see my salvation." 260 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:03,000 And I tell you in the midst of all the grief 261 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:04,640 and all the heaviness and the woe, 262 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:09,640 I had such a joy yesterday that couldn't be expressed. 263 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:12,720 In the midst of this gathering with family, 264 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,360 my heart was broken, but yet I was full of joy. 265 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:18,600 I was full of hope. 266 00:11:18,600 --> 00:11:20,400 I will tell you this morning, 267 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,920 I don't know what your chaos is. 268 00:11:23,920 --> 00:11:26,360 I don't know what your cell is. 269 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,800 You were gonna talk about being in a prison cell today, 270 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:31,840 just like Kevin a few weeks ago. 271 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,040 I don't care what it is. 272 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,040 Can I tell you there is a name that is above every name 273 00:11:38,040 --> 00:11:39,840 and that name is Jesus. 274 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,440 And at that name, the darkness trembles. 275 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:47,240 At that name, he solids his fears. 276 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,240 And at that name, hope and deliverance can come to you. 277 00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:59,440 Father, thank you that you have given us a name 278 00:11:59,440 --> 00:12:03,720 that we can cry out, "I love Father." 279 00:12:03,720 --> 00:12:09,040 And you hear us and you watch over us 280 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:11,880 to perform your word in our lives. 281 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:13,080 So be with us, Lord. 282 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,960 For those in this room, I cannot be the only one 283 00:12:15,960 --> 00:12:21,040 who's gone through a week of hell, literally, in this room. 284 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,600 And some in this room may have been going through it 285 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:28,600 for weeks, but Lord, we're gonna speak the name of Jesus today. 286 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:30,840 And we're gonna see darkness tremble. 287 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,880 We're gonna see fear silenced. 288 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:36,840 And we're gonna see freedom in these situations 289 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:38,640 in Christ's name. 290 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:40,320 Amen. 291 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,280 I had a rag. 292 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:43,120 There it is. 293 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:45,440 Y'all stop, I'm getting old. 294 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:49,880 I'm gonna do it one more time 295 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,000 because the Lord won't let me go. 296 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:54,960 Laura, are you in this room right now? 297 00:12:54,960 --> 00:13:00,160 You met me in my office this morning at 8.25. 298 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:01,200 Are you in the room? 299 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:03,960 Okay. 300 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:04,960 God, she's yours. 301 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,960 Alrighty, let's try to get this thing done. 302 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,200 You ever wanted to get the back end of something so quick, 303 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:13,640 like at a birthday party? 304 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,000 You just wanna get to the cake so quick. 305 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:18,080 But you gotta do the games and the balloons 306 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:21,520 and all the other stuff to get to the cake. 307 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:22,360 That's today. 308 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,520 I wanna get to page four so bad, 309 00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:27,320 but I gotta give you the first couple of pages. 310 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:31,560 So I'm gonna read and set us up and get us there. 311 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:35,200 And then I'm gonna try to be obedient to God. 312 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:41,360 So we've been walking through the book of Acts this year. 313 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,800 And in that, the beginning, we talked about setting it up. 314 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,640 We had a few weeks talking about his word. 315 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,120 And then we were talking about his life, talking about Christ. 316 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:54,040 And now we're talking about his church, 317 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:55,680 as it was in the book of Acts. 318 00:13:55,680 --> 00:14:00,880 So in that process, we realized that 319 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:05,200 the things that were individuals who encountered 320 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:10,000 struggles and trials and difficulties, 321 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,560 no different than what we just go through in our lives, 322 00:14:13,560 --> 00:14:16,240 but they had the empowerment 323 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:18,240 of the Holy Spirit in their lives. 324 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:20,560 And we see how God moved in the early church 325 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:21,400 in the first century. 326 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:25,320 Can I tell you today, he still moves today 327 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,280 just like he did then. 328 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,960 They said when the apostles died, 329 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,680 that the Spirit and all that was, that's not true. 330 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:33,520 That's a lie. 331 00:14:33,520 --> 00:14:36,880 God still is looking to perform his word in our lives today. 332 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:38,160 He's still active. 333 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,080 He still speaks to us through the Holy Spirit. 334 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:42,480 It might be a gentle nudge. 335 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:43,840 It might be a whisper. 336 00:14:43,840 --> 00:14:47,140 Sometimes, like me, he has to hit me with something 337 00:14:47,140 --> 00:14:51,240 to get my attention, but he is still speaking, 338 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:52,420 are we listening? 339 00:14:52,420 --> 00:14:56,440 I said listening. 340 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,480 We hear, but are we listening? 341 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:00,740 And there's a difference. 342 00:15:00,740 --> 00:15:04,880 One of the misconceptions we have in the Western culture 343 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,520 is this, especially in the Western church. 344 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:09,640 We think that being a follower of Christ, 345 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,040 it's all rainbows and roses. 346 00:15:12,040 --> 00:15:13,960 It's all just blessing and favor. 347 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:16,680 We are exempt from all the hard things that come in life. 348 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,920 Can I tell you that is not true? 349 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:21,320 That is a misconception. 350 00:15:21,320 --> 00:15:23,600 That is false teaching. 351 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:24,980 Now there are blessings. 352 00:15:24,980 --> 00:15:27,560 There is favor to be had in the name of the Lord, 353 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:32,340 but we are not exempt just because I call Christ my Savior. 354 00:15:32,340 --> 00:15:36,340 Scripture says the rain falls on the just and the unjust. 355 00:15:36,340 --> 00:15:38,780 We are all in this world together. 356 00:15:38,780 --> 00:15:43,780 If I walk outside and there's a blackened sinner 357 00:15:43,780 --> 00:15:46,280 walking with me and there's a storm coming out, 358 00:15:46,280 --> 00:15:47,520 if we don't carry an umbrella, 359 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:50,000 we're both gonna get soaking wet. 360 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,320 It's the same for you. 361 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,960 We think that we can just pray 362 00:15:55,960 --> 00:15:59,080 and God will just make it all go away 363 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:00,840 and it's all gonna get better. 364 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:03,920 It can. 365 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:08,400 Most of the time it does, 366 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:11,680 but sometimes we still have to walk through. 367 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,520 He didn't say go around the valley of the shadow of death. 368 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,600 He said we gotta walk through sometimes. 369 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:23,900 I'm gonna use some examples and I know they won't mind. 370 00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:27,120 I can tell you this couple right here 371 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:34,160 almost four years ago would have liked to have walked around 372 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,960 a valley of the shadow of death, 373 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:39,080 but they had to walk through it literally 374 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:44,920 and their testimony shone through that 375 00:16:44,920 --> 00:16:48,560 to those around them and God was with them. 376 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,480 He never left them forsaken. 377 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:54,260 He walked through the valley. 378 00:16:54,260 --> 00:16:57,140 Sometimes we have to walk through it. 379 00:16:57,140 --> 00:17:06,600 I'm gonna save y'all the 18 verses of Scripture 380 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:08,640 to make you stand and read. 381 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:11,480 I love when Pastor Ronnie and sometimes Pastor Kevin go 382 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,720 and we're gonna read the whole thing 383 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:14,840 and it's like oh Lord my legs. 384 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,000 Y'all been standing. 385 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:19,180 Acts 16, 20. 386 00:17:19,180 --> 00:17:22,660 16 through 30 says this. 387 00:17:22,660 --> 00:17:28,000 Once as we were on our way to prayer, 388 00:17:28,000 --> 00:17:31,200 a slave girl met us who had a spirit of prediction 389 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:36,440 and made a large profit for her owners by fortune telling. 390 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:40,200 As she followed Paul and us, she cried out, 391 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:43,480 "These men are the slaves of the most high God 392 00:17:43,480 --> 00:17:45,940 "who are proclaiming to you the way of salvation." 393 00:17:45,940 --> 00:17:48,280 And she did this for many days. 394 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,280 And Paul was greatly aggravated. 395 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:52,500 Do you know that you can be aggravated as a believer? 396 00:17:52,500 --> 00:17:53,600 That's not a sin. 397 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,940 Show of hands. 398 00:17:55,940 --> 00:17:57,120 You might have been aggravated. 399 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:00,480 Spiritually aggravated and I know you flesh. 400 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:01,780 There's a difference. 401 00:18:01,780 --> 00:18:03,360 Left hand if you've been in your flesh. 402 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:04,680 Right hand if you've been. 403 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,480 Both hands. 404 00:18:06,480 --> 00:18:08,840 Everybody should be like this in the name of Jesus. 405 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:10,080 I see those hands. 406 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:15,000 He was greatly aggravated. 407 00:18:15,000 --> 00:18:17,600 In other words, he wasn't just a little tit. 408 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,280 He was upset. 409 00:18:19,280 --> 00:18:20,580 He'd had enough. 410 00:18:20,580 --> 00:18:23,000 It's different. 411 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:24,760 I'm reading from Harlem and y'all got NIV. 412 00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:26,980 So excuse the words. 413 00:18:26,980 --> 00:18:33,340 And turning to the Spirit, notice he did not call her out. 414 00:18:33,340 --> 00:18:38,160 He did not demean and provoke and chastise her. 415 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:40,100 He recognized there was a Spirit. 416 00:18:40,100 --> 00:18:42,360 You do realize, Pastor Justin's been teaching it 417 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:45,840 on Thursdays, we are in a spiritual battle. 418 00:18:45,840 --> 00:18:47,900 It ain't us against us. 419 00:18:47,900 --> 00:18:51,000 It's the kingdom of light against the kingdom of darkness. 420 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,240 A third of the angels fell with Satan, 421 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:54,800 Lucifer when he fell. 422 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,720 That means that two thirds are still on Jehovah's side. 423 00:18:58,720 --> 00:19:01,000 I think that means he's outnumbered, right? 424 00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:02,240 Just saying. 425 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:05,000 He turned to the Spirit and said, 426 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:07,040 "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ 427 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:08,400 "to come out of her." 428 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:10,560 And it came out five days later. 429 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:14,040 What's yours, what does it say? 430 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:16,240 Thank you. 431 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:17,520 In that moment. 432 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,680 God is an on time, in that time moment kind of guy. 433 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:26,640 When her owners saw that their hope of profit was gone, 434 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,980 they grabbed Paul and Silas and dragged them 435 00:19:28,980 --> 00:19:30,960 into the marketplace to the authorities 436 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,760 and bringing them before the chief magistrates, 437 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:37,380 they said, "These men are seriously disturbing our city, 438 00:19:37,380 --> 00:19:40,040 "for they are Jews and are promoting customs 439 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,800 "that are not legal for us Romans to adopt our practice." 440 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:49,540 When you stand up to do the right, wait a minute. 441 00:19:49,540 --> 00:19:50,680 What's the title again? 442 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,560 Do What's Right. 443 00:19:53,560 --> 00:19:55,120 When I first read the sermon schedule, 444 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:56,200 I thought it said do the right thing 445 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,320 and I went, why are we talking about Spike Lee in 1989? 446 00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:00,280 Do What's Right. 447 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:04,760 When you stand up to do what's right in the name of God, 448 00:20:04,760 --> 00:20:06,640 guess what? 449 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:09,340 You gonna get some stuff. 450 00:20:09,340 --> 00:20:13,200 You gonna create a situation 451 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,320 because the enemy has come to steal, kill and destroy 452 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:17,680 and he ain't gonna sit there and go, 453 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:20,180 "Okay, Curt, do what you gotta do." 454 00:20:20,180 --> 00:20:24,200 No, he's gonna buffer and do everything he can 455 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,320 to make that guy give up on his faith in God 456 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,800 and put obstacles in your way so that you'll give up 457 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:32,800 and not do what's right. 458 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:39,260 But Paul was not operating in the spirit of Paul. 459 00:20:39,260 --> 00:20:41,760 He was operating through the spirit of God, 460 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,340 through the Holy Spirit. 461 00:20:43,340 --> 00:20:47,400 And when you walk with the power of the Holy Spirit 462 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:49,880 in your life, according to Acts 1 and 8, 463 00:20:49,880 --> 00:20:54,240 you will be a witness and you will have a boldness about you 464 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,360 to do what's right. 465 00:20:56,360 --> 00:21:01,360 The mob joined in against them with attack 466 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:06,080 and the chief magister stripped off the clothes, 467 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:07,760 ordered them to be beaten with rods 468 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,480 and after they inflicted many blows on them, 469 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:12,400 threw them in jail, ordering the jailer 470 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,360 to keep them securely guarded. 471 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:15,880 After receiving such an order, 472 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:17,660 he put them into the inner prison 473 00:21:17,660 --> 00:21:20,760 and secured the feet and stocks. 474 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:27,840 Now today, to get stripped ain't a big thing. 475 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,940 There's such a, we live in such a society, 476 00:21:30,940 --> 00:21:32,840 a world where people just run around half-naked 477 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:33,920 and stupid anyway. 478 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:40,920 But in that time, if you were pulled out in public 479 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,220 and stripped, that was a humiliation. 480 00:21:44,220 --> 00:21:46,160 It was demeaning, you were degraded, 481 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,600 you were less than, you were looked down on 482 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:50,040 and you were shamed. 483 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,440 All because they were doing what God had told them to do 484 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,440 and that created the chaos in the community 485 00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:02,340 and they pulled them together and stripped them. 486 00:22:02,340 --> 00:22:05,040 Then it says it beat them with rods. 487 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:07,900 Everybody over 50, y'all remember in mama's house? 488 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:11,360 I ain't even gotta finish, y'all know where I'm going. 489 00:22:11,360 --> 00:22:16,060 It was my mother who was mom, mommy, 490 00:22:16,060 --> 00:22:19,360 I'm 60 years old and I call her mommy, shut your mouth. 491 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:25,800 Her mom was mother because she always called her mom mother. 492 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,200 So my grandmother was mother 493 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:30,140 and my great-grandmother was mama. 494 00:22:30,140 --> 00:22:35,680 If mama Barfield wanted to tan me, 495 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,200 give me a switch. 496 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:41,680 And I knew that if I go to that bush 497 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,440 and pull off that switch, I better do two things. 498 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:49,960 It better be thick and I better pull the leaves off of it 499 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,920 before I give it to her. 500 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:53,320 And then I'd get tanned. 501 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:56,500 These guys didn't get switched. 502 00:22:56,500 --> 00:22:58,800 They got beaten. 503 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:02,000 The custom in the time were rods 504 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,040 that were about a meter long. 505 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,300 As you know, they're all meters, they're not feet. 506 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:08,960 So anyway, 39 inches, whatever. 507 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,000 And they were as thick as your finger 508 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:13,380 and they bundled them together, about nine to 10 of them 509 00:23:13,380 --> 00:23:16,240 and put a rope around them and all this up 510 00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:20,080 and the leaders, they walked around with it 511 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:22,280 like a bow and arrow thing over the shoulder. 512 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,160 They walked around on it, just looking. 513 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,080 Boy, I'll whip you. 514 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:34,360 The Jews had a custom that was against the law for 40 lashes. 515 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:38,160 So everywhere in Scripture you see where the Jews did it, 516 00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,040 it was 40 minus one or 39 lashes 517 00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:45,000 'cause they didn't wanna break the law, the Mosaic law. 518 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,220 Romans didn't care. 519 00:23:48,220 --> 00:23:50,320 I'll beat you 'til my arm gets tired. 520 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:55,440 So it says after they had induced many lashes. 521 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:56,600 How many is many? 522 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,600 Wasn't just one guy beating him either. 523 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,760 So imagine the picture. 524 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:05,500 See, we make the Bible so septic and so clean. 525 00:24:05,500 --> 00:24:08,700 Come on, Kurt. 526 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:09,540 Come here. 527 00:24:09,540 --> 00:24:14,320 Me and Kurt, Paul and Silas, 528 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:15,840 we're walking around declaring the gospel. 529 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:17,300 We call that spirit out. 530 00:24:17,300 --> 00:24:19,320 They bind us, they strip us, 531 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:22,520 and then they beat us to within inches of our life. 532 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:27,820 We're stripped, we're welted, we're bloodied, we're bruised. 533 00:24:27,820 --> 00:24:31,040 Probably in the dirt, face down. 534 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,160 No, I'm just kidding. 535 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,960 [audience laughing] 536 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:37,920 See the picture. 537 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:41,280 We read the page and we just flip the page. 538 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:42,260 See the picture. 539 00:24:42,820 --> 00:24:47,820 Then they grab 'em up and drag 'em to jail. 540 00:24:47,820 --> 00:24:50,540 Roman prisons weren't a nice place. 541 00:24:50,540 --> 00:24:53,060 It ain't like going down the metro, is it, Justin? 542 00:24:53,060 --> 00:24:54,300 >> It ain't nice here. 543 00:24:54,300 --> 00:24:56,500 [audience laughing] 544 00:24:56,500 --> 00:24:57,320 >> See? 545 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,180 At least he had air condition. 546 00:25:00,180 --> 00:25:05,360 This says if it ain't going to jail bad enough, 547 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:09,260 General Popp, they put 'em in the inner cell, 548 00:25:09,260 --> 00:25:11,820 similar to an isolation situation 549 00:25:11,820 --> 00:25:14,500 where there is darkness, there's poor ventilation. 550 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:15,980 What food you did get, 551 00:25:15,980 --> 00:25:18,120 you probably wasn't wanting to eat anyway. 552 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:22,620 Rats, vermin, not a good place. 553 00:25:22,620 --> 00:25:25,660 That's bad enough, but now sit down 554 00:25:25,660 --> 00:25:28,220 and we'll lock your feet in the wooden stalks. 555 00:25:28,220 --> 00:25:29,720 And there's not a wall to lean on 556 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,900 'cause we won't make this as uncomfortable for you 557 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:32,880 as you can be in. 558 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,040 'Cause at least you got a wall I can lean back. 559 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:38,260 No, we want your back to hurt. 560 00:25:38,260 --> 00:25:39,780 We want your thighs to cramp. 561 00:25:39,780 --> 00:25:41,420 We want you to suffer. 562 00:25:41,420 --> 00:25:44,420 [audience laughing] 563 00:25:44,420 --> 00:25:48,880 They didn't do anything wrong. 564 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:52,940 They hadn't broken a wall. 565 00:25:52,940 --> 00:25:55,500 What they did was obey the Holy Spirit 566 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:58,860 and speak deliverance to somebody that was bound. 567 00:25:58,860 --> 00:26:03,020 But the world was against it. 568 00:26:03,020 --> 00:26:05,620 And it created a stir because let me tell you, 569 00:26:05,620 --> 00:26:07,980 when you do what's right, 570 00:26:07,980 --> 00:26:10,640 it's gonna draw conflict in your life. 571 00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:15,740 There is gonna be a spirit of antagonism against you 572 00:26:15,740 --> 00:26:18,140 because you're trying to be righteous, 573 00:26:18,140 --> 00:26:20,480 sanctified and justified in Christ 574 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,600 and bring freedom to other people. 575 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:24,620 Guess what? 576 00:26:24,620 --> 00:26:28,740 Lucifer, Satan, the enemy does not want that for them. 577 00:26:28,740 --> 00:26:32,060 And he will do all that he can to shut you up. 578 00:26:32,060 --> 00:26:37,320 Here we are, we find ourselves. 579 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,080 I am so far. 580 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,400 Often those who figure it out. 581 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,200 Did I skip all of them? 582 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:49,480 There we go. 583 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,640 Crowd joined in the attack against Pylosallos. 584 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,760 Magisterous Orleans, stripped, beaten rods, 585 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,520 severely flogged, thrown in prison. 586 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,140 Received the orders, put them in the inner cell, 587 00:27:00,140 --> 00:27:01,140 fastened their feet. 588 00:27:01,140 --> 00:27:05,360 Anybody been in a prison? 589 00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:08,740 Pastor Kevin just preached about it a few weeks ago. 590 00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:13,120 Most of the time, not all the time, 591 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:18,580 most of the time, we build our own prisons. 592 00:27:18,580 --> 00:27:26,100 When it starts caving in and life starts happening, 593 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:33,020 we implode, we go to dark places in our mind 594 00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:34,800 like that inner cell. 595 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,100 We captivate ourself in our own cells. 596 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:43,100 We put our own cells in shackles and stocks 597 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:49,740 because we get so full of fear and anxiety 598 00:27:49,740 --> 00:27:53,280 that we imprison ourselves. 599 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:57,380 We have a choice. 600 00:27:57,380 --> 00:28:03,220 We can whine and complain, 601 00:28:03,220 --> 00:28:05,420 which is in our DNA if you read Exodus. 602 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:08,440 Some of you read your Bible. 603 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:12,920 Or we can do what Pylosallos did. 604 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:18,220 The scripture says at about midnight, 605 00:28:18,220 --> 00:28:21,540 I'm a night owl. 606 00:28:21,540 --> 00:28:25,300 I usually see 1230, 1245, one o'clock before I fall asleep. 607 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:31,860 This last week, my poor wife, 608 00:28:33,180 --> 00:28:37,480 me flip flopping and moaning and crying out to the Lord, 609 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:43,440 about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying. 610 00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:49,780 What is your first response when you're in prison, 611 00:28:49,780 --> 00:28:53,020 when you're in a dark place, when you start imploding, 612 00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:58,020 when you're captivated, when you have done the right thing? 613 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:03,700 Hear me, if you're walking in sin 614 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:07,420 and following after the desires of the flesh 615 00:29:07,420 --> 00:29:10,660 and you become imprisoned, guess what? 616 00:29:10,660 --> 00:29:11,480 Guilty. 617 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,380 You put yourself there because you're walking out 618 00:29:15,380 --> 00:29:17,540 to fulfill the lust of the flesh. 619 00:29:17,540 --> 00:29:19,620 But if you are genuinely trying to walk 620 00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:24,340 to fulfill the gifts and the fruit of the Spirit 621 00:29:24,340 --> 00:29:28,180 in your life and you're doing the right thing, 622 00:29:28,180 --> 00:29:31,700 but yet you still find yourself in prison, pray. 623 00:29:31,700 --> 00:29:37,600 Don't complain. 624 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,560 This is a saying, hymns to God. 625 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,560 Some translations it says hymns of praise. 626 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,420 They weren't in the prison singing songs of lament 627 00:29:51,420 --> 00:29:55,540 and woe is me, they were giving praise to God. 628 00:29:57,140 --> 00:29:58,460 Songs of David. 629 00:29:58,460 --> 00:30:03,100 How great and marvelous are you my God, 630 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,280 the creator of heavens and earth. 631 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:06,780 You have given me favor. 632 00:30:06,780 --> 00:30:11,360 They sang songs of praise and worship to God. 633 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:15,060 Big line there. 634 00:30:15,060 --> 00:30:19,740 And the other prisoners were listening to them. 635 00:30:19,740 --> 00:30:26,520 Oh, I'm in here by myself. 636 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,980 I'm in this struggle all alone. 637 00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:30,300 Nobody cares. 638 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:35,700 There are people in your life listening 639 00:30:35,700 --> 00:30:41,520 to how you respond to what's going on in your life. 640 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:47,180 They are watching what you're gonna do. 641 00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:51,100 I'm a believer in Christ. 642 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:51,940 I go to church. 643 00:30:51,940 --> 00:30:53,600 I this, I that, all those good little, 644 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,440 I got the bumper sticker, the fish, the t-shirt. 645 00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:56,700 I got the whole package. 646 00:30:56,700 --> 00:31:02,620 Does your actions line up with your appearance? 647 00:31:02,620 --> 00:31:08,540 Do your words reflect how you walk or vice versa? 648 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:11,740 They were listening to them. 649 00:31:11,740 --> 00:31:13,740 Here's a good word. 650 00:31:13,740 --> 00:31:15,740 I love the book of Mark. 651 00:31:15,740 --> 00:31:17,140 If you go read the book of Mark, 652 00:31:17,140 --> 00:31:19,220 I used to be able to tell you the number. 653 00:31:19,220 --> 00:31:22,880 So many words immediately, suddenly, at once, 654 00:31:22,880 --> 00:31:24,860 at that very moment. 655 00:31:24,860 --> 00:31:27,280 Do you know we serve a God that is a suddenly, 656 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:30,140 at once, in that very moment kind of God? 657 00:31:30,140 --> 00:31:34,940 You can sometimes have to go through it. 658 00:31:34,940 --> 00:31:38,160 Look at Joseph, three years. 659 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,340 Felt like God forgot him. 660 00:31:39,340 --> 00:31:41,060 He literally was in prison too. 661 00:31:41,060 --> 00:31:44,180 But God is also a God of in that very moment. 662 00:31:44,180 --> 00:31:48,420 But how do you respond to him? 663 00:31:48,420 --> 00:31:52,900 Can influence the way he will respond to you. 664 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:59,020 Suddenly, there was such a violent earthquake 665 00:31:59,020 --> 00:32:01,480 that the foundations of prison were shaken. 666 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:03,640 It didn't start from the top down. 667 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:07,520 God shook the earth and that prison fell apart 668 00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,260 from the bottom up, from the roots up. 669 00:32:10,260 --> 00:32:13,100 Whatever is holding you, whatever is binding you, 670 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:15,340 whatever place you put yourself in, 671 00:32:15,340 --> 00:32:17,860 if you will cry out to God and pray, 672 00:32:17,860 --> 00:32:20,040 sing songs of deliverance and praise, 673 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,260 and trust in him that others will see you, 674 00:32:22,260 --> 00:32:24,660 he will shake it from the foundation, 675 00:32:24,660 --> 00:32:27,060 and he'll bring freedom. 676 00:32:27,060 --> 00:32:31,320 Gets better. 677 00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:34,020 There's that word again. 678 00:32:34,020 --> 00:32:39,020 At once, a few of the doors, Paul and Silas' door. 679 00:32:39,020 --> 00:32:46,980 All the doors flew open, and every once, 680 00:32:46,980 --> 00:32:50,300 changed, came loose. 681 00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:55,020 You had the capacity, you have the ability, 682 00:32:55,020 --> 00:32:58,820 in your worshiping, in your reaction to life, 683 00:32:58,820 --> 00:33:02,580 to bring freedom that will open other people's doors 684 00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:04,960 and release them from the chains they're in. 685 00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:09,560 I got people I love. 686 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:14,020 And I want my reaction to bring freedom to them, 687 00:33:14,020 --> 00:33:15,100 but guess what? 688 00:33:15,100 --> 00:33:17,000 There's people that hate me too. 689 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:20,300 And I can't be a man of God if I go, 690 00:33:20,300 --> 00:33:22,420 I only want it for the ones I love. 691 00:33:22,420 --> 00:33:25,080 God said, whosoever will, 692 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:30,860 call me, shall be saved. 693 00:33:30,860 --> 00:33:33,940 So I gotta walk it out in front of everybody. 694 00:33:33,940 --> 00:33:36,860 I can't walk it out just in front of you, that's easy. 695 00:33:36,860 --> 00:33:38,360 Can I do it in the marketplace? 696 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:39,860 Can I do it at the ball field? 697 00:33:39,860 --> 00:33:42,460 Can I do it in emails where people are persecuting 698 00:33:42,460 --> 00:33:43,620 and threatening lawsuits? 699 00:33:43,620 --> 00:33:48,560 Can I be that guy then, to bring freedom for them? 700 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:51,960 The jailer wakes up. 701 00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:54,080 I guess so. 702 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:58,080 'Cause if you're one, I think, 703 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,400 well, Renee, say earthquake, can't wake me up. 704 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:05,280 The earthquake shaking and rattling the timbers 705 00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,000 and everything of a prison, 706 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,800 probably enough to wake that guy up. 707 00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:13,760 Let's say there's 20 or 30 prisoners and they're bound up. 708 00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:15,000 You think their chains fall off, 709 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:18,120 they just gonna sit there going, wow, that's pretty cool. 710 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,080 I got a feeling that even unbelievers were freaking out 711 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,520 and going, what is happening? 712 00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:24,360 What are y'all doing? 713 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:26,260 How did this happen? 714 00:34:26,260 --> 00:34:28,280 So there might have been a little Pentecostal prayer meeting 715 00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,740 happening in the prison cell. 716 00:34:29,740 --> 00:34:32,240 And it wakes the jailer up. 717 00:34:32,240 --> 00:34:35,520 And he's in a panic. 718 00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:38,000 'Cause he was told, you guard them, 719 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:39,700 you put them in the inner prison. 720 00:34:39,700 --> 00:34:44,260 And now this happens and he's freaking out 'cause, 721 00:34:44,260 --> 00:34:47,800 duh, if I'm locked up and it breaks free, 722 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:48,760 I'm leaving. 723 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:53,120 But they had to do what was right. 724 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:58,520 Paul and Silas all of a sudden become 725 00:34:58,520 --> 00:34:59,940 the wardens of this jail. 726 00:34:59,940 --> 00:35:04,320 Those that were bound for doing what was right, 727 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,040 stripped and humiliated, beaten, 728 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,520 and put in the darkest part of this prison, 729 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,800 now they're running the asylum. 730 00:35:14,140 --> 00:35:17,920 And the jailer is in fear of what's about to happen to him. 731 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,620 Says he's about to kill himself. 732 00:35:21,620 --> 00:35:26,200 'Cause he thought the prisoner escaped. 733 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:31,260 But Paul shouted, y'all do see the word says shouted. 734 00:35:31,260 --> 00:35:35,720 Paul didn't go like, whoa, wait a minute, it's all right. 735 00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:39,680 Paul realizes there's a need. 736 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:41,820 Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait, wait. 737 00:35:43,140 --> 00:35:45,640 We're here, it's okay. 738 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,920 Nobody's left, we're all here. 739 00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:53,860 There are people watching. 740 00:35:53,860 --> 00:35:57,840 There are people in your life that operate in fear, 741 00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,520 that are living in fear, 742 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,560 and you have to bring a word of the Lord 743 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,240 that will bring life. 744 00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:07,680 The jailer called for lights, 745 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:11,260 rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. 746 00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:12,320 Why was he trembling? 747 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,180 Because he had experienced the power of God 748 00:36:15,180 --> 00:36:19,160 through an earthquake, through the praise and worship, 749 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,880 through the bonds being broken. 750 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:23,600 He recognized and experienced the power of God 751 00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:24,980 in that dark setting. 752 00:36:24,980 --> 00:36:29,980 And it says, he then brought them out 753 00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:33,620 and says, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved? 754 00:36:33,620 --> 00:36:38,880 "How can I have what you have? 755 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:42,700 "How can I have what gave you freedom in this bondage?" 756 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:48,840 They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, 757 00:36:48,840 --> 00:36:50,560 "and you will be saved." 758 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,680 But not just you. 759 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,860 You and your household. 760 00:36:55,860 --> 00:37:00,020 His household ain't there, he's in the prison. 761 00:37:00,020 --> 00:37:02,480 But Paul, one, brought the word of the Lord, 762 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,760 which was life and liberty and deliverance, 763 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:08,440 and then he prophesied over the jailer 764 00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,680 and said, "Not just you, but you and your household 765 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:12,940 "will be saved." 766 00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:16,880 Can you bring the word of the Lord? 767 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:18,940 Can you have the boldness? 768 00:37:18,940 --> 00:37:21,200 You can if you're filled with the Holy Spirit. 769 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:26,120 At that hour, 770 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:32,200 Paul's Roman citizen, 771 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,360 they didn't realize that. 772 00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:37,600 They accused him of being Jews, which he was. 773 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,960 Throw him in prison, all this happens. 774 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:47,360 This Roman jailer takes them out, 775 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:54,440 washed their wounds, and immediately, 776 00:37:54,440 --> 00:37:56,760 he and all his household were baptized. 777 00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:02,360 The jailer brought them into his house 778 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,520 and sent a meal before them. 779 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,760 Psalm 23, come to mind. 780 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,080 A table in the presence of mine, enemies. 781 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,400 He was filled, who was? 782 00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,400 The jailer was filled with joy 783 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,680 because he had come to believe in God. 784 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:22,560 There are people that are bound and lost in darkness, 785 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,720 and when you bring the word of God to them, 786 00:38:24,720 --> 00:38:26,480 and they experience freedom, 787 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:27,840 they will be filled with joy 788 00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:30,420 because they have what you have. 789 00:38:30,420 --> 00:38:32,360 Because you've given it to them freely. 790 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:37,080 He and his whole household. 791 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:51,740 Worship team, y'all can kinda come this way. 792 00:38:51,740 --> 00:39:04,300 God has got a restoration. 793 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:09,300 They took them in the broad of day, 794 00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:14,060 stripped them and humiliated them 795 00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:15,860 before the crowds of people. 796 00:39:15,860 --> 00:39:18,700 In the middle of the day, beat them severely. 797 00:39:18,700 --> 00:39:22,100 In the middle of the day, put them in prison. 798 00:39:22,100 --> 00:39:25,900 God does his thing, the jailer and his family gets saved, 799 00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:29,320 word comes about what's happened to the chief magistrates. 800 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,940 They find out that they're Roman citizens and went, uh-oh. 801 00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:37,940 Uh-oh, 'cause that means trouble for them. 802 00:39:37,940 --> 00:39:41,540 'Cause I've done this to a Roman citizen. 803 00:39:41,540 --> 00:39:47,660 And he goes, hey, just kinda take them out the back 804 00:39:47,660 --> 00:39:49,660 and give them some bread, 805 00:39:49,660 --> 00:39:52,020 just get 'em on, move 'em on away. 806 00:39:52,020 --> 00:39:56,860 Here's where the boldness of God comes in your life 807 00:39:56,860 --> 00:39:59,080 with the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. 808 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,780 Paul said, no, no, uh-uh, woo, uh-uh. 809 00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:07,780 You embarrassed us and humiliated us in public. 810 00:40:07,780 --> 00:40:13,780 You're gonna release us and apologize to us in public. 811 00:40:13,780 --> 00:40:16,460 Don't believe me, read the scripture. 812 00:40:16,460 --> 00:40:21,500 When you sweat and cry, you get blurry eyes. 813 00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:25,420 When daylight came, the chief magistrates 814 00:40:25,420 --> 00:40:27,580 sent the police to say, release those men. 815 00:40:27,580 --> 00:40:30,440 The jailer reported these words to Paul. 816 00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,760 The magistrates have sent orders for you to be released 817 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,700 so come out now and go in peace. 818 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:36,300 In other words, shh, go that way. 819 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:42,260 And Paul said, they beat us in public without a trial? 820 00:40:42,260 --> 00:40:45,220 Although we are Roman citizens and they threw us in jail, 821 00:40:45,220 --> 00:40:50,220 and now, now they gonna smuggle us out secretly, uh-uh? 822 00:40:50,220 --> 00:40:51,580 Certainly not. 823 00:40:51,580 --> 00:40:57,560 On the contrary, let them come themselves 824 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,580 and escort us out. 825 00:40:59,580 --> 00:41:02,500 (soft piano music) 826 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:10,240 Can I tell you that God will have you escorted out 827 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:14,080 with honor from what the enemy did in shame 828 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:16,120 so that his name will be glorified? 829 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,400 Wasn't about Paul and Silas, 830 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:19,720 it wasn't about, oh, we're Roman citizens. 831 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,520 It was about they were believers in God 832 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,000 and they weren't gonna take it from the devil anymore. 833 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:27,140 And them being made a spectacle, 834 00:41:27,140 --> 00:41:30,240 when they were escorted out, they were given honor 835 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:34,400 because they did what was right 836 00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:37,440 and they suffered for it. 837 00:41:37,440 --> 00:41:46,780 Sometimes we will suffer for doing what's right. 838 00:41:46,780 --> 00:41:52,280 But trust me, God will always, 839 00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:58,120 God will always be glorified. 840 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:04,220 For these light and momentary afflictions, 841 00:42:04,220 --> 00:42:06,200 there are scripture after scripture 842 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,100 which says they counted themselves worthy to suffer 843 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:12,100 for the name of Christ. 844 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:14,440 I'm not saying go out and look for every opportunity 845 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:16,180 to be beaten down, whatever. 846 00:42:16,180 --> 00:42:18,700 We do have a place of blessing and honor and favor 847 00:42:18,700 --> 00:42:19,860 in the name of Christ. 848 00:42:19,860 --> 00:42:23,680 But sometimes we have to suffer 849 00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,620 because there are people looking 850 00:42:27,620 --> 00:42:30,040 and they're gonna see how you respond. 851 00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,840 And the way you respond, the way I respond 852 00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,260 will bring life or death to them. 853 00:42:35,260 --> 00:42:44,340 Four years ago, I should have died in November from COVID. 854 00:42:44,340 --> 00:42:47,580 And I'm gonna tell you, I wasn't much of a Christian 855 00:42:47,580 --> 00:42:48,800 that first three hours. 856 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:52,740 They're trying to shove air bows and air flows 857 00:42:52,740 --> 00:42:54,960 and all this on me and it was causing pain 858 00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,360 because the mixture was wrong. 859 00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,460 And I was fighting my nurse, male nurse. 860 00:43:00,460 --> 00:43:02,460 Let me clarify, it was a male nurse. 861 00:43:02,460 --> 00:43:03,620 His name was Ryan. 862 00:43:03,620 --> 00:43:05,740 But I was fighting. 863 00:43:05,740 --> 00:43:08,320 I kept telling him, you're hurting me, 864 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:09,420 you're not helping me. 865 00:43:09,420 --> 00:43:15,560 And once I got out of my flesh 866 00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,120 and started praying in the Holy Ghost under my breath, 867 00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,680 a precious lady named Kay came in. 868 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,040 And she, little gal, in the middle of all that chaos 869 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:28,360 came into room four, the whatever that is, the bad place. 870 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,240 I see you. 871 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:30,480 And she said, "Hey!" 872 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,000 And that room went quiet. 873 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:36,800 And she said, "What is going on?" 874 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,280 And I said, "He keeps trying to put this on 875 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,540 "and I'm telling you, it hurts, it burns. 876 00:43:42,540 --> 00:43:44,680 "It's chemical, it's not heat." 877 00:43:45,820 --> 00:43:50,820 She checked the gauges of the valves, adjusted it, 878 00:43:50,820 --> 00:43:54,540 and said, "If you'll try it now, just try it." 879 00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:58,640 Put it on and it brought relief. 880 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,640 But for the next 13 days, 881 00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:06,240 I encountered 23 people in that hospital, 882 00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:08,240 seven of them from that night, 883 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,000 and I had to repent to them. 884 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:13,660 I verbally told Ryan, "Brother, I am sorry 885 00:44:13,660 --> 00:44:16,260 "for cussing and yelling at you and fighting you." 886 00:44:16,260 --> 00:44:19,640 And he's like, "That's okay, brother, you hurt." 887 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,220 I said, "No, it's not okay! 888 00:44:21,220 --> 00:44:25,780 "I'm a believer in Jesus and my response was wrong. 889 00:44:25,780 --> 00:44:30,120 "And I repent, I am sorry, and I need you to forgive me. 890 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:34,140 "Can I tell you for the next 13 days, 891 00:44:34,140 --> 00:44:36,780 "that man did anything I asked for. 892 00:44:36,780 --> 00:44:37,960 "I got to pray with him. 893 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,820 "He's a veteran from Afghanistan War. 894 00:44:40,820 --> 00:44:43,820 "He's a male nurse at the hospital at Stonecrest." 895 00:44:43,820 --> 00:44:47,740 We became so close that by the time I was released 896 00:44:47,740 --> 00:44:52,540 on the 29th of November, he cried when we hugged to leave. 897 00:44:52,540 --> 00:44:57,940 I could have left it on my first three hours of response, 898 00:44:57,940 --> 00:45:00,740 but I chose to repent and do what was right. 899 00:45:00,740 --> 00:45:03,720 So here we are. 900 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:07,040 I don't know where you are. 901 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,300 I don't know what hell has unleashed in your life 902 00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:10,660 in the last week, month. 903 00:45:10,660 --> 00:45:14,140 I don't know what's ahead of you. 904 00:45:14,140 --> 00:45:20,300 I know this, we are called to do what is right. 905 00:45:20,300 --> 00:45:26,180 And if we will do what is right, 906 00:45:26,180 --> 00:45:29,860 God will bring release for you, 907 00:45:29,860 --> 00:45:33,060 salvation for those that are around you, 908 00:45:33,060 --> 00:45:36,960 and he will be glorified. 909 00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:39,920 Different altar call. 910 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:46,020 Stand, sit, kneel, come. 911 00:45:46,020 --> 00:45:48,200 It's open. 912 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:53,740 Allow the Lord to work in your life this morning, 913 00:45:53,740 --> 00:45:55,480 whatever it is. 914 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:57,080 Actually, yes, Lord. 915 00:45:57,080 --> 00:46:00,960 There are some people in here this morning 916 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,840 that you need to profess it to somebody. 917 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:05,960 So I am gonna ask elders and those that will pray 918 00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:06,800 to come forward. 919 00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,620 (gentle music) 920 00:46:09,620 --> 00:46:12,400 There's a few of you that do need to come and verbally 921 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:16,400 tell somebody what it is in your life 922 00:46:16,400 --> 00:46:18,060 that you're believing for, 923 00:46:18,060 --> 00:46:19,700 and I challenge you to come down. 924 00:46:19,700 --> 00:46:24,420 This song, we're doing "Tremble Again." 925 00:46:24,420 --> 00:46:28,940 Let the darkness be gone in your life this morning. 926 00:46:28,940 --> 00:46:30,660 Would the elders and those that are gonna minister, 927 00:46:30,660 --> 00:46:32,220 please come forward. 928 00:46:32,220 --> 00:46:34,420 If you're feeling unction of the whole, 929 00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:36,060 that's not your breakfast, 930 00:46:36,060 --> 00:46:37,820 that's not some uneasy feeling, 931 00:46:37,820 --> 00:46:40,740 that's the Holy Spirit that's working in your life. 932 00:46:40,740 --> 00:46:42,820 I need to go forward, I need to tell somebody. 933 00:46:42,820 --> 00:46:44,520 If that's you, come forward. 934 00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:46,600 If you don't feel that, just speak to somebody, 935 00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,420 but you need this altar space. 936 00:46:48,420 --> 00:46:51,120 Come get before the Lord so there's no distractions. 937 00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,020 If you can't get down here and you need it there, 938 00:46:53,020 --> 00:46:54,700 just stand up and allow the Holy Spirit 939 00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:55,580 to minister to you there. 940 00:46:55,580 --> 00:46:56,420 Would you stand? 941 00:46:56,420 --> 00:46:59,000 (gentle music)