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come on church let's get to our feet this morning put your hands together ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) covering our ((music playing)) i ((music playing)) alive in me and i am ((music playing)) ((music playing)) jesus ((music playing)) alive in me and i am ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) everything's changing for us ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) i will not die ((music playing)) ((music playing)) and i am is ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) he's in this room do you believe that this morning we welcome you into this place lord ((music playing)) there is a sound i love to hear it's the sound of the savior's rope as he walks into the room where people pray where he hear praises ((music playing)) ((music playing)) it's the sound of the savior's robe as he walks into the room where people pray when we hear worship he hears ((music playing)) ((music playing)) sing his pace ((music 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seated all over the house if you're glad to be here shout amen well how many of you were able to be here last night amen wasn't that beautiful wow we had a let us worship crusade it was beautiful it was beautiful yep all good i tell you we had people last night get so real get so honest i mean we had baptisms on both sides of the altar of the platform we had people being prayed for by the hundreds and hundreds let me just say he was so real in here last night and some of you know this and some of you online watching it was so real that we laid hands on prayed over encouraged and lifted up people before everybody in this room that was delivered from same-sex attraction from any type of sexual perversity in their life people were healed i'm telling you people were saved converts were baptized it was just a beautiful beautiful night of worship and i thank the lord for it and i believe that today is going to be just as good if not even better amen i've been more excited about sunday morning than i was about saturday night it's just beautiful to watch what the lord is doing in this place and i know it's hot and i know we have to fan ourselves but i tell you this i wouldn't trade this for any building in america i mean i wouldn't trade this for the taj mahal i wouldn't trade this for a megaplex building i'm telling you god is doing something in this house and i am so privileged to be a part of it last night for the first time we were actually able to use some of the yard of our dear neighbor mr jose that we're uh getting ready to buy out and under contract that'll be this week it's a matter of fact that we'll be able to close on that lord willing and so that's what the the finality of today's offering to help us just get there and get over and above it we're just going to believe god by faith and even though we've been raising this million dollars 1 million 30 000 to be exact been raising this money obviously we are so overloaded on that one bathroom trailer that we had to we had to get into the teal this week and we had to buy a brand new bathroom trailer it was supposed to be here on saturday and the folks up north kind of fumbled the ball a little bit and our guys will make sure that it gets here and so we have a bigger one coming it has a handicap accessible bathroom it has more restrooms for the women than for the me and amy and ladies but uh it's a real nice one so we'll have two big trailers down there and so we had to dip into that it's about 75 000 it's not expensive to have a tent meeting but it's worth it when you're reaching the world with the gospel of jesus christ amen so we want to be faithful in our giving today but we were able to use some of that land last night and it just showed us the on just the the unhindered ability that we have to continue to grow all the land down here all the land over here and we'll have the entire 16 acre lot amen that we're able to use for parking and continued growth continued expansion and so let's be faithful today as we give both in-house and online globalvisionbc.com g-i-v-e-give our folks always help us so so much and so we're right here at the end right here at the very precipice of being able to close on that this week we did all of it by faith we signed the contract we got under land legal contract before we even had a dime of it raised amen because we knew that we had to jump out of the boat we'll talk about that a little bit in the message but god is bringing it in bringing it in every week every week and on top of all that guess what we've still been giving generously and extravagantly because that's what we do as a local church faith fellowship we just keep giving giving giving and god keeps blessing blessing blessing and so let's be faithful let's get there let's get over the mark let's go above and beyond and watch what the lord is going to do because here's what the lord knows he knows about the stuff behind the scenes that we don't even know about yet we know about certain bills we know about certain things that we have to close on god knows about the stuff that's coming today tomorrow next week next month he knows about all of that and so let's be faithful and sow our seed in the time of need and watch the lord bless in a marvelous marvelous way and so again everybody in-house everybody online let's be faithful in our giving and i know we'll have plenty of amped up opportunities this week to bless people in the community to bless people in the church to bless people in this nation and around the world and so no matter how much it's going to take us to get there and get over it we're never going to stop giving because when we give god always gives back and i've told you so so many times as your pastor that when we take our little shovel and we scoop it out god comes in with the holy backhoe baby dumps it on us amen and so we're looking for a today from the lord right there's king james sound effects right there we're looking for the lord to do great and mighty things so let's pray and let's be faithful in our giving and we'll get back to worship father we love you we can only say that because lord jesus you first loved us and we thank you for that lord we don't understand everything that's going on in the nation right now but we know that there's a god in heaven that we can trust even when we can't trace what you're doing we can trust who you are and how you're moving behind the scenes so lord bless this offering this is your tent it's your gravel parking lot it's your acreage lord it's all your trees it's your rocks every bit of it belongs to you the earth is the lord's and the fullness thereof god owns the cattle on a thousand heels so we pray lord that you'd take some of that cattle on the heels and today you would allow us to be able to go exceedingly abundantly above all we could ever pray ask or think and we'd not just meet the need we'd go above and beyond the need so we can bless this community greatly with the power of the gospel of jesus christ we know by faith lord this week we'll close on that land we've been praying for that land for a long time we've been praying for expansion for a long time not because we want to build some megastructure we just need to park folks we just need a place for people to show up so they can fill up this tent to overflowing and the glory of god can flow forth from this place lord you told us as the book of isaiah predicts and prophesies to enlarge the place of thy tent to let down thy curtains and look for a blessing from god will you not open the windows of heaven and pour us out a blessing that we cannot contain so lord today we test you we try you you said in giving we could test you so lord we dig deep and we pray hard and we sacrifice and we give today so that your land may be purchased so that your kingdom can continue to grow and so that people can be reached and snatched from the gates of hell and totally immersed in the love of jesus so lord i pray that we'd be a gospel station i pray you'd bless the spirit of this place set us free from bondage may our prayers may our giving may our worship may our teaching and preaching may our gathering may our neck hugs and handshakes may at all glorify the king of kings and lord of lords bless this service today we pray in-house and online in the mighty name of jesus our savior we pray and all of god's people in the church said god bless you as you give today this next song that we're gonna worship too i just love it so much because we're in a tent and how many of you could use a fresh wind spiritually and then also like a fresh wind nobody stinks though because it's just it's holy it's holy this is this is holy last night was such a great night and i just love to see the power of the lord move and because the bible says his mercies are new every morning he's doing something fresh every day and i just don't want to miss it every weekend i show up and i say lord would you move would you have your way in spite of me would you have your way and as we gather together for corporate worship there is something so powerful when we join with the heavens and with creation and we sing to glorify our king there is a sound of worship some call it a holy roar but there is a sound when you get into the thick of worship where you find jesus and you get deliverance and set free and i don't know about you but i want to hear that sound all the earth was created just to bring honor to him the flowers were clothed to bring honor how much more so were we so we're going to honor the king of kings and the lord of lords today with this last song we're going to bring our petitions not for requests this time we're going to bring our petitions for his glory for his holiness because it doesn't matter what our requests are because he already knows them and he's already meeting those needs but if we come together in pursuit of christ then he will pour out his glory upon us are you ready to worship together corporately come on let's stand up father we want your fresh wind your fresh anointing for this day would you meet us where we are at would you pour your spirit out ((music playing)) ((music playing)) holy ghost breathe on us we pray as ((music playing)) ((music playing)) pour your spirit out that's all we want just ((music playing)) ((music playing)) strength in ((music playing)) king and kingdom ((music playing)) the favorites of heaven pour your spirit out ((music playing)) ((music playing)) pour your ((music playing)) pour your spirit out ((music playing)) just pour your spirit out oh ((music playing)) we can hear the wind blowing ((music playing)) ((music playing)) blue ((music playing)) we can hear the wind ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) is ((music playing)) just ((music playing)) ((music playing)) i ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) i am ((music playing)) your songs ((music playing)) one more time ((music playing)) upon ((music playing)) it's blowing come on ((music playing)) this morning thank you father ((music playing)) hallelujah he is blowing for sure amen you may be seated all over the house give me a good amen and then i want you to turn to the book of matthew and the word of god for just the next few moments this morning the book of matthew chapter number 14. if you turn there with me please matthew and chapter number 14. thank you for your giving thank you for your prayers thank you for your worship and i believe the lord is going to set some people free today and do some amazing things in our midst here's what i'm learning and i'm learning this as we go with the newness of all that god is doing in our in our tent service which it's strange to a lot of people i remind you in the old testament god was the first tent preacher right he put up a tabernacle in the wilderness amen and that was a place where the people came for the presence of god and they were hungry but i'm learning and this is a difficult journey for me i'm learning to just operate in the flow of the direction i think god's taking us and not rush things something you know i think sometimes we go to church to get in to see how quickly we can get out because we got to beat everybody to the to the buffet right no we are getting in because we want god to show up and see what he has for us we're talking about people's lives that are a mismanaged wreck that need a power from the touch of the lord jesus christ we're talking about people in this room right now that are dead doomed and damned and going to hell and need a gospel deliverance is what you need today to my people that need to be baptized and follow jesus you've been saved for years or months and never even followed the lord and i'm learning sometimes you just gotta go with the flow and not get rushed not get in a hurry you see i used to think everything had to be just perfect you had to start at a certain time you had to do this here do this here let's stand let's sit let's give let's be greedy let's say amen let's say oh oh me let's have the bulletin here's when we get in here's where we get out start at 11 o'clock sharp end at 12 o'clock dull colder than a mother-in-law's kiss dries cracker juice no power no redemptions no baptisms we can't discount what god's doing so i'm gonna get out of the way when god's doing it amen i ain't gonna mess with it i'm gonna mess with it and so what a beautiful beautiful transition to watch the lord work and so i have something that i wasn't expecting to talk about today in the text on my heart i was actually going to be speaking my wife and i were talking about the book of haggai what a book huh so you ain't got to look up in the index because i'm not going to haggai i'm going to matthew but i'll get to haggai eventually because it talked about how god stirred the spirit of the people to revival matter of fact it says two times not only did he stir their heart it says he stirred the remnant of the people if you can't figure out that this is a remnant church and we are rising up like a mighty army calling the four winds to prophesy to the tribones in the valley of death and the valley of denominational death in the valley of religion listen the valley of dry bones has to be called back to life and god said he stirred the hearts of the remnant so i was going to preach on that as if i didn't just for a moment but i have something else on my heart and so we'll get back to that eventually but i want you to go to matthew chapter 14. we're going to begin in just a moment in the 22nd verse try to get down to the end of the chapter if the holy spirit will allow us to i want to share my heart it's not that i'm not always you know heartfelt and trying to be vulnerable but i got some stuff today i really want you to pay attention to where we're living in some very unusual days and we're walking on an unusual journey as a church and so as a body as your shepherd i want to be able to share some things with you that we need prayer about as a church and i believe the lord's going to it's going to manifest his presence in this place in a beautiful way amen so let's pray and we'll jump right into matthew 14. father in heaven thank you once again for the power of the gospel thank you for the lord jesus thank you for the privilege we have to preach about you right now from the text of god's word lord i pray that we will be utterly reminded today that all is vain unless the power of the holy spirit comes down only you can save only you can redeem and restore and revive and awaken and we're asking today that the authority the influence and the power of the word of god would change us from the top of our head to the soul of our feet may we not walk out of this tent the same men and women and young people that we were when we walked in change us today we pray in jesus name and all of god's people said in matthew chapter 14 you have a historical narrative where jesus has been extraordinarily busy everywhere he went the people were there you think we got a great crowd today i'm telling you it looked like an absolute sunday school comparison to when jesus would show up like a stomp ant bed thousands and tens of thousands sometimes perhaps hundreds of thousands of people feed us jesus help us jesus save us jesus go to the cemetery and resurrect my family jesus heal the leper jesus heal the blind jesus sign my bible jesus and everywhere jesus went never a man spake like this man spake and i might say ladies and gentlemen that people then and people now are still hungry for the truth of the unadulterated word of god and when jesus showed up and showed out things happened and so people were naturally drawn to his communicative ability they were drawn to his presence they were drawn to this miracle-working man that called himself no doubt the messiah of the world so when you get to matthew chapter 14 he's tired he's visibly shaken it is humanity he's weary he needs some rest he needs a nap and might i say on the authority of the word of god sometimes in this busy day one of the most spiritual things you can do is just take a nap just come apart and rest a little bit don't be busy doing stuff that doesn't matter just to look busy can i get a witness and so the purpose in the bible is not doing things the purpose of the bible is to be what god's called you to be if you will be right you will do right you believe that this morning so we find ourselves in a context in a narrative where there was a lot going it was coming from every direction north south east west everybody wanted a piece of the action now we can look at that and think that that's selfish but let's just be real honest if jesus physically walked under this tent you'd forget about me you'd forget about your spouse you'd forget about your friend you would be enamored to be in the presence of jesus himself you would be enamored and so everywhere he went we find the crowds are gathering but but notice what happens because most of the magnificent works that god does in your life will not be in a crowded room it will be in the midst of a storm it'll be in the midst of a sleepless night people like my goodness i tell you i just can't sleep at night maybe god's waking you up because he wants to teach you something in the dark hours of the night because weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning psalm 30 and verse 5 david said and maybe god's given you that little bit of a rumbling to wake you up stop hitting the snooze button stop trying to roll over stop complaining stop trying to suck half a bottle of nyquil to get two or two or three hours of sleep just wake up and say god what are you trying to teach me because god will teach you more in the dark than he'll ever teach you in the light and so in this context we see that all these people have gathered this great miracle has taken place but watch this verse 22 things are about to shift into a whole new realm matthew 14 22 and straightway jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship now you have to understand we're not talking about a titanic looking ship we're not talking about a carnival cruise line this a little rickety raft is what this is it's just a little wooden boat get into that ship to go before him unto the other side while he sent away the multitudes now when i was reading this the other day and kind of refreshing my heart and mind this morning i want to remind myself that there's a reason that they went out before the lord he told them to but the problem in the church world is we get ahead of god when he doesn't tell us to now god said to these people i want you to go out and go before me but let me just say sir we don't want to get ahead of god we don't want to run behind god we want to stay right in step with the gospel with what the lord's doing that's why i don't want to get too much in a hurry in these worship services anymore i'm telling you god tells me to stop preaching give an invitation i'll stop preaching give an invitation and won't call for a vote on it if god says start baptizing we'll start baptizing if god says take an offer we'll take it over if god says turn off the mic in worship we'll turn off the mic in worship we're not going to get ahead of god in this tent we're going to let god have his way i'm sick of formal religion i'm sick of dead denomination i'm sick of everybody knowing exactly how it's going to go down i know what he's going to say i know what he's going to do i know when it's going to happen listen i want god to show up and show out in such an unbelievable way that we walk away say wow what in the world happened out of that tent where'd that come from where'd that come from i want those suddenlies of the book of acts to be the definition of what this church is some time ago a young lady visited our church on a wednesday night and she said pastor let me tell you why i keep coming back she said it just seems like global vision popped right out of the new testament that's the best church compliment we've ever received i want a church that just pops right out of the new testament i don't want a greg locke church i want a godfield church and so he said to these men go before me don't get too far ahead of me i'm gonna send the multitudes away i'll catch you later verse 23. and when he had sent the multitudes away he went up into a mountain apart to pray and when the evening was come he was there what's the next word alone i don't claim to be a theological phd but i've got enough hillbilly sense between my two god-given earlobes to understand that if jesus had to get alone in the presence of his father that everybody under this tent and online watching right now needs to get alone in the presence of their father and thy father which seeth you in secret shall reward you openly and sometimes you got to get rid of all the distractions sometimes you got to walk away from the kiddos sometimes you got to turn off twitter you got to get off facebook put your face in the book and you got to find yourself a place where you can get along with god and you can fast and you can pray and you can shout and you can snot and you can cry and you can scream god i need you god i need you and i think the missing element in the american church is we've learned how to do church but we've not learned how to do personal worship oh we got corporate worship down we can raise our hands we can shout our lungs out we can kick up cedar chips so it smells like christmas under the tent but when's the last time you got a part and alone with your father and just wept in his presence over the goodness of god in your life and the bible says that jesus came apart and we often as preachers use the cliche but it's so true if you don't come apart you will come apart sometimes you got to break away from all of it especially all the nonsense that we're seeing some of you drive yourself crazy at 2 30 and 3 o'clock in the morning running down rabbit holes on telegram and you don't know what to believe because what you need to do is read a bible and trust god amen quit trusting these crooked politicians republican or democrat quit trusting the preacher don't trust the baptist the pentecost trust what the bible says and some of you need to quit worrying about what instagram and twitter and npr and fox and cnn and newsweek and news you need to read a bible you better come apart from all that stuff you know i find it interesting we have a number of amish folks well we baptize a whole mennonite family i know that's different but we baptize a whole mennonite family but we got like an amish revival coming up pretty soon in indiana they're putting up a team want me to come preach amish revival that is amazing now i'll be honest with you i don't know how they found me on facebook i didn't know they had facebook praise god but they found me somehow but you know what's interesting you ever notice that the pandemic never hit the amish community you know why they ain't got tvs they ain't got cnn they ain't got wolf blitzer they ain't got chris cuomo they ain't got nancy pelosi telling him mask up wash your hands wash your hands they got tvs listen sometimes turn that garbage off sometimes turn that mess off and just get you in a good old b-i-b-l-e yes that's a book for me i stand alone in the word of god the bible just getting a bible and getting god's presence jesus came apart spending time with his father but notice what happened while that was taking place verse 24. but the ship remember that's what the boys are in he sent him ahead because what they thought was a setback was really a divine set up god knew exactly what was about to happen because the storm he orders he pays for every time he'll pay for it so he orders this storm verse 24 the ship was now in the midst of the sea tossed with waves for the wind was contrary like a man in a drunken stupor like a little toothpick in a bathtub man these guys are rocking and reeling they're turning green they're throwing up they know they're going to drown lord save us what are we going to do help us help us we can't believe we went ahead of jesus i wish he was here i wish he could save us i wish he could say as he's done before peace be still and calm the waves and the bible says that the wind was contrary now i'm gonna stop i'm gonna make an application i know what the text says let's make an application from the interpretation how many of you sometimes feel like the wind's blowing in the wrong direction and it's got your boat rocking it's got your marriage tore up it's got your kids being a prodigal you got this addiction that you can't kick man i'm telling you you just feel like you're rocking and reeling and no matter how much you go forward you always end up getting farther backwards and you just can't figure it out you can't figure out why the windows of heaven have been closed when the bible promises that they'll be opened if you'll test god you can't figure out why your marriage won't progress you can't figure out why that business won't get off the ground you can't figure out why every time you go to the doctor he still says nope you still got cancer nope you still got emphysema nope you still got this problem nope you still got this sickness you can't figure out if the bible promises healing why can't i get a healing and sometimes you row and you row and you row and you row and you row but the storm just keeps getting worse and some of you today and i'm telling you on the authority of this book we call the word of god you're in a storm you're in a contrary wind lightning streaking its way through the sky like a snake's fork and tongue you don't know what to do you keep calling out to god help me save me do something in my home do something in my marriage do something just just do something but here's the problem when the answer doesn't come the way we expected it to come it can fill us with more fear than it does more faith by the way that's what's happening we'll show you that in the text that's what's happening right now in the church world we've prayed for 50 years all over america lord send us revival lord send us revive we need a third great awakening we need the greatest awakening the world's ever seen revive the church revive the church revive the church you know why the body of christ is missing it because revival didn't come the way you thought it would revival has come through the back door of persecution revival has come because god thinned out the ranks and raised up an army revival didn't come when the churches were packed revival came when the churches were closed and empty and they fell on the job and the pastors played the coward and disappointed people all over the world let me ask you a question a heartfelt question how many of you that are visiting today in the last 18 months you've not just been shocked but you have been hurt by the church that you thought would stand when it all went down put your hand up all over the room you've been hurt you've been disheartened look at that there's no hurt like church hurt you're here today because you knew that we were gonna stand you knew that we were gonna stay open and you knew that we were gonna testify to the truth of the gospel and we weren't gonna back down and back up and be bullied into a corner listen that's why we didn't write a book called how to win friends and influence people we wrote a book called this means war and weapons of our warfare because we're in a fight church we're in a fight but the revival doesn't look the way that we thought it should look it didn't come the way that we thought it should come but god never stepped off his throne and said now church i would like to ask your permission to send revival in a way that would make you comfortable god don't send revival when you're comfortable he sends revival when you sacrifice and you're uncomfortable and you're out of your comfort zone and you can't really figure out what's going on and the wind is contrary and everybody's against you and people are saying nonsense that's when god shows up so watch the results of how these men were afraid verse 24 the ship was now in the midst of the sea tossed with the waves for the wind was conjuring and in the fourth watch of the night that's 3 a.m that is the absolute darkest time he picked the darkest time to be the brightest light and don't you ever as they say doubt in the night what god showed you in the light just because things get dark in your life does not mean you have an opportunity to go back on what you know the promise of god was people say wow the stars sure are out tonight let me tell you something the stars are always out you just can't see them until it gets dark the stars are shining right now you can't see them till the atmosphere gets dark and sometimes it's got to get fourth watch of the night so you can see the light of god's glory but then notice it says in the fourth watch of the night jesus went unto them walking on the sea now that's what the bible says this is not a hollywood production it'd make a good one this is not a hollywood production this is a holy word promise he was walking on the sea and when the disciples saw him walking on the sea watch what happened next they were troubled saying it is a spirit and they cried out for what church fear they didn't cry out for faith they didn't cry out for worship they cried out for fear you know why because they didn't expect the answer to come like that they didn't expect jesus walking on the sea in the midst of a boisterous horrible storm sounded like a bowling alley in that rickety raft they were freaked out to the core of their soul and jesus came walking on the water and they'd been crying out and now they cry out not in faith in prayer and belief they crowd in fear and disbelief and they said it's a spirit it's a spirits come to kill us the storm's not battled now spirit of ghost is here and they didn't recognize the answer because they weren't looking for it in that way and some of you have been praying for god to resurrect something in your home and god has put the answer square dab in your face for weeks if not months but you ignore it because it's not coming in the miraculous way that you think it ought to all to come the provision doesn't come the way you think it ought to come the redemption doesn't come the way you think it ought to come and sometimes we think to ourselves that god honestly has to open up the heavens and ask our permission to do what only he can do i've told you so many times that there are two true things in life number one there is a god and number two you are not him and you gotta quit playing god because every time you play god you mess around and you will mess things up worse when you are done touching them then they were messed up before you ever even addressed the situation and jesus came walking on the sea and they didn't recognize him and they're like oh my goodness it's a spirit god can move any way he wants to god can work any way that he wants to and he does that and notice what happens they said it's a spirit they cried for fear verse 27 but straightway he's going to fix them jesus spake unto them saying be of good cheer when's the last time you laughed in the midst of a storm when's the last time you got that dreaded phone call about somebody in your family that's sick or dying and you were full of cheer when's the last time they handed you that pink slip and you had to walk away from that job that you've loved and you've invested in for 20 years in cheer he said be of good cheer it is high be not afraid let me tell you something church from a prophetic standpoint some of you gonna have to get your cheer on you know why because some of you about to face the biggest thing you've ever faced in your life how many of you in this room we just chit-chatting how many in this room have already lost their job because of the political nonsense that's going on would you just stick your hand if you've already lost your job because this vaccine nonsense and mask and all that look at all these people put your hands down i'm gonna tell you what in the next six months they'll be hands raised all over this tent it'll be a good share because god's gonna pay your bills god's gonna bless his people god's gonna bless his church god's gonna bless you when you don't compromise don't you give in to the left don't you give in to the enemy don't you give in to hell don't you give in to the devil don't you give in to cnn don't you give in to this wickedness don't you give it to this radical evil agenda of this globalist society that's trying to destroy our church and destroy america and destroy the world don't you give in to that nonsense don't you give in to it you stand your ground you dig your heels in you lift up your voice like a trumpet and don't you back down one bit don't you back down one centimeter once you give in to their mess don't you let them bully you because here's what god says when the storm comes just be a good cheer it is i be not afraid you know it seems like there's a lot of things to be afraid of these days and i get it i'm just as human and redneck as the rest of you put my socks and shoes on one foot at a time just like the rest of you don't wear a cape around my house don't have a big s on my chest got a big stupid s on my forehead sometimes but nonetheless you know sometimes people get this idea that we have this willy-nilly lifestyle of internet stardom and everything's rock solid and everything's good sometimes it's crap fest and as of late i'm transitioning here so just walk with me as of late i've had to remind myself just be a good cheer son because it's him and i don't have to be afraid of everything going on around me i mean if you just look at the news there's a lot to be afraid of if you just read the stupid newspaper there's a lot to be freaked out about if you just look at the numbers of what's happening wars and rumors of wars and in the last days perilous dangers evil wicked times are going to come upon you and men shall be lovers of themselves if you just look at the daunting reports of what's happening and the persecution that is rising on a level beyond our wildest imagination very quickly mind you if you just look at that we have a lot in the natural to be afraid of but we're not operating in the natural we're operating in the supernatural so i i want to share something with you while i might not even get much farther in the text i'm not done preaching i just want to talk a minute because i believe our in-house crowd and our online crowd need to hear hear me as a as a pastor hear me as a person as a per i'm just a regular cat okay regular guy our lawyer came to church the other day we have a religious freedom lawyer i need a criminal defense attorney if anybody knows one praise god and uh but our lawyer came to church on wednesday and we sit down and we talked with him about a few things that are happening right now in our ministry and in my ministry my personal life and he said you need to get out in front of this this weekend don't don't you need to get out in front of this and address it to the congregation let me tell you something i know we live in that vitriolic viral society hey guys pastor greg locke here you know i do my dunkin donuts rants and all that and some of you here because you saw it thank god for it i stand my ground and that's it but you know things have got a little dicey lately it's not just a little bit of vandalism some of you know maybe you don't but i'm gonna share with you right now because i got to get out in front of this thing publicly there was a list that came out this past week it's nancy pelosi's list and on that list are like the top 40 homegrown terrorists in america now i don't need you to amen i don't need you to clap i need to listen i need you to listen this serious deal i've been on a lot of lists i've had a lot of people hate me that's different so they got this insurrection which it wasn't an insurrection they got this deal that came out because of january 6. and because of my involvement with the trump administration and the bus tour and because i was there at freedom plaza on the fifth with the rally and roger stone and all that and because i was standing with a bullhorn praying for people oh god forbid at the capitol on the sixth i'm now number two on the list of homegrown terrorists in america okay so our church has now become a massive target more than it's ever been in the 15 year history now we're a pretty big target but we're like a blimpola huge target at this point and that was the point by the way of releasing the list publicly i found out on twitter because we had so many articles that were dropped first day and i got so many mentions and so many people are like whoa yeah it's going down hallelujah that church is going to be shut down in the name whoa of the lord yes and people excited both christian people and non-christian people so he said look i don't know what you can expect but we're going to have to go ahead and get some things in place because i believe god's going to protect us i really do i believe god's going to take care of us and i'm not going to fear about i ain't lost one ounce of sleep over he's going to protect us but i just need to let y'all know i need to let our online crowd know and i need to let them a bunch of liberals know that are coming after us and he let them know something number one i'm not going to shut up i said i ain't gonna shut up i ain't gonna back down i ain't gonna stop i ain't shutting this church down i don't care what joe biden and his sleepy friends say ain't shutting his church down not i ain't apologizing for praying for people on january 6 nancy pelosi i ain't apologizing so if you're here for that you're in the wrong house sit down so listen because the list is to them important to us nonsense but because it's prominent and because it's supercharged political we're talking about an actual you know white house approved document we're not talking about a xerox copy of some nonsense off twitter there's a lot of players in the game on that list okay let me tell you something if it happens they're not going to get me because i did stupid stuff don't let them try to paint us and me in the media like they found kitty porn on my phone or i didn't you know pay my taxes or you know i murdered don't let them tell you that garbage when it happens you will exactly know rewind this and you will know why it happened so i don't know if when or what but because that list is out many of you know that there have been people since january 6 since that week that had been in federal prison no contact with their family and they have 23 hours a day solitary confinement as homegrown terrorists and they don't even get the proper etiquette of making a phone call to their spouse or their friends or their they are treated worse than real terrorists they will not allow them to shave or have haircuts you know why because when they go before the judge they want them to look like terrorists they want them to look like unkept individuals they want them to look crazy so i'm saying all that preemptively just to say brother greg was in a room if they want to show up because i'm on the list if they want to show up they have full legal authority at this point to arrest me without any hesitation no matter what and i'm just preparing you for that it's doubtful they'll do it in a service because we have such a massive media presence they don't want to make a martyr out of a guy like me and i get it because what's going to happen is they're going they're going to overplay being stupid and god's going to give us the biggest platform that we've ever had in the history of global vision bible church you think we're big now you think god's moving now you wait till they start doing crazy stuff and stupid stuff and putting us in jail and i'm telling you the blue flame revival is going to burst upon the scene church it's going to burst on the scene so i don't know all that it entails i just know that now the scrutiny level is defcon level at this point okay we know when you when they're coming after you're over the target right we're dropping the right bombs they're not messing with the people that aren't saying something they're only trying to silence the people that are saying something so we listen if you hear in the news today tomorrow or in six months from now that the pastor of global vision bible church that evil insurrectionist anti-american homegrown terrorist was arrested you can know that there will be church that sunday and you better feel this place to overflow in because god's gonna show up in his glory ain't gonna leave this place just because the left tries to bully me into a corner of silence and get me to stop because i ain't gonna stop look i'm done being diplomatic as if i was before right i'm done with it there might be a reason we left the spray paint on the pulpit ((music playing)) cause i'm fired up i'm telling you i'm fired up so if and when whether it happens or not things might get a little willy-nilly crazy over the next few weeks i i don't know what that they can do about anything they want to at this point they can freeze assets my own personal name if you know any pilots i might need to get into a fly share program because most of the people on that list are going to be put on a no-fly list and so they're going to try to keep me from traveling to engagements and being able to to preach so if there's a pilot watching the name of god i need an airplane i need one anyhow because i'm tired of delta making me wear them stupid diapers on my face praise god but nonetheless so i i just want to get out in front of it and just let everybody know don't believe what they say if it happens because they're going for it okay we just entered a whole new arena as a church it's a whole new deal this is tip of the spear stuff right here this is this is fight or flight this is stick with it or close the whole thing down this is our moment this our shadrach meshach and abednego this our fiery furnace this our 1776 this our push back moment we gonna fight we gonna fight we gonna fight ((music playing)) so this hard moment so they gonna try to pull the little irs games the little fbi games and a little cia all of it they can all take a hike far as i'm concerned i ain't scared of none of them i ain't scared of none of you i don't care what they say at the end of the day they're gonna need a lot of handcuffs to get rid of all of us praise god huh we need a lot of handcuffs get rid of all of us so i ain't doing preaching yet but i'm gonna do something cause i'm gonna go in the flow i don't know where all my kids are they floating around somewhere some of them right here i don't know where malachi and evan are we'll find them i want the church i want the men in the church to pray with my family today because we're in a whole new level of scrutiny like never before right and they can come against me it changes the game when they come against my family they can walk up in here right now all they want to larry would love it neighbors over there can't stand us that's all right we're going to buy all 16 acres and keep being rowdy for jesus so i don't know what this week looks like i ain't walking on eggshells i'm still gonna travel when i can when i can fly somewhere i'm not gonna be like oh somebody's watching me no i got somebody watching me all right i can tell you that right now it's god in heaven he's watching after me i want my wife i want my kids my son-in-law i want my family to come i want to stand right down here in the middle i'm still preaching don't leave don't go anywhere simple i want all my kids or my wife want them all i want men of our church we could have everybody but we're limited i want the men of our church to come i'm gonna come down here my family pastor john i'll give you the microphone and i just i want our family to be prayed i want to i want the church to be prayed over but i want you to pray for my my family's protection amen god bless my wife because look i i come home with a lot of stuff and she's got to bear their stuff your stuff and my stuff i can't tell you how many friends my kids have lost because i'm their dad and they're cool with it they just rock on and they just keep on going for the glory of god ((music playing)) so i'm gonna hop down here with my wife and we'll give this microphone to pastor john and we just just have a word of prayer this is not just prayer for me and our family this prayer for our church family you see the devil wants to take out leadership because when you take out a shepherd the sheep scatter they don't know what to do now we got some sheep in place some we got some shepherds in place for the sheep praise god they try to smite the shepherd but i just want you to just pray and if you see you can either stand or sit but just stretch forth your hands and i want you to pray for for the global vision family and pray for the loch family god's gonna have his way god's gonna deliver us from the burning fiery furnace ((music playing)) we're so grateful that this isn't the pastor greg show this is god's church that's assembled in this place and we stand as that hey this is our shadrach meshach and abednego moment and whether god delivers us to the fire or through the fire one thing is for certain our god always delivers and we trust him in this moment in faith my bible says that the weapon will be formed but it will not prosper against god's people and so as we stretch our hands forth to pray over our pastor and our first family here pray with me pray with me together church right now in this moment father we thank you for what's happening in this moment lord we see the evidence of your holy spirit's moving in this place we see your power and your manifest presence that is meeting with your church here and we know that the enemy hates it and that's why the enemy's coming against us in such a massive and in a strong and in a vitriolic way but god we know this morning that he's a dog on a leash and any battle that is coming our way any storm that you've ordered you've paid for you've instructed so that you get the glory on the back end of it father so we thank you right now in this moment that the victory has already been won that you have already settled this battle in heaven what's bound on earth will be bound in heaven and so lord right now we bind the enemy in jesus name we ask for truth to prosper we ask for your name to go forth and your gospel to be preached with clarity and god we pray for protection over our pastor and over our pastor's family lord we know that the enemies tried to come against him and lost and so they'll try to come at the first lady and that the pastor's children lord in an attempt to discourage him but we pray that you place a hedge of protection around them lord we pray that the gossip would cease and that the lies would end that anybody who tries to come against them would be exposed as a tool of the enemy lord do whatever it takes to eliminate them do whatever it takes to knock the enemy down god let this army rise up in a powerful way and spread your truth lord your truth is marching on and we trust you in this and we thank you for it and lord we want to see your glory so god we ask for that protection we ask lord specifically for this family lord that the enemy has painted a target on their back but you're stronger lord we know the enemy will come against them but you're bigger we know that things will be said but lord your truth is mighty and has the power to save and so lord we trust you and we thank you for this privilege and this opportunity for this moment to be standing as a lighthouse when others have closed thank you for our pastor and his family that have stood and allowed the target to be painted when others have cowered it away and used the bible out of context to step back from the battle god lord if revival has to begin anywhere we thank you that it's beginning here and lord if the blue flame has to spread from any starting location let us be the match lord we pray that every week that we worship and that we that we preach that you would pour fuel on this fire and we know that it will spread from this city to this country to other nations around the lord we're we're believing in your name that a great awakening is on its way and these are the labor pains of a great move that you're giving birth to in jesus name and for your glory we ask for this protection we ask for this safety and we ask for larger territory and we ask for bigger battles knowing that with it you bring greater protection and greater power i pray your hand would rest on the lock family and that your power would rest on our church family and that you would raise us up as an army to carry your truth in jesus name with boldness we ask all these things in jesus name the church said i said the church said ((music playing)) see a victory for the battle belongs to you alone oh i'm gonna see your victory i'm ((music playing)) look we're going to change gears a little bit i said i wasn't done preaching but i think the lord's not done preaching i want our prayer team down here look i believe there's some folks in the room i'm telling you right now you've been going through a storm your marriage is a mess you're addicted to some stuff and like last night man we had all kind of pills and tobacco and stuff laid down on this platform people released last night from pornography from same-sex attraction people were healed god blessed in a wonderful way if you're here to be baptized just go right over here to my left your right we'll start getting set up for that we're going to talk about the gospel here in just a moment if you need prayer right now if you need healing in your marriage you need healing in your heart you need healing in your body and you believe this is your moment when the raft is rocking in the wind and the storm has demonstratively come against you i'm asking you right now church i want you to begin to come right now let somebody pray for you let somebody lay hands on you we're going to worship we're going to keep this thing going you know what happened in the next part of the text after peter got out of the boat and walked on the water jesus brought him back in and guess what happened it says they went to the next town and everybody jesus touched got healed you know why your greatest days of miracles come after your biggest battle in the boat and your biggest problem and your biggest storm and the most lightning and the most noise and the most chaos your miracle is only going to come once you finally get out of the boat come down right now let people pray with you let people pray for you if you're going to be baptized start lining up let's worship the lord in this house let's worship the lord ((music playing)) ((music playing)) i'm is see your victory ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) me ((music playing)) come on church ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) here's what i want you to do for just a moment if you're all standing all over just because i don't want anybody to feel embarrassed just for a moment as we're praying would you buy your heads just for a moment all over the house all over the house i wanna i wanna talk to some of our friends that are here whether you're a member regular tender whether you visit for the first time or a thousand times when i ask you a question all over this house folks are getting ready for baptism i wonder how many of you right now would say you know what pastor lock i'm here today but i'm empty on the inside i'm broken on the inside i've never truly trusted jesus christ i don't want denomination i don't want dry man-made religion i don't want something manufactured i want to know i'm going to heaven i want to know i've repented and believed the gospel i want to know that my sins are forgiven i want to know for sure that jesus is my lord and my savior i need god to change my life tired of playing games tired of messing around if you are here today and you know you're in need of jesus you need to repent and believe the gospel because jesus is the only way he's not a way one of many ways he's the only way to the kingdom he's the only way to the father jesus died for your sin he was buried for your sin three days later he victoriously rose from the dead and the bible says if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth the lord jesus you shall affirmatively you shall without a doubt be saved he that cometh unto jesus he will no wise cast him out i wonder right now all over this building down front middle left right back wherever you're at if you need jesus if you have never trusted jesus christ to be your savior if you've never asked god to forgive you of your sins could i pray for you right now would you slip your hand up all over this but you know you need god you know you need the lord jesus christ i want you to slip your hand up high all of the building god bless you god bless you god bless you here god bless you all over hold him up high hold him up high god bless you sir god bless you ma'am right here right here god bless you god bless you here's what i want you to do listen to me i do not i do not have any pixie dust i can sprinkle on you i don't have some magical hocus-pocus prayer a prayer didn't die for you but a person named jesus did it's not what you do that saves you it's what jesus has done but as a leader a spiritual shepherd i want to help you have a conversation with god sir ma'am whoever you are young person no matter how many times you've been here if you raise your hand or maybe you were timid and didn't right where you are i'm telling you god's gonna invade your space with grace and you can be saved and set free from your sin right now on the spot you can be saved and right now the best you know how ((music playing)) i want you to bow your head and i want you from your heart to cry out to god it's not the words that you say you could pray them a million different ways because it's the heart attitude of repentance turning from your sin to trust jesus the only way to the kingdom you slipped up your hand right now between you and god i want to help you have a conversation you say something to the father like this right here father i know i'm a sinner i know for my sin i deserve hell but i believe jesus christ died for my sin i trust the bible that he rose again from the dead to forgive me and to cleanse me of my sin ((music playing)) right now lord jesus the best i know how i trust you and you alone to be my lord and savior i repent of my selfishness i repent of my sin and i trust you jesus to save me to forgive me to take me to heaven when i leave this world and i beg you in jesus name right now father to change my life forever in jesus name if that's you today if you lifted your hand a moment ago if you pray if you've trusted christ if you believe the holy ghost of god met you right where you hold your hand up all over this room so we can rejoice with you hold your hand up rejoice church rejoice hallelujah hallelujah yes i know we got a lot of folks lined up to be baptized look if you trusted jesus christ you're as saved today as you ever will be maybe next week you'll come back with a change of clothes you can get in that baptismal line but you know the next step when you get saved you're not ashamed of it maybe some of you right now just go ahead and line up and say i will follow the lord right now today i'm not going to wait a month i'm not going to wait an hour i'm not going to wait a week i'm going to do it right now because i'm telling you god's moving in this house people are still being prayed for there's still time for you to come and get prayer get whatever you need i'm telling you god is alive in this place we're going to begin our baptisms give the lord a good shout of glory and praise for what he's doing in this house ((music playing)) the battle belongs to our god he is ((music playing)) fighting for ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) he is fighting for ((music playing)) faith in jesus christ the father's gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you before these witnesses ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) a great honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) ((music playing)) but a great honor before these witnesses to baptize you my friend of the lord in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism rage to walk in luna's alive ((music playing)) baptism raised ((music playing)) ((applause)) he ((music playing)) all right my is sister addison upon your profession to faith in jesus in the part of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit in baptism praise to walk in newness ((music playing)) ((music playing)) the power of his gospel gives me a great honor before these witnesses to baptize you sir in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) he is fighting for us yes he ((music playing)) lindsay upon your is profession of faith in jesus in the part of his gospel against me right off the baptized with the lord in the name of the father of the holy spirit in baptism raised ((music playing)) of faith in jesus the power glory of his gospel gives me a great honor my brother in the lord to baptize you today the name of the father son the holy spirit baptism raised ((music playing)) profession of faith foreign jesus and the power of his gospel gives me a great honor my sister in the lord to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried in baptism raised to walk in newness of life oh ((music playing)) ((music playing)) all right gonna have some of our men help us it's in america praise god hallelujah brother ran and upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the glorious power of his gospel what a great honor my brother and the lord to baptize you today before these witnesses in the name of the father the son of the holy spirit buried in baptism ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) from ((music playing)) let us ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) mr brittany upon your book of confession of faith in jesus gospel it gives me a great honor for these witnesses to baptize you my sister the lord in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism praise ((music playing)) ((music playing)) brother bradley upon your profession of faith in jesus the power and glorious gospel gives me great honor before these witnesses to baptize you sir in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) on your public profession of faith in jesus gospel it's a great honor to baptize you sir before these witnesses the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried in baptism raised to walk in newness alive ((music playing)) all right sister stephanie upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel gives me a great honor to baptize you before these witnesses in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raise the wall get newness alive ((music playing)) ((music playing)) all right sister lisa upon your public confession of faith in jesus the power of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you today in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) sister i lean upon your profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel it gives me great honor my sister in the lord i baptize you today in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) ((music playing)) public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel gives me a great honor my brother and the lord to baptize you before these witnesses the name of the father son the holy spirit bearing baptism raised to walk in lunas alive ((music playing)) it gives me a great honor to baptize you sir in the name of the father the son of the holy spirit buried in baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) my brother tommy upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel against my great honor to baptize you sir in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raised ((music playing)) ((music playing)) mr crystal upon your public profession of faith in jesus in the part of his gospel it's a beautiful honor to baptize you ma'am in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried in baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) oh all right my young brother jackson upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel gives me a great honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism raised to walk in newness of alive ((music playing)) upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the fire of his gospel it's a great honor to baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit baptism raised to walk life ((music playing)) ((music playing)) gospel it gives me a great honor my sister in the lord baptize you in the name of the father son of the holy spirit marry baptism praise the wolf alive ((music playing)) ((music playing)) my brother thomas upon your public profession of faith in jesus gospel it's been a great honor for these witnesses to baptize you sir in the name of the father son of the holy spirit bury baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) all right ((music playing)) angelo upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you today in the name of the father son of the holy spirit bear in baptism raised in newness alive ((music playing)) he liked to baptize himself amen wow i love it praise god ((music playing)) ((music playing)) young rally upon your public profession of faith in jesus in the fire of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you before these witnesses in the name of the father son of the holy spirit bear in baptism face to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) you are here ((music playing)) my young sister brooklyn upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the father's gospel it gives me a beautiful honor to baptize you my young sister the lord in the name of the father son and the holy spirit bear in baptism raise the wall get newness alive ((music playing)) you better give the lord some praise folks this is beautiful this is not happening this is like oh one percent of the churches in america god's doing a miracle in this place by the way i just got word we got a lawyer praise god that found out about it gonna help us hallelujah we got a criminal lawyer and that a blessing god's on the throne ((music playing)) my brother rick upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel gives me a great honor to baptize you sir before these witnesses in the name of the father son the holy spirit bears baptism raised ((music playing)) you are here ((music playing)) sister emily upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power glorious gospel gives me a great honor my sister in the lord to baptize you before these witnesses in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) this is the lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes thank you so much for coming today we're going to pray together as a church family and we'll get out of here we'll see you guys wednesday night at seven o'clock one more look see i was trying to pray i got froggy and the spear is still moving showing up hey man that's all right bring them on they sign up in a minute it's all good ((music playing)) ((music playing)) what a beautiful and great honor to baptize you my sister in the lord in the name of the father son of the holy spirit buried baptism praise this ((music playing)) father god we come to you right now in the name that is above every name lord and lord we thank you for what you're doing here in our midst god what a beautiful sight it is to see so many people be delivered and set free god lord we know that you are still on the throne and god that you are sovereign and you are in control and no matter what we are facing we know that the battle belongs to you lord and so we can rest in your presence we can abide in the shadows of the almighty and find protection there and lord we thank you for that we thank you that your angels come and protect us lord lord we thank you so much for the outpouring of your spirit we have seen and felt heaven invade earth in this place lord and god we thank you for that we know that this is not of ourselves god but this is the holy spirit moving in our midst and god we just want more we're not going to be satisfied we're not going to go home today and forget that we have encountered the holy one of heaven god we want more of you we want to pray more god we want to fast more god we want to see more people be baptized we want to see more people be set free we want to see more marriages be restored god we just want to see you do more and lord we're going to give you all glory for everything that you're doing in jesus name amen amen hallelujah my wife and i will be right here in the hospitality tenth i know we got to meet many of you before the service we'd love to meet many of you now afterwards just line up right over here to the right the far right by the fan and we'll run you through there we'd love to shake your hand hug your neck let you know how much we love you and appreciate your support we'll see you wednesday if not we'll see you next sunday god bless you we love you guys you