THE CHURCHES GOD WARNED US ABOUT

good morning good morning everyone i want to welcome you to church this morning as well as the online folks how's everybody doing we're doing our weekly announcements so uh monday morning 6 a.m is pastor greg's men's bible study at hilton garden inn make sure you come to that guys also at 6 30 p.m we have the iron man men's ministry we have food and fellowship and bible lesson you guys want to make it out to that also if you haven't joined the global vision online community facebook page then do so you must answer all the questions to get into the page and they offer updates about pastor greg weekly bible studies live communion bible trivia they even offer a phone line for prayers and so much more this is offered for all of us to grow together as a church and as a family in christ if you guys consider yourselves part of the gvbc family you should definitely join the online community once again that's global vision online community facebook page also this thursday marriage matters will resume our starting over series on thursday night at the hampton inn this saturday the youth will be on campus at 7 00 a.m to go to rock island state park please make sure that if your kid is going that you have a signed waiver they cannot leave the campus unless that waiver is signed also with the youth their deadline for the camp sign up is may 28 29th so please see brittany and jesse to get your kids signed up for that the secret place is every tuesday night at 7 p.m at the hilton garden inn and young adults is every saturday at 5 00 p.m um yeah young adults ages 18 to 25. so if you'd like to join please come see me and my husband on the front row the guest experience team will be meeting saturday april 30th in the youth room at four o'clock there will be food there because we know we have to have food to get you guys there no i'm just kidding they will show up food helps food helps amen um also tonight at 6 00 p.m is our deliverance service dad will talk more about that so okay that's it let's get ready for church to worship good morning church it's a beautiful day to worship the lord let's go stand to your feet ((music playing)) ((music playing)) come to the web that never runs dry the drink of the water come and there's no more ((music playing)) come all you sinners come find his mercy come to the table he will satisfy taste of his goodness find what you're looking ((music playing)) is whoever ((music playing)) ((music playing)) bring all your fears ((music playing)) foreign is is ((music playing)) praise him praise him for the wonders of his love faith ((music playing)) please ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is know ((music playing)) ((music playing)) your friends bring your addictions come lay them down at the foot of the cross jesus is ((music playing)) you know what i love about sundays every sunday is resurrection day come on there is a sound i love to hear it's the sound of the savior's as he walks into the room ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((applause)) ((music playing)) is the sound of the savior's room as he walks into the room ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) there is a sound that changes things ((applause)) see his place ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) uh ((music playing)) glorious ((music playing)) let us ((music playing)) ((music playing)) place ((music playing)) ((music playing)) you know i think the most incredible thing when i sing that verse that bridge where it talks about where there was a wall now there's a way i always think about the children of israel and how there was literally a wall of water but god made a way where there seemed to be no way so i don't know what's going on in your life but if you need god to make a way where there seems to be no way if you need him to make a move in your life ((music playing)) then what we need to do is get on our knees and pray and get our feet in worship so would you join me this morning as we petition our lord for a move in our circumstances as we petition him for move in our hearts make no mistake he is able to ((music playing)) away is ((music playing)) stands is oh ((music playing)) blue ((music playing)) me ((music playing)) ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) is please ((music playing)) sing his place ((music playing)) things ((music playing)) we got anybody desperate in the house for the presence of god this morning huh somebody need a miracle somebody need a breakthrough somebody need a touch of the lord come on right now get down to the front we're gonna keep on worshiping the lord i need about two or three hundred desperate people right now that don't care about what their neighbor thinks they don't care about what the livestream only is saying get on down here lift him holy hands if you've got to get on your knees if you've got to lay prosthetic on the floor then let's do it i'm telling you it's time we'll have an invitation at the beginning of the service await my soul and sing we got to get lifted up church we got to get woke up church i ain't talking about a walk church i'm talking about an awakening church amen you need something from god come sing it out sing it out sing it out watch what god will do in your life let the breakthrough come in worship amen let's sing church ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is oh ((music playing)) now ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) where ((applause)) ((music playing)) is okay ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) awake my soul ((music playing)) lift him up aloud this morning church lift him up aloud you can head back to your seat hallelujah to the lamb of god ((music playing)) hallelujah well if you're glad to be in the house of the lord shout a good hearty amen we're honored that you're here you can make your way back to your seat you can all be seated all over the house thank you for letting us us host you today we are honored that you are here we'll do our best to keep the fans blowing a little bit it looks like we can start putting those heaters up start breaking the big fans out and things are going to start getting warm but we'll get us some more of those uh those funeral home fans amen i like it it's the only thing around here that we super super love uh throughout the summer time uh that represent something that's uh funeralistic right but we like him funeral home fans and so we'll order a bunch of them people like them we we sign them we've sent them things all over the country as mementos a memorial of being here we have people every week that take cedar chips with them i don't take like buckets of them but we have people that take cedar chips with them and use them as markers in their bible it's just a great experience amen i love what the lord's doing in his house i love what the lord's doing in this place and it's just beautiful to behold every week's different so many different people every weekend if everybody that came in just a few months time would all show up at the same service the titan stadium would not hold them i'm telling just so many visitors from all over america matter of fact if you are from out of town if you are not from the great state of tennessee or even if you are let me say it this way from the state of tennessee but you drove more than two hours we'll give you that one all right but if you drove more than two hours in tennessee but especially if you are not from tennessee stand up all over the tent for a moment just so we can honor you for wow look at that that's a lot of people thank you thank you thank you for being here you may be seated well let me remind you just a couple of quick announcements for tonight our six o'clock mass deliverance service how many of you are already here i know we have people that are driving in for that how many of you are already here are planning on being in the mass deliverance six o'clock step your hand up okay that's a lot of folks good good good good good people going to be getting some freedom in christ tonight don't forget doors open here at the tent five o'clock and we start right at six sometimes we'll give you a five minute window but please do not get here past 6 15 what do we say every week you'll have to come to another one no matter how far you drove because you're going to be missing some very good foundational meat from the word of god that teaches you about the roadblocks to deliverance and so we don't want you to miss that you can't miss the renunciation parts use the bathroom before you get in here and all that kind of stuff all right and so please do not be late tonight at 6 15 and i remind you it's at six don't be past 6 15. i remind you it is a non-pictured non-phone non-videoed service all right we ain't got to that place yet where we start recording our mass deliverances i know people online that do and i know good men of god that i follow and they're friends of mine that do but right now we don't all right and so no camera operations tonight whatsoever this is the only warning you'll get for that uh besides the one that i give tonight but you'll not get a secondary one all right once we say no cameras if we see a phone in your hand then you'll be escorted out by the security because we want people to know that there's freedom in christ and they can express themselves the way that they need to to get free amen we're not worried about dignity we're worried about deliverance amen and so tonight at six o'clock be in your place and watch what the lord is going to do i'm starting to notice there's mass deliverance services that are popping up all over america even pastor schaefer is about to be doing a mass deliverance service on sunday night may the 15th and so that's beautiful so we'll keep praying for him and we have people that want us to bring the manual and some of our team and really just all over the country try to propagate what we're watching here every single sunday night but i love the fact that it's just so simple it's so non-complex it's so down-to-earth because the power is in the name of the lord jesus christ and so please do not miss out tonight on our mass deliverance service we're going to be honored to have you and then many folks that will be coming in for that as well tonight will be week number nine for our mass deliverance sessions together and we are certainly honored by that well i want to ready our hearts and our minds and our hands to be faithful in our giving today the bible says that god loves a cheerful giver the word cheerful is the greek word hilarium it literally means hilarious you ever heard anybody break out in hilarious laughter would he ever have an offering not normally not normally and yet in the book of exodus did you know there was a time that moses stood up and he took what the bible refers to as the too much offering there was a time that the priest of god went through the the camp of the israelites and they were taking up money so that they could take care of the house of the lord and they gave so much and so extravagantly that moses stood up and said don't give another penny we've got enough we've got too much you ever been to a service where a preacher got up and said stop giving right now we've got too much well at the end of the day the bible says to be content with such things as we have and so let's be honest most of us do have too much most of us have everything that we need because what you have is enough and often we we think we have to pray for god to give us more when really what we need to do is just be faithful with what we already have be it a little or be it a lot it doesn't matter never pray for more if you're not a good steward of what you already have and so today we're just taking up a simplistic offering no frills no thrills no beggadociousness we never do that the only time we ever really hit hard for money is when we're giving the entire offering away and you know as well as i do that this week we're going to be giving a lot of money away but i don't have anything in particular that we're taking this offering for as far as other ministries we have all of our missionaries coming up on a monthly basis we have other people that we're blessing you know one of the things that's interesting is last sunday resurrection sunday there were three churches in this nation that had a grand opening service in a new building that global vision bible church purchased for them that isn't exciting that's super cool to me that is so super cool and so i just want you to be faithful to the to the ministry of the lord today because as we say when we invest in the kingdom god invests in the campus and are there needs oh yeah abundant needs but we want to take care of the needs of others we want to be a blessing to those that are around us that even flow somewhat out of the context of our narrative today in the book of acts and so i i'm just going to be light on what i say about the offering today because we already have a generous church and we're not generous because we take up good-sized offerings we're generous because we give most everything that we have away if you look at the books at our church i promise you every single month we are operating on a very small percentage and giving about 75 or 80 percent of everything we bring in to other people that's good stewardship and that's the way that it should be in a local new testament church it's not about all the fancy things it's about blessing other people and making their kingdom dreams come true amen and so today let's just be faithful as we honor other men and women of god around the nation we're getting ready for mother's day let me remind you that we do something on mother's day that is unusual and and and i think it ought to be announced because i want you to get to work i want you ladies in the room that know other single moms to get to work right now you remember what we did last year for mother's day and last year that was a super stretch of unimaginable faith for us and god blessed us so much that we're going to do it again over and more in abundance than what we did last year so in just a couple of weeks in just a few weeks i think it's the 12th of may we have mother's day and on mother's day we honor moms we honor the faithfulness of moms and flowers and all that kind of stuff but we always have a special time for single mothers on mother's day yeah i don't care how they're why they're single mothers i don't care how they're single mothers and how long i don't care single parenthood is a forgotten mission field in the united states because it's one of the most difficult things you will ever go through ever ever ever it's difficult and so on mother's day we always honor single moms we just do so on father's day do you honor single dads yeah we'll get around to that but we tell my mama's day right now amen and so i want you to start inviting every single they can come to our church one time and never again come back because we're not about trying to build a crowd we're trying to get people to gospel and build the kingdom through love and kindness and the mercy of grace of god so every single year on mother's day we give a boat load of money away to single moms and we don't apologize for that now last year we had to do check check check check check check check check check took us forever i actually called the bank this time and i said how in the wild world of a long time do i got a call in advance to get some cash it's crazy that banks have no cash these days and i said uh how long he called a couple weeks i said okay i'm putting in the order this week i need some i need some cash and some security to walk me back with the cash price call and we're gonna have a great big cash giveaway to single moms on mother's day a big one a big one ((music playing)) you say what if a hundred single moms show up i'm counting on it i'm counting on 200 of them showing up and so you invite those single moms and get them here we're going to be a blessing to them on that day and so as you give today just understand we're in preparation of that and so many more things that we want to do just to bless people for the sake of the kingdom father would you loose our hearts and our pocket books now in a spirit of generosity that we can bless other people lord you'll take care of the tent you'll take care of all the stuff around campus you'll take care of all the bills that need to be paid if we will just obey what you said you said try me and see if i'll not open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that you cannot contain we can never out give you because as so often we say we can never out guard you so father i pray that as we preach the word of god today as we pray as we worship as we give as we baptize converge as we have deliverance service tonight at six that we would be mindful of the fact that you have put us on this earth to be good stewards of your resources we do not own the resources we don't own the money in the vault we're just the tellers that work for the bank operator help us to be good stewards of every penny you give us so release us today in a spirit of benevolence so that this church can continue to be known around the world and in the kingdom as a church that just loves people enough to do what god told us to do and that is to give so bless us today with a heart of sacrifice and we'll thank you for it in jesus name and all of god's people said god bless you as you give today ((music playing)) this next song is one that's very dear to my heart ((music playing)) it talks about it being well with our soul no matter our circumstances because no matter our circumstances the lord is still good because our salvation is still in hand and i remember the first time i sing this song so interesting that pastor was talking about mother's day because i didn't expect him to and i wasn't going to share this but then he talked about mother's day so now i feel like i need to um ((music playing)) the first time i sing the song i was in the middle of a miscarriage and i knew that i was losing my baby and i had to lead worship and i needed to lead worship and that evening i did end up losing our first baby and i was singing it as well with my soul because his peace his goodness in the middle of adversity in the middle of loss is what gets us through and his goodness in the middle of greatness is what allows us to know what is great and you can't understand how good the lord is until you are in a bottom place in your life you can't understand how amazing it is to have the lord scoop you up from the bottom when you can't hold yourself together so if you are desperate today for a touch from the lord if you are in an amazing season in your life and you just want to praise him for his goodness his goodness is not dependent upon our season his goodness is not dependent upon our circumstances he is good because he is our father because he gave his life because he created us because he's already paid the ultimate price everything that we are up against has already been defeated has already been conquered so if mother's day is a trigger day for you or if mother's day is a glorious day for you or father's day or any other day i want you to know that it is well and it can be well with your soul so would you join and sing with me as we praise the lord for his goodness for his faithfulness ((music playing)) grandeur is great before move by the sounder's voice ((music playing)) and the seas that are shaken and stirred can be calmed and broken from my regard i threw it all through it all my eyes around you through it all through it all it is well ((music playing)) i threw it all through it all my ((music playing)) with me ((music playing)) and far be it for me to not be even when ((music playing)) ((music playing)) through it all it is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) waves ((music playing)) the ways ((music playing)) still know his name is ((music playing)) and it is ((applause)) ((music playing)) because of who you are ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) my soul ((music playing)) i threw it all through it only ((music playing)) and it is ((music playing)) with me ((music playing)) with me sing it again it is ((music playing)) is is ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) hallelujah it is well it is well you may be seated you know a lot of times uh people don't understand the historical narrative behind a song like that especially i know that's a little bit more of a modernized version of the hymn that we've seen but i never asked the band and i ever never asked miss monica what are they going to sing because it always dovetails together and they pray they fast they seek the lord but i just want to say this before i announce where we're going to be preaching and and i'm going to be in acts 20 so you can go there but i just i just feel led to share this with you that song was written by a businessman it is well with my soul his name was horatio spafford and he lost his son in the chicago fire many many years ago in the days of evangelist dwight il moody and there came a time shortly after that that he had to send his wife and his four daughters to england but because he had to close a business transaction and he was like the legal signer of it he wasn't able to go with them so he sent his wife and his daughters ahead to england and as the horrible thing would happen history tells us that the ship sank and only so many people got away his wife being one of them in a lifeboat and when she got to england she sent back a telegram that simply said saved alone whatever shall i do well he closed his business deal and got on a boat himself and he began to go and comfort his grieving wife which eventually he did and when the boat came over the area when the ship came over the area the captain of the ship knowing this well-to-do businessman horatio spafford brought him up on the deck and said sir this is the very spot where the boat went down and your daughters were lost at sea and there in that spot that night on a boat he wrote that song when peace like a river attended my way when sorrows like sea billows roll whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say it as well that is well with my soul he said them songs mean something somebody wrote those songs in the deepest darkest moments of their life and the ones that touch you the most are the ones that touch them the most that's why sometimes the most effective messages i communicate are the ones that god worked me over with first because you can communicate through your hurt you can communicate through your brokenness through your struggles that make sense well it had nothing to do with my message and so you can start your clocks now if you do that but if you're a clock watcher you probably walked into the wrong church today anyhow acts chapter 20 is where we are continue to pray for me as i preach i'm about two weeks into this just continual uh chest infection it doesn't really do much with my voice other than not let me get a lot of power to my vocal cords and so i'm gonna have these monitors and let the microphone do its work and it makes a little bit difference when i'm preaching over the fans but they're fine right now we don't have them on high but some summertime i feel like i have to overdo those fans but today's just great so it's going to be good well if you believe god brought you here for something to hear from the bible say amen acts 20 is where we're at i want to invite you to stand for a moment we've got quite a bit of word that we're going to go through today but not for the text for the text i'm going to start in the middle and then i'll back our way into what we're going to talk about and i'm just i'm super burdened and feel as if i'm super connected to the work of the holy spirit as i have prepared this message i actually have principles today we never have those but they'll pop up on the screens both for those that want to take notes or for those that are online and want to follow along but it's just it's a different sort of a context for me today but i'm just really burdened and i'm just really uh i guess mesmerized what has happened in american christianity and i just want to talk about it a little bit today from the text of god's word acts chapter number 20. in a moment we'll go to verse 17 but for times sake and text sake i want to go to verse 26 acts 20 and verse 26 paul says wherefore i take you to record this day that i am pure from the blood of all men for i have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of god take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the holy ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of god which he hath purchased with his own blood for this i know do not miss what he says next that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you not sparing the flock also of your own selves shall mentalize speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years i ceased not to warn everyone night and day with tears and using much of this text even that which we didn't read i simply want to preach on this subject today the churches god warned us about the churches god warned us about thank you you may be seated father i pray that you would help me as i preach what you have so clearly laid upon my heart and my mind today for the people and lord i i pray that in the midst of my big personality in my demonstrative ways that you would keep me somewhat contained so that i can convey the message from a place of love not a place of arrogance from a place of boldness not a place of belligerence there are some things that are going to have to be said today that are going to be unbelievably abrasive as it were and so may i speak the truth but may it be spoken in love fill me with the wisdom the power and the anointing of your text because we know that the word of god is anointed all by itself and it doesn't need my help my opinion and so today use this message to speak to every heart in this room and every heart around the world that is watching now and we'll watch later and we're going to thank you for in jesus name and all of god's people said in acts chapter 20 the apostle paul is giving to the ephesian elders what we refer to sometimes as his swan song it was his last will and testament it was going to be the finality of any opportunity that he was going to have to continue to teach the people whom he had led to christ and discipled for a very long time and started multiple churches and campuses all over that particular region and the people loved the apostle paul not because he was a sellout but because he was a man that was willing to tell the truth even at the expense of often being misunderstood and persecuted which eventually led to his death history tells us that it was down the steps of the roman emperor's palace that his head was going to roll because he refused to bow to the dictates of a man and said i am going to obey the truth of the gospel of jesus christ so when we get to our text here in acts chapter number 20 i want you to back up to verse 17 so that we can understand who he's talking to and why he's doing it and from militants he's sent to ephesus that's from where we get the book of ephesians and he called the elders of the church so he calls the leadership of the healthiest church that he had started he calls the elders he calls the authority if you really he calls the staff he calls the people that have been discipling others and leading them to christ and baptizing them and teaching small groups and doing deliverance and watching miracles transpire he brings all of them together and he says now look it's been a good run boys it's been a good run for a few years but i got to get on a boat i got to go to rome and you are never again going to see me long before email long before text long before iphone and imessage and facebook and instagram they knew that there would never again be another update from the man that they loved and served with all of these years a man whom they considered their shepherd in the faith and paul said i'm going to have to leave and the end of the text in a moment will tell us that with sadness and brokenness they walked him to the boat and they said farewell man of god we'll never see you again this side of glory but we will see you again in the other side in the kingdom and the apostle paul begins to warn the elders that there is going to arise a new breed of christianity there is going to arise a new form of churchiness there is going to arise a false gospel and a false biblical narrative there is going to arise churches that are more interested in pleasing man than preaching the truth of the gospel and bringing pleasure to god almighty and he begins to explain what those churches will be like and we've come full circle and we see them everywhere today popping up like umbrellas all over the world but as he's giving the narrative of what he experienced he explains to us this is what new testament christianity looks like and this is what form is going to pop up that it should never look like because it has a form of godliness but it denies the power thereof and how many of you understand under this tent and watching online that the average church and i use my words loosely but i choose them wisely i'm not saying that we are any better than anyone else global vision has its own problems and inconsistencies that we have to grow through but i am saying we want to be a church that looks as if it popped right out of the new testament itself and looks like a book of acts church in every way and i think you know by now that when i say if god says stop we will stop and god says start we will start i think you know we mean business at this point ((music playing)) so when i use the phrase average church understand i'm not minimizing churches that are preaching the gospel i'm minimizing churches that don't care about the gospel they only care about their offering plates and the kingdom with which they build their campus not the kingdom of the lord jesus christ and so you would have to be honest that most churches in america and i am very loose with the term american christianity because it's far too american and not nearly enough christian but that's the context that we have it is powerless it is weak it is sickly it is anemic it is so lukewarm that in the last days of the laodicean period god says i will vomit you out of my mouth and i'm telling you 85 of what we call churches in america god would throw up on them if he were physically in the building and you know it's true whether you clap or not it's a shame what we call church in america and we have forsaken the clear teachings of the bible so that we can appear to fit in with a crowd that we are called to come out from and be separate to begin with so listen to me i am not a cultural christian i am a biblical christian the culture and the bible are on a collision course you cannot be politically correct and biblically right at the same time you cannot you just cannot i don't care what the news says i don't care what your mama told you i don't care what your pastor granddaddy told you you cannot hold hands with the world and god and expect god to bless your life because my bible says that we should not have any friendship with the world because he that is a friend of the world is the enemy of god so why is it that i can say that and everybody's like oh my goodness i can't believe he said that paul said have i now become your enemy because i tell you the truth you are either god's friend or you are the culture's friend but you are not one and the same at the same time you're not cultural christianity so paul said look when i leave and by the way he left and it's had two thousand years to mature he said there's gonna be some churches pop up that don't look like the bible there's going to be some false prophets pop up that aren't preaching the bible he said and even amongst you you're going to be deceived and the bible says in the last days the church will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons and guess what we are there right this very second so there are some things about churches that god warned us about many places we could go on the bible we'll stay here in our text and we'll develop as much of it as we possibly can i'll do my best to stay on point with time but i'm making no promises because i got a burden on my heart so he calls the elders in verse 17 and notice what happens in verse 18 and when they were come to him he said unto them ye know from the first day that i came into asia after what manner i have been with you at all seasons he said look i didn't just preach it i practiced it and a lot of the problems in the pulpit is we're not practicing what we're preaching we're telling everybody else to do it and we're not doing it ourselves serving the lord verse 19 with all humility of mind and with many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying and the weight of the jews and how notice please what he says i kept back nothing if it was funny he said i said it but if it didn't make you laugh i still said it if it hurt your feelings i said it matter of fact in first corinthians he said i wrote you a letter that made you sorry and i will not repent he said what that means that means he don't care he said i don't care if i take you off i wrote you the truth and if you get mad that's on you not anybody else and so he said look you know what matter i kept nothing back from you that was profitable unto you how many know sometimes you have to tell your kids things that are hard but it's profitable for their behavior it's profitable for their health you don't let them play in the road because it's profitable not to get in the road it doesn't make you a mean parent it makes you a good parent because you hold back nothing that's profitable to them but i have showed you and have taught you publicly and from house to house so here the apostle paul says look no matter how difficult it was for me to articulate i was willing to share with you the hard truths of the gospel remember when the disciples began to walk away from jesus in john the sixth chapter the bible says that many that had followed him for a long time left and he looked at his own twelve and said will you go also to which peter retorted and said to whom shall we go for perhaps the words of life but you know why they left because the disciples piped up and all said at one time this is a hard saying who can hear it there are no shortcuts to spirituality there are no shortcuts to a good marriage there are no shortcuts to deliverance there are no shortcuts to a godly church you don't build a good church on spare change and spare time and you don't build a good home by never being present when you're there you can't build a good relationship with god when the relationship is void and you spend more time on facebook than you do with your face in the book so paul said i have not shared with you easy truths so i want you to write down the first type of church that god warns us about i'm taking my time on purpose they promote attraction and avoid confrontation they promote attraction and avoid confrontation they call themselves attractional ministries it started years ago with willow creek bill hybels i might have to drop a few names that doesn't mean i'm against every single thing that they've done but i got to give you the context everybody okay so what they decided is what churches need to be is seeker friendly you better be holy ghost friendly is what you better be because i'll grieve this whole town before i'll grieve the holy ghost i promise you that right now so they call them seeker friendly so here's what they were taught to do we got to be attractional in the way that we draw people so they would go door-to-door and they would say things like this we're starting a new church in town by the way this is how they built one of the first mega churches in america we're trying to build a church down the road and we would like to know have you ever been a church yes were you mad at church yes were you church hurt yes did you get out of church yes could you tell us the things that made you get out of church and we will make sure not to have them in the new one so the idea behind seeker sensitive christianity is to be so non-abrasive and so non-confrontational that when people show up it is the show that you have that attracts them and eventually they'll find a little bit of jesus that's so totally backwards from the bible by the way you see we have things that would seem attractional but let me tell you what i've never done and will never do i've never asked a lost person what do you think about the flow of our service i don't care what lost people think about the flow of our service i'm not called to slop the hogs i'm called to feed the sheep that's what the bible said he said well you got big screens in an led wall not because lost people told me to but because i like it i'm a high-tech redneck and i just like stuff i'm never going to stand up in a restaurant and say look we would love to have everybody in this restaurant at our church so please tell us what offends you the most and we will make sure we stay away from it at our church so then you have churches that won't preach the bible then you have churches that won't even have crosses then you have churches that are afraid to baptize anybody then you have churches that vote on everything all the way down to the color of the carpet and you have nothing but a committee not a church and they've become attractional but they're non-confrontational they say to churches like us oh my goodness you should not confront the culture how can we not confront the culture have you paid any attention to what's going on in it if some of you would confront your school board you would find out that your kids are learning absolute open pornography and you're going to tell me we're not supposed to confront that well you know we just need to let disney do what disney does because disney's a private organization what you want to do is cancel every disney subscription you've got and let that crowd know we ain't standing for your homosexuality your transgenderism your gender dysphoria teaching three-year-old kids about oral sex telling five-year-old kids they don't know if they're a boy or a girl disney can go to hell for all i care and yes i said it the whole organization can burn down and it won't stop us one bit to hell with disney you hear me i set to hell with it i'm sick of their transgenderism nonsense shoving it down my kid's throat they can take aladdin they can take lion king they can take pocahontas they have them all for all i care and stop saying stupid stuff i'm about to get fired up stop saying stupid stuff like oh my goodness walt disney would roll over in it walt disney was a 33rd degree mason a pedophile sex trafficking wicked mongrel that's in hell right now walt disney didn't have any character in his life he was crooked as a dog's hind leg that's why they're doing this mess now he ain't rolling over in his grave he's burning in hell i'm about to preach today ladies help me holy ghost i'm about to preach i'm about to run some of y'all back up in this tent y'all ain't gonna come back next week i'm telling you right i'm sick of these churches that won't be confrontational i'm confronting them i'm calling out this demonic gender dysphoria nonsense i ain't calling you by your proper pronoun i'll call you by what you was born with and if you can't figure out what you was born with you got bigger problems with what i'm preaching on i'm sick of these attractions i didn't think i was gonna get stirred up i ain't trying to attract a crap we don't need a bigger crowd i'm not against big churches by the way you can tell that i'm against unbiblical churches i'm sick of it people like well i just don't think you ought to just make a listen there are churches in this town that are half decent churches that won't make fusses like that and that's cool it's just my i can't help myself i can't know what your kids are being taught not say something to you about it because you don't want to deal with it right i'll go the school board for you twitter be lit up today oh atheist matado whatever that dude's name is he'll be tore up from the way how you doing buddy i don't hold the whole magic kingdom could burn to the ground tomorrow and it will not stop us one bit from doing what we're doing you hear me i'm confronting the culture california passes bill a2223 you can kill a baby 28 days after it's born and the church wants to sit around their hands and say oh my goodness we don't think our pastor should be so confrontational i don't think you ought to vote for murderers and baby butchers is what i think that stuff's wicked and out of hell baby killers or babies i don't care if it's 28 days before they're born or 28 days after they're born it's butchering and it's murder planned parenthood is a death cult you can tell them i said so every last one of them so they promote attraction and avoid confrontation as you can tell we don't i looked for it a lady walked up this morning she heard me saying something about controversy i was talking to one security guy she said that's why i'm here from michigan because you controversial we're looking i ain't trying to be controversial for the sake of being controversial but if you think i'm gonna back up you got the wrong one i'm confronting this wicked buck wild culture it's as demon possessed now as it's ever been i don't care anybody and we even had to deal with politics or nothing disney's not a political issue abortion is not a political issue it's a moral issue it's moral issue we taking that rainbow back huh we taking that rainbow back now remind you the rainbow was a symbolization of god's peace flowing after god's judgment this crowd's about to figure out god's judgment real quick a-l-g-b-t-q-i-a-b-c-d-e-f-g i don't give a flip what their acronym is i ain't standing for none of that ungodly demonic nonsense i don't care how mad you get i ain't playing these games i'm just going to get all out one service i need to lose about 20 pounds so i'm going to sweat about 18 of them out right now in the next 30 or 40 minutes you say you still got 30 or 40 minutes i may have an hour and 30 or 40 minutes i don't know what i've got in me but there's a big old door right there and a big old door right there and a big old door right there if you got to get to the chinese buffet roll with it but i'm going to preach a little bit because i'm going to confront the culture i have them on these attractional churches i ain't trying to please everybody in this house i'm trying to make everybody happy i'm trying to please jesus i'm trying to preach the gospel and sometimes when you preach the gospel people will think you're a jerk they can think i'm a jerk all they good and jolly well please i ain't standing up with baby butchering mongrels and people that believe in grooming our kids for sexual pleasure now they want to call pedophiles map minor attracted person you a demon get right with god you wicked devil well i was just born being attracted to minors that's because you was born in sin you was born a pervert you need to get right with almighty god and you ever have your little mappy hands lay one of your nappy hands on one of my little kids and you're gonna find out real quick you're gonna find out real quick that i believe in gun control i'll use both hands when i'll send you to hell for putting your hands on one of my kids you deviant pervert you think i'm playing games i don't give two craps what the media thinks about me we'll burn the whole media system down welcome to the house cnn come on in mtv let's go netflix let's go hulu let's go joe biden you sleepy old crook in my heart maybe i'm just in point one am i good ((music playing)) she's bracing herself i can tell she's like you ought to stand tight security i ain't done said i kept back nothing from you i ain't gonna stand before god and be like i know i know lord i could have told him i know i know i know i could have said it but you know i just i didn't you see i ain't gonna stand before you so i don't care what you think about me i don't care what the democrats i don't care what the republicans think about me i can care less i don't care what doors it closes i don't care what doors it opens i don't need another place to preach i don't need another book we don't need a bigger crowd i could care less about money you see you get a guy like me that has nothing to lose but simply to preach the gospel and some people think he's dangerous well he just comes off half cocked he's just crazy he's just he's a detriment to society i've heard it all and yet here i am doubling down digging my heels in telling you that it ain't bothered me one bit but then perverts think about me i don't care some of you like oh man i brought a friend today hey god bless your friend if what i say offends you and your friend go to another church because i'm just getting good and started not just today but i mean all the time i'm done with them i ain't planner stupid games i ain't compromising for witches devils youtube clicks i don't care okay i got a wife it's my best friend i don't need any more friends i got kids that have claimed in a restaurant praise god i'm not trying to be attractional i'm not jesus was confrontational that's why they killed the man he warned us about churches that are attraction i don't care what lost people want in a church a church isn't for lost people it's for god's people it's called the body of christ not the body of the devil so why would i care what lost people want well if you preach like that lost people won't show up i'm trying to get god's people to show up i'm trying to get you to a place where you'll go out and tell the world about the lord jesus christ so enough of all this attractional mess but we got to keep on rolling i could stay on that first point for such a long time but look anyhow look verse 21 testifying both to the jews and also to the greeks repentance toward god and faith towards our lord jesus christ notice what he didn't shy away from he didn't shy away from the turning from your sin to trust jesus by faith he said you know what i preached to jews and gentiles black and white tall and short fat and skinny harry hadn't bought in church out of church he said i preach repentance toward god faith towards our lord jesus christ so the first in the text type of church jesus warned us about was they promote attraction and avoid confrontation number two they preach regeneration without repentance you hear me they preach a fallacy that is not in the bible regeneration without repentance there's no such monster now look i know at the end of our services we have people raise hands we pray we have people pray what sometimes the evangelical world calls the sinner's prayer but whatever you call it a prayer didn't die for you a person named jesus did die you could pray it a thousand different way you're not saved by the words the bible says you believe in your heart you confess with your mouth but we've got this idea these days well you can just walk an owl pop your bubble gum have absolutely no you know shame for your sin just give me a little dose of the holy ghost and then go back out and live your way live your life any way you want to no that's not what the bible teaches the bible says when you get saved you're a new creature in christ all things are passed away behold all things are become new philly on this limp-wristed theology that you can walk an aisle sign a card pray a prayer and then go back to living in fornication go back to living in adultery go back to just living consistently in pornography go back to lying in your business deals go back to being a thief go back to being a crook well you know it's all right i pray to prayer i'm born again by the grace of god you ain't no such thing the bible says you gotta turn from your sin and trust jesus in those days came john the baptist preaching in the wilderness of judea and saying repent ye for the kingdom of god is at hand that's the first message of john the baptist and guess what it was also the first message of jesus mark 1 15. you know what his first message was repent and believe the gospel a sunday school teacher got up one day and said now boys and girls we're going to talk about repentance does anybody know what it means to repent a little boy stood up and said well it means you're sorry for your sin as soon as you sat down a little girl stood up in a chair and said it means you're sorry enough to quit your sin that's repentance it means i'm going one way because there's a way which seems right unto a man but then there are the ways of death and i get born again and i turn and now i'm going this way i don't dress the same i don't sing the same i don't talk the same i don't act the same there's a difference in me and we've got this loose living easy belize believism theology just come to church on easter and christmas i call them christers just come to church on easter and christmas and you know as long as when you were four years old you raised your hand in vacation bible school and ask jesus to come into your heart well you can live like hell for the rest of your life you live like hell you're going to hell you hear me that's what the bible teaches claps are drying up and i'm just getting excited ((music playing)) i'm telling you away with this regeneration without repentance nonsense is it easy to get saved yes but transformation in the gospel is because you're willing to turn from your way and trust jesus because his way is best he didn't say i'm one of many ways he said i'm the one and only way and narrow is the way that leads unto life and few say few there be that find it so don't get mad when i say it because it's red letters in your bible jesus said it few there be that find it you know why because we've made everything so schizophrenically simplistic in the church just come to church every now and again just just pretend in your evangelical way that you're counting your rosary beads you just just just do your little your little sign of the croc by the way i'm gonna stop and say something about that sign lacrosse everybody looking at me i love everybody in this tent my wife's still smiling so i'm gonna say something next time this happens you're gonna get embarrassed you hear me anybody okay listen online because we baptize a lot of converts here and i thank god for it the next person that jumps in that baptistery and does this nonsense before i baptize and will pull you out i ain't baptizing you in the name of no pope i'm baptizing you in the name of jesus you take that catholic idolatry paganism and get out with it i've seen two or three people do it and i just let it go god convicted me about it i ain't baptizing lost people i ain't baptizing roman catholics you want to do that go down to saint stephen's where they worship idols well then demons down there worshiping the statue of virgin mary i see a few of you mad that's all right i'll pause for a minute let you leave ((applause)) no takers okay we're gonna keep going then you better repent it ain't just that will lay me down to sleep i pray the lord my soul to keep forgive all my sins and i'm just going to live any way i want to jesus because you know i'm once saved always saved you ain't been born again a day in your life you better repent it'll change your life it'll change your marriage it'll change everything about you fooey on this crazy level of american christianity that has no restrictions it's just wheels off well just walk an hour pray a prayer get in the baptismal duncan booth and then just go home and live like you want to because you under the covenant of grace you under a demonic demon's doctrines what you under you better get born again you know why bible says get born again because the first one jacked you up he didn't say get born again again and again and again and again and again and again he says get born again because the first one messed you up and so he said look i preached repentance repentance to jews and the greeks and yet he warned us that there would be a church movement that would pop up that would preach on salvation with no repentance whatsoever just live however you want to live well let's keep on going i really got to end things up we get a lot of text left verse 22 and i behold i go bound in the spirit unto jerusalem not knowing the things that shall befall me there save that the holy ghost witnesses in every city saying that bonds and afflictions abide in me he's like look i'm i'm bound up in chains he's like man i've been arrested over and over and over and over lots of three hots and a cot for me he wrote most of the bible 14 books of it in the new testament from jail well watch what he says in verse 24 but none of these things what things things of persecution things of arresting afflictions problems hunger nakedness hurt pain rejection abandonment none of these things move me why neither count out my life dear to myself so that i might finish my course with joy not with misery if serving jesus is boring to you you're doing it wrong that i might finish my course with joy and the ministry which i have received of the lord jesus to testify of the gospel of the grace of god and now behold i know that ye all among whom i have gone preaching in the kingdom of god shall see my face no more why because he's going on a boat to go to jail and have his head cut off and he said i've been willing to suffer i've been willing to be hurt misunderstood maligned lied about and he said i know the lord's already put it on my spirit i'm going to be a martyr he said i know i'm going to die i know i'm going to rome to die because i'm not going to compromise he said he said but be careful because there's going to be some churches and some preachers that spring up that don't have this mindset here's the third church god warned us about they embrace convenience over persecution they want everybody to like them they don't want any kind of persecution they don't want anybody to come against them they don't even want to get sued for anything they got to look good online and in line they want to be convenient with hour-long services let's start at 11 o'clock sharp and end at 12 o'clock dull colder than a mother-in-law's kiss dries cracker juice it doesn't matter if people get saved don't matter people don't get saved doesn't matter if there's baptisms or no baptisms it just doesn't matter let's just get in let's just get out we got to give people what they want let's be convenient but my goodness let's not do anything that's going to break out any persecution i don't know that many people in this room have their head in the sand you're pretty awakened not woke woke is a joke you're pretty awakened by stuff and so i might be preaching to the choir but i don't know if you understand how much the church in america is actually under persecution right now like absolute persecution and don't listen these stupid people online they just got a persecution complex no you just have a god denial complex and you're going to bust hell wide open so don't tell me how to live for a god that you don't even believe in somebody say amen for i keep looking at that camera i'm in rare form this morning i'm sick of these churches that are mad at churches like us for taking a stand and keeping our doors open for the last two years listen i'm sorry your pastor was a coward in a pansy i don't care i don't care i didn't call him to ask his permission to keep his church open i don't care what he thinks about me i get that all time well you know my pastor says you're a radical your pastor is a coward i don't care what he thinks about me i don't care he's not going to call me to come preach no hell right i mean why would he we'll just tear this whole church up i don't i don't want to show him tear somebody's church up if he wants to raise a a bunch of little they just obey every dictator man that's fine but i'm not doing it my wife and i watched this stupid chick last night on youtube them transgender chick she had like an hour and 40 minute debacle about greg locke we kind of like skip through it skip she does makeup does her makeup while she talks it's craziest thing it's crazy she didn't got to follow and i'm glad she's got one but whatever but i mean she just had this whole he put up a sign one time that said we're a mask-free campus that blankety-blankety you know what's funny everybody's looked at their mass mandates now because they know it was a bunch of nonsense and nobody apologized to our church ((applause)) so so i don't get it thank god they lifted that nonsense on airplanes we were driving all over america i was like i was sick of flying then people got on my nerves all them you know nazi stewards and stewardesses put your mask on put your mask on i'm like why don't that pile up her put his mouth shut the door now nobody's wearing their mask except for the people that's believed all the nonsense in the news media they're still they're wearing their masks well i'm just doing my due diligence see if i just want to be convenient nobody wants to make a fuss about nothing pastor be easy be calm people are watching this i know i'm counting on it just go ahead and thin the crowds out let me tell you something when all hell breaks loose in this nation you better know all hell is going to break loose in this nation that crowd ain't going to joel osteen's shirt he didn't even open during the uh flood down in houston he sure ain't gonna open when joe biden crashes the entire economy and people are starving so we'll see then skippy who gets all the criticism and what campus is filled with thousands of people trying to find some food and some clothes and some shelter we won't be so crazy in those days will we they don't burn down about 13 food facilities huh yeah i don't quit preaching gun in the middle they don't burn it down they trying to ruin the food supply folks they trying to starve us and y'all sitting around mad cause i'm saying something about disney i know where you'll be in the next few months when all hell breaks loose you ain't going to want these mealy mouth limp-wristed preachers wearing skinny jeans saying nothing you're going to be like oh we're going over where lock said he's crazy they start rolling tanks up into churches closing them down man they ain't gonna have to roll a hot wheel up into most churches we to government we told you to close oh high on hitler yes we shall i say to hell with hitler's what i say we ain't closing this church i don't care what joe biden says nancy pelosi i don't care what she says chuck schumer can eat my dirty socks for all i care and then a bunch of rhinos you got to vote every one of them out primary every single one of them cause america is on the rise ladies and gentlemen we gonna see revival and it won't be from trump it's gonna be from jesus it's gonna be from jesus i don't care about convenience that's why i'm eating a tent when you're gonna build never never because i don't care about convenience but i'm not ashamed of persecution either i can bring it all it won't think bring it listen not been happening in canada it's rolling down here you know canada's not a third world country right it like touches us it was just a precursor for what aoc and the rest of that liberal crowd wants huh oh i know i know i know it's a little rougher today but so far i ain't said nothing i'm going to apologize for i'm just going to let you know that when something slips out my wife says oh i apologize for it but so far nothing's like slipped out that i'm going to say i'm sorry for so don't write me letters are they going in the garbage can and if you write me a letter you put your name on it or it's going in the garbage can you know how many letters i get every week without no signature oh we gonna tell you what you need to do i'm gonna tell you sign it or i ain't gonna do jack spratt i'm gonna throw in the garbage can if you ain't got enough gumption to tell me who you are then don't pretend like you got enough gumption you keyboard coward to write me a letter without your name on it and tell me what i'm doing is wrong i like how we're doing it better how you ain't doing it and if you don't think the church is under persecution you better pay attention i'm telling you they are levying fines against churches to this day they hate us stop thinking that eventually if we calm down cnn will be our friend they've never showed up to be our friend they are the enemy of the people fake news is the enemy of the people today it'll be the enemy of the people tomorrow and it's going to be used by the antichrist to remain an enemy of the people so i don't care how much propaganda you think i'm peddling i'm telling you the church is under persecution and when they tell you that you cannot go to church something's got to be done can you believe we're two years past that and people still talking about it like it was okay well you know i hear them all time well you know where our church is just now getting back to normal well apparently we ain't never been normal because we didn't close come some stupid fake president told us to i'm about to strum on these guitars i'm about to give youtube everything they need for the next six months i'm about to make all their jobs easy all of them all of them i'm done with it i'm just telling you i'm sick of it i'm sick of these churches that embrace convenient christianity ain't no such thing every apostle in the bible died except john and they bowled him in chicken greece they were martyred they were beaten our preachers a little bit abrasive they were killed these people were sawn asunder for the gospel they were beat they were thrown off buildings they were lied about and we're like oh my goodness do you see what the washington post said about our pastor by the way tennessean did a pretty good job i appreciate them they did all right andy hale and the old liam they they did decent i do like the heading he's beautiful jesse i don't know i love the heading controversial pastor on a new crusade to save america from its demons yes yes that's what our crusade is we save america from its demons hallelujah saving the white house from them too they full of demons amen but let's roll i got two more i promise and i'm gonna quit i let my sweat be the barometer for how long i preach once it starts like getting down in my eyes and in my mouth i'm like all right shut up son keep on rolling verse 26 wherefore i take to you record this day that i'm pure from the blood of all men i like that and let me say i'm pure from the blood of all men i'm pure from the blood of all men i'm not compromising for you i'm not compromising for your mama i'm not compromising for my mama i'm not compromising for your poodle dog i ain't compromising for some preacher and i ain't compromising for some politician i ain't for sale i will die before i sell out you hear me they'll have to kill me and roll me out of this tent before i ever sell out to the machine i ain't selling out tell them i said so they watching i ain't selling out i'm pure from the blood of all men for i have not shunned i've not shirked my responsibility to declare unto you all the counsel of god take heed therefore unto yourselves and unto all the flock which the holy ghost had made you overseers i love that to feed the church of god not to make the world feel better about their sin to feed the church of god which he's purchased with his own blood and if jesus thought the church was enough to die for it ought to be enough for you to show up and be a part of it now watch for i know this is so tragic for i know this that after my departing grievous wolves will enter in among you not sparing the flock i pray to god that never happens in this church i give every man in this church the authority right now if i ever leave this church and i have no plans i want to bury my heart right there under this tent but if something ever happens and i leave this world prematurely as it were and this church starts theologically getting wishy-washy and you all start getting all convenient and osteeny-like and all cute and non-confrontational i give every spiritual man of god in this building the authority right now to set a match to this place and burn this sucker straight to the ground in the name of god we ain't moving we ain't bending i hope on them big screens you can see the series of my face we ain't bending burn it down myself before i compromise to this wicked world help me holy ghost also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them people leave the church and start saying stupid stuff or in our case we kick them out of church and they get on youtube and start saying stupid stuff hmm yes no maybe so okay i'll leave it alone ((music playing)) they just trying to dry draw away disciples after themselves but it it's hard to get a disciple to follow you when you ain't even a disciple yourself which which witch which which did i say you a witch i know some of you right now you like mm-hmm this is my last service oh we trying to figure out how to buy 500 more chairs so we need yours anyhow he said right here there's gonna be people in the church saying perverse things trying to draw people away and we watching it happen in real time and people mad oh my goodness we can't believe pastor said something i can't believe i didn't say it sooner anyhow therefore watch not which therefore watch and remember that by the space of three years say three years it's a long time i cease not to warn everyone night and day with what tears he said when i told you the truth i wept over the truth that i told you i was broken over the principles that i had to share with you but he said there's going to arise crop up a group of people in some churches that god warns us about and here's the fourth one they have ambition but not anguish they don't cry over the things of god they got planning meetings but no prayer meetings they got ambition we're gonna build the biggest church in town wow so you can be bigger than the guy down the road i'm not in competition i know a lot of us we grew up in these little churches that remember have the attendance board it was always like so embarrassing 550 people on the roll 22 people are in the seats 176 dollar and point 22 cent offering last week and i'm like why y'all always got that stuff on the wall even when i was a little kid i was lost as a ball in highways and i used to say who are you in competition with who cares how many had last week have you got this week people ask me all the time how many chairs did we have empty how many chairs did we have did y'all count i'm like i don't care why would i count there's more than a couple of you right well what difference would it make i don't have all these ambitious goals to be the fastest growing church in america i don't want to be the fastest growing church in america i want to be a solid growing church in america ((music playing)) you start introducing things like deliverance ministry and it'll slow down the rapidity of your growth but it will also take away the people that are weak and don't want the truth and bring in the people that are strong doctrinally and help you build the foundation because a lot of churches have what i call mushroom growth they grow real big on top but they ain't got a stem to sustain and they eventually fall over and they die and so there's a lot of people that have ambition but not like the apostle paul he was a man filled with anguish a man filled with brokenness a man that was willing to weep over things that mattered and paul said when i preached to you it seemed mean and heartless and jerkish but he said i did it with tears to warn you night and day for three years of what's coming and by the way we're there now because in the last days perilous times shall come you know every week and i've not been traveling a lot so i'm always here on saturdays for the most part got a couple things coming up soon but i love the 633 prayer gathering and just to help everybody why 633 matthew 6 33 look it up but you know it never fails we have preachers that visit we got one visit one of our missionaries from india we have pastors that visit every week and want to come you know to the services but they'll they'll come to the prayer meeting and you know i notice even dave benoit the guy that was preaching when i got saved was here last week that we honored i noticed he had his camera he was out he's like this is amazing people are shocked by the number of people that show up on a saturday night in an old white tent just for one thing just to pour their heart out before the lord and try to pray over every seat and every pole and every fan and every stitch of carpet and all the baptistry over the screens and over the lights and over the pulpit and over the platform you see what we have to have is a church that is baptized in anguish so that we can have the power of god we got to get back to prayer fasting listen if we're going to be a church that stands in the authority of the name of jesus and cast out devils we have to be prepared for that we've entered a spiritual arena that few churches care to even talk about much less walk into we got to be filled with anguish you know what's amazing people can break down and cry over a dog food commercial come to church hear that their parents are going to hell and wonder when the preacher is going to shut up we've raised a generation of people that got more concern for house cats than they do the fact that people are gonna bust hell wide open without the grace of the gospel of jesus where are the people that are so filled with brokenness that they'll fall on their face at an altar and well before god and call out the name of that spouse that's going to hell call out the name of that prodigal son that prodigal daughter that could be brought back if you just simply fast and pray where are the people that are broken over the demonic invasion of their heart what are the people that are broken over their addiction where are the people that are broken over the powerless condition of the church in america where are they they're few and far between and boy we've got churches that tell you you do this you do this you do this you do this and you'll grow but not one of the things they tell you to do is have anguish of soul and pray into the night until the holy ghost shows up when those 120 people got in that upper room they didn't have a board meeting the only board in the bible is that one paul floated on when he shipwrecked in acts 28. that's the only one bored meeting my hind leg they didn't sit there and say well here's what we got to do now it's going to be the day of pentecost and peter when you jump up on that hickory stump make sure that you walk up very gentlemanly like make sure that you hold the microphone just so so that the shimmering glimmer of the sunlight comes down upon your face because it's all about the appearance peter you do recognize the fact that the band will be softly playing behind you and when you talk about things like repentance just like mouth it but don't let the word actually fall forth from your lips so it does seem as if you're preaching it but actually you're just a coward because you won't make the people feel good peter and so they sit up there in the upper room and they have this big board meeting and then one of them says well you know i uh i make a motion that we start at a certain time and that we end at a certain time because you know these these people in jerusalem they're hungry i mean look at the widows of the grecians and the widows of the jews they're fussing over bread and you cannot have a church service with hungry women there's just no way and so i make a motion that we start and stop within an hour i'll second that motion you think they set up in the upper room having a board meeting well you know we got to have the lights just right everything's got to flow just perfect and at the right time when you hear the right note on the piano peter that's when you lift up your voice and say men and brethren no no no no they didn't plan any of it matter of fact when they did plan it god suddenly showed up and wrecked their plans he's like your plans are stupid i like my plans better suddenly suddenly suddenly bam and they're like okay your way works better than our way you know what they did in that upper room they had anguish of soul they wept before the lord he said wait in jerusalem until you be endued with power from on high he said don't even have church until the holy ghost shows up and yet we got seminars on how to usher the holy ghost in he ought to be here before we even get in the tent the power of god ought to be so amazing and amazing and mesmerizing that when we show up we're like wow we ain't got to work up nothing it's like well you know we got to sing just as i am 47 times so somebody will finally walk the aisle and get saved no they finally walk the aisle because they're tired of hearing it and we have motivationally manipulated people to be more wicked than they already were before they got here and they didn't go in that room and say we're gonna plan this and plan this and okay at 1205 is when we walk up with the offering buckets listen i go places that have it down to the minute the whole thing is planned until i start preaching because i'm not i don't care about their plans you knew who i was before you called to office and booked me if you think i'm gonna fly to california so i can stroke your ego for five minutes and make you feel better about yourself oh contrera mo fuel no siree we're not playing those games this church needs to understand anguish like never before prayer like never before fasting like never before the authority of the name of jesus and the power of the blood of jesus like never before our worship should be filled with anguish my message should be filled with a broken heart our prayer meetings should be where people are weeping oh for the days when it's not just a deliverance service and people just start running to the altar and they start praying for their friends and family while i'm preaching while we're singing you see we ain't got no protocol we got alta call you can get right but anytime you want to but then i give you this last one and i promise i'm gonna have to quit i could do a whole series on each of these but i feel like i've stirred up at least what i need to do for a little bit verse 32 we'll finish the text and now brethren i commend you to god and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up which by the way he even says in the context that because he did not spare to tell them the truth he equated that to building them up because sometimes you have to break stuff down papa used to say if it ain't broke break it sometimes you got to tear stuff up get down to the fallow ground and seek the lord and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified verse 33 i have coveted no man's silver he said i wasn't doing this for money or for gold or for apparel yay ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with me i have showed you all things how that's so laboring you ought to support the weak he's talking to the church to the leadership and to remember the words of the lord jesus how he said notice he quotes him right here read letters it is more blessed to give than to receive and when he had spoken he kneeled down and he prayed with them all the fifth and final and certainly only final for this outline not final for the biblical precedent but the fifth and final for our outline church that god warned us about is simply this they peddle prosperity and neglect generosity listen to me i know because of the influence of our deliverance ministry we are often accused of getting off into charismatic theology whatever they call that if casting out devils is charismatic that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard jesus was casting out devils before it was cool but here's what they say they're moving into a more charismatic field theology of prosperity gospel now wait just a minute we may believe in casting out devils up in here we may believe that the gifts have not ceased and that they're still for the body you better believe we believe that but i'll tell you something we never moved into and we never will the damnation of prosperity theology don't ever insult this church so deeply you can call me anything you want to politically and in every other way but don't ever insult the intelligence of this congregation and this pastor by saying that we preach a prosperity gospel there is no more false gospel that has been belched and birthed out of the bellies of hell than a prosperity gospel a gospel that god's gonna make you rich a gospel that says you're gonna have a big house and a deep swimming pool and you're gonna drive a maserati look if god blesses you with prosperity then use it to be a person of generosity but fooly on this prosperity gospel that's why we give money away that's why we're not trying to build megaplexes and gigantic cosma hall buildings because a kid will do just fine to house the power of god these churches preaching this prosperity gospel you give us some money and god will bless you abundantly look we don't give to get we get the gift and he said it is more blessed to give than to receive all of us know that to be the truth i mean you wake up on christmas morning with your kids and know that to be true you like to see the joy on people's faces when they receive something that you gave them and there's something about giving that is so embedded in the framework and the fabric of the new testament church that i can show you at least three times in the book of acts alone that they sold their possessions and goods and gave to every man as they had a need jesus even said the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests but the son of man doesn't even have a place to lay his head and didn't even have his own tomb and yet we got these preachers flying around in jets 25 to 5 000 suits 10 and 20 000 rolex watches i got a 50 deal from facebook and i like it listen i go to these places these preachers come flying in they won't fellowship with nobody they got to be in the green room eminem's got to be a certain color you know what i'm talking about some of these gospel singers this way too come walking in all holier than thou nose up in the air if it was the rain that flooded and drowned them people ask me all the time will how how much is it going to cost to get you to come to our church i'm like i'll pay to come to your church i don't want your money these people jet setting around the world make the rest of us look like fools give the church a black eye well they just live in high on the hog with all that tax-free money can i remind you we really do pay taxes that is the dumbest thing i've ever heard in my life the absolute dumbest thing i've ever heard in my life we ain't got no tax free rodeo going on around here and we ain't got no millionaires in the house and if we do they'd never come to me and everybody thinks well church is always about money nobody giving away money that's what it's about it's about being generous and kind prosperity gospel nonsense listen try that prosperity stuff where the man of god is from in india if it don't work in every continent of the world it's a false gospel trying to promote all that stuff third world countries where people are sick and starving to death well if you give to my ministry god will bless you and their family's starving there's nothing prosperous about that gospel now we could preach a whole message a whole series of messages against this prosperity gospel nonsense but i ain't having it and look i got some friends i'm just gonna go ahead and go on record because they'll be watching i love you not that's in prosperity i got some friends that hang out with a lot of them preachers that are in prosperity so i i'm praying that they'll they'll understand that evil communications corrupt good manners okay so i give some people i don't i don't believe in secondary separation i don't have to not like you just because i don't like the person that you like okay now if you involved in it that's different i ain't preaching for these prosperity nonsense preachers and they're not asking me to okay i'm not messing with their leader jets and their rolex watches and these stupid sneakers that they wear that cost 15 and 20 000 and they're in their church is starving to death okay i'm just preaching a little bit today okay he said it's more blessed to give than to receive and we got too many churches want to receive stuff not want to give stuff now i've done shows you over and over and we can't give it away fast enough as soon as we give it out comes in the mail soon as we give it out somebody shows up as soon as we give it out somebody put something online as soon as we give it out it comes back why it's the boomerang effect you give it out god give it right back and so i'm not getting this prosperity mess i like things that look good but you know what i love about our church amongst many things if i put out a facebook post i just got to quit if i put out a facebook post that said uh folks i'm sorry but next sunday we've had some minor complications and uh i'm gonna have to use a karaoke machine from the floor the screens don't work and uh the band's sick and so nobody can really have any music and there's not going to be any lights and you know no screens and pastors just going to have to stand on the floor with a karaoke machine and i understand if you don't want to show up but that's just the way things are going to have to be next week you know i would never have to apologize for that you know what happened next week with the karaoke machine this place be packed just like it is right now because you ain't worried about fancy sound systems you ain't worried about fancy carpet or cedar chips don't care if the screens are on or not are you kidding me the tornado tore this thing down we met the parking lot for three or four weeks it was freezing cold and people still getting baptized in the freezing cold y'all crazy as i am and i love it so you know it's hard with a message like this to to have a conclusionary moment to just be like oh okay let's bring the plane into the airport and land it on the tarmac and be done no it's difficult because there's ten thousand things be bopping around in my heart and in my mind that i feel like maybe should be said but will be saved for a later time that will be said but god warned us god warned us that we would be living in days when men would be lovers of themselves and lovers of pleasure more than lovers of god that people would heap to themselves teachers having itching ears and shall turn their hearts away from the truth and shall be turned into fables but watch down all things into afflictions do the work of an evangelist make full proof of thy ministry for i'm not ready to be offered and the time of my departures at hand i fought a good fight i finished my course i've kept the face henceforth there's laid it for me a crown of righteousness which the lord the righteous judge shall give to me and not to be only but to them also that love his appearing and the only thing i simply say in closing is this when i stand before god and i will as will you i want to be able to look my savior without timidity and fear straight in his glorious face if i may be able to behold such glory and splendor and say i have declared the whole gospel and i have not shunned to show the people the truth of god's word that's what i want to do that's what i want to do not because i need a hand clap from you but because i want to hear well done thou good and faithful servant enter thou into the joy of thy lord get on your feet give the lord some praise in this house this morning ((music playing)) he really did sweat man babe you were preaching amen you know i was down there and i was just randomly thinking which is never really too random for me why it would be that messages like today is so hard for people to be able to grab onto and why people get angry when they hear the truth of the word that way and i couldn't help but think that it's nothing more than pride right because in our pride we feel like we are in complete right standing with god and we can continue to do things the way that we've always done things and i was reminded of what the book of james said he said to draw nigh to god and god will draw naw to you but then he said to cleanse your hands ye sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded you know when we draw nigh to god the transformation really does happen because you can't be in a close relationship with the lord and be for one in humility because god doesn't have anything to do with pride because pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall so when we humble ourselves james also said humble yourselves in the sight of the lord and he will lift you up and i don't know about you but there's times in life that i just need to be lifted up there's times in life that i go through certain seasons and i just need the lord to lift me up and you know the one thing that keeps us from doing that is pride so today i don't know what you need to humble yourself before the lord about i could think of some things for myself but i wonder today if the church is in a place of pride or if the church is in a place of humility because it's when we come in humility before the lord and recognize that we need a touch from god because we don't have this figured out we've done church the wrong way for a very long time and we've expected god to move in our lives without humility so today i want to approach the throne room of grace with humility asking for grace upon grace so that we can go to glory upon glory father we come to you in the name of jesus lord and i confess here today in front of all of these people ((music playing)) that lord there are times that i don't even consult you about the important things in life about life-altering decisions and lord today as we come in humility before you father we ask for grace to grow in the knowledge of our lord jesus father that we could come to you in humility that we would draw not to you that you would come near to us lord lord we're in this season that your children should look up because our redemption draws not and father i often wonder if we're looking all around and never looking up to you lord i often wonder how often do we take the time to get into the secret place of the most high to have an upper room experience with you lord that you would pour your spirit out upon us father in this day more than anything the world needs to see the church be revived so that would revival would flood the streets that people would come to the truth of the gospel of the lord jesus that lord your church would live in such a way that the foolish would want to become wise in you lord that we would get to a place that we would humble ourselves in a way that we would go to the highways and hedges and compelled them to come in but lord in humility before you i ask that you would revolve the hearts of your people god that you would give us the ability to live with clean hands and with pure hearts lord that we would live a life of holiness for you said be ye holy for i am holy lord that you would teach us to live in righteousness father that we truly would be a people set apart a people that has came out from among them that herald the truth that lord not just our pastor would be able to say but father that we would be able to say individually that we have told them the truth that their blood is no longer on our hands no matter how mean it makes us seem lord would we love them enough to tell them that they are dead in sin dead and trespass but god who is rich in mercy because lord you are rich in mercy you have quickened us together with you and lord would that be our message to the world that we are dead in trespasses but god you are rich in mercy and lord we thank you for that in jesus name amen i want you to just keep your heads about an eyes closed for a moment i want to do a couple of things as we move into our baptismal celebration for the invitation and if you are being baptized today go ahead and make your way to my right your left over with miss billy and her crew to the baptismal tank just begin to line up over there and they'll get your name and everything that you need and all of our workers and so i see people moving so if you're going to be baptized go ahead and head that way today i want to do two things right now if you are in this tent right now right this very moment i'm talking to believers for a moment i'm talking to those that are born again you have repented and believed the gospel you're not perfect but you're different there's a transformation in your heart and hearing preaching like this although sometimes it can be a bit unnerving i wonder if maybe it hasn't struck something on the inside as far as courage and boldness is concerned as far as anguish is concerned and i want to invite right this moment any man in this tent any lady in this tent whether you've been here a hundred times or the first time you bebop through the door i wonder would you be willing to come right now and come right up to the front and get on your knees before god in front of all these people and say god today i want you to give me anguish of heart for those that are lost around me i want you to baptize me in boldness and give me so much courage that i'd be willing to look the devil flat in the face walk away unscathed don't let me be a coward don't let me die a coward don't let my kids see a cowardly mama and a cowardly daddy don't let my wife see a cowardly husband come on come on get some anguish of soul pray for that spouse pray for those kids that are prodigals pray for that mama and daddy that's going to hell pray for that church that you're from that you're visiting from that needs the power of god to fall that needs a touch from the holy ghost pray for your pastor that he would see the light of day and he would get a some gumption in his heart and a backbone for god turn your town and your church upside down come on don't miss when god's stirring the waters that's when you get in don't miss it don't miss it we can't go back we gotta mash the gas we can't give in we can't let the culture dictate what a church is supposed to look like when we clearly have the teachings of the bible many many folks pray and you take your time i want to ask this question to those of you that are still in your seats ((music playing)) would there be somebody here today that says you know what i'm still hung up on that second part because i've never truly repented and believed the gospel i didn't ask you are you wicked and i don't care if you're religious what denomination you grew up i'm asking you have you been born again sir have you been born again ma'am has there ever been an experience in your life when you've asked jesus to save you and forgive you forgive you of your rebellion your disobedience to come into your life and make you a new creature you can know for sure that heaven is your home and you can know for a fact that you don't have to go to hell you can know that today would there be somebody in this room right now you would slip up your hand i'm not going to embarrass you or come to you but just quickly quietly sadly but sincerely you'd let me pray with you today you'd slip it up and say preacher i'm not sure but i want to be sure that i've been born again by the grace of the gospel of jesus hold your hand up high sir hold your hand up high ma'am all over the room wherever you at just hold it up god bless you thank you thank you thank you there others god bless you thank you thank you my friend thank you here's what i want you to do just like i said in the moment a moment ago preaching it's not a prayer it's not magic words it's not pixie dust it's not hocus pocus it's the gospel jesus loved you so much that he died for you and did for you which you could not do for yourself and if you will confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead for your sins the bible says you shall be saved that's affirmative and if you slipped up your hand i simply want you to have a conversation with god and i'm gonna help you have one i want you to say something like this dear father i know i'm a sinner ((music playing)) and i know for my sin i deserve hell i ask you to forgive me for my rebellion today and the best i know how lord jesus i come to you and you alone to forgive me of my sin to save my soul and i ask you by faith to create in me a new heart transform me to the image of christ and i believe you god with all of my heart will take me to your kingdom when i leave this world now all over the room i want to ask you a question is there any man any woman in a young person anybody at all that would say brother lock i've confessed with my mouth believe with my heart and i'm willing to let god do his work of grace in me and i believe with all of my soul the holy spirit met me right where i was when i stood or sat and i prayed that and i meant that and god invaded me today and today i'm gonna proclaim i'm not ashamed i've been born again today if that's you and you prayed that and you meant that right now hold your hand up high sir hold your hand up high ma'am all over the room god bless you god bless you god bless you rejoice church rejoice hallelujah welcome to the family ma'am welcome to the family sir hallelujah to the lamb of god hallelujah to the lamb of god you can continue to pray as long as you want to we'll have a couple of things going on we'll have people going that way and so i want you to be cognizant of that we'll have people coming this way over to the baptismal celebration if you want to come over with the camera the video see your friends see your family you can certainly get over here by the line and do that please be back tonight doors open at five o'clock service starts at six for our mass deliverance you are not going to want to miss what the lord is doing in this house come tonight leave your dignity at the door come and get some freedom because there's power wonder working power in the name and in the blood of the lord jesus christ if you believe that give the lord a good shout of praise in this house as we're dismissed we love you god bless you let's have some baptismal celebrations we'll see you tonight at mass deliverance ((music playing)) it all through it all ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) even when my eyes ((music playing)) all right sister feather my young sister in the lord upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ and the power glory of his gospel it gives me and your dad a great privilege today do you have to baptize you my sister the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit bearing baptism praise the walking dead ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) ((music playing)) all right sister susan upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power glory of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you my sister of the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit baptism race to walk walking lunas alive ((applause)) ((music playing)) all right brother rick upon your profession of faith in jesus and the power of his gospel he gives me a great honor my brother in the lord to baptize you sir in the name of the father son the holy spirit in baptism raise the wall get us alive ((music playing)) ((applause)) all right jordan upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power and glory of his gospel he gives me great honor my brother and the lord to baptize you in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism praise to walk and then it's alive ((music playing)) ((music playing)) all right my dear brother eddie upon your puppy profession of faith in jesus christ the power and glory of his gospel he gives me a great honor my brother the lord baptize you sir in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism praise the walking newness alive ((music playing)) is ((music playing)) ((music playing)) all right sister cheryl upon your public profession of faith in jesus and the power of glory of his great gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you my sister the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit baptism raised to walk ((music playing)) ((music playing)) ((music playing)) all right my brother joshua oh he's ready hallelujah upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ and the part of his gospel it gives me a great honor my brother the lord baptize you in the name of the father son the holy spirit bury baptism raise to walk in innocent life ((music playing)) all hallelujah sister linda upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power of his gospel gives me a great opportunity to baptize you my sister in the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit spirit baptism raised to walk and then it's alive ((music playing)) oh ((music playing)) all right sister katriana upon your republican profession of faith in jesus and the power and glory of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you my sister in the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk and then it's alive ((music playing)) all right miss natalia upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power and glory of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you my sister in the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in newness of life ((music playing)) all right sister analisa upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power and glory of his great gospel it gives me a great honor my sister in the lord to baptize you in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk into this ((music playing)) all right sister greta upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power and glory of his gospel it gives me a great honor my sister in the lord to baptize you in the name of the father son the holy spirit bear in baptism raise to walk and then it's alive ((music playing)) ((music playing)) all right sister lucia upon your public profession of faith in jesus christ the power of his gospel it gives me a great honor to baptize you my young sister in the lord in the name of the father son the holy spirit buried baptism raised to walk in there ((music playing)) all right guys thank you so much have a wonderful sunday it is beautiful weather outside but do not miss our six o'clock deliverance service tonight make sure you are here on time the tent will close at 6 15 sharp we love you all we'll see you later tonight ((music playing)) you