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open up the Gat Heaven you rest us C down heart the come rest on us come rest on us Cal down Spirit when you move you make my heart when you the room come rest on us rest on us you come you come asking and waiting for you to come your presence here God we your presence here open up [Music] the we asking you tonight come rest on come rest on us come rest on us come rest on us what we [Music] love that there's always more that's what we love about you that there's always what we [Music] Love's there's always what we love about it's that there's always more what we love [Music] there's that there's there's there's [Music] there's what we love there's [Music] we about is that there's what we come on sing it [Music] out yes Lord come rest on us Lord rest on us calm down Spirit when you make my
heart when you feel the RO rest [Music] on I know there's more me I know there's [Music] more yes Lord yes Lord hallelujah We Worship You almighty God we thank you that there's always more Lord you want us to move from Faith to Faith and from glory to glory you want us to be a people that love your word and love to obey your word and whether that is the written word or you speaking directly to us to do something you want us to be an obedient people that's where your blessing is that's where your power is that's where your presence manifests and so Lord we ask you to help us to to hear your voice to discern what you're saying to us individually and to the church help us to honor and respect your holy word that's in the scriptures that we have before us Lord your Bible you gave us and preserved Lord we pray God lead us and guide us into all truth lead us and guide us into your perfect will for our lives I pray this today for everyone here everyone watching and listening I pray it in Jesus Jesus mighty name everybody said amen amen all right thank you yeah it's a sword day you know I got this years ago because the Bible says what the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword and we're going to talk about the word for a minute the word of God for today and uh it always helps people people get a little bit of illustration right now I have swords and Spears and knives that are really real like you know stuff like that that'll cut you but this one's just a replica so everybody's safe today all right um but this is actually a rep replica of Carlos I of Spain King that he ordered his Spanish Armada to carry so this is a genuine replica of that but um the sword of the spirit is the word of God and then we're told what the word of God is sharper than any two-edged sword so we're going to look at that today because I need to Define some things I seem to be getting a lot of message messages about you know some things I've said about what it means to be born again and I guess I need to clarify some things but first I want you to turn with me we're going to read a couple of scripture passages just to introduce this but everybody ought to know these let's go to Second Peter second Peter chapter 1 verse
16 and this is Vally important I'm just going to tell you right now that if you don't believe that the Bible we have today and I'm talking about the English translation I'm talking about the King James version that we have that came from the correct text and ancient manuscripts if you don't believe the Bible is the inspired infallible inherent words of almighty God you call yourself Christian I'm just going to tell you right now you're either not born again or you have fallen away from the faith you understand that that's the foundation the foundation of our faith is believing the Bible is the word of God in fact first Peter says that we Are Born Again by the word of God and it was the word of God that we heard because no man can come to Jesus without hearing the preaching or the the ministry of the word of God so the word of God is the sharp two-edged sword that pierces our hearts now what I'm finding there's a lot of Christians that people rather that claim to be Christians but they don't really believe the entire Bible is the word of God believe it's a lot of nice stories of you know moral truths but not necessarily every word is important or every word is inspired and these people are deceived and these people are teaching our next generation of pastors to come in fact they actually invaded the seminaries many many decades ago the Jesuit uh priests and assassins they they infiltrated the church and they infiltrated our seminaries and they've been teaching this nonsense that the word uh the Bible is not necessarily all of it's the word of God I I love this you know what my former Pastor Dr Lee you know he had two phds Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth Texas um of course he messed up and got baptized and filled with the holy spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and really just he said while he was in seminary everybody he laid hands on got baptized in the Holy Spirit and uh they they didn't they were not happy about that at the Baptist Seminary there in Fort Worth um but he said in his graduate class now his Doctorate level graduate class back in in the 70s now they were teaching for instance the first 11 chapters of Genesis was a true myth it's what they said a true myth the theological implications are true but it's not necessarily the word of God and uh there probably wasn't never a man named Noah and there probably wasn't never a man named Adam and of course Larry Lee said he raised his hand they called on me he said well Jesus thought they were real and Paul said they were real and he goes the professor said well they just didn't have the information we have today I'm going to tell you right now that that person whoever that Professor was was
not a Christian yet he's teaching doctrate level theology classes right and this was in the 70s you want to wonder how bad it is now take a guess you think it's any better no no no no um in fact what I'm going to get one of the things I'm going to get into at Skyfall is I'm I'm going to show you the history of the Bible and and the how the Jesuits came in and basically every every new modern translation apart from this one right here has been corrupted and stamped approval of the Roman Catholic church if you see if you see the Roman Catholic Church promoting the Bible I can go and tell you you know it's wrong all right you just need to get that down in your head already all right um but here's what the Bible say says here what the Apostle Peter wrote down we're going to read this he said for we have not followed cunningly devised fables when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ but were eyewitnesses of his majesty for he received from God the Father honor and Glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent Glory this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased and this voice which came from heaven we heard when we were with him in the Holy mount we have also a more sure word of Prophecy whereinto you do well that you take heed unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day Dawn and the day star arise in your hearts knowing this first somebody say knowing this first if you're a Christian you better know this first he says that no Prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation and you could also say that as man's ideas these about man's ideas that are in this book it says this very clearly for the prophecy came not in Old Time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost now let's go to Second Timothy chapter 3 now I've talked about this many times but there's something want to point out in this passage but I want to get it get it down here this is what it says 2 Timothy 3 we're going to go down to verse 15 now this is Paul under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit teaching a young Pastor to be I believe Timothy was really an apostle but you know people want to argue with me about that he says this to him though verse 14 but continue thou in the things which thou Hast learned and Hast been assured of knowing of whom thou has learned them and that from a child thou Hast known
the holy scriptures somebody say the holy scriptures the holy scriptures the written word of God that's what he's talking about and he says here you have known the holy scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus you see that he's talking about connecting knowing the scripture the holy scriptures connecting it to making you wise so that you may be saved all right and then he says this verse 16 all scripture somebody say all scripture all scripture that means Genesis to Revelation all scripture is given by inspiration of God now in the Greek it will say God breathed now what that means remember when Jesus after he rose from the dead he walked up to his disciples and he breathed on them and said receive the Holy Spirit he's talking about when he says God breathed inspiration means god moved upon these men he breathed upon them he filled them his holy spirit moved them to write down the words from the prophets of old and to the apostles and Prophets of the New Testament he moved on them by his spirit and they wrote exactly somebody say exactly exactly exactly what he wanted on it and this is why Jesus made the statement in Mark 4:4 he said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word somebody say every word every word every word that proceeds from the mouth of God every single word in the Holy scriptures is inspired by God Almighty himself and and he the these these Apostles and Prophets are telling you we did not just sit down and think up these things and decide to write them anybody that says well the Bible was just written by men they're they're only half true yes God used men to write the Bible but he wrote it through them okay now if you don't believe this like I said I'm going to keep saying this you are either not a born again Christian or you have completely Fallen away from the faith you are a heretic you understand understand that I don't care if you're a pastor right now I don't care if you teach in a seminary I don't care if you got a mega church if that's what you believe you are either not saved or you have fallen away from the faith you departed from the faith this is why listen to this he says all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine somebody say for Doctrine see let me tell you something else here when when somebody starts saying that even some of the figurative language in the Bible when they start saying that it's just poetry and not
necessarily have literal meaning like when we start talking about the descriptors of God's creation or something like that let me explain something to you in every single passage of scripture in every single word there is profitable Doctrine amen amen so don't tell me a verse describing the pillars of the earth there's no truth to that or that the Earth is still and it rests or that it's the Sun that goes around us and not us around the sun don't tell me that's just figurative that's just poetic you have departed from the faith it's simple don't tell me that the firm is outer space it's this big expanse of outer space when God said he made a firmament that covers the earth that has Windows and Doors it opened up to let water from above come down and help flood the Earth in the days of Noah now you either believe that you believe the word of God or you don't and if you don't you say say you're a Believer and yet you don't believe those things then you've departed from the faith oh it's getting going to get quiet in here you cannot have true faith in God in our Lord Jesus Christ and be walking with him in the spirit and in obedience if you don't have this foundational truth established in you amen you see I remember I remember when I was 11 years old down here at Northside Baptist Church and the Holy Spirit came on me and convicted me and opened my eyes to the truth and you know what the Holy Spirit made me realize immediately as an 11-year-old child I knew the Bible was true there was a Heaven There was a hell that I was a sinner that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God and that I needed to repent I needed to ask Jesus to come into my heart to forgive my sins to be my Lord and Savior I had to confess him before men as the scripture says all of that came to me by the Holy Spirit I can tell you right now I sat in that church for a year and heard all kinds of preaching and nothing got through to me but when the Holy Spirit anointed an evangelist that came through I immediately knew the word of God was the truth and that Jesus was the way and the truth and the life and I was so moved by that and so convicted by that that even though as an 11 year- old
you know getting close to being a teenager I was scared to death to do anything up in front of my peers and I had all kinds of my friends that went to this church we all sat in the back row and pass notes that's what we did during church you know we didn't have text message back we actually had to write little notes and pass them down the line and you know back then they said if your parents caught you then you were you're in trouble but see since we sat in the back row our parents were always in rows ahead of us so we we got away with a lot right but I remember sitting back there in the holy spirit so moving me it was so powerful that I finally got the courage to say you know what I I know I need to publicly go forward and confess Jesus as my Lord and Savior why because that's what the scripture says to do there's no secret Christians y there's no closet Christians you must confess him before men you must not be ashamed of him or ashamed of the Gospel or ashamed of the word of God and I remember I let go of that Pew I was I was they say was saying I was white knuckling it right I was kind of holding on to it because I was scared to death I'd never walked up in front of a church in my life but I walked down that aisle and I remember when I stepped out of the aisle the glory of God and the presence of God hit me and I was born again the tears running down my face and let me just tell you even though after that you know my parents divorced and we quit going to church and I gradually got into my teenage years and fell away from God because I really didn't learn anything about walking with him and and and let me just tell you you know as I as I fell away from him the the blindness came over me a spiritual blindness came over me that was very strange because I I the devil made sure the demons made sure I'd never really even thought about God never thought about the Bible and what was amazing in those seven years I was away from him in my teenage years no one came to talk to me about Jesus and the first person that did when I was 19 years old it was like turn the light back on but here's what's Wild I was in college at Troy State University which is now Troy and I was I had joined Sigma Kai fraternity and I had a big brother in the fraternity and I remember he and I riding around one day down in Vero Beach Florida was where he's from and we went down there we're riding around in his car drinking beer we're not drunk yet but we're starting to drink some beer and he starts talking about he doesn't necessarily he don't believe in the Bible's true and he just doesn't believe it he used to but but he didn't believe that anymore and I started I this this anger this fire started rising up in me and back then you know I was quite the
the fighter you know and so was he and I started I don't even know where it came from it was just I guess the Holy Spirit I just said look man I said I think you just need to shut up I said because one thing I know I said I know the Bible's true and I know Jesus is real and I said that to him while we're drinking beer but what I'm saying is I had I was so convicted and convinced by the Holy Spirit when I was younger when I got born again that there's no one there was no atheist argument there was no talking me out of it you're too late I was born again because I was convinced the Bible is the word of God therefore Jesus Christ is the Messiah the Savior God Almighty In the Flesh and the only way your sins can be forgiven the only way you can have eternal life the only way you can escape the condemnation of hell as s talked about last week the only way and this is what I'm talking about is this is foundational Faith what does it say we let's go to Romans Romans chapter 10 look let's look at verse n he says that if Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised him from the dead Thou shalt be saved for with a heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth can confession is made unto salvation for the scripture saith whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed for there is no difference between Jew and Greek for the same Lord over all is Rich unto the to all that call upon him for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved how then shall they call on him and who they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher and how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written written how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring Glad Tidings of good news but they have not all obeyed the gospel somebody say obey the gospel oby the goel this is what you need to understand the word believe in the Bible means to trust and to continue in a relationship and a walk with the Lord that's why he says obey those are interchangeable believe and Obey and we're going to get to that in a second but very important he says but they have not all obeyed the gospel for Isaiah saith Lord who hath believed our report verse 17 for then Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God
does everybody see that the word of God that's even how faith is stirred up it's the hearing of the word of God hearing it preached now sometimes granted you may not be a person that ends up preaching it to you sometimes the Holy Spirit has to come directly to you but he's going to give you the scriptures let me just say this out front right now the holy spirit will never tell you anything that's contrary to the written word of God you say he will never violate it he will never go against it he will never diminish it in any way okay if if a spirit comes along talking like that something that's contrary something that's leading off the scriptures I don't care if it's a little bit it's the devil you understand it's a demon spirit and you better not listen to these what seducing spirits and doctrines of devils that's what he says they will they will come now I want to tell you this right now I want you to go to Hebrews chapter 5 I will tell you what I was up till 5:00 this morning praying about this and the Holy Spirit gave me this so this is for somebody today I know for that for a fact because if you're not obedient you can forget everything else and being obedient is not following your human emotions y'all understand that too many of you are led by your emotions and not by the Bible the scriptures and the Holy Spirit you're led by how you feel you're led by this is why this is why so many people out there and some people in here are so easily manipulated by other people because you're emotional you let your emotions now emotions are real but they are not supposed as a born- again Christian they are not supposed to lead you no more than your fleshly feelings and desires are to lead you you are to crucify those things and obey the word of God and obey the leading of the Holy Spirit period that's it you are as a born again Christian to do the will of God now let me say this too being born again some people have gotten that been out of shape because I talk about you should know that you're born again now I don't know why they get been out of shape because you know I talk about my experience in the Baptist Church down here when I was young and some people say well I didn't have that same experience well you it doesn't have to be exactly the same but let me tell you what needs to happen if you come to Jesus if you repent of your sin if you make Jesus Lord of your life if you believe he is God In the Flesh if you believe the scriptures are inspired by God if you believe the right things and you call upon him with the full desire to follow him and to turn from sin and
evil then at some point there should be as the Bible says in Romans 8 a witness of the holy spirit in you now it may be gentle peaceful it may be just a knowing a revelation it may be he hits you hard okay I don't it it's not how it happens it's just that you better know that you know that you know from the holy spirit that you are born again and if not then you need to be seeking Jesus until he gives you the witness of the Holy Spirit don't get mad at me I get people sometimes I got this one guy that got mad at me because he's he's calling me wanting to be baptized and I'm say well are you born again and then his answer was not sufficient right his answer was didn't make sense and when I don't get a clear answer I'm like well you're probably not born again and so when I began to explain to him what Born Again me he's got even more upset with me because see there's a lot of people that think well oh if I just get baptized in water that means I'm saved see this is some this is another stupid Catholic Doctrine that's kind of trickled over into the church no water baptism does not save you you must be be born again water baptism is an outward evidence you going to be baptized in obedience after you've been saved this is what I'm trying to get across to people but if if you don't know if somebody comes and tells me well I don't know I don't know if I've been born again what you want me to tell you you are you want me to lie to you I I have a friend that wants to be saved he he even says to me I wish I was like you and and my other buddies that I led to the Lord many he said I wish I was like y'all I don't know what it is I mean I I know some of it but I think a part of it is is that somewhere in all his schooling and all of his upbringing he just can't accept the Bible is the word of God he can't accept he's listened to the lies of the world and he can't accept the Bible to be the truth and to be the inspired word of God almost no matter what I say no matter what evidence I show him and I'm actually sad for him because it's like he wants his life to be more like mine but he can't do it because he won't believe the word of God and that's the first step you have to know you have to look God said in here Jesus said Heaven and Earth will pass away my words will not pass away Psalm 12 he said the Lord will preserve his word to all
generations and don't tell me don't tell me you believe there's a God but he couldn't preserve a book with his words in it he could create heavens and the Earth he could make the human eyeball but he could not somehow k keep his word pure and stop men from corrupting it all he now he didn't say they wouldn't change it they change it and make all kind of different versions well if you and two if you're if you're using the message or the passion or the living by Lord that's not the word of God we wonder why there's a lack of faith right now there's a lack of faith in the church and a lack of obedience in the church because there's a lack of scriptures in the church if you're using the NIV you're using in a corrupted version we wonder faith comes by hearing the word if you're listening to NIV you are not hearing the word the the NIV is missing 10,000 words that are the original Hebrew and Greek text 10,000 words that's an entire book of Romans now how can you tell me that's the same Bible as this one it is not I'm going to tell you right now you don't have a King James Bible you better get one y'all going to find out at Skyfall just how amazing this King James translation really is you're gonna find out so I'm done having people everybody's it's like a war against the King James now oh and the people that go yeah King James changed about King James never touched it he commissioned a bunch of Scholars across England and in different parts of Europe Hebrew and Greek Scholars to make a translation a better one than the Geneva Bible yes it's better than the Geneva Bible and I'm going to go through that too and we we going to cover Skyfall you're goingon to get a lesson on the Bible that's going to be part of Skyfall okay so maybe this a just a warmup right here but here's what the scriptures say here I'm going to read this to you Hebrews chapter 5 it's going to hurt somebody verse eight speaking of Jesus it says though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered he's talking about the humanity side of Jesus had to go through suffering and the Bible says he was tempted in all points like we are yet without sin but he went through being tempted being attacked by the devil struggles being he he faced all the same human struggles that we Face yet he was able because he was God In the Flesh he was was able to resist and live perfectly holy so he could become the Spotless sinless Lamb of God the sacrifice for our sins but he says here though he were a son yet learned he obedience by the
things which he suffered and being made perfect he became the author of Eternal salvation unto all them that obey him did he say them that just believe and say a little prayer did he say them that are baptized in water no he said he becomes the author of Eternal salvation how many want Eternal salvation with God how many of you want to miss the Judgment the damnation okay that's pretty good most of you um I'm I'm joking but he says here being made perfect Jesus became the author of Eternal salvation unto to all them that obey him now the word obey here in the Greek the the Greek verb tense here guess what it is present tense matter of fact my Bible has PPT beside the word meaning present participle that means what students ongoing continuous action taking place in the present so what he's saying there is you Jesus is the author the beginner right that's where you start the author of Eternal salvation to those who obey him continually that keep it up to date right you see my life has been a life of just Lord what's next what you want me to do next and that's why I have fun being a Christian now it's not always easy the things he's asked me to do but boy let me tell you what there's been some interesting things that's happened over the years I mean just simple as you know I'm a last year asking Greg lock to come speak at our conference boy I caught a lot of Hell over that but the Holy Spirit told me to do that well if I hadn't done that then we probably wouldn't had the situation where he challenged me to a debate that really preached I believe into the millions of people and you would not believe how many people say you opened my eyes to the truth of God's word it changed my life so this is why you obey I I cannot stress to you we you have to be a Christian if you want to bear fruit if you want to walk closely to the Lord if you want to see the miraculous if you want to be anointed and you want to be blessed you have to be obedient period and that means even if it's difficult even if there's suffering involved even if there's you know it's un it's very uncomfortable to you let me tell you right now it was
very uncomfortable the spiritual warfare I went through leading up to the debate the great debate on Creation with great the spiritual warfare I went through was was unbelievable and I was most uncomfortable for several weeks and especially oh I remember arriving in Tennessee oh just the battle I was going through too right and I knew he was going to turn nasty on me the Holy Spirit warned me and yet I knew he wanted me to do it you understand and it wasn't for me I knew the Lord wanted me there the Holy Spirit wanted me there to be a light and a witness to many that would never hear otherwise so I put with all of that crap because I knew the Lord wanted me to be there the same when I ran for governor of Alabama in 2020 from 2020 to 2022 I got criticized why are you get involved in politics Christian shouldn't be in politics and I'm like I don't care what you think these people get their ideas in their head or their emotions or their opinions I don't care what your opinion is I'm going to pray and and fast and do what the Holy Spirit tells me to do because I know that's where the blessing is that's where the anointing is and that's where I'm going to reach the most people and if the Lord wants to send me into that dark world to be a light to witness to them I will go you understand I've had the Lord tell me not just to go in politics but he has sent me into the deep dark projects where gunshots were over here and gunshots over there and I'm on this street preaching to to people about Jesus I'll go wherever he tells me to go the Middle East Africa a little island out in the Indian Ocean if the Lord tells me to go I go whether it's convenient for me whether I feel like going I've been in situations where my life was in danger but if the Lord tells me to go I'm going to go and this is the way we're supposed to be I don't understand Christians that do nothing but go to church once in a while right they might read their Bible once in a while they might right but there's no hunger and desire to go God what is your plan for my life what do you want me to do right now is there something that I can do to let my light shine to the world around me I feel you know if you feel like you're in a rut guess what it's time to pray and fast say Lord let's let's have an adventure together let's do something I guarantee you he's got something for you to do that you never dreamed you would do I remember when he told me to start going into the prisons way back and that was
powerful when I started preaching in prisons and preaching in prisons taught me how to preach it was that experience that taught me how to really preach and teach I would be in big chapels full of prisoners that would come in with no microphone no sound system and have to preach and and I learned how to preach without straighten my voice every time and it was powerful I I I would go to tut wer I would go to down to venturous prison here I mean it was God just moved but you know sometimes it was difficult the spiritual warfare leading up to going to the prison the devil trying to stop us stupid things happening you know there upro in the prison say we don't know if we're going to let y'all in or not oh by the way if it if if a riot goes down you're stuck we ain't coming to get you I mean that's what they tell us stuff like that you know you're just stuck in there better hope they have mercy on the Christians right I found one thing amazing is that no matter I I mean I was around murderers and everything else and you know but they respected they respected the people that came in there to taking their time to come share the word of God with them even even in the even in some of the worst projects in Montgomery we would have people I remember walking up to a couple of guys and we're talking and then there some other people walked up and we I me tell you we hear gunshots over here and we're talking to these people and but because we had been coming down there and trying to you know bless the children in that area we'd come do sidewalk Sunday school and pass out candy and sit there and hug the little kids and a lot of them didn't even have you know they didn't have a normal home life and I remember you know we walked up and this two guys are like we just got out of prison man and I was like what what did y'all do well one was rape and the other one was murder or something or aggravated or something and some guy came up and started kind of giving us a little hard time just started running his mouth and there two guys now that just got out of prison man you need to shut up they told that guy said you need to shut your mouth these people are here to give us the word of God and they care about us see you you'll have have you'll have unsaved Wicked people take up for you if you're loving people and letting your light shine to people and if you're obedient man I've been shot at I've heard bullets go by my ear I've had knives pulled on me I've had guns pointed in my face I'm still here see I'm not afraid and that's another thing if you're truly born again you you nothing to be afraid of you afraid to die no I'm not afraid to die I'm I'm tell you the truth it'd be a great day his body shake off his old 56 year old body and get a new you know just get get out of it I heard you know
I heard people my my former mother-in-law she had a 29 what she she died in the hospital of pneumonia said she remember floating up out of the room and could see them working on her and everything she said but she was said she had pneumonia so bad her whole body was just racked with pain and she said the moment that her spirit came out of her body and she was headed toward Heaven she said all pain was gone she said she got up there and the Lord walked down said you got to go back she said the moment she said she remember coming right back straight down back to her body she said the moment she entered back in her body the pain the pain but she was alive and I want to tell you that's not going to be a bad day when it's our time to go amen now I want you to go with me go to Luke Chapter 5 because this is a lesson the Lord was teaching the disciples very early on and this is something is interesting about this he did this at the beginning of his ministry and he did a very similar thing at the at after his resurrection and right before he left them and ascended to Heaven he gave them the same lesson right let's read this this is Luke 5:1 and it says and it came to pass that as the people pressed upon Him Upon Jesus meaning the crowd was pressing in on him to what hear the word of God he stood by the lake janzer and he saw two ships standing by the lake but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their Nets and he entered into one of the ships which was Simon Peter ship prayed him that he would Thrust out a little from the land and sat down and taught the people out of the ship now when he had left speaking or finished speaking he said to Simon launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a drought or for a catch now some people say well he was trying to reward Peter for letting him use his boat maybe so but I think more importantly he was going to use this moment to teach them a vital lesson this is the vital lesson so Jesus gives them a command launch out into the deep go back out well let's go back out I've been there I've been across that I took a boat across that whole lake Sea of Galilee now it's called so I've been swimming in it I've taken a boat across it but he says what are he's talking about let's go out where it's deeper and throw down your nets again to catch some fish and here Simon Peter answering said unto him Master we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing nevertheless at Thy word I will let down the net now let me just go and tell you i' I've preached on this before but I'm going to say it again when you
have fished all night and you hadn't caught a thing the last thing that you want to do that you feel like doing is go fishing again you done brought the boat in you're cleaning your nets you've stayed up all night let me tell you what you want to do you want to go home and crawl in the bed and pass out for a nice eight- hour nap and see what Peter was displaying There Was You Know Lord we've we fished all night we got nothing the fish we can't even find them we don't know where they are right and these are professional fishermen we didn't catch a thing and the Lord says go let your nets down and so Peter says we've toiled all night we take it nothing nevertheless at Thy word they said I'm we're just going to do it because you said to do it we don't feel like it oh man if people could get this we wouldn't have people missing Church all the time how many people oh I don't feel like it this morning well guess what most mornings I don't feel like it either on Sunday morning but I get up and come anyway and most of the time if the devil's trying to make you stay home is the exact morning you better go cuz obviously God has something for you and the devil wants you to miss it but he says nevertheless at your word Lord I let down the Nets and when they had done this they enclosed a great multitude of fishes and their net broke and they beckoned under their Partners which were in the other ship that they should come and help them and they came and filled both ships so that they began to sink now that's a lot of fish and when Simon Peter saw it he fell down at Jesus knees saying depart from me for I am a sinful man oh Lord for he was astonished and all that were with him at the drought of the fishes which were taken and and so was also James and John the sons of Zebedee which were partners with Simon and Jesus said unto them fear not from hence forth Thou shalt catch men and when they had brought their ships to land they forsook all and followed him see they learned the lesson what Jesus was teaching them you do what I say no matter how you feel about it no matter if you're exhausted no matter if you're wore out no matter if you say Lord I've done it a million times I did it all night night long and the Lord said do it again if you will obey and be an obedient Christian that is where you're going to reach the most fish the most people that's where you're going to touch the most lives that's where you're going to see the most
power you understand this is why you you know you you don't lean to your own understanding you just do what the scriptures say and what God's leading you to do and let me just go on and add this to you you've got to know the voice of the Lord and learn to be Discerning of his voice and his Direction because like I've shared many times not everything that he's going to tell you do is written in here but you have to know this so you can know if it's misleading you or not and you have to know the witness and touch of the holy spirit so you can know when God's telling you to do something that's not necessarily written in here like Dean start a church in opica that's not in the Bible but you have to know that's what he's telling you to do by his hearing his voice and the witness of the Holy Spirit the same witness that you felt and experiened when you got saved but I cannot tell you how important if I could get let me tell you we we talk about we want Revival and we want God to to move and we want to reach people and then you won't obey him when he tells you to do something tells you to walk across the street and talk to your neighbor about Jesus and you scared didn't can't do it he tells you in the grocery store you know you need to talk to that person you don't do it but you want to come to church on Wednesday night and pray for Revival let me tell you something before there's a Revival you got to be a Revival because what a Revival is is when enough people in in the church get on fire and start just obeying him that he moves that's all there is to it I if if you say Pastor the what what is Revival and you know one of the greatest Revival that ever was the Evangelist Charles finny he said Revival is nothing nothing else than than Believers he said it's a new beginning of obedience to God that's it he said when Christians start acting like they're Christians oh novel idea huh that we should live what we say we believe and see this is why a few weeks ago I talked about fear there's two competing issues one is Faith and one is fear and you cannot walk in faith and be in fear you can you will let fear rule you or you will overcome it through faith faith is obedience let me let me tell you what courage is you ask any of
our heroes our war hero you ask them were you afraid of course they'll say yes I was afraid but they charged forward anyway see that's the thing about it it's not that we're not going to have fear hit us sometimes sometimes even we're going to feel the devil's going to hit us with his his Terror that feeling of just unrealistic fear but it's when you say God said to do this therefore I don't care how I feel I'm pressing through this and doing it anyway that's courage and boy do we need some courageous Christians now the world's getting darker and darker and let me tell you what's going to happen you're going to be swept away with the darkness just like the rest of the wicked or you going to stand up to it and resist it and speak against it and fight against it you're going to have to choose and it all going to come come down to when you stand before God he's not going to ask you what church you went to how many times you were baptized did you have your your choir robe you know ironed the question will be when you stand before him did you walk with him did you obey him when you stand there you better be able to say I did what you wanted me to do Lord the best that I could and he knows if you're doing the best you can or you're playing a game he know you're not fool you might fool the preacher you might fool your spouse you might fool yourself you're not going to fool him and this is what I'm talking about we've got to have what a heart that wants to obey and if you do let me tell you if you do you're going to see it may take some time but as you begin a life of just obedience to the word of God and to what the spirit leads you to do you're going to begin to see the fruit come forth the fruit of people coming to Jesus through what you say to them your prayers your example you're going to find people that sometimes it takes a while because they're watching you to see if you actually live it and then they're going to come to you and go you know what like it like at work how many you ever had somebody come up to work and said you know I've been watching you I know you're different why what is it about you or maybe they know you're a Christian and they've seen you get tested when you know you didn't cuss the boss out when they would have cussed him up
one side down other right and they saw you just be humble respect authority take it do your job do above and beyond your job and they go why do you why do you act like that or they'll come to you and say you know what I know you're a real Christian because we've been watching you that is what's important y'all I love the scripture in Acts chapter go to Acts chapter 7 you want to upset some religious folks this is how to do it right here this this got steveen stone for sure right here you know they had they the the Pharisees and the Sadducees they had snatched up Stephen of course Saul of Tarsus who later became the Apostle Paul was part of this arrest and standing there as he stoned to death they Stone Steven the man of God to death but what was powerful about this is as he's preaching in Acts chapter 7 you can read it for yourself all of it later when he's he preaches this entire sermon and this and he goes through some of the Old Testament prophecies and he points to he uses some of the Old Testament prophecies to point to Jesus being the Messiah which they didn't want to hear right they'd already kill Jesus and tried to get rid of him that didn't work now these Apostles are doing the same thing that Jesus was doing preaching the same thing preaching Jesus preaching repentance preaching Jesus the Messiah and they're just like freaking out and Stephen's doing Miracles and preaching the word and they're like we got to shut this guy down so they brought in false accusers accused him falsely but then he preaches this whole sermon to them and I love this when he gets down to this point verse 51 when he tells them you stiff necked and circumcised in heart and ears you do always resist the Holy Ghost as your fathers did so do you everybody see that and then he tells them this he said which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted and they have slain in was showed before of the coming of the just one of whom ye now have been betrayers and murderers who receed the law by the dispos disposition of angels and have not kept it and when they heard these things they were cut to the heart and nashed upon him with their teeth cut to the heart he was telling them you you receive the law you don't obey it you think you know the Bible but you don't even see the Prophecies of the Messiah the just one you murdered
him and then what does the scripture tell us God gives the Holy Spirit to who those who obey him man I can't I can't talk about this enough testing all right when we start talking about these things we start talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy we start talking about obeying God man it would just transform everything there'd be a lot less people getting offended because you'd go pray about something fast about something and if you were listening the Holy Spirit to tell you and you would be getting mad at Pastor Dean you know sometimes you're in a big fight with your spouse best thing you could go pray about it go sit down just pray for a few minutes you know the Lord might say you need to go apologize you need to admit you're wrong what you mean I was wrong yes you little angel you might be wrong right obedience you know it's Psalm 68 you go there y'all don't mind going to a few scriptures do you Psalm 68 I remember the Lord giving me this one time when the Lord Direct you to a scripture and it hits you like a baseball bat it's always a good lesson I remember the Lord I and I've shared this before the Lord told me he told me to go give a word a prophecy he had given me to this Methodist Church and I didn't want to do it did not want to do it no party in me wanted to do it and that fear that Terror the devil would hit me and just I remember and I remember I was there on a Sunday morning because the Lord had me in that church for about two years and I was there and the church was usually packed and I remember when the Holy Spirit goes I want I want you to give the word now on a Sunday morning and I didn't do it oh let me tell you tell you what happens to your spiritual life you want me tell you what happens it dries up like bones in a desert
let me read this and the Lord directed he said he said to me go read Psalm 68 I start reading Psalm 68 and I get down to verse six it says here God sth the solitary in families and he bringeth out those which are bound with chains but the rebellious dwell in a dry land see for about three weeks I disobeyed him and let me just tell you my spiritual life dried up it was difficult to pray it was difficult to read it was like he shut the windows of heaven and there was like an iron brass Heavens over my head it was like he departed from me and I'm I'm sitting there going what is this and I remember praying about things and let me tell you something about the Lord when you haven't obeyed something that you know he's told you to do or you're disobeying something in the word don't be talking to him about other stuff because he ain't going to listen to you cuz he's he's like this he's just like any parent you go do what I told you to do and then let us talk oh I can't tell you how many times he's told me quit praying and go obey me you mean the Lord would say CRI oh yeah that's what he told remember when Ain took the the garments and the gold and silver and he took it in his tents and then they went to the town of AI to that's interesting AI but they went to the town and 36 soldiers of Israel died that day and Joshua throws himself on his face praying and the Lord said get up ain't no sense to pray you need to go deal with the problem go deal with this person because they've brought a curse upon the whole camp but I can't tell you how many times the Lord's like why you talking to me about all this other stuff when I told you to do this recently there's been a couple of things and I've had this wrestling match with the Lord over a couple of things that I prayed and prayed and prayed about confirmation right he had already told me like he had spoken to me I'd felt the witness of his spirit I knew it was him confirmations from other people God using other people to bring confirmations in my I still didn't want to do it and I remember this this period has been a struggle it's been dryness and difficulty and you know as a Pastor I
got all kind of things going on so I got to counsel people and deliverances and all this stuff trying to prepare for the conference and I'm so I got all I got a lot of stuff to do and the Lord's like go do what I told you to do and then there was another thing that I'm not getting into this morning but he's told me to do and I've been praying about like oh I need confirmation Lord I need confirmation I need and you know what was amazing I kept praying Lord I really really really really really need you to confirm I need to know for sure right everybody been there but see when he told me about a year and a half before the Holy Spirit came all over me and he spoke to me you're going to do this this this and this so really when he speaks to you and he confirms it by the witness of his Spirit he really doesn't have to tell you again and he really doesn't have to cater to your insecurities and emotional instability or your fear or whatever your reason that you don't want to do it or you wanting to doubt it because when he finally confirmed to me that I was supposed to do it I mean he did give me a confirmation but I could tell it was out of just kind of I'm on because you keep bugging me I'm going to give you one this is me and the Lord cuz he's very straightforward with me and he was like all right I'm giving this to you and then he told me this I heard him it's plain day he said here's your confirmation but I already told you what to do you know what you're supposed to do so get busy like God and there's that that part where Peter says you know depart from me I'm I'm a sinful man there's that conviction because you know you just are being a little bit difficult with him see Peter wasn't being Wicked but he's being a little difficult he didn't want to go fishing anymore he was exhausted discouraged had you know fisherman they don't catch any fish they're not happy about that especially when you put in all that work for hours all night long and you catch nothing and the Lord said go fishing again see and this is another thing the Lord does not do things sometimes that is logical to our human reasoning and this is why you have to know the word and you have to learn his voice and the leading of the Holy Spirit
and if that's not your priority what are you doing what are you doing with your life and and and just let me tell you right now you want God to do big things in your life you better obey him in the small things I I can tell you right now our little church here reaches tens of thousands of people every week all over the world but why is that happening now it's happening because all the little steps the lord gave me along the way I would do what he said to do and what's amazing is too when you are in his will for your life and doing what he wants he will make sure you you have what you need to do it he will make sure you have the money or the vehicle or the land or the place or the people what he will provide what you need if you are in his will and obedient you don't have to go through the word of faith I'm going to put the Corvette picture on my on my uh refrigerator and I'm going to confess it until I get it let me tell you that's witchcraft the devil will bring your Corvette to you he'll give it to you make you think that you got it cuz you operated in faith now that's not faith faith is not you deciding on something and just twisting God's arm till you get it faith and this is what my my pastor used to say he used to say faith is not a blind leap in the dark it's not you deciding what you're going to do he said faith is obeying a word from the light that's Faith see a lot of people I I've pointed out for years it talks about Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness and James even says Abraham was justified or made righteous or made right theight of God when he offered up Isaac but see some people say well oh that's a that's Works no let me tell you what it is how did Abraham know he was supposed to take Isaac can go on that mountain cuz Abraham had a relationship with God and when he heard God and knew it was God speaking to him Abraham would obey that's why he's called the father of our faith that's why it says the people who are children of Faith are the same are the children of Abraham that's why and see Abraham was 400 plus years before the law was ever instituted he was an example of how we're supposed to have a relationship with God and walk in faith
Abraham would simply pray and seek God and God would tell him go leave here leave ER the CES and go into the land of Canaan guess what God didn't give him an explanation why he doesn't have to explain to you he doesn't tell you how it's going to end for you to do it you don't have to know everything somebody say I don't need to know everything because if you knew everything there would be no trust involved in this walk and so when the Lord tells you to do something you have to obey trusting knowing that if I do what God wants me to do even if it causes uproar and difficulties and people get mad and run this way and Mama moo and everything else you know you will be in the best spot you can possibly be in the safest place in the world to be is in the will of God you need to know where you're supposed to work you need to know where you're supposed to go to church you need to know where you're supposed to live you need to know who you should date or not date you should know who to marry and not marry you should be led by the spirit see here's another thing why people when people marry the wrong person because they don't listen to the Holy Spirit and they listen to their own flesh and emotions and then it's the boy you had to if you get in sexual sin with a person you're linking up and hindering that whole thing of being able to hear what God is saying to you which is another reason why God wants us to stay out of sexual sin so that we can hear his voice you know my my nephew Ben is about to get married uh and it's so wild he's about to marry you know the lieutenant colonel Brian Reed everybody know Brian remember from Skyfall and he was my campaign manager as well and uh but what's Wild is is that we didn't introduce Ben and Mary Ben decides uh he was moving up to North Alabama area to go to a church ends up in the same church where she now they're getting married on September 14th but what I love you know what they did when they started they were so seeking God's will about whether it's God's will for them to be married or not and I love uh Chris and Brian they've they've raised their children to love the Lord love the word of God I mean they're just they just love their family and both them they started you know the right way seeing each other with people around and the parents around and you know they've kept themselves pure and then they said they they were in the midst of their courting we need to take 6 months away
from each other and just pray and seek God to make sure it's not our emotions not our feelings and that it's the will of God for us and after 6 months they knew they just got stronger and stronger witness from the Lord that they were supposed to be married and I think back I think wow what God has done in little Ben I watch that little boy grow up but you know he had a powerful encounter with God and he's given his God his whole life and that's that's it's just beautiful when you do things God's way again not without difficulty there was not he didn't say there will be no difficulty or suffering even in his will but it's still the best place to be oh man you know all these stories I get to tell you it's because I obeyed I have these Adventures Because I obey I get shot at sometimes because I obey I get death threats Because I obey I have people write me say we love you you've changed my life because I obey you see I can't imagine wanting to go through this life as a Christian and basically have done next to nothing except maybe a 10 Church and it doesn't mean everybody's called to be a pastor or a leader of a church but guess what we're all called to be the light of Jesus to this world we're all called to preach the gospel we're all called to lay hands on the sick and cast out demons we're all called to be a light and a witness wherever we are to lead people to Jesus not away from him and we're called to help the church and to help whoever where you know whoever God makes your pastor you're called to be a help an assistance it's not complicated this is why I don't you know try to keep people here I tell people I've told people for 16 years now it's about to be 16 year anniversary in January of this church and I've told people don't come here unless you know God sent you here people tell me to this day still people all the time tell me I'm going to move to opala so I can go to [Music] your now most pastors because they want ties and numbers are yeah come on yeah come on down no I don't want you here if the Holy Spirit wants you somewhere else because why would I be fighting against the Lord's plan you understand there there's too much again and that's another thing if a pastor or
church is motivated by numbers and money they have departed from the faith just going to tell you right now they're in idolatry they're in idolatry and the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 5 we're not even supposed to eat with idolators and it don't take too long you want to go to a church for a little while you'll find out if they're motivated by the word of God and preaching the truth or they're motivated by money and trying to build a big church there's probably not a bigger Idol in the church world than trying to be successful trying to have a big church big Ministry big money and I knew I knew I've known since I came back to Jesus at 19 that can never be your motivation that's why I'm not afraid to tick y'all off because I'm going to preach the truth and I'm going to do what God tells me to do and if you don't like it there's the door because I'm not trying to build a mega church I'm trying to do what Jesus tells me to do and so guess what that that separates me from wanting to manipulate you or control you in any way all I want y'all to do is obey the word of God and obey the spirit of God if you do that then we're all going to be blessed and guess what if you're doing that if you're praying about everything and obeying the Lord and not your feelings and not your emotions and not what your opinions if you're doing that guess what you're not going to be easily offended you're not going to get your feelings hurt some people get mad at me sometimes they're like why did you preach that why did you say that I'm like I'm like well they I mean and like it may not even apply to them right like I may be preaching about drinking getting drunk or whatever and they they don't get drunk but they get all bent out of shape over it and I'm like well if it's you're not doing that then guess what I'm not talking to you right but if the boot fits right I'm sorry but that's just the way it is Jesus made the statement when he was talking to his disciples early on he said I'm I didn't come to call the righteous but I came to call Sinners to repentance we got preachers saying you shouldn't even preach the word repentance Christians don't have to repent there's never repentance near I'm like let me tell you anybody do that why why do I know that is contrary to the word of God the written word of God that's contrary to what Jesus taught and yet we got preachers saying that let me tell you you hear somebody preacher I don't care if he's on TV or in the mega church and he says something stupid like that he's departed from the Faith cuz he doesn't respect the word of God enough to stick to
it oh somebody amen or old me see I'm getting down to the the the brass tax this morning right see all the outward show of Christianity I I'm not impressed by any of it in fact most of it is going to be cast Into the Fire and most of the people in it are going to follow it into the fire see the Lord made it real clear go to Matthew Matthew 7 real quick I'm almost done this is why Jesus made statements like this Matthew 7 verse 21 he said not everyone that saith unto me Lord Lord now here's what's interesting about this before I keep reading this the verb saith here guess what verb tense it is guess what in my Hebrew keyword Hebrew Greek keyword Study Bible PPT again present participle ongoing continuous action taking place so he's saying there these are people that are continually saying that Jesus is their lord think about that for a minute continuously saying it he said not everyone that continuously says to me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of My Father which is in heaven many will say to me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity now some people say try to use this verse oh they never were saved no no no no hold on unsaved people can't cast demons out of folks you have to be saved and have the authority and power of Jesus to cast a demon out somebody what he saying here is that at some point they prophesied they did prophesy in his name real prophecy they really cast out demons but at some point they quit doing the will of God meaning obeying the word of scriptures the written word and being led by the Holy Spirit some some point they just said I'm done with that I'm going to do my own thing I'm going to do it the way I want to do it and what's interesting about this he says then I will profess unto them I never knew you now why does he say that I never knew you why does that put in there because you go to Ezekiel 18 3033 when he starts going through these
verses he says about those who what he says when the righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity and I lay a stumbling block before him that he dies he said that righteous man the things the righteous Deeds that he did will not be remembered you know just like God says if you will confess your sins and repent turn away from them that that he will throw them in the sea of forgetfulness and he won't remember them right well guess what if you walked with him and you knew him and you cease obeying him at some point guess what all the good things you've ever done gets erased oh scary isn't it scary verses in the Bible to scare the hell out of you so that you don't go to hell right that's what we want and some people some people don't like I talk about I talk like this you say oh I God demand man's obedience I I want to be free to do my own thing that's really deep down man's problem minute but is't it interesting when you decide you I'm going to be free and do whatever I want to do that it takes you into bondage well I want to drink whenever I want next thing you know you're alcoholic oh I want to smoke marijuana and the next thing you know you're doing cocaine meth oh I want I want to have sex whenever I want to and then you're killing babies with abortion and you don't know every time you do these things you're opening yourself up to Demons that come in to take over and you're you're you're just you're getting more and more in bondage disobeying God leads to bondage obeying God leads to freedom but see a lot of people think freedom freedom is doing whatever you want to do that I'm free I do whatever no that's called Anarchy there's always boundaries think about it we we have this country America and we're still free to worship and we're still have free speech most places but what I'm saying we enjoy all this but think about if there was no no law if there was no enforcement of
law there has to be boundaries because if there's not a boundary then then I can hurt you and get away with it I've taken your freedom away I've taken your peace away I've taken your happy so that's why there has to be boundaries there has to be law there has to be limits there has to be things we all I got people all the time I ain't abear nothing I do what I want to do I'm like do you have a driver's license because you obeyed this if you wouldn't got a driver's license so you can drive without going to jail guess what you just obeyed a law a boundary I do what I want to do really you got a tag on your car now we got some people they got some crazies around here that don't want to go get a driver's license or put a tag on their car and then they want to fuss when they get pulled over and get tickets and get put in jail no you don't do whatever you want no matter what you you can run from Jesus but you still going to obey you're going to obey and guess what if you don't they will lock your behind up and then you're going to eat when they tell you to eat and you're going to sleep when they tell you to sleep you want to talk about not wanting to obey these little boundaries and then you find out then they going to put some real boundaries in your life right there's always going to be someone to obey and see the test of these last days is coming it's coming down to this whom will you obey see once the state goes over into making us try to do things that are not biblical this is when we have to obey God rather than the men I will not take the mark of the beast I will not take another vaccine I will not do certain things I'm trying to be obedient to the government I got a driver's license got a tag on my car I am trying to comply as Christian we should always try to comply and submit to Authority as much as possible but when that Authority starts telling us to do stuff that God says you do not do that's when we resist but only then you understand and then if you go to jail because you've stood up for God in his word and his truth so be it he can send an angel and open up some some prison doors and and fall let some chains fall off you know what's funny he'll send you right back to where they arrested you obey you know after I obeyed the Lord and spoke in that Methodist Church I stood up finally about 3 weeks later I stood up and gave the word prophecy God gave me to give to that church it was simple but like that was on a Sunday the
next day I met with a group of my friends that were Christians and we prayed together and the Lord said I want you to go to eastell mall in Auburn and go preach the gospel to people and we went to preach that night obeying him and the Holy Spirit fell and we had nine people accept the Lord in tears running down their face and I've shared that story and the Lord told he said when you obey me is when I move when you obey me is when I pour out my spirit not before and He does care about the little things he that is what he that is faithful in little will receive much see I've had God telling me to do all I've prophesied over God Governors and judges and God has sent me to people you wouldn't believe the Lord has told me sometimes here's a word for this person go meet with them and tell them what I said and some of it's not pleasant I had to tell go tell one young man you've had chance after chance after chance after chance to give your life to Jesus and get serious and you know he's calling you and the Lord wants me to tell you you leave him one more time and you won't make it back your your chances are over I gave that word of Prophecy in a church in tamarine macius to a young man who walked up at the end of the service came up into the the stairs into the main room we're in where I was preaching and I saw him and the Lord told me to tell him that I told him in front of the whole church and his Pastor he turned around and left and the pastor came up to me and said that's exactly what he's been doing he got his last warning so what I'm saying it's not always Pleasant sometimes the Lord is going to tell you go talk to this person go talk to that person and sometimes times it's it's the warning is going to be it's it's not going to be a pleasant conversation they might even get mad at you they might even throw you out they might even say don't talk to me anymore blah blah blah but you got to obey God somebody say obey oby what did Jesus say about that he said if you what if you love me you will obey me basically what he's saying is I don't to hear your talk Talk's cheap do you live according to this
book and what I tell you to do that's it that's what judgment day will be about that's why it's a scary day I want to do Spirit lead me before we let's stand this song to me has been speaking for a long time let get my sword one more time the sword of the spirit is what the word of God the sword of the spirit pierces even to the dividing of sunnd of Soul and Spirit what does that mean the sword of the spirit the word of God either the written word or the Holy Spirit speaking cuts through what is spirit LED and what will be Soul L and you cannot be led by your soul your soul is your own mind logic reasoning will and emotions you are not to be led by that you are to be led by the Holy Spirit speaking to your spirit I like that now people they don't like this cuz they like I don't want a sword in my life it's there whether you want or not you going to obey it or you going to disobey it but it's there some people know they're supposed to things they're supposed to obey before they know before they don't even have to have a preacher it's people about to get in an adulterous affair they know they're not supposed to do it there's couples dating they know they're not supposed to be in sex before they get married but there they go the swords there they know they already know the holy spirit's already convicted them in their heart and then they just willfully disobey they wonder why all kind of crap happens they wonder why they're depressed why there's Darkness over their soul and their mind will and emotions it's because they're in Disobedience they're rebellious they're dwelling in the dry land of the rebellious God wants his people to live holy and you know what the Holy Holy simply means set apart Sanctified different different than the rest of this world can somebody say amen amen y'all get ready because God's got a new adventure for me coming it's going to affect all y'all too but there's a new adventure coming it may be bigger than the last adventure right you know the Lord told me I'll share this with you so we can see what's going to happen but he told me that there was going to be something happening that was
going to be even bigger than the the debate in the amount of people it's going to affect in the world and in our country so I don't know what he's about to do but it's going to be big and it's going to be fun somebody say it's fun F to do the will of God amen let's sing this song before we [Music] [Music] go this is my worship this is my offering in every moment I withhold nothing I'm learning to trust you even when I can't see it and even in suffering I have to believe it if you say it's wrong then I'll say no if you say release I'm Letting Go if you're in it with me I'll begin and when you say to jump I'm diving in if you say Be Still then I will wait if you see to trust I will oy I don't want to follow my own ways I'm done chasing feelings speak [Music] me oh Spirit me it felt like a burden but once I could CR it you took me further further than I was asking and simply to see you it's worth it all my life is an alar Let Your Fire Fall if you say it's wrong then I'll say no if you say release I'm Letting Go if you're in it with me I'll begin and when you say to jump I'm diving in if you say Be Still then I will wait if you say to
trust I will oy teach me how to follow in your way I'm done chasing feelings spirit [Music] ho [Music] Spirit yes just sing it out Spirit lead me when all hope is gone when all hope is gone and your word is all I've got I have to believe you still bring water from the rock to satisfy my thirst to love me at my wor and even when I don't remember you remind me of my words I don't trust my ways I'm trading in my thoughts I laid down everything cuz you're all that I want I've landed on my knees this is the cup you have for me and even when it don't make sense I'm com let your spirit I'm going to let your [Music] spirit I'm going to let your [Music] spirit I'm going let spirit [Music] come on let's sing it out here we go sing it to him come on spir [Music] me me yeah [Music] me if you say it's then I'll say no if you say release I'm Letting Go if you're
in it with me I'll begin and when you say to jump I'm diving in if you say Be Still then I will wait if you say to trust I will oy you're the only truth the life the way I'm done chasing feeling [Music] spirit all Spirit me [Music] I'm going to trust you I'm going to trust you oh [Music] yes Lord that's our prayer Holy Spirit Lead Me Lead Me In Your word lead me and help me obey your word God your written word and your Holy Spirit speaking we want to do your will Lord in all things want to be a people who obey because that's where the blessing is that's where you pour out your spirit that's where you move move that's where God you do Mighty things we want to be able to get to heaven and bring some people with us we want to stand before you and say Lord I did your will for my life and be like Paul and say I I I kept the faith and I finished the course the course that you gave him he finished it he said Lord we thank you that we can keep the faith and finish our course doing your will we pray for your grace and your mercy and your help to do it Jesus name amen amen hallelujah well the only announcements I have Skyfall is still on we're in lra Georgia now back at the Callaway Conference Center October 25th through the 27th though we'll be there Thursday setting up signing up and hanging out so you're welcome to be there Thursday as well we'll be here here at the church here in opica on that Wednesday having our regular Wednesday night prayer meeting so uh just letting everybody know you can make plans if you want to be at the prayer meeting you want to be uh at the
hangout if you want to get here a little early you're welcome to do so um the hotels and everything are on the website so you can look and find the hotels uh you're about uh lrange about an hour from the airport Atlanta so that's the best airport to fly into is Atlanta um you know it's a city by itself so you know just get used to that you know I like the little little uh airports like in Montgomery and Springfield Missouri just little tiny airports it's those are nice but but still you can get out of Atlanta at least the Atlanta airport is on this side of Atlanta and you can escape the airport and you're pretty well free now to get over here to the Grange and to Opa like so um but that's it so uh y'all know the drill hugs some next before you leave all right God bless [Music]