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Well, isn't it good to be in God's house this

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morning? We came in for prayer meeting and it

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took me a little longer to get here than I thought

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it would, so I kinda snuck in the back. And what

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I heard was an awesome thing, pastor. I heard

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men and women of God prayed in the Holy Spirit

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interceding for what's gonna happen today. See,

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every revival that was ever birthed, it was birthed

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out of the spirit of prayer. We need revival.

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We need revival. We need an awakening in our

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cities. And so when you walk through the door

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and you hear men and women of God praying in

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the Holy Spirit, I was so excited. And I told

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pastor, I'm excited to be in a Pentecostal church

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this morning. Because let me tell you, I go almost

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every Sunday to a different assembly of God church.

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But this morning I was excited to be in a Pentecostal

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church. And I pray that we get back to our roots.

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I pray we get back to our roots. So what you

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have here is special, I want you to know that.

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What you have here is special, where the gifts

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are in operation. Where, let me tell you, I grew

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up in a Pentecostal church. And it's the Pentecostal

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church is when I had my bad days, I could go

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and I could find God, and my bad days can be

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turned into good days. It's the Pentecostal church

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is when I invited this A friend of mine that

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I used to work with, his name was Lee. And we

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called him Greasy at work. That's just what he

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looked like. He was Greasy. And as you can tell,

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I'm from the South. We might say things a little

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different and maybe be a little, we're kind of

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nice but mean at the same time. Y 'all know what

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I'm talking about. We had a dude named Greasy.

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Greasy, do smoke three, four packs a day. He'd

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get off work and he'd get them that natural light

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and the quart bottles and the brown bag and sometimes

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he'd go with me fishing. Sometimes our church

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had a lake and he'd sneak them quarts of beer

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and his cigarettes into the boat and we'd be

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out there fishing and he'd start drinking beer

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at the Pentecostal church. I'm like, man, what

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are you doing? But you know what I did? I got

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there on that lake with him. That's around that

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Pentecostal church and I just told him, this

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ain't got good. You see this sunset. I called

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him Lee, I didn't call him Greasy all the time.

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But you see this sunset? God knew that me and

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you would be fishing out here today. And he knew

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we'd need to see this sunset. God knew me and

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you were fishing out here today. He knew you

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need to catch that largemouth bass. And oh, you're

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gonna keep it? We usually throw them back, okay.

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You're gonna keep the eight pound bass and fillet

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it. Well, that's good for you, all right? But

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I took Lee, he finally made it after years. I'm

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talking about years. He made it inside that Pentecostal

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church And he knelt down at an altar and he gave

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his heart to Jesus Now it took years pastor years

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of taking on fishing. I didn't get offended by

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his beer drinking I didn't get offended by a

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cigarette smoking But I just loved old him and

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told him who Jesus was And then one day at work.

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He just said I can't do it no more and he handed

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me those cigarettes He said I need to get rid

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of these See, God did something and it was through

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the power of a Pentecostal church. And so I'm

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so thankful this morning to be at a Pentecostal

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church. And if you're in here and maybe your

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first time to church, or you're new to this place,

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I'm telling you, you are in the right place.

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God, the Holy Spirit, drew you to this place,

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and you are where you are supposed to be. And

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if you'll turn in your Bibles to Acts chapter

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three, we're gonna read verses one through 10,

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and I'm excited to read this. God put this on

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my heart about this story, this account, and

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it's been on my heart for a couple weeks, and

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so I'm excited to preach it. Now, can y 'all

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help me preach this morning? Y 'all can help

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me preach, because I am a southerner. This will

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be the first time this Florida boy has ever preached

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with the snow falling down outside. I don't know

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what that means, if it means anything at all,

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but I think it's pretty cool. But I like to hear

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an amen once in a while. I like to have a little

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help, because I'm just excited about what God's

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gonna do. I preached this last night in my living

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room. The power went out, so I had to light a

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candle just to see. I could barely even read

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my Bible, but I preached it last night. and I

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was excited about it. Why, because I believe

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the Holy Spirit wants to do something in this

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church. I don't believe the Holy Spirit wants

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to do something in your life today. Can somebody

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say amen? Now I might fall off this thing because

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I am energetic and I like to walk when I talk

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and I like to, and so this, I don't know how

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you do it, pastor, it's not a lot of room and

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I am a lot bigger than you, so if I fall off,

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just laugh at me and we'll just keep on going.

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Somebody say amen. Amen, so Acts three, verse

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one through 10. Now Peter and John went up together

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to the temple at the ninth hour, the hour of

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prayer. Things happen when we pray, somebody

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say, praise God. A man lame from birth was being

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carried, whom people placed daily at the beautiful

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gate of the temple to ask alms for those who

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entered the temple. There's a lame man asking

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for money, needed something in his life. Seeing

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Peter and John about to go into the temple, he

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asked for alms. Peter gazing at him with John

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said, look at us. So we paid attention to them,

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expecting to receive something from them. Then

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Peter said, I have no silver and gold. Imagine

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there was a little disappointment right there

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in the moment he said, I have no silver and gold.

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But I give you what I have. Back in my youth

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pastor days, this one went out and said, look

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at your neighbor and say, I give you what I have.

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Oh, come on somebody, I give you what I have.

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In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise

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up and walk. He took them by the right hand and

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he raised them up. What I love right there. If

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we pause for a moment, he said, get up and walk,

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and he didn't walk away from him. No, Peter and

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John had some faith there. They put their hands

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on him. They grabbed him by the hand and said,

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no, you're gonna get up and walk in the name

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of Jesus. That's how much we believe right now

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the power of God is so real that the Holy Spirit

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can do a work in your life that I'm literally

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gonna pick you up by the hand and I'm gonna walk

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with you. I think so many times we want miracles,

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but we wanna see the miracle happen from the

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pew. And we don't get out with the people that

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actually need the miracle. We don't go lay hands

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on the people that are sick anymore. I don't

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know why we don't do that. We don't go to the

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hospitals and pray for those that are in hospitals

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and that are in those beds anymore. But Peter

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and John, they put their faith in action. They

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said, I'm gonna give you what I have. And not

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only, I'm not just gonna say a little prayer,

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and I've been guilty of it, too, just saying

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a little prayer and moving on. I'm not gonna

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say a little prayer and move on and not think

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about you anymore. No, I'm gonna grab you by

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the hand, and we're gonna see this thing through.

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Just imagine if you started grabbing people by

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the hand in your workplace. Pastor, just imagine

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if these students start going to their schools

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and they start grabbing people by the hand in

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the lunchroom. Just think what happens, maybe.

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God's called you to walk in the bar and start

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snatching people out of those bars and bringing

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them to this church where they can find deliverance.

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Come on somebody. I think it's time that we start

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going where the sinners are, that we start going

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and finding the people that are lost, that we

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start taking people and we raise them up by the

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hand. And after he raised them up, immediately

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his feet and ankles were strengthened. Jumping

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up he stood and he walked and he entered the

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temple with them walking and jumping and praising

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God. The doing went, he didn't have no strength.

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He was a beggar. He didn't have anything. His

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life was not very important. His life was pretty

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miserable. But when two men full of the Holy

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Ghost showed up. They were able to reach down

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and they were able to pick them up in the name

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of Jesus, the name above every other name. He

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was able to walk and they said he started jumping

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up and down. Oh, that second song, that old Hillsong,

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what was that? That second song, that old Hillsong

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song you started doing. God is great. I was about

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ready to do it. I wish I had brought my guitar

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this morning and I would have played it with

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you. I started singing that song and all my friends

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were like, man, he's going to turn crazy. My

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kids were like, what is going on? I was excited

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because I remember that song from my youth. I

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remember that song, God is great. When this praise

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fills the earth, it fills the heavens. And I

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sang that at the top of my lungs. You might have

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saw it for a minute. I kind of wanted to jump

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up and down a little bit. Why? Because I've just

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been in that spot, the same spot as that beggar.

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Where I was depressed. I was lonely. Instead

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they, the other people, they picked him up and

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just dropped him off at the gate. Just where

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he could have something. And you may be in here

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today and you make him physically walk, but spiritually

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you're dead. Spiritually, you don't have no strength

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inside of you to do anything else. But I pray

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that we have a Peter and John moment here in

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the next 20 minutes. That you can come down to

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this altar that, you know, physically his ankles

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wouldn't work. And you might have a physical

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problem. We'll pray for that and believe God

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to heal you. But spiritually, your spiritual

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ankles just might not work and they need some

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strength in them. And I pray that you have a

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Peter and John moment. I pray that you jump up

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and down a little bit, that you walk and praise

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God. And we'll keep going. All the people saw

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him walking and praising God. They knew that

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it was he who set for arms at the beautiful gate

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of the temple. Wouldn't it be wonderful to walk

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into your workplace tomorrow and people see a

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change in your life? Wouldn't it be awesome to

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walk into your workplace tomorrow and they see

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a miracle has happened in your life. And they

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were filled with wonder and amazement at what

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happened to him. See, when Jesus touches you,

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there's wonder and amazement. Let's pray. Dear

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Heavenly Father, we love you and we praise you.

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And we thank you for this day, we thank you for

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your word, and God, I pray right now. That is

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not just me speaking, God, but Holy Spirit speak

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through me. Well, God, I pray that every person's

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heart in here be open to your word, that our

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eyes be open to your word, that our ears be open,

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that we can hear your word today. And God, if

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we need a touch from you, we know that we can

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get it today. And God, I pray if there's anyone

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in here that they don't know you, if they're

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lost or they never called on your name, that

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today is the name that they call in the name

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of Jesus, God. I pray if there's anyone in here

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that they want to be empowered by your Holy Spirit,

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that today is the day that they're empowered.

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Today is the day they're filled with the Holy

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Spirit. God, I pray that today is a day that

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it starts a revival. God, I pray that today is

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the day that miracles happen. So Lord, anoint

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your word. Let it be used for your glory and

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may we leave this place changed in Jesus' name,

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amen. Amen. I believe we could go home after

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that. You can never beat the scriptures, can

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ya? You can never beat the word of God. We were

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talking earlier with pastor and some, he was

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sharing some stories about pastors and maybe

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like some people have like, I would call them

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bad, church growth strategies and things like

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that. And you can read book after book after

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church growth and you can get different ideas

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and systems and different things and we need,

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obviously we need systems and things in churches.

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But the most important thing we need is the Holy

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Spirit. And I think about book after book. that

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comes out sometimes, and how to grow your church.

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But when I see Peter and John, Peter was basically

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the first pastor, right? How did they grow the

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church? Well, they go find a man that can't walk.

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They go find the least of the least, and they

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pick him up. And they say, in the name of Jesus,

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rise up and walk. But so many times we're just

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worried about how things look or how things feel

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and we're not We're not dealing with the we're

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not going to work to those people that need Jesus

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the most See Peter said I give what I have What

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a way to live your life What a way to live your

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life I give what I have are we giving what we

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have when we go to Walmart Are we given what

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we have when we go to work tomorrow morning?

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Are we given what we have, young people, when

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we're going to school tomorrow? Are you given

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what you have? See, Peter and John didn't have

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what the beggar was begging for. I want us to

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pay attention for that for a moment. Peter and

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John did not have what this man was begging for.

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The man needed some money. And there's going

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to be times in your life people are going to

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come through this church and they're going to

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beg. We were at Carlinville at the district office

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and a lady come in begging. And I made a mistake,

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I shouldn't have opened the door. That was my

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fault. But I opened the door and I couldn't give

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her the financial things that she needed. But

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we can always pray with somebody. There's gonna

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be times, thank God you're giving food. Now you're

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giving food, what a wonderful thing. Hey, if

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the government can't get it right, let's hope

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the church can. I don't think y 'all heard me.

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I said if the government can't get it right.

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Well, maybe we can at least get it together in

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the church. Praise God, brother. It should come

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from the church to start with. God gives us the

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means and the abilities. If you read in the New

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Testament, Peter and John, those guys, they were

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coming together and they were selling what they

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had to make sure everybody else was taken care

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of. Let's take care of the single moms. Let's

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take care of the children that don't have no

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parents. Let's take care of the people that are

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hungry. We don't know why they're in that place.

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And so many times we wanna look and judge why

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they're in the situation they're in. Fill their

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belly up with some food and tell them about Jesus.

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Because if you fill them up with food and you

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fill them full of the Holy Spirit, guess what

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they're gonna wanna do? They're gonna wanna replicate

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that. And they're gonna be disciples that are

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made and they're gonna do the same things. See

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Peter and John didn't always have what the beggar

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was begging for, but they had what the beggar

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needed. They had what he needed. There might

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be alcoholics that start coming to this church

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because they hear something good is going on.

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They think they need alcohol. They think there

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might be drug addicts coming to this church and

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they think they need another fix. And you're

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not gonna have alcohol to give them, you're not

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gonna have drugs to give them, but you're gonna

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have Jesus to give them. And I know that sounds

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so simple, but it's so powerful. The beggar,

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he was just begging for, I need money, I need

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money, I need money. I can't do anything, my

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life is a wreck. I don't have money. I don't

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have the silver and gold, but I give you what

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I have. See, we have exactly what Lincoln needs.

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This church has exactly what Lincoln needs. I'm

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gonna say it again, I don't think y 'all are

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getting it. This church has exactly what Lincoln

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needs. Because like I told you earlier, when

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I walked in and I heard people praying in the

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Holy Spirit, I said, oh, this is something special.

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Why? This is what's going to change the community.

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There are people in this community that are dying

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and they're going to hell. Well, I pray that

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you're able to go into these communities, you're

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able to bring the alcoholics and the drug addicts

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in here, the lost people in here, and you give

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them what they need. See if we live our lives

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in such a manner of being close to the Holy Spirit

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and hearing his voice we can give people what

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they need And what happens and when you have

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what people need you're able to take authority

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over the situation See Peter takes authority

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over the situation See receiving alms receiving

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the money was just a band -aid to this guy's

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problem The guy had a problem he couldn't walk

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he couldn't work he wasn't able to receive any

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kind of Funds, right? He had a problem. Giving

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them a little money, it would help them for the

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day. But what Peter and John gave him, it helped

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them for the rest of his life. And not only that,

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when they did that, they were able to preach

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and they were able to teach and they were able

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to share what happened and who did it. Church

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basically went from 3 ,000 to 5 ,000 after they

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took a man by the hand and said, rise up and

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walk. See, I think God wants his people to push

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back the darkness. God wants his people to push

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back the darkness. That's the great thing about

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this church. I'm sure there's some dark stuff

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that goes on in this city. There's some dark

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stuff that goes on in this state. We already

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see the federal government, they can't get it

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together. The local government, sometimes they

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can't get it together. But guess what happens?

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When the church is the church. When the church

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finds the beggars, when the church finds the

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lowlies and says, they take them up by the hand

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and rise upon the wall, Jesus is glorified, Jesus

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is magnified, and the light is shined. See, what

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darkness can never penetrate the light. You can

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see it talks about that a lot. I'm gonna do it

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today. Because last night that power wind was

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blowing, it was crazy, I'd never seen anything

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like it. We have hurricanes, but we also have

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pine trees and stuff to block the wind. It's

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like all the corn's gone, so that wind's just

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flowing through Carlinville. And I don't know,

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I guess something blew on a power line, because

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about every 10 minutes it would flicker. Oh,

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we're gonna get power back in and it wouldn't

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come back on. So what did I do in a dark house

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with the power out? I went and got a lighter.

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And I found a candle, because my wife likes candles,

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right? She likes things to smell pretty. She

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doesn't do it for the light, but she likes things

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to smell pretty. I don't smell pretty, so we

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have to have candles. Hey, y 'all laughing at

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my jokes, this is gonna be a good day. But I

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got that candle. I got that candle out and I

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lit that wick of the candle. And that wick burned

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and that candle started to melt. And you know

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what I did? I grabbed it and I walked around

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the house with it. It lit my path. The moment

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that candle was lit, that darkness, it went away.

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And guess what I could do with that candle? I

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could light more candles. I could light candle

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after candle after candle. And if I wanted to

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with that candle, I could set the whole place

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on fire and everybody could see it. But just

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think if every one of us in here, if we let the

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Holy Spirit light that candle inside of us, and

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then we go to work and we light somebody else's

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candle. We go to we go to a family reunion and

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we like somebody else's candle we go to Walmart

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and instead of going through the self -checkout

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line We go through the line where there's the

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clerk and you can see on her face She's having

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a bad day and she doesn't want to check you out.

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She sees your book I'm gonna say buggy, but she

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sees your buggy full of groceries. You don't

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know what that is Okay, we're good in she sees

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your buggy full of groceries and she's like,

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oh, I don't wanna check you out, but by the end

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of it, when you've shared what Jesus has done

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in your life, when you shared about the goodness

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of God, may I pray that there's tears start going

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down her face, why? Because that woman needs

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a touch from the Lord, and so many times we're

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trying to avoid people, but God, and it's so

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easy to avoid the beggar, Peter and John could

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have avoided him, but they didn't avoid him,

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they picked him up by the hand and said, in the

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name of Jesus, it's time for you to get up. But

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are we doing it with the people that we know?

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Are we even doing it with our family members

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that we love? Are we telling them, get out of

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your pity party, get rid of the sin in your life,

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rise up and walk into who God has called you

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to be? See, signs and wonders will follow his

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believers. I love that one of y 'all said that

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this morning as we're ending prayer, that I pray

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this service ends with signs and wonders. Signs

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and wonders follows his believers. Miracles happen

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at the hands of obedience of Peter. Miracles

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can happen at the obedience of you right here

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in Lincoln. Sometimes it seems like Peter can

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be a larger than life character. But just a few

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months earlier, Peter felt like the biggest failure

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on the planet. That will speak to some of you.

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That speaks to me because sometimes I feel like

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a failure. Sometimes I feel like I let God down.

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Sometimes I feel like I don't do what he's called

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me to do. And just a few months earlier, before

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Peter was raising up a man, performing a miracle,

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he felt that way. Peter was someone that walked

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and he talked with Jesus. He was very close to

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Jesus and he loved Jesus very much. He loved

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Jesus so much that when Jesus was getting arrested,

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that he went and Peter grabbed the sword and

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he cut the dude's ear off. He's like, you ain't

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messing with Jesus. But Jesus told him, you know,

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in the last supper, in the last and final moments

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when they're together, he's like, Peter, you

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say you love me, but you're gonna deny me three

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times. And Peter's like, no, I'm not gonna deny

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you, not me. I can never deny you, Jesus. There's

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no way on earth that is gonna happen. And he

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was ready to fight. And in that one moment, he

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was ready to fight. He loses his purpose in the

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next moment. When they say, hey, Peter, hey,

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I know you. You're the one that you walk with,

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Jesus. You run with that guy. That's who you

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run with. That's who you walk with. And Peter's

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like, that ain't me. Not me. I don't know that

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dude. That's not who I am. I'm not one of those

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guys. Three times he says it and Three times

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he said and the third time Jesus said well the

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rooster's gonna crow before the end of the night

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And can you imagine that in the same night? He

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pulls out a sword cuts off the guy's ear But

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then he turns around says I don't know him He

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lost his purpose And I think sometimes some of

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us we lose our purpose And I'm not here to give

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you some TED talk about purpose or some self

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-help book I'm here to talk about your Holy Spirit,

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your purpose that is given to you by the divine,

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holy, and righteous God. We hear a lot about

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purpose. I was listening to a podcast this week,

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it was a comedian, and they're interviewing Tim

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Tebow, and I think it was something like, he

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was saying like, there's like three fifths of

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Americans right now, they feel like they don't

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have a purpose in life. They don't have a purpose.

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You know why? It's because they don't have the

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gospel. The gospel gives you purpose. Your work

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doesn't necessarily give you purpose, right?

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Your truck or your car doesn't necessarily give

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you purpose. Your house doesn't give you purpose.

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What gives you purpose? It's the gospel. See,

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Peter was the man, the Peter, the man we see

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performing a miracle in front of the same people

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that... Excuse me, let me slow it down. Peter

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is performing a miracle right here and he's performing

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it in front of the same people that had Jesus

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crucified. But that God that was so powerful,

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so full of faith, so full of the Holy Spirit,

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he lost his purpose and was full of shame. Peter

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was a man that was called a God. Jesus called

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him and said, hey, come follow me. Jesus right

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now is saying to you, man and woman in here,

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young person here, God's saying, hey, come follow

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me. Jesus also called him to be a fisher of men.

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And then Jesus did something really spectacular

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in his life. He said, Peter, you're gonna be

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the rock. I'm gonna use you, Peter, to build

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this church, to establish the church. Peter knew

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the calling of God on his life. And some of you

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in here, you may know the calling of God on your

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life and you've been running from it. Or some

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of you in here, you know, you've felt the presence

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of God, you've called on His name. But you've

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maybe denied Peter, I mean you denied Jesus like

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Peter has. And you might be going on your third

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time. But I believe God sent me here today to

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preach, maybe to wake you up a little bit. Maybe

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for the Holy Spirit to do something in your life,

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see. Peter got scared when he was called out

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for being a follower of Jesus. Peter knew that

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he was called of God, and despite all of that,

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he lost his purpose. Sometimes even as pastors

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and teachers and missionaries, sometimes we can

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lose our purpose. We can take our eyes off of

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what God has called us to do. Sometimes it's

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easier than it even should be. But thank God

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that our God is a God full of grace, that he's

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a redeeming God, and he doesn't just let you

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sit in your self -pity. See, when Peter denied

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Jesus, they said he went and wept bitterly. He

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went from sore ready to weeping bitterly when

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he realized what he'd done. See in that moment,

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it didn't seem like Peter was the rock that God

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had called him to be There's some of you in here

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I believe it like God has called you to do some

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things and you messed up or you haven't been

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living right or you haven't been doing what God's

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called you and Peter at that moment wasn't doing

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what God had called him to do He didn't seem

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like the rock that he was supposed to be Peter

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had one of the worst nights a disciple of Jesus

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could have let's just be honest What a horrible

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night But thank God a bad night doesn't define

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who you are in Christ. I'm gonna say that again.

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Thank God that a bad night does not define who

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you are in Christ. We're dealing that with people

00:26:36.519 --> 00:26:38.519
in our leadership on the island, and I'm having

00:26:38.519 --> 00:26:40.740
to tell me that bad night doesn't define you.

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Was it stupid? Yes. Was it wrong? Yes. But that

00:26:43.720 --> 00:26:45.680
doesn't change the call that God has placed on

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your heart. You have to repent, you have to move

00:26:48.400 --> 00:26:50.500
on from it, you have to hand it over to God and

00:26:50.500 --> 00:26:52.480
say, God, I shouldn't have done this, but it

00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.069
does not define who you are. And I think so many

00:26:56.069 --> 00:26:58.789
times we let one mistake define who we are when

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we literally serve a God that died on a cross

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for us to wipe that mistake away. See, we look

00:27:05.529 --> 00:27:07.490
at our mistake and we don't look at the cross.

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If I can tell you, church, stop looking at your

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mistakes and start looking at the cross. I said,

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stop looking at your mistakes and start looking

00:27:18.150 --> 00:27:20.930
at the cross where the Son of Man came and He

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died and He bled for you. And He died on the

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cross for your sin and your shame. And they put

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Him in a grave. But what happened on the third

00:27:27.170 --> 00:27:30.470
day? He rose again. So you don't have to look

00:27:30.470 --> 00:27:33.029
at your mistakes, but you get to look at a living

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God. I said, you don't have to look at your mistakes,

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but you get to look at a living God. And you

00:27:37.829 --> 00:27:40.509
can ask that living God to enter into your heart,

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to enter into your life, and say, I'm going to

00:27:42.849 --> 00:27:47.980
serve you with everything that I have. See, the

00:27:47.980 --> 00:27:50.839
guilt of what Peter done was probably unbearable.

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And you may be in here today and you lost your

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purpose. And you feel like you haven't been as

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close to God as you need to be. Or you feel like

00:28:00.980 --> 00:28:03.559
maybe you've wandered away and you haven't prayed

00:28:03.559 --> 00:28:06.880
or read your Bible lately. Or you've been going

00:28:06.880 --> 00:28:08.900
to the bars on the weekend instead of maybe coming

00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:11.519
to church like you're supposed to. Maybe you've

00:28:11.519 --> 00:28:14.220
become a denier. Maybe you're someone that's

00:28:14.220 --> 00:28:16.829
living in shame. But Jesus didn't die on the

00:28:16.829 --> 00:28:19.309
cross for you to live in shame. Jesus died on

00:28:19.309 --> 00:28:23.109
the cross that you can live for his name. I think

00:28:23.109 --> 00:28:25.329
so many times we forget that. There's the purpose

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right here. If you don't take anything else from

00:28:27.390 --> 00:28:29.589
this service, you don't take anything else from

00:28:29.589 --> 00:28:32.390
this message that you are called to live for

00:28:32.390 --> 00:28:35.970
his name. That's why God breathed life into you.

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And if you're breathing this air right now, If

00:28:38.829 --> 00:28:40.630
your lungs still have air in them, God bring

00:28:40.630 --> 00:28:42.789
that life into you, and that's where you can

00:28:42.789 --> 00:28:45.329
pray, for you to praise him, for you to glorify

00:28:45.329 --> 00:28:47.589
him. Yours for to live, for the name of Jesus.

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And that's why we did this worship, and that's

00:28:49.589 --> 00:28:51.950
why I got a little excited to jump up and down

00:28:51.950 --> 00:28:54.349
when you started playing that song. Why? Because

00:28:54.349 --> 00:28:57.609
God created me for something special. He created

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me to worship a holy and almighty God. Sometimes

00:29:02.269 --> 00:29:05.690
I forget, but I don't realize, I get to worship

00:29:05.690 --> 00:29:10.009
the creator of the universe. I get to worship

00:29:10.009 --> 00:29:13.609
a God that is holy and a God that loves and a

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God that saves. Sin is on this earth, it's present

00:29:18.769 --> 00:29:21.750
on this earth, and sin, it does separate us from

00:29:21.750 --> 00:29:25.490
God. But God said, even though that sin separates

00:29:25.490 --> 00:29:30.529
us, I'm still gonna send my son Jesus. See, we're

00:29:30.529 --> 00:29:38.980
called to live for his name. See, you may have

00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:44.240
lost your purpose, but our God is a God of revival,

00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:49.099
pastor. You might have grew up going to Lake

00:29:49.099 --> 00:29:50.720
Williamson, going to youth camp, and you might

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:53.180
have seen God is great, and his praise fills

00:29:53.180 --> 00:29:54.759
the air. You might have jumped up and down a

00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:57.859
little bit. You might remember that song when

00:29:57.859 --> 00:30:01.059
you were at youth camp. But the last few years,

00:30:01.059 --> 00:30:04.039
you've just been getting by. Sunday morning and

00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:06.160
Wednesday night's just been a routine for you.

00:30:08.779 --> 00:30:12.000
but God is a God of revival. I pray when you

00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:14.039
take those students to momentum, there's revival

00:30:14.039 --> 00:30:18.819
stirred up in them. See our God is a God of revival.

00:30:20.480 --> 00:30:23.200
This week I started playing the song, The Wonderful

00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:24.519
Blood, I don't know if y 'all, if you might've

00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:26.599
heard that song, y 'all might play it here. And

00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:29.920
as that song was playing, I just had to start

00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.220
praying in the Holy Ghost. And I was praying

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and I was praying, I was getting louder and louder,

00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:36.279
the house was empty. And at one point I got to

00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:39.480
praying so loud. It's like them college students

00:30:39.480 --> 00:30:41.099
might hear me. Derek might run over from his

00:30:41.099 --> 00:30:43.980
house. He'd probably join me, praise God. I love

00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:48.619
that kid. What an anointing man of God he is.

00:30:49.259 --> 00:30:50.759
And I'm so thankful for him. He would've helped

00:30:50.759 --> 00:30:53.779
me pray. We're so excited. Hey, the church is

00:30:53.779 --> 00:30:55.240
gonna be in good shape with people like him.

00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:57.099
The church ain't gonna die. We ain't gonna have

00:30:57.099 --> 00:30:59.460
to close our doors because we have people like

00:30:59.460 --> 00:31:01.079
Derek and young men and young women answering

00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:03.200
the call of God. They're believing, they say,

00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:05.519
hey, there is a God given purpose for my life.

00:31:07.109 --> 00:31:10.049
When I was praying, I prayed and I got to the

00:31:10.049 --> 00:31:12.309
point I couldn't even stand up and pray anymore,

00:31:12.529 --> 00:31:15.049
Pastor. I just laid on the floor praying in tongues.

00:31:15.849 --> 00:31:17.970
Why? Because I needed a God to touch my life.

00:31:18.829 --> 00:31:21.009
I just needed to be one with the Holy Spirit

00:31:21.009 --> 00:31:23.069
before I preach this message. I needed to be

00:31:23.069 --> 00:31:24.609
one with the Holy Spirit before I'm a father

00:31:24.609 --> 00:31:28.029
to my kids, before I'm a husband to my wife.

00:31:30.029 --> 00:31:32.029
Sometimes I fell on that, but when I can get

00:31:32.029 --> 00:31:34.890
in the Holy Spirit, when I can pray, His grace

00:31:34.890 --> 00:31:39.000
is sufficient. He's a God of revival. I needed

00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:43.519
revival in my life this week. Thank God I was

00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:46.480
able to pray. Thank God the Holy Spirit was able

00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:48.220
to touch my life where I can come preach to you

00:31:48.220 --> 00:31:51.880
this week. I don't want to be up here not full

00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:58.299
of the Holy Spirit. See, God is a God of revival.

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So I pray that this church has revival, pastor.

00:32:04.529 --> 00:32:07.089
I pray that you people in these pews, that y

00:32:07.089 --> 00:32:10.589
'all have revival, and that the revival, that

00:32:10.589 --> 00:32:12.470
you're already in a spirit of revival, I can

00:32:12.470 --> 00:32:14.829
sense it, I feel it, God's doing amazing things,

00:32:14.990 --> 00:32:17.410
and I pray that that spirit of revival continues,

00:32:17.789 --> 00:32:22.069
where you can awaken that city out there. I pray

00:32:22.069 --> 00:32:24.049
that the spirit of revival continues, that you

00:32:24.049 --> 00:32:26.930
awaken that city, and that your young people

00:32:26.930 --> 00:32:29.170
get it. that they go into their schools, that

00:32:29.170 --> 00:32:31.089
the children's church, the kids there, they get

00:32:31.089 --> 00:32:32.609
it and they go in their schools and they tell

00:32:32.609 --> 00:32:34.470
their teachers about it. They tell their friends

00:32:34.470 --> 00:32:36.029
about it. They invite them to church and they

00:32:36.029 --> 00:32:38.730
say, hey, crazy things are happening at my church.

00:32:39.309 --> 00:32:42.029
Miracles happen at my church. People that we've

00:32:42.029 --> 00:32:44.869
never thought we would see walk in the halls

00:32:44.869 --> 00:32:47.069
of a church. They're now in church and when the

00:32:47.069 --> 00:32:48.970
pastor says, come up front, they're raising their

00:32:48.970 --> 00:32:51.410
hands and worship. That's revival. I pray that

00:32:51.410 --> 00:32:53.650
there's a revival that awakens this city and

00:32:53.650 --> 00:32:55.609
that it moves through this state. Because God,

00:32:55.630 --> 00:32:58.880
we need somebody to do it. And if y 'all don't

00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:05.339
do it, who's gonna do it? So many times we, especially

00:33:05.339 --> 00:33:07.240
growing up in the 90s, that was a little revival

00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:08.980
time, and churches would go from, people would

00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:10.519
go from one church to the other, and they were

00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:13.420
a revival hop. And they would go from church

00:33:13.420 --> 00:33:14.779
to church to church, because there was a spirit

00:33:14.779 --> 00:33:17.039
of revival there. Quit running around to other

00:33:17.039 --> 00:33:19.480
churches and bring revival to your church. Bring

00:33:19.480 --> 00:33:21.819
revival to your community. There's people out

00:33:21.819 --> 00:33:25.000
there that need it. But too many times we're

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.049
running around chasing things. When we don't

00:33:29.049 --> 00:33:31.410
have to chase this, they're in the word of God.

00:33:32.829 --> 00:33:34.170
Let me tell you, you don't have to go anywhere

00:33:34.170 --> 00:33:36.109
else. You don't have to try out another church.

00:33:36.910 --> 00:33:39.650
This is the church for you. Why? Because the

00:33:39.650 --> 00:33:41.410
Holy Spirit's in this church, and your pastors

00:33:41.410 --> 00:33:50.650
are annoyed, and that's all you need. You may

00:33:50.650 --> 00:33:52.130
be in here today, and you're hearing about this

00:33:52.130 --> 00:33:56.150
purpose. You're talking about a revival, but

00:33:56.150 --> 00:34:02.140
you may have Never found your purpose. And today

00:34:02.140 --> 00:34:05.660
can be a day of awakening for you. Today can

00:34:05.660 --> 00:34:10.619
be a day of salvation for you. See, Peter probably

00:34:10.619 --> 00:34:13.900
thought he was done, but God had great plans.

00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:15.900
You could have walked in here today and you're

00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:17.820
like, this might be the last time I come to church.

00:34:18.460 --> 00:34:20.079
You could have came in here today and you're

00:34:20.079 --> 00:34:21.340
driving in your car and you're like, I think

00:34:21.340 --> 00:34:23.929
I might be done with my marriage. You can come

00:34:23.929 --> 00:34:25.630
here today and you think, I don't know if I can

00:34:25.630 --> 00:34:30.010
handle life anymore. Peter was in that same spot

00:34:30.010 --> 00:34:32.610
and he was done, but God still had great plans

00:34:32.610 --> 00:34:36.969
for his life. See, he was not finished with Peter,

00:34:37.469 --> 00:34:41.369
but he was just actually getting started. Oh,

00:34:41.369 --> 00:34:43.710
God's just getting started here. I heard you

00:34:43.710 --> 00:34:45.829
said you added more seats in, where I praise

00:34:45.829 --> 00:34:47.809
God you're going to be adding more seats. Let's

00:34:47.809 --> 00:34:49.829
just speak to it. I praise God that we're going

00:34:49.829 --> 00:34:51.809
to be adding more seats. I hope one day you're

00:34:51.809 --> 00:34:54.150
running two services. Why? Because people are

00:34:54.150 --> 00:34:56.630
on fire for the things of God, that people can

00:34:56.630 --> 00:34:58.809
come to this house, they can come to this place,

00:34:58.949 --> 00:35:01.989
and they can find Jesus. They can find hope.

00:35:02.210 --> 00:35:08.070
They can find peace. They can find love. You

00:35:08.070 --> 00:35:10.030
see, God has brought you to this place, church

00:35:10.030 --> 00:35:14.769
members, to be a part of it. God has brought

00:35:14.769 --> 00:35:17.570
you here because let me tell you something when

00:35:17.570 --> 00:35:20.469
revival happens When people are coming off the

00:35:20.469 --> 00:35:22.210
streets that are drug addicts and alcoholics

00:35:22.210 --> 00:35:24.269
They need people to pray with them and they don't

00:35:24.269 --> 00:35:26.010
need no little like Oh Lord, just bless them.

00:35:26.050 --> 00:35:27.510
No, they need a woman that's full of the Holy

00:35:27.510 --> 00:35:31.010
Ghost. I Remember y 'all remember the beehive

00:35:31.010 --> 00:35:33.710
hair who remembers those days. I'm from the south.

00:35:33.750 --> 00:35:36.090
It may have been a southern thing. I don't know.

00:35:36.949 --> 00:35:39.610
Oh But it was something when she we say she got

00:35:39.610 --> 00:35:42.699
the Holy Ghost and she prayed her hair down What

00:35:42.699 --> 00:35:45.840
did that mean? That mean she interceded, and

00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:47.519
she wasn't leaving that place till she heard

00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:49.360
from God. She wasn't leaving that place till

00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:53.320
she was touched. I'm not saying I'd grow beehive

00:35:53.320 --> 00:35:55.179
hair back out, but I'm saying I wouldn't mind

00:35:55.179 --> 00:35:56.880
some old lady full of the Holy Ghost praying

00:35:56.880 --> 00:36:00.059
for me every once in a while. I don't mind some

00:36:00.059 --> 00:36:02.659
old man full of the Holy Ghost praying for me

00:36:02.659 --> 00:36:05.820
every once in a while. That's where life change

00:36:05.820 --> 00:36:11.199
happens. See Peter was he thought he was done,

00:36:11.219 --> 00:36:13.860
but he was just getting started Some of you might

00:36:13.860 --> 00:36:15.219
have walked through those doors today. He said

00:36:15.219 --> 00:36:17.539
I'm done But if you'll listen to this preacher

00:36:17.539 --> 00:36:19.440
for a moment that God's not through with you.

00:36:19.440 --> 00:36:22.579
He's just getting started See, I hope that God

00:36:22.579 --> 00:36:24.659
is just getting started for me. I was thinking

00:36:24.659 --> 00:36:26.099
last night You know, I've been in the ministry

00:36:26.099 --> 00:36:28.480
almost 20 years. I might not look it I know I

00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:31.940
look kind of young but I have I remember it started

00:36:31.940 --> 00:36:34.159
at 16 years old with World Rangers I gave me

00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:35.980
my own class because nobody else to step up to

00:36:35.980 --> 00:36:40.159
the plate. What a shame When I was 16 years old,

00:36:40.179 --> 00:36:43.679
I had Roller Rangers by myself. And there were

00:36:43.679 --> 00:36:46.179
about 10 boys in there. Sometimes it was chaos.

00:36:48.119 --> 00:36:52.639
But we preached Jesus. 18 years old, I started

00:36:52.639 --> 00:36:54.880
teaching Sunday school to the middle school boys

00:36:54.880 --> 00:36:58.840
and girls. That was fun. That was when Harry

00:36:58.840 --> 00:37:00.380
Potter was popular and everybody wanted to argue

00:37:00.380 --> 00:37:02.059
about that. And I'm like, man, I don't care.

00:37:02.179 --> 00:37:06.630
Let's just preach Jesus. Started preaching from

00:37:06.630 --> 00:37:08.730
a pulpit at the age of 18, answered the call

00:37:08.730 --> 00:37:13.469
to missions at the age of 20. We've seen young

00:37:13.469 --> 00:37:15.909
people taking them to youth camp and fine arts.

00:37:16.829 --> 00:37:18.550
Seen them baptizing the Holy Spirit, now we see

00:37:18.550 --> 00:37:23.090
them serving in churches. We got to go to Curaçao

00:37:23.090 --> 00:37:24.449
with the Southerners, many of y 'all know them,

00:37:24.469 --> 00:37:29.469
we got to plant a church together. We've seen

00:37:29.469 --> 00:37:32.449
12 people at a prayer meeting. One Sunday they

00:37:32.449 --> 00:37:34.719
had over 200 people for a worship night. And

00:37:34.719 --> 00:37:36.599
the numbers are good, but what's better than

00:37:36.599 --> 00:37:39.000
the numbers, we also see people that would come

00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:41.380
in our church and they would sit there for months.

00:37:41.559 --> 00:37:44.559
I'm talking months. We had one lady, her kids

00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:46.559
got saved, the second week they brought on, praise

00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:50.260
God for that. Six months later, she came down

00:37:50.260 --> 00:37:51.619
to the front and said, I'm ready to give my heart

00:37:51.619 --> 00:37:55.639
to the Lord. Amen, yeah, we can praise God for

00:37:55.639 --> 00:37:59.360
that. I think so many times we want this instant.

00:37:59.880 --> 00:38:02.639
Success. We want our church to double overnight.

00:38:02.760 --> 00:38:04.960
It doesn't necessarily always happen that way.

00:38:06.639 --> 00:38:09.219
But we didn't put no pressure on that lady. All

00:38:09.219 --> 00:38:12.380
we did was love on her. We loved on her. We didn't

00:38:12.380 --> 00:38:14.920
judge her. And guess what happened? She heard

00:38:14.920 --> 00:38:18.460
the gospel preach for six months straight. And

00:38:18.460 --> 00:38:21.320
she surrendered her heart to Jesus. A few months

00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:23.099
ago, we baptized eight people in the Caribbean

00:38:23.099 --> 00:38:28.500
Sea. Come on, God's doing something. God is doing

00:38:28.500 --> 00:38:30.480
something, and we don't shy away from who we

00:38:30.480 --> 00:38:32.980
are. We have liberal Presbyterians come to our

00:38:32.980 --> 00:38:35.300
church. They're our number one evangelists. They

00:38:35.300 --> 00:38:36.579
invite more people to our church than anybody

00:38:36.579 --> 00:38:38.360
else. They don't agree with everything we do.

00:38:39.400 --> 00:38:42.980
Do I back down from it? Absolutely not. But do

00:38:42.980 --> 00:38:47.320
I love her? I absolutely do. Does she feel loved?

00:38:47.340 --> 00:38:52.639
She absolutely does, or she wouldn't come. I

00:38:52.639 --> 00:38:54.119
guess you can come on to play, that way y 'all

00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:59.820
shut up. I pray God's just getting started with

00:38:59.820 --> 00:39:02.559
your pastors. I know they've been here for a

00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:06.079
little while, but man, the life that they have.

00:39:07.519 --> 00:39:09.300
The vision, thank you pastor for just having

00:39:09.300 --> 00:39:10.780
a vision. You wouldn't believe the churches we

00:39:10.780 --> 00:39:12.880
go to, there's no vision, there's no man, the

00:39:12.880 --> 00:39:16.219
mission's on the wall. Somebody say amen. It's

00:39:16.219 --> 00:39:19.920
clear what your church is here to do. I love

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what your priority is. It is people, come on.

00:39:23.179 --> 00:39:29.110
That's what God has called us to do. See, he

00:39:29.110 --> 00:39:30.650
was just getting started. Peter was called to

00:39:30.650 --> 00:39:33.289
be the rock, and after Jesus descended into heaven,

00:39:34.590 --> 00:39:37.269
there was around 120 believers that were gathered

00:39:37.269 --> 00:39:40.150
together waiting for the promise to be empowered.

00:39:42.269 --> 00:39:44.949
We are a Pentecostal church, come on somebody.

00:39:47.469 --> 00:39:51.269
120 people stay together. See, God gave Peter

00:39:51.269 --> 00:39:55.969
a purpose, and he was going to empower him to

00:39:55.969 --> 00:40:00.860
accomplish that purpose. Whether you're the youngest

00:40:00.860 --> 00:40:03.440
person in this room or the oldest person in this

00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:06.219
room, God has given you a purpose and he wants

00:40:06.219 --> 00:40:12.039
to empower you to accomplish it. God's not going

00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:14.400
to send you to the workplace to be a witness

00:40:14.400 --> 00:40:16.780
without empowering you to do it. He's not going

00:40:16.780 --> 00:40:18.920
to call you to preach the word to the students

00:40:18.920 --> 00:40:22.460
without empowering you to do it. God's not going

00:40:22.460 --> 00:40:25.579
to call you to go on missions trips without empowering

00:40:25.579 --> 00:40:29.510
you to do it. It's what God wants to do big and

00:40:29.510 --> 00:40:32.150
scary sometimes. It absolutely is. But the good

00:40:32.150 --> 00:40:34.329
thing about it is He's going to empower us to

00:40:34.329 --> 00:40:37.429
do it. So if He's given you a big dream, He will

00:40:37.429 --> 00:40:39.789
empower you. He will give you the means and the

00:40:39.789 --> 00:40:42.510
resources for you to see that dream fulfilled.

00:40:44.510 --> 00:40:46.969
I pray that God gives you big dreams. I pray

00:40:46.969 --> 00:40:53.110
that God gives you big visions. God is going

00:40:53.110 --> 00:40:56.380
to empower you to do His work. Peter was weak

00:40:56.380 --> 00:40:58.440
in his own flesh. He's been weak here before.

00:40:59.699 --> 00:41:01.320
You don't have to raise your hand, but you may

00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:05.840
feel weak today. See, I'm weak when I try to

00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:09.619
do it my own way. Let me tell you, I can't do

00:41:09.619 --> 00:41:12.099
it my own way. When I do it my own way, that's

00:41:12.099 --> 00:41:13.980
when everything seems to fall apart and it looks

00:41:13.980 --> 00:41:17.420
like a disaster. But when Peter received power

00:41:17.420 --> 00:41:19.579
from Almighty God, he was able to step up to

00:41:19.579 --> 00:41:23.860
the plate. Peter was able to do what God had

00:41:23.860 --> 00:41:26.679
always called him to do. Peter was able to be

00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:29.139
that rock. Peter was able to be that pastor,

00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:31.780
but it didn't happen until he received the power

00:41:31.780 --> 00:41:38.820
from the Holy Spirit. They went and they waited.

00:41:39.380 --> 00:41:42.360
There's 120 people after Jesus ascended. They

00:41:42.360 --> 00:41:45.239
went and they waited and they prayed. Actually,

00:41:45.300 --> 00:41:47.360
the ministry really didn't truly start till they

00:41:47.360 --> 00:41:50.329
were empowered. And so many times we just want

00:41:50.329 --> 00:41:52.590
to run out the door and go, no, no, no. We do

00:41:52.590 --> 00:41:54.750
want to send you out those doors. We want to

00:41:54.750 --> 00:41:56.630
send you out ready to take on hell with a water

00:41:56.630 --> 00:41:58.610
pistol. But we don't want to do it until you're

00:41:58.610 --> 00:42:04.670
empowered. So today is your day to be empowered.

00:42:05.789 --> 00:42:07.730
Look at your neighbor and say, today is my day

00:42:07.730 --> 00:42:14.349
to be empowered. Those people were praying they

00:42:14.349 --> 00:42:16.409
knew that God had a plan and a purpose for in

00:42:16.409 --> 00:42:18.929
their life God told Jesus told him that as he

00:42:18.929 --> 00:42:20.349
was going up to heaven. He gave him the Great

00:42:20.349 --> 00:42:24.650
Commission And as they were praying the Holy

00:42:24.650 --> 00:42:27.329
Spirit fell on Peter and the other believers

00:42:27.329 --> 00:42:29.530
They said it was like a mighty wind and just

00:42:29.530 --> 00:42:31.789
rushed through that building and the Holy Spirit

00:42:31.789 --> 00:42:34.329
fell on them And they received the Holy Spirit

00:42:34.329 --> 00:42:36.769
and they spoke in other tongues as the Holy Spirit

00:42:36.769 --> 00:42:42.039
empowered them to do it And what I want to say

00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:44.840
about that, while we speak in tongues, it isn't

00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:49.159
just for us to feel good. And in Pentecostal,

00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:52.119
I'm glad we're excited. Don't get me wrong. But

00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:54.000
we're not looking for an emotional experience

00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:58.239
here today. We're looking to be empowered. Why?

00:42:58.260 --> 00:43:00.480
Because there are people in Lincoln that will

00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:02.400
die and go to hell unless you tell them about

00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:05.510
them, unless you share the gospel. There are

00:43:05.510 --> 00:43:07.869
young people in this church that need to be discipled.

00:43:07.929 --> 00:43:09.610
And I know y 'all do a good job because I see

00:43:09.610 --> 00:43:11.530
Derek every Tuesday night when he eats my food,

00:43:11.530 --> 00:43:13.369
and he tells me, hey, I'm preaching the word

00:43:13.369 --> 00:43:17.369
of God now. Come on, somebody. But we don't just

00:43:17.369 --> 00:43:22.289
need one, Derek. We need 20 of them. I hope your

00:43:22.289 --> 00:43:24.030
church is sending student after student after

00:43:24.030 --> 00:43:30.409
student to that place to get discipled. See,

00:43:30.429 --> 00:43:33.630
the Holy Spirit empowered them. I can't imagine

00:43:33.630 --> 00:43:36.519
what that sounded like. I can't imagine what

00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.820
it was like when that wind swept through there.

00:43:39.699 --> 00:43:43.900
But Peter just a few months earlier said, I don't

00:43:43.900 --> 00:43:47.460
know Jesus. Second time, no, I don't know him.

00:43:47.500 --> 00:43:50.880
The third time, he even cussed about it. It might

00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:52.559
not even have been a PG word. It might have been

00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:55.860
bad. He cussed about it. He said, I don't know

00:43:55.860 --> 00:43:57.980
the man. And then he went and wept bitterly.

00:43:58.320 --> 00:44:00.599
But when he was empowered by the Holy Ghost,

00:44:02.190 --> 00:44:04.570
He stood up and he preached like no one has ever

00:44:04.570 --> 00:44:07.809
preached before. Oh, I don't think you get it.

00:44:07.809 --> 00:44:09.750
I said he preached like no one ever preached

00:44:09.750 --> 00:44:11.610
before. See, you may be in here today and you

00:44:11.610 --> 00:44:13.670
think you're inadequate. You may be in here today

00:44:13.670 --> 00:44:15.349
and you don't think you have the abilities to

00:44:15.349 --> 00:44:18.030
be a witness. Peter was someone that was a denier,

00:44:18.269 --> 00:44:20.590
but the heater ran away and he was ashamed. But

00:44:20.590 --> 00:44:23.030
God showed up in his life and he did it one more

00:44:23.030 --> 00:44:25.309
time. If God did it for Peter, he can do it for

00:44:25.309 --> 00:44:28.210
you. See that Holy Spirit baptism was not just

00:44:28.210 --> 00:44:30.170
for the New Testament church. We are the New

00:44:30.170 --> 00:44:33.289
Testament church. And I don't know why we get

00:44:33.289 --> 00:44:37.050
that confused sometimes. We are the New Testament

00:44:37.050 --> 00:44:40.090
church and that promise to empower is for us.

00:44:40.710 --> 00:44:50.860
It's for you. So everyone stand up with me. Oh,

00:44:50.860 --> 00:44:53.199
I can't wait for revival to break out in Lincoln.

00:44:57.019 --> 00:44:59.719
I can't wait for revival to break out in Illinois.

00:45:01.059 --> 00:45:06.619
But it has to start somewhere. Oh, I hope it's

00:45:06.619 --> 00:45:10.800
with your students. I hope the night is a night

00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:17.119
just full of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit,

00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:21.920
empower Peter. And 3 ,000 people were saved.

00:45:25.260 --> 00:45:27.860
You mean the man that denied Jesus that was a

00:45:27.860 --> 00:45:31.239
scaredy cat, that was a wuss? Someone that we

00:45:31.239 --> 00:45:34.599
lost respect for? Yes, God restored the man.

00:45:34.780 --> 00:45:37.500
And he was the rock that he called him to be.

00:45:37.940 --> 00:45:40.960
God doesn't break his promises. And his promise

00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:44.119
is to empower his people. So if you call on the

00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:47.820
name of Jesus, you can be baptized in the Holy

00:45:47.820 --> 00:45:51.170
Spirit. See, if we can believe the Holy Spirit

00:45:51.170 --> 00:45:53.630
can draw us to Jesus, why don't we believe Jesus

00:45:53.630 --> 00:46:03.170
can baptize us in the Holy Spirit? Three thousand

00:46:03.170 --> 00:46:07.650
were saved. He goes to the temple and he gives

00:46:07.650 --> 00:46:11.429
the man what he has. Took him by the hand and

00:46:11.429 --> 00:46:19.030
he walked. Did this miracle in front of the people

00:46:19.030 --> 00:46:23.469
that tried to kill that had Jesus killed Here's

00:46:23.469 --> 00:46:26.349
what's crazy thing to happen And we might need

00:46:26.349 --> 00:46:27.809
to get ready for this. I just don't know because

00:46:27.809 --> 00:46:30.550
the government is a little wack right now We

00:46:30.550 --> 00:46:35.710
might just need to be prepared for it When they

00:46:35.710 --> 00:46:39.309
healed the man they preached Jesus They gave

00:46:39.309 --> 00:46:42.389
him an opportunity to preach Jesus. You might

00:46:42.389 --> 00:46:47.019
not be a great preacher like pastor But I pray

00:46:47.019 --> 00:46:49.000
that you do have the ability to lay hands on

00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.019
somebody and they're healed. And you get to share

00:46:51.019 --> 00:46:53.039
the gospel. You get to share why they're healed.

00:46:55.179 --> 00:46:57.559
Peter and John, they shared what happened. They

00:46:57.559 --> 00:46:59.539
said, we do this in the name of Jesus, the guy

00:46:59.539 --> 00:47:01.619
that you had killed. And what did they do? They

00:47:01.619 --> 00:47:04.280
locked him up. Oh, I almost fell. I told you

00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:10.239
it was coming. They locked him up. They took

00:47:10.239 --> 00:47:13.920
Peter. They took John and locked him up. And

00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:15.599
it basically says, we don't know what to do with

00:47:15.599 --> 00:47:21.099
them. Oh man, I hope that one day the newspaper

00:47:21.099 --> 00:47:23.559
and the political leaders of this county and

00:47:23.559 --> 00:47:25.800
this city of Lincoln say, we don't know what

00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:29.920
to do with those guys. But we gotta send a traffic

00:47:29.920 --> 00:47:31.639
cop out here on Sunday mornings to make sure

00:47:31.639 --> 00:47:34.380
people can get in. Oh come on somebody, why not

00:47:34.380 --> 00:47:37.260
have a big faith? Why not have a big vision?

00:47:42.119 --> 00:47:43.739
I pray that school calls you one day, we don't

00:47:43.739 --> 00:47:45.500
know what to do, but your students are speaking

00:47:45.500 --> 00:47:47.780
some unknown language, and there's about 20 of

00:47:47.780 --> 00:47:52.039
them laying out on the floor. Oklahoma, why not

00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:56.619
dream that? All we know is that football player

00:47:56.619 --> 00:47:59.460
that his ACL was torn, that ninth grader prayed

00:47:59.460 --> 00:48:01.360
for him, and they started speaking his unknown

00:48:01.360 --> 00:48:03.659
language, and that guy got up and he was able

00:48:03.659 --> 00:48:06.559
to walk, and he said his ACL was repaired, and

00:48:06.559 --> 00:48:08.539
he's gonna go play football Friday night. Why

00:48:08.539 --> 00:48:15.940
not? He is capable of it. But it takes someone

00:48:15.940 --> 00:48:17.860
like Peter and John willing to take them by the

00:48:17.860 --> 00:48:22.420
hand and sink it up and walk. The Holy Ghost

00:48:22.420 --> 00:48:31.079
is in this place. He locked them up. You see,

00:48:31.119 --> 00:48:33.659
once Peter was empowered by the Holy Spirit,

00:48:34.300 --> 00:48:37.400
he was able to be the man that Jesus had called

00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:42.059
him to be. Are you ready to be? who Jesus has

00:48:42.059 --> 00:48:48.420
called you to be. Let's just close our eyes for

00:48:48.420 --> 00:48:51.119
a moment. If you're praying to the Holy Ghost,

00:48:51.179 --> 00:48:52.699
pray to the Holy Ghost. I think God's wanting

00:48:52.699 --> 00:49:00.119
to do something in this house. You want to ask

00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:03.019
the question again, are you ready to be who Jesus

00:49:03.019 --> 00:49:06.480
has called you to be? Young man, are you ready?

00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.179
Young man, are you ready to answer the call of

00:49:10.179 --> 00:49:12.760
God on your life and say I'm ready to preach

00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:15.699
the word at my school I'm ready to answer the

00:49:15.699 --> 00:49:18.019
call to be a pastor one day. I'm ready to answer

00:49:18.019 --> 00:49:20.380
the call to be a missionary one day I'm ready

00:49:20.380 --> 00:49:22.619
to answer the call to be a small group leader.

00:49:22.739 --> 00:49:24.760
Is that you young man young lady? Are you ready

00:49:24.760 --> 00:49:26.920
to answer the call to be on the worship team?

00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:29.699
Young lady, are you ready to answer the call

00:49:29.699 --> 00:49:32.210
to preach the gospel? You mean I can preach the

00:49:32.210 --> 00:49:34.449
gospel too? Yeah, because the Word of God says

00:49:34.449 --> 00:49:36.610
the daughter shall prophesy. That means to declare

00:49:36.610 --> 00:49:40.650
a message. Come on somebody. Young lady, are

00:49:40.650 --> 00:49:46.050
you ready to answer the call? Mom and dad, I

00:49:46.050 --> 00:49:49.550
got a question for you. Are you ready to be the

00:49:49.550 --> 00:49:54.289
mom and dad that God has called you to be? You

00:49:54.289 --> 00:49:56.309
might not have been the best mom and dad in recent

00:49:56.309 --> 00:50:00.630
years. Peter wasn't the best disciple either,

00:50:00.650 --> 00:50:05.469
but look what happened. Mom and dad, are you

00:50:05.469 --> 00:50:09.949
ready to answer the call? Grandma and grandpa,

00:50:09.969 --> 00:50:15.190
are you ready to answer the call? Are you ready

00:50:15.190 --> 00:50:17.829
to be who Jesus wants you to be? So I'm about

00:50:17.829 --> 00:50:21.510
to give two altar calls. The first one is, if

00:50:21.510 --> 00:50:24.409
you never called on the name Jesus, and you're

00:50:24.409 --> 00:50:26.550
ready to say, I'm ready to call on his name,

00:50:26.550 --> 00:50:31.280
I'm ready to find that purpose, This is not a

00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:33.320
revival moment. This is an awakening moment.

00:50:33.400 --> 00:50:36.139
This is a salvation moment We're about to have

00:50:36.139 --> 00:50:39.980
the revival moment But if you're in here you

00:50:39.980 --> 00:50:42.139
see I'm ready to call in the name of Jesus I'm

00:50:42.139 --> 00:50:44.579
ready to be saved because there's no other name

00:50:44.579 --> 00:50:46.619
that can save but the name of Jesus Is that you

00:50:46.619 --> 00:50:49.619
where you walk down right now? Yes in front of

00:50:49.619 --> 00:50:51.360
everybody because Jesus says if you deny him

00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:52.920
in front of his friends He'll deny you in front

00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:55.420
of the father. So this is not to embarrass anybody

00:50:56.750 --> 00:50:59.190
But this is to rejoice that a soul is being added

00:50:59.190 --> 00:51:02.750
into the kingdom of heaven. So we're gonna think

00:51:02.750 --> 00:51:06.429
about 10 seconds if that's you. You're ready

00:51:06.429 --> 00:51:09.590
to call on the name of Jesus. You're ready to

00:51:09.590 --> 00:51:11.889
say today's the day I wanna be saved. Today's

00:51:11.889 --> 00:51:15.010
the day I wanna give, surrender my life to Christ

00:51:15.010 --> 00:51:18.829
when you come forward. Dear Lord, I pray if there's

00:51:18.829 --> 00:51:21.349
anybody in here as I pray that they'll come forward.

00:51:23.809 --> 00:51:30.809
Oh may the day be the day of salvation. But we

00:51:30.809 --> 00:51:32.989
want to trust that everybody in here is saved.

00:51:36.710 --> 00:51:39.849
So this comes in the next part of this altar

00:51:39.849 --> 00:51:42.909
call. I know it's snowing outside and I think

00:51:42.909 --> 00:51:45.909
it's awesome. But I think I'm about ready for

00:51:45.909 --> 00:51:50.289
the fire to fall inside of this place. If you're

00:51:50.289 --> 00:51:56.380
in here today and you're ready for revival. And

00:51:56.380 --> 00:51:58.420
I'm not just talking about a church -wide thing

00:51:58.420 --> 00:52:00.039
where we all come up here and speak in tongues.

00:52:00.420 --> 00:52:02.539
No, I'm talking about something inside of your

00:52:02.539 --> 00:52:05.039
heart where you know that you have not been living

00:52:05.039 --> 00:52:06.940
right, or you know that you haven't been doing

00:52:06.940 --> 00:52:09.340
exactly what God has called you to do. If you're

00:52:09.340 --> 00:52:11.420
ready for revival, will you come down to this

00:52:11.420 --> 00:52:14.619
altar right now? If you're ready for revival,

00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:49.050
if you're ready to see your family, I pray that

00:52:49.050 --> 00:52:55.289
the wind blows through this place. Now when they

00:52:55.289 --> 00:52:57.769
were empowered by the Holy Spirit, they spoke

00:52:57.769 --> 00:53:02.190
in other tongues. If you're in it today and you've

00:53:02.190 --> 00:53:06.150
not received the Holy Spirit, today can be the

00:53:06.150 --> 00:53:13.010
day. And they spoke in other tongues as the Spirit

00:53:13.010 --> 00:53:18.110
gave utterance, as the Spirit empowered. So I

00:53:18.110 --> 00:53:22.210
want you guys to trust right now that the Holy

00:53:22.210 --> 00:53:25.250
Spirit is going to empower you. And I want you

00:53:25.250 --> 00:53:28.050
to pray out loud. And as the Holy Spirit gives

00:53:28.050 --> 00:53:30.550
you the words to pray, it's going to see foreign

00:53:30.550 --> 00:53:33.989
to you. But I want you to pray in other tongues.

00:53:35.909 --> 00:53:37.849
Can we do that? I believe God wants to do that

00:53:37.849 --> 00:53:45.329
in this place. Dear Heavenly Father, I will start

00:53:45.329 --> 00:53:48.900
singing right now, God, we seek you. Oh we seek

00:53:48.900 --> 00:53:51.860
you. Oh God we come to you in the mighty name

00:53:51.860 --> 00:53:55.280
of Jesus. We come to you in the name that is

00:53:55.280 --> 00:54:00.039
greater than any other name. In Jesus we know

00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:03.480
about this baptism, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:06.500
And dear God in your word we know that Jesus

00:54:06.500 --> 00:54:11.400
is the baptizer. So God I pray right now that

00:54:11.400 --> 00:54:14.000
you baptize young ladies in the Holy Spirit.

00:54:14.179 --> 00:54:16.539
That you baptize young men in the Holy Spirit.

00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:19.699
And God that you will just put a spirit of revival

00:54:19.699 --> 00:54:22.519
on this church. That you'll put a spirit of revival

00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:25.199
in this house. Oh let's lift them up church.

00:54:25.340 --> 00:54:26.960
Let's start giving them praise. If you're ready

00:54:26.960 --> 00:54:29.860
for that revival. God I pray that the people

00:54:29.860 --> 00:54:32.119
in these pews that they find the purpose in their

00:54:32.119 --> 00:54:34.760
life. That God they might once been like a Peter.

00:54:34.980 --> 00:54:37.659
They may once be the nine. God I pray for the

00:54:37.659 --> 00:54:40.119
young man that's running away. That he surrenders

00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:42.900
his heart to you God. I pray for the young lady.

00:54:43.099 --> 00:54:45.469
I pray for the couple that married. is about

00:54:45.469 --> 00:54:47.690
to break. They're gonna pray that your healing

00:54:47.690 --> 00:54:50.829
and revival is in that marriage. Oh, let's pray

00:54:50.829 --> 00:54:52.050
in the Holy Spirit Church.