1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 And last Sunday, I started a series in preparation 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,320 for our revival called Road to Revival. 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:14,840 And today I have a very important, very powerful word 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:16,620 that God has placed in my heart. 5 00:00:16,620 --> 00:00:17,980 If you weren't here last Sunday, please, 6 00:00:17,980 --> 00:00:20,400 you can go back and watch the broadcast. 7 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,400 But we're looking at Genesis chapter 35 and verse one, 8 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,960 and we're gonna read this and then we're gonna pray. 9 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:32,960 But Genesis chapter 35 verse one, a lot to cover today. 10 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:37,680 And I know today is like a big sports day and all that, 11 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,120 but we're here for a very important purpose, amen. 12 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:45,040 So I just need to give you what God has given me 13 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:50,040 and let everything else worry about itself, amen, amen. 14 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:53,080 The word of the Lord says this, 15 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,920 then God said to Jacob, arise, everyone say arise. 16 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,480 Go up to Bethel and dwell there 17 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,760 and make an altar there to God who appeared to you 18 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:09,760 when you fled from the face of Esau, your brother. 19 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:12,400 And Jacob said to his household 20 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:13,860 and to all who were with him, 21 00:01:13,860 --> 00:01:16,960 put away the foreign gods that are among you, 22 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:20,840 purify yourselves and change your garments. 23 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:27,640 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel. 24 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,840 And I will make an altar there to God. 25 00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:32,360 You see, you can't just make an altar 26 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,600 just because you wanna make one. 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,520 There are some steps you gotta take and he showed us. 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:40,960 Then I will make an altar there to God 29 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:44,000 who answered to me in the day of my distress 30 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,360 and has been with me in the way which I have gone. 31 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,240 Verse four, so they gave Jacob all the foreign gods 32 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,240 which were in their hands 33 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,440 and the earrings which were in their ears 34 00:01:58,440 --> 00:02:02,560 and Jacob hid them under the terrible tree 35 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:04,160 which was by Shechem. 36 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,880 Today, with the help of the Holy Ghost, 37 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,880 with God's wisdom, I'm gonna preach this message 38 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,280 to you today, church, purging your house, 39 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:15,240 purging your house. 40 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,800 I'm gonna invite you, why don't we pray once again? 41 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,200 We're just gonna ask God specifically 42 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,040 to speak to us individually as a church. 43 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:24,400 Father, we love you, we thank you 44 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:26,960 for your presence that is here, 45 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:30,760 for moving in a special and powerful way of God already, 46 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,680 but now the time has come for us to receive your word. 47 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:37,520 And I ask, Lord, that you would anoint the hearing 48 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,360 of all who are here today 49 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,480 to receive this word with gladness. 50 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,960 God, let the seed of this word penetrate 51 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,240 into the deepest places of our hearts, God. 52 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,720 And then I pray, God, that you would confirm your word 53 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:53,040 with signs today. 54 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:55,400 Lord, anoint my lips of clay, God. 55 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,600 Let it be your wisdom and not mine. 56 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,240 Father, in Jesus' name, we pray. 57 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:02,560 Everyone say amen. 58 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:04,840 Why don't we clap our hands one more time, amen? 59 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:05,680 Amen. 60 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:09,760 Thank you, praise God. 61 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,000 Last Sunday, we left off with God calling Jacob back 62 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:16,560 to Bethel and how he got delayed 63 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,880 in a place called Shechem, a place in the middle 64 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,360 between where God had called him 65 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,760 and where he was still going 66 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:28,560 between his past and his future. 67 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:33,360 But now it was the time for Jacob to move on. 68 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:35,640 And before he could, before he could, 69 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:39,360 he had to purge their house. 70 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,640 I don't know if you have ever moved or relocated, 71 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,800 which I've done more times than I care to have, 72 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,440 but whenever you do, whenever you move, 73 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,440 whenever you relocate, one of the things 74 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:57,440 it forces you to do is to have to purge all of your stuff. 75 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,280 It forces you to go through your things 76 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:07,280 and sometimes one by one, you have to ask yourself 77 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:11,200 this very important question, do I need this? 78 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,040 Amen somebody. 79 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:14,800 Do I need this? 80 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:17,760 Because you'd be surprised the kinds of things 81 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:20,640 that we accumulate over time 82 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,640 and sometimes without even our being aware of it, 83 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:27,760 there are things that are just there 84 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:30,080 that are gathering up. 85 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,640 You don't realize, you really don't. 86 00:04:32,640 --> 00:04:35,200 You really don't realize how much stuff you have 87 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,760 until it's time to move. 88 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:39,280 Amen somebody. 89 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:43,880 Until you have to pack up that U-Haul 90 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:45,600 and you go, you know, we've got too much stuff 91 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:47,000 to fit in there and so we're gonna have 92 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:51,600 to downsize some of the things that we have, amen. 93 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:56,280 And you don't really realize until you have to purge 94 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,520 and it's the same in the Spirit. 95 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:01,440 It's the same in the Spirit. 96 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:05,280 To reach revival, we need to purge things in our homes, 97 00:05:05,280 --> 00:05:08,320 but can I tell you that you don't really realize 98 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,800 what you have, what you've been holding onto, 99 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:13,120 what's been lurking in your house 100 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,720 until God is calling you to move on. 101 00:05:16,720 --> 00:05:19,720 And then when you decide, now is the time I'm ready 102 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,560 to take that next step forward in God. 103 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,040 I wanna get closer to him. 104 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:25,560 I want more of his presence. 105 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:29,760 I want more of what he has and I wanna go deeper with God. 106 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:31,040 I want revival. 107 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,920 When you make up in your mind that that's what you want, 108 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,380 all of a sudden, you start to realize the things 109 00:05:37,380 --> 00:05:40,320 that you've been holding onto or that have been holding 110 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:43,160 onto you that you need to let go of. 111 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,320 Who's gonna preach with me here today, amen. 112 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:50,320 And Jacob had allowed some things to creep into his home 113 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:56,240 while he was delayed in that middle place of Shechem. 114 00:05:56,240 --> 00:06:00,840 And sadly, his hesitation cost him dearly 115 00:06:00,840 --> 00:06:03,680 because he didn't deal with these things properly 116 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:08,480 and acutely, it hurt him and it hurt his family. 117 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,280 I don't have a lot of time to preach 118 00:06:10,280 --> 00:06:11,600 on what I'm about to share with you, 119 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:16,120 but I feel this necessary in the lane of my foundation today 120 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,280 to visit this very painful part of his life. 121 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:22,880 In Genesis 34, it records how Jacob's daughter 122 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:25,800 got entangled with the wrong people 123 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:29,120 while he was settled in that middle place, 124 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:32,340 not Bethel, but that middle place of Shechem. 125 00:06:32,340 --> 00:06:34,600 Bible reason, verses one and two. 126 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:37,600 Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, 127 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:42,080 whom she had born to Jacob went out to see 128 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,000 the daughters of the land. 129 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:47,520 When Shechem the son of Hamar the Hivite, 130 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,920 prince of the country, saw her, he took her 131 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,920 and lay with her and violated her. 132 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,040 Now this is a very unfortunate and dark portion 133 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,920 of scripture because we see that injustice was done 134 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:07,920 to this poor young lady. 135 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:11,520 But the truth is that Dinah was so close 136 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:15,280 to these other cultures, these other nations of people 137 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,120 that what she wanted to do was experiment 138 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,160 with their way of life. 139 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,360 She saw the surrounding nations 140 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,640 and because they were so close to them, 141 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:30,000 she wanted to blend in and experience. 142 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:33,400 And so scripture says that she went out to see 143 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:34,960 the daughters of the land. 144 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:37,480 Now we don't know the details of what that means, 145 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:40,240 but probably it means she just wanted to go out 146 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,000 and get closer to them to check out 147 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,320 what the latest trends were, what the fashions were, 148 00:07:45,320 --> 00:07:49,320 what the ways of the culture were and get closer to them. 149 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,920 And so what happened to her was very tragic 150 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:53,720 and it's inexcusable. 151 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,440 But the real blame for her being violated, 152 00:07:56,440 --> 00:07:59,280 this very disturbing incident in her life, 153 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:02,880 the real blame lies and falls on Jacob 154 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,360 for settling his family in the middle. 155 00:08:06,360 --> 00:08:09,560 The real blame for this lies on Jacob who, 156 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:11,960 instead of going all the way where God had called them 157 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:16,800 to go, settled there and put his family at risk. 158 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:20,240 He compromised and put his family at risk. 159 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,000 He wasn't all the way in, he wasn't all the way out. 160 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,120 He was just close enough to the world 161 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:29,960 to where his own family got caught up with the wrong people. 162 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:34,720 And this incident, it led to great conflict, 163 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,640 it led to bloodshed because what ended up happening 164 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:41,400 is that Dinah's brothers Simeon and Levi 165 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,560 decided to avenge their sister's violation 166 00:08:44,560 --> 00:08:48,520 by going out and killing all of the men of Shechem 167 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,080 because they had violated her. 168 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:52,400 And so they went out into the land. 169 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:56,000 You could read all of the interesting details in the Bible, 170 00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:58,240 but they went out and they took revenge. 171 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:01,520 Now, how many of you all know that two wrongs don't make a right? 172 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:03,480 And so God never told these men to go out 173 00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:06,480 and avenge their sister the way they did, but they did. 174 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:08,400 Their flesh got the best of them. 175 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,440 And so what we see in the life of Jacob is that 176 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,480 when you sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind. 177 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:14,640 And now he's in trouble. 178 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,920 Tragedy has struck his house and things have run amok. 179 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:23,200 And so he begins to understand now the consequences 180 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,880 of not standing firm in where God had called him to be. 181 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,920 Now he's starting to deal with the very real consequences 182 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,880 of not going all the way with God, 183 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,920 but settling in this place of compromise. 184 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:36,720 And what this shows us, church, 185 00:09:36,720 --> 00:09:41,720 is that this often told proverb, 186 00:09:42,200 --> 00:09:46,040 which is that what one generation does in moderation, 187 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:50,000 the next does in excess. 188 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,200 What we tolerate, let me put it to you this way, 189 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,600 what we tolerate in our homes today 190 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,880 will be embraced by our children tomorrow. 191 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:01,880 Now maybe Jacob didn't go all the way into Shechem 192 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,200 and do the things that got his daughter into trouble 193 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:08,360 and got her into the wrong hands with the wrong people. 194 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:10,480 Maybe Jacob settled on the outskirts, 195 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,880 but his daughter went a step further 196 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:14,360 and she went all the way. 197 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,520 And I wanna tell somebody from the onset of this message, 198 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:19,080 and this is a very key point, 199 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,960 and everything that is going to be shared 200 00:10:20,960 --> 00:10:23,720 from this pulpit today and throughout this series 201 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:27,800 is that we cannot afford to settle anywhere else 202 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:30,520 than Bethel, the prescribed place 203 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:34,840 that God has called us to be as apostolic people. 204 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:37,920 Can you clap your hands and give God some praise today? 205 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:39,160 Amen, somebody. 206 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,960 You say, why Pastor Jacob? 207 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,080 Because the risk is not worth it. 208 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:47,560 And what we do in moderation, you say, 209 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:48,560 well, I don't have a problem. 210 00:10:48,560 --> 00:10:49,640 I know where to draw the line. 211 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:50,480 Well, good for you. 212 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,520 What about your children? 213 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,200 Yo, so maybe it didn't catch you, 214 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:56,720 and maybe you didn't get bit by the bug, 215 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:00,800 or maybe you know how, maybe you know how to turn it on 216 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:04,400 and turn it off, but your children may not be able to. 217 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,160 And so the actions and the decisions that we take 218 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:08,920 will affect the next generation. 219 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,400 And unfortunately, Jacob had to learn the hard way 220 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,280 with the fact that his family got caught up into trouble, 221 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,200 and now he is realizing that he has allowed things 222 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,800 to fester on too long in his life. 223 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,520 And so heeding the call of God to go back to revival, 224 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,560 back to the basics, back to God's word, 225 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:31,840 back to the things that are sacred and holy and true, 226 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:33,840 and back to Bethel, the house of God. 227 00:11:33,840 --> 00:11:37,600 Now that Jacob realizes this is what he must do, 228 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:40,200 he cannot just embark out there. 229 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,560 He cannot just pack the bags and hit the road. 230 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:46,480 There are some things now that he's got to deal with. 231 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,840 There are some skeletons in the closet, so to speak. 232 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,000 There are some issues that need to be laid bare. 233 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:55,600 There are some things that need to be brought 234 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,800 to the surface and into the light. 235 00:11:57,800 --> 00:12:01,640 And so what Jacob now begins to see is what we all, 236 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:03,480 and I say all very respectfully 237 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:05,280 because this is for everybody today. 238 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,880 We need to allow ourselves to come under the microscope 239 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:11,880 of God so that he can inspect our lives 240 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:14,280 and see what have you been hiding under there. 241 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:18,640 You can fool the pastor, you can even fool your spouse 242 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:19,880 and your family members. 243 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,240 You can fool a lot of people, but you can't fool God. 244 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,240 He's got x-ray vision. 245 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:28,640 He's got MRI vision. 246 00:12:28,640 --> 00:12:31,480 He can see all the things that we've been hiding. 247 00:12:31,480 --> 00:12:34,280 And he looks at Jacob, and Jacob felt conviction. 248 00:12:34,280 --> 00:12:36,400 He realized if I'm gonna get back to Bethel, 249 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,000 I need to get my heart right. 250 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,200 I need to deal with the things that I have not been dealing 251 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,200 with, the stuff that I've been sweeping under the rug, 252 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,280 the things that I just keep turning a blind eye to. 253 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,360 And then yes, oh, I might feel a little bit 254 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,520 of God's presence, and I might clap my hand, 255 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:53,320 and I might stop my feet and feel this 256 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:54,520 and feel a little bit of that. 257 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:56,240 But there are some things in my life 258 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:57,640 that have been holding me back. 259 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,000 And the first thing that we've got to deal with 260 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:02,960 in our lives today, I feel the Holy Ghost today, 261 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,720 is we've got to remove our idols. 262 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:12,160 Remove our idols. 263 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:16,160 In verse two, it says, and Jacob said to his household 264 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,960 and all who were with him, put away, 265 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:20,880 someone say put away. 266 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,440 Put away the foreign gods that are among you. 267 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:25,640 Put them away. 268 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:29,440 Jacob knew that these idols were going to prevent him 269 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,600 from reaching the house of God, 270 00:13:31,600 --> 00:13:33,920 from reaching revival, from reaching Bethel. 271 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:37,600 Now in today's terms, idols are not merely shrines 272 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:39,800 made of stone and gold. 273 00:13:39,800 --> 00:13:41,800 We think of idols sometimes where our minds 274 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,600 immediately think of man-made altars 275 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:47,320 and the physical objects that can take place in our life 276 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:50,360 that we worship, that we enshrine in our lives, 277 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:53,960 that we see in other religions and other false religions. 278 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,560 But those are not the only types of idols 279 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:58,000 that can occupy our life. 280 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,240 There are other idols. 281 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,200 There are other things that can come into our lives. 282 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:06,600 In today's terms, anything, anything, hear me, 283 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:09,560 anything can become an idol. 284 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:12,400 Anything can become an idol. 285 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:13,360 How do I say that? 286 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:14,360 And why is that true? 287 00:14:14,360 --> 00:14:18,120 Because an idol is anything that you worship, 288 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:21,720 that you elevate or watch this, 289 00:14:21,720 --> 00:14:24,000 that controls you in some way. 290 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:28,040 If it's not the Holy Ghost, it's an idol 291 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,080 if it's controlling you in some way. 292 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:34,200 You know that an attitude can become an idol. 293 00:14:34,200 --> 00:14:36,960 You know that an opinion can become an idol. 294 00:14:36,960 --> 00:14:39,760 You know that an emotion can become an idol. 295 00:14:39,760 --> 00:14:44,040 Anything, even your own, your pride, your own righteousness, 296 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:49,040 anything can become an idol if it takes the place of God 297 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:54,880 by controlling your attitude, your actions, your life. 298 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,560 And so the real question I've got to ask today 299 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,560 that as we look upon this scripture, 300 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,480 the real question is, is where did Jacob get these idols from? 301 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,280 It wasn't like these idols glued legs 302 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,880 and just walked into his house. 303 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,520 Where did they come from? 304 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,480 How did they get there? 305 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:13,360 How did they arrive? 306 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,360 Where did they, did they just go to the local idol dealer? 307 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,120 Did they get them on eBay, Amazon? 308 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,240 How did they get these things into their lives? 309 00:15:24,240 --> 00:15:26,800 And the answer is a three-part answer. 310 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,800 Let me break this down for you in this next slide. 311 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,480 Let me show you that these things that have a way, 312 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:36,480 oh my God, they have a way of life. 313 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:41,480 Oh my God, they have a way of creeping into our lives. 314 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:45,600 I'm gonna put it all up there for you. 315 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,840 There's a three-part answer to how these idols 316 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,520 made their way into Jacob's life. 317 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:51,640 There wasn't just one, there were many of them. 318 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:55,720 The first we see is through Laban's household. 319 00:15:55,720 --> 00:15:59,160 Now, once again, Laban was his father-in-law. 320 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:03,640 Rachel, the Bible tells us in Genesis 31 and verse 19, 321 00:16:03,640 --> 00:16:08,640 stole her father's household idols. 322 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,520 As they were leaving Huron, 323 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:14,520 she went into her father's house, 324 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,640 and I don't know if he had a special room somewhere 325 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,160 or he had them in lock and key, 326 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,960 but she went in there and she stole the household idols 327 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:23,480 that belonged to her God. 328 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,520 And so what you might call these, if I could, 329 00:16:26,520 --> 00:16:31,520 if I could label them, these are those hand-me-down issues, 330 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,480 those hand-me-down gods with the little G, 331 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,600 those hand-me-down idols that get passed down 332 00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:39,680 from one generation to the next. 333 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:42,160 You see, there's one way that an idol, 334 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:45,000 whatever that idol is, whether it's physical, 335 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,480 metaphysical, spiritual, or even ideological, 336 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,760 that idols can get passed down. 337 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:54,520 They can creep into our lives when they get passed down 338 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:57,720 from one generation to the next generation. 339 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,400 They get passed down through the lines of the family, 340 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:01,480 through the bloodline, 341 00:17:01,480 --> 00:17:04,280 or through the family's cultures and traditions. 342 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:08,080 They get passed down as they are being repeated 343 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,280 and modeled to the next generation, 344 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:13,440 as they are being taught about, 345 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:15,240 as they are being spoken about, 346 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:18,760 and they are carried about to the next generation. 347 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:20,440 And we can carry these things, 348 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,560 we can carry these idols in our life 349 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,240 simply because we inherited them 350 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,280 from someone that came before us in our family tree, 351 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,360 in our family line, somewhere in our past. 352 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:37,480 And so we have to today, with the help of the Holy Ghost, 353 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:40,520 ask ourselves what kinds of things 354 00:17:40,520 --> 00:17:44,360 have made their way into our thinking, 355 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:47,760 into our minds, into our spirits 356 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:50,000 that we are not even aware of, 357 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:52,320 that we are not even cognizant of, 358 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,920 that have been passed down and just unbeknownst unto us, 359 00:17:55,920 --> 00:17:59,760 that we are operating with an idol in our life 360 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,680 that has been passed down from generation to generation, 361 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:07,760 maybe even four, five, six generations in the past 362 00:18:07,760 --> 00:18:12,560 that are still sort of finding this way into our lives today. 363 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,440 And it's those things, my friend, 364 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:18,000 that can keep you from the blessings 365 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,000 and the promises of revival in your life. 366 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:25,920 And so today, God's got a big old drill in the Holy Ghost, 367 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,520 and we're gonna drill down deep 368 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:30,640 into those places of our life and say, 369 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:34,400 God, if there is anything that has been passed down 370 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:37,520 in my life that has been blocking me 371 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,280 from stepping into greater glory, Lord, 372 00:18:40,280 --> 00:18:43,720 then I need you, Lord, to help me remove it 373 00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:47,720 and evict it and cancel it out of my life. 374 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:53,280 Because at some point, it's got to stop. 375 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,920 That curse, that idol, that attitude, 376 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:01,320 that spirit, at some point, somebody at some point 377 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,560 in the family tree has got to say, it stops with me. 378 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:09,960 It stops here, whatever that is, whatever that is. 379 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:12,080 It could even be alcoholism, 380 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:16,040 it can be any type of problem fix, 381 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:19,840 or even in our minds, okay. 382 00:19:19,840 --> 00:19:22,360 Another place is their time in Shechem. 383 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:25,200 Now, I told you, while they were in the middle of God, 384 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,280 in the middle of their will and God's will, 385 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,280 while they were kind of like halfway in, 386 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,760 but sort of like not quite there all the way, 387 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:35,560 there was a cost for that. 388 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,680 And the Bible says again that Jacob's sons, as I said, 389 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,120 went into the city. 390 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:43,360 Now, they didn't just kill all the men who were there. 391 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:47,320 They also plundered the city and they wiped them out. 392 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,920 They took all of their goods, their flock, 393 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:54,360 and all of their gold and all the spoils, 394 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,800 they took them all, 395 00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,360 including the gods that were there, everything. 396 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:02,360 And so they took all the spoils 397 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:04,520 and they brought these things with them. 398 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:08,840 And these things made their way into Jacob's household. 399 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,920 These things made their way into his family, 400 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,600 into his house. 401 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:15,000 And these are the things, 402 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:18,640 these are the things that we can accumulate. 403 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:20,280 And we accumulate these things 404 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,280 through different times in our life. 405 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,880 But generally speaking, they kind of attract themselves 406 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:28,880 or attach themselves to us during periods 407 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:32,640 where our discernment is not as sharp as it needs to be, 408 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:35,680 or we're not completely in obedience, 409 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,400 or we're not completely in or under submission to God 410 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,160 or to the authority that God has in our life. 411 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,280 And so stuff can get attached to us without us knowing, 412 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,960 in the same way that as you're walking around this world, 413 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,840 I'm talking physically with your shoes, 414 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,440 and you don't, how many of you have stepped on a piece 415 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:55,600 of gum and that you didn't know until you get in your house 416 00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:58,920 or carpet and oh my God, what did I step on? 417 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:02,360 Amen? 418 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:04,560 And then you gotta dig that thing out, right? 419 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,480 Or you stepped on something. 420 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,760 I was gonna use another example, but you know. 421 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:11,000 Woo, my Lord, I remember doing that as a kid 422 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:12,160 out there playing in the grass 423 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:14,920 and you track some other stuff in. 424 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,520 Man, I hear some of you moms out there 425 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,680 just had a heart attack when I said that. 426 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,400 Playing with the dogs, you know what I'm saying? 427 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,680 Hallelujah. 428 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:23,120 You track it in and you don't know 429 00:21:23,120 --> 00:21:24,320 what you've been stepping in. 430 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,000 You don't know, you're just having fun, 431 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,400 living your life and you don't realize the stuff 432 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,040 that's been getting stuck to you. 433 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,840 And sometimes because of all the places we've been going, 434 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,200 all the conversations we, oh my Lord, 435 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:38,840 all the people we've been talking to 436 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:40,040 and all the stuff we've been doing, 437 00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,720 we've been tracking some things. 438 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:45,360 And we cannot take that stuff with us 439 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:47,520 into greater glory, into revival. 440 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,920 And so what we've gotta do is we've got to rid 441 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:51,880 ourselves of these idols, these things 442 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,240 that have attached them to stuff, stuff that owned us, 443 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,040 stuff that's got its imprint on us. 444 00:21:58,040 --> 00:22:01,880 And then thirdly, Jacob had a big household 445 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,640 of servants and people that were with him 446 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,240 whom he had hired from different, 447 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,080 probably varying neighboring nations 448 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:11,840 that were with him that he had hired 449 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:12,720 and they were with him. 450 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,600 And so all these people that were working with him, 451 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,520 that were associated with him, 452 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:18,680 did you guess what they did? 453 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:19,960 They brought all their stuff, 454 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:21,640 they brought their customs with them, 455 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:23,640 they brought their idols with them. 456 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:28,120 And so Jacob says, not just to his family, 457 00:22:28,120 --> 00:22:31,640 the Bible says to all who were with them. 458 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:33,840 He said, this is not just for my wife and my children, 459 00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:36,200 this is for everybody that's associated with me. 460 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:38,680 But the key point here is that issues can creep 461 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,640 into your life unnoticed simply from being associated 462 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:43,800 with certain people. 463 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,800 They start to rub off on you. 464 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:51,400 They're ways. 465 00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:54,440 And all of a sudden you find these idols in your life 466 00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:55,960 that are dominating your thinking. 467 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,920 They're just, where did I get off track? 468 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,360 Could it be the people that you've been associating with? 469 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:03,760 And so God calls us back to Bethel, 470 00:23:03,760 --> 00:23:06,840 but to get back to Bethel, we've got to remove the idol. 471 00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:09,160 So I say this with all sincerity, 472 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,080 with a lot of respect and love. 473 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,120 This is the pastor's message today, 474 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:15,840 but if there are idols that are in your life, 475 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,600 if there is idols of worldliness, 476 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,680 if there's idols of secularism, 477 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,120 if there is idols of the world wisdom, 478 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:24,680 if there are even spiritual idols, 479 00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:26,640 there could be religious idols, 480 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:30,160 people that we are holding up in our life more than God. 481 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:31,160 Hallelujah. 482 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:34,720 If that is the case, hear me in the Holy Ghost, 483 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:37,560 you've got to rid yourself of those things. 484 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,480 You've got to remove those things from your life 485 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:43,160 because we are going on from faith to faith 486 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:44,400 and from glory to glory. 487 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,200 Come on, somebody clap your hands 488 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:48,080 and let's give God a praise here today. 489 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:49,880 Somebody shout, hallelujah. 490 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,600 We've got to sanctify ourselves, 491 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,360 purge ourselves of pride, anger, envy, 492 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,400 ungodliness, self-righteousness, sexual impurity, 493 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,040 gossip, and all the works of the flesh 494 00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:07,480 because God's got a way and his way is straight and narrow. 495 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:08,920 Hallelujah. 496 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,080 We've got to say, my Lord, 497 00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:11,240 there's more I want to say, 498 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,480 but remember where Joshua and the children of Israel 499 00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:15,680 were on the brink of the Jordan, 500 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,720 he tells them before we cross over into the promise, 501 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,400 before we cross over into the land of Canaan, 502 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,880 before we possess the land of milk and honey, 503 00:24:24,880 --> 00:24:27,400 before we do this and God does miracles, 504 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,080 he said, we've got to, he says, sanctify yourselves, 505 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:35,560 sanctify yourselves and tomorrow the Lord will do wonders. 506 00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,400 How many of you want to see the wonders of God among us? 507 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,760 Hallelujah. 508 00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,920 I said, how many of you want to see the wonders of God? 509 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,200 I want revival. 510 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:47,080 I want to see the glory of God. 511 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,920 I want to see the dead risen. 512 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:50,840 I want to see blind eyes open. 513 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,720 I want to see salvation and miracles. 514 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,680 I want to see that baptism tank get filled up again 515 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,200 and if we're going to see those things, 516 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,000 then the church has got to sanctify itself again 517 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,120 and get these idols out of our life 518 00:25:04,120 --> 00:25:09,120 and sweep our spiritual houses. 519 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,080 It's got to happen in the name of Jesus 520 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:16,280 and it's not just the removing of idols, 521 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:21,280 but number two, number two, he said, change your garments. 522 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:26,080 Someone say change your garments. 523 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,120 Jacob said, put away the foreign gods that are among you. 524 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:35,840 Purify yourself and change your garments. 525 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,840 Now we see a practical and spiritual application to this. 526 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:45,520 In a practical sense, we see a scriptural principle 527 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:49,640 that God indeed, regardless of what the charlatans 528 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,520 would say today, that God indeed cares 529 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,480 about what we put on our bodies. 530 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,400 I thought I was going to get more amen's when I said that. 531 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,240 I said God cares about what we put on our bodies. 532 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,080 Thank you. 533 00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,640 He cares about what we wear. 534 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:08,560 He cares about how we are. 535 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:09,400 He said, well, why? 536 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:14,080 Because he created us and our bodies, 537 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,760 once they have been surrendered to God, 538 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:17,880 we are no longer, our life is not our own. 539 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,600 Now we are temples of the Holy Ghost. 540 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:26,440 So we see a scriptural principle here that God cares about. 541 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,080 Now I know the PC police are not gonna like me to say this. 542 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,120 You know what that means, the politically correct. 543 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:33,960 You're not supposed to say that. 544 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,960 The problem is that no one is saying it. 545 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,600 But we need to get back to a place 546 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,840 where God has called the church to be distinct. 547 00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:42,960 Church, where's our distinction? 548 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:47,760 Where's our distinction? 549 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,160 Where's our distinction? 550 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,320 And where are we at today? 551 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:56,040 Come on, church, I'm asking someone to look in the mirror 552 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:58,360 of the spirit today and ask yourself, 553 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:00,800 where have I allowed myself to go 554 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:04,040 with the standards of my life and the standard? 555 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,960 You know, we still serve a holy God, somebody. 556 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,080 I say, we still serve a holy God. 557 00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,240 Come on, church, we still serve a holy God. 558 00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,000 And we've got to get back. 559 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,720 Back to the, not to Pastor Jacob, 560 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,400 not to the apostolic assembly, that's all right. 561 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:25,400 But back to the Bible and what the word of God says. 562 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,000 Did not the word say, come out from among them 563 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:29,880 and be shepherds? 564 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,160 Did not the word say that we are a holy nation, 565 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,800 a peculiar people, called out of darkness 566 00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:39,560 into his marvelous life, that we are a chosen generation? 567 00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:41,080 This is what God is saying. 568 00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:44,120 And in a time of disappearing morality 569 00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:46,680 and disappearing a monasty, 570 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,240 God is calling the church to be the church 571 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:54,240 and say, change back to what I called you to be. 572 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,440 Oh, Pastor, what did you eat this morning? 573 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,040 You're on something, isn't it? 574 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,040 I tell you what, because I care about your soul 575 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:13,640 and because I wanna see God move 576 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:15,560 and I believe that God's not gonna move 577 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,360 just because we scheduled the revival in February. 578 00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,320 You hear what I'm saying? 579 00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:23,840 He doesn't move just because we scheduled the revival, 580 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:24,680 we call the preacher. 581 00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:25,880 What's the preacher supposed to come? 582 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,320 To clean up the whole church? 583 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,440 What's he supposed to do? 584 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:31,480 Take care of your consecration 585 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,880 because we won't get rid of the idols in our life? 586 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,760 No, we gotta get rid of these things now. 587 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:39,640 We gotta deal with it now, why? 588 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,800 So that when the preacher come, 589 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,200 blessed be the name of the Lord, 590 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,160 God begins to move among us in our midst. 591 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,320 We see the wonders of God 592 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,880 and it's not us here on the altar getting right with God. 593 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,080 Come on now. 594 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:53,880 This is what it's all about. 595 00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,680 And if this is too much for you to handle, 596 00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:57,080 my Lord, hallelujah. 597 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,400 Wait, because there's more coming in Jesus' name. 598 00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:03,920 I gotta be your pastor. 599 00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:05,240 My job is not to be your best friend. 600 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:06,480 I gotta be your pastor. 601 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:07,960 I'll be your best friend when we get to heaven. 602 00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:09,160 You're gonna thank me when we get there. 603 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:10,760 Thank you for preaching the truth. 604 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,160 Praise be to God. 605 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:15,280 That's what it's all about. 606 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:16,960 And I'm not afraid to say this, 607 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,400 but in an age, there's a practical principle here 608 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,920 that God cares about what his people look like. 609 00:29:22,920 --> 00:29:27,800 He gave us clear word for men to dress and look like men 610 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,080 and for women to dress and look like women. 611 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:33,480 Men, oh, hallelujah. 612 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:36,040 We gotta start looking like men, praise be to God. 613 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:43,040 Men, it's time to stop shopping at Baby Gap for your clothes. 614 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:45,160 God help us. 615 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:46,240 You know, now we got a problem. 616 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,560 It was all like tight, now it's all loose. 617 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,240 My Lord. 618 00:29:54,560 --> 00:29:58,360 We gotta get back to being that difference, 619 00:29:58,360 --> 00:29:59,880 that distinction. 620 00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:01,920 Yes, they're apostolic, they're different. 621 00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,120 Look at those people. 622 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:03,960 They must walk with God. 623 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,360 And not with the sanctimoniousness like, 624 00:30:06,360 --> 00:30:07,840 whoa, look at me, I must be something. 625 00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,880 No, it is with humility. 626 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:11,840 It's with humility, hallelujah. 627 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:14,200 And this is also a prophetic thing 628 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:16,720 because the garments that people wear 629 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,240 are also symbolic of the ideology, 630 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,240 symbolic of spiritual things. 631 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:23,960 And so when you see the changing of the garments, 632 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,080 this also represents a changing of the mentality. 633 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,280 There's a mentality, there's a paradigm shift 634 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,880 that is happening with Jacob and his family. 635 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,800 He's saying, hey, we can't dress like that anymore. 636 00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,840 It's got more to do than just, you know, 637 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,280 what clothes we got on so much. 638 00:30:40,280 --> 00:30:43,800 It's got to do with what spirit we've got on 639 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:46,240 and what attitude we've got on. 640 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,440 Oh, hallelujah somebody. 641 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,400 This act portrayed something that is prophetic and divine. 642 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,680 Anytime you see someone in scripture being elevated 643 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,880 to another level of glory, another level of revival, 644 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,280 there's always a change of their garment. 645 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,160 Look at Joseph when his father wanted to set him apart 646 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,160 from the rest of the brother to say, 647 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,960 you're a young man of dreams and promise 648 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:11,680 and greatness and destiny. 649 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,320 He put on a coat of many colors on him. 650 00:31:14,320 --> 00:31:16,920 He said, you're gonna look different than everybody else. 651 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,120 Come on, am I talking to somebody here today? 652 00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:22,960 I thank God that I've got a coat of many colors on my life. 653 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,800 I thank God that I'm not like everybody else. 654 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,760 I thank God that I'm different. 655 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,640 Come on somebody give the Lord some praise today. 656 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,320 Give the Lord some praise today. 657 00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:38,320 In Ephesians 422, the Bible says put off your old self 658 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,440 and put on the new self. 659 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:45,440 Created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. 660 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,880 He said put off the old and put on the new. 661 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:50,840 You know what we got to do? 662 00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:52,400 Someone say what? 663 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,080 We got to be dressed for the season 664 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:56,160 that God is calling us to. 665 00:31:56,160 --> 00:31:57,200 Oh, hallelujah. 666 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,360 I made the mistake one more one time 667 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:02,400 where I didn't look at the weather app for the location 668 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:03,560 that I was going to. 669 00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,940 And I packed a bunch of stuff, not realizing, 670 00:32:05,940 --> 00:32:07,740 thinking that the weather was gonna be hot, 671 00:32:07,740 --> 00:32:09,900 and it turned out to be freezing cold. 672 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:12,080 And I had to buy a bunch of it because I wasn't ready. 673 00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:15,180 And when I stepped out of the airport, I looked silly. 674 00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:16,540 I looked so out of place. 675 00:32:16,540 --> 00:32:18,620 And that's how some of you look today, 676 00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:20,920 because you're not dressed for the season 677 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:22,880 that God has set you in. 678 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,060 But the Lord sent me here today to say, 679 00:32:25,060 --> 00:32:27,820 it's time to put on the whole armor of God. 680 00:32:27,820 --> 00:32:30,460 It's time to put on the mind of Christ. 681 00:32:30,460 --> 00:32:33,360 It's time to get dressed for the season. 682 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,560 Some people say, I want more of God. 683 00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:36,660 I want miracles. 684 00:32:36,660 --> 00:32:37,660 I want revival. 685 00:32:37,660 --> 00:32:38,760 I want blessing. 686 00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:42,400 But are you dressed for where God has taken you? 687 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,840 Are you still with your stinking thinking? 688 00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:47,140 Are you still with your backwards logic? 689 00:32:47,140 --> 00:32:51,140 Or are you ready for God to do a new thing in your life? 690 00:32:51,140 --> 00:32:53,580 Somebody give God some glory today. 691 00:32:53,580 --> 00:33:00,580 We got to do a Holy Ghost fit check. 692 00:33:04,420 --> 00:33:06,220 Sometimes I'll ask my daughter before I go on my own. 693 00:33:06,220 --> 00:33:06,820 I'm going to embarrass her now. 694 00:33:06,820 --> 00:33:07,460 It's OK. 695 00:33:07,460 --> 00:33:09,420 But sometimes I'll ask her, I say, how do I do that? 696 00:33:09,420 --> 00:33:09,920 Look OK. 697 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,240 She's going, oh, man, I got to go back. 698 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:14,940 So my daughter's like my fit check now. 699 00:33:14,940 --> 00:33:16,140 You know, she makes sure. 700 00:33:16,140 --> 00:33:17,560 Oh, the sneakers, you got to clean them up. 701 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:18,440 They're kind of dirty. 702 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,380 I was like, oh, man. 703 00:33:20,380 --> 00:33:22,480 You know, we got to do that with the Holy Ghost. 704 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:24,240 We got to have a Holy Ghost fit check. 705 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,440 Got to make sure, Lord, is my mind right today? 706 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:27,380 Whoo, hallelujah. 707 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:29,240 Is my spirit right today? 708 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,620 Oh, Lord, get in the Word and let the Word become the, 709 00:33:32,620 --> 00:33:34,980 how many of you know that the Word of God is alive? 710 00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:38,280 The Word of God is alive and powerful 711 00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:40,560 and is sharper than any two-edged sword. 712 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,720 The vision of evil soul and spirit, 713 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:45,460 it gets down in the discern of the thoughts and the heart. 714 00:33:45,460 --> 00:33:46,300 That's what it does. 715 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:48,700 God, I need you to do a fit check in my life 716 00:33:48,700 --> 00:33:51,640 to make sure that I'm walking right, that I'm talking right. 717 00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,180 And then we come to the third and the final thing 718 00:33:54,180 --> 00:33:56,880 I'm gonna touch on today, which is when you remove 719 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:58,640 your idols and you change your garment, 720 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:01,320 you need to tune your ears to God. 721 00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:08,220 The next step for Jacob's house in Genesis 35 verse four 722 00:34:08,220 --> 00:34:12,160 says, so they gave Jacob all the foreign gods, 723 00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,700 which were in their hands and the earrings, 724 00:34:14,700 --> 00:34:15,840 which were on their ears. 725 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,000 And so just like the garments, 726 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,980 we see another practical and prophetic thing. 727 00:34:20,980 --> 00:34:23,560 God said, I care about what you have on your body. 728 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:28,000 I care about how you entertain these things in your life. 729 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,400 And I need you to remove these things he tells me. 730 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,320 I want you to remove these things from your life. 731 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:34,900 I want you to, because where I'm sending you is greater. 732 00:34:34,900 --> 00:34:36,060 Piano player, come up in a moment. 733 00:34:36,060 --> 00:34:37,400 I'll be just a few more moments, 734 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:39,280 but where I'm sending you is greater. 735 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,960 So remove these things, remove these things, remove. 736 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,440 He said, take those earrings out of your ears 737 00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:47,680 and take that jewelry off of your life 738 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:52,680 and just come and step into this place that I have for you. 739 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:54,640 This aligns with the New Testament. 740 00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:58,680 The New Testament shows us, it teaches us these principles 741 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,800 that once again, our bodies are the temples 742 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,200 of the Holy Ghost. 743 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,400 And God calls us to remove these things from our life. 744 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,400 And that is why we as apostolic people, 745 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,160 we teach and we preach that we don't adorn ourselves 746 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:14,800 with these things because the true thing 747 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:19,120 that God is looking for is a good works and godliness. 748 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:22,680 He's looking at our hearts, he's looking at our spirits. 749 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,960 And so we are to remove these things from our lives. 750 00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:29,920 Oh, but there's also a prophetic picture here 751 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,360 when he says remove the ear, 752 00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:35,120 he's not just talking about physical earrings. 753 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,560 While that is important, but he is talking about the ears. 754 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:42,040 These earrings were on their ears. 755 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,480 And he said, I need you because these earrings, 756 00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,720 they were symbolic of what you hear. 757 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:52,040 And there is a powerful message there prophetically 758 00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:57,000 that what you hear, what you hear often determines 759 00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,040 what you follow. 760 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,240 Oh, and this was important because Jacob had spent 761 00:36:03,240 --> 00:36:07,080 all of those years listening to everything else. 762 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:11,360 He spent all of those years listening to other voices 763 00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,280 and listening to other people 764 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,440 and listening to the world's wisdom 765 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,320 and listening to the culture 766 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,880 and listening to maybe his own family members 767 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:21,720 that were out of step with God 768 00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:24,000 and listening to his own cardinality. 769 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,480 And the Lord was sending a message to him 770 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,600 like he's sending a message to us 771 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,280 that we've got to get our ears right. 772 00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,560 We've got to get our hearing right 773 00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:36,760 to make sure that in these last days, 774 00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,280 there is nothing that is filtering, competing 775 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:44,240 or distorting the voice of God in our life 776 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:47,960 so that we can hear the Lord when he speaks to us. 777 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:52,960 Oh, Jesus said, my sheep know my voice and they follow me. 778 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,240 How many of you wanna follow Jesus today? 779 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:02,240 Oh, I said, how many of you wanna follow Jesus today? 780 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:06,840 I need God to sanctify my hearing. 781 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,840 I need God to sanctify my hearing. 782 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:14,480 My ears, my hearing. 783 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,520 I need God to consecrate and sanctify. 784 00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:18,360 Why? 785 00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,480 Because he who has an ear, let him hear. 786 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:24,120 What the, you know, there are things 787 00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:25,960 that the spirit will shudder. 788 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:27,680 I feel the Holy Ghost right now. 789 00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:28,520 Can I just move? 790 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,400 Can I minister a little bit more right now? 791 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,040 There are things, how many of you know 792 00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:35,680 there are things that the spirit is saying to the church? 793 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:37,320 Oh, hallelujah. 794 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,320 There are things that the spirit that God says 795 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,360 through his written word, which is infallible, 796 00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,240 which will never change. 797 00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:46,080 This word stands forever. 798 00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:46,920 Hallelujah. 799 00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,000 The written word of God, it is God inspired. 800 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:51,480 It is God ordained. 801 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,880 But then there is also the voice of God 802 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,120 that speaks in seasons and times. 803 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:00,120 The Rhema word, the voice of the Lord 804 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:03,400 to his church, prophetically spoken. 805 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,360 And I'm here to tell you that God is speaking 806 00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,440 to his church in this hour. 807 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,880 Hora bayah, shamdalah, makamda. 808 00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:17,400 God is speaking and the only, oh hallelujah. 809 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,920 It's not that God's not speaking. 810 00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,720 The question is, are you listening? 811 00:38:22,720 --> 00:38:27,720 Oh God, are you listening to what God is saying? 812 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,880 I feel God right now. 813 00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:32,440 I wonder if as I begin to preach a little more, 814 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,640 maybe you would just entertain his presence 815 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:36,520 and you would begin to pray. 816 00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:40,240 Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. 817 00:38:40,240 --> 00:38:42,000 Come on, somebody begin to pray. 818 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,000 I feel something happening in this place. 819 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,000 Hora bayah, shamdalah, makamda. 820 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,000 Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah. 821 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,880 If I'm gonna go into revival, 822 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:54,840 if I'm gonna go into blessing, 823 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:58,040 if I'm gonna go into salvation and breakthrough 824 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,160 and restoration in my family, 825 00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:04,280 in my marriage, with my children and my grandchildren, 826 00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,800 in my home, in my workplace, with my neighbors and all that, 827 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,960 I gotta make sure that I can hear the voice of God clearly. 828 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:17,120 In my life, I gotta make sure that my ears are open 829 00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:21,560 and there's nothing clogging his voice from entering in. 830 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,080 And is there somebody here today that says, 831 00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,400 God, help me Lord, sanctify my hearing 832 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,560 so that I can hear what the Spirit is saying to the church. 833 00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,840 I can hear what the Spirit is saying to me and my family. 834 00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,480 God has been trying to convict some of you 835 00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,880 about things in your family and in your life 836 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,000 and in your marriage that you've allowed. 837 00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:44,400 It's corrupting your marriage. 838 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:47,320 It's corrupting your things that you don't even realize. 839 00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,920 It's all happening right beneath the floors of your home. 840 00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,360 It's right there, right under your nose. 841 00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:57,440 And so God has said, but I've been trying to tell you, 842 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,960 I've been trying to warn you, I've been trying to awaken you, 843 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:05,720 I've been trying to help you, but you're not listening. 844 00:40:05,720 --> 00:40:08,000 You keep thinking this, I say this, 845 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,080 and then you try to reinterpret it to be that. 846 00:40:10,080 --> 00:40:14,560 No, if God said it like that, then it's black and white. 847 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,920 Don't try to change it to fit your fancy. 848 00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,240 Don't try to change it to fit your current circumstance. 849 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:25,800 No, the word of the Lord is going forth in this hour. 850 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,960 And I believe right now that God is preparing this church 851 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,640 all about, we're gonna turn this place 852 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,800 into prayer room right now, to a prayer. 853 00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:34,800 We're gonna turn this place into an altar. 854 00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:36,720 And I'm gonna open up this altar. 855 00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:39,640 And I would like for you to come to this altar. 856 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,040 I would like for you to just let God deal 857 00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,160 with your life today and say, God, here it is. 858 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,040 I lay it down at your feet, God. 859 00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:51,920 I lay it down, God, I lay it down. 860 00:40:51,920 --> 00:40:55,080 Oh God, I'm ready, God, I'm ready, I'm ready. 861 00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:56,240 I'm ready. 862 00:40:56,240 --> 00:41:00,240 The Bible says that Jacob, he hid all of these gods 863 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:03,200 and earrings and everything under the tree, 864 00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:05,840 the terrible tree which is in Shechem. 865 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:09,120 And that, my friend, is a picture of the cross. 866 00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:13,280 He buried all of these issues, all of these gods, 867 00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:16,520 all of these things under that tree. 868 00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,720 And the Bible says, cursed is any man 869 00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:22,640 who hangs on a tree referring to the cross. 870 00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:25,040 You know when you can take all those things today, 871 00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,000 you can take them to the cross 872 00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,400 and you can bury them there, my friend. 873 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:56,400 You can bury them there.