WEBVTT 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:18.219 Praise God. You know, I just want to take this 00:00:18.219 --> 00:00:21.660 opportunity once again to thank the pastors and 00:00:21.660 --> 00:00:25.519 the Board of Elders to invite us here. It's just 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.260 like Pastor Dale said, it's really such a pleasure 00:00:28.260 --> 00:00:32.159 to talk to people that are well ministered to. 00:00:32.399 --> 00:00:36.600 You know, you go to some churches and even when 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:40.179 you speak shallow, you can still feel like you're 00:00:40.179 --> 00:00:42.500 shooting over their heads, you know, and they... 00:00:42.909 --> 00:00:45.310 They don't catch it. But over here, it's such 00:00:45.310 --> 00:00:48.409 a pleasure to speak and to feel like it's going 00:00:48.409 --> 00:00:51.369 into the hearts of the people. I'd really like 00:00:51.369 --> 00:00:53.729 to, I really enjoy it. If you were here, how 00:00:53.729 --> 00:00:55.630 many of you were here in the first service this 00:00:55.630 --> 00:00:59.789 morning? Quite a few. And you will agree with 00:00:59.789 --> 00:01:03.850 me, wasn't that a great word? Yeah, go ahead. 00:01:06.890 --> 00:01:11.790 Now, I'd like to continue with that. I just felt 00:01:11.790 --> 00:01:14.689 like it was such a great word that I just want 00:01:14.689 --> 00:01:18.290 to add my little piece to it. And if you'll just 00:01:18.290 --> 00:01:23.310 put that scripture back up where Jesus, in verse 00:01:23.310 --> 00:01:29.829 19, John 20 and verse 19, the Bible says, Then 00:01:29.829 --> 00:01:34.370 the same day at the evening, being the first 00:01:34.370 --> 00:01:37.819 day of the week when the doors were shut, Now 00:01:37.819 --> 00:01:39.920 that tells you right away something was going 00:01:39.920 --> 00:01:44.079 on there. I'm talking about politically. You 00:01:44.079 --> 00:01:46.700 know, they just crucified Christ three days ago. 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:53.840 And there must have been turmoil going on. You 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:58.040 know, you remember how afraid Peter was to admit 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:03.280 that he was part of Christ. And here you see 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:06.980 these men. not knowing what's really going to 00:02:06.980 --> 00:02:11.240 happen, gathered together. The doors are shut 00:02:11.240 --> 00:02:13.960 where the disciples were assembled for fear of 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:19.280 the Jews. And then in that situation of great 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:25.639 fear came Jesus. And he stood in the midst and 00:02:25.639 --> 00:02:28.900 said unto them the thing they needed most at 00:02:28.900 --> 00:02:34.129 that moment, peace. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, 00:02:34.250 --> 00:02:36.990 we thank you so much for your word. What a great 00:02:36.990 --> 00:02:41.110 honor to be students of your word. And I want 00:02:41.110 --> 00:02:44.030 to pray today that you would grant that in this 00:02:44.030 --> 00:02:47.110 service today, Lord, that you would grant that 00:02:47.110 --> 00:02:52.270 we also may receive a spirit in the chamber of 00:02:52.270 --> 00:02:58.650 fear where we may keep it in hiding. But that 00:02:58.650 --> 00:03:02.560 you would Come and pay us a visit in that area 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:08.139 because we belong to you. We ask it in the name 00:03:08.139 --> 00:03:12.020 of Jesus, and we thank you, Lord. You know, if 00:03:12.020 --> 00:03:15.060 we look at what's going on in the world today, 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:20.080 it's no wonder that I said at the first service 00:03:20.080 --> 00:03:22.879 that I was here, if you look at the church, I'm 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:26.780 talking about the body of Christ. If you look 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:30.159 at it in comparison to where it was not too very 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:34.939 long ago, remember when the revival at Pensacola 00:03:34.939 --> 00:03:38.199 was going on? My, my, my, wasn't that a highlight 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:46.360 in the life of the believers of our time? Revival 00:03:46.360 --> 00:03:50.979 fires swept through the land. And now after this 00:03:50.979 --> 00:03:56.699 COVID thing, it just seemed like it was, as if 00:03:56.699 --> 00:04:02.240 a bomb exploded inside the church. And when you 00:04:02.240 --> 00:04:04.960 look at it from an upper level, it just seems 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:09.699 like everything is just laying in pieces. Churches 00:04:09.699 --> 00:04:14.080 have just lost so many people. Pastor Dale shared 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:18.160 with me last night that most pastors that he's 00:04:18.160 --> 00:04:24.129 been talking with was telling him that Even after 00:04:24.129 --> 00:04:29.730 the people came back, as little as 40 % of their 00:04:29.730 --> 00:04:33.689 people came back, some instances 60%. It was 00:04:33.689 --> 00:04:37.769 just a great loss. And then as I go around, you 00:04:37.769 --> 00:04:40.970 know, from the time when they opened up the services 00:04:40.970 --> 00:04:43.550 again for me to go around ministering a little 00:04:43.550 --> 00:04:49.129 bit, in most places, it's not like here. You 00:04:49.129 --> 00:04:51.129 guys are really blessed. You guys are really 00:04:51.129 --> 00:04:55.470 fortunate. Your worship level here, if you'll 00:04:55.470 --> 00:04:58.209 agree with me, Pastor Dale, your worship level 00:04:58.209 --> 00:05:02.170 here is at a standard and at a level much higher 00:05:02.170 --> 00:05:05.689 than most other places that I know about. God 00:05:05.689 --> 00:05:10.089 has obviously got his hand on you here. And I 00:05:10.089 --> 00:05:11.889 think you ought to give the Lord a hand clap 00:05:11.889 --> 00:05:21.319 of praise for that. Now, you know, when we come 00:05:21.319 --> 00:05:24.259 together like this, you know, and we come and 00:05:24.259 --> 00:05:28.000 sit under the Word, it's really, like I said, 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:31.300 it's really a place we come in here to be fixed 00:05:31.300 --> 00:05:37.439 up. We get damaged. Things happen out there and 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:41.639 we get damaged. You find you end up thinking 00:05:41.639 --> 00:05:47.079 wrong, talking wrong, mixing with wrong people, 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:54.319 Horrible decisions. Because you have to understand. 00:05:54.420 --> 00:05:59.480 You are not ordinary. Let me say that again. 00:06:01.079 --> 00:06:11.220 Yes. Amen. I mean if you're not going to say 00:06:11.220 --> 00:06:13.500 amen in your language. Then I'll speak in my 00:06:13.500 --> 00:06:18.540 language. You know. We are not ordinary people. 00:06:18.699 --> 00:06:22.870 We are. Listen, I want this to hit home. We are 00:06:22.870 --> 00:06:30.149 children of another kingdom. We are children 00:06:30.149 --> 00:06:36.129 of the most high God. We have been endued with 00:06:36.129 --> 00:06:40.430 power such as this world does not know about. 00:06:41.810 --> 00:06:45.129 It's incredible. I mean, the power that he's 00:06:45.129 --> 00:06:48.470 giving the church, and if you can just believe 00:06:48.470 --> 00:06:53.790 at that level, there's nothing, and that is with 00:06:53.790 --> 00:06:59.069 emphasis, nothing that is impossible for God. 00:07:01.209 --> 00:07:05.670 Now, whenever the word is being ministered, it's 00:07:05.670 --> 00:07:10.829 always ministered to prepare you for what lies 00:07:10.829 --> 00:07:16.839 ahead. And, you know, at times also when we come 00:07:16.839 --> 00:07:20.019 together here, we come together and he's not 00:07:20.019 --> 00:07:22.560 only talking about what lies ahead, but he's 00:07:22.560 --> 00:07:25.639 also got to fix up what happened yesterday, what 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.720 happened on the way here to church. You find 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:31.519 yourself at a place where you're not supposed 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:38.079 to be. And so many times you watch people, and 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:40.779 I see that I've been ministering long enough 00:07:40.779 --> 00:07:45.730 to know that The vast majority of people see 00:07:45.730 --> 00:07:51.329 themselves as inferior, much, much more inferior 00:07:51.329 --> 00:07:57.269 to the disciples of old. Inferior even to the 00:07:57.269 --> 00:08:00.509 preachers that are speaking and teaching them. 00:08:00.550 --> 00:08:04.290 They feel inferior. They sit there and they know 00:08:04.290 --> 00:08:07.470 secretly that there's stuff going on in their 00:08:07.470 --> 00:08:11.920 lives. There's things right now that as I speak 00:08:11.920 --> 00:08:15.339 about it that just absolutely hits you like a 00:08:15.339 --> 00:08:21.860 sharp edge in a rough spot in your spirit. You're 00:08:21.860 --> 00:08:25.100 sitting there and you know that you can do better 00:08:25.100 --> 00:08:28.699 with your prayer life. You should do better with 00:08:28.699 --> 00:08:31.600 your prayer life. You sit there and you know 00:08:31.600 --> 00:08:34.960 that your Bible reading is not what it's supposed 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:38.759 to be. You have gotten to a place where you become 00:08:38.759 --> 00:08:43.200 so much like the rest. You have to know that 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:47.539 the church of our time, we used to stand out 00:08:47.539 --> 00:08:49.820 above all the others. And I'm not talking about 00:08:49.820 --> 00:08:53.279 dress code. I'm talking about lifestyle, you 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:56.480 know, recognizing what is wrong and not doing 00:08:56.480 --> 00:08:59.799 it. When you know a thing is wrong, then you 00:08:59.799 --> 00:09:03.580 see it's wrong and then you avoid it. You try 00:09:03.580 --> 00:09:08.909 and live a holy life. But the church, these last 00:09:08.909 --> 00:09:12.169 few years, it just seems like there's no difference 00:09:12.169 --> 00:09:16.370 between them and the world out there. It's no 00:09:16.370 --> 00:09:19.929 strange thing to see people come to church and 00:09:19.929 --> 00:09:22.649 halfway through the sermon, see people walk outside 00:09:22.649 --> 00:09:26.470 to go and have a smoke. Get a smoke break. It's 00:09:26.470 --> 00:09:29.070 something that, you know, as I grew up, you never 00:09:29.070 --> 00:09:34.059 would see stuff like that. You know that you 00:09:34.059 --> 00:09:37.799 saw people that would memorize scripture. You 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:41.059 would come to a church and see somebody at this 00:09:41.059 --> 00:09:42.940 level and then come back next year and they're 00:09:42.940 --> 00:09:45.139 higher. And when you come again, I mean they're 00:09:45.139 --> 00:09:51.259 flying top colors. Growing in the spirit. Now 00:09:51.259 --> 00:09:54.799 there's a stagnancy that has come upon the people. 00:09:54.980 --> 00:09:58.320 And it's no wonder that at a time like... COVID 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.840 that is around us, that's a good way to compare 00:10:01.840 --> 00:10:05.700 this with that in the time of COVID, it just 00:10:05.700 --> 00:10:08.740 seems like we've locked ourselves up in a room 00:10:08.740 --> 00:10:13.970 for fear. Fear for something that is... So far 00:10:13.970 --> 00:10:19.389 beneath the power of God. I mean, it is so inferior 00:10:19.389 --> 00:10:23.610 to the touch of God. COVID, no matter how they 00:10:23.610 --> 00:10:27.210 can explain how dangerous it is, my God is far 00:10:27.210 --> 00:10:30.929 bigger than any COVID or any disease or anything 00:10:30.929 --> 00:10:33.990 that the enemy can bring to us. Glory to God. 00:10:38.509 --> 00:10:41.769 But in spite of the fact that we know that, we 00:10:41.769 --> 00:10:47.070 still lock ourselves up in a room of fear. And 00:10:47.070 --> 00:10:50.350 you know that fear and faith cannot live together. 00:10:51.950 --> 00:10:54.929 You are a faith child. Look at somebody right 00:10:54.929 --> 00:11:00.649 next to you and say, I'm a faith child. Come 00:11:00.649 --> 00:11:02.750 on, say it again, but this time say it with, 00:11:02.889 --> 00:11:05.830 no, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, I, you know, 00:11:05.870 --> 00:11:09.940 please don't be offended. I'd like for you to 00:11:09.940 --> 00:11:12.460 say it without smiling or laughing about it. 00:11:12.500 --> 00:11:16.899 This is tough stuff we're talking about. Look 00:11:16.899 --> 00:11:19.080 at the person next to you say, I'm a faith child. 00:11:25.899 --> 00:11:30.600 You know, the second thing I want to bring to 00:11:30.600 --> 00:11:32.899 you here based upon what Pastor was preaching 00:11:32.899 --> 00:11:37.190 about, Pastor Dale. is the fact that I think 00:11:37.190 --> 00:11:41.549 all of us grow up from time to time wishing that 00:11:41.549 --> 00:11:45.070 you were like this one. Or I wish, you know, 00:11:45.110 --> 00:11:50.190 my hero, my hero is David. My hero is Hannah. 00:11:50.490 --> 00:11:54.710 My hero is Sarah. You know, we all have heroes. 00:11:54.850 --> 00:11:57.309 How many of you have biblical heroes that you 00:11:57.309 --> 00:11:59.789 really, you like them all, but you have heroes? 00:11:59.889 --> 00:12:02.750 Come on, put your hands up real high. And I bet 00:12:02.750 --> 00:12:05.509 you for anything you want to, when you look at 00:12:05.509 --> 00:12:09.509 any of those heroes, not... even one of them 00:12:09.509 --> 00:12:12.149 was supernatural in the sense that they were 00:12:12.149 --> 00:12:15.950 not human. They sat exactly where you sit. They 00:12:15.950 --> 00:12:19.230 dealt with exactly the same situations that you 00:12:19.230 --> 00:12:23.029 do. They had family problems just like you have 00:12:23.029 --> 00:12:27.509 here today, but they found the ability to rise 00:12:27.509 --> 00:12:31.049 up above it to the level to where the Holy Spirit 00:12:31.049 --> 00:12:34.649 used them as an example to write to you and I 00:12:34.649 --> 00:12:36.970 so that we could learn from them. Come on, give 00:12:36.970 --> 00:12:44.840 God a praise offering. Glory to God. And you 00:12:44.840 --> 00:12:48.279 know, when we preach, when we speak about the 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:50.899 things of God, it's very obvious, it's clear 00:12:50.899 --> 00:12:56.480 that just only a small percentage of people really 00:12:56.480 --> 00:13:02.620 get it in the sense that it's spiritual truths 00:13:02.620 --> 00:13:06.100 we talk about. We're not bringing to you any 00:13:06.100 --> 00:13:13.700 carnal, We're bringing to you the spiritual Word 00:13:13.700 --> 00:13:17.080 of God, not the Bible, not the pages that we 00:13:17.080 --> 00:13:19.600 can flip through. We're bringing the words of 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.559 God, and that is a spiritual thing. You have 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.059 to understand it spiritually. You have to swallow 00:13:25.059 --> 00:13:27.919 it spiritually. And when you do, it tastes like 00:13:27.919 --> 00:13:35.179 honey. And when you look at these disciples that 00:13:35.179 --> 00:13:39.419 have now locked themselves in here in a room 00:13:39.419 --> 00:13:43.320 with fear, you almost cannot believe that these 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:46.120 men that walked for three and a half years with 00:13:46.120 --> 00:13:52.879 Christ, that they were now so far removed from 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:55.919 the time when they even tried to walk in the 00:13:55.919 --> 00:14:01.019 water with him. And here they are now, you know, 00:14:01.059 --> 00:14:04.500 just... not even the shadow of their former selves, 00:14:04.679 --> 00:14:11.220 because they saw blood. They saw Jesus die on 00:14:11.220 --> 00:14:19.220 the cross in the most horrific way. They saw 00:14:19.220 --> 00:14:22.279 him cry out, my God, they heard him, my God, 00:14:22.419 --> 00:14:31.080 my God, why has thou forsaken me? And they knew 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:34.220 that they were, Under the Roman Empire. That 00:14:34.220 --> 00:14:37.279 was going to come after. Not only the Jews. But 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.639 especially those. That was following somebody. 00:14:40.919 --> 00:14:43.519 That was pronouncing himself. Declaring himself 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:48.100 to be king. Of the Jews. Now they're locked up 00:14:48.100 --> 00:14:55.299 there. In a room. Filled with fear. You know. 00:14:57.059 --> 00:15:00.759 I remember when God asked me one time. Who is 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:07.460 your. Who is your hero in the Bible? And I have 00:15:07.460 --> 00:15:10.899 several. I know many of you have several heroes 00:15:10.899 --> 00:15:14.940 in the Bible. I immediately, when he said that, 00:15:14.980 --> 00:15:19.840 because, you know, I love to walk in faith. Mine, 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:25.899 immediately I said is Abraham. Abraham. Let me 00:15:25.899 --> 00:15:30.360 tell you about Abraham, God said. You know that 00:15:30.360 --> 00:15:34.580 Abraham, I walked with him. I mean, I physically, 00:15:34.740 --> 00:15:40.360 personally sat down, had a meal with him. You've 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:46.639 never had that privilege. And even after that, 00:15:46.700 --> 00:15:49.860 even after knowing me in such an intimate way, 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:54.419 such a personal way, that when the opportunity 00:15:54.419 --> 00:15:57.639 came for him to stand out and make his stand, 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:01.019 He was willing to give his wife away to another 00:16:01.019 --> 00:16:08.080 king because of fear. Then the Lord said, next, 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:11.899 give me the next hero. And I said, David. And 00:16:11.899 --> 00:16:14.179 then immediately I swallowed my words and I said, 00:16:14.179 --> 00:16:22.399 no, no, never mind. I take that one back. On 00:16:22.399 --> 00:16:25.139 and on and on. Now you must know these disciples 00:16:25.139 --> 00:16:28.480 that are now And I'm not going to speak longer 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:33.480 than what it takes this morning. You missed that. 00:16:38.860 --> 00:16:44.799 These were people that would ultimately turn 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:53.600 this world upside down. These fearful beings, 00:16:53.720 --> 00:16:58.690 these fearful disciples. would eventually get 00:16:58.690 --> 00:17:02.769 to a place where they did not fear death whatsoever. 00:17:04.569 --> 00:17:09.069 Almost all of them, I think all of them, died 00:17:09.069 --> 00:17:13.750 a martyr's death. But nothing could stop them. 00:17:13.809 --> 00:17:18.950 Paul clearly said, since God is for me, who can 00:17:18.950 --> 00:17:23.650 be against me? But you have to first get there. 00:17:25.289 --> 00:17:28.430 You have to get to a place where you grow yourself 00:17:28.430 --> 00:17:31.950 out of that fear situation. Because you understand, 00:17:32.029 --> 00:17:34.289 we all have fear. Every one of us have fear. 00:17:34.369 --> 00:17:37.910 But fear has to be channeled. Fear can be a good 00:17:37.910 --> 00:17:42.849 thing. It's fear that tells you that you do not 00:17:42.849 --> 00:17:45.990 have wings. Don't try and jump off a four -story 00:17:45.990 --> 00:17:52.319 building. It's fear that tells you not to put 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.500 your hand on a red hot stove plate the second 00:17:55.500 --> 00:18:01.599 time. So there's some good fear. But the fear 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:04.819 that the enemy brings to you is all coupled to 00:18:04.819 --> 00:18:11.720 a lie. And so you have to get to that place where 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:16.039 you refuse to carry that fear. Even though it 00:18:16.039 --> 00:18:17.740 wants to come in every now and again. It wants 00:18:17.740 --> 00:18:22.690 to come in. And it comes in just because of one 00:18:22.690 --> 00:18:28.930 reason, and that is where you somehow allow wrong 00:18:28.930 --> 00:18:33.769 stuff to come to your home. You allow. Say that 00:18:33.769 --> 00:18:37.259 word, allow. It doesn't just come in there and 00:18:37.259 --> 00:18:40.619 forces its way in. You allow it to come in. And 00:18:40.619 --> 00:18:43.819 once that, he gets a foothold in the house, then 00:18:43.819 --> 00:18:47.160 with him automatically, just like pastor said, 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:51.000 that with Christ automatically comes peace. With 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:58.019 the enemy automatically comes fear. You have 00:18:58.019 --> 00:19:01.640 to get out of that situation. And you would think 00:19:01.640 --> 00:19:03.720 that Christ, you know, he sat down with these 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.519 disciples, you know that, and he taught them 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:11.200 one by one, I mean, and group by group, told 00:19:11.200 --> 00:19:13.839 them exactly what was going to happen to him. 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.019 He was going to die, and just like Jonah, he's 00:19:18.019 --> 00:19:19.619 going to be in the heart of the earth for three 00:19:19.619 --> 00:19:21.720 days, and then he's going to be resurrected. 00:19:21.940 --> 00:19:24.859 He made it clear that they understood. Hey, listen, 00:19:25.019 --> 00:19:28.880 Terry here, you know, my words. Just wait here, 00:19:28.940 --> 00:19:32.180 guys. You'll see me here in just a few days. 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:40.319 I'll be back. Arnold Schwarzenegger. I'll be 00:19:40.319 --> 00:19:48.359 back. And none of them, none, none, none of them 00:19:48.359 --> 00:19:55.599 believed him. Not a single one believed his teaching. 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:01.180 Put Mark 16 up there just quickly. I'll just 00:20:01.180 --> 00:20:03.359 run through it so you can just see. You know, 00:20:03.420 --> 00:20:06.700 here's Mark 16. This is now just after the resurrection. 00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:12.819 So that when the Sabbath was passed, Mary Magdalene, 00:20:12.859 --> 00:20:15.859 is it on there? Mary Magdalene, the mother of 00:20:15.859 --> 00:20:19.539 Jesus, of James and Salome, they bought spices 00:20:19.539 --> 00:20:22.420 that they may come and anoint him. What was the 00:20:22.420 --> 00:20:29.319 spices for? To keep the body from rotting. It 00:20:29.319 --> 00:20:31.500 was an act of unbelief that they were doing. 00:20:33.920 --> 00:20:36.420 And then they said among themselves, who rolled 00:20:36.420 --> 00:20:39.140 away the stone from the door? This is the third 00:20:39.140 --> 00:20:46.460 day. The stone was supposed to be, they were 00:20:46.460 --> 00:20:49.099 supposed to know, hey, there'll be no stone when 00:20:49.099 --> 00:20:54.880 I get there. Just like you say, I'm not going 00:20:54.880 --> 00:20:59.660 to have COVID. You don't have to have COVID. 00:21:01.720 --> 00:21:05.539 Oh, there you are again. See, we have to start 00:21:05.539 --> 00:21:08.200 believing that I don't have to have COVID. And 00:21:08.200 --> 00:21:10.259 even if COVID comes in, it's still going to be 00:21:10.259 --> 00:21:13.420 okay. God is going to heal it. But I don't have 00:21:13.420 --> 00:21:18.180 to have it. And so they came there and they saw 00:21:18.180 --> 00:21:22.700 the angel there. You know the story. I'm going 00:21:22.700 --> 00:21:27.059 to just flip to verse 8. They were convinced 00:21:27.059 --> 00:21:32.400 by these men, Christ is actually risen just like 00:21:32.400 --> 00:21:38.240 he said he would. Go tell the other disciples 00:21:38.240 --> 00:21:41.319 and Peter, go tell them. So in verse eight, they 00:21:41.319 --> 00:21:44.599 went out quickly and they fled from the tomb 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:47.799 for they trembled and were amazed and they said 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:53.230 nothing to anyone because they were afraid. You 00:21:53.230 --> 00:21:59.309 know, on and on and on. Fear, fear, fear. That's 00:21:59.309 --> 00:22:02.049 what these people, whoever is behind all this 00:22:02.049 --> 00:22:04.950 nonsense, all these lies that's going on politically 00:22:04.950 --> 00:22:07.809 behind us here right now. They've got plans with 00:22:07.809 --> 00:22:09.769 our country, and I don't want to get into that 00:22:09.769 --> 00:22:12.390 here right now, but that's what it is. You know, 00:22:12.410 --> 00:22:15.269 they want to take advantage of something that 00:22:15.269 --> 00:22:17.609 you already have. They just want it to come to 00:22:17.609 --> 00:22:22.319 the surface, and that is fear. Once they can 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:25.539 get fear in your heart, they can control you. 00:22:26.839 --> 00:22:30.740 So they saw angels. Angels. How many of you would 00:22:30.740 --> 00:22:35.140 be so delighted you come into a tomb like that 00:22:35.140 --> 00:22:40.119 and here you see. You know, with wings. And they 00:22:40.119 --> 00:22:43.480 show you the place where he was. And the bandages 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:46.839 there still possibly rolled. I mean, just, you 00:22:46.839 --> 00:22:49.059 know, the way it was around the body. But he 00:22:49.059 --> 00:22:52.900 came out from inside of it. And he's not there. 00:22:53.039 --> 00:22:55.960 And then they tell them, hey, you remember what 00:22:55.960 --> 00:22:57.980 he told you what's going to happen? Well, it 00:22:57.980 --> 00:23:01.960 happened. He's not here. Go tell the other guys. 00:23:02.119 --> 00:23:07.700 So they flee. It reminds me of a lady that told 00:23:07.700 --> 00:23:10.220 me, I thought about angels one time, and the 00:23:10.220 --> 00:23:12.900 next night she came and told me, she said, last 00:23:12.900 --> 00:23:16.680 night, she said, a spirit came into my room, 00:23:16.779 --> 00:23:19.839 and I could actually feel it come and sit on 00:23:19.839 --> 00:23:22.940 my bed. I mean, it actually, I thought I saw 00:23:22.940 --> 00:23:26.720 an indentation, and I rebuked that spirit, told 00:23:26.720 --> 00:23:29.640 him to get out of here. So I said, what happens? 00:23:29.980 --> 00:23:34.619 She said, well, he left. Was there fear when, 00:23:35.500 --> 00:23:38.119 He came in, no, no, no, there was no fear. I 00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:42.799 said, you turkey. There was possibly an angel 00:23:42.799 --> 00:23:46.539 that came to your room. Why do we expect demons? 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:52.759 Let's expect angels. Why do we expect death? 00:23:53.099 --> 00:23:57.240 Why do we expect sickness? Let's expect health, 00:23:57.480 --> 00:24:01.220 divine health. The presence of almighty God. 00:24:02.380 --> 00:24:06.680 And so, just quickly, so they, went in verse 00:24:06.680 --> 00:24:09.039 9. When he arose early in the first day of the 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.720 week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.059 of whom he had cast seven demons. And she went 00:24:15.059 --> 00:24:17.819 and told the others that was with him as they 00:24:17.819 --> 00:24:21.220 mourned and wept. Why did they mourn and weep? 00:24:21.220 --> 00:24:27.440 It was an act of unbelief. When they heard that 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:29.799 he was alive and had been risen by her, had been 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:34.759 seen by her, they... did not believe her. It's 00:24:34.759 --> 00:24:41.839 amazing how people can hold on to unbelief. Later 00:24:41.839 --> 00:24:44.200 on, and I'm going to just skip over to verse 00:24:44.200 --> 00:24:47.220 14. Later on, he appeared to the eleven as they 00:24:47.220 --> 00:24:50.200 sat at the table, and he rebuked them, their 00:24:50.200 --> 00:24:53.180 unbelief and hardness of heart, because they 00:24:53.180 --> 00:24:56.440 did not believe those who had seen him after 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.559 he had been risen. You know, let me bring this 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.950 to this point here. You have to, there where 00:25:04.950 --> 00:25:08.789 you are right now today, allow yourself to change 00:25:08.789 --> 00:25:13.109 right now. Come on, let me say that again. You 00:25:13.109 --> 00:25:16.970 must allow yourself to hear what the Spirit is 00:25:16.970 --> 00:25:20.589 saying to you. Go home and go and fix up your 00:25:20.589 --> 00:25:25.250 home. Go and fix up what is wrong there. Fix 00:25:25.250 --> 00:25:29.130 up your own life. Tell yourself, tell yourself 00:25:29.130 --> 00:25:32.309 over and over, I have no reason to fear. The 00:25:32.309 --> 00:25:36.829 Lord is my shepherd. Come on. You know, that's 00:25:36.829 --> 00:25:39.589 the problem today throughout the country, the 00:25:39.589 --> 00:25:44.410 world. They succeeded. These people have succeeded. 00:25:44.549 --> 00:25:49.849 We're right at the coming of Christ. And this 00:25:49.849 --> 00:25:54.289 thing proved to us that the church is not ready. 00:25:55.710 --> 00:26:00.269 But this is just the first round. The second 00:26:00.269 --> 00:26:02.869 round is coming. It's going to be even worse. 00:26:03.589 --> 00:26:08.369 You better get this one right. Yeah, go ahead 00:26:08.369 --> 00:26:17.809 and clap your hands. Get this one right. And 00:26:17.809 --> 00:26:20.150 so, where you're sitting right there, you know, 00:26:20.170 --> 00:26:23.680 God is, you know, that's... What is so wonderful 00:26:23.680 --> 00:26:26.140 about Jesus, you see him coming in there and 00:26:26.140 --> 00:26:29.160 when he came in, he didn't come there with accusations. 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:32.539 He came in like you said this morning and he 00:26:32.539 --> 00:26:35.579 said to them, peace. I bring a gift with me, 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:38.880 the gift of peace, peace. Come on, get rid of 00:26:38.880 --> 00:26:42.839 your fear. Here, I'm bringing peace to you. And 00:26:42.839 --> 00:26:45.759 at the same time, joy, because in his presence, 00:26:46.059 --> 00:26:52.529 there's fullness of joy. So I'm... I'm amazed 00:26:52.529 --> 00:26:56.970 how God's people can be afraid. I'm amazed how 00:26:56.970 --> 00:27:01.849 God's people can stress. You don't have to stress. 00:27:02.569 --> 00:27:06.990 God is in charge. Come on, we heard this over 00:27:06.990 --> 00:27:10.789 and over this week. The reason why it happens 00:27:10.789 --> 00:27:12.910 is because there's something going on in your 00:27:12.910 --> 00:27:20.029 life. Something that has allowed fear to creep 00:27:20.029 --> 00:27:26.430 in. Now it's messing up your relationship with 00:27:26.430 --> 00:27:30.250 your family, your wife, your business. Everything 00:27:30.250 --> 00:27:33.049 is getting messed up because you opened the door. 00:27:35.230 --> 00:27:38.009 And that's why we come to church. We come to 00:27:38.009 --> 00:27:41.009 church right here so that we can be fixed up. 00:27:43.089 --> 00:27:46.430 So that you could come and repent, confess your 00:27:46.430 --> 00:27:49.809 sin, you know. And when you walk out of here, 00:27:49.910 --> 00:27:54.470 you walk out with new courage. I've been forgiven. 00:27:56.309 --> 00:27:58.930 Come on, honey, let's do this thing the right 00:27:58.930 --> 00:28:02.269 way. Let's go home and let our children know 00:28:02.269 --> 00:28:06.549 this is the house of God. Let my family know, 00:28:06.630 --> 00:28:08.970 me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord. 00:28:09.789 --> 00:28:12.410 Let them know that I'm not just saying this as 00:28:12.410 --> 00:28:17.289 a cliche. I believe that God is my God. I believe 00:28:17.289 --> 00:28:21.130 that God is in charge of my destiny. I believe 00:28:21.130 --> 00:28:24.470 that there's not a thing he cannot fix up. I 00:28:24.470 --> 00:28:26.849 believe that there's not a sickness he cannot 00:28:26.849 --> 00:28:29.910 heal. I believe there's not a problem that he 00:28:29.910 --> 00:28:32.970 cannot solve. I believe there's not a question 00:28:32.970 --> 00:28:36.029 that he cannot answer. I believe I can bring 00:28:36.029 --> 00:28:39.309 to him whatever is wrong and God can fix it. 00:28:39.369 --> 00:28:43.230 up every time because I belong to him. I believe 00:28:43.230 --> 00:28:46.529 that I can walk in to the courtroom of heaven 00:28:46.529 --> 00:28:50.670 according to Luke 17 and go and present my case 00:28:50.670 --> 00:28:53.390 right there, the courtroom of heaven. And then 00:28:53.390 --> 00:28:56.410 to see my advocate, Jesus Christ, the righteous 00:28:56.410 --> 00:28:59.589 one, get up and defend you and let the enemy 00:28:59.589 --> 00:29:03.329 know I believe in him because he is my child. 00:29:03.450 --> 00:29:06.250 Come on, give him a great praise offering. Glory 00:29:06.250 --> 00:29:19.809 to God. You know, I'm a pilot, and there's, you 00:29:19.809 --> 00:29:22.430 know, by the way, my books are out there on the 00:29:22.430 --> 00:29:26.130 table, and there's some books there with some 00:29:26.130 --> 00:29:29.230 great stories. You know, one is called You Won't 00:29:29.230 --> 00:29:31.910 Believe This, and the other one is Can You Believe 00:29:31.910 --> 00:29:34.170 This? You know, this stuff that happened. Many 00:29:34.170 --> 00:29:36.829 of the stories that's in there is about my airplane. 00:29:37.049 --> 00:29:40.470 I called Pastor. I texted him this morning, and 00:29:40.470 --> 00:29:44.349 I said, did I ever preach this and this and that 00:29:44.349 --> 00:29:47.710 about, and he says, Jan, you've preached so many 00:29:47.710 --> 00:29:50.490 stories about the airplane. Go ahead and just 00:29:50.490 --> 00:29:57.230 preach again. So when you're a pilot, I gotta 00:29:57.230 --> 00:30:00.450 tell you, when you're a pastor and an evangelist 00:30:00.450 --> 00:30:03.670 comes to your church with a bus, you know that's 00:30:03.670 --> 00:30:10.609 a man of prayer. So many things goes wrong with 00:30:10.609 --> 00:30:14.690 buses. And if you know somebody that flies their 00:30:14.690 --> 00:30:23.710 own airplane, they're people of prayer. But having 00:30:23.710 --> 00:30:26.750 said that, you know, if you have somewhat of 00:30:26.750 --> 00:30:31.369 a decent airplane, then they all have built in 00:30:31.369 --> 00:30:39.849 what we call proximity alert systems. You know, 00:30:39.869 --> 00:30:42.549 because when you're an instrument pilot, you 00:30:42.549 --> 00:30:46.829 fly sometimes in the clouds. You fly in the dark. 00:30:46.930 --> 00:30:50.049 You fly in the rain. You fly, you cannot see 00:30:50.049 --> 00:30:54.609 where you're flying. So you have to totally rely 00:30:54.609 --> 00:31:00.569 on your instruments. You fly with GPS. Your GPS 00:31:00.569 --> 00:31:04.150 connects with a satellite that can see you. You 00:31:04.150 --> 00:31:06.910 cannot see the satellite, but it can see you. 00:31:06.950 --> 00:31:11.359 It's almost like God. You can see, he can see 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:14.779 you, you don't see him. But you have in your 00:31:14.779 --> 00:31:18.200 earphones, you have that alert system that if 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:21.500 you're flying too low, if there's an obstacle, 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:25.799 you know, approaching in front of you, this thing 00:31:25.799 --> 00:31:29.720 is going to cry out in your earphones, pull up! 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:38.119 Because if you don't pull up, you're going to 00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:45.480 crash. And most of the time when you fly as a 00:31:45.480 --> 00:31:48.240 pilot, most of the time you have family with 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.220 you, friends with you. And when something happens 00:31:52.220 --> 00:32:00.480 to you, it happens to them. There's family sitting 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:03.700 right here today that's, you've been hearing 00:32:03.700 --> 00:32:07.319 God speak to you over and over. You're flying 00:32:07.319 --> 00:32:14.990 too low. There's stuff that's waiting to happen 00:32:14.990 --> 00:32:17.869 to you because you will not listen. God speaks 00:32:17.869 --> 00:32:21.349 to us. Job says God speaks to us in many ways. 00:32:21.450 --> 00:32:24.430 He speaks to us in dreams. He speaks to us in 00:32:24.430 --> 00:32:27.250 visions of the night. God speaks to us in many 00:32:27.250 --> 00:32:34.849 ways to keep our soul from the pit. And all you 00:32:34.849 --> 00:32:38.210 have to do is just listen. Just pull that yoke 00:32:38.210 --> 00:32:40.369 back up again and climb just a little bit higher. 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:46.460 Get yourself back in a safe spot. Believe your 00:32:46.460 --> 00:32:49.019 instruments. Believe the Word of God. Believe 00:32:49.019 --> 00:32:51.460 it. Believe it. You know, God speaks to you. 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:54.220 Believe the Word of God. When the Holy Spirit 00:32:54.220 --> 00:32:56.779 speaks to you, listen to what Paul says today. 00:32:56.880 --> 00:33:00.380 When you hear His voice, do not harden your heart. 00:33:01.660 --> 00:33:09.099 Pull up. Pull up. I want to close with this. 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:12.849 You know, the pastor's wife told, told me, she 00:33:12.849 --> 00:33:19.130 said, you know, my husband is so, he is so busy, 00:33:19.349 --> 00:33:22.109 you know, with the church, church work. Hardly 00:33:22.109 --> 00:33:25.869 gets time to pay any attention to her, and that's 00:33:25.869 --> 00:33:30.210 dangerous. Women want attention, you know, and 00:33:30.210 --> 00:33:34.670 that's really a truth. And then at one of the 00:33:34.670 --> 00:33:39.150 services, she says that That particular day, 00:33:39.289 --> 00:33:43.509 a young man, a good -looking young man, gave 00:33:43.509 --> 00:33:48.190 her the compliment. Man, you're looking good. 00:33:51.210 --> 00:33:55.150 Next Sunday, she made it her business to dress 00:33:55.150 --> 00:33:59.490 up again, dress real nice. And then she made 00:33:59.490 --> 00:34:02.950 sure that he looked in her direction. The second 00:34:02.950 --> 00:34:05.609 compliment came and to make matters, I mean, 00:34:05.650 --> 00:34:09.670 the story shorter, she said the time came when 00:34:09.670 --> 00:34:13.369 they had their first cup of coffee together in 00:34:13.369 --> 00:34:18.309 secret. And then the time came when she had to 00:34:18.309 --> 00:34:24.170 do a pregnancy test and it was positive. Started 00:34:24.170 --> 00:34:31.230 with just compliment because she was flying too 00:34:31.230 --> 00:34:36.929 low. See, God is speaking to you here today. 00:34:36.989 --> 00:34:39.989 God is speaking to you always. You'll wake up 00:34:39.989 --> 00:34:41.449 in the middle of the night and God is speaking 00:34:41.449 --> 00:34:45.349 to you. You sit in an airplane and God, somebody 00:34:45.349 --> 00:34:47.309 will be next to you and say something and it's 00:34:47.309 --> 00:34:50.610 God speaking to you. During the radio on and 00:34:50.610 --> 00:34:52.949 there's a preacher speaking and he's speaking 00:34:52.949 --> 00:35:01.780 to you. Listen. When that day came, She had to 00:35:01.780 --> 00:35:04.159 go and see her husband and tell the husband what 00:35:04.159 --> 00:35:09.159 happened. And the plane crashed. That beautiful 00:35:09.159 --> 00:35:13.500 congregation all went down. You've seen this 00:35:13.500 --> 00:35:16.159 happen before. You've seen large congregations 00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:21.780 go down just because the pilot was reckless. 00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:26.519 You see, when you go for your instrument license, 00:35:26.659 --> 00:35:29.679 they teach you three very, very important things. 00:35:30.650 --> 00:35:34.489 principles. Number one is you must never, everybody 00:35:34.489 --> 00:35:39.489 say never. You must never say it won't happen 00:35:39.489 --> 00:35:45.690 to me. Number two, you must never say to yourself, 00:35:45.909 --> 00:35:48.809 I can handle it. I've been trained. Look at the 00:35:48.809 --> 00:35:50.769 clouds. Before you take off from the ground, 00:35:50.869 --> 00:35:53.250 you look at the clouds and it's terrible clouds. 00:35:53.670 --> 00:35:57.289 But you say to yourself, I can handle it. I've 00:35:57.289 --> 00:36:01.340 been trained to handle it. Pilots of great airplanes 00:36:01.340 --> 00:36:05.760 saw the end of their days because they didn't 00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:09.019 want, they think that they could handle it. You're 00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:11.579 safer on the ground than what you are in those 00:36:11.579 --> 00:36:14.280 clouds, even if you had that training. Or the 00:36:14.280 --> 00:36:17.940 third thing, when you say, I've got to get there. 00:36:24.010 --> 00:36:26.230 God is speaking to you here today. This is the 00:36:26.230 --> 00:36:29.610 weekend of the supernatural, the weekend of healing. 00:36:29.710 --> 00:36:31.250 And tonight we're going to have a great healing 00:36:31.250 --> 00:36:34.130 service. It's going to be a night where we're 00:36:34.130 --> 00:36:37.230 going to lay hands and possibly also impartation 00:36:37.230 --> 00:36:40.730 of the anointing on people. It's going to be 00:36:40.730 --> 00:36:43.150 a great service. But this morning, it's just 00:36:43.150 --> 00:36:46.550 time for you to just right there where you are, 00:36:46.690 --> 00:36:53.619 ask yourself, am I flying too low? Shouldn't 00:36:53.619 --> 00:36:58.420 I just pull up? Because the level where I've 00:36:58.420 --> 00:37:05.300 been flying is putting all, everyone around me 00:37:05.300 --> 00:37:16.440 in jeopardy. Stand with me. You know, if I had 00:37:16.440 --> 00:37:19.860 to ask, if I had to ask people to come forward 00:37:19.860 --> 00:37:23.369 this morning and come and repent, I think, Everybody 00:37:23.369 --> 00:37:26.250 had to come down here, but, you know, right now, 00:37:26.289 --> 00:37:30.469 you know, why not just raise both your hands 00:37:30.469 --> 00:37:35.650 towards God? Just close your eyes, and while 00:37:35.650 --> 00:37:40.650 the music plays for us, why not pay attention 00:37:40.650 --> 00:37:44.150 to that thing that God has been talking to you 00:37:44.150 --> 00:37:48.829 about? That one thing, that thing that's been 00:37:48.829 --> 00:37:52.489 keeping you at the wrong level. You're heading 00:37:52.489 --> 00:37:55.309 for a mountain. You're heading for a tower, invisible 00:37:55.309 --> 00:38:00.269 tower. You're heading for destruction of your 00:38:00.269 --> 00:38:06.849 family, your business. Jesus came into the house 00:38:06.849 --> 00:38:10.530 this morning knowing what you're in and knowing 00:38:10.530 --> 00:38:13.489 what's going on and he's offering you peace. 00:38:15.750 --> 00:38:18.309 He's saying to you, I brought with me peace. 00:38:19.530 --> 00:38:22.130 Now with your hands there, why don't you just 00:38:22.130 --> 00:38:26.329 pray right now? Nobody has to know what it is. 00:38:26.889 --> 00:38:31.849 You're a man of God. You're a woman of God. Now 00:38:31.849 --> 00:38:34.670 ask God, help me to pull up this yoke. Pull this 00:38:34.670 --> 00:38:38.170 yoke up so that I can go to another level. Heavenly 00:38:38.170 --> 00:38:44.409 Father, we all include ourselves in this prayer. 00:38:46.309 --> 00:38:54.119 We ask you, In all humbleness, please forgive 00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:58.599 us for ignoring your voice when we were supposed 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:05.340 to listen to you. Please forgive me, Lord, for 00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:10.039 not flying at the altitude where you tell me 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:19.989 to fly. And in Jesus' name, don't go home today 00:39:19.989 --> 00:39:28.530 the same. Now we bring to you, Lord, our hearts 00:39:28.530 --> 00:39:37.530 and we ask you, help us to receive peace. Pastor, 00:39:37.530 --> 00:39:43.389 come. Please give us that which you brought to 00:39:43.389 --> 00:39:47.739 us and bring to us every day. That is your peace, 00:39:47.940 --> 00:39:52.619 Pastor. Thank you, Jesus.