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New Horizon Church | Feb 8th 2026

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  1. So I was I feel like this is for us,

  2. But the Lord was working on my heart and he

  3. told me we need to steward his presence when he

  4. comes and gives us these meeting together, him meeting with

  5. us moments like that. It's a holy thing. It's a

  6. special thing. And even as you may be unpacking stuff

  7. that you got like last week, like you may be

  8. still unpacking, do you know what I'm talking about? Like that,

  9. I feel like the Lord is saying we need to

  10. be careful to steward it well. Because if I have

  11. a relationship with my wife, but I don't give her

  12. any care, concern, nor position or place in my life,

  13. I'm guessing that probably we might have some marital problems

  14. or marital challenges.

  15. And so in the same context as we are.

  16. Yoked, connected, attached to the King, really the same thing

  17. is true, and that is that if I didn't value

  18. my marriage, I could lose it. If I didn't value

  19. when He came and touched me, when there's these special moments,

  20. these holy times he comes and does something.

  21. If we're what you don't value, you can lose.

  22. Okay, I'm just throwing it at you because I just

  23. feel like there's something like a little bit of weight

  24. on that. Okay, so do you know you're living in

  25. one of the most exciting times to be a Christian,

  26. most exciting times ever.

  27. I'm going to read you some statistics. These are from

  28. the Barnet Group Barnar Research Group.

  29. There's been a forty two percent increase in Bible sales.

  30. Gen Z and Millennials have recently surpassed Baby Boomers in

  31. church attendance.

  32. Church. Listen to this statistic.

  33. Church attendance has doubled in the past five years for

  34. gen Z and Millennials. Don't cheer for this one, but

  35. there has been a consistent decline in participation in church

  36. rates and in church attendance over the past twenty five years.

  37. With boomers, however, listen to this, there has been a

  38. significant shift in church attendance in who is showing up.

  39. Barner Research Group says this about this shift, this is

  40. what it says. It says relational connection, volunteer engagement, and

  41. clear discipleship pathways are helping them gen Z Millennials to

  42. build a resilient and lasting faith. That don't sound like

  43. a weak gospel to me. That sounds like a strong gospel.

  44. It sounds like a gospel that takes ground. Okay, we're

  45. living in an exciting time, and so I'm kicking off

  46. a seven part series. Pastor Dwayne had a great idea,

  47. came up with this, and so our preaching teams, everybody's

  48. gonna take a chunk of this. But Joe's gonna be

  49. a preaching a message on communion, Frank is gonna do

  50. the laying on of hands and anointing with oil, Roman's

  51. gonna do the prophetic, Gary's gonna do grace and power

  52. for healing, Zach's gonna do supernatural gifts, and Austin's gonna

  53. do worship. So I'm here kind of prime in the

  54. pump today. Okay, so I'm gonna what my goal is here.

  55. I'm gonna preach on communion or excuse me, on baptism

  56. here in just a little bit.

  57. But I want to prime the pump in telling you.

  58. That I believe God is putting a door in front

  59. of us of discovery, of discovery. There's stuff for us

  60. to discover in Christ that we don't yet know. And

  61. when we do this, we can uncover fresh streams of revival,

  62. fresh streams of personal revelation. And a substantial growth.

  63. To the house.

  64. Okay, I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago when

  65. I had the opportunity to preach on the Lord's prayer,

  66. And the thing I'd mentioned is that if we only

  67. ascend to understanding biblical truth from a head knowledge standpoint,

  68. what will happen is we might be full of a

  69. lot of biblical facts, we might even have some decent doctrine,

  70. but we can be very very.

  71. We can be very lacking.

  72. We can be missing something as far as the experiential

  73. move of God, like the understanding something in a way

  74. that He shows it to you that you didn't know

  75. it before. If we said, you know I love my wife, Well,

  76. does somebody who's five know what love means? No?

  77. But you learn what love is when you experience.

  78. The interaction not only with God but with your spouse,

  79. with the sacrifice of giving your life, then you develop

  80. what love is.

  81. Right, then you begin to know what that is.

  82. But I'm sharing all of this because I feel like

  83. the Lord is playing a little bit of hide and.

  84. Seek with us.

  85. So over these next weeks, do yourself a favor, and

  86. do not settle for head knowledge. Do yourself a favor

  87. and do not accept what you think you know about

  88. an ancient path or an ancient way that we've had

  89. in the past that brings life. Don't just say well

  90. I've been baptized once. Well that is good, but there

  91. there might be another baptism in store for you, right.

  92. Don't just say well I took communion last week. Well,

  93. God has a capacity to touch you fresh again this

  94. week with it.

  95. Okay. So I really feel.

  96. Like there's something very for like our house, our body,

  97. where God's gonna do some really miraculous things through this series.

  98. And so and I'm just priming the pump, okay. So

  99. Proverbs twenty five to two. Please, so God conceals.

  100. Actually, I'm gonna do anasp First, it.

  101. Is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But

  102. the glory of kings is to search a matter out.

  103. That's Proverbs twenty five to two. Proverbs twenty five two.

  104. Let's put up the passion translation, if you would. God

  105. conceals the revelation of his word in the hiding place

  106. of his glory. But the honor of kings is revealed

  107. by how thoroughly they search out the deeper meaning of

  108. all that God says. So if God conceals revelation and

  109. a hiding place for his glory and his word. When

  110. we get in the word, do you know what happens?

  111. Do you know what we get revelation of His glory.

  112. You can't get his word revealed to you and not

  113. end up with the glory of God coming and visiting

  114. your life.

  115. Is that making sense?

  116. Like there's something powerful when we search things out for

  117. Him that just it wrecks us.

  118. We were not the same after.

  119. So, and I'm gonna this message is gonna have two parts. Okay,

  120. first is the priming of the pump. Then I'm gonna

  121. talk about baptism. So in the priming of the pump,

  122. when I knew I was going to be preaching on baptism,

  123. I kept getting woke awoke at night, and I kept

  124. getting awoke, and the same thing kept happened to me.

  125. And so then I'm like, okay, I got to get up.

  126. And what happened is the Lord started to give me

  127. a picture of the removal of rocks from the well

  128. and then he actually said you need to go and

  129. look at the digging of the wells and so and

  130. next thing you know, I've got my Bible open, and

  131. every single place I can find something on this I'm

  132. in it.

  133. And so I'm going to start off here.

  134. My first scripture is Genesis twenty six three through five.

  135. So there's a famine in the land of Egypt. Isaac

  136. is communing with God. And at the time Isaac is

  137. living in Gharaar. There is a Philistine king by the

  138. name of Abimelech who is ruling over this region. Okay,

  139. that's the context through the backstory for it. This is

  140. what the Lord is saying to him. To Isaac, he says, stay,

  141. this is twenty Genesis twenty six, three through five. Stay

  142. in this land for a while, and I will be

  143. with you, and I will bless you. For you and

  144. your descendants, I will give all of these lands, and

  145. I will confirm.

  146. The oath I swore to your father, Abraham.

  147. I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars

  148. in the sky, and will give them all these lands.

  149. And through your offspring, all nations of the earth will

  150. be blessed. Because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I

  151. required of him, keeping my commandments, my decrees, and my instructions.

  152. So God is declaring that there's going to be a

  153. supernatural favor of God, a blessing of God, a hand

  154. of God over his son Isaac. And he's saying, it's

  155. tied to the covenant your father kept. And because your

  156. father kept my commandments, he kept my ways, he was

  157. concerned my instructions, my decrees, he was concerned about me.

  158. I'm going to convey that same blessing on you, my son.

  159. Okay.

  160. So that's the dialogue between him and God. So listen

  161. to this. So what does he do based upon that declaration?

  162. This is Gen. Six twenty six, twelve through sixteen.

  163. Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year

  164. reaped a hundred fold. Because the Lord blessed him, the

  165. man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until

  166. he became very wealthy.

  167. So he's not a little bit wealthy. He's very wealthy. Okay.

  168. He had so many flocks and herds and servants that

  169. the Philistines envied him. So all the wells from his

  170. father's servants that had been dug in the time of

  171. his father Abraham, the Philissines stopped him up.

  172. Say the Philissines stopped up the wells, filling them with earth.

  173. Then Ibimelek said to Isaac, move away from us, for

  174. you have become too powerful.

  175. God's hand on you.

  176. Actually will make it so that your enemies will envy you.

  177. God's hand on you will actually make it so that

  178. the spiritual forces of evil will actually fear you, so

  179. that the spiritual forces of evil will actually say, please

  180. move away from us.

  181. You're too powerful for me. Do you understand this?

  182. And so some of you in here might actually even

  183. be facing some demonic opposition right now as we speak.

  184. And it's actually because God's hand is on your life,

  185. and it's because his grace is on you, and the

  186. demonic realm is trying to throw arrows at you. You've

  187. got a machine downe arrows coming at you. This is

  188. not me prophesying this. There's no arrows coming at you.

  189. But you could be experiencing something like this. And what

  190. happens is that if the spiritual forces of evil out

  191. there are afraid of you, if the spiritual forces of

  192. evil are envying you and want your destruction, You're actually

  193. going to face opposition in this life because God's glories

  194. on you. He's declared this over Isaac. And what does

  195. Isaac do? So, Isaac's got some challenges and we'll get

  196. into the story. And I'm going to try and do

  197. that pert quick. So Isaac repeats this pattern. Here's what

  198. Isaac does. Isaac builds an altar, pitches a tent, digs

  199. a well, calls on the name of the Lord. He

  200. does it again and again. Genesis twenty six, twenty two.

  201. He moved on from there and dug another well. Why

  202. because they keep stopping this stuff up. His adversary, the devil,

  203. who rolls around like a roars, he's like a oh,

  204. he stinks, but he's got no power. He's been absolutely defeated.

  205. And so anything that you're facing the Lord's pastor Dwayne

  206. was prophesying one Corinthians two fourteen, which if you were

  207. to come in my house, there's a huge thing that

  208. is this. It's on the wall, and it's talking about

  209. him giving you the victory, spreading everywhere the fragrance of

  210. the knowledge of him through the victory that he gives you,

  211. like this is the Lord over your life. This is

  212. like this is your life confession, Okay, And so Genesis

  213. twenty six, twenty two, he moved on from there and

  214. he dug another well, and no.

  215. One quarreled over it.

  216. He named it Rehoboth, saying, now the Lord has given

  217. us room, and we will flourish in this land.

  218. Let's go to verse twenty four.

  219. That night, the Lord appeared to him and said, I

  220. am the God of your father, Abraham, do not be afraid,

  221. for I am with you.

  222. I will bless you.

  223. I will increase the number of your descendants for the

  224. sake of my servant Abraham. There were promises in store

  225. here for Isaac because of the relationship that Abraham had

  226. with God. But God's telling Isaac, you need to go

  227. and dig up some of the wells that your dad

  228. had initially.

  229. His servants had originally dug. Are you tracking with me?

  230. So why is he telling him to do this? I

  231. think anyhow, they need to dig up the well so

  232. the water starts flowing again.

  233. Right.

  234. I believe there are elemental components of Christianity where God

  235. will move powerfully in these elemental components and he will

  236. bring revival, He will bring transformation, He will show up

  237. in power if we will align with these pathways, these

  238. ancient ways of life, these redigging the well experiences that

  239. we're going to be bringing to you as a preaching

  240. team over the next seven weeks.

  241. Okay, are you getting me?

  242. And I don't have much time to get into this,

  243. but I believe that this is prophetic. If you look

  244. back in these scriptures, what you're going to find is

  245. that Abraham, when he had dug a particular well at Beersheba,

  246. he dug a well, he planted a tree. The tree

  247. is a tamara tamarisk tree. How many in here know?

  248. How many in here know what a tamarisk tree is.

  249. This is what happened at first service. I was shocked.

  250. I was thinking, like ninety percent of you were gonna

  251. raise your hand.

  252. Okay, So so here's the thing. A tamarisk tree is

  253. an evergreen tree growing in the desert, in an arid

  254. place where there's almost no water. How does an evergreen

  255. tree grow in the desert and stay evergreen?

  256. Say it again, Dennis, deep roots.

  257. A tamorous tree has a very unique aspect to it

  258. in that it has roots that are terribly deep. And

  259. Abraham planted this tree as a prophetic declaration.

  260. Of not what would be.

  261. For him, but he was declaring it over the generations

  262. after him, Because that tree isn't planted for your generation.

  263. That tree grows very slowly, very slowly, with really deep roots,

  264. and that tree isn't enjoyed by the generation that actually

  265. planted it. Guess where the final well was that he

  266. started to take the rocks out of. It was the

  267. well where the tamarisk tree is there at Beersheba.

  268. That was his dad's declaration.

  269. Over the favor of God, over his lineage, and the

  270. people who would walk with God that they represent it.

  271. Do you get it? What was the purpose of redigging

  272. the well so that the water would flow again? Out

  273. of you?

  274. Streams of living water will flow. The well is not

  275. about the well. The well is about who comes out

  276. of the well. Yeah, the well is not about the well.

  277. The well is about who flows out of the well.

  278. A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to preach

  279. here on a Friday night, and the Lord had given

  280. me a prophetic word that I thought was for this house,

  281. my family, and I mentioned that this word was build

  282. the family. And I can't seem to get away from it.

  283. I cannot get away from this thing. It just keeps

  284. coming at me everywhere. And then over the summit, Pastor Dwayne,

  285. I think, asked Ivan or something, do you have a

  286. prophetic or a declarative word for the year, and Ivan said, yeah,

  287. the declarative word for the year is the family. And

  288. it's just literally, I'm like, it's hitting me when I'm

  289. down here.

  290. I'm like, oh, man, this is like, this is the

  291. Lord's heart.

  292. Like, if you want to see the heart of God, man,

  293. the family is where the heart of God is. And

  294. there is this unique thing that is multifaceted and multi generational,

  295. and if we don't dig the wells, the next generation

  296. won't get to see it.

  297. Ivan also preached a little.

  298. Bit about how when he was young, he had gotten

  299. to go to and be at an event and Kenneth

  300. Hagen Senior was there. He was ministering Leyden his years

  301. and Kenneth Hagen Senior was like prophesying over him and

  302. people were falling out and there was all this stuff happening,

  303. and he was like.

  304. And he was like really old, like really old. Like

  305. he was like worried he could be up on the stage.

  306. So old. You know.

  307. That was kind of the interpretation I received from what

  308. Ivan had said, And so I was reflecting a little

  309. bit on this when he was.

  310. Talking about it, because.

  311. Kenneth Hagen sor I got touched by some of his

  312. teaching maybe twenty five years ago, and he's you know,

  313. he's one of the fathers of the Word of Faith movement. Okay, well,

  314. we realized that as a movement, but we don't understand

  315. necessarily what started it.

  316. And what started it is he was a.

  317. Teenager, he was paralyzed, he had an incurable blood disease.

  318. People were saying, you're not gonna make it like they

  319. were expecting him to die. Like in a short period

  320. of time, he'd grown up in his perspective of Christianity.

  321. What he knew about Christianity.

  322. Was a branch of Christianity that didn't really think that

  323. God moved today, that God's not really a healer. God

  324. doesn't work in the same ways that he used to

  325. back in the New Testament and what you read of

  326. in the Book of Acts. So what I would call

  327. Cessatianist theology, people who believe that that God.

  328. Doesn't exist today.

  329. Okay, they think that that ended with the death of

  330. the last of the Apostles or the canonization of Scripture,

  331. depending upon what camp they're from. And so I'm sharing

  332. this with you to say that Kenneth Hagen Senior got

  333. a hold of a scripture.

  334. This is the scripture Mark.

  335. Eleven, twenty three and twenty four. If you could put

  336. that up for me. Truly, I tell you, if anyone

  337. says to this mountain, go throw yourself into the sea,

  338. and does not doubt in their heart but leaves what

  339. they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore,

  340. I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe

  341. you have received it and it will be yours. Believe

  342. you will receive it and it will be yours. So,

  343. all of a sudden, this guy's talking about like speaking

  344. to mountains. Plug for Pastor Dwayne's book. There's a book

  345. in the back written by Pastor Dwayne called Move Your Mountain.

  346. But it's on this it's this kind of teaching. And

  347. so all of a sudden, this man, Kenneth Hagen, Sr.

  348. He starts declaring to the sickness in his body, go

  349. I cast you into the sea.

  350. Get out. I cast you into the sea.

  351. And he was believing in his heart, and he was

  352. ruminating on it day and night, night and day.

  353. And you know what ended up happening. A supernet.

  354. You can go listen to YouTube and him talk about

  355. his healing, but like something in the way of like

  356. electricity came through his body. After standing on this for

  357. a duration of time, I think it was sixteen months,

  358. he was bedridden, if I'm not mistaken.

  359. And what happened is God touched him and he knew.

  360. He was different, so much so that he actually was

  361. afraid to share this with his family because he was

  362. concerned that if he told his family what happened, that

  363. they would actually try and talk him out of his

  364. healing because they don't believe that God does that. Today,

  365. if Kenneth Hagen Senior didn't have God come and visit

  366. him heal him, he wouldn't be one of the fathers

  367. of the Word of Faith movement. Do you know how

  368. many hundreds of millions of us have been blessed by

  369. the Word of Faith movement? Hundreds of millions of people,

  370. maybe billions, I don't know, but definitely hundreds of millions

  371. of people have been blessed by the Word of Faith movement.

  372. Do you think that God brought.

  373. Supernatural healing to Kenneth Hagen's senior just for Kenneth Hagen Senior. No,

  374. he did, but he didn't because he wanted to bring

  375. something forth to an entire generation of people, an entire

  376. group of pastors. He ignited generations of pastors who would

  377. be out.

  378. Teaching on faith.

  379. And it took this touch of God deep in who

  380. he was, where he was so radically transformed. He continued

  381. to preach powerfully well into his eighties, well into his eighties.

  382. There's something by the way of discovering and getting back

  383. on the track of these ancient pasts where God's going

  384. to I believe God's going to move in signs and

  385. wonders and powerfully over our church because of what He's unveiling,

  386. because of the gold that we're mining out, because we're

  387. going to find all the glory that He has hidden

  388. in his word. Thank you, Lord, Lord.

  389. I got to see that. I've even got to see.

  390. If it wasn't for Kenneth Hagen Senior, we wouldn't have

  391. had the summit we just had. Do you realize that

  392. you're watching every almost everything you saw at the summit.

  393. A lot of the stems from his ministry touching other

  394. people and those people touching you, and Pastor Dwayne writing

  395. a book on Move your Mountains, and this particular scripture

  396. right what I'm going to tell you is that there's

  397. something powerful by the way of transference that God's attempting

  398. to do here that He'll continue on with our lineage,

  399. with not only our church, our children, our children's children.

  400. This is more powerful than we know. Like I can't

  401. get away from this thing. Every time I think about this,

  402. it's like God comes and like fills up. I can

  403. be at home by myself at the table and I

  404. like I get something on.

  405. This and it's just like like.

  406. It's just like this is the word of the Lord,

  407. Like this is the this is the hour and the

  408. season and the time that we're in, and we have

  409. to choose that we're gonna partner with it. We have

  410. to choose that we're gonna partner with it. Yes, Dina

  411. is not here right now, but Dina was supernatural healed.

  412. Dina has not been able to get down on her

  413. knees in thirty two years. Somebody had a prophetic word,

  414. Gary came and prayed for her. Next and she's you know,

  415. she's got hardware and stuff or whatever in her ankle,

  416. and next thing you know, she's down. You know, her

  417. legs are flat on the ground. She hasn't been able

  418. to do that in thirty years.

  419. What was that? It was the streams. It was the

  420. streams flowing again. My Ben, are you in here? There?

  421. You are? Ben?

  422. Ben had Ben had a headache for over a week

  423. and some other issues.

  424. Ben was in here.

  425. Ben got touched by the Lord and was healed and

  426. it went away. He was just testifying to it this morning.

  427. My son Lane injured his wrist at Tribe the week,

  428. the couple days before the summit, and he was supposed

  429. to play the guitar.

  430. So he's letting people down anyhow.

  431. That's the parent in me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm like, well,

  432. what were you doing? You shouldn't have been doing that,

  433. because now you're letting somebody down, and come on, man, anyhow,

  434. so Lord, please forgive me, Lord, please forgive me.

  435. Anyhow. So I'm looking at his hand.

  436. It's super swollen. He's having a lot of pain and discomfort.

  437. I took an X ray him. There was no fracture,

  438. but he's like, there's no way I can play guitar. Literally,

  439. he came up here to get prayed for. A handful

  440. of people prayed for him, laid hands on him. He

  441. left with no pain in his wrist and hand.

  442. That night we got home.

  443. Most of you who were here with us, we were

  444. here late. Right we got home, it was twelve o'clock

  445. at night. I'm at my house and I'm listening to

  446. my son worship the Lord in his room with his guitar.

  447. He would not have been able to do that had

  448. God not touched him. So as a dad then I said, well,

  449. does that mean you're gonna You're gonna text so and

  450. so and let.

  451. Him know you can play. Now, please regard me. Oh,

  452. it's so bad sometimes parenting. Parenting.

  453. Uh, listen to Paul, for Christ did not send me

  454. to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom

  455. and eloquence, lest the Cross of Christ.

  456. Be emptied of its power.

  457. I believe that a lot of the church today has

  458. been preaching what I'm gonna call a weak gospel. I

  459. believe that they have been preaching a gospel that says

  460. Jesus saves, which he does, and it's it's good not

  461. to spend eternity in hell. But the gospel that they're

  462. preaching is one that would just be for salvation only

  463. in escaping the flames of hell.

  464. I don't believe that's the real gospel. I believe.

  465. I believe that the gospel has been some of its

  466. weight and power and might has been maybe stripped of it.

  467. And that's clearly not God's design.

  468. So if the God, who's the gospel being preached by Christians?

  469. Correct? So if the.

  470. Gospel, if the gospel has been being preached by Christians,

  471. and it's a weak gospel, then who's Who's who's at

  472. fault here? Christians, christ Ones, the Little Christ's it's our fault.

  473. Okay, thank you, Pastor Dwayne. I'm seeing it. I'm moving, Okay, Okay,

  474. I'm hurried. Okay.

  475. The Greek word for baptized is baptized zoe. It means

  476. to make overwhelmed, to become fully wet, a serial ceremonial washing.

  477. In Hebrew, the word baptize appears ten I'm gonna speed preach.

  478. The word baptize appears ten times in your New Testament.

  479. Baptized appears sixty four times in your New Testament. Baptism

  480. appears twenty two times in your New Testament.

  481. I will do it. You don't want to get in

  482. trouble when you're up here?

  483. Is that I don't want to get You know, you

  484. need to obey, don't be naughty. So how how are

  485. you saved? You guys already know Ephesians two five through nine. Correct,

  486. it's by your faith in Christ. You've been saved. It's

  487. a free gift of God. You can't boast about what

  488. you did. It's not your work. It's the work on

  489. the cross.

  490. Correct.

  491. So that's how we come into salvation. However, listen to

  492. what Peter says. Repent and be baptized, every one of

  493. you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness

  494. of your sins, and you will receive the gift of

  495. the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you, your children,

  496. and those who are far off, for all whom the

  497. Lord our God will call. Who did it say to

  498. be baptized?

  499. Every one of you? Who? Everyone Jesus was baptized.

  500. And if Jesus supernaturally had the Holy Spirit, the Lord

  501. came and spoke to him and said, this is my

  502. son in whom I well pleased. Like hello, Why wouldn't

  503. we want to give the Lord that opportunity to come

  504. and meet us on the water like that? It's intended

  505. for you to live here on earth more focused on

  506. the Lord and less on yourself. It symbolizes Christ's burial, death,

  507. and resurrection.

  508. There's a battle between your soul and your spirit.

  509. Correct Romans seven point fifteen. I'm gonna just go through this.

  510. I'm gonna read the first statement. This is Paul, I

  511. do not understand what I do for what I want

  512. to do. I don't do what I hate I do.

  513. Anybody in here ever experienced that before as a Christian?

  514. And you're like, how can I get over this?

  515. Ah, listen to the last part of that scripture.

  516. But thanks fee to God.

  517. Okay, Pastor Dwayne again, But thanks be to God who

  518. delivers me through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then I

  519. myself in my mind am enslaved to God's law, but

  520. in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

  521. He gives you the victory, though you don't have to

  522. be stuck in the flesh. You have life by the spirit.

  523. For you you have that Roman eight. You're led by

  524. the spirit of God because you're a son and a

  525. daughter of the Most High John three five. Jesus answered,

  526. very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the

  527. Kingdom of God unless they're born of the water. And

  528. of the spirit. Correct, you need to be born of

  529. the water right your mom the first time, and then

  530. of the spirit. This born of the spirit is the

  531. is the Romans eight Life.

  532. Romans six' four.

  533. W it's so. Difficult we were therefore buried with him

  534. through baptism into death in order that just as just

  535. As christ was raised from the dead through.

  536. The glory of the we too may live a new.

  537. Life you and, me we get to live a new

  538. life In.

  539. Christ, okay one more. Scripture i'm doing, This it's.

  540. Happening, Okay romans six twelveth through. Fourteen, therefore do not

  541. let sin reign in your mortal, body so that you

  542. obey its evil. Desires do not offer any part of

  543. yourself as to sin as an instrument of, wickedness tie

  544. in on that instrument of, wickedness but rather offer yourselves

  545. To god as those who have been brought from death to,

  546. life and offer every part of yourself To him as

  547. an instrument of. Righteousness for listen to, This For sin

  548. shall no longer be your, master because you are no

  549. longer under the, law but under. Grace, Say sin is

  550. no longer my, master FOR i am not under the,

  551. law BUT i am under. Grace there is a spiritual

  552. declaration in the heavenly realm when we're, baptized where we,

  553. say break off the ties that. Bind i'm born and,

  554. New i'm born, Again i'm born. FRESH i choose to

  555. live by the spirit and not by the. FLESH i

  556. align with this.

  557. ONE i put that one to death.

  558. In that scripture when it was talking about choosing not

  559. to be used as an instrument for.

  560. Wickedness you know what you.

  561. Are you're an instrument of. Righteousness you are an instrument of.

  562. Righteousness so just as up, here just as up, here

  563. he can be playing the, keyboard or we can be

  564. playing the guitar and it can send out this beautiful

  565. note and, tone and it can Bring god's.

  566. Glory you Bring god's glory because you're an instrument of.

  567. Righteousness and When he's playing through you through the, spirit

  568. then what happens is you're Reverberating. Heaven wherever you, touch,

  569. patterns behaviors and ties that bind are. Broken when we

  570. participate in this transformative, event.

  571. It is an outward.

  572. Display of a public a public outward display of an

  573. internal heart. Choice and here's WHY i Think god moves

  574. powerfully when you choose to be, baptized and you don't

  575. have to LIKE i got baptized WHEN i was in

  576. my early. Twenties, okay it's good to be baptized more than.

  577. Once maybe you're baptized because you want The lord to

  578. come meet you on the. Water that's a passage of.

  579. Scripture if you look In, genesis he was hovering over

  580. the deep right The. Lord that's where our Friend Todd

  581. smith last year where they got the idea of The

  582. lord hovering of waters for their baptism revival that they've been.

  583. Having i've had like thousands and tens of thousands of

  584. people all healed through. Baptism this is not a, liturgical

  585. no power. Event this is a power. Event it's a

  586. power Event.

  587. John seven point thirty.

  588. Seven when we choose to be, baptized he's, saying out

  589. of you will flow rivers of living. Water in the fifteen,

  590. hundreds The anabaptists had a resurgence.

  591. Like a baptismal revival if you, will.

  592. Okay and they did this because it Was protestantism, saying,

  593. hey the word says that baptisto means actually to be,

  594. immersed so like they were actually considered like demonicer or heretical.

  595. Like it was a big thing right and they had

  596. revival come through. Baptism listen to. This in the sixties and,

  597. seventies The Jesus people movement movement In Pirate's, Cove Newport,

  598. beach people were touched.

  599. From The Holy spirit again and again and again through.

  600. Baptism in twenty twenty, three there was a baptized So

  601. cal four thousand people baptized in a day In Pirate's

  602. cove again to signify and remember. It in twenty twenty,

  603. five seventy seven hundred and fifty. People seven hundred and

  604. fifty people were baptized In Huntington, Beach. California last. Year

  605. there is a renewal of these ancient paths That god

  606. is administering his spirit. Through we're not going to get into,

  607. this but if you were to go back and look

  608. At jewish, tradition the, mikvah it was a cleansing ritual

  609. and the purpose listened to, this it was to be

  610. washed in preparation for his. Presence i'm gonna say that.

  611. Again if there's one thing you remember about, it that's

  612. the most important. Thing it was to be washed in

  613. preparation for his. Presence that was the purpose of This jewish. Ritual,

  614. okay we are closing, now.

  615. Would you stand with? Me can we agree as a?

  616. Body can we, Say, lord we will agree to partner

  617. with what you're endeavoring to do in this. House we

  618. agree with What Pastor dwayne had laid, out and that

  619. what we want is we want these ancient, streams these

  620. ancient paths for revival that bring life to be released

  621. on this. House and we say we will. Agree we

  622. will dig our wells. Again we will go and get

  623. the rocks. Out we will go and get the dirt,

  624. out no matter who put it.

  625. In there and how how long it's been.

  626. There we agree that we're digging up the wells of

  627. revival in this. House and we even we would, Repent we,

  628. rebuke and we renounce any cessationist, theology any theology would

  629. that would move away From god being a Powerful, god

  630. any any theology that would present a weak gospel or

  631. would actually bring the presentation of The gospel to be

  632. one that would be devoid of, power one of that

  633. would be devoid of might of. Might we would rebuke these,

  634. Things we repent of. Them we say we will not

  635. agree with. Them we kick them out of this. House

  636. we kick them out of the body Of. Christ we

  637. agree with the spiritual revival happening all across the body Of,

  638. christ where the body Of christ is being infused with

  639. a love for The, king and the love for The

  640. king is where The king's showing his.

  641. Power and we give you praise for. That we thank

  642. you for. That we agree with.

  643. It And Lord, jesus we just set the stage over

  644. these next six. Weeks we just, say come and move

  645. and have your, way visit us in power and might

  646. as we go down the path of redigging our, wells

  647. as we're on the path of restoring these ancient pathways

  648. that you would have for. Us we say we agree with.

  649. It we say we receive. It we say we have

  650. faith for. It we say it's your, will it's your.

  651. Plan it was from the beginning it still. Is and

  652. we agree with. This we agree with the fact that

  653. we are A mark sixteen. Church this is A Mark

  654. chapter sixteen. Church do you know what you know what

  655. it says about those who believe signs and wondrous fault believers?

  656. Believe are you a? Believer Say i'm a? Believer AND

  657. i believe and what it says In mark. Sixteen it

  658. says that demons will be cast, Out you will cast them.

  659. Out it says that you will speak in new. Tongues

  660. it says that you would be able to pick up

  661. a deadly serpent and it will not harm. You it

  662. says you could pick up and drink a deadly poison

  663. and it will not affect. You it says you will

  664. lay your hands on the sick and they shall, recover shall.

  665. Recover this is A mark.

  666. Sixteen House Lord, jesus we agree with, It we partner with,

  667. it and we, say, come we give you place to

  668. move amongst us over these next six.

  669. Weeks and we, say show yourself and power in the

  670. name Of. Jesus, amen