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Stones of Fire | Pastor Joel Wolfe

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  1. We are not a normal church. Have you ever figured that out yet?

  2. If you're coming here for just church, what I forgot to dismiss the baptism

  3. people. Can you go start getting changed and then you'll be in that back

  4. row back? Oh good, good, there you go. We're gonna have

  5. a great day. God is doing something today. I have felt it since

  6. last night. There is gonna be a shift in the spirit realm. Sometimes

  7. we don't always see it, we don't know, but there's just something happening.

  8. And today the kingdom is moving forward, just one more notch. I

  9. feel it. I don't know about you, but I feel it. Amen.

  10. God is good. God is so good. Yeah, I'm just drinking

  11. you in. I've been waiting all week for this. Seems like it was

  12. just yesterday. We were all here just doing the same thing, just just

  13. a few days ago. Hope you had a good week. Do you have

  14. a good week? I had a fabulous week, great things, some up,

  15. some downs, but you know, overall, I think I did pretty

  16. good this week. How about you? Amen? Well, church is my

  17. favorite place to go, and Sundays are my favorite days, and you are

  18. my favorite people. So I'm just having the time of my life here.

  19. I don't know about you, but I am having a great time, a

  20. great time. Welcome to church again. We keep saying that, but I

  21. mean it with all my heart. Welcome to my church. This is my

  22. church. There's lots of churches. Welcome to my church. This is the

  23. pile I picked. You are the pile. Now. If you were here

  24. two weeks ago, you know what I would talk about. But anyway,

  25. yeah, listen to this sermon if you missed that one. But this is

  26. the pile. Hello, Melanie, Oh, you have no idea. How

  27. many times I just want to just burst out in love for somebody. Everybody,

  28. give Melanie a hand back from Israel. Hallelujah, safe and sound.

  29. I can't wait to hear your stories. Oh my goodness, so good to

  30. see you. You're my sister. But welcome to church. Welcome to New

  31. Horizon. Okay, New Horizon is one just one little itty bitty bitty bitty

  32. bitty bit of this huge thing called the church. We're a little piece of

  33. the church. We're small, small Sea Church, New Horizon. There is

  34. a thing called Big Sea Church and it's huge. It is the biggest organization

  35. in the world, the Big Sea Church. There are thirty seven million little

  36. tiny sea churches. They come together, speaking the same thing, reading from

  37. the same Bible, worshiping the same God, the same Jesus, the same

  38. cross, the same blood, the same faith, the same unity, the

  39. same thirty seven million, And as Angie pointed out for service, we don't

  40. even know how many underground churches. That blew my mind. So you're not

  41. just some little thing here. We're big. Even though we're little. We

  42. are one cell in the body of Christ. We talked about the cells last

  43. week. You want to listen to that sermon too, It's really good.

  44. We are the underpinning of society. Jesus is the greatest influencer you'll ever follow.

  45. If he had an Instagram account, I think he would blow everybody out

  46. of the water. Jesus and his church, because he's been partnering with the

  47. church now for two thousand years, has influenced government, has influenced education,

  48. the arts, music, everything. Hospitals. Did you know that in the

  49. fourth century the Pope of the Church made a decree that every church had to

  50. have a hospital next to it, And so all of a sudden, these

  51. hospitals were popping up all over the place, and the healthcare of humanity went

  52. up because of the Church. No, you don't understand, you might say

  53. to me, and I've heard it said, what would the world be without

  54. Disney? Disney's so influential. The children were watching Disney movies over and over

  55. and over and over and over and over. It's saturated. It's the clothes

  56. we wear, it's the lines that we peel off at a moment's notice.

  57. Right, it's fun. But I would like to say, what would the

  58. world be like without Jesus? Because it would be a very different place.

  59. And also what would the world be like without the Church. We are the

  60. light, We are the salt. We are the steadying force around the world.

  61. We are the ones that go toe to tae against hell and it won't

  62. prevail we do. That's the Church. Welcome to Church. Welcome to Church.

  63. So all those things that I listen to you are just outcroppings, out

  64. workings of God's amazing core strategy. And he's been working the strategy for a

  65. long time. He's been working the strategy. And here's the strategy one Corinthians

  66. three, verse sixteen, And I'm gonna read it in the passion translation.

  67. Are you ready if you don't have this one down by heart. Yet you're

  68. gonna buy the end of today, all right, don't you realize? So

  69. tap the neighbor and say, don't you realize? So I can hear Paul

  70. going, come on, you gotta get this. You're missing something really big.

  71. Don't you realize that, everybody say, together, you have become God's

  72. inner sanctuary, and that the spirit of God makes his what permanent home in

  73. you. That's what Paul tells us. That is his strategy. It's not

  74. the building, it's not the grounds, it's not the carpet or the chairs.

  75. Don't you realize that when you come together, you form an inner sanctuary

  76. where He can inhabit one Peter two five the passion translation again, Come and

  77. be his lively stones or his living stones. Now, in the past couple

  78. weeks, I've been getting some volunteers up here. You guys have all been

  79. fabulous. Clap your hand one more time for those people that came up here.

  80. But today I don't have any people that are coming up as volunteers.

  81. I have some volunteer rocks. They couldn't say no to me because they're inanimate,

  82. inanimate objects. But come, come, come and be his living stones

  83. who are continually being assembled into a sanctuary for God. Now you serve as

  84. holy priests, offering up spiritual sacrifices that He readily accepts through Jesus Christ,

  85. and be his living stones. So I have a bunch of living stones here.

  86. Actually I have stones. These ones aren't living, but you are living

  87. stones. You are of the earth. When God created man, he bent

  88. down and he scraped a bunch of dirt together. Earth. You are of

  89. this earth. You are of the natural realm. And the cool thing is,

  90. and I love this thought. When he bent over to do that,

  91. there was a shadow that was in his image, and he made you in

  92. that image. He formed you into that. You are of the earth.

  93. You're a little rock. But the difference is that here blew his breath into

  94. you, the zoe breath of life, and you are now a living stone.

  95. All right. So here's these stones. I gotta get my water out

  96. of the way here, and my black skirts gotten all dirty today, my

  97. fault. Come and be his lively stones. Gather together. So this morning

  98. you woke up and you were just a few. There's maybe one or two

  99. or five of you in your house, But you got up and you said

  100. I'm gonna go to church. I'm gonna gather together. So y'all got in

  101. your car and you drove to this place. Everybody say this place. Now,

  102. you could drive anywhere you want to other churches, because there's other wonderful

  103. churches out there, but you chose this one because this is my church.

  104. It's your church. It's your home church, right And if you want to

  105. make a different church your church, you may, but go to church.

  106. Pick a pile. Okay, So all these some of these rocks are kind

  107. of dirty, they kind of aren't nice, kind of muddy, but doesn't

  108. matter, right, because you're coming to church. What does God do with

  109. church? Cleans your right on up? All right? So I'm gonna put

  110. these right here. Is there anymore in there? Oh? A couple more?

  111. Because I want our church to be a big church with lots of lilly

  112. stones. Now, this stone right here is gonna come to church. But

  113. this church today, this church, this stone is going to serve in nursery

  114. today. But they're still here, and this one's gonna come. I was

  115. telling first service. This one is Lisa Olds. Does anybody know who Lisa

  116. Olds? Is a few of you do you know what Lisa Olds does every

  117. single Sunday. She no, not nitro, Lisa Olds, not come,

  118. not polled. Lisa Olds. She comes and she goes into the nursery and

  119. she pulls the old sheets off and puts clean sheets that she washed that day,

  120. and then takes hold home the old every Sunday. So I'm gonna make

  121. sure I have Lisa in our gathering. She's amazing. And there's more.

  122. So what happens? So we keep hearing that we're supposed to gather together and

  123. we're stones, lively stones, and what happens when we come together? Something

  124. happens. When we come together, we become his permanent sanctuary. We become

  125. his permanent sanctuary, a place for him to dwell. So what does that

  126. mean? Let's look in the Word to find out, because sometimes our experience

  127. doesn't line up with what God has in mind. So we have to know,

  128. we have to understand what is the point, what is the purpose?

  129. Why do we do this? So what happens when a gathering of God's people

  130. meets God's presence? Open your bibles to Exodus nineteen. Now before you put

  131. that up there, Johnny, I'm gonna give you a little context in Exodus.

  132. We've got Moses, We've got the children of Israel that's been in Egypt

  133. and been in slavery. And we have Moses who was one day mine in

  134. his own business, and he finds a bush that's burning, a little tiny

  135. bush, and he had to kind of go over and kind of peek at

  136. it a little bit. But when he looked at that, he thought,

  137. oh, my goodness, this is the presence of God. He took off

  138. his sandals and he listened and heard. He met God there in that little

  139. burning bush, and his life was forever changed, and his future was he

  140. came into to clarity. Right. So he then goes and he's this big

  141. deliver and he pulls out six million people out of Egypt, and now this

  142. is going to become God's people, God's nation. And so God says,

  143. okay, Moses, now listen, I need to meet my people, and

  144. my people need to meet me. We need to come together and experience one

  145. another so that we can move forward with this whole nation of Israel, of

  146. God and all of that kind of thing. So he says, okay,

  147. listen, Moses, I want you to tell the people to get ready,

  148. have them go wash their clothes, scrub up, take a bath. Stop

  149. sinning for three days. How many of you know that might be hard for

  150. a few of them as well as us. No sinning for three days,

  151. and consecrate yourself, and now go ahead and put the scripture up. That's

  152. the context for this. On the morning of the third day, there was

  153. thunder and lightning and a thick cloud over the mountain and a very loud trumpet

  154. blast, and everyone in the camp trembled. Then Moses led the people out

  155. of the camp to meet with God. They stood at the foot of the

  156. mountain. Mount Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord descended upon it.

  157. In what in what so? How does God meet us? Fire? The

  158. smoke billowed up, so that same kind of fire was on that little,

  159. tiny burning bush. But now God's about to get real to the whole nation.

  160. The smoke built up from it like smoke from a furnace, and the

  161. whole mountain trembled. Huh, that's a story. So the people of God

  162. gathered and the presence of God came and it was fiery. Everybody say fiery.

  163. So now we're gonna move forward about five hundred years to another gathering.

  164. This gathering is King Solomon. A lot has happened in the Israelite life.

  165. The Israelites have gone through a whole bunch. And now it's five hundred years

  166. later, and King Solomon had finally built the temple. It was made out

  167. of stone, and he built it with such exquisite care, and he called

  168. all of the Israelites to gathered together. And in Second Chronicles seven is It

  169. seven yep Seven, Verse one, it says this, when Solomon finished praying,

  170. what came down? What came down came down from heaven and consumed the

  171. burnt offerings and the sacrifices, and the glory of God filled the temple.

  172. The priest could not enter the temple for the Lord of the Lord, because

  173. the glory of the Lord had filled it. When all the Israelites saw the

  174. what come down and the glory of the Lord above the temple, they knelt

  175. on the pavement with their faces in the ground, and they worshiped and gave

  176. thanks to the Lord, saying he is good. His love endures forever.

  177. Now we're going to fast forward about another thousand years. Acts two. Don't

  178. put it up quite yet, No, don't give it away. Acts two.

  179. Jesus has been born in Bethlehem. He's grown up, he's done his

  180. miracles, he's done his amazing teachings, he's gathered a following. He's died

  181. on the cross. He went into hell, rose again three days later,

  182. appeared to hundreds of people, and as the disciples gathered together, he ascended

  183. into heaven and said, go and wait in Jerusalem. So all of his

  184. followers, the ones that really were close to him, met in Jerusalem and

  185. gathered there and prayed. So now Acts two starts. When the day of

  186. Pentecost had come, they were what were they? In one place? All

  187. together, in one place, not hanging out doing their own thing, not

  188. running around, not doing there all together. Do you understand the importance of

  189. gathering of the people of God together. There's something that happens together that doesn't

  190. happen apart. Now there's things that happen apart that don't happen together. So

  191. don't give up your your alone time with God. That's what he takes.

  192. Shin scrubs up a little bit. That's when you're reading the Word and the

  193. presence comes in and says, honey, that one's for you. You need

  194. to pray through that one. Don't give up your single you know your your

  195. individual time. But I will tell you that when you come all together in

  196. one place, something else happens. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound

  197. like a rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where

  198. they were sitting. Divided tongues as what appeared among them, and the tongue

  199. rested on each of them. Can't read that, that's the next section.

  200. Don't go there, so take that down. We'll get there. Make it

  201. go away, okay, keep all eyes on me. Right That day was

  202. profound. So not only the first time was fire on the mountain, The

  203. second time was fire in the temple. The third one I'm talking about is

  204. now fire in you. I just let that sink in a little bit.

  205. Fire in you that birthed the church. That day, three thousand were saved,

  206. and it birthed the church. And the church is supposed to be something

  207. just like that. It's supposed to do exactly what he put together. And

  208. at the end of that chapter it actually describes that its acts two versus forty

  209. two through forty seven. You can go ahead and put that up now,

  210. I guess and it's really small type. I don't know what happened to that.

  211. So Hovey's going to get fixed. Give me my phone and I'll just

  212. read it, please, may I instead of gimme sorry about that? Is

  213. it there? Okay? I can read it. I'll have to turn around.

  214. This is this is this is after those tongues fell. Peter preaches his

  215. sermon three thousand come to the Lord and the Church's birth. This is what

  216. the church looks like. Now I'm gonna read this, but with that coming

  217. in your heart and in your mind as I read it, I want you

  218. to think about this because everything we do here at New Horizon, we try

  219. to do our very best in today's culture to mimic that, to mimic what

  220. you're about to hear. And the strategy that we have put together is my

  221. home. In other words, you have a home church, my community.

  222. You have a small group, you have a team where you serve one another

  223. in it, and you have growth constantly happening. You're choosing to come to

  224. classes and doing things and soaking and learning and growing, and that is what

  225. sets the church on fire. Are you ready? Well? The Holy Spirit

  226. does. But you know what I mean. Every believer was faithfully devoted to

  227. the following to following the teachings of the apostles. Their hearts were mutually linked

  228. to one another, sharing communion and coming together regularly for prayer. Coming together,

  229. coming together, a deep sense of holy awe swept over everyone, and

  230. the Apostles performed many miracles and signs and wonders. All the believers were in

  231. fellowship as one body. They shared with one another whatever they had out of

  232. the generosity. They even sold their assets to distribute the proceeds to those who

  233. were in need among them. Daily they met what in the temple courts and

  234. in one another's homes, two places they met together. Temple courts was a

  235. big area where they could handle. It was a big venue. It could

  236. handle all of them coming together. Something happened there that didn't happen in the

  237. homes. But something happened in the homes that never happened in the big temple.

  238. They did. Both both are needed. Both gatherings are needed at one

  239. another's homes to celebrate communion. They shared meals together. Hey, if you

  240. want to have me over for dinner, I will come. This is a

  241. fine art of church that has gotten lost over the years, we used to

  242. go over and hang out at each other's house and just eat. Let's do

  243. that more. Whoever you meet today, invite them out to coffee, you

  244. know, just let's have more of this together, all right. That's just

  245. a little bit of me, and I love it when you asked me out

  246. to dinner. They shared meals together with joyful hearts and tender humility. They

  247. were continually filled with the praises, with praises to God, enjoying the favor

  248. of all the people, and the Lord kept, Oh, by the way,

  249. the Lord kept adding to their number daily, those who are coming to

  250. life. That was an outflow, that last sentence of everything from the beginning

  251. of that passage. This is the life of our church. This is our

  252. hope and our desire and our goal. And we're leading this charge. Are

  253. you following? So the coming together of lively stones of rocks. They're not

  254. very pretty, they're kind of gray, can't really see through them. They're

  255. just kind of there. They're not fancy, but they showed up. They

  256. showed up. But God promises that when they show up, he shows up.

  257. And when He shows up, you have built an inner sanctuary. You

  258. have built an inner sanctuary for him to show up. And I will tell

  259. you that when he shows up, he shows up with fire. And when

  260. fire meets rock, things change. When fire meets stones, the stones never

  261. emerge the same. When heat and fire touch stone, they melt, they

  262. get purified, they melt. Let's just stop right there. I could preach

  263. the rest of the sermon on melting. Some of us, as rocks,

  264. don't do a good job melting in his presence and in his fire. We

  265. stand cool on the outside, kind of rotten on the inside. But we

  266. don't dare let the outer be consumed because you might see my inner failings.

  267. When heat, it eats rocks, it melts. And I would say,

  268. people of God, every time you come into the presence of God, just

  269. yield to the melt. Just melt. I don't care. I can tell

  270. you stories about me today. I told first service stories about me today.

  271. You don't get them because they we're short on time. But I am just

  272. like you. Melt, be purified. I pray you'd come forward and leave

  273. baggage, sin, death, addictions, everything at this altar and become changed

  274. when the presence of God comes into you and meets you as a human being.

  275. The presence of God is not to just entertain you. The presence of

  276. God has to change you, to absolutely rearrange the minerals inside of When it

  277. hits heat and they tell us pressure, coal, ugly, rotten, weak,

  278. nothing, Coal turns into diamonds, aluminum oxide inside of these rocks.

  279. If heat and pressure hit it, it will turn into a ruby. No

  280. longer will it be a rock, a plain old rock. It will turn

  281. into precious gems, precious stones. I will change from being a living stone

  282. to a precious stone. That's what the presence of God is all about.

  283. Heat, heat, fire, It changes the composition of us. Pressure.

  284. Some of us are under pressure right now. Life brings pressure. Raise your

  285. hand. If you have a trial or a tribulation right now in your life,

  286. there you go, hallelujah, because you know what, girl, friend,

  287. you are in the presence of God. And when we take our pressures,

  288. our trials, our tribulations, and we bring them into here where the

  289. presence of God is different here than it is at my house. The presence

  290. of God is different than it is even when I'm at my friend's house or

  291. listening online. Thank you for listening online. We love you. But there's

  292. something about being here. The presence of God meets us in a way that

  293. is not like anything else. And the point is to change your makeup.

  294. The point is to turn my lively stones into precious stones. Precious stones,

  295. diamonds, rubies, opals, all of them. They're classified and defined by

  296. how fiery they are. Have you ever heard the term fiery talking about precious

  297. stones. It's when you take pure light. When I shine prior light into

  298. that, nothing happens. It's pretty dull, it's pretty clouded. But if

  299. you take this with intense pressure and intense heat, fire, fire, it

  300. will turn that and it will become clear, and it will become something that

  301. the light shines into it and it refracts it. It reflects the glory my

  302. diamond. I wanted to have all these to be diamonds, but I can't.

  303. I just don't have it. But my little diamond here used to be

  304. used to be It's the glory. That's the glory of what we get.

  305. People of God, with the Gospel of God and his plan a fire.

  306. Use shine light in my diamond. It's gonna show spots all over. This

  307. room is gonna reflect. You look into an opal with bright light and it

  308. begins to colorfully set itself on fire. That's what gems do. So my

  309. question to you, are you a fiery one? The people of Exodus in

  310. that passage, the people of Exodus, when that fire came down on Mount

  311. Sine eyed, do you know what they did? They ran away and they

  312. said, Moses, that fire is gonna consume us and we will die.

  313. Don't let us get anywhere near that fire. I want to stay away from

  314. the fire. You go to the fire for me, that will consume me.

  315. And they protected their flesh and they held back their souls. The story

  316. of Second Chronicles. When the fire came, you saw it in that verse.

  317. The people's faces hit the ground, and they worshiped in the midst of

  318. it. I'll say an axe. When the fire fell, it consumed them.

  319. It consumed them. They lived in the fire every day. They didn't

  320. just come and see it for the weekend and go home and do their own

  321. thing. That fire, those tongues of fire didn't just hang out at the

  322. church and when they walk back in pick it up again. They went out

  323. of that room and burned. They were fiery ones. So what's the point

  324. of church? We gather. See this, we gather. Sometimes you bug

  325. me, but we gather. We gather where we're supposed to gather. We

  326. gather where we're called together, and we begin hosting the presents. And it

  327. becomes a little more each Sunday and a little more, a little more,

  328. and I melt a little bit more. Father, God melts me. I

  329. make new changes. I make you know. I let it affect me.

  330. I change me. We host the presence, the fiery presence. I'm sorry

  331. here at New Horizon, It's not gonna be three hymns and a scripture this

  332. place. I am dedicated to make this place a fiery house of God.

  333. I want the fire so for a little much for you. Sorry, I

  334. can't comment. I don't want to comment. I don't want to comment.

  335. I don't want to comb it. I don't want to comment. That's us,

  336. that's us. But just no, I'm gonna call on you to burn.

  337. I'm gonna call on you to melt while I'm melting. I'm gonna call

  338. on you to be transformed while I'm being transformed. I'm gonna call on you

  339. to be humble while I be humble. I'm gonna call on you to forgive.

  340. Well, I forgive because God's making me into a precious gem under the

  341. heat. I bring my trials, my tribulations, my pressures to the presence

  342. of God. Amen, So I'll stand. We become the fiery ones.

  343. I, You and new Horizon are not what we used to be. I

  344. am not what I used to be. Praise God. How many of you

  345. can say I am not what I used to be? This church is not

  346. what it used to be. I remember the firs services that we had.

  347. Praise God. It's not what I used to have to play the piano and

  348. I was the only backup. Aren't you glad? This place is not like

  349. it used to be. I am, but we're not what we're gonna be.

  350. And I declare that this is a house of fire. I dedicate myself

  351. as a fiery one. Anybody want to join me? I stand up and

  352. I say, Father, God, meet me with fire, Meet me with

  353. fire. Don't let me stay the same, Don't let me stay the same,

  354. don't let me hold on to oh the you know what, I almost

  355. cussed a little cuss word. I didn't go make me a living sacrifice.

  356. When I don't want to come to church, I get here when I don't

  357. want to get up and read the word. I get there when I don't

  358. want to pray. I get there when I don't want to love you.

  359. I get there when I don't want to forgive you. I get there when

  360. I don't want to. I slay the thing within me that doesn't want to

  361. I lay it on the altar, because these living stones kind of look like

  362. an old fashioned altar in the time of Abraham. I climb up there,

  363. and I say, Father, send the fire and take me out, and

  364. only leave the pure and the beautiful that can reflect your light. Sorry,

  365. the fire's burning and I'm two minutes late. I dedicate this church to fire.

  366. I dedicate this church to fire. I dedicate this church to fire.

  367. We are not programs, We are not a service, we are not a

  368. show. I dedicate this church to fire. I dedicate this church to fire.

  369. That First Corinthians verse I don't have it up there, But the next

  370. half of that first says he says at the beginning, it says, let

  371. me just remind you. I gotta get this out. Don't you realize that

  372. together you'll become God's inner sanctuary. And then the spirit makes his permanent home

  373. in your you and I can't remember the exact words, but read it after

  374. church. It says, and anyone who messes with my sanctuary, I will

  375. mess with you. Treat this with a holy awe. And I'm not saying

  376. this. I'm saying this because this is the place where God desires to set

  377. up his holy sanctuary. It's between us, it's in us, it's around

  378. us, it's with us. In Jesus name. Amen, praise God.

  379. Let's raise your hands right now and just confirm it. Hallelujah, hallelujah,

  380. hallelujah. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord, Thank

  381. you Jesus. Praise your holy name. Hallelujah. Right now, right now,

  382. right now. If you're carrying the weights and the pressures of this world

  383. and it makes you even want to stay away from the presence of God,

  384. I say, right now you will feel you will find the answer. You

  385. will get released from that. In Jesus' name and God, I thank you.

  386. Right now. Fire fall on this church, fire fall on the Church

  387. of Jesus Christ. Fire fall, fire fall on this earth. Fire fall,

  388. fire fall, Lord, God, take us, take us, Take

  389. us So in Acts two, verse forty two, I believe forty one.

  390. You don't have it back there, Johnny. They said three thousand people were

  391. added that day and they were baptized, and they were added to the church.

  392. Today, we're going to baptize the Are you ready for that. We

  393. are trying to do as best as we possibly can from a human perspective to

  394. live and acts chapter to church. But I tell you what, people's kind

  395. of lonely when it's just me and Duayne, or me and Duenna a few

  396. But when we all are joined together, Dennis, come on up. If

  397. you have children in the back, we're gonna transition right now into baptism.

  398. This is just an addition to the service, just an addition, everybody say,

  399. add non service is gonna go late in a little bit. You ready

  400. for that because we're gonna baptize a whole slew of people. We needed two

  401. sides today because because because oh by the way, when the people of God

  402. come together and the fire of God meets them, there are people that accept

  403. Christ all the time. There's people that renew their life to the Kingdom all

  404. the time, and they need to be baptized all the time. So just

  405. get ready for this, amen. So if you have kids, in the

  406. back. I want you to go and pick them up and then bring it

  407. back in here. You don't have to stay in your seat, get up

  408. close. You want your children to watch this because this is what the church

  409. does. Baptism is what the church does. Everybody say, this is what

  410. church does. Amen, hallelujah. All right, So we got the band

  411. going. We got baptizers over here, we got dunkers over here, we

  412. got two dunkers. Amazing, mighty men, It's gonna be good. Are

  413. you ready? How about you, Dennis? Are you ready? Who I

  414. knew I could count on you for some fire. Fuego fuego. Okay,

  415. Dennis, you want to leave us out with our first candidate? Who do

  416. we have? Oh my, oh, my goodness, what do you do

  417. with that? Junius and his testimony is? I grew up in church,

  418. and I always watched my parents and brothers how they connected with God and how

  419. they felt God. Even though I knew and believed in God, I had

  420. never experienced that spiritual connection until a few weeks ago. It was then that

  421. I truly felt the presence of God and the Holy Spirit in my life.

  422. Now I'm sure I don't want to stop feeling it in my life. WHOA

  423. come on, come on, yes, yes, all right, Sue.

  424. Let's reach our hands over. Let's reach our hands over. You're part of

  425. his baptism here today. Yes, Lord, Father God, let's go ahead

  426. and stretch heart our hands. I'm praying. Father, We thank you for

  427. hasuiss life. We thank you, Lord for the great work that you are

  428. doing in this mighty young man of God. Say Lord, from this day

  429. forward, hallelujah, fresh baptism of water, fresh baptism of fire, the

  430. Holy Spirit in his life, moving in power like never before. Father God,

  431. we give you praise. Come on, lift up a shot of praise

  432. over this mighty young man. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Helleliah, Alilia, work

  433. your mighty work, your mighty work. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus,

  434. Thank you, Forward, Thank you Jesus. All right, keep it

  435. going, keep it going. They're about ready. Don't give them. It's

  436. about ready to happen. Yes, Lord, thank you Jesus. Yes,

  437. Lord, pray, never depart from the word of God. Yes, every

  438. step of the way. Yes, Hella, holla, hell yah. All

  439. right, we got over here. Oh my friends, how are you I

  440. met you a couple of weeks. You were ago, you were standing behind

  441. me. I felt the presence of God all over you, remember, and

  442. I called you out. I prayed for you, and here you stand,

  443. not because of me, because of what God's doing in her life. See

  444. God's calling people. I am ready to build a life with Jesus. God

  445. has been trying to pull me in the last few months, and I'm ready

  446. to start building my life with Him and for him. Have you accepted Jesus

  447. Christ as your personal savior? Are you in love with him? Yes?

  448. Are you ready to give him your life? Yes? Okay, go ahead

  449. on over there. We're going to go into obedience with baptism. So baptism

  450. is this amazing kind of identifying with when Christ die on the cross and he

  451. went down into the grave, he died, his natural life died, and

  452. when he came up out of that grave, he came back in the life

  453. of Christ. And that's what we are identifying with in the Bible, and

  454. that's what baptism is all about. Hallelujah. So let's just reach our hands

  455. towards Emma. I thank you right now for your goodness in her life.

  456. Just begin to prophesy over him her. When I turned around, I said,

  457. God is all over you, and I want to just release His presence

  458. on you. So let's continue that prayer right now. In Jesus' name.

  459. Hallelujah, God, we praise you for Emma. We praise you for Emma.

  460. We praise you for Emma. We praise you for her. God.

  461. We speak right now, mighty things to come out of her life. God,

  462. I think you. She's a mother to many, she is a nurturer,

  463. she is incredible. She is going to carry the word of wisdom on

  464. her tongue in Jesus' name. She is not going to follow the ways of

  465. the enemy. We break it off of her. We break it off of

  466. her, We break it off of her and Jesus' name. Hallelujah, Thank

  467. you Father God. Right now, right now, right now, hallelujah,

  468. hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Let's go,

  469. oh hallelujah, prays Jesus. Go ahead. Who do we got? Well?

  470. We have Marlin on this side, and Marlon is excited. He's saying,

  471. I want new thinking, I want his ways, better days, and

  472. being saved. Hallelujah. Come on, so stretch your hand over to Marlin.

  473. Let's go ahead and pray. Right, this is one of my favorites.

  474. This is one of my favorites. We just halujah, keep it going.

  475. Did you have a hitters? Thank you, Lord for the great work

  476. that you are doing in this mighty Man of God. We thank you for

  477. renewed thinking in his bye by the power of the word, Father God.

  478. We thank you Lord that your ways are better. We thank you, Father

  479. God that he is saved and he has started his new journey with you.

  480. In Jesus' name, Go ahead and stretch out your hand. And this is

  481. his wife right here. She's getting baptized next. So let's pray over this

  482. whole entire family. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Let's go, let's go, let's

  483. go pray. Come on, dude, Oh love, praise O. Pray.

  484. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh I'm having way too much fun up here.

  485. Hallelujah. We have a little girl here named Jaslyn Warren. How are you

  486. today? Good? Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior? Yes?

  487. Do you love him? Yes? Have you had your sins washed away.

  488. Yes, amen, Jaslyn says, I'd like to be baptized because I have

  489. a better understanding of what baptism means. And since I've given my life to

  490. him, I'd like to identify with the death burial, and this girl knows

  491. what she's talking about, with the death, the burial, and the resurrection

  492. of my Lord Jesus, and I want to live for him, Jocelyn,

  493. I speak over you and say you are mighty and powerful. Satan. I

  494. break your hold off of her in Jesus' name, and her future is in

  495. you. Go ahead and climb in your little your little burial tank. Here,

  496. go ahead, Jaslyin. You're gonna be mighty in the church. Someday

  497. You're gonna be mighty in the church. You're mighty already. You are mighty

  498. already, you are already filled with influence. Hallelujah God, I say,

  499. right now, the spirit of darkness is broken off of you. There will

  500. be no rebellion in your life. You will choose right, and you will

  501. choose well. Mighty girl, you are mighty, You are mighty. You

  502. are mighty Father in Jesus name. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Thank you, Jesus,

  503. Praise you, Father God. Hello, do you get ready? Here

  504. we go, Here we go, Here we go. Hallelujah, hallelujah,

  505. halleluiah. Thank you Lord Jesus. Shoutings. So we have mercy here with

  506. us, and mercy have us. I want to receive the Holy Spirit in

  507. my life. I want to come out on fire for Jesus. I want

  508. to be made you. I want to be a woman of God, growing

  509. up even as a child of God. I want to receive power hell one

  510. with the Lord. This is your moment, this is your time for such

  511. a time as this. Whoa fire fire, Let's get in that water.

  512. Hallelujah. It is coming to pass. Hallelujah. Mercy, hallelujah. Mercy,

  513. hallelujah. Mercy. God's mercy, God's power, God's grace have brossed

  514. you to this point. Hallelujah. It is a time of fulfillment over your

  515. life. In Jesus' name. Stretch out your hands over mercy. Hallelujah,

  516. hallelujah in Jesus name, Father God, Jesus, thank you. That's crazy.

  517. He's the sinless spirit of that raised Jesus, spirit of from the dead.

  518. Hallelujah, lives in her. She is living out. She is living

  519. out. Not wish you have Britain over her life. Mother, godory your

  520. glory like Jesus, hand of God. Yeah, yeah, yes, the

  521. Lord, come on, God's Lord, yes, oh God, Jesus Christy

  522. all right. I got someone extra special on this side. He's got a

  523. whole family over here waiting for him up here, Riker, and Riker's dad

  524. is gonna dunk him. So how about that? People, families of God

  525. working together? Amen, Riiker, Greg. Have you accepted Jesus as your

  526. personal savior? Yes? Has he washed your sins away? Yes? Do

  527. you love him? Yes? Does he love you? Yes? A man?

  528. Right answers, right answers. I would like to further relationship with God

  529. and my sins to be washed away. I want to go in dirty and

  530. old and come out new and clean, new and clean. All right,

  531. Riker, are you ready for this? Okay? Go ahead, go ahead

  532. and climb in. This young man has got his whole future in front of

  533. him. And I say right now that what the devil has had in mind

  534. for you, the spirit of God cancels it. Father God, I thank

  535. you right now that your presence comes. Your presence comes over this young man

  536. in Jesus' name, and God, I say right now that the book that

  537. has been written over him from the very foundation of the earth is the one

  538. that will be read and that will be lived out in Jesus' name. There

  539. will be no rebellion in your life. There will be no disobedience. You

  540. give your life to Jesus' son, Give your life to Jesus, Give your

  541. life to Jesus. Live your life for Jesus. Let the fire of God

  542. melt your heart to Jesus' name. Hallelujah, Oh love of Halliah. Hoss.

  543. We have Danny Dion here, and he says, I am starving each

  544. day to dedicate my life to our Father in heaven, who watches over his

  545. prayer warriors. I was baptized as a Catholic, but now I am surrendering

  546. everything to Jesus, my heart, my mind, and my soul, allowing

  547. him to guide me towards salvation and to fulfill his purpose for me as his

  548. devoted servant. Donny, hallelu is your moment. Let's get in the water.

  549. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus,

  550. Praise your holy name. Hallelujah. Let's prophesy over Danny right now, prophesy

  551. over him. Lord, hallelujah. Call everything that is not as though it

  552. is in Jesus' name. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Lord, Thank you.

  553. You are a mighty man of God. You are a mighty man of

  554. God. You follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. You have melted before

  555. the fire of God. In Jesus' name. Your life is being changed and

  556. rearranged. You will be a fiery one in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Lord,

  557. Hell, Lord, your will is fulfilled in Danny's life. Father God,

  558. your will is fulfilled in Danny's life. Halladay for your glory in Jesus'

  559. name. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you Lord. It is done. It

  560. is done. It is done. It is done. Thank you Jesus,

  561. Thank you God. Hell. Okay, we have landon. Come on out

  562. here, mighty man of God, handsome, mighty man of God. Oh

  563. you don't get over there quite yet, No, not yet, not yet.

  564. We got to read about you. Landon. Land has been how long

  565. have you been coming to church? Six weeks? Six weeks. God's doing

  566. a work. God's doing work. Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior?

  567. How long ago I was born? Sure, you're kind of one of

  568. those born in the church kind of kids. I love it. That's what

  569. I was like. So praise God. There will be no rebellion, no

  570. straying away from the Kingdom of God. You will live a life without sorrow,

  571. covered in His presence. You will be a protector. You will be

  572. a protector. You're gonna defend. You're gonna defend the vulnerable. You have

  573. a warrior cry in you and you've never let it out. You have a

  574. warrior cry inside of you for justice, for righteousness, and for goodness.

  575. And you you, your shot will break, will break, will break the

  576. gates of hell in Jesus name. Amen, you're getting more than you signed

  577. up for. I think here, I think you're getting more. Okay,

  578. you can go ahead and jump in there. I'll read his card to you.

  579. I want to be baptized because I want to be nude and feel closer

  580. to God, and I want to give my life fully to Jesus. Hallelujah.

  581. Let's just pray into everything. I just prayed over this young man.

  582. God, I think you right now that you're going to release the warrior spirit

  583. out of him. He's got stuff inside of him. He had no idea

  584. he's had I thank you right now that he is going to rise. He

  585. hasn't grown into it. You know how it is when you put on a

  586. coat that is too big for you, but it's destined to be your coat.

  587. You got to grow into it, you got to mature into it.

  588. And that's what he's about to do. Hallelujah. God has just put a

  589. cloak a calling upon him. Hallelujah, Lord God, thank you Jesus for

  590. landon right now. Just intercede, intercede, intercede, intercede, intercede.

  591. You know that enemy hates him. Don't shoot. The enemy wants to kill,

  592. steel and destroy. But the power Jesus inside of him will cause him

  593. to rise, will cause him to rise, will cause him to rise.

  594. Hallelujah, Thank you Lord, Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Here

  595. we go, Here we go, Here we go, Hallelujah. Line in

  596. the same moment, hallelujah. Who wants to prall, Thank YOURDS, Praint

  597. your Father, Praise your Father, God, so here we have Winter with

  598. Dad Delano, and Winter's getting baptized today, and she wants to be baptized

  599. to live alife with Jesus. I want to live a life with Jesus too,

  600. hallelujah. And so Dad Delano and Winter are gonna come up and Dad

  601. is going to baptize her with Frank. Hallelujah. Way to be a priest

  602. for your household. And we celebrate Winter today as she wants to live life

  603. with Jesus. Hallelujah. And she's already seen Jesus through her Dad. Amen.

  604. Come on, yes, Lord, Yes, Lord, Oh, that

  605. the children of this house would be baptized at an early age, giving their

  606. lives to Him. Hallelujah. Go ahead, Sorry, I just want to

  607. thank you. Come on, this is an awesome partnership. Hallelue. Yes,

  608. Lord, We thank you for Winter. We thank you, Father God,

  609. that you bring her through every season of her life as a beautiful young

  610. daughter, Father God, filled with the presence of God walking a life of

  611. victory in Jesus' name. Lord, we thank you for Winter. We thank

  612. you for your glory, Father God, that in dwells in her Father God.

  613. Thank you, Lord for a new life filled with power in Jesus' name.

  614. Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah. Okay, let's start clapping for this little

  615. girl. They say, claps are why you chase the enemy with love,

  616. race, love, ray. He lost to Okay, Crystal, come on

  617. out. Do you remember Landon? Do you remember land In just a minute

  618. ago? Well? I didn't realize that, but his mama's next. I

  619. should have brought her out first. Come on out. So this is the

  620. one that birthed that, right, the other one. So here's Crystal,

  621. Crystal. Have you accepted Jesus as your personal savior? Yes? Has he

  622. washed her sins away? Yes? Have you give him control of your life?

  623. Yes? Do you want to be a fiery one? Absolutely? Halenm

  624. lou Ya, hallem louya, Halleloo. You're a mighty mom. You're a

  625. mighty mom. You have more mothering to do. It might not be of

  626. your own natural, but there will be many children that come to you.

  627. I'm thinking they're gonna be like Landon's age group. They're gonna gather to you

  628. because they're gonna find peace and wisdom. And you go ahead and climb in

  629. from there. Hello, Crystal Weeks I want to be baptized because I want

  630. a restored life with my savior, Jesus Christ. I want to feel whole

  631. inside and be full of the Holy Spirit. I give my life to God

  632. in Jesus' name or God. Begin to clap for her, hallelujah. As

  633. I said, clapping, Let's go with that drum beat. Clapping is a

  634. sign of covenant. It's also a sign of driving away the enemy. Let's

  635. do that. After this girl's life, I think that she has had some

  636. weren't spoken over her that needs to be broken. I think there's been some

  637. circumstances in her life that need to be rearranged and cut off of her.

  638. Hallelujah. Crystal is not alone. She has a church with her. She's

  639. got other living stones. Hellllujah, Hellelujah. He lost you, Hellah,

  640. prist the Lord. Hallelujah. So now Delano is gonna baptize his second daughter.

  641. Hallelujah. Chloe and Chloe, coming up here, Coming up here,

  642. Chloe. Chloe says, I want to be baptized because I want to live

  643. alife with Jesus. Amen. So, Chloe, are you ready for this?

  644. You're ready to live your new life with Jesus. All right, let's

  645. get in the water. Come on. Hallelujah. Father, We thank you

  646. for Chloe. Father. We thank you Lord that this young lady wild lift

  647. out her days Lord, with you guiding every of the way. We thank

  648. you, Father God, Lord, that this young lady is protected, it's

  649. cared for, Father God, that she is a fiery one burning for you

  650. Lord. For this generation, Father God, she will be a world changer.

  651. Lord. We thank you for the fresh annointy that is in her life,

  652. Father God, to be able to influence all of her friends. Lord

  653. for the Kingdom of God. In Jesus' name, we release that over her,

  654. Father God, as she walks this life with you. Amen. Amen,

  655. Amen, hallelujah, hallelujah, Ohah, praise you Jesus, hallelujah.

  656. The whole family over there, Okay, come on out. We have Gabriel

  657. over here. Gabriel was just sharing me his story. Gabriel. Everybody get

  658. gabrielle a shout. So I didn't get the whole story perfectly right, So

  659. if we need to change some details, but he found himself in a life

  660. of addiction, a life that it was totally opposite of God leading kind of

  661. a rough and tumble lifestyle. Amen. Anybody ever been there before? Tony?

  662. Have you ever been there before? Hallelujah. We know what it's like.

  663. And apparently two years ago he ended up in a coma and was not

  664. supposed to live, but he woke up, and when he woke up,

  665. he didn't know why he woke up. But over the last two years he's

  666. been finding Christ. He's been finding church, he's been finding his purpose,

  667. he's been finding his call. And he is so ready to go in Jesus'

  668. name. Okay, how'd I do good? Is that right? So?

  669. Have you asked Jesus into your heart? Absolutely? Has he washed your sins

  670. away? Absolutely? Is your life your former life of addiction gone? Oh?

  671. Yeah? Absolutely? Have you been renewed? Yes? Hallelujah? Are

  672. you ready? You go right over there. I'm gonna try to read this

  673. card. It's a little rough. I don't have my glasses. Anybody got

  674. some glasses you can share with me? Right now here? I go ready,

  675. start clapping for him. We're gonna break some things off of his life.

  676. We're gonna break some things off of his life. He can't get in

  677. the water, but he's gonna get a duncan anyway, right, I would

  678. like to completely follow Christ. You got some reading glasses which might be too

  679. hard. Every day since He has made me new and help me stay alive.

  680. I want to be his light and his messenger as God has given me

  681. his vision. I also want to be healed of all impurities in my life

  682. and serve the Lord. People. You are watching a transformation right now.

  683. This man, this is a line in the sand in his life. This

  684. is a line in the sand in his life. He's going to serve God.

  685. He wants to emerge fully out of his past and go into the future.

  686. Hallelujah, Halla, Thank you Lord, Thank you, Lord, y

  687. Jesus. Come on, They just keep coming. So here we have star,

  688. I guess and star. Almost four years ago, there was a point

  689. in my life that cost me to lose our faith. My days passed and

  690. I just went through the emotions, but not truly living alone with a sense

  691. of overwhelming emotions and anxiety. My brother always invited me to church, and

  692. I always put it off until one day something told me it was time I

  693. attended church. That following Sunday, during praise and worship, somebody say praise

  694. and worship I felt toushed. I found myself in tears. Come on,

  695. I feel God's glory of it here whoa tears in the sense of relief that

  696. I was where I needed to be. The weight on my shoulders was no

  697. more, somebody saying no more, and I felt peace. I am thankful

  698. that God has led me here and accepts me with open arms. Hallelujah.

  699. This is star right here. Come on, start, Let's get in the

  700. water and let's celebrate an rice Jesus, hallelujah. Chase every dark thing off,

  701. gonna stay with the drum. Sell let's hear. There we go you

  702. life in Christ. Yes, all things she laes beautiful. Come on,

  703. all things are plaes hallolu. Everything it's made you. Hallelujah. Stop you

  704. are made you in Christ Jesus, hallelujah. Show your Lord, Your Lord,

  705. your Lord. Come on, come on. We prophesy influence over this

  706. lady, great influence. Yes, she will lead many to the Lord.

  707. Come on again. Okay, we got us one, last one, one

  708. last one? Are you ready? Oh? You didn't come out over here

  709. Natalie's side. Everybody say hi to Natalie. How old are you? Natalie?

  710. Good? You're good? How old are you ten? You're ten?

  711. Have you asked Jesus into your heart? Yes? Has he washed your sins

  712. away? Yes? Has he filled you with love? Yes? You're gonna

  713. live your life for him? Yes? In Jesus' name. Yes, Yes,

  714. Amen, Father God, I thank you for this little girl, Lord

  715. God, I thank you for her future. I thank you for her calling.

  716. I thank you right now that she has dedicated her life to you.

  717. In Jesus' name, God, I thank you that the young people of this

  718. church are turning to Him at an early age. This generation is coming to

  719. Jesus. This little girl. She's a first fruits. She's the first fruits

  720. of ten year olds in Jesus name. Fill this church with children, children

  721. who are seeking after you, children I place. She's going to be a

  722. hero in the kingdom. She is gonna have a stage. She is in

  723. school classrooms where she will stand up for Christ. She will have a moment

  724. where she will stand up for the Lord in Jesus' name. She is a

  725. hero. Pray courage into her soul right now. There's courage in her heart

  726. right now. Hallelujah, Thank you Jesus, hallelujah. Let's start clapping chase

  727. the enemy off of her, Chase the enemy off of her. Hallelujah.

  728. Right the days of her life. Hallelujah, Holy Spirit calls the shots fire.

  729. She's never alone, She's never alone. Hallelujah, Lord, hallelujah,

  730. Lord, hallelujah, Long, hallelujah, Long, come on, sing with

  731. it along, stupid heaven Alias happen lard Hall singing them one time we call

  732. them wrist who call them? We call them? Day to do it again?

  733. Here we go, Oh the race. A phrase belongs towards You've someone

  734. to hunt here, Thank him for coming to church. Encourage them. Halleliah

  735. Hallaiah got his son in a lot pas A past belongs to yeah