The Church - The Incorruptible Seed of God | Pastor Mike White | 5.3.26 (Sermon)

Hallelujah. Praise the lamb of God.

While you're standing, grab your Bible.

Hallelujah.

A few Sundays ago,

Pastor Ninger, as your pastor has

already stated, stood in this pool pit

and

he preached masterfully

on the things that he had learned from a

burn barrel.

even the coals that had

the fire had left.

But then the wind began to blow and it

came in that burned barrel and it blew

on those embers and those coals and the

fire began to burn again.

Pastor Johnson

stood in this pull pit a few days ago

and he preached about it's my season,

it's your season.

He preached about the fact that delay

does not mean denial.

And he preached under a heavy anointing

and the power and the presence of God

touched our life.

I found out out of the three people

that would be preaching

this according to the vision of your

pastor's heart that I am the oldest one.

I guess that's why they saved me for

last.

But I want to speak this morning

to you as the church.

I want to speak into the heart of every

pastor, every associate pastor,

every person that is connected

to the ministerial leadership of this

house,

your executive board, your ministerial

staff.

And I gotta say this. I I am just so

glad

to see Pastor Donald the BL the board

the boat and his lady right back there.

Would y'all just wave at everybody? Look

at them. Would you give them a hand for

being in the house of God?

But I want to speak into your heart.

I'm about to read some scripture and

you'll see that

it's scriptures that are very familiar

to you.

But I want you to understand the message

really has not changed.

It hasn't changed and and and and it it

never will change

>> until the coming of the Lord.

Pastor, I I fully believe that it's our

responsibility

as men and women of God to stand behind

that desk and understand and yes, take

on the pressure and the responsibility

of the fact that we are preaching to the

children and to the house of God.

>> That's who we preaching to every time we

fill this pull pit.

But brother Danny, I want to talk to you

this morning. Take your Bibles, please.

Turn with me to First John chapter 3.

1 John 3 · chapter mention

We're going to look at several passages.

I'll read them real quick. It will not

take that long. As I said, there will be

familiar scriptures to you.

First John chapter number three, I want

to begin reading at verse number one.

Behold, what manner of love

the Father hath bestowed upon us, that

we should be called the sons of God.

Therefore, the world knoweth us not,

because it knew him not. Beloved, now

are we the sons of God, and it does not

yet appear what we shall be, but we know

that when he shall appear, we shall be

like him, for we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him

purifyth himself even as he is pure. How

many of you got hope that very soon we

going to see the son of man?

>> Now turn with me to the book of Mark

chapter number 16.

We be begin reading at verse number 15.

And he said unto them, "Go ye into all

the world and preach the gospel to every

creature. To he that believeth that is

baptized shall be saved."

And he for I just want to say this for

those that take that takes that

scripture out of context. It does not

mean that salvation comes through

baptism and water.

>> I want you to understand that. But he

that believeth not shall be damned, and

these signs shall follow them that

believe. In my name shall they cast out

devils. They shall speak with new

tongues. They shall take up serpents,

and if they drink any deadly thing, it

shall not hurt them. They shall lay

hands on the sick, and they shall

recover. So then after the Lord had

spoken these things, he was received up

into heaven and sat on the right hand of

God. And they went forth and preached

everywhere, the Lord working with them

and confirming the word with signs

following. Amen.

>> Amen.

>> Now I want you to go to First Peter 1. I

want to begin reading at verse number

18.

Hallelujah.

Sound minister, if you would give me a

little more monitor, please. For as much

as you know, you were not redeemed with

corruptible things such as silver and

gold from your vain conversations

received by traditions from your father,

but you're redeemed with the precious

blood of Christ as a spotless lamb

without blemish and without spot, who

verily was forained before the

foundations of the world, but was

manifested in these last times. What

times?

for you who by him do believe in God

that raised him up from the dead and

gave him glory that your faith and hope

shout hope

>> might be in God seeing ye have p

purified your soul and obeying the truth

through the spirit unto unflamed love of

the brethren see that you love one

another with a pure heart fervently

being born again, not of corruptible

seed, but of incorruptible seed by the

word of God, which lives and abides

forever.

One more reading. I want you to go to

Acts chapter number two.

I want to begin reading at verse number

four. Somebody's in a moment of

doctrinal discussion.

Somebody looked at me and said, "Well,

preacher, all you Pentecostals have is

the book of Acts."

And I said, "Well, bless God, we got

that."

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Acts chapter 2, verse number

Acts 2 · chapter mention

one. And when the day of Pentecost was

fully come, they were all with one

accord in one place. And suddenly they

came a sound from heaven as a rushing

mighty wind, and it filled all the house

where they were sitting. And there

appeared unto them cloven tongues like

as of fire, and set upon each of them,

and they were filled with the Holy

Ghost, and they began to speak with

other tongues as the spirit gave them

the utterance. I want you to digress

back

to a sister scripture of this and we

just read it in 1 Peter chapter 1 and

1 Peter 1 · chapter mention

verse 23

for my bedrock text this morning.

1 Peter 1 and 23. being born again,

not of corruptible seed,

but of incorruptible

seed by the word of God, which lives,

Pastor Cove, which lives and abides

for ever.

I want to preach to you on the subject,

the church,

the incorruptible seed of God. Let's

pray. Heavenly Father, we love you

today.

God, I thank you for this wonderful

angel of this church that you have

placed here. I thank you for his lady. I

thank you, God, for his children. God, I

thank you for all the ministerial heads

that are represented here today. And

God, I thank you for this leoty,

a body that I love more than my own

life. God, I thank you for them. Lord, I

pray that you continue to establish

them. And God, I ask you today to send

the wind, the fire, the movement, and

the power of the third member of the

Godhead. God, move in this house this

morning. God, we pray that you will heal

thy bodies. God, even now as this word

goes forth, I'll pray that you heal the

daughter of Linda Carmichael. God, they

have received terrible evil reports this

morning. But God, you are God that can

come and heal. And you are God that can

drive out any disease. And God, I ask

you to do that even while this message

is going forth. God, I pray that a

manifested

of your power and your spirits will be

upon the lives of the hearer, God, that

hears this word, God, that they are part

of the incorruptible church of the

living God. And God, I ask you to save

the lost, heal our sick, restore our

lives, and father, we'll give you the

praise for it in Jesus' name. And

everybody said, "Amen and amen." Turn

around and high-five about 10 people and

tell them you're part and partial of the

incorruptible church of the Lord Jesus

Christ.

Pastor Deosege, over the past several

months,

I've been doing an indepth study of the

church. Not just the mechanics of it or

the politics of it, but a study on what

makes the church, what it is it

identifies

the church as the chason and chosen

bride of Christ.

We must be connected to it that sets it

apart from any other culture or

institution. What driving force or power

that must be connected to the church

that would unveil God's intentions

toward it and those that are part and

partial to the church of the Lord Jesus

Christ. What makes this spiritual body

called the church a living organism unto

the Lord? Something that is alive,

something that is breathing, something

much more than a name out front on our

sign, something much more than

denominationalism,

something much more than a religious

order, much more than the brick and

stone and stubble that makes up this

beautiful sanctuary that we sit in. But

what is it that makes up this divine

design laid before us in the holy

scripture? A holy called out body that

will be without spot or wrinkle that

Jesus himself is soon to return for. At

its very conception and at its birth,

the church came forth at this moment

when the day of Pentecost was fully

come. Meaning in an upper room on the

day of Pentecost, a upper room that I

have seen with my own eyes, there's

nothing there that would be attractive

to it. Nothing that would draw any in

attention to it as far as its splendor.

But I remember standing in front of that

balcony where the fire first fell on the

day of Pentecost. And I looked at it and

I realized that it's not the great big

splendor buildings or the magnificent

splendor of our sanctuaries that

established us as a church. But it was

the mighty awesome power of the moving

of the Holy Ghost that breathed upon us

that made us what we are, a living

connected organism unto God. That power

is what they waited for and they prayed

for and they was there in one mind. But

beloved, THEY DID NOT GET DISAPPOINTED.

THE WIND blew in that little upper room

representing God's power. And the

flaming tongues of fire came

representing God's presence set upon

each of them. And at that moment, those

in attendance were was GIVING WHAT MADE

THE CHURCH THE CHURCH. But she became

the church truly in the calling of God

when Peter stepped out on the balcony's

edge. And he began to preach and he

said, "Ye men of Galilee and all ye that

dwell at Jerusalem, be this KNOWN UNTO

YOU AND HEARKEN unto my words, for these

are not drunken as YOU SUPPOSE, SEEING

IT'S BUT the third hour of the day. But

this is that which was spoken by the

prophet Joel. And it came to PASS IN THE

LAST DAYS, SAITH GOD, I will pour out of

my SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH, ALL FLESH,

from corner to corner, from front to

back. I WILL POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT UPON

ALL FLESH. And when I do, YOUR SONS AND

YOUR DAUGHTERS, THEY SHALL PROPHESY. I

said they shall prophesy. And your young

men shall see visions. And your older

men shall dream dreams. And upon my

servants, and upon my handmaidaidens, I

will pour OUT IN THOSE DAYS. WHAT DAYS?

THIS DAY I WILL POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT. I

WILL POUR IT OUT ON ALL FLESH. I WILL

POUR OUT OF MY SPIRIT ON ALL FLESH.

every one of them. I will show some

wonders in heaven above and signs in the

earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor

of smoke. And then shall be the sun

shall be TURNED INTO DARKNESS AND the

moon into blood before the GREAT AND

NOTABLE DAY OF the Lord come. And it

shall come to pass that whosoever

SHALL CALL ON THE NAME OF the Lord shall

be saved.

Whoever shall call on the name of the

Lord shall be saved. And son, I want you

to hear me. It was when Peter says those

last words and it shall come to pass

that whosoever calls on the name of the

Lord shall be saved. Boom. Peter gave an

altar call. And when he did, 3,000 men

and WOMEN GOT BORN INTO THE KINGDOM OF

GOD. WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY, PASTOR?

I'M SAYING WHAT makes the church the

church IS NOTHING LESS THAN the mighty

power of Pentecost. THAT IS THE CHURCH

THAT JESUS is about TO COME AFTER. AND

WHAT MAKES THE church the church is that

men and women WILL BE BORN INTO the

kingdom of God by the leading and by the

power of Pentecost upon the local

church.

They will be born then.

>> Oh, precious. Hear me. Pentecost is

Pentecost is not what saves you.

Pentecost is what keeps you.

>> You hear me? Pentecost is what keeps

you. It's the shed blood of the spotless

lamb that was slain before the

foundations of the world. It's Jesus

that saves you. There is something else

that I've been made acutely aware of.

And that is that many in the assemblies

of God that I am an ordained minister

with have gotten so deep in God that

they think Pentecost is no longer

needed. As a matter of fact, there are

those in the Assembly of God movement

that no longer even believes we need

this Pentecost. And this pastor is

talking about today what I'm trying to

tell you about. That's why if the if the

Lord will help me when I'm asked from

here on out what what I am, what kind of

minister I am, I'm not going to say I'm

an assembly of God minister. For from

the top of my head to the sole of my

feet, God help me to be Pentecostal. I

am a Pentecostal minister. I am a

Pentecostal preacher. I am a Pentecostal

pastor. I don't have time to deal with

it. But there's a difference in the real

Pentecost belief and the apostolic

belief. They're not the same.

>> Bobby, they're not the same. And I don't

have time to deal with it. But I want

you to understand the way I am dressed,

THE WAY I cut my hair, the way I comb

it, the way I shave, that does not MAKE

ME PENTECOSTAL. WHAT MAKES ME

Pentecostal is that there is a witness

of the mighty POWER OF THE HOLY Ghost

living inside of my life.

Shalom.

There's a witness of the power of the

Holy Ghost living inside of my life

after salvation through the blood of

Jesus. It's the third member of the

Godhead. God, the Holy Ghost that makes

the church what she is, nothing more and

nothing less. Pentecost is the power and

presence of the Holy Spirit in the lives

of the believer. That's what it is. If

somebody comes to you and they lay hands

on you and they begin to speak in other

tongues, that that is a witness to you

that what happened in the book of Acts

is still alive and well and it's living

on planet Earth. I'M NOT ASHAMED OF

PENTECOST.

What I'm saying today, please understand

that the church as a body must take

inventory of itself as a whole. Hear me.

We must take inventory if we want this

fire burning in our life. If it wants to

stand victorious, the church must be

more than a conqueror in the day and

hour in which we presently live. And we

must operate and worship in Pentecostal

power.

>> You hear me? Some of you hold your

heads. You know exactly what I'm talking

about. You've seen them with their

little buns on their head. You've seen

the power of God come upon them and they

go to shaking their head. Bobby pins

goes to flying. You almost have to duck

under a chair or a pew to keep from

being hit by them. You know why they had

that and why they operated in that

power? I'll tell you why. They had

nothing else more important in their

life than that was the power and the

presence of God being exhibited to their

life.

>> That's why

>> the church must self-examine

what her purpose is. it spiritual

leadership must look within itself to

fully search their hearts and to see if

their spiritual ear is tuned into the

voice and the direction of God to see if

they're following the leading of the

spirit and examine themselves that God

does to see if they're following the

pattern laid down in the New Testament

order under the direction of the Holy

Ghost himself. And the church leadership

must realize they are powerless without

the seal of the Holy Ghost on what they

are doing and calling it the direction

of God. THEY MUST HAVE THE SEAL OF THAT

power upon their vision.

>> They must have it.

What I say now, I say as a warning to us

as pastors. I warn I warn our spiritual

leadership and those that are in

spiritual authority, preachers,

teachers, worship leaders, and the lady

itself. I want you to hear me. I pray

for a spirit of discernment upon your

pastor more than I pray for anything

else. I pray that a spirit of

discernment cuz they'll come some come

to him and go oh this we need to do this

and we need to do that and we need to do

that. Let me tell you beloved as a ley

you just come in here and worship God

with everything inside of you every time

these church doors open and you leave

the spiritual direction of your h of

this house to that man right there. You

leave it to him and you allow God to

lead and direct him and pray that the

spirit of discernment will saturate him

and pray more than anything else that he

WILL GUARD THIS PENTECOST THAT'S been

delivered to him. Guard this

bloodcovered house of God. Do not

conform to the religious spirit of the

world. This produces a spirit of

conformity and a culture to become more

like the world and less like the image

OF THE CHURCH ESTABLISHED in the book of

Acts. Amen.

>> Over the past several months going in

and out of churches that name the name

of Pentecost,

I cannot help but to evaluate

the intent and spirit of that which I

have both seen and felt. Pastor's about

the pastor is about to make a staggering

statement, but I have never seen at any

time in my calling as a minister such a

display of flesh that is being called

spirit.

>> You hear me?

>> There is a difference.

>> I said there is a difference.

>> There is a difference.

>> You want to know why? Because honey, you

can you you can get up here in a pair of

overalls or you can get up here with a a

a number two wash tub with a stick and a

string for a bass guitar. You ain't It's

wonderful to have everything we got. And

I thank God for it. And this is the best

of the best. But I want you to

understand, even the best of the best

that man has to offer, it will not set

free those that are in bondage, it takes

the power and the anointing of God

resting upon us as we pray and sing and

preach this word that men and women can

be born again.

>> Hear me.

Even as I was preparing this message for

this house that I love,

I'm going to go ahead and say this. I

don't want my lady to get upset with me,

but I want you to hear me.

I give my life for this house.

I give my life for you, but I'm not

going to hell for none of you.

I want you to understand that

even as I was preparing to deliver this

message,

I felt son,

I felt the mighty hand of God on me.

This message just didn't come over the

last couple of weeks. This is a

fourmonlong

preparation for this message.

But I want you to understand,

I failed him.

And I've come to declare only that which

the Holy Spirit has made known to me.

And I'm here to tell you, it's time the

church stops being ashamed of this thing

called Pentecost.

>> Stand up, Brother Don. Stand up. It's

time we quit being ashamed, son of the

fact that we speak in tongues. It's time

we quit being ash.

It's time we quit being ashamed of the

laying of hand on the sick and sin with

recover. It's time we quit being ashamed

of casting out devils. It's time we quit

being ashamed of prophesying under the

power and the leading of the Holy Ghost.

It's time we let the flame burn hotter

than it's ever burned before.

You need it.

I need it. We need this thing called

Pentecost. I said, "We need this thing

called Pentecost."

>> I remember what Jesus said.

He looked at him. He said, "Listen."

He said, "When do you be ashamed of me?

I'll be ashamed of you when I stand

before my father."

>> You hear me? You want to know what that

means, Robbie? That means if you feel

the Holy Ghost right in the middle of a

song service, right in the middle of the

preaching of God going forth, if you

feel the Holy Ghost, don't you step

there and quench that spirit. You jump

to your feet, you raise your hand, you

start worshiping God, baby, if we can

shout at the song, WE BETTER SHOUT at

the word, we better get it in our life

and we better let it have fruit in us.

We better let it have fruit in us.

Hallelujah to the lamb.

>> I don't want him to be ashamed of me. I

don't want him to be ashamed of my son

when he stands before him. That's why

he's got to obey every voice that speaks

to him from the Holy Ghost. He's got to

obey that. You might say, "Well, pastor,

I don't know why why we doing this or

why we doing that." Shut up. It ain't

your reason to ask. He is directed by

God to do what he is to do. You just

hook up to this thing called the church

and you let God do what he wants to do.

Not only in THE CORPORATE BODY BUT IN

YOUR SPIRIT INDIVIDUALLY.

>> Did I say that word?

>> Sorry.

>> Hallelujah.

If I cover Pastor Jeffy, as I've already

said,

with anything in my constant praying for

him and you that fills the courts of

this house, it is that God, the Holy

Ghost would baptize him and overflow him

with a spendant spirit of discernment

that he may discern the intent, the

purpose, and the direction of the spirit

of God for this house and that he would

protect that which the Holy Ghost has

laid in his hands.

>> The end time prophet Jude.

The next to the last book of your Bible

declares in verse 7 and 13 that there

would be a counterfeit church that would

be birthed in the last days. This

ancient prophet said that this is what

that counterfeit or false church. It

would have some identifying

characteristics.

And I ask that every pastor and

evangelist and preacher to please listen

to me that's in this house today. Jude

said that this counterfeit church would

be controlled and filled with the spirit

of Sodom and Gomorrah. And Jude said it

would be filled with a spirit of

fornication, going after strange flesh.

And because of that, it would suffer the

vengeance of eternal damnation and

eternal fire. You can look at all the

most of the bigname preachers that used

to be bigname preachers and you will see

that things have happened and you will

understand that the spirit of Sodom and

the spirit of Gomorrah has crept in and

it's crept into the church, Pastor

Daddy. And it's crept in and it's come

in and it's made itself at home in what

should be the house of God. I can't

preach on all this long, but this

counterfeit church would speak evil of

things which it knows not of except what

it knows naturally as brute beast. Jude

said their actions would corrupt

themselves. They would go the way of

Cain by slaying its very own. They would

go after strange gods. I want you to

understand you can come up with any type

of interpretation of the word of God

that you want to but I want you to

understand the word of God is the word

of God. It is the authoritative

powerful incorruptible word of God. It

is our road mouth that we're to live our

lives by. God, help us get the preaching

of THE WORD OF GOD back in the pull pits

of America again. We need this word to

be preached under the powerful anointing

of the Holy Ghost.

>> But then Jude's tone of speech changes

as he begins to warn the true church to

beware. He speaks to this house of mag

and declares, "Beware Mac, least they

are spots that will try to feast with

you in your spiritual feast. But instead

of feeding you peace and joy and hope,

they will feed you with fear. They will

literally drive love away. These

socalled spiritual clouds will try their

best to get you to compromise your

faith. Their mouth will produce nothing

but a foam of shame and they will act

very spiritual. But God sees them as

twice dead without fruit. He sees them

as wondering stars that does not know

its creator, nor do they serve him. I

know this stuff this morning and I know

it's tough at times, but please listen

to the voice of the spirit, pastor. Two

of the most forgotten messages in the

America today is the message of hell and

the message of heaven. And the reason

for it is that there has TO BE A

PRESENCE of sin for you to go to a place

called hell. And there has to be a

forgiveness of sin for you to go to a

place called heaven. And many preachers

are afraid to deal with a sin issue.

>> I got TO TELL YOU, THERE IS a literal

burning place of torment that sin will

send you to. But there is a glorious

place called heaven that the eye of the

vulture has never seen. Hallelujah to

the lamb of God. There is a place called

heaven.

>> When's the last time you've heard a

stirring message from the Holy Ghost on

a place called heaven or a place called

hell? Beloved, please listen to me. It

should never be in this room or in this

house or any house that carries the name

Pentecostal that your pastor has to

spend more time pumping you up by

telling you God understand your sin by

telling you. Now listen, understand it

should never be that they have to spend

more time telling you you how great you

are. Not because they want you to miss

hell, but because they want to try to

put something in you that'll just get

you back seven days later to the house

of God on the Sunday morning. I read a

statistic, son, that says most pastors

has 90 90% of their message that goes

forth every Sunday morning is to not

offend the hearer, to not offend anybody

that's sitting inside of that

congregation. And only 10% has a little

mingling point about the blood. They may

not even preach the blood, but they'll

preach about maybe if you have time and

you can get to it somewhere in your

life, you need to ask Jesus to come into

your life and come into your heart. I

think the spirit of God is trying to

switch that. We need to preach 90% on

the literal burning hell and seven and

10% on telling you how great you are

just so you'll come back to the house of

God. I can tell you your pastor don't

necessarily want to spend HIS TIME JUST

SO YOU'LL come back to the house of God.

He wants to spend his time so you'll

miss hell.

>> You should never

have to walk a tight rope.

He should never have to get up here

>> after days and weeks and months of

fasting and prayer and studying the word

to deliver a message from you. He should

never have to walk a tight rope so he

don't offend you somewhere. I got news

for you. I want a preacher and you've

got one that'll stand behind this pool

pit and he'll tell you how to make

heaven your home. He'll tell you how to

live victorious in this life. I'm

telling you, I believe we need to preach

it again that we can flail the flames of

hell. I believe we need to PREACH THE

HELL RIGHT out of you.

Man, we preach that.

It should never be that he's afraid to

preach what God's given him because

you'll puff up like a toad frog and not

come back or because you'll cut off your

ties. You go ahead, you cut them tithes

of this house off. God will t cut your

livelihood off. He'll let disease come.

He'll let everything you can imagine.

You'll die in that car wreck. YOU HEAR

ME? YOU'LL DIE with that cancer. You

say, "What are you saying, pastor?" I'm

saying this. What goes forth from this

pull pit through his lips is not just

him. He is the vessel. But it is the

word of God that'll give you power to

sustain yourself in this life

>> and in the life to come.

He's been instructed by the Holy Ghost

to preach against sins of the flesh

>> or he's been instructed you according to

the word of God. Beloved, your pastor is

under no obligation to the assemblies of

God.

>> You hear me?

>> He ain't under obligation to the

assemblies.

I want to tell you something.

Since the day I walked out of this room

as your senior pastor,

you voted this man and woman in.

I hadn't sent one dime to the Assemblies

of God.

Oh, you say pastor,

you don't pay your tithes. Hush, you

know me better.

>> Yes, we pay much tithing, much offering.

But you want to know what's happened?

See, from a long time, I had to pay

dues.

>> I had to pay this.

>> I had to pay that. I had to pay every

bit of that.

But for two years now, I hadn't paid a

dime to them.

And for two years now, they just kept

sending me my license.

They just send me They send me them

little cards. I just keep getting my

license. You want to know why? They

don't want their statistics to drop.

That's why. But I'll tell you this. Yes,

I pay my tithe. But I want you to hear

me. Your pastor is under no obligation

when it comes to preaching this word to

the assemblies of God. The only one he

is the under obligated to is the author

and the finisher of his faith. And the

one that has called him to preach this

book. And God help him if he don't

preach it according to the spirit of

God. Because if HE DON'T, YOUR BLOOD

will be required at his hand.

>> Say amen.

>> Even though time will not allow me to

share every bit of it at this moment,

but I want you to turn very quickly to

First Peter chapters 1 and two very

1 Peter 1 · chapter mention

quickly. First of all, son,

in my study, concerning church history,

even going all the way back to the Wales

revival and going all the way back to

the Billy Sundays and the Smith

Wigglesworth and the William Seymour and

back to the revival of what they call

the Methodist way. back to all those

that all those things that the way God

moved and the way that he established

and the way that he he came going all

the way back to there. I have found that

the number one characteristics

that and what identifies the church as

the church is both the physical evidence

and the spiritual evidence of the third

member of the Godhead which is called

God the Holy Ghost living and operating

within the confines of the church not as

a guest but as the head of all things

pertaining to the church and it's ve and

it's very evident within the church body

which makes it a living organism unto

the Lord.

>> Unto the Lord. Is my mic sounding funny

to you all?

>> It is here up here. Here, pastor this

morning. Without the tangible presence

of the Holy Ghost within the church

itself and within the within the lives

of those that make up its membership, it

can be nothing more than a gathering

place for a social encounter. Beloved,

if there is no transforming power of the

Holy Ghost within the body and within

the worship, within the programs, within

the watering of the word that goes

forth, it is absolutely nothing more

than a religious organization without

any transforming power at all.

>> That's all it is. Trying to be the

church without the evidence of the Holy

Spirit falling and abiding within its

corporate worship, within its programs,

within its outreaches would be like

trying to drive a car without the

evidence of a motor because there's no

power. Or trying to take a bath without

any evidence of water because there is

no washing. It is impossible.

It is impossible.

That's why we have churches today that

are totally par powerless against the

devil

>> and what he tries to produce and the

weapons that he forms against those that

make up that particular religious body.

It should be common

that in every service

in every ministry of the church herself

that there is the evidence of the Holy

Spirit abiding in the hearts and lives

and spirits of those that are in

attendance. And while ministry is going

forth,

>> I pray

with everything inside of me

that the ley of this house

does not

take for granted for what you have.

>> You hear me?

I pray you never ever

take it for granted.

The church will be powerless

against the devil as he tries to produce

the weapons that he forms against those

that make up this church body. If the

presence of the Holy Ghost does not

abide,

We'll shout in a minute.

It should be common

that in every service, every ministry

that there is an abundance of the spirit

of God operating within your lives and

the lives of those that fuels those

ministries. I want you to go understand

something as a ministry is going forth.

The God, the Holy Ghost

in this house is free to move as he

desires.

And when the Holy Ghost has liberty,

shout liberty.

>> When the liberty of the Holy Ghost is

there and he has free course to move,

men and women, boys and girls will be

born into the kingdom of God. The bound

will be delivered. The sick will be made

whole. Restoration will be seen. The

expression of worship will be felt. And

a place of habitation for the Holy

Spirit to abide will be made a available

unto him. He has the honor seat of this

house. He can come and sit down in this

house anytime he desires.

anytime

>> he desires

>> God the Holy Ghost is allowed to move in

total freedom there's no limit of access

to the believer there's nothing

impossible to this great house as a

corporate spiritual body when there is a

spirit of liberty living and breathing

within this room and in the hearts of

those that fuel our chairs for just like

on the day of Pentecost the People were

gathered. They were waiting. They were

there waiting within They were gathered

there and they were waiting within that

room waiting for something to come and

breathe upon them. The singers were not

there to sing. The ushers were not there

to greet people at the door. It was not

a big fancy church. But on the day of

Pentecost, the people were gathered.

They were waiting. Not on how good the

music was or how well the singers could

sing or how eloquent the message was,

but they were waiting on the outpouring

of the spirit of the Holy Ghost. And in

their waiting, a tornadating wind begin

to blow, representing the power of the

Holy Ghost. and tongues of fire came and

set on everyone in that room

representing the presence of the Holy

Ghost. Beloved, when you get the power

and presence of God in the room,

spiritual bondage can not exist.

It

>> cannot exist.

I'm hurrying.

>> I love to hear this morning.

You can offend the Holy Spirit

>> and he'll leave.

>> He can. You can literally stop the

greatest source of power that man has

ever seen on planet Earth by binding not

the devil.

>> Amen. But by binding the power of God,

>> you can bind him. And by refusing to

give him liberty to move and breathe

within our churches and within our

lives,

you can bind that power for there is

liberty and freedom in the house of God.

It doesn't really matter who sings.

It don't it don't really matter who

preaches for when the Holy Ghost is

welcome in our hearts, he has liberty to

move. The spirit of performance will be

crushed and everything that is done will

be for one main purpose and that is to

find the presence of God. And when the

church does that, miracles will take

place and the name of Jesus will be

exalted and the blood of Jesus will be

honored. And nothing shall be impossible

to those that believe. And things that

eyes haven't seen, nor ears haven't

heard, will be seen and heard and heard

in the lives of everyone that walks

through our doors.

Keep you your keep your performance.

Give us God of your presence.

>> Give us God.

>> Second,

Peter talked to us in the first two

chapters about something else.

He told us of a hope.

Not just not just any hope, but a hope

that will let us know everyone that

seeks after Jesus

will have a hope inside of them that

they know they have not been forgotten.

It's a living hope. Shout living hope.

>> That is found in Jesus and it's only

found in him. For we know in Jesus we

have been chosen and destined by the

father by father God before the

foundations of the world.

For you that are in this room this

morning, please listen closely to

pastor.

I don't care what you've done.

I don't care what you've done before

salvation.

I don't care what you've done in your

past. If you've been washed by the blood

of Jesus, the Holy Spirit has made you

his own.

>> He has made you his own

and he has set you apart to

>> that we receive the call to holiness.

I know it's not spoken of much anymore,

but that's why Pentecost is dead to so

many churches

and in the lives of those that fill the

church sanctuary on Sunday morning.

There's one thing that the modern church

world has forgotten. And please hear me.

So many ministers have depended on what

has seemingly worked at other places or

they've become dependent upon someone

else's ministry. They've outlined that

that their ministry puts forth and all

of that is helpful at times. They

depended on other preachers mannerism. I

call it copycat ministries have

developed because pastors and ministers

because they no longer get on their

knees and ask God for a message to give

those that they pastor. And because of

that, they have forgotten the Holy

Spirit. They have forgotten that he can

perceive. He can discern your heart. He

can hear. He can feel. He has a

personality. He is the third member of

the Godhead. He is God the Holy Ghost

and he can perceive the conditions of

the life of the believer. He knows your

mind, your true intentions. God the Holy

Ghost has the ability to do anything he

knows and he desires to do. And he knows

the condition of our life. He knows the

life of the man or woman that comes

before him.

>> He knows our life.

He knows us. He possesses the spiritual

ability to see.

He possesses the spiritual ability to

hear or become aware of something

through the office of the Holy Spirit.

the anointing to regard a circumstance

or understand through the eyes of the

spirit in connection to the third member

of the godhead and his indwelling within

the life of every believer. In other

words, sir,

lady, young adult, you're not going to

fool the Holy Ghost. I don't care how

much you speak in tongue. I don't care

how much you jerk. I don't care how much

you run, how talented you are. You're

not if you're not in right relationship

with Jesus, the Holy Ghost will not use

you.

>> Sweat my eyes can't see,

but the Holy Ghost won't use you. That's

why Peter, that's why Peter made such a

call to holiness in first Peter chapter

1 Peter 1 · chapter mention

1 in verse 13. He said to prepare your

hearts and mind. Fix your hope on the

marvelous grace that has come to your

life.

>> Fix your hope on that.

Hear me, church.

This Jesus we love and serve, he's the

real deal.

>> You hear me? I said he's the real deal.

>> When Jesus went to the cross, he didn't

just go and make a ransom payment. He

didn't go make make just a a little drop

of blood. He didn't go to make a payment

with silver and gold. He poured it all

out. He did not bleed just a drop or two

of blood. He poured every drop of his

precious blood he had in his body out.

He spilled it all. That's why I'm

understand and you need to understand

that you're not redeemed with silver and

gold, but you've been redeemed by the

precious blood of Jesus Christ.

That's how you've been redeemed.

Understand? That's why Peter said to us

in first Peter chapter 2 to grow in

1 Peter 2 · chapter mention

holiness.

abandon every form of in evil, every

form of hypocrisy, every form of

jealousy and slander like a infant cries

for milk that he may grow thereby. As

believers, we must intently crave the

pure spiritual milk of God's word, for

it will cause you to grow in the grace

and knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Why does pastor have all these things

going on? He wants to get the word in

you

>> that you may grow thereby.

>> That you may grow thereby.

Hear me, beloved, and I'm getting ready

to close.

The world around you needs to see a

church again

that's not a performing church,

>> but a church that is absolutely

passionate

>> about the presence of God

>> in their midst.

>> I know that's the heart of your pastor.

I know it is. The ancient Pentecostal

prophet Joel said in the last days that

God would pour out of his spirit.

In Joel's day, Pastor Scott,

they didn't break the ranks.

They were in one mind. They're in one

accord.

They didn't break the ranks. They didn't

stagger because of opposition.

Son, don't you be afraid and run because

of opposition. They were not called

because they never failed.

They weren't called because they messed

up at what they they laid their hands

to.

They were called great because they

refused to quit or give up until God

either made a way or until God gave them

the answer.

>> They didn't break the ranks. Hear me

beloved. You might have prayed before.

Well, pray again

>> and again

>> and again.

>> In Matthew 7 7 and 8, Jesus says, "Ask

and it shall be given you. Seek and you

shall find. Knock and it shall be open

unto you. For everyone that asks will

receive and he that seeks will find. And

to him that knocks it shall be open." In

those verses, Jesus is talking to us in

a verb sense. When you understand this,

you'll understand that Jesus is not

talking about just one time or two

times, but it is translated to ask and

keep on asking. Seek and KEEP ON

SEEKING. KNOCK AND KEEP ON KNOCKING.

Keep on knocking. Understand that. And

let me tell you this, the devil's

greatest attack or assault

will come to you

in the asking

and in the seeking and in the knocking.

But I want you to understand, don't pay

the devil any mind. Just keep on asking,

>> keep on seeking

>> and keep on knocking. God will saturate

you with his spirit in the asking and in

the seeking and in the knocking. He'll

pour his spirit out upon you. And your

victory is sure to come.

>> Your victory is sure to come.

Well, Johnson, that clock is a

distraction, ain't it?

I want to talk to you,

brother Michael.

Wherever you is, come on up here.

Oh,

I want to talk to you for a minute about

our culture as spiritfilled believers.

In connection to the word of God,

it's our shared belief

as a spiritual body.

We do not produce a culture that

redefineses the word of God in our life

to the point that we rearrange the word

to fit our life instead of us

rearranging our life to fit the

requirements of the word.

It's the word of God that defines the

culture

that our life is to be.

The word of God is our blueprint for

living.

Our spiritual character is holiness unto

the Lord. And the world around us must

not be allowed to create a culture that

does not line up to the word of God in

connection to our life.

The culture of that world

has invaded so many churches

and it's been successful.

But I cannot tell you

that the culture of this house is

Pentecost.

>> You hear me?

>> It's Pentecost.

our traditions,

our customs,

our lifestyle.

Son, our society as a church,

our heritage as a church

must line up to the requirements of

God's word that made us a living

organism

unto the Lord.

I love music.

And you may not know this about pastor,

but

they have been times

that the spirit of dance has come on me

right in the middle of a restaurant.

But the culture of the world

cannot mandate our music

as it's offered up to God in worship.

From our outward appearance to our

inward relationship with God, it cannot

be mandated by the spirit and culture of

the sinful world around us.

I know our children, dad and moms lives

in this pressure cooker of acceptance,

but hear me, don't bow your knee to

anything that God has not placed his

seal of acceptance upon.

Don't bow.

True pastors such as the one you have in

the embodiment of Pastor Jesse

is under intense pressure

to compromise

the standard of holiness and

righteousness.

For without the standard of holiness and

righteousness, God said no man shall see

God.

There was once a time in the old

covenant and dispensation

that dress

implied holiness.

The abstaining of eating certain meats

implied not touching anything unclean.

But under the new covenant and new

dispensation of grace, we understand

that only man will look at the outward

appearance.

But God,

he looks on the heart.

>> And we're not to call anything offered

to us by God as common or unclean.

>> My dress does not make me holy.

I didn't tell my lady, but I looked this

week and I tried my best to find a pair

a pair of Bill overalls

I was going to wear this morning.

This don't make me holy.

>> It doesn't.

Your life before meeting God at an altar

of forgiveness might have looked ugly

and evil.

You might you might have lived in a

drunken super

of the street or you might have lived in

a prostitute's world

or you might have been a walking

billboard for the loc local tattoo

parlor or the drug dealer or the satanic

organization.

But hear me,

the marking of sin on our outward man or

the condemnation that man's tries to

make us feel

does not show the existence of the

bloodwashed and forgiven heart that

lives within.

It don't show it.

DON'T YOU CONDEMN A SAINT OF GOD BECAUSE

they got tattoos on their body. YOU

DON'T KNOW WHAT GOD SAVED THEM FROM.

THEY HAVE A HEART THAT'S BEEN WASHED IN

THE BLOOD OF JESUS. And now they are a

new creature in Christ Jesus.

>> Brand new son

>> sister.

lady.

>> I don't care if I was a drunk.

>> I don't care how many affairs I had.

I just let you know I'm still married to

my first wife.

I don't have to worry about other women.

It takes all I can do to keep up with

her.

But I want you to understand,

you might have robbed, you might have

stolen,

you might have even killed the unborn in

your womb.

I want you to hear me.

God has given you extravagant grace.

The spirit of God after forgiveness now

dwells inside of you.

Don't you let some old horn rimed

toad of a Christian come up and tell you

that you got to do this and you got to

do that and you got to dress this way

and you got to dress that way. No, you

don't. You got to just satisfy the one

that saved you from your past and you

live according to what he has instructed

you to live and you LIVE FOR HIM EVERY

DAY OF YOUR LIFE. AND I'M TELLING YOU,

you will make heaven your home.

You will.

I'm leaving you with this, pastor. Get

ready. I'm going to turn it over to you.

I want you to give the altar call.

I want you to please understand

>> and hear me.

Somebody shout liberty

>> concerning our past.

Paul,

I believe, was the greatest man that

ever walked on the face of the earth,

greater than Solomon.

And the only one that walked that was

greater was Jesus Christ himself.

>> But at one time, he was a persecutor of

the church.

>> He killed them. Pastor Scott,

this is what he said.

Sir,

lady,

you that

might have just been saved,

I want you to hear the word of the Lord

in Romans chapter 7 and 8

Romans 7 · chapter mention

after coming to Jesus.

Paul said, "I see another law in my

members, waring against the law of my

mind

and bringing me into captivity

to the law of sin

which is in my members,

oh wretched man that I am,

who shall

deliver me

from this body of death?

Who shall

Romans 8:1

Romans 8:1

There's therefore now no condemnation to

them which are in Christ Jesus

who walk not after the flesh but after

the spirit. For the law of the spirit

and the life of Christ Jesus had made me

free from the law of sin and of death.

for what the law could not do and that

it was weak through the flesh. God

sending his own son in the likeness of

sinful flesh and for sin condemn sin in

the flesh that the righteousness of the

law might be fulfilled in us who walk

not after the flesh but after the

spirit.

after the spirit.

Then Jesus put a nail in the heart of

evil condemnation

when he said, "He that the son has set

free

is free indeed."

Not just free,

but free indeed.

Jesus

walked into the synagogue

and he picked up the word of God, the

scroll of Isaiah.

He opened his mouth, walks in on the

Sabbath day, and he says these words,

"The spirit of the Lord God is upon me."

Because he had anointed me to preach the

gospel to the poor.

He has sent me, brother Lynn, to heal

the brokenhearted,

to preach deliverance

to the captives and the recovering of

the sight to the blind, to set at

liberty them that are bruised, to preach

the acceptable year of the Lord.

He said to set at liberty,

everybody shout, freedom.

>> Freedom.

to free those that have been bruised,

to set them free. Set them free.

2 Corinthians 3:17, Paul said, "Now the

2 Corinthians 3:17

Lord is that spirit,

and they that worship him must worship

him in spirit

and in truth."

He said in Galatians 5 and1, "Now stand

fast therefore in the liberty

for with Christ has made us free and be

not entangled again with a yoke of

bondage."

I got to be honest with you.

This is not the message Robbie I wanted

to preach today.

This wasn't it.

But I want you to understand

that you have a spiritual culture and

heritage that burns inside of this room.

It burns.

It burns. And it's called Pentecost.

>> Pentecost.

Galatians 5 and

13 says, "For brethren, you've been

called unto liberty. Only use not

liberty for an occasion to other of the

flesh,

but by love serve one another.

Serve one another, Danny.

Serve one another.

There's something called the perfect law

of liberty

and it's found the writings of the

brother of our Lord in James chapter 1

James 1:25

verse 25.

But who so looks into the perfect law of

liberty and continues therein,

he being not a forgetful hearer, but a

doer of the word, this sha this man

shall be blessed in his deed.

I want you to stand, please, all over

the building.

Your pastor is coming.

I want you to please hear me.

We are the church.

That's who we are.

We are the undefiled church of the Lord

Jesus Christ.

Does that mean we never fail? No,

that does not mean that.

That means that if we do fail,

we have an advocate with the father

and we can go back to him, pastor, and

ask the Lord to forgive us

and he will forgive us.

Freedom is an amazing thing.

I don't know if you've ever had a jail

ministry or not,

but I can remember running a five-day

count meeting

in a high level state penitentiary.

And every time I'd walk in and they had

checked me out and they had slammed that

door behind me,

I couldn't wait to get out on the other

side.

There's a liberty that we have.

We are the church

of the Lord Jesus Christ.

That's who we are.

And I'm not ashamed of it.

I am not ashamed of what we are in God.

For I say to you that I have set you at

liberty today. I have set my mark upon

you. You are my church. You are my

incorruptible seed. Walk in this

authority. Walk in this power. Walk in

this freedom. And I will anoint you to

bring hope to those that are hopeless.

Freedom to those that are bound. And I

declare that I will move through you and

I will touch those that need me most,

says the King of Kings and the Lord of

Lords.

Can we just give God praise all over the

house? Come on. Can we give him glory

all over the house?