Threats at the Threshold | Pastor Jesse Jernigan | 1.14.26 (Sermon)

Praise the Lord. Amen. Look at your

neighbor. Say, "You look good tonight."

>> You look good.

>> You look good tonight. Amen. And we want

to visit just a little bit tonight and

just uh give God glory and give him

praise for all his goodness and his

mercy uh over our hearts and our lives.

And we're certainly thankful. Um I'm

just telling you, God is doing

incredible things in this house. And uh

if you were here on Sunday, wow, what a

day. Amen.

And if you weren't, too bad, so sad. We

enjoyed it without you. Come on. I see

Sean Elbow and Jenny over there, but

it's okay. Uh, I'm telling you, man, God

did some incredible things in the house.

The house was packed. I'm telling you,

it was just from front to back. Even in

the balcony, had folks there. And uh,

I'm say this right here. On Sunday, back

in the back over all of our kids

classes, we had 73 kids on Sunday. Amen.

Can we give God praise for that?

absolutely incredible. Um I just blown

away by God's goodness and his mercy.

And uh I'll just say it like this. We

hadn't seen nothing yet. Amen. God's

going to continue to add and do great

things inside of this house. Um this is

one thing that I wanted to kick back

off. We talked about this last uh last

Wednesday night uh with our our first

stint going into the this new year 2026.

on Wednesday nights, I wanted to offer

an opportunity for you to give to the

Lord because I I'm just, you know, I was

raised old school. Every time you come

to church, you you brought something,

you brought a gift, you brought a an

offering, whatever that looked like. And

listen, no pressure to anybody. You

don't have to do this, but for those of

you who feel that way, I want to open up

this chance for us to be able to give uh

to the Lord tonight. So, what we're

going to do is we're just going to set a

basket up here up front. Thank you,

Pastor Robbie. Um, and if you feel led

to do that, you just do that right here

as we're going through scriptures in the

beginning. And I know the Lord will

bless you. So, I'm going to pray a

blessing over it. Uh, for those that do

feel led to give, that God will bless

you and continue to strengthen you. So,

Father, thank you for this opportunity

we have to give. Thank you, Lord, for uh

what this house means and represents

inside of our lives. And Lord, tonight

as we sew, God, I pray that you would

give it back to us, pressed down, shaken

together, running over, Lord, that it

would produce a harvest of souls, Lord,

for your kingdom and for your glory and

your honor. Lord, we thank you for the

opportunity to bring an offering to you

in Jesus name. Amen and amen. God is so

incredibly good. God bless you um as you

give in the kingdom of the Lord tonight.

I know he will bless you. I I want to uh

tonight I want to continue uh with our

talk on the threshold. Somebody holler

threshold.

>> Threshold.

>> We talked about this. This is the year

of sacred thresholds and uh we are

stepping across some this year. Uh I

believe this fast is what's going to

kind of give us that shot, that

propelling uh power to take those next

steps. Um and you'll see this throughout

the year. There will be certain

thresholds. we as a church step across.

But here's what I know. You and your

family and for you individually, I

believe there are some sacred thresholds

that you're going to be stepping across

as an individual, as a family, as God

leads you, as God directs you. And

here's the thing, listen. And when you

hear his voice and he says step, step.

Amen.

>> Now, if he doesn't say step, whoop,

pause, right? Because I would rather

wait on his voice. And when he says

speak, then I would step at that point

because then I know blessing will be on

the other side of my obedience to his

word. Now I don't want to step where his

blessings are not. I don't want to step

where his provision is not. I don't want

to step where his safety is not, his

protection is not. I don't want to be

outside of God's will. But when I hear

his voice, I step and I know that he's

going to take care of me. Uh so this

year, as you hear God's voice and you

step there, be sure, be certain that you

hear his voice because when you do, I

know that blessing will be on the other

side of that. Amen. And I know God's

going to bless that. So, it's going to

be incredible. So, I want you to grab

your Bibles. Uh go with me to two

different books. The book of Psalms and

the book of Ezekiel. And I'm going to

ask you to stand with me. I'm going to

read a few verses here um out of both of

these. Uh Psalm chapter 24 and then

Psalms 24 · chapter mention

Ezekiel chapter 43. And I'll try my best

Ezekiel 43 · chapter mention

to uh weave these together and tie these

together as what the Lord showed me uh

stepping into this year of sacred

thresholds. Uh because here's what I

know. Anytime there's advancement,

anytime there's ever any momentum,

anytime there's ever a moment where God

is doing something significant in your

life, um in the lives of your family or

in the life of the church, there's

always going to be a moment that all of

that is me met with resistance. And the

resistance comes from the enemy. So

tonight, um I'm going to try my best to

identify some of the threats at the

threshold. Okay? Some of the threats

that the enemy will bring against us at

the threshold. And then through

scripture, we're going to combat this

and we're going to see what God wants to

do in our hearts and how God's going to

move in our lives. But tonight, if you

got Psalm chapter 24, say, "I got it."

Psalms 24 · chapter mention

>> I got it.

>> All right. Skip down to verse number

three, if you will. Uh here's what the

word of God says. I'm reading from the

New King James. It says who may ascend

into the hill of the Lord or who may

stand in his holy place. Simple

questions uh but very weighty questions

for us as a believer. Then he goes on to

answer. The writer said, "He who has

clean hands and a pure heart, who has

not lifted up his soul to an idol nor

sworn deceitfully, he shall receive

blessing from the Lord." The blessing

from the Lord and righteousness from the

God of his salvation. This is Jacob, the

generation of those who seek him, who

seek your face. And then the writer

says, "Seili or pause and reflect on

what has been written." Now go over to

Ezekiel chapter 43 and let's start with

Ezekiel 43 · chapter mention

verse number six there. And the Bible

says it like this. Then I heard him

speaking to me from the temple while a

man stood beside me and he said to me,

"Son of man, this is the place of my

throne and the place of the souls of my

feet where I will dwell in the midst of

the children of Israel forever. No more

shall the house of Israel defy my holy

name. Nor or it says they nor their

kings by their harlotry or with the

carcasses of their kings o on their high

places when they set their threshold by

my threshold. I want you to see that he

said, 'When they set their threshold by

my threshold and their doorpost by my

doorpost with a wall between them and

me, they watch this, defiled my holy

name by the abominations which they

committed. Therefore, I have consumed

them of my anger. Now, let them put

their harlotry in the carcasses of their

kings, far away from me, and watch this.

if they will do that. He said, "And I

will dwell in their midst forever." I

don't know about you, but I'm thankful

for the grace that's in the word of God.

Amen. I I know we can look at that and

say, "Man, there's a hard line drawn."

But anytime you see a hard line, our God

is a God of grace and he will show up

and he will give us grace. So tonight, I

want to teach on this threats at the

threshold. So let's pray. Father, I

thank you. I praise you. I honor you for

your word. And Lord, I pray tonight that

you would just allow me to speak what

you have me to speak. Have me not go

down the trails you don't want me to go

down so I can exalt the name of Christ.

Lord, I thank you for your word. I thank

you that it is forever settled. And

Lord, I pray you'd speak to us through

it tonight. In the mighty name of Jesus,

we pray. And everybody says, "Amen." And

amen. You may be seated in the presence

of the Lord tonight.

I I I just my heart is is stirred and my

heart is overwhelmed because I see the

complacency.

Um I see the uh the drift if you will.

Um and to bring it up to speed maybe

where we might could articulate this and

bring more understanding to our heart. I

see the compromise in the church world

as a whole. I I see the things that are

going on around us and I see how that uh

truly if you really boil it down to

brass tax many in the church in America

have left their first love and they have

drifted to other lovers.

>> The truth is we have compromise has not

has not dri has not stayed as a

distancing word. It is now become

shifting from compromise to a spirit of

relevance so that we can be what we need

to be to all people. Well, I I have to I

have to give a little bit in my faith,

pastor, to be able to reach somebody.

That is not true.

>> Amen.

>> It's not true. What is tolerated in this

generation will be accepted in the next

generation.

And so if we don't draw a hard line

according not to man's standards, watch

this, not manly traditions, not not not

denominational things, not fellowship

things, but if we don't draw a hard line

with the word of God and understand what

true repentance looks like and what

godliness looks like, then can I tell

you the next generation after us will

have the most they will be the most

biblically illiterate generation to ever

walk the face of the planet. Because if

we're being if we can be real honest

today, there are a lot of people that

sit inside of churches that are

biblically illiterate because the pull

pits are biblically illiterate.

>> And if the pull pits are that way, then

it will transfer to the house. But I'm

going to tell you, I'm going to come

with both of my six shooters loaded all

the way with the word of God every time

I get in this pull pit to let you know

this is what the word of God says. I'm

not going to sit here and sugar coat it.

I wish I could, but I will get

reprimanded for that. Can I get an amen?

And it will not be from a board. It will

not be from a denomination. It will be

from my father in heaven. He will have

to deal with my heart. So my heart is

for us to really have a full and

complete understanding of what the word

says. Again, not drifting to standards

of men and and and and and the thought

processes of men, but what does the word

say? What does the word say?

>> Yeah. Because if we land on that

standard and that standard alone, then I

promise you, God will pour his spirit

out on our lives. Not just in the house,

but when we go to the house, there will

be favor. There will be power. There

will be evidence. There will be grace.

There will be mercy present in our

house. There will be kindness in our

house. There will be forgiveness in our

house. Come on. There will be grace for

everything that we walk through. There

will be an absolute evidence of the

power and the presence of God because we

have got the word of God correct in our

life. I'm not telling you you have to be

a biblical scholar. Come on, somebody.

>> I thank God, right? Thank God I don't

have to have all the answers to

everything. One of my favorite answers

is I don't know, but I'll go find out

>> because I don't want to ever be the one

to lead somebody astray and bring them

to a place of misunderstanding for the

word. Because again, that is a whole

another ball game and I don't even have

time to talk about that tonight. But

tonight, my I I have a simple yet

weighty assignment from the Lord to

bring to us a a a proposition, if you

will, from the word of God to let us see

clearly that if we're not careful, if

we're not careful, there will be threats

that stand at the threshold. And if

we're not careful without understanding,

we will open the door to those threats.

And they will drift into our life.

They will drift into our family. They

will drift into our heart. And watch

this. If we allow compromise in one

area, the enemy will convince us it's

okay in another area too.

>> Because then it becomes he take he takes

compound interest seriously. He says if

I can get one area, I'm going to try to

get three.

>> If I can get three areas, I'm going to

get seven. Right? I'm I'm going to try

my best to get in every part of your

life. But tonight, my assignment is to

identify compromise before it crosses

the threshold.

Because as long as it's over here on

this side and it hasn't got access to my

life and it hasn't crossed over, then it

does not have any authority over my

life. But the moment that I stand behind

the door and it knocks and I open up and

say, "Come on in." Then now I have

compromised and I've allowed the enemy

to have access to my life.

>> Yeah.

>> My job as your pastor is to help you

identify this. I'm going to try my best

to not be specific and calling out

everything that I see as a compromise

because then some people will say, "Woo,

he didn't call out mine."

>> Come on.

>> Right.

>> Like, woo man, I was really saying

pastor was going to go there, but he

didn't talk about what I've been dealing

with, so I must not be. No, I want the

Holy Spirit through this teaching to

speak directly to you individually. Is

there anything that is standing at the

threshold? Is there any threats that are

standing at the threshold? And I'm not

accusing anybody of letting anything in.

But what I have come to tell you as a

watchman on the wall is that there are

threats the enemy wants to bring into

your family and bring into your life and

try to bring into this church. But I'm

going to stand here and say in the name

of Jesus, I WILL FIGHT EVERY ONE OF THEM

OFF WITH EVERYTHING THAT I'VE GOT

BECAUSE WE'VE got a mandate from HEAVEN

TO BRING THE GOSPEL TO ALL THE WORLD AND

ALL PEOPLE SO THEY CAN experience

freedom. Can you say amen?

>> I'm not preaching. I'm teaching. So,

I've got to I've got to stay focused,

but we got to identify compromise before

I enter in. The truth is tonight,

the fact is that uh the other side

of of of on the other side of every uh

sacred threshold is a true blessing from

the Lord.

But in that truth comes the schemes of

every uh of the enemy to destroy the

sacred things in our life that God has

set up. Now watch this. But he doesn't

come at us to destroy it by allout war

and attack. He comes by one word and

that is compromise.

He shows up with one word compromise.

trying to convince us that we can mix

the sacred and the secular together and

get away with it.

Watch this. The enemy is all right with

you coming to church as long as on the

back side of the door you got some

compromise.

>> Amen.

>> HE'S OKAY WITH YOU MAYBE COMING TO A

meeting and showing up and maybe even

reading your Bible a little bit as long

as you compromise on the other side. and

you're not totally all the way in, but

the moment you get all the way in and

say, "I'm crossing the threshold," is

the moment the enemy is going to rear

his head up and say, "I'm going to try

to destroy your life." Now, watch this.

Psalm 24:es 3-6, we just read it just a

moment ago. It talks about and it brings

a true description to us on how we are

to conduct ourselves spiritually which

will in turn not disqualify us from

stepping across the god orained

thresholds and sacred thresholds that he

has for a life. verse number three when

you go back to that and I don't know if

maybe we have that we can pull that up

or not in in uh Psalm 24 verse number

three the the question is posed there

who shall ascend to the hill of the Lord

who shall stand in his holy place the

question is who gets access beyond the

threshold who who is it that gets access

beyond the threshold and then we slip

over to verse number four and we begin

to see some things that are laid out by

the writer through the power of the Holy

Spirit that are requirements or been

guidelines for us to be able to be

qualified to step across the threshold

to see what God desires to see inside of

our hearts and inside of our lives. What

are those things? The Bible talks about

this. Those who have pure hands and

clean hearts. Those who have pure hands

and pure hearts. What does that mean,

pastor? That means the works of my hand

must be from a pure heart and a pure

motive, not for selfish gain.

Whenever I work for the Lord, I'm not

doing it for recognition. I'm not doing

it so people can pat me on the back. I'm

not doing it so I can have financial

blessing. I'm not doing it so I can gain

favor with everybody. But I'm doing it,

watch this, because it is overflowing

out of a heart of gratitude that I once

was lost, but because of the grace of

God, now I am found. And what I want to

do for the Lord is flowing out of I have

to do it. I was talking to a young

person before service tonight and they

were saying, "Pastor, it's just like I

want to do something for God. I'm" and I

told them, I said, "Watch this. I'm

going to show you what what is

happening. Jeremiah described it like

this in his book. He said, "It's like

fire that shut up in my bones." And she

said, "I said the other day, I just feel

it in my bones." I said, "That's exactly

right. You're not It's not flowing out

of you so you can be looked at and be

bragged on. There is something that

changed on the inside of your heart."

And out of that relationship flows a

desire to say, "I WANT TO PLEASE GOD. I

want to serve the Lord." AND CAN I TELL

YOU, I WISH THAT WOULD GET BACK IN THE

HEART OF every single PERSON THAT WE

WOULD NOT FORGET WHAT GOD DID FOR US. WE

WILL NOT FORGET WHERE GOD BROUGHT US

FROM. AND WE WOULD SAY, "GOD, I GOT TO

DO SOMETHING FOR YOUR KINGDOM." AND GOD

WILL BRING US TO A PLACE OF RECOGNITION

THAT THIS IS NOT FLOWING out of pride or

out of arrogance, BUT IT'S FLOWING out

of relationship with the Lord himself.

Because that, my friends, is when works

become pure in the eyes of God and our

hands become clean in the eyes of

Christ. Because it's not about us. John

Maxwell talks about this in leadership

classes. He said, "When you are a

leader, life is not about you. It's

about everybody else."

>> He said, "You're not in this for you.

You are in this for them." And if you're

in this for you, it will be seen very

quickly. But if you're in this for

everybody else, then everything you do

and everything you think about will be

how is this going to affect them in a

positive way.

>> Amen.

>> So if you're going to lead your family,

we've got to think about it's not about

me. It's about

>> them.

If you're going to lead a ministry, it's

not about me. It's about how am I going

to lead? What's is this going to benefit

them? How if if I'm gonna be a pastor, I

had to grapple with this. It's not about

me. It's about you.

>> Amen. Amen.

>> Ultimately, we're here to please the

Lord. Amen.

>> But understand this. In leading, I have

to understand. I have to lead you. And

that means I've got to know who you are.

I've got to see what's going on. I've

got to understand what's going on in the

climate, spiritually, politically,

financially, all these things to be able

TO SAY, GOD, HOW WOULD YOU HAVE me lead

according to your will so your people

can be engaged in their purpose?

>> And that's where the rubber meets the

road because it comes from a pure heart.

He goes on to say that those others that

are qualified through the requirements

and guidelines, they do not worship

idols. In other words, they don't put

other gods before God.

>> They don't put people before God.

>> Amen.

>> They don't put sports before the Lord.

>> They don't put family before the Lord.

>> Hello, somebody.

>> They don't put their own desires before

the Lord. They say, "Lord, what how or

how can I serve you and your kingdom

today? What does that look like?" There

there is all kinds of things going on

right now. There is there is pushes uh

in in America or the Western world to uh

disqualify the word of God and say that

the word of God is not actually true,

that there is fallible. There are other

pushes right now in even religious

circles to say that hell is not a real

place.

>> Come on.

There there are pushes for people that

are leaving the church that they they

want to go through a process that they

call being unbaptized.

>> If they were baptized in the church,

they they want they literally I've seen

it. They will take a blow dryer or a fan

and they will point it on them and they

will renounce their baptism

>> because they are trying they're trying

to deconstruct Christianity to the point

that we have no ground to stand on in

their eyes.

And the fact is, we've got people now

that in the church that are putting

idols above God and wondering why the

world is so stinking confused.

>> Yeah.

>> He didn't call us to be comfortable. He

didn't call us to live in compromise. He

called us to be a city set on a hill, a

light that is set on a hill so that we

could shine bright into all the world.

We cannot blame the world for living in

darkness. We can't blame them for

sinning. If they're a sinner, guess

what? Surprise. They're not going to

live for the Lord. They're going to be

stumbling AROUND IN DARKNESS. WHY ARE

THEY STUMBLING SO MUCH? WHY CAN THEY NOT

FIGURE OUT THE FACT THAT IT IS one that

is male and female? THAT THERE'S NOT 47

OTHER GENDERS. It's because THE CHURCH

HAS COMPROMISED to the point that we've

let OUR LIGHT GO OUT AND THERE IS NO

TRUTH ANYMORE. IT'S ALL ABOUT RELATIVE

TRUTH AND YOUR TRUTH AND MY TRUTH. BUT

CAN I TELL YOU, WE'VE GOT TO GET BACK TO

THE POINT THAT WE PROCLAIM THAT THIS

WORD IS TRUE. AND WHATEVER IT SAYS, I'M

GOING TO DO IT. WHATEVER IT SAYS I CAN

HAVE, GUESS WHAT? I CAN HAVE IT. HOWEVER

IT SAYS TO LIVE, I'M GOING TO LIVE IT.

AND IF IT SAYS PREACH THE WORD THIS WAY

AND THE GOSPEL THIS WAY, THEN FROM THIS

HOUSE AND FROM THIS VOICE, I'M GOING TO

PREACH IT CUZ I WANT TO SEE people born

again.

>> Let's see him born again. A weak gospel

will not save anybody.

>> It will just confuse people. But the

fact is we put idols above God many

times. But he is saying if we don't lift

oursel up uh to to vanity and idols then

we have a chance to be qualified to step

across that threshold. And then watch

this. Those even another requirement is

those who never deceive whose words are

sure. whose words are sure, meaning that

your yes is yes and your no is no.

That seems really complicated,

but let's just boil it down.

If you say no to the enemy,

mean it.

>> That's right.

>> Amen.

If you say yes to the voice of God,

don't get halfway in and say, "Oh, this

is tough." and back out. When you say

yes, when things get get tough, remember

it wasn't man that called you.

>> It wasn't your idea to step out in

faith. It was God's calling. And when he

calls you, if he if it gets tough, I

promise you, he will be right there with

you.

>> Amen.

>> He'll be right. So, let your no be no.

Let your yes be yes. Don't let there be

any uncertainty that comes out of your

mouth and let there be no deceit that

comes out of your mouth because then you

are qualified to come and step across

the threshold and to push the threats

that come to the threshold out on the

other side. Can I get an amen?

>> Watch this. Access to the hill of the

Lord which is described in Psalm 24.

This is a place of communion, fellowship

and relationship. The hill of the Lord.

And then the holy place. This is a place

of impartation, authority, and power.

They are not granted to casual, secular,

or carnal people.

Did you catch that? Getting to the hill

of the Lord, getting in the holy place,

stepping across the threshold TO THE

SACRED PLACE THAT GOD has is not

available to casual Christians, secular

people are carnal people.

>> Watch this. Because God has called us to

be spiritual. Look at your neighbor.

Say, be spiritual.

>> Be spiritual.

>> Romans 8 chapter 6 through8 says it like

this. For to be carnally minded is

death, but to be spiritually minded is

life and peace. Because the carnal mind

is enmity against God. For it is not

subject to the law of God, nor indeed

can be. So then, watch this. Those who

are in the flesh cannot please God.

Man, I know that's deep. I know it's

heavy. Hang with me. We're going

somewhere tonight. But I want you to

understand there are threats like this,

a fleshly nature, a carnal mind that are

trying to creep past the threshold TO

DISRUPT THE GOODNESS OF GOD THAT'S ON

THE OTHER SIDE of your stepping in

obedience.

Because if the enemy can do anything, he

will keep you from the will of God.

>> He will keep you from the perfect plan

of God. How does he do that? He doesn't

do that by showing up with a pitchfork

and a pointed tail.

Although I'm being honest, that'd be a

little easier to identify. Can I get a

witness?

>> But sometimes the enemy will show up in

a dress. Can I get an amen?

>> The enemy will show up wearing a suit.

>> The enemy will show up right in the

middle of the greatest mountaintop

experience that you've ever had in your

life. in the valley, man, my trust is

too deep in God. The devil ain't got no

chance to defeat me down there. But when

I get up on the mountain and

everything's going good and I'm feeling

great and I get a little get a little

breath, enemy is going to show up.

>> When did he show UP TO JESUS? TOOK HIM

UP TO THE TOP of an exceeding great

mountain and showed him all the kingdoms

of the world. Right?

>> He's going to show up in those moments.

But if we have the mind of Christ in

those moments, when the enemy does

present us with a moment or a scheme of

compromise, we will recognize it just

like that.

>> And then we'll be able to exercise our

right and say, "No, devil. I'm not doing

it."

>> I think we need to get a good no in our

spirit. Somebody say, "No."

>> That's what I Oh, that sounded good.

That was good right there. I'll be

honest. If you If you keep that up, the

devil ain't got a chance. He ain't got a

chance because we step back and realize

that we have the authority over the

enemy.

>> A lot of times we we have this concept

in our mind. The devil is more powerful

than we are. The devil is just a fallen

angel.

>> Hello.

>> Oh, Sloohoot, Lucifer, whatever you want

to call him, loser. I think that's a

great name.

>> Come on. It's a great name for the

devil.

>> It's really good. But a lot of times we

give him more power than he should have.

He is not equal with God.

>> It's not a battle of gods at all. There

is one supreme god. There is one lord,

one savior, one Christ. It is Jesus. And

I'm going to tell you this, the enemy is

not equal with him.

>> He's not equal with him. He does not

possess power over us. Matter of fact,

you have power over the enemy.

>> Come on.

HE HATES YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE THE

REFLECTION OF A HOLY GOD. SO EVERY TIME

he sees you, he sees the one that kicked

him out of all eternity and sent him on

the road. That's why he's got an issue

with you. That's why he's got a problem

with you. BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU, HE

IS LIMITED in power. He is limited in

time. You can go back to THE WORD OF

GOD. AND HE DOES NOT HAVE AUTHORITY OVER

YOU AS A CHILD OF GOD. I DON'T KNOW

ABOUT YOU, BUT THAT GETS ME EXCITED

TONIGHT THAT IF I STAY SPIRITUALLY

MINDED, THERE IS NOTHING THE ENEMY CAN

DO TO TALK ME OUT OF TO STOP ME OR BLOCK

ME FROM THE PROMISES OF GOD. BUT IF I

HANG ON TO HIS PROMISES, I FEEL LIKE

preaching a little bit right now. If

I'll HANG ON TO THE PROMISES OF GOD, HE

WILL CLEAR EVERY OBSTACLE OUT OF MY WAY.

HE'LL MOVE EVERY DEMONIC INFLUENCE.

HE'LL MOVE EVERY COME ON, SOMEBODY. IS

THERE ANYBODY IN THE HOUSE THAT WOULD

SAY, "PASTOR, I'VE SEEN HIM DO IT, AND I

JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT AND GIVE MY

GOD A LITTLE BIT OF PRAISE TONIGHT." I

DARE YOU TO GIVE HIM SOME PRAISE. IF THE

ENEMY HAS EVER BEEN MOVED OUT OF YOUR

LIFE, IF GOD HAS EVER MADE A WAY WHERE

THERE SEEM, IF HE'S EVER BROUGHT HEALING

TO YOUR MIND, IF HE'S EVER BROUGHT

HEALING TO YOUR BODY, IF HE'S EVER

RESTORED YOUR I FEEL THE GLORY OF THE

LORD IN THE HOUSE, I WANT TO TELL YOU,

IF HE DID IT BEFORE, HE'S ABOUT TO SHOW

UP AND DO IT AGAIN IN YOUR LIFE. 1 2 3.

GIVE HIM SOME PRAISE in the house.

>> Hallelujah.

He is God

>> and there's none beside him.

None beside him.

First Corinthians 2:14 says it like

1 Corinthians 2:14

this. But the natural man does not

receive the things of the spirit of God,

for they are foolishness to him, nor can

he know them because they are

spiritually discerned.

I I have a problem with with the

pattern. Again, this is another one of

the threats to the threshold is that

it's either one of two extremes in the

church. Either you got the person that

is over here in the clouds all day long

and they're so spiritual that you can't

even have a real conversation with them.

Come on.

>> Anybody ever met anybody like that? Do

not point at them if they're in the

house tonight.

But everything they say, oh every, you

know, God is, oh, I'm floating over

here, man. Me and the Lord are surfing

on cloud number nine. Come on. I just

like, whoa, calm down.

Like we we have we we can be spiritual,

but we don't have to be weird.

>> Amen.

>> I take problem with that. I take issue

with that. That's one extreme. And

that's a threat to the threshold because

it will turn people. It will turn the

harvest off.

>> Yeah.

>> Mhm.

>> You start throwing all these church

terms out them. They don't know what

you're talking about,

>> bro. I just need to know, am I going to

heaven or going to hell? I want to know

which way is it happening. Right?

>> That's one threat. But then the other

threat is people that refuse to be

spiritual at all.

>> They got born again 432 years ago and I

planted my butt right here and I'm going

to stay here until Jesus comes back. But

I ain't doing nothing for the Lord.

>> I ain't going to pray. I ain't going to

read my Bible. Listen, I'm going to be

honest with you. If you don't have a

desire to read the word and a desire to

be in his presence, I'm not saying you

don't have to push past your fleshly

nature. That's why we're fasting right

now to tell our flesh you are not in

charge.

>> Right?

>> Okay. So, we can override that through

our spirit man. But if you don't have a

desire to be in the house of God, to

read his word, be in his presence, I'm

going to stand here and I'm going to

question the fruit that is on your tree.

>> Amen.

>> People say, "Well, you don't be judging

me, pastor." No, I'm not. I'm not

judging you. I am making a judgment

based off the fruit you're bearing.

>> And if my judgment says you are not

producing the fruit of the spirit, then

me as your spiritual leader, I love you

enough to look at you and say, "Hey,

what's going on?"

>> Yeah. Amen.

>> We have people on this side that refuse

to be spiritual at all. And they stand

over here and they think, "I'm going to

get everything God has, but I don't

read. I don't pray. I don't fellowship.

I don't come to church. I don't serve. I

don't do anything. I am off over here in

left field and there's no fruit at all."

Can I tell you those are two extremes.

We have to find a balance in this thing

and find a rhythm in our faith. There

will be seasons that we are going to

drift over here a little bit more

because we are fighting. Come on. We we

have to get up. We have to speak the

word of God. Greater is he that's in me.

Come on. When when cancer shows up, you

know, you cannot drift OVER THERE AND

STAY there and survive. You got to stand

here and you got to stand fast in the

word of God and say, "Listen, I know I'm

healed by the blood of Jesus. I know the

stripes of Jesus were on." HE TOOK THEM

ON HIS BACK SO I COULD HAVE HEALING. AND

I WILL STAND HERE AND I WILL LOOK the

doctor in the eye AND SAY, "YEAH, THAT

MAY BE WHAT the report says, but I

choose to believe what my savior said

about me and I'M ALREADY HEALED."

SOMETIMES YOU GOT TO GET IN THAT VEIN

AND YOU GOT TO FIGHT WITH EVERYTHING

YOU'VE GOT.

>> YEAH.

>> And you have to drift there. There are

other seasons you may come against

somebody who's never been in church

before and you may have to drift here

and look them right in the eye and tell

and talk to them like they need to be

talked to so you can they can understand

what you're saying.

>> Yes.

>> Because you're reaching that person. It

doesn't mean I drift to the extremes.

Just means somewhere in there I got to

find a rhythm on how I'm supposed to

operate in the kingdom of God.

>> Yeah. There is a season for everything.

Seasons come, seasons go, the Lord shows

up, the Lord moves, the Lord changes

things. And what I know inside of my

heart and inside of my life is that the

Lord God Almighty has put us here in

this place tonight to let us recognize

that we cannot exist in a carnal mind, a

fleshly mind. We must be in the presence

of God, have spiritual minds, and have

the mind of Christ. Amen.

>> And there's no other way to do that

other than to pick up the word of God.

>> There was a study that was that was

produced and um I shared this with our

staff when we began to start the fast

and we're doing the Bible reading doing

two chapters a day of the book of Acts

Monday through Friday and we'll be

through the entire book of Acts not this

Friday but the next Friday and we'll end

up reading the entire book of Acts

together as a church. And I said the

reason why I want to go five days number

one because I understand people get busy

and there may be a day you miss. you

going to need Saturday and Sunday to

catch up. Come on.

>> I'm just being honest. We've already had

to use our Saturday and Sunday to catch

up because we get busy and we have life

and it's all crazy, but we got through

it and we enjoyed it. But here's what I

want to say. The study says that if

somebody reads the Bible one time a

week, not really a whole lot spiritually

changes. If they read it twice a week,

still maybe a slight tick up in in

difference, but nothing significant.

Three times a week, maybe a touch more,

but nothing of significance. But that

something between that third day and

that fourth day happens.

>> Yeah.

>> When they hit four days a week, it is

literally some of the statistics was

they are 200% or more less likely to be

depressed when they read the word of God

four times a week.

>> That's crazy. That's ridiculous. I could

have my statistic. That may be one of

the others. There was another one and it

may have been um I think it was maybe

150% less likely uh to view pornography

because they were in the word of God

four or more times a week. So it begin

to distance them. When they got the word

of God in there, it was like a natural

wedge between the flesh man and the

spirit man. It drove the flesh man out

and brought the spirit man closer. Can I

tell you that if we don't get in that

type of vein every single week, not just

in our 21 days of fasting and praying

and the season of wonders, but every

single day make a conscious effort to

say, "God, I want to hear your voice

from your word."

>> It will make a huge difference in our

hearts and a huge difference in our

lives. I want you to see this. Romans 8

9-11 is another scripture that talks

about this. And it says, "But you are

not in the flesh but in the spirit

talking to the church." This is this is

directed to us. If indeed the spirit of

God dwells in you. Now if anyone does

not have the spirit of Christ, he is not

his. And if Christ is in you, the body

is dead because of sin. But the spirit

is life because of righteousness or

holiness. But if the spirit of him who

raised Jesus from the dead dwells in

you, he who raised Christ from the dead

will also give you give life rather to

your mortal bodies through his spirit

who dwells in you. Do you see the

connotation? The flesh man brings death,

but the spirit man brings life.

>> Yeah.

>> And we have to recognize this that if

we're going to see clearly the threats

that are coming to the threshold, we

cannot exist carnally. We have to be

spiritual.

>> We have to be spiritual. And again, let

me reward it one more time. Not weird,

but spiritual.

>> Amen.

>> Not weird, but spiritual.

Weird stuff weirds me out.

>> But spiritual people bring life to the

room.

>> Yeah.

>> You know the difference.

>> Yeah.

>> When somebody walks in and they're

spiritual and they got faith, you feel

it. Yeah.

>> It's not and it's not even for them to

be, oh, look at them. No, no, no. They

carry a faith in their life that when

they walk in, you automatically feel

peace.

>> You feel peace when they step in the

room. You know why? Because they know in

whom they have believed and they are

persuaded.

>> They are persuaded. I think it's time

that we get a persuaded faith back in

our life.

>> Persuaded that God is going to take care

of every need. persuaded he's going to

take care of every business transaction

we have, every business relationship,

everything we have. He is going to take

care of it because he's that good of a

God.

>> He's that good of a God. Now, watch

this. These are sacred thresholds that

we are about to walk through in 2026.

They cannot be stepped through in the

flesh or with a carnal mind. They must

be stepped through in the spirit.

Ezekiel chapter 43 verse number 8 uh

Ezekiel 43 · chapter mention

shows some interesting verbiage here and

we read it earlier at the very beginning

but I'm going to read it in this this

little tagline in four different

translations real quick. The New King

James Version says when they set their

threshold by my threshold. Y'all

remember reading that out of Ezekiel

438. The New Living Translation says

they put their idol altars right next to

mine. This is God speaking through

Ezekiel to the people of God. The

English Standard Version says it like

this. By setting their threshold by my

threshold. And the message says it like

this. They built their shrines right

next to mine. They built their shrines

right next to mine. Across these

translations is a common thread and a

theme that has played out. And the the

issue is this. The issue is of proximity

without permission. They were bringing

what they thought was sacred and landing

it right next to the actual sacred part

of God when they really were in a

secular mindset. Their proximity was

right, but their permission was not

given with with human structures and

human focused worship. They set their

shrines up and they set their threshold

up and they set the wall up so that when

everybody saw them, they thought they

were sacred, but they really were

secular. THEY WERE TRYING TO DISGUISE

what they were doing. And they were uh

watch this. They were intruding on God's

sacred threshold. When I read this

scripture, there were four main key

words that I wanted to look up in the

Hebrew language and and and get gain an

understanding. One of those was

threshold that we've talked about many

times over the past couple weeks meaning

a seal or the threshold or the doorway

symbolizing authority, access or

ownership or transfer of ownership. But

then also it showed the doorpost in

Ezekiel chapter 43. And this is

Ezekiel 43 · chapter mention

literally a place of covenant. Somebody

say covenant.

>> Then it was another word that popped out

to me and that was the word defiled

which literally means to pollute, to

make unclean or to violate the holiness

that was established. And then the last

word that stuck out to me was

abominations. This literally means

idolatry or desolate worship practices

that were going on. Israel aligned their

access points during the scripture that

Ezekiel was talking about. You see the

the this whole thing play out where God

drew a line in the sand and said,

"Listen, they set their threshold up by

my threshold and I will not allow

defilement to come to my temple." Israel

aligned their access points with God's

access point, making it appear that they

had lined up really with the holiness of

God. And they they had allowed theirel

to line up with the holiness of God, but

in reality, they just wanted everybody

else to think they were holy without

submitting to the hand of God through

obedience. And I want you to understand

that I feel like that there is a a a a a

good majority of the church in the

western world that want to appear as

though they are holy, but they really

don't want to submit to God through

obedience. I believe there are a lot of

people that call theirel Christian in

the western world that that they they

want to they want to appear they want

everybody else to think they're right

with God. And it becomes a cultural

Christianity, if you will, that I came

to church and I checkarked a box and

everything was good and everything is

well, but really on the backside of the

of their life, they are not submitting

to the holiness of God through

obedience. Can I tell you that I refuse

to pastor a church that is lied to every

week and and you don't under and people

don't understand the requirements that

God has of their life. Can I tell you

I'm going to preach because I want to

bring you to heaven with me. I want us

to get to the gates and the Lord look at

us and say, "Come on in. Well done, my

good and faithful servant." If it rubs

somebody the wrong way, I hope it rubs

them right into a right relationship

with God because we're called to be holy

and righteous in his sight.

>> The time frame that we see the scripture

written was post exile. And Ezekiel sees

a future in his mind's eye, in his

spiritual vision of a restored temple

one day where they were going to see the

power and presence of God. But then

there was a problem that arose and the

kings and leaders of that day. They

built royal residences. They built pagan

altars and they built burial sites for

the dead and they laid them adjacent to

the temple of the Lord God Almighty. the

political, the social, AND THE CULTURAL

POWERS OF THAT day tried to share a wall

with the with divine authority, making

it look as though they were condoned by

the presence of God rather than

condemned. I want you to understand that

many people look at this and say maybe

they didn't know what they were doing.

Maybe they were uncertain that they

maybe they built these things in the

wrong place. But I want you to know this

was not arrog ignorance. It was

arrogance because they knew exactly what

they were doing and exactly how they

were doing it. But I want to bring this

caveat in there. Even though they knew

what they were doing, even though they

knew they were bringing a defilement to

the temple of God and they were bringing

threats to the threshold that God had

established, Ephesians chapter 6 and

Ephesians 6 · chapter mention

verse number 10 lays out a beautiful uh

instruction for you and I whenever it

talks about spiritual warfare that we

must face on a daily basis and even as a

church. I want you to see this. It says,

"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the

Lord, in the power of his might. put on

the whole armor of God that you may be

able to stand against the ws of the

devil. For we do not wrestle against

flesh and blood, but against

principalities, against powers, against

rulers of the darkness of this age,

against spiritual hosts of wickedness in

the heavenly places. I want you to

understand, we are waring in the spirit

tonight as a believer. But I'm going to

tell you, we're not waring against

flesh. We are waring against spiritual

enemies in wicked places. I want you to

really draw that line because if we're

not careful, we'll call out and we'll

say, "Well, this group of people and and

this group of people and I understand

that there are certain sects that we

must call out and we must look at them

and say their beliefs are not lining up

with the word of God." You can look at

certain religions that are even in in in

in our area and those that are in our

nation and trying to take over and

certain belief systems and I'm going to

tell you, they do not line up with the

word of God. And I want you to

understand tonight, we must distinguish

between them. But when it comes down to

it, we are actually waring against the

spirit that is behind that and not even

the people that are participating.

>> We miss that a lot of times and we say,

"Well, curse this one and curse that

one. I DON'T WANT TO CURSE THEM. I WANT

TO CALL THEM OUT OF darkness into the

light of Christ and let them know you

are in error." BUT THERE IS A GOD WHO

can bring YOU OUT AND SHOW YOU TRUTH and

bring you to a place of repentance. And

I look at that in all kinds of areas.

And I want you to understand tonight,

I'VE GOT A FRESH UNDERSTANDING OF IT.

WE'RE not fighting against people. We're

fighting AGAINST THE SPIRIT THAT'S

BEHIND THEM.

>> Fighting against that. We can't get it

twisted. People aren't our enemy. They

are our assignment.

>> People are our assignment. Our family is

our assignment.

>> Our co-workers are our assignment.

>> The people that we sit beside in the

restaurants after the fast is over.

>> They are our assignment.

>> And God HAS CALLED US TO MINISTER TO

THEM. GOD HAS CALLED US TO LOVE THEM.

GOD HAS CALLED us to reach them.

whatever that looks like in that moment.

But if we are waring against the person,

all we're going to do is drive them away

from the grace of God. God has not

called us to do that. God has not God

has not called us to push them out. God

has called us to try our best to reach

them and bring them in. Sometimes it may

be impossible.

>> Amen.

>> It's why he gave us a little bit of an

out there. where he said as much as

possible is live peaceibly with all men.

>> Sometimes the best thing you can do is

get up and walk away.

>> Cuz you know, you get all heated and you

get all man, you you start to you start

to get a little emotional. You know what

I'm saying? You you you may say some

things.

Come on. You may say some things and

later on you going to go back up and

regret it and say, "Wait a second. That

is not what I meant." Anybody ever had

to go back to somebody and say, "I I

said something and that's not what I

meant to say."

Am I the only one? I see like two heads

shaking like, "Yes, pastor. That's me."

Okay, I see. Okay, I feel better now.

There's other people in the room. You

have to go back to him and say, "Listen,

I know I said that, but um yeah, that

was that was my alter ego. Can I get an

amen?"

>> Amen.

>> That was uh that was the other person

trying to speak and I I did not crucify

my flesh before I got in that

conversation. and he spoke a little too

loud. I spoke this the quiet thing out

loud and and so I didn't mean to do that

and you had to make things right cuz

sometimes we have to back we have to

understand that we may slip up and mess

up. But I'm thankful for forgiveness.

I'm thankful for grace. Thankful for the

hand of God that brings us to a place

that we can make reconciliation. But

watch this. To war, watch this. To war

and to win, we must hear the Holy

Spirit's instructions through Paul later

on. Because if we're going to get into

this battle that is a spiritual battle

against spiritual enemies, we cannot

approach it in a fleshly nature. If

we're going to guard the threshold from

the threats that are out here, if we try

to do that through the flesh, we are

going to miss it.

But if we are on our knees in prayer,

we're in the word of God, hearing God's

voice, then I promise you, you will

recognize the enemy when he shows up.

Because you'll have such a beautiful

picture of how good God is and his

character that whenever something that

opposes his character shows up, it will

be it will stick out like a sore thumb.

>> Amen.

>> And you won't have to say, "Well, I need

discernment whether that's the devil or

not." No, that's the devil.

That's him. You know why? because it

doesn't match up with the character of

God.

>> Yeah.

>> And if it's trying here, I'll give you

some easy easy hints. If it if whatever

it is tries to keep you from reading the

word of God,

it's probably the enemy.

>> Amen.

>> Now, if you have little children at the

house, I ain't talking about if you got

to change the diaper, you know, that

ain't that ain't spiritual warfare. Come

on, somebody. Having to get up in the

middle of the night and feed your child.

Oh, the devil's after me. No, your kid's

hungry.

Suck it up, buttercup. It'll be all

right.

>> Come on, somebody.

>> He put See, again, that's that's the

people that over there in the clouds.

Everything everything spiritual.

>> My baby wiggle the right toe. I think,

man, man, the devil's after our family.

Shut up.

>> Hello.

>> That's when it gets weird. That's

whenever I say, "Hey, you know, note to

self, don't get in a deep conversation

with that person."

>> Amen.

>> Guard my heart. I'm gonna guard my

peace.

>> Guard that. But we have to recognize it.

If it keeps us away from spiritual

things, if it tries to keep me from

being in the house of God, odds are it's

going to be an attack of the enemy.

That flew over like a lead balloon. I

think it bounced right there and it's

still there.

If it keeps me from wanting to be in the

presence of God, from seeking his face

and really submitting myself, finding

that place of solitude so I can get a

still heart and a still mind in that

moment so I can hear his voice clearly.

The enemy will try to bring chaos to

your life to keep you from doing that.

>> Responsibilities at home, that's not the

enemy.

>> Now, if you need to get your life

organized, that's a whole another story.

>> Amen. If you got to set some order, set

some order. And that's fine. I

understand that. That's biblical, too.

And that will allow you to have space.

Amen. I'll allow you to have space to

hear the voice of God. But if we're

going to really win in this war, we have

to hear the voice of the ready rider.

That is in Ephesians. When you drop a

little bit below that, Ephesians 6:13-20

Ephesians 6:13–20

says, "Therefore, if we're going to

fight if we're going to fight this this

fight of faith, right, if we're going to

fight the spiritual battle, we got to be

ready. Take up the whole armor of God.

Get the whole armor of God. Like don't

just like run out of the room with just

the sword that that you vulnerable to

the attack. You may be able to throw

things. You may be able to swing that

baby and you may be effective for a

little while, but at some point if

you're not careful, an arrow is going to

come and try to get you. And if you're

not protected, then you're left yourself

vulnerable. He said that you may be able

to withstand in the evil day, having

done all to stand. Stand therefore,

having girded your waist with the truth,

having put on the breastplate of

righteousness, having shaw your feet

with the preparation of the gospel of

peace, he said, above all, taking the

shield of faith, with which you were

able to quench all the fiery darts of

the wicked one, and take the helmet of

salvation and the sword of the spirit,

which is the word of God, praying always

with all prayer and supplication of the

spirit, being watchful to this end with

all perseverance and supplication for

all the saints and for me, and that the

utterance may be given to me that I may

open my mouth boldly to make known the

mystery of the gospel for which I am an

ambassador in chains that in it I may

speak boldly as I ought to speak. If

we're going to win in this war, we have

to put on the full armor of God.

>> And might I can I add this that to put

on the full armor of God, it's not once

a week we put that thing on.

It it's yes it is every single day.

>> Every day we put the all the whole armor

of God on. Why? Because we must be ready

to fight at a moment's notice.

We must be dressed to fight at a

moment's notice. And watch this. We must

have the have the confidence in the word

of God and the ability God put on our

life and the passion to fight at any

moment because watch this. God does not

cohabitate with compromise.

If compromises in my life, God is not

going to link up with that and partner

with that. God will not partner with

that. Watch this. Because when we are

dressed for war, there is no room for

compromise.

>> When I've got the full armor of God on,

I know what my assignment is that day.

>> And the armor of God is not self-care.

Swing that sword across there, too. I

want to preface. The armor of God is not

self-care. I know there's times you got

to have some silence. Come on, somebody.

>> You got to have some moments where you

can hear the voice of God, but but the

word of God never says, "Do self-care."

The word of God says, "Deny yourself."

>> Amen.

>> Amen. I if if the word of God is active

in our life and we have an active prayer

life and we have an active life of

serving in the kingdom of God, our

mental health will be stabilized because

our soul is prospering.

>> Amen.

is why have I take I take offense a

little bit with with some of the school

system decisions that they made several

years ago not allowing us to bring the

presence of God up in the room even in a

secretive way to be able to let kids

know that they are worth something that

God loves them and they they shut that

moment out for whatever reason but they

what they didn't realize is very the

very thing they needed help with we were

about to bring in the room but here's

what I believe God is flipping the

script and once they kicked out one time

now I got my youth pastor at every

single ball practice and every come on

at every single game right up in the

middle of them kids and loving on them

praying for them and every one of them

are coming to him and saying hey my

mama's going through this this is

happening can I tell you God has a way

of reversing and flipping the script on

THE ENEMY THAT HE MIGHT HAVE DENIED it

one time but I thank GOD THAT THERE'S AN

ARMOR-FILLED MAN THAT'S WALKING IN THAT

ROOM THAT'S WALKING UP IN THE MAN WE GOT

TEACHERS THAT ARE WALKING UP IN THAT

ROOM AND TELLING THE kids that JESUS

LOVES HIM I'M TELLING YOU GOD'S GRACE IS

ON THIS THING AND I BELIEVE HE'S GOING

TO BRING ABOUT A GREAT POWER and a great

strength.

>> Now watch this. It's not solicited

because they understand the assignment.

They know there's something different

about Pastor Danny.

>> They know there's something different

about those teachers and they can they

can invest that what they what they're

needing and what they're facing. They

can say, "I need help with this." And

then the open door is there.

>> And it's beautiful.

>> It's a beautiful thing. Israel, watch

this, attempted to merge the sacred with

the secular in the scripture.

But God rejected

then and God rejects today worship with

idols nearby.

>> He rejects worship with idols nearby. We

cannot, and watch this, and I will say

this, and will not mix the sacred and

the secular in this house. No,

>> we're not walking and stepping across

secular thresholds.

>> God specifically gave us that wording

that we are stepping across sacred

thresholds

>> because it is God ordained, God ordered

that we're going to step across this

year and we're going to see God do some

incredible things. But understand, we've

got to guard between guard and and and a

protect this house from allowing the

secular to be mixed with the sacred. So,

a lot of times people will say, "Pastor,

we we got to we got to compromise a

little bit. We got to maybe we don't be

so dogmatic on that. Maybe we need to

be, you know, let's let's not preach

that all the time. Let's let's, you

know, let's skip some of that, right?

Because we don't want to make people

feel uncomfortable." But here's the

thing. We can declare a real truth and

not be a jerk about it.

>> Amen.

>> I don't have to be a jerk to tell

somebody the truth.

>> Now, if they're bound in that sin and

they are uh they are fully in and they

they don't want to change and there is a

spirit that's got control of their life,

it wouldn't matter how soft or how

gracious, I could let brother Jack tell

them and they would still get mad.

He's got away with words. He can just

make make he make you feel like a

million bucks in just like 30 seconds.

You know, he and he could tell him in

the most gracious way that hey, you're

sorry buddy, but you're probably going

to go to hell. And you know, and you

know what? It wouldn't matter about the

tone because it's the truth behind it.

>> When you're confronted with truth, you

have a decision.

>> There's a decision that you must make at

that moment. Am I going to submit to

what I'm hearing and what I see and

understand that there are consequences

for my sin and change my ways or am I

gonna stay in it and get angry?

>> Can I tell you I don't want them to get

angry? But I cannot back down from

preaching just to save somebody from

getting upset.

>> Can't do that

>> because then I have to answer to God for

that for myself but also for this house.

And I want whenever whenever our church

is mentioned in heaven, I want it to be

bam, that's a great church. Come on.

>> Amen.

>> Those people really love the Lord. I I

that's what I want. I want when that

happens, I want when whenever you walk

through those pearly gates and you stand

before the judgment seat of Christ, if

I'm back there behind you and I see them

call your name out next and I'm like,

"That's my man. That's my girl right

there." I want to hear, "Well done, thy

good and faithful servant.

>> Come on in." That is my goal as your

pastor. Can I tell can I go ahead and

articulate a few of the threats that I

feel like are at the threshold that we

have to be careful of?

>> And and some of these I don't really

have to worry about here because um I

you know I'll do the I I will preach the

gospel with all I've got. I know my

ministers will do the same thing even

with our dying breath. We'll do whatever

it takes. But me and my lady had a

conversation the other day and we said,

"Are we really prepared to give our

lives for the cause of the gospel of

Christ?"

>> Riding back from I don't remember where

we're riding back from. I think we went

to go see Brother Joe and we were just

talking about uh you know, we we were

listening to a bit of a podcast from uh

the these fireballs from Australia that

are just I mean just declaring the

gospel of Christ all over the place. and

uh he he was born into Islamic country

and his parents were Christians and

talking about what they had seen, how

God had moved, the miraculous things

that had taken place. And he he tried to

warn Australia that Islam was trying to

take over. And now he's trying to warn

America that it's happening the same

way.

>> And the reason why men are attracted to

Islam is because Islamic men, they act

like men.

>> Come on. Come on.

>> And his word, this is his words. While

the men in America are wearing dresses

and prancing around, the men of Islam

are standing up and being men.

>> Yeah. Come on.

>> Come on. Can I just get real and talk

about threats at the threshold?

>> Yes, sir.

>> Because if we're not careful, if we're

not careful, there will be a whole

generation of men that turn into

sissies.

>> Come on.

and they will miss God's given

assignment for their life to stand up

and be men of God and declare the grace

of God over a generation. I'm telling

you, we still need men to be men in

America.

>> Come on. We need men to rise up and do

what they're CALLED TO DO. WE NEED THEM

to lead their families in grace and in

authority and in power. We need them to

be spiritual men that do not back down

from a spiritual fight. That do not

cower when something goes wrong, but

they stand up and say, "No, GOD EQUIPPED

ME TO LOOK the enemy in the eye and be a

man of God AND CALL THE ENEMY for what

it is, protect my family, lead my

family, AND WATCH WHAT GOD'S GOING TO

DO."

>> But if we're not careful, WE'LL HAVE A

THREAT OF A THRESHOLD THAT WILL

DEASCULATE our men and end up putting

THEM IN A SPOT WHERE WE DON'T EVEN HAVE

ANY MEN THAT'LL stand up anymore.

and the American family will be

destroyed.

>> Yeah,

>> it will be destroyed. Now, I thank God

we got some manly men up in this house.

>> That's great. We got some special things

coming in February and in the early

March for uh to have a men's meeting and

a women's meeting. So, be listening for

that kind of stuff while I'm on that

subject. But I want you to understand it

starts a a weakness starts with a woke

and weak gospel that is preached.

>> Will you just come just come and say a

prayer and everything's going to change?

No, we need transformation.

>> Yeah.

>> Amen.

>> That means I once lived this way and I

was bound by all this. Jesus encountered

me and now I am completely different by

the grace of God. Come on. That is the

gospel. Not a weak gospel. LET'S JUST

NOT A GOSPEL THAT SAYS LET'S mingle or

oh, let's figure out how to coexist WITH

ALL THIS. OH, ABSOLUTELY NOT. Sin has no

place in my life as a Christian. I've

got to kill it. IF IT TRIES TO creep

back in again, kill it again through the

blood OF JESUS CHRIST AND be transformed

and walk in the power of God. He has

made you to be an overcomer. And because

Christ overcame, YOU AND I CAN OVERCOME

AS WELL. IT'S NOT A WEAK GOSPEL. IT IS A

POWERFUL GOSPEL. SIN HAS NO POWER OVER

ME. THE ENEMY HAS NO POWER OVER ME. WHY?

BECAUSE JESUS secured my deliverance and

my breakthrough. OH, I FEEL THE GLORY OF

GOD. HE SECURED MY BREAKTHROUGH ON THE

CROSS. AND I WALK IN THAT SAME POWER

TODAY. THE SAME SPIRIT THAT RAISED JESUS

FROM THE DEAD LIVES INSIDE OF ME. AND I

WANT TO KNOW, HAS ANYBODY ELSE GOT THE

SAME SPIRIT LIVING INSIDE OF THEM

TONIGHT? AND YOU DON'T WANT A WOKE

GOSPEL OR A WEAK GOSPEL. BUT PASTOR,

PREACH ME THE REAL GOSPEL. LEAD ME DOWN

THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME'S

SAKE. YAY. THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE

VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL

FEAR NO EVIL, FOR YOU ARE WITH ME IN THE

NAME OF JESUS.

He's with me tonight

>> because we don't preach a woke or a weak

gospel.

>> Hallelujah.

>> May I go further?

>> Another threat at the at the uh

threshold

is offense.

>> Now, I'll be honest.

>> I'd rather not ever preach about the bet

of state never again.

I'm gonna let somebody else do that.

I'll recruit all my ministers and I'll

let my board members do it. That'd be

perfect. I can preach about the spirit

of offense, but can I tell you the

spirit of offense is destroying people

and it's destroying families.

>> I I I've seen people and I know people

that have lived in perpetual offense for

decades and it doesn't matter what you

say or how you say it, they're going to

be offended.

>> And it's it's usually the people now say

it like this that you have to walk on

eggshells around them all the time.

Yeah.

>> Say one wrong thing, they're going to

blow up.

>> They are bound by a spirit of offense.

>> And here's my heart. I don't want them

to be bound by a spirit of offense.

>> Hear me. There is deliverance. There is

breakthrough for that. There is victory

for that. But it comes, it only comes

through them admitting it. There's got

to be an admittance and there's got to

be repentance.

>> That's it.

can't go along and say, "Well, I don't

even know what I did to hurt you." Yes,

you do. Shut up,

>> which would offend them.

>> Or or or if they say, "I don't I don't

know what I did to hurt them." Maybe,

oh, that offends them.

>> Telling you, I've met people like that.

And they're bound by that and they are a

threat to the threshold

>> because what they'll do is they'll try

to inflict their offense on you and get

you in their boat.

You ever heard the statement, "Misy

loves company."

>> I'm telling you, be careful. An offended

person will try to find an ally just

like that.

>> And it'll happen like this. They'll come

and say, "Did you hear what pastor did?

Did you hear how pastor treated me?

>> Thank you.

That's a great response. That's a Yeah.

Thank you for thinking I'm awesome. I

love you.

But you look at that and they will try

their best and it will be an intro

comment like that. Well, you know, I I

tried to I tried to get my pastor and he

just he wouldn't respond to me. I just,

you know, I just I think I'm going to go

to another church.

>> You know, you want to go try one with

me? No. Absolutely not. The devil is a

liar.

>> Amen.

>> Not because I don't believe there's

other great churches. There's other

great churches out there. I know great

pastors that love the Lord. But what's

going to happen is you going to carry

that offense right up in there and try

to mess up what God's doing in their

church, too.

>> Amen.

>> Somebody comes up in here and they're

carrying a spirit of offense from

another church, I'm going to call it

out.

>> Cuz I'm not going We It would be an

injustice to be cyclical in that.

>> I want people to be free.

>> Amen. If there's sin in somebody's life

and it was tried to be dealt with

somewhere else and now it shows up here

and and they're they're unwilling to

deal with that or maybe they've not been

confronted. I'm I'm just one of them

guys. I'm going to go right to it.

>> I don't know why. Let's do it. I because

I love people enough to not let them be

bound in the mess that they're stuck in

because I see the potential in you

through Jesus Christ to do great things

for the kingdom of God and to live the

life you PROBABLY NEVER THOUGHT WAS EVEN

POSSIBLE.

>> Come on.

>> I don't know what that part was. I

thought was I talking about offense,

wasn't I? Okay. Talking about offense.

>> Spiritual apathy and lukewarm

Christianity

>> is a threat at the threshold.

That'll get you all the way up to the

threshold. I'm just tired, pastor.

I don't know if I can do it anymore.

I, you know, I'm gonna stand here in the

way so nobody else can go. You know, if

I can't go, you can't go either.

>> You know, it's just been, it's been one

of them years. I don't know if I can

step across threshold. What if I told

you on the other step of that obedience

would be the breakthrough you've been

asking for for years?

>> Shake off apathy. Shake off lukewarmness

and say, "Let's step across this

threat." Don't let that threat stop you.

Here's another threat at the threshold.

Gossip and slander,

>> backbiting, h, however you want to

categorize that,

people think it's okay. Well, I can talk

about them as long as I put it in prayer

request form.

>> I don't know, Mom. I don't know where n

is coming from. I blame it on my mom.

It's my mom's fault.

It's how she raised me. That's all I can

say.

>> But but we don't realize

we don't realize when we allow gossip to

be part of our life, we are tearing down

another believer.

>> Yeah.

>> Right.

>> Our brother and sister in Christ. God

has not called us to tear them down. God

has called us to actually do the

opposite, to build them up.

and in this house, don't ever talk about

somebody else in this place.

>> If there is if there is friction, if

there is a problem, then let's deal with

it like the word of God says. Go to your

brother and sister and try to make. If

it doesn't work, bring an elder with you

and let's figure this thing out. And if

they still will not reconcile, let the

spiritual leadership make the final

decision on that. and you don't be

guilty of anything that's going to put

you in harm or distance you from God.

Let's get back to doing these things

biblically. Amen.

>> I'm not naive to sit here and think

ain't somebody here going to get upset

somebody else. Okay. You you hang around

your family long enough. If Thanksgiving

goes a little too long, you know,

tensions may get a little high.

>> Come on. More we gather up, the more we

have things going on, the more we try to

do things for the Lord. I'm not naive to

think the enemy is not going to try to

bring division, but I'm going to go

ahead and let it be known right now. We

don't deal with it through harshness or

cancelling each other. We deal with it

through the love and the grace and the

power of God's word. Amen.

>> Come on. I need I need to know. Are you

committed to being that way? Come on.

Are you committed to being that way? If

we've got a problem, let's deal with it

biblically. Listen, if you can handle on

your own, please don't bring me into it.

I'm just being honest. I got enough

things that I'm dealing with right now.

I've got like five or six things stacked

up that I have to deal with before

Sunday. All right? Doesn't mean I don't

have time for it, but I'm gonna tell

you, be a mature Christian.

>> Be a mature believer.

Okay?

>> And you can I believe in you.

I believe in you that you can do it. I

believe in you. Okay? I don't know where

that came from. Very good.

Gossip,

addiction, and drunkenness is a threat

at the threshold.

allowing addictions to take control and

control everything about your life. Can

I tell you it is not God's will for you

to be addicted?

>> Drugs, alcohol, come on. I can go

further than that. Do we need to go any

further? I think you can read between

the lines and figure this thing out. I'm

going to go and say it. Pornography. You

should not be addicted to pornography.

You should get that thing broken and get

it out of your life. Get it out of your

marriage.

>> Come on, somebody. And get those threats

away from the threshold. God has a

destiny for you. And if those things are

in the way, you cannot readily step

where God says step.

>> These are threats.

Let's see. Where am I at?

I don't got them numbered.

I'll just go with this one. Sexual

immorality.

Sexual sin. Let's go ahead and touch the

whole gamut. Adultery is a threat at the

threshold.

>> All right.

Adultery,

>> physical and emotional relationships are

a threat at the threshold.

>> You say, "Well, it's just an innocent

office relationship." No, it's not.

>> Ask my work wife. No, it ain't.

>> You've got a wife. Quit it.

That's my work husband. No, it ain't

your work husband. Your husband is at

work busting his tail to take care of

your family and you're out there having

emotional affairs in the name of Jesus.

Stop it.

>> Hello.

>> Let's fix this one. Sex outside of

marriage.

You ain't married. Stop it.

>> You guys ain't saying nothing.

>> Either either y'all are like pastor

don't normally talk like this or don't

say nothing cuz he'll think it's me.

>> Anything like that. Let let's go ahead

and deal with this. Homosexuality is a

sin,

>> right? It is a perversion.

>> It's an abomination before the Lord. It

goes against his original creative work.

When God created male and female, he did

not create two males to dwell together

in a marital relationship or two

females. He created Adam and Eve. That

was his first creative work in the word

of God. And when the enemy comes in like

this and tries to pervert what God did,

I'm telling you, it is a sin from the

enemy.

>> It is bondage.

>> And it will put us in that place.

I got some plans.

>> I got some plans to combat that and it's

going to be great because I believe I I

just go ahead and say it like this right

here. I think it was Jahoo that came up

to the window whenever Jezebel was up in

the up in the tower and and looked up

there and I think he said something

along the lines, are you for me or

against me or if you're on my side? And

he was talking to the two unics that

were in that room. If you know what a

unic is, that means that they once were

one gender and now they've been become

another one. Maybe not by choice.

>> Come on. It represented a generation

that's in the LGBTQI

plusa that category and they're living

in that broken lifestyle and they're

living in that deceived lifestyle where

the enemy has deceived them to think

that that's the right way to go. Can I