Guardians of the Threshold | Pastor Jesse Jernigan | 1.21.26 (Sermon)

Amen.

>> God is good.

>> Amen. Amen.

I sense the presence of the Lord in the

house. I sense expectancy in the house.

And uh I'm just excited for all the Lord

is doing. Um got a great report from

Brother Pedon today. He had a great day,

great night last night. Was able to get

up, walk around, move around, do all

that stuff without a ton of pain. Um,

and even on top of that, without any

pain medication. So, amen. We give God

praise for that. It's incredible. And,

uh, I know God's going to raise him up

and get him back in this house. And I

just I believe that. I believe that

we're we're in a season of expectancy, a

blessing, and a power. Uh, but anytime

that shows up, here's what I know.

Here's what I really know. I know it's

going to be a time of spiritual warfare,

too. And so, we have to be keen. We have

to be aware. We have to be in our word.

We have to be in prayer and asking God

to guide our hearts, go guide our minds.

Um because anytime that there is

blessing coming, spiritual warfare is

going to be there to bring resistance so

it doesn't get to you because the enemy

doesn't want you to be blessed. It's

just a fact tonight. He doesn't want you

to be blessed. He doesn't want you to

walk in the favor of God. doesn't want

you to walk in the healing of of of his

power and his grace. Um, but here's what

you need to know. You've come to the

right house tonight uh with the right

shepherd and the right team that is

going to guard you and is going to pray

for you and is going to speak blessing

and power and favor over your hearts and

your lives. And uh we will walk in

victory. Amen.

>> I said we will walk in victory. Amen.

That's what we're going to do. And uh so

tonight I'm excited about that. I want

you just to find your place in the book

of Jude tonight. The book of Jude. Um

and and many times I I don't know that

I've necessarily taught or spoke out of

this uh at length. Uh but I feel tonight

the Holy Spirit pushing me. And we'll

we'll stand in just a moment to uh read

the few scriptures that I feel like are

my foundational texts for tonight. But I

do want to prep your heart for Sunday

for our day of wonders. If you've not

participated or been part uh of a day of

wonders here, I'm just telling you, you

are in for a treat on Sunday for how God

moves and how God shifts atmospheres and

families. Um it's going to look slightly

different this year than it has the last

couple years. Uh last couple years,

we've had it set up a certain way where

people with baskets are here to collect

uh your first fruits offering. And

here's the thing. Uh many people say,

"Well, pastor, I I don't have a lot to

give in that first fruits. It's not it

2025 wasn't a great year. I hear you. I

feel you. But God does not look at the

amount of money you're bringing to that.

>> Come on. He is looking at your heart and

he is seeing if you have faith to say

God has been good to me. But when I

plant this seed of my first fruits

offering, I am saying by faith, he might

have been good to me in the past, but I

believe he's going to be really good to

me in the future. Amen. And that's

really what this first fruit is all

about. It is a Old Testament obligation

that becomes a New Testament opportunity

for you and I. It's by no means a

requirement. Uh but here's what I'll

say. Every time that my family has swed

into first fruits, God has turned around

and blessed us beyond measure. And it

has absolutely been incredible. Um and

this year we we've we're still praying

and dialing in exactly what we feel like

the Lord would have us do. Um and I

believe that it's going to be a great

gift. It's going to be a sacrificial

gift from us, from our family, because

I'm not going to ask you to do something

I'm not willing to do myself.

>> If I'm if I'm gonna ask you to sew in

the first fruits, I I will be the first

person to step across that threshold and

drop it in the basket. Can I get an

amen? That that's going to be me. I'm

going to lead by example. But again, it

it Old Testament obligation now becomes

a New Testament opportunity for us. And

here's how I see it on Sunday. Just so

you know, you guys are my home folks and

I can I can just talk to you real

tonight. This time that we come together

to sew this first fruit, we're going to

have I'm just going to go ahead and say

it. We're going to have a fire tunnel

right in that time. Okay? And this fire

tunnel at that time is going to be to

bless you as you take that step of

faith. That's not going to be for us to

go, you know, buck wild and dance and

shout and all that stuff. Okay?

>> All right. Let me let me get it clear.

We'll get to that. We're gonna get to

that on Sunday because I believe

miracles are going to hit the house.

>> I I am expecting that. I am I am

intentionally making room for the Holy

Spirit to be able to move however he

wants to move in this altar. But I know

it's the will of God for us to step

across that threshold and sew our sacred

seed and believe that God's going to

just touch and minister in a powerful

way. So, it's going to look a little

different. You'll walk through a fire

tunnel with our pastors going to be

blessing you as you go by. And you're

going to be able to sew that in faith,

believing that God's going to move. And

when that's finished and done, then I

believe the Lord's going to set us up

for one of the most holy and sacred

times that's ever hit this house. If you

need a miracle in your family, if you

need a miracle in your body, if you need

a miracle in your finances, if you need

a miracle in your mind, we're going to

open the door and we're going to say,

"Now, this is the time we about to go

buck wild. We going to lay hands on

folks. We're going to anoint them with

oil. We going to make everybody that's

breathing. If you take one step into

this altar, it's coming in Jesus name.

Come on. We going to go for broke old

school Pentecost. I know some people

thinking, "What is all that about?" Come

Sunday and step in the river and find

out. And it's going to be incredible.

So, I want you to know the Holy Spirit's

given me specific instructions on how to

how to operate on Sunday. And I know

that he is going to get the glory from

it. And here's what's so good. each one

of us that come in with an expectant

heart. We will be a beneficiary of the

move of God on Sunday. So I I'm going to

be here. I'm going to be excited. I'm

going to be expectant. The question is,

are you going to come expecting God to

do something great in your life? Amen.

So look at your neighbor. Say, "I'm

coming with expectancy.

I am coming with expectancy."

>> Amen. So we'll give specific

instructions on Sunday on how we're

going to operate. We're going to go in

sections in order because I believe God

wants everything to be done decently in

order. But hey, after that's all said

and done and we open up the altar for a

time of just believing for miracles, I

don't know what it's going to look like.

It may look chaotic to some, but it will

be beautifully in order to the Lord. And

uh I'm I'm really believing that if you

have sickness in your body, you going to

get healed on Sunday.

>> I really if you know somebody's sick in

their body, you better get them to this

house. Uh because I feel that there's

about to be a door open in this house

that no man can shut.

>> Come on. I I can I just go ahead and

speak prophetically? You're getting

you're getting the news before the news.

There's a door that's about to be open

in this house of miracles. There ain't

no man, no denomination, no

organization, no enemy, no devil, no

demon, come on. No warlock will be able

to stop what God is about to do. It's

gonna flow through this house and it's

going to flow to this community, this

region, this nation, and this world. And

here's the thing. I just say, "Lord, I'm

willing. Do whatever you want to do

through us." And so, I believe he's

going to do something incredible in this

house. So, tonight, if you got the book

of Jude, say, "I got it."

>> I can almost guarantee you I have a

different translation than everybody in

the house tonight. So, try your best to

stay up with me on this, but I'm going

to ask you to stand to your feet. Uh

it's literally it's it's a sliver in the

Bible. It's one chapter, okay? Is is the

whole entire book of Jude, but we're

going to read about four or five verses

together. I want you to go down to verse

number three. It's right there at the

very beginning. And I want to I want to

take this is one of my bedrock texts,

but then I want to shift over and show

you where the Lord will take us. Uh Jude

verse number three. My version is the

Passion Translation, and I'm going to

read it like this. Dearly loved friend,

I was fully intending to write to you

about our amazing salvation we all

participate in, but felt the need

instead to challenge you to vigorously

defend and contend for the beliefs that

were ch that were ch that we cherish.

Now, one version will say this that you

earnestly contend for the faith that was

once delivered to you. But he said this,

"For God through the apostles has once

for all entrusted these truths to his

holy believers." I love how it

articulates that because many people say

that this faith that these beliefs are

entrusted to pastors and ministers and

the five-fold ministry. But he did not

say that. He said it's entrusted to the

believers. Somebody say, "That's me."

>> That's me.

>> It's entrusted to us. Now, I want you to

flip a page or so over. Um, or maybe

yours is all on the same page. It may

fit there if your print's small enough.

But go to verse number 17, if you will.

And let's read there through about verse

number 23. Says, "But you, my

delightfully loved friends, remember the

prophecies of the apostles of our Lord

Jesus, the anointed one. They taught you

in the last days there will always be

mockers motivated by their ungodly

desires." Sounds a lot like what's going

on what happened in Minnesota this past

Sunday. Can I get an amen?

>> These people cause divisions and are

followers of their own natural

instincts. Watch this. Devoid of the

life of the spirit. Woo. But you, my

delightfully loved friends, come on now.

He's talking to us. Here we go. Here's

the church. constantly and progressively

build yourselves up on the foundation of

your most holy faith by praying every

moment in the spirit.

Fasten your hearts to the love of God

and receive the mercy of our Lord Jesus

Christ who gives us eternal life. He

said, "Keep being compassionate to those

who still have doubts and snatch others

out of the fire to save them." Woo! Come

on. We We We got some work to do,

church. But he said this, "Be merciful

over and over to them, but always couple

your mercy with the fear of God." He

said, the writer said it like this in

this version, "Be extremely careful to

keep yourselves free from the pollutions

of the flesh."

That's that I I'm telling you, you could

read that. I could shut that baby say,

"Let's all get in the altar and let's

repent and say, Lord, let us do better."

Can I get an amen?

>> He lays it out pretty plain. I I want to

say this. I feel that the Lord is

bringing me down to a conclusion as far

as a series on thresholds. And last

week, we talked about the threats at the

threshold on Wednesday night. But this

week in uh in continuation of that same

thought, but a different vein, we talked

about the threats. And that's good. And

we've identified what the enemy desires

to do. But tonight, it's not going to be

mostly an identifying message, but

tonight is going to be more of a

recruiting message. And what does that

mean? That means that God is asking me

to come in here and recruit people that

are willing to be guardians of sacred

thresholds.

>> Guardians of sacred thresholds. Because

for where we're going, we can't just

look at it and say, "Well, pastor will

take care of that."

I I don't want to do it by myself.

>> We are better together. And the Bible

says if one can put a thousand to

flight,

>> if two can put 10,000 to flight, I

wonder what would happen if on a

Wednesday night we got together and we

said, "Lord, we're pushing in the same

direction." Come on. Does anybody see

this thing spiritually already? I

believe God's calling us to be

recruited. So tonight, I just ask you to

lift those hands to heaven and let's

pray and ask for God's help. Father, I

thank you. I praise you for your word,

Lord. That I Lord, it's already spoke to

us just by reading it, God. It's

encouraged me. And Lord, tonight, I pray

that you would just open your word in a

more deep way for us to understand. Open

it up for us to be able to run with this

thing. Uh so we don't have to hesitate.

We don't have to guess, but we know

which direction we're running in. You've

called us with a holy calling and you

placed an anointing on us. Now use us to

guard what you are placing that's

precious in our life and sacred in our

life. And father we'll give you praise

in Jesus name we pray. And everybody

says amen and amen. You may be seated in

the presence of the Lord tonight. I'm

going to try my best to teach a little

bit and maybe even uh migrate into

preaching a little bit if it gets to

that uh level tonight. But I do want us

to understand the importance of the

season that we are stepping into. This

is not just something that we do at the

beginning of every year talking about

where we feel like the Lord would have

us go. It's not uh just a ritual or a

routine that we take this very

seriously. And I I go through much

prayer and agony asking the Lord to make

sure that I have the heart of God, not

just for anybody, but just for our body.

I'm not responsible to pastor any other

church. I'm responsible to pastor this

church and lead and guide you in the way

the Lord would have me to lead and guide

you. But in that vein, my heart is every

year that we come together, Lord, give

us clear and pure direction that's not

defiled by man's ideas, not defiled by

greed, not defiled by any kind of

imagination or motive that may not be

pure, but God, give us your heart for

this season and where you are taking us.

where you're taking our families, where

you're taking our children, where you're

taking us on this journey of faith that

I'll be honest with you, we so

desperately need a fresh anointing every

single day on this journey of faith. But

if it's not in line with the will and

purpose of God, many times we will step

outside of his will trying to grasp at

anything. But when we hear his voice, we

are solidified knowing that God has

sacred thresholds for this church to

cross over in 2026. Some that you may

not even know about. You may not be

expecting them when they show up, but

we've got clear direction that God is

giving us marching orders that we're

fixing to bring the gospel and the power

of God to this community like it's never

seen before.

>> I believe this with all my heart that

God has given us a mandate and a

mission. I'm not in competition. I'm not

I'm not here to throw stones at somebody

else in the same river. I pray that

every church in the 32531 zip code is

overflowing this Sunday with people and

with the glory of God. I pray that the

power of the Holy Spirit breaks out in

every single church. I pray if they if

they preach Jesus Christ and him

crucified that the Holy Spirit will show

up in power and manifest and people will

be delivered. That I'm going to tell

you, I am a capital C church kind of

guy. I believe in the kingdom of God.

There's not a jealous bone in my body. I

believe I I've even talked to one of

them, my my pastor friend from down the

road, Pastor Justin, this past week, and

I just told him, I said, "There's my

bapteostal friend right there. Come on.

I believe that God's fixing to pour his

spirit out at Pilgrim Rest. I believe

that God's fixing to Come on. I believe

he's fixing to pour himself out at

Golden, at Shady Grove, at Holton

Assembly, Hope Baptist. If there's any

Milligan Baptist right down here, I

drive by it every single day. I believe

God's going to pour his spirit out

because it's not God's will that there

is an empty seat in the house, but that

his house will be full. Not just with

people and numbers and money, but it

will be full of the glory and the

manifestation of the power of God. And I

want to know, is there anybody in the

house tonight that would say, "Pastor,

that is my heart. That is my desire.

I'll fight with you. I'll fight again."

Well, come on. I'll fight alongside you

and say I'll do it in prayer and reading

and believing that God is able to do

what he said he's going to do.

>> Hallelujah.

>> And if we believe on that level in that

type of unity, believing that one can

put a thousand to flight, two can put

10,000 to flight. Can I tell you God's

about to open the door of blessing over

this house?

>> Amen.

>> He's about to open the door of blessing

over our hearts, over our lives, over

our situations, over our families. And I

believe with all with all my heart that

the door he's about to open, no man will

be able to shut it. This past week, I I

got a I got the news just like you did

about the situation that was going on in

Minnesota with this church and

everything that was happening there. And

uh God bless him. I don't know, brother

Mack ain't here tonight, but uh he knows

me all too well because he called me on

uh shoot Monday I think it was. And uh I

was driving down the road and and he

said he said, "Pastor," he said, "First

of all, I know you don't watch the

news." And I said, "You're right. I hate

the news."

>> Come on.

>> I don't care if it's Fox News, CNN, NBC,

CNBC, all that stuff. I don't like

They're just doing all that for ratings

anyways.

>> Hello.

>> Every time I say the news, I got to hold

my nose so it don't stink. I'm just

saying.

>> And he said, "I know you don't watch the

news." He said, "But I got to fill you

in on what's going on." Well, I got to

tell you. And I said, I said, "Talk to

me." And he started telling me. I said,

"Well," I said, "Go figure." This is one

of the first days I've had off to do

nothing in a while. And I actually

turned the news on and I saw what's

going on. And I began to see that and

begin to watch what was going on uh in

Minnesota. And you see this this crowd

walk literally into a service just like

we're having right now and begin to

disrupt and begin to uh cause chaos

while they were trying to worship and

calling it free speech and calling it

something that is available for

everybody. I have the right to exercise

my free speech. And and and listen, I we

could get into political lanes tonight

and I'm not going to get too far into

that because I know uh you political

agendas and thought processes and people

have different ideas when it comes to

that. And I don't I'm not here to

promote an argument or cause dissension.

But I want you to understand in America

constitutionally that is not protected.

Now, we have free speech and we can say

what we want to say and we have the

right to assemble and protest, but not

in the house of God like that.

>> Amen. Come on, somebody.

>> It's just the truth. We have the right

to peacefully assemble and and and

protest. That is true and that is

constitutional. But it has to be in a

public place where you are allowed to be

without any kind of opposition.

This this house is privately owned.

>> That's right.

>> By Bill and First Assembly of God

Incorporated and they do not have the

right to walk in and cause chaos while

people are trying to worship God. There

are different acts that have been set up

according to our constitution and our

laws and our legislative branch that

protect the right for us to worship and

protect the right for us to be able to

stand here and worship without threat of

anybody interrupting what God wants to

do in this house. And the and even watch

this. The government cannot intrude on

our worship.

>> So constitutionally, we can argue about

that all day long. I know I know just

enough to make me dangerous when it

comes to those kind of things. But

here's what I want you to understand.

The fact remains it happened and nobody

stopped it.

>> We can CALL ON THE CONSTITUTION all we

want to

>> and we can say this and I'm listen I'm

not here to recruit an army. I I know

that was one one question. If pastor, if

you send somebody to Minnesota, I want

to be the first one.

Well, I need you here. Come on,

somebody. I need you here in case

somebody tries to be crazy up in this

house. But I have a feeling if somebody

tries to be crazy like this in this

house, we got enough men of God that'll

stand up and say, "Oh, no, sir. Not in

this house."

>> And here's what I know. I this this was

joke this was a joke and it got me and

it was it was it made me giggle and I

laughed and I sent it to a bunch of

people. But Babylon B really did it good

because it talked about protesters

coming into a Pentecostal church and

they said, "We didn't even know there

was protest and they just joined right

in." Come on. Hey, I'm just being

honest. If they show up in here at the

wrong place at the wrong time, they

liable to get hands laid on them. Not in

an abusive way, but say, "In the name of

Jesus, be delivered." Come on. I I just

believe that with all my heart. If they

choose to come up in here, they may come

to cause a riot, but we done caused a

riot in the spirit. And I believe God's

going to set them free in Jesus name.

>> So we look at what is going on around us

and we say, "Oh, constitutionally we

should be protected." But the fact

remains it still happened.

>> LITERALLY, THIS IS ALMOST JUST like

Elijah and the prophets of Baal meeting

on Mount Carmel.

>> Spiritually speaking, I'm not I'm not

here to advocate for violence in any

way. If someone comes here to protest,

the first thing I'm going to do is go

get them a bunch of bottles of water and

say, "Listen, I want you to know Jesus

loves you."

>> Come on.

>> You hang with me long enough through the

rest of this year, I'm feeling real

dangerous this year. I may bring all

kinds of controversy up in here. And you

may say, "My god, pastor done lost his

mind." It's true, but we're taking some

things. We're taking some territory back

from the enemy. We're going to take some

territory back. If nobody else will say

it, I'll go ahead and say it. I'll go

ahead and do it. And it may cause some

controversy. and make it interesting.

But I'm going to tell you, we're going

to love people and we're going to offer

them a cup of water in the name of

Jesus. And you watch, people are going

to be radically transformed.

>> It's going to happen.

But it's it's almost like Elijah and the

prophets of Baal that are on Mount

Carmel, and it's a showdown,

>> if you will, of who serves the real God.

>> Who serves the real God? Don Lemon ought

to be ashamed of himself.

He should have been. It's just being

honest. He knew what he was doing. He

wasn't going there for justice. He was

jealous of a young man that went around

to a bunch of businesses, got a bunch of

likes and a bunch of clicks and probably

a bunch of money for exposing fraud. And

he said, "I got to dip into that, too."

Getting fired from CNN because he's a

vile person. And now he's trying to find

another foothold to make some more money

because he's greedy.

And all them people that walked around

with him didn't realize that he would

they were being used as pawns.

>> That's right.

>> In his scheme and really were hurting

people. They really were hurting people

of God. Children that were in the room

that were terrified of what was going

on. And we won't talk about that on the

news. No, no, no, no, no. Don't talk

about that. How dare How dare we put

blame on someone that may have an

opposing view as us? I I don't care what

political affiliation any of them are

with. It was wrong.

It was wrong. And the danger is in

America that if this kind of thing is

allowed for too long, then it won't be

about an ICE agent. It won't be about uh

political opposition. It'll be because I

disagree with that pastor down there on

Highway 4. So, let's go disrupt that

service and cause havoc for those

precious people that are in that room.

>> And they'll feel justified because

somebody else wasn't stopped.

>> But watch this. The only thing that is

going to disrupt the enemy's agenda in

this is for the church to get back to

what we really believe.

>> It's for the church to really get back

to what was entrusted to us rather from

the apostles. the faith that was once

delivered to us to stand up and SAY GOD

HAS NOT CALLED us to be drifters in the

kingdom of God. And God has not called

us to be pew sitters and pew warmers in

the church in the in the kingdom of God.

BUT GOD HAS CALLED US TO be contributors

so that we can stand up against the

enemy. WE MAY NOT COME AGAINST HIM WITH

A GUN and with a with a knife or with

something physical BECAUSE WE DON'T

FIGHT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT

AGAINST PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS. SO

THAT MEANS WHEN I COME AGAINST THE

ENEMY, I'VE GOT TO COME AS A spiritual

person and in my SPIRIT DO WAR WITH THE

ENEMY AND SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT? I BELIEVE

MY GOD is real." AND YOU MAY YELL, YOU

MAY GET CRAZY, BUT I BELIEVE my God's

about to ANSWER BY FIRE. WHAT ARE YOU

TALKING ABOUT, PASTOR? THERE IS A LAST

day revival outpouring that is coming to

the church again. And if you're ready

for GOD TO ANSWER BY FIRE, stick around

LONG ENOUGH. IT MAY NOT BE A PHYSICAL

FLAME THAT RESTS ON TOP OF US. BUT THERE

WILL BE A FIRE THAT'S IN THIS HOUSE.

THERE'LL BE A FIRE THAT'S IN BELIEVERS.

THERE'LL BE A FIRE THAT'S IN THIS

CHURCH. THERE'LL BE A FIRE WHEN YOU GO

BACK TO YOUR HOUSE. THERE'LL BE A FIRE

WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR HOME. THERE'LL BE A

FIRE WHEN YOU GO TO YOUR WORK. THERE'LL

BE A FIRE FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE WHEN THEY

GO BACK TO SCHOOL. AND NOBODY WILL

QUESTION WHETHER GOD IS REAL OR WHETHER

God is false.

If we're looking for the real God to

answer, he will answer that way by

people that profess to be Christians,

they will stop saying it and they'll do

it.

>> There's advertisement companies that say

when they come in and they begin to help

you with marketing and stuff like that

that they say, "Our goal is to close

what they call the say do gap."

Because people will SAY, "WE DO ALL

THESE THINGS. This is what we do. This

is what we do. WE WE WE DO ALL THIS."

AND THEY'LL advertise what we do. But

really when you boil it down, they say

that, but what they actually do is not

what they say they do.

>> And can I tell you, I feel like the say

due gap has gotten wider as generations

pass

>> in the church.

>> If I could just be honest, I don't mean

that in a negative way. I mean that in a

revelatory way tonight to let us know

that we have to close that say do gap if

we're going to be effective for the

kingdom of God. Amen.

>> That means if if we're supposed to be in

our word,

let's be in our word.

>> Amen.

>> That's why I'm hoping through this

season of wonders through praying,

fasting, giving, and reading that it has

helped you create a routine and a and

and a a time for your family to set

aside time to say, "Hey, we're going to

read the word of God together." There's

nothing like having your babies gather

up in a living room and hear them read a

section of scripture and then begin to

talk about it and say, "Wow, I've never

even heard that before. That's amazing."

I'm telling you, it was kind of a joke

in our house when we read over this past

few weeks. We begin to read and then all

of a sudden, you know how it goes.

Paul's causing chaos and then the next

line is, "And the Jews set out a plot

against him to kill him." I was like,

"How many times did this guy escape

death?"

>> It was crazy. And our kids were like,

"Oh, here we go again.

Here we go again. And we had so much fun

reading about that. Probably one of the

most fun ones, I think it was from last

night when we read that where he was

standing before Ananas, the high priest,

and the high priest told him he was

going to do this right here. And he

looked back at him and said, "Hey, the

Lord's going to slap you in the face."

>> Come on.

>> He He told him, that's what Ananas TOLD

THE GUY STANDING BESIDE PAUL. SLAP THAT

man in the mouth. Hit him in the mouth.

And he said, "The Lord's about to slap

you in the face,

>> dude. Come on. Jerry Springer up in

Acts. Come on. It's getting crazy.

And wow,

>> IT'S SO MUCH FUN BECAUSE IF WE DON'T

CLOSE THE SAY DO GAP, we will lose the

next generation

>> because they will look at us and it'll

be like this. Do as I say, not as I do.

>> But you don't reproduce what you want,

you reproduce what you are.

>> Let that sink in.

We don't reproduce what we want. We

reproduce what we are.

That's in every part of our life. And if

we don't close that sad do gap, there

will be no guardians

of the sacred thresholds.

There will be nobody to stand up and

say, I'm going to guard it for this

house, but I'm also going to guard it

for who's next.

Because can you imagine the impact if

this church was not here and full of the

power of God?

Come on.

We're going to reach people. We reach

vulnerable people all the time. We

partner with other churches that step in

here and help us reach vulnerable people

all the time. We try our best to make

outreaches happen. We bring people to

our campus to love on them. And we're

making an impact in the community. But

what really drives back the enemy and

people don't even realize it is the

power of God that's in this house and

represented in this community through

the flame of the Holy Spirit that drives

back the spirit of darkness that wants

to control this area.

>> Some people say, "Well, that's weird.

You're getting weird." No, I'm just

being real because we're not in a

fleshly battle. WE'RE IN A SPIRITUAL

BATTLE.

AND IF THE flame dies in this house,

then the enemy has a foothold and an

opportunity to REACH A COMMUNITY. THAT'S

WHY EVERY TIME WE COME TOGETHER, I'M NOT

GOING TO WASTE A SERVICE. I'm not GOING

TO WASTE A SERMON. I'M NOT GOING TO

WASTE THE TIME TO TEACH BECAUSE I KNOW

EVERY WORD I SPEAK, I AM DRIVING BACK

THE enemy off of somebody's life right

now in this moment, I am driving THE

ENEMY OUT OF SOMEBODY'S MIND. SOMEBODY'S

THINKING ABOUT MAKING ONE DECISION, but

the power of God is driving OUT THE

OPPORTUNISTIC OF the enemy to be able to

bring you to a place of COMPROMISE AND

SAYING YES to God and no to the enemy,

>> sir.

>> No to the enemy. But it comes to a place

we have to recognize this is about to be

a showdown.

>> It's about to be a showdown.

And so this is the time where we have to

really let the rubber meet the road and

say if we're actually going to do this,

let's do it.

And I just want to talk to you like

family tonight. I I just I really do

because my heart is that God is about to

open a door over this house. I I I

preached it um maybe a couple years back

uh the window of opportunity and and

talking about how that the Lord was

going to open up a window of opportunity

over our country for the church.

>> I really believe that window is still

open over this nation. I really do. And

like like him or hate him, I that's

again political agenda is not what I'm

here to say. But Trump in many ways that

other presidents have not been has been

a friend of the church

because he's opened up opportunities for

the church to have their voice in

political realms and political circles.

So much so that he's designated a place

in the West Wing where all the other

people get to be in there and

formulating their plans and all their

crazy stuff. That as that is the the the

National Biblical Advisory Board. I

forget what the name of it is, but

basically there is a representation of

the church in the west wing so that when

decisions are being made, he can walk

three steps down the down the hallway

and say, "Hey, I need you to pray for

me."

>> Come on, somebody. But what that also

does that opens up credibility to the

church during this season that if we

will not get loose and get compromised

if we'll stay tuned to what God wants us

to do, the revival will come and God

will put his hand on our heart and God

will place his favor on our lives and

then in that we will have that open

opportunity to reach people unrestrained

by the government.

And so we have to embrace the window of

opportunity that we have knowing, yes,

we are in the last days. And what we got

to do, we got to do it quickly, but

thank God for a window of opportunity

for the church.

>> Now, we know persecution does what? It

makes the church grow. It doesn't mean

we're not going to be persecuted.

Doesn't mean there's not going to be

opposition. Doesn't mean it's going to

be like going down a big old slipping

slide with no resistance. Come on,

somebody.

>> That that's not where we're at. There's

going to be push back. There's going to

be a a a a probably recognizable push

back in a fight because the enemy is not

going to sit and just take it.

>> But we've got to have enough tenacity in

oursel that we look back like he told us

in the scripture. He said, "It intended

to write to you about your amazing

salvation we all participate in. But I

felt the need instead to challenge you

vigorously to vigorously defend and

contend for the beliefs that we

cherish."

And so tonight, that's my assignment is

to challenge us to vigorously and

earnestly fight and contend for the

faith that God has given us

>> to fight for it recognizing that there

is a price to be paid. Yes, but there is

also a prize to win on the other side of

this fight. And that is knowing that

there will be if the Lord carries,

there'll be a church that I want my kids

to attend.

>> My heart is under the inspiration and

direction of the Holy Spirit is to build

a church that I want to be part of.

>> Amen.

>> And I'm not going to let any enemy I'm

not going to let anybody come in and try

to convince me otherwise. My heart is to

build it. to build it the way God said

build it. And when God when God builds

the house, hey, he's going to author it.

He's going to sustain it. He's going to

provide for it. He's going to take care

of every need. He's going to help me

fight the enemies off of the house.

Amen.

>> And I believe with all my heart that you

have the same desire in this house to

say, "Listen, it couldn't it I couldn't

care less, pastor. What name is above

the door? I want to know is the glory of

God in the house?"

>> Come on. affiliation is great and all

that's beautiful and wonderful in his

time and in his season and and and and

and in time. But here's what I want you

to understand. If the glory is not in

here, it don't matter what's over the

door.

>> It don't matter.

It makes no sense to me that people will

cling to an affiliation. They'll cling

to a name. They'll cling to a to a old

path or a old way and say, "Well, we did

it like this forever. THAT'S HOW WE

ALWAYS DONE IT." WELL, MAYBE it ain't

working no more.

Amen.

>> Sometimes you got to shift. There's got

to be a shift. And we talked about on

the Sunday, that Sunday, man, there was

a shift that happened in this house.

>> It was crazy. Like, I'm telling you,

man, the Lord just I mean, he shifted

during worship. Uh that was a a crazy

anointing that hit this house during

worship.

>> Crazy anointing. Something I've never

felt before in my life. And then the

Lord shifted things when we begin to

preach and declare the word of God. I'm

telling you just get ready. Just get

ready.

>> Get ready. Now

I will say this when it comes to us

closing the say do gap the importance

for us and the safety for us as a

believer is that when we get so full of

the word of God and we get so enamored

by the word of God and seeing the

character of Christ and the character of

God in his word and we get so full of

that. Watch this. If we're full of the

word of God like that and we're in love

with the word of God, when the enemy

brings something to try to seduce us or

convince us otherwise, we will be able

to recognize it just like that.

>> Why? Why has the church in America been

so deceived? Because they are biblically

illiterate.

>> It's just the truth.

>> They don't know what the word of God

says even about Jesus. Yeah,

>> they don't even know what the word of

God they THEY HADN'T EVEN GOT BACK IN

THE OLD Testament because they don't

even know how to read some of that.

They're like, "I don't know WHAT TO DO."

NO. DIVE IN AND SAY, "WELL, I MAY NOT

UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING." YOU'RE RIGHT.

THERE'S SOMETIMES I READ I GOT TO READ

IT 27 TIMES BECAUSE I'm like, "I don't

understand none of that." Like, help me,

Holy Spirit.

>> Just being transparent.

>> Some of y'all are second guessing your

choice for churches right now.

>> Pastor, I don't understand the whole

word of God. If you expect me to

understand everything in that word, then

you have put me on a pedestal that I

refuse to sit on.

>> Hello.

>> It's just the truth, ain't it?

>> It's the truth. I'm learning every day.

I learn things every single day. And

that's a good thing.

>> That means we're learning. But here's

all I want you to understand. If we get

so full of the word of God, when the

enemy presents compromise, we will

recognize it immediately.

>> Immediately. There'll be something that

checks in our spirit. The Holy Spirit

will check us and say, "Hey, something

ain't right."

>> And I guarantee you, the Lord will bring

back to members a scripture that says,

"This is exactly what is right. That's

why that's wrong."

>> Amen.

>> That's the relationship each of us can

have in with the Holy Spirit. And if you

have that, it automatically closes the

say do gap.

Tightens it up. I'm not saying that

every time we're going to be perfect. I

ain't said every time your pastor's

going to get it right, I'm going to go

ahead and give myself some grace and say

there going to be sometimes I'm going to

make a bad choice. There be mean

sometimes I'm going to make the wrong

decision.

>> Hello, somebody.

>> There be some times that that that I may

I may feel like this is the right way to

go and I make that choice and I go that

way and then I say, you know what, we're

gonna have to back up and punt because

that was probably not the best thing to

do.

And so when people stare at me, like

some people are staring at me now,

all I can think back to is uh the the

story in the word of God where the the

young lady was caught in the act of

adultery,

deserved to die, deserved to be stoned,

brought brought this lady before Jesus

and and cast her down in front of him

and said, "Hey, she was caught in the

very act of adultery. She needs to be

stoned. What did you say?

Jesus being the all knowing, he said,

"Well, first of all, you set her up so

you knew about it.

>> Which one of you was in bed with her?

>> Come on. I I do." Jesus was He was bad

to the bone, y'all. Come on. He didn't

mess with nobody.

>> He mess with nobody. But he looked at

him. He said, "All right." He said, "You

can do it if you want to, but if you

anybody that wants to throw a stone, you

better know that you haven't done

anything wrong. you better know that you

perfect.

>> And then all of a sudden, one by one,

they dropped and left and walked away.

And he looked at her, said, "Hey,

where'd everybody go? Where's your

accusers?" Said, "I don't know." He

said, "Well, I don't condemn you." He

said, "Get up." He said, "Go, but sin no

more."

He says, "Send no more." God's grace is

far beyond anything that we could ever

think or imagine. And I'm going to talk

about that in just a few moments,

talking about guardians, because if

we're going to be guardians, we've got

to have grace with people.

We've got to display mercy with people.

>> We've got to understand just because

they made a mistake,

it doesn't mean that we are too perfect

to not make a mistake.

All right? Now, I want you to understand

this that when we're becoming guardians

of the threshold, the sacred threshold,

I want you to see this is it isn't just

for us.

It's not just for people that are church

people.

>> Amen.

>> When you make up your mind to be a

guardian, you are guarding that for

anybody. Watch this. He is not willing

that any should perish,

>> but that all should come to repentance.

Whosoever will, let them come unto me.

>> That means in that whosoever will, and

he's not willing, any should perish, but

all the all and whosoever will. Listen,

that all and whosoever will is about to

walk through our doors.

>> And you've got to be ready as a church

to embrace them.

Embrace them like you would your best

friend. They say, "Well, I don't know

them." I don't care if you know them or

not. You could if you embrace them.

That's right. You will get to know them.

They say, "Well, they they don't look

like me." So what?

You're gonna be really uncomfortable in

heaven.

>> Hello.

>> Am I Am I Am I making any sense tonight?

>> I don't know if I am or not. I just got

to my notes. I hadn't even just I just

got there. I don't know where any of the

other stuff come from, but just take it

and run with it. It'll be fine. But the

fact is people that live in a religious

mindset that it's it's got to be they

got to look like me, they got to act

like me, come from the same

socioeconomic background as me, same

nationality, same ethnic background. I I

got to keep it tight. Can I tell you

that's not God's vision for the church.

>> I want this church to look like heaven

on earth.

>> Amen. And if you don't get your heart

right or there's the door.

>> Amen.

>> It's just the truth.

If that and I understand apprehensions

people I'm not I don't know about all

this stuff pastor. We're we're inviting

people in. Can I tell you when we

started looking to do a family's count,

one of the things that broke my heart so

much is we met with a pastor and he he

was explaining the whole situation to me

and man the first time he even said

families count we take in these people

that are vulnerable potentially losing

their kids uh to the system or maybe

they have lost their kids to the system.

They're trying to work to get their kids

back. I said no more. We're in. I said I

don't know what it looks like. I don't

know what you want us to do but just

just know the rest of your pitch. You're

not trying to convince me to do this.

I'm in. Just tell me how to do it. He

and he stopped and he started crying.

And I was like, man, what's wrong with

you? Just tell me what to do. I'm I'm

in. I'm ready. And he said he said,

"Pastor," he said, he said, "You don't

know how many times I get to this point

and people don't even want to know what

it's about. They say our church is not

going to do this."

And and he said the reasoning behind it

is is is we don't want those kind of

people in our church.

>> And I that then I started crying.

>> We all started boohooing in the room

because I was like Lord that is not our

heart posture. I was like, "But Lord,

forgive the church for being so

ignorant.

>> Forgive the church for being so ignorant

that we we literally have at one time in

the 32531 zip code, there were 70

families that needed this class.

70 families that needed this class.

Times that by two, 140. Times that

probably by about two or three or maybe

four kids sometimes. sometimes upward of

five or six children. You're talking

about hundreds and hundreds of people

that are within just a stones throw of

this church and other churches in this

area. And there were people that I don't

not in this area because we've got great

people that have partnered with us and

said, "Let's do this." And I'm thankful

for that. But I'm telling you, there

were people that WOULD SAY NO TO THE

harvest when all we got to do is invite

them in and love them.

>> And then take the next step beyond that

and as a church family, love them.

You let me work on all the cleanup. I'll

do all the cleanup. Me and my team will

work on all the clean up. You just worry

about loving them.

>> Amen.

>> Don't Don't feel like you got to

pressure a man. Well, hey, listen. We

don't act like that here. Don't Don't

let me catch you say that.

>> I'll take some out of order. I promise

you I will put it in order. I've done it

many times. I'll do it again. As long as

Lord Tarries, I'm sure it'll happen

again. It's fine. It is what it is. It's

part of the job. But don't try to scale

a fish before we catch it.

>> You love them. And I promise you, you're

going to love them right into freedom.

>> You're going to love them right into

liberty. Come on. You're going to love

them right into the place where God

wants them to be. And when they get in

that place, then after they belong, they

can become what God called them to be.

>> Okay. I don't know where that was at

either. Oh, that's right. It's not just

for us. is for those that are coming

next.

>> We're guarding the sacred things that

are about to be released in this house,

not just for us to enjoy, but for the

the people that are walking in next, for

them to walk into it and experience it,

too.

And so, my heart is that we will reflect

heaven on earth. Heaven on earth. Now,

if you want to follow on, you can. I'm

going to go back to the book of Jude.

All right. verses 8 9 10 and 11 if you

want to look at this this was the fate

of the apostates that he was talking

about and he said in the same way

it was it was a recruiting moment he was

saying it's time to contend for the

faith but then he said if we're going to

contend for the faith I want you to know

kind of what you're up against so that

you can clearly understand when I give

you instructions on how to become a

guardian it will make sense to you so

you ready for this if you're ready shout

say bring it on

>> it in the same way These sensual

dreamers corrupt and pollute uh it says

the the natural realm while on the other

hand they reject the spiritual realms of

governmental power uh and repeatedly

scoff at heavenly glories. Even the

archangel Michael when he was disputing

with the devil over the body of Moses

dared not insult or slander him but

simply said the Lord Yahweh rebuke you.

I want you to see this. Go to verse

number 10. These people insult anything

they don't understand. They behave like

irrational beasts doing by doing

whatever they feel like doing because

they live by their an by their animal

instincts. They corrupt themselves and

bring about their own destruction. How

terrible it is for them for they have

followed in the steps of Cain. They have

abandoned themselves to Balam's errors.

Balam's error rather because of their

greedy pursuit of financial gain. And

since they have rebelled like Kora

rebelled, they will experience the same

fate of Kora and likewise perish. I want

you to understand what Judah setting up

here is he's not so much just calling

names to call names, but he's letting us

see that there were certain people. Cain

was one of those. Balam was the other

and Kora and the people of Kora. They

had the privilege and the access to do

what was right. They had the opportunity

to fight and be a guardian of the

threshold that was in front of them.

They had the opportunity to see what God

wanted to see. Cain did not sacrifice

the same way that his brother did. He

ended up going from the fruit of his

works. He used his works to try to

glorify God. And God did not ask for

that. God asked for blood.

>> Come on. Then you go on to Balum. And

Balam sought after greed rather than

seeking after the heart of God and what

the Lord wanted. And you see Kora, they

rebelled and they ended up being

swallowed up by the earth. I'm telling

you, the Bible's got some really cool

stories. Come on. These are these are

juicy. when you get back in the Old

Testament like that and all these people

they WATCH THIS THEY ALL HAD THE SAME

ACCESS THAT EVERYBODY ELSE DID had the

same access BUT WHAT THEY ENDED UP DOING

WAS EITHER BEING SABOTAGED or watch this

they self sabotaged what God had placed

in their hand that was sacred

>> and if we're not careful Jude is letting

us know that there's a whole GENERATION

THAT WILL SELF-SABOTAGE theirel if they

don't wise up and see the hand of God

>> I'll say this as As a church, we will

not self-sabotage what God is doing.

>> Amen.

>> That means I'm going to guard what God's

doing. But I'm recruiting you tonight to

help me guard the sacred thresholds that

God's about to open over this house.

Anybody ready to guard some things? Come

on. I I just need This is my recruiting

part right here. I just need to know if

I got some folk. If you're ready to

guard, I dare you to give God a little

praise right now.

The fact is tonight every one of us have

the same access. And so Jude was laying

it out saying they self-sabotaged, but

you don't have to.

God is placing the sacred in our hands,

opening the threshold for US TO WALK

ACROSS it by faith and see the glory and

the power and the might and the majesty

of God. But if we are not careful, we

have the opportunity to either walk

through it or self-sabotage and miss out

on what God has.

>> I for one don't want to be swallowed up

in the earth.

>> Sounds uncomfortable.

>> Sounds a little rough. Come on. I I I

don't want to be cast out and become a

vagabond like Cain. I don't I don't want

to be all that. I want to be in the

midst of the will of God for my life.

But then I want you to see this. If

self-sabotage doesn't get us, false

prophets will try to pull us away

>> from what God has. Jude was very

strategic because he knew there was a

threshold people were about to walk

across and God had ordained it. So he

said, "Let's go ahead and identify." So

let's continue on. We went through verse

number 11. If you still got it, go to

verse number 12 and let's see what it

says. It says, "These false teachers are

like dangerous hidden reefs at your love

fest." Now, he when he said love fest in

this translation, I want you to

understand that's the gathering of the

people of God. That's what that that's

one thing that marks this house. If I've

heard it once, I've heard it a thousand

times from people that come to visit.

They said, "I can really feel the love

of God when I walk in that house."

>> Cuz whether you want to or not, you

about to get hugged. Can I get an amen?

>> Somebody about to hug somebody up in

this house. And if you if you missed

your hug tonight, give it just a few

more minutes when we release. I promise

you, somebody gonna find you. They gonna

hug you. It's going to be great because

we genuinely love people. It's what God

called us to do. Love like who? Like

Jesus. He's called us to love like

Jesus. So he was describing gathering of

believers as love feasts. But watch

this. He said they're like dangerous

hidden reefs at your love feast. That

means they've slipped in unaware.

And he said this, watch this. lying in

wait to shipwreck the immature.

So, if we don't self- sabotage,

there is a possibility the enemy will

sneak in and try to sabotage what God

has for us.

>> And he does it through false prophets

and false teachers.

Now, this makes some people

uncomfortable

because I'm going to say this. If they

come declaring a different gospel

than what was preached in this word and

what comes across this pull pit from my

ministers and myself, do not listen to

them.

>> Amen.

>> Somebody comes to you and says, "I had a

vision and an angel told me that this is

the way we need to go and walk therein

and it was contrary to what has been

taught and preached across the pulpit."

You look at them and say, "The devil is

a liar and so are you.

Amen.

>> Those are things you can't play games

with because if you let that linger,

your voice will be that that voice will

be lent to your ear long enough to where

it weighs you wears you down

>> and then you'll end up getting in a

place of compromise and not even

recognizing it. That's called a drift.

You are drifting at that moment. We do

not play games with false teachers.

>> Amen.

>> Amen. And again, I know most of the

criticism comes from the religious

crowd. I'm just being honest. They may

not like doctrine that I throw out. They

may not like the way that I teach. They

may not like the way that I preach. They

may not like the way we have church. All

these different things. But these are

the things that God entrusted to us, the

sacred things he gave to us through his

word and through his promises. And we're

going to guard that. If somebody comes

in with some false teaching and they try

to bring that in here, listen, I will

approach it head on.

I will

because I have a responsibility to you

as my flock, but also I have a

responsibility to them that if I can

correct them in love, maybe I can

redirect their life

>> and I can say, "Hey, you you're in

error. This is not okay doctrine. This

is not right. Something you're going to

lead people away from where you really

want to lead them." Most false prophets

don't start out saying, "Well, let's go

around and false prophesy."

They they maybe a little greed or a

twinge of greed gets in there and skws

their doctrine a little bit and they end

up going this way and before long it

becomes that becomes their identity

rather than the gospel becoming their

identity and they've drawn people to a

personality and to a gimmick rather than

the gospel.

>> That's false prophet. If they are

pulling you away from the gospel of

Christ, I'm going to tell you somewhere

in there there is some pride that's got

to be dealt with.

They're not pointing you to Jesus, then

they are not preaching the full gospel.

>> That's why I'll say this and listen to

me in love. Be careful who you watch on

Christian television.

>> Amen.

>> Be careful who you follow on social

media.

Amen.

Because here's the thing, the the danger

in that is allowing that kind of stuff

to get plant seeds in your heart. And at

first you're like, "Oh, I don't believe

that." But if you keep visiting it and

keep seeing it and keep seeing it and

keep lending your ear to it, at some

point you're gonna say, "Well, hey,

there's a little truth to that."

>> And then the enemy is going to pull you

in.

>> And you may never self- sabotage,

but can I tell you, if you give the

enemy a moment, or some people say if

you give the enemy an inch, he'll take a

mile, right? you you give him a little

bit of your ear, he will sabotage what

God has for you. Doctrine matters.

It matters. It's it's important. We have

to have a solidity of our faith because

it's not even our faith. It was

delivered to us from the apostles. It

started with Christ. He handed to the

apostles and they turned around handed

to us. had one uh there was a there was

a guy that um man he's been on a journey

with the Holy Spirit uh for the past

five years. Um we we had a chance to

hear him speak and hear his heart and

see his heart in reflection at Ruach uh

not this past year but the year prior to

um and he's pastor of one of the biggest

churches in San Antonio. Um and it's it

is a Baptist church and he showed up at

Ruach, one of the most Holy Ghost fil

conferences I've ever been in in my

life. I'm talking like y'all like people

swinging from the chandeliers. Like I'm

serious. Like it's crazy. It gets wild

up in there. It's wild. And the glory of

God's being poured out and he's seeing

all this happen. He gets up there does

his spill. He teaches us. I mean just

absolutely brilliant mind what the Holy

Spirit poured through him. But then

there was a moment in another service

where he was there and the the Holy

Ghost moved and there was an altar call

to receive the power of the God. He

walked off that platform and ran to the

altar himself.

It was amazing. And watching that

happen, watching that moment transpire

in his heart. He in that moment, I

believe, had already been having a a a a

a relationship and a journey with the

Holy Spirit. But then what was so crazy

is that this past week, I think it was

last week, Bishop Wallace, who is the

pastor there at RTTN where they have

that conference, uh, one of the most

dynamic Pentecostal preachers on the

planet, went over and preached a revival

night for the Baptist church.

Oh yeah. And like when I'm saying like

bro was breathing some fire, he was

breathing some fire up in that house.

But what was so crazy is this great man

of God stood up there and he said, "I've

been on a journey with the Holy Spirit

for the past five years." He said, "So

the the languages that I've heard y'all

talk about." He said, "I am seeking

after that myself." He said, "But as for

this house," he said, "I'm going to go

and tell you." He said, "We submit to

the Father. We submit to the Son." He

said, "I'm going to go and let you know

we submit to the power of the Holy

Spirit in this house." the

transformation that took place in that

moment. Looking at it from face value,

people would say, "Well, that's just

something else that's happening." No,

that is a heart that has got hungry for

the presence of God and says, "I don't

care what religion says. I don't care

what walls are being put around my

life." And I'm going to tell you, you

better watch out. It's not going to

flow, and I'm going to say this. It's

not going to necessarily flow in

mainline denominations. It's going to

flow in places where the power of God is

welcome. And they do not care about

man-made religion, but they say, "Holy

Spirit, do what you want to do." I I

don't know about you, but how many

interested in saying, "Let our church be

in that river." When it happened, I want

to be in that river. I want to

experience everything God has for my

life.

>> Now, I I was in part of the scripture.

Uh the the shipwreck that Thank you.

Wait. It's lying in a wait to shipwreck

the immature. And And I Let me see how

much time I got. Oh, okay. I gota hurry.

They feast among you without reverence,

having no shepherd but themselves.

They are clouds with no rain,

swept along by the winds, like fruitless

late autumn trees. Trees that should be

bearing some fruit.

Trees that should be recognizable by the

fruit hanging on their tree, but they

have no fruit hanging on their tree. I

want you to see this. That shepherds who

care for only themselves, they submit

their souls to no one.

Here, here's what I know. I know where

someone's heart posture is. When when I

when I come to them and I approach them

as a watchman on the wall and I say,

"Hey, look, this can happen one of two

ways. I can let you continue on and I'll

have blood on my hands or I can come to

you in the heart of a shepherd and say,

"Hey, listen. I see some things." I know

where their heart is at in in in one

word if they say, "Pastor, I submit to

whatever you decide."

You say that happens. Oh, yeah. Some of

y'all getting like tight in the honey

right now. Do you say that? They chewing

that seed up. Do you really have them

conversations with people? Absolutely I

do. I'm here to guard your soul.

>> Because God has such a great potential

for your life. But can I tell you,

sometimes the enemy will try to sabotage

that. And sometimes we will

self-sabotage.

>> I want you to embrace everything God has

for your life. So if I see something,

I'm gonna say something.

>> Not because I hate you. Not because I'm

trying to bel because I love you enough

to say, "Hey, listen. There's some

things we got to deal with this. We got

to deal with this.

Now, keep going. They are clouds with no

rain. Swept along by the winds like

fruitless late autumn trees." I like

this next part. They are twice dead.

>> Um, so they are dead in appearance

and they're dead in reality.

>> They look dead and inside they are dead.

Dead through and through. Somebody say

twice dead.

>> What we talking about, pastor? We're

talking about false teachers. Watch

this. And watch this. plucked up by the

roots.

They have no source other than

themselves.

>> They are trying to self- sustain. And we

know when people try to self- sustain,

they do crazy things and try to grab for

everything. Anything that can come.

Misery loves company.

>> And if they going to be miserable, I'm

dragging everybody else down with me.

That sounds an awful lot like Satan.

>> He knows where his eternity is. Come on.

He's got no qu He believes better than

most people in churches today what

eternity is going to look like.

>> I'm trying not to preach right now. I

got to calm down a little bit because

I'm going to tell you, he believes it.

But I'm going to tell you in this house,

we've got to get back to the place that

we really believe eternity is real.

There there's a drift in the body of

Christ in America that is trying to say

hell is not a real place. There's a

drift in the body of Christ right now

that's trying to say the word of God is

not completely accurate. That there are

falsities in the word of God. There is

that drift that is going around even

mainline churches where they have they

have walked away from the totality and

the inherency of the word of God. But

I'm gonna tell you in the name of Jesus

in this house I'm going to believe what

the book says. I'm going to preach what

the book says. I'm going to read it for

myself. I'm going to digest it for

myself. And here's what I'll say to you.

Read the book. Read the book. Get in the

book. Get in his presence and let him

touch your heart and touch your life.

And then you'll be able to see false

prophets for who they are.

You won't have to wonder.

>> Let's keep going because he really he

really throws them down. This is good

stuff. They are wild waves of the sea

flinging out the foam of their shame and

disgrace.

Watch you weirdos.

They are misleading like wandering

stars.

For whom? Watch this. The complete

darkness of eternal gloom has been

reserved.

False. People that will people that will

try to sabotage somebody else's destiny

in God from getting across the sacred

threshold. Can I tell you that they have

a complete darkness of eternal gloom

that is reserved just for them?

That's pretty That's pretty significant.

I'm being honest. That makes me check

myself before I come out here and wreck

myself. Can I get an amen?

>> Check yourself before you preach the

word of God. You check yourself before

you teach the word of God. And make sure

there's no hidden agenda or motive in

there that would lead people astray.

That's why this is a weighty thing. It's

why I say if you're called to preach,

I'm gonna try my best to talk you out of

it.

Because I have to answer for every idle

word I say. Think about that. Every

message I preach, everywhere I go and

preach, every person I witness to, I

have to answer to that on a higher level

than everybody else does. It is a

weighty thing. I don't come in here just

this is not for my health.

I promise you that. It is not for my

health. But it's because I stink and

love you. I love this house. I love your

families.

I love this church. I love the church. I

really do love the church. I want, like

I said, I want every church to prosper.

I want I want every church to not carry

any debt. I want every church to carry

the glory of God. I want every church to

be uh just, man, baptized in fire and

power. I want that to happen because

that's how we're going to see the

kingdom of God move forward. That's how

we're going to see it. So, he's talking

about these these false teachers and we

have to be able to readily recognize

them. And the only way to readily

recognize them, you have to stay in the

word for yourself. You have to. So, h

how can we combat this, pastor? What is

it going to look like to be a guardian?

All right, give me 10 minutes.

Number one, keep building up your inner

life on the foundation of faith. Keep

building up your inner life, your soul,

your spirit man on the foundation of

faith.

Foundation of faith. This is this is

this is all taken from verses 17 through

23 where he gave us clear instructions a

call to remain faithful in the house of

God to remain faithful because he said

the last days are here. People are going

to be motivated by all kinds of ungodly

desires but we have to stay in the life

of the spirit as a believer. He said but

you in verse number 20 you my

delightfully loved friends constantly

and progressively build yourselves up on

the foundation of your most holy faith.

We have to be faithful to the house and

faithful to the word and faithful to his

presence every single day. I don't mean

to be so elementary tonight, but my

question is, do you get in his word

every single day?

What what does faithfulness mean to you?

The stats, and we talked about this, and

I'll I'll reiterate them one more time.

When you do one, two, or three days a

week in the word of God, there's not a

significant shift in your life. But the

moment you transition from three days a

week in the word of God to four days a

week, man, the numbers skyrocket of

peace and and being able to resist

temptation. I mean, it goes

astronomically by 200% sometimes that

the grace of God rests on you to follow

what you're reading because it becomes

something more than a duty or a task to

check off on a checklist. It becomes

part of our walk and part of our daily

life. And I think that's what the writer

is saying. He's saying we've got to

build oursel up in our innermost faith

on the foundation of the faith of God.

We've got to keep showing up and we've

got to believe what the gospel says.

We've got to believe what the apostles

entrusted to us and say we will not shy

away from that. We believe in the power

of God. That's number one. Build

building keep building up your inner

life on the foundation of faith. Number

two, pray in the Holy Ghost.

Come on, somebody. Pray in the Holy

Ghost. If you're filled with the power

of God, you're filled with the spirit of

God, you have baptized in the Holy

Ghost, you ought to be praying in the

spirit every single day.

Amen.

Pray in the spirit every day. Not like

one day a week. Not like on Sunday when

pastor says, "Hey, if you're if you're

filled with the spirit, pray in the

spirit."

Man, you guys are really quiet. quiet

for

looking at me like a calf at a new gate.

Wait, we are Pentecostal, right? We

believe in the power of the Holy Ghost.

We believe in being baptized in the Holy

Ghost. We're going to get there. Here's

what I'm going to tell you. We have to

make up our mind to do it every single

day. It is a gift that was given to us.

>> It's not a gift that is earned. You

cannot earn this. You cannot You cannot

I I remember I'm, you know, I'm from old

school, man. When we see people come

down to get baptized in the Holy Ghost,

man, you have one person on one side,

Brother Tommy, and they're saying,

THEY'RE SAYING, "HANG ON, HANG ON." AND

ON THE OTHER SIDE, TURN LOOSE. TURN

LOOSE. You know, when you don't know

what to do and where to go. It's not

it's not complicated. You cannot force

your way into being baptized in the Holy

Ghost.

>> It is a gift from the Lord.

>> Intercession is one thing. And we will

intercede. When people need

intercession, yes, we will get there,

and we will cry with them, and we will

fight with them, and we will pray for

them. I do not belittle that in any

means, but I think there's been a

confusion in it that we feel like we can

earn the Holy Ghost. You cannot earn the

Holy Ghost. It is a gift that's already

been given to you. And if you're saved,

the Holy Spirit is already on the inside

of you. Come on. You cannot be saved

unless the spirit of God is there. But

being baptized in the Holy Ghost is a

whole another level. Can I get an amen?

>> I've got my own theories about that.

James talks about your tongue being the

most unruly member of your body. And

people always ask me, "Pastor, why why

is speaking in tongues the initial

physical evidence?" Let's go ahead and

just get that out in the open tonight

and let's talk about the Holy Ghost for

a second. You'll say, "Well, I I have

the gift. I have the I have the evidence

of of the spirit of God. I speak in

tongues." No, baby. That is the initial

evidence. That's just the start of

things. You ought to have some love. You

ought to have some joy. You ought to

have some Come on. You ought to be kind

to people. There's all kinds of things

that are going on, but I have my own

theories and my own thoughts about it.

James said, "Your tongue is the most

unruly member of your body." So, if I am

in control of my tongue, then I'm

probably gonna say some things I regret.

I'm gonna do some things that probably

aren't right. But the moment I yield to

the Holy Spirit and let him have my

tongue, and I begin to speak in another

heavenly in a heavenly language, can I

tell you, then he becomes in control,

the third member of the Godhead, and I

am more often than not going not going

to say something that's going to

disgrace God when I am filled with the

power of the Holy Spirit. So, I'm going

to tell you, there's some folks in here

tonight that you have not been filled

with the power of the Holy Ghost. But

I'm telling you, before the end of 2026,

you are going to speak in tongues and

you're going to operate in the gifts of

the spirit. You're going to display the

fruit of the spirit. We're going to

bring back Pentecost the way it should

be. And I believe God's Come on. I

BELIEVE GOD'S GOING to fill us with

power and might glory in this house.

>> Pray in the spirit.

>> I don't have time to dive into all that,

but write these scriptures down if you

want to write them down. Romans 8:26 is

Romans 8:26

a good one when it comes to speaking in

tonesues.

1 Corinthians 14, Ephesians chapter 6,

Ephesians 6 · chapter mention

you can go through all these and talk.

It talks about the power of the Holy

Spirit and speaking in tonesues. And

that is right. And we must pray in the

Holy Spirit. But there are another

definitions of praying in the spirit.

You pray as led by the Holy Spirit.

>> Sometimes we stand up and we look at

people and we say, "I feel the Holy

Spirit lead me to pray for you over

this." That is the power of God. You

can't just run around everywhere

speaking in tongues over people. They

gonna get weirded out.

>> Sometimes you got to look at them and

say, "The Holy Spirit told me that your

marriage is on the rocks and I'm here to

pray for you."

>> The Holy Spirit said, "You got a

diagnosis three weeks ago that ain't

nobody know about but you and your

doctor and I've said I've stepped up

here and I've went on a limb and I'm say

I'm going to pray for you and I believe

for healing." That is being led by the

Holy Spirit.

>> That's beautiful. It's being led by the

Holy Spirit. You pray. Another way is

pray in the spirit's realm. You pray in

heavenly places.

You pray. That's those times when the

Holy Spirit wakes you up in the middle

of the night and you got somebody on

your mind. You don't even know why. And

you just go to war. You start praying

for them. You don't know what they're

facing. You don't want temptation. And

you pray by means of and power of the

Holy Spirit. It's important that we pray

in the power of the Holy Spirit. Third

thing I want to talk about if we're

going to be guardians, this is something

else. You have to fasten your life to

the love of God. Fasten your life to the

love of God. That's what the scripture

says. He says, "Fasten your hearts to

the love of God." And he said this, "And

receive the mercy of the Lord Jesus

Christ who gives us eternal life." These

are two in one. We fasten ourselves and

our life to the love of God. This is a

direct result of number one and number

two being in our foundation of faith.

But praying in the spirit, it allows us

to be fashioned and formed and fastened

to the love of God. I want you to

understand we do everything in love.

>> Everything we do is in love. Every word

we say, every deed we do, every thought

we think, and every action we take is in

lov.

>> We have to operate in love. Because when

I am when I am walking in that faith and

I'm praying in the Holy Spirit, I have

no choice but to be tied to the love of

God.

If I'm if my motives are right and my

heart is right and my inspiration is

right, then I watch this. I will be tied

to his love. The second four fourth

thing I want to talk about is we will

receive more mercy from our Lord Jesus

Christ. He said that and you receive the

mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ who gives

us eternal life. As you and I are

fastened the love of God to God's love,

we will be awaiting mercy because we

have sown mercy first.

When we sow it, we're going to reap it.

Going to receive it. Bible says you reap

what you sow.

Sow mercy, you're going to reap mercy.

You sow wrath, you're going to reap

wrath. You sow judgment, you're going to

reap judgment. But if you sow mercy, you

will reap mercy. And if you also sow

righteousness, you're going to reap

mercy on the other side of that, too.

Hosea 10:12 says, "Sow for yourself

Hosea 10:12

righteousness, and you will reap him