The Great Deception (530PM) - 11.24.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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For those that made the track from Vancouver to hear me and

you heard it was relocated, thank you for coming.

For those that's watching and couldn't make it, I'm sorry we

didn't come that way, but I am not sorry for just flowing with

what the Lord wants to do Who knows the Lord see this is stuff

I don't have to worry about. I don't have to think about.

Lord could have been saving somebody from a bad car accident

and he said, y'all stay right here.

I don't really need to know the details.

It's just when he say move, I'm a move just like that.

Like we try to get caught up in the details and that's not your

job. The details belong to him.

And so to live a content life, you got to be OK without certain

details. You got to be willing to leave

certain blanks on the field, the Bible says.

Then his brothers came and threw themselves.

It's not on the slide. It's not even going to pop up.

Then his brothers came and threw himselves down before Joseph's

feet, saying, we are here as your slaves.

Oh, now all of a sudden, after you throw me in the pit over

envy, jealousy and covetousness, you throw me in the pit, lie to

my father, leave me for dead. I told you in my dream you was

going to serve me. Or shall I say the Lord said you

was going to serve me. First of all, my bad for sharing

something you wasn't ready to hear about me.

OK, now I don't read. Joseph said all that, so I'm

filling in some of the blanks. I'm using my imagination here.

These are things we probably would have said and things he

could have said, but I'm trying to bring the story to life for

you. And now all of a sudden, they

want to submit to the dream because they're in need of you.

Yeah. Now if you now if you, if you

take a long time to wake up tonight, you're going to miss a

lot of stuff. God, God said he will do what he

said he will do, no matter what it looks like and no matter who

believes in you. Some people will come to church

just to see what it's all about, right?

Some, some folks come with the posture.

Let me let me tell some of y'all, you got the spirit of

spectator on you. You don't open your mouth, you

don't participate. And let me tell you, I see you.

I'm saying it's good because while you're here spectating,

you are going to you are going to watch God do some amazing

stuff. So whatever you're expect,

expectating about God truly actually just gave you a front

row seat to some cool things he's about to do and things, you

know, it's like those people who went to prove that Jesus wasn't

real, the gospel wasn't real, and they got converted, right?

Joseph says, hey, don't worry about me.

Verse 19, he says. But Joseph dried his brother's

tears and said, don't be afraid. What are we here talking about?

There's a famine in the land. Joseph went from Pitt to Palace

to prison, you see. Pit breakthrough.

Breakthrough. Lord, please please, please.

Breakthrough. Breakthrough palace.

Hallelujah. I made it Prison.

Wait, what happened? I got my breakthrough.

I thought you'd never go back to to need and breakthrough.

No, there's levels of breakthrough you going to need

trust me. OK but see because of Joseph

mindset his relationship with God didn't change in prison or

the pit. And it was because him knowing

who God was and his love walk and his relationship and the

favor he walked in that allowed him to not stay in pits.

Or prisons longer than he should have.

So he you ready? You ready?

You ready for this? You ready for this?

You ready for this? Prison was a promotion for

Joseph. All right, all right.

Y'all not ready to talk to me? Y'all not ready?

It was some information Joseph needed about governing society

in prison. Because there's politicians in

prison at the time. And as he's sitting in cells all

day, guess what he's doing? He's listening to politics.

Then when he gets out, guess what happens?

He's running stuff. If you learn how to shut up in

your prison, you might be able to hear some vital information

that you're going to need when you get out.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Oh Josie, bad boy, he said.

Hey, hey, dry your tears, man, I'm good.

He going to go from being abandoned by his family to like

man I'm good. Like I'm really like, do you see

where God let's read this? He says, don't be afraid.

How could I ever take God's, take the place of God?

I can't pay you back for not believing in me.

I can't pay you back for putting your mouth on me.

I'm not interested in spending my energy on proving anything to

you. I don't take God's place.

God said he'll make my name great.

He didn't. That's not my job.

My job is to make his name or or continue to magnify his name,

not to prove to you that I'm not what you heard I was or that I

am that that's not my job, Joseph says.

Look, even though you intended to hurt me, enemy devils people,

God intended it for good. Now, now, now, let me help

people who've been here all day. The part that you will miss is

if you try to just receive tonight without connecting the

whole, like the message from the whole day, OK, we're talking

about how do we end the last experience?

How do we end the last experience, right?

We were pushing, right? But some of the prophetic word

and some of the declarations. So now we get here and Lord

leads us to start off tonight to say that what the enemy has

intended for evil. No, no, no, you got you got to

get this. God didn't say I am going to he

he, he says this. He says the exact thing the

enemy used for evil. I'm using the exact attack for

good. I'm not using a counter.

I'm going to stay right here for a second, OK?

The prison I'm using, the enemy had a different intention for

prison. I had another plan for prison.

We both use prison. So you can't look at what's not

working and what's not going good and what's bad as something

God can't and won't use. So when you understand that the

bad that you're in, God wants to use, you won't be in a rush to

get out of it because God needs it to turn it for good.

But God needs me in that valley. It doesn't mean God desired me

in that situation. But since we're here today.

You ever you ever ended up somewhere would you like up?

Well, since we're here, we might as well make the best of it.

There's no bad place I've been that God is not using.

Am I talking to anybody? There's no story that you have.

This is why it's it's not good to continue to make your trauma

a nightmare, because as long as you're making your trauma a

nightmare, you're not withdrawing the currency your

nightmare produce, right? When are you going to extract

glory out of your story? Am I talking to anybody?

When are you going to look at your story and be like, oh God,

use that. So instead of it being a

complaint, your trauma is now an attack on the enemy, not you.

Come on, it's an attack on the enemy.

So now I got to put new language.

I don't, I don't need a new story.

I need new language for the same story.

Are you tracking So? So now I see God used my club

experience, my drug experience, my alcohol experience, my single

parent household experience, my using my friends or losing my

friends at a young age by shotgun for an experience.

He used all that. So I got to change the language.

But I also can't ignore it. I can't ignore something he

wants to use. Do you like man, I'm why are you

stuck in the past? You're stuck in the past because

you're stuck in the trauma of it.

But the moment I'm not stuck in the past using my trauma now for

my testimony. My testimony is my present form

of my trauma. Now I'm taking what traumatized

me and I'm about to traumatize the devil.

They overcome him. Oh, what did he say?

You're going to traumatize the devil with your testimony.

Am I talking to anybody on this side?

OK, you see, so you got to. This is why God doesn't respond

to your pity parties. He's like, I'm trying to use it

for good. You stuck in the mud in it.

I brought you out the pit, but you want to go back to the pit

and keep revisiting how bad it was.

And they left you and they lied on you and they didn't

understand you and your they didn't want me no more but God.

So now I take that same story, add that butt on it, and

traumatize the devil because what he don't want you to see is

the goodness of God. Come on, say the goodness of God

is my reality 2025 men, we going to torture the hell out of hell,

man we and just me, me that I'm going to be selfish and talk

about myself. Some people going to stay in the

same place. That's that's awesome for you.

I will I will tell you this. Look, I'm I'm trying to I'm

trying to I'm trying to hang around victorious minded people,

right? I already talked to him.

I talked to Julie, I talked to my kids.

I'm like, look, night, night on that.

Like even if you catch me tripping and complaining, like

don't let me complain too long, right?

I'm not saying be cold to people, but right.

But you only got like one to three people you could actually

like just be a mess to. Maybe you just lay on the

shoulder and just cry to him, but you just cry to everybody.

You telling everybody else you got to be victorious to

somebody, right? So had those people that are

above you that can handle your stuff, they're a little further

along in the healing and deliverance process.

And then all these other people that God bring to you, like like

let God turn that story around for good.

You can't just be a mess to everybody.

We, we must learn to live in the tension of the garden.

We're going now. We're going to read that

second-half again. I can already hear you.

Next question, Does that mean I can't even trust what is good?

And we talked about this tension is evil and there's good that's

in US. That new man that that's in US,

Jesus Christ that's in US taking us back to our garden realities.

But until we ride on King Jesus, we not go.

We we still got to deal with this tension within us.

Bible says when I want to do good.

Evil is always what present, right?

And it's not, it's not, it's not OK to just be like, well, that's

just me. You know that.

You know that, right? That's just me.

OK, well, who's this other person in there?

You're the new man or the old man, you redeemed or you not,

right? And and there's this place where

Paul is like, man, I've been a murderer of Christians.

Now I've been saved, but that nature is still in me, said no

again. Sin simply did what sin is is

famous of doing, and that's using good as a cover to tempt

me to do to do what was finally destroyed me.

A lot of people in the area of your sin, you're doing stuff

that you feel like somebody's trying to keep.

You from doing Yeah, I want to go I want to go womanize because

I think God's trying to keep women from me well I want to try

this because. I'm missing out on something.

Well, I want to make as much money as them because I'm

missing out on a lifestyle, right?

You're living in this law abiding citizen life and you're

not. Free.

I love telling guys who think they're macho and super cool,

but they have no discipline when it comes to worshiping the Lord

or following Jesus. You're really not that cool of a

guy. I've been there before, not

allowing my emotions and my desires and these images to

identify and dictate who I am. I think the strongest man and

strongest men in the world are men who are surrendered to their

creator, not the not men who are surrendered to created.

I know we got some men in where who got their little stones and

they go to the Vancouver mountains and you worship the

the, the seas and skiing and all kind of stuff more than you do

the Lord. I'm talking about men that can

be still and be a mighty man of God who prays, who worships and

not avoiding the authority of the Creator.

So I'm going to worship something that has less

authority. I don't know, let somebody fall

asleep on your shoulder. He's like, because I have

sympathy because I'd be falling asleep at church, so I he could

fall asleep on my shoulders. Hallelujah.

Amen. Hallelujah, if you like.

If I ain't gonna fall asleep, I'm gonna rock somebody else to

sleep. Can you wait till we get a big

church to fall asleep? Come on, we're in the garage.

Yeah. Asleep.

Yeah, absolutely. Sleep.

Camp will be a part of our church, absolutely, and we'll

just put scriptures over you over here.

Right, Paul is in this tension, so I don't want to get stuck

here. I'm asking everybody who cares

and who really, really is after what God is saying before this

year is out, especially this week.

Go listen to this morning, both of this morning's messages and,

and I know you should, but is there anybody else that think

people should go listen? Like was it anything in there?

They should go right? Some of us are going to go watch

it again, even though we were in the experience, right?

God is about to do some marvelous things in 2025 and I

believe he's really just trying to purge some things and get his

house in order and get us in position.

So not that we just going to walk in the blessing, but we're

not going to squander it. I really believe God can't

afford people falling no more. So he's willing to work through

a few committed the remnant, right?

I believe we're in the Gideon time.

He don't need a lot of people to do what he bought to do.

He don't need tons of churches at the moment I decide to do

good. Sin is there to trip me up.

I truly delight in God's commands, but it's pretty

obvious that not all of me joins in that delight.

There's part of me that really don't want, you know, it just

seems, Oh my God, we got to go serve again.

I guess I'll show up, right? There's a party that really

wants to. Be here and.

Then there's a part of you that's like, Oh my God, right

you F he's one of those people. And then I believe like the I

can't like I everything, like I can't move fast, certain stuff,

you know what I'm saying? But I feel you, Effie.

Hey, man, stretch your hand towards Effie and just say in

the name of Jesus, hey, come on, where am I?

Where am I? Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Thank you.

Jesus, this is odor gone. OK?

Hey, man, you got to watch. You got to watch the YouTube

from this morning to understand what this is all about, OK?

Hallelujah, she she, we live together too.

Amen. Amen.

At least she come home smelling good.

Hallelujah. Now so y'all know that's not my

wife, so you know what I'm saying?

Got to clear some stuff up. Hallelujah.

I love you Effie so much. Yes you do.

So the point is, God can help us.

OK? I really love this church.

I really love this church. OK.

You guys like the stage. Amen.

Amen. So give so we can buy it.

Hallelujah. Yeah, I'm not joking.

Yeah, this man is about to have trouble taking this stage home.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

That's all right. God's working all kind of stuff

out. Listen.

So there's always snakes in the in the grass.

That's what I've learned. I used to try to get get away

from them. Now here you go.

The depths of your blindness speaks to how overgrown your

grass is. OK.

And we know what what snakes like to do is hide in what

overgrown grass. This is why God's trying to get

us to see because we, we, we, we got to walk in the grass.

This is what it means to purge is we got to cut the grass.

We got to get the fat from around our soul.

We got to, we got to, we got to get clarity.

We got to simplify things in our lives.

We got to evolve. We got to grow right.

We got to clean up our conversations.

We got to clean up our goals. We got to we, we got to, we got

to really dissect our desires in like.

It is this my desire or my parents desire for me?

Is this my desire or I've went went so long without I start

desiring what the people who have has like.

Like do you really like when I, when I'm looking at the Lord,

like the life he has for us is super prosperous and simple and

we have made life so. Complex before you get into the

new year dissect your desires some of your desires shift with

the wind we see in Acts 28 that Paul as he came out of a storm

he's now building a fire and a Viper crawls out of the out of

the brush cleans itself the haters was like yeah he for.

Sure, he for sure. Sin and you ready.

He was supposed to be dead in the in the ocean, but he

couldn't escape it right as people that's watching and

watching and watching and watching like, oh, see, I knew

they wasn't going to make it. Oh, I knew they wasn't going to

get in that building. Oh, I knew.

I knew they wasn't going to break out of that family curse.

Oh, I knew they marriage wasn't going to work.

Oh, I knew, I knew. I mean, there are people that

don't even realize they're waiting for your downfall.

There are people that don't even realize it, that they're working

for the enemy to discourage you from what God's called you to.

But then we see Paul do what we do.

Paul what? What do you do, Annabeth?

Shake it off. There we go.

Come on, girl. All right.

Paul. Paul what shake?

He was thinking of the song. Huh.

Shake, shake, shake it. Up.

No, Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on.

Do like this real quick. Do like this real quick.

Be like this now I'm telling you, your freedom is right.

Like it's right there, right. A lot of times we, we still use

the same language. So the Viper is on there.

We're like, ah, I remember my son one time we was, we was, we

was on a little, little, little staycation and a bee.

Michael, he was little and a bee came and landed on his chest and

he went, that thing stung him so bad, right?

This man, what if, what if you was just a what?

Like you just got to be relentless with the shake off.

That's what Jesus did. Jesus was tempted one time.

What do you do? Shook it off with the word.

He was tempted a second time, shook it off with the word.

He was tempted a third time, shook it off with the word.

And then the devil was like, I can't get a grip.

So you got to be relentless with the shake.

You got to be relentless with the shake and stop being so

quick to own it as your reality. No, no, no, no, I am not

adjusting to ungodly. If this don't align with the

word, I'm not adjusting. But Paul shook it off one more

time. Say shake it off.

So, so I pray you come home. I pray you come home.

This is my prayer in 20, 24 is that sons and daughters are

coming home. This is this is the only way

sons and daughters come home. What was the word for 2024?

Come on, come on. What was it?

The year of the home? Even whatever homecoming and the

homecoming. OK, homecoming.

Now we're ending the year. I'm just thinking we're ending

the year with peace and deception.

When a child comes home, they enter peace the reason they were

away was because of deception. Prodigal son is in the middle of

his pig pen and he says why am I eating what the pigs are eating?

How did you get to settling for the world's appetite when at

home? My father's unbiological.

Is eating fat. They're protected.

They're at the table, they're growing, they're evolving.

Their skin looks good, they're healthy.

I'm out here ashy, eating slop. No lotion in the pig pen.

No soap in the pig pen, right? I'm trying to get home to some

Alabama. I'm trying to get home to to

some Shea, but I'm trying to get home to exfoliators, right?

Like what am I doing out here? Why?

Why are we here? Anybody ever been like why am I

here? So,

so if, if we're and, and here's what I want you guys to

understand that I'm not talking about people.

Oh. This is so good, thank you Holy

Ghost. I'm not talking about just the

prodigal son because there was someone at home didn't realize

they was home. Some of y'all here and still

don't. Realize this is your house, so

this whole time you singing and worshiping and giving and you

still ain't walked in your freedom.

And that's what you don't want is when sons and daughters come

home in the favor of the Lord is upon him and he's accelerating

them and you like well wait a minute.

I've been here for a long time. Why they all of a sudden

sometime promotion is God trying to remove his child far from

where they came from and it's an expression of his love.

Some people get promoted because it's God saying even though and

then you get threatened not understanding that's your

brother coming home and that's your father putting them in it

so they can forget what they may have lost.

God is going to accelerate them to show him they ain't lost no

time. So it's your job, actually, when

sons and daughters come home, let me train them, let me

embrace them, let me let me welcome them and not be a

stumbling block. They're not being promoted over

you. Love is placing them.

Love is never placing 1 and displacing another.

There's plenty room father's house.

So if all of us are coming home, I think we you either prodigal

son or you his brother, right? Or you got the father's heart.

Let's assume all God's calling all of us closer.

The question is where do we start somebody say where do I

start one more time say where do I start one more time, say where

do I start. Deliverance begins at

disownership followed by actions that opposes the the origin of

the once believed truth or a lie that was your truth.

So I can't just be like I'm free today.

No, that means tonight I begin to oppose the reality I once was

in with a new reality response that opposes the old man's

behavior. Does it make sense?

I can't act the same as I used to but walk into the new man or

the new woman. I have to keep evolving.

OK, look, I cussed. I smoke.

I don't like like my wife used to cuss like her dad used to

like. Cuss.

It's like that mouth, don't go with a tongue that belongs to

the Lord. And if the Lord don't got your

tongue, you ready? He don't got your heart.

Don't mean you're not saved. Don't mean you love the Lord to

the best of your ability, but our tongue plays a powerful role

to our reality. No, no, no you.

You cussed me out and didn't say I didn't mean that.

No, you meant that. You might be sorry it came out,

but you couldn't help it because out of the abundance of the

heart, the mouth was speaks. If you want to control your

mouth, control your heart, control what goes in there.

OK, Deliverance begins at disassociation.

There's some stuff that's your mama's.

There's some stuff that's your spouses.

There's some stuff that's your kids.

Let me tell you parents every like when your kids grow up and

they they start doing stupid. Stuff.

Don't you dare take ownership for some of that.

Some stuff, yeah. You start trimming because I got

it done better. Oh, my God, That time I was

doing this. And.

No. Did you love your kids?

Did you raise them in the way they should go?

No. You don't blame yourself for a

lot of things. You got parents out here blaming

their self, and it's like they made that decision.

You are a silly human being. Right?

I'm free from that. No.

Right. Disassociation right?

That's what Peter did to Jesus. He all all know who he is.

Right here's Paul, he said. Man I ain't I'm going to just

make it simple. I ain't did nothing wrong.

But wait a minute, you've murdered people.

What you talking about? I have not sinned.

What are you talking about? See some of y'all even talk to

your old man too much. You wake up like what's up?

What we doing today? What it do today?

No. No, no, no, no.

No. Why you talking?

Who you talking to? That's what you need to

understand who you're talking to.

We got to disassociate from the dead man and deliverance begins

at this membership. There's some stuff you can't

just disassociate with. There's some stuff you can't

just move to the other side of the room.

There's some stuff you got to absolutely cut off.

You got to dismember that thing God said, pluck it.

Pluck your eye out, pluck your eye out.

Cut your hand off, push her out the window.

So y'all know I'm not a violent preacher.

That's what they did to Jezebel. OK, now, now, now, leadership,

before the year ends, I'm going to be talking to you because we

dealt with Jezebel. But then what the enemy wants to

do is, is magnify Jezebel and not realize the spirit of Ahab,

who is Ahab. Jezebel had no power.

Ahab had the keys. And there's a lot of you giving

what God's called you to do to other people.

So that's the leadership problem.

So I got to watch you. That's why I'm like, you can be

like, oh, we got it here, we got it.

No, you can preach, you can hold it together, but I cannot

delegate what God's called me to do and put the keys of authority

into somebody else's hands. That's how you got Jezebel.

See, some people are OK until they get power and then power

exposes their true heart. So we've been attacking Jezebel

and we got to deal with Ahab, right?

That's why I tell leaders, no, we I get it.

You cannot be replaced. Who are you leaving to do your

part? Somebody can preach for you.

Somebody can, but can't nobody fulfill that part?

God gave you the keys for that role.

So you can't keep delegating authority.

You can delegate tasks. You got to be careful who you

give the keys to next. So what's next?

I need to be delivered from me. Are you with me today?

I need to be delivered from me more than a demon, Judah.

Right. Look, I'm right here, but I'm

the slide right now. There you go.

He's like he tried to look me off y'all like wow,

I need to be delivered from me more than a demon more than

delivered from that right? You be in church, be like God,

please get them out of my life. Let me tell you, if you become

who God called you to be, they will flee from your life.

Am I am I am I talking to somebody?

Am I like, you know what I mean? That that that I'm righteous

royalty. That's the perfume that keep the

fleas away right? That obedience is like this.

Am I talking to somebody? Obedience, huh.

Obedience, Man is better than sacrifice.

Faithfulness is like, like, like, like.

Your friends will lead the people.

That's that. They're going to be blocked by

the sense of your faithfulness. That's why you like, well, I got

to get rid of these demons. I got to get rid of these

friends. I got to get out this

relationship. Obey God.

I promise you, if you're trying to get out that relationship,

it's. Going to be easier obeying God

then being destructive in your departure.

I need to be delivered from me more than a demon, Ryan.

No, it's low blood. I need to come on.

I'm going to I'm going to put it in a different slide.

I need to be delivered from me more than a demon.

Say it. Come on now.

Why we get that? How we get?

That no, no, no go. Back, go back, go back.

Y'all drink too much coffee over there and pro on the production

team. Y'all hands just be shaky.

Come on, somebody say I need to be delivered from me more than a

demon. Come on, one more time.

I need to be free. That's not what I say.

I need to be delivered from me. That now we now we moved on.

Next one, next one. OK, more more than a demon.

Like that's got to be clear. That's got to be clear.

So the first step is to get out of my way because I am who God

says I am without anything or anybody else.

Everything else around me will align when I align.

So. So how do I walk in this?

Well, for though we walk in the flesh as mortal men, we are not

carrying our spiritual warfare according to the flesh,

according to our desires, our emotions, our feelings, our

limited wisdom, our ideologies, our psychologies, all of these

things. We're not.

It's like we don't, we don't go beat people up.

Take me to their house. I'm about to right?

Call them right now. I'm what you say, right?

This is like all this carnal reactions, all these

conversations you're getting into.

Have you ever been in a long debate with somebody, argument

with somebody, and you still walked away unresolved?

What do you think the enemy is trying to do?

Train you, take your energy, take your voice, discourage you.

I got to start fighting. Differently and understand the

enemy wants me to get entangled in my own flesh.

The weapons of our warfare are not physical weapons of flesh

and blood. Our weapons are divinely

powerful for the destruction of fortresses.

These little fortresses the enemy builds around us and that

have been built in our bloodlines and in our minds.

Certain ways of thinking certain certain things that certain like

we have you ever just been. Stuck on your way?

You ever talk to people? So let's disassociate with

ourselves. Have you ever met people who are

just stuck in their way? Their thoughts is they way

there's something wrong with your way.

Is it right? We're just stuck there.

Same thing, enemy. Has set these encampments up

around our lives and our minds and in our bloodlines.

And you were born in certain strongholds that you have to

deal with an insecure parent. You have to deal with a parent

gripped by fear. You was raised from the spirit

of fear. Yeah, parents have parented you

from their insecurities. We are destroying sophisticated.

You got to get it arguments. We're destroying sophisticated

arguments. And we're destroying every

exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the true

knowledge of God. And we are taking every somebody

shout out thoughts and purpose captive to the obedience of

Christ. So I know it's here.

Now you take that thought and you find a word to put it

against, and you put that word on that thought, and you carry a

captive. You don't get in a conversation

with this thought. If it's not God's word, it's

nothing to talk about. Stop trying to find scripture to

support your flesh. Well I don't see nowhere where

God say we can't drink. But why you not focus on the

scripture where God called people not to?

And why? Why are you trying to find in

the Bible? So clearly you believe the Bible

has the final say. Well, apply that to all of your

life then. Don't use the Bible to support

your flesh. It doesn't work.

The Bible is for our spiritual maturity and the Bible is to

'cause our flesh to be subdued. The Word cuts.

The Word doesn't fluff up your flesh and make you feel

comfortable. Stop using Scripture to support

your flesh. We learned today that everything

is permissible. I don't want God's permission no

more. I need His blessing.

I need it to be His will. Stop being satisfied with His

permission. Here it is because you don't

need His permission to do what you want to do.

You can do what you want to do. We're taking every dog holding

the captive. What is it in the area of

sicknesses and is it a war? Man, Some wars goes on for

years. There's countries been in war

for God knows how long. Why the church can't be in

revival that long? You ready?

Because we're not warring. You know, it's a revival for the

enemy war. You know, it's a revival for the

Church war. He the problem.

The enemy don't know. He don't mind fighting.

We got a problem fighting. We got saved, so we don't fight.

No, you got saved so you could be armed to fight.

How do we fight? Worship, Word, Testify.

Keep getting up. It's it's it's you.

You might be fighting for your healing.

You might be fighting for your sanity.

It could take years. It could take two years, it

could take one. That's why you need to be around

people that can bring life to you and blow wind in your sail,

being ready to punish every act of disobedience when your own

obedience as a church is complete.

But he's saying, man, you, there's this walk.

You got to walk and you got to get to the other side of this

thing. So that you can go and you can

begin to fight for others, You can begin to stand for others,

you can get on the other side and start punishing foulness

like you start. Really getting up here like I

think, God, I'm on the other side and I can now actually I

could war like I can now. War for you like that's where I

want to live. Like I'm not OK.

I'm, I'm going to be good. My children going to be good.

My family going to be good. My finance is going to be good.

I am trying to war for you. You know how war for my

children. I war for you for for somebody

else's children, right? Every person in here that I war

with him for I am warned for your Mama, your your daddy, your

grandma, your grandpa, your great grandparents.

Freedom reigns when the abandonment of our flesh is

prioritized. Freedom reigns when the

abandonment of our flesh is prioritized.

You ready? Jesus says.

Whoever wants to be any disciple, be my disciple, must

deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

I got a really cool revelation the other day and I'm going to

share it in a second. And Jesus said to his disciples,

if any of you want to be my follower, here's the

prerequisite to be a follower. Here's a prerequisite to be a

disciple. These are not prerequisites to

get to heaven. OK, Deborah.

Like, like, like I saw this the other day and it so freed me.

There's more people that want to get to heaven than be a

disciple. So, so in 2025, you don't want

to be a disciple or a follower. Jesus see you in heaven.

But what I'm called to do is make disciples.

Jesus job is to get you to heaven.

My job is to make disciples. You don't want to be discipled

or be a disciple maker enjoy church, but I'm not bit more.

No, no, no, I'm not a prayer team.

We're not praying for members. We're praying for laborers.

That's how Jesus told them to pray.

He says the harvest plenty laborers are few.

You got the churches and pastors get burnt out because they got a

lot of members. Like how you get burnt out and

you got this big old church because you got members, not

laborers. So I'm focused on laborers and

disciples in 2025. Why am I going to waste time

when your goal was heaven? Well, heaven, that goal was met

when you received Jesus. Enjoy.

I'm like, Oh my God. He said, if you want to be my

disciple, pick up your cross. How many of you people you know

picking up their cross, What does that say?

They don't want to be a disciple, they just want to ride

the back of disciples, right, He says.

Carry your cross, win daily, die to yourself.

No, I don't want to die to myself.

I still want to do me. But in the end, when I die, when

sin kills me, when burnout kills me, I want to just assure I get

to heaven. Do you?

But there's a disciple's blessing, there's a follower's

blessing, and for those that just want to get to heaven, you

have your blessing. See you when you get there.

He said if anyone's wishes to follow me as my disciple, he

must deny himself, set aside selfish interests and take up

his cross, expressing a willingness to endure whatever

may come and follow me, believing in me, conforming to

my example in living and if need be suffering or perhaps dying

because of faith in me. That's what people don't want to

do. They don't want to suffer.

What if some of your suffering is pointing out that he marks

you to be his disciple and your healing is in following him not

getting benefits of Christianity get you a couple when we going

to go get some free coffee and and I think that's it ain't got

crumbs back there. I think we sold out of

everything. OK, he's going to give you a

couple scriptures to remind you My my my old identity has been

Co crucified. With Christ and no longer what

lives Look at what he said. My old life, my old identity has

been what? Co crucified with Christ and no

longer it no longer lives. It no longer lives.

No longer lives no longer lives. No, it no longer lives.

How's God never doing it no longer lives.

Is it dead? Or not what?

Why do you keep, why do you keep talking from old man?

Look, look, look, can I get out? Can I?

Can I get a couple people with me?

I'm tired of Christians, worship leaders, musicians that say all

the amens and all the right stuff.

But your language shows that you are trapped in old man casket.

Your language does not express how saved you sound.

I'm talking about everybody up here, everybody down here.

I hear the hallelujahs. I see the notebooks.

But pressure exposes your reality.

You're still in the casket. What do I mean?

You haven't made the decision to get out of it.

Jesus, open the casket for you. You still want to lay in it.

He says I've crucified. I am Co crucified.

No, my old man talk like that. My old man was defeated like

that. My old man was poor like that.

My old man was powerless like that.

I no longer live there and now the essence of this new life.

Is it a new life or not? How do I keep hearing the same

language three years later? How are you still stuck at

sabotage? How are you still stuck?

Unjoyful. How are you still stuck in

excuse making? What's not clicking?

He says. The essence of this new life is

no longer mine. I've arrived at Christ living

through me. So I no longer really have a say

in giving my old man play. For the anointed 1 lives his

life through me. And what I know the anointed 1

lives through me. The resurrected King lives

through me. The victorious, the old deaf.

Where's your staying? Man lives through me.

How is it so much defeat here? How is there so much defeat

coming out of here? Here's the reality.

You're not letting Jesus's life free.

You're not. He's in there.

But what comes out if I'm done? And you should be done with

saying the right stuff. But the right stuff is not your

reality. Some of you I'm looking at.

I'm telling you, I hear you. Amen.

I hear you. Come on.

But you don't even believe the gospel.

You believe it as far as saving you, but you don't believe it as

far as it being your life and you and your soul is not

winning. I'm talking about while you're

living on earth as it is in heaven, living in that victory,

living in that confidence, like, like the problems are going to

come when you're over one, get ready for another one.

But but going into this new year, man, we got to, we got to

be the light. Well, I'm an introvert, Boo

being it like I tell my son, I'm like, son, do you?

But the moment you step on that campus, you're a leader.

The moment Jesus came out of heaven and entered earth, he

became the light. You don't get to turn your light

off because you're an introvert. You don't like people.

What? Get over yourself how you don't

like something you need. Right.

But then guess what? We make an excuse, right?

The world told you you're an introvert.

What does that mean? What does that mean?

I'm an extrovert. What does that mean?

We live in union as one. This is my new life.

Don't don't go into no year. Don't go into the new year,

please. Make some decisions now, but my

new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who

loves me so much that He gave himself for me, dispensing his

life into mock. Right when you have a do all the

time, I don't think the world wouldn't mind listening to our

tongues if they saw victory. Oh my God, man, my life, my

life. I don't know was what was.

Would you go to? Prayer for 6:30 in the morning.

What are you here every Sunday for?

I have to put on and I have to guard the new man.

What's the word say? Put on the full armor of God.

Get the holes out your armor, but you may be able to

successfully stand against all the schemes.

So there's an armor meant for us to be victorious in every plot

of the enemy. I love how he said he's not

going to stop the devil from attacking us, but I'm going to

arm you and the strategies and the deceits of the devil, the

seats of the devil, the deceits of the devil.

You must be armed to deal with the deceits of the devil.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood contending only

with physical opponents, but against the rulers, against the

powers, against the world forces of this present darkness,

against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly

supernatural places. This is why things like joy,

praise, worship, hope, love, patience, kindness, they're all

weapons. So to overcome the great

deception, we must make some great decisions.

And we desperately need the Holy Spirit in this hour.

As I said, the Holy Spirit is moving as he was in Genesis 1.

He is moving in today's time. The Spirit of God is arousing us

within. I leave with you.

Let me be light Holy Spirit ignite us, Holy Spirit, light us

up. And may we not put a lampshade

over that light. OK, is this a few slides down?

We have to stop turning our light off because people are

looking for home. You saw those two ladies, those

3 ladies coming here this morning.

They were with us six years ago. This is the first time back they

came home and it was welcome home.

Daughters, guess what? One of the things they said,

that same spirit love quest feels like home.

I've been gone for so long and I walked back in.

I still feel welcome, right? Because the light what what if

we turn the lights off? What if they came back and be

like, man, what happened to all that joy y'all used to have?

Because we got weary and we let a building dim our light.

We let a building permit dim dim our light.

We still standing. Come on somebody say I'm still

standing. We have to think from victory.

You ready and not desperation, however long it takes.

I'm standing in victory. I'm waiting in victory, not

desperation. Desperation produces foul stuff

sometimes if you're not desperate for God.

So I must know as I close this year in this freedom crisis made

us free. And he's completely liberal.

There's the word. This is how I'm attacking the

enemy. This is how I'm attacking

thoughts right here, Andrew. So if I'm partially liberated

then I got a problem. The Bible says I'm completely

liberated. So stand fast then, and do not

be Hanford and Held ensnared, and submit again to a yoke of

slavery. Is that there?

OK, moving right along with the arrival of Jesus the Messiah,

the faithful dilemma is resolved.

Come on, somebody say it's resolved.

So what's your hang up? It's resolved.

Those who enter into crisis being here for us no longer have

to live under a continuous low lying black cloud.

Am I talking to anybody? Make sure why you say an Amen.

You catch this word If you're in Christ, darkness has been

resolved. You no longer have to live in a

black cloud. OK, OK.

A new power is in operation. The spirit of life in Christ,

like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air,

freeing you. Oh, oh, freeing you from a faded

lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

But don't you see that we don't? Here you go, Troy.

You don't owe this old do it yourself life one red cent.

There's nothing in it for you, nothing at all.

The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with

your new life. God's Spirit beckons you.

There are things to do. I wonder how many people going

to carry their casket to the next year?

This resurrection life? Not this sit at the foot of the

cross life. No, we acknowledge the power of

the cross, but the life we're called to is the resurrection

life you receive from God is not a timid, grave tending life.

Our leaders, you're going to be the strongest leaders you've

ever been. There's some of you that are

going to step in the leadership and it's going to blow your mind

how great a leader you are. You are coming from under the

tombstone, the resurrection life you received from God.

So if you received it, where is it?

So what's next, Papa? God's Spirit touches our spirit.

So I encourage you Now, if you look at the next slide, we

accomplished something today. You remember this Scripture, we

must embody the word of God by the power of the Holy Spirit,

not merely try to keep the law. We are called to a covenant

lifestyle. That assignment done Now, this

wasn't planned, but God has a reason that He is trying to warn

us of deception. Please go in, Listen to this

word. Some of you came back to you as

expecting us to roll around at the altar tonight.

And I, I understand that if the truth will set you free when the

sun sets free so, so deliverance is not in a show.

It's not in a deliverance is here.

It is receive the word. And if truth sets you free, not

anointing oil. OK, All right.

Some of us want to have an emotional deliverance.

And it almost frustrates you when you like why he didn't lay

hands on me or why would I expected tonight to come to the

altar and we was just going to be loud and we just going to

throw up and we was going. But I just realized the power of

the word. He's gentle.

He's like, if you eat this word, man, there's deliverance.

Like that's like right now. But that's a dangerous

deliverance to some. I've seen some folks get

delivered at the altar and walk out.

Boy, you don't see them no more. But I've seen people sit under

the word week after week. I'm looking at folks that have

you, have you have been delivered, you understand I

don't want deliverance without roots.

And this is what the word does. So what people want is a quick

fix, El Ero. They want this show, they want

to scream, they want to be emotional, they want to be seen.

And there's a place in time for that if it happens organically.

And this is a safe place for us to go there if we need to go

there. But I am not going to sell you.

The only way for you to get delivered is some little quick

emotional fix and high praise and all of that.

No, we've been there, done that. We will continue to be there.

But no, some commitment is required of you.

God loves you too much to just knock you out one night and then

you get up and you ain't equipped at all.

But then it's almost like delivering sometime is like you

get free. And you bored up the window.

Devil ain't coming. Back no more.

He's like you just boarded up one window, man.

I'm about to go around the back and hit that back door up and

they come back seven times stronger.

But that's why you find people who sit under word, you know,

college student. Have you ever did extra credit

or did that summer school to get ahead?

That's like Wednesday night. That's like Wednesday night.

And then you see people's lives changing.

I think today there is some really rich word going forth.

I think on Wednesday night, some really rich word has been going

forth. Wednesday night we're going to

have a peace revival. What does that mean?

You've been struggling with anxiety, depression, fear,

worry, Samia, That's like you. I don't care.

Rack the phobia. I don't whatever it is

Wednesday night, it's our last Wednesday.

Can can y'all come and help us close out our last Wednesday of

2024? I know you're like, oh, I got to

go do this and I got to that's something.

OK. You crazy enough to go shopping

during the holidays? You ever been shopping at

Metrotown during the holidays? OK, that didn't that one didn't

hit. OK, here, you can take this.

This is our last official Sunday evening.

I believe we have the productions.

We have the 22nd, but I'm talking about here so I can

truly say and be at rest that in the evenings and I have

fulfilled, we have fulfilled the mandate that God has given this

house. Every assignment He's given us,

we've delivered it to the best of our abilities.

Now I trust that God's going to do His part, and we will see

fruit from every word that has went forth out of this house.

As we approach the production this coming week, lives will be

saved. Sons and daughters are coming

home. I'm talking about an unexpected

overflow of sons and daughters coming home.

Come on. So what I want to do tonight is

I want to take just a few minutes and pray for the

production coming up. I want us to really pray for the

harvest to come home. A lot of people haven't been to

a production that is a part of revival.

People will are going to absolutely be wrecked.

I ain't even seen the production, but I just know you

can't birth stuff out of here that ain't the holy.

Yeah, come on. Like so so already know God's

going to do it. I believe there's people who

have not. I'm talking about there's going

to be a progression of growth from the start of it to the last

Sunday of it. And we need to pray for

resources. We need to pray for finances, we

need to pray for protection that overnight our tents that have to

stay up and endure weather won't be torn down.

That got come on. So let's go ahead and pray for

souls and sons and daughters and friends and family that they may

come home. Those that are at home, you can

stand, you can sit, no pressure. But we're just going to take

some time to surrender and submit this production.

Praying for the harvest. Sons and daughters are coming

home. Come on.

You could throw in there the victory seat as well.

You could throw in there the remnant as well.

We are going to close this year strong.

God's going to do something real big and miraculous before this

year is over. Come on, take a few minutes,

pray into the harvest. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

This house is very precious to the Lord.

I'm going to say it again, This house is very precious to the

Lord. I like you to hear what I'm

saying. All of God's children are

precious to him. Not every house has the same

sin. There are some houses that are

really pursuing God and that's what you guys are doing.

There's something special about this place.

And so I want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart,

from every last one of you, every, every, everything you do

from hospitality to altered care, to prayer, to the ABS, to

people that set up and tear down to parking lot to worship.

It's not just about these guys that's on this platform like

SSK, like production, all of it like you guys contribute to

something that is happening very special.

And we have not yet seen the the magnitude of the harvest that is

coming. I promise you God is going to

explode in your lives. Just position yourself for it.

I just need you to believe with me that God does something.

Ephesians 320 before the year is out for our church.

I like like I'm, I'm contending for testimonies like I want to

stand up here and just tell y'all something.

God did something. God just did something crazy,

right? And I don't know about you, but

if there's a few people that can witness to this, there is

something brewing. Like there is something like

there is something on the brinks that like the I just feel the

devil getting wore out. He's like, I can't hold on no

more. They just are relentless.

They won't die, they won't give up.

So look at your neighbor, give them a high five, say thank you

for not giving up. Amen.

Come on if. Everybody stands to their feet.

Everybody stands to their feet. Everybody stands to their feet.

So Wednesday night, can we fill the house and close out this

last Wednesday strong with a punch, Carry some momentum into

the production. We need a lot of people in here

so you can help the worship team sing because they also need

their voices for the weekend. OK, there's something that I am

missing. There's something I'm missing.

Christmas Eve experience 1030, huh?

Victory seed December 22nd. What are you believing to give?

Believe big. Anybody in here believe in big

to to drop a seed like it's hot, huh?

So to this day, this day, this day, we're not coming to watch

people give. We come in with something in our

hand to just finalize what God has done in our lives.

OK, I think what am I missing? Saturday the rest of the year,

prayer is only in Vancouver at 10:00 AM.

OK, if you're not following love quest on on on social platforms,

please do, please do make US1 of your friends.

And and we might, we might not follow back because we don't

want to be a church following tons of people for no reason

like we're we're not there. Yeah, so just let's follow you

follow you. Can y'all chill, please?

New Year's Eve last year we had some 500 folks at New Year's

Eve. Oh no.

To put it in context, that auditorium seats its seat like

15, like 1300 or 1500 people. So we, we counted there.

There's, there's a lot of people there.

And it was fire, right? This one we going it's going to

be fire and we might break the fire code.

I don't know. But I'm not sure, right.

What a fire code for a tent. I don't know.

We just don't take the windows off.

But yeah, pray for us this week for favor as we we're going to

get another tent and some more bathroom stalls for the month.

But to be clear, can you go back to to New Year's Eve?

OK, Last week Grace gave me the wrong name.

It is stepping out fresh, stepping into the new you.

So we're just messing with the word step.

We're going to dress nice, but where we want to focus is some

fun cool kicks. They do not have to be tennis

shoes. They can be dress shoes, OK, but

just make sure they are able to endure some pit holes, OK, Like

it was pretty smooth for the most part is if you on the other

side of the tent, there's some low whatever.

But come, we're going to have photo booth, we're going to have

photography, we're going to have videography.

It's going to be a blast. We're going to have tons of

food. We'll have a social hour in the

beginning. We'll have all the details for

you. Then we'll get into some some

really lit like. We'll worship, but we'll.

Also have some fun songs and we're going to have a good time.

And then I am going to release the word for 2025.

So it's the Citizens Ball in the colors are black and Gray as a

base. And then pops of Skittles, red

pack, red pack. So these are pops of Skittles.

Go buy a red pack of Skittles, not to eat, but to see what

colors are in there. And yeah, y'all got it.

So I want to break a record. Every single year our New Year's

Eve gatherings have grew and grew and grew.

OK, let's just create a problem and let's pack the house out.

Y'all dental. All right, all right, all right.

Put your hand on your neighbor's shoulder.

Do I see pastries at the cafe? Nope.

You guys see the buildings going up real fast.

That's all. Harvest coming.

I love our band. All right, all right, guys, have

a wonderful week. I'll see you.

Tell your neighbors something really cool.

I'll see you Wednesday night. Tell your neighbors something

really good. Prophecy over them.

Speak life. Have a good one.

Thank you for tuning in. God bless you.

Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

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