The Great Deception (1130) - 11.24.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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Been on this series called It wasn't meant to be a series, but

clearly God sees we need it and I think it's more of a tone of

warning, taking heed. Anybody know what we've been

talking about for the last few weeks?

The great deception. I'm here to let 100% of you know

that we are in a dark time if you didn't know, and I'm here to

let you know is gonna get darker.

The only places that will brighten up is where you go now

that that will for some of y'all can you say that?

Or for some of y'all do y'all contribute to darkness?

You can't be a sort of a source of darkness and then ask for

light when he died for you, put his light in you and now your

job is to what Sean? We are in a very dark hour.

That's why I don't you. I don't put my hope in any

government. Glad government does what it

does. So I'm not bent on the

government becoming Christian. That's not their job, just like

it was in Jesus job to save everybody.

What do you mean pastor? Well, he died that men might be

saved. You notice Jesus didn't force

people to be saved. No government should ever be put

in position because they're gonna make the entire world one

thing. If you if you remove the option

of choice, it is not agape. There's a condition on it.

So when we're like God, why is this happening and why is that

happen? Well, people have a choice.

And in this hour where you will see many people have signs and

wonders follow their ministries where you see in every last one

of y'all phone. Forget who follows you, how many

people will you follow? Tell me y'all got 10 followers

and y'all follow 1500 people. You know the power in that.

How many pages do you look at daily?

Some of you right now could be like 100% believe you are

walking in truth and in God's will for your life 100% and I

don't know about you, but I've been there in my life where I

was 100% committed. I thought I got a word from the

Lord. Come to find out, that was all

me. Here it is here.

Here's the dangerous. Part but the blessing is that

God will honor your decision even if it's laced with

deception. And while you think because God

gave you permission, you think it's his blessing.

Now you telling everybody your family guess.

What? Guess what God did And then

don't let us have testimony night, first giving honor to God

and then you telling everybody and then months or sometime 10

years later. How did the blessing bring

shame? Deception is deception because

it's deception. It ain't deception if you don't

believe it. Doctor John said this last week

where he didn't get to it so I stole some of his fresh bread.

But deception is a mindset and practice allegiance.

So whatever truth you believe, you actually are loyal to it and

you will fight people over it. I remember, I mean, I remember I

used to smoke so much weed, right?

And I remember, I remember, God bless Suzanne.

So my mother-in-law, lover, and she's past she's, she's gone to

be with the Lord. And I remember one time she

offended. Me so bad she was visiting our

house and she was like, I think you need to go to rehab.

I'm like for weed. You know how some of y'all think

you like weed is not a practice. That's not really a bad drug.

That's the drug and it alters your conscience for all you weed

smokers that got memberships and cards and stuff, right, Right.

Well, it's just a brownie, OK? Well, have you tried one of them

brownies Back at in, in, in, in good grounds.

Do they do the same thing as those brownies?

They're good, though. Right here.

Here it is. It, it has to be true.

Sprinkled in ready. And what you're deceived by has

to bring benefits. You are not deceived by

something you don't benefit from.

And most of the time the benefits present themselves

first. And don't let the benefit feel a

void in your life. And a lot of times you will hold

on to a deception or stronghold because you got to let go of

something that will leave a gap. Deception of the mindset and

allegiance. Anybody ever protect toxicity in

their life? I told Suzanne, I said I told, I

told you back to Suzanne. I'm like, how dare you be in my

house telling me I need to go to rehab.

I'm fine. I just smoke before I go pick

the kids up in the group home in the van.

Yeah, I just smoke when I first wake up in the morning.

I don't need no assistance. I come home.

Hi. Julia now has Malia and she

like, she don't even say nothing, but her face does.

And I'm like, why are you looking at me like that?

You a hater? You messing my high up?

You gonna kill me? Please don't kill my vibes,

right? And I'm like, and this whole

time because I love something. She was wrong.

I was offended with Suzanne because her truth I wasn't ready

for it. Some of y'all don't like

accountability because you ain't ready to let go of this

stronghold in your life. So then whoever's coming for

your stronghold, you like they the enemy instead of looking at

they actually sober minded about your life.

So I can see areas of your life you can't see.

So then who in your life you going to let in?

That could just be like, yeah, you need to get rid of that and

you like, Dang, he said it. I must be a right.

It's the problem in marriage sometime.

I don't know why I didn't marry you to tell me what to do what

you get, I get it. But at the same time that person

gave a life to you. They should be able to tell you

a few things. What are what are you holding on

to and you owning how ignorant of it was me to be owning being

high man. I remember picking up the kids.

I took the group home van or the school I went to but they was

from group home. But we went to the special

school for group and bad kids. Just bad kids.

I'm not going to explain something.

I don't know the group home. It's bad kids.

I had the van home so I would smoke it.

Did not hear it out. Look at look at how the how the

weed was so important. I'm thinking they don't smell

nothing. You come home and your Mama who

used to smoke my Mama smoked. I come home high.

You like tears. Like what?

Like you've been smoking, Ma, I don't do that.

Where the Doritos at? Where the where?

The now these are these are some mild things, but but that drug

and other things, whatever it is, they don't have to be drugs.

It could be a diet. It's folks that will go to the

hospital Natalia and get a diagnosis that they, they, they

like like high blood pressure and you will guard that fried

food to the grave. Doctor says you can be healed or

let go of sugar and we got a better chance to fight this

cancer. God gonna have to take me with

my rocky road. Like the sugar, the diet is more

important than you walking in the promise of God, which is

wholeness. Well, your marriage could work

if you learn how to forgive and stop having a snappy mouth.

Well, I'm defending myself. There you go.

Guard and guard and guard. No, you have a responsibility

all by yourself to do what God's words say.

Adam. Eve.

Pointing the finger. How long are you going to point

the finger? But there's this allegiance, and

I found out that deliverance begins at this ownership, that

word, whatever, but you got to disown it.

Stop, stop, stop taking responsibility for it.

Or take responsibility for it, but you got to abandon your.

Stronghold, how about abandon? Stop waiting for you to move.

Stop waiting for you to get a new boyfriend, new girlfriend.

Stop waiting for you to get more money.

Stop waiting. Stop.

What are you waiting for? You can abandoned it today.

You can abandoned the bad attitude today, right?

You can abandoned the anxiety today.

Is it work? Yes, it's work.

Therapy's work. Taking pills is work.

It's all work. You just got to choose what

you're working with. But you got to disown it and

then this. Was supposed to be a walk in the

garden. We spoke about that a couple

weeks ago, Adam and Eve in the garden, no anxiety.

They were tempted by anxiety, but anxiety was not their

reality, right? 2nd Corinthians.

There's a fear here that Paul is talking to to the Church of

Corinth and he says, one of my greatest fears for you is that

you'll be just like Eve and you will be deceived, darkened in

your minds, corrupted and seduced from wholehearted, in

other words, wholeheartedness. Saints younger and older.

You don't need to be 21 to be on fire for Jesus.

You don't need a ID. You don't need to be out of

college. You don't need to be married.

No wholehearted walk with the Lord is for everybody.

So the goal is wholehearted. Here it is.

So in other words, the devil is satisfied with 10% of your

heart. So let's say you just partially

deceived. Guess what?

Partial deception is deception. And some of us are cool with

that. Some of you are coping with

deception. All right, let me keep reading.

Let me keep reading. Let me keep reading, he says.

I fear that you're going to be corrupted in your what mine

where your mind so other. In other words, decept, the

gateway to deception is the way you think.

How do you see a thing? This is why it's not OK to

overreact to certain situations. Like, is the devil really like

is he really kicking your butt? Like, like his life, really.

Hard, like they walked out on you.

They don't want to be with you no more.

But is it really that dramatic? I don't know what I'm going to

do in my life. You don't know what you're going

to do with your life. Start off by going to your shift

tomorrow. Start off by going to class

tomorrow. You got stuff to do.

Now all of a sudden somebody walked out on you.

They they don't want to be with you no more.

Now all of a sudden you forgot how to live.

Am I talking to anybody here or everybody in here perfect and

whole and we just going to shut the church down because we

preaching to people who don't need you?

Ain't give what I'm. Saying no, it's very important

because we're in a very dramatic generation.

Oh, does anybody in here, anybody on this side know

somebody that's dramatic? Anybody on this side sitting

next to somebody dramatic? That's why you raise your hand.

And you trying. To tell them they dramatic by

Hallelujah PT Anybody in the tent know somebody dramatic this

side over here, the left side. Amen.

Amen. Anybody.

Right here, you know somebody dramatic, call them out in

service then. Amen, right.

Them too dramatic, right? Right.

What makes somebody dramatic? Like, anybody know anybody that

no matter what drama, drama finds them?

Anybody OK now anybody in here dramatic?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, so, So what, what what makes

someone dramatic, though, right. So if we was just looking at

Hollywood or a movie or a play, right?

Television has to overdo it for you at home to really believe

it, right? You, you don't get an actor on

television that's kind of going through the motions.

Like they actually have to to really be more dramatic for you

to to communicate through a screen, right?

The same thing like the enemy or your perception will magnify

something. That's why the Lord says make

like like be dramatic about me. Oh, magnify the Lord with me

like this. What I'm saying some of y'all

come to church and be staring at me.

Where I'm from we'd have a problem the way y'all be looking

at me preaching. I'm, I'm really trying to help

you when you sit here mugging, I'm looking at people right now

that's mugging me. Your lips ain't moved.

Like what'd you come here for? Right.

So for me, This is why we're trying to encourage.

Sometime it may seem like we're harping on this worship area or

lift your hands, but some of you are so much more dramatic

outside the tent, the way you watch TV.

Some of y'all come to church and don't say nothing.

And if I ask your friends or family, you talk too much.

You talk all the time, but you come to church and you act like

you just got all this little discipline in the world.

So what you're saying is out there you don't have control

over your mouth, so you practice discipline when it comes to

worshipping God. Now, how powerful are you that

you can stop communicating his goodness?

But out there you can talk all kind of carnal stuff.

Let somebody cut you off, let somebody look at you funny, let

you got all kinds of opinions, but you come in here and

somebody told you that the church is where you turn.

Down. The church is where you don't

say nothing and you walk in here, some of y'all like you in

the gym, just all kinds of accent.

But then you come in here and you don't got no swag, you don't

got no kind of like joy. Some of y'all.

Here we go. I'm about to press a button.

How many people like shopping? Grocery shopping, right?

Oswald like, baby, put your hand down.

I know you, baby, put your hand down.

Baby. We ain't going shopping no more.

Baby, put your hand down. Oswald, like get your hands on

my market book. Get your hands on my pocketbook.

All right, all right, all right, all right.

Listen now listen, listen. So so can you be honest right

now that there's areas in your life where you give it your you

give it 1 like you give it your emotions.

Don't nobody got to wonder if you mad don't know.

Nobody got to wonder if you excited.

Like when I go grocery shopping, I'm I'm, I'm.

Wondering, I'm like, hey, like I like this.

I love grocery shopping. Now we get to order groceries,

get them delivered, great service, but you can catch me.

I like shopping for clothes. I like hanging out with my wife.

I like grocery shopping. I look, you can catch me on the

sideline with my son playing. I had the referee yell back at

me the other day. He's like, I'm gonna kick you

out the gym if you don't stop. I'm like, Sir, Sir, I'm out.

I'm in Denver. I can't get kicked out this gym.

Then he came. Back he ran you know rest be

running just get back and I was like Sir, I apologize I'm just

trying to enjoy the game right because of my witnesses on I'm

never more more fan than witness, but he rundown I'm like

I apologize Sir, I'm. Just into the game I want my son

to win, but that call was trashed.

Right, you deceived out there, all right, but but what area,

right? You got to understand that fire

is in you, but pulse, where do you cut it on or where do you

give it permission to be on versus where you turn it off

Like stop turning off when you come in God's house.

There's somebody in here that needs your Hallelujah, your

hands, your man. You can't be saved in the House

of God mugging. That's.

Terrible. Let me hurry up.

We got to get these samples. Homecoming.

Day. Come on.

We got to take our sight back. Now you got to go listen.

You got to go listen. This message will be up on

Spotify tomorrow, right? Grace and Troy, right?

Amen. Amen.

There we go. Yes Sir, Amen, y'all, y'all go

see December. And then the last message on

Spotify was August. I'm I'm telling.

OK, so so y'all don't think it's me.

All right, That's Grace and Troy.

OK, if y'all want to figure out where the messages are, Grace,

raise your hand. Pink Panther coming right here.

And then and then Troy. OK, all right, all right, all

right. Hey EJ, tell the people before

they get mad at me because we know we got we, we, we got

people think you can't have fun and preach the gospel?

What does the Bible say about laughter?

Hey, man, some of y'all look like you need some medicine, OK?

I'm trying to give you some medicine.

All right? All right, Let's figure out a

way to land this. I got to share something this

morning. I'm gonna give you one more

thing I didn't share, but but the whole point here.

Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.

Listen. We read about the prodigal son

who left the home to see he left the home.

Somebody say he left the home. Deception carried him out his

father's house. He got his inheritance too

early. Go listen to this morning, OK?

He left deception mate Adam and Eve was you can see that they

got kicked out the garden, but it wasn't like God kicked him

out. Their deception lured them out

because the garden is a place that represents this

uninterrupted communion with God, and their deception took

them out of communion. Your deception isn't just about

you're just lost and you don't know truth.

Your deception separates you. What could separate me from the

love of God? Your deception.

Not the devil, not angels. Your deception though, you

notice it lists angels, it lists all these different things, but

it did not list your deception. It's not that God is away, but

because you are so deceived. These are areas where the enemy

can and will take advantage of you because he knows a person

whose mind is saved on Jesus cannot be shaken.

That's what we talk about Wednesday.

Is this this antidote to or this solution to a deception free

life? I don't know about you, but I

don't want to miss it. My life is too precious to miss

it. And if I would play a game to go

undefeated or have a winning record, then spiritually I

should do the same thing in how I attack my wholeness.

Some of you do not compete for wholeness and the enemy is

attacking you. He's pressing you, he's throwing

double teams at you, he's trying to injure you.

And some of us like, man, that's just life.

Why the devil always attacking me?

He's not. If he didn't have a place to

hook on to in your life, he wouldn't be able to stay.

Some of us have way too many access points.

So just as he was preparing his speech to return home, the

prodigal son, the father was preparing to receive him home.

Now I'm here to just tell you the good news is that no matter

how far you've went, your your welcome home will not be what

you think it is. Your welcome home will not be a

sit down of condemnation. You're welcome home will not be

a list of things you got to do to get back in fellowship with

the Lord. The moment you turn your heart

back towards the Lord, you're right in the garden again.

You're right back home again. It is not this work.

Grace is not that. Grace is like make a decision.

I'm here waiting for you. I don't need your speech.

God don't even need your apology.

What if I told you he needs your recognition more than your

apology? Recognize you are far away from

God. Recognize that you lie.

Recognize that you steal. Recognize that you manipulate.

Recognize. And then what you recognize, lay

it at the altar and say God take it.

I don't want it. Home is where the heart is.

Home is where the heart is. Home is where the heart is.

Home is where the heart is. Here it is.

Home is where truth abides, right, right.

I thought we and I thought drank and I thought clubbing was going

to knock the edge off the week we live in this generation.

I can't wait till it's Friday, right soon as my work week over.

I could turn up, but but Jesus died so you could turn up.

Even at work you can turn up every day.

Why not? Turn up is a decision, not a

circumstance. Am I talking to a few people in

here? Right.

Home is where truth abides. Here it is.

You got to follow me. Home is where we left.

Home is where we left home. You ready?

It's not a destination. Home is not when we it's not

this afterlife thing, this after we die thing.

It's it's not that home is something that Jesus said, Hey,

pray thy Kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it

is in heaven now. There's partial experience on

earth. There's limited experience on

earth. Just like we don't know what

it's going to be like to get next door, but I'm not waiting

like we're home. So this is not going to be more

home when we get next door, right?

So the trash or the whatever you think is, man, you can be right

at home in a storm when you don't feel good.

Ain't no place like home. If I'm gonna throw up, let me

throw up at home. If I'm gonna be sick, let me get

sick, be sick at home. Wait, I want to go home.

Home. People in prison want to do

what? Go home.

And some people don't want to go home from prison because now

prison has become home. You'd be surprised how many

people get released from prison and next week they write back

because they prefer to be there, because all these family is

there. They got, they wanted structure.

They got structure, They got food.

And they're safe for them in prison.

Some of us, that's where. Yeah.

You say, yeah, I'm in this relationship, I love it.

I know I'm just kind of we sleeping around and we doing all

this, but I feel safe for the first time in my life I found

somebody that really see me for me.

What? But it's not God's will.

Home is where we left here. It is if we left home through

deception, we can return home through truth.

So what happened when I when I made a decision to stop smoking,

stop drinking, stop partying, stop thinking my wife was the

problem, stop thinking life was the problem, what did I do?

Do. You know, do you know, me and my

wife finally made peace in the same house we made hell.

We the same people. We the same two people that

celebrated 20 years of marriage. How did we get there?

We didn't change bodies, we didn't change our history.

We just one day decided to pick up truth where there was

deception because deception had us thinking we couldn't make it.

Deception had us thinking that we was against each other.

But what we did is we are our our marriage and our lives.

Here it is and our health. I'm on this health health gig.

I'm on the treadmill. I'm doing what I'm doing because

I picked up truth in the area of health.

Wherever you don't hold truth, God's truth, you're deceived.

If God's truth about whatever in your life is going on is not at

the helm of that, you're living in deception and you're not

safe, even if it feels safe. So it's not just I'm gonna go to

the gym. No, I need something.

Me. I need something more than that

because I don't care if I don't. Got no cuts for you.

Oh, He died for me, and my body is his temple.

Truth. It ain't true if I need a six

pack for you. What is truth is this is his

temple and my response to him preserving this temple is I'm

going to do my part to preserve it.

So now my health journey is all about scripture.

It's not about pleasing you. So where do you?

Need to pick up truth in an area close here You got to No, you

gotta see. To overcome the great deception,

we must make some great decisions today.

Now we desperately need the Holy Ghost.

This is an attack against the body of Christ.

To not stay filled with the Holy Spirit, to have churches that

are not filled with the Spirit and they're led by boards and

they're led by the flesh and they're led by God will preserve

His Word. He will respond to His Word.

But in the last days, people are going to need more than mere

education about Jesus. What's going to keep you is that

you keep your eyes on Him and you know Him.

Knowledge will not save you. Knowledge without experience

will not save you. And that's why 1st Corinthians 2

says we haven't received the spirit of this world, we have

the Holy Spirit, Amen. It says that what God's truth

was God's truth, His words aren't taught verse 13 by human

wisdom. So you sitting in church trying

to approach getting the word and impartation the same way you did

at your college is not going to work.

You can't, you can't get this food based on mere intellect

because the Word is spirit. So you got to come here.

And This is why we worship in this world.

We take moment so we can open our spirit up and say, Lord,

plant whatever seeds in my spirit that you need because

here it is. He's the one that's going to

need them. Why?

Because the Word is the sword of the spirit.

So when? How do you think He fights for

you in the midst of war? He pulls out that word that you

have inside. We see He.

Says but the natural man, the non spiritual man, don't

understand or accept or welcome or admit.

In his heart, the gifts. And the teachings and the

revelations of the Spirit of God.

You can't naturally approach. God in this way.

He is kind in giving us scripture.

In this way, the Kingdom is like a farmer.

Why did he do that? Because he needed to make a

spiritual thing practical. The Kingdom is like a man roam

the earth and but don't you dare take his word for this natural

thing. Hallelujah.

What I do know is that the born again believer has Christ's

spirit within them. Can I get a, can I get a Amen?

The born again believer has God's spirit within him.

OK. And the enemy is afraid of you

grabbing a hold of what's really going on in today.

So if he can delay your your response to what God is doing,

you understand he's a gambler. So he does things to hope and

wish that if I can delay them long enough, they'll be behind

far enough. If I can get them discouraged

long enough, they can miss out on a relationship.

They won't even see the blessing release.

If I can get them offended, I can get them up out the church

that God divinely designed for them to be helped radically and

make them stronger and equip them for the call not equip them

to live longer in comforts right.

So he's gambling he's he wants you to quit.

He wants you to get no go find a church with some good

Christians. But is they the Christians

that's going to challenge you the way you can My son can get a

scholarship anywhere right in my mind.

But when it comes to making a decision, what school fits for

him as a young man, not him as a pro athlete?

Because those four years can radically change the trajectory

of what's been imparted in his life.

For God's purpose, for his life, not for a contract.

Some of us were so deceived and so influenced in our

perspectives and perceptions and we don't have no backbone that

anytime accountability comes or anytime the song, ain't they?

They too loud, they too quiet? Is they in the garage?

Just rain and it's pouring. The old man is soaring, right?

It's like anytime. And we just so finicky.

And then we sit here on Sunday and we will watch 50 sermons on

YouTube and 100 inspirational 92nd clips and never pick up the

word that we went and took notes for.

Deception always has to please something you desire.

And I was going to read that Scripture today.

Paul's like, yeah, there's people that speak better than

me, more eloquent than me, and I think I messed up, he said.

I think I messed up by not having you guys pay me for my

visit because you got me for free.

You took me for granted. So you guys, you guys will, will

hand you on to somebody you like and subscribe.

You'll even follow your church. The natural man.

So here's what's happening Lord came to tell me if you didn't

know that why deception is going to increase in such a radical

way very quickly is because the spirit really is moving.

So you go see all over the church fighting each other,

pastors down in other pastors and right we compete and we

comparing and we that because the spirit is.

Actually really moving and let me help you.

The Spirit God in heaven is expansive enough that every

church can prosper, every worship team can prosper.

There's enough arenas, there's enough lost people.

Don't nobody got a back fight. Don't nobody got to hate on

nobody because when God moves, his whole house gets filled,

right? I don't got to hate on somebody

else getting blessed. There's enough for me.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. There's more than enough for me,

right? I don't got to compete with the

church down the street. I don't got to compete with the

family. I don't got to compete with your

career, your bank book. I don't got to compete because

when the Spirit is moving, nothing can stop what God has

for me. So what the enemy want us to do

is get our eyes on each other. Watch what other churches doing,

watch how other people do it and have our fell victim.

Absolutely. Because I want these things bad.

I want, I want, I want, I want staff, I want I want the size, I

want the the the the equipment. I want the comfort.

I want it for us. But if God allows me to fix

myself. On that stuff.

Then when it. Comes I'm just going to want a

bigger one. You don't want a nicer one.

And you do know when you get married, you do get lonely

sometimes. So marriage can't be to solve

loneliness. Because then when you get lonely

again during marriage now. You're going to be looking

outside of marriage for somebody to fix.

Lonely again. So the spirit is moving.

Take your pictures out, take your phones out, take your notes

out. We're going to land this plane.

Spirit moving. I think I see something and I'm

going to try to show it to you. First she'll be last.

Last she'll be first. And This is why the enemy wants

the church, the bride. Because he's coming for the

bride, Not your dream home. He's coming for the bride.

In the beginning, God prepared, formed, fashioned, and created

the heavens and the earth. And the earth was without form.

Watch it. They gonna put it up in a

second. The earth was without form and

it was an empty waste. Here it is.

This sounds like Isaiah 60 and darkness was up on the face of

the very great deep. Please follow me and I pray you

get this in your spirit, not just off the plate, off the

pages. Darkness covered the Earth Day

one, Genesis 1. Here it is.

Here's the response. It's the darkness.

This is why they didn't even want to distract.

You see, God was by himself, so he for sure wasn't gonna be

distracted. So his mission went forth.

But now he put us here. The mission will not go forth

without you shining your light. It doesn't mean you gonna stop

God. It just means you won't be able

to experience and participate in your time frame to hand off the

baton. So you're gonna leave somebody

more work than they should have gotten.

Here it is. Darkness covered the earth.

I love the words right after this is what the enemy doesn't

want us to see. And God is the same yesterday,

today, forevermore. He says the last shall be first,

the first shall be last, the first shall be last.

So when you see darkness, Isaiah 60 tried to prophecy into today.

When you see gross darkness, the glory is the light is going to

come upon you. You're going to see it, look at

it, look at it, said the Spirit of God was moving.

In the midst of the darkness, pay attention, tell your

neighbor, pay attention, tell your neighbor you strand you

just white you in the situation you in because you you get you

get distracted in service. So so so so so you know the

solution to the chaos within you.

Let the spirit move. It said it was hovering over the

face of the waters, and God said so.

Number one, in gross darkness, the spirits start moving.

Here it is. Here's how the enemy trying to

distract us #2 in gross darkness because you can't see.

You need prophetic you more than any other time.

We need to know what God is saying and say it.

I don't need to know what God doing to be nosy.

I need to know what God doing to put some words.

Put it on this side of heaven. So it says Spirit moving #2 God

said, right? So what you think I'm trying to

help you do in service? Just talk.

You know, I know you come up here and the reason you can't

talk because you got chaos on the inside.

So then I'm trying to get you to talk.

Why? Because where there was

darkness, Spirit was moving. And then God what, spoke?

And then he said, what? Let there be light you.

This is not the time to hide. I don't care how introvert you

are in these last days, I think God put you here because he

going to turn you for introvert to extrovert and there was

light. So my prayer.

Today is aroused my soul Holy Spirit, aroused my soul Holy

Spirit. Come on, somebody say God is

moving, the Apostolic and prophetic is being established,

and it's. Time to shine.

For the glory of the Lord. You ready?

It's up on the remnant. Close with Romans 8 and

Galatians 5. I'm glad I got eyes to see.

Can I see everything? No, I can see what I need to see

and where I can't see. Lord help me.

And what I don't need to see. Lord, keep it from me.

Don't let me see it. Here it is.

Here it is. This is why the enemy is trying

to distract you. This is why you've been going

through what you've been going through.

This is why you restless. The world is restless right now.

Tell me y'all waiting for me to read.

It's right there. Gross darkness covers the earth.

All around us we observe. See, God's very he if you just.

Look at the word. He is sitting there.

He's saying it all kinds of ways.

All around us we observe pregnant creation.

Pregnant creation. Oh, tsunamis just don't happen

because tsunamis just happen. Yeah, there's science behind it,

but it's also spirit behind it, right?

War ain't just breaking out the way war breaking out.

Look in the Bible. Bible told us about war breaking

out. Look what it says.

The difficult times of pain throughout what the world are

simply what birth pains. In all the creation, even the

rebellious, the reason you were there is something inside the

depths of man's souls that want to get back to the garden.

But it's not only around his people.

Here's what the Bible says. They're not just believing, it's

within us. You'll never be satisfied.

Go and get the job. DD can you pray for me?

I just I'm going to the job interview.

OK, how's your soul when y'all gonna come and try and get some

soul wealth the difficult time, but it's not only around us this

end us. The Spirit of God is a wrapper

that I was just telling you to pray something a minute ago.

Lord aroused my soul. No, no, no, the Bible said this

so I just said what the Bible said.

It's a prayer. The Spirit of God is arousing

us. Yeah, some of y'all don't know

how to feel right now, but you show wish a man to come arouse

you. You show wish a woman to arouse

you. You show wish that new outfit to

arouse you. Right?

We're looking for arousal. Guess what, Holy Spirit?

Trying to arouse you. Hello.

Anybody home? Anybody home?

Does he have room to arouse you? Because it don't really look

like homie. Homie arousing.

You're a home girl already. Don't look the same, right?

His arousal is leading you to obedience.

His arousal is leading you to peace.

His arousal is leading you to wholeness.

His arousal is leading you to find the true you.

When the last time you prayed, Lord aroused me to purpose,

aroused me to wholeness, wherever you aroused me to lead

me to stimulate me to, caused me to desire.

You think I'm just preaching and pastoring because I like pastor

and preaching. I took on a mantle that he had a

desire for me to have. He aroused me to Canada or else

I would not be here. He didn't start.

Terrence Julia, go to Canada. There will be great destruction

in your family's life. Many people will come against

you. You will not have money.

You will starve. Your kids will go one way.

You will go another way. But I'm.

Praying for you, No, he said. Look at Vancouver.

Calls me to meet great people, got me a work permit, roused us

here into my communion with him. I wouldn't know where I would be

if he didn't continue to arouse me.

Some of you that's getting freaked out by arousal, another

word is stirring up like arouse. See.

See how the world you've let the world sexualize a word that's in

the Bible. This is a cult that you're

arousing each other. No next verse.

These sterile and barren bodies of ours are yearning for full

deliverance. That is why waiting does not

diminish us any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant

mother. We are.

Enlarged. In the waiting, I'm so glad.

What has God birthed in us as a church?

EJ What has God done in our root system when it comes to the

longevity of love quest? By having us wait for 3 1/2

years, Wait 2 1/2 years for a building permit, What has God?

Done in the waiting, is what it's saying.

You wouldn't get frustrated, or you wouldn't give up, or you

wouldn't ask God out. Of waiting if you understood the

capacity he's growing in you is we're large in the waiting that

would not be a good mom who was pregnant in three months later

be like get this baby out of me no.

Full term like that should be your prayer, Lord.

I don't care if it's ten years, just make sure it's the full

term. I don't want to give birth too

early. Prodigal Son.

We of course don't see what is enlarging in us, but the longer

we wait, larger. That's what I'm saying.

I believe the word so Elder John, this church is spiritually

chunky, but like, like, like, like, like, like you don't

understand unless you on the frontline of what it feels like

to have soldier like you don't understand.

When I talk to other pastors in other churches or when we go

home for three weeks or we go attend to our son's business or

our daughters, and we're able to leave and we watch on service

and one person after another comes up here and preaches the

gospel with anointing and power. See, see, see, a lot, a lot, a

lot of people. A lot of people see the church

growing because you look at who walks through the tent.

But I look at how big the church is and how many people know how

to pray now. Man, man, man, after Sir, I'm

not bragging on my son, I'm bragging on a son of God.

He came over, PDL activate, PDL activate.

He said, hey, Malachi, pray for your, pray for your father.

And I'm sitting here and I'm like what?

Melanie over there praying the word, it don't matter.

You get Natalia come up here, you get anybody that's coming in

person after person. Noel you get person after person

after person after person after person after person after person

coming up here and listen, bringing the word.

I knew when they was praying emotions.

So when I'm speaking, man, I'm like what God has planned.

So no wonder I can speak with so much confidence about what God

is going to do. You can't see it, but you don't

see the fruit of what he's going to do.

Man, people the size of our church, how many people not to

lead somebody to Jesus? How many people not to get

somebody filled with the Holy Ghost?

How many people know how to walk with people through a broken

merits? How many people know how to

build a team now as a leader? That's why when people walk away

and when they scandalize our name and they persecute and they

doubt, I'm like, man, you ain't even looking at the fruit.

You don't know the story you talking about.

I preach out of the TPT or or we do this or we do that.

You know how many daughters and how many sons have been took

back to their parents as a better human being?

You don't. You don't.

You don't see the marriages that I've sat with that should have

been over and now their lives are fruitful.

You don't know how many suicides we've called people out of.

You don't know. You don't.

You don't know what God has been doing in this garage.

You, you don't know. You don't know, you don't know.

Look at your neighbors. Say you don't know.

So what produces longevity is what I'm putting keeping my eyes

on. So yeah, man, I wish you would

stay in love quest. But the people that stay the

retention in this house, it ain't like people just leaving

and leave. No, no, no, no people leaving

because God purging people. But when you look at the the

lavishness of the fruit man love quest from day one has been

growing and because we won't chase nobody because we won't

quit man, the fruit is rich be like.

Yeah, you can leave for a few weeks.

Yeah, you can. Man gone, gone, gone.

Be with your son gone. Be with your daughter gone.

Go and move to Calgary and come and be like do what you got to

do. And I'll keep hearing it over

there like PT thank you. Done well as a leader because

leave elder John and just be a you don't know you see elder

John today you don't know the pain his families walk through

you just see people you don't see what.

God's been doing. You don't know Annabeth.

You don't know what she's had to overcome.

You don't know she has an amazing reason not to stand on

this platform and lead worship. A legit reason to be afraid to

lead people, A legit reason to not trust the pastor and to see

her prophesying and leading other people and no longer

thinking about herself but still need healing.

But at the same time, her eyes is not on her process.

See, See on. To see my wife to see.

Man, I can go in the town, man. Veronica, Vanessa, man, I can go

all over this room. You ain't been here on the on

the carpet wiping somebody's daughter's head and tears.

You know how many mats and floors my wife and I and the

elders have sat on with people? Somebody's daughter is stricken

by demonic influence. Why y'all go so long?

So somebody can get their daughter back?

You you ever go to surgery? You ever go to the hospital?

You not rushing the doctor to get your child out of surgery?

I'm a a true believer can sit in a service as long as God is

moving but if you don't see him you got to get up out of here.

You don't see him. You can't come an extra day

during the week because you don't see him.

But God's moving in this neighborhood every time we tell

people. Where your church, Wally what?

Enemy wants you to take your eyes off of everything that God

is doing, but I'm telling you, the Spirit of God is moving and

we going to take it. We about to eat, we're going to

fellowship and then there's a group of us that's going to pack

up and go to Vancouver to do what?

Give that city what God gave us when we were in a pit.

You don't get tired when God is really alive.

It is something I couldn't wait to get back from Italy to get in

this room to be with y'all and hear the sound like what do you

hear when worship is happening? Listen to this faith.

Listen to this faith. Listen to this faith.

Play oceans. Listen to the faith in the room

if you got ears to hear and you got an available spirit the

moment we begin, even when the keys playing you can just you

can just sense God moving in people's spirits.

You think God just gives us these lyrics to sing.

No, these songs are birth in earth from heaven just like

Jesus was born in a womb by God. Every time I the song is birthed

it's another same way that Mary got pregnant.

You better learn how to cherish what you carry because there's a

lot of people that's bearing and can't give birth to nothing.

There's some of y'all in here. That's why you shouldn't stand

up and raise your hands. That's why you should get on

your knees because God has impregnated you with a vision, a

dream, a gift. Some of y'all in here got gifts

and you ain't lifted your hand and giving it back to God at

all. Said the angels threw the crowns

at his feet. You know what we do?

We lift our hands. Lord, here's my gifts, here's

love quest, here's my son, here's my daughter, here's my

wife. God, I can't do this without

you. And as much as I'm evangelistic

and I want the loss and I want the babe in Christ to to be

connected, I also understand you got to want God yourself.

You got to want this yourself. Share about smoking.

I share about drinking. I share about some of my

troubles and things my marriage has been through.

Why? To let you know, man, this

salvation you walk I'm walking through is for real.

Like I was deceived. I was blind, my mind was

darkened. I thought my wife was the enemy

and she loved me. Of course, I hope you're ready.

The next wave that's about to hit this house.

We need to stay down long enough for people to find God.

Even in Vancouver, somebody walking by a drunk and walk into

the worship experience. Y'all build different, you build

different, and God is. And I am looking for a remnant

of people that's willing to really pursue him, really chase

him, so that atmospheres can be created, that the lost can find

home. You hear about the fear of God a

lot. The one thing that keeps

striking me is this the spirit of the fear of God, meaning

there's our part, but as we do our part, the Holy Spirit comes

in do a deeper level of the fear of God that we could never touch

without him moving in us. So what I do believe that my job

is our elders job is and this church job is this worship team

job is still be the first people that lead in turning our hearts

completely to God pure hand clean heart cleaning our house

first. But you will see from us moments

where and I don't think we've lacked in them, but moments

where we're just like doing our best to help the house turn

their attention towards God, because this is what happens

when we actually unify and turn our attention.

So they're simple songs like you have my attention, right?

I'm like, God, why would you burst that kind of song?

Like I could see color again in this house Because God is saying

in this house, there's going to be a model home of Sears, like a

model, A model home of a model home for clarity, a model home

for sharpness with the prophetic.

You're not. You're not going to come here

and stay blind if you want to fight for.

Blind You're going, you're going, you're going to have to

go. The scales will fall off a man

and woman's. Eyes.

Why would he? Share the revelation he does

with this House. Why would he?

Give us a song that says when you look in my eyes, seeing Joy

cry, that's not me. That's the heavenly reality that

I'm now taking ownership of my tears.

And it's not merely about what's happening to me.

It's about what's pouring out of me.

My tears are pouring from a Savior.

He, he, if anything, he's grieving.

So my tears is him grieving. But when you look in my eyes,

you see joy cry. When you look in my eyes, I just

feel people's confidence rising. See hope, cry, look in my eyes

you see in faith rise up. I can see color again.

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

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