There Is More | Men of Valor | Prophet Jeremiah Johnson

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This morning we're going to be in Acts chapter 10.

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I'm going to be preaching a message called There is more.

If you have a Bible, if you have an iPhone, we're going to jump

into Acts chapter 10.

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If you don't know me personally.

So good to meet you.

My name is Jeremiah Johnson.

I'm the apostolic leader of the Altar Church, the global movement

in Charlotte, North Carolina, traveling around and just really

extending the kingdom.

I really do believe that this summer.

Can you say this summer?

This summer is a summer of greater encounters.

I'm so grateful for the encounter that I had when I met Jesus

years ago.

But I truly believe that there is fresh oil in the secret place

and every day that we live.

And this morning, we're going to be looking at an encounter that

Peter had in the book of Acts, where the Lord began to take him

from one experience to another.

I'm going to pray for us this morning.

But I just want to make clear that the greatest hindrance to a

next encounter in God is thinking you've already had it.

The greatest hindrance to a next encounter in God is thinking

you've already had it.

You might be like me, you grew up in the church or you've had some

kind of religious experience.

But there is a difference between knowing about God and knowing

God.

There is a difference between quoting scripture but then meeting

the man Jesus, who lives between the lines of Scripture.

A lot of people say, I know the Bible.

My question is, does the Bible know you?

And so we're going to believe this morning here in New Jersey and

all across the V1 family.

Fresh encounters.

Amen.

Father, thank you for this time.

In your word, Holy Spirit, release a spirit of wisdom and revelation

in the knowledge of who you are.

Lord, open up your word to us.

In Jesus name I pray.

Amen.

So Acts 1 through 9, a lot of people are familiar with Acts 2 Pentecost.

Jesus told his disciples to wait into the upper room for the

promise of the Father, where they would receive the baptism of

the Holy Spirit, where they begin to speak in other tongues.

They are leading a New Testament church, a new family of

believers.

And Acts 1 through 9, they've seen the dead raised, they've seen

the lame walk, they have seen Stephen stoned, they have seen Saul

turn to Paul.

A lot of tremendous Holy Spirit activity.

And because Peter walked with Jesus and he's leading, he's kind

of a veteran.

He is the most experienced.

But yet In Acts chapter 10, God is about to challenge him that

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there is more.

So Acts chapter 10, verse 1.

Acts 10:1

There was a certain man at Caesarea named Cornelius, a centurion

of what was called the Italian Cohort.

He was a devout man, one who feared God with all his household

and gave alms to the Jewish people.

He prayed to God continually.

About the ninth hour of the day, he sees in a vision an angel

of God who.

Who comes to him and says, cornelius.

Cornelius gazed at this angel, looking alarmed, and said, what is

it, Lord?

And he said, you, prayers and alms have ascended as a memorial

before God.

Now dispatch some men to Joppa and send for a man named Simon, who

is also called Peter.

He's staying with a certain tanner named Simon, whose house is

by the sea.

And when an angel who was speaking to him had departed, he

summoned to his servants, and I'm going to paraphrase here for

a minute, but Cornelius sends his servants to go meet Peter.

And when they find Peter, he's up on a rooftop and he's praying.

And in verse 10, it says that Peter becomes hungry.

He wants something to eat.

While he's desiring something to eat, he falls into a trance, or

we might say, a vision.

And in this vision, he sees the sky opened up, and he sees a

white sheet come down.

And on the sheet there are four footed creatures and animals

and birds of the sky.

And in verse 13, he hears a voice that says, arise, Peter.

Kill and eat Peter.

And Peter's response, he doesn't say something like, yes,

Lord, I already knew that was coming.

I've been around the block.

I followed Jesus.

In verse 13, he says, Never, Lord.

I have never eaten anything unclean.

And he hears a voice speak to him three times.

It's important that we recognize the last time Peter was

in an upper room, it was Acts 2.

And in Acts 2, he sees tongues of fire.

But now in Acts 10, when he's in another upper room encounter,

he doesn't see tongues of fire.

He sees a white sheet.

And my point is this.

Too often we miss what God is doing today because we want a repeat

performance of.

Of what he did yesterday.

I believe that Peter is struggling with a fresh invitation

for a new encounter with God because he is more focused on what's

familiar rather than on what's fresh.

And I believe this summer at V1 Church, and really all across

the earth, that God is inviting people into next level encounters.

We might have experienced him and beheld him in a certain way,

but we are in a new era in the church where no one is safe from

the love of God.

As much as I desire to See God move corporately.

I want to see him move in the marketplace as much as I believe

God for a move of God.

When we get together at church, I want to see God take crack

houses and send revival there.

Right?

I want to see school systems.

I want to see the government.

I want to see every sphere of society invaded for a next level

encounter.

And I'm so grateful for the Sunday gathering.

We need more Sunday gatherings.

But if what happens here doesn't translate to Monday to Saturday,

we're just having a pep rally.

We're just having good church.

And for some of you this morning, you need a paradigm shift.

Peter needs a paradigm shift.

He needs a new way to think.

He needs a new understanding concerning the kingdom of God.

And for so long, for so many people who grew up in church, we

have this routine down, but yet our marriage is struggling.

We go through the motions playing church, but yet we don't

have a fresh fire on the altars of our hearts.

So there's a fresh encounter that God has for Peter.

I believe that there's a fresh encounter for those of us who are

here in New Jersey, in Miami, in India, and all across the earth.

And one of the things that's just been stirring in my heart is

listen.

If God would come to Peter, a revival veteran, a man who had been

with Jesus, a man who had seen it all, if God would still come and

knock on his door in Acts 10 and say, There is more, surely there's

none of us who are so prideful to believe that we own the street

corner on revival.

Surely there's none of us that are so prideful to think, well, I've

seen it all.

I've heard it all.

I know it all.

No, this is a season where ears haven't heard and eyes haven't

seen.

Our minds have not conceived what God has for those who love him

and listen.

This is where the breaker comes in.

Because the breaker comes.

The anointing, Anointing of the Holy Spirit comes and it breaks

the yoke.

The resistance that we feel in the atmosphere this morning, it's

religion.

The.

The resistance that we feel is.

It's routine.

It's going through the motions.

It's quoting scripture, but the scripture doesn't have hold of

you.

It's saying, I went to church.

But apparently church didn't follow you to the club on Friday

night, right?

We're talking about lifestyle, Christianity.

We're talking about inviting the Holy Spirit into every sphere

of our lives.

We're talking about what you see is what you get.

God is driving hypocrisy out of the church today.

He's ripping off the mass.

He's the same God as yesterday, today and forever.

He's the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

He's the God of New Jersey.

He's the God of New York.

He's the God of every city in America.

And he is knocking on the doors of hearts today saying, will

you let me in?

Will you let me confront your pride?

Will you let me break through your religious routine?

And I know for me, one of the ways I can measure religiosity is

when's the last time I've cried?

Do you know that fresh tears and prayer and worship are an indicator

of a soft heart toward God?

When's the last time we just broke out of the box?

When's the last time we forgave someone who wronged us?

People are like, well, well, what is it?

Well, anger and bitterness and unforgiveness.

These are the things that grieve and quench the Holy Spirit.

For some of us, this fresh encounter this summer is forgiving

our enemies.

For some of us this summer, my wife and I, we have three girls and

a boy.

Obviously they're out of school routines and things.

We're saying, you know what?

This summer we're going to have a family worship night every

week.

I've got one daughter who's flagging.

I got one daughter who's on the piano.

I got my boy Israel on the gym bay.

We're worshiping, we're praying, we're breaking it open.

But guess what?

The same family who stewards something privately at home is the

same family who shows up on Sunday because there's fresh encounters

that God has for.

For us.

When you look at this encounter that Peter has for more,

he's seeing tongues of fire.

Now he's seeing a white sheet come down.

And there are four footed creatures and there are animals.

And what God is trying to say to Peter theologically here is that

the gospel is not just for the Jew.

The gospel is for the Gentile.

God is inviting Peter.

So far, Acts 1 through 9, God is bringing his spirit to the Jews.

But in Acts 10, something is breaking open these four footed creatures.

And the animals, in the Jewish tradition, they were kosher, meaning

they did not eat anything that's unclean.

And I want you to hear me.

And I want you to hear me good.

God could have chosen and any instrument to introduce them to the

more.

But what God chooses to break them into their next is called offense.

I want to tell you this morning.

That offense is the door to the more we've got to ask ourselves

this morning where or what are the white sheets in our lives?

What are those things that are off limits to God?

A lot of times again, people we can give, we can share our faith,

but we won't give our money to God.

Some people love to give their money to God, but they can't remember

the last time they shared their faith with an unbeliever.

So if we're going to believe God for next level encounters, we've

got to begin to say, Lord, where are our never lords?

Where are our white sheets?

Where are those things that offend us?

I'm just going to be honest with you.

A lot of times the very people that God has used to break me into

my next did not come in my preferred package did not come.

So many people are crying out for revival but they have a do not

disturb sign on the door of their heart.

Well, Lord, I'd really like you to come but I'm going to determine

when you come, how you come and where you come.

That ain't God.

It's time to recognize.

We're the potter, he's sorry.

We're the clay and he's the potter.

And when we pray, pray for next level encounters, we've just

got to be ready for any time anywhere.

I remember being in a season where it was like Lord, I'm hungry

for more.

The Lord brought a woman in my life.

He brought an Esther.

He brought wow.

I'd like to hear a man.

Do you want more of God or not?

Do you want a move of God?

Well, I don't like what they wear.

I don't like their ethnicity.

I don't like God doesn't care about what we like.

God is concerned with conforming us into the image and

likeness of Jesus.

And I believe I'm Talking to the V1 family who's hungry for more.

I believe I'm talking to some people in this place who are ready

to be disciples of Jesus Christ.

I'm talking to blood bought, sold out.

I'm talking to holy ghost filled people.

I'm talking about people who are ready to cast the devil out of

people.

I'm talking to people who are ready.

Who's ready to see the dead raised.

Who's ready to see the lame walk.

Listen, I haven't seen it yet, but I believe there's more.

I haven't seen it yet but I'm willing to contend and and believe

for a move of God.

Somebody give Jesus praise I'm telling you, something's breaking

this summer.

Something's opening up this summer.

One of my favorite stories comes Azusa Street.

God is always taking people deeper.

You have a man named William Seymour.

He was an African American preacher.

William Seymour believed his Bible.

He believed in giving your life to Jesus, but he believed in

the baptism of the Holy Spirit with evidence in tongues.

William Seymour is preaching it, but he hasn't yet received it.

You know how many people, oh, I won't preach on miracles because

I haven't got my miracle yet.

Sometimes it's you believing by faith in what the Bible says,

and sometimes it's someone else getting their miracle before

you get your miracle.

William Seymour is preaching on the baptism of the Holy Spirit

with tongues.

He hasn't received it yet, but he gets word, hey, there's this guy

named Charles Parham.

He's in another state.

He preaches on the baptism, and he's got it.

William Seymour is hungry.

He knows there's a next encounter that God has for him.

So he makes his way to the meeting where Charles Parham, a white

brother, is preaching.

And William Seymour knocks on the door and says, hey, I'm here

for the baptism.

You know what they say to him?

You can't come in because you're black.

He's met by a spirit of racism.

He's met by offense.

He's met with disappointment.

He's met with a good reason to just walk away and say, no, thanks.

But I want to tell you this morning, hunger looks like something.

Can you turn to your neighbor real quick and say, hunger looks

like something in Miami and Indiana and Long Island.

Hunger looks like something Brooklyn.

William Seymour, hungry for a next level encounter.

Listen to what he says to some stupid remark about his ethnicity.

He says, that's okay, I'll sit outside and listen.

See, there was a hunger.

There was a desire for more of Jesus that was willing to overlook

offense.

He sits outside and receives the baptism.

I'm telling you folks, but.

But yes, you're justified in your pain.

But some of us have to recognize our ability to press into.

The more our ability to be unaffected, offendable, the more

that God wants to pour out.

It's more than for just us.

It's for our children and our children's children.

It's for generational legacy.

It's about Grandpa, the Baptist preacher who's praying in

his house one day, and all of a sudden his English, something comes

out like Shandara Bosnia.

And he's like, what was that?

All of a sudden, Grandpa, Baptist preacher Who theologically

has been taught that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are no longer

for Today.

He's caught the baptism, but he has a choice.

He's about to be persecuted by the brethren.

He's about to be kicked out by the elder because he has an experience

with God that they don't have a system for.

But if Grandpa were persevere, if Grandpa will press into the next,

all of a sudden his children and his children's children, he's

got a generational legacy of the things of God because he was

not willing to quit.

I feel a no quit anointing this morning.

I feel a spirit of perseverance this morning.

I feel like the Lord is saying to some of you, you press through

that persecution.

I'm about to give you new friends.

I'm about to send you into spaces and places that don't feel

normal.

But I'm preparing you for your next.

Oh, I want to be unoffendable.

Oh, Lord, please send a move of God to our city.

What happens if he sends it to another church?

Are we humble enough to go visit and say, lord, I just want

some so I can take it back where I go?

Oh, Lord, we accuse, we persecute.

Folks, think about this.

Let me hit you with a different paradigm.

Think about Cornelius.

Cornelius is not a believer.

If you think about all the phenomenal activity in the early

church, God goes to a Roman centurion.

I want you to think Hollywood.

I want you to think about celebrity.

I want you to fill in the blank.

Whoever it is that I can throw out some names, but I might offend

you.

Who cares?

I don't know who it is.

Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Kanye, whoever your people are, God goes

outside of the church and knocks on the door of Cornelius house

and says, there is more.

God says, cornelius, send the boys to Peter's house because Peter

should know what's up.

Folks, what if God is doing something in America, in Hollywood?

What if God is doing something outside the church?

And these people are about to knock on our doors.

They're about to say, will you let me in?

I've had an encounter, I had a dream, I've had a revelation.

And oh, gosh, let them not find a people bound in routine.

Let them not find a Luke people.

Folks, we lukewarm people.

Folks, we need people who are having fresh next level encounters

in the world.

We need them to come into the house of God.

And we don't need them to come into fresh frozen chosen assembly

with Pastor Frigidaire.

No, we need them to come Into a church on fire.

We need them to come into V1 church, a remnant church.

We need them to come into V1 New Jersey.

A church that's not playing games.

A church that has A church that has oil in their lamps.

Do you have oil in your lamp this morning or are you playing religious

games?

The earth is shaking.

You looking like I'm.

I am crazy.

The earth is shaking.

People are confused.

People are suicidal.

People are drugging out.

And they're just walking into church meeting a of bunch.

Bunch of bored, dry, stale Christians who don't even believe

the gospel they claim to live.

And I'm just here to declare.

Not on my watch.

Not on my watch in Charlotte, North Carolina, and as a brother

and friend of this house, I've just come along alongside of Apostle

Mike.

And I'm just here to declare over V1.

Not on our watch.

This will be a place that has fresh oil.

This will be a place of New Testament Christianity.

This will be a place of true discipleship.

This will be a place where.

Man, you can make fun of my dance, but you don't know my deliverance.

This will be a place where we're peculiar.

This will be a place where we're a little rowdy, but what you

see is what you get.

We don't do hypocrisy here.

We don't do lukewarm Christianity here.

We thank you for the mercy.

We thank you for the grace of Jesus Christ.

But the grace of God did not leave the prodigal in the pig slop.

The grace of God came and delivered that prodigal out of his

pig slop.

I feel a spirit of deliverance here today.

Some of you need to get delivered.

You need to get set free.

You need to answer the call to the gospel before it's too late.

This is the hour to arise and shine in America.

This is not an hour to run and hide.

God did not deliver you from drugs so that you can sit in the

back pew and rot in church.

God delivered you from drugs so that you could go back to that

street where you were once addicted, where you were once bound.

God's called you as a holy ghost deliverer.

It's time to step into it.

It's time to get hungry again.

I said it's time to get hungry again.

I'm hungry.

I'm hungry.

I'm hungry for a fresh move of God.

I'm hungry for a city to be turned upside down.

I reject.

Oh, it's a summer vacation.

Oh, it's a summer.

Oh, I'm just gonna play around and wonder why I got someone pregnant.

Oh, I'm just gonna.

Oh, how did that happen?

You must be sober.

You must be vigilant.

You must be on the alert.

I'm not gonna date a Delilah.

I'm not gonna hang out with a Jezebel.

We need a re.

We need a revelation of kingdom relationships.

Well, I just hope they're saved.

It's just like now the standard for who we're gonna date

and who we're gonna marry is just a.

I hope they're saved.

Can I just implore you?

Can I exhort you to find somebody who's not just saved, who

doesn't just have one foot in the world and one foot.

Stop trying to find a spouse at church.

Find them in the prayer meeting.

I want to encourage you to find someone who's not just born

again.

Find someone who's Holy Ghost filled.

Find someone who knows how to pray.

Find someone who wakes up early because I promise you, when

that baby starts crying in the middle of the night, I promise you

when bills are due and you've got no money, you need someone who's

more than saved.

You need someone who's encountered the Holy Ghost.

You need someone who will pace the floors of the living room and

pray in the Holy Ghost and call forth provision.

You need someone who has dominion over their flesh, who refuses

to look at pornography, who says, I'm a man or woman of covenant.

I will not do compromise.

For all of you people who are way too serious this morning, by

the way, if they're Holy Ghost filled and speaking in tongues, they'll

be a better kisser.

You like me a little bit better now, folks?

Some of you.

There's a spirit of agitation here.

You're like, what's going on?

The demons are mad.

The compromise is being exposed.

Shallow Christianity will not last in the hour that we're entering

into.

In America, I'm telling you, V1 church is called as a flashpoint

in America.

V1 church is called to be a church of encounter where when people

enter into our meetings, they don't even know what hit them.

All they can say is, Jesus.

I came in here one way, I left a different way.

I didn't just pray a prayer.

Jesus came and made himself a home inside of me.

I didn't just get saved.

I got filled with the Holy Ghost.

I didn't just get filled with the Holy Ghost.

I learned how to cast demons out of people.

I didn't just keep coming back for deliverance after deliverance.

I learned how to get discipled.

Because not everything is a demon.

You need to learn how to get discipled.

And when you learn how to get discipled, you enter into dominion,

baby.

I'm talking about deliverance.

I'm talking about discipleship, and then I'm talking

about dominion.

We need a people in New Jersey who have learned how to take authority

over the evil one, who have said, lord, I'm so grateful for what

you've done, but I'm hungry for more.

There's a gift of provocation here this morning.

Holy provoking.

God is provoking you beyond complacency and apathy.

God is calling you out of the shallows.

God is calling you, calling you out of the shadows.

I'm telling you, the devil is shaking in his boots.

God.

The devil is not afraid of people who go to church.

The devil is afraid of people who have learned how to live in Christ.

Peter goes to Cornelius House.

He recognizes the gospel is not just for the Jews.

The gospel's for the Gentiles.

You and I today, unless you're Jewish, you and I today are saved

because of Peter's yes.

I want to close this morning by just laying it out there for you.

What I sense in my heart is that the Lord is desiring a friend.

Fresh yes on the altar of our hearts.

But we must recognize that our yes to more of Jesus.

For some of you, you need to give your life to Jesus.

You need to stop playing games.

If you were to die tonight and you're not sure where you would spend

eternity, I want to encourage you today to surrender your life,

life to Jesus, to put your faith in him.

But there's something in the atmosphere today.

I sense it over all the campuses.

This yes is about more than a personal yes.

Cornelius and his entire household was saved.

We're going to see household salvations.

We're to going.

We're going to ha.

Feel it.

We're going to see entire workplaces invaded by the Holy Ghost.

We're going to see believers step out in faith to break.

Listen, I know sometimes we're stuck in sin and we need to.

But sometimes we're stuck in routine.

We're stuck in the motions.

We're stuck in playing church.

And the Lord loves us too much to leave us the way that he found

us.

God is so kind and so good that he knocks and he knocks.

The question this morning is, will you answer?

Will you answer?

Will you rsvp?

Would you bow your heads with me in here in Miami and Indiana,

all across, Lord Jesus, you have been.

Mightily in our midst this morning.

Your Holy Spirit has been touching and moving and stirring

us.

I want to pray for two groups of people.

One, you don't really know Jesus.

You know about him, but you don't really know him.

Your lifestyle, your choices are in direct opposition to what

you know surrender to Jesus looks like, but you to sense the

mercy of God.

The grace of God inviting you to trust in Jesus to make sure that

your eternity is secure.

There's anyone here that.

That wants to respond to being born again.

Maybe you've been away from the Lord.

You need to rededicate your life.

That that's you.

Just want you to raise your hand.

Thank you.

Who else?

Thank you.

Thank you.

All of heaven is rejoicing.

Thank you.

Greatest miracle of all.

Who else?

Thank you.

All over the campuses, God is moving.

The Holy Spirit's knocking on the door saying shut that door to

sin.

Delete that phone number.

End that relationship.

I'm moving this summer.

I'm inviting you this summer.

If you've raised your hand, want to encourage you right where

you're at to understand that all, all of us fall short of the

glory of God.

Bible says the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal

life.

Confess your sins to Jesus this morning.

Turn away from them.

Put your faith in God.

Believe that he died a sinner's death.

He took the payment for your sins.

Death, hell and the grave couldn't hold him.

Three days later, he rose from the dead so that you and I could

have newness of life encourage you today.

Receive newness of life.

Make a commitment to Jesus and begin your discipleship journey.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Holy Spirit.

Thank you, Holy Spirit.

I take authority over every spirit that's not of the Holy Spirit.

I command every unclean spirit to be broken off of your life.

Addiction be gone.

Generational curses be broken in Jesus name.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

That last group, if you're here, you're born again.

There's something that's been stirred in you today that said, man,

I want fresh fire.

I want.

I want more than emotionalism.

I want more than a parade.

I want the real thing.

If that's you, just raise your hand.

I'm raising it with you.

I'm preaching to myself.

God, we say, here we are this summer.

Here we are as V1 church.

Here we are in Miami, Indiana, Long Island.

Lord, we're here in Brooklyn.

We're here in New Jersey saying more, Lord, all over this

room.

Can you just say two words more, Lord?

Lord, I pray for fresh baptisms in the Holy Spirit.

Lord, I pray that you would open up people's mouths and that

you would begin to baptize them in the Holy Spirit and fire.

Lord, I pray for harvest of souls.

Lord, we are ready to be your laborers.

We are hungry to see you move in every sphere of spirit society.

Lord, we pray for household salvation.

Bring the prodigals in.

Restore marriages.

Do what only you can do.

Holy Spirit, in Jesus name.

If you're in agreement with what God is doing and what he's about

to do this summer and beyond, I want you to give Jesus the biggest

round of applause you can.

Come on.

We can do better than that.

Come on.

Hallelujah.

Who the sun sets free is free indeed.

Sam.