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Build It & Fight For It | Pastor Ryan Marshall

First Apostolic Church

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  1. Thank you, Sir. Clap your hands, all ye people,

  2. and shout with the voice of triumph.

  3. The beautiful thing about that is whenever you shout with the

  4. voice of triumph, you have already won whatever you're

  5. going through, you don't have to question.

  6. You don't have to ask because God is still on the throne back

  7. home in. Bloomington, We had two words

  8. that we say very often. Those two words are.

  9. Simple but I. Want you all to hear me tonight.

  10. God can. Come on, somebody.

  11. I don't care what you're up against today.

  12. I don't care how dark tomorrow may look for you.

  13. My God can whatever it is that you need from Jesus, whether we

  14. get into the word of God tonight or not, I want to see the Holy

  15. Ghost move in the house. I want to see God come down and

  16. touch somebody. So at any point.

  17. In this service, I've been here before, you all already know.

  18. I am the most. Unorthodox person and this altar

  19. is open right now. We don't have to wait on some

  20. fancy song. Y'all got it going.

  21. On Brother Mason's up here tearing it up.

  22. But if you feel at any point whether the piano's playing

  23. softly in the background, whether we get somebody on the

  24. organ where I can get a little bit of soul coming out that I

  25. don't have, but I've always wanted it.

  26. But if God moves up on you this evening, I'm asking you right

  27. now that you would come. You need a healing in your body,

  28. Come on. You need a healing in your

  29. finances come on. You need a touch in your mind

  30. come and get it. God is in the house.

  31. Before the doors ever opened up, God showed up and God was here.

  32. So anything you want from. Him just ask it in his name.

  33. I want to give honor. To the McGee family, Bishop

  34. McGee, brother McGee, sister McGee to to the Masons man y'all

  35. are awesome. Thank you so much for allowing

  36. us to be here this evening. Please excuse my wife's absence.

  37. She's a lot nicer and a whole lot better looking than I am,

  38. but she stayed back in Bloomington so that she could be

  39. be there for the one year anniversary.

  40. Mr. Cameraman, I apologize in advance.

  41. You're going to feel like you're playing Pac-Man tonight with

  42. that joystick. Good deal, good deal.

  43. Pastor Corey's our cameraman back home and he's just like, I

  44. mean, you, you never know, just throw the thing it down and

  45. you'll catch me somewhere. But thank you all for coming

  46. here tonight. We're we're going to pray and

  47. we're going to dive in because I feel like God's going to do

  48. something tonight. Are you ready?

  49. Are you ready to see what God has in store tonight?

  50. I am Jesus, we. Thank you, Lord.

  51. For this opportunity. God, I lose direction right now

  52. in every mind. In this House.

  53. Lord, that you would. Lead and.

  54. Guide our thoughts, Lord, to a missionary in need today.

  55. God that you would give us a number.

  56. God that you would want us to give this year, God that you let

  57. us God give exceeding and abundant, Lord, and those that

  58. have to give, Lord, I pray Lord, that you would open up the

  59. windows of heaven, O Lord, and and just pour out a blessing

  60. upon them, Lord. That they can't sustain.

  61. God, I lose revelation, I lose knowledge, I lose conviction in

  62. this service right now, I take authority over every doubt and

  63. every fear in this place and I bind them and I rebuke them in

  64. Jesus name. God we want.

  65. To hear from you, we pray, we bless you, and we honor you in

  66. the mighty name of Jesus, Amen. As we go to.

  67. Jude chapter 4. As we go to Jude verse #3.

  68. The word of God says beloved. When I gave all diligence to

  69. write unto you of the common salvation.

  70. It was needful. For me to write unto you and

  71. exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith

  72. which was once delivered unto the Saints.

  73. Y'all probably want to sit down now, don't you?

  74. Have at it. Have a seat.

  75. Thank you for this opportunity, brother and Sister McGee, for

  76. allowing me to be here with you tonight.

  77. It's an honor and a blessing to to come in here, man.

  78. Y'all have done some work in here since last time I was here.

  79. It's looking nice. Looking very nice.

  80. Last time I was here I was a missionary to Papua New Guinea.

  81. And I tell you what that people's like.

  82. Well, or what did? What was it that brought you

  83. back? It's classified, but God still

  84. has a plan. And people think that to be a

  85. missionary, you got to go 8500 miles away from home.

  86. You got to talk to people that don't speak your language, and

  87. you got to share the word way over there.

  88. But I'm here to tell somebody today, your mission feels right

  89. here. You can go outside these doors

  90. right now and talk to somebody about Jesus, because souls is

  91. where it's at that we're. We're not worried about where we

  92. are. We're worried about spreading

  93. the gospel of who we serve. And we live in a time where the

  94. foundations of the faith are under attack.

  95. We live in a time when the walls of spiritual fortitude, they

  96. seem to be crumbling down all around us.

  97. So when when we look. Around we may be growing weary,

  98. just like back in the days of Nehemiah.

  99. Tonight, he. God is calling this church to

  100. rise up tonight, to stand firm on the faith and to contend.

  101. For the faith. To contend means to to fight to

  102. go out with. Everything you have you.

  103. Contend for a title. You go out and you don't drag

  104. your feet. You don't wonder what's going to

  105. happen. You come out of the.

  106. Gate swinging. You come out ready, Jude writes

  107. to the believers in urgency tonight, encouraging them to

  108. fight for the faith. And the enemy has always tried,

  109. and he will continue to try to break down what God has

  110. established, whether it's in the physical city or in the

  111. spiritual realm of His people. I'm here to tell somebody I'm

  112. ready to fight. Whether it be in Illinois,

  113. Indiana, or Papua New Guinea, I'm ready to come out of the

  114. gate swinging. I'm ready to take this out to

  115. wherever it needs to go. I'm ready to fight for another

  116. soul. I'm ready to see somebody

  117. tonight come and repent, be baptized in Jesus name, pray

  118. through to the Holy Ghost. I'm ready to see God move.

  119. I'm ready to get back to that old Pentecostal feeling, that

  120. feeling that we had just a few minutes ago, where the Holy

  121. Ghost comes in. We don't need a song.

  122. We don't need a rhythm, we don't need a beat.

  123. We need the Holy Ghost back in the church.

  124. Come on, somebody, it's all right.

  125. I long for the day. God is the same yesterday, today

  126. and forever 20 years. Ago you could walk.

  127. Up to somebody, say praise the Lord.

  128. Hiko Robosata and the Holy Ghost would start to fall.

  129. Now you go up and you say praise the Lord and they fold their

  130. arms and don't know what to do. I'm ready to see Jesus in 2026.

  131. I'm ready to see the Holy Ghost poured out right here, right

  132. here on the Indiana line, right here where God is still moving.

  133. God is still changing some lives.

  134. Just like in the. Amiah verse chapter 4 verses 12

  135. through. 20 It says, And it came to pass, that when the Jews

  136. which dwelt by them came and said unto us 10 times from all

  137. places. When she shall return?

  138. Unto us they will be upon you therefore.

  139. I said in the lower places, behind the wall and on the

  140. higher places, I even said the people after their families,

  141. with their swords, with their Spears, with their bows, and I

  142. looked and I rose up. And I said.

  143. Unto the nobles, and unto the rulers, and other the rest of

  144. the. People, don't you be afraid, be

  145. not afraid of them. Remember the Lord, which is

  146. great and terrible in the fight of your brethren, your sons, and

  147. your daughters, and your wives, and your houses.

  148. And it came to pass when our enemies heard when your enemies

  149. here. The goodness of God, when your

  150. enemies here that you have prayed through, when your

  151. enemies here, what's going on in your life?

  152. All of hell trembles. And when our enemies heard it,

  153. they was known unto us, and. God had brought.

  154. Counsel to naughty. That return we returned, all of

  155. us to the wall. And everyone to his work and it

  156. came to pass that. From that time forth that half

  157. of my servants brought the work and the other half of them held

  158. both the Spears. Come on, somebody want to grab a

  159. spear tonight? And the Bows and the Haberons

  160. and the rulers were behind all of the House of Judah.

  161. They which? Binded the wall and.

  162. They that bear. Burdens with those that laid in

  163. everyone with his. One of his hands wrought to the

  164. work, and the other held the weapon for the builders.

  165. Everyone had his sword girded by his side, and he builded, and he

  166. that sounded the trumpet was by me.

  167. And I said. Under the nobles and under the

  168. rulers, and to the rest of the people, the the work is great

  169. and the work is large. Ain't nothing too big for my

  170. God. And we are separated upon the

  171. wall, one far from another. And in what place therefore hear

  172. the sound of the trumpet. Resort ye tether to us.

  173. What's that last? Sign say line say.

  174. Somebody or God shall fight for us.

  175. It shows us that the battle of rebuilding, no matter whether it

  176. be here or overseas, no matter whether it be your next door

  177. neighbor or whether it be Brother Edmunds that we prayed

  178. for just a couple of minutes ago.

  179. Whether it be Ryan Marshall in Bloomington, IN, or whether it

  180. be Israel Garza down in Florida. It doesn't matter where it is.

  181. God is fighting for us. God has got us and God shows us

  182. that the true battle of rebuilding is where one handheld

  183. a tool and the other held a weapon.

  184. And as they built, they were ready to fight.

  185. As the church grew, Pastor McGee, as the souls began to

  186. flood in out of the years that we had poured into this city, I

  187. feel a little something I don't know about you.

  188. But as we go out in the van one more time, as we pass out

  189. another track, as we witness to one more soul, we get tired, we

  190. get weary. We look at the the church bank

  191. account. We say, Oh my goodness.

  192. Put that last line. God.

  193. Shall fight for us. We don't have to worry, we don't

  194. have to fret. All we have to do is know that

  195. God has called us, God has placed us.

  196. And when the enemy tries to bring fear, pick up the weapon,

  197. be ready to fight. It doesn't matter what he may

  198. throw at you. My God is greater.

  199. The enemy tries to lock us up and he tries to stop us.

  200. But if God calls you. To it.

  201. Come on, somebody, if God tells you to start building, you don't

  202. have to ask where the money's coming from.

  203. You don't have to ask where the stuff's coming from.

  204. You don't have to say we've only got 20 or 30.

  205. You just have to say give me the trow and give me the sword and

  206. send me out because I'm ready to build and I'm ready to fight.

  207. The enemy's going to. Try to stop you from what God

  208. has called you to do. He's going to try to discourage

  209. you from what God has called you to do.

  210. But you need to hear the voice of the Lord through Nehemiah

  211. tonight. Be not afraid of them.

  212. Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, He's going

  213. to fight your brethren. He's going to fight for your

  214. sons, for your daughters. I'm not an Alex Mason.

  215. If I. Was I'll be singing this sermon.

  216. I'll tell you what may his favor.

  217. Be upon you in 1000 generations in their families and their

  218. children and your children and their children going to fight

  219. for you. He's fighting for your sons.

  220. We all know a backslider. He's fighting for them.

  221. We all know a prodigal. He's fighting for them.

  222. We got to consent for this faith.

  223. What faith? Shema Israel, Adonai Elohimu

  224. Adonai, he God hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is 1 Lord.

  225. There's one Lord, 1 faith, one baptism, one God and Father of

  226. all, who is above all, through all, and in you all.

  227. And behold, I was in this, and there was a throne setting in

  228. heaven, and one sat on the throne.

  229. We got to earnestly contend. We live in a world where

  230. anything goes. We live in a world where you can

  231. live however you want and still. Be saved.

  232. Except a man be born of the water and of the Spirit, he

  233. cannot somebody say, cannot, he cannot enter the Kingdom of God.

  234. God is 1. And we church, come on, it

  235. doesn't matter if your banner is FAC Shiloh, Blackwell, FAC

  236. Maryville. I don't care what banner you

  237. fly. We got to stand as one today.

  238. I don't care if you're holding an ALJC card in your pocket.

  239. I don't care if it's WPFPAWUPCI could care less.

  240. We got to stand as one. We got to share the gospel of

  241. the one. We got to make sure the whole

  242. world knows. We got to build it, we got to

  243. fight for it because in order for us to rebuild the wall.

  244. In 2026. Pastor McGee can't do it by

  245. himself. He's an awesome.

  246. Man. Sister McGee can't carry the

  247. weight on her own. The assistant pastor can't get

  248. behind him, and he can't just be them.

  249. Come on, somebody. I'm getting in close.

  250. I hope that's OK. I hope it's all right.

  251. I'm coming in a little where you're at right now.

  252. But it's not one man. It's not one family.

  253. It's a congregation of people united under the command of God.

  254. And today, as we rebuild the spiritual walls in this place,

  255. we got to stand united, lifting up one another and pressing

  256. forward together in faith. Pikorobosiahara Shatai X,

  257. chapter 2, verses 37 through. 39 We could quote it now when they

  258. heard this. They were.

  259. Pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the

  260. apostles, men and brethren. What shall we do?

  261. Then Peter. God love Peter, poor guy.

  262. He gets a bad rap. He was bold.

  263. They asked me to be in a play one time.

  264. Guess who I got? Brother Marshall.

  265. You be a good Peter. Thanks, I think.

  266. But I like to think on that day when that boldness rests upon

  267. me. Then Peter said unto them.

  268. Repent and be baptized, everyone of you, in the name of Jesus

  269. Christ. For the remission or the washing

  270. away of your sins. And then maybe if I feel like

  271. it. You'll get the Holy Ghost.

  272. Ye shall receive the gift. It's a gift.

  273. Come on, somebody. You don't have to beg.

  274. You don't have to bargain. You just got to say God give.

  275. Come on, come on, come on, give it to me.

  276. I'm ready. Give it to me.

  277. And the beautiful thing is, it's a promise unto you, unto your

  278. children. All that are far off, even as

  279. many as. The Lord our God shall call.

  280. Here's where we see Peter laying out the.

  281. Spiritual Foundation of restoration.

  282. Repentance in the only name, the only name under heaven.

  283. Come on, whereby we must be saved, where we're filled with

  284. the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues.

  285. We don't teach you how to do it. God just pours it out.

  286. You ever been in that place where you feel like you got to

  287. beg God for stuff? God, if you if you do this, I

  288. won't eat another cheeseburger. Oh God, if you do this man.

  289. I will. I'll fast.

  290. For the next 8 days. And then you leave the.

  291. Church and you go eat a cheeseburger on fast day.

  292. But but we come to the altar and we've got to this place.

  293. I'm not saying don't get down on your knees and pray so we get in

  294. this place where we like, bury our face in the altar.

  295. I'm trying to give you a gift. You start acting that way.

  296. I'm going to somebody else. I'll give them the gift.

  297. I don't know who needs to hear this, but when you come for

  298. something from Jesus, don't beg him.

  299. Don't bargain with him. Be like the Prophet.

  300. Isaiah, here am I. Here am I.

  301. That's the key to revival. Here am I.

  302. Which will spark a fresh revival in this church.

  303. We can't. Rebuild on a broken foundation.

  304. We can't build on strife. And division we.

  305. Have to return to that Apostolic doctrine, to that power of

  306. Pentecost. Come on, somebody.

  307. If we go to Mark chapter 16 verses 17 and 18, it says and

    Mark 16:17

  308. these signs people ask me, they're like man.

  309. If they. They've not been baptized,

  310. right? How?

  311. Can they do these things well? They that believe in not their

  312. own power, but in my name, they're going to.

  313. Cast out devils. They're going to speak with new

  314. tongues. They're going to take up

  315. serpents. Don't you be.

  316. Bringing out no box. Spiritual serpents, we ain't

  317. that far South y'all. Sorry, Lord.

  318. I told you, Brother Mason, I won't stay in my notes.

  319. And they'll drink any deadly thing and it shall not hurt

  320. them. They'll lay hands on the sick.

  321. Is anybody here sick? Today?

  322. I got some crazy faith. I'm going to share a story with

  323. you all. We was in Papua New Guinea, a

  324. little place in the South Pacific.

  325. We lived there for five years. Man, I seen God do some stuff.

  326. I'll tell you what. I've seen him do stuff that that

  327. you talk about. And he was like, yeah, right.

  328. So here's a yeah right story. We're laying in bed one night.

  329. You hear gunshots going off. It's such a peaceful place.

  330. But you hear these gunshots going off on the distance and

  331. you hear them tearing the the metal off of a building.

  332. You hear stones being thrown. You hear all of these people

  333. screaming and crying out. You see these flames in the

  334. distance painting a very beautiful picture of Papua New

  335. Guinea. It's not that bad maybe today.

  336. But whenever we heard that, I went outside and I was that guy

  337. when I was in the mission field, I wanted y'all to know what was

  338. going on. So it's like 1 in the morning

  339. over there. I'm going live on Facebook.

  340. I'm that guy. I, I guess I'm the, I'm the 2022

  341. Karen. You know, I got my phone out and

  342. I'm like. Hey guys, here I.

  343. Am in the middle of this fight, hopefully I don't get shot but I

  344. want you to see. What's going on?

  345. So. So here I am.

  346. Letting everybody know what's going on.

  347. And we're standing out there for like an hour and a half and two

  348. men come to the gate and they said, missionary, we need you.

  349. So I ended the live feed not thinking, you know, that

  350. everybody back in America is watching this live feed.

  351. I'm telling them I may die. And then I was like.

  352. So now my mom's calling, I've got people calling.

  353. Texting are you OK? Are you alive?

  354. It's like, I don't know, just give me.

  355. No so so. Here I am and these two men,

  356. they come up and they said, missionary, we need you.

  357. Our friend is hurt. I'm like, do you go out in the

  358. middle of a tribal fight? Because God gives us wisdom, But

  359. God gave this dude up here with a microphone right now some

  360. crazy faith. So I stood there and we had our,

  361. our assistant with us and, and he said, missionary, you don't

  362. need to go. And I was like, that's not

  363. really what the Holy Ghost is telling me right now.

  364. So let's unlock the gate. We're going to go for a little

  365. ride and we get down to this hurt guy.

  366. Dude's dead. Pretty big faith killer.

  367. Wow, well, you're injured friend is he's not hurting anymore.

  368. I mean, he's you know, he's so we're laying there and someone

  369. had almost they they had cut his artery with a with a Bush knife,

  370. which is it's a machete. Guys laid there.

  371. He's he's bled out. He's laying in the side of the

  372. road. And it's like, well, they told

  373. me and they're expecting God to do something and they're a bunch

  374. of mad people with guns and knives.

  375. So I better do something while I'm over here.

  376. So I was like, Lord, these people came to us expecting you

  377. to perform a miracle. I said, I need you to do

  378. something here. And it was a pretty half hearted

  379. prayer. I mean, if you've ever laid

  380. hands on a dead person, it's like, what do you where do you

  381. go from here? Well, we put him in the truck.

  382. We take him to the hospital. The nurse comes out, checks his

  383. pulse. He he's dead.

  384. She gets mad at us for bringing him to the hospital.

  385. I'm like, look, it's like my life.

  386. Or we bring him to the hospital. So we get him there and she

  387. comes out, checks his pulse, gets mad at me.

  388. She yells at me, why would you bring a dead man?

  389. We've got hundreds of people from this fight here, and you're

  390. bringing us somebody that's dead.

  391. I was like, well, Lord, thanks for the faith elevation there.

  392. I appreciate that. You know, you really, really

  393. done something for me. And as I was having this

  394. conversation with God, have you ever had that conversation with

  395. God where it's like, Lord, why in the world would you do this

  396. to me? Why did you let this happen to

  397. me? I feel pretty stupid right now

  398. and these people are and as I was, you know, having my little

  399. bickering with God. We already know that I'm going

  400. to lose Something rose up inside of this guy right here and I

  401. said, Lord, this diagnosis is no good for me.

  402. I rebuke it in Jesus name. I said.

  403. These people came knowing that you are the God of the universe.

  404. Knowing that they could come to me and I could reach you to

  405. touch. This man right here whether?

  406. He's dead right now. Or.

  407. Not and I. Prayed a pretty crazy prayer.

  408. I laid hands on that old boy and I said, I rebuke death in the

  409. name of Jesus right now. And I said, oh, breath of life,

  410. that you would breathe down on these dry bones, that you would

  411. make this heartbeat one more time, that you would touch this

  412. man. We stood there for 45 minutes

  413. praying, seeking after God. And another nurse came out and

  414. she said, missionary, what are you doing here?

  415. I said, I've got a man here. I need him to be seen.

  416. She went and laid her hand on the side of this man's neck.

  417. And she said, it's weak, but I feel a pulse.

  418. We're going to get him in. We're going to bring him.

  419. We're going to make sure that we get him in right now.

  420. And that man was in the hospital 4 days and he was released and

  421. he's going around all of Mount Hogan, Papua New Guinea right

  422. now saying, oh, there's a God in heaven.

  423. And he tried to call me one day, but there was faith that a man

  424. laid hands on me and in his. Name we'll lay.

  425. Hands on the sick. Are you sick today?

  426. I don't know why I'm lingering here, but somebody needs a touch

  427. in their body right now. And if you're crazy enough to

  428. have the faith that God's going to do it, we serve a God who

  429. can. I take authority over anxiety in

  430. the name of Jesus right now. I lose peace in Jesus name.

  431. I take authority over depression.

  432. I bind it and I rebuke it. I cast it down right now in the

  433. name of Jesus God. I lose the healing of the mind

  434. and the healing of the spirit right now in Jesus name.

  435. You see Mark 16 and 17, it reminds us that.

  436. As we rebuild, we don't have to prove nothing.

  437. Well, they need to see something.

  438. We don't have to prove nothing. God will confirm it with His

  439. miracles, with His signs. And with his wonders.

  440. Because in his name, we'll cast out devils.

  441. Just like he did in Nehemiah's time, God still fights for us.

  442. God still provides us with the strength that we need.

  443. He still provides us with what we need to make it.

  444. Another day. Yes, Sir.

  445. My God. He's so Robo, shut up.

  446. OK, Isaiah 55. 7 through 9 says Let the wickedness forsake his

  447. way. And the unrighteous man, his

  448. thoughts. And let him return unto the.

  449. Lord. And he will have mercy upon him

  450. and our God, for He will. He will, He will abundantly

  451. pardon. For my thoughts are not your

  452. thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, saith the Lord.

  453. For as far as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my

  454. ways higher than your ways, so are my thoughts higher than your

  455. thoughts. Isaiah, he calls.

  456. Us to forsake wickedness, and return unto the.

  457. Lord. And as we rebuild, that's when

  458. it gets real, because as we rebuild the Kingdom things, God

  459. rebuilds our spiritual things He saw.

  460. Robo shot at a Boko. As we pick up that trail one

  461. more time, as we reach over for a break one more time, and we

  462. slap that mud on there, God takes that sickness that we have

  463. and He begins to mend things inside of us.

  464. He called Robo Shot. As we, as we try to.

  465. Muddle through this life and as things tend to run into our

  466. through our thoughts as we as we go through this life just

  467. wondering, wondering what our next steps going to be.

  468. I feel like somebody. In the house has been praying

  469. for some direction and I feel like God is in the house right

  470. now and I feel like if you've been praying for direction, it's

  471. right in front of you. You've.

  472. Seen it already, it's taking that next step.

  473. It's staying in the will of God and it's staying in in alignment

  474. with your spiritual authority and going to your pastor and

  475. saying, pastor, I feel this. Hey, Condor Robo.

  476. Shot I feel like God's. About to mess some stuff up in

  477. here. Right now.

  478. But as we rebuild. And we begin to surrender our

  479. ways to His ways. And we labor in love.

  480. Come on, somebody. And we labor in faith.

  481. God's plan is so much greater than what we could fathom.

  482. We look at missionaries, and I'm not trying to belittle the call

  483. of a missionary. I would say I used to be 1, but

  484. I still AM. But we look at missionaries as

  485. heroes. We look at these men and women

  486. on this table as heroes of the gospel, and we overlook this

  487. couple right here, this, this family right here.

  488. Come on, we we we overlook what God's doing right here.

  489. We try to keep. Our missions over there and we

  490. don't realize it every day. Every.

  491. Time we open our eyes, we're stepping into a new mission

  492. field. We're going into our place of

  493. work where we can win a soul. We're going into the community

  494. where where where we can pass out a bag full of cheeseburgers.

  495. I must be hungry. We we can get in the church van.

  496. You know what? Me and my my former pastor.

  497. Used to do Pastor McGee. He was like.

  498. When it whenever. I was at.

  499. Back at we at Victory Church is what we call it now.

  500. My pastor is West Comer. I love that man.

  501. He's amazing. If you don't think so, just ask

  502. me and I'll tell you. But but you know what we would

  503. do? We would get in that old

  504. stickered up, beat up Chevy van. It was a Chevy.

  505. It still ran. If it was a Ford, we couldn't

  506. have done this. I got to walk.

  507. Home because our youth pastor drove me over here in a Ford

  508. today. I love you my Android using

  509. friend. But we would get in that.

  510. Old rusty you. Know how them old vans, they

  511. rust out around the Fender. They look nasty.

  512. But man, we brought so many souls into the church.

  513. Pastor, he was talking, he said whenever I used to be a good St.

  514. Man, I hope I still AM. But we we still get in that old,

  515. that church van at Shiloh, me and my wife, and we go out, we

  516. pick people up and we still give home Bible studies because I

  517. want to tell somebody under the sound of my voice, you never

  518. arrive. Until your feet hit gold, you

  519. ain't made it yet. There's still a home Bible study

  520. that somebody needs to get. There's still somebody needing

  521. to come to this house. You still need to get behind the

  522. wheel of something and bring somebody into this place.

  523. You still need to share the love of God everywhere that you go.

  524. But way back in the day. Like like pre 2020 like way.

  525. Back in the old days when we had black and oh I can't say TV, we

  526. got 2. But we had, you know, black and

  527. white TV. 'S they had a little knobs on

  528. them back in the early 2000s, but man, we we would get in that

  529. van and this shows you my age here.

  530. You could get a bag of cheeseburgers at McDonald's.

  531. For like 50 bucks you could get 50.

  532. Cheeseburgers for $50, now you get like 10 for $50.

  533. It's insane. But we we would.

  534. Get in that old bus and then have our.

  535. Have our logos all over it. Man, we.

  536. Just drive through talent. With cases of water and a bag.

  537. Full of cheeseburgers and say hey, Jesus loves you.

  538. That's all they need. Well, they need to know who I

  539. am. Well, well, you probably need to

  540. schedule some. Counseling with your pastor and

  541. first lady if you're thinking that way.

  542. It's all about Jesus and if we're out doing Jesus's work and

  543. all we have to do is show them a little love because in the true

  544. church we love God and we love his people and we go from place

  545. to place. God is love and they must show

  546. His love. We got to show the love of God.

  547. What is the greatest commandment?

  548. Well. We know there's one Lord, but

  549. the second is like unto it. You should love your neighbor as

  550. yourself. If I could have either of the

  551. Brother Masons come and see me out of this, I'm coming to a

  552. close. But the rebuilding of the faith,

  553. the rebuilding of spiritual fortitude and the rebuilding of

  554. holiness is not easy. It requires us to commit.

  555. I'm asking us today as we stand, as we literally rise up

  556. together, united and standing together, that we take hold of

  557. this word. And I'm challenging you today.

  558. It's not going to be anything crazy because I'm not your

  559. pastor, but I'm challenging you today.

  560. The first person that you run into tomorrow is a soul that

  561. needs to hear about Jesus challenging everybody here

  562. today. You don't have to go and lay

  563. hands on them and talk in tongues for 25 minutes and make

  564. them think you're all kinds of crazy.

  565. Shake their hand, look them in the eye and just let them know

  566. Jesus loves you. And if we do that, we've done

  567. it. We've done it.

  568. God has. Called us.

  569. To this mission field, I understand that we're we're

  570. giving honor today to these world missionaries.

  571. We're thankful for them. We have families in places where

  572. the gospel is not supposed to be preached.

  573. And we keep praying for revival. God, send us revival.

  574. Lord, I wish you would revive us.

  575. Revival is here. The field is white.

  576. It's ready. Are you?

  577. Are you? Because the laborers are few

  578. that God would send laborers forth.

  579. Send them forth. Out of FAC, Send them forth into

  580. the highways, into the hedges, into the places where other

  581. people may not want to go. We get this thinking in the

  582. church and, and the sad thing is we, we've, we've had it for all

  583. of these years. It's so hard to break.

  584. You know what my favorite thing to do is pastor.

  585. I love walking into a church and it smelled like somebody just

  586. smoked 17 packs of Marlboro. I love.

  587. To shake somebody's hand and hug their.

  588. Neck. And almost get drunk off the

  589. hug. That's when we're doing it

  590. right. That's when we're doing what?

  591. God has called us to do. I can't preach repent to a bunch

  592. of. Saved people.

  593. I can't preach be baptized in Jesus name if you've already

  594. done it. I can't tell you to pray through

  595. if you've already got the Holy Ghost.

  596. But if we go out there and we bring them in here and we stop

  597. confining God to these four walls, my God, the revival

  598. that's here already. Are you ready for it?

  599. I'm going to ask you to do. Something today.

  600. If I'm out of order, the pastor can shut me down.

  601. I'm going to ask every person here to come to the front in.

  602. Unity as a church body. And just.

  603. Raise your hands like the prophet Isaiah did and say, here

  604. am I, Lord, send me. Send me to that table with a

  605. home Bible study, with a flip chart, with whatever it is that

  606. they need to hear more of you about.

  607. God, give me the words and send me out.

  608. God. Let them feel you at Walmart,

  609. wherever it may. Be.

  610. Send me, send me, I'll go. Thank you Jesus.