Sermon

Climate Change | Bishop McGee

First Apostolic Church

Open publisher episode ↗

Publisher transcript

Transcript

View source ↗
  1. Oh come on, give that to the Lord, Thank

  2. you Jesus. You can be seated for a while if

  3. you want to. Amen.

  4. Hallelujah. I want to make an apology to

  5. this church. I usually am the one that calls

  6. when people is absent. Well this week got so busy and

  7. I've been I've been studying at church and I thought I put my

  8. absentee list right in this and closed it up and left it on my

  9. desk. Lo and behold I evidently I

  10. didn't lost out on the way and it's gone.

  11. So nobody got a call because I didn't remember all those names.

  12. So y'all forgive me, I'll try to do better this week, OK, I'll

  13. try to catch up and, and, and be the Bishop that I need to be.

  14. All right. I mean, he's going to help me

  15. preach like y'all did last Sunday night.

  16. Man, if you'll help me preach, then we're going to have church

  17. tonight. Praise the Lord, feel the Holy

  18. Ghost and felt the Holy Ghost in this service.

  19. Amen. And and what I'm going to preach

  20. to you I've been working on for some time.

  21. It's been like little notes and little notes and kind of like

  22. last week's was and kind of then LED up to this.

  23. Amen. But I'm going to preach a very

  24. serious sermon that I felt like God that just spoke to me and

  25. wanted it tonight. Praise the Lord.

  26. So if you'll stay with me tonight in this and don't get

  27. lost right at the beginning, give me some time to build the

  28. foundation and, and we're going to have church.

  29. OK, You stand for the reading of the word.

  30. Hey man, I'm going to be turning to second Peter, second Peter

    2 Peter 3 chapter mention

  31. chapter 3 and we'll be starting at verse #10.

  32. I thank God for my wife. I'm thankful for her song Amen,

  33. that she was able to sing tonight.

  34. She was a little bit worried about that, but I told her, I

  35. said, dear, it's going to be all right.

  36. God's going to help you. And I know he had me.

  37. He's he's, I said last week, I apologize y'all last week

  38. because I didn't feel like I'd been giving it my all.

  39. So I'm telling you from camp on, I'm planning on giving them my

  40. all. Amen.

  41. I'm I'm going to preach just like I'm always preached.

  42. And I want to encourage and strengthen this church.

  43. That's what I'm supposed to be a, a strength to this church as

  44. Bishop. Amen.

  45. Chapter #3 verse #10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief

  46. in the night, in the which the heavens shall pass away with

  47. great noise. Everybody said great noise, and

  48. the elements shall melt with fervent heat.

  49. I feel him right now, and the earth also, and the works that

  50. are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these

  51. things shall be dissolved. Glory, what manner of Oh glory,

  52. what manner of person ought ye to be in all holy conversation

  53. and godliness? That's that's a verse that we

  54. need to take a look and underline looking for that

  55. hasting until the coming of the day of God, where in the heavens

  56. being on fire shall be dissolved, and the ultimates

  57. shall melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to

  58. His promise, look for a new heavens and a new earth, wherein

  59. dwelleth righteousness, glory. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that

  60. you look for such things, be diligent.

  61. Everybody said diligent, that we may be found of Him in peace,

  62. without spot or blemish. I want to turn to Revelations

    Revelation 21 chapter mention

  63. chapter 21 and verse one and read there.

  64. Amen. 21 and one, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for

  65. the 1st heaven and the first earth were passed away, and

  66. there was no more sea. Heavenly Father, we thank you

  67. for your word tonight. Lord, we know it's forever

  68. settled in heaven. We know it's already anointed

  69. God. But I'm asking you your help

  70. tonight. Lord, You promised if I'd humble

  71. myself under the mighty hand of God, that in due time you would

  72. exalt me, Lord, I'm not looking for the exaltation, Lord, but

  73. I'm looking, God, to humble myself under the mighty hand of

  74. God, to give myself away tonight that you can use me, Lord, that

  75. you can direct my paths, Lord and God, work upstream in this

  76. message, God, and help me through it.

  77. I pray in Jesus name, Amen. You can be seated.

  78. Amen. I want to preach tonight on this

  79. subject. And you have heard this on TV,

  80. radio, and hard to tell how many years I want to preach on

  81. climate change, climate change. Now I'm going to build a little

  82. format if you allow me to because I want you to understand

  83. some things before I really get into the message.

  84. See, it's it's called global warming and it was first raised

  85. as an issue in 1972 at United Nations Scientific Conference,

  86. which was the first Earth summit.

  87. Global warming appeared for the first time in print August the

  88. 8th in 1975 with the publication of Wallace Wallace Smith

  89. Bozacker in his newspaper. Anybody remember climate

  90. control? Anybody heard that on TV or any

  91. place? It's, it's, it's everyday

  92. almost. You hear it.

  93. Amen. And I might add, all of this is

  94. built on 16 theories. Everybody said theories by 155

  95. people of NASA. Let me tell you, a theory is

  96. nothing more than a idea, just like The Big Bang theory.

  97. Amen. So it's what they think.

  98. It's what they think. Well, it's no better than what I

  99. think. The truth is, on May 22 or 2020,

  100. two 2100 governments, 2100 governments in 39 countries

  101. declared a climate emergency. And guess who was behind it?

  102. NASA. Let me insert something here to

  103. stir your mind. Climate change began the moment

  104. that man was placed in the garden.

  105. You stay with me, I said. It began when man was first

  106. placed in the garden. This thing isn't new, but

  107. they're making it new. Let me give you a little of

  108. information, maybe to make you aware of The space sector has

  109. been granted a lot of exemptions.

  110. I found out during the study. Essentially being able to do

  111. anything they want to do. Yet they blame all the problems

  112. of our environment on the cars and the factories and the fossil

  113. fuels, the fuels and anything else they can think of, Amen.

  114. While blaming the pollution on everything else.

  115. They are polluting more than anyone or anything else.

  116. In fact, 1 space rocket produces 76,000 metric tons of pollution

  117. into our environment. Think about that a little bit.

  118. And then they blame it on us. And they can do whatever they

  119. want to. And they can do away with our

  120. country if you please and shut down factories and do away with

  121. jobs. But I'm telling you something.

  122. God is in control. Some fuels that are used in

  123. rockets converted to carbon dioxide and water, contributing

  124. to the warming greenhouse effect that humankind is currently

  125. working hard to stop. They say it's called earth

  126. warming. Earth warming.

  127. That's they want the earth is warming up.

  128. Everybody said Amen. I want the church to warm up

  129. too. Hallelujah, Naples is but one of

  130. the many great fires burning inside the bowels of the earth.

  131. 300 or more burning mountains have already vomited flames out.

  132. According to many genealogists, the whole center of the earth is

  133. a mass of molten matter in their belief.

  134. There we go. There's a theory again, Amen in

  135. their belief. And they set up on a thin crust

  136. which is cooled down. And the probabilities are that

  137. the whole mass is in a liquid form and perhaps in the gases

  138. state. How many times has the earth

  139. opened up? Tell me that.

  140. Think about that, They're saying, and I'm I'm not

  141. disagreeing. I'm not saying I'm going to let

  142. you draw conclusions, but if the center of the earth is a mass of

  143. fire, and think about how many times it's opened up even in

  144. Bible times and swallowed people up, Come on.

  145. It's even happened in our day that houses have fell in and

  146. this and that, holes in the earth.

  147. God has swallowed people up and swallowed them up.

  148. Amen. And we are living in a

  149. generation right now that thinks that God needs their help to

  150. control this world. But I want to tell you it's not

  151. so because I'm here to tell you that God has his hand on the

  152. knob of nature. Come on.

  153. And he has everything under control right now.

  154. He knows what's going on, Church.

  155. He's he's, he's a God that made this earth.

  156. And I'm telling you, I believe he can take care of it.

  157. And he don't need anybody's help.

  158. Oh, glory, Hallelujah, praise the Lord, Hallelujah.

  159. I want to turn to Matthew chapter 24.

    Matthew 24 chapter mention

  160. Matthew chapter 24, Amen. I want to read one verse there.

    Matthew 24 chapter mention

  161. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not

  162. pass away. So I'm going to tell you

  163. something. Everything can burn up.

  164. And I'm going to tell you the word of God won't burn up.

  165. God said it's going to stand forever.

  166. It's going to still be here. I've heard of people having

  167. large fires and went in and picked their Bible up and it

  168. didn't burn. Come on, Hallelujah.

  169. You can't do away with this word, church.

  170. It's going to stand. I don't care what scientists

  171. say, I don't care what they believe.

  172. I don't care what their theories are.

  173. I'm going to tell you right now, it's going to stand in the midst

  174. of the fire. The word is still going to be

  175. going forward. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Jesus.

  176. He's got his hand on my knob of nature.

  177. Can somebody shout Amen, glory, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  178. The earth is polluted only because the people that are on

  179. it. I'm going to let that sink in a

  180. little bit. If it started in the garden and

  181. it did, and guess what? Sin made its way into the

  182. garden. So God took man out of the

  183. garden and he placed him on the outside and he made this all

  184. off. This is all off limits thing.

  185. You're not welcome back in here. And ever since then we've had

  186. trouble. We've had trouble ever since the

  187. sin in the garden. It's it's been heating up.

  188. This earth has been heating up since then.

  189. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

  190. See what that what the world don't understand today that they

  191. don't understand God is the one who turned up the earth's

  192. furnace. They mad I said he he's the one

  193. that turned it up. He's the one that turned up the

  194. fire and if God turned it up, it's going to be all right.

  195. I don't care. All of the presidents will want

  196. to run and put this in in Bigfoot letters.

  197. You know that we need climate control.

  198. How you going to control it? News for him, they can't control

  199. anything. I've got a God that's got his

  200. hand on The Hobbit of nature and he's going to turn the

  201. temperature up or down. Amen.

  202. And I believe even according to the church and the prayer, come

  203. on, I really believe that we got everything to do with how quick

  204. the Lord's going to come. It's our prayers right now.

  205. I believe that's held off his coming.

  206. You know why? Because summers, we're we're

  207. still singing the song. Wait a little longer, please.

  208. Jesus, there's so many. He's still wandering out and

  209. saying, come on. It's because of the prayers of

  210. the people that he already hadn't destroyed a part of this

  211. earth. Hallelujah.

  212. I'm telling you, climate change is real in the inside and the

  213. outside. Hallelujah.

  214. Yes, it's heating up and it's going to get worse.

  215. He's getting ready to burn up this earth and all the elements

  216. they're in so he can make a room for a new heaven and a new earth

  217. because he said it's coming. Revelation states that he's

  218. going, he's going to bring a new heaven and a new earth.

  219. Hallelujah. Praise God, praise God.

  220. The earth is polluted because of the people that's in it.

  221. And God's getting ready, I believe right now to clean

  222. house. I believe he's getting ready a

  223. man to come and get the church, Hallelujah.

  224. I believe he's getting us ready for that great day.

  225. The climate change that we are dealing with is not factories

  226. and fossil fuels and et cetera. But I'm here to tell you, and

  227. I'm here to preach to you tonight.

  228. Today, our experts think they can change the climate by

  229. themselves. But I want to tell you what's

  230. really wrong. It's the climate in this Earth.

  231. It's, it's the sin that has polluted this earth as we're

  232. dealing with the reason we've got so many problems, the reason

  233. that we've got troubles, Amen, is because of sin and the earth.

  234. Every time that that the Hebrew people, the Jews got in trouble,

  235. there was trouble that came to them because of their sin.

  236. They had to pay for it. I'm going to tell you when the

  237. sin gets grossly worse in the United States of America and the

  238. world, I'm going to tell you, look at it.

  239. There's problems on every hand, but there a God in the midst of

  240. those problems to help you through the problem, to deliver

  241. you out of those problems. Hallelujah.

  242. He's taking care of her climate. He's got it in his control.

  243. Hallelujah, Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

  244. Sin is polluted. It's hey, man, Hallelujah.

  245. I'm just just a reference. I ain't going there.

  246. But Second Timothy 3 and 13 teaches us something that it's

  247. going to, it's going to draw worse and worse.

  248. It's not going to get any better.

  249. It's going to get worse. You might as well just, you

  250. might as well just hunker down, say, OK, God, I'm going to need

  251. you in these troublesome times because it's going to get worse.

  252. It's not going to get any better.

  253. Don't look for it to get any better.

  254. It'll get, hey, I believe it's going to get better in the

  255. church, but better. Can I say you, can I use bad

  256. language? I think it's going to get better

  257. in the world. It's going to grow worse and

  258. worse in the world, but it's going to get better in the

  259. church. Somebody say better in the

  260. church. Somebody shout, it's going to be

  261. better in the church. Come on.

  262. I'm looking forward to greater things in this church.

  263. I'm looking forward to healings and miracles and signs and

  264. wonders that God has promised this church and he don't go back

  265. on his word. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

  266. Hallelujah. In the Bible, when God had a

  267. problem with the climate in the world, you know what he done?

  268. He done away with the people that polluted it.

  269. Yes, he did. How many times you seen Moses or

  270. Aaron step in and stop the fire and intercede for the people

  271. because the Lord was taking them until somebody stepped in the

  272. come on, somebody stepped in the gate.

  273. Hey man, to stop the fire from burning, to stop the earth from

  274. swallowing them up. He he cleansed it by taking the

  275. people. It was a causing the trouble.

  276. Oh Jesus, Hallelujah. He done away to the people that

  277. polluted it. He took care of the climate, if

  278. you please. That's that's the God that we

  279. serve. He he's going to take care of

  280. our climate. He's going to take care of our

  281. climate on the outside and, and it's going to get hot.

  282. It's getting hotter every year. You know, you, you, you can't

  283. track that. You can't track all of this

  284. anymore because what used to be cold is now hot.

  285. What was cold? What's hot now cold?

  286. The weather is all over the place.

  287. You know why? But God, because God's going to

  288. prove to him that you can't help me.

  289. You can't change me. I've got it in control.

  290. Yeah. Come on.

  291. I've got climate control. I'm sorry, Biden, you don't have

  292. it. I've got the climate in control.

  293. It's all right. I've got it.

  294. It's going to be all right. Amen.

  295. Hallelujah. He done away with the people.

  296. Oh, glory Hallelujah. And it took care of the climate.

  297. You know what? We need to change the climate.

  298. We need to change people. Everybody shout people.

  299. Everybody shout people, I want to preach there a while.

  300. Come on, we're working on the wrong environment.

  301. Come on, I said. We're working on the wrong

  302. environment. If we could get the church

  303. environment in order, it would take care of a lot of our

  304. problems. If we could get everybody

  305. worshipping like we should, come on.

  306. If we start giving the Lord our all, come on.

  307. If we would start worshipping with everything that's got in

  308. US, come on. In fact, if we stop worshipping,

  309. you know, like we really ought to be, it wouldn't be a one of

  310. us sitting on our seat because we'd all be up worshipping.

  311. Come on. They didn't have seats in the

  312. Tabernacle. You had to stand.

  313. You was going to worship. If you were standing somebody's

  314. worship and you wouldn't. But now don't bother.

  315. We can sit right beside somebody and they can be shut up and we

  316. can be doing it. And they're said, what's got a

  317. hold of him? Well, I'm telling you, I just

  318. had a climate change glory. I started feeling heaven pulling

  319. on me and he pulled me off of my seat and said it's time to

  320. worship the God that you serve. Come on, I've turned the knob

  321. not only of nature, but I've turned the knob of your

  322. spiritual being. And I expect you to praise me.

  323. I expect you to worship me. Hallelujah.

  324. You're commanded to worship me. That's why you were made to

  325. worship me. Oh Jesus, Hallelujah.

  326. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, take care of a lot of our problems.

  327. We just worship Hallelujah, glory.

  328. I want to tell you something and we have what it takes to do it.

  329. How I was studying over here today and some things began to

  330. roll through my mind and I began to think, you know, we got some

  331. things that we have kind of let slack and it's called dominion.

  332. We're not taking the dominion. We've got dominion.

  333. When God placed Adam and Eve in the real world and out of the

  334. garden, he said, I'll give you dominion.

  335. Now I don't know if you understand that, but that means

  336. you got control. You got dominion over this.

  337. I'm going to give you, I'm going to give you dominion over what

  338. you're taking care of now. Now we got, we got not only

  339. Dominion, but we've got power. Everybody said power because

  340. when we receive the Holy Ghost, he said ye shall receive power.

  341. Acts one and eight, come on. And if you've got the power and

  342. you've got Dominion, devil move out of the way because I'm

  343. coming through. Come on, I'm going to change the

  344. climate around here. Come on, church, you've got the

  345. power and you've got the dominion to change.

  346. Amen. The climate around the church.

  347. Ohio glory. Hallelujah.

  348. Well, let's put another scripture with that.

  349. Hallelujah. And I'm Matthew 18.

  350. I want to read this. Matthew 18.

  351. Glory 18 through 20 Verily, I verily I say unto you,

  352. Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth, come on.

  353. Everybody said, Whatsoever I bind on earth shall be bound in

  354. heaven, and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed

  355. in heaven. So now you've given dominion,

  356. you've given power, and now you have the authority to bind and

  357. to lose. What more do we need to change

  358. to change the climate of our church?

  359. What whole glory? What more do we need to change

  360. the climate in our home? I've noticed the difference,

  361. Sister McGee. Then I know y'all laugh because

  362. it's old songs, but I'm going to tell you something.

  363. Lately, we've been plugging in the old Bill Gaither tapes from

  364. way back when. When y'all never wasn't born for

  365. long. It's way past your date.

  366. Way on back. And I'm going to tell you

  367. something. I've noticed the climate has

  368. changed in our house. So.

  369. Well, yeah, but, Brother McGee, a lot of those people don't even

  370. have the Holy Ghost. They didn't.

  371. Maybe. But you know what I read in the

  372. Old Testament where people, the the Holy Ghost set up on people

  373. at certain times? Let me tell you, when those

  374. tapes is going, Sister McGee and I sit there and we watched that

  375. and tears began to roll down faces.

  376. People began to get happy. And some of them was out doing

  377. little jigs and, and, and what they felt, I felt in my living

  378. room. Come on church, I'm telling you,

  379. all we need is a climate change. All we need is for people to get

  380. together and say I'm going to worship.

  381. I don't care what you're going to do.

  382. You could sit on your seat if you want to, but you're not

  383. going to catch me sitting on my seat.

  384. I'm going to get up and worship. I'm going to use the power of

  385. the authority. I'm going to do use the dominion

  386. that God has given me, and I'm going to have church.

  387. The further we went back, Sister McGee, the more power you felt.

  388. The old tapes are better than the new DVDs, if you please.

  389. You know what? Because they've got all pious.

  390. I know it's getting quiet, but you know what?

  391. I've preached to a quiet crowd. I've preached 11.

  392. I've preached to 10. Hey, there was 15 people that

  393. voted me in the first church and half of them weren't members.

  394. They just hung around. They wasn't living godly, they

  395. was just getting by. I'm going to tell you something

  396. though. When real Christians get

  397. together, filled with the Holy Ghost and the power of God,

  398. things began to happen. The climate changes.

  399. Come on. I'm here to tell somebody that

  400. if we get enough people bound together with the Holy Ghost, I

  401. don't care how many people come through the doors of this church

  402. that are unsaved, we'll change the climate because you can't

  403. stick around and not worship. You can't stick around forever

  404. and not feel nothing. You know why?

  405. The knob is nature. God's got his hand on this

  406. service. It's him that's in control.

  407. It's not me, it's not pastor, it's not you, but it's a God

  408. thing. Thank you, Jesus.

  409. Hallelujah. Well, glory Hallelujah.

  410. Feel the Holy Ghost in here. Thank you, Jesus.

  411. Hallelujah. See what what the problem is is

  412. we're worshiping everything but what we ought to be worshiping.

  413. You hear me? I said, well, brother Freddy,

  414. we're worshiping everything but what we ought to be worshiping

  415. things. We got things on our mind.

  416. It's money, it's property. It's I know, I know, I love it.

  417. It hit some it's sports, it's it's motorcycles, it's see, I'm

  418. preaching to me. It's campers, it's all of these

  419. things. And there's nothing wrong with

  420. that, that in the place when you need to get away just for a

  421. break. That's all right.

  422. But as sure as you come back in town, it's time to go to church.

  423. Come on, it's time to start. Come on.

  424. If you've got out and seen the beauty when you come back home,

  425. it's time to worship the beauty of holiness.

  426. It's time to worship our God, for He's holy, He's righteous.

  427. One of you that want to serve a God that wasn't righteous and

  428. holy, you can find enough wrong with your neighbor.

  429. Oh, I heard that from. I heard that.

  430. Go down. Come on, church.

  431. It's time for us to worship. Come on.

  432. We need to quit dropping the bomb on everybody else and start

  433. looking ourself in the mirror. I don't know about you, but

  434. every time I point my finger at somebody, there's four more

  435. pointing back at me. Come on.

  436. I don't have time to work on them.

  437. I got to work on myself. When I preach to you, I'm

  438. preaching to me. I'm not perfect, just forgiven.

  439. I haven't yet arrived, but I'm on my way.

  440. I said I'm on my way. Glory, Hallelujah, glory.

  441. Our priorities are messed up. I want to read, I want to read

  442. a, a verse and they'll all remember this.

  443. And it's, it's, it's just, it's there.

  444. It's been there a long time. Matthew 6 verse #33 I want to

  445. tell you how good God is. He gives you a verse when you

  446. don't know whether you want to worship him or not.

  447. He gives you a verse but seek you first.

  448. Everybody said first, the Kingdom of God, OK, He said,

  449. well I want things, OK, I'll tell you how to get them.

  450. Put you first, the Kingdom of God and his righteousness.

  451. Now you're going to get right living and all.

  452. Everybody said all, all these things shall be added unto you.

  453. All of these things that I want to want, I want got to have, got

  454. to have, got to have. I'll work overtime whatever it

  455. takes out. Why don't you work overtime for

  456. Jesus? So what?

  457. I don't get paid. Yes, you do.

  458. You remember last Sunday night? It's double to nothing, you

  459. know, give and it the same, the same that you give.

  460. It's going to be measured to you.

  461. But notice. Yeah, measured to you again.

  462. Press down. Yeah.

  463. Shaken together. You know how corn is.

  464. You can fill your bucket up and then you sit there and shake it

  465. a while and it's not full anymore.

  466. Is it shaken together? And then he said, I'm going to

  467. run your bucket over. You want blessings?

  468. Get your mind off of things. Come on, get it on the Kingdom

  469. of God. And he said, I'll give you back

  470. what you give, and I'll run your bucket over.

  471. Come on, I'm going to press you together.

  472. Come on, I'm going to shake you up and you're going to run over.

  473. Glory. Here we go.

  474. Glory. Hallelujah.

  475. You know what we're doing? We're spending thousands of

  476. dollars. Yeah, I know I'm going to get on

  477. some of you animal lovers now, but you just going to have to

  478. hold on till I get done. I'm not against animals.

  479. I had I had dogs for my kids when they were little.

  480. It's just from again, I don't need one to take care.

  481. We got rid of our kids. We don't need any more kids to

  482. take care of. If I wanted one, I'd I'd pray

  483. for one, but I don't need one. So we're spending thousands of

  484. dollars on animals that ought to been put to sleep.

  485. I've watched Sister McGee and I was watching the show 1 night

  486. and they was talking about this, this dog.

  487. And they had the crazy thing on wheels behind because it didn't

  488. have no hind legs. And people spent thousands of

  489. stinking dollars sending in to take care of that dog.

  490. But yet it's all right. Take care of it to kill babies.

  491. You tell me. That's right.

  492. They'd rather save an animal than to save a baby.

  493. I don't know, but there's something wrong with that.

  494. Come on. We can't euthanize animals.

  495. Oh, no, we all go kill them. Well, if nobody's taking care of

  496. them, why not? They're doing it to babies.

  497. And there's. Come on, there's people that

  498. want them, but nobody will put them up for adoption.

  499. They kill them before they ever get a chance.

  500. Now tell me that's all right. Abortion isn't all right.

  501. That's killing. That's murder.

  502. Sorry. It's murder.

  503. First degree. All right, I know.

  504. That's all right. Just go ahead.

  505. I hear I'm going to preach it anyway.

  506. You lock me up. You got to feed me, Laurie.

  507. Hallelujah. There's something badly wrong

  508. with our country today. The most important things.

  509. I'm going to say this because I've preached this all my life,

  510. My son, be a witness to me and everybody in this church that's

  511. been with us very long. We'll we'll tell you, I say

  512. this, I have decided in my heart that the most important thing is

  513. this in this life is people, because it's the only thing that

  514. you can take with you, the only impression.

  515. You ain't going to take your dog.

  516. I'm sorry. He's going to be back earthly,

  517. you know, But I can take people with me.

  518. So I don't know about you, but I want to load my bus right now or

  519. my train. I want to raise.

  520. I want to, I want to train. Come on.

  521. Everybody's boy got quiet in here.

  522. I feel doggies in the house and Kitty cats and whatever else.

  523. I I know because I live in a trailer court and a lot of

  524. them's got four dogs and most of them's got 2 and the Lord knows

  525. how many cats because I see them running all over my yard and I

  526. can't get a rid of them else I catch them and take them out to

  527. the animal place and they won't even take them.

  528. Come on, church. But oh Lord, let's don't

  529. euthanize them. Can't have horse racing no more

  530. because it kills horses. You know, how long has that been

  531. in effect? Oh, glory, come on church, don't

  532. get quiet on me. I'll say, OK, I'll just start

  533. preaching again. The longer you're quieter, the

  534. longer I'm going to preach. There's something badly wrong.

  535. The most important thing is people.

  536. That's all we can take with us. I want to see climate change in

  537. our church. I'm getting close.

  538. I'm see I'm doing pretty good. I've done good.

  539. I may not be in the red tonight or I could be I was last Sunday

  540. night. See, let me tell you, in the

  541. Garden of Eden. It started climate change.

  542. God moved them out and put them in the earth.

  543. He thought that'll that'll help. Guess what, Noah come along and

  544. it was in a mess again. Everybody was married and given

  545. to marriage and they was frolicking and have their own

  546. little parties and junk. And God got tired of it again.

  547. So he said, I thought, I'll just claim change the climate.

  548. So he brought the flood. No, I preached to him 120 years

  549. and they still didn't change. So he saved eight people out of

  550. the whole world. Think about that.

  551. I don't know whether you're scared or not, but you ought to

  552. be. It's time for us to start

  553. preaching. It's time for us to start

  554. gaining souls. It's time for us to get somebody

  555. to go in the ark. Come on.

  556. I don't know. But hey, Brother Aiden, I don't

  557. want just 8 saved. I want my family.

  558. I want you in there with me. I want Brother Trevor in there.

  559. I want this whole front row in there.

  560. And and I'm not going to stop until you hear the truth around

  561. here. And Brother Mcgee's not going to

  562. stop till he preaches the truth. And Brother Mason's not going to

  563. stop till they hear the truth. Come on.

  564. Truth's got to be. Come on.

  565. It's got to be spread abroad. Brother Alex is not going to

  566. quit. Come on.

  567. Yeah. Brother Zach's not going to

  568. quit. Hallelujah.

  569. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

  570. Then Noah. After Noah, then we come along.

  571. And Sodom, somebody sent up some bad word on them.

  572. And so God come down and check it out himself, see if it was

  573. just as bad as they said. And I think it was even worse

  574. because he said, better get out of here.

  575. You better if you if you want to live lot, you better take your

  576. family and you better get out of here.

  577. And Lot lingered. His wife really lingered because

  578. they started out and he said, don't look back.

  579. You know what, here's the problem in the day and age we

  580. live in, we give people exciting if we're not careful, they look

  581. back and when they look back and take somebody with them, it's

  582. not one or two. I've always prayed and I if if

  583. I've been the cause of anybody failing or falling, forgive me.

  584. I'm here to lead you to a place called heaven.

  585. He warned him, said don't look back.

  586. Lot's wife look back of a city I think that she had some love for

  587. and when she did, she turned into a pillow of salt.

  588. My wife could have used that right now the salt she's not the

  589. salt of the earth. Maybe well, maybe she is

  590. Hallelujah. So we're talking about climate

  591. change. Everybody said climate change.

  592. Now I want to say this and I'm, I'm, I'm not too far close.

  593. I want I want to get this. The church is cooling off while

  594. the earth, yes, heating up. It's harder right now to get

  595. people to church. When I started minister Minister

  596. Stern in Kingsburg Pentecostal Church in 1988, helping that

  597. church, it grew while we was helping it, another another

  598. minister would come and every other Sunday night we'd we'd

  599. take the place and we'd preach and and God began to build the

  600. church even before I came past her.

  601. Come on, you know why we've changed in the climate because

  602. when we walked in that church, my wife is a witness When you

  603. all when we first walked in that church, you could almost heard a

  604. pin drop on the carpet. I had AI had a man.

  605. I will never forget it as long as I live.

  606. I had a man after the first message that I preached in that

  607. church and come to me and said where did you get such

  608. anointing? I said it's God-given it's God,

  609. it's not me, it's God. Come on, Church, if we would

  610. take Dominion, if we would take the authority, if we would take

  611. the power that we've got wrapped up in this body right now, we

  612. can change Mount Carmel. I want, I want to go here.

  613. We cannot allow Mount Carmel to keep on being Mount Carmel

  614. because since we have been here, I want you to see what has

  615. changed. We've now got booze joints open

  616. on Sunday. We didn't used to have that.

  617. We've got gambling joints almost on every corner taking food off

  618. the tables. It's people, it's addicted, that

  619. junk. And now they can't even pay

  620. their bills or can't buy food for their family.

  621. Now that's what's it's turned in the wrong direction and we can't

  622. allow that to happen. Somehow there's got to be a

  623. climate change in the church and we got to say we got to get down

  624. to business and win Mount Carmel.

  625. Else if we don't, this city's going to be destroyed.

  626. Come on, church. We've got a lot of religious

  627. people in this city. We've got people, most of this,

  628. most of this city probably goes to church on Sunday.

  629. Come on church, somebody help me preach.

  630. I said we've got a lot of people that go to church, but they

  631. don't have the full truth. Where are we at?

  632. Where are we at in the mix? How many are we witnessing?

  633. To how many souls have we won? Glory?

  634. Hallelujah, We need a climate change.

  635. I'm going to tell you we need a climate change in our heart.

  636. We need a climate change in our mind.

  637. Our upper story needs to get higher.

  638. Come on. We need to get closer to God.

  639. Our mind needs to be thinking on those things.

  640. Finally, brethren, whatsoever things that are honest,

  641. whatsoever things that are true, whatsoever things that are pure,

  642. Come on, glory. Whatsoever things Hallelujah,

  643. are good, whatsoever things that are are lovely, and whatsoever

  644. things that are good, Report. If there be any virtue and there

  645. be any praise, think upon these things.

  646. Our thinking process needs to change.

  647. We need a climate change in our mind.

  648. Oh glory, we need a climate change in our spirit.

  649. When we come into the House of God, we ought to hit the prayer

  650. rooms. I hadn't been giving it my all,

  651. but I have since church camp. I've been giving it my all.

  652. We need to give it our all. I don't want to lose any more

  653. family. I want to gain family.

  654. I thank God that I got all five of my kids usually here on

  655. Sunday morning, but I want to more than have them here.

  656. I want to have them involved. I want to have my grandchildren

  657. involved, brother Freddie. I want to see my nieces and

  658. nephews. I want to see them come in and

  659. get involved. I want to see them saved.

  660. I want your kids to be saved. I want your families to be

  661. saved. Where's our heart at?

  662. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, glory.

  663. I need a climate change in my spirit.

  664. I need to get the right spirit, create in me a clean heart,

  665. renew a right spirit within me. God, If it's if it's not every

  666. day on God, then there's something wrong in your spirit.

  667. There ought to be a longing in my heart that I can see somebody

  668. at McDonald's to witness to that.

  669. I could tell somebody a story about Jesus and it'll stir their

  670. mind, stir their spirit, make them want to come to this

  671. church. Glory Hallelujah, I need AI,

  672. need a climate change in my weakness.

  673. Come on, I need a climate change in my soul, in the depths of my

  674. spirit. I need a change.

  675. Oh glory Hallelujah, I need AI, need a change in my weakness.

  676. Come on, I said. I need I need a change.

  677. I need to change a climate change in my weakness.

  678. I need a climate change in my struggle.

  679. I need a climate change in my worship.

  680. I need a climate change in my praise.

  681. I need a climate change in my dance.

  682. All right, all right. Hey, I know I've had a few times

  683. lately. I know, I know when I run, some

  684. others is running. Thank you, Jesus.

  685. You know why, Sister Sheila, I can remember.

  686. It's the second church. When somebody got up to March.

  687. Before you know it, there was empty.

  688. Pews were empty. Everybody was following.

  689. Now we don't follow quite as well this going Bishop.

  690. Bless him. Bless what?

  691. Don't you want to get blessed too?

  692. Right. My goodness, we think I am well

  693. to walk. Hey, if you've got a trot,

  694. that's all right, come on. If you've got to go this way,

  695. that's all right. If you just got to stand still

  696. with worship, that's all right. But please, worship, Come on.

  697. I need a climate change. Somebody say I need a climate

  698. change. That ain't good enough.

  699. Somebody shout, I need a climate change.

  700. Climate change. Hallelujah.

  701. Thank you. Jesus, I need a climate change

  702. in my dance. You know you, you need to dance

  703. differently than you ever have. It's all right.

  704. So why don't that look stupid? That's all right.

  705. It feels good. We need a climate change.

  706. Need a climate change in my shout, listener say Hallelujah.

  707. We need to say Hallelujah. Come on, give me a Hallelujah.

  708. Listen to that. Mount Carmel.

  709. I just heard Mount Carmel ring again.

  710. Sound like Jerusalem. I'm finished for the Alex.

  711. Whoever's playing up here, I like that.

  712. Just motion it to that. It's all right now.

  713. I'm going to open this altar fact.

  714. They're going to sing a song. You might not want to go with

  715. the altar yet. You might want you might want to

  716. do something else first because I told him to sing me a special

  717. song tonight because I believe we sat on the Pew long enough

  718. and I think it's time to get up more ship.

  719. It's good. I'm I'm not I know.

  720. Or sometimes you don't feel like it.

  721. There's some, there's been a lot of nights I come in didn't feel

  722. like, and I'd done it anyway and I felt better and I went home,

  723. man, my legs was hurting and I was feeling weak and all of

  724. that. But when, after you know what,

  725. when the spirit takes over, it leaves.

  726. Come on, you know, you can have climate change take place even

  727. while you're worshipping. Things change and say, whoo,

  728. something happened. Feels like I just got a a bottle

  729. of liquid IV. Maybe we better get some of that

  730. and put in here and have everybody, you know, before they

  731. go to worship to drink a bottle of IV.

  732. And then the first thing I know, can't you see them young people

  733. up here doing the two step or the whatever?

  734. All right, you can stand, because something's going to

  735. happen now.