Worshiping at the Dung Gate | Pastor Robert Coffey

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Every Soul, thus, winning those souls and equipping them to be

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Thank you for joining us today. And we hope that you are blessed

by today's podcast. I'll give that to the Lord

tonight in the Lord good. Isn't God good?

man, it You know, it's fun to talk when you got this guy

music. He's Feel like being a fine

restaurant somewhere. Would you like some more water?

I feel like when I'm cool pastors.

Now, just I won't finish the story.

I got pulled over in the church. Van I got a ticket that day.

Here's the bad part state trooper, wasn't even his car.

He was standing in the road and I pulled over.

I am a, I don't I try not to lie.

Do you appreciate that? I do I try not to lie.

So usually if they say, do you know how fast you just going?

I usually blurred out what my speedometer said and then I will

argue with them that what they've gotten, what I've got,

are not the same but that's neither here nor there.

But the guy I said, sir, I said, how did you, how did you get me?

How did you clock me? He said, well, he said the

airplane got you I said the airplane.

Well he said the weather was kind of bad today and we almost

didn't set it up. I said, I wish you hadn't but

they were, they were running a small plane had lines on the

road and they would clock you from one to the next.

If anybody can get a ticket from De plane boss from the plan, it

would be me. Wow, let's pray Lord, we love

you. God, We Appreciate You Lord, we

thank you tonight. Thank you for your goodness.

Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for your grace.

God you're so good. Hallelujah.

Come on. Let's just love the Lord.

I believe I believe the Lord wants to do something.

Oh, come on, let's praise him right now.

Oh, thank you Lord. Thank you, Lord.

All just a closer walk with thee.

Granny granny. Jesus is my please all day.

Daily walking close to thee. Do you believe that all Let It

Be dear, Lord. Let it be singing again.

I said just a closer walk with thee.

Hallelujah. All gray.

And it. Jesus is my plea.

Jay Jay Lee walking close to thee.

How many wanna be closer to the Lord?

All let it be. Let it be dear, Lord.

Dear Lord. We don't sing it one more time.

Well, doesn't that feel and sound good.

Oh, just A closer walk with thee.

All Granite. Jesus is my plea, I want to do

it daily. Dang daily walking close to

thee. Let it be dear, Lord.

Let it be. Can we just give God a praise

tonight? Hallelujah.

Yeah. You may be seated.

I'm gonna I'm gonna approach this a little different.

Let me first say how honored and my heart is so full to be able

to come over here and to be with you fine, folks in a great state

of Illinois. I have known your pastor as he's

already said a number of years, I've known your Bishop met him,

through your pastor and then I meant the Masons through them

and me and what? Dear friends got to see them.

That it's a shame that we don't get to see and spend And as much

time together, then what we do, but I appreciate them.

Your pastor didn't tell you, we've been in, we've traveled

together. We've been in a wreck together.

Been to conferences together, got speeding tickets together.

I mean, we've done a lot. Brother, brother, Mason and

sister Mason and Alex we watch dogs, get ran over together.

I'm telling you we've done it all experiment.

We've had experiences. You can't soon forget.

And then I came and I was my worst.

There's one missing. That's where you ought to be

anyway. That's a, that's a good place

that haircut. Anyway, I come in tonight, I

come in tonight and one of the brothers, not them, not the hair

Brothers. But somebody else a brother over

here, met me at the door and he said, man, I got inspired, man.

I'm going home with some fresh salsa.

I've got some strawberry jam. Thank you, brother.

Give me. He give me breath mints.

I hope that's not a sign. Mr. McGee, give me SmartWater

and he give me breath mints and I hope well we'll just go on and

then I stepped on in the door and he's in the hair Brothers

met me. And they have me a little bottle

of jail over here, says the coffee jail.

And they ask someone, he said you don't think they have no

idea what they've done. They have no clue of what of Jar

of worms. They have opened Were you two

responsible for that? Just him.

Okay. Here, Landon That's alright.

Landon. Every dog has his day every dog

has his day but I have so enjoyed enjoyed ministering.

Thank you for the folks at said, they enjoyed the sermon and I

hope I hope you did. I hope I hope I'm here to bless

here to touch. And tonight tonight we are here

for a purpose and that is we want to see God move and we've

got these wonderful missionary cards out here in front of us to

make our commitments. And I'm going to approach

something differently again tonight.

I know I know my title was rude. Weird this morning and I'm I'm

back tonight. Tonight, I'm not tonight, I'm

going to talk about pineapples. Can I talk about pineapples for

a little? I'm sorry, my daughter, I'm

going to read a scripture, we only just stay where you don't

just stand the night. We're going to let you but a

while back several Christmases ago, my daughter Bethany bought

me these little books and I won't go into what what their

title these books are being with the seminal books and they're

just full of my daughter is just turned 30 years old this week,

and she says that that I she said, Dad, she said you were

full of useless information. Because I'm always just saying

what did you know? Well, did you know and I I get

accused from her, the kids at riding my school bus, they they

say I tell Dad jokes, I told one today at lunch.

You know, why they won't let Jesus in a jewelry stores

because he breaks every chain. And and Zhong just summed up.

That's just the kind of I like that.

I like that. Now, now, I don't believe it.

I'm, if I am, please don't tell me.

I don't think I'm corny. I don't want to be corny, I'll

go Dad joke, but that's as far as I'm gonna go.

But I was reading that little book, one of The Blue Book she

gave me and it just tells you to just just useless thing but to a

preacher to a preacher sometimes those useless things.

And so one day I'm reading in that little book and it's just a

little I mean they're just sentences or phrases.

It's real quick. And and you know when you're a

self diagnosed ADHD person like myself, you need quick and

simple, you know, quick and simple, you know?

He just runs and and I'm reading one day and I'm reading this

book and it says, pineapples are not native to Hawaii.

Now that may not mean nothing to you but man, it just my

circuits. How that works.

Your brain? Begin to fire off and I'm like

pineapples are not native to Hawaii and so with that I got to

thinking about things that have never been done and I'll get

back to pineapples. You know no one has ever

exceeded the speed of light. No one has ever expected this

expiry of light. No one has ever.

No human has traveled outside of the earth-moon system.

I know we want to go to Mars, but no one has been outside of

the earth-moon system as of yet. No one has ever fully mapped.

The human brain doctors are still trying to discover what it

is in this head of ours. It makes everything work and no

one has ever discovered a formula for the distribution of

prime. The numbers just some

interesting facts and then I come back to pineapples are not

native to Hawaii and pineapples were introduced.

I through study, I found out they were introduced to the

island of Hawaii and 1790 pineapples can be traced back to

their origin in South America and are linked together with the

Hawaii because of the large pineapple industry that was

built on the Hawaiian island in the early 1900s when

missionaries arrived from New England and 1820.

Pineapples, were found growing both in the wild and cultivated

Gordon's the pineapples, the Lord gained momentum in Hawaii

during the California. Gold Rush of 18-49 between 18-49

in 1851. Some to 20,000 pineapples were

shipped from Kona to Hawaii Honolulu and on to California.

Now you may say tonight what does that have to do with

anything anyway? Just, I just want to make a

point that that they want from Hawaii, that someone someone

brought that there. And, and to the next little bit,

I'm going to weave that into missionary work that that, you

know, we're not native to them places but we're taking the

gospel there. But but I want to point

something in Luke chapter 9. In verse number one, it says,

Luke 9 · chapter mention

then he called his twelve disciples together and gave them

power and authority over all devils in to cure diseases.

He sent them to preach the kingdom of God to heal the sick.

He said unto them, take nothing for your journey.

Neither staves, they're stripped me, the bread me, the money

neither have two coats of Peace whatsoever house.

She enter into their abide and fenced apart.

Who's there will not receive you?

When you go out of that City shake off the very dust from

your feet, for a testimony against them, they departed and

went through the town's preaching, the gospel and

healing everywhere in Luke chapter 10 verse 17.

Luke 10:17

It says in the 70 returned, again with Joy saying Lord, even

the devils are subject unto us. Through thy name and he said

unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from the heaven.

Behold I give I give unto you power to tread on serpents and

scorpions over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by

any means hurt. You notwithstanding in this

Rejoice, not the spirits are subject unto you, but rather

Rejoice because your names are written in heaven.

I tonight for a moment when it went to direct this to all of

you that we all believe that God can do the miraculous.

Do I get a witness? We believe that God can heal

that God can save. There is no person in Mount

Carmel, Princeton or anywhere in this region.

That's beyond God's reach Beyond God's touch.

The problem we have tonight is not a God that can't do it.

It's that a group of people, sometimes it often signal church

pew, don't believe. God can do it through them.

The problem is not the enemy. The problem is you and I am not

yet, bought into the concept. We've not fault in that God can

do it, and God can do it through me.

Can I preach to you tonight? That there is no one in here.

That doesn't have the Holy Ghost that can't go to Walmart, run

into some bad sick. Grab their hand and pray for

them right there. In the Jill, I'll and Jesus

touched them and transform their life.

You don't have to be in church. You don't have to be in a suit

that God can do it. Oh, somebody listen, we've gotta

believe that, God can do it, the beside people's went out, Jesus

sent them, there was a purpose for Jesus, sending them those,

Jesus sent him because later when Jesus comes to those same

regions, in the same places, he was effective because he had

already sent them. They were like, John the

Baptist, they had prepared the way they went, you know, we

think Jesus just rolled into a town and, and people just

flocked out, they didn't know who Jesus was.

The only reason they came to see this one is because the other

disciples had previously, been there to tell somebody about

this Jesus, then when this Jesus came by tonight, I want for you,

young people. I want you to consider

something. Have you ever thought about how

old the disciples were Have you ever give much consideration?

How old Peter in Matthew and Bartholomew and all them guys

were fuel. Go do a little research.

You going to find that they were teenagers, they weren't 30 year

olds. I think the oldest of them was

somewhere around 18, 19 years old.

Just take my word for it for now and search it later.

Think about that, they were young, they were teenagers.

Can I preach that? Sometimes our youth groups are

wasting Their ability to do something for the kingdom of

God. Now Now.

Do you all have is, do you have a p7 club here in your school?

Anybody working on it. I'm here to, I'm not the youth

prison, like these promoter. I'm just saying that nobody can

reach teens like teens. Nobody can reach young adults,

like, young adults, and nobody can reach adults, like adults,

and nobody can reach the seniors like seniors.

Because each of those categories do not want to take advice from

the other May I get a witness in the house.

I am 58 years old and I don't want no thirteen-year-old

telling me what to do. He may be right, she may be

right, but it's still wrong. I went to preach one time for a

church and when I got through I don't I don't know.

Maybe I didn't preach as well as I should have or maybe.

I don't know after church, this young guy walks up to me.

He's probably about 16 years old.

This happened a few years ago and brother Mason.

He begins to tell me what he would have put in my sermon.

I know that brother McGee Pastor, you won't believe this,

but I held my tongue. But boy my mind and my nerves

were ever at work. Because I wanted to look at him

and say, get thee, hence behind me.

You smarty? Like, teenager You know what I'm

talking about? Don't you?

You know it just just just don't work but we can be effective if

we'll ever buy into the kingdom of God.

You know, you know, the way that the way that it's going to work

today, the way that God's going to save in the people, he's

going to bring to us are not going to fit the description of

what we expect. I heard Merle Cornwell years

ago, Pastors in Topeka, Kansas a great Soul winner.

Bible study teacher already preached one time that you know,

the Bible, the parable, the soil, Jesus talked about the

Wayside and the Stony ground and you know this that and the other

he talked about the good sewing room brother moral girl

Cornwell. He said, let me just tell you.

All right now, the Good Grounds gone.

He said the Methodist the Baptist, the nazarenes whoever

they all got the good ground. He said we're not getting a good

ground. He said all it's less, bad

ground but can I preach to you and you folks living a farming

Community here? You know, that ground soil, the

condition can be changed, my uncle bought a farm on time and

I'm not a farmer. I've been Ram a city kid.

We got forming around, he bought a farm and I remember him a

grandfather went out there, he was going to plant some corn,

they want to do some farming and they begin to walk that that

field Bishop McGee and they begin to walk in and they they

got them a trunk and one of them drove the truck, and they were

just picking up rocks and picking up Stones, because they

didn't want the plow to become hindered, it with the stones and

want We're doing is they were going out in that field that

have been left unattended and had left untilled and they were

trying to take that Stony ground and they were trying to make it

into a condition that God could do something.

They can plant corn. It's the same way today.

People are going to walk through them doors and it's not going to

fit our description. It's not going to be who we

think and what we think. But God is going to do them

right? When we realize that God does

not want to do it our way, but he's gonna do it his way, and

we've got to get in his way. Hello.

I'm just gonna go a little bit different tonight maybe but

we've got to realize it. Whomsoever will.

But sometimes, you know, I know, I know who I want.

I'd like to have some doctors and some lawyers and some

business me it. Okay, I want Thai pears.

I want good. I don't want good type A I mean

you know the ones have your two envelopes.

I don't somebody one time. I said wouldn't be great if

people that have been back slid for 25 years, come back to God

and failed her back ties. I'm here, tell you don't happen.

They say I'm restarting preacher.

It's not all about money. I don't want you to think I'm a

money preacher but I boy you know we want people that you

know why can't why can't we? Why can't we get?

You know, get our player and I'm not talking about beginning

guitar players, I mean accomplished guitar players,

what yet we get you know accomplished musicians and

people that can immediately just sing like the like the heavens.

And and we would, we want instant instant, but I know you

Pastor McGee's. Probably told you and others

have told You, but the people that are coming, I hate to say

it but and I don't mean to be offensive with this, but they're

probably going to have some tattoos.

Zuma bus route, the other day and I pull up to a bus stopping

this boy. He's never been, baptized, never

had to hold those beasts came to my church.

Some and I pull up there and he's there to get some little

kid. He's babysitting somebody's kid,

and I don't know who in the world, that him babysit their

kid, but that's neither here nor there, but he meets me at the

bus and he walks up the bus. His name's Jasper eyes.

Hey Jess. And I stopped Jess that The

Purge is didn't come because I stopped right on the side of his

head right here. He's got tattooed about 1/2

inch. Letters blessed.

And I couldn't say Jasper. For being in shock that somebody

would put blessed. I've never understood people

that tattoo their face. I can go further.

I'll stop there. Why would anybody?

I feel like I'm pretty blessed. I'm gonna go get tattoo on my

face or anywhere else. I thought, wow, but you know,

that's who you were. We're going to people standing

right here, leading worship that are not going to look like us.

They're going to be born again like this but there's a mic.

I want to talk. I'm dead folks.

We've got a job and our job is not.

Our job is not to to to push away who God wants to draw.

But our job is to loving and and if somebody comes and they come

in here looking different, we had a boy with a boy, come to

church for only got baptized. Never got the Holy Ghost but and

then he quit coming. But he coming when he first

walked in church, he sent on this side, he worked with my

son-in-law Corey, and he came to church and he walked in at first

and he had blue hair. What's your name?

What's your name? What's your spacers?

They putting the earring on top of them, big rings.

He probably had he probably had inch rings.

We went to Kings Island with him.

One day, our youth group and he went with us and we rode the, we

wrote all the I like to ride roller coasters.

Anyone believe that he's riding a roller.

Coaster me off that roller coaster.

I said Thomas, I said, did you hear that noise while he was on

there? He said, what noise?

I said it. He said, no, I said I think it

was the air going through your holes in your ear.

I call him my church, period. You know what?

The gods drawing. God's draw.

When they throw the Nets out. He brought all the fish.

Every, every every kind you see when we begin to look at what's

not been done. Your, we want to make.

Excuse will God can't do that. And God can't do this, and God

can't touch them. And God can.

And we can, we can make excuses but just because it's never been

done before. Doesn't mean it can't be done.

You know? No one, no one has ever climbed

Mount Everest. Until the first person did no

one had ever flown before, but someone did no one had ever been

to the moon and someone did no one had ever walked on the moon.

But someone did, there was a man by the name of Ralph Teeter

Ralph Teeter lived in 1945. Ralph Teeter was a blind man.

They, that story goes around Peter was riding with his

attorney and he got turned around to his attorney, because

his attorney had a tendency to put the gas on, let the guess

I'll put him in a room with somebody like that, you know.

Mmm, it'sa. Ralph Teeter got tired of that.

She don't Ralph Teeter to a blind man.

Ralph Teeter 1945 invented cruise control.

A blind man invented cruise control.

I'm telling you all that because he also went on to invent other

things. I'm not changing wearing vendors

who are entrepreneurs, but I'm here to preach you that we, if

we've got faith, and we can believe that God can do the

impossible that he can do the impossible.

But we've got to be willing to let God do it in God's way to do

it. The way God wants to do and to

believe that God can use me. God, got you use me?

The Bible is full of first time accounts.

Things that had never been done before things that had never

Happened before, in Isaiah 55, and eight.

He said from my faults, are not your thoughts, neither are your

ways. My ways.

Saith the Lord. Youíve got to understand that

God, God, never farted for my study.

God has never healed a blind man.

The same way twice. Somebody said it like this, they

said that when God heals you and God does miraculous that God's

our creator and he doesn't creative ways.

He does it different every time. So friend, we don't have the, we

don't have a box on this. We don't have a patent on this.

It don't have to happen in a certain Way you can get the Holy

Ghost right there, where you're at tonight, you can get

delivered, right? Where you're at.

You don't have to kneel, you don't have to come to an altar

necessary, but if you'll be Earnest and sincere with God,

God can do it. But our job is to believe is to

blame. What did he say?

I have not seen Ear hath not heard neither have entered the

heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that

love him. God has got things for us.

That we don't we can't even imagine they are.

They're so far behind beyond our comprehension.

I love to hear missionary stories.

I love to hear stories of the miraculous and and I asked a

missionary one time I said why why does these things happen

there but they don't happen here.

And a missionary gave me an answer one day, he said because

they just got raw faith. You see you, and I sometimes in

America, we've got hindrances because, you know, brother

McGee, said it. When I evangelized men's lives,

five years, my wife and daughter, and I, and we

evangelize five years in. Real McGee, we walked away from

our jobs. We walked away from her

insurance and I didn't have an insurance card.

Oh, I can remember being on the field and my wife one day and my

wife, Wendy had little not come up on a wrist and and we didn't

have love money. We couldn't afford to go where

he's evangelist friend. I don't know if you know much

about that. Drink.

And so she said it this not starting to hurt me like little

calcium deposit or something. And so we just got a bottle of

oil brother McGee and we just pray for that.

Not several days went by and one day, she looked down.

She said hey she said that Knox gone See, you didn't have Blue

Cross. I didn't have Edna.

I didn't have no insurance company.

I just had garden and Bethany was having some teeth.

You know, she had some cabinet. Uh, my wife laughed at me.

She laughed at me. She almost walk me.

Then he had some cavities and some men they just want to do

some extensive dental work and we didn't we didn't have money

for dental work. I said, well, let's pray for her

teeth. My wife.

She said, pray for teeth. I said, well, as long as they're

not fake, you know, she said and she left, she said, she's all

the years I've been around churches, I've never hurt me by

praying for teeth. I said of God can heal cancer.

If God can can mend a broken leg, you see, sometimes, we

don't ask God because we don't think to ask God because we can

run to the dumpster befriend. When your doctor when your

doctor is cut off, when you don't have no insurance.

You see, in those countries, I'm talking about with him dirt,

floors, it sometimes with shoes or no shoes in and they sit on

plastic your chairs to have service, and sometimes they sit

in the rain. They sit in the cold.

They sit in the Heat and they'll come from Miles.

They'll stay days. Why?

Because they've got a hunger because they believe that if I

can get to Jesus, if I can press through the crowd, if I can just

get to him. I wish tonight that some of us

in this room right now to get that kind of Desire, if I can

get to Jesus, if I could just be, if I give a Touch the Hem of

His Garment, I know, I can be made whole Did you know that

you're as close to God as you want to be?

God does not determine how close you are to him.

Remember that God has no control over how close you are to him.

That is totally up to you. You can be as close to God or

you can be as far from God as you choose to be because God

gave man free, will he allows you to choose?

You see? My job is not to judge what my

job is to believe that God can, my job is to know that God can

fulfill his word both here and around the world that God can do

anything. And let me tell you for this

man, just because you're hearing, you say well my my mom

and dad are in church or my mom and dad didn't serve God or I

don't have no family in church, may I tell you, Break that

generational curse tonight. You can be the first step of

stoic preacher. You can be the First Apostolic

singer. You can be the First Apostolic,

Sunday school teacher, you young people.

Listen to me it don't matter what your dad was your mom was

your uncle was. You can get changed.

Why? Because I believe that my God.

Remember pineapples were native to Hawaii either.

Somebody had to take them there. Whew, I'm just telling you

tonight. The God.

God wants to move. I believe, with all my heart

that God wants to move so much more than we than we expect.

I've been raised in church all my life.

My dad, my dad was first generation.

Apostolic, I'm second generation that's like on my dad's side on

my mom's side, I'm sick. Sixth generation Apostolic and

and I thought my dad my dad's dead.

He he he didn't he didn't go to church before my dad got in

churches. Mom didn't go to church for he

got in church in his family. Didn't go to church.

They were, they were kind of Round Church.

They weren't atheist. They weren't agnostic.

They believed in God but they just weren't Even and, and they

just didn't have my dead. The Lord got a hold of him.

I told you this morning, that Revival and and changed his

heart and changed his life, and going to preach, and I'm so glad

he did. But for now, I'm just tell you,

just, because, nobody's done it before.

Doesn't mean young people just goes, nobody's ever start a p7

club. Don't mean, you can't have a

piece Heaven Club, whose want to start the club?

Really. all right, remember those song, if you can use

anything Lord, you can use him. And he can do any of you kids.

Go to school with him. How many ghosts go with him?

Okay. Okay.

I got a little boy my church named Zach.

You guys know Zach games games. Son Zach Nails.

J Towing a brawling Zack gets nervous.

He laughs. Don't matter.

How serious is he laughs? I didn't know it but Zach and

went to some youth rally and got inspired got all the stuff to go

and talk to his principal. Did it?

He went to talk to the principal next thing I know Zach start to

p7 Club. I didn't know, Zack could even

hold them in sentences together. So, Zach starts his p7 Club,

none of the one, the Church Mason starts going with him.

Some, let me, let me, let me tell you something.

When our fellow up there in the sound booth, Searches p7 Club,

you'll need to be there. You need to go.

And when he don't say the words, right, and he don't pronounce

the right, don't monkey. Let me, let me tell you why,

because you're on the same team. We're on team first step of

start. Because because what happens is

we go to school and he's our buddy and he's our church friend

and, you know, he does something we all laughed because whole

isn't that funny. And but the problem is those

other kids are coming. And if we can't support

ourselves, I'm not just a young started yet, I'm just throwing

out some advice here. So when he does it and he don't

get it right. Instead, you need to pray and

say Lord help us because and let me tell you something for a

while it's not your p7 Club, it's God's p7 club and he's

going to use this kids just as much going to use you in that

piece 7 club. And when you start that p7 club

and it gets taken off, you got to remember you gotta give God

all the glory and you got allow God to do it.

Them other kids from in those churches, they're not going to

meet Li see the truth, and they're not.

You see. There's two seasons, there's a

harvest season, and there's a planting season.

There's a seed time and harvest time and we can't get it

confused. So we start that club, we're

going to print a lot of seat. We may not see a harvest for a

while, but in time that seeds gonna grow, we're gonna break up

that foul ground. We're going to get rid of some

rocks and some Stones. We're going to cut out some

weeds and some priors, but God's Gonna Come, hey, one, they water

one, they planted but God does Does give the increase.

I'm just telling you friend. We God wants to move.

He wants to move through you, if you would allow him and we've

got allow him and families families.

We, when God moves on, somebody knew that day, that young men

that your woman says, I feel called to preach.

It's cool. You can't preach.

We need to encourage our young people.

I know both sides of that story. I've had a few of encouraged.

I really needed to discourage because you did.

Had a boy mature. Two years ago, he wanted to sing

couldn't really sing. So well, you get your song.

Well, he went got a soundtrack. Remember those?

When gamma soundtrack come he wants to sing.

I said you mean prank oh yeah I got this down so he's saying

that night and we all we all everyone, the church, just

praised him worst thing we ever did.

I know it sounds like an oxymoron there.

I mean we wanted to encourage him but what happened was?

It had the reverse effect because now he thought his Bill

Gaither and could sing anything. But but Mason it was and now we

didn't know how to deflate what we blowed up.

Finally, he met us to be wife and she did it.

God can use women in the ministry.

Don't believe me. Go ask mr.

Coffee sister. Khloe knows how to bring me back

down to Earth really quick. You know you want to encourage

one of the lift when I used to because just because nobody in

this church or your family has ever done it and and I took our

church years ago and put them in his talk a little bit about that

and I remember, I got over Sonny still staff together and I first

got there and let me see, I just I just want ideas.

Let's build our Sunday school, it's been over since gone.

I every idea I had been in my dad's church.

I said let's let's have a balloon launch.

Let's do it. Balloon launch and we had done

that years ago. We put a tag on it and whoever's

balloon with the farthest and got found, they contact us.

Back to win a prize soon. As I said, let's do a balloon.

Launcher was a guy said, he said we've done that.

I said, let's have a Candy Rain. You'll have a Candy Rain.

We've done that. I don't care what idea, I throw

it out, brother, Doom and Gloom over here.

Said we've done that. And finally, I said we'll just

because we've done it does that mean we can't do it again.

Got a church over Kentucky, not far from us here while bank,

they had popsicle Sunday. They had, they have Nerf Sunday.

They, they just did someone and you know, it's easy for us to

sit back and say, all, you know, kids won't come to church for a

popsicle, won't they? I don't know.

They won't come to church for that or for this.

I'm seeing his folks instead of instead of knocking down, why

don't we see what God, if you want to do that.

If that, if you want to do a Ministry, if, you know your

years ago, you know, people take balloons in time together and

make hats and animals and and, and People made a whole Ministry

out that brother Nathan Roberts has traveled, the world like

him. Blowing home into a balloon and

folding it. You know, you do, if he has, he

been reformed brother Roberts, Nathan Roberts, Nathan wrong.

If you want anything, he does on Facebook friend.

The guy is that he can play keyboard like nobody's business.

He play the guitar and play, the bass.

He can play the drums. There's nothing up here.

He probably can't play really well.

And you know what? He'd rather sit around playing.

He'd rather sit around playing on get torn made up of cigar

box. And I've listened to him.

Who thought you could get such sound how three strings?

Guitar box, a piece of blue stuff.

Looks like sound, The Beverly Hillbillies used to have You

know, where that? Where that?

Where that cigar box? Sometimes?

Where that? Where that instrument that

doesn't look like it's any good? And no good thing, you know,

that's what they said of Jesus, you know, nothing, nothing good.

Can come from Nazareth, nothing. Is he not the son of the

carpenter? The boy did they ever

underestimate him? If we can anchor ourselves to

God and believe we can get the soil, right?

If we can keep our root system healthy, if we can stay

connected to God, God will cause us to grow.

I'm tonight, trying to encourage you to look to your dreams with.

He said, you're young man and you're with Even with dream

dreams, your old men will see visions.

Our general superintendent really Carpenter, heard him say

this. He said he thanked God for the

team sister Carpenter and all the all his kids in the folks is

church. That's around him.

He said, because I'm a dreamer. He said I Can Dream It.

I can see the vision. He seemed like I'm not good at

employee implementing it. So, what he does is he just cast

a vision. Here's a dream just a carpenter

and his daughters and son in law on the staff there.

They take that idea and makes the, you know, it's the same way

in church work. We've got to somebody's got a

dream it and somebody's got a vision, it and then somebody's

got to make it go. It is our job to take the whole

gospel to the whole world. It's our mission to take, and

it's really, Josh Wilson, said it so many times.

We're all missionaries. We're all missionaries.

We're all missionaries. We're all called to win the

Lost. There's nobody in here.

God, God did not save you. If you just sit on the Pew and

just speak in tongues and to come to church, we're not to be

Church ornament. The biggest the biggest need in

the church is for some people that aren't activated become

activated. Not one time today.

Have I touched the front door to open it?

Somebody has opened the door this evening in this morning

when I walked up. Thank you, man.

Thank you, man. You say well that I'm just a bit

of coffee, I just stand. But, you know, that's so

important. That's so important.

Visitors come, you know, somebody just tell them how

we're glad you're here. We're glad you came to church

and, and, and you just making people feel, welcome.

Pastor told you the end of service this morning to make

sure and greet our guests, get their name.

Get to know. You know why?

Because nobody wants to go someplace and He talked to him.

I'm bad, I'm bad. If I go to a restaurant, I like

to know the waiters and waitresses name because their

names, not ma'am. And their name is not sir and

you want to get good service, you want to get to know somebody

call them by their name, learn their name, I'm taking it means

a lot. If you, if you keep calling her

name wrong and getting it fixed up, that that do that.

Don't get you to me points, we just start calling her name it.

You can get them to your table and they'll tell you how much

money they got in the bank and want to checking account.

They'll tell you everything. If you subscribe and I were Bob

Evans her while back and we were sitting there and and sister

company. This, we just get to talking and

and she's been through drug rehab.

She told her how many times how long she's been?

Clean. I mean friend we really didn't

ask for men, just gonna be just start tonder.

We went outside and I said, wow, I said we got a lot of

information. You know why?

Because people want to share. And we've got to share and

sometimes you've got to listen to their whole spill.

Am I? All right, I know.

I'm not sure. I'm not preach it to your feet.

I'm just being practical tonight.

You see that first person that brought that pineapple to Hawaii

had no idea that pineapples would grow there.

But I think I'm going to take this pineapple.

I'm going to take it to overhear this island and I'm going to see

you and they put it in the ground.

Begin to plan of however you power over.

You grow a pineapple, how do you do that, play the whole thing,

have you do? It started that pineapple and

that time took off and they You know make sure you got dolman

those making billions of dollars off this pineapple harvested

when things are going well. All because somebody dared to

dream that you could take a pineapple, you know how many

things live in this country that are not native to here.

Oh bugs, come over on them containers all the time.

Let me just give you one, you know, we had we have bedbugs

whipped in this in this country we used to.

We used to say that Mama say don't let the bedbugs bite, we

had no idea, they even existed. We thought that something you

just say several years back, you know, we all start checking him

Hotel Beds, I went to because the times with a couple of guys

to church and we stated a pretty reputable, I thought Motel We'll

get that next morning. I was changing my shirt and one

of the guys in the church said pastor.

He said, man, he said, what's wrong with your back?

I said what he said, man, you're red.

I got to looking all around my waist.

Well, my front on my legs. I mean, something told I was

sweet. My son-in-law had a few in the

other guy had none, they got they like this right here.

I thought what in the world? I didn't know bed, but bed bugs,

let's do the Imports. Do the packages through

containers, all these things and all of a sudden the country is

back into a battle against bedbugs and against pests and

and there's there's there's plants in there's things.

And you know, there's a reason you can't own a, you can't put a

piranha in your pond in Florida. It's because your poodle will

get in the water and not come out.

Because piranhas will live there.

They're having trouble for right now with Pythons people get

tired of a pet. They just turn it loose.

I got I read the other day. Somebody took a 14 foot python,

from underneath their house. I'm gonna tell you what happen

in my house. We would be moving My wife would

been sent. Let me wouldn't stay another

night there. We'd be down the motel wait on

the closing because she said, I'm not going back there.

I'm telling you friend these things, but some I dared to

dream, some, I dared to hope somebody wanted to realize that

if I can do my part, you see, I was talking to a young man from

from Bishop, Kirk's church. Just just just Friday.

And we were talking about missions and he's in the UPC and

he's being Ben, has been accepted into the aim program in

him. And his wife, and four kids are

getting ready to go spend the next year in Spain, working

under a missionary. And he's trying to raise his

deputation, he said real comfy I'm really believe.

We're going to raise sixty thousand dollars is what he's

got to raise just as this is through UPC.

We're going to be sixty thousand dollars in next 6 months and his

name's Kyle. I said, Kyle, do you understand

according to the UPC and their deputation, that's nearly

impossible. He's I know that with God, it's

possible. Isabella coffee said, I could go

get the money. I could go get a loan, I can

take a loan out and I can get the money, I could do this.

He said, I can do this without any help.

He said about do without any help, it's just us.

He said that if I invite people to partner with us, it's more

than us. It's now all of us. you see when

you when you get this card tonight, when you when you

choose your missionary, they're asking you To partner with them.

Good things, good things. Happen on their own possibly,

not as well, not as fast, not as efficient, but they're asking

because none of us are an island to ourselves.

Everybody here is I said is brother.

Wilson, says is a missionary. Everybody has a responsibility.

These these missionaries are endeavoring to take the gospel.

If I don't mean to call the gospel of pineapple, we're

taking the gospel to these countries to introduce it to

these people to see the the, The Adams Family that him.

Sounds funny saying it done it The Addams Family and in Poland.

They just in last few years started having church because

they were needed. Have a building.

They go, they go to pulling. They probably did him deputies

to go to Poland, they don't have a church, they really didn't

have a preaching point. So brother sister Adams are very

good at music. So they started a choir Damn, I

say, well, we're not paying you to go over there and sing.

We're paying you to preach. It was sewing time.

It was sewing time. Y'all ever have friends day or

special services here, that's sewing time.

When you get them people in here, we're not really looking.

If they want to get the Holy Ghost will let him get it.

But we're sowing seed in, right? The the atoms over there.

They started sewing and they start working brother, brother,

fan, Bill brother fan Bill started, being a missionary to

Argentina at the age of 18. 18 years old.

His Pastor have been going to Argentina and he started going

now. I think he's in his early 70s

and a missionary. Got I forget how many pastors

and how many churches, how many works, but he's there trying to

spread the gospel, you think, God's gonna call you in

missionary to, to it to us to a country that speaks Spanish

then. Learn Spanish.

Can I, can I tell you something? Stop there for a minute, you'd

be amazed how many Spanish-speaking people live

right here in your own neighborhood.

And God's waiting on somebody, to be able to go out there and

talk to him and win them to the Lord.

All these michener's, brother brother brother Edmonds in

Taiwan. Oh, what a what?

A country to be in right now, China breathing, down, their

necks. Talking about taking them back.

Really Heavens if I remember the story, right brother Evans went

to Taiwan was over there. A thing was for years, not one

convert for years, not one today, they have thriving work,

thriving, work in the country of Taiwan, Mark and Wanda stumbo, I

meant Mark and want to stumble. They were youth leaders in

Medora, Pentecostal Church. They won the Bible quiz

Championship that year under my youth presidency tenure Oh,

brother brother, sister spear when I was evangelizing, they

were Pastors in Chattanooga Tennessee.

Now they're in their second mission field.

Blowing and going over there friend.

But the the stumbles are blowing their son now is a missionary

his daughter knows a missionary doing a great work man.

They didn't have nobody at seemed like nothing was

happening. We could begin to talk about

these people all around the world sister Hickman is in

Mexico. It and sometimes the bandage

stopped her and sometimes they robbed her truck and What

danger? She's in at any moment down

there with the things that games and such.

But friend, she's consistent. She, she goes were some times

where the men won't go. Why are these peoples try to

these? People do this.

They do it because they want to see the gospel.

Preached, I want to see the gospel preached in Mount Carmel,

Illinois. I want to see the gospel,

preached at a strike, gospel church and just for a moment,

stay with me, just a moment. But listen to me, here's the

thing, we got to remember and become Kingdom Minded.

Willie McGee. I want my church to grow.

I want to I want my church to grow.

I want God to send his people, but I've got to understand that

sometimes they do only come for a season.

And they may move all for a job and move out for some reason.

But I've got to be Kingdom Minded in this enough.

I don't know about here, I can't remember the full story.

I've probably heard it. I just know myself, tell him to

the Mason little bit when God began to call Sister coffee and

I to evangelize my wife was the main piano player.

I was the drummer, I was a youth leader, I was just system pastor

We did a lot. We were involved in everything.

Went to my dad and said dad I feel like God's call me to

evangelize. Oh no, you ain't No, you ain't

that's kind of answered. I got not all you sure.

Finally, I just kept on, Dad, I think God's called me to

evangelize. and finally, he come around, but I understand I'm now

a pastor and I now know why my dad didn't want me to leave.

It'd be like Bethenny and Corey, my son-in-law, my daughter there

in the church working with us and I'll tell you how hard I am

on my son-in-law. He asked me three times to marry

my daughter. Kept telling me, no.

Finally, one day when I said, yes, sister coffee said, why'd

you say yes, I said I ran all the excuses.

The bank was empty brother Jerry.

She had cancer, I use cancer chemotherapy.

Is there Hughes? She went to Bible College a year

and use the effort excuse. I use the excuse that he

wouldn't really didn't have no money.

Couldn't support a family. I'm sorry.

You're gonna marry my daughter. She said she'd been raised with

expensive taste. I told him, I said you my wife

looked and she said you can't afford her.

He found out. She likes the new shoes system

again. She likes him fancy purses and

then he Jewel dresses and hair bows and But when God begins to

move in your life and all of us will be called to evangelize

now, also be called to a mission field.

The Jerry go ahead. Make your way up here tonight.

You would I know how? I know how we've done this and I

know I won't have Pastor coming a little bit in inner but I'd

like for solar stay in tonight. I hope I'm helping you.

Let me let me say this before you before we get into the the

missions commitment part. Let me, let me, let me tell you,

not to underestimate the power of a dollar or 20, you young.

People, listen to me, that I know there's a mounts on here

and there's also one that doesn't have an amount Don't

know. You young people understand that

most of you don't have a job, probably don't get much

allowance because I missed your parents.

But you can do something. I believe that I've got a little

boy, my church and gives his birthday money.

Gives his birthday money, you know, God God's going to bless

him. He has a heart for Missions.

But, you know, people always really McGee what we'll build a

coffee. We would do something, but I

can't do a big amount. A small amount Faithfully

consistently, but here's the deal, here's the deal.

When you get that card and you put the amount on there, just

some advice of me. If you don't think you can do

$50, then don't do $50. if 25s are tens, all you can do because

listen to me, there's no rule that says you can't give more

What we're asking of you is to commit.

You always get those people and I don't want to obligate myself.

I don't wanna be a liar. No, but it's that's really not

your excuse. You just don't want to commit.

There's not a one of us here that can't go to Sam's Club and

buy a box of candy bars and sell them.

Have a yard sale. Hello dude.

How about what they call that sister Maggie?

What's going on? This is Mason.

Don't think when you sell it, you purge have a closet Purge.

Sell some clothes church. This is so important.

And in case you don't know, the reason most of these

missionaries need financial help is because they can't legally

work in these countries. They can't work there.

So they have to have money to live on. when you lay down at

sleep at night, And our frigerators are full our snack

cabinets, full, all kinds of stuff in the refrigerator.

I want to lay my head down at night and know that my

missionaries are blessed and taking care of.

Jeremy Lang. when he was over in India, the first time he came

back and You'd ask for the Lang, how things were going.

He always said. Oh, that's good, man.

It's good blowing and going, but he didn't tell until later

brother McGee. He didn't tell the story, he

didn't tell the conditions he was, sometimes his wife and him

were sleeping in. He didn't, he didn't talk about

the bucket that they were using for a commode.

Didn't talk about the night that they really weren't fully fed.

What would a man give? What would have been exchanged

to gain? Well, I'm not saying you have to

give to be saved. But I do believe it's our

mission and our duty. So tonight is I is I conclude my

part of this service. I hope I've encouraged you to

win this community. Let's do something for God.

Someday, if I get to come back in 24 years, I'd love to see

more curly-headed boys. More pretty young.

Ladies on the front row. Some more grey-headed men

sitting around. I'd love to see it.

Because friend, we're trying to win the Lost.

How many time a little kid was almost school bus one day.

And it's funny that little kids don't know where they live.

There's no requirements. Go to kindergarten anymore, just

show up. You just have to know your

address, your phone number and your first and last name kids

get on the bus and sometimes a communication is poor.

And you say, where do you live? I live in the White House.

They don't mean Washington, d.c. They mean their house is white.

You know me white houses aren't in town.

Her story one time, a little kid, said I live in, and I live

in this house. They just described an average

house. But the kids said I lived down

the street from a church. And they begin to describe the

church song writer that wrote the song.

About the story said, the kids said, if I can just find the

steeple, I can find my way home. I can find my way home.

Don't we want to little leery Carter?

The guitar player sings that Sunday school kids song.

I watched this morning, semi-precious, Sunday school

kids. That's just these doodle kid.

Sit down here by Pastor sister Maggie.

Hi, I couldn't hardly watch you guys for.

I don't know what kind of stuff that kid have a meal.

I'm I hope it wasn't hyper medicine cousin.

He, he filled his mouth full and I was intrigued.

And he looked at me, and I was afraid he's going to offer to

share. Willie McGee.

I've ate some stuff in my time. Evangelizing.

That I don't want to do that again.

I'm just telling you, folks. Tonight is you close your eyes?

Can we begin to allow the burden?

Of the mission. To fall upon us.

That missionary you've been supporting this past year.

Can you just for a moment? Put yourself in their shoes.

Some of them are in jungles, some of them are in desert

places. Some of them are in Grass, Huts,

wild animals and people all around.

But they're carrying the precious gospel to the world.

God, if I can do anything. Come on.

Just begin to call him tonight. God can begin to call you to

ministry right here, while we're even talking about missionaries.

God help me to open my eyes. You said, say not for months and

then the Harvest. You said the Harvest is ready.

You said what I need is laborers?

I need workers. I need people that are go,

people that had do, people didn't give him on his, you're

worshiping the Lord tonight. Would you just begin to step out

of your seats? Can be come around this altar.

It would even be good right now. If you'd call your missionaries

name out, come on. Let's just come gather around.

This alternates. Have a time of prayer.

God, what would you have me to commit?

Cut, what would you help me to do?

Tom, I need to get in the Harvest.

I need to get my hands in the field.

God let my finances. Be a blessing.

Horsey. Kayano, no.

Mercy. You need the Holy Ghost tonight?

He can give you a holy ghost right now?

You need to be baptized in Jesus name.

You can be baptized. Now, come on, just begin to let

that. Let that bird in that passion.

He I do no more. See, come on, I wish somebody

just let the Holy Ghost move upon you right now, when we're

just going to take a moment here, come on.

This is spiritual stuff right here.

This is important decisions were making that the gospel could go

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