Home Is Where The Heart Is | Elder Terence Atkinson

You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message

will light up your day this morning. Home is where the heart is.

Home is where the heart is. That all may know that home is where

the heart is. I remember that when I was here, I think it

was last month, and I shared with you a message. And in this

message I told you that David wanted to build God a house. So he

told Samuel, tell me, you know, I want to build got a

house. And at first Samuel said, go ahead, do what you like.

You know, do as your heart, not do what you like.

Do as your heart tells you. Okay, not do what you like.

That's a different connotation. Do what you like is not very good when we

tell our children do what you like. Okay, It's not very good when

God tells us do what you like? Better watch out, okay anyway,

So he then tells God then tells Samuel, I want you to tell David

this. And then in two Samuel chapter seven, reading from first five onwards,

Um, okay, this is what it says. Okay, go and

tell my servant. David thus says the Lord, would you build a house

for me to dwell in? You're gonna build me a house. This is

the question that God is asking David, would you build me a house?

You gotta sometimes get the intonation behind the question would you build me a house?

It's different than would you build me a house? Has a different connotation.

Okay, you asked your children would you build me a house? That's

a different thing that you're telling them, Hey, build me a house.

But now God is saying, would you build me a house? For I

have not dwelt in a house since the time I brought the children of Israel

up from Egypt, and even to this day, but they've moved about in

a tent or a tabernacle. You know, God, if you read the

book of Exodus, all right, so now the children of God, and

I'm not going into a study of that, but I just want to give

you some background. The children of Israel were now leaving Egypt, all right.

So when they left Egypt, God told them to build something that He

could be in so that they could come around and worship. God's interested in

our worship, do you know that? And God is interested to put something

in and around us that will allow us to worship him easily, to worship

him constantly. To worship Him in spirit and in truth, and we will

not get sidetracked by the side thing that's going on there. We will focus

this way. Okay, don't worry about it. You see, because God

said, I have not dwelt in a house. I have not dwelt in

a house. Remember the messages. Home is where the heart is. And

I think you already know where this message is going. And I hope it

will encourage you. By the end of it. You will get it next.

Like David had in his heart to do a good thing, how many

of us have in our hearts to do a good thing for God? Do

you know that God actually took notice of what David said, And towards the

end of two five Second Samuel chapter seven, it had pleased God so much

that God said a few things about David. I'm gonna do this for you.

I'm gonna do that for you. You're you know you're gonna be blessed,

and you know your of your lineage, it's gonna go on forever and

ever. Actually, we read the whole chapter of Second Samuel seven, it's

talking about two things. It's talking about Solomon, all right, Because David

was not going to be the one to build a house for the Lord.

And it was also in some parts talking about Jesus, of which he you

know, his kingdom would not end all right, So now it is God's

will? David had it in his heart to do a good thing as we

do. Is it God's will? You know? Sometimes there are good things

that we want to do. But a very important question that we have to

ask ourselves is is it God's will? Because sometimes good things do not put

us in the will of God. Wow, what a statement to make you

know that if it's God's will to do a good thing for him and you

mess up and their problems along the way, is okay. God takes care

of it. God will smooth it over. God will handle it. But

if you do something good and it was not God's will, God will not

make it good for you. He will look after you, he will keep

you well, he'll keep you safe. But it's not God's will. So

God cannot honor what is not his will. God can only honor what is

God's will. So now, if David had gone ahead and built a house

for the Lord and it was not the will of God, do you think

God's hand and anointing would have been over it. I give you an example.

You know, the King Saul. Oh, King Saul, head and

shoulders above everybody else, good looking King Saul. Okay, he was told

on his very first assignment, I don't want you to keep anything. You

get rid of everything that I've asked you to get rid of. I don't

want to keep anything. But he decided that he was going to do something

good. Why just get rid of it? Why not sacrifice it to the

Lord? And you know when God, when when Samuel came and he saw

it, and he asked, so what is this? I hear the bleeding

of sheep? Oh, we wanted to sacrifice. Then Samuel says, did

God ask you for this? Now, on the surface, most of us,

if we don't know the old story, we'll think it was something God.

What's the problem. What's the problem? Something good? Yeah? But

did God ask us to do? No? Sometimes we have to be very,

very very careful. You know. Do you realize why when we counsel

people, we counsel let's say, as a pastor, and I'm not a

pastor, but as a pastor, when they counsel women, it's good that

they always have their wife in because they're doing something good, right, But

do you know how many pastors have fallen into saying with the people they counsel

because something good became something not so good because they did not watch out for

whether or not God was leading them to do it in a certain way.

So just be careful of this, okay, just be careful of this,

all right. So God is pleased that we want to do good for him,

but he always offers us a better way. And this is what's nice

about God. So you want to build me a house, it's not you,

man, You're not going to do it. But don't worry about because

you had a heart to do that. I'm going to bless you. You

see, what's important is we have a heart to do good for the Lord.

The item that we do that depends on the will of God. But

if we have a heart that wants to bless the Lord, God looks at

that portion of our heart and he blesses back in return. Isn't it wonderful?

Let's go on further. You see what I am saying. Okay,

Now, before that, the house, the house that God was built,

was built by Solomon, all right, And I remember telling you the last

time I was here that David provided a hundred and seventeen billion dollars worth of

gold and seventeen or seventy one billion dollars of silver to build the house.

So, in other words, if that temple was built today, the cost

of the temple would have been in the vicinity of two hundred and fifty billion

US dollars. That is more than some countries and time budgets was meant for

the House of the Lord. But I also want you to know that God

is interested to do certain things. Just remember that. I will come back

to it. Okay, So a tabernacle, what is it? You know?

The Lord said to me, let them make me a sanctuary that I

may dwell among them. God is interested to build his tabernacle. In Exodus,

he said, I will, and I will put my tabernacle in your

midst, and my soul shall not loathe you. God wants to build a

house. It's God who wants to build a house. And I got very

excited about this, all right. So even in the Old Testament, it

wasn't the people who had a desire to build a house for God. It

was God himself. And what did God say, I want to build a

house in your meads, So I will not load you. Tough thing to

say, right, Hey, they were sinners just like you and me,

and God loads sin. But thank God for the redentive work of Jesus Christ.

So now that when God looks at us, we are believers. And

God looks at us, he sees who does he see? He sees Jesus

in us, and he is not going to load us because he is in

the midst of Okay, so this is what the Lord said. Let's move

on the tabernacle. Ha. The tabernacle in Hebrew is michigan, which means

residence or dwelling place. It also referred to Yahweh God as the tent of

the meeting in Exodus forty. Okay, I'm not doing a study on the

tabernacle, but I want to draw you a t to what it is.

It is and was a residence and a dwelling place of God. That's what

the tabernacle was. It would be where God would reside and it was also

referred to as a tent to the meeting in Exodus forty comprise about the Holy

and the most Holy, or basically a holy of holies, a place which

was surrounded by a fence caught area. All these things that I'm sharing with

you are meant to draw your attention to what happens when Jesus comes into the

picture. Next one, So, what is a tabernacle? It is a

sanctuary. Sanctuary means a holy place, a sanctuary. My house is my

sanctuary, man, Okay, when we go home, it's it's supposed to

be the place of until God said, start the homes there, and we

are obedient, and now there's a homes there, and you know, at

least fifty to sixty percent of them are pre believers when they come to our

homes when we have it, and it's a place of meeting, housing the

holy and the most holy. Okay, nigs, Like, a sanctuary means

it is a holy place. So God is interested to dwell in a holy

or sacred place. That's what God wants to dwell in. God does not

want to dwell in in a place that's not holy. He wants to dwell

in a holy place. Next one, a tabernacle. A tabernacle means a

resting place, a dwelling place, a residence. So when this tab and

you know, this tabernacle moved around wherever the children of Israel want. The

thing about it was that God was very very exactly. It had to be

set up in a certain way, it had to be taken down in a

certain way, and even how it was moved, it had to be moved

very carefully. You see, if you and I are housing the Lord of

Lords, in the King of Kings in our hearts, we have to live,

alife, that's very careful, because wherever we go we are carrying his

presence. Next one, of course, it's a place of meeting men.

The tabernacle was a place of meeting appointed times. People came and you know

they were there. You know, there was Christmas, and there was Good

Friday, and there was Easter. Of course, not because this was before

Jesus was born. This was all the feasts, the feasts of the tabernacles,

the feast of this and the feast and I'm not going to get into

it all right, but it was a place, a joyful place, a

place of activity, a place where things were always going on. Let's go

on next. Okay, So this is what looked like very special, right

man, alife, Just look at it. You know, this is exactly

what it was. It was just a place, you know, surrounded by

an enclosure and Indian cloe. You had. This was the Bronze labor.

This is the place where the sacrifice used to take place. And then of

course this is the Holy Place. And it's separated into two sections. One

section where the priests would go in and do his stuff and the other section

which housed the Holy of Holies, which the priest will only could only enter

once a year. And I was told that they would tie a rope around

the priest so when he went into the Holy of Holies, because if he

didn't do things right, he's dead. Man. You want to go and

meet God, you see, Thank God we have Jesus, okay, because

now Jesus, you know, he helps us to reach God. You know

he protected without Jesus in front of us, when you go into the Holy

of Holies, if you were not there the way you should have been,

you died. And so of course, you know, ever, every now

and then these guys will will shake and we feel the rope pulled back back

a bit. They'll know he was alive, and if nothing happened, they

know he did. And then they pulled it out. You know why,

because they couldn't go in themselves. If they went in themselves, they would

have died. Also, God's like that. That's what the scripture says.

Man scripture says it. I believe it. I believe it because he said

it, and I know, yes, I know it's true. Okay,

next one, I give you something a little bit better. I'm not getting

into this as a teaching. I just want to know. Want you to

know some of the furniture that was in God's house. Do you know that

God's house had furniture? And there's a significance. Also, when they placed

the tabernacle, they couldn't just place it anywhere. You know, God would

extract instruct them exactly to place it facing north, southeast or west. God

is very exact. I want you to know a few things. Remember I

pointed out the altar that's where the burnt offerings. Thank God for Jesus,

because if Jesus is not around, I can imagine us going to church on

Good Friday and getting blood sprinkled all over us. And imagine getting into your

Mercedes Bends or your car when you're covered in blood. Thank God that Jesus

paid the price once and for all, so it does not have to be

paid again. Sin is forgiven once and for all. I mean, it's

amazing. Okay, that's and you see this, that's the bronze level that

that was where the priest would clean himself, wash himself. Gotta wash this

way, You've gotta wash that way. You gotta do this. You don't

do it right, you're a dead man. Now you enter the door,

the door of the temple. So the first part you had some furniture.

What was the furniture. The furniture was the table of the shore bread.

This would be the food that the priests eat. And then you have the

manora, which is the candles, the lights, the lambs, sorry not

candles, lambs. And you had the altar of incense, you know where

they would constantly burn incense. And and you see this, oh, we

recognize this. This the curtain, man, the curtain, the curtain that

separated man from the pronounced holiness of God, which was a real thing.

And scripture says that God had to force himself into this little boxing. He

had to force his presence into this area. So it's so concentrated. That's

why if you went in without doing it right, you're dead man. So

basically that was the furniture that was in the temple. And I want you

to know that everything speaks of Jesus. The furniture that God chose always spoke

of Jesus. What was it, hey, the sacrifice, the way,

the truth you're cleansing, your word, the thing that makes you prepared to

enter into the Lord's presence, and of course the life how you live.

Everything actually was speaking about Jesus. I give you some of the again,

and this is really not my message. Okay, I'm not wanting to share

this as a form of it's just so you know what happens later on the

altar of incense, this is where this incense sacrifice signifies the prayers of the

righteous. That's the altar of incense. Then you've got the altar of sacrifice.

This symbolizes the blood of Christ, the sacrifice, the blood of Christ.

You know, the arc of the Covenant, which was inside in the

most holy of holies. This was associated with the deity of the Lord,

God's actual presence. Of course, you know, the sprinkling of the blood

took place on the outside. What was that cleansing through the name of Jesus.

The horns of the altar, which is actually the horns of the altar

that is on on the inside that actually signifies the power of God. Then

you have the jar of manner. Okay, this was the food. It

was which represented Jesus. It was actually telling the Israelites, so how Jesus

was going to save them by what did he say? Eat my body,

drink my blood. The lamb stand Okay, it points again to Jesus.

The light symbolizes Jesus. The lever of brass, the annoying, the ritual

washing away of sin. Okay. A rod of erin was also there.

It was in the Holy of Holies. This symbolized also in Jesus power and

authority. The shore bread which was eaten by the priests. These are the

anticipated emblems of the Lord's sacrament. The two tone s tablets, the two

tablets of stone, Sorry, what did I say? Stone? Tablets of

stone, the Word of God, and the veil. The veil actually at

the time was a protection to the people who would not be able to stand

up to the holy presence of the Lord if it was not there. Well,

that was how it was. Then let's move on. Everything in the

tabernacle was a type that explained Jesus. You see the house of God that

he was intending to build his people all centered around Jesus everything. What is

that speak to us today? Hey, you and I we think we think

when we're insufficient, we think we are failures, we think we can't cut

it, we are not up to the mark. All that is true.

But God always had an intention to build something in us, and you know

he had to. He had to in the Old Testament set up something to

give us an idea of how important God's setting up homeliness is. You mean

to say God sets up homeliness, let's move you know. Actually I think

it's in Psalms. Psalm says unless the Lord builds the house, the labors

in vain. You see. That's why, that's why he told David,

Hey, you want to build me a house? I have been moving around

in this tent all this time. All this time, I've been moving it,

and would you build me a house? Do you know that Solomon built

a house? Is Solomon's temple around today? When man decides to do something,

even though it's good, you see, there's a difference between man doing

it and God doing it. Solomon's temple was so wonderful. Remember all that

wonderful gold I told you about that. It was the cause of people raiders

taking down stone upon stone to make sure they got to all the gold and

to get make sure they got to all the silver. It doesn't stand today.

That temple's gone. Now, if that was the temple that God wanted

for his people, it would be standing today. But actually God wanted to

show us a better way. He wanted to say, no, Mata,

how good and how beautiful you do something with your human hands. I got

something better. I have something better. No matter how much your money you

pour into something, when I do it, it's going to be better.

Oh, thank you for putting that out. Appreciate it the one. It's

not the notes because the Lord was actually speaking to me. Just now,

okay, let's move on. So Hebrews eight five says who served the copy

and shadow of the heavenly things as Moses was divinely instruct when he was about

to make the tabernacle, For he said, see that you make all things

according to the pattern shown on the mountain. Here Paul was saying that everything

in the tabernacle was a copy and a shadow of heavenly things. Hey,

heaven rules. What did what you know? Because it is something from heaven.

God was revealing something about himself from heaven, and he wanted to reveal

it here on earth. See to it that you make all things according to

the pattern shown to you on the mountain. God reminded Moses, everything that

I've shown you to do, do it exactly. Is that you know.

That is why when Jesus says I I am the Way, the Truth,

and the life. No man comes unto the Father but by me. He's

exact in his words, it means there is no other way. I apologize.

There is no other way. Why I say I apologizes, No matter

how much we want it to be another way, there isn't. And when

God says it, it settles it. See to it that you do everything

according to the instructions that I have given you on the mountain. Next one

Glatians two twenty and says I have been crucified with Christ. It is no

longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So now we actually

moving to where God wants to reside today. What does the scripture say Christ

lives in me? What was the tabernacle tabernacle was a dwelling place, dwelling

place for the spirit of God, the holiness of God. Now the Son

of God lives where in us? Does that kind of make us a tabernacle?

You better believe it. There's one difference, and it's a lovely difference

at that. You know, remember I was saying, how much of trouble

they had to take it down, wrap it up, carefully, wash clean,

put it in this to be transferred, putting. Do you know when

they carried the Ark of the Covenant they were supposed to touch it, for

if they touched it, they died. So how they carried it also very

important. And you know you could not worship or sacrifice unless you went into

the tabernacle and into that place. But isn't it wonderful that now we worship

wherever we are. We are, we offer sacrifices wherever we are. We

don't have to be in a specific place. Does it mean is that talking

about church? No, what the scriptures say about Churchurch is where we gather

to learn about the Lord. But we're talking about the dwelling place where sacrifice

happens, where we acknowledge God in a most personal way. You don't have

no priest anymore slaughtering whatever they slaughtered and throwing blood on ess. Because if

I decide, I'm gonna just get down on my knees here and pray to

the Lord. Guess what I am now in the tabernacle. But I want

to know it's much more than that. When Jesus did his work what in

scriptures say the curtain was torn. I am now like that high priest who

can go directly into the most holy presence of God. And guess what,

I don't have to only do it once a year. I can do it

anytime and every time I set my heart to it. I am in the

presence and the Holy of Holies with God, the Father. That makes you

a very special person. You're in your office surrounded by people who do not

know the Lord. Guess what you are the very present keeper of the presence

of the Lord. Where you go, sacrifice happens where you go. You

take the power of God with you because now you are the home of God.

Home is where the heart is. How share you a testimony? So

the other day we had I received a phone call. Somebody is not well.

Go he doesn't have much longer to live. And I was told that

this man many people had gone to share with him, and he would not

receive the Lord. Many pastors had shared with him, and he would not

really and he would say, no, no, I don't want I'm not

interested. Da da da da da. Anyway, when I went along with

he said, God, what do I share with him? What do I

tell him? I'm making my alder before the Lord. I'm going into the

presence of the whole, into the presence of God in that holiness, asking

what do I say? God put my heart do this? So I went

to see him, and you know, I held his hand and I said,

Uncle, I know you've heard about the Lord many times, but I'm

here to tell you Jesus still loves you. And I said, your daughter

loves you, and your grandchildren love you, and they would want nothing more

than to see you in the presence of Jesus as a friend. Then I

told him about my sister. And you all ow my sister because my sister

was from here, and how the Lord spoke to her during her final days,

and you know, and I said, like you, uncle, I

also fought when she told me about Jesus. I said, no, I

don't want to hear. Then one day the Lord spoke to me and said,

Terrence, you're not a Christian belief and I did. And many years

later, my sister sits down with me, and she's about to meet the

Lord soon, and she tells me, Terence, I do not know what

else to do. So I said, you don't need to do anything more.

You've done all that you need to do. Despite all your tribulations,

despite all your trials and your pain, you still have the name of Jesus

on your lips, and nothing can ever take that away from you. And

that comforted her and she went to be with the Lord. Then I asked

his uncle, would you like to know Jesus's Lord and Savior. He said

yes. I asked him a second time, so, uncle, you want

to know Jesus. Yes. I got his daughter together and we prayed.

We prayed for him, and he received the Lord. Since that day he

had a lung infection, something to do with his lungs. Right, he

had something to do with his He had some problem with his lungs since the

day he accepted Jesus Lord and Savior. The doctors are very surprised. His

lungs cleared very quickly his reliance on morphine reduced, and although he still has

cancer and it's still terminal, it doesn't frighten him anymore. So he asked

me, what about My wife said, don't worry, we'll take care of

So I went to see him again last week just to check them. He's

fine. He's still, you know, happy, very very happy. And

in that one week since I saw him, the Lord has brought healing to

his family's relationships with his other family members, and that was his wife.

And I shared with the wife in front of him and I said so she

said, no, no, I've got a lot of pressure. I say,

it's okay, Antie, your day is coming soon and you will receive

the Lord. So I haven't given up on her because I know that oppression

comes from where. Okay, so it is no longer I who live,

but Christ who lives in me. Let's go to the next one. That

Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Man, it's not through how

good you are. Thank God for that, because I was a rotten person.

Man, if God only you know dwelt in people who are good,

I'd have no chance. That should make all of us very happy, because

to put in perspective, the Bible says, there is no no what,

so we all qualify, okay ah, that you, being rooted and grounded

in love, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. You see,

it was not through anything good that I'd done because I could tell God,

God, I'm a rotten person. You and I know I fail so

much. But I thank you that by faith, by believing in you,

you dwell in my heart right now. So I'm speaking to those of you

that may not know Jesus as a personal lord and saving anything. Oh I'm

not good enough, Well, praise the Lord. We are all not good

enough. Look around you. These are all people who are not good enough,

every single one of us. But if you ask us to raise our

hands, who knows Jesus, a lot of hands will go up. Why

because Jesus came into our heart to live in us by faith, not because

of how good we were. I dwell in the word dwell actually means I

dwell in. I settle in. Wow, Jesus has settled in in us,

settling I am established in permanently inhabit. You know he is not Jesus

unpacked his bags. Man when Jesus moved into the house. He brought in

his own furniture. Yeah, what was his furniture? The word of God.

You want a beautiful looking house. The more word of God you put

in your house, what becomes very beautiful. You know. The Holy Spirit

changed my life. And there's a big swimming pool. Lord, I believe

you and thank you for everything that you've given me to eat. You've got

a nice dining table in your house of your heart. What is it you

eat? What you eat the fruit of the spirit. Wow? Is that

wonderful you talk about? Or a spiritual car to get you from him here

today? Hey, you don't need to get from here today. Lord,

in the name of Jesus I spent, send your spirit over the seas to

that person. Save him. Your prayer has gone across. I dwell in

settling, am established in permanently inhabit I love this next one one. Corinthians

three sixties said, do you not know that you are a temple of God

and that the spirit of God dwells in you. We talked about tabernacle in

temple just now. A temple is a shrine that part of the temple where

God himself resides the Holy of Holies. Guess where that Holy of Holies is

now? It is in your heart, man, inhabit dwell and in dwell.

Do you know when I just became a Christian many many years ago,

this nineteen seventy nine, that would make that forty five years ago. I

was sent to the Archbishop of Kl's house, you know, in care because

they were so happy that I now professed Jesus Christ alone to be the Lord

of lords and the King of kings and saving my soul and my life.

And he said, someone to talk to me. That someone who talked to

me was a sorry, is the present Archbishop of ker. So he came

to Terence, what's wrong if you pray to a few saints and you know,

no problem? What's the problem the all good people, isn't it?

So it's nineteen years old? And I looked at him and asking this question.

I tell you what, I'll answer that question if you can answer me

one, Is it sure? No problem? The Bible says your body is

a temple of the Holy Spirit, does it not? Yes? He said,

then why do you harm your body by smoking? Because he was puffing

right in front of me, you know. He got out of there like

his life depended on him, and he never came near me again. That's

what I remember that from this. But you see, you see, this

is where God dwells. You know, That's why we try not to do

things that are wrong. But you know what, we always will. And

thank God for the blood of Jesus that we don't have to go to someplace

and be sprinkled on. We just have to say, Jesus, forgive me

of this sin, and the blood of Jesus covers us and cities remembered no

more, hellelujah. Next one, or do you not know that your temple

is? Do you not? The one before? The one before is three

sixteen, and it says you are a temple of God and that the spirit

of God dwells in you. The next one, six ninety says, or

do you not know that your that your body is a temple of the Holy

Spirit? Who is where around you? Who is in church? Of course

he is in church, but you know he definitely is in church. He's

here today. Who is above you? Who is beneath you? No scripture

says what who is in you? Hey? We are batteries, powerhouses of

the presence and power of God. God. That doesn't mean we go around

loading it over people. Know. What it means is that we have the

ability to pray for someone and see something good happen in their life. That's

what we're supposed to do. We're supposed to believe. I've told you this

story. You know, when I'm passing by and the guy's struggling to start

his car, and I pray, and I say, God, send someone

to help him. God says, yes, go now. God answered my

prayer, except it was me that had to go take one big round to

go and have the guy. You know, I was so upset with the

Lord. I was. I don't know whether you were in the car.

I was really upset with the Lord. What is this? I pray?

I make me go one more round, get out of the car. And

when he took those jumper cables, I didn't say anything to the guy,

just put it in his battery, start the car. The car started.

I just took my jumper cables, got on my card. Left. We

learn that. Okay, so let's move on. Coming to a closeroit.

God has always desired to have a home not built with human hands, but

one of faith through the works and obedience of Jesus. You see, the

Tabernacle was a showpiece. It says that our Father, who on in heaven,

Hello be your name, The Kingdom come. That will be done on

earth as it is in heaven. The Kingdom come. You know in this

manner. Therefore pray well, okay, good, I remember that your kingdom

come. You will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Next

one is that? Next one after this? Yeah, God has always desired

to have a home not built with human hands, but one of faith through

the works and obedience of Jesus, so that we could forever house him in

our hearts and take him everywhere we go, that all may know that,

all me know that Jesus is Lord. You and I. We're not meant

to keep it towards us. And guys, let me encourage you. Do

not be afraid anymore to share about Jesus. When somebody is having a problem,

Just turned and say hey, look do you need help? You know,

after that man got saved, I'm thinking to myself, if anyone of

you has anyone who is about to you know, who's you know, maybe

dying or in a serious situation, and they do not know Jesus call me.

I have a go because I have the desire to snatch them out of

the jaws of hell, bring them into a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.

And you know what, it's not because I believe I've got some message.

I just believe that the message of truth is good and that people's spirit will

recognize a good message. The only thing is, as you're going, pray

to bind all the oppression that is around them, that speaks to them and

tries to hold them back. Remember, it is a spiritual battle, one

that has been worn by Jesus Christ. And all it needs for you is

to pray and believe it. You see, I am nothing special. I

don't have some you know, a fascinating gift. But what I do have

is I believe that that even as I was going to see that man,

I just believe he was going to be said, because the message is good

and people will receive good messages. Wow, we come to the end.

Isn't it wonderful that the Holy Spirit dwells in us? Isn't it wonderful that

he has his home in His home is where the heart is. So now

you understand that God has made his home in our hearts. Scripture says,

he stands at the door of your heart and knocks, and if anyone opens,

he will come in. The Bible says when he comes in, it

means in. It doesn't mean around, it doesn't mean oh. It means

comes in, and and and and. When he says and he will sup

with you, he'll have food with you, he'll have fellowship with you.

He will make a difference in your life. When Zacchius was up there on

the tree, and all Jesus said to him was say, Zachias, I'll

see you, short man. Come on down, Zachius, come on down.

The price is right. Have you seen the church? Price is right?

Come on down. Okay, So, as Zacchius is jumping and you

know he's coming down, I'm going to have food in your house. Descripture

doesn't say that Jesus told him to do anything. Description does not say that

God told him, Zakias, I need you to change. All the Bible

said was I'm going to come in and have food with you. And you

know what Zakias did. He stood up and said, if I've cheated anybody,

I'm going to restore. That's what happens when Jesus comes in and has

a meal with you. He sometimes doesn't need to tell you anything, but

just his mere presence will get us to do things right. Praise the Lord.

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