Praise the Lord. Welcome to God's Place party for Jesus' ministry. It's always an honor to be here in the presence of the Lord here. My beautiful wife serving together.
God is so good. And you know, we live in the praise of the Lord. I believe we live in the last hours. And if you line the Bible up with the news and newspapers and everything that's going on, you'll see the signs.
God is so gracious to warn us. He's not willing for any of us to perish, but we always come to repentance. Amen. But I want to share a word that God has given me here today.
It's going to be in the first Peter chapter four. And it's starting in verse 17. Praise the Lord. I'm going to go back to verse 16.
And before I read this, I just want to say a quick prayer. And the Father God, we come by to you today. We thank you for all the viewers out there today. Lord, I pray for everybody out there.
Lord, I pray for Lord, I pray for Lord, for salvation. I pray for deliverance. I pray for healings. Lord, we just ask you Lord, thank you for this opportunity.
The senior word fourth, we know it will accomplish what you said it ought to do. Let me get out of the way Lord. You use me as a mouthpiece of a speech of your people. We love you and give you all the honor, the glory and praise.
In Jesus' name, amen. It's talking about first Peter chapter four, starting by 16. He said, if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed. But let him glorify God on this behalf.
He said, for time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. For if it begins first, I'm sorry, and if it first begins at us, what shall it end of them that obey not the gospel of God? And if the righteous or scarcely be saved, where shall it ungodly in the center appear? He says, wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing as a faithful creator.
We thank you Lord, now use it. You know, it's a judgment. You know, the Bible is talking about judgment. It begins at the house of God.
Now, we're not, the price of God, the house of God is not the church. We are the church, but the house is God where people of God comes to fellowship and to come and get instructions from God. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, amen. And it's proper for doctrine, for correction, for instructions that mean God may leave righteous.
And so it's kind of, you know, I want everybody to be praying about this because I mean, for time has come for judgment. Must begin at the house of God. For it begins at us. What shall it end of them that obey not the gospel of God?
And so the reason that it starts with us, the house of God, because it's really, it's our responsibility. You know, our world today is a mess. I mean, so many people overdosing, I know here in Marshall, Tennessee, they was talking about homicides that already doubled in the first month of the year, then what it was last year. I mean, it's just getting worse and worse and worse.
And you know, the epidemic with the drugs, this is not the government's responsibility. You know, it starts with us. God has given us power. The same spirit that raises Jesus from the dead.
It's available to us. I mean, he tells you Luke 418, he said, the spirit of the Lord is upon us. He said, the only dust of preacher gospel to the poor, the healed of brokenhearted, the preacher delivered to the capate and recovered inside of the blind. You know, he tells us to go out in all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He said, those who believe in his name shall be saved. Those who believe in all of it, they shall be damned. He said, these signs shall follow. He said, we should cast out demons.
We should take up serpents. We should drink anything gallium. He said, daily praise the Lord. I got God in my mind.
Amen. And it will not harm us. Amen. So, you know, the church, Paul himself, he wrote seven letters to the churches and six of them he told him to repent.
Only one of them was doing God's will. And you know, it's praise the Lord. It's time for the churches to become churches. Amen.
To get out of the box. You know, he tells us to go out to the highways and to the hedges, to compel the people to come in that the house might be filled. The church is today. It's shame.
I'm not talking about all the churches. I'm talking about majority of the churches. You see no power. I mean, literally they don't even have altar calls anymore.
I mean, it's like, I don't know what happened to the church world. Church world is not preaching on repentance. They're not preaching commandments. And so, you know, all these, you know, he says judgment begins at us.
You know, I preached the segment of time before, a week before last, it was talking about, you know, in Ezekiel chapter three verse 20 when the righteous men follows, God will put a stone above for him. And he says, and he will die in the sins and the righteous he has done. We'll be remembered no more. He said, but if you know, I warned that righteous man.
That blood is required on my hands. So, you know, we got to preach. We got to preach these people. We're called to preach.
Amen. We're not churches. We're not supposed to make people, they're supposed to let them know the love of Christ. And the love of Christ is Jesus died for sins that we can receive His Spirit, that we can walk in victory.
We don't have to live a sinful life no more because of wages to sin his death. The Bible says in Romans 614, he said, the sin has no more dominion over us. And so we're supposed to walk in pureness and holiness. Amen.
The Bible says, first Peter, 1 16 to be holy because he is holy. Amen. Matthew 548, be perfect with your Father in Heaven's perfect. I rebuke you, say, praise the Lord.
I'm talking today. But anyways, so, you know, that's our job as churches and preachers is to preach. I mean, I tell my people to come to church, new people, I said, look, I'm not a some such therapist. I come to give you the word of God.
You should know the truth and the truth will make you free. He tells us he says, let your conversation be nothing but the gospel. Nothing but the gospel and not a watered down gospel, but cross be in crucified. Well, you know, it goes back to Hosea in chapter 4 in verse 1.
He says, here the word of the Lord, you children of Israel. He said, for the Lord has controversy with habitations, habitats of the land because there is no truth. There is no mercy. There is no knowledge of God in the land.
In Hosea 4.6, he said, my people is a story from my knowledge. When he says my people, he's talking about the church, his people. Amen. He said, my people is a story from my knowledge.
For they have rejected knowledge. I will also reject thee. He said, thou has no priest in me. Seeing that they have forgotten the law of thy God.
I will also forget their children. And so, literally, when we forget God's laws and reject him, it's kind of like we reap what we sell things. He shows us what the way we feel about our children is what God feels about us. And so, we start having problems in our children and our relationships with our children.
And so, I'll throw the word of God. God is talking to the church. In 1997-13, when he said, straight as a gate, and I was away. The probably leads to destruction.
Meaning we'll go there at. He said, but straight as a gate, and there was a way that leads a life. And very few people will find it. And so, again, he's talking to the church.
In 1997-21, not everyone that says Lord Lord, so I'm here at the Kingdom of God. Just those who do's will of my Father. But Lord Lord, have I not cast up devils. If I don't know many wonderful works in your name, I don't pay the homeless.
If I don't drill a bus. If I don't do this. Now, if I don't do this, I'll tell you, I asked God his depart for me. He worked as an equity.
I never knew you. And the reason he's seen this guy is you know, the Bible talks about God's sin in the book of the Caesolinians. That he was seen as strong delusion to make people believe of life. And that's scary.
You know, not that the devil was seen as strong delusion, but God will. And the God has revealed it to me, the reason that he will let people believe a strong delusion because people' not truly seek in God their whole heart. They're not getting that commandment where he says to let me with you, your whole heart. Your mind, your soul, and you're string and that's what God wants from us.
You know, he tells us in Matthew 10, if we love ourselves or not our mother father or We're not worthy of him, amen? And so, I mean, that's a pretty strong statement, but that's how jealous God is over us. He wants our 100% attention all the time. It's not a day by day walk.
It's a minute by minute, second by second, grabbing hold of God's hand. He did not take it up the cross, deny himself. Follow him, David is not worthy of him. He loses his life, will lose it, but he loses his life will find it.
And so, the phagens chapter five, you know, we've heard many years, all through my life, we're all sinners, we're all sinners, everyone else is the sinners. But, you know, I'm gonna talk about a phagens chapter five verse one, he said, be he follows me. And walk in love as I loved you. I've given myself for you for an offering and a sacrifice for us weeks, my own Savior, he said, but let not.
Fornication, covenants, or anything unclean, be named among you, not even one time as you become a saint. So, we're sinners, or we're saints, amen? We're the holy, or unholy? We're righteous, or we're unrighteous.
And so, it's time that church has become churches because this, you know, so many people is blaming God for the coronavirus. Amen, praise the Lord. But, you know, it's not the reason that the coronavirus is here is because, you know, the Lord predicted this stuff. He said these things would happen because people's rebelling against him are forgetting his laws, you know, but he gives us a secure fort in 2 Chronicles 7, 14.
If my people, which are caught by my name, would humble themselves, seek my face and pray, turn from your wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive your sins and heal your lands, amen? So, he's given us the antidote, amen? Jesus has ended up, there's the Bible said, I sent my word to heal you and to save you from destruction. He's given us an answer to every one of our problems.
The Bible said in Psalms 1, 27, verse 29, that he calms the storms and even makes the waves to the ocean, but the problem of it is, is people praise God, people's turn away from God. You know, Jeremiah 5, 25, our sins without any good things from us. God wants to heal our lands. He wants to secure all these things that's going on in the streets, every day, kids getting killed, homicide murders.
I mean, people getting sexually molested, the kids are getting abused, God, I mean, you know, but he needs praise God, God wants to do this, but he needs workers. He says, my harvest is plenty, but my labors are a few. Amen? It takes people seeking God, just like Noah, he had to seek God in order to build a boat.
He wouldn't know boat builder. You know, he had to get up seeking God's face every day. God explained to him exactly how long to build a boat, how long to build a boat, how deep to build a boat. He had to be seeking, he had to be in secret, God, he had to be seeking God every day.
If he'd got up one day and not seeking God, so I think I know how to do it, I've been doing it for 100 years, I think I'll try to build it on my own today. Guess what? The boat will just sink, amen? And he says, you know, his harvest is plenty, but his labors are few.
You know? He says. Yes, and he tells us in Matthew 24 12, he says, because that sin abounds, that the love of many will wax cold, the hearts will. You know, so they have received cross, but because of the sin that they're not surrendering or that surrounds us with fear or whatever it is, you know, because we're not forsaken that, you know, that sin is abounding.
You know, the Bible says, we're sin abounds, grace abounds more. You know, God, God's give us grace and mercy and the power over sin. He says that, you know, he gave us power and authority over all devils that are hands, we should lay hands on the stick and they shall recover. We should cast out devils.
He said, freely, you have received, freely give. And that's the Holy Spirit. You know, we freely receive Jesus, and we're supposed to be given the presence of God, you know? You know, I think about it like it's church ought to be a commanding post, amen?
It ought to be a place that people come in and realize how to give their life to cross. Whether they get confessors, sins, believe in the heart that Jesus died and he's resurrected in the third day, believe in that in the heart and then they confess their sins and then Holy Spirit, and then Moses, but once they do that, as pastors, as leaders, we're supposed to teach people that God wants everyone else to be disciples. We're supposed to, everyone of us. I mean, we're not supposed to come to church and sit there for 10 years sitting on a period of time.
He said, you're supposed to be teachers by now, but why do you still desire to drink on the milk and not the meat? So once you know the truth, God has revealed the truth and he saved you, he's spiritually is in you, because if you're really seeking him, you're all right, you can't help but to go. You'll have the same love as God's college you have for others. You'll have the same compassion, amen?
You'll have the desire to see people so saved, amen? And again, that's really heartbreaking that the Bible said the harves are pretty, but the labors are few. And so listen, nobody's called just to come and sit at a church year after year after year after year of being a cheerleader, amen? We're all called, God wants us to be witnesses.
It's not suggesting, but he's committed for all of us to be witnesses. We're supposed to be servants. We're supposed to be disciples, amen too, to God's kingdom. Amen, praise the Lord.
So. And we're disciples if we continue in his word. And you live by name, Jesus God. Yeah, if you're showing day be my disciple, but not just continue being a hear of the word, but a doer, you know?
You gotta be a doer the word. Absolutely, that's James 120, yeah. Yeah, so you know just like Jonah, praise the Lord. You know, Jonah was running from God.
He was a righteous man. God told him to go to preach to the Nineveh. He's like, no, I want to do things my way. I'll just go to, I'll go get on the boat.
I'll run from God. I'll do what I want to do. But then what happened, praise the Lord. The boat, praise the winds came, the storms came.
There was a storm that was about to break the boat in half. Everybody around Jonah was looking at everything they had. It was throwing it off the boat, trying to lighten the boat because of one man's sins. You know, the Bible says it curses in the house, the wicked.
So, I mean, it's not, I mean, Jonah didn't say he was a drunk or a crackhead. It was the fact that he was been disobedient to God is a reason. That he was about to perish. So, when they were called virgins, they meant, so they were good people, they meant, but they was not filled with the Spirit.
You'll not get filled by the Spirit just going to church once or twice a week. You have God, my wife preached a message last week about us. She told a message, own sick and Godly, whole heart. And that's what God wants for most.
Guys, we got to get this first commandment where we truly love God, our whole heart, our mind, our soul, our strength. When we're ready, willing and able to do whatever God has called us to do. You know, praise the God's very mind. I said, here I am, seeing me, seeing the Lord, and praise God.
We got to be willing. I'll be a seat ye brother by the mercies of God that cheap presents your body as a living sacrifice. Amen. We got to surrender ourselves, surrender our lives.
The Bible said he defined his life, we'll lose it, but he doesn't lose his life, we'll find it. There's nothing like serving Jesus. Amen. I'm telling you, the Bible said he is a rewarder to those who deal with you.
He said in the book of Psalms 37, four I think. He said, if you delight yourself in the Lord, he will give you desires of your heart. You can't even imagine. The Bible said the eyes not seen, nor neither is it heard or entered into the heart, but God has to be prior to those who love him.
But listen, guys, in order to do so, we have got to get, we have the blood of Jesus, which you've been saved. Amen. You got to seal. Amen.
We're going to have to give you life without works. We've got to build that relationship. The Bible says the first John to six, if you're abiding God, guess what, he'll abiding you. Then guess what, you'll walk as he walks.
Amen. You'll walk with power, power, anointing of the Holy Spirit. God's called us to go lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. I want to thank God, praise God, give God all the glory.
We see cancer here by the time. Amen. We see miracles all the time. It's just common.
It's not, it's praise the Lord. People don't believe in miracles. I talked to a pastor a year ago. He said, I've seen one miracle for 40 years.
I praise the Lord, give him all the glory. I've seen, praise the Lord. I pray Lord, I sing 40 miracles in one year. Amen, it's amazing.
But it takes giving God your whole heart, your mind, your soul, your strength, it takes praying, it takes fasting. He gives a specific instruction. The man came to the disciples, the disciples prayed for him. Well, they couldn't heal him.
I said, Jesus, why could we not heal this man? Well, this power comes from praying and fasting. Notice he said praying first only, because you have to pray in order to fast. You can't just fast.
We have to have God's help to help us fast. But listen, guys, this world, when Jesus shows up, the Bible said it's gonna be a fearful thing to follow the hands of the living God. Nothing's gonna matter. It ain't gonna matter how much money you got in your bank account.
Amen, from my understanding, you can't take nothing with you. What if prophet and man again, the whole world is a sown hell? It ain't gonna matter how much your truck is, or your bigger house is, or a praise God, or nothing's gonna matter, but where you're at with Jesus Christ. He said, behold, I come quickly.
My reward is with me to give to every man according to his work. Amen, Matthew 10, 22. He says those who invert to the end shall be saved. That first scripture that I read, he said, if any man suffers a Christian, let him not be ashamed.
But let him glorify God on this behalf. If you suffer persecution for being a Christian, guess what? That means you're doing well. Amen.
He said, if you live God, I'm gonna be ashamed of any child suffered persecution. That, he didn't say you might. He didn't say maybe. He said you would.
Praise God for persecution. Amen. I've been spit on them, curse that. Curse about every day.
He seems like amen. But it's all good. I got Jesus on my truck. I glorify God.
I love God. God is my everything. He's my number one. He's my soul mate.
He's my... I just can't tell you how much I love God. Well, the reason is because He saved no wretch like me. He saved no crackhead.
Junkie, sinner that I was, a lost person. Amen. And he's gave me a beautiful wife, he's gave me a beautiful wife, a kid. But most of all, he's gave me joy and happiness and peace and assurance if he'd be for me.
The nuke of being against me. He's gave me a word. And you'd want 24 unto him that's able to keep me from following. I can't keep myself from following.
Amen. I couldn't even read when God called me to preach. I know nothing. The only thing I know is what God has showed me, what God has taught me, what God leads me.
Amen. He's my everything. He's my Lord. He's my praise.
We played about 22 times before we did discernment. Amen. Before we come in here. Wow.
Because I know I can't do nothing without God. The Bible said, I'm the vine and you're the branch without me. You can do nothing. Sometimes folks out here are trying to do this, trying to be pastors and trying to be leaders and trying to lead people to the Lord without seeking God and giving your whole heart.
Your mind, your soul and your strength. That's the self-righteous. Amen. See, it has to be God that does it through us.
That's why the Bible says. He says I'll tell you week and he said you are enemies of the cross. He said that's why he says I would rather have you cold than look warm. Amen.
He'd have you not even talking about Jesus. Then somebody run around here. But praise the Lord how to do you. I'm a Christian.
And I'm telling the dirty joke the next man. And this happened everywhere. This is happened in a leadership at churches. I mean, it's a shame guys.
We have got to step it up. to set examples on what true Christians are. Amen. The Bible says, first Peter chapter 2 verse 21, cross suffered, he died to leave his example, that we should follow him.
A man with no sin or God on his mouth. He set the example for the world. Amen, for the church. Now it's time for the church to set the example for the world.
Amen, that's why people don't believe in Christ anymore. They don't believe in Jesus, because they say so many hypocrites. Amen, and praise the Lord. But listen, he picked 12 men, and he turned his whole world upside down.
If we would just come together in unity, come together, a three-quarter rope is unaddeically broken. Amen, there's power in numbers. The prayer of one goes up a thousand times. Prayer of two goes up ten thousand times.
I know there's some people out there that say the Elijah's experience. Should have been dead four or five times. Oh, dear, this, that, you know, the living history, Thomas, you know what, praise God, you're a perfect candidate for what God is looking for. Amen, you're a chosen vessel.
That's the reason that you made it, that God's brought you out of depth situation so many times. Because that's what he does. He pulls people like us, and he says in Luke 747, that he'd had been forgiven for much, we love much. You'll realize that, you know what, like myself, I deserved him.
That's what I deserved. Why would somebody who was saving, oh wretched sinners that I was, a liar, thief, a drunk, a no good junkie, crackhead. Why would God want to save me? And you know what, God answered that.
And he says, because I love you. And that's what God wants you to know today. God loves you. No matter where you're at, no matter what you've done, God loves you right where you're at.
And you might be one of these people that's never done really anything. We're the hardest ones to reach. But I'm gonna tell you something. If you, I don't care if you never drop alcohol in your life, praise God, and you're still a virgin at 33 years old, praise the Lord.
But if you've never been born again, you're still dying, go to hell. Amen, without God's righteous, I mean without God, we're all, or righteous as filthy as rags. Amen, there's still something in your life that's not a God if you're not welcome with God. The sad part about it is, most people's been saved still living on golly life because they choose to.
Amen, God gives us power of it. We don't have to walk in on golly life. We don't have to live a simple life. We're lustrous can see that brings forth sin.
When sin is finished, it brings forth death. Amen, the wages of sin is death. What you gotta do is love God more than the sin. Amen, you gotta love God.
It's a choice. There's people that's bound up in addictions right now because they choose to be. They choose praise God. They have the knowledge of God.
The Bible said, you know, if they come to God's place, praise first thing God teaches them that God knows how to deliver the golly from temptation and reserve the unjust to the dead, judgment be punished. There's no weapon forms to ever prosper against you. If you would totally get down and commit and submit and give it off the cross. Yeah, see, he tells us in Revelations 2 4, he says, repent, he said return to your first love, repent and do that first works over.
A lot of us have, you know, like Mary and Martha, we become like Martha, you know, to occupied and preoccupied to, you know, to focus on the things that, you know, that make us busy and keep us from a relationship and spending time, quality one on one time with God is everything. And we become like warm because of the busyness. But Satan, that's what he's using today is busyness. The Bible says it'll be like the days of Noah.
They'll be building. They'll be giving in marriage. And they'll be drinking. And you know, all these things, you know, and a lot of that's going on even, you know, in a lot of the churches, they're so worried about building onto the church kingdom.
Let's keep building, continue building bigger and bigger and bigger. And you know, we forget, you know, our first love. He tells us that we're supposed to leave the principles of doctrine of cross, but go on into perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance. He actually says, I have some more against thee.
You have left your first love. There's a lot of people out there that felt that fire and felt that zeal. Listen, we're supposed to keep that zeal. That's not supposed to go away, amen.
Praise God, I remember I told me when I first had my life to cross 15 years ago, said, you'll calm down. I said, I'll review you. Pray I never calm down. You need to get on fire, amen.
I want to calm down 15 years later. I'm still on fire. I can't wait to walk in a while for someone to tell somebody about Jesus. Everywhere you go is a divine opponent.
You go to go, she's told somebody's here about God. You go to walk, somebody's here about God. You're not there just to get me. Praise God, who are you?
I mean, it's not about you. It's about building the kingdom of God. Let's work together. Let's pray together.
Let's come to unity. Put all these denominations, religions aside. That's not of God. They're obviously the Lord is one spirit.
Let there be no division among you. Please pray for God's place ministry. It's his. We're looking for leaders.
People are sold out. People ready to go to the streets. When you house them, you've got houses right now. They're overflowed.
People are sleeping on couches and floors. And but please pray and see what God would have you do. We're looking for people that would team up with us. Amen, physically.
And go out here and help God build his kingdom. God's kingdom. Amen, not the church's kingdom. The numbers on the screen if you need prior, please pray.
We'll pray for you if you'd be glad to. If it's starting out, we'll probably church right now. We love you because God loves you. Praise God.
But we gotta love ourselves enough. Amen to come to God and let him control your life. God bless you. See you next week.
Have a good night. God bless you. Remember, the Bible says in the book of John chapter three, verse three, that you must be born again. And being born again means that you ask God to come in your heart and save you from your sins.
The Bible says if you confess your sins, he is faithful and just forgive you and clean you from all in righteousness. And now it means your life don't blow to you no more. It belongs to him. And the Bible says, trust God be whole heart, not the lean on your own understanding.
Know the human always and he said, we've got your past. Now it's time to get a relationship with God by reading, praying, seeking God be whole heart, each and every day of your life. The Bible says another one in greatest commitment is to love God with your whole heart, your mind, your soul, and your strength. Thank you for tuning in.
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