Going Deeper | Part 7

Hey, guys. This is the New Heights Church podcast, and we just want to welcome you and thank you for joining us today. We hope this message inspires and encourages you. Here at New Heights, we exist to love people and point them to Christ.

Enjoy today's service. Always bring your Bible to church. Always bring your Bible to church. Think about it.

I call her baby because it's my daughter. Praise the Lord. I want to make sure everybody's aware of that. I'm gonna throw that word around.

Always bring your Bible church. Your Bible tells you who Jesus is. Jesus tells you who you are. So if you know what the Bible says, you know who Jesus is.

You know who Jesus is. You don't know who you are. You know what the Bible says. You know what I said?

The Bible says that can be very dangerous. Can be very, very dangerous. A lot of people living in bonds right now because they don't know. Third John two Love above all things.

I wish you a prosperous being healthy as your soul prospers. That one verse is enough to set you free. And a thousand different rel. From a thousand different religious mindsets.

God is thinking about you when he thinks about you. He wants you to be prosperous and healthy, beloved of all things, which you would prosper and being healthy and as your soul prospers. That kind of covers it, doesn't it? So you can get free when you know the Bible and you stay bound when you know what somebody said the Bible said, I got.

I got a lot of good friends. Uh, and honestly, I said, I don't have any good friends. I got some friends. You know, there's a lot of little.

I don't know, but I remember years ago that is a good friend of mine for a season, and he was constantly sending me. Send me these books and read this book. And I said, brother, I said, I appreciate it. I keep a couple books going almost any time.

I said, but. But this really gets into my Bible reading. I can't read now. You do what you want.

I can't read three books a day and the Bible. I want to know what the Bible said. I want to go right to the source. Now, that doesn't mean that I don't want to, you know, find out what somebody else interpreted or otherwise.

I understand, but I don't want to start there. I want to start with the Bible and then let's go from there. You know what I'm saying? So you got to know the Bible says, the only way you know, the Bible says, you guys have to read it or now you can listen to it.

But when you come to church, I always bring your Bible. Come on, give me a big amen right there. Always bring your Bible to church. Stop playing games with God.

Stop acting like a word. You'll jump out and get in your head. You got to read this stuff. You got to find out what it says.

You understand? Every church that has ever been birthed, born, planted, started, whatever word that you use comes because the Bible told us who Jesus is. There's not a person alive right now that was at that bar of tomb when he came out of the grave. Every one of us are reading from the book.

That's how it starts. So if you don't value the Bible at the nth degree, to the max of the max, if you wave the. If you sit there and wave the constitution as loud as you can and flapping everybody's face, but nobody even knows that you know, John 3:16. It's possible you have placed a document above the document.

I'm not mad at anybody and anybody stands unless it argues with God. But if you're so vocal about a different piece of parchment than the one that is blood stained, that has black and red letters that have the actual keys and words to life itself on the inside of it, then you have. The Bible says it like this. You have an unjust balance and that is an abomination to our God.

Well, you know, this is what this says. This is what that says. Well, I found that if you wrote the scripture out loud a lot of times all of those divisive demons go away. Anyway, this makes sense.

So I always bring you. Have you received the offering? Yes. Jake said no.

You were gone. You were in the parking lot. I don't blame you. Praise the Lord.

I started asking Teresa, Teresa, we received the offering yet? Thank you, Teresa. Would you text Jake the answer when I ask? Trying to make it look good.

I do like that shirt though. Praise the Lord. Good shark. Always bring your Bible to church.

Read your Bible every day. Read your Bible every day. Read your Bible. So I don't know where to start.

We didn't know how to use Netflix, so you bought it. Come on. You bought a car, you didn't know how to drive. You bought an iPhone you know how to use.

Didn't stop you from doing that. You bought an Astro Stick. If you've never been driven in Houston, you found your way to your seat, didn't stop you. How come that's become a pertinent excuse?

I'm of the persuasion that there is no excuse. The Word of God is more readily available now, particularly in the United States of America, where we are, than it's ever been in the history of society. But we'll probably have fewer people reading. It's more available.

You have to probably have fewer people reading it. A lot of Christians are relying on Facebook and Instagram for a word of the day to be. To be their Bible reading. You are playing biblical roulette.

Well, just woke up in fortune cookie. I said, God can't use. I'm just saying that's not God's plan for you to learn the evil indefinitely. Well, I put the scripture out in every medium on every.

On every outlet, but you can't just sit there and think that somebody who got inspired, you know, somewhere else is going to have the Word for you every day. You got to have the word yourself. This makes sense. All right, First Corinthians, chapter number two.

Praise the Lord. We're going to start around verse number. Let's just start verse one. This is Paul writing the church of Corinth.

He said, I come to you. We're going to go quick for a while because we covered this a couple weeks ago, but I really feel like we recap to get where we're going today. Brethren, when I came to you, I didn't come with excellency of speech. Well, I'm glad it's in the Bible that set me free right there.

My kids, we have this thing that we do where we kind of do a accent check, different words. Recently went fishing, and we went and bought a bunch of minnows. But apparently you put a fishing pole pole in my hand and they become minnows. And so my youngest, Trinity, says to me, daddy, did your parents teach you how to say Nina?

I said, it was my mom. She's the one talking. She said, well, you say some words funny. I said, no, I don't.

Yes, you do, dad. She said, you say minna instead of minnow. I said, well, I don't know where I got that. She said, well, you also say pinch.

I said, well, how are you supposed to say pinch? She said, just say pinch, dad. So we have this thing where when a word comes out, we all have an accent check. We just go around the family to see what part of Texas you're from.

So I'm glad He said, I didn't come to you with excellence of speech that might have disqualified me or of wisdom, declaring on you the testimony of God. For I determine not to know anything among you. Say Jesus Christ and him crucified I can stop anywhere, but I'm going to try to keep going. I was with you in weakness and fear.

And much trembling in my speech. And my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom and demonstration of the spirit and of power. That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. How be it?

We speak wisdom among them that are perfect? Everybody say mature. We speak wisdom among them that are mature. Yet not the wisdom of this world.

Nor of the rulers or the princes of this world. That comes to nothing. The rulers of this world and all their ungodly wisdom will come to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.

God ordained hidden wisdom before the world for our glory or for our view. One translation says God. The Bible says in Proverbs 25. That is the glory of God to conceal a thing.

But it's the honor of kings to search a thing out. The Bible says that you are a king and a priest on the Argyll. So it is the honor or the glory of God to conceal a thing. But the truth is, he conceals it in plain sight.

But it is the honor of kings. That's you and me. It is the honor of kings to search it out and to find it. And to spend the rest of our life on a journey to find out.

What does the word of God say? Where does he say it? How does he say it? What's the spirit of the Lord saying right now?

Which way is the wind of the spirit blowing in this moment? Because I don't want to do something that's outside of what God wants done right now. But a lot of times what is available to you is into the world. Because as soon as you get born again, now all of a sudden, the ears that you had that could not hear because you did not have ears to hear things that had a spiritual nature to them.

Now you have the ability to hear things that you could not hear before. But you have to understand it is the honor or the glory of kings for you to search out what God had to say. In other words, you can't just read the Bible. You read the Bible, you got to find out, what did he mean?

Why does he keep going back to a spotless lamb? Why didn't he use a spotless bull? Why didn't he use a spotless. Why didn't he use a spotless emu.

Because before the foundation of the world, the lamb of God was slain. So we Got to understand that God was tying the entire thing together the whole time. But if you don't know what the word of God says, then you can't tie all those things together. And you'll be sitting there having a form of godliness, but you will deny the power of God.

You might make an intellectual decision to follow God, but the spirit of Almighty God will never be loose to do for you what only the spirit of God can do for you. Paul, he was a Pharisee of Pharisees. He knew the law better than all of them combined. And he came up and he said, dog, don't get twisted.

I didn't come to you and try to tongue tie a big word together and try to make you impress what I came and taught you. Christ and him crucified. There's gotta be a place on the inside of you where you go back to that truth that is never gonna fail you. It's never gonna let you down.

There's gonna be times where you can't remember exactly what that word said in this one little area. Or what my favorite preacher say at that time, or what my prayer, my praying grandma used to say all the time, what was it? But baby, you can't remember Christ and him crucified. That's why I don't come up here trying to impress you on dialect number one.

It would be a futile effort. But number two is a power of God changed me. The spirit of Almighty God moved in my life and all of a sudden I was a dead man. Yet I live.

All of a sudden I had a purpose that was indefinite. All of a sudden, not even, not even threatening my life would stop me from preaching this gospel. I understand what the apostle Paul said when he said, for me to die, to live is gonna profit you. It's gonna be good for everybody around me.

But me dying would actually set me into my reward. There's gotta be an understanding down deep in your bones that Christianity is not a decision. Christianity is a conversion. It is a completely new way of doing things.

A lot of times we get so. We get so in the routine of our life that what we really need is a little 52 car pickup. That's a game that adults used to play with kids. They give that card, say, well, you want to play games?

Yeah, we want to play 52 card pickup. And they said, oh yeah, I want to play 52 card pickup. And the adult just throw the cards from there, said, pick them up. Sometimes you need a little 52 card pickup in your life.

Sometimes you may have set your deck in order that the orb of the order is not magnifying God at the level that you're capable of magnifying God. And the whole thing needs to be disrupted so that you can pick it up and put it back in order. Sometimes somebody give God a hand of praise this morning. Sometimes you just need a reset.

It's the honor of kings to search it out. Verse 8, which none of the princes of this world, none of the rulers of this world knew. Listen to this. Because if they had known it, they never would have crucified the Lord of Glory.

If they would have known that he was not going to stay in the tomb and that some 2,000 years later we would all be sitting here free, they would have never crucified the Lord of Glory. Listen to this. Demons don't even know the full plan that God has for your life. Because if they knew, they would never mess with you.

Because anything they steal from you, if you know what the word says, it's got to come back to you sevenfold. Let me just say like this. You get too expensive to steal from. All of a sudden you start putting a demand on the supernatural realm.

Because if there is a godly supernatural realm, there's an evil supernatural realm. The difference is the evil supernatural realm, while it may be spooky and scary to some people, to us it's actually under our feet. The only authority the enemy has is the authority that you relinquish. The Bible says that the violent take it by for the kingdom.

Let me just say it real clear, by looking right in my face, we concede nothing. Nothing. But no element of power relinquishes. Relinquishes its rights.

It has to be taken from them. That's why the enemy cannot be played with like a plaything. The enemy must be told exactly what he. What he ought to do at all times.

Because if not, you are conceding ground to him in that area, even letting him remain in that area is concession. We could see nothing. Let me ask you a question. Do you think that you ought to ask the devil permission before you tell him what to do?

Do you think you ought to ask the little demons and the little, the little weak principalities, should we attack? Should we not attack? No. The kingdom suffers violence, but we take by force.

We have to go and take ground from the enemy that must be taken from him. Think about your house for a minute. Who has a TV in your house? Have you ever got an email from the devil asking you if it was okay to Play a commercial in your home that magnifies Satan.

Have you ever been asked by the devil if he could play a YouTube ad? That is, that is contrary to your faith structure in the eyeballs of your children. He's not conceding, he's not asking permission. Why are Christians asking permission?

For us to go and take back what the enemy has stolen from us. The devil is a liar. The Bible says. My Bible.

Your Bible says the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. He says you possess everywhere you put your foot. If I just fold your foot one time, that belongs to you. You're an heir of the joint heir with Jesus Christ.

That means that, listen, the days of casual Christianity are over. You can have your little casual Christian club all you want. I don't want to offend anybody. I don't want this.

I want to make sure everybody has the right opportunity. I'm telling you the power of almighty God is what these people need. And that's everybody on the planet. We don't need to explain everything.

When God didn't walk out of the tomb and say let me explain to you exactly how I rose from the dead. No, he walked out of there and said I did exactly what I said I'm gonna do. There's gotta be a little 52 car pick up every now and then where you set the whole thing back where it belongs. Christ and him crucified.

Cuz if not you'll live for God so long you'll think you're doing. Take a deep breath. God made that possible. There's got to be, there's got to be an understanding that we didn't make God, God made us.

And therefore we've got to get to the place where we fulfill the will of God. But we're not going to fulfill the will of God. Playing, playing ticky tacky with the enemy. You got to take your place of authority.

He said mankind was given dominion. That word means dominate. I don't know about dominating. You know, I thought we were just going to come in here and kumbayano.

They got song, they got speakers going, they got lights, they got stuff on the screen. I think the preacher's wearing a hoodie. I just don't understand it. That's how free people act.

There's the greatest of angels on the planet is a free person. Come on, let's give God another hand. Praise right there. I'm trying to get somewhere.

This Bible just keeps stopping me. The princess didn't know for they had known. They never crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written.

Let's read that together. But as it is written. One more time. But as it is written.

If the apostle Paul quotes the scripture when he's writing scripture, how much we all quote, quote scripture. He is a as I heard about somebody that said, well, they were a prophetic moment. This man be this movie somebody. He is a as it was said, you know, when I was in my car and I was crying my eyes out.

You have encountered with God. It can be real. But your flesh is still in the room. I've lived long enough to watch people twist a godly word into a word that works for them.

As it is written, I has not seen nor ear heard, nor neither appeared into the heart of man. The things which God has prepared for them that love him. Somebody say, that's me. That means he's talking about you.

You haven't seen, you haven't heard. Hasn't entered your heart or your mind. All the things that God has prepared for a new Heights Church member. You love God.

Come on, you're the early service. You didn't know the new parking lot is gonna be open. You show up anyway. But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit.

For the spirit searches all things, the deep things of God. In 2022, we're talking about going deeper in the things of God. The way you go deeper than things of God that's being revealed to you by his spirit. For the spirit searches, one translation says, examines, inquires, investigates the spirit, searches all things.

For what man knows the things of a man, say, the spirit of man which is in him. In other words, you don't know all the thoughts of your neighbor. Even so, the things of God knows no man but the spirit of God. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God.

That we might know the things that are freely given to us unto God. Which things also we speak. Are you still with me? Which things also we speak?

Not in the words which man's wisdom teach, but which the Holy Ghost teaches. Comparing. Here it is comparing spiritual things with spiritual things. Explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

One translation says, if you're gonna have a conversation about spiritual things, you'd be talking to somebody at least believes in the Holy Spirit. If you're gonna explain something that is supernatural, you at least need to be talking to somebody who believes in supernatural. But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness unto him, neither can he know them.

Because they are spiritually discerned. All right. We went a long way in a short time there. First off, to go to the depths of God, things have to be revealed to you by the Spirit.

The Spirit knows you, but you don't know everything about everybody. But the Spirit of God knows everything about you. Therefore, this wisdom and knowledge and this understanding, the step that is really given to us, we have to understand it cannot be explained in the natural indefinitely. So everybody get a Holy Ghost revelation today.

Stop trying. Because to somebody that has a mind that has not been spiritually awakened, that doesn't have the Holy Spirit on the inside of them, to somebody that is not walking in the depths of God intentionally or trying to walk in the depths of God, you have to understand this is going to be foolishness to anybody. Because you can't explain spiritual things naturally. Spiritual things must be explained spiritually.

That's me understanding. You are not what you used to be. When you get. Particularly when you get baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Now all of a sudden you're playing with a set of gears you didn't have before. So you gotta understand. The world's not gonna understand this. Why are we trying to make the world understand this?

Why we care if they understand us? What do we care if we have been set free? If we have been blood bought, water baptized, spirit filled? We are now able to speak to God and boldly make our requests known unto Him.

We can be sink with him in heavenly places. The Bible says that we have. There's no more condemnation headed our way. On the exact contrary, whom the Son has set free is free indeed.

Listen, the world's not gonna understand this. The world's not gonn understand this until that segment or part or person of the world, person of the world gets spiritually reborn himself. That's how you understand it. Jesus said the same thing in front of all the people that he talked to, the disciples.

The other people just didn't have ears to hear. Therefore the spiritual information that Jesus was dropping was trying to be consumed in natural sense. But you cannot discern spiritual things naturally. It'd be like going.

Going to France and. And not speaking a word French and trying to act like it's somebody else's fault. You're in a different country. They speak a different language.

When you're. When you're a spiritual person, it's a completely different thing for you. Everything is different. Now it comes down to the delineation between the wisdom of men and the wisdom of God.

But the wisdom of God is foolishness. To the natural man. I'll just give you a couple of examples because running around spiritual wisdom is foolishness to the natural man. Here's one.

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. You walk up to your favorite atheist. How come you have so much peace, Christian? Well, I have so much peace because I'm new creature in Christ.

I still see you. Did you like, grow wings? No, no, not that kind of creature. I'm a new creature in Christ.

All things have passed away and all things have become new. I'm a new creation in Christ Jesus. Like, you still play your cardinal, right? Yeah, of course I do.

How do you have so much peace? I'm a new creature in Christ Jesus. Now I'm gonna ask you a question. Are there any new creatures in the building?

How do you feel about it? Do you remember just a little bit how it felt when that Bible thumping, demon chasing, radical Christian friend of yours kept talking about the goodness of God but you didn't have ears to hear yet? It sounds like foolishness to the wisdom of the world. Oh, Mark, chapter 16.

They shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. What? You're telling me you're not feeling well, so you want somebody else who serves this man. You can't see Jesus to put their hand on you?

Do they have medicine in their hand? Oh, yeah. No, I. I don't understand.

I know you don't have yours to hear because spiritual discerns. Spiritual natural doesn't discern. Natural. Jake was telling me just the other day, Teresa bumped her leg or something on the cabinet.

She said, oh, little Zeke. How was he? Zeke ran over. He said, mom, let's pray in Jesus name.

Feel better now? Does that make any sense in the natural? I was sitting in the doctor's office. My son who'd been struck blind.

The doctor's trying to come up with what kind of message could bring his sight back. I put my thumbs on his eyes and I commanded sight to come back in his eyes. And five seconds later he was seeing 20 20. They shall lay hands on the.

Somebody ought to magnify God. I'm not. I'm not telling you about what I heard about. I'm not telling you something that happened on the other side of the globe.

I'm talking about something that happened 100 miles from where you're standing. There was a boy that couldn't see. And the power of almighty God flooded that high doctor's office. And all of a sudden he sees 2020 and he's in the Building right now.

You couldn't beat this out of me with a rope. I'm talking about the power of God. It is foolishness to the natural man. But when you lay hands on the sick, they shall recover.

It's foolishness. So you. It's foolishness of the natural man. You gotta decide you want to live a natural man life or do you want the spiritual depth that only God can take you to?

I got to keep going. Look at this right here. Whatsoever a man sews. Oh, this one.

Get to Pharisees. Here we go. Very few Pharisees left in our church. I just pointed the camera.

Whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. Well, I don't know. Having hard times, I don't know what you can do. You can sow what you want to grow.

I just told you I don't have enough and you said I need to give some away. Yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Well, it didn't make any sense when I lied to do the widow either. In the natural, but in the spirit.

It unlocked heaven. I don't understand. Of course you don't understand. I'm trying to make you understand.

You're not spiritual. Oh yeah. I believe in spiritual things. Well, what do you believe in?

Well, I believe in ghosts and goblins and all this other stuff. And so do we just call them what they are, demons. They have to listen to us. Who are you?

I'm a born leader. Holy Ghost, Fire baptized, radical Christian. I'm not casual. Look at your neighbor say, don't be casual.

There's so many examples here. Jude, Mark 16, Acts, all through First Corinthians. Pray in the Holy Ghost. I just get hung up on this old tongues thing.

We'll get hung up on it. Stay there for all we care. Not trying to be rude. I'm just telling you.

We ain't stopping just because. Can't you get well, I've been praying, believing God. I ain't singing yet. Well, you ever see the Red Sea part?

See the walls, Jericho fall down? You believe that? Yeah. Well, how come you believe that?

You didn't say, Chad, saying this. You don't believe it because somebody told me to stop. Who told you? Did you read the Bible said don't worry about that part.

Building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. How do you have so much confidence? I pray in the Holy Ghost all the time. All the time?

All the time. That's the scriptures. God will be your confidence. So how does this happen?

When you pray in the Holy Spirit. We didn't pray the Holy Spirit. Why are you praying tongues? How do you feel baptized in the Holy Spirit?

How you baptized in the Holy Spirit? You pretty much have to ask for anything you want to receive for God. You gotta believe it, ask for, then you're saving. What happens if it doesn't work and apparently you don't believe it?

Number one, he's not a kid. Number two, he can't fail. And for all you here who are believe God haven't experienced those beautiful manifestations. I was 19 years old, baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Where I knew that I knew I prayed 100 times. Why that day changed my whole life, I don't know. But that changed my whole life. I'll say this much would have happened if I'd have stopped.

This is foolishness to the natural man. I'm just so stressed out. We didn't pray Holy Ghost. I don't even know what I'm saying.

I'm praying exactly. Your spirit's brain in line with God. Your mind can rest knowing your spirit has taken control. How you can pray this thing out?

What are you praying about? All the mysteries. Well, I just. I don't understand it.

We know because you're not spiritual. We can't sit here and go out spiritual things to natural people. You gotta be born again. That is the starting point.

Being able to understand the spiritual sides of God is you must be born again. Then you begin to have the opportunity to believe what God said. Here's another part. If you're baptized in the Holy Spirit, you ought to act like it.

You ought to act like it. Everything people do in private, almost without exception. Let me rephrase that. A lot of things people only do in private is because they're ashamed of it.

Not everything, but a lot of things. If the only time anybody knows that you're a spiritual person is when you're alone and quiet, it's just you. How do they know that you're walking around with something that they need? And a friend of mine one time he started popping off to me about Joel Osteen.

I like Joel Osteen a lot. He's a friend of mine. I think he's. Man comes from an incredible family.

This guy wanted to say something Flip. It sounded. It was just a headline he read. He just repeated it.

I said, how many people did you lead to Christ this week, you clown? Won't you go serve the devil? That's the devil's job is to attack people who are trying to win people through Jesus, that's the devil's job. That's Satan's job.

You just put on Team Satan Clown. He looked at me like I was crazy. You can't understand what I'm saying. What do you mean?

I said, this is spiritual, man. When Paul walked into a city, they didn't give him gold bracelets. They gave him handcuffs on the top of the Roman Gazette. We got him again.

Back then, prison ministry was not optional. So pay attention to whose chorus you're joining. Well, I just don't understand this. Then don't understand it and understand it is the honor of kings to search a thing out.

It is not the honor of kings to critique indefinitely things that you don't understand currently. Because if you're really honest, there's things you believe right now you didn't believe five years ago. There's things you hadn't seen, you've seen now. And all of a sudden you're open to things spiritually that you should never be open to.

You needed God. In a moment, God showed up and touched you in a special way. Maybe you found yourself on the floor and still can't fully explain what happened. But you know something happened.

You didn't believe it before. I don't think God would move that way. Why would God knock people on the ground? I don't know.

But what I do know is natural wisdom is not congruent with spiritual wisdom. So you got to do what Moses declared. You got to choose today who you're going to serve. Whose team are you on?

Are you gonna join the chorus of the offended and the Pharisaical? Are you gonna join the chorus with the masses that are. That are okay with. With endless debauchery being piped into students and children and our televisions and our cell phones and our billboards?

Or are you gonna get on the side of the redeemed? They don't need your help criticizing Christians, but Christians need your help loving people and pointing them to Christ. Let's give God hand a praise this morning. Stand to your feet.

I'm done teaching. That's so much more. Just shout of time. Once you get standing, if you would close your eyes and bow your heads for just a second, because there might be somebody here that's not right with God.

I'm not gonna leave the service without giving the opportunity to give your life to him, either for the first time or for the first time in a long time. That's. You say, I need to get my life to Jesus. I need to get right.

I don't know where I stand with God. If that's you and I counted three, I want you to lift your hands. Tall and old. An uplifted hand.

You're simply saying, oh God, remember me, you really will. His hands are already going up. If that's you and I got the three, lift your hand. Fallen bowl.

One, two, three. Lift your hands. Falling bold. I see that hand.

I see that hand. God bless you. I see that hand. God bless you.

I see that hand. God bless you. Allegiant prayer. Everybody lift your hand if you want to pray this prayer from the bottom of your heart.

Whole church, you're praying together. Say it like this. Say, oh God, I come to you now and I ask you to save me. Write my name in your book.

I believe Jesus died and rose from the dead for my victory. I'm a Christian now, on my way to heaven in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Congratulations, you guys are the first people get born again with our new parking lot. All jokes aside, we have a next step for you. It's called foundations of faith. You can get registered for that.

We're going to teach you about Jesus, who you are in Jesus. You can do it online. Also, we have another great class for our new to New Heights. That's people who are new to our church.

It's actually today, 11 o'. Clock. You can actually sign up at the door today. It's held in the chapel there in the lobby.

But if you're new to our church, this is an absolute must attend. It gives you a little history of our church, but it gives you a lot about who we are, how to connect here and where we're going. So if you're new to our church, make sure and get registered for that. You know what, matter of fact, maybe you're here today.

You've been coming for a while, but you've never made the declaration of faith to say this is my own church. Or maybe you're here for the first time and you're like, you know what? I know home and I feel it. This is the house of me.

The Bible says Psalm 92, if you'll get planned in the house of God, you can flourish in this courts, but you gotta get planted. Everybody needs a good church, everybody needs a good pastor and this is a good church. And I don't mind telling you, I'm a good pastor. So if you're here today and you want to say, you know what, I just want to make that declaration of faith.

I want to say New Heights is my own church. When I count it three. I want you to just lift your hands. I'm not going to embarrass you.

I'm not going to put a microphone on your face. We're just going to clap our hands and celebrate that great decision you want to make. New Heights, your own church today. Lift your hand when I count it.

3. 1, 2, 3. Lift them tall and mold. God bless you.

God bless you. God bless you. Come on, y'. All.

God bless you. Glory to God. Ushers, we have a gift for you. Let's keep your hand lifted.

The usher's going to hand you a gift. Inside that gift gonna have a letter for me, tells you about our church. Also some, some other information. And there is a new member card in there.

Fill that out. Drop it off the blue desk before you leave. If you have time, it'd be great. You can go straight to our new New Heights class.

It's the best way to meet people and get introduced to the ins and outs right here at New Heights Church. Come on, let's give them another big hand off. Congratulations. One other thing I'm forgetting.

Does anybody know Wednesday night with Radio 3 went like this. So praise God, raise the roof. It was one other thing. I don't remember what it is, but this Wednesday night we had ready coming out.

It's gonna be an incredible blessing to you and your family. And then also just keep an eye on this Easter season. We believe in God for the lost to come right here tonight. Church, we're going to see, we're going to see a record number of salvations that Easter weekend.

In Jesus name, lift your hands on, pray. Bless on you Father. Bless your people coming in, go out. Every person joining our church, every person born again, let them step over that spiritual side of life.

Father, I thank you in Jesus name for opening the windows of heaven over each one of us. If you got one more praise lock of turn it loose. God bless you. We'll see you Wednesday.

I hope you enjoyed the podcast today. If you did, there are a couple of things that I'd love for you to do. Number one, subscribe to our show. That way the most recent episodes will always be in your feed waiting for you right when you are.

And secondly, follow us on social media. That is the best way to stay up to date on everything happening at New Heights. We look forward to you joining us next time on the New Heights podcast. And if you are ever in the Bryant College Station area, we invite you to come out to New Heights Church for a live service.

I promise we'll make you feel right at home.