1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:03,400 Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,800 You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX. 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:10,480 We pray this message strengthens your faith and points you to the 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:12,840 cross. Now let's join the service. 5 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:21,680 Going to be in Ephesians chapter 4 verse 25 and going to preach 6 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:26,160 on a little verse in here that's mysterious to a lot of people 7 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,480 can mean different things, but yet it means one thing. 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:42,400 But I spend a lot of my days and late nights wee morning hours 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:47,240 whenever the Holy Spirit wakes me up and I guess for 16 going 10 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:51,640 on 17 years now trying to keep the world out of the church. 11 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:56,840 That's my goal and trying to keep the church to being the 12 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,640 church. I heard a pastor one time preach 13 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:04,480 a message and he said let the church be the church. 14 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:07,680 But can I tell you church is much different? 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:12,320 When I was growing up, churches were much different that I 16 00:01:12,320 --> 00:01:17,160 attended than they are today. We have so many functions, we 17 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,760 have so many different things going on and I've just, I've 18 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:22,760 been on the church has been on my heart lately. 19 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,040 The the body of Christ, not just this church, but the things that 20 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,440 go on in the church. And I believe as Christians, we 21 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:34,080 all long for a move of God. There's a lot of people that 22 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:37,040 haven't seen someone get up out of a wheelchair and walk. 23 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:40,400 There's a lot of people that haven't experienced someone with 24 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:46,000 stage 4 mesothelioma, cancer instantly healed instantly. 25 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,800 There's lots of people that I've seen broken bones and I've seen 26 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:52,240 those things healed instantly in the arena. 27 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,400 And there's one common denominator that has always been 28 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,320 present. It's always been the Spirit of 29 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:02,520 the Lord, the Holy Spirit that moves upon his people. 30 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:07,360 But today I fear that it's absent in a lot of churches. 31 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:11,800 It's absent here a lot of times. And with new people and new 32 00:02:11,800 --> 00:02:14,160 growth, there's, you know, there's, there's things that 33 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:16,720 that we have to adapt and change here. 34 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:21,080 But I heard this message years ago and it spurred me to this 35 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:22,960 tonight. It said let the church be the 36 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:25,800 church. But there's so many in the 37 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,160 church today that don't know anything about church and what 38 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:34,680 the church was for. Many people today go to church 39 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:38,600 and they seek to think about what the church can do for them, 40 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:41,280 never thinking of what they could do to for the church. 41 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:45,920 They don't know anything about a fivefold ministry. 42 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:51,000 And the church was designed to equip those that attend, to 43 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,160 equip us, right? Not always meet the problems and 44 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:58,640 meet the needs, but to equip us. And we're to go out and work as 45 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:00,320 we have a lot of people here that do. 46 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:05,760 And I'm so thankful for that. But it's also to produce 47 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,160 spiritual growth within the church, right? 48 00:03:09,640 --> 00:03:12,920 I got lots of spiritual sons. I got some that, you know, I 49 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:16,880 look back 16 years ago here and, and some of these old messages 50 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,040 was probably hard for Tony to swallow when he first started 51 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,560 coming, right? But we just kept spurring. 52 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,840 We kept kicking people. We kept spurring them on. 53 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:30,040 And now he's the state president of a ministry got brother 54 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:31,480 Charlie and him going out and preaching. 55 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:33,600 I'm so proud of those things. Amen. 56 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:37,360 Because it I watch people grow and it's a great thing to to 57 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:41,360 watch people grow. But we can never become 58 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:44,440 complacent. And when I first started this 59 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,640 church, I asked my my grandma, when she spoke memo, she was she 60 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:52,440 was like EF Hutton. Everybody listened and I asked 61 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:55,240 her, I said back in those days they, they didn't have any 62 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:57,920 salaries at the church. People showed up and they and 63 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,120 they worked. And I asked her, I said back in 64 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,440 those days, y'all worked a lot harder during the day than we 65 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:05,920 do. And I look around tonight, it's 66 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:08,960 not a full house, but how many could say it's way better than 67 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:12,800 Wednesday nights? Used to be a man, yes. 68 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,320 But I said, I know y'all worked a lot harder with the mules and 69 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:21,440 doing those things and then you showed up at church and and I 70 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:24,720 said she always had a simple answer to everything. 71 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,200 And I said how did y'all do it? She said we just knew what we 72 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,080 had to do and we showed up and did it. 73 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,320 It was much simpler back then. We knew what we had to do. 74 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,320 We showed up and did it. But today it seems a little 75 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:42,600 lopsided when we look at the church and beyond the church. 76 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,280 The what is the church? It's the body of Christ. 77 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:50,320 It's not a building. It's not about the functions at 78 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,480 the church. It's the body of Christ and what 79 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:54,520 they are doing and how they're rolling. 80 00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,080 And today I see the body of Christ a little bit lopsided. 81 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:01,800 It's only what can the church do for me. 82 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:05,040 But see, when it's lopsided, it doesn't roll. 83 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:08,120 Very good things don't work very good, right? 84 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:11,360 But I'm so proud of these things that are going on here and the 85 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:13,920 things that are happening. But we can never become 86 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:16,680 complacent because the devil's not going to stop sticking his 87 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:17,680 head up. Amen. 88 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:19,960 So stand with me in the reading of the Word. 89 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,440 Want to talk about the church tonight? 90 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,560 And I believe this passage of Scripture, it can hit home to us 91 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,480 in a lot of ways in Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 25 here in 92 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:34,080 about 7 verses, it can change your life. 93 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,360 But the apostle Paul, he titled this, this starting at verse 25. 94 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,360 It's, it's about not grieving, say grieving the Spirit, 95 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:47,880 grieving the Spirit. A lot of people I've been asked, 96 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:49,960 what does it mean to grieve the Spirit? 97 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:51,520 I'm going to explain that tonight. 98 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,320 But in Ephesians 4 and 25, he says, therefore put away lying. 99 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:00,520 Wow. That'll happen in the church. 100 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:04,120 I've confessed many times as a pastor. 101 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,600 I've done lots of business, still have my own business. 102 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,680 I've done been retired twice from two different things and I 103 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,760 have been lied to more at that back door than I ever have in 104 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,280 the world by people coming by and saying I'll see you next 105 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:20,000 week pastor. Best church ever been to. 106 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:21,560 It's so good here. I feel the Spirit. 107 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:24,240 I've never felt that life and never to see him again. 108 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:28,120 But that's not truth right? Either they were lying to me or 109 00:06:28,120 --> 00:06:30,720 they were lying to their self. I just I'm an honest guy. 110 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,400 Y'all have learned that but put away lying. 111 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:35,800 Whatever it is we lie about, put it away right. 112 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,000 Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor for we are 113 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,120 members of one another makes it different. 114 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:44,440 When you think like that be angry. 115 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:46,600 We're going to get mad, but do not sin. 116 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:52,760 Do not let the sun go down on your wrath, verse 27 nor give 117 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,920 place to the devil. Let him move stole still no 118 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,200 longer, but rather let him labor working with his hands what is 119 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:05,800 good, that he may have something to give him who has need. 120 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:11,280 Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good 121 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:16,480 for necessary and for the edification that it may impart 122 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,760 grace to the hearers. It's what you say. 123 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,000 What comes out of your mouth. Does it impart grace? 124 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,800 Does it edify? I hear a lot of things just in 125 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,560 the passing by here coming out of some mouths. 126 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:28,240 Hello. That doesn't edify. 127 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,800 It doesn't edify. We must edify. 128 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:36,160 We must build up, right? But in verse 30 here he says 129 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:37,360 this. And this is what I want to 130 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,960 preach to you tonight. And do not grieve the Holy 131 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:45,480 Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the day of 132 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:47,920 redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, 133 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,520 anger, clamor, evil speaking be put away from you with all 134 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:57,440 malice, and be kind to one another, tender hearted, 135 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:02,720 forgiving one another even as God in Christ forgave you. 136 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:04,560 Father, we thank you for Your Word tonight. 137 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,040 Father, I pray this message is not a easy one for me to preach. 138 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,400 It's it's kind of a, a hard one, God, but I know you're going to 139 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:13,120 give me the grace, you're going to give me the strength, you're 140 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,000 going to give me the anointing to relay that to this church. 141 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,160 What you've given to me tonight. I pray you'd use it to change 142 00:08:19,160 --> 00:08:21,520 our lives. I pray you'd use it to help us 143 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:24,920 to never become complacent with that what you've blessed us with 144 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:29,000 never to be satisfied, but always reaching and pressing on 145 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,440 toward the upward call of Christ Jesus realizing that the 146 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,600 adversary the devil is a roaring lion. 147 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,360 He's he's going to and fro seeking whom he may devour. 148 00:08:38,360 --> 00:08:41,280 Help us to be aware of those things in Jesus name. 149 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,640 We pray you may be seated the utterance or the Speaking of 150 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:51,920 evil or even worthless or idle words can grieve. 151 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,040 The Holy Spirit doesn't necessarily have to be a bad 152 00:08:55,040 --> 00:08:58,480 word a bad thing. He says that a idle word can 153 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,520 grieve. In Matthew 1236 and and seven, 154 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:06,760 Jesus spoke of this, he says, but I say to you that for every 155 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:12,000 idle word that a man speaks, they will give an account in the 156 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:14,720 day of judgment. And that's powerful, isn't it? 157 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:17,880 We'll give an account for an idle word, a word that's not 158 00:09:17,880 --> 00:09:20,480 edifying, a word that's not lifting up. 159 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,200 And you know all those words really do that spew out of our 160 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:27,520 mouth many times about someone else is they pull us down when 161 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:29,160 we met. Ain't it cool how that God put 162 00:09:29,160 --> 00:09:31,640 this together tonight we talked about throwing stones in the 163 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:35,960 song service, but them idle words, you know, after we and 164 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:37,960 sometimes it feels really good to spill them. 165 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,840 It feels really good to get it off your chest and talk about 166 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,760 how somebody else is. But it would accomplish more if 167 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:48,400 you would just go to them right. But the utterance of the 168 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaking of evil, even worthless idle words. 169 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:58,120 He says that we will be judged and in verse 37 he says for by 170 00:09:58,120 --> 00:10:02,240 your words, think about this by my words, not your words, but by 171 00:10:02,240 --> 00:10:08,240 my words, I will be justified and by my words I can be 172 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:09,600 condemned. What does this mean? 173 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,000 Because see, this means that the the way that you become born 174 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,960 again, the way that you become in Christ, the way that you 175 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:21,320 become part of the body of Christ is how the confession we 176 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,840 have to confess that Jesus is Christ and the price that he 177 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,800 paid upon the cross of Calvary justifies any person. 178 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:33,480 So by our words we shall be justified or by our words we 179 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,840 shall be condemned, right? There's going to be a lot of 180 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:39,120 people that simply go to hell because they could not believe 181 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:42,440 that Jesus came to planet earth and he died on a cross. 182 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,200 And many can believe that he died, but then they have trouble 183 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:46,840 thinking that he rose again, right? 184 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,960 And then if they believe He, I hear the stuff all the time, and 185 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:52,760 then they believe He hung on the cross and he died and He rose 186 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,680 again. They can believe that, but they 187 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:57,440 can't believe that He was getting that a virgin gave 188 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:00,640 birthright. So by their words they will be 189 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:03,400 condemned. But he says, he says, let know 190 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:06,760 we go back to the verse 29 of Ephesians. 191 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:10,080 He says let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but 192 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:14,440 what is good for necessary edification, and that means 193 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,720 instruction or improvement. And do not grieve the Holy 194 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:21,560 Spirit. So see if my unkind words can 195 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:24,240 grieve the Holy Spirit. I got a question. 196 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,800 How much more can my actions right? 197 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:32,080 Sometimes we act some ways, but we don't say it and we get 198 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:34,160 justified through that. But people are watching your 199 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,720 actions really more than they're watching your words because we 200 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:39,880 become a society that's so good at saying, I'll call you back 201 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,720 later, never to call. All right, let me, I, I get in a 202 00:11:43,720 --> 00:11:45,880 bad habit of that, say I'll holler at you later and I never 203 00:11:45,880 --> 00:11:47,720 call them back. So is it true that I'm going to 204 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,600 call later? I mean, a day or two, we get in 205 00:11:49,600 --> 00:11:52,080 these little deals, but if you're not careful, the enemy 206 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,240 will use it as a foothold. So how much more are my actions 207 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,040 held accountable? I'm going to preach to you a 208 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:01,600 little bit Now you got your steel toes on. 209 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,760 You know I love you before I go here, but I'm going to go here, 210 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:13,880 especially in the House of God. What about our actions in the 211 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,480 House of God? What about the way we act in the 212 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:19,680 House of God? If we believe this is a place 213 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:22,920 that we come, that that the Spirit of the Lord abounds, that 214 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,280 we can experience the presence of God, but yet when we step in 215 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:31,360 here, we're doing everything contrary to invite His presence. 216 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:35,440 Amen because as we preach about the Holy Spirit, see we can 217 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:40,160 short circuit or stop the flow of the work of the Holy Spirit. 218 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,040 Not saying you're not saved, not saying you're not going to 219 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,800 heaven, but saying that what you experienced in the here and now 220 00:12:46,960 --> 00:12:50,600 can be stopped. It can be short circuited. 221 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:53,560 The Holy Spirit in a church service or a setting. 222 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:56,680 Y'all ready for this? I see this a lot. 223 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:59,080 A lot. You know when I grew up there, 224 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,400 you know there's some churches that don't talk at all. 225 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,200 They don't holler, they don't shout, they don't praise. 226 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,960 You know I think there's a happy medium there. 227 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:12,440 Y'all ready for this? You want the Holy Spirit to 228 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,520 move? Talking to your neighbor 229 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,520 excessively. Lord just laid this on my heart 230 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,800 today. Some of these things talking to 231 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,120 your neighbor excessively while someone that God has laid a song 232 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:31,800 on for that week, they've been singing it all week and we can't 233 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,800 reverence enough to zip it and listen. 234 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:38,920 Or while someone's preaching we say oh I'm still listening. 235 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:43,320 Oh really? Y'all ready for this? 236 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:49,600 A phone goes off automatically. What happens? 237 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:54,240 Anybody agree with that when the phone goes off? 238 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,960 So I know people use if I'm not saying don't use it for 239 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,000 scripture, but figure out a way to turn it off because when the 240 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,320 phone goes off, it's much more than just a phone going off. 241 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:08,280 It quenches the spirit automatically. 242 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,880 People's attention go to you, right? 243 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,840 Phone's a great thing, but know how to use it. 244 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:16,440 Turn it off. If yours just went off, I'm 245 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:22,520 preaching to you because they go from listening to a sermon to 246 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:25,720 the phone. Then the mind begins to spin. 247 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:28,600 I wonder what they were on. I want they they miss about 5 248 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:32,080 verses right there or five sentences of what the pastor had 249 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:34,000 preached because of mine. I wonder what they're doing. 250 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,720 What are they looking at? They can't be looking at the 251 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,240 scripture because it's going on. I wonder how that happened. 252 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,000 What are they looking at? So therefore what has really 253 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,240 happened? It's way deeper than the phone. 254 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,280 What the enemy's doing through the phone is way deeper than 255 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:54,440 what you and I can see. So therefore, have I grieved, 256 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,240 have I quenched the Holy Spirit of God? 257 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:02,480 Have I even stopped it? Not only for you, but for 258 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:09,680 someone else too #2 I don't see this a lot in the church, and it 259 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:12,080 could be why we don't see the healings and miracles that we've 260 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,080 once seen. It's called reverence. 261 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:21,400 What is reverence? It's the deepest respect, deep 262 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,200 respect for someone or something. 263 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,760 This is a House of holiness. The Bible speaks of your earthly 264 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,760 temple. You're a House of holiness 265 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,200 because the Holy Spirit dwells and is within you, right? 266 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:39,000 But we grieve the Holy Spirit when we act unreverently in the 267 00:15:39,000 --> 00:15:43,280 House of God. We know this, but yet many 268 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,760 choose the opposite. See, Paul lived when he was 269 00:15:45,760 --> 00:15:47,640 writing to the church at Ephesus. 270 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:51,280 He lived and ministered to the to the people of Ephesus for two 271 00:15:51,280 --> 00:15:54,680 years and his ministry had a powerful impact on the entire 272 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:56,720 city. But as you read the book of 273 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:00,080 Ephesians, you will find that many times he had to go and 274 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,520 remind the Christians right to do the things that are common. 275 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:07,400 They had to remind them to do the things I thank God for the 276 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:10,960 discipline that my father give me from the time I was 13 until 277 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:14,760 my, my, my stepfather, he raised me in a in a strict fashion. 278 00:16:14,760 --> 00:16:17,360 I mean, I had freedom, but I knew my boundaries. 279 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,120 I had freedom, but I knew what I knew what respect was because if 280 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:22,800 I didn't, it was it wasn't time out. 281 00:16:22,800 --> 00:16:25,680 It was knock you out. It was with a belt. 282 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:28,160 And when I was 14 or 15, he said, you're big enough and it 283 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,240 ain't going to be a belt no more. 284 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,680 And I knew what he was talking about. 285 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:33,640 I never thought about challenging. 286 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:37,480 I never called my dad my old man because until he was probably 287 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,240 75, I still could not whoop him. Probably that's the kind of man 288 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:42,840 he was. I never thought about it. 289 00:16:42,840 --> 00:16:44,840 I hear people say I got my old man. 290 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,960 I could take him now. I never thought that I had seen 291 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:50,560 him before. I, I didn't want none of that. 292 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,480 He was very, very strong man. But see, that's the problem 293 00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,560 today. We don't know our place in the 294 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:01,160 Kingdom because there's many, many among non Christians that 295 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:04,280 that don't know about the House of God and we just let things 296 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,400 happen. But Paul had to remind 297 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:11,079 Christians not to do things common among non Christians. 298 00:17:11,359 --> 00:17:14,040 We shouldn't be common. The House of God should be 299 00:17:14,040 --> 00:17:17,119 different as if we had to go back to square 1. 300 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:20,680 The apostle Paul did too. When those that know better than 301 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:23,440 that than to break some of the obvious things of God's 302 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,960 commandments that causes sorrow, it causes the Holy Spirit to 303 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:31,440 grieve and in effect with ungodly behavior breaks the 304 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:33,360 heart of God. Think about that. 305 00:17:33,360 --> 00:17:36,240 You know how you grieve when anybody ever had a teenager that 306 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,720 got their driver's license and got that car and you knew how 307 00:17:39,720 --> 00:17:41,520 they took care of things around the house. 308 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,120 And man, when they was pulling out that driveway, I walked 309 00:17:44,120 --> 00:17:46,960 over, laid hands on my John's truck because he couldn't drive 310 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:49,160 a four Wheeler without flipping it or doing something. 311 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,840 I laid hands on it. I knew what he was going to do 312 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,360 when he got around the corner. And you know that you know how 313 00:17:54,360 --> 00:17:57,240 that feels. Or you get that call and they 314 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,520 done, done something crazy and you know how and the next time 315 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:03,440 they go out, that hurt, that grieving that's with inside. 316 00:18:03,440 --> 00:18:07,440 You see, that's how our heavenly Father feels when we begin to do 317 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:09,560 things and and they're like he grieves us. 318 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:14,520 We grieve the Holy Spirit of God, but it's so important not 319 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:19,960 to grieve the spirit. John 424 Why is this? 320 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:25,600 We must get this verse. It says God is a spirit. 321 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:32,200 God is a spirit and his worshippers must worship him in 322 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,600 spirit and in truth. So what does that mean if I got 323 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:41,640 to worship God in spirit and in truth, that means that true 324 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,240 worship comes from the inside. You know, there's a lot of 325 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:48,160 people think it comes from here. They, they worship with one hand 326 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,800 up, one eye open. That's not true worship. 327 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:55,120 Hey, man, I've seen it. And we've got so complacent with 328 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:57,440 it in the house. We, we can wave our hands and we 329 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:59,360 can shout and we can do those things. 330 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,000 But if it's not from the heart, it grieves the Spirit of God. 331 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:07,160 It grieves him. It's so true that worship, what 332 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:11,400 it means is it comes from the inside with a genuine heartfelt 333 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,440 reverence, right? Because we know that God is in 334 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,760 the house and we know that His presence is passing by. 335 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,640 True worship is a spiritual connection with God and not 336 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,280 worrying about anything else around you that transcends your 337 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,320 physical location. I like that. 338 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:29,600 It doesn't have to happen in the House of God. 339 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:36,680 It can transcend your physical location or formality to worship 340 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:38,120 in spirit and truth. What is it? 341 00:19:38,120 --> 00:19:42,440 This is a call to go or to move beyond the external actions. 342 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:46,040 It's an inward thing, like just singing songs or reciting 343 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:48,920 prayers to a deeper inner worship. 344 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:54,160 That is a sincere devotion, not one hand up and one eye open. 345 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:57,760 And I'm preaching this because I feel a lot of quenching today. 346 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,200 I feel a lot of quenching of the Spirit of the Lord. 347 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,560 And I want the Spirit to move in our lives. 348 00:20:03,800 --> 00:20:06,440 Our worship effects others greatly. 349 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,840 Sunday morning, man, I was up here and there was some, I think 350 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,680 it was about seven or eight people standing and Brother Gene 351 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:15,120 was over there, new guy coming on that backseat. 352 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:17,000 I was over there. I just happened to catch him. 353 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,480 I usually don't notice things but man when the when that song 354 00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:23,320 started he got up and he took his hoodie off. 355 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,520 All right, he took his hoodie off, he pulled the sleeves off 356 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,680 and he laid it down. He like he's rolling his sleeves 357 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:33,080 up, Man, he went to worship and I thought, man, he's ready to 358 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,040 worship. I saw him. 359 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,920 It got me pumped. I was like he's expecting God to 360 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,800 do something. But as I close Sunday, I begin 361 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,560 to state these healings of cancer, these crippled people 362 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:47,600 walking that many of us have have witnessed here. 363 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:53,160 The list goes on and on that on beyond my my memory. 364 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:57,280 And I begin to think it seemed in the early days that crossed 365 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,440 power, there was more healings. It seemed in the early days 366 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:06,520 there was more miracles of God. And I began to look at those 367 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:08,280 things. You know, we got a lot more 368 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:10,160 coming. We got a lot more people every 369 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,240 week than we've had. But with more people comes more 370 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:19,720 grieving, with more quenching, and without the Holy Ghost 371 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:21,960 present, without the Holy Spirit present. 372 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:26,560 I've said many times I cannot preach at a place like that. 373 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,480 But it's easy to get complacent and worship. 374 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:34,360 It's easy. But see, without the anointing, 375 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,080 guess what? You really ain't got a preacher. 376 00:21:36,080 --> 00:21:39,280 You've just got empty words. Because I can't do it without 377 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:41,680 the anointing. Because he's my helper. 378 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,160 Did you hear me tonight? I said he's my helper. 379 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:46,680 He's my God. He's the way, the truth and the 380 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:49,480 light. And in John 16 and 13, Jesus 381 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,560 repeatedly referred to the Holy Spirit as what? 382 00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:56,280 As the spirit of truth. Let's read that John 16 and and 383 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:59,400 13. It says, however, when he can 384 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,000 you Can you imagine Jesus being there after that, knowing he was 385 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,560 going to the cross, knowing what he was fixing to lay down, 386 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:08,160 knowing that he was going to rise again, knowing that he was 387 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,960 going to send to the right hand of the Father and be in heaven. 388 00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:14,080 But yet he's looking at them people and he's saying, I've 389 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,160 been here, but there's something that's even greater than me 390 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:19,680 that's coming to you because I can't be here no more. 391 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,040 You know, they were scratching their head, man. 392 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,960 Look at all the things Jesus, he messed. 393 00:22:24,120 --> 00:22:27,240 He messed up all the rules at the pool when he told the guy he 394 00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:30,200 was healed to get up and quit wearing him out the pool. 395 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,240 Hey, man, he when he stooped down and wrote on the dirt, 396 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,320 whatever it was that made everybody just shut up and walk 397 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:38,840 off. He did some cool things. 398 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:43,720 But he said, however, when he the spirit of truth has come, he 399 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:47,720 will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak on his own 400 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:51,200 authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will 401 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:53,400 let he will tell you things to come. 402 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,480 Isn't that neat? That's what the Holy Spirit 403 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,160 does. He's the Spirit of truth. 404 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:03,360 Let's go to that next verse. He will glorify me. 405 00:23:03,360 --> 00:23:07,680 He'll bring glory to to Christ, for he will take of what is mine 406 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,320 and he will declare it to you. He will guide you into all 407 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:14,760 truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever 408 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:19,720 He speaks, He will speak and He will tell you things to come. 409 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,440 The Holy Spirit, an inner compass in our lives, always 410 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,960 pointing us to the cross, always pointing us to the Father, 411 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:29,760 always point us to the things we could say or do. 412 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,280 In Acts 10 and 19, Peter had had a vision and he was trying to 413 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,640 figure it out, and it says the Spirit spoke to him. 414 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,640 The Spirit speaks. We got to fight, we got to 415 00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:44,840 contend, because if not, we just become an empty, we just become 416 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:48,040 a church full of people, but yet empty of the Spirit, right? 417 00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,800 Empty of the promptings of the Holy Spirit. 418 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:55,840 And I fight this all the time for the move of the Holy Ghost, 419 00:23:55,840 --> 00:24:00,640 the move of the Spirit. It tends to not move when it's 420 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:05,480 grieved or when it's unwanted. Do you want it? 421 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:08,240 Do you want it? Will you help me? 422 00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:11,680 Because there's a whole world out there that they were called 423 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:13,920 to make disciples of, and they don't want it. 424 00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,880 They don't want no change. They want the cross, they want 425 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,800 the forgiveness, they want the fire insurance, but they really 426 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:22,840 don't want God meddling in their personal lives. 427 00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:27,080 I long to see people healed. I long to see people set free. 428 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:29,640 That doesn't. But that doesn't happen without 429 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,200 the Spirit. If the Holy Spirit doesn't do 430 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,160 it, guess what? The addiction comes back. 431 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,000 If the Holy Spirit doesn't do it, the anger is not kindled. 432 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,400 I want people to feel the Spirit as they walk in this place. 433 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:46,400 I want people just to feel Jesus as we reach out to shake a hand. 434 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,600 It's possible, but not without the Holy Spirit, not without 435 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,640 love, not without the Holy Spirit. 436 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:57,440 How many got How many got their taxes in the last few days? 437 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,400 Anybody get taxes? Nobody already got mine. 438 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:02,760 How many is going to pay them taxes? 439 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:05,720 We're going to give them to a government, right? 440 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,040 Because it's required. Praise is required. 441 00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,800 Praise and worship and accepting the Holy Spirit. 442 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,760 But what gets me is, man, we can't wait to get a mail because 443 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,240 if we don't pay it, what happens? 444 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:23,280 It goes up. It goes up, it goes up here at 445 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:24,840 this church. All I had to do is sign a little 446 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:26,840 paper and turn some authority over to the government. 447 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:29,200 We wouldn't have to pay them, but we paid them for 16 years 448 00:25:29,200 --> 00:25:31,640 because I don't want the government messing with the 449 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,560 church. Hey, man, I don't believe the 450 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,560 government's qualified to run the church. 451 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,000 I don't believe the government's qualified to tell us in this 452 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,760 continuation of this Church of what what it could be and where 453 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,120 it could go and what it could do. 454 00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,160 And if you're a 501-C3, that's what it does a man. 455 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:48,160 So we choose to pay property tag. 456 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:49,680 Well, what if we don't have the money? 457 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:51,880 I don't have it anyway. God's got it. 458 00:25:52,120 --> 00:25:54,680 It's all his, right? But it amazes me. 459 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,840 We're going to pay them taxes and we pay them taxes. 460 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,800 We have faith. If we pay them taxes and we send 461 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,160 it to the government, we have faith that we're going to drive 462 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,760 on a smooth Rd. Hello. 463 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:10,720 You see that lie every day? We have faith, right? 464 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,760 But we'll go send it to the government and we'll lay down at 465 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,160 night. We voted somebody in and we have 466 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,560 peace with that. We have peace with giving that 467 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,240 to the government, right? I don't because I don't we, they 468 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,040 prove they can't run things up there, right? 469 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,680 We have a government that's doing what right now? 470 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,280 What is it another word for that failing? 471 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,000 Could it be failing because they can't agree, because they can't 472 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:40,080 come across lines because of little, little issues? 473 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,800 I don't know. I don't get into all that. 474 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:46,280 But what I do know is, is we we don't have a problem just 475 00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,000 sending. Ain't nobody got to come by your 476 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,760 house and tell you to pay the government, right? 477 00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:54,000 But you let a preacher, I don't know how many agrees I'm not a 478 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:55,400 preacher. You have never heard me preach 479 00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:57,920 on money and and say I need money, right? 480 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:01,080 I've never done that 16 years. We'll never do it because God 481 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:04,160 supplies all of my needs according to his riches and 482 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,760 glory. But the Bible requires us to 483 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,080 give a 10th holy. But yet we can't do that because 484 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:14,120 see, we put so much faith in the government, right? 485 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:17,720 We get on United Airlines, and now during the holidays, they 486 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:20,400 can't pay their traffic controllers, if I understand it 487 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:22,280 right. But they still people smart 488 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:24,720 enough in this world that's going to get on the plane and 489 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,920 trust that somehow it's just going to work out. 490 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,080 We put our faith in them. We put our faith in taxes. 491 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,280 But yeah, come on, get me, Holy Ghost. 492 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,920 We have trouble giving any of our time, our talents or our 493 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,560 treasures to God. And I got news for you. 494 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,280 He's never failed. He's never shut down. 495 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:44,840 Amen. I've never known the sun to not 496 00:27:44,840 --> 00:27:46,600 come up in the morning. Amen. 497 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,880 I've never know my heart, as long as I live to not keep 498 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:51,960 beating and supplying the air of my lungs. 499 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,760 So I have no trouble believing in a God that's never failed. 500 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,480 Hey, man, the oceans have never run dry. 501 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:02,280 I'm telling you can trust in God. 502 00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:05,280 Hey, man, if you can even think about trusting in the 503 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,440 government, you can trust in God. 504 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,520 He's never made a promise that he couldn't keep, and he's not 505 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,360 going to fail now. But the question is, do you want 506 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,520 it? Do you want it, man? 507 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,080 I, I, you know, I like to tell stories and I like to preach and 508 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,160 be funny and do all those things, but I'm not seeing much 509 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:27,000 growth out of that. You'll see people come in the 510 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,560 doors, but that's not growth. Hey, man, growth is a state 511 00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,920 president attending the church that you know, the first time 512 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,160 you when you come over here and I was painting, you couldn't 513 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:39,440 have been a state president then, right? 514 00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:42,080 If they'd asked you, you probably wouldn't have done it. 515 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:46,600 But as it begin to grow, he heard the voice who'll go as 516 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,720 Isaiah said, he said send me, I'll go. 517 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,880 Do you want it? You got to help me. 518 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,920 You got to help me keep it out because so many people had 519 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,160 rather just not do anything. Come to church and be patted on 520 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,520 the back and tell him how God's going to bless him this week. 521 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:06,480 I've never found the blessing is in the breaking when God begins 522 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,920 to break you down of this world and begin to break your to break 523 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:13,120 your wants and the things of your mind and the purpose and 524 00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,600 your plans and he begins to move in your life. 525 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,400 He will guide you into all truth. 526 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,520 I challenge you keep your faith in God. 527 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,640 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit by not obeying the the promptings 528 00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:29,680 and the voice of the Holy Spirit and we must walk in love and 529 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:33,160 verse 5, chapter 5 of Ephesians, let's stand and we'll close. 530 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,920 Therefore be imitators of God, his dear children and walk in 531 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:44,360 love as Christ also has loved us and given himself for us as an 532 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:49,080 offering and a sacrifice to God. A sweet smelling aroma. 533 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:52,680 You know, there's things sometimes as I, as I read 534 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:57,640 earlier that that come out of our mouth that's not so sweet to 535 00:29:57,640 --> 00:30:01,480 God. There's some actions in our life 536 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,120 that's not so sweet to God. So don't grieve the Holy Spirit. 537 00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,480 Don't grieve the Holy Spirit of God. 538 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:14,040 Don't grieve him. What I say, y'all heard me say 539 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:15,640 it. Just receive him. 540 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:19,200 Father. We receive your spirit tonight. 541 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,400 Father, we realize that the place we're standing tonight, 542 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,600 see the thing about the church, it should be a it should be holy 543 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,160 ground. You know what old boy named 544 00:30:28,160 --> 00:30:29,840 Moses? One time God was taking him 545 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:34,240 through the wringer to bring him to be a great leader, and he was 546 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,720 standing out there. Where was it? 547 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,120 At the burning Bush. He was standing there and the 548 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,360 Can you imagine God speaking to him? 549 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:44,880 What did he say? He said take your shoes off. 550 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:50,600 Take your shoes off. He said you're standing. 551 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,200 We're standing on holy ground. See where the presence of the 552 00:30:56,200 --> 00:31:00,920 Lord is as holy, But it's my responsibility and your 553 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:10,160 responsibility as a church to reverence that He's here 554 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:14,000 tonight. We all grieve the Holy Spirit of 555 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:19,960 Godfather. Forgive us when we grieve the 556 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:26,040 Holy Spirit of God. We receive it tonight. 557 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,760 Thanks for listening to the Cross Power Church podcast. 558 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,720 May you know that true hope, peace, and salvation can only be 559 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,120 found in Jesus. If you're near Campbell, TX, we 560 00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,280 would love for you to join us in person. 561 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:42,840 You can find service times at crosspowerchurch.com.