1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:02,480 Hallelujah. Come on, look at your neighbor. 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:07,920 Tell him, oh how I love Jesus. Hey man, it's good to see you in 3 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:11,000 the House of the Lord. This morning I realized that you 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,480 could be anywhere, but you chose to get up and come to the House 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:17,440 of the Lord. Man, it's cold outside. 6 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:20,800 You may not be excited about it, but my wife is. 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:25,160 So I would like to apologize in advance to all of you that wish 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,240 that you had Florida weather. I'm so sorry, but my wife is 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:31,920 excited. And all I could think of when I 10 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:36,920 was driving over here the very long distance from Indiana to 11 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:41,320 Illinois and I drove, I drove across and all I could think of 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:44,880 is, man, that looks like a great place to go shoot a deer. 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:49,000 So hey man, I cool a church come alive right there. 14 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:51,560 Somebody else thinking, well, you know, if pastor wouldn't get 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,240 me, I might be in the woods this morning. 16 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,080 I promise you they're moving today. 17 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:58,800 Or at least that one guy that was parked on the side of the 18 00:00:58,800 --> 00:01:01,280 road thought so. Amen. 19 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:06,040 Give great honor to your pastor and sister McGee and Mariah and 20 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,760 Trevor. And you know, I, I made the 21 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,600 remark that you have to have a ladder to climb up and say hello 22 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:16,280 to Trevor. So I'm fresh out of step stools. 23 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,800 So just want to say hi from up here at this distance, we're 24 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:25,400 almost the same, the curvature of the earth and such. 25 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,240 But anyway, so thankful for them, for their wonderful 26 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:31,800 family. And we have just become great 27 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,560 friends. And, and long before I really 28 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:39,640 met the Mcgee's, met them, met them, I knew that they were 29 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:42,640 powerful, powerful, powerful ministry family. 30 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:46,080 And I said that those are people that I want to know. 31 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:50,520 And it just so happened that all the places that we've been, 32 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:52,760 they've all been, you know, she's been a little bit sick 33 00:01:52,760 --> 00:01:55,120 here from time to time. And I was, I was just thinking, 34 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,880 Sister McGee, that when we met you guys in Texas, I think you 35 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:03,000 had the flu or something. So whatever that it was. 36 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:04,800 What? There you go. 37 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:06,640 Look at that. I remember that you had the flu. 38 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:11,320 And in Louisiana, there was COVID in my cup, OK, because I 39 00:02:11,480 --> 00:02:14,840 pretty much was dead. And so anyway, we're thankful 40 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:16,560 for them and thankful for their friendship. 41 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,640 And the next time we schedule them to Oklahoma, it won't be a 42 00:02:20,640 --> 00:02:23,720 cancellation. So we're gonna, you know, 43 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,720 fireproof it or whatever. It's good to good to see you 44 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:29,040 haven't got to meet yet. But Bishop and Sister McGee, we 45 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,160 thank God for you. So glad that you were here 46 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,000 today. And Doctor, Doctor Jerry and 47 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Sister Mason, I like to call him doctor because I know he's 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,800 worked hard on that. Not only that, but with someone 49 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:45,840 with that type of humility and love for people, I like it when 50 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,160 people like that get doctorate degrees because they're not 51 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:52,120 going to rub it in your face, which gives us all of the access 52 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:55,880 that we need to say it's good to see you, Doctor Mason. 53 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,480 Good to see you, Doctor Mason. Amen. 54 00:02:58,480 --> 00:03:01,560 Good to see our youth pastor Alex and Sister Mason and their 55 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,040 family man. And how exciting are we going to 56 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:08,920 be to dedicate a baby today? My goodness, we just had a bunch 57 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:11,760 of baby dedications at home. Thankful for that. 58 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:13,480 Love babies. There's more than one way to 59 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,160 grow a church. Amen. 60 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,480 So thankful for my family. Liam is here today kind of 61 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:21,040 fighting through a sinus infection. 62 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:24,640 So thankful that he's, I don't know if he's fighting or giving 63 00:03:24,640 --> 00:03:27,560 up, but we're glad that he's here and doing better. 64 00:03:27,880 --> 00:03:29,920 Amen. Courtney gave up and took a nap. 65 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,760 Thankful for Link and sharing his talent today. 66 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:36,520 And my lovely, beautiful wife. Thankful for them. 67 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:38,920 And he's right. I'm married into the tribe. 68 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,800 We got some genuine Choctaw Chickasaws in the house today, 69 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:46,960 and they remind me regularly that I'm just white. 70 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,400 If you wouldn't mind standing for the word of reading of the 71 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,480 word of the Lord this morning. So honored to be here. 72 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:59,840 My goodness, I can't even convey to you how honored that we are. 73 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,920 It's just such a that you would even want us to come. 74 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:06,200 Just blows our mind. We love the Indiana district. 75 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:07,920 I know that you guys are in Illinois. 76 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,200 So it's like I. You're preaching in the Indiana 77 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:11,960 District. I was like, have you seen where 78 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:18,560 Mount Carmel is? I have been looking for the 79 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,200 mountain and I haven't found it yet. 80 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,560 Where I live in Oklahoma, there are mountains and but I, I 81 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,240 haven't, I haven't found it here. 82 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,840 But certainly there's a great beautiful lighthouse standing in 83 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:35,600 this community. A man we're excited about what 84 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,400 the Lord is going to do. Philippians chapter 1 and verse 85 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,320 3. Philippians chapter 1 in verse 86 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:46,000 3, I'm just going to preach to you what the Lord has laid on my 87 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,240 heart. It's been on my mind ever since 88 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,720 I left Oklahoma for you. I don't know who this is for 89 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:55,360 today, but if it's not for you, it'll be for me. 90 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,360 And if it's not for you or me, maybe someone who's joining us 91 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:03,880 online today, a man will get in their car next week and make the 92 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:08,920 drive up the mountain. Philippians 1 and. 93 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,800 Verse three, if you dare say. Amen, He said. 94 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,680 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you. 95 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,000 What a great way to start this out. 96 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:24,600 Always in every prayer of mine for you all making requests with 97 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:28,320 joy in Oklahoma that would be condensed to y'all for your 98 00:05:28,320 --> 00:05:31,800 fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now. 99 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:36,440 Verse number six familiar to us being confident of this very 100 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:41,840 thing that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it 101 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:46,920 until the day of Jesus Christ. Verse 7 says even as it is meat 102 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,480 for me to think this of you all because I have you in my heart 103 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:54,440 in as much as both in my bonds and in the defense and 104 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:58,240 confirmation of the gospel. You are all partakers of my 105 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:04,160 grace for God is my record. How greatly I long after you all 106 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:06,520 in the bowels of Jesus Christ, Amen. 107 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,880 We're so thankful, Amen, for the word of God today, he said. 108 00:06:09,880 --> 00:06:14,400 I thank my God upon every remembrance of you. 109 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,600 I want to preach to you for a few moments a title that I hope 110 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,720 will make sense by the time that I'm get done. 111 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:25,320 Because of midnight. Because of midnight. 112 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,560 Will you help me pray? Come on, just one more time, 113 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:30,800 Jesus, we love you. God, I'm so thankful for how 114 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:32,720 you're going to move in this place this morning. 115 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,000 God, we're thankful for those that have gathered here in the 116 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:36,440 house. God, we know that you have a 117 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,920 word for us today. God, I pray that we would be 118 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,960 strengthened and that we would be encouraged this morning, God, 119 00:06:41,960 --> 00:06:44,680 and that you would do a great work in US Florida, that you 120 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,520 would take us through every trial and every tribulation. 121 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,400 God, I pray that we would be empowered this morning for a 122 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,640 great season of harvest. And everybody said in Jesus 123 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:57,080 name. Amen, you can be seated. 124 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,160 Thank you so much for standing for the reading of the word this 125 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:03,000 morning. Now, I have always heard, I 126 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,920 think this should be the same in Illinois. 127 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:09,960 I have always heard that nothing good ever happens after 128 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:13,160 midnight. More specifically, back home 129 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:15,880 they would say nothing good ever happens after 11:00. 130 00:07:17,280 --> 00:07:21,000 I've certainly been to some places in my life that this is 131 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,480 very true. Nothing good happens after 132 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,440 midnight. I remember one time whenever I 133 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:31,840 was on a school trip in New York City, they had told us the tour 134 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:34,600 guide, because when you're from Oklahoma, you need a tour guide. 135 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,680 In New York City. The tour guide said you don't. 136 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,840 Whatever that you do, it's a great way to start. 137 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:45,960 Some advice, you don't want to be out in the streets after 138 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:48,640 11:00 at night. You definitely don't want to be 139 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:53,680 caught out there at midnight. And as, as my story goes, it 140 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:56,960 just so happens that the principal and a couple of other 141 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:00,640 students and I were separated from the larger group for who 142 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,040 knows why. And we were lost without our 143 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:09,720 tour guide and stranded in New York City at like 11:00 at 144 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:13,160 night. And all of the hustle and the 145 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,160 bustle that you see in the city was gone. 146 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:19,240 But what there was was there was gangs walking around. 147 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:23,000 And if I could just be honest with you, man, I'm just country. 148 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:25,640 And I think I'm talking to some folks who live close enough to 149 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:27,440 the country that you can appreciate this. 150 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,360 Why are you walking around being a gang at 11 or 12 at night when 151 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:35,200 everybody else went home? Like who was there to rob? 152 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:39,400 Who is there to beat up? You just going to run into the 153 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:42,360 other rival gang that comes out about 11:30? 154 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:44,159 You know, I just don't, I don't know. 155 00:08:44,159 --> 00:08:48,080 It's to me it doesn't seem practical and a good use of our 156 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,040 time. Maybe you got a great drug deal 157 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:53,680 that's coming. Maybe like this is the moment 158 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,320 the cop, the cops are getting some extra doughnuts at that 159 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,360 time or something. I don't know. 160 00:08:59,560 --> 00:09:03,440 But I just feel like there's a better way to be an effective 161 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,760 gang than walking around at 11:00 at night. 162 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,400 But I remember walking down the street and my heart just went up 163 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,760 into my throat and I thought to myself, oh, my gosh, we are 164 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:19,120 going to be murdered in, in in New York. 165 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,440 But to their credit, it was not Doctor Mason a good use of their 166 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:26,760 time to murder us. They had other places to go and 167 00:09:26,760 --> 00:09:30,520 people to see. Nothing good ever happens after 168 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,680 midnight. I remember one of the trips, 169 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:35,960 also in New York City, our group was coming back. 170 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:38,960 Our airlines, our, excuse me, our airports had been split 171 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:41,200 between the group. And so they had to get on the 172 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,560 subway in the middle of the night. 173 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,920 And they sent me pictures of the largest rats that I've ever seen 174 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:50,680 in my life. And they said this is what 175 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:54,480 happens after midnight. And so I agree that nothing good 176 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,720 happens after midnight when you're from my neck of the 177 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:01,960 woods, it's not always good to be out and about doing all sorts 178 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:06,120 of crazy things after midnight because that is when the crazy 179 00:10:06,120 --> 00:10:10,760 people come out, truth be told. And and I realized that COVID 180 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:12,800 really set them on a different trajectory. 181 00:10:13,040 --> 00:10:16,440 But Walmart is another place that you don't want to go to at 182 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,480 midnight back in the day. And maybe you like going to 183 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,960 Walmart at midnight. I certainly am a people watcher. 184 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:27,840 So if I was going to do a study, about 11:30 is a great time to 185 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:31,320 roll up in the parking lot because everybody who has waited 186 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,120 for all the normal people to go away are driving in at that 187 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,280 time. And they are making their way 188 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,960 into the store. And they said, this is our store 189 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,920 now you need to get out. If you're normal, this is not 190 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,520 your time to be here. You know, you can see a lot of 191 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:49,120 crazy things at Walmart, but it gets really crazy after 192 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,120 midnight. There's something about the 193 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,360 midnight hour. And I realized that this is 194 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:56,840 something that's universal all across the place. 195 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:02,080 But in our area, in Native America, if you would, I 196 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,840 realized that we live in Oklahoma, but there's a lot that 197 00:11:04,840 --> 00:11:07,200 happens there. You know, the stories, the Trail 198 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:09,720 of Tears and all the tribes that were put there. 199 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:14,280 And there are, along with those tribal entities, also come with 200 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,040 a lot of doctrines and thoughts and things from the past that 201 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,080 they have their own special blend of. 202 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:25,520 Hoodoo even is what I call it, where they mix ancient cultural 203 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:29,160 things with spiritual things. And so we have what is 204 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:32,800 understood and known as the witching hour that sometimes 205 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:35,600 happens between midnight and 4:00 AM. 206 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,040 Many scholars that study this sort of thing believe that the 207 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:43,160 true witching hour happens at around about the 3:00 to 4:00, 208 00:11:43,560 --> 00:11:47,400 the 4:00 AM hour. But we know where we live that 209 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,440 it starts at about midnight and sometime from about midnight to 210 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,400 4:00 AM. All of the people who really 211 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:59,040 truly believe that the between the spirit world is at its 212 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,320 thinnest and that things come and they go and they they will 213 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,720 go and they will do their chants and they will do their prayers 214 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:09,720 and they will they go and they will make their sacrifices and 215 00:12:09,720 --> 00:12:12,840 they will do all the things that they do in the witching hour. 216 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,680 And I think I think the best reason for that is because I 217 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,840 believe that they think that all of the Holy Ghost filled people 218 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:22,640 that could pray against them are probably asleep. 219 00:12:22,880 --> 00:12:24,960 Amen. Because I don't know about you, 220 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,800 but I get a little bit tired at about 11:30. 221 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,960 I think it's because I don't want to go to Walmart. 222 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:32,840 And I think it's because I don't want to be in the New York City 223 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,200 gang working the night shift. I, I don't know what it is, but 224 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:39,440 I, I feel a little sleepy. And I, I feel like the best 225 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,640 thing for me to do at midnight is to not be in any kind of 226 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,560 trouble. And it's to not be any kind of 227 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:47,200 place I shouldn't be. And it's not to do any types of 228 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,160 things I shouldn't do. But it's to get a little rest 229 00:12:50,160 --> 00:12:52,760 and get up in the morning and get my day started. 230 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:55,800 And I know that I sound like somebody who's already ready for 231 00:12:55,800 --> 00:13:00,000 a Sunday, but can I tell you right now that the the enemy 232 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,280 does not mind staying up late when God's people are asleep? 233 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:06,680 Amen. The Word tells us that while men 234 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,840 slept, the enemy came in unawares and so tears into the 235 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:13,280 weed. The enemy doesn't mind getting 236 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:15,040 up in the wee hours of the night. 237 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:18,680 The enemy doesn't mind going the extra mile and taking the extra 238 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:22,400 effort to try to be sure that God's people are stunted in 239 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:26,680 their growth, to try to be sure that God's people are having a 240 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:31,680 hard time with revival. This is not in my notes. 241 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:35,480 So this is free, but not too far from where we used to live. 242 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:42,200 We moved like a mile. But anyway, there was a witch 243 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,200 that moved just down the road from us. 244 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,000 Amen. And I'm not talking about some 245 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,880 type of Harry Potter thing. I'm talking about somebody's 246 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:56,800 husband built them a pond. And built an island in the 247 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:01,760 middle of it with a Grove, a Grove with trees that point to 248 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:03,720 the north, the South and the east and the West. 249 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,880 And you might think, man, that's a beautiful little spot. 250 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:07,880 I'd love to go out there and son on that. 251 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,240 No, you wouldn't because we have lots of snakes that could kill 252 00:14:11,240 --> 00:14:13,320 you in Oklahoma. And all of them are going to 253 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:15,440 love that island. I hope she likes sacrifice of 254 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:20,400 snakes. She posted on there her little 255 00:14:20,400 --> 00:14:23,920 island that she had and revealed to the world in broad daylight 256 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:31,000 in southeastern Oklahoma that she was a practicing Wiccan and 257 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,760 that her husband had built her this island so that she could 258 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:40,120 build an altar in this space. And she even had pictures of a 259 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,480 pre sacrifice that was on this deal. 260 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,840 And there are so many people, even Christian people that will 261 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:50,000 look at a situation like that and they'll say, man, that's 262 00:14:50,040 --> 00:14:52,920 that's cute. Well, that person just kind of 263 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:54,000 odd. They're just a little bit 264 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,920 strange. But here's the thing. 265 00:14:56,120 --> 00:14:59,160 We are spiritual people. We don't have to over 266 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:02,440 spiritualize things, but we understand and know, Hey, man, 267 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:04,960 that there is power in what they do. 268 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,160 But greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. 269 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,160 We found out and realized that she was making sacrifices and 270 00:15:14,160 --> 00:15:17,720 that she was cursing people. I remember when she drove by our 271 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:21,160 house, I was standing out in the front yard and I looked her in 272 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:22,760 the eyeballs. If you could do that while 273 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,400 somebody's driving. And she was looking at me and 274 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:28,480 turn all the way around. And I thought to myself, that's 275 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:30,480 also not an effective way to drive. 276 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:33,240 You must be a powerful witch because there's a little hill 277 00:15:33,240 --> 00:15:35,920 right there. So I hope that that truck flies 278 00:15:35,920 --> 00:15:38,640 like a broom or something. But you know you're going to be 279 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,600 in trouble. This is just is how I think 280 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:42,320 abstractly, because you know what? 281 00:15:42,560 --> 00:15:44,760 I'm not worried about those types of things. 282 00:15:45,040 --> 00:15:48,160 I know that nothing good happens after midnight, but I could tell 283 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:50,720 you right now that I can sleep soundly at night. 284 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:53,240 Because it doesn't matter what the enemy does. 285 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:55,320 No weapon formed against you shall prosper. 286 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:58,520 It doesn't matter what they do. It doesn't matter how they do 287 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:00,080 it. Hey, man, they could get all up 288 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,080 in your mind. The enemy could get all up in 289 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:04,760 your mind and convince you that you're sick, and convince you 290 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,080 that you're not going to be well, and convince you that 291 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,800 you've lost your mind and that you can't get it back to. 292 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,920 Together, but I've come to tell somebody hey man, you got to 293 00:16:12,920 --> 00:16:17,040 rise up and say I'm filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost 294 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:21,280 greater is he that is in me. No web performed against me 295 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:23,600 shall prosper. It doesn't mean that it won't be 296 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:30,360 formed, but it's not going to win now though we. 297 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:34,360 Read a letter that was written to an organized church. 298 00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:37,720 In our opening passage, we should remember that Paul was in 299 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:42,920 a tight spot back in that area. In Acts chapter 16, we read 300 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,600 where Paul and Silas ran into some folks who loved God, but 301 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:49,240 also those who hated the work of God as well. 302 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,600 While Paul and Silas ministered the Word of God and worked 303 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:55,920 according to the Spirit of God, the people there rejected the 304 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,080 Word of God and then they jailed the men of God. 305 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:04,319 You remember the story that they were walking through there and 306 00:17:04,319 --> 00:17:07,040 May God was doing great things. They were preaching the gospel, 307 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,800 but this, this lady with the spirit of the soothsayer, spirit 308 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,960 of divination was walking behind them and mocking them all the 309 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:17,359 day long. I'm going to be honest that 310 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:19,520 they've lasted longer than I could have lasted. 311 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:23,400 Paul was Paul was well tested. But as they begin to walk 312 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:27,800 through the place, hey, man, she was mocking them and, and, and 313 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,400 trying to make issue with them. And the Bible says that Paul 314 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:34,720 finally had enough of it and turned around and pointed his 315 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,440 finger at her. I guess that's what he did. 316 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,040 I don't maybe he kicked her in the stomach. 317 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,840 I don't know. But he said, get out of there. 318 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:42,520 And that spirit came out. And of course, then the real 319 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:46,840 trouble came because the men who had that woman in slavery came 320 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,280 out of the wings and they said, hold up just a minute. 321 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,800 You know what, you could preach, you guys can even have good 322 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,480 church. But the moment that you start 323 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,680 turning around and rebuking spirits and causing these things 324 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,200 to come out and causing this person to be free, not only is 325 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:05,480 this woman that we have enslaved free, but now we can't make 326 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,840 money off of her anymore because she can't do the things we need 327 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,280 for her to do. Could you imagine what might 328 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,000 have been going on in the mind of that woman that was right 329 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,920 there? Hey, man, I don't, I'm not going 330 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,600 to speculate. It's not, it's not Bible. 331 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,160 I can't necessarily say that we're going to make it a heaven 332 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:25,280 or hell issue. But I think I've spent life just 333 00:18:25,280 --> 00:18:28,720 long enough to know that the moment that that spirit came out 334 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,120 of her, there was probably a lot of fear because who am I going 335 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:33,880 to be? There was probably a lot of 336 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:36,360 confusion because what in the world just happened? 337 00:18:36,520 --> 00:18:39,400 But don't you know? There was a sense of elation 338 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,200 that rose up inside of her that said, I have been torn. 339 00:18:43,800 --> 00:18:48,800 By the Spirit, I have been led. By the Spirit I have been abused 340 00:18:48,800 --> 00:18:52,480 by these men. And now, my goodness, what this? 341 00:18:52,760 --> 00:18:54,560 What is this? It's freedom. 342 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,080 That's what it was. I don't ever find in the 343 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:58,240 Scripture. Amen. 344 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,640 Where they put that devil back in her, I don't know. 345 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,960 Whatever happened to her, I hope that she ran as fast as she. 346 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:05,840 Could. But we know what happened to the 347 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:09,840 men of God. They jailed those guys. 348 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,800 They put them in the innermost parts of the prison. 349 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:16,040 Can I tell you this, this morning that God put Paul and 350 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,560 Silas right where they needed to be in the perfect midnight hour 351 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,920 so that he could perform a miraculous jailbreak? 352 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,840 God put them right where they needed to be. 353 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:31,720 And I've thought a lot about this story, Pastor McGee. 354 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,200 I've tried to figure out what kind of a Hannibal Lecter that 355 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:40,800 they had to evict to put Paul and Silas in the innermost parts 356 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,120 of the prison could. Could you imagine? 357 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,720 They grabbed these preachers and they said, these guys are so 358 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:51,760 dangerous. These guys are so dangerous. 359 00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:56,480 We got to move that guy. They probably sent, who knows 360 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:58,720 who they sent down there. Like, all right, we don't want 361 00:19:58,720 --> 00:20:01,600 any trouble, but you got to pack up your bags. 362 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:06,000 The guy's probably thinking, My Lord. 363 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:12,360 Who is about to walk up in this room that's worse than me? 364 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:19,640 I don't know what he did, but he did something real bad to be in 365 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:21,280 there. So he thought, man, this is like 366 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,320 boss level. This guy must be one of those 367 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:28,280 guys that roams the New York streets at midnight 368 00:20:29,960 --> 00:20:34,600 ineffectively harassing people. Maybe it's his boss. 369 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,760 As a man, this guy must have murdered 10,000 Bunny rabbits to 370 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:41,760 Get Me Out of his. Like, I listen, I don't know, 371 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,480 but you got to pack your bags. We got to put you in a different 372 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:47,480 part of the prison. Could you imagine his thought 373 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:50,240 process when somebody said it's just a couple of preachers? 374 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,360 He's like, do what? A couple of preachers? 375 00:20:55,680 --> 00:21:00,440 Man, you don't even know these preachers are bad news. 376 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,000 They are the worst we got. Matter of fact, not only are we 377 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:09,200 going to put them in your cell and in the innermost part of the 378 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:12,840 prison, but we're going to, we're going to chain their hands 379 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,000 and we're going to chain their feet and we're going to fasten 380 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,680 them to the wall. And that guy's probably 381 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,840 thinking, my goodness, I'm not even fastened to the wall. 382 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,840 I don't know. His hands might not have been 383 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,960 bound, his his feet might not have been bound. 384 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:31,600 He was certainly bound to whatever sin that he had 385 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:32,760 committed. But when? 386 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,520 But when they came in and said, no, you don't understand. 387 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:39,920 We've got the worst of the worst of the worst of these guys. 388 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,920 You can't even get worse than that. 389 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,000 They're preachers. You don't want to mess with 390 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,680 them. And so they brought them in and 391 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:51,640 they put them in the innermost part of the prison, Amen. 392 00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:55,400 And they, they had their hands fastened and that wasn't enough. 393 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:58,320 So they had their feet fastened and that wasn't enough. 394 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:00,040 So they chained them to the wall. 395 00:22:00,040 --> 00:22:02,640 And that really wasn't enough because they probably should 396 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,240 have gagged them. But whenever they got in and 397 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,760 they moved into the worst neighborhood of the supermax 398 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:11,800 prison of Philippi, Amen, They, they, something happened at the 399 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:15,320 midnight hour. And Acts 16 to 25 tells since 400 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:20,400 that at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and saying praises unto 401 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,080 God, and the prisoners hurt them. 402 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,120 Could you imagine this with me, just for another moment, this 403 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:27,760 morning, I've got my clock running. 404 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:30,680 We're going to get out of here. It's 5th Sunday, Amen. 405 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:32,440 Dinner's going, lunch is going to be hot. 406 00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:35,400 But I, I just want you to get with me for just another couple 407 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:37,520 of moments here. Could you imagine what might 408 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,960 have been going through the minds of the people on each side 409 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,800 of this jail cell? Amen. 410 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:47,040 Because at midnight they begin to pray and sing praises unto 411 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,840 God. I don't know what it sounded 412 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:50,760 like. I don't know what it was like. 413 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,840 I don't know what kind of song that they sang. 414 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,120 I don't know any type of ancient Hebrew. 415 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,200 I don't speak Aramaic. I don't, I don't know what kind 416 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,240 of hymnal that they were hanging out in back then. 417 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,000 But they begin to pray and they sang praises unto God. 418 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,440 I don't know, They might have. They might have been singing 419 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,640 Jesus, something about the name of Jesus. 420 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:12,280 They might have been singing that old song that I just feel 421 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,000 like something good is about to happen or you don't. 422 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,680 I know, like I know what the Lord has done for me, but here's 423 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:22,000 what's going on in my mind. But I'm reading this and I'm 424 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,360 thinking about all the people around us and the Hannibal 425 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:28,840 Lecter that got evicted from his cushy little jail cell there. 426 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,640 And I'm thinking about the guy on the other side of the wall 427 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,120 who's trying to sleep. It's midnight. 428 00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:35,960 He's like, nothing good happens after midnight. 429 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,640 I'm just going to go to bed. But all the sudden he's hears 430 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,880 them praying. Oh God, Lord, we thank you, man. 431 00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:45,960 You've been so good to me, God. You've been better to me than 432 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,920 I've been to myself, Lord. Thank you, God. 433 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,720 I know that we're in trouble, but thank you for delivering 434 00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:54,080 that woman from that spirit of divination today. 435 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,720 God, I know that we're in jail, but I don't regret rebuking that 436 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,080 spirit out of her. God. 437 00:23:59,080 --> 00:24:02,520 Thank you, Lord, that there was a sister named Lydia that was 438 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,360 watching in a distance. Thank you, God, for the revival 439 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:12,040 that's going to come. You can imagine that God, he's 440 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,680 like what in the. World, where did Hannibal Lecter 441 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:18,480 go? We're hearing something 442 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:24,160 different on the sound waves. We're hearing something a 443 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:30,120 little. Sean Garnett should have got my 444 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:31,280 notes. He could have said, do you hear 445 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:37,320 what I hear if you were there? You know, man, this sounds 446 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,240 different. I hear the cling and the chains 447 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:42,440 but it sound like they're clapping their hands. 448 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,640 Oh, clap your hands, all you people. 449 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,240 And shouting to God with the voice of triumph. 450 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,480 And I think that there must have been at least somebody that was 451 00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:54,280 probably saying, shut up, I'm trying to sleep. 452 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:56,760 But then there might have been another person in the cell over 453 00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,080 for this. And hold on just a minute. 454 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:00,480 I haven't heard that song in a long time. 455 00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:03,280 There's something different about what they're singing and 456 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:05,880 there's something different about what they're praying. 457 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:08,840 And I can imagine that over the hallway just a little bit. 458 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:12,480 Hey, man, somebody's singing, man, that song sounds familiar. 459 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,200 And they say, I don't know the words, but I like that tune and 460 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:21,240 the and they're thinking, you know, this is a depressing 461 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:23,280 place. This is a horrible place. 462 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:25,960 I've come here. I'm probably come here to die. 463 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,640 I'm Fleer in and I'm itching all over. 464 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,600 I'm missing my family. I'm regretting all my life's 465 00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,320 decisions. But I feel a little something 466 00:25:34,320 --> 00:25:37,320 happening while these guys are praying and they're singing. 467 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,400 It feels like a little bit of hope. 468 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:43,600 It feels like the atmosphere is changing in this prison. 469 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,760 Can I tell you right now, Amanda? 470 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,240 Suddenly there was an earthquake, so that the 471 00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:52,440 foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the 472 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,400 doors were open and everyone's bands were loose. 473 00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:03,440 And the keeper, come on, the jailer who was asleep. 474 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,200 Seeing the prison doors open, drew out his sword and would 475 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,000 have. Killed himself, supposing that 476 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:12,120 the prisoners have fled. I've just read this differently 477 00:26:12,120 --> 00:26:15,480 than I've ever read it before. But Paul cried with a loud voice 478 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:19,480 saying, do thyself no harm, for we are all here. 479 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,920 I just want to take you a little minute. 480 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:24,400 I just want to help you and then put you and show you how in the 481 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:26,680 Holy Ghost that the Apostle Paul really was. 482 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,240 Because he had his hands fastened and his feet fastened. 483 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:32,120 He was still fastened to the wall. 484 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:34,120 Or at least, he had been proud of that moment. 485 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:37,360 But I want you to know something the Scripture never tells us 486 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:42,280 that he was right across the hallway from the keeper of the 487 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,360 prison because he don't want to stay in that neighborhood 488 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,160 either. So he's somewhere else, Amen. 489 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,360 Paul knew maybe he could discern the feelings or the thoughts 490 00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:54,360 even of the jailer when he woke up, that he stopped from his 491 00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:56,520 singing and he stopped from his praying. 492 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:02,040 And he said, hey, do yourself no harm because we are all here. 493 00:27:02,160 --> 00:27:04,280 Could you imagine a prisoner, Amen. 494 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,560 Where all of the doors were open and all of the bands were 495 00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,240 loosed, but the prisoners didn't leave. 496 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:14,440 Oh, I've come to tell somebody right now. 497 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,880 There is a special kind of freedom in God. 498 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,560 There is a special kind of freedom that just doesn't make 499 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,560 sense. There's a special kind of 500 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,360 freedom that when the Lord begins moving, he'll give you 501 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,200 peace that passes all understanding. 502 00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,600 He'll make a way where there seems to be no way. 503 00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:30,400 He'll take you through the waters. 504 00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:32,440 He'll make a highway through the desert. 505 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,960 He'll pull water out of a rock and manner from heaven. 506 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,600 There's something about the name of Jesus. 507 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,200 Oh, I've come to tell somebody right now. 508 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:43,720 Hey, man, I don't care who you are, where you from, what you're 509 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:47,080 going through right now. There is a piece that could come 510 00:27:47,080 --> 00:27:49,760 over you in the middle of your worst hour. 511 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,960 You know the rest of the story. He calls for a light springs in 512 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,440 came, comes trembling, fell down before Paula Silas. 513 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:06,520 And he brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be 514 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,920 saved? And they said, believe on the 515 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,120 Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house. 516 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,080 We know that to believe on him means to repent, be baptized in 517 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,800 Jesus name, and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 518 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,040 He took them the same hour of the night and wash their 519 00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:27,000 stripes. Look at your neighbor. 520 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:32,400 Say that was a quick word. Man, could you imagine? 521 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,520 You know, Paul, we've had a long day. 522 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:38,320 We've had a long day, Paul. We've had to just get ourselves 523 00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:42,200 some sleep. Or maybe it was Paul saying 524 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,160 we've had a long day, we ought to get ourselves to sleep. 525 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,760 But one of those two guys said, Nah, I think it's time to pray. 526 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:51,720 I think it's time to pray. Somebody's going to be praying, 527 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,800 might as well be us. Somebody's going to be 528 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:59,840 sacrificing somewhere. We might as well give God a 529 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,200 sacrifice of praise by the fruit of our lips. 530 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:04,480 Ohh. But how can you do that when 531 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,400 you're bound up? How can you do that when you're 532 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:09,080 bound hand and foot? How can you do that, hey man, 533 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,560 when you can't even walk far enough away from the wall? 534 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,760 I don't know about you guys, but I'm a I'm a pacer when I pray. 535 00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,000 Hey man. So she might have been cheating, 536 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,520 you know, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink. 537 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:22,320 Maybe that's why I got the song started. 538 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,320 They're like, man, you know, that feels pretty good. 539 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,800 I like that. I feel like praise and praising 540 00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,680 him. And man, could you imagine what 541 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,560 would happen if we got into this place and we got into a prayer 542 00:29:32,560 --> 00:29:36,520 meeting, into a praise service that was so strong, Amen. 543 00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:40,160 That that Mount Carmel just begin to shake in the power of 544 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:41,640 God. I want you to know something 545 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,880 right now that God has a church in this city, Amen. 546 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,880 And it's first Apostolic Church. I love this. 547 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,240 Slogan here, Amen. Where heaven meets earth, 548 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,120 because that's what happened in that prison. 549 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,000 Heaven came in contact with earth. 550 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,400 And when it did, hey, man, it wasn't just Paul and Silas that 551 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,760 was springing in the jailbreak, but it was the guy beside them. 552 00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,520 I think it might have even been old brother Hannibal Lecter that 553 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:04,760 got evicted. A man. 554 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,160 I never said anything like that. The guy on the other side said, 555 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,560 I've never heard a song like that that feels good. 556 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:13,680 All I've ever heard was cursing. And all I've ever heard was 557 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,080 devious deeds. And all I've ever heard was 558 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:17,800 somebody bragging about what they did. 559 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:22,720 But I can hear with my ears the sound of somebody magnifying God 560 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:24,880 in the middle of their midnight hour. 561 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,520 Oh, I've got to tell somebody right now that God put Paul and 562 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,280 Silas right where they needed to be in the perfect hour so that 563 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,920 He could perform a miraculous jailbreak. 564 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,600 If you don't think that God won't allow you to be in a tight 565 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,520 spot, you are not paying attention. 566 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:46,160 Oh, but Brother Taylor, I thought that whenever I got the 567 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,920 Holy Ghost, everything was sunshine and unicorns. 568 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:53,360 It's absolutely not. But He'll give you power to 569 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,000 overcome. Oh, brother, I thought that 570 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,760 whenever I received the Holy Ghost, that God will never put 571 00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,240 more on me than I could bear. That's not in the scripture 572 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:08,320 anywhere. He'll never put more on you than 573 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:19,200 you can bear. Well, don't talk to Job and 574 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:22,040 let's be sure that we get our let's be sure we get our mindset 575 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,480 right. That wasn't God either. 576 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,640 Only thing that God did different was lifted the hedge. 577 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,360 You ever thought about that? Job had to learn how to be 578 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:36,000 faithful in the same space that he had been without a head. 579 00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,960 God already knew the answer to that question, so much so that 580 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,360 he asked his own question. Just want to say thank you God. 581 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:46,880 Hast thou considered my servant Job? 582 00:31:54,390 --> 00:31:56,230 Can you imagine? Job was like, you know, things 583 00:31:56,230 --> 00:32:01,030 are going so well. What I really wish was for 584 00:32:01,030 --> 00:32:07,670 everything to not go well. If things could get worse, that 585 00:32:07,670 --> 00:32:13,470 would just be perfect. No, Job was serving God. 586 00:32:14,030 --> 00:32:17,920 Here's the thing though. The Lord knew that Job was not 587 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:23,200 going to let him down. So much so that he told the 588 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:24,760 devil, He's not going to let me down. 589 00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:30,920 You can't kill him, but he's not going to let me down. 590 00:32:33,600 --> 00:32:36,760 You can take all of his stuff away, but he's still going to be 591 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:42,240 faithful. You can afflict him, but he's 592 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,480 still going to be faithful. You can tempt him, but he's 593 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,160 still going to be faithful. You could get his friends to 594 00:32:49,160 --> 00:32:51,120 turn on him, but he's still going to be faithful. 595 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,520 You can cause his wife to be so confused that she just doesn't 596 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:58,120 understand how a man that served and loved God like he has could 597 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,640 be in this type of trouble, but he's not going to be unfaithful. 598 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,520 He will be faithful unto me. Let me tell you something. 599 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,480 Hey man, if you don't think that God won't allow you to have some 600 00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,960 issues, you are not paying attention. 601 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,080 If you don't think that God won't put you in a tight spot so 602 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,200 that he could get the attention of somebody else. 603 00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:21,600 I want you to hear me right now that Jesus spit Steven to buy 604 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:25,120 Paul. I heard Jake Osbourne mention 605 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:26,800 that one time. He said, could you imagine? 606 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:30,960 Could you imagine Steven being in heaven and the Apostle Paul 607 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:32,560 walking up? He's like, what are you doing 608 00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,760 here? Last thing I remember you were 609 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:40,160 holding the coach of the guys who were killing me and Paul 610 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:42,960 looks at me and says, Jesus spit you to buy me. 611 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,920 I want you to know something. If you're appalled that Jesus 612 00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:50,040 spent someone as great as Stephen to buy you, don't you 613 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,880 think for one moment, Amen that you won't have any midnight 614 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,680 hours that you got to deal with? Don't think for one moment that 615 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,920 you won't have any persecution that you got to deal with. 616 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,240 Don't think for one moment, 'cause you're not going to be 617 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,440 beaten and shipwrecked and left on an island. 618 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,160 Don't think for one moment that you're not going to be jailed. 619 00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,280 Don't think for one moment that you're not going to have 620 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,639 problems and situations that you think that you can't overcome. 621 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,360 I'm almost done this morning. Give me about 5 more minutes, 622 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,840 Paul wrote to the Philippians. He said I thank God for you. 623 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:37,280 I remember, you know, everywhere Paul went was revival or riot or 624 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:42,080 both. Did I remember that God was 625 00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:46,159 moving and doing great things? And then we cast the devil of 626 00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:48,960 that girl? And then I remember going to 627 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:53,360 jail and I remember them evicted Hannibal Lecter, and I remember 628 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,120 them putting us in the supermax. And I remember them binding our 629 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,320 hands and our feet and tying us to the wall. 630 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:02,040 He said, I remember a midnight hour. 631 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:05,760 I remember prayer service that shook the foundations. 632 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,000 He said I, he said when I think about you, I thank God for you 633 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,240 because First Corinthians 16 and 15 reminds us. 634 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:18,200 He said, I beseech you brethren, you know the House of Stefanus, 635 00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:20,600 that is the first fruits of Achaea and that they have 636 00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,360 addicted themselves to the ministry of the Saints, that you 637 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,240 submit yourselves unto such and to everyone that helpeth us. 638 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:30,520 And Laboureth Stefanus was a first generation Apostolic. 639 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:33,680 Most scholars believe that that was the name of the jailer in 640 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:37,760 Philippi, that that Paul went and baptized him and his whole 641 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:41,440 family that night. He went from binding up revival 642 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,400 to being a catalyst of revival. I don't know who I might be 643 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,040 speaking to, or I might just be speaking into the air. 644 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:51,640 But I believe that God is able to open up and open up some 645 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,000 shackles and open some prison doors so that maybe somebody in 646 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:58,720 this area who's constantly trying to bind revival will come 647 00:35:58,720 --> 00:36:00,600 and addict themselves to the ministry. 648 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,040 Hey man. And they will be a propagators 649 00:36:03,040 --> 00:36:06,520 of revival instead. Man, there was a midnight hour 650 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,400 that said, I remember when all. This went down, but I thank God 651 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:16,720 every time that I think about you because you may be the first 652 00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:18,160 fruits of your family this morning. 653 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,240 Musicians can come. You may be the first fruits of 654 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:29,320 an entire area, but God will finish what He started because 655 00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:30,760 you were the first in your family. 656 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:32,320 You won't be the last of your family. 657 00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,720 I believe that God wants to give this church a first generation 658 00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:39,120 revival. I believe that God wants to give 659 00:36:39,120 --> 00:36:41,240 this church a first generation harvest. 660 00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:43,400 I don't know you and you don't know me. 661 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:46,360 I, I, it's my first time that I've ever been here and 662 00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:48,560 preaching like this. It could be my last, But here's 663 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:51,960 what I want you to know. I believe that God is willing 664 00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:55,520 and ready and able and wants to give this church a first 665 00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:59,520 generation Apostolic revival. I believe that God wants to fill 666 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,640 these seats. I believe that God's got a 667 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,120 Stefanus out here in this. Community, maybe he's over in 668 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,000 the next community. Maybe she's over just down the 669 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:09,840 way. But I believe that there is a 670 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,000 Stefanus anointing that is trying to get on somebody. 671 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,440 I believe that somebody is a little bound up in some places. 672 00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:19,760 I believe there's somebody in prisons of addiction, in prisons 673 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,520 of health scares, in prisons of false doctrine that the sound of 674 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:27,600 prayer and praise in this place. Oh come on, you might be sitting 675 00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,560 in a midnight hour, but those of us that have been living for God 676 00:37:30,560 --> 00:37:34,080 for very long can tell you that weeping may in endure for a 677 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:37,360 night, but joy cometh in the morning. 678 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,360 I'm telling you right now, the sun's going to rise. 679 00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,600 It's going to be a better day. There's going to be another day 680 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,240 coming. There's growth coming, there's 681 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:49,000 harvest coming, there's revival coming. 682 00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:52,960 The prisons are going to open up and God is going to move. 683 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:02,120 Yet there's people that will come into the church and you'll 684 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:06,000 sit there week in and week out, bound up by the same old things 685 00:38:06,240 --> 00:38:09,800 when all that you really need to do is just get a hold of some of 686 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,560 that prayer and get a hold of some of that praise. 687 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:14,360 Amen. There may be somebody under the 688 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:17,560 sound of my voice right now that you're like, oh brother, you 689 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:21,440 just don't understand. I'm in the worst midnight hour 690 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:25,560 that I've ever been weeping may endure for a night, but joy, 691 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,240 there is joy coming in the morning. 692 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,400 It's. On the way. 693 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,760 Joy is on the way. Breakthrough is on the way. 694 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,720 Break out is on the way. It's coming, it's coming. 695 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,160 Hey, man, if you're in the next sale to Paula Silasa, you might 696 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,080 as well just shake your change to it. 697 00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,440 You might as well just clap your hands to it. 698 00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:46,880 You might as well learn the words of the song and sing 699 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:48,880 along. Man, I'm not out of this yet, 700 00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,240 but I'm going to be. There's going to be a better 701 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:52,320 day. Oh, come on. 702 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,840 I'm going to have houses I didn't build and drink from 703 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,520 wells and I didn't dig it. There's going to come a better 704 00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:59,200 day. God's going to pull me out to. 705 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,440 God's going to take me a Amen. God sent somebody to my jail 706 00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:11,960 cell because he had he that has begun a good work in you. 707 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,960 Amen. Come on, Pastor didn't start it 708 00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,920 in you. It wasn't some other person. 709 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:25,400 Bishop didn't start it in you. It was God, the start of the 710 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:28,920 work in you. He's the alpha and Omega, the 711 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:30,920 beginning and the end, the author and the finisher of our 712 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,600 faith, the one who knows our ending from our beginning. 713 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,040 And that means that he believed in you before the work was ever 714 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,560 done. That's why you need to hear this 715 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:41,440 one more time. The weapon may be formed, but 716 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,240 it's not going to prosper. The weapon may be formed, but 717 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:47,880 it's not going to prosper. I believe that you're going to 718 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,040 be healed today. I believe there's a spirit of 719 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,240 healing that's ready to jump out in this house, Amen, and 720 00:39:53,440 --> 00:39:56,320 miraculously heal somebody. I believe that there's someone 721 00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:57,880 in this house. You're going to walk out of this 722 00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,640 place feeling better than you felt in a long time. 723 00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:03,760 Hey man, and you need to go tell everybody that you can about it 724 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:05,960 because I, I can't get it out of my spirit. 725 00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:10,200 Hey man, I believe that God is about to open up a first 726 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,360 generation Apostolic harvester in this place like you have 727 00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,760 never seen. Hey, man, if you will believe 728 00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,400 that with me, why don't you lift up your hands right now all 729 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,640 across this house and why don't you say God? 730 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,200 I received that. I believe that it's going to 731 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,480 happen. Oh come on, backsliders are 732 00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:28,560 going to come home. That's right, but there's a 733 00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:31,320 first generation move that's about to happen in this place. 734 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,760 I believe it. I can see it in my spirit. 735 00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,680 I want you to connect with me right now. 736 00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,000 God, you're going to do it. God, you're going to do it. 737 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,080 We've been praying, God, we've been sowing, we've been a 738 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,680 watering now, God, we've been doing all the things that we 739 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:45,560 need to do. We believe it's going to happen. 740 00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,920 Oh God, let our youth group multiply. 741 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,680 Let it double and triple and quadruple. 742 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:53,040 God, Lord, let our seniors be healthy. 743 00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,440 Oh God. Lord, I pray right now for young 744 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,760 families, then young families like we've never seen coming 745 00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:01,160 into this place. God, I pray that our Bible 746 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,640 studies would be more potent than they've ever been. 747 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,320 God, I pray that the baptistry would be a fool all the time of 748 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:09,720 somebody being baptized in the name of Jesus. 749 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,000 God, I pray that our addiction ministry and recovery ministry 750 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,640 and jail ministry, God would multiply. 751 00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,120 God, I pray that you would just bring open up the floodgates of 752 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:22,560 heaven and pour out a blessing and a harvest that we cannot 753 00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:24,920 contain. God, let us be thankful for 754 00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:28,040 every midnight hour. God, it doesn't matter time of 755 00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,720 day that we're in, we're going to give you everything and Jesus 756 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:35,160 day, if you need prayer, I want you to come right now, but come 757 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:37,040 in faith. I believe that God is going to 758 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:39,080 heal you. He's going to touch your body. 759 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,920 Hey man, these alters are open right now in the name of Jesus.