1 00:00:08,720 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:38,880 Let's get into. It Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. 9 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:41,240 Give God a big old shout of praise one more time. 10 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:50,060 Hallelujah. You can be seated in the 11 00:00:50,060 --> 00:00:54,980 presence of a faithful God. How many people over the last 12 00:00:54,980 --> 00:00:57,660 couple days had the chance to remember the faithfulness of 13 00:00:57,660 --> 00:01:00,680 God? Ain't it funny how no matter 14 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:03,720 what, on default, we remember the sin, we remember the mess 15 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:07,120 up, remember what we remember was not going right. 16 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:09,880 But how many people intentionally paused this week? 17 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,800 I know it's only been two days, three days, but how many people 18 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,240 intentionally paused this week and remembered the goodness of 19 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,240 God? How many people found themselves 20 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,440 saying thank you just a little bit more? 21 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:28,760 Write this down really quickly. Territory is being taken back 22 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:42,340 because memory is coming back. Territory is being taken back 23 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:49,020 because memory is coming back. Say that with me. 24 00:01:49,820 --> 00:01:55,740 Territory is being taken back because memory is coming back. 25 00:01:57,260 --> 00:01:59,620 Yeah. Say it one more time till we get 26 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:02,680 in your Holy Ghost. One more time territory. 27 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:09,240 Because memory. Yeah, that's the why. 28 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:11,720 Father, we thank you in the name of Jesus. 29 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:16,640 That memory of your faithfulness is here. 30 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:22,480 It's kind of like when people are in a coma and they're coming 31 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:24,880 out of it. I declare that your children are 32 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:29,040 coming out of a coma. Yeah. 33 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:33,840 Coming out of the coma of ungratefulness or depression. 34 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,600 The a coma of stress and anxiety. 35 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,920 The the a coma of forgetfulness, Lord. 36 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,320 And we are stepping into the memory of your faithfulness, the 37 00:02:42,320 --> 00:02:47,000 memory of your goodness, the memory of who we are in you. 38 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:54,440 Father, tonight. Remind us who we are as we 39 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:58,920 reflect on who you are. Lord remind us of who we are. 40 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,800 Come against error, we come against false humility. 41 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,880 And we just thank you, Father, tonight we take ownership of our 42 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,360 greatness. Yeah, don't get uncomfortable 43 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,080 saying yes, I am great. Why am I great? 44 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,920 Because I'm a child of God, my daddy grade. 45 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:19,920 Well, I'm would not be great. He ain't. 46 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,200 He didn't create nothing that wasn't great. 47 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:25,560 If you ain't, if you ain't too scared, just say I'm great. 48 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:29,480 And if you need to just say because he great. 49 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,560 See, that's we already know he great, right? 50 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:37,480 But for some people, we got to remind them that we're not 51 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:41,200 saying we're the greatest or we're God. 52 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,640 We're not saying that. We're just saying that he is 53 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,280 great and we are great because he has made us great. 54 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:56,640 We started a Series A few Wednesdays ago. 55 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,080 Anybody remember what it was? Yeah. 56 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,840 Faithful, family, Folk. Folk Feet 5 folks from. 57 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:04,960 That's fine. That's fine. 58 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:13,680 Faith, foes and family. Faith, foes and family. 59 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,480 The fight for legacy. Somebody shout out the fight for 60 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:23,680 legacy and we introduced these three frameworks that we're 61 00:04:23,680 --> 00:04:25,760 going to work with. Can you remember they start with 62 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:32,200 E she said love equip, mobilize, serve. 63 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,120 OK, come on, can we shout it out one more time? 64 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:38,120 Go it's on the board hero. It's right there. 65 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:44,280 Expose, equip and excite Psalm, Psalm one O 7. 66 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:46,560 We are going to deal with faith, foes and family. 67 00:04:46,560 --> 00:04:49,360 We, this is going to be last night for midweek. 68 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:52,760 Take that off. It's going to be the last, last, 69 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:56,720 last night of midweek or or shall I say Wednesdays for a 70 00:04:56,720 --> 00:04:58,720 while. And for those that didn't know 71 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,240 that, now you know, but we want to focus on discipleship. 72 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:07,400 We want to focus on discipleship and I feel like the Lord is 73 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:09,760 really calling us to grow up and mature. 74 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:13,680 And it's one thing to come get some word and sit and and and 75 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,240 listen corporately. It's another thing to be 76 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,680 accountable to a leader and and grow based on accountability. 77 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:24,160 People come, people go. The church does not value what 78 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:28,240 the church what you will get. More people gather in a house in 79 00:05:28,240 --> 00:05:32,120 a house community group, then you will a midweek service. 80 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,600 We take these gatherings for granted and we want more 81 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,440 community than we want corporate gatherings in this way, which is 82 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:46,760 totally fine, but we want to make sure that we are making 83 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:48,760 disciples and we are maturing Saints. 84 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,680 That is the reason why we are going to do what we're going to 85 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,920 do. So for for a few months, it is 86 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:02,520 going to be groups, seven groups or so led by executive 87 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,800 leadership. That is all four of our elders, 88 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:11,680 my wife and I and Pastor Dylan. And then we are going to expand 89 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,760 that because within those seven, we are training up about 6 or 90 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,000 seven or eight or nine people that will in a few months, they 91 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,480 will, we're going to send them two by two and they will run 92 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:25,360 their own groups. At that point is when we're 93 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,240 going to open it up to the church. 94 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,800 Right now, what we are doing here, be out. 95 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:32,880 We are equipping leaders for you. 96 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:36,600 But I believe it's cute to have people at your house. 97 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:40,880 But if you are hosting people in a discipleship matter, you are 98 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,880 pastoring to an extent. And we want to make sure if you 99 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:47,080 like, I want to go to such and such house, that such and such 100 00:06:47,440 --> 00:06:51,720 is equipped to lead you and that group. 101 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,320 And so stay tuned. And some of you have been 102 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,560 contacted, some of you may have not That's OK. 103 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,440 You have not been forgotten about. 104 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:06,800 But we are really going to focus on making disciples. 105 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,920 We we want to pour into those that want to be matured. 106 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:14,040 Yeah, we want to. We want to pour into those that 107 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:19,080 want to be held accountable, who want to be sharpened, who want 108 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:23,200 to be LED. We don't want to waste our time 109 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,520 pouring out to people who just want to hang out and we can hang 110 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,120 out. But biblically speaking, 111 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,240 community was birthed out of discipleship. 112 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:40,360 OK, and so tonight we just going to close close tonight out and 113 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,880 hopefully it's good. I believe it will be, but I'm 114 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:47,160 going to take a a little angle and and try and sum this thing 115 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:49,720 up and and we're going to go on our way. 116 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:56,600 Psalm one O 7, verse 2 says let the redeemed of the Lord say so, 117 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:03,160 whom he has delivered from the hand of the adversary. 118 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:09,760 Somebody say let the redeemed of the Lord say so, say that's me. 119 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:18,480 Acts 420 says it's impossible for us to stop speaking about 120 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:23,760 all the things we've seen and heard. 121 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:29,080 Somebody say it's impossible. Somebody say I've seen too much, 122 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:32,200 Come on. Somebody say I've heard too 123 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:35,039 much, Come on. We've been dealing with faith, 124 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:38,919 foes and family. And these two verses we just 125 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:45,600 read, listen, if God has redeemed you, you have something 126 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:50,720 to say. You don't just got a church to 127 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:53,560 go to. If you've been redeemed, you 128 00:08:53,560 --> 00:09:01,840 also got a word in your mouth. If God has redeemed you, you 129 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,520 have something to say. Just put the next slide up 130 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:07,000 there. Please, please, thank you. 131 00:09:08,320 --> 00:09:16,920 If hell works overtime to mute believers, hell works overtime 132 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:19,680 to mute you. Are you a believer? 133 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:24,560 Hell works overtime to mute believers because when faith is 134 00:09:24,560 --> 00:09:30,640 unmuted, chains start falling. Can I speak to your spirit more 135 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,840 than just on the board? OK, look, look, look. 136 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,120 Hell works overtime to mute the believer because when faith is 137 00:09:38,120 --> 00:09:42,800 unmuted, chains start falling. Say tonight I'm about to be 138 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,720 unmuted. When we finally speak up. 139 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:52,760 When we finally speak up, our family and city will go from 140 00:09:52,760 --> 00:10:00,400 unmuted to Unchained family. Listen, for the last several 141 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,240 weeks we have been walking through something important. 142 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,640 We have been talking about faith, family, and foes. 143 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:12,480 We saw Daniel stand in Babylon with a faith that refused to 144 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:15,520 bow. We learned that when real faith 145 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:21,080 shows up, opposition eventually follows because the enemy does 146 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:26,640 not always attack loudly. Sometimes the attack is subtle. 147 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,000 It's cultural. It's quiet. 148 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,640 Then, then, then we go to last week and we talked about 149 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,520 something powerful and it was remembrance. 150 00:10:35,680 --> 00:10:39,920 Somebody shout out remembrance, because one of the most 151 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:44,400 dangerous things that can happen to believers is not persecution, 152 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:51,600 it is forgetfulness. You think of the human race, you 153 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:55,840 start losing your mind. Your, your, your, your, your 154 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:59,480 abilities are compromised when memory. 155 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:01,480 You can't hold a job if you can't remember. 156 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:06,040 You can't hold a relationship if you don't remember right. 157 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:07,960 Have you ever been in a relationship and all they can 158 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:10,440 remember is what you did bad, but they don't remember what you 159 00:11:10,440 --> 00:11:13,840 did good right? Or when you get an argument, 160 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:15,760 they'll bring up stuff that happened last year. 161 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,520 Watch this, Watch this EJ The Bible says that love don't 162 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:25,720 remember wrong. Let's go deeper with love. 163 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:32,840 Love holds no record of wrong. Love don't remember wrong. 164 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:39,840 How about that for memory verse? Because look, look, look, look, 165 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:45,160 look. Psalm, Psalm 103, verse 2 says 166 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,760 this. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and 167 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,360 forget, not forget, not forget. Not all of his benefits. 168 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,280 And throughout Scripture, God constantly calls his people to 169 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,680 what? Remember, Remember the Red Sea, 170 00:11:57,680 --> 00:12:00,240 remember the wilderness provision, remember the 171 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:02,360 victories, remember the faithfulness of God. 172 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,920 Because when remembrance fades, testimony fades. 173 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:09,880 And when testimony fades, faith begins to weaken. 174 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,960 But when the people of God begin to remember, the voice returns. 175 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:22,800 Memory activates voice. Some of you lost your voice 176 00:12:22,960 --> 00:12:31,200 because you forgot in your most muted moments in your life. 177 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,400 It is because you forgot God in that moment. 178 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:35,480 Think about it. You are your most mute. 179 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:39,760 When you remember wrong, you are your most mute. 180 00:12:39,760 --> 00:12:42,520 When you remember sin, you are your most mute. 181 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:46,440 When you're suffocated by shame, you are your most mute. 182 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:49,480 When you are pointing the finger, you are your most mute. 183 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,040 And spiritually speaking, a mute believer is a non effective 184 00:12:55,040 --> 00:13:00,720 believer. And when your voice returns, 185 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:06,680 things begin to change. When your voice returns, things 186 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:10,640 begin to change. Watch as the enemy is not only 187 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:14,800 after your faith, he is after your voice. 188 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:20,080 Am I talking to anybody? Because if he can silence your 189 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,600 voice, he can limit your influence. 190 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:31,280 He can limit your influence for the Kingdom of God. 191 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,480 Tonight we talking about something the enemy has worked 192 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:40,400 overtime to do in the church and that is muting the redeemed. 193 00:13:41,760 --> 00:13:44,480 Muting the redeemed. One way He mutes us is not 194 00:13:44,480 --> 00:13:47,840 shutting our voice, but getting getting something else in our 195 00:13:47,840 --> 00:13:51,200 voice, getting us speaking death, getting us speaking 196 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,640 negative, getting us complaining and gossiping and murmuring. 197 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:58,080 Guess what? When you loud for hell, you are 198 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:03,320 silent for heaven. You are making no impact for God 199 00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:07,560 when you are complaining. So he mutes testimonies. 200 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,520 Watch this. He mutes testimonies. 201 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,680 But tonight we are talking about something different. 202 00:14:14,040 --> 00:14:17,600 We are talking about shattering the mute button. 203 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:26,040 When the redeemed start talking, when the redeemed start talking, 204 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:30,600 when the redeemed start talking, the dead start walking. 205 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,640 When the redeemed start talking, when we open our mouth and say 206 00:14:37,640 --> 00:14:41,880 what thus says the Lord, everything changes. 207 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,840 When gratitude fills your heart, testimony fills your mouth, 208 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:53,160 because remembrance always produces a voice. 209 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:58,800 The devil does not fear your church attendance, he fears your 210 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,400 testimony. Because when the redeemed start 211 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:07,600 talking, change start breaking. Come on, come on the where my 212 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:16,040 redeemed people at there are keys inside your testimony that 213 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:20,600 unlock things for families and cities and generations. 214 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:23,640 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. 215 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:29,400 My family is free, my city is free, my Co workers are free. 216 00:15:29,640 --> 00:15:33,560 My mind is free. My finances is free. 217 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,680 My yeah, yeah, yeah. I got my mind back in the name 218 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,360 of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. 219 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:53,000 Acts 8 says this. Saul wholeheartedly approved of 220 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,560 Stephen's death. Saul, I need you to pay 221 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:58,880 attention to this. The man we're we're we're not 222 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:00,840 talking about Paul, who wrote the letters right now. 223 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,120 We're talking about Saul. And I've never seen this 224 00:16:04,120 --> 00:16:06,800 perspective until just now. We're talking about Saul. 225 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,120 Saul. Saul approved of Stephen's 226 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,680 death. Deacon Steph Paul approved it. 227 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:18,960 Saul approved it before Saul was Paul, and when Paul was Saul, he 228 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:26,560 approved the death of Stephen. So I was just like, oh, Paul can 229 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:32,960 write these letters because he also felt the power of the 230 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,440 believer, yes, of God. But I want you to see what 231 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:43,800 Saul's persecution activated. No wonder he became one of us. 232 00:16:49,920 --> 00:16:51,120 Yeah, yeah. Take your mind there. 233 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:56,240 This is this is this is Paul who approved a believer's death. 234 00:16:56,520 --> 00:17:01,160 Take your mind there. This is the same man that wrote 235 00:17:01,160 --> 00:17:05,040 First Corinthians 13, same man that wrote to the Church of 236 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:09,040 Ephesus, same man who was the spiritual father of Timothy, 237 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:15,200 same man. So in one season he's writing 238 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:20,440 letters for death, the next season he's writing letters for 239 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:24,960 life. That's a whole nother sermon. 240 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:29,160 And on that day, a great and relentless persecution broke out 241 00:17:29,320 --> 00:17:31,040 against the church. In what? 242 00:17:32,360 --> 00:17:34,920 In what? In what? 243 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:38,720 Just real quick, just a little thought to plug in your mind. 244 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:46,800 This is the same place that Jesus says go and wait in, and 245 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,880 when the Holy Spirit comes up on you, you will receive power, you 246 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:59,280 will be my witnesses, and you will go to where you got that. 247 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:00,760 You got that. OK, OK. 248 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,160 He told them they was going to go. 249 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:04,240 He didn't say how they was going to go. 250 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:05,800 He just said they was going to go. 251 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:12,240 And the believers were all what? Scattered throughout the region 252 00:18:12,240 --> 00:18:15,520 of what? I told you. 253 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:17,520 You was going to go. Yeah. 254 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:18,480 But I didn't. I didn't. 255 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:19,720 I didn't. I didn't know I was. 256 00:18:19,840 --> 00:18:21,080 I thought. I thought I was just going to 257 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:23,640 get filled with the Holy Ghost. And the Holy Ghost was going to 258 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,280 lead me to Samaria. I didn't know persecution was 259 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,800 going to lead me to Samaria. All scattered throughout the 260 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:35,640 region. Some devout men buried Stephen. 261 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,400 Some devout men buried Stephen and mourned. 262 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,920 Somebody, say, mourned greatly over him, expressing a personal 263 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:48,280 sense of loss. But Saul began ravaging the 264 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:51,920 church and assaulting believers. Who is this Saul? 265 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:58,000 Some of us know him as Paul, entering house after house and 266 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:03,000 dragging off men and women, putting them in prison. 267 00:19:04,360 --> 00:19:12,680 Now those believers who had been scattered went from place to 268 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:26,780 place talking that talk. Now, now we can just move ahead 269 00:19:26,780 --> 00:19:29,020 just for a second, not not on the slides, but I just thought 270 00:19:29,020 --> 00:19:38,700 about something. So yes, Jesus neck met Paul on 271 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:44,440 the road to Damascus. But but if, if Paul hadn't, if 272 00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:50,480 Saul had not experienced this believer, how effective would 273 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,040 his encounter with Jesus be? He's the Lord of the harvest. 274 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:59,400 I believe Jesus met him to cash in on some seed that has been 275 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:03,200 sown in Saul's heart. Saul just persecutes. 276 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:07,400 Saul just kills. Saul just ravages. 277 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,400 He scatters the church. Saul don't realize he's 278 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:13,840 scattering the church he's about to write to one day. 279 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:23,940 The. Church is scattered and in their 280 00:20:23,940 --> 00:20:27,940 scattering, what do they do? It's up there. 281 00:20:28,060 --> 00:20:30,940 What do they do? They preach the word. 282 00:20:33,380 --> 00:20:36,980 The church had just what at this time they didn't have another 283 00:20:36,980 --> 00:20:38,980 church to go to. They just only could be the 284 00:20:38,980 --> 00:20:42,260 church. This little side note, the 285 00:20:42,260 --> 00:20:49,680 church had just experienced what trauma Stephen had just been 286 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:52,600 executed. Guys watch this. 287 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:59,240 The first Christian martyr so we understand that grief and fear 288 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:06,720 is stick in the air. The church had just experienced 289 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,320 real trauma. Not saying your trauma not real. 290 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:18,080 But for real though, the church was scattered #2 so the church 291 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:21,960 in this moment is experiencing what trauma and they are what 292 00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,400 scattered. The enemy thought he was 293 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,800 shutting the church down while God was actually sending the 294 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:35,040 church out. What the enemy meant for OK, OK. 295 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,520 So persecution became the pressure that pushed the gospel 296 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,680 forward. This is watch, watch COVID. 297 00:21:43,520 --> 00:21:44,640 Why are we trying to get the doors open? 298 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,320 Maybe that was the moment that pushed us out. 299 00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:49,320 So the gospel can get out, not the church can go back in. 300 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:54,880 So persecution became the pressure that pushed the gospel 301 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:56,720 out where the church was scattered. 302 00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:59,600 Acts 181, you can see it up in the corner, says believers were 303 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,800 scattered through Judea and Samaria. 304 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,480 Watch this ordinary or watch this ordinary. 305 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:08,200 Believers became the messengers. Ordinary believers became the 306 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,200 messengers. Ordinary believers became the 307 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:12,400 messengers. Watch this. 308 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,200 Not apostles. The apostles stayed. 309 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:27,120 Y'all went. Y'all got scattered. 310 00:22:27,120 --> 00:22:31,080 We stayed where we was. Real church. 311 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,280 Who advanced? The church? 312 00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:35,800 The apostle. No, no, no, no, no, no. 313 00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:37,400 Who kept the message going forward? 314 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:42,080 They who scattered it, he was an ordinary believer. 315 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:45,040 Y'all see why discipleship is important? 316 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:47,800 Because the church has made it all about the people on the 317 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:53,680 platform do the work. That's not Bible Ephesians 4. 318 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:58,560 Paul tells us later. He said man, I persecuted them 319 00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,400 Christians. I saw the apostles in Jerusalem, 320 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:05,000 but what no Christians around. They scattered and all of a 321 00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:09,280 sudden it's the gospel spread so clearly he can he can get a 322 00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:16,560 revelation like Jesus gave some apostles, prophets, pastors to 323 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:20,600 do what to equip the Saints to be scattered. 324 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:26,520 Our vision is what it's your term hero, love, equip, 325 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:38,520 mobilize, serve. Watch this this word right here. 326 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:45,280 When it says that they went out to preach, it means to announce 327 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:48,600 good news. They they, they went out to 328 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:55,640 announce good news. The enemy does not fear church 329 00:23:55,640 --> 00:24:00,920 attendance, he fears testimony. They conquered him completely 330 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,880 through the blood of the Lamb and the powerful word of his. 331 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,240 What testament? They conquered him completely. 332 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:12,200 They triumphed because they did not love and cling to their own 333 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,080 lives even when faced with death. 334 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:19,960 So rejoice, you heavens and every heavenly being, stay with 335 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:22,200 me. The blood purchased victory, but 336 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:28,480 testimony announces victory. The blood purchased it, but 337 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:35,920 testimony announces it. Watch this. 338 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,640 Revelations 1210 calls Satan the accuser of the brethren. 339 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:42,720 You following the accuser of the brethren. 340 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:47,600 The accuser of the brethren. In Greek this is a courtroom 341 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:51,960 word. It means a prosecutor bringing 342 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,360 charges. The enemy is the accuser of the 343 00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:02,160 brethren, a prosecutor bringing charges. 344 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:06,200 The enemy enemy operates through accusations. 345 00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:13,960 He's a whisperer. He accuses believers before God. 346 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,240 He accuses believers to themselves. 347 00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:19,080 He accuses you. You ain't enough. 348 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:21,880 You messed up. Somebody going to come get you. 349 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:25,160 Somebody out there lying on you. Somebody going to find some dirt 350 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:30,120 on you, somebody go. He accuses to yourself, and then 351 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:32,240 he accuses believers to each other. 352 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:36,720 You see it all day. You see it if you got eyes to 353 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:42,880 see, you see it all day. But Revelations 1211, the 354 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:48,560 believer's weapon to overcome the accusations is by #1 the 355 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,640 blood of the Lamb. Jesus canceled the record of 356 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:56,960 debt that stood against us. The cross settled every charge 357 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:02,720 #2 The way we overcome the accuser of the brethren is we 358 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,600 overcome by the word of our testimony. 359 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,880 So number one, it's the what blood of the lamb #2 it is the 360 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:13,280 word of our testimony. It is what the blood has done. 361 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,600 Testimony. Watch this testimony functions 362 00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:24,280 like evidence in a courtroom. So when the enemy accuses you of 363 00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,000 something, you come right back with a rebuttal and you say, 364 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:31,080 well, the evidence that I got shows something different. 365 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,080 You want to come and say I'm sick? 366 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,320 Well, the evidence I got says by his stripes I am the healed and 367 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,120 not the sick. You want to tell me I'm going to 368 00:26:41,120 --> 00:26:42,720 be broke all the days of my life? 369 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,320 Nope. But the evidence that I got says 370 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:49,440 that all of my knees shall be provided by his riches in glory. 371 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,920 He says give and it shall be given. 372 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:55,400 Pressed down, shaken together, He says, my God can do 373 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:02,120 exceedingly abundantly above. Oh see, I got evidence and way 374 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:04,520 too much. You're listening to what the 375 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,080 enemy is saying and you are mute. 376 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:12,280 You're not opening your mouth. You cannot push back darkness by 377 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:21,680 thinking, somebody say I got evidence, somebody say I got 378 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:30,560 overwhelming evidence and #3 you got to look at it. 379 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:35,640 It says they also overcame by covenant loyalty. 380 00:27:38,760 --> 00:27:42,000 They love not their lives, even unto death. 381 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,280 It was not about them and their convenience and their comforts. 382 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:50,560 They were willing, even while their lives was threatened, to 383 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:52,720 go out and share their testimony. 384 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:56,800 Here's the problem. Here in North America, we love 385 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,360 us more than we love God. And it's crazy because we don't 386 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:03,720 even love us. We way too important. 387 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,440 We way more important our agenda way more important what somebody 388 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:10,680 else said is more important than what he said. 389 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,280 Testimony is not just encouragement, you guys, 390 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:22,200 testimony is spiritual warfare. Some folks don't even know how 391 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,440 to testify. They like, oh, this is the 392 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:25,880 testimony. He paid my bills. 393 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,760 I'm sorry that that's not a testimony. 394 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:32,240 That is that is not a blood bought testimony. 395 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,600 Oh, I grew up around it. Most testimonies is something 396 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:50,920 he's done Monetary because most of our testimonies is a response 397 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:54,840 to an answer prayer for something monetary. 398 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,080 If nothing else monetary comes in your life. 399 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,640 You have a testimony every day for the rest of your life. 400 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:11,080 Every time a believer declares what God has done, the 401 00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,560 accusations of the enemy lose authority. 402 00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:16,200 Am I talking to somebody tonight? 403 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:21,600 Somebody say every time. Every time the believer declares 404 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:27,000 what God has done and what God has said, the accusations of the 405 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:32,800 enemy lose authority. So if it loses authority, I just 406 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:36,440 got to keep on talking. And I believe his, His grip is 407 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,560 getting weaker every time I open my mouth. 408 00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:46,240 Yes, this too shall pass. I'm going to say his love is 409 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,800 relentless. At 8, when believers were 410 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,520 scattered, they were not just sharing stories, they were 411 00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:55,680 declaring evidence of crisis victory. 412 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:59,080 They were sharing evidence. This is what the resurrection 413 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,920 represents. It is the evidence of victory. 414 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,480 Everywhere that testimony went, darkness had to retreat. 415 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:12,320 Wherever the testimony went, Wherever the testimony went, 416 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,720 wherever the testimony went, darkness had to retreat. 417 00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:20,640 Watch this if you are with anybody that is working against 418 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,640 your testimony, either trying to pause it, try to throw dirt on 419 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:29,040 it, trying to delay it, trying to to to whatever it is. 420 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,400 If someone is working against your testimony, they're not for 421 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:35,600 you. We're not talking because you 422 00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,720 talking against my testimony. You sound more like you on the 423 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:45,920 enemy side. There's 3 powers of the voice of 424 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,280 faith, three powerful things of the voice of faith. 425 00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,200 Three. Number one, it releases faith 426 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,760 and others. I don't know where I did. 427 00:30:54,840 --> 00:30:59,040 But number one, sorry, somehow it dropped off the face of the 428 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:06,080 iPad. But thank God, I document in two 429 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,840 places. The power of the voice of faith 430 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:11,720 #1 the voice of faith breaks silence. 431 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:17,080 It breaks silence, it breaks silence. 432 00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,680 Acts 84 says those that were scattered, they went about 433 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:25,440 preaching the word. They refuse to be silent. 434 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:31,200 Scripture says let the redeemed of the Lord what say So say 435 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:34,920 something. The voice of faith #2 releases 436 00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:40,160 faith in others. When you talk faith, it releases 437 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:43,840 faith. It releases hope. 438 00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:48,680 Faith comes by what hearing. So faith travels through sound. 439 00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:54,640 Faith travels through sound. Your testimony may be the key 440 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,840 that awakens faith in someone else's heart. 441 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,080 David, watch this and the power of his remembrance. 442 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,680 Psalm 77 I want you to see something with me. 443 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:12,920 Psalm 77 he was overwhelmed and questioning God. 444 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,360 He says like will the Lord reject me forever? 445 00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,440 Has his love ceased? That's verse. 446 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:24,280 Watch this 7 through 9. Now follow me to verse 11. 447 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:30,200 Then he makes a decision and watch this 2 verses down. 448 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,520 He says I will remember the works of the Lord. 449 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:38,160 He goes from pity party, he goes from feeling sorry for himself, 450 00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:41,880 he goes from complaining, he goes from speaking the reality 451 00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,440 of his circumstance. And then he says, wait a minute, 452 00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:49,000 God ain't going to make me change my stance. 453 00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,080 I have to make a choice because watch this. 454 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,040 All I got to do is say what's there. 455 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:58,200 I am choosing to focus on the negative. 456 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:02,160 I will remember the works of the Lord. 457 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:04,280 That's what the angels hearken to. 458 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,120 The angels don't hearken to you. No, watch this. 459 00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,560 Ain't no angels at your pity party. 460 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,760 Ain't no angels feeling sorry for you. 461 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:19,040 But the moment you make a decision, I will bless the Lord 462 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:24,240 at all times, and his praise shall continuously pee in my 463 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,400 mouth. That's when angels start getting 464 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,560 up. Uh oh, I heard somebody. 465 00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:40,640 I hear faith. I hear hope angels are employed 466 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:47,440 to hope and faith. Look what he says in verse 12. 467 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,440 I will meditate also upon your works and consider all your 468 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,360 mighty deeds your way. O God, is this in the sanctuary, 469 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,760 in holiness, away from sin and guilt? 470 00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:00,920 Who is a great God like our God? His hope? 471 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:03,360 Wait a minute, He said, who is great like our God? 472 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,320 But a few verses before he said, Well, God, stop loving me. 473 00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:12,120 You are the God who does wonders. 474 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,840 You have demonstrated your power among the peoples. 475 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:21,120 You have with your mighty arm redeemed your people, the sons 476 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,840 of Jacob and Joseph. Salah, this is wild. 477 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:30,239 This is what you know. How many people just choose this 478 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:35,800 to loathe in their beds, to just choose to believe the report of 479 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,960 the accuser instead of declaring what God has says and putting 480 00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:42,239 their eyes on him? Watch this. 481 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,520 When the waters at the Red Sea and the Jordan watches, he's 482 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:48,080 remembering. He is stirring up his memory. 483 00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,600 He said when the waters at the Red Sea and the Jordan saw you, 484 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:57,800 oh God, they were afraid of you. When the waters saw you, the 485 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,160 deep shuddered also, for all the waters saw you. 486 00:35:03,240 --> 00:35:07,160 When the clouds poured down water, the sky sent out a sound 487 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,240 of rumbling Thunder. Your arrows went forth in forth 488 00:35:11,240 --> 00:35:13,760 lightning. David did not wait for 489 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,160 circumstances to change. He strengthened his faith by 490 00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:22,200 rehearsing testimony. Faith weakens when memory fades. 491 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:25,800 Faith strengthens when testimony is remembered. 492 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:35,000 David, remember that David made a choice and this other one is 493 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:43,000 The voice of faith opens cities. The the voice of faith opens 494 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:47,840 cities. The voice of faith opens the 495 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,600 heavens over cities. Acts 8 five through 8. 496 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:57,000 Deacon Philip goes to Samaria. One believer opened his mouth. 497 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,800 One believer opened his mouth. Watch this and great crowds of 498 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,160 people with 1 accord listened to and heeded. 499 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,760 That was said by Phillip as they heard him and watched the 500 00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:15,640 miracles and wonders which he kept performing from time to 501 00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,360 time. Verse 7. 502 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:23,400 For foul spirits came out of many who were possessed by them, 503 00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:28,560 screaming and shouting with a loud voice. 504 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:34,400 And many who were suffering from palsy or were crippled were 505 00:36:34,400 --> 00:36:43,000 restored to health. And there was great rejoicing in 506 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,000 that city. He didn't say there was great 507 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,280 rejoicing in all cities. It was great rejoicing in that 508 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:52,520 city. That's how you should look when 509 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:58,720 you screaming. And there was great rejoicing in 510 00:36:58,720 --> 00:37:02,000 that city. The Bible said demons be loud. 511 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:09,920 One believer opened his mouth a city experienced joy and cities 512 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:14,080 change When believers speak man we sound man. 513 00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,240 If you if if somebody closed their eyes and walk around with 514 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:19,800 some of us, they wouldn't be able to tell from the world or 515 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,800 save person something we some of y'all don't sound like the 516 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,840 redeemed of the Lord. It says redeemed of the Lord say 517 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,680 so redeemed of the Lord say so. Worldly people say so. 518 00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:47,960 Psalm 145 As we tie this into family, one generation shall 519 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:53,360 praise your works to another, and shall declare your mighty 520 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,680 and remarkable acts. The message says this generation 521 00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:00,440 after generation stands in all of your work. 522 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,160 Each one tells stories of Your mighty acts. 523 00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:10,960 Faith travels through testimony. One generation will tell of your 524 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:19,720 works to another. Faith travels through testimony. 525 00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:26,960 Families drift when the stories stop being told, but when the 526 00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:31,120 stories return, faith becomes the culture of the house. 527 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,960 Faith becomes the culture of the house. 528 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:43,480 Who will go back to Acts 420? We cannot help speaking about 529 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:47,920 what we have seen and what we have heard. 530 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:54,920 What would church look like if folks came in here sharing the 531 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,720 goodness of God to one another unasked? 532 00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,200 No, no, no, no. Elder Brett got a welcome. 533 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:06,120 What if our What if? Our musicians, when they was up 534 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:10,200 here, they prayed while they was up here, not look like they was. 535 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:20,880 Bored watch this because he says the city. 536 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,920 Was changed because they saw and heard. 537 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,640 Right. The only people up here that. 538 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,400 Open their mouth ain't people with mics. 539 00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,760 So what I understand. Is I actually have a choice to 540 00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:45,000 get things moving? That this all I'm saying. 541 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,520 I'm not saying there's anything wrong with not talking, but I am 542 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,680 saying if you got a choice to get things moving, why not talk? 543 00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:54,760 Why not open? Your mouth if you knew. 544 00:39:54,760 --> 00:40:00,520 That the power of life is in your mouth so so if I got power 545 00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:05,280 in my mouth, then how long can I keep my mouth shut when I know 546 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,800 that there are sick people in here when I know there's people 547 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:11,880 being tormented when I understand that I got freedom in 548 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,520 my mouth and I'm. An ambassador of Jesus. 549 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:20,520 Christ, how long will I go around and and I know the devil 550 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:28,960 is at work in the house. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, 551 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,360 there's. Freedom because there's 552 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:34,880 believers opening their mouth, arresting demons because watch 553 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:40,040 this, I have said in church and people stay bound, what happens? 554 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:41,360 With the atmosphere, with believers. 555 00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:46,240 Praying the whole service. Yeah, you can breathe. 556 00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:51,400 You can pause for a minute. Oh, I'm behind the Lord. 557 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,000 You're good Lord, you're faithful man. 558 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:56,160 I didn't set in church services where I've seen mothers just 559 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:59,480 shout out of nowhere because while they're in the. 560 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,440 House of God. They can't help but to remember 561 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,560 they're not so intellectual. They're just waiting for a slide 562 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,520 to come up being. In the presence of God. 563 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,840 They're they're so grateful. So even during the service that 564 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:18,160 watch this when we're preaching guys, it is it is it is to to to 565 00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,200 move forward what God is trying to do in you. 566 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:25,200 So watch this more than a slide. You should be more aware of his 567 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,080 presence. You see people all the time 568 00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:29,960 looking up on the slide. When, when the next one going to 569 00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,840 come up? When the next oh wait, is it is 570 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:33,560 it up there or is he just talking? 571 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,120 Is it up there or is he just talking? 572 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,440 Not once have you said Hallelujah while we trying to 573 00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:43,040 figure out stuff because this is not my salvation. 574 00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,080 What? What happens when people. 575 00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,840 Keep their minds stayed on Jesus at least at church that's what 576 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:00,160 we come for right when you eat have you ever seen have you ever 577 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,800 went to a burger joint you seen the lazy that like the lazy 578 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:06,800 person in the back and. Then you see the hard workers. 579 00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:08,720 The hard workers, always. Doing they flipping burgers, 580 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:10,600 they fries, they're looking at receipts, they do. 581 00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:15,240 I'm at work, I'm at work, I'm at work, I'm at work. 582 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,440 When I come in this church, I'm at work and a part of my work is 583 00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,680 to release the goodness of God. My work is here. 584 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,280 My work is here. When I come to church, I 585 00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,600 understand that this is the headquarters of freedom. 586 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:32,880 I'm not sitting here waiting for what PT going. 587 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:35,720 To do what Elder John them going to do, who going to come up and 588 00:42:35,720 --> 00:42:37,720 do a welcome? What's going on, man? 589 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,600 I've seen musicians be so locked in that they can't even play 590 00:42:41,600 --> 00:42:44,080 because the Lord hit them real quick one time and they had to 591 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:46,800 get up and walk or they had to stand up and lift their hands 592 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,000 because while playing they've got reminded of the goodness of 593 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,400 God. Oh man, I didn't my hands. 594 00:42:52,400 --> 00:42:55,000 I used to use these hands to stone people. 595 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,840 Now God used in my hands to deliver people. 596 00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:03,840 Hallelujah. We get so comfortable in. 597 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:08,160 Our jobs and our duties and our our what we how we serve, not 598 00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:11,680 knowing that we are at our post because that's where God going 599 00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,200 to talk to us, not just talk through us. 600 00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,160 Rebecca said. I'm going up on the. 601 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:21,600 Post and I'm going to wait and listen to the Lord. 602 00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,560 See what he has for me. Some of my greatest. 603 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:32,160 Breakthroughs. I have heard God some of my. 604 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,800 Greatest breakthroughs have come been. 605 00:43:33,800 --> 00:43:37,600 Up here while talking to you, you think? 606 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,280 I'm just preaching, man. I am I. 607 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,680 Am I am receiving so much by being up here? 608 00:43:43,240 --> 00:43:47,720 My story belongs to God. Declare that my story belongs to 609 00:43:47,720 --> 00:43:50,240 God. Come on, one more time, my story 610 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:54,400 belongs to God. The enemy tried to bury your 611 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,880 story in shame, but Redemption rewrote your story. 612 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:03,760 Somebody shout out my story. Belongs to God. 613 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:08,120 Come on, somebody shout out that my. 614 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:14,520 Voice will not be silenced. We cannot help speaking. 615 00:44:14,520 --> 00:44:18,360 About what He have we have seen and what we have heard. 616 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,760 Because faith was never meant to stay quiet. 617 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,960 Faith was never. Meant to stay. 618 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:30,960 Quiet. Somebody say my testimony will. 619 00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:36,080 Open doors, he says. There was great rejoicing in. 620 00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:38,560 That city your voice, carries keys. 621 00:44:38,720 --> 00:44:41,720 Keys for families. Keys for prodigals, Keys for 622 00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:47,640 people who need hope. I'll leave you with this 623 00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,600 statement when we. Finally spoke up. 624 00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:56,880 Everything started changing. The world will tell you speak up 625 00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:01,480 for yourself. All Jesus did was speak. 626 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,960 Up for the body, the world says. Speak up for yourself. 627 00:45:06,240 --> 00:45:09,400 Jesus says speak up for my sons and daughters. 628 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:15,040 Feed my sheep. Watch this silence keeps people. 629 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:18,080 Bound and watch this silence have kept you bound. 630 00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:23,520 And watch this for some of you, it's about time. 631 00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:25,200 You start believing what you say. 632 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,880 Stop sounding. Christian, but not. 633 00:45:28,880 --> 00:45:31,200 Walking in the freedom of Christian is allowed because 634 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,400 some of y'all can talk real big faith. 635 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:37,520 You know the scriptures, you was raised with them, but when it 636 00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,600 comes to walking in peace, when it comes to walking in 637 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,920 authority, there's waver. There is too much. 638 00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:47,120 Watch this. God has shown you too much for 639 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:49,240 you to be wavering like you waver. 640 00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:52,720 Come on, somebody say. Show me too much. 641 00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:56,160 So let the redeemed. Of the Lord say so. 642 00:45:56,720 --> 00:46:00,920 That he is good, He is faithful, He is mighty, He is strong, He 643 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,240 is powerful. This city belongs to him. 644 00:46:04,480 --> 00:46:09,920 In the name of Jesus Needles. Are being swept out of these. 645 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,320 Alleys as we speak in the name of Jesus. 646 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:16,840 Sobriety. Runs through these alleys. 647 00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:21,160 In the name of Jesus, we break the spirit of Pharmakeia over 648 00:46:21,160 --> 00:46:24,840 this over this air. In the name of Jesus, we declare 649 00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:28,880 that Wally will be known where the redeemed of the Lord lives. 650 00:46:29,240 --> 00:46:32,240 Wally will be known for the anointed place. 651 00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:35,880 Wally will be known for where the double river went. 652 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:39,080 Everything came back to life in the name of Jesus. 653 00:46:39,480 --> 00:46:41,800 There is no still waters in Wall-e. 654 00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:46,160 Wall-e is flowing with the restoration of gifts, the 655 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,480 restorations of sons and daughters. 656 00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,440 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. 657 00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,520 My family is coming home to Jesus. 658 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:05,040 My coworkers belong to Jesus. Make my body align with your 659 00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:06,160 will. Lord God. 660 00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,720 I am the healed and not the sick. 661 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:13,000 Every cancer cell must dissolve in the name of Jesus. 662 00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:17,320 Every hemorrhaging area must dissolve in the name of Jesus 663 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:23,200 and dry up in the name of Jesus. Every dry bone must get up and 664 00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:29,400 live in the name of Jesus. Mama come home, Daddy come home, 665 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,360 sisters come home, brothers come home, uncles come come home, 666 00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:39,800 aunties come home, pastors come home, deacons come home. 667 00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:45,400 In the name of Jesus, poverty be broken. 668 00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:49,040 In the name of. Jesus let. 669 00:47:49,040 --> 00:48:02,230 The redeemed of the Lord say. So fear has no power that. 670 00:48:02,230 --> 00:48:05,200 Sickness will not. Skip a generation. 671 00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,240 It ends now in the name of Jesus. 672 00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,840 That addiction ends now in the name of Jesus. 673 00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,960 That Jezebel spirit ends now in the name of Jesus. 674 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,760 Leviathan loses its power now in the name of Jesus. 675 00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:28,560 You are building your church. We are making disciples that 676 00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:34,120 influence Surrey and British Columbia and the rest of Canada 677 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:40,680 and the rest of the world. Build your church, I declare. 678 00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:45,080 Tonight that the. Levees be broken, Let the 679 00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:48,480 floodgates be broken. Let it. 680 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:49,360 Rain. Let it. 681 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:50,760 Rain let. It rain. 682 00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,320 Take your hands off our children. 683 00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:08,160 Satan, you are a defeated foe. We push back darkness, take your 684 00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:14,920 hand off our children's mind. We come. 685 00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:17,840 Against that HDADHD. In the name of Jesus. 686 00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:24,720 Our children will not have to depend. 687 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,040 On Pharmakia all their lives. In the name of Jesus, Holy 688 00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:38,550 Spirit, grab our children. In the name of. 689 00:49:38,590 --> 00:49:49,070 Jesus, come on for a. Few more moments redeemed. 690 00:49:49,310 --> 00:49:52,110 Say so. Say so. 691 00:49:52,630 --> 00:49:55,590 What is the Holy? Spirit putting on your heart to 692 00:49:55,590 --> 00:49:59,320 declare, don't just open your mouth. 693 00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:07,720 But speak with specific. Specific declarations speak with 694 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:13,600 specific declarations. Be specific. 695 00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,920 Is it a? Person, be specific. 696 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:21,560 Is it finances? Be specific. 697 00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:26,600 Is it anxiety? Be specific, Let the redeemed of 698 00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:34,560 the. Lord, say so, your voice belongs 699 00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:43,830 to the. Lord, I'll leave you with. 700 00:50:43,830 --> 00:50:47,750 This we're going to have a. Few more moments, but. 701 00:50:47,750 --> 00:50:53,750 John's father. Was muted because he would not 702 00:50:53,750 --> 00:50:57,830 say what God said. To say. 703 00:50:58,640 --> 00:51:07,840 God said your son is named John Zechariah was muted and some of 704 00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,160 you. I am telling you when. 705 00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:11,240 You open your mouth, say what God said. 706 00:51:15,080 --> 00:51:17,280 God is putting power in your voice, right? 707 00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:21,560 Now some of you. May have been declaring the. 708 00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:23,480 Same thing and you're tired and you've given it. 709 00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:25,440 He's like, Lord, I'm I'm done. I believe. 710 00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,160 I believe whatever your will is, I declare you right now. 711 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:34,040 There is power in our unity of faith, and I declare over these. 712 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:35,560 Next few. Minutes. 713 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,600 You are going to declare what you've been afraid to declare. 714 00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,840 You're going to believe what you've been afraid to believe. 715 00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:46,560 And watch this don't believe for nothing old. 716 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:50,360 To come back. Declare that new thing. 717 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:56,560 Don't be afraid to declare your healing. 718 00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,280 Don't be afraid to declare your wealth. 719 00:52:05,120 --> 00:52:06,840 Don't. Be afraid to declare over your 720 00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:09,880 marriage. But you got to declare it with 721 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,880 boldness, man. You got to declare it with 722 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:17,520 boldness. Find your word. 723 00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:21,840 Speak life into that thing. We're going to come up for the 724 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,480 next few minutes and as the redeemed of the Lord say so. 725 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,280 As the redeemed of the Lord say so. 726 00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:31,880 Our elders will pray if you guys want to delegate people to pray, 727 00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,400 but we're closing this night as we thrust into the harvest as we 728 00:52:36,400 --> 00:52:40,120 believe to disciple that God is maturing his church. 729 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,280 He builds his church by maturing his church. 730 00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,800 He advances his church by maturing his church and we will 731 00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:49,640 be a church that equip the Saints for the work of the 732 00:52:49,640 --> 00:52:55,160 ministry so we can stop the tossing to and fro, the double 733 00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:59,040 mindedness, the insecurity, the fear, the self doubt, the 734 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:04,200 sabotage, the codependency, the arguing. 735 00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:13,690 No need to argue no more. So on the count of three, we all 736 00:53:13,690 --> 00:53:15,050 going to begin to. Declare. 737 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,760 Courageously, the courage don't mean. 738 00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,600 Loud either, but with faith. And fervor. 739 00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,840 And as you praying, I. Want you to see? 740 00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,000 The Heavenlies. Cracking open? 741 00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,520 I want you to see the pinata. Busting wide open. 742 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:42,640 I want you to hear the the rivers rushing from the levees 743 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:49,720 breaking. I want you to hear the. 744 00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:54,200 King's Tie and. I want you to believe that when 745 00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,280 we stop praying. It's done. 746 00:53:57,520 --> 00:53:58,800 It is sealed. It's. 747 00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,080 Done. Do not walk out of here with 748 00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:04,440 worry it's done. Do not second guess because it's 749 00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:08,800 done. Shout out it's done once you 750 00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:16,240 feel. Thank you so much for tuning 751 00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:17,440 into this. Week's sermon. 752 00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:20,760 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 753 00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,000 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 754 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:27,040 That's love quest intl church. We out here for real. 755 00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:29,400 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 756 00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,640 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 757 00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:35,040 need to find us. But until next time you know the 758 00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,160 drill. You know the motto, get your 759 00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:39,400 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.