1 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:06,360 Speaker 1: Hi. 2 00:00:06,840 --> 00:00:10,600 Speaker 2: I'm Margaret, and I've been going to Jonathan Shadows Worst 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 2: Church in Arizona for two and a half months now 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 2: and I love it. In fact, at the Hilton Hotel 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: where we used to meet, he had everybody standing against 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: the wall and I couldn't stand much because I had 7 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,960 Speaker 2: to sit down all the time because I had weak muscles. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 2: He came around and he came to me, and I 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:30,480 Speaker 2: stood up and he said, you have a weakness in 10 00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 2: your body and I said, yes, I do, sir, and 11 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 2: he said, I'm going to pray for you, and he 12 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: prayed for me. I stood up for twenty five minutes straight, 13 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,640 Speaker 2: not needing to sit in my chair behind me, and 14 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 2: a gentleman comes up and says, ma'am, my friend could 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 2: use your chair. He sits in and I says, yes, 16 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 2: let me get my purse. And I picked up the 17 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 2: heavy purse that I couldn't hold because I couldn't stand, 18 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 2: and I just stood there about twenty more minutes, and 19 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:14,520 Speaker 2: I was shocked. July twenty sixth, Today, in the morning, 20 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 2: I can jump, I can dance before the Lord, I 21 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: can twist around, and I don't have any pain around 22 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 2: my ligaments or tendons anymore, Holly, Louiah, praise me to God. 23 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 2: In fact, you know what, I'm on his evangelistic team 24 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:35,240 Speaker 2: when it starts here and I can evangelize. Thank you Father, Amen. 25 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 1: We are raising up a family in this church. We're 26 00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: raising up a family in Pittsburgh. We're raising up a 27 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 1: family in Texas that don't just know about God. They 28 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: know God. They've handled his power, they've seen his power 29 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: float through it. You're coming out of here today carrying 30 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: fresh fire, fresh unknowing. Take nothing to take another backward stam. 31 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:10,200 Speaker 1: How many of you ever followed our ministry long enough 32 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: when we were doing Festival of Life or we were 33 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: doing those crusades in the cities, anybody we would set up. 34 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 1: I had the lorn speak to me. This is a 35 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,520 Speaker 1: while back. We started in nice Town, Philadelphia. At the 36 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: time was the second poorest, second most violent in the 37 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,120 Speaker 1: United States. I don't know if that's still the kid'd 38 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:28,320 Speaker 1: be bottom ten still probably, but I had the lawn 39 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:30,000 Speaker 1: speak to me. I want you to do in America 40 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: what people did in India and Africa in the late 41 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundred. Set up a stage 42 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: and preach for people that are unchurched and unsaved and 43 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: tell them about Jesus. And we did. I don't know 44 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 1: how many of those. Do you think we did Pad 45 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: eleven or thirteen in there, Yeah, eleven to thirteen Newark, 46 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: New Jersey. We had ninety six hundred and one night 47 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 1: we had seventeen hundred people get saved in one service. 48 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 1: And then of course we did Riverhound Stadium here and 49 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,880 Speaker 1: had three thousand attendance. We had to I think a 50 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: little what fourteen hundred or something give their life to 51 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,480 Speaker 1: the Lord. And those three some people are still in 52 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:06,440 Speaker 1: the church from that one outreach. But we're going to 53 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 1: Bishop dag When he came, he said, I feel like 54 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 1: America opening back up to Crusades again and that God's 55 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: positioned this ministry to be able to do it. I mean, 56 00:03:15,639 --> 00:03:18,720 Speaker 1: the clear fact was we popped a QR code up 57 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:22,760 Speaker 1: for anybody that wants to help with the evangelistic effort. 58 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: We had just under four hundred people sign up in 59 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,919 Speaker 1: eight minutes, so we have the ability that's inn eight minutes. 60 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: You know, basically we could take a stadium somewhere and 61 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: bring two thousand of our own people, let alone the 62 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:38,280 Speaker 1: strategies we have to get unchurched unsaved people there where 63 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:40,360 Speaker 1: you have eighty five percent of the people in attendance 64 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:42,920 Speaker 1: don't know the Lord. And I can see that opening 65 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,800 Speaker 1: up in America again. You have the Department of Justice 66 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: on the side of the church where you're not going 67 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 1: to get shut down because some group doesn't want you 68 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,480 Speaker 1: in the park. And we're going to start that next year. 69 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,520 Speaker 1: So we made a functional change, which is we're putting 70 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: campus pastors in Los Angeles and Arizona and Texas and 71 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: then here a Dallas. My wife's already the executive pastor here. 72 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:07,880 Speaker 1: That's not because she's my wife and she wants to 73 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: feel included. She does everything I do. She preaches then 74 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: plush you know. You know she's with you working out 75 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: and playing golf, and her sister's getting banned from golf courses. 76 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: I wish that was a joke. I don't know anybody's laughing. 77 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:23,880 Speaker 1: That's a true story. She had been golfing for two 78 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: months and she's no longer welcome in one of the 79 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: local golf courses. You know, they're from Puerto Rico. I 80 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: had to tell him this isn't baseball. They'd hit a 81 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 1: bad shot. Just start slamming their club off the grass. 82 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:38,400 Speaker 1: You can't do that. So anyway, she meets with the 83 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 1: staff every day for about fifteen minutes here anyway. So 84 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: that's how churches grow. Churches grow. Churches can't be built 85 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:49,960 Speaker 1: on one person. Even Jesus didn't build the church on himself. 86 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,839 Speaker 1: He had twelve disciples, then seventy two. Then he said 87 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,240 Speaker 1: it's actually better if I leave. And he made sure 88 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,599 Speaker 1: they got his spirit. And that's what grows. That's why 89 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: Pittsburgh grew. You guys, are people we invite back. Please attend. 90 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: We're gonna have popcorn next week. You're not here for 91 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: popcorn and church at the movies. You're here to win 92 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,279 Speaker 1: souls and invite people. And that's the mission of the church. 93 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 1: Can you say amen? So we went from phase one 94 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: to phase two, and I want you to see it, 95 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 1: since this is headquarters, rolling this church will be a 96 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 1: black eye to the devil. And this church will glorify 97 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,920 Speaker 1: what Jesus came to the earth to do. And it's 98 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 1: not gonna be one person doing it or three people 99 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:30,440 Speaker 1: doing it. It's gonna be a body of people giving 100 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:34,120 Speaker 1: the devil one black eye after another. Broken job. Not 101 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 1: by Mic not by power, but by the spirit of God. 102 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,880 Speaker 1: Jesus is coming soon. There's not twenty years to build 103 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 1: a church. So God's given us an acceleration by the 104 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: alarning to bust the devil's head, like thirty years every year. 105 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 1: Let's build something together for Jesus Christ. And that's what 106 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: the disciples understood. Apart from you, we can do nothing. 107 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:06,039 Speaker 1: But with you, there's an understanding that if you're with me, 108 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: who can be against me? If you're with me and 109 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: I have your power, I can do all things. So 110 00:06:11,720 --> 00:06:16,720 Speaker 1: it's not me, it is Jesus. I'm good a lord 111 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 1: that might have got to renew it trust for me. 112 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,720 Speaker 1: So i God, I will not conform to them buddies 113 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,760 Speaker 1: of this work, but I will be trustformed for the 114 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,800 Speaker 1: perfect will of God. This is a church plan that 115 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 1: will be like it was in the Upper Room to 116 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: do the works of the ho Egos under the coming 117 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: of the Lord Jesus Christ. God's not coming back for 118 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:44,240 Speaker 1: a week sick defeat at church. He's coming back for 119 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: a glorious church without spite a rack of per victorious church. 120 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:54,159 Speaker 1: You're lord of that church? Can you say? Amen? So 121 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:57,080 Speaker 1: we got four we had we had three more churches 122 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,159 Speaker 1: come under a covering one in South Africa's We have 123 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:02,159 Speaker 1: our first international church in rival today and then we 124 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,160 Speaker 1: have two others domestically, and there'll be more at breakthrough 125 00:07:06,160 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: in ministry. So you know, I've told you and I'm 126 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: glad that you you believe me. Obviously, you being here 127 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:14,040 Speaker 1: today shows you believe me. You know anybody and they 128 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: do it all over. We're a local church with a 129 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:19,760 Speaker 1: global vision. But then what's the expression of your global vision? 130 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: Anyone can just say that we're a local church with 131 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 1: a global vision. What you send ten missionaries seven bucks 132 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: a month, that's your global vision. We actually have a 133 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: structure in place to reach the world for Jesus Christ. 134 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:36,200 Speaker 1: And we had three point eight million dollars and offerings 135 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:38,040 Speaker 1: come in that last that week at what no I 136 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: has seen, which is Phino. I mean, that's like, that's 137 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 1: groundbreaking in the body of Christ. I want to say 138 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,720 Speaker 1: thanks to everybody that gave and your generosity, but you're 139 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: not going to get a thank you from God. He's 140 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: going to open up the windows of heaven and pour 141 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,480 Speaker 1: you out a blessing that's so great. You won't have 142 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,680 Speaker 1: room enough to take it all in. Can you say, amen, 143 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: I want you, if you have your Bible, open it 144 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: with me to Deuteronomy chapter eleven. I'm going to preach 145 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: a very important message to you today that I want 146 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:11,120 Speaker 1: to make sure everybody's on the same page. Deuteronomy eleven, 147 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 1: verse eight. The subheading in my Bible says, the blessings 148 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: of obedience. Say something with me, say blessing, or say 149 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: obedience carries a blessing. And some churches you grow up 150 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: in they only tell you abount. Of course they don't 151 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: even do that many places. Now that there's a curse 152 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: for disobedience, which there is. Sin carries a penalty, but 153 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: obedience carries a tangible reward. And the Bible says that's 154 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 1: what God was trying to get into the Israelites when 155 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,600 Speaker 1: he broke them out of Egypt. That I didn't just 156 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:43,920 Speaker 1: set you free from Egypt. I'm going to take you 157 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 1: to a place that is flowing with milk and honey 158 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: Deuteronomy eleven eight. Therefore, be careful to obey every command 159 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: I'm giving you today, so that you may have strength 160 00:08:54,559 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: to go in and take over the land you're about 161 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,800 Speaker 1: to enter. If you obey, you will enjoy a long 162 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 1: life and the land the Lord swore to give to 163 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:05,679 Speaker 1: your ancestors and to you their descendants, a land flowing 164 00:09:05,720 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 1: with milk and honey. For the land you're about to 165 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: enter and take over is not like the land of 166 00:09:10,760 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: Egypt from whence you came, where you planted your seed 167 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,960 Speaker 1: and made irrigation ditches with your foot, as in a 168 00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: vegetable garden. Rather the land you will soon take over 169 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: as a land of hills and valleys with plenty of rain, 170 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,240 Speaker 1: a land that the Lord your God cares for. He 171 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,439 Speaker 1: watches over it every season of the year. If you 172 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:32,480 Speaker 1: carefully obey the commands I'm giving you today, and if 173 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,880 Speaker 1: you love the Lord your God and serve him with 174 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: all your heart and soul, then he'll send the reins 175 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: in their proper seasons. They're early, and the latter rains, 176 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: so that you can bring in your harvests of grain, 177 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:47,439 Speaker 1: new wine, and olive oil. He will give you lush 178 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: pasture land for your livestock, and you yourselves will eat 179 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:53,960 Speaker 1: in plenty, or have all you want to eat. But 180 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:56,880 Speaker 1: be careful, don't let your hearts be deceived so that 181 00:09:56,920 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 1: you turn away from the Lord and serve and worship 182 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,720 Speaker 1: other God. If you do, the Lord's anger will burn 183 00:10:02,720 --> 00:10:05,120 Speaker 1: against you. He'll shut up the sky and hold back 184 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:08,000 Speaker 1: the rain, and the ground will fail to produce its harvests. 185 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: Then you'll quickly die in the good land the Lord 186 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: is giving you. So commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these words 187 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: of mine. Tie them to your hands, wear them on 188 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:21,080 Speaker 1: your foreheads as reminders, teach them to your children, Talk 189 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: about them when you're at home and on the road, 190 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:26,280 Speaker 1: when you're going to bed, and when you're getting up. 191 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,920 Speaker 1: Write them on the doorposts of your house and on 192 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,280 Speaker 1: your gates. Let me see that in the King James 193 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:35,520 Speaker 1: the next verse twenty one, do you run me eleven 194 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:42,160 Speaker 1: twenty one that your days may be multiplied and the 195 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,400 Speaker 1: days of your children? You must say that your days 196 00:10:45,440 --> 00:10:50,679 Speaker 1: may be multiplied. Do you know we've done six funerals 197 00:10:50,679 --> 00:10:52,720 Speaker 1: at this church in three and a half years with 198 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,840 Speaker 1: almost two thousand members. How many members do we have? 199 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: It's over one thousand? Is it two thousand? All right? 200 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: You don't have to check moments past. I mean I 201 00:11:04,080 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: should know, but you know we're not a small church. Now. 202 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:09,719 Speaker 1: People have to die Hebrews nine twenty seven. It's a 203 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: pointing to every man wants to die after that the judgment. 204 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: I'm not telling you if you become a member here 205 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: you won't die. But I am saying it matters where 206 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 1: you're connected, because if you've got a pastor that's telling you, 207 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: how many know sickness comes to all of us. I 208 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: mean I grew up in churches where people were dying 209 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,120 Speaker 1: between Wednesday and Sunday and between Sunday and Wednesday, and 210 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:31,280 Speaker 1: the people who passed were all all ripe old age, 211 00:11:31,320 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: and not all six were members. It matters where you're 212 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 1: plugged into. You'd be amazed how many people call for prayer. 213 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: I have cancer. They said, I'm going to die? Can 214 00:11:39,480 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 1: you pray? Who's your pastor? Well? I noticed a lot 215 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:46,120 Speaker 1: of people that have problems have the same pastor. Reverend. Well, 216 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:49,720 Speaker 1: where do you go to church? Well, when you plug 217 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:54,400 Speaker 1: in somewhere, say this out loud, Where I plug in matters. 218 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: There's people believing it for financial breakthrough at churches that 219 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: don't believe in prosperity. I mean, whether we get it here, 220 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: whether we get it in heaven, you're gonna have a 221 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:05,680 Speaker 1: hard time there. But when two come into agreement, there's 222 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: power and agreement and you're in a church where we 223 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:10,560 Speaker 1: don't say how many. No, we're not promised tomorrow. Yeah, 224 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 1: we're not promised tomorrow because the rapture could happen. But 225 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: in lieu of the rapture, you're gonna have what the 226 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:19,600 Speaker 1: Bible says. There, your days may be multiplied. Everybody sayd 227 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,800 Speaker 1: my days will be multiplied. The days of your children. 228 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,160 Speaker 1: Everybody say the days of my children. Say it, so 229 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:29,160 Speaker 1: the devil can here. You say, my children aren't dying. 230 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:34,400 Speaker 1: My children will live a long time in the land 231 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: which the lords swear to your fathers to give them. 232 00:12:36,640 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: Then it would be days of heaven on earth. Say 233 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:45,240 Speaker 1: that with me, days of heaven on earth. So Moses 234 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 1: was taking time. God through Moses was telling his children, 235 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,560 Speaker 1: I didn't just set you free from Egypt. I'm gonna 236 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:57,080 Speaker 1: take you into a land that's flowing with milk and honey. 237 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: The land I'm taking you to is not like the 238 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,760 Speaker 1: land from whence you came. And so most Christians today 239 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,480 Speaker 1: it's the same thing. They know they've been delivered from sin, 240 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: but they don't know that God's taking them somewhere. So 241 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: what happens. There's an altar called every Sunday and the 242 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: same forty people come up, how many you need delivered? 243 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: How may need help with sin? People praying for the 244 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,920 Speaker 1: same sin that they've been praying about twenty years ago. 245 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: Because if you don't know where you're going, you'll return 246 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 1: to where you left. That's why the recidivism rate in 247 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:28,640 Speaker 1: prison when people get out is around eighty five percent. 248 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:31,680 Speaker 1: If people can't see a future, they go back to 249 00:13:31,679 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: where they came from. The Bible says, we focus all 250 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:39,040 Speaker 1: our energies on one thing, forgetting those things that are behind, 251 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,960 Speaker 1: and not just forgetting those things that are behind. Everybody 252 00:13:42,960 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: say focusing on that which is ahead. So you're not 253 00:13:47,720 --> 00:13:49,720 Speaker 1: doing a good job as a pastor if all you 254 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 1: do is tell people about deliverance from sin, but you 255 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:55,840 Speaker 1: don't tell them about the land that God's taking them to. 256 00:13:56,200 --> 00:13:58,440 Speaker 1: You've heard me say this here that this is a 257 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 1: full gospel church. You've heard me say it's weird to 258 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,199 Speaker 1: say it's a full gospel church because you don't drive 259 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 1: by any churches that say half gospel or eleven percent gospel. 260 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: So what does it mean full gospel? The main difference 261 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: is there's only two ways to interpret this scripture. Is 262 00:14:14,679 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: that God brought us out of Egypt because in the 263 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: New Testament it tells you that Egyptian captivity is a 264 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:24,040 Speaker 1: type of being bound to the sin of this world, 265 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: and Pharaoh was like having the devil as your master. 266 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 1: So when God broke you free from the control of 267 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:34,440 Speaker 1: sin and the devil. The non full Gospel church is 268 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:38,760 Speaker 1: taught that the land of milk and honey is heaven. 269 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 1: The Promised Land is heaven, and so one day you're 270 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: gonna be in a land flowing with milk and honey. 271 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,960 Speaker 1: How you're gonna have a mansion over the hillside. That's true, 272 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 1: but that's not what the Bible is talking about here, 273 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: because the analogy breaks down when you introduce the concept 274 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,440 Speaker 1: of giants. There were giants in the Promised Land. Are 275 00:15:00,440 --> 00:15:03,240 Speaker 1: there going to be giants in heaven? Are there gonna 276 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:05,120 Speaker 1: be demons in heaven? You have to battle to get 277 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 1: to your mansion. So the Bible's telling you that God 278 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: has a land for you here that's flowing with milk 279 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 1: and honey. You don't have to wait till you get 280 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: to heaven to receive blessing. Heaven came down in the 281 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,400 Speaker 1: person of Jesus Christ to get you a blessing. Now 282 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: Paul told Timothy. Timothy, godliness is profitable, say that with me. 283 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: Godliness is profitable unto all things. Then the Bible says, 284 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:36,520 Speaker 1: holding promise in the life that now is and the 285 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: life that is to come. A. Dallas put on her 286 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:44,000 Speaker 1: Instagram story yesterday that her administrator and Bible School told 287 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: her don't think you're going to have success if you 288 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: go into the ministry. In other words, if you're going 289 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: into the ministry, you're choosing a life of poverty and hardship. Well, 290 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 1: if that was a scripture, i'd believe it, but it's 291 00:15:54,560 --> 00:15:57,720 Speaker 1: not a scripture. She rejected that, and it helped her. 292 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,120 Speaker 1: I had to reject the same things. I'm trying to 293 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,560 Speaker 1: to encourage you this morning to reject anything people put 294 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: in your mind about how hard it is to be 295 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, how hard it is to raise a family, 296 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: how hard it is to be black, how hard it 297 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 1: is to be white, how hard it is to be 298 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: not have a college degree. There is a place God 299 00:16:15,280 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 1: is taking you by his grace in this life, and 300 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:20,840 Speaker 1: the second half of this year is going to be 301 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: the best six months you've ever had in Jesus' name. 302 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: If you believe it, go ahead and do a charity 303 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: doing and give the Lord a mighty handclaff. 304 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 3: Hi, my name's Christian. It is my first time attending 305 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,400 Speaker 3: your church, and I must say I have been like 306 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:38,680 Speaker 3: warmly welcomed. There's like a rush that came over me, 307 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 3: and I just began to like just fill this surge 308 00:16:41,280 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 3: in my body and speak in tongues, which is pretty incredible. 309 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,440 Speaker 3: But I wanted to share that I came here to 310 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 3: specifically ask for two prayers. One was about housing and 311 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 3: restoration of God as well as you know, gain full employment, 312 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 3: just being restored back to position that I had formally. 313 00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:05,639 Speaker 3: And I came and I sat down, and I hadn't 314 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:10,359 Speaker 3: met Pastor shuttles Worth yet, and he just started speaking 315 00:17:11,160 --> 00:17:16,200 Speaker 3: specifically of those two things of gainful employment and of housing, 316 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 3: and I couldn't make it up. I mean, I know 317 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,920 Speaker 3: that the power of the Lord is definitely here. And 318 00:17:23,320 --> 00:17:27,199 Speaker 3: it was pretty incredible because I normally am under the 319 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 3: ministry of Joeln Whitaker. There was a pastor Terry Shuttle's 320 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:33,639 Speaker 3: work who spoke a word and his word came to 321 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,880 Speaker 3: pass and it was very specifically date in the tenth 322 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 3: day of the seventh month of the year of Publie, 323 00:17:39,640 --> 00:17:42,720 Speaker 3: which is this here, and something came to pass for 324 00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 3: my family specifically, so I know that there's not just 325 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 3: power in this house, but in the family. I'm really 326 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:52,959 Speaker 3: grateful to be here, and I'm so thankful to all 327 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 3: of you guys for welcoming me to your house. 328 00:17:55,880 --> 00:18:00,160 Speaker 1: So I'm titled today. You have a right to believed 329 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:03,880 Speaker 1: for the best in this life. You have a right. 330 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,600 Speaker 1: I probably should make it stronger and say you have 331 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,120 Speaker 1: a responsibility to believe God for the best in this life. 332 00:18:10,200 --> 00:18:12,960 Speaker 1: You don't think of this now. When God told me 333 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: to start a church in Pittsburgh, then it's up to 334 00:18:16,359 --> 00:18:18,600 Speaker 1: me to set the level of what I'm gonna believe 335 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,520 Speaker 1: God for. We could be meeting today in a Holiday 336 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:26,479 Speaker 1: in Express with forty seats and children's ministry in the 337 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:28,840 Speaker 1: corner of the Holiday and Express room that we rented 338 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,880 Speaker 1: and still be there for years. God will let you 339 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:34,919 Speaker 1: decide where you're gonna turn your faith out to go. 340 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:38,480 Speaker 1: I decided I'm gonna believe God for the best. You 341 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: saw that church in Texas. That's a year we had 342 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:43,560 Speaker 1: people right on Instagram. He said, this is a church 343 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,000 Speaker 1: plan that can't be true. What church plan is in 344 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: a church that size, you know, one eight hundred and 345 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:51,120 Speaker 1: seventy five people a year and a half in that's 346 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:53,879 Speaker 1: like the eleventh time we've broken a thousand people in 347 00:18:53,920 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 1: a year and a half. I made up my mind. 348 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,879 Speaker 1: I'm gonna believe for the best buildings. I'm gonna believe 349 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:01,439 Speaker 1: for the best transport to I'm a belief for the 350 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,600 Speaker 1: best music. And look, you know, sister Clarina is not 351 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 1: from here, she was living in Florida. God provided people law. 352 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:11,960 Speaker 1: I still don't know where Low came from. He just comes. 353 00:19:12,080 --> 00:19:18,760 Speaker 1: He appears on the drums and vanishes, Brother Tony Detroit 354 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:22,880 Speaker 1: and where everybody came from. When you put your faith out, 355 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:26,200 Speaker 1: you're not trying to get God to do something. God 356 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:29,560 Speaker 1: wants the best for you. You have the ability to 357 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:32,800 Speaker 1: believe God for the best. You don't have to pay 358 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: for it, you don't have to think of a way 359 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: to make it happen. All you have to do is 360 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: believe it. And God is pleased by your faith and 361 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:42,080 Speaker 1: He's going to make it happen. I want to put 362 00:19:42,119 --> 00:19:45,600 Speaker 1: something in you today that whatever your assignment is in life, 363 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 1: don't believe to make it. Don't believe to say I'm 364 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: not gonna believe to struggle. I mean some people, if 365 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:54,440 Speaker 1: they believe to make it, it would be a step up. 366 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: I told you there's four ministries. Sadly, one of them 367 00:19:58,680 --> 00:19:59,879 Speaker 1: was in one of my meetings when I was tal 368 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 1: about it, which I didn't know because they were in 369 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:05,880 Speaker 1: the balcony. I said, I've heard four different ministries going 370 00:20:05,880 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: into summer. I'm talking ministries like ours, full gospel, word 371 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 1: of faith background. We're going into the summer, family, and 372 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:15,479 Speaker 1: summer is when the giving is the lowest, and it 373 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,640 Speaker 1: always will be as long as you keep saying that 374 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,800 Speaker 1: boso death in life is in the power of the 375 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: what idiot? Now, if you don't know that, that's different. 376 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 1: But if you know what I know and let that 377 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: come out of your mouth, you're a moron. How many 378 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: those Summer is always the lowest time, Okay, I told 379 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 1: you before, I've been in the ministry twenty three years. 380 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:40,760 Speaker 1: If the last twenty two summers were the worst financial 381 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:42,919 Speaker 1: time we've ever had in the ministry, I would go 382 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,320 Speaker 1: into this year and say I'm going to break that 383 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:48,120 Speaker 1: thing skull this year, and I would start saying we're 384 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: going to have the best summer that we've ever had 385 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. So say this with me, say some 386 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: people believe for failure. My friend Matt's in the back. 387 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,680 Speaker 1: He's got a good ViBe's barbershop down in Washington. I'm 388 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,120 Speaker 1: sure after hearing me teach, it has started to stand 389 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,399 Speaker 1: out to you other business owners that you know that 390 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: it's like you're hanging yourself with your own tongue. You 391 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 1: know it's hard. It's hard running a barbershop in Washington. 392 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,600 Speaker 1: You know this place is going down the tubes. Just 393 00:21:19,640 --> 00:21:21,760 Speaker 1: because we're around you is going down the tubes. Doesn't 394 00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: mean you have to go with it. Isaac didn't go 395 00:21:24,160 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: down with the famine. Isaac reaped one hundredfold in the 396 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: time of a severe famine. So your situation and your 397 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: surroundings don't determine your outcome. Your faith in God, expressed 398 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:40,040 Speaker 1: by confession with your mouth and action, is what produces 399 00:21:40,080 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 1: your outcome. And I want to tell you a third time, 400 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,919 Speaker 1: you have a right to believe God for the best 401 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:48,879 Speaker 1: today and you're probably not gonna have anybody else encourage 402 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: you that way the rest of the week. That's what 403 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: Sundays are for. For all the people the devil rises 404 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: up to tell you how expensive it's gonna be, how 405 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,080 Speaker 1: many other people have failed. You're gonna make it. God's 406 00:21:59,119 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: gonna help you the way he came through for every 407 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 1: person in the Bible. You're gonna see him come through 408 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:08,760 Speaker 1: for you. In Jesus' name. Say it out loud. I 409 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:13,720 Speaker 1: have a right to believe God for the best. Say 410 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 1: my source is God, your sources and your surroundings. You'd 411 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:22,439 Speaker 1: being amazed how many people that should know better. Now 412 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: I'll just say stuff like that, like summer will come 413 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,680 Speaker 1: into summer. Family are givings down. I was even thinking 414 00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:33,800 Speaker 1: of this pastor Jay and everybody. You know, we had 415 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: what no I ha seen on fourth of July weekend. 416 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:39,520 Speaker 1: Do you know what? Actually, even the first year I 417 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,879 Speaker 1: announced we're gonna have it. One of my friends who 418 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: I like, he said, well, you know that's the fourth 419 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 1: of July. People are traveling, yes, which enables them to 420 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: travel here. Some people see everything as a disadvantage. Can't 421 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: have twenty one days of prin fasting in January. It's winter. 422 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,639 Speaker 1: The roads are bad all year, none of the whole months. 423 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,520 Speaker 1: And then once winter clears, it's spring. Can't have any meetings. 424 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,840 Speaker 1: Then it's spring. It finally he gets warm, and everybody 425 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:14,639 Speaker 1: goes away. Everybody goes away. I've had best to tell 426 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: me that we can't do a meeting in the spring. 427 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 1: When the weather gets nice, everybody's gone. Your people go 428 00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:23,000 Speaker 1: on vacation for ninety days all at once. And then summer, 429 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,840 Speaker 1: you know, school's out. Everybody's gone on vacation, everybody you know. 430 00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:30,400 Speaker 1: And then on the flip side, then fall it's back 431 00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: to school and people are busy, and then winter it's 432 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,000 Speaker 1: Christmas time. So all twelve months are a bad time 433 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: to have church. If you see disadvantage, you will see 434 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: it everywhere you go. But the eyes of faith see 435 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: advantage where everybody else sees disadvantage. Everybody was whining about 436 00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: how big Goliath was, and David looked at him and said, 437 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: that guy's got a forehead with a pimple the size 438 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 1: of a Toyota Prius. I can hit the PEPSI can 439 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 1: at one hundred yards. I can pop that guy in 440 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,480 Speaker 1: the skull blindfolded. And so everybody else was saying, and 441 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,440 Speaker 1: we can't take him out. He's got a sword that's bigger. 442 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: If his sword makes contact with my sword, it's gonna 443 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: split it in half. His sword would cut my shield 444 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:16,120 Speaker 1: in half. David said, I'm not using I don't come 445 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,840 Speaker 1: at you with shield and sword. I come at you 446 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: in the name of the Lord, and God gave him 447 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: different weapons that all of his armor was powerless against 448 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:28,679 Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. Will give you a different weaponry to 449 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,960 Speaker 1: prevail in every battle of life. Can you say amen? 450 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,840 Speaker 1: And so say out loud, I see advantages where everybody 451 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 1: else thees disadvantages. Joe Rogan has the number one podcast 452 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: to my knowledge, on planet Earth. You know that whole 453 00:24:47,280 --> 00:24:51,600 Speaker 1: thing started as a disadvantage. He confronted another comedian on 454 00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: stage for stealing material, and the comedian he confronted was 455 00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:59,200 Speaker 1: stealing material, but he also had the number one comedy 456 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: show on TV at the time. So the comedy club said, 457 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,760 Speaker 1: we're siding with him. You're not welcome back here anymore. 458 00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,479 Speaker 1: Because the guy said him or me. He came up 459 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,760 Speaker 1: on the stage yelled at me in front of everybody. 460 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:10,679 Speaker 1: I won't come back here unless you ban him from 461 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,000 Speaker 1: the club. So Joe Rogan got banned from the club. 462 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,359 Speaker 1: Then every comedy club bann him from the club. So 463 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:19,520 Speaker 1: you know what he decided to do start a podcast, 464 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 1: and Joe Rogan and if it gets back to him 465 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,760 Speaker 1: on the you know he was not an a level 466 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: stand up comedian. That's not a critique. He was a 467 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: comedy club comedian. And what he could have seen as 468 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,720 Speaker 1: I'm finished. Instead it pushed him to do something differently 469 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 1: that ended up being something so big. There's no comedian 470 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,840 Speaker 1: that gets hurt as much as him. Now he's welcome 471 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: to go wherever he wants. There's nothing that's a disadvantage. 472 00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: And many times what the devil sends as a disadvantage, 473 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,240 Speaker 1: God will use to push you into your destiny where 474 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:53,480 Speaker 1: you think of a different way to do things, and 475 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,600 Speaker 1: what the devil meant for evil, God takes it and 476 00:25:56,680 --> 00:26:01,280 Speaker 1: turns it for good. Every disadvantage face with today, in 477 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,600 Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, God's gonna show you a way out. 478 00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: In Jesus' name. Somebody say I have an advantage, say 479 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,440 Speaker 1: God's on my side. You know what the Mamo says. 480 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 1: If God is for you, who can be against you? 481 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,240 Speaker 1: So some people see summer is a bad time. There's 482 00:26:25,280 --> 00:26:28,679 Speaker 1: churches that are closed for the summer. Summertime people go away, 483 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: You go away. There's also people that don't go away, 484 00:26:33,920 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 1: and there's also people looking for somewhere to go. You know, 485 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,160 Speaker 1: we got that church in Arizona open in the summer way, 486 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: it's Arizona summertime, everybody goes to where it's cooler. No, 487 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: there's people that Actually, we had people drafted the church 488 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: in Arizona yesterday from four Corners. You know, four Corners 489 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,800 Speaker 1: is where Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico all meet. 490 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: You can stand in all four states at the same time. 491 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: It's five hours from our church. At summertime, they can 492 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: travel Los Angeles. People traveled from New Zealand to our 493 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,360 Speaker 1: church in LA yesterday, like a lot of them, a 494 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,440 Speaker 1: pack of people from New Zealand. Kiwis they call them. 495 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: Now if this is being played fifteen years from now 496 00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,240 Speaker 1: and that's now a racist term now it wasn't. They're 497 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:19,280 Speaker 1: Kiwi's whatever they are, then you can change it. By 498 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:26,080 Speaker 1: Ai Plattsburgh, New York, sixty six miles from Montreal. They 499 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,639 Speaker 1: were in LA. They took the summer to come and 500 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: go to the church. So other churches are shut down. 501 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: One of the first problems that we had in this 502 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,560 Speaker 1: church was when Pastor Jay started the youth group. This 503 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,760 Speaker 1: pastor got in touch with me and my overseer and said, 504 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:45,360 Speaker 1: you're stealing our youth. They're all coming to your youth 505 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: group instead of our youth. You know, we found out 506 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,520 Speaker 1: their youth pastors shut their youth group down for the summer. 507 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: What do you want me to do? You want me 508 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: to post people with AR fifteen's and if you're from 509 00:27:54,359 --> 00:27:57,480 Speaker 1: another church, you get two shots to the chest. No, 510 00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: you shut down. You saw this advantage and you lost people. 511 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: The eyes of unbelief always see what's against you. The 512 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: eyes of faith always see that God is for me. 513 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,680 Speaker 1: There's a way out of every trouble. God is being 514 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,440 Speaker 1: Even if there is no way, God makes a way 515 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:28,560 Speaker 1: where there is no way.