Becoming a Middle Finger to Satan’s End Time Agenda for Mankind

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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now here is Evangelist Jonathan.

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I want I have a bit of a strong title. If you're visiting today, this will probably be your last service. But, and I'm not saying it to be funny, and I'm not saying it to be crude. I can't think of a better way to say it. And I don't want to think of it. To me, it is what the church is, and it puts the right mentality. We are not here to cooperate with evil things that evil men want to pass. We are here to be light and darkness and salt of the earth. Becoming a middle finger to Satan's end time agenda for mankind. Now, what do I mean by that? I don't mean we walk around with our middle fingers up, we don't do that. But I will say, you are, in what you did today, a middle finger to trillions of dollars that were spent on public school education and university education. Everything that they wanted you to not do, you did by getting up on your day off, getting dressed, coming to church, and not some boring funeral service church, lifting up your hands and singing to God and praising his holy name. Not going to some church where they're gonna question the Bible, but going to a church where you're gonna hear scripture, and then in hearing that scripture, his word becomes a lamp unto your feet and a light unto your path. That's what God, that's the purpose of this church. Without going back into it, December 31st, 2020, at our office party. The Lord spoke to me very clearly. Build me a strong church in this city. Because the Bible says Jesus said, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Churches are doing, building a church is doing warfare against the gates of hell. I want to show you since we've built this church what's happened. This is the you remember we took authority over fentanyl when we started the church every day in prayer. This is fentanyl deaths last year. 30% de almost 25% decrease in one year, lowest since 2015. That's in one year. So I want to show you this as well, because a lot of people that preach this from the standpoint that I preach from, they have a defeatist mentality. Conservatives are some of the most defeated, joyless people you'll ever meet. Because they know all the parts of the Bible that uh uh in the last days many will depart from the faith, wickedness will abound, and so they almost feel like we're fighting a losing battle, but we're not fighting a losing battle. Because in the midst of sin, in the midst of wickedness, where wickedness abounds, there the grace and power of God that much more abounds. And Jesus said, not now, if he said, I'll give my church power to survive, then I would preach from that standpoint. Let's hold on till the end. That's what a lot of churches you could have gone to today are doing. It's the same 60, 80 people, 110 people, and you know, we're not bowing to the world, we're gonna stay faithful. But faithfulness to God is fruitfulness. He didn't say I'll help my church survive, he said, I will build my church. That's why this church is multiplying, that's why Texas is multiplying, that's why our church in Arizona that I was at yesterday is multiplying, California blowing the doors out under Pastor Kofi. We are not good, we're not here to hang on. We are here to be a wrecking ball to the kingdom of hell and say, You're not gonna have Pittsburgh, you're not gonna, we're not gonna watch foreign religion come in, we're not gonna watch drug addiction come in. We're gonna see the power of God through us shake our nation. If you're pleased to be a part of that, go ahead and let God hear your mighty hand clap and shout, pop pop the other graphic up that I sent you. This is startling. No, the the graph. No, the one about voting. I'll send it to you again. I won't send it to you again. I don't I don't have time. I'm in front of people. If you put a graph up that shows who's in favor of the the dissolution of traditional marriage, uh, transgender ideology, everyone is all for it, except one group of people, which are Bible-believing, what they call evangelicals, because we are evangelists. The the call to go into all the world and preach the gospel is not given to evangelists, it's given to all who believe. These signs will follow them that believe. In my name, they'll cast out devils, they'll speak in new tongues, they'll lay their hands on the sick, and the sick will recover. And then he said, Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations. Um, the church that we rent, or the building that we rent in California, in Santa Ana, it's a Hebrew school. There's no signs on the building, there's no sign out front. There's no, you wouldn't know what it is, and it's gated off because when they asked them why, they said there's a lot of hate against Jewish people right now in South Carolina, uh Southern California, so we just, they're not looking to evangelize. If you're Jewish, you're in. If you're not, you're not. But the reason we put signs up and Billboards and Mina Dawson's smiling face everywhere and digital marketing is we're not, you never get a mentality that though we have a spirit that's different than the world, we're not against the world. It is God's will that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. Can you say amen? And so if you take that out, if you take out us from the world, literally the salt of the earth is gone. The world wraps, there's no preserving agent. The Bible tells you that after Christ returns, uh, or when the rapture happens and the church is taken out of the earth, they think we're what's holding progress up. If we could get rid of those stupid Christians and their stupid homeschooling and their stupid beliefs, we could finally have some progress. But they're gonna find out that when we're gone, the whole thing's gonna implode on itself in less than seven years. I want you to see the importance of your life today. I want you to see the reason why the devil fights you so hard on living for God. Because one person, you don't have to outnumber the devil's people, one person who stands for God, like Daniel, can overthrow the devil's whole plan in their generation. I'm glad today that we don't have one person like that. We have a room full of people in Pittsburgh, a room full in Texas, and many more watching on television or online that have made up their mind. I live in this world, but I'm not of this world. I'm gonna live by the Bible. I'm gonna do what God tells me to do and be who God tells me to be. If you believe it, can you say amen? So I want to read a few lengthy scriptures to you. 2 Timothy chapter 3. This is the last book that the apostle Paul wrote. Last words are important. It's a warning to Timothy, and it's a warning to the last day Christians. The subtitle in my Bible is The Dangers of the Last Days. You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. For people will love only themselves and their money. They'll be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents and ungrateful. They'll consider nothing sacred, they'll be unloving and unforgiving, they'll slander others and have no self-control. They'll be cruel and hate what is good. They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. Then that all dealt with the world. Here's the church. They will act religious or they'll have a form of godliness, but they will reject the power that would make them godly. Have nothing to do with people like that. They are the kind that work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. Such women are forever following new teachings, but they're never able to understand the truth. These teachers oppose the truth just as Janice and Jambres opposed Moses. They have depraved minds and a counterfeit faith, but they won't get away with this for long. Someday everyone will recognize what fools they are, just as happened with Janice and Jambris. Paul's charge to Timothy. But you, Timothy, certainly know what I teach and how I live and what my purpose in life is. You know my faith, my patience, and my love, and my endurance. You know how much persecution and suffering I've endured. You know all about how I was persecuted in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. Everybody say a word with me. Say victory. When you preach overcoming faith and victorious faith, people think you've never read about Paul. These guys tell you that you're more than a conqueror and uh uh you'll always be the head and not the tail. What about Paul? Well, Paul's writing this, and he said, You know how badly I was afflicted, and he tells the three cities he was most afflicted in. But how does he close it out? But the Lord delivered me out of them all. We don't deny that there's trouble, we deny trouble's ability to stay and you not have victory over that trouble. Today in this church, you're leaving with the victory over whatever had trouble in your life in Jesus' mighty name. Keep going, switch to NLT. Verse 12. I'll read it off the screen. Yes, and everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. You know, Pastor Kofi that's in California, he used to be a party planner in Bronx, New York. Not uh Chuck E. Cheese parties, party parties. He'd get you whatever you needed for the party. He I asked him, I said, Did you ever have to go to court? Never. The only time he ever had to go to court was with me after he became a pastor for our church being too big and not having enough parking. That's persecution. The only place they sent in people to count heads in Allegheny County in five years was our church when we were at the soccer dome. We got sued at 107, we got sued at the soccer dome, we got sued at Baywood, and then God gave us our Rehoboth, a place to settle down and have permits. Did you know last Sunday was our first legal service in four and a half years? Yeah. Because there's the spirit of the world and there's the spirit of Christ. They don't send people to count how many people are at the bars or they're over compliance. I went to a taco place yesterday in Phoenix. It was on Yelp's top 100 restaurants in the country, and it changed my life. Jesus changed my life. Adoles changed my life, and these carne asada tacos changed my life. And if I went there two more times, I would need about $12,000 more of clothes because I'm about out of all my clothes from fatness. When I went in there, that restaurant was jammed, and then there was a line from the register weaving through all the tables to the door. So a fireman came in, and Adon said, I bet he's gonna tell me that he's gonna shut them down if they don't get people to leave. But he wasn't. Somebody was parked in a fire spot and they just got him to leave. So they they put up with packed stadiums and packed everything else. Now Hopewell's been totally different. But everywhere you go, every you know, Pastor Russell, that new church he started in Spokane, Washington. First thing, after three weeks, a permit guy came, cited him for moss on the roof that had been there probably for 40 years, and then uh been there since the last person in Washington State voted Republican. Cited him for stuff, denied the permit, and three days before Easter said, We forbid you to meet in this church or we'll arrest you. So it's the same devil, Seattle, Pittsburgh, he knows that if churches like this pop up, he has no chance. Look what happened during COVID. The pastors complied with shutting the churches down, and within 90 days, there were unbridled riding in the streets. America turned into a war zone in 90 days. If you turn the light out, the darkness moves in for free. But if you turn the light up, light drives out darkness effortlessly and for free. That's what today's about. Today, we're turning the heat up on the devil and letting him know this country doesn't belong to you. This country belongs to the move of God's Spirit upon its people. Hallelujah. I'm glad we were able. This might be the first time in church history that a church was able to transfer the rowdiness of the smaller building into the big building. A lot of times when you move into the big building, it turns into like a quiet NPR podcast. But I'm glad you kept your rowdiness. How many of you gonna keep your rowdiness for the Lord? But evil people and impostors will flourish, they will deceive others, and they themselves will be deceived. But you must remain faithful to the things you've been taught. You know they're true, for you know you can trust those who taught you. Can you grab me that guy sitting on the school talking about how he doesn't believe in Noah's Ark? I want to play it. I'll tell you when to play it. You have been taught the holy scriptures from childhood, and they've given you the wisdom to receive the salvation that comes by trusting in Jesus Christ. All scripture. This is the key scripture to the Bible. Anybody of any worth, any denomination, assemblies of God, church of God and Christ, they all have this scripture as their number one doctrinal statement. Because if you undermine the Bible, you lose the foundation. He that builds his life on my word and on my teaching is like a wise man who builds his life on the rock. The wind comes and the waves crash, but the house is still standing firm. But then if you start, the Bible says in Proverbs, if the foundation is destroyed, what can the godly do? An old preacher that's oversees thousands of ministers, his wife told me, we have seen ministers come back from everything. You name it, we've seen them come back from sexual immorality, drunkenness, drug addiction, you any kind of problem, except if they get into bad doctrine, if they start undermining the Bible. Like, like, like if you just went to a random church, that's what you could hear. This is a church from about six Sundays ago. This is the pastor. Roll it. Roll it? Question mark? Need more time, no problem. So you you hear people undermine the Bible. If you stay, everybody say all scripture is inspired by God. That host on ESPN said, I'm sick of Christians acting like if they find a scripture, they're bulletproof and you can just believe it. See, the devil does not want you to know, but you're gonna believe something. Why would I believe an MSNBC anchor over the word of God? As I told my science teacher in tenth grade when she started making fun of creation, and I raised my hand and stood up for it, and she mocked me. I said, You're a 10th-grade science teacher, he's God, you're not equal, you're not even high up in the in the teaching thing. Now we're gonna lose every uh high school teacher that's coming. But it's amazing how people will reject and mock the Bible and believe their aunt or their guy that's their friend in their motorcycle club or their hunting buddy. You're gonna believe what someone says. Why not believe something that the grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever? It's a foundation. You know, thinking since I brought it up, I'm glad I didn't let that lady sway me at 14 to start doubting the Bible. I'm glad I threw much mockery in New England, where liberal, they're in Washington State, liberal capitals of America. Oh, you're gonna wait to have sex until you're married. Oh, you're not gonna drink. Let me tell you something. One of my classmates, when I went back to Maine to preach a few weeks ago, drove three hours up to the meeting to come see me. He said, I want you to know I remembered how you lived that way. And he said, I got into all kinds of trouble and I got my life back on track. I'm leading a recovery group, and I wanted to come up and tell you that thanks for your example in high school. See, I'm not I'm not regretting, I'm not 45 wishing I screwed around more, slept around more with local Bangor main women. Wow, Bangor taking a mockery from the Pittsburgh crowd today. Nobody ever follows the Bible and regrets it. It leads to profiting. His word is a lamp unto your feet, his word is a light, it's a sure foundation, and it'll build you a strong life. Now, when Satan appeared in the Garden of Eden as a snake, why didn't he just wrap himself around Eve and start biting her? That's not how Satan works. First words that we have recorded that the devil said, Did God say? So you have creative ways that people say, Did God say? Well, you know, Jesus never mentioned uh uh Jesus didn't have much to say about gay marriage. There's not just Jesus in the Bible, it was it doesn't say Jesus' words are inspired, it says all scripture is inspired by God. Can you say amen? So I I only go by the red letters. Well, you're probably gonna go to hell. You gotta go by all the letters, Genesis through Revelation. I would encourage everybody here to read the whole Bible. Something they're not gonna encourage you to do in many churches because they'd have to explain a lot of parts away. There's nothing you're gonna find in there and bring it to me. And I go, Well, we we'd rather not talk about that. What about the gifts of the Spirit? Well, don't read that, you'll get confused. No, read it all you want. We preach the full counsel of God's word, whether the government likes it or not, whether anybody likes it or not, the Bible is the standard at this church. Or you end up like this guy. This is church on Sunday morning in America six weeks ago.

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So, why do we still go to church? Besides the fact that we started one, and I guess we should show up. Um for me, uh, as I may have just given away, uh I'm a little bit uncomfortable with spirituality. Uh with miracles, with um God supernaturally intervening in our world. Um and when I say I'm a little bit uncomfortable, I might not even believe that it happens at all. Uh which is probably a big downer for you to hear from me on a Sunday as a guy who runs a church. So if I don't believe in that, um for instance, I'm I'm not someone who believes that, you know, you know, it's a real thing. Um if I don't believe in that, why am I still here? And on Sunday morning.

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So you want to know how he ended up like that? Because they they realized this, everybody say the spirit of the world. Now, this would not make for a good sermon, and Sunday morning's not the time to do it, but I've done broadcasts on it if you want to watch. They decided that the world decided we can't compete with the church. Their power is greater than our power. More people gather every Sunday in America to go to church than all sporting events during the week combined. Politicians can't get this many people to show up with free beer and hot dogs. They can't get their message out. That's why every every election there's politicians that call and want to talk to the church because they can't pull a crowd like this. Only the Holy Ghost can pull a crowd like this. And so what they decided was this is not 10 years ago, we're talking the 19 early 60s, late 50s. We're gonna infiltrate the Bible schools and seminaries. I guarantee, I can't guarantee you, I've never met that guy, but I will I would bet, I would give high probability that at one point that guy sitting on that stool questioning his own faith and questioning the Bible was as on fire for God at one point as I was as a young man. And he got around teachers that didn't believe the Bible. That was what was going on in Jesus' day. The Pharisees didn't believe in healing, they didn't believe in casting out devils, the Sadducees didn't believe in the resurrection of the dead, they denied the supernatural, and they hated Jesus. They both had the same book, but two of them, two groups, were full of doubt and full of unbelief. And so he was trained by them, he listened to them, and now he that's not a sermon, that's a man sitting on a stool, backsliding verbally, contemplating the Bible out loud. He's not even sure of what he believes. That's why I'm doing the opposite. Because why didn't I go down that path? I had a dad that not only preached the word, he lived the word and demonstrated the word. The reason why we showcase miracles here. Sitting in a miracle, you're surrounded by people that have been impacted by the miracle-working power of God is to put faith strong in you. Listen, because if the Bible says a danger of the last days would be that many would depart from the faith, that's what he's doing. I'm not even sure, I'm not even sure I believe in Noah's Ark. You can look at it on satellite footage. Don't believe in hell, don't believe, I don't know if Jesus was really a real person, or maybe he's just like an idea from that day. The devil did God say, if he can get you to doubt God's word, he can kick the foundation out of your life. But if I'm glad they taught me that corny song in Sunday school, what a great song. The B I B L E. Yes, that's the book for me. I stand alone on the word of God, the B I B L E. Now I'm not five, I'm not 25. I had I had I had ministry people tell me. No, I know the Bible says that. I know the Bible tells you you'll be the head, the lender, not the borrower. But I mean, how are you ever gonna get $10 million to build a church building without a bank lend it to you? I know the Bible says God's a healer, but we all get sick. I decided not only am I gonna believe in Noah's Ark, not only am I gonna believe in God creating the heavens and the earth, not only do I believe that God parted the Red Sea and drowned the Egyptian army where they found their chariot wheels to this day, I believe he'll make you the head and not the tail. I believe he'll make you the lender and not the borrower. I believe he'll take sickness and disease. Believe the word of God, and it's accounted unto you as faith. Let me where did I stop in 2 Timothy 3 16? Let me have it on the screen, friends. 2 Timothy 3, 16. All scripture is inspired by God. Let me get on the middle screens too. All scripture is inspired by God. Say that with me. All scripture is inspired by God. I know, I know. Now be careful. That's one thing if it's a sinner, but I actually don't hear sinners talk like this much. Be careful getting around Christians. Now I know the Bible says that. Just the way you say that makes me not like you. Because I can tell you're getting ready to dismiss what God said. Why would you make God that's enough? Do you know why this church is enormous? We have not done one thing to drag God down to a Pittsburgh level. We preach it at heaven's level, and we see people brought up from the earth to heaven's level that they might have, as it were, days of heaven on the earth. God does not need to alter what he said to fit American political correctness or gain approval from the Republicans or Democrats. God is God. His ways are higher than our ways, and his thoughts are higher than our thoughts. Can you say amen? All scripture, everybody say all scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what's wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we're wrong. One old preacher said, You don't read the Bible, the Bible reads you. It corrects you when you're wrong and teaches us to do what is right. 17. God uses it to prepare and equip, so it's not just to correct you. After it gets done sorting you out, it'll start empowering you. It fills your spirit with a substance called faith. And the Bible says, if you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes. So since faith can cure anything, everything has a cure. Since faith can be a solution to anything, everything has a solution. If you get rid of doubt and fill your spirit with faith, you become an unstoppable force on planet earth. That's what's taking place in your family today. That's what's taking place in your children today. The grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our Lord stands forever. To equip his people to do every good work. 18. I solemnly urge you in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, who will someday judge the living and the dead, when he comes to set up his kingdom. Then it's not going to what preachers should do. Preach the word. Now we right now have gone through, we're going to go through about 20 some verses just on the text. Now, if I was a normal pastor or did what you're trained to do, I'd say, now, I would love to read 2 Timothy 3 to you, but we don't have time. But why don't we have time? When's the time? You know, and I wish I was dumb enough to believe you could just tell a congregate, now go home and read it on your own time, and everyone's going to shake their heads and go home and I'm not going to lunch. The pastor said to read 2 Timothy 3. So there's like this move against reading scriptures. I'm going to read a verse real quick, unless some religious person gets upset. Like, like just give a head nod to the Bible instead of understanding that the Bible is our only offensive weapon that we've been given. The sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Preach the Word of God. Be prepared, whether the time is favorable or unfavorable. Patiently correct, rebuke, and encourage your people with good teaching. Three. For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They'll follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. Four. They'll reject the truth and chase after strange myths. Five. But you it must say me. But you should keep a clear mind in every situation. Don't be afraid of suffering for the Lord. Work at telling others the gospel and fully carry out the ministry that God has given you. Yeah, it would say, work at telling others. Some people wonder why the church doesn't grow. Churches don't grow by podcasting, churches don't grow by Instagram reels. Churches grow by taking the gospel outside of the four walls and reaching the lost, which all of you are gonna do this week. But you know what? Before you do it, you need equip to do the work. You need to have an encounter with the Jesus that you're taking to others. And you're you're in good shape today. You're in a service where the Holy Spirit is here, the Holy Spirit's touching you right now, and you're gonna leave out of here stronger than you came in in Jesus' mighty name. If you receive it one more time, clap your hands to the Lord and give him a mighty shout. So I want to talk about why you're a middle finger to Satan's end-time agenda for mankind. What they're trying, you know, the antichrist agenda would be called communism. It's the opposite of what God intended. Again, we're not battling things that were introduced in 2014 or 2008. In the 1950s, on the on the back end of that voice of healing revival, where tents were packed. Some of you, your families were influenced by it. AA Allen, Oral Roberts, R. W. Shambos. Hard to doubt miracles when you sat in a service and watched nine or twelve of them take place before your eyes. On the back of that, a move came into America to go against God, a major attempt to put communism in. Canada's having it right now. UK's having it right now. For the first time, the king in England did not do any Easter decree, but he did a Ramadan decree. Yeah, they've been taking over without knowing it. Now I got friends watching from there. I know I'm mentioning Canada and UK and Europe a lot. I'm for you. I'm gonna preach in all those places this year. I'm not saying it's finished, but I'm saying the same devil that wants to do that there would like to do it here. But he's got a problem because he's got about a thousand middle fingers just in Pittsburgh and about 600 more in Texas, and we're gonna run him straight back into the Atlantic Ocean in Jesus' name. So I want to show you what communistic ideals are, and then I want to show you how God and his power and his word causes you to fly in the face of that. Communism removes God and promises equality, but it produces emptiness. Everybody say a word with me. Say equality. Equality is a concept that's great to believe in if you're four years old. But when you get older, you can't have equality. How can you have everybody in a nation turn out the same when if you have three kids in the same house with the same parents, you can't even get them to turn out the same? One's a straight A student and one still peas his pants and he's 23 because he won't quit playing Xbox. That was me. So you can give equal opportunity, but you can't produce equality. How can we make everybody at this church an equal singer? It's impossible. There's people that can sing, and there's people that would make you want to join another religion halfway through the song. Communism removes God and promises equality, but it produces emptiness. God's system exalts God and empowers people, and it produces life, increase, and unshakable joy. Here are nine things that the current system of communism that there's a fight with in America, they're trying to produce a generation of people. Now I'm gonna tell you if you just go with the flow and you don't have any word of God in you, by the time you're about 35, you're gonna have a medical marijuana uh prescription, you're gonna be addicted to vaping, you're gonna have an alcohol problem, you're gonna have some kids out of wedlock, you're gonna be poor, and you're gonna be too medicated to care. You're gonna be sick in your body, the food's poisoned, everything is set up for you to be a sick, pill addicted, smoking something, drinking something, failed marriage, failed family. But God's word today will give you the power to go in the exact opposite direction and enjoy the blessing of God. Can you say amen? What do I mean by say this with me? Jesus did not come so I could endure life. He came so I could enjoy life. Yeah, I was I was uh uh at a place of business over the weekend. Lady says to me, uh, my friend died of cancer. God always takes the good ones. I said, Are you a Christian? She said no. I said, Are you Islamic? She's from Russia. Yes. I said, Okay, well, that's what your God does. But when they start bleeding that into Christianity, God's not looking to take people home. He came that you might have life. Jesus said, the devil, the thief, comes for three purposes. Two, but I have come. He didn't say, but I've come so you can survive his attacks. No, he didn't say, I've come so that though you'll be stolen, killed from, and destroyed, when you die, you'll go to heaven. He said, I have come that you might have and have it more abundantly. Enjoy life. Can you say amen? So, what does communism attack? Number one, God and his word viewed as man-made. Marx called religion the opium of the people. That's what to some of your friends and family that you tried to invite here. That's what they think. They think you need a crutch, you need an escape from life. And and you know, actually, when I was reading what communism teaches about religion, they're right when it comes to religion. When it comes to dead religion, dead religion is a two-hour escape from the world so you can feel some peace and get some relief. But when you know Jesus and you know him by his word, he gives you life and life more abundantly. Can you say amen? The purpose, in their view, is a tool to comfort the poor and keep them compliant. So they're against God and against his word. What does the Bible say? Psalm 14:1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works. There is none that doeth good. When you find people that hate God, there's a politician that's probably gonna lose his career today. You know, it all came out, he's getting steamrolled. He was he was lecturing everybody, then it turns out all the things he was accusing other people of, he's doing. There's nobody that's good without God. It's all a front. Even in religion, legalism is a front to throw you off the scent. Because the Bible says a fool is set in his heart there's no God, and when you reject God, you become corrupt. So, what's the move you should make? Start your day. If the devil wants to devalue God's word, what's the out what's the correct reaction? Well, I believe God's word. Now, most Christians statistically have never read the Bible through one time. So it's like you've watched the preview of a movie and think you like the movie, but you've never seen it, you've never read it. I want to encourage you. If they're trying to devalue God's word, I want to, I'm gonna give you all an action plan. Because any sermon that doesn't give you something to do is just performance theater. We get everybody riled up and mad at the World Economic Forum and mad at political parties, but if there's not something for me to do, then all I did was clap and shout and have a good time listening to some guy sweat and yell. So if they're trying to devour and displace God's word, I I want to encourage you in Texas and Pennsylvania, start your day every day with praise, worship, prayer, and the word before anything else. Begin to reverence God's word, begin to devour God's word. And I'm gonna add to that. Uh can I see Jude verse 20? Jude verse 20. Pray always in the Holy Ghost, building up your most holy faith. But you, dear friends, must build each other up in your most holy faith, pray in the power of the Spirit. The devil hates the word, and the devil hates the Holy Ghost. If you want to have a nice ministry that never gets criticized, don't lay hands on anybody, don't speak in tongues, don't pray for the sick, don't believe for miracles. The devil doesn't mind religion that has a form of godliness but denies the power. So if that's what he wants, I would make up my mind today. I'm gonna get full of the Holy Ghost, I'm gonna stay full of the Holy Ghost, and my fire will never go out. Somebody say the fire of the Holy Ghost. Now I'm gonna have you add something to it. Say the fire of the Holy Ghost feeds on the wood of the Word of God. So you get your fire lit and you keep it roaring by stacking the wood of the Word of God in your spirit. Can you say amen? Number two, family. Traditional family is seen as a tool of economic control, especially inheritance. Loyalty should shift. This is communism, loyalty must shift from the family to the state. Did you know that in um Scotland right now, your child legally is a child of the state, and you are the state-appointed guardian. So if they don't like what you're doing, if your child decides at six years old that though he has a wee wee, he wants to be a girl, and you won't let him, they don't even have to do anything in court because the child already belongs to the state and they let you do it. That's the bridge they were starting to cross during COVID. If your child is sick, we're gonna take the child out of the home like hell you are. That is a line that the devil wants to cross. The devil wants you to think that raising a family takes a village. Well, my mom raised me, she didn't raise me in a village, she raised me in Bridgeville. I mean, Bridgeville is not the most humming metropolis, but it's not a village. No, they want you to think that your child, the guidance counselor, has a say, and the principal has a say, and the hospital has a say, but God created the father and mother to be the heads of that home. The father over the mother, and the mother subservient to the husband, like Christ is subserv, like the church is subservient to Christ. Can you say amen? So the communism goes against the family. What does the Bible say? Psalm 112, 122, verse 6. Sorry. Joshua 24, 15b. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I want you to say that as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Now say it convincingly. Yeah, I thank God for any help my teachers give to my daughter, the teachers give to my daughter or whoever helps. But that child has my last name. And I am instructed by God to raise that child in the fear and admonition of God. And I made up my mind a long time ago. I'm not gonna run all over the earth reaching other people's kids with the gospel while my own goes to hell. I'm gonna have a strong marriage, I'm gonna have a strong child, and I'm going to heaven with my family right beside me. Let me tell you something. The devil may have attacked your family, but the devil's not gonna have the final say. God will restore your marriage, God will restore your family, God will restore your children, God has an interest in the wholeness of your family. Say it out loud. I take responsibility for my family, for my marriage, for my children. Yeah. It's not, and don't let anybody give you uh input. You're in charge. They can give input, like the guy told me. I didn't I had never read anything about vaccines. And on the two-month checkup for Camila, she was nine pounds. We need to give her 14 shots. I said, that seems like a lot of stuff to inject in a nine-pound little thing with hair. Well, that's what it says on the schedule. I don't know, man. I'm wired different. I think the Bible wired me differently. Well, you just quit hearing what people tell you and agreeing with it. That lady at that place of business that said her friend died of cancer. Then she told me three times. I wasn't asking. Make sure you get checked for cancer. I said, I'm never gonna have cancer. She said, Well, you need to get checked. She said no, I don't. And then she said, Well, it's good to go to the doctor. I said, You want to know the last time I went to the doctor? I'm not telling you not to go to the doctor. If you don't go to the doctor, you might die because you're not me. You weren't raised listening to the Tiff Shuttlesworth two hours a night for six days. But I'm telling you, for me, the last time I went to the doctor was when I was 17 to get a physical to play ice hockey. Because you had to get a physical to go. I've not been since. And it's not because I have blood dribbling out my chin and refuse to go. The Lord has kept me healthy because God will keep all of his promises if you'll believe his word, speak his word, stand on his word and never bow. May that power that comes from God to never bow and never compromise come into you today. Say it out loud, ask for me in my house. We will serve the Lord. Yeah. Thank God we've we have a reprieve right now with a Department of Justice that'll stand up with the family rather than stand up with the gangs counselor that thinks your child should have gender transition at six. No, not now. It all got reversed. There's a revival in America. I said, There's a revival in America. America's not going to turn to God. America is turning to God. Pittsburgh University has become a baptism center. The universities in America are becoming baptism centers because the devil took his best shot and missed. And now it is the hour of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. I'm glad I'm with a fired up group of radical believers. We're going to get it done. What's your move? Pray over your wife and children out loud daily. Make God's house a non-negotiable. Thanks for eight amen. Make God's house a non-negotiable. Now we got a huge crowd here. I'm sure there's a great crowd in Texas. This is usually the lowest attended Sunday in your average church of any Sunday. You know why? Everybody went last week. But church is not a monthly commitment. You take one day, the first day of the week, and set it apart as holy unto the Lord. And God said, if the first part's holy, then the lump will be holy. There's a blessing that comes on the remaining six and a half days when you start the God is a God of first things. I'm telling you, you might not be the best mother. You might not be the best father. I know I'm not. I told Adolis, you're basically when Camila was born. I said, You're basically gonna be a single mother until she's three. I don't know what to do with a baby. I don't know to hold them. When they handed me Camila in the maternity ward, however, I held her, the nurse went like this and like took her back. At her by like one leg, like a bass. But I'll tell you what, if you send your kids here, if you come here and send them the mighty kids, they're not up there gluing pretzel sticks on construction paper to spell Jesus loves me. They're hearing preaching, they're being taught the word of God. I promise you, the average mighty kid at 10 years old knows the Bible forwards and backwards better than that guy sitting on a stool. They're gonna come out of there strong, they're gonna come out of there believing in God, they're gonna come out of there and not believe the kind of crap they're trying to tell them on YouTube and Netflix and television and movies and public school. The word is getting built into a new generation at Revival Today Church. Take your family to church. Don't send your family to church, take your family to church. It's not a place for women and children, it's a place for men to be with their women and children. Can you say amen? Somehow we got that. Some denominations are averaged nine women for every man that attends. And ours is like, I think we might have a majority men. Looks like a Buffalo Wild Wings in here on UFC night. I'm glad we have men in Pittsburgh and Texas that see that serving God is not feminine. Samson was not feminine, David was not feminine, Moses was not. Serving God puts a strength from heaven in you to stand against the things of this world. That strength is coming into your spirit today, in Jesus' name. If you come from the most godless family in Texas, the most godless family in Allegheny County, Butler, Beaver, Washington, I'm telling you right now, it only takes one person in a family. My mom did it. My dad's dad did it. Alan Elwood Shuttlesworth, Mickey Shuttlesworth down in Ida May, West Virginia at the coal mine. First Christian in the family. Nobody went to church ever. It only takes one person in a family to say, enough is enough. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Receive that strength today. In Jesus' name. Number three. Communism comes against the nation you live in. National identity is considered a divider. So you identify by groups, it fractures the nation. You know, Polish American, Hungarian American, Mexican American, Puerto Rican American, whatever. Everybody's in a group, gay community, LGBTQ, IA plus community, and then the L's, G's, and B's are now mad at the T's because the T's went too far in ruin, so they had to get two separate flags. They're in a gay civil war. Everybody breaks into groups. And I mean, I mean, let's be honest. If China and Russia invaded America and they started on the West Coast, probably most of the youth out west would join up with China and Russia and help overthrow. They've got them to hate their nation. Now I want to give you a verse that's gonna help you. Psalm 122, 6. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. They shall prosper that love thee. David was writing this in Jerusalem. So the principle is not about Jerusalem. Say this out loud. I cannot prosper in a nation I hate. Ask all the people protesting how they got work off for the day. They don't work, they're not prospering, they're mad at other people's money. It's called covetousness because you can't prosper in a nation you hate. That's why a lot of churches don't grow. The preacher hates America. Now he doesn't think he does, but when you get up every Sunday and abortion and murder, God's gonna judge this place and burn it to the ground. That's why you got 19 people there, and 11 of them are because they got lost, and they're not coming back next week. You can't prosper if you hate a place. You have to let God's love fill you and understand there's problems in a nation, but God has anointed you to overthrow those problems and be a solution. What evil people have done wrong. God is anointing people in this room in their sectors of influence to make right in Jesus' name. Don't complain. Pray and decree over leadership and loss. Make a positive contribution to your nation every week. Do something that helps. You know, if you take all my preaching out of it, like when I had to talk to the city council about, you know, like the church is an evil thing. You know, there's 81 people that have their full-time employment from this ministry. Raise your hand if you moved here to attend this church and bought a house or an apartment or something. Let's your hands up. So help the homework a little bit. Help the auto market. We don't have a church full of people that refuse to pay their taxes and stab people to death. It imports positive people and it helps the community. Do something that makes a positive contribution to your nation. I can't help what evil people are doing. But when it comes to fentanyl, what did we do? We go, well, this church, thank God Jesus is coming soon. All these people can have all the drugs they want. No. Let's take authority over it and bind it on earth and let God back back it from heaven and see the plans of the devil for the United States overthrown. I tell you today, every wicked plan for Pittsburgh, every wicked plan for the Dallas-Fort Worth area, it is overthrown by the might of God today. Number four, communism goes against personal increase. Private ownership of production is eliminated. Wealth accumulation is viewed as exploitation. The system aims for economic equality, not individual advancement. Personal increase is restricted in favor of equal distribution. Is that God's plan? Is God's plan to take from producers and spread them to people that aren't producing? How do you know? How did God handle the man that took five talents and doubled it? And the man that took two and doubled it? And the man that took one and buried it. Did he take from the one that had ten and spread it out? Or did he take from the man that had one and give it to the one that had ten? And the disciples said, but he already has ten. And Jesus said, Yes. And to he who has, more will be given and will have an abundance. And to he who had who squanders the little he has, even the little he has will be taken away. Meaning God pays attention to how you manage things. And God does not punish productivity and reward slackness. God promotes production and he punishes laziness. There's a divine unction that comes in the believer to not sit down and let life happen, to go out and make an impact in their generation. And I see you doing that today in Jesus' name. Is everybody supposed to have everything equal? Let's see what and everybody's supposed to be poorer so the state can have more? How many of you have ever heard we should all pay our fair share? What's the government's fair share of what you legally earned? Well, we needed to build roads. No, we don't. Did you know America didn't have any federal income tax until 1913? And there were roads? You ever heard of UPMC? You know what the P stands for? Presbyterian, you know who started that hospital system? A Presbyterian pastor's wife. With private funds. Now, when you see $7 billion or $17 billion go missing in Minneapolis or California, people say we should tax the church. Whatever problems you have with the church, you actually think the money's better distributed by the federal government, senators? No, the money never makes it to the people. The whole Ukraine war was shipping money to Ukraine to get it back channeled back to politicians. It's a money laundering up. The money never gets to the poor. The church, the more the church prospers, the more the nation prospers. Can you say amen? Hey, play a little bit of uh Joy to Houston if you have it. If you need time, then rate time. But if you have it, pop it up. Because this is just our church, four years old, 10,300 people that all got Christmas toys, and it was organized in 17 days. It's a two-million dollar project. And it came together like this. Because people in America were meant to have the power. How does the Declaration of Independence start? We the government, we the what? People. America was an oasis on planet Earth where the individual was to be able to own land and have children and school the children how they want and increase. Did God create man to increase the state? Or did God create man to bless man and bless his family? Which is it? Yeah, I'll read it to you. Deuteronomy, go ahead. So watch, watch a little bit of what's done without any government help.

SPEAKER_06 53:27

We felt led by the Spirit to go to a section of Houston facing some of the highest levels of childhood poverty with one simple goal to bring joy and hope to the families in the city. When God speaks, you move quickly. Revival Today went into action. And in just 17 days, this event came together. We initially planned to reach a few thousand people, but the advertising caught fire. In one week alone, more than 20,000 people registered. Paula White's ministry, the National Faith Advisory Board, Citizer, and others donated two 18 bills filled with over 22,000 toys to give children's gifts for Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 54:19

I came to tell the devil something in Houston. It's time for the people of Houston to be free. I tell you in the name of Jesus. From the back, from the front, hasta el frente. The tide is turning in your life today. Todo está cambiando at your favor. As hard as life used to be. I'm gonna introduce you to somebody. His name is El Shadow.

SPEAKER_06 55:15

As Pastor Jonathan preached, tears filled the crowd and bondages were broken. When the altar call was given, hundreds responded. In total, we saw 10,320 in attendance, and 710 people gave their lives to Christ. This is not the devil's time in America. This is America's time to come to Christ. Our generation will be saved.

SPEAKER_01 55:47

Read that nice and loud. I'm gonna slap right now by the Holy Ghost. Any thought of we need a new leader, we need a new mayor, we need a new president, we need a new whatever. God has empowered you. Let me tell you something. I prospered when Reagan was in office. I prospered when old man Bush was in office. I prospered when Clinton was in office. I prospered when young Bush was in office. I prospered when Obama was in office. I prospered when Trump was in. I prospered when uh uh the autopen was in. And I'm prospering now, and whoever the next guy is, the Republicans don't control my destiny, the Democrats don't control my destiny. The word of God has given me a hope and a glorious future.

SPEAKER_03 56:37

Hallelujah!

SPEAKER_01 56:42

That's why you can't get me mad at Democrats. That's why Republicans don't have an open door to come in here and campaign. You do your thing, but nothing is gonna stop what the church is doing. You can't slow me down, man. You really can't help me. I'm not here to get help from you. I say this out loud. I am the help. Say, I'm anointed to be a help to my generation. Yeah, I decide I'm not gonna look at what goes on in Houston and go, what a shame that there's so much childhood poverty in Houston. You know, a lot of those kids aren't gonna get any toys. Somebody should do something about that. You'd be amazed what God will do if you start deciding to be the somebody and say, Lord, here I am. Anoint me and send me. I'll do what you tell me to do, I'll go where you tell me to go, and I'll say what you tell me to say. And then it gets better. To he who does well, he'll be given even more and have an abundance. You know all that fraud money that they're finding in Minnesota and California? We got contacted by the White House. Adallis and Megonis are going to meet with people uh next month that they want to start finding that money that they found from fraud. And they say, Well, since we saw that when we got toys to you, all the toys got to the people, you didn't take a cut off the back end, it was well organized. Now the wealth that was in the hands of the wicked is coming into the hands of the just. We are in revival, my friends, and the best is yet to come. Someone shout, the best is yet to come. What does the Bible say about personal increase? Deuteronomy 8, 1 to 18. We have to read one more article about the size of Joel Osteen's house. How about minding your own business? Why does Joel Osteen have a such a big house? I can tell you a few reasons. Number one, he doesn't spend his time commenting on how big your house is. Number two, what a shocker that you could have a dad that sent millions of dollars to missionaries every month. And the children are reaping the blessing. If you don't like Joel's house, you should check his sister's out. You should check the other sister out. Clarita and Tony are prospering. Their dad made different decisions and they're blessed. I'm telling you, the devil might not like it, communism might want you to be ashamed of it, but you should make up your mind. I'm gonna prosper and be in hell, even as my soul prospers, whether the devil likes it or not. Do you ever see my chrome-wrapped Cadillac? Do you know why I got it wrapped in chrome? To tick the devil off, to tick that spirit off. That wants a pastor driving around in a car held together by Christian bumper stickers. I had that car before I pastored, my friend. I'm not gonna live broke because the world says Christians should have less. I'm actually, remember that big necklace I used to wear? I wore that, I didn't like it, I just wore it to tick that spirit off. You're not gonna tell me there's some kind of virtue in being broke when the Bible says he anoints your head with oil and your cup runneth over. I'm gonna tell you, some places, if they ever do get into the money parts of the Bible, the only part they'll teach is that God will bless you so you can bless the church. But God's God doesn't bless you so you can bless the church. God blesses you because he loves you. And I'm telling you, as your pastor, God's got church money and God's got you money. I said, God has you money. God's interested that you've outgrown your apartment. God's interested that you have a third baby and you only have a one-bedroom apartment, and you you're struggling, you don't have a washing machine, and so you're having to spend time away from your family, going to the bad part of town to go to the laundromat. God cares about what you care about, and God will bless you if you put him first. How many know the only reason God blesses us is so that we can help others and help the church? No, I don't agree with that because it said he gives bread to the eater and seed to the sower. You know what that means? The Holy Ghost will put his finger on some money that you're to sow, and then some money is for you to enjoy your marriage, your family, your children. Yeah. Amen's are dropping off, but I've been doing this for 23 years. I'm used to it. Good, then be broke. There's nothing good that comes out of a Christian having less. The more a righteous man has, the better off the world is. I've said it before, I'm gonna say it again. Texas, the richest Mexican Americans in America are gonna be at that church in Texas. The richest black people in Pittsburgh are gonna attend this church, the richest white people, rich of all shades, will be at this place. Rich Asian, because the blessing of the Lord makes a man rich and he adds no sorrow. And the devil might not like it, but he can't stop it. What does the Bible say? Deuteronomy 20, Deuteronomy 8, 1 to 18. Deuteronomy 8, 1 to 18. That's just me. Be careful to obey all the commands I'm giving you today. Then you will what? And you will enter the and occupy the land the Lord swore to give to your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness these 40 years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character and to find out whether or not you'd obey his commands. Yes, he humbled you by letting you go hungry, then feeding you with manna, a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors. He did it to teach you that man does not live by bread alone. Rather, we live by every word that comes out of the mouth of God. Anybody say live and multiply? Jonathan, when you start a church in Pittsburgh, you're gonna find it's different here. No, I'm not. I'm gonna find that God anoints you to live and multiply. If you think this is our last building, you're you made a mistake. This thing will go to 2,000 very quickly, then it'll climb to 8,000. And by the time the penguins are about to piece out of PPG Paints Arena, we'll be ready to make a move on that building because the largest gatherings in the last days will be people coming to give praise and adoration to Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God. Woo! For all for all these 40 years, your clothes didn't wear out, your feet didn't blister or swell. Think about it, just as a parent disciplines a child, the Lord your God disciplines you for your own good. Six, so obey the commands of the Lord your God by walking in his ways and fearing him. Seven, for the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land of flowing streams, pools of water, with fountains and springs that gush out in the valleys and hills. It is a land of wheat and barley, of grape vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, olive oil and honey. It is a land where food is plentiful and nothing is lacking. When I needed those toys for the 10,000 people that showed up, we didn't have enough. God gave us a miracle, all those toys were donated. It wasn't enough for the 10,000, it was enough for the whole 10,000 plus the next crusade, plus the next crusade after that, because he's El Shaddai, the God of more than enough. Somebody say nothing is lacking. It's a land where iron is as common as stone and copper is abundant in the hills. When you've eaten your fill, be sure to praise the Lord your God for the good land he's given you. But that's the time to be careful. Beware that in your plenty you don't forget the Lord, your God, and disobey his commands, regulations, and decrees that I'm giving you today. That's right. Don't be an American rich person that doesn't have a church. You can hardly meet a rich Christian who has a pastor. Where do you go to church? Well, we um, yeah, you don't have one. Or you start your own church and build your own 501c3 so you don't have to give anywhere. Be a humble rich person like me. Go to church, pay your tithe, win the lost, pray for people. Don't ever let the money take God's place in your heart. Can you say amen? For when you've become full and prosperous and have built fine homes, plural to live in. 13. When your flocks and herds have become very large, and your silver and gold have multiplied along with everything else. Be careful. Don't become proud at that time. And forget the Lord your God who rescued you from slavery in the land of Egypt. Don't forget that he led you through the great and terrifying wilderness with its poisonous snakes and scorpions, where it was so hot and dry, he gave you water from the rock. He fed you with man in the wilderness, a food unknown to your ancestors. He did this to humble you and test you for your own good, so that you would never say, I've achieved this wealth with my own strength and energy. Do King James. Always remember it is the Lord your God who giveth thee power to create wealth. 18. Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God, for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant, which he swore unto thy fathers as it is this day. Now the Bible says in the last days, they'll have a form of godliness, but deny the power. They don't want you to know there's power to be healed. They don't want you to know there's power to have a miracle. They don't want you to know there's power to have a sound mind. And they sure don't want you to know that God will empower you to get wealth. But who cares what they want? I came to tell you from the Bible, God has given you power to take the wealth that's in the hands of the wicked and bring it into the house of God. What to do? Follow God's command to be fruitful and multiply in every area of your life. Say out loud, thank God for where I am now. But I'm not staying there. I'm going to live and multiply. I'm going to increase. Just like my father said. Number five, they come against your health. Typically handled as a state-controlled health system. Health is managed by the state, not individual choice. That's why gyms were closed during COVID while McDonald's was open. They want you unhealthy. They want you diabetic. They want you overweight. They want you fat and controllable and medicated and docile. Now, this is probably the worst way to make this point. But they want you docile. That's why I feel they legalize marijuana and not cocaine and crack. And I'm not preaching for cocaine and crack. They don't want people all hopped up. They want people. Bro, did you hear they're raising taxes again? It's crazy. They don't want you on crack. I'm gonna stab them. They don't want, they don't want that. That's how the Revolutionary War started. That's probably why George Washington didn't have any teeth. He was all on meth. They want you unhealthy, they want you medicated, they want you where they can threaten to take your medication away if you don't comply. Joshua 1 9, what does the Bible say? Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage. Ebba say, be strong. 3 John 2 talks about ever say a strong spirit, ever say a strong mind, and say this I will contend for a strong body. Yeah, cooperate with God's plan. Cooperate with what you eat, cooperate with movement. That's why we didn't build a coffee shop. I'm not saying we won't, but the first thing we built for people to socialize at this church is what? A gym. A gym. And it's created a healthy culture at this church. Because I'm not looking to, I didn't become a pastor to do a funeral every weekend. We're looking to make people have long life and be strong and mobile and sharp mind into their 80s. This is gonna be the scripture for every person that attends these churches. Joshua 14, 9 through 11, NLT. Anyone getting anything out of this? Joshua 14, 9 to 11. So that day Moses solemnly promised me the land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be the grant of land of that of you and your descendants forever, because you'll hope you wholeheartedly follow the Lord your God. 10. Now, as you can see, this is Joshua at 85. The Lord has kept me alive and well as he promised for all these 45 years since Moses made this promise, even while Israel wandered in the wilderness. Today I'm 85 years old, and I'm as strong now as I was when Moses sent me on that journey, and I can still travel and fight as well as I could. Man, I like that scripture. That's gonna be your story when you're 85. I'm as strong now as I was when I was 40, and I can still travel and I can still fight. Give me the mountain that God said belongs to me. When your peers are winding down, you're gonna be winding up when your peers are giving things away, you're gonna be taking mountains for God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. They're gonna say cooperate with God. They say sitting's worse than smoking, so now it sounds like I'm pro-crack, pro-cocaine, and pro-smoking. But I'm not. Sedentary kills you, and everything's set up for you to be sedentary. Move, move your legs, go to the gym. How much does the gym cost for church people? Zero dollars. And there's people there. My wife just enrolled my 13-year-old sweet daughter in Brazilian jujitsu. So she won't have to say no means no. A chokeout will say it to her boyfriend for her. We're the only church where husbands ask for prayer for domestic assault. Because we have a women's fitness class where they teach you martial arts and we have concealed carry. We want strong people, not docile people. Can you say amen? Yeah, it's funny how Christopher Ray and the FBI started to label that domestic terrorism because the church works against what they're trying to do. They want you on 19 medications. They want you saying at 58 years old, I can't go to the mall, it's a long walk. Is there parking? We had people complaining about the parking at the new church already, week one. After getting rid of the shuttles. It's a long way. It's not a long way, you're out of shape. Some of you, that's the longest walk you're gonna take all week. You should take it. You should park at the back on purpose, like they do in Japan. Yeah, here's Camila at our at our church gym being taught how being taught how to stab. That's one of our church members teaching my daughter how to stab someone. She's holding the knife the wrong way. Yep. So this is a Christian teaching another Christian how to slice someone apart. All right. So at Revival Today Church, if you ever saw a bunch of protesters barge in, we'd wait till they all got in, then shut the doors and lock them and turn the cameras off, and it'd be a short service. Can you say amen? Because we're not here to get slapped. Now, the only scripture Satan wants you to know is turn the other cheek, but you only got four cheeks. And once they've all been turned, you can do what they did in the Bible and stand up against evil. Can you say amen? I see you taking a stand against every infringement of the devil. Somebody shout amen like thunder. Welcome to the new revival today, church. Now, this this I wind down on. Wind up on. Faith, especially in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, is seen as irrational or outdated. In practice, many communist governments have suppressed, persecuted, and killed believers. What does the Bible say about faith? Hebrews 11:6, but without faith, it is impossible to please God. For anyone that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him. The devil doesn't want you to believe for a reward. He wants you to wake up and go to work, come back home, watch TV and go to sleep. He doesn't want you to believe that there's a reward in this life for serving God and get turned on to it by the Holy Ghost. But you're gonna taste and see of the goodness of God before the end of this year. Mark 9 23. What does the Bible say about faith? Jesus said, All things, not most things, all things are possible to him who believes. When you have faith, we didn't have money for 1.2 million toys, but put my faith out. I never put a Facebook post, nothing. Somebody called from the White House. Heard you're doing an outreach in Houston. Do you have enough toys? No, I don't. Let me make a couple of calls. Then we're gonna have to pay uh instead of 1.2 million, they discounted it to 400,000. Then they called the next day and said we've decided to donate it, just pay for the 18 wheelers. Then all three 18-wheeler drivers said we found out where we're driving and we do it for free. And in less than 17 days, we had 1.2 million. Those people weren't getting busted old toys from a church. They were getting go-karts and Nintendo DS. That's gonna be the standard of the day that the church sets. If you've missed everything I've said, listen to this. The church is gonna set the standard for the world from this day forward. We're not gonna be some junkie coming from behind little institution. We are the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, purchased with his blood, full of the Holy Ghost, and we're gonna be a wrecking ball to the plans of the devil. Let me say some more stuff. In case any visitors have stuck around. We want you to stick around. The guy that helped that built this place with Abel, I wasn't around for the building. He said, I that man, there were so many people that said, Why is that church spending all that money on that building? First of all, what's the option? You can't take this many people to a Starbucks and have a Bible study in the back. Hey, there's uh 1,100 of us. Can we just come in the back real quick? We need a building. So what's the point? Either build a building or disperse the crowd. And that's not an option. So it costs what it costs. Secondly, it should have cost. What should it have cost able? 10? Yeah, at least 10 or 12 million, and we've spent uh four so far. Four or four thousand, four million something. So we spent less. Secondly, who said that's a lot of money? People must not travel. You think four million is a lot of money. You need to go to Los Angeles. If we built this church in Los Angeles, I'd be in heaven. I would be on crack. You know, the the original building that we rented to launch our church in uh uh Los Angeles was $85,000 a week. Yeah, that's Los Angeles. So I ain't spending all that money on the church. Who sends a lot of money? Secondly, has anyone ever said that about the penguins, stealers, or pirates? No. It's okay for them to have jets, it's okay for them to have state-of-the-art buildings, and it's okay to raise your taxes to help pay for it. But when this is done privately, was any begging done? Were there any private meetings? There were, I wasn't at them. So how about minding your own freaking business? And secondly, I'm making a point here. The world values worldly things and thinks this should be a small thing that some people need. They do not value the work of the church. But I'm gonna tell you, regardless of who values it and who doesn't, Jesus has the church on top of the list. And the biggest buildings in America in the last days will not be for football. They won't be for hockey, they won't be for basketball, and they won't be for baseball. They will be for the crowds that will come to give their lives to Jesus Christ. Be baptized, be filled with the Holy Ghost, and be healed of their diseases. Can you say amen? They'll come against your faith. Listen to preaching, read the word, and cut off all doubt sources. Everybody say, I have faith. Say my faith is growing. Say, I have ever-increasing faith. Yeah. Everybody say, ever-increasing faith. You know how you can tell when a preacher doesn't have ever-increasing faith? Every one of his sermons sounds like he's given his own eulogy. I remember back in 1991. And how many of you remember when we were at the old building? And I'm sorry, is there gonna be small sandwiches and cookies served when you're done? Are we burying you after we do the speech? All of the stories are in the past when they were working their faith. I'm telling you right now, it took faith to move into 107 Patent Drive. Took faith to get it. We didn't have the money to build it out when we got it. When we started this building, we had $700,000 in the bank, all assets combined, to do a four million dollar building and never borrowed it and never had to get a loan, never, and you never knew anything about it until right now when it was done. And we finished with almost triple in the bank what we had when we started with everything paid, because God keeps his word. I said, God keeps his word. Yeah. So you know what I decided? Took faith to go there, took faith for the soccer dome, took faith for Baywood, took faith to get in here. I'm not turning my faith off. We're gonna keep multiplying. We're gonna we're not gonna have worse services here to accommodate the crowds. We're gonna have the best services you've ever been in at this church in Pittsburgh. People are gonna get saved in mass, filled with the Holy Ghost in mass, healed in their bodies in mass. Somebody say ever-increasing faith. Number seven, communism takes away hope for the future, it removes purpose bigger than the system. If there's no God, no calling, and no eternal destiny, then life is reduced to work, survive, and die. Now you think that's in the Soviet Union, that's 85% of Americans' life. Rush to work, work all day, come home, have something to eat, watch ESPN, sit in a recliner, fall asleep, repeat for 40 years. But God has a purpose for you bigger than that. I said, God has a purpose for you bigger than that. People weren't created to live for a system, they were created to live for purpose. Jeremiah 29, 11. For I know the thoughts I think towards you, says the Lord. Thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you an expected end, to give you a hope and a future. I have a future. All suicide and depression and attacks of the devil begin with getting you to believe there's no way out. It's over, things can never get better. The Bible is a thick record that no matter how dark things are, no matter who's turned against you, no matter how lousy a family you came from, you're only one prayer away from the power of God picking you up out of whatever pitch you're in and setting your feet. I see everything turning around for your good. Come on, take 30 seconds and clap your hands and shout. Give the Lord praise. Everything's turning around, turning around. How many of these did I write? Two more. Did you ever see anybody smile in pictures of the Soviet Union? East Germany? Communism takes joy. Religious joy was targeted. Open worship, singing, and expressive faith were often restricted or persecuted. That's why they enforce masks in churches. You know our policy, we opened during COVID. We didn't kick you out if you had a mask on, but you had to sit in the back where nobody could see you. Because it's a blasphemy against what church. God created faces. We're not in Sharia law where women cover their faces. And we're not in the United Pentecostal church where women are made to look like their faces should be covered. God created people that slipped out. God created people to have expression. Cults all dress the same. Islam all dresses the same. But in Christianity, you got expression. God didn't create only vanilla ice cream. He created all flavors of ice cream. Dominicans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, Jamaicans, Polish, Hungarian. I was gonna say Canadian, but I already said vanilla. God likes variety. God likes expression. Nobody has to be like anybody else. We're out of call where everybody's got a white button-down shirt on and black pants and black shoes and shaved face, same haircut. Can you say amen? Open worship, singing, and expressive faith were often restricted or persecuted. That includes the kind of joy that comes from spiritual freedom. That kind of joy was punished directly. Romans 14, 17, don't miss this. Get a happy song ready. We're gonna close out of here with some joy. Romans 14, 17, when the apostle Paul by the Holy Ghost summed up Christianity into three things. He said, Romans 14, 17. For the kingdom of God, let me see King James. For the kingdom of God is not meat or drink, but it is. So when the Holy Ghost broke Christianity down to three things it's righteousness, now you can go to some churches, they think it's just one thing, righteousness. We're to be holy. We're to be holy. I know, but you can say it with a smile. We are to be holy. But if you if your holiness has no smile to it, you don't have holiness, you have some kind of religious depression. And some church people are the most miserable people you'd ever meet because they know religion, but they don't know the power of God. Some of you, before you started going to church, the person you least looked forward to coming over your house was your uncle that was a pastor or your aunt that went to church. How are you, Aunt Sally? Why don't you tell your face and your posture? You look cursed. I'm blessed. I'm the head and not the tail. I don't believe you. Scriptures aren't just to be quoted, they're to be experienced. You should look like the head and not the tail. You should look like above and not beneath. You should look blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when you come in, blessed when you go out. Hallelujah. God is putting a new face on you. God's putting a new smile on you. The world tried to take your smile, but Jesus is giving it back. Somebody shout joy! Joy unspeakable. Stay full of glory. Say have joy.

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The devil's already had you! But the tables are turned! Now he's on the run!

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You got joy! Joy unspeakable! The world didn't give it to you, and the world can't take it away. So I said, I got joy! Unspeakable! Full of glory! That's right. Happy are the people whose God is the Lord. I said happy are the people. Happy are the people whose God is the Lord. Joy, the joy of the Lord is my strength. Hallelujah! When you've got joy, they can throw you in prison after they beat you. And when you start singing out of that joy, the chains fall off of every prisoner. Every prison door comes open.

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Anything that came against your joy, God's giving you double joy back today. Receive the joy of the Lord.

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Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Joy! Joy! Joy!

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Philippians 4:4. You stay on your feet, rejoice is the Lord always, in the Lord always, and again I say rejoice. Praise God out loud. Even when you don't feel like it, then rebuke yourself for not feeling like it. Joy is a weapon. Refuse to give up a merry heart. I've got people labeled in my new cell phone. Don't answer. Miserable. I'm not, I'm I'm guarding my joy. I don't need somebody with access to my phone that can snap me out of a good mood because they're in a bad mood. Joy. Now that'll cut your phone list down pretty low. But it'll make for a great year. Praise God. Any sad Christian, their Christianity is doubtful. Something's wrong. Because happy are the people whose God is the Lord. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. Happy are the people whose God is the Lord. Now, if you watch TV, I want you to count how many antidepressant commercials that you're gonna watch on every show. Are you are you sad? Are you affected by the seasons? Seasonal affective mood disorder, Sam. Do you battle depression? Depression's real? Suicide's real. All that's real. But there's a lot of money to be made off you. You know why the world hates the church? Because if we if you do what the Bible says, they can't make any money off you. You're not sick. You're not trying not to be sick. You're not sick. I told that lady at that business, well, I said, I haven't been to the doctor since I was 17. She said, Well, you're young. I said, No, I'm not. I'm 45. Well, that's still young. Check up on me when I'm 65. I'm getting stronger every day. You think I'm gonna be 68 years old having half a banana and a rice cake and some Greek yogurt to help wash down my nine pills? You you're smoking crack. No, I'm gonna be eating steak, I'm gonna be moving around, I'm gonna be jumping on chairs, I'm gonna be preaching in tents, I'm gonna be preaching in stadiums. I'm just getting warmed up. And I came to tell you, brother, you're just getting warmed up.

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Joy.

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God didn't save us to hold on till we get to heaven. He saved us and anointed us to kick the devil's rear end. Straight till we get to heaven. You're gonna make the devil sorry. He didn't kill you when he had the chance. If you receive it, take 30 seconds. Come on, musicians, help them!

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Clap your hands, shout your shout, live the Redeen of the Lord, your home's gonna be a happy home. Hey!

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Number nine! And finally, communism, those who want you know there's an eternity in heaven. Reject it, keep the music happy. I sound like I made an error on a game show. Number one, they reject it entirely. Number two, no afterlife, no heaven, no eternal accountability. Bottom line, only this life exists in a communist worldview. That's where YOLO comes from. You only live once. But if you only live once, you'll die twice. You'll die here and you'll die in hell. But if you get born again, there's another life. Can you say amen? That's why I haven't had any affairs on that woman. I'm looking to go to heaven when I die. There's a fear of the Lord in understanding eternity. There's a restraint in understanding eternity. Paul said, if there's no resurrection from the dead, eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die. Why not stab your enemy? Why not shoot your enemy? If you're gonna die anyway, that's Islam. Islam is you get a royal, there's an afterlife, but you're gonna get rewarded for being a martyr. Just kill anybody you want to kill. Avenge your offenses. Jesus said, forgive those who offend you, and it creates an entirely different culture. Can you say amen? Pray for your enemies, not smite your energy, your enemies on their neck. It's not compatible, it's not gonna move into this country. There's too many spirit-filled Christians in this room and in Texas for the devil to move into this country. I'm not gonna see it happen in my generation. I'm not having it in my generation. The devil can back up to Birmingham. He's not coming in here. Revelation 21:4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There will be no more death, no more sorrow, no more crying, neither shall there be any more pain. For the former things are passed away. The number one thing you should do is give your life to Jesus Christ. The thing they killed for in the Soviet Union, the thing they'll kill you for today in North Korea, the thing they would kill you for in Venezuela up until they took Maduro out in January. The devil knows one spirit-filled Christian carries too much power for him to take that nation. I'm asking you today. You can't fix the Republican Party, you can't fix the Democrat Party, you can't fix Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania, but you can make up your mind for you. Before Joshua said, My house, he said, as for me and my house, we're gonna serve the Lord. Instead of looking at what everybody else is doing and not doing, today I make up my mind. I give my life to Jesus Christ. My all to you in Texas and Pittsburgh with your heads bowed and eyes closed. If you say, Jonathan, I see it now. I don't think it was an accident that I was brought here today that I felt to come to church. I've been now that you put words to what I was already feeling. I felt this world spirit rubbing up against me, and I didn't like it, and I knew there must be a different way to live, and now I see it. There is a broad way that leads to destruction, but there is a straight and narrow path that leads to eternal life. Jesus is not a way, he's the way, the truth, and the life. And if you'll come to him today, he'll make you a new creature, he'll heal you from the inside out. I'm not on any medication, I'm not in therapy. Jesus has given me peace, he's healed my insides, he's healed my outsides, he's given me a new, renewed mind by his word, and he'll do it for you if you'll let him in. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and share a meal with him as a friend. Has there ever been a time when you've done that? Do you need Jesus to heal you? To save you? You know, they're not different words in the original language. Salvation is sozo, the healing, salvation, restoration of the entire man, spirit, soul, and body. So instead of trying to cut the branches off the tree, let Jesus blow the root out of the ground and give you a new tree instead of a tree of curse and tree of death. Today in Texas and today in Pittsburgh, you receive a tree, the tree of life, the bread of life. Jesus, the Son of the living God, made flesh, who conquered death, and he did it for you. Will you receive him today? Will you let Jesus make everything right that all the doctors and all the whatever pills have not been able to do? I want you to give him that opportunity today. If you say, Jonathan, today I want to receive Jesus Christ. I want him to heal me from the inside out. I want to be, I want to live for him, I want to commit to living by his word. You can do it, but he'll give you the power to do it if you'll just commit to him today. And that's another thing. I guess if we were having 10, that's what number 10 would be. Public commitment, private faith, private Christianity almost sunk this country. Every person is loud and proud about what they believe, and Christians were convinced they're supposed to be quiet, but that day died a few weeks ago. God is raising up a new generation of people that aren't ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and will stand for Christ who died for you. If you say, Jonathan, that's me. When you pray, I want you to pray with me. I want to experience salvation, Jesus healing my insights, my mind, my heart, and making me new. Quickly put your hand up high and wave it at me, and we're gonna pray in Jesus' name. I see your hands. Who else? Nice and high, because I'm on flat ground. So we get this roof cut off. Very quickly, everyone that lifted a hand, join me at the altar. We're gonna pray together right now. Go ahead and clap for them as they come. Keep coming, keep clapping! Come on, Texas!

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I'm afraid of my soul.

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Who else before we play? This is your day! This is your day to tell the devil! I'm done with you! Yes! Who else before we play? Keep coming, kick up! I want the holy spirit! Keep going, keep singing! Keep going! Every hand lifted to the Lord. Those of you that came forward, I want you to pray this prayer with me. It's not a recital. There's a living God who hears this prayer. As you're praying it, He'll take out all the old things, the junk that's in your life that you've never been able to shake, and give you a new heart and a new inside. Say this nice and loud. Heavenly Father, I've come forward today to give you my life. Forgive me of all my sins. Wash me in your blood. I believe in my heart. You raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth, Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now, I receive forgiveness by the blood of Jesus. I am saved, I am forgiven, I am cleaned. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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