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Men's Conference 2026: Pastor Dan Goostree

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Welcome part 1 of 3 to this year's men's conference, Forged in Christ. On today's episode we have Pastor Dan Goostree talking about your identification changes your destination. During this episode you will learn your authority in Christ, your covenant with Christ, and your identity in Him. If you are willing to listen and learn what the Lord is saying, you can walk away as a leading husband willing to stand up and stand on the word of God. The word of God is simple; we just make it too hard. It doesn't need to be complicated. If you don't know your authority and identity in Christ, then you are going to live a defeated lifestyle. Don't identify with your past, identify with Christ's past. Real men get honest and don't hide their emotions. It is time for men to know their authority within their home. You're not perfect yet called to be pure in Christ. When you seek Him, you will find Him and you will change. 

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Sermon from Men's Conference 2026 Part 1 by Pastor Dan Goostree

Music by Ruwin from Pixabay

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Welcome to the Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. We're located in Rocky Comfort, Missouri. Our mission at TGT is to host the presence of the Lord to see his glory fall like fire and free those who are in bondage. He came to set the captives free. On the podcast, we share our live sermons from League Pastors Dan and Sarah Goose Tree, teachings from special guests, and personal testimonies. Thank you for joining us today. If you would like to contact us, you can find us on Facebook or online at www.thegatheringtabernacle.com. Let's jump into today's episode.

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But my kids have been playing these games on my phone, so these weird apps pop up. You know how they anyways, it's you say a first letter, last letter, and it's going to give you a word. The word's victory. The word's victory. And the Lord said, My men of my church are not walking in victory. So today, you have an opportunity to be forged into the victory of Christ. How do you put up 1 John 5? For whatever is born of God overcomes the world, and this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith. Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. So as we walk in our victory today, we learn to walk in our victory today. It starts with worshiping the King of King and the Lord of Lords. It starts with giving our all to Jesus and worship. He wants us to worship him. He wants us to worship him. If we get to heaven and we don't worship him on earth, we're not going to be very happy in heaven, I promise you, because that's what we're going to be doing. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of us. So worship in your victory today. Let's be men. It's okay. Get unashamed. Run around this church. Whatever it is that the Lord tells you to do, do it. Get excited for the kingdom of God. Get excited for what the Lord has. And praise and victory today. Praise and the victory. So, Father, we thank you. We thank you for an opportunity for a group of men to come together and learn to walk in your victory, to be forged in what you would have for us to be, Lord. And that is just like you. Jesus, we just thank you. We thank you for an opportunity to praise you and worship you and learn more about you. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

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We praise you, Lord God Almighty. Lord, you are a holy God, Lord. Lord, holy are you, Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come, Lord. Thank you, Lord our Father in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Lord, your kingdom come, Lord, your will be done, Lord. Right here in earth, right here in rocky comfort, right here in these men's life, Lord, right here in these lives, Lord, as it is in heaven, Lord. Lord, and as I imagine heaven, Lord, I imagine heaven as there being no resistance, Lord. Lord, no resistance to you, Lord. Lord, as we just worship you and praise you and honor you, Lord. Lord, as we just seek your face this morning, Lord. Lord, Lord, without without resistance from the outside world, without resistance from from from our own thoughts, Lord, Lord, may our thoughts be your thoughts. May our ways be your ways, Lord. Lord, as we're being transformed, Lord, into your image, Lord. Lord, as we find a group of men that will stand on the word of God, a group of men that will present themselves living sacrifices to you, Lord. A group of men that that will not be conformed to this world, but will be transformed by the renewing of their mind. Thank you, Lord, that we are going to be transformed, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for your word. Thank you, Lord. You sent your word and healed us, Lord. Lord, thank you, Lord, for the glory that you have, Lord. Lord, and for the revelation that's coming today, Lord. Lord, that they realize today. Today, I remember it was March 20th. It was 2026. I remember going to a little town called Rocky Comfort. And we went into this building and we began to seek the face of the Lord. And my life changed. My relationship with my spouse changed. My sickness changed. My heart made a change. And we thank you, Lord, for the changes that are happening today, Lord. In Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen and amen. Hallelujah. Welcome to Rocky Comfort. Yeah. That uh yesterday, uh Heath come in with I keep on saying Pastor Todd, but evangelist Todd. Heath come in with Todd, and he's like, man, I got I got full service. Like, like out here in the middle of nowhere. I got full service. And I'm like, brother, you're not you're not nowhere. You're in rocky comfort. Right. Amen. You're you're in rocky comfort. So so maybe if we based our faith on our service, you know, maybe if we based our faith on our connection with Christ, we might that'll preach. Amen. That'll preach it, won't it? Amen. Man, you can you guys look great. Man, thanks for coming. I'm thinking, I know we Richard there from Kansas. Amen. Kansas? Got Oklahoma guys? Kentucky. Got Georgia. Got Missouri. Is it Missouri or Missouri? Right? Potato, potato. Right? There you go. Anyone anyone other than them states? Arkansas, praise the Lord. Amen. That's all the four states, right? Sorry, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas. Well, they all touch each other. Yeah. That's why we're called the four states. Because in one corner, right? The four state corner. Amen. Welcome to the four states. Amen. You know, and as I was sitting there praying, I was like, man, I wonder how many is here. And I thought, you know, uh think about the day when when all 50 states are here. Amen, right? Amen. Why not? Why not? And that's just the beginning. Praise the Lord. So when you hear this from Hawaii, be sure and make your plans to be here. Right? Why do you want to make your plans to be here? Because this is the place to be. I'm telling you. This thing is so powerful, there was women knocking on the door trying to get in. You see that? You see that?

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Thank you.

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And you know what? They actually made it. I don't know if you guys noticed or not, but they made it.

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Mustaches will get us into the men's conference.

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I hope so. This men's conference is going to be so powerful. Even our wives are trying to get in. Come join us next Saturday, March 21st at 9 a.m.

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Amen. Amen. What do you think about? I think that's great. You know, let's give Leonard and Galen a hand. Amen. Oh, and tell you what, you think you're in the middle of nowhere, but we're not in the middle of nowhere because we got a sheriff. Amen. We got a sheriff. We got the new sheriff in town, so don't worry about your vehicles out there. I mean, they're they're fine, you know, your tires, your lug nuts, uh, all that, your your goods. Uh don't worry. We're under good control, so let's give it a hand for Sheriff Six. Sheriff Six, yeah. Yeah, you know who his officer is? Barney Five. Amen. Yeah, there you go. See, great minds think alike. That wasn't even that wasn't even planned. So yeah, so so we got Sheriff Six here this morning, and and uh you can have a seat, Sheriff Six, but but you have authority. You're right. The sheriff has authority, right? Yeah, the sheriff has authority. So he's got her, so I don't expect no trouble, and I expect him to have my back. So um, hallelujah. I'm just beside myself. So I was thinking about this, you know, this forged in Christ men's conference. And if you think about what what does forged in Christ really mean? What does it really mean to be be forged in Christ? And and today, um, you know, if I had a had a title, and I guess I do, is is your identification determines your destination. Your identification determines your destination. So, so who you identify as determines where you're gonna be. Yep. So today we're gonna learn about authority in Christ, we're gonna learn about our our covenants with him, our identity with him, and and you're going to leave stronger. Like, like if you choose to leave stronger, you're you're going to leave stronger. See, because because the word works. It will not return void. You you will leave stronger because you're going to learn your identity in Christ. And then as men, we're going to stand up and we're going to become the leaders we're supposed to be. We're going to become the government officials we're supposed to be, we're going to become the husbands we're supposed to be. We're going to become the spouses we're supposed to be. We're going to become the leaders we're supposed to be. See, because because we need a group of men that will actually stand up and stand on the word of God. Amen. You know, you know, standing on the promises of God. I like to like to say several times, you know, we who all knows the song Standing on the Promises? Standing, standing, standing on the promises of God. And I'm like, okay, you're standing on the promises of God. Well, we'll name one. So do so. Do we just know the song, or do we actually know the promises of God? Because if you don't know the promises of God, you won't know your identity in Christ. And then that'll determine where your destination's going to be. So when stuff comes at you, you won't make it through what's coming at you. See, the enemy's been defeated. Over 2,000 years ago, Satan was defeated on the cross of Calvary when Jesus took stripes for you and shed his blood. He's a defeated foe, and the only authority the enemy has in your life is what you give him. And so we ain't gonna give him an inch and we're gonna take back what was stolen from us. Right? We're gonna do that, yeah. Amen. Amen. So, so I was thinking, you know, forged, forged, uh, you know, is to is to create, you know. When we first done this years ago, a few years ago, I thought forged, and and mine, you know, mine sometimes automatically goes negative, but I've been training it to go positive. And you can do that. You can you can train your mind to go positive, like, well, forged, I mean that that means fake. Right? Some of you have that thing, or all of you like, no, forged, man, this is great, this is good. But no, no, so don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. So you're transformed by the renewing of a mind. You you can train your thoughts to think like the word of God. Yeah? Because I promise you, you don't want my thoughts up here coming back out. You know, my thoughts now are good coming out, but my thoughts back then, they wasn't so good coming out, was they? They wasn't something, yeah. We we need to hurry and get out. Some of you like, we need to hurry and get out of here. Like, well, your thoughts aren't quite right. But yeah, but we're gonna change them thoughts. So, so forge, so you know, create a relationship uh uh or a new condition. So, so you think about you know about two men, you know, we're gonna there'll be some relationships forged today. Uh for you're gonna forge a new relationship together. So you think about forged in Christ, so you're being forged in a specific place. So you're being forged in Christ. Not man, man, we make some good connections today. And boy, me and me and brother Heath, and I mean we we build a bond, and then Richard and Bob and Joe and all this, man, when we done like this, and man, man, we just we just strengthen each other. But but if you're not strengthened by Christ, you're you're not strong. You're not strong. You're like, man, you might have some good relationships, but but I'm telling you, uh if if you don't have a relationship with someone that that's forged in Christ, that's strong in Christ, when you get in a crisis, that that relationship person won't be there for you. Because you need a you need a man, you need a man that's strong, a man that'll stand up for you, a man that'll uh that'll fight for you. You know, uh times when we're when we're we're talking to people and they're and they're going through struggles and stuff, you know, I might tell them, hey, you know what? I'll fight hell for you. I'll fight hell for you. But I think what I'm gonna start doing is have them start signing a contract. Yeah, don't you? Yeah, have them start signing a contract because because I'll help you get free by the blood of Jesus, but I'm telling you, sometimes it gets a little messy. And then a lot of times the people that that you're talking to, then then they start backing out. They start backing down. But but I'm thinking, you know, let's get us a contract and maybe let's put some blood on that contract and make a little bit of blood on that contract and say, you know what, I'm gonna stand up for you. I don't care what you say, I don't care how you come against me, I'm gonna fight hell for you. And I'm telling you, we need men that will step up and they'll fight hell for their families, fight hell for their spouses, fight hell for their friends, fight hell for for their community, and they will stand up and fight. And I promise you, the ones that, you know, and like you say, well, no, no, quit, quit. And then it gets in the back of your mind. But all right, now, brother, I'm gonna fight hell for you. Okay, well, I'll use you. He tore up my basement. I'm gonna use him. Yeah, but brother, I'll fight. You want me to fight hell for you? Absolutely. Absolutely. All right, now now what if you change your mind about 30 days? Do you still want me to fight hell for you?

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Absolutely.

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All right, so let's make this contract. Let's make this contract because in 30 days you're probably not gonna be doing so well. You see, everyone wants a move of God, but I can't just want a move of God until he comes in and starts cleaning out your closet. You know, you know, man, this is great. I'm gonna bring my my cousin and my brother and my uncle and and this and that. I mean, I mean, I mean, I just hope the Lord just just changes them, just wrecks them, just just comes all over them. And and then you get there, and then the Lord starts working on you, and you're like, Well, we need to be getting out of here. And that's that church is crazy. You you've been going there five years. It was fine five years ago, but it's crazy now. You know, know what happened? Are they preaching different? That when oh, they're preaching the same thing. Oh, you're getting revelation. You know, uh until you get revelation of who you are in Christ. I was on an extended fast a few years ago, and and uh it's it's several days. But anyway, I was in there and then one night I laid down there in bed and and uh I told Sarah, I said, Man, I said, I feel like I'm supposed to rest. Lord's telling me to rest. You know, and I'm thinking, man, I've been fasting for several days now. I guess I need to rest, but but but that's not what it is. See, we rest in him. Well, you guys need to come to church on Sunday, it's a Sabbath. No, no, he is our Sabbath, he is our He is our rest. And we let Him take control of our lives. We we let Him build it up. We we go to Him for guidance, for direction, for leadership. Amen. Well, yeah, that's what I think. You know, it says you don't need no one to teach you, just the Holy Spirit. You know, He'll teach you. I I don't need no advice from any man. Anybody anyone ever heard that? Well, I don't want to listen to what you say, I'm only listening to what the Holy Spirit. Well, if you're not listening to what some man of God, an anointed man of God saying, then you're not listening to the Holy Spirit either. It didn't say that, it didn't say that he said the Holy Spirit will teach you. He didn't say only, right? It didn't say only the Holy Spirit will teach you. And he comes like a dove and lands on you. But no, he anoints people, he he puts words in people's life to come and speak to you and tell you things. And that is the Holy Spirit. Well, no, that wasn't the Holy Spirit, that was Bob. Hello. That good, yeah. And he uses people. Well, I'm not gonna listen to people. So you're not gonna listen to Matthew or Mark or Luke or John, right? Or Paul or Moses. That's different. What's different about it? You know, if I come and tell you uh a word from God, then it is from the Holy Spirit. Iron sharpens iron, one man sharpens another. Amen. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Amen. I asked a few weeks ago, oh, oh, next time someone, I encourage you to do this. And someone said, Boy, I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength, I encourage you to be like, so have you learned how to do that? What? Right? I can do all things through Christ who gives me. Have you learned how to do that? Keep your mouth shut, sheriff. Well, I don't know what you mean. Well, what I mean is a couple of verses before that, Paul's talking about. Man, I've learned to be content in this situation. I've learned to be content with this, I've learned to be content with abundance, I've learned to be content with lack. I I have learned to keep my faith placed in Christ. I I have learned to do that. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. Why are you leading such a defeated life then? Why would I even want to be a Christian? You know, we want men that will be men and men that will stand on the word of God and men that will walk by faith and not by sight. Did you know, did you know faith is an action? See, you know, years, man, I don't know about you guys, but years that'd be like people like, well, it's not a works-based read, it's not a works-based salvation, you know, it's a faith-based salvation and all this. And you're like, man, I'm so confused. Lord, what do you? But but the word is simple, but we try to make it so hard, you know, and and you're like, well, it's works, man. You know, it's not works, it's faith. No, no, it's faith without works is dead. And it's faith without corresponding action. It means corresponding action. So faith without corresponding action to the word is dead. Yeah. So faith is an action. There you go. Yeah, so faith without corresponding action to the word is dead. Who's the word? He is. Jesus is the word. Oh, it's the Bible. Yes, it is the Bible. His word is the Bible. But he he he sent his word and healed them. Amen. There's when you start, when you next time when you start reading your Bible, or when you are reading your Bible and these verses start popping up, you'd be like, oh, oh, the word. Oh, the word. In the beginning was the word, the word was God, the word was with God, the word became flesh and dwelt among us. And like, oh yeah, yeah, like I'm the word. Like like we're wanting Jesus to literally come down out of the sky in his flesh and bone body and walk around here. And I don't know, but but did you know He He gave His life for up life for us up on Calvary over 2,000 years ago on the cross. He's seated at the right hand of the Father. He said, It's good that I must go, it'll send another, the Holy Spirit, to live inside you. So he sent his word. He sent the whole, his word was, it's good that I must go, I'll send another. He sent his word and healed you. So as we're being forged in Christ, Amen. Amen. If you don't know, you might want to write this down. If you don't know who you are in Christ, then you don't know what you have already become. If you don't know who you are in Christ, then you don't know what you have already become. If you don't know who you are in Christ, then you don't know what you have already become. You you will be walking around defeated.

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You'll be you'll be walking around defeated. There's a domestic dispute out in the hallway. If you don't know who you are in Christ, you will live a defeated life. Sheriff, their sickness trying to come on my body. Well, I don't have no authority. Yeah. Well, I don't have no authority. You know, you have authority over sickness. Sheriff. The enemy's trying to break up my marriage. I'm not going to let the enemy break up my marriage. See, the enemy's defeated. Us two became one. Back in in 2018, you know, I went to church for several years, was born again in 2011, and in 2018 began to think, man, man, man, there's got to be more. Man, we're we're just stuck in a rut and and we're going through the motions and and um uh I began to seek the Lord and I I begin to understand that that uh the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a is a separate baptism than than than your water baptism and is a different different um uh you you receive the Holy Spirit when you're born again. He come He comes and lives inside you. But then there's another experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit when he comes and empowers you. And I thought, and and for me to come up through this, I had to be thinking, like, okay, everything we have to do has to line up with Jesus. Because if it don't line up with what Jesus did, then then it won't line up in us. So so uh I thought, so we gotta be born again. Number one, we gotta be born again, right? So if we gotta be born again, okay, now all I gotta do is figure out when was Jesus born again. Right? That's all we gotta know. If we if if my life, my pattern of life has to follow Jesus' pattern of life, then then I have to know when Jesus was born again. But to know when Jesus was born again, you have to know what born again is. And see, see, when you're born again, you know, you're born from above. And the Spirit of God comes and lives inside you. So I thought, so when was Jesus born again? He was born again when he was conceived. The Spirit of God came, went inside Mary. You know, that's why you know, you know, they say, you know, man leaves his father and mother and the two become one, and and and they're so married and they're so this. And I'm not saying that's not right, but but who here left their father went into their mother, and the two become one. Do I need to draw a picture? The seed of man went into the woman, it created you, and the two become one. And that's the way Christ, when Christ or when God come in to Mary, by the word, all was spoken to Mary was a word. He said, I take you at your word. Then he was born again. Okay, so then in 2018 I realized, man, there's a there's another experience, uh, a baptism of the Holy Spirit and fire. And I thought, I want that. I want that. Because when I was born again, I felt like my heart was coming out of my chest, like God wanted me to do something, and and and I realized and I got down to my grain bends, like, like, Lord, whatever you want me to do, I'll do. I was like, you know what, I just surrender to you. And that day my life made a 180-degree change. And after that, about two or three times, the same thing, like the old cartoon, some of you might know, some of you don't know. I didn't realize I'm getting older, but but used to, there's a cartoon and the heart would come out of the chest, bugs bunny and them. And uh, and I thought, man, the Lord's want me to do something. And then uh a guy said, Man, we should go to this Bible study. And we went to this Bible study, but it wasn't the same denomination that we were. And I know when we're talking about demonation, I mean denominations. We're talking and if somebody has a problem with you going to a demon, I mean a denomination other than what you are, what they're saying is we want to keep you bound. We want to keep you bound, we want to keep you under control, we want to put you under our finger. We don't want you going doing out and doing this and doing that. Well, anyway, since since I'm the polite husband, I asked my wife if I could go, and and she said yes, I could go, but but she didn't mean does any of your wives ever say something they don't mean? But she didn't she didn't really mean I could go. But but but and I'll give you defense for the women that are here and online. When you say something to your husband, that's you're like, well, what did you think? I said, Well, you said I could go, so I thought I could just go, right? Yeah, wasn't nothing different. You could just go. So so anyway, we go and we sit down at this table, me and three other guys, and the first thing this guy says is like, Boys, you don't need me. You need to learn to let the Holy Spirit lead you. And I thought, I've never heard that before. What you think you would hear that with being in church for years, but I thought, you know what? Sounds biblical. I believe it, and I'm gonna start doing it tonight. Yep, that's what I'm gonna do tonight. So, so uh about a week later, uh, I'm down in my basement, just uh had a situation going at church, and I've learned to plead the blood. You know, you know, there's power in the blood. I've learned to learn to plead the blood, and I'm pleading the blood over uh this situation, and I begin to shake on the inside, and I'm just not now, Lord, if this is from you, let it be. Lord, what are you trying to tell me? And I the power of God just come over me, and and I'm thinking, oh my goodness. So I go up and I tell my wife, I'm thinking, man, something just had me happen to me in that basement. I just had an encounter with God in that basement. Well, she's freaked out because I went to a denomination. I mean, I went to this different different denomination meeting than I had. And uh she's like, oh man, what you know what this and anyway, I I go back down there and I'm like, now Lord, I don't want anything that's from Satan. But if it's from you, I want everything that you have. And I begin to shake and I begin to tremble again, I begin to weep, I begin to wail, and uh, and then uh I go back up there after a few minutes. I go back up there and she's on the couch praying, and I'm thinking I should get down and pray for her, but I actually went ahead and went into the closet, which is kind of behind the couch, and and I didn't even get these words out of my mouth, but I was like, Lord, I don't want to put you to a and I was gonna say a foolish test, but I was like, Lord, I don't want to put you to, and just instantly just the power of God just come over me again. I thought, you know, Lord, it's you, I know it's you, and uh and then after that, I mean, my life was just rosy, everything was just perfect. I mean, I mean, it was so glorious. I never had another problem again. I mean, uh, me and the wife just got along so good, the kids started being excellent. Some of you have been baptizing the Holy Ghost. And then that day, it was just a day or two later, all hell broke loose. All hell broke loose. I mean, I can we won't go into a lot of it, but but uh and I didn't realize it at the time, but but do you know when when Jesus, when he says, it's or John the Baptist says, you know, there's one that's coming who's not worthy I'll get cleaned up here in just a second. Thank you, Lord. Yeah, there's one coming and I'm not worthy to unloose his sandal, he'll baptize you with Holy Spirit fire. And then the Spirit landed on him and remained on him, right? But but do you know the very next thing that happened to Jesus after that point? He went he went right into the wilderness to be tempted for 40 days. Right? And uh looking back, that started my 40 year, I mean my 40-day, 40-day wilder wilderness journey. And uh uh, I mean, it's so bad that the wife's wanting to leave, that the kids think I'm crazy, that that everyone thinks I'm losing it. I mean, I mean, the domination I was in, I mean, they asked me to step down from from being a deacon and a and a leader and a Sunday school superintendent and all this stuff. I'm like, man, I you know, and I know nothing. You know, no one knows something until they know nothing, but I know nothing. I mean, my pastor's like, well, are you charismatic? I'm I don't know, I don't know what charismatic is. Uh are you Pentecostal? I don't know. I don't know. I just know that that I had an encounter with God and that's all I know. You know, but but now I understand uh cessationism. And if you don't know what cessationism is, it's they believe the gifts ended with the apostles and there's no power left and there's no healing left. And and and I heard last night that they were sharing there a little bit, and it's like, well, if we don't believe there's there's uh healing and and stuff, then then why are we doing a prayer list? I thought, you know, that's a pretty good point. Why are we having a prayer list if we don't believe there's there there's still healing? So so next time you talk to your uh never mind. Um never mind. Never mind. I'm gonna get back on path. I I learned that from Bishop, but sometimes them rabbits are the best. I like rabbit. So everything God did in Christ, He did for us. See, see, God, God didn't have to prove Himself, He's already proved. Yeah, God don't have to prove Himself, He didn't send Jesus to, well, this is who I am, and you guys have been mocking me for years and this and that. No, no, no, no. No. But my identity is in Christ and what He did. So you're gonna want to write this down too. I don't identify with my past. Okay? I identify with His past. So there's some of you here today that have been struggling over your past. And I'm telling you, if you're born again, your past is gone. Your past is dead, and you have you have a new identity. You no longer identify with your past. And don't people hold that over you like for for the rest of your life? Right? Yeah, brother Brother Mike, Mike Titchener over there. Sometimes I'll be out and oh Mike Titchener, you know, this or that, and this, this or that. Well, didn't you hear about him? He died. Well, what? No, I didn't hear about him. No, no, no, he died, he gave his life to God. He's not that person anymore. I promise you, Bishop, for all he's gone through when he's at home, he still lives basically in his hometown like I do when he's going around there. Oh, there's old juice. Right? Still, oh no juice. Hey, Jeez, like well, well, didn't you hear he died back in 1990? 90? Was it 90? He backed back to 1990. Yeah. Yeah. So so who you used to be is not who you are. Yeah, yeah. Well, I don't feel like well, that's why you can't be conformed to this world. That's why if your identity determines your destination. Thank you, Lord. Man, it's so good to be in Christ. Yeah. Sometimes Sarah will be like, I'll be like, no, honey, well, it might have been yesterday, but I don't know. I was like, honey, just calm down. It's okay. You don't ever get shook up about anything. It's like, not really. There's no use in doing it. There's no, it's not gonna do no good. It didn't do no good when we was down to one biscuit this morning. Well, pray over the biscuits. But it's not gonna do you know, well, we gotta get more bit. Well, they're not gonna want biscuits by the time you get them ready. Just go ahead and get them some lunch. Yeah. See, he says, Come to me, all ye who are weak and heavy laden, I will give you rest. He says, My yoke is easy, my burden is light. Take my yoke upon you, and I thought it used to say, lean on me. Right? You know, you know, because because what you're told, for the most part, everyone in here, what you're told is how you read that Bible. Yeah, like you got stuff in you, and and you're like, oh yeah. And that's how you interpret the Bible. But I say, eyes wide, eyes be open, ears be open. I'd be like, Lord, take me back to my day of salvation, start me all over from day one. I'm gonna take you at your word. I'm gonna get in your word and see what it says for myself. Well, God won't put more on you than you can handle. God won't, boy, Lord's just weighing me down. You're not that big a threat. You're you're you're you're not, you're, you're not, you're, you're telling me you've got all these wonderful revelations and been shipwrecked 14 times and been beaten eight times and and gone without and been a day in the night in the dark, and a day and a night in this, and boy, they just got this thorn in my flesh. No one knows what the thorn in the flesh is. Brother, if we just knew what that thorn in the flesh is. He says, a thorn in the flesh. Here's some revelation for you. He says, a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me. The thorn in the flesh is a messenger of Satan. It's not a messenger of sickness. It's a messenger of Satan. It's a messenger of Satan. Has anyone ever said? You're a real pain in my cousin. Anyone everyone heard that? You know what? You're a real pain in my what they're saying is you're a real thorn in my flesh. And we sat there because we've been told, oh my, this will preach. It's there because we've been told that that sickness is a thorn of the flesh, that that the trials you're going on in your life through through your relationship issues and all this stuff is a thorn in your flesh. That's not a thorn in your flesh. That's you being disobedient to the word of God. That's you not knowing your identity in Christ. That's you not identifying with who you are. I won't preach on the thorn of the flesh, but I've done pretty good at it. But you can go back in the Old Testament, there's a couple different times where it talks about thorn in the flesh being people. Yeah, see, see, the word backs up his word. The word backs up his word. So when you see something in there, like, man, I wish I knew what the thorn of the flesh was, say, you know, Google, we got so much stuff right now that you could put where all is thorn in the flesh in the Bible, and then it'll pull it up and like, oh, it's it's not sickness. So there's some freedom for some people in here today because they realize, no, no, so you're gonna end up getting healed because you realize that the stinking sickness wasn't a thorn in the flesh. The thorn in the flesh was a messenger of Satan to Bethany because Paul had so many revelations that that Satan had to get get that them revelations stopped. And even and it wasn't sickness, but even if it was, it didn't stop Paul from spreading the gospel. So so even if you think, well, I don't agree with that. Well, well, you you you you can't disagree with this part. It didn't stop Paul from preaching the gospel. It didn't, didn't do it, did it? He did her, he did her. I mean, can you mean could you imagine getting beaten? Uh I didn't I had it memorized, but I forget now, but beaten like five times, three times, five times, shipwreck five times, beaten, shipwreck three and five, five and three, whatever it is. And still, I don't go on after it. Oh, brother, I got toe fungus, and I just don't know if I'm gonna be able to. Here's one for you. I invited this person to come to the men's conference ten days ago. Didn't hear back from him for three days. Finally heard back from him on Monday, brother. You know, I'm just getting the flu. And to say that I'm not gonna be able to make it to the men's conference on Monday. On Monday. You know, yeah, you know, like I'm praying the Lord will heal me. I'm thinking, I wouldn't even go there. You know, you know, the the Lord, the Lord already has healed you. You know, if you'd spend your time thinking, flu, you're not coming on me. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. Because that you have that identity. That identity is in you. You you you have authority. Right, Sheriff Six?

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That's good preaching.

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Thank you for the one amen. I need a pastor with wife set up here. Pastor, we should get up here on the front row. Amen. Okay. So what is a Christian? Think about that. Who in there is a Christian? Okay. What's a Christian? Christ-like. Born of the spirit, born of the flesh. Journey. So so if you go up and say, man, man, are you a Christian? You're like, well, well, what's a Christian? Well, what's Christ like? Well what do you what do you mean by Christ-like? Like, give me a reason for your faith. Right? Oh, oh, so you're a you're one of those Christians. You're one of those Christians, right? Oh, you pastor. And thank you for it. Pastor Jeff, Pastor Tim, Pastor Bob Alman. I didn't recognize him, but I love them guys, but um I love the rest of you too. But uh, yeah, give me a reason for your faith. As I was praying the other day, I thought, Christ-like. And then I thought, you're Christian because you're in Christ. In Christ, in him, in him. You're Christian because you're in him. You're not Christian because you walked an aisle and prayed a prayer. You're not Christian because you come to church. You're not Christian because you preach. You're not Christian because you do this and do that. There you go. They can always count on Heath. Can always count on, but you're Christian because you're Christ-like. So, so Paul, you think about the revelation, Paul. That you think about the revelation. He said, He said the abundance of revelations that that he couldn't even share, right? That he couldn't even share. And I think then I thought about what about the ones that he did share? No, what about the revelations that he did share? And you think about that, and think about Paul and his letters and and what he did share. And what what what do you think? Like to me, I think there's one that really sticks out like his his greatest revelation. What do you think about like Paul's greatest revelation? I believe it's a mystery of who he was in Christ. I believe that. Amen. I believe the mystery of who he was in Christ. Because when you know who you are in Christ, no weapon formed against you shall prosper. You can sit there and you can say, Boy, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. Why'd you kick me? Instead of somebody getting right here kicking, no weapon formed against me shall prosper. No, Satan, you're not coming between me and my wife. No, Satan, you're not coming between me and my family. See, see that Satan, Satan, do you know Satan don't have two horns and a pitchfork? Satan, it's all words. Satan needs a body to carry out what he's doing on the earth. God needs a body to carry out what he's doing on the earth. They both need bodies to do what they're carrying out on the earth. And then um lost that thought. Anyone ever lose that thought? Yep. Thank you, Lord. It'll come back. I'm just sure of it. So so we have his the mystery was his his revelation in Christ. And like you said, when you know your identity, when you know your your authority, No weapon formed against you shall prosper. And that's what caused the mystery. That's what caused Paul's thorn in the flesh. That's what causes people to come after you. That's what that's what causes, you know, when you start standing up and and and and speaking the word to people, some of them like it, some of them be like, man, what are you doing? Because they want someone to sympathize with them. Yeah. They don't want help. They won't want someone to sympathize with them. But but I'm not going to sympathize with you. I'm going to build you up in Christ. Before my dad, my dad passed away last uh February. And he saved a hundred days before he went to be with the Lord. And I've seen an 80-year-old man grow in faith his last hundred days. Amen. Because you you you because he was you know speaking the word. You're speaking the word. Because the word really does work. It does work. I need some help. Well, you're gonna get it. You're gonna get it. All right. First Corinthians 5, 17. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. Therefore, if so there's a there's a stipulation on this. There's actually about there's actually like seven to eight thousand promises in the Bible. In the New Testament, there's about 30 some verses of who you are in Christ. And if you'll apply these verses of who you are in Christ, I promise you your life will change. This is a great one. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. So it starts out there if. If so there's a there's a stipulation for you to activate what Christ has for you. You see that? So if you're not in Christ, you're not a new creation. If you're not in Christ, you're not a new creation. Um so but but if you have been born again, confessed Jesus as Lord, believed in your heart, God raised him from the dead, surrendered your life, however, it looks for you, it's making Jesus Lord, then you're entitled to the rest of this stuff. If anyone, therefore, if anyone. So who's anyone? I looked that up in the Greek, and it's anyone. It's anybody. It's the poor, it's the rich, it's the it's the it's the wealthy, it's the it's the it's the the addict, it's the Christian. It's the churchgoer, it's whoever. And you're whoever. You're whoever. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, anyone is in Christ. So so in it's indicating uh an inclusion within a space-time limits, uh uh like being contained, located inside something. So we went to in the morning, we're gonna have an awesome church service in the morning, right? In the morning. Like in the kitchen, they made a great breakfast this morning. You know, boy, in Cassville, it's they got a Walmart, you know, in church, in a hurry, in love, uh just just all these, but but it's actually being in. So it don't say, it don't say um not if you're a good person. Therefore, if anyone is a good person, he is a new creation. Therefore, if anyone goes to church, therefore, if anyone does this, therefore, if anyone does that, it says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ. In Christ. What does it mean to be Christ-like? We covered that. So, so you're Christ-like. So are you a Christian? Yeah, I'm a Christian. Well, what does a Christian mean? What does that mean to you? Well, it means I'm Christlike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But what does what does what does Christ-like mean to you? Well, oh, okay. It means it means to me, it means abiding in him, remaining in him, continuing him. It means it means taking that I have the power to take every thought captive that exalts itself against Christ, that I present myself to him a living sacrifice, which is my reasonable service, that I will not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of her mind. It means that that he took stripes for my healing on the cross of Calvary. He took stripes for my deliverance, that he shed his blood for me, that he took on my sicknesses and bore my diseases, and that by his stripes I'm healed. It means that that's who I am. I am in Christ. Man, I wish I could see someone that's in Christ. I can't believe he got up there and said he was in Christ. And it says right there, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, and if you're born again, if you've received Christ as your savior, you're in Christ, and you're entitled to Amen. Entitled. You're you're entitled to all the promises that are written in this word of God. You're entitled to every single one of them. You're not going to live a defeated life. Boy, Paul was just so, let's turn to the book of doubt and unbelief. Everybody get your Bibles out and start to doubt and unbelief. Let's turn to negativity, chapter 3. Yeah, right? You know, you know, you you you won't find it in there. Well, let's turn to the book of life. Amen. It's the whole thing. He comes so I can have life and have life more abundantly. Amen. So, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, a new creature. Something, something that like never never existed before. So if you're in Christ, can you imagine like never existed? You know, when you're forging, you know, they they might take a piece of metal and they take a piece of metal, and how that metal is created, something how that metal that's that's never been there before might be a ring, might be a car, might be a motorcycle, might be a gun, might but might be whatever it is. But but when you when you are forged in Christ, you're a new creation in Christ. New, new, new, new, new. Not rebuilt, refurbished, not not a process. You're new and kind in stature. Why? Because you're in Christ. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things. Old things have passed away. Old things. You no longer identify with who you used to be or what used to go on in your life. See, he came and he pulled you out of sin. Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. See, see, he come to and he took on your nature of sin. It's gonna help you. It's gonna free you. It's gonna free you. Oh, the Lord comes, so I'd quit lying, or I'd quit stealing, or I'd quit having adultery. He did come to free you from that. But more than that, it's not that you're lying, that you're cheating, that you're stealing. It's not that you're committing adultery. It's not that you have other gods before you. It's not that you're not honoring the Sabbath. It's not that you're doing all these things. The question is, why are you doing those things? That's the problem. The problem is, why are you doing those things? And Christ came and he took away your sin nature, he took away your nature of wanting to do that. And he gave you a righteous nature. Righteous nature. And it lives inside you. A righteous nature lives inside you. Now there's still some things you have to do, uh, but be sanctified and uh and different things, but but but you learn, but but now you have the authority. We'll call him Sheriff Seven now because he's complete. Sheriff Seven. Amen. Sheriff Seven, but but you have the authority as a believer in your life to take dominion over the stuff that's going on in your life. Yeah. Over sickness, over anxiety, over depression, over, over uh fear, over, yeah, over whatever it may be. As believers, you you have that authority in you to overcome that. They were overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of the testimony. Old things have passed away. The Weymouth translation says the old state of things have passed. You're not who you used to be. Your old condition has passed away. You've been redeemed, your sin nature is gone, you've been redeemed by the curse of the law, which includes poverty, sickness, confusion, fear, anxiety, sin, and the devil's dominion over your life. When does the old pass away? Well, brother, I'm just waiting on the old to pass away. I've been born again since 1990. I'm just waiting on the old to pass away. The old things have passed away. Like when you receive Christ, if you receive Christ today, old things have passed away like today. But today. So the day you were born again, or today, if you're going to be born again, that's when the old things pass away. You're no you're no longer who you used to be who you used to be. You're you get an identity change. You get an identity change. You get a sheriff with authority that knows his authority. Man, if someone's breaking in your house and the sheriff comes out, you want one that has authority, right? Yeah. Hey, sheriff, hey, brother. We're out here in Rocky Comfort. What'd you call me out here for? Well, sheriff, there's somebody in the house. They're breaking this down. Oh, okay. Well, I gotta go get some donuts. Well, what are you gonna do about it? Well, I'm not saying gonna do nothing about it. I don't got no authority. Well, I thought you was the sheriff. Well, I am the sheriff.

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Well, you well, you good. That's good.

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Hello? Who is it? Oh, it's a headache? Oh, headache. Yeah. Well, just come on in, headache. Do you need a place to stay? Huh? A headache needs a place to stay. Depression needs a place to live. Anger needs a place to work. Jealousy needs a place to go. The other night. Uh-uh, not in this house. I'm not saying it ain't still bothering me, but I'm saying, uh-uh, not in this house. The Lord took on my sicknesses and he bore my diseases. And by his stripes, I'm healed. It don't say that sickness won't ever try to come on me. It don't say that sickness may not be in my body, but I don't identify with my past. I identify with his past. I don't identify with what's going on in my life. I identify with what's going on in his life. And I take what his word says over any situation, over my thinking, over anything that comes against me. I stand on the word of God. How long are you going to stand on the word of God? Mother, I did that whole, you know. It's been a few years ago, but like a person's like, man, my life just sucks. Like, well, now you know, well, by your confession, I would say you're probably right. You know, my life sucks. And like, man, what about the Lord? And what about the Lord and this? And I and I and I seen this guy get his son back, and I seen these great things, but but it was always just like, man, my life just sucks. And then he lost his son and done that. Like, man, well, what about what about the Lord? You were trusting in well, I did that for three months. Yeah. And that's what we do. Oh, I did, you know, I tried that for three months. I already tried, I already tried that, already done that. But but I tell you, I'm gonna stand on the word of God. There's situations going on in your life, and I'm telling you, you stand on the word of God. Well, how long do I stand on the word of God until you're face to face with him? Till you're face to face with him. Well, brother. In the demonation, I mean in some places. In some places. Well, brother, we don't want to give them false hope. I promise you, you're not giving them false hope because you ain't giving them no hope. And I'm telling you, it's not false hope, it's the word of God, and you stand on the word of God. Amen. Amen. And you fight and you get someone to stand up for you. It's not God's will for you to die of sickness. It's not God's will for you to die in a car accident. It's not God's will for someone to be raped and molested and then be killed. But but what if that happens in your family? Like, like, like, are we gonna stand up and be like, here's what I expect, and here's what I tell uh the people here at the church. Like, like if something happens to me that's not God's will, that's before my time, I I expect you to come and raise me from the dead. Yeah. I prayed over two to be raised from the dead. I'm believing the third one's gonna raise up. Right? Amen. You know, if you never pray for someone to be raised from the dead, they're never gonna be raised from the dead.

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Yeah.

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You know, I take the word for what it is. Well, brother, I believe that's just spiritually. Well, brother, you don't know what the Bible says. You do not need healed when you're in heaven. You get a new body. Your spirit's not sick. Healing is for now, deliverance is for now, freedom is for now. Oh, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new. The moment you were born again, the moment you were saved, all things become new. In the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, you became a new creation as never existed before. A new state of things has come into existence. You get an identity changed. A couple more verses here and there. Philemon. Philimon. And I'm praying that you will put into action the generosity that comes from your faith as you understand and experience what all the good things we have in Christ. As you understand and experience the one thing you have in Christ, as we understand and experience all the good things you have in Christ, right? Not all the bad things, all the good things. He has good gifts for his children. And there's obviously more than one. There's a bunch of them that says all of the good things. Man, I tell you what, I'm going to experience them all. All. Every one of them. Exceedingly abundantly above all we could ask or think, according to the power that works in us. In um uh Ephesians, is that right? For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. For I am his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works. That God prepared for me beforehand. So you are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus. You know, faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of God. The more I say this, the more it goes into you. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. So you think about He prepared beforehand. You're his good work. When you give your life to Christ, you're a new creation in Christ. Old things are gone, behold, all things have become new. And there's a book written about you. There's a book of what the Lord has for your life, what he wants for you to accomplish for him in your life. And and he has prepared you beforehand, before you even were, before you're even a thought, before Shaba. He says, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. And also before time, too. Right? Before the beginning of time. When did time begin? A long time ago. A long time ago in a far, far land. But but they're they're prayer prepare before you.

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Good work. Thank you, Lord.

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Ministry here. This helping anybody? Anybody realizing who you are in Christ? You know, for grace you have been saved through faith, not of works, so no one should boast. That word saved is the word sozo. I don't know if you guys have read it up here or not. But it means saved, healed, set free, delivered, made whole. You're a spirit that has a soul that lives in a body. You're a three-part being. God's a three-part being, and all all our body, seriesful body, all re uh all relates to to God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. Okay? And it's it's it's a beautiful thing. And I'm telling you, you have authority as men, as believers. But as men, you have authority as believers over stuff that's going on in your life. So I'm gonna share a just a little story with you. And then after that, we're gonna come up and we're gonna speak against stuff that we have let come into our lives, let control us. Okay? You know, real men get honest. Real men love the Lord, real men don't hide their emotions. After looking back, the way I live now, if I would just live exact opposite of how I was raised, yeah. Suck it up, boy. What are you crying for? Men don't cry. Worse stuff than that's gonna happen to you in your life. Be a man. And we're taught the complete opposite of what the word says. There's somebody here that's had some stuff go on in your life that I can't even imagine. I lived such a sheltered life that I didn't know much about abuse, physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse. I I knew nothing about none of that. You know, I had a I wouldn't say as a I'd say it might have been a Christian home, but it wasn't Christ-like. You know, I don't know. They identified as maybe I won't even go there. But I'm telling this, this changes for these generations. This is a this is a house of men that is in Christ. This house of men that's gonna lead their family by being in Christ by what the word says. This is a house of men whose life changes today. So it's in the middle of the night. Jesus is out and it's it's it's pouring down rain. Pouring down rain. Jesus walks up to this big old house. He knocks on the door. Guy opens the door up. Who is it? Oh, it's Jesus. Jesus, what are you doing outside? What are you doing? Doing out there, man. Come on in. It's raining. Man, come on in. I got this big old house. I got this big old house. He says, You just go upstairs and and boy down at the end of the end of the hall, just take that last bedroom on the right. Man, I got this big old house. So Jesus goes up and he goes down to the end room and he's in the house. And about three or four o'clock in the morning, about three o'clock in the morning, guy hears a knock on the door. Who is it? Or he opens the door. I mean, just slams the door down. Like it's Satan. Satan comes in the house and is just beating him up and knocking him down and smacking him around to about five or six o'clock in the morning and finally he leaves. Some of you have been wrestling all night long trying to get Satan to leave. And he wrestles with him all night long. Well then Jesus comes, he just gets up and he's walking down the stairs and I just sleep last night, Jesus. Well, that's look good. You know, it's a nice, nice room you got up there. He's like, well, you're no help, man. Man, the devil, he's down here just giving me all kinds of havoc. He didn't my he didn't even get up, he didn't expect me enough to come and help me. And he's like, Well, you just give me that one room. You just give me that one room. And when I think about that, I think about that as to me kind of like as salvation. When it's salvation, you know, we don't know our identity in Christ, we don't know our authority in Christ. So so we give we give Christ our heart the bet the best we know how, but we didn't know that there was more, that there was freedom. And then we're born again, but we wasn't walking in power. So Jesus is like, he's like, yeah, all right. The guy says, I'll tell you what, Jesus, you can have the whole upstairs. Anything you want upstairs. You you just have that, okay. You see, because God's a gentleman in the in a roundabout sound different ways. You could go different ways, but but but God will only do what you allow him to do. That's a better way to put it. God will only do what you allow him to do. Okay? He'll only go in the rooms you allow him to rooms to go in. So so he has he has all the upstairs. So so there they are in the night, and about three o'clock in the morning, the guy hears a banging on the door again. Goes up, opens the door, slams it down, Satan comes in, and oh no, here we go again. Man, Satan comes up, he's just wrestling with me every night. And he goes in there, and finally he gets rid of him about the same time, about five or six o'clock in the morning. Jesus gets up, walks down the stairs. How was your night last night, Jesus? Oh, it was it was good. You know, I had the whole upstairs. It was good. Well, you didn't help me out any. Satan came back this morning about six o'clock or about three o'clock. You just wrestle with me, just fight with me. What are you gonna do? What good is it? Well, you only got what do you expect me to do, Jesus? You you only give me half the house. Well, what more do you expect, Jesus? He wants your whole life. He wants your whole life. He said, He said, How about this? How about you give me the keys? How about you give me the deed to your house? How about you give me give me your property? Well, whatever. I mean, this ain't working for me. This ain't working for me. Let's just do that. So Jesus gives him the keys and the title. Or the guy gives Jesus the keys and the title. There again, about three o'clock in the morning, there's a knock on the door. The guy hears Jesus get up, walks around, walks over to the door, opens up the door, and Satan says, Oh, sorry. Wrong hand.

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Wrong hand. So it's all Satan.

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It's time now that a group of men know what authority they have in their house. And maybe, maybe you've never gives us any room in your house. Maybe you've never given him any room in your house. I'm telling you, there's no better time than right now to give him your house. It says, for as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become children of God. Word of God says, if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. The word don't say if you confessed, if you've done it like in 1990. If you've done it years ago, it says, if you confess. The evidence that you're a believer is you keep confessing Jesus is Lord. You keep believing in your heart, you keep acting on the word. So maybe, maybe, maybe that's you today, and you never have confessed him as Lord. Maybe, maybe that's you today, and and and you need renewed, maybe that's you today, and you just let the enemy come in and take over your house because you didn't have any idea of the authority that you had, but now you understand your authority. If that's you, if that's you today, if you want Jesus, Jesus is the way to the Father. Amen. Jesus is the way to the Father. So if you want to get the Father, the only way is through the Son. So if you want to save Him to get to the Father today, if you want to make Him Lord of your life, encourage you, just raise your hands.

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Anybody in here? Anybody in here? Now what? Give you another second or two.

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I have some scriptures for you guys. I'll hand them out here in a little bit. I got some scriptures of the ones I was telling you about, about the 30 some in there, that the authority you have in Christ, in him, in whom. But maybe you've learned for the first time today is I'm not just a midly pilgrim trying to make it along. I'm a new creation in Christ and I have authority. And maybe you're wanting your house cleaned out. Maybe you did. Maybe you did give him give him that one room. But you've let, you know, when that door, when they come up knocking on that door, that was sickness knocking on that door, that was anxiety knocking on that door, that was hate knocking on that door, that was anger knocking on that door, that was division in your family knocking on that door, that was gossip. For me, for me, what was knocking on my door and I didn't realize was I had a religious spirit, I had a critical spirit, and I had a judgmental spirit. And when I would go to meetings like this, I would sit there and I would judge what they were doing. Instead of receiving what they were doing, I would judge what they were doing. And when you judge what they're doing, or when you said, Well, I can't believe they did this, I can't believe they've done that. I can't believe they're wearing a hat. I'm sure there's got in a crowd this size, there's got to be some in, I can't believe they're wearing a hat in church. I'll tell you what, my head's covered. My head's covered with Christ. My head's covered with Christ. Amen.

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Amen.

SPEAKER_07

And I'm not gonna damn someone for wearing a hat. I mean, I typically don't wear one. I believe the Lord told me to wear one today, so I wore one today. But but but but I'm not concerned by what you wear. I've had people come here with you can't imagine. And and I love it. I want them, I want them to come in. I don't care what you're wearing, I want them to come in. But what breaks my heart is when some religious, judgmental, critical person judges that person for coming in. Well, I can't believe you wore that in here. And then as a pastor, we get blamed for everything. We don't know nothing that's going on because some religious spirit has said something to this person, and then this person quit coming to church because somebody said something because their clothes wasn't quite right. I'm telling you, Jesus wasn't really concerned about the clothes they were wearing. He said, I'm a friend of sinners. But I tell you what, once you're born again, you're no longer a sinner, you're considered a saint, you're considered righteous, you're considered holy. So I'm telling you right now, if you need a restoration of your house, if you need a renovation of your house, if you if you've allowed stuff to go into your house that is not a God, we want to pray with you. We want to, we want to see you get freedom today. Actually, see you get freedom right now. Because they're gonna be in empowerment the rest of the day, but we got to get our hearts in line with Him to be able to receive today. So anybody, anybody that's struggling with anything, any anxiety, sickness, disease, depression, fear, anger, anxiety, cancer, thoughts. There's power in the name of Jesus. There's power in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

SPEAKER_07

Anyone here? Anyone here? My destination changed today because of my identification with Christ.

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Identification with Christ.

SPEAKER_07

Amen. He says he just wants more. More, more, more. Never enough. Let's give more. Amen.

SPEAKER_06

Amen.

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Jesus. Ever you love. Do whatever you want, Jesus. Do whatever you want.

SPEAKER_06

Amen. Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you.

SPEAKER_06

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

SPEAKER_07

Encourage you. Keep standing on the word. Back up everything I've been teaching today, too. Back it up with the word. Back up anything anyone teaches you with the word. Amen, right? Back it up. Back it up. If you need, if you need me to back it up, I gladly will. But I'm saying, get in there for yourself. Get in there for yourself. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you.

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Woo! Woo! We're not perfect. No one in here is perfect. I'm definitely not perfect. If you're not perfect, you gotta get on your knees to get perfect. I don't know why I came up here. Because I'm not perfect. I want more of Jesus. I want you to be as pure as I can. We can't do the work if we're not pure. If something's holding us back. We need to be up here. What are we waiting on?

SPEAKER_09

What are we waiting on?

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Whatever you want to shake out the gun for my creation back.

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If you want the fire, the fire is right here. It's on you. It's on you to change. It's on you to you. Come on fire for Jesus. If you're perfect, stay back there. You're gonna find him. Come on to find him. We gotta change the house. We've gotta change your house. Come on fire for the Lord. Come on fire. Everyone changes the world! The world put it on fire for the Lord! What you have done! What you have done in the presence of the Lord! It is now! It is now! It's time for us to take him! Find him! You're your fire pure yourself! Let it all out! Whatever it is. There's something in all of us. And if we don't, then what?

SPEAKER_09

It's up to you. It's up to me.

SPEAKER_07

He got into such a desperate situation that he had no other choice. He did have a choice, he could have rejected it, but he had no other choice to receive freedom than to give God complete control. When I was baptized in the Holy Ghost, I became my life became to such a point that I had no other choice but to trust in him. I didn't give in to the condemnation that was coming against me. I didn't give in to the hate that was coming against me. But for the first time in my life, for the first time in my life, I was in a situation in my life that I couldn't get out of or couldn't fix on my own unless I rejected what Christ had done for me. But I'm telling you, receive what Christ has done for you. Walk in what Christ has done for you. Stand on the word of God, and you keep standing, because if you doubt, have faith in God. For assuredly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, to this problem area in your life, be thou removed and cast into the sea. It says, but does not doubt in his heart. So you stand on the word of God and you quit doubting because when you start doubting, the word of God quits working. Until you start all over again. I'm telling you, stand on the word of God. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

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So Dan walked over me and asked if I had anything. And really I didn't know that whenever he started quoting that scripture. Because this is where Dan started, and this is where he went. He quoted when Jesus said, Whosoever shall say it in his mouth, be thou removed, be thou cast of the seed. He shall not doubt in his heart, but only believe the things that he says. He shall have whatsoever he says. Three times. Death and life are in the fire of our tongue, and we shall eat the fruit thereof. You literally paint the life that you live in. The walls and the ceiling and the floor of the life that you live in with your speech. You ever thought of that? A king in the Bible, if he said it, he had to back it up or he no longer had authority. That's the reason they had to take off the head of John the Baptist. Because he told his stepdaughter, I'll give you up to half the kingdom, whatever you asked for. She went to her mother and said, John the Baptist said if he didn't, he no longer had authority. You have authority in your life. What you're speaking is what you're living. This is not some hyped up psychological Jesus said it. Right? So you gotta watch what comes out of here. And the only thing that comes out of here is what goes in here and here. And that's the reason we have to have the word of God to stand on. He quoted it. The late evangelist Billy Sunday said, I stand on the word of God alone. If it goes down, I go down with it. But until it goes down, I'll stand. So you have to stand on it, you have to receive it, believe it, and release it and live it out. It's up to us. We are the men. Don't give the place of leadership in your family to your wife. That's upside down. If you got a wish for bone, get you a backbone. And stand up and lead in love and truth. Love and truth. Amen? You're the leader. Don't be afraid to stoop and wash her feet. You do it every day by serving her. And then she will follow her. And so will the rest of your family. But we've got to be careful what we say because we're living.