WEBVTT 00:00:01.143 --> 00:00:02.107 Let's get into the Word. 00:00:02.107 --> 00:00:05.708 Tonight, as our custom, we just like to lift our Bibles up and wave them around. 00:00:05.708 --> 00:00:08.083 Make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:08.083 --> 00:00:09.026 Let's say this together. 00:00:09.026 --> 00:00:22.027 Let's say this heavenly Father, I've tuned into live stream because the life of God is in me and the faith of God is in me and my spirit needs spiritual food. 00:00:22.027 --> 00:00:38.932 So tonight I will hear the Word of God, my faith will be fed, my spirit will be nourished and I will be stirred in my spirit to do great things for you in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:40.299 --> 00:00:44.667 Let's turn in our Bibles to Psalm 77, and we'll start reading with verse 11. 00:00:44.667 --> 00:00:49.268 And it says I will remember the works of the Lord. 00:00:49.268 --> 00:00:52.890 Surely I will remember thy wonders of old. 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:57.484 I will meditate also of all thy work and talk of thy doings. 00:00:57.484 --> 00:01:03.426 Thy way, o, god is in the sanctuary, who is so great a God is our God. 00:01:03.426 --> 00:01:07.007 Thou art the God that doest wonders. 00:01:07.007 --> 00:01:10.468 Thou hast declared thy strength among the people. 00:01:10.468 --> 00:01:19.210 Thou hast, with thine arm, redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph Selah. 00:01:19.210 --> 00:01:23.188 And so a simple message, but profound. 00:01:23.188 --> 00:01:27.170 In the message title is remember his wonders. 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:31.188 Wonders, signs, wonders and miracles. 00:01:31.188 --> 00:01:32.825 That's the supernatural. 00:01:32.825 --> 00:01:36.049 The church should be sparkling with these. 00:01:36.049 --> 00:01:38.787 You know there never was an age of miracles. 00:01:38.787 --> 00:01:49.367 You have some old bed teaching theologians and so forth that try to sell you on the idea that the age of miracles is over now. 00:01:49.367 --> 00:01:51.305 There never was an age of miracles. 00:01:51.305 --> 00:01:56.605 There's a God of miracles and he's still doing the same thing yesterday, today and forever Hebrews 13, eight. 00:01:56.605 --> 00:01:59.927 And so he's still at work. 00:01:59.927 --> 00:02:12.449 Yet the church, he's using the church, he's the church is his vessel or his ambassador, and the church has to stir itself to remember his wonders so they can continue to walk in them. 00:02:12.449 --> 00:02:16.567 You know, whatever you forget, that's what you're gonna lose. 00:02:17.740 --> 00:02:20.328 Now I think about Psalm 78, the very next Psalm. 00:02:20.328 --> 00:02:23.340 Here it talks about just a terrible indictment of Israel. 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:29.158 It said that they forgot his wonders in Egypt and they limited the Holy one of Israel. 00:02:29.158 --> 00:02:35.301 You know they didn't see the kinds of wonders that they could have seen Now. 00:02:35.301 --> 00:02:41.216 They saw some great ones, but a lot of the wonders that they saw were corrective. 00:02:41.216 --> 00:02:47.274 A lot of the wonders they saw were God expressing his displeasure at their sin. 00:02:47.274 --> 00:03:03.932 So let's number ourselves among those who choose to remember his wonders, and when I'm talking about his wonders, I don't even certainly his wonders of old, what's in the Bible, but he's done wonders in your life. 00:03:03.932 --> 00:03:07.769 The greatest thing, I think the biggest wonder I've ever had, was that I was born again. 00:03:07.769 --> 00:03:09.449 I don't forget that. 00:03:09.449 --> 00:03:24.156 I remember it quite frequently and at this time of the year I usually retrench and I go away to pray which I did again last December of 2022, and to find out what God was saying about 2023. 00:03:24.156 --> 00:03:26.933 And he says 2023 is the year of God's power. 00:03:26.933 --> 00:03:35.894 I expect to see wonders, and I was going over some of the wonders that I've witnessed in this church and in my ministry. 00:03:37.284 --> 00:03:38.950 And let's look at Acts, chapter two. 00:03:38.950 --> 00:03:53.915 And it does good, does us good to keep this fresh and keep ourselves stirred up, because we are in a tide of lies and deception. 00:03:53.915 --> 00:04:05.216 Just, you know, the I mean I watched about two minutes of the state of the balloonian, I mean the state of the union dress last night. 00:04:05.216 --> 00:04:08.313 I mean just didn't recognize what he was talking about. 00:04:08.313 --> 00:04:14.069 I mean I was he talking about somebody at somebody other country fattening himself on the back? 00:04:14.069 --> 00:04:17.528 Acts, chapter two. 00:04:17.528 --> 00:04:19.312 We just need to hold on to the truth. 00:04:19.312 --> 00:04:21.790 Acts chapter two, verse 16. 00:04:23.605 --> 00:04:27.196 And this is Peter, on the day of Pentecost, preaching. 00:04:27.196 --> 00:04:31.572 And he said you know, they were wondering what all this was about. 00:04:31.572 --> 00:04:34.213 You know, they came out, they heard them speaking in tongues. 00:04:34.213 --> 00:04:39.567 He said but this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel and it shall come to pass. 00:04:39.567 --> 00:04:51.353 In the last days, seth God, I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions and your old men shall dream dreams. 00:04:51.353 --> 00:05:00.795 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out, in those days, of my spirit and they shall prophesy, and I will show wonders. 00:05:00.795 --> 00:05:10.952 I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs in the earth beneath, blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 00:05:10.952 --> 00:05:25.411 So on the day of Pentecost, which was really the beginning of the church, the beginning of the Holy Ghost taking up residence all over the earth, he's everywhere present and we're in the church age. 00:05:25.411 --> 00:05:28.814 That age is rapidly drawing to a close. 00:05:28.814 --> 00:05:34.615 There'll be a day when the church is taken off of the face of the earth, and it'll be a different time. 00:05:34.615 --> 00:05:38.331 They're a different age, but right now we live in that age. 00:05:38.331 --> 00:05:48.139 And so the prophet Joel, here at Peter, is quoting and he's saying this is the beginning of that. 00:05:48.139 --> 00:05:59.427 Amplified says this is the beginning of that which was prophesied by Joel, and so if this was the beginning of that, then we're coming into the culmination of that spoken by the prophet Joel. 00:05:59.427 --> 00:06:05.985 I will show wonders in the heavens, above signs, in the earth, beneath blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 00:06:07.420 --> 00:06:29.494 So in 1982, I hadn't been saved very long maybe a year and I had come out of a time of business reversal and God opened the door for us to travel as a family, and Glass and I and Jay and Claire traveled to Los Angeles. 00:06:29.494 --> 00:06:33.480 Actually, we were in Anaheim for the World Convention of Full Gospel Businessmen. 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:35.747 We were staying in a hotel there. 00:06:35.747 --> 00:06:49.620 Shuttle would take us to the meetings every day, and one evening, when we got back to the hotel room, it's probably 10 o'clock, the kids are in bed and Gladys is in bed and I just really was too wound up to sleep. 00:06:49.620 --> 00:06:54.060 I'm just so full of the words, so full of all these wonderful speakers. 00:06:54.060 --> 00:06:56.660 We had all the great speakers of the day. 00:06:56.660 --> 00:07:02.839 We had Pat Robertson and Kenneth Copeland and Paul Yonky-Choe, and I could go on and on. 00:07:03.060 --> 00:07:14.579 We just it was a tremendous convention people from all over the world there, and I stepped out of the room onto the balcony and looked up in that Southern California sky. 00:07:14.579 --> 00:07:18.490 Here we are in Anaheim and here's this blood moon. 00:07:18.490 --> 00:07:28.259 And I just start weeping because I was immediately reminded of these verses and I was looking at a blood moon and I just thought you know, god, this is a sign. 00:07:28.259 --> 00:07:34.370 Here we are, you know we're here and you're letting me know that we're living in a pivotal time. 00:07:34.370 --> 00:07:55.399 And so, and then, of course, just 22 years later, right down the street, you know, just a few miles down from there, is Newport Beach, where, in the future, oral Roberts retired and had his vision of the wake up call which we've been talking about recently. 00:07:55.480 --> 00:08:02.975 And Oral Roberts vision, you know, he heard the Lord say the church is not ready for the second coming, but out of that he's. 00:08:02.975 --> 00:08:12.800 Before that, he saw this huge cloud and he said I was reminded of the cloud in Acts, chapter two, and Joel, chapter three blood and fire and vapor of smoke. 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:27.620 It was a massive cloud over New York in his vision and it wasn't touching the ground, and then it spread up and down the Eastern seaboard and around the rest of the country and around the world. 00:08:27.620 --> 00:08:34.025 And then God spoke out of that cloud, out of that blood and fire and vapor, and fire and vapor of smoke. 00:08:34.025 --> 00:08:41.145 So another indication that we're in the culmination of the church age. 00:08:41.145 --> 00:08:46.431 See, these are wonders that we've experienced. 00:08:46.431 --> 00:08:54.328 Now, he experienced, and I interviewed him and so, by virtue of the fact that he was able to give that to me, I experienced and you've experienced it. 00:08:55.679 --> 00:09:08.138 So you know, you think about the blood, the redemptive revelation, the blood, I mean he's redeemed not only Israel, he's redeemed the church, he's redeemed you and I. 00:09:08.138 --> 00:09:15.778 We've been bought out of bondage and, of course, we've been given this authority, this mighty authority, in the name of Jesus. 00:09:15.778 --> 00:09:20.855 Jesus said the works that I do show you do also greater works than these I give you my name to use. 00:09:20.855 --> 00:09:22.975 Go into all the world. 00:09:22.975 --> 00:09:25.677 These signs will follow them. 00:09:25.677 --> 00:09:28.797 That believe Tells us what they'll be. 00:09:28.929 --> 00:09:37.278 So we have this tremendous authority and, of course, with authority comes responsibility, and I'm talking tonight about remember his wonders. 00:09:37.278 --> 00:09:44.854 I mean we need to keep remembering his wonders and letting the authority, the reality of that, each individual. 00:09:44.854 --> 00:09:49.833 It's not up to the pastors, not up to the ministry, it's up to every believer to carry that. 00:09:49.833 --> 00:09:52.278 So I'm talking about the responsibility. 00:09:52.278 --> 00:09:57.402 Now you know, we need to accept the responsibility that God gave us. 00:09:57.402 --> 00:10:00.455 There's no authority without responsibility, without accountability. 00:10:00.455 --> 00:10:05.900 And so the church is the true agent of the most high God. 00:10:05.900 --> 00:10:09.600 If they're gonna be wonders, it's gonna be through the church. 00:10:09.710 --> 00:10:13.640 The church has to be excited about releasing these. 00:10:13.640 --> 00:10:17.398 You know what and that I mentioned this recently. 00:10:17.398 --> 00:10:31.996 But when I was interviewing Dr Roberts and he was talking to me, he prophesied over me and prophesied over this church and he said you know, you're going to have things in your services and your church that's going to startle people. 00:10:31.996 --> 00:10:36.198 What happens when you're startled? 00:10:36.198 --> 00:10:38.638 You go, you know you catch your breath. 00:10:38.638 --> 00:10:40.634 That's what a wonder will do. 00:10:40.634 --> 00:10:41.578 We've had some of those. 00:10:41.578 --> 00:10:42.736 We're gonna have more of those. 00:10:42.870 --> 00:10:55.317 I'm stirring you up tonight, I'm stirring myself up tonight by remembering, by way of remembering his wonders, not only these, these are the main ones, but we have others that we have experienced. 00:10:55.317 --> 00:11:00.320 And so blood and fire. 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:05.282 The fire burns away the hindrances and the infirmities. 00:11:05.282 --> 00:11:11.245 It brings a light where we can walk and see without stumbling. 00:11:11.245 --> 00:11:15.822 It brings a tempering so that we can hold a sharp edge. 00:11:15.822 --> 00:11:20.052 You know that's what you use when you temper a knife blade or a sword. 00:11:20.052 --> 00:11:29.681 It has to be heat treated so that it will continue to cut and the passion, the fire of God on the church. 00:11:29.681 --> 00:11:30.813 We need more fire. 00:11:30.813 --> 00:11:39.080 People need to be more excited about Jesus, visibly and demonstration wise. 00:11:39.080 --> 00:11:43.875 So, blood and fire, vapor of smoke, which to me, that's the glory. 00:11:43.875 --> 00:11:46.153 That's the glory. 00:11:48.230 --> 00:12:04.193 You know, dr Ed DeFrain is in heaven now, but he used to come to the church and he had a similar visitation in 1999 of mine that I had that same year, where God said to him God's raising up the word in spirit. 00:12:04.193 --> 00:12:06.953 Churches Say why, for what? 00:12:06.953 --> 00:12:08.635 Well, we're to take the lead. 00:12:08.635 --> 00:12:17.561 We're to take the lead in this end time revival, we're taking the lead on manifesting these wonders, signs and wonders. 00:12:17.561 --> 00:12:33.278 And so in Acts two let's keep reading here he's still preaching to this group and a bunch of them got saved 3,000 men got saved that day. 00:12:33.278 --> 00:12:46.416 And therefore, by the right verse 33, therefore being by the right hand of God, exalted, and having received to the father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which you now see in here. 00:12:46.416 --> 00:12:55.181 He has shed forth that, this, this, what, this wonder, this the beginning. 00:12:55.181 --> 00:12:58.077 This is the beginning of that spoken by the prophet Joel. 00:12:58.077 --> 00:13:03.991 His blood has been shed, the Holy Ghost has been poured out, amen. 00:13:03.991 --> 00:13:08.821 And so when I think about the blood and the spirit together. 00:13:10.230 --> 00:13:12.037 I think about the Levitical priesthood. 00:13:12.037 --> 00:13:25.659 You know, whenever they had to dedicate the priests, they had a right or a ceremony of dedication where the blood of the ram of consecration was shed. 00:13:25.659 --> 00:13:47.022 They would kill the ram and take his blood and place it upon the right ear of the priest and then the right thumb and the right great toe, and the blood would be on the on their. 00:13:47.022 --> 00:14:01.205 You know, they would put that blood on their, on those three areas, and then the anointing oil was sprinkled upon them and they were then set into their office where they were anointed. 00:14:01.205 --> 00:14:05.995 Well, the Bible, jesus, said we're all kings and priests under God. 00:14:06.725 --> 00:14:13.345 See, it's not just me, not just the minister, not just the pastor, not just the five fold ministry, but the whole church. 00:14:13.345 --> 00:14:17.802 We are, we are, we have the believers ministry, we're a priest. 00:14:17.802 --> 00:14:18.565 And what is a priest? 00:14:18.565 --> 00:14:22.431 A priest represents God, the man and man to God, where the go between. 00:14:22.431 --> 00:14:24.205 Well, I thought there was only one Jesus. 00:14:24.205 --> 00:14:27.404 I know we're, we're Jesus, we're one with him. 00:14:27.404 --> 00:14:35.534 I think you got the idea, you got the idea and he's sharing that ministry with us and as such, then we have this. 00:14:36.158 --> 00:14:39.773 This blood has gone and cleansed us, and the blood always. 00:14:39.773 --> 00:14:45.033 You know, if the anointing is to come, it only goes where the blood is flowed. 00:14:45.033 --> 00:14:49.205 And so we've got to realize that the blood has been shed for us. 00:14:49.205 --> 00:14:50.403 That makes us worthy. 00:14:50.403 --> 00:14:54.096 We're not worthy of ourselves, but the blood made us worthy. 00:14:54.096 --> 00:14:58.996 It's not our education, it's not what we know, it's who we know. 00:14:58.996 --> 00:15:07.875 And so the anointing can only come on on those who whom the blood has cleansed. 00:15:07.875 --> 00:15:24.110 And so, as they remembered the ordinances of the blood and the oil, they were able to stand in the glory, they were able to minister in the glory, in the, in the cloud, the vapor of smoke. 00:15:24.110 --> 00:15:37.312 And I just really believe, here in the last days, we're gonna, we're gonna see more of that manifested glory If we'll just stir ourselves up to believe and to remember his wonders. 00:15:37.312 --> 00:15:43.965 Let's look at Acts five here, talking about the early church, and see, this is the beginning of that. 00:15:43.965 --> 00:15:46.264 So we're living in the culmination of that reason. 00:15:46.488 --> 00:15:51.655 I'm preaching this tonight a little bit, just, just, just enough to kind of make you thirsty and for more. 00:15:51.655 --> 00:15:54.792 We need to keep this in front of you. 00:15:54.792 --> 00:16:07.913 I need to keep it in front of myself, for by myself, in Acts, chapter five, verse 12, and by the hands of the apostles, were many signs and wonders wrought among the people. 00:16:07.913 --> 00:16:12.086 Say, not just occasionally, not just for you, to you. 00:16:12.086 --> 00:16:17.931 Many, many signs and wonders were wrought among the people. 00:16:17.931 --> 00:16:21.494 They were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. 00:16:21.494 --> 00:16:25.572 Many signs and wonders were wrought. 00:16:25.572 --> 00:16:28.312 And you skip down to verse 32. 00:16:33.606 --> 00:16:44.832 And he's talking about Jesus and all that Jesus had done, and he's preaching to those Jews, you know, and bunch of them got, you know. 00:16:44.832 --> 00:16:54.672 They were confronted with their unbelief and he said and we are witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost whom God have given to them that obey him. 00:16:54.672 --> 00:16:55.508 We are witnesses. 00:16:55.508 --> 00:16:58.032 So we are witnesses with evidence. 00:16:58.032 --> 00:17:01.171 See, the evidence is the wonders, the evidence is the miracles. 00:17:01.171 --> 00:17:05.876 The evidence is, you know, they don't always respond. 00:17:05.876 --> 00:17:11.627 This group here didn't respond to the wonders, but they'll never be able to stand before God and say they didn't know. 00:17:11.627 --> 00:17:23.472 So God is looking for a supernatural witness, not just a witness of words alone, but he's looking for a church that will rise up and manifest signs and wonders and miracles. 00:17:23.472 --> 00:17:33.684 And I don't suggest that everybody that experiences it is gonna necessarily get saved, but at least they will be brought to a place of decision. 00:17:33.826 --> 00:17:39.765 I know that's what happened in my life, when I was brought to a place where I could not deny the miracle action of God. 00:17:39.765 --> 00:17:40.904 I knew it was Jesus. 00:17:40.904 --> 00:17:42.284 I knew it was God. 00:17:42.284 --> 00:17:45.884 I could no longer sit on the sideline and participate in religion. 00:17:45.884 --> 00:17:50.171 I had to give my heart to Jesus and I did, thank God. 00:17:50.171 --> 00:17:55.045 I did so as the apostles remembered his wonders. 00:17:55.045 --> 00:17:56.692 They walked in them. 00:17:56.692 --> 00:17:58.325 They walked in them. 00:17:58.325 --> 00:18:01.721 So we've been cleansed by the blood, we've been anointed by the Holy Ghost. 00:18:01.721 --> 00:18:08.682 Let's remember his wonders so that we can walk, and more of them here in 2023. 00:18:08.702 --> 00:18:10.605 Praise God, let's lift our hands and receive. 00:18:10.605 --> 00:18:17.096 Father, we thank you for the wonders that you have granted, that you have shed forth this which we see and know. 00:18:17.096 --> 00:18:19.424 And, father, we just remind ourselves. 00:18:19.424 --> 00:18:22.365 We're not gonna forget the wonders in the Bible. 00:18:22.365 --> 00:18:41.785 We're not gonna forget the wonders in our lives, especially the wonder of the new birth, the wonder of the fact that we've been baptized in the Holy Ghost, the wonder of being able to speak in tongues, the wonder of being able to lay hands on the sick and they recover, the wonder of being able to cast out demons, the wonder of a supernatural ministry. 00:18:41.785 --> 00:18:42.729 Praise God. 00:18:42.729 --> 00:18:43.172 Praise God. 00:18:43.172 --> 00:18:46.981 We will not forget, we will remember. 00:18:46.981 --> 00:18:49.785 Amen, amen, praise God. 00:18:49.785 --> 00:18:53.335 All right, well, I hope it blessed you, bless me. 00:18:53.335 --> 00:18:54.079 Just to bring it to. 00:18:54.079 --> 00:19:04.118 I've been doing this and I get excited when I go back and look at all the wonders that God has done to get to our church, gloria's Way Church, to its point in time right now. 00:19:04.118 --> 00:19:06.300 He's done wonder after wonder. 00:19:06.300 --> 00:19:08.710 He's done wonder after wonder. 00:19:08.710 --> 00:19:11.857 He's been faithful all these years.