WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.427 Pick our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:03.882 --> 00:00:04.306 Amen. 00:00:04.306 --> 00:00:05.480 Say this together. 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:10.445 Say, Heavenly Father, I have an appointment with a Holy Ghost tonight. 00:00:10.445 --> 00:00:15.625 Holy Spirit, shine your light, illuminate my spirit. 00:00:15.625 --> 00:00:21.211 Let me see the Word of God and how it applies to me. 00:00:21.211 --> 00:00:25.285 I want to grow, I want to change. 00:00:25.285 --> 00:00:27.786 I want to go from strength to strength. 00:00:27.786 --> 00:00:30.527 I want to go from faith to faith. 00:00:30.527 --> 00:00:38.554 I'm moving from glory to glory in Jesus' name, amen, amen. 00:00:38.759 --> 00:00:39.624 Acts, chapter 20. 00:00:39.624 --> 00:00:42.027 Tonight let's start reading in verse 17. 00:00:42.027 --> 00:00:44.622 And this is Paul. 00:00:44.622 --> 00:01:33.745 And from Meletus he sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church, and when they were come to him, he said unto them you know from the first day that I came into Asia after what manner I have been with you at all seasons, serving the Lord with all humility of mind and with many tears and temptations which befell me by the lying and weight of the Jews, and how I kept back nothing that was profitable under you, but have showed you and have taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, that is, the Gentiles, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:01:33.745 --> 00:01:37.248 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit. 00:01:37.248 --> 00:01:39.027 Keep that phrase in mind. 00:01:39.027 --> 00:01:54.165 I go bound in the spirit under Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying that both bonds and afflictions abide me or wait for me. 00:01:54.165 --> 00:01:58.587 My margin says it waits for him, but none of these things move me. 00:01:58.587 --> 00:02:11.489 Neither count on my life, dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received to the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God. 00:02:11.489 --> 00:02:20.348 And now, behold, I know that you all among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. 00:02:20.348 --> 00:02:31.447 And so tonight, here in verse 23, it says save that the Holy Ghost witnesses in every city, saying bonds and afflictions wait for me. 00:02:31.447 --> 00:02:35.909 That word witness in the NIV it says it means to warn. 00:02:35.909 --> 00:02:41.006 The Holy Ghost warns me in every city that bonds and afflictions await. 00:02:41.006 --> 00:02:44.967 And so tonight I wanted to talk about Holy Ghost warnings. 00:02:46.250 --> 00:02:47.151 Holy Ghost warnings. 00:02:47.151 --> 00:02:50.283 You know the Holy Ghost is inside of us and He'll warn us. 00:02:50.283 --> 00:02:55.390 And warnings prepares for what's coming, what's ahead. 00:02:55.390 --> 00:03:00.109 And when you heed the warning, grace is released. 00:03:00.109 --> 00:03:02.245 That's the, it's key. 00:03:02.245 --> 00:03:06.610 And when God, the Holy Spirit warns you of something. 00:03:06.610 --> 00:03:19.308 Instead of being fearful, you heed the warning, begin to pray and ask for what action to take as a result of the warning, and when you do that, grace is released to protect you. 00:03:20.840 --> 00:03:33.824 You know, in John 16, 33, jesus said the Holy Ghost guides us into all truth and he shows us things to come, and you don't have to be a prophet to have that kind of guidance. 00:03:33.824 --> 00:03:35.862 You don't have to have. 00:03:35.862 --> 00:03:37.048 You don't have to be a prophet. 00:03:37.048 --> 00:03:45.643 You, every believer, has the Holy Spirit, and this dispensation or this gift of the Spirit is available. 00:03:45.643 --> 00:03:49.887 It's not even really like a word of knowledge, it's just the Spirit of God doing what he does. 00:03:49.887 --> 00:03:57.131 He warns, he warns you, and so, and also sometimes he uses others to warn us. 00:03:57.131 --> 00:04:06.921 You know, sometimes you know, if we're not listening and it's important enough God will have somebody go and warn you. 00:04:06.921 --> 00:04:11.663 If you're not listening, or if you're unable to hear, you know. 00:04:11.802 --> 00:04:15.010 And so let's continue here in Acts 20, in verse 26. 00:04:15.010 --> 00:04:30.588 Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men, and so for I have not shunned to declare unto you the count of the whole council of God. 00:04:30.588 --> 00:04:42.286 Take heed, therefore, under yourselves and all the flock, over the witch, the Holy Ghost, that made you overseers To feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood. 00:04:42.286 --> 00:04:56.088 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves entering among you, not sparing the flock, and of your own self shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them. 00:04:56.088 --> 00:05:05.372 Therefore, watch and remember that, by the space of three years, I cease not to warn everyone, night and day, with tears. 00:05:05.372 --> 00:05:14.935 And Now, brethren, I commend you to God into the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among those who are sanctified. 00:05:17.158 --> 00:05:23.569 And so Paul is warning the ministers, these elders, their pastors, their teachers. 00:05:23.569 --> 00:05:26.314 They're the heads of the church at Ephesus. 00:05:26.314 --> 00:05:38.387 And he said I've been warning you for three years, night and day, and, and he's talking about wolves from the outside and perversity coming up from the inside. 00:05:38.387 --> 00:05:50.199 Well, when he said that If I had been one of those ministers, I would have fell on my face and repented right there, oh, oh, paul, you're talking about me. 00:05:50.199 --> 00:05:52.644 I'm one, you mean, out of this group. 00:05:52.644 --> 00:05:53.146 There's gonna come. 00:05:53.146 --> 00:05:54.127 There's gonna come. 00:05:54.127 --> 00:06:03.641 Perverse, twisted words are gonna make merchandise out of these precious sheep, oh, oh, whatever you see in me, I repent. 00:06:03.641 --> 00:06:05.285 Show me what I can do. 00:06:05.285 --> 00:06:19.954 You know, there was no record of anybody repenting, and If they had prepented, there would have been a grace released to avert disaster, and not only would their ministries have been salvaged, but so should with the saints at Ephesus. 00:06:21.382 --> 00:06:23.535 I mean, ephesus is nothing now they this a Muslim area. 00:06:23.535 --> 00:06:29.432 There's, no, there's no, nothing left of Christianity in that area. 00:06:29.432 --> 00:06:29.954 Turkey, it's all in turkey. 00:06:29.954 --> 00:06:35.468 And look at turkey, it's, it's one of the most violent Muslim nations. 00:06:35.468 --> 00:06:38.973 Erdogan is the Ruler there, the dictator. 00:06:38.973 --> 00:06:39.194 He is a. 00:06:39.194 --> 00:06:40.547 He's terrible. 00:06:43.603 --> 00:06:45.692 So but notice what Paul said. 00:06:45.692 --> 00:06:51.482 He said I'm pure, I'm, I'm guiltless from the blood of all men. 00:06:51.482 --> 00:06:53.326 In other words, I've done my job. 00:06:53.326 --> 00:06:55.331 I warned you, you're it. 00:06:55.331 --> 00:06:58.454 You ever play, you know, you ever play that game, you're it? 00:06:58.454 --> 00:07:04.934 Well, I mean, he just transferred all responsibility because he warned them. 00:07:04.934 --> 00:07:08.942 He was a man, he warned them, he had been warning them and this was his final warning. 00:07:08.942 --> 00:07:16.617 And there's no record here of anyone heeding the warning, no record of anyone repenting. 00:07:16.617 --> 00:07:26.625 And so we, this acts 27, talking about Holy Ghost warnings. 00:07:27.507 --> 00:07:32.781 One of my great Examples of that is Paul. 00:07:32.781 --> 00:07:36.853 You know he's about to go on this voyage to Rome. 00:07:36.853 --> 00:07:43.386 And the Bible says that he came to the owner of the ship and the centurion. 00:07:43.386 --> 00:07:56.521 He says I perceive that this voyage will be with much hurt, not only of our lives, but of the, not only of the lading of the ship, but of our lives, and so I urge you not to sail at this time. 00:07:56.521 --> 00:08:00.009 And of course they did not heed the warning. 00:08:00.009 --> 00:08:11.610 But because Paul obeyed God and warned them, grace was released To preserve all them that sail with you. 00:08:11.610 --> 00:08:16.795 Know, that's what the angel told Paul when it was worse, it was the worst part of the voyage. 00:08:16.795 --> 00:08:21.745 I mean, it was all hope had a vanished and they all thought they were doomed. 00:08:21.745 --> 00:08:30.007 And the angel Appeared to Paul in the middle of that storm and says you know, god has given them, all of them that sail with they. 00:08:30.007 --> 00:08:34.798 They, they thought that Paul was sailing with them, but no, god. 00:08:34.798 --> 00:08:37.414 God added it up that they were sailing with Paul. 00:08:37.414 --> 00:08:43.148 And so God's grace was released because the man of God heeded the warning. 00:08:43.876 --> 00:08:45.120 I want to make a point here. 00:08:45.120 --> 00:08:49.779 Notice that Paul said I perceive we pastor, I thought that this was a Holy Ghost warning. 00:08:49.779 --> 00:08:53.772 Well, his spirit picked up the warning from the Holy Ghost. 00:08:53.772 --> 00:08:59.097 Now he could have said this, like a lot of Christians would have said this. 00:08:59.097 --> 00:09:08.355 A lot of preachers would have said this Mr Owner of the ship, the Sathalord, god tells you that better not say you're going to be destroyed. 00:09:08.355 --> 00:09:10.654 No, he didn't use God's name. 00:09:10.654 --> 00:09:12.355 He didn't say he heard from God. 00:09:12.355 --> 00:09:19.139 He said I perceive, you know you have to be careful telling people when God speaks to you. 00:09:19.139 --> 00:09:20.461 You go and tell somebody. 00:09:20.461 --> 00:09:21.267 God told you. 00:09:21.267 --> 00:09:24.980 They look at you like you're nuts, they're not going to receive you. 00:09:24.980 --> 00:09:26.039 Most people won't. 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.182 They just chalk you up to a flaco. 00:09:29.182 --> 00:09:32.621 So it's better to use the word I perceive. 00:09:32.621 --> 00:09:34.759 And that's what he did. 00:09:34.759 --> 00:09:37.861 It's still the Holy Spirit warning. 00:09:39.416 --> 00:09:43.376 And then in Luke 22, verses 31 through 34, we don't have to go there. 00:09:43.376 --> 00:09:45.730 But Jesus warned Peter. 00:09:45.730 --> 00:09:47.139 You know Peter was kind of bracing. 00:09:47.139 --> 00:09:48.528 Oh no, everybody leave you. 00:09:48.528 --> 00:09:50.360 I won't leave you, I won't leave you. 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:52.361 This is the night before the crucifixion. 00:09:52.361 --> 00:09:58.394 And Jesus said hey, before the cock crows, you're going to deny me three times. 00:09:58.394 --> 00:10:01.216 Come on, you know. 00:10:02.783 --> 00:10:05.114 Nevertheless, I have prayed for you know. 00:10:05.114 --> 00:10:07.706 Satan has desired to shift you, as we. 00:10:07.706 --> 00:10:11.581 But I have prayed for you that your faith fail not. 00:10:11.581 --> 00:10:16.576 And when our art converted, you know, encourage your brethren. 00:10:16.576 --> 00:10:31.315 And so I have to believe that when Jesus warned him what was going to happen ahead of time and it happened, just like Jesus said he did deny the Lord and he went out and wept bitterly and I'm sure it was real hard for him to forgive himself. 00:10:31.315 --> 00:10:36.575 He was so ashamed, he was so let down at his betrayal of the Lord. 00:10:36.575 --> 00:10:42.315 He didn't want to do it, just under pressure he snapped and he denied the Lord. 00:10:42.315 --> 00:10:46.855 And yet I'm sure he remembered what Jesus said. 00:10:46.855 --> 00:10:48.246 He said I prayed for that. 00:10:48.246 --> 00:10:53.154 Your faith, fail not and when you're converted, encourage the brethren. 00:10:53.154 --> 00:11:05.235 So you know, in Jesus after his resurrection he insured him again and so he recovered from that because of that Holy Ghost warning in the person of Jesus, you know. 00:11:06.621 --> 00:11:09.394 And so thank God for the Holy Ghost. 00:11:09.394 --> 00:11:12.976 He loves to warn us and remember. 00:11:12.976 --> 00:11:15.195 The warning is not to strike fear in our heart. 00:11:15.195 --> 00:11:25.682 The warning is for us to prepare for something that's going to happen and to allow grace to be released over us for us to overcome whatever happens to us. 00:11:25.682 --> 00:11:41.554 You know I have so many examples of God warning me of things to come, and you know one that you hear me talk about a lot because it's kind of close to the anniversary. 00:11:41.715 --> 00:11:48.774 It's the 22nd anniversary of God waking me up one morning and telling me to wake up the church. 00:11:48.774 --> 00:11:49.577 He warned me. 00:11:49.577 --> 00:11:57.341 The church was asleep, they're sleeping their beds with the poor covers pulled over their head, and when I speak, they think it's the devil. 00:11:57.341 --> 00:12:00.514 There's a lot of people think what I'm doing is the devil. 00:12:00.514 --> 00:12:07.259 You know, when we opened up on Palm Sunday a year ago, a lot of people thought we were the devil. 00:12:07.259 --> 00:12:14.364 Oh, you selfish thing, you're so dangerous, you're causing people's deaths. 00:12:14.364 --> 00:12:19.063 Well, they were just so unnerved that we opened up. 00:12:19.063 --> 00:12:23.443 And the fact of the matter is, you need to wake up the church. 00:12:23.443 --> 00:12:28.860 You shouldn't be obeying governments, all of the government command. 00:12:28.860 --> 00:12:30.736 Some of them are worthy of rebelling. 00:12:30.736 --> 00:12:36.245 So that was March the first, 1999, 22 years ago. 00:12:37.034 --> 00:12:42.914 And then in December of 03, there's a dearth of the word and I took it so seriously. 00:12:42.914 --> 00:12:44.601 I had a meeting with our children church. 00:12:44.601 --> 00:12:56.102 I had some children church teachers and we had, I remember, a couple of men teaching children church and they were good teachers, but they were, I kept hearing, oh so and so is the favorite, so and so is the favorite. 00:12:56.102 --> 00:12:58.163 And I heard about some competition going on. 00:12:58.163 --> 00:13:06.703 One would buy pizza and other would buy candy, and we had complaints from parents They've spoiled them, the children's you know all of that. 00:13:06.703 --> 00:13:10.979 And then I had this word dearth of the word your children don't know what you know. 00:13:10.979 --> 00:13:12.783 This is an. 00:13:12.783 --> 00:13:13.794 This is an old three. 00:13:13.794 --> 00:13:16.221 This is 18 years ago. 00:13:16.221 --> 00:13:21.294 18 years ago and he spoke to me. 00:13:21.294 --> 00:13:23.222 He said your children don't know what you know. 00:13:23.335 --> 00:13:33.379 So my immediate uh uh, yielding to this warning was to make sure our children were taught the word in children church. 00:13:33.379 --> 00:13:42.508 So I had a meeting and Claire and I we got up in front of all the people and we said okay, we're going to teach the word, we're going to get these kids need. 00:13:42.508 --> 00:13:46.090 They need more than pizza and toys and candy. 00:13:46.090 --> 00:13:47.323 They need the word. 00:13:47.323 --> 00:13:50.547 And I want these children to know what the word says about everything. 00:13:50.547 --> 00:13:52.988 We need to teach the word on their level. 00:13:52.988 --> 00:13:54.626 And two of those men left the church. 00:13:54.626 --> 00:13:55.905 They didn't like what I did. 00:13:55.905 --> 00:14:06.106 They wanted to keep doing their thing, and so I found out that not everybody wants to wake up, not everybody wants to do what God said to do. 00:14:06.106 --> 00:14:17.544 But over the years, you know, we've responded to that word and we're living in those days where it's obvious now that there's a more than a generational gap in Bible knowledge. 00:14:17.544 --> 00:14:28.524 I remember a few years after that, I think the next year, I was praying and God spoke to me. 00:14:28.524 --> 00:14:31.168 He said Pope John Paul was a pope at that time. 00:14:31.340 --> 00:14:35.043 He was a very popular pope, seemed to be a good man. 00:14:35.043 --> 00:14:37.306 Some people thought he was spirit filled. 00:14:37.306 --> 00:14:38.149 I can't comment. 00:14:38.149 --> 00:14:52.740 I don't know if he was or not, but the Holy Spirit put in my heart Pope John Paul's about to die and the next pope is who was? 00:14:52.740 --> 00:14:59.179 Benedict is not going to last very long and the pope after him is going to be anti-Semitic. 00:14:59.179 --> 00:15:07.740 Well, when you go back now, benedict didn't last but a few years and he was the first pope in 600 years to resign. 00:15:07.740 --> 00:15:09.451 Most popes die. 00:15:09.451 --> 00:15:11.600 He didn't die, he resigned. 00:15:11.600 --> 00:15:13.648 It was historic. 00:15:13.648 --> 00:15:21.779 And they voted in the guy that you have now, francis, who is a Marxist and he is anti-Semitic. 00:15:22.363 --> 00:15:33.128 One of his earliest visits to Israel was to talk out of both sides of his mouth and he said to the leader I forget who was the leader at that time. 00:15:33.128 --> 00:15:36.159 I think it was Netanyahu, but I'm not positive. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:45.000 Then he goes over to some where the retaining wall is to keep the bus bombers out of Jerusalem, they built a wall. 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.964 It works. 00:15:45.964 --> 00:15:48.620 They built a wall and it works. 00:15:48.620 --> 00:15:53.019 He went and laid a prayer there for that wall to come down. 00:15:53.019 --> 00:15:58.052 Well, that wall coming down means Jesus are gonna die Anti-Semitic. 00:15:58.052 --> 00:16:01.500 And so why would God say that? 00:16:01.500 --> 00:16:05.149 Well, because God is preparing us for the end days. 00:16:05.149 --> 00:16:06.292 Amen. 00:16:06.292 --> 00:16:13.488 And then I'm just giving you some Holy Ghost warnings that we've received over the years. 00:16:15.241 --> 00:16:18.551 I went to pray again in April of 09. 00:16:18.551 --> 00:16:22.679 Obama was president and I had a real urge to pray. 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:24.799 I mean, this time I was called away to pray. 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:28.779 I woke up that morning with an urgency to get to Galveston. 00:16:28.779 --> 00:16:30.099 I didn't even have reservations. 00:16:30.099 --> 00:16:37.320 I walked in the hotel without any reservations and God warned me of terrorist attacks. 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:47.320 He said there's gonna be five cities that are gonna have terrorist attacks in America and if you will pray, houston and Texas will be spared. 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:52.509 So we began to pray and cry against terrorism and everything hidden. 00:16:52.509 --> 00:16:53.759 Come to the light. 00:16:53.759 --> 00:17:04.299 And we began to pray this and make this declaration Houston is a safe and prosperous city and God protects her from all her enemies. 00:17:04.299 --> 00:17:11.816 And I didn't even pray, I just began to say, I began to, began to proclaim over the city way back in 09. 00:17:11.816 --> 00:17:15.556 It's been now what? 00:17:15.556 --> 00:17:15.958 12 years ago? 00:17:15.958 --> 00:17:18.977 It's hard to believe it's been that just 12 years ago. 00:17:19.602 --> 00:17:21.897 And then so there were several of them. 00:17:21.897 --> 00:17:32.799 These attacks were diffused before they happened, one in New York, another one that had a printer cartridge discovered before they could fly over the water. 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:39.920 The plane would have blown up over the water, they discovered a printer cartridge, it was a bomb, and so forth and so on. 00:17:39.920 --> 00:17:46.819 But then the one that was terrible was Fort Hood, and that's in Texas, but it's not on Texas soil. 00:17:46.819 --> 00:17:50.258 Somebody said oh, pastor, you did, that was not what your word said. 00:17:50.258 --> 00:17:51.919 It said Texas would be protected. 00:17:51.919 --> 00:17:53.875 Well, fort Hood is not Texas. 00:17:53.875 --> 00:17:55.522 Fort Hood is not Texas. 00:17:55.522 --> 00:18:01.378 Fort Hood is federal property and so it technically was not Texas. 00:18:02.410 --> 00:18:11.078 Obama called it a workplace violence Because if he had called it what it was, it was a terrorist attack. 00:18:11.078 --> 00:18:19.555 It was a Muslim psychiatrist, a doctor, who went haywire and he never was punished. 00:18:19.555 --> 00:18:21.156 He went to some mental institution. 00:18:21.156 --> 00:18:24.380 Well, he belongs in the death penalty. 00:18:24.380 --> 00:18:33.194 I mean, he killed soldiers on our base, and that's how much regard Obama has for our soldiers and Democrats in general. 00:18:33.194 --> 00:18:38.930 So why, pastor, you're saying all these things? 00:18:38.930 --> 00:18:44.935 Because God wants this church to be on the forefront of knowing what's coming and praying against it. 00:18:44.935 --> 00:18:45.596 Amen. 00:18:47.172 --> 00:18:49.289 And one more dramatic one. 00:18:49.289 --> 00:18:51.856 This is one of the most dramatic ones I think I've ever had. 00:18:51.856 --> 00:19:21.234 It was Labor Day weekend, 2012, nine years ago, and Gladys and I went to Galveston to rest that weekend and someone else was preaching for me that day which is a rare Sunday for me to miss and it was Saturday night and I heard this ruckus outside the hotel window and I looked out it was a sand louis. 00:19:21.234 --> 00:19:43.255 We stayed in the sand louis and the sand louis has a big yard in the front, big grass spot and a helicopter, a life flight helicopter landed in the yard of the hotel and I looked at the clock and it was 9-11. 00:19:43.255 --> 00:19:50.275 I mean, the Holy Ghost knows how to do things Kind of dramatic fashion. 00:19:50.275 --> 00:19:52.556 And it was not anything. 00:19:52.556 --> 00:19:56.797 The helicopter that wasn't significant because there wasn't any death or anything. 00:19:56.797 --> 00:19:59.377 It was just kind of a false alarm, as I found out. 00:19:59.377 --> 00:20:07.406 But the fact that it happened let me know that we're still vulnerable to 9-11 type attacks. 00:20:07.406 --> 00:20:12.644 In those years, again, obama had just been reelected, or yeah? 00:20:12.644 --> 00:20:14.390 No, it was about to be reelected, I guess. 00:20:14.390 --> 00:20:18.690 Yeah, two months later he was elected for his second term. 00:20:18.690 --> 00:20:21.807 So still vulnerable to terror attacks. 00:20:22.882 --> 00:20:26.049 Don't let up on praying over your nation. 00:20:26.049 --> 00:20:29.640 Come on, let's just lift our hands. 00:20:29.640 --> 00:20:32.982 Father, we thank you that every time we heed a warning, the race is released. 00:20:32.982 --> 00:20:41.990 Supernatural power is released to not only protect us, but protect those that we pray for, hallelujah. 00:20:41.990 --> 00:20:57.723 I just think about how God is so wonderful and remember I ask you to keep in mind what Paul said about I go bound in the spirit, and these are things I heard Billy Brim teach on this years ago. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.846 She's bound in the spirit about Israel. 00:20:59.846 --> 00:21:03.711 She's bound in the spirit to be a witness of the end days. 00:21:03.711 --> 00:21:05.425 That's something that she is just. 00:21:05.425 --> 00:21:07.286 You can't beat it out of her. 00:21:07.286 --> 00:21:11.711 It happened supernaturally that she was connected to Israel. 00:21:11.711 --> 00:21:18.109 She never had that in her mind to do earlier and now it's just a vital part of her ministry. 00:21:18.109 --> 00:21:20.146 Well, this is a vital part of our ministry. 00:21:20.146 --> 00:21:23.087 I'm bound in the spirit about these warnings. 00:21:23.087 --> 00:21:28.085 I'm bound in the spirit to stand in the office where I have utterance. 00:21:28.085 --> 00:21:39.144 I'm speaking right now and there's an utterance that comes from the office I stand in and it's seeking people to hear what I'm saying, and I don't know. 00:21:39.704 --> 00:21:48.627 We have a lot more people watching that are not necessarily members of our church or people all over the country watching, and just be warned that we're not over. 00:21:48.627 --> 00:21:52.411 We're importing terrorists right now over our southern border. 00:21:52.411 --> 00:22:12.188 They're coming in, they're coming into our border and they're not being counted, they're not being turned back, they're not being registered, they're just being disseminated all through our country and it's hard to believe that our government leaders are doing this to our country, but they are. 00:22:12.188 --> 00:22:16.184 So we have to keep praying Amen. 00:22:16.184 --> 00:22:20.229 Well, pastor, but I'm not a pastor and I'm not a minister. 00:22:20.229 --> 00:22:23.143 Well, I know, but the Holy Ghost can still warn you about your life. 00:22:24.240 --> 00:22:26.167 I mean, I like to tell about Jay. 00:22:26.167 --> 00:22:40.285 You know he was just six years old and he and his little buddy, chris Hartonbuck Sometimes Chris watches, likes my posts on my Facebook page that Chris was, lived down the street and they were buds and they'd ride bikes together. 00:22:40.285 --> 00:22:47.724 And one day, you know, he rode his bike with Chris down the into the subdivision. 00:22:47.724 --> 00:22:55.828 They left their bikes down, they started walking down this pathway into the woods and Jay said the Holy Ghost told me there's a snake. 00:22:55.828 --> 00:23:01.605 And I started looking and we walked a little while longer and here's this big snake. 00:23:01.605 --> 00:23:03.627 Dad it had, it was crawled up. 00:23:03.627 --> 00:23:04.885 It was real fat in the middle. 00:23:04.885 --> 00:23:10.009 It wasn't very long but it was filled fat in the middle and it opened its mouth and it had white. 00:23:10.009 --> 00:23:11.384 It had a white mouth. 00:23:11.384 --> 00:23:13.006 I said you had caught a mouth, markison. 00:23:13.006 --> 00:23:20.968 I'm so glad you were warned, because they would have stepped right in the middle of that snake and it just camouflages so well. 00:23:20.968 --> 00:23:28.509 And they are nasty, they're poisonous, and so the Holy Ghost warned my son. 00:23:28.509 --> 00:23:31.086 I mean things like that. 00:23:32.279 --> 00:23:39.028 This this last morning I'll give you this is a person having to warn me and it happened to be a pastor Osteen. 00:23:39.028 --> 00:23:44.269 We had been going there a few months and we were there full time. 00:23:44.269 --> 00:23:50.324 I'd left the Catholic church, we were tithing and giving and we were blessing brother Osteen personally. 00:23:50.324 --> 00:23:58.811 Most of the time he had four boxes on the envelope Pastor Osteen, missions, general fund and building fund. 00:23:58.811 --> 00:24:14.288 So we all, almost every time we tied and gave offerings, we would check, sometimes check brother Osteen's box alone and then sometimes in combination with something else, and we always get a thank you note from Dodie. 00:24:14.288 --> 00:24:15.704 She'd write a thank you note. 00:24:15.704 --> 00:24:16.207 Thank you. 00:24:16.207 --> 00:24:20.109 I'd go buy the PO box and open the PO box. 00:24:20.109 --> 00:24:25.567 You know it usually took about till Tuesday or Wednesday and I'd open the box and there's a card from Dodie. 00:24:26.420 --> 00:24:28.769 So one day my phone rings at the house. 00:24:28.769 --> 00:24:39.048 I'd come back in from looking at my houses and it was about like four o'clock in the afternoon and I answered the phone and he says is this John? 00:24:39.048 --> 00:24:41.127 I said, yeah, well, this is your pastor called. 00:24:41.127 --> 00:24:43.848 Oh, so I almost dropped the phone. 00:24:43.848 --> 00:24:44.703 I couldn't believe it. 00:24:44.703 --> 00:24:48.804 I said oh, pastor Osteen, you calling me at home, my, what an honor. 00:24:48.804 --> 00:24:54.204 And he, he said well, you've been blessing us and I just wanted to thank you personally. 00:24:55.201 --> 00:24:57.268 And, john, what do you do for a living? 00:24:57.268 --> 00:24:58.526 I said, well, I'm a home builders. 00:24:58.526 --> 00:24:59.523 Oh, a home builder. 00:24:59.523 --> 00:25:02.107 Well, do you build houses that are already sold? 00:25:02.107 --> 00:25:05.690 I said no, I build spec. 00:25:05.690 --> 00:25:07.807 I hardly ever sell one before I build it. 00:25:07.807 --> 00:25:09.084 I usually have to build it. 00:25:09.084 --> 00:25:09.807 Then it sells. 00:25:09.920 --> 00:25:11.204 He said, oh, be careful. 00:25:11.204 --> 00:25:13.286 He said don't get overloaded. 00:25:13.286 --> 00:25:15.964 There's bad times coming, there's tough times coming. 00:25:15.964 --> 00:25:17.105 Be real careful. 00:25:17.105 --> 00:25:21.925 And I was not kind of disappointed to hear that and I didn't want to hear that. 00:25:21.925 --> 00:25:23.586 That's not what I had in mind. 00:25:23.586 --> 00:25:33.284 I had in mind making a lot of money, and builders only make money when they sell houses, and you got to build them to sell them, so, anyway. 00:25:33.284 --> 00:25:39.189 So I had a lot of zeal but no knowledge and what he said was true and it came to pass. 00:25:39.559 --> 00:25:43.550 And it's because I didn't heed my pastor's warning. 00:25:43.550 --> 00:25:48.124 I didn't realize that that was really a supernatural warning from the Holy Ghost. 00:25:48.124 --> 00:25:49.723 I wasn't listening. 00:25:49.723 --> 00:25:55.008 I was a baby Christian, really still, and God was using him to warn me. 00:25:55.008 --> 00:26:05.871 And I'm sorry to say, I ignored it and I did get overextended and it did hurt and it took years to recover. 00:26:05.871 --> 00:26:07.284 But you know, recover we did. 00:26:07.284 --> 00:26:14.906 God is faithful, I'm telling you, no matter what kind of a soup you find yourself in, and so just let let your you know, just be. 00:26:14.906 --> 00:26:21.865 The more we pray, the more we read our Bibles, we put ourselves in position to receive Holy Ghost warnings. 00:26:21.865 --> 00:26:26.210 They're not designed to cause you fear or you to lose sleep. 00:26:26.210 --> 00:26:34.182 It's really a blessing to be warned because when you're warned then you can prepare for what's coming and you can overcome it. 00:26:34.182 --> 00:26:36.798 Praise God, let's lift our hands. 00:26:36.798 --> 00:26:37.864 Thank God for Holy Ghost warning. 00:26:37.864 --> 00:26:40.247 I pray this message blessed you. 00:26:40.247 --> 00:26:43.948 Let's put it into effect and praise God.