WEBVTT 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:06.472 Pick your bibles up, stretch your body a little bit, raise your bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:06.472 --> 00:00:10.849 And let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I'm glad to be here tonight. 00:00:10.849 --> 00:00:13.926 I'm so eager for the Word of God. 00:00:13.926 --> 00:00:19.108 It's the Word and the Spirit that continually give me victory. 00:00:19.108 --> 00:00:27.507 Every day of my life I'm led by the Spirit and my life is built on the Word. 00:00:27.507 --> 00:00:31.544 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:31.544 --> 00:00:37.631 Let's turn in our bibles to Second Chronicles 26. 00:00:37.631 --> 00:00:45.085 And let's study the Bible, study the Word, get into the Word tonight. 00:00:45.085 --> 00:00:51.774 Second Chronicles 26, verse one. 00:00:54.979 --> 00:01:02.911 Then all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was 16 years old, and made him king. 00:01:02.911 --> 00:01:12.224 In the room of his father, amaziah, he built Elot, which I've been there, and restored it to Judah. 00:01:12.224 --> 00:01:15.444 After that the king slept with his fathers. 00:01:15.444 --> 00:01:29.549 16 years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned 52 years in Jerusalem man, it's a pretty long reign and his mother's name also was Jecheliah of Jerusalem. 00:01:29.549 --> 00:01:35.947 And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah did. 00:01:35.947 --> 00:01:43.748 And he sought God in the day of Zechariah, who had understanding in the visions of God. 00:01:43.748 --> 00:01:55.691 And as long as he sought the Lord God made him to prosper as long as he sought the Lord God made him to prosper. 00:01:57.659 --> 00:02:24.030 So tonight I want to share a message entitled Apostolic Characteristics, and I teach on the apostolic on a regular basis, at least once or twice a year, because we all need to be reminded of the DNA of this church, so that and I'm not calling myself an apostle, but I believe all of the church of Jesus Christ is apostolic, because he sent us into the world. 00:02:24.030 --> 00:02:24.723 He said go. 00:02:24.723 --> 00:02:31.265 So an apostle in the New Testament is a sent one, and so we've been sent. 00:02:31.265 --> 00:02:40.088 So really, the apostolic dimension is part of all of the church of Jesus Christ, but of this church specifically. 00:02:40.088 --> 00:02:42.426 I mean it's been prophesied over. 00:02:42.426 --> 00:02:45.087 It's an apostolic house with a prophetic flow. 00:02:46.401 --> 00:02:50.643 I taught on hallmarks of the apostolic church a couple of weeks ago. 00:02:50.643 --> 00:02:53.584 So if you weren't here on a Sunday night, I think it was the early part of May. 00:02:53.584 --> 00:02:58.082 Three weeks ago, I guess, no, two weeks ago I taught on this. 00:02:58.082 --> 00:03:05.545 So we're coming at it from a little different standpoint, a little different, different king. 00:03:05.545 --> 00:03:10.060 We came at it from a Lysha standpoint last time. 00:03:10.060 --> 00:03:11.123 Tonight. 00:03:11.264 --> 00:03:16.000 Uzziah is an apostolic type and shadow. 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.360 See, when I read the Old Testament I'm looking for types and shadows. 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:26.060 All these things are written for our admonition upon whom the end of the age have come. 00:03:26.060 --> 00:03:28.180 So the church should be instructed. 00:03:28.180 --> 00:03:31.978 Not everything that happened to Israel happens to the church. 00:03:31.978 --> 00:03:39.500 I don't think we're identical at all, but things that happened to Israel are, for our example, and there are also types and shadows. 00:03:39.500 --> 00:03:49.060 So what happened to King Uzziah and what he did is good to look at. 00:03:49.060 --> 00:03:54.429 As long as he verse five, as long as he sought the Lord, he caused him to prosper. 00:03:56.248 --> 00:03:58.960 I think you can make a case that a lot of the church quit seeking the Lord. 00:03:58.960 --> 00:04:09.025 They started going off on tangents and started getting too fat and sassy and building their own kingdoms, and I think that's why there's such a weakness in the American church. 00:04:09.025 --> 00:04:13.115 That lost control of the nation. 00:04:13.115 --> 00:04:14.569 You know the nation is part. 00:04:14.569 --> 00:04:15.840 The church is in the nation. 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:17.586 You know we're a Christian nation. 00:04:17.586 --> 00:04:25.771 So one reason why the nation is so fouled up is the church is in many cases fouled up. 00:04:27.324 --> 00:04:35.548 There's something amazing I just read where only 9% of evangelicals have a Christian worldview. 00:04:35.548 --> 00:04:40.399 What in the world are you? 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:42.567 What kind of a view have you got? 00:04:42.567 --> 00:04:47.899 You call yourself born again and you don't have a Christian worldview of the world. 00:04:47.899 --> 00:04:52.485 You don't think the world, you don't think the Bible has anything to say about your world. 00:04:52.485 --> 00:04:54.048 No wonder they voted wrong. 00:04:54.048 --> 00:05:00.759 No wonder they voted for people that are baby killers and weirdos. 00:05:00.961 --> 00:05:03.057 So what's the answer? 00:05:03.057 --> 00:05:12.139 Well, I'm not saying the whole church is that way, but a lot of it is that way, and I believe the church is coming into its finest hour. 00:05:12.139 --> 00:05:14.827 And anyway. 00:05:14.827 --> 00:05:20.514 So, as long as King assault the Lord, he sought him. 00:05:20.514 --> 00:05:21.100 What does it mean to seek? 00:05:21.100 --> 00:05:23.255 It means being hot, it means devout. 00:05:23.255 --> 00:05:34.627 It means, in treaty, it means worship, searching, questioning, putting out interrogatories. 00:05:34.627 --> 00:05:36.807 I mean, you know we ought to seek the Lord. 00:05:36.807 --> 00:05:40.148 Seek the Lord, just like tonight. 00:05:40.148 --> 00:05:42.624 You know many of you were seeking about a particular answer. 00:05:42.624 --> 00:05:48.286 So God gave you the answer to pause it down because you have been diligent to seek him in prayer. 00:05:48.286 --> 00:05:49.685 You hadn't received the answer yet. 00:05:49.685 --> 00:05:51.548 Tonight you received it down in your spirit. 00:05:51.548 --> 00:05:54.728 Your mind's gonna know what your spirit already knows. 00:05:54.728 --> 00:05:58.749 See, he honored you by giving me a word about it. 00:05:58.749 --> 00:06:03.490 That's the proper way the church ought to function. 00:06:03.490 --> 00:06:10.762 You ought to get something when you come to church besides the homily Three hymns, two hurrs. 00:06:10.762 --> 00:06:24.146 Take up the offatory amen, all right, and so, as long as he did all that seeking in treaty, the worship, the searching, the questioning, god made him to prosper. 00:06:24.146 --> 00:06:35.872 Listen to the word prosper means to break out, to push forward, to come mightily, to go over, to be profitable, to make or to send wealth. 00:06:35.872 --> 00:06:45.471 See, those are apostolic terms and there they are in these verses concerning Uzzi. 00:06:45.471 --> 00:06:45.821 See. 00:06:45.821 --> 00:06:55.250 So when God began to teach me about the apostolic was shortly after God showed me that we're a regional center. 00:06:55.540 --> 00:07:03.725 So about, you know, june of 1996, going out to look for property? 00:07:03.725 --> 00:07:11.927 We were growing so fast we'd run out of parking room, we'd run out of room in the church, our first building on 1960. 00:07:11.927 --> 00:07:15.410 And you've heard me tell the story over and over. 00:07:15.410 --> 00:07:18.803 But I just went out, I was looking at a five acre, I had five acre faith. 00:07:18.803 --> 00:07:24.509 I was looking at five acres and I believe the property was on shallow church road. 00:07:24.509 --> 00:07:27.728 It's underwater, I mean you can't even drive down Theol. 00:07:27.728 --> 00:07:30.125 You know it's all flooded down in there. 00:07:30.125 --> 00:07:34.670 I'm so glad we didn't wind up buying property in that area. 00:07:34.670 --> 00:07:41.365 But anyway, a little narrow street you can hardly, even two cars can hardly pass. 00:07:42.879 --> 00:08:00.567 And anyway, suddenly I just saw this star in the sky with a circle around it and it was in the sky and it just lit right in the middle of the property at a size of about the center section. 00:08:00.567 --> 00:08:02.947 That's how big the star was the circle around it. 00:08:02.947 --> 00:08:07.204 And when I saw it, I just have to confess I thought of Marshall Dillon. 00:08:07.204 --> 00:08:08.848 You know, guns smoke. 00:08:08.848 --> 00:08:13.310 It just reminded me of a Marshall's badge, I don't know. 00:08:13.310 --> 00:08:22.665 And then, all of a sudden, I just I pulled away and I was looking down from a great distance and it just got smaller and smaller and it became like a capital. 00:08:22.665 --> 00:08:33.909 On a map You'd see a capital mark like that in Austin or any state capital or Washington DC has a little fancier mark over it the note of capital. 00:08:33.909 --> 00:08:36.567 And so I said, lord, what are you saying to me? 00:08:36.567 --> 00:08:38.346 Are you saying you're making us a capital? 00:08:38.346 --> 00:08:40.385 And he just spoke two words regional center. 00:08:41.539 --> 00:08:53.664 And from what I saw and what I heard, I realized that God had destined this church to be a place of authority, of legislative, judicial and executive authority. 00:08:53.664 --> 00:08:56.989 That's government, that's a capital. 00:08:56.989 --> 00:09:00.562 And look where God has brought us. 00:09:00.562 --> 00:09:11.181 It wasn't overnight, but I would say we have grown hugely during 2020, in the first part of 2021. 00:09:11.181 --> 00:09:19.360 We're much more influential in legislature in places like that. 00:09:20.975 --> 00:09:22.682 I mean, there are people that know about this church. 00:09:22.682 --> 00:09:24.559 You know the governor on down. 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:25.355 Why? 00:09:25.355 --> 00:09:27.763 Well, because God had it in mind. 00:09:27.763 --> 00:09:29.418 Are you with us? 00:09:29.418 --> 00:09:31.178 There's an anointing there. 00:09:31.178 --> 00:09:45.120 So as long as he, as he, as he saw the Lord, god made him to prosper, to break out, to push forward, to come mightily, to go over, to be profitable, to make or or find wealth, that's in your DNA. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:51.774 I said that's in your DNA, all right. 00:09:51.914 --> 00:09:59.482 So the results of number one, his fervent inquiry, and number two, his anointing. 00:09:59.482 --> 00:10:07.943 See, in the Old Testament, you have to understand, the anointing was reserved for three offices the priest, the prophet and the king. 00:10:07.943 --> 00:10:09.220 No one else was anointed. 00:10:09.220 --> 00:10:13.480 The Holy Spirit did not live in man, they were spiritually dead. 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:25.764 However, in Israel, the anointing or the Holy Ghost would come upon the priest, the prophet and the king three separate offices. 00:10:25.764 --> 00:10:33.725 So, as a result of his seeking God and the anointing on him, here's a 16 year old kid. 00:10:33.725 --> 00:10:37.625 It's amazing, but he was anointed simply because he's king. 00:10:37.625 --> 00:10:54.220 And so we find in the next few verses verses six through 15, the characteristics that I believe will identify the apostolic characteristics that are for the church and especially for this church. 00:10:54.220 --> 00:10:56.782 So let's look at verses six here. 00:10:58.835 --> 00:11:10.504 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines and broke down the wall of Goth and the wall of Jabba and the wall of Ashdod and built cities about Ashdod and among the Philistines. 00:11:10.504 --> 00:11:14.144 So he had warfare. 00:11:14.144 --> 00:11:23.240 You know, the Bible says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they're mighty through God, the pulling down of strongholds. 00:11:23.240 --> 00:11:25.984 The word warfare there it means apostolic. 00:11:25.984 --> 00:11:34.905 If you look it up in your concordance, it means an apostolic conflict. 00:11:34.905 --> 00:11:39.763 There's been a lot of conflict since this church was started. 00:11:39.763 --> 00:11:47.899 We have come up against all kinds of government entities, of demonic powers. 00:11:47.899 --> 00:11:52.615 You name it warfare, why? 00:11:52.615 --> 00:11:55.240 Because the devil resists the kingdom of God. 00:11:55.240 --> 00:12:09.621 And when you have an apostolic church, an apostolic house with a prophetic flow, one that's been told by God, you're gonna rule and reign, you're gonna have influence in this region. 00:12:09.621 --> 00:12:14.500 I'm gonna see to it that your authority operates in this region. 00:12:14.500 --> 00:12:15.458 He's gonna oppose it. 00:12:15.458 --> 00:12:18.840 I said he's gonna oppose it. 00:12:18.840 --> 00:12:31.339 Warfare, the defeat of enemies, the breaking down of barriers, occupying territory, releasing regions for the kingdom, confronting demon powers. 00:12:31.339 --> 00:12:36.696 Amen, amen, all right. 00:12:36.716 --> 00:12:37.960 And then the second verse seven. 00:12:37.960 --> 00:12:43.918 And God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians. 00:12:43.918 --> 00:12:45.635 That dwelt in notice. 00:12:45.635 --> 00:12:47.059 It didn't say Palestinians? 00:12:47.059 --> 00:12:50.047 No such thing. 00:12:50.047 --> 00:12:52.703 They're basically Arabs. 00:12:52.703 --> 00:12:57.568 I said they're Arabs, plain and simple. 00:12:57.568 --> 00:13:05.620 It's just the other Arab countries don't want them, so they're outcasts in their own nations they ought to be part of. 00:13:05.620 --> 00:13:12.745 Really, if you really wanna know about it, jordan and Syria ought to be taking all the Palestinians in. 00:13:12.745 --> 00:13:17.701 They don't want them, they just wanna get rid of Israel. 00:13:17.701 --> 00:13:18.940 That's all what they all want. 00:13:18.940 --> 00:13:20.357 Okay, all right. 00:13:20.357 --> 00:13:37.190 So God helped him against the Philistines and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gurbale and the Mehuim Mehunim, and so God, in building these cities. 00:13:37.190 --> 00:13:46.174 They're places of habitation, churches and ministries, and I just think about all of the. 00:13:46.174 --> 00:13:49.524 What churches have we built? 00:13:49.524 --> 00:13:53.080 Well, we've helped churches, especially overseas. 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.833 I think about the church in India, I think the church in Philippines. 00:13:57.991 --> 00:14:03.681 The last time I traveled to the Philippines, we had over 40 churches cooperated with that meeting. 00:14:03.681 --> 00:14:15.217 40 churches got the benefit of at least I don't know a thousand people got saved in those crusades, healing crusades at night. 00:14:15.217 --> 00:14:18.187 They got the benefit of those people. 00:14:18.187 --> 00:14:18.669 They got saved. 00:14:18.669 --> 00:14:22.730 We paid to preach, we financed the entire meeting. 00:14:22.730 --> 00:14:27.077 We never asked them for a dime, they never took an offering up for us. 00:14:27.077 --> 00:14:31.775 We paid all of it and then in the morning, with the preachers. 00:14:31.775 --> 00:14:38.015 We had 1200 pastors and leaders there in that last meeting and we paid their way there. 00:14:38.015 --> 00:14:39.956 You know, they had to pay their way. 00:14:39.956 --> 00:14:43.015 They had to pay their way there, we paid their way home. 00:14:43.015 --> 00:14:48.081 We handed out cash vouchers for them to travel back home. 00:14:48.081 --> 00:14:50.195 They had to have skin in the game. 00:14:50.195 --> 00:14:54.135 In other words, if they could get to the meeting, we'd make sure they got home. 00:14:54.135 --> 00:15:00.557 And of course, we required them to be at all the meetings because we're not there to finance a vacation. 00:15:02.870 --> 00:15:04.937 So we were wise with the money that we spent. 00:15:04.937 --> 00:15:14.318 I mean the average, all the try to six trips I think we made to the Philippines at minimum was a hundred thousand up a trip, minimum a hundred grand a trip. 00:15:14.318 --> 00:15:16.214 This church did that. 00:15:16.214 --> 00:15:18.293 So we built churches. 00:15:18.293 --> 00:15:20.735 See, that's an apostolic work. 00:15:20.735 --> 00:15:21.398 Are you with me now? 00:15:21.398 --> 00:15:27.000 And then India, for goodness sake, I don't know how many hundreds of thousands of dollars. 00:15:27.000 --> 00:15:34.541 We spent preaching all over India, supporting those little missionaries all over the place. 00:15:34.541 --> 00:15:38.876 And now, you know, now we're moving on and we're supporting missions through others. 00:15:38.876 --> 00:15:49.280 We've got our own missionaries plus Brother Mark, missionaries in China, missionaries in the Isles of the Sea, amen. 00:15:51.710 --> 00:15:53.297 So I think about Gap. 00:15:53.297 --> 00:15:58.797 I mean all the feeding the poor, helping orphans and helping Haiti. 00:15:58.797 --> 00:16:05.476 James was talking about Brother Max. 00:16:05.476 --> 00:16:07.634 Well, we're. 00:16:07.634 --> 00:16:21.254 You know, because of this church, we've got a village there in Haiti that has electricity, has roads to it and they've got a school with three full-time teachers that we pay. 00:16:22.129 --> 00:16:25.339 This church it's apostolic. 00:16:25.339 --> 00:16:26.621 Well, that's just missions. 00:16:26.621 --> 00:16:27.634 No, it's apostolic. 00:16:27.634 --> 00:16:30.878 It's confronting regions of darkness. 00:16:30.878 --> 00:16:34.296 Don't you think there are demons that are trying to stop us from doing that? 00:16:34.296 --> 00:16:39.471 Amen, all right. 00:16:39.490 --> 00:16:43.517 Number three, verse seven talking about apostolic characteristics. 00:16:43.517 --> 00:16:45.375 That's what you're part of. 00:16:45.375 --> 00:16:47.395 You know the altar call this morning. 00:16:47.395 --> 00:16:51.259 There was tremendous message on. 00:16:51.259 --> 00:16:57.636 You know serving hood and connecting up, being part of something bigger than yourselves. 00:16:57.636 --> 00:16:59.557 That's what this message ties into. 00:16:59.557 --> 00:17:00.654 This is what you're part of. 00:17:00.654 --> 00:17:04.694 This is what you have a right to believe for in your personal life. 00:17:04.694 --> 00:17:08.898 We're all part of something bigger than ourselves. 00:17:08.898 --> 00:17:12.111 Amen, all right. 00:17:12.111 --> 00:17:15.693 So number verse seven and God helped him. 00:17:15.693 --> 00:17:27.237 God helped him against these different groups, supernatural aid against regional powers. 00:17:27.237 --> 00:17:30.356 So God helps you when you do something. 00:17:30.971 --> 00:18:01.503 So we started getting really hot and heavy involved in Houston with the Houston Air Pastors Council back 2014, when Mayor Parker at the time subpoenaed the five pastors they call them a Houston five and subpoenaed their messages, subpoenaed their sermon notes and wanted them to testify as to what they were thinking when they preached against homosexuals. 00:18:01.503 --> 00:18:05.559 You know, men going into women's bathrooms, cross dressers. 00:18:05.559 --> 00:18:08.877 We called them transvestites when I was growing up. 00:18:08.877 --> 00:18:12.157 We didn't call them transgender, because they're not transgender. 00:18:12.157 --> 00:18:15.255 They can't choose their gender, they're just cross dressers. 00:18:15.255 --> 00:18:17.938 They're mentally ill or perverts. 00:18:17.938 --> 00:18:20.897 There's no rights to have that. 00:18:20.897 --> 00:18:24.240 There's rights for us to not have to see it. 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:30.076 The rights we have is for us not to be having to live with that in our women's bathrooms. 00:18:30.076 --> 00:18:34.913 If people want to do that behind their closed doors, it's America, but they don't have the right. 00:18:34.913 --> 00:18:39.443 Oh, that's terrible. 00:18:39.443 --> 00:18:43.917 I can't believe you're saying see, the church has got to grow. 00:18:43.917 --> 00:18:54.701 You know a spine, if not something else, all right, so supernatural aid. 00:18:54.829 --> 00:18:55.131 So we? 00:18:55.131 --> 00:19:00.961 You know how many of you went down to the city hall and testified? 00:19:00.961 --> 00:19:03.018 Say that was like the baptism by fire. 00:19:03.018 --> 00:19:05.894 You know, if I had it do over again, we'd have had a training session. 00:19:05.894 --> 00:19:09.155 We just threw you to the wolves and y'all survived. 00:19:09.155 --> 00:19:14.039 They had professionals there lined up against you. 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:20.115 How many of you went and were poll watchers here in this last election? 00:19:20.115 --> 00:19:22.676 Say you were sent to the Democrat polls to watch. 00:19:22.676 --> 00:19:25.076 You were thrown to the wolves. 00:19:25.076 --> 00:19:33.097 I mean that's mean, horrible, rude, say that's apostolic. 00:19:33.097 --> 00:19:35.894 I said that's apostolic. 00:19:35.894 --> 00:19:39.116 It's big, old, huge Republican meetings. 00:19:39.116 --> 00:19:43.753 This room filled with Republican delegates from every corner of Harris County. 00:19:43.753 --> 00:19:44.978 You know what that is. 00:19:44.978 --> 00:19:49.398 That's apostolic and they felt the presence of God. 00:19:50.309 --> 00:19:53.934 I had a lady that came to visit the other and I don't know if she's here tonight. 00:19:53.934 --> 00:20:07.195 She came last week, goes to another church in the area and she's been struggling with some things and she came here and she just really enjoyed it and really helped her and she's got decision to make about whether to stay where she's been going or come here. 00:20:07.195 --> 00:20:08.496 But she's got two older boys. 00:20:08.496 --> 00:20:09.775 I said well, I just asked her. 00:20:09.775 --> 00:20:12.458 I said, well, what made you decide to come here anyway? 00:20:12.458 --> 00:20:13.776 What brought you here? 00:20:13.776 --> 00:20:22.797 She said we voted, my sons and I voted, and we felt the presence of God when we walked in the lobby when they voted in the November election. 00:20:22.797 --> 00:20:29.598 Apostolic regional center. 00:20:29.598 --> 00:20:30.453 Are y'all with me now? 00:20:33.789 --> 00:20:35.457 I think about what we've done for Israel. 00:20:35.457 --> 00:20:36.615 We've hooked up with Israel. 00:20:36.615 --> 00:20:39.815 We have, we have, you know, we helped build a hospital underground. 00:20:39.815 --> 00:20:41.214 They converted a parking lot. 00:20:41.214 --> 00:20:43.718 You know we gave $3,000 of that. 00:20:43.718 --> 00:20:46.179 I don't know how many, how much money we've given to Israel. 00:20:46.179 --> 00:20:52.777 We just speak out on Israel and look at it nowadays, it's just like I mean, they're just. 00:20:55.391 --> 00:21:14.258 I think yesterday or Saturday yeah, saturday, there was a there was a someone went to a protest against Methodist hospital because they're wanting to force their employees to take the vaccine or you're fired. 00:21:14.258 --> 00:21:16.758 So there was about a hundred people at that protest. 00:21:16.758 --> 00:21:27.621 But at the same time, there was a protest in the Galleria against Israel, just simply defending themselves against the rocket attack from the Arabs that are in Gaza. 00:21:27.621 --> 00:21:29.073 Hamas is who. 00:21:29.073 --> 00:21:33.434 It is a terror organization and some of the. 00:21:33.434 --> 00:21:36.895 They had one rocket attack that came from Lebanon. 00:21:36.895 --> 00:21:39.780 It was done by Iran. 00:21:39.780 --> 00:21:47.275 They're under attack from Iran and all of them rockets come from Iran. 00:21:47.275 --> 00:21:51.576 Those people couldn't make a bottle rocket, much less. 00:21:53.069 --> 00:21:56.372 They are ignorant, pastor, that's just so. 00:21:56.372 --> 00:21:57.977 No, it's not racist, it's real. 00:21:57.977 --> 00:22:00.255 They are ignorant people. 00:22:00.255 --> 00:22:01.713 They don't have an education. 00:22:01.713 --> 00:22:09.038 All they know is killing, and so everything they have that's got, any technology that is coming from Iran. 00:22:09.038 --> 00:22:11.724 So what are you out there? 00:22:11.724 --> 00:22:14.574 What kind of a person would go out there and protest? 00:22:14.574 --> 00:22:20.444 Our best ally, they are the only ones in that whole region that are on our side. 00:22:20.625 --> 00:22:25.814 Everyone else is always screaming death to America, death to and hate Christians. 00:22:25.814 --> 00:22:28.503 Why would you go and protest that? 00:22:28.503 --> 00:22:35.650 Unless you're one of them, I think they all ought to be arrested myself, but whatever, well, it's freedom. 00:22:35.650 --> 00:22:36.192 No, it's not. 00:22:36.192 --> 00:22:37.528 You know, that's not freedom. 00:22:37.528 --> 00:22:40.631 That's not freedom, that's goofy. 00:22:40.631 --> 00:22:47.661 That comes from just importing everybody's the dregs of their society into here. 00:22:47.661 --> 00:22:48.265 I go again. 00:22:48.265 --> 00:22:53.711 All right, praise the Lord, praise the Lord, thank God. 00:22:53.711 --> 00:22:54.743 We're standing against that. 00:22:54.743 --> 00:22:55.909 I'm not for it. 00:22:55.909 --> 00:22:57.073 I'm standing against it. 00:22:57.073 --> 00:23:02.505 Well, pastor, but there's lots of people that need to get we can get them saved in their country easier. 00:23:02.505 --> 00:23:07.769 And when they come in here and shout death to America, and they hate Jews and they hate us, they hate Christians. 00:23:07.769 --> 00:23:10.329 You know, I want them to stay where they're at. 00:23:10.329 --> 00:23:16.006 We'll go over there and preach to them, amen, all right. 00:23:16.026 --> 00:23:17.371 Number four, verse eight. 00:23:17.371 --> 00:23:17.992 Look at this one. 00:23:17.992 --> 00:23:20.673 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah. 00:23:20.673 --> 00:23:22.507 How many of you know? 00:23:22.507 --> 00:23:25.771 The Ammonites were not their friends, okay, they were their mortal enemies. 00:23:25.771 --> 00:23:31.373 They hated Israel, they hated Jews, just like the modern when Arabs do. 00:23:31.373 --> 00:23:33.790 And they gave gifts to Uzziah. 00:23:33.790 --> 00:23:35.126 Why? 00:23:35.126 --> 00:23:36.813 Because they wanted to court his favor. 00:23:36.813 --> 00:23:38.813 They didn't want him to be killed anymore, of them anymore. 00:23:38.813 --> 00:23:42.095 They wanted they decided to, you know to make peace with him. 00:23:42.095 --> 00:23:48.953 And so and his name spread abroad, even to the entering end of Egypt, for he strengthened himself exceedingly. 00:23:48.953 --> 00:23:51.429 Glory to God. 00:23:54.969 --> 00:23:57.035 Transfer of wealth from the wicked unto the righteous. 00:23:57.035 --> 00:24:13.752 I read, you know we had Dr Robin Armstrong here and he said this has been during the COVID-19, it's the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the country from small business to big corporations. 00:24:13.752 --> 00:24:16.452 And see, in my opinion, that's the wrong direction. 00:24:16.452 --> 00:24:18.653 Let's believe God for the other direction. 00:24:18.653 --> 00:24:19.528 I believe it's headed. 00:24:19.528 --> 00:24:25.290 I believe it's headed our way Big, massive, massive transfer of wealth out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of light. 00:24:25.290 --> 00:24:29.230 Increase in honor and respect. 00:24:29.230 --> 00:24:45.575 You know we had a transfer of wealth from an unsafe businessman and he gave us a $9.7 million piece of property for a piece of property down the street that we had a million dollars, so we spent a million dollars on that property. 00:24:45.575 --> 00:24:49.394 We still owed 600,000, so he forgave the $600,000 debt. 00:24:49.394 --> 00:25:00.275 Well, pastor, we had a million dollars cash tied up, yeah, but we got a $9.7 million piece of property, free and clear Transfer of wealth from an unsafe businessman. 00:25:00.275 --> 00:25:02.087 Are y'all with me? 00:25:02.087 --> 00:25:06.190 Now Getting back to building cities? 00:25:06.190 --> 00:25:12.452 You know he built cities, built cities around Ashdod, verse six. 00:25:12.452 --> 00:25:15.810 Just think about this church. 00:25:15.810 --> 00:25:17.109 Because this church is here. 00:25:17.109 --> 00:25:24.777 We have champions crossing subdivision, the million dollar money that we spent for that. 00:25:24.777 --> 00:25:30.414 There's houses built on that and our money is underneath those houses million dollars. 00:25:32.525 --> 00:25:37.163 Have you ever driven on Hollister Road from the Beltway all the way to 1960? 00:25:37.163 --> 00:25:42.691 It ought to be renamed Glorious Way, because it's there because we gave them a half a mile of right of way. 00:25:42.691 --> 00:25:48.769 Do you know that Gave them a half a mile right of way when we owned that other property? 00:25:48.769 --> 00:25:59.875 We did that in a horse trade with the, with the Harris County Commissioner. 00:25:59.875 --> 00:26:13.352 Eversole was a commissioner at that time and he had a big old right away for Richie Road, right through our property over there, and I said can we get rid of that? 00:26:13.352 --> 00:26:14.644 We don't want that right of way. 00:26:14.644 --> 00:26:15.429 It's in our way. 00:26:15.429 --> 00:26:17.069 We're in the high emperor development. 00:26:17.069 --> 00:26:18.930 He said well, I'll tell you what we need. 00:26:18.930 --> 00:26:21.952 Worse than that, we need a right of way for Hollister Road. 00:26:21.952 --> 00:26:24.593 And he showed us what he needed and we did a trade. 00:26:24.593 --> 00:26:32.630 The only problem was it came down and he put it on this property so that when we acquired this property it had that same right of way. 00:26:33.384 --> 00:26:41.255 For 20 years we fought about that right of way for, and we gave Hollister Road up to get rid of it. 00:26:41.255 --> 00:26:44.991 And then we got on this property and now we have it all over again. 00:26:44.991 --> 00:26:49.325 I'm laughing to myself saying well God, I made too good a deal, didn't I? 00:26:49.325 --> 00:26:52.794 I mean, I didn't know that's how it was, but you know what it's gone. 00:26:52.794 --> 00:26:58.711 We got rid of it, we signed our name to a little piece of paper and the county took it back. 00:26:58.711 --> 00:27:07.332 I mean, we don't have time to give you the testimony, but it's apostolic and then that cleared the way for us to sell that property next to us. 00:27:07.332 --> 00:27:09.329 And now we've got a subdivision. 00:27:09.329 --> 00:27:18.192 We've got two subdivisions on property that we owned out here and we've got a robe that helps our circulation out here because of this church being here. 00:27:18.192 --> 00:27:22.671 Are y'all getting this now? 00:27:22.671 --> 00:27:27.749 Yeah, man, praise God, verse nine. 00:27:28.933 --> 00:27:35.673 Moreover, uzzi built towers in Jerusalem, at the corner gate and at the valley gate and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them. 00:27:35.673 --> 00:27:39.292 What is gate building and keeping gates? 00:27:39.292 --> 00:27:43.355 Well, a gate is a restraining power. 00:27:43.355 --> 00:27:55.798 I mean you take any kind of an unwalled village in Israel and you've got a place for horror to happen. 00:27:55.798 --> 00:28:12.298 I mean they just overrun the only way to protect in most places in the world is to have walls around your place, and so we build spiritual walls against calamity and evil. 00:28:12.298 --> 00:28:16.294 I just think about building a wall. 00:28:16.425 --> 00:28:17.574 Katrina had to turn. 00:28:17.574 --> 00:28:19.164 It turn and hit New Orleans. 00:28:19.164 --> 00:28:21.232 We prayed against it 2005. 00:28:21.232 --> 00:28:34.977 That morning I mean all that week we had when we came to Wednesday night service on the before Katrina hit. 00:28:34.977 --> 00:28:40.441 It was headed right for Houston, it was headed right down and we prayed. 00:28:40.441 --> 00:28:47.837 On Wednesday night we came against that thing and between Wednesday and Sunday it turned and hit and hit New Orleans. 00:28:47.837 --> 00:28:49.480 Well, pastor, that's so mean. 00:28:49.480 --> 00:28:51.625 Why did I'm not telling it where to go? 00:28:51.625 --> 00:28:52.788 I'm saying it can't come here. 00:28:52.788 --> 00:28:54.817 They're responsible. 00:28:54.817 --> 00:28:57.544 Who knew ever in New Orleans is responsible for New Orleans. 00:28:57.544 --> 00:28:58.928 We're responsible for Houston. 00:28:58.928 --> 00:29:09.117 We turned it and so I prophesied, and God, god had a word that that confirmed it. 00:29:09.117 --> 00:29:10.604 And I didn't know. 00:29:10.604 --> 00:29:13.434 We used that word for the next month because Rita came. 00:29:15.760 --> 00:29:20.815 And by the time Rita came, remember the two million people got on the roads and clogged all the roads going out of Houston. 00:29:20.815 --> 00:29:23.243 People were afraid. 00:29:23.243 --> 00:29:25.111 They just knew Rita was going to hit. 00:29:25.111 --> 00:29:31.232 Rita was coming right for Houston and we were able to stop it at the border between Louisiana and Texas. 00:29:31.232 --> 00:29:31.694 Anybody remember that? 00:29:31.694 --> 00:29:37.673 Well, you mean, you're the only one Well, I don't know anybody else prays against hurricanes like we do. 00:29:37.673 --> 00:29:38.095 We prayed against it. 00:29:38.095 --> 00:29:41.278 You stuck our neck out. 00:29:42.701 --> 00:29:48.828 And then, of course, ike was another tough deal. 00:29:48.828 --> 00:30:09.226 I mean, he was headed right, really, at one point it was category four and by the time we finished we got it down to a category two and it hit east of the ship channel, 20 miles, made billions of dollars, and I don't know how many lives difference in this city. 00:30:09.226 --> 00:30:15.138 If it had hit up the ship channel, I don't know, I mean, I don't even know what the answer would be. 00:30:15.138 --> 00:30:18.765 It would have been catastrophic as it was. 00:30:18.765 --> 00:30:27.615 The east side of town bore the brunt of it and it was a category two and it wasn't, you know, and it weakened pretty quickly after it hit land. 00:30:27.634 --> 00:30:32.184 And by the time Harvey got here, I knew we were in trouble because we were. 00:30:32.184 --> 00:30:33.508 There was no place for it to go. 00:30:33.508 --> 00:30:35.638 There's no place left. 00:30:35.638 --> 00:30:38.248 We couldn't really, you know, where do you tell? 00:30:38.248 --> 00:30:39.109 Where do you tell it? 00:30:39.109 --> 00:30:40.394 See, why am I saying this? 00:30:40.394 --> 00:30:50.269 Because America has shot holes in its covering and because of our treatment of Israel, because we shed innocent blood in abortion. 00:30:50.269 --> 00:30:53.361 And so there's these calamities. 00:30:53.361 --> 00:30:56.166 God doesn't send them, but he cannot protect us. 00:30:56.166 --> 00:31:04.163 But that's our job is to build up the walls as much as we can. 00:31:04.163 --> 00:31:06.126 We plead our case with God. 00:31:06.126 --> 00:31:07.809 That's what this church does. 00:31:07.809 --> 00:31:13.327 We hold up and we plead our case with God and say, no, not here, god, not here. 00:31:13.327 --> 00:31:14.705 It's going to be somewhere. 00:31:14.705 --> 00:31:17.442 But how about south Texas, where they need the rain? 00:31:17.442 --> 00:31:21.507 How about some unpopulated, unpopulated area where there's not that much? 00:31:21.507 --> 00:31:24.108 When you hit Houston, you're going to make a mess. 00:31:24.108 --> 00:31:25.990 It's going to be a huge problem. 00:31:25.990 --> 00:31:27.291 People are going to die. 00:31:27.291 --> 00:31:28.192 They always die. 00:31:28.192 --> 00:31:31.661 I mean it doesn't take very much rain for people. 00:31:31.661 --> 00:31:36.974 I mean the freeway flood and people drive under an underpass and it happens almost every time. 00:31:36.974 --> 00:31:39.115 I don't understand that, but that happens. 00:31:39.115 --> 00:31:43.662 And then, of course, we got places that flood and people were displaced. 00:31:43.662 --> 00:31:49.570 So I knew Harvey was a problem, but we only had two families in our whole church that were affected by it. 00:31:52.115 --> 00:31:54.683 Amen, are y'all getting anything out of this? 00:31:54.683 --> 00:32:01.021 Terrorists, I mean, you know Houston is a number one. 00:32:01.021 --> 00:32:03.066 It's the number one. 00:32:03.066 --> 00:32:06.954 It's probably top of the list of places they'd love to strike. 00:32:06.954 --> 00:32:08.720 They haven't been able to do it. 00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:08.940 Why? 00:32:08.940 --> 00:32:09.642 Because we're here. 00:32:09.642 --> 00:32:14.335 Houston is a safe and prosperous city and God protects from all our enemies. 00:32:14.335 --> 00:32:17.163 I mean, god gave me that little declaration years ago. 00:32:17.163 --> 00:32:22.440 We say it over and over again, we say it in prayer, we say it all the time and it's just got a big. 00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:24.604 We've got a big old wall over this city. 00:32:24.604 --> 00:32:26.749 We don't allow terrorists here. 00:32:26.749 --> 00:32:28.392 Don't allow it. 00:32:28.392 --> 00:32:30.756 We haven't had one terror attack here. 00:32:30.756 --> 00:32:32.439 We are a ship channel here. 00:32:32.439 --> 00:32:39.048 We are the fourth largest port in the entire country, or maybe bigger than that. 00:32:39.048 --> 00:32:39.788 Now, I don't know. 00:32:39.788 --> 00:32:40.830 I hadn't kept up lately. 00:32:40.830 --> 00:32:49.299 Let's see where our number Chapter verse 10. 00:32:53.361 --> 00:33:07.848