WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.927 And where did you bring your Bibles with you this morning? 00:00:02.927 --> 00:00:10.266 Hey man, let's stand back up, wave our Bibles, get our Bibles up, wave them around and let's make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:10.266 --> 00:00:16.887 And let's say this together say, heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be here this morning. 00:00:16.887 --> 00:00:20.126 This is a priority for me. 00:00:20.126 --> 00:00:23.446 I love your holy written word. 00:00:23.446 --> 00:00:52.465 I'm glad to receive it online, but there's something about assembling myself in one place, in one accord that brings a greater power, a greater evidence of God at work, and I'm so glad to be in His presence this morning in this way, and I believe I receive what I need to win the battles that are before me. 00:00:52.465 --> 00:00:56.323 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:56.880 --> 00:01:05.251 Let's look at Mark, chapter six, please, and also John, chapter one. 00:01:05.251 --> 00:01:27.289 We're gonna read out of verse 45, mark 645, and this is right after Jesus had fed the 5,000 men and if you had a family of four, that's 20,000 people, I think that's a conservative estimate he used a little boy's lunch and he multiplied it. 00:01:27.289 --> 00:01:40.406 And then verse 45, in straight way he, jesus, constrained his disciples to get into the ship and to go to the other side before, under Bethsaida, while he went and sent away the people. 00:01:40.406 --> 00:01:51.165 And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray and when evening was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea and he alone on the land. 00:01:51.165 --> 00:02:10.187 And he saw them toiling and rowing, for the wind was contrary under them and about the fourth watch of the night, that he cometh unto them walking upon the sea and would have passed by them, I want everybody to say that would have passed by them. 00:02:10.187 --> 00:02:21.503 But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed that it had been a spirit and they cried out, for they all saw him and were troubled. 00:02:21.503 --> 00:02:24.043 In other words, they were mortified and afraid. 00:02:24.043 --> 00:02:32.242 They thought he was a ghost and immediately he talked with them and saith unto them, be of good cheer, be of good courage. 00:02:32.242 --> 00:02:37.003 It is, I be not afraid. 00:02:37.003 --> 00:02:46.183 And he went up unto them into the ship and the winds ceased and they were so amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondered. 00:02:47.777 --> 00:03:01.423 And then in John, chapter one, verse one, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 00:03:01.423 --> 00:03:04.188 The same was in the beginning with God. 00:03:04.188 --> 00:03:08.662 All things were made by him and without him was not anything made. 00:03:08.662 --> 00:03:17.736 That was made In him was life, and the life was the light of men, verse 14,. 00:03:17.736 --> 00:03:29.981 And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten, of the Father, full of grace and truth. 00:03:31.175 --> 00:03:34.699 And so today I wanted to bring a message entitled Activate Jesus. 00:03:34.699 --> 00:03:37.599 Activate Jesus. 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:40.502 Now, who is Jesus? 00:03:40.502 --> 00:03:45.699 I'll never forget the first time I heard this I'd been saved. 00:03:45.699 --> 00:03:47.305 You heard my testimony recently. 00:03:47.305 --> 00:04:01.788 I gave my testimony when I got saved almost 40 years ago and less than a week later the people that were instrumental in my meeting the Lord, had a Bible study. 00:04:01.854 --> 00:04:07.305 Well, I'm a Catholic and Catholics, so we've always practiced social distancing. 00:04:07.305 --> 00:04:08.539 Back before it was fashionable. 00:04:08.539 --> 00:04:14.818 In other words, you're Protestant, I want you over there, not too close to me, of course. 00:04:14.818 --> 00:04:23.708 That accepted my wife, glad that she was Baptist, so we got pretty close, but anyway, but you're leery of other people. 00:04:23.708 --> 00:04:25.740 But I had confidence in them. 00:04:25.740 --> 00:04:31.339 I mean, after all, they kind of showed that they were Christians. 00:04:32.175 --> 00:04:40.005 So we went to the Bible study and the lady was teaching the Bible study and she said the subject tonight is who is Jesus? 00:04:40.005 --> 00:04:46.423 And I thought to myself and she said that I sit there with that six or eight other people and I said well, I know who Jesus is, son of God. 00:04:46.423 --> 00:04:47.137 Of course I know that. 00:04:47.137 --> 00:04:56.901 I've known that all my life as a little Catholic boy went to eighth grade, through eighth grades of Catholic school and president of the Knights of the Altar and all of that good stuff. 00:04:56.901 --> 00:04:58.038 I know who Jesus is. 00:04:58.038 --> 00:04:58.882 He's the Son of God. 00:04:58.882 --> 00:05:05.822 And then she read these verses, she said Jesus is the Word and she held up her Bible and I almost fell out of my chair. 00:05:05.822 --> 00:05:14.021 Folks, there's people out there that don't know who Jesus is and I'm proclaiming him today. 00:05:14.095 --> 00:05:18.980 This is what's called the gospel Jesus is the Word. 00:05:18.980 --> 00:05:21.944 Without the Word, nothing was made that is made. 00:05:21.944 --> 00:05:24.824 Everything that's on this earth was made from this Word. 00:05:24.824 --> 00:05:27.519 Glory to God. 00:05:27.519 --> 00:05:31.184 But he was made flesh and dwelt among us. 00:05:31.184 --> 00:05:35.822 And he didn't come to make bad people good, he came to make dead people live. 00:05:35.822 --> 00:05:37.639 He gave life. 00:05:38.415 --> 00:05:42.620 That's what I received the week before I heard that Suddenly I had religion. 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:45.642 I was sincere, I believed in God. 00:05:45.642 --> 00:05:48.644 I mentally agreed that God was there. 00:05:48.644 --> 00:05:53.721 I mentally agreed that Jesus was the Lord and Jesus is the Son of God. 00:05:53.721 --> 00:05:58.500 I mentally agreed that the fact the Holy Spirit was existed. 00:05:58.500 --> 00:06:01.380 I mean, we used to sing about the Holy Spirit. 00:06:01.380 --> 00:06:09.701 You know, in the Catholic church, I mean, we recognized the truths, but I didn't have him in my heart. 00:06:09.701 --> 00:06:11.500 I never did surrender my life to him. 00:06:11.500 --> 00:06:21.062 Suddenly, I realized that to surrender my life to Jesus is to surrender to the Word, to let the Word rule in my life. 00:06:21.062 --> 00:06:30.194 This nation needs to yield to the Word of God, amen. 00:06:30.194 --> 00:06:34.744 And so now, of course, jesus died on the cross for us. 00:06:34.744 --> 00:06:37.459 He took our sins, he took our sicknesses as well. 00:06:37.459 --> 00:06:41.458 Matthew 8.17, himself bear our sickness, took our infirmities. 00:06:41.458 --> 00:06:46.206 The same sacrifice on the cross, took our sins and took our sicknesses. 00:06:48.596 --> 00:06:49.980 Well, I don't believe in healing. 00:06:49.980 --> 00:06:52.098 Why do you play the Our Father? 00:06:52.098 --> 00:06:53.815 The Our Father, is God healing in it? 00:06:53.815 --> 00:06:55.019 Oh, it does not. 00:06:55.019 --> 00:06:56.797 There's nothing about healing in the Our Father. 00:06:56.797 --> 00:06:58.857 See, I've prayed the Our Father all my life. 00:06:58.857 --> 00:07:04.774 Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom, come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:07:04.774 --> 00:07:06.857 Does he have coronavirus in heaven? 00:07:06.857 --> 00:07:09.533 No, did he send it? 00:07:09.533 --> 00:07:12.797 How could he send it if he doesn't have it up there? 00:07:12.797 --> 00:07:17.391 If God's will on earth is be like heaven, then we ought to. 00:07:17.391 --> 00:07:18.456 That's healing right there. 00:07:18.456 --> 00:07:22.656 It doesn't say H-E-L-I-N-G, but it means that every person that's got. 00:07:22.656 --> 00:07:25.512 This mess should be able to be healed and it doesn't. 00:07:25.512 --> 00:07:27.639 It's not limited by medical science. 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:35.478 Remember, this church knows Dr Hosey, because all the month of February was healing Wednesdays. 00:07:35.478 --> 00:07:43.115 I preached every Wednesday night on healing and also Sunday morning, so they had umpteen messages all on healing and that this thing broke out. 00:07:44.771 --> 00:07:50.149 And then we're asked to socially distance and hide in our houses and enjoy our living rooms. 00:07:50.149 --> 00:07:52.589 No, we've got faith built up. 00:07:52.589 --> 00:07:55.110 Now we're trying to denigrate anybody else. 00:07:55.110 --> 00:07:56.754 It's not where we are. 00:07:56.754 --> 00:07:58.598 But we've got to shine. 00:07:58.598 --> 00:08:02.257 Let our light shine, not hide it under a bushel. 00:08:04.031 --> 00:08:07.456 So now, jesus died on the cross and he went to the Father's right hand. 00:08:07.456 --> 00:08:09.678 But who is Jesus? 00:08:09.678 --> 00:08:11.110 As well as being the Son of God? 00:08:11.110 --> 00:08:17.755 Well, the Bible says in Colossians 1-18 that Jesus also is the head of the church, which is His body. 00:08:17.755 --> 00:08:22.377 Does the head do something different than the body? 00:08:22.377 --> 00:08:26.435 If the head goes one direction, does the body go in another direction? 00:08:26.435 --> 00:08:30.557 Only at the guillotine I mean, that's the only place I know about it. 00:08:35.830 --> 00:08:39.649 So in the storm, jesus would have passed by. 00:08:39.649 --> 00:08:43.336 Just, I want you to picture this Jesus would have passed by. 00:08:43.336 --> 00:08:44.835 He told him. 00:08:44.835 --> 00:08:49.529 He said okay, boys, get on the lake, get to the other side, I'll meet you. 00:08:49.529 --> 00:08:51.769 I'm sure they wondered how's he gonna get over there? 00:08:51.769 --> 00:08:56.169 We're leaving in the boat, but he had been wanting to pray all day long. 00:08:56.169 --> 00:09:00.639 He was looking for a place to pray and the crowd followed him out to the wilderness. 00:09:01.013 --> 00:09:07.278 And then the Bible says he looked on him and he had compassion on them, for they seemed like they were sheep without a shepherd. 00:09:07.278 --> 00:09:11.520 And it says he healed their sick. 00:09:11.520 --> 00:09:15.557 And then the disciples said send them away. 00:09:15.557 --> 00:09:19.618 They're hungry and there's no place, there's no 7-Eleven, there's no place to buy food. 00:09:19.618 --> 00:09:20.894 He said you feed them. 00:09:20.894 --> 00:09:24.956 And so then he had to show them how to feed them. 00:09:24.956 --> 00:09:26.816 And he did the miracle. 00:09:26.816 --> 00:09:28.956 But they could have done it because he told them to do it. 00:09:28.956 --> 00:09:31.775 He told them to cross the lake. 00:09:31.836 --> 00:09:32.518 And what did they do? 00:09:32.518 --> 00:09:38.719 They got out in the middle and floundered and flubbered and struggled and toiled. 00:09:38.719 --> 00:09:42.317 And in the fourth watch they still hadn't gotten to the other side. 00:09:42.317 --> 00:09:46.254 Four o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock in the morning, they still hadn't gotten. 00:09:46.254 --> 00:09:47.332 And here he comes. 00:09:47.332 --> 00:09:54.759 He's walking then and he sees them over there, but he doesn't even look their way, he just keeps going. 00:09:54.759 --> 00:10:02.831 He's gonna go to the other side and see what they do and they start screaming and hollering Ah, it's a ghost, it's what's he do. 00:10:02.831 --> 00:10:05.095 And he goes over, starts talking to him. 00:10:05.095 --> 00:10:07.413 What's his message? 00:10:07.413 --> 00:10:08.552 You doofuses? 00:10:08.552 --> 00:10:12.216 What's his message? 00:10:12.216 --> 00:10:15.842 Fear not, fear not. 00:10:15.842 --> 00:10:19.839 Every message of the Lord is fear not. 00:10:20.230 --> 00:10:26.878 That's when I heard the medical experts in Washington and they are the ones that put the panic out. 00:10:26.878 --> 00:10:29.217 If you'll remember, go back. 00:10:29.217 --> 00:10:41.245 There was this woman in the CDC Center for Disease Control but they don't control it and she came up when our president was in India or coming back from India. 00:10:41.245 --> 00:10:45.509 He was not in the country and she had a news conference and started speaking all this fear and panic. 00:10:45.509 --> 00:10:50.240 That's when the stock market fell and everybody started getting coming unglued. 00:10:50.240 --> 00:11:00.565 I think our government ought to do better than to speak panic and fear into its citizens and later on, when this is all over, maybe we can hold a few of these people accountable. 00:11:00.565 --> 00:11:09.590 Maybe we can hold some of these unelected officials accountable, like early retirement, hit the door, so forth and so on. 00:11:11.123 --> 00:11:11.970 But right now we need Jesus. 00:11:11.970 --> 00:11:22.769 We need to realize that he could walk right past us while we're tarling and worried about it and doing all of our little fancy stuff don't touch your face and all of this kind of thing. 00:11:22.769 --> 00:11:25.082 I'm not making fun, I'm just telling you. 00:11:25.082 --> 00:11:25.750 It's not like that. 00:11:25.750 --> 00:11:28.534 It's not enough, it's not gonna work. 00:11:29.610 --> 00:11:34.640 We need Jesus, we need the Word of God. 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:36.432 Hallelujah, and we have it. 00:11:36.432 --> 00:11:38.034 Oh, we have it. 00:11:38.034 --> 00:11:40.197 All we've gotta do is call upon the name of the Lord. 00:11:40.197 --> 00:11:41.775 We shall be saved. 00:11:41.775 --> 00:11:44.681 That word saved means more than just go to heaven. 00:11:44.681 --> 00:11:47.738 It means healed, it means delivered, protected. 00:11:47.738 --> 00:11:49.496 It means provided for. 00:11:49.496 --> 00:11:52.958 It means everything that he bought and paid for. 00:11:52.958 --> 00:11:53.620 Glory to God. 00:11:54.051 --> 00:11:55.229 Come on, let's shout a little bit. 00:11:55.229 --> 00:12:01.136 I've been so long since I shouted man, this church has been so empty. 00:12:01.136 --> 00:12:02.596 We don't do any shouting. 00:12:02.596 --> 00:12:04.216 Nobody except you're on. 00:12:04.216 --> 00:12:05.572 Five seconds. 00:12:05.572 --> 00:12:08.413 That's all I hear when I'm only shouting. 00:12:08.413 --> 00:12:09.096 That goes on. 00:12:15.370 --> 00:12:34.809 So he said be courageous, be of good cheer, be courageous, quit being weenies, modern parlance, be courageous, come on, fear not, jesus said in the world, you shall have tribulation, you'll have anguish, you'll have trouble. 00:12:34.809 --> 00:12:40.878 He said you might as well just go ahead and trust in the government, because they're the only ones that can save you. 00:12:40.878 --> 00:12:44.193 That's what's going on. 00:12:44.193 --> 00:12:45.518 Is the government's trying to be God? 00:12:45.518 --> 00:12:49.729 Let's read through this stuff and realize what's going on here. 00:12:49.729 --> 00:12:56.729 There's a legitimate function of government, but it's not to rule over its citizens like this and dictate. 00:12:56.729 --> 00:13:08.779 And we have to always be very careful when our rights that are guaranteed in the Constitution, that are sacred, that have been fought and died for. 00:13:09.817 --> 00:13:11.789 You know, you go to Arlington National Cemetery. 00:13:11.789 --> 00:13:13.576 What is that cemetery got in it? 00:13:13.576 --> 00:13:16.658 It's got crosses and a few stars of David. 00:13:16.658 --> 00:13:19.720 You don't see, you know, unicorns there. 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:22.809 You don't see rainbow flags there. 00:13:22.809 --> 00:13:25.789 You see crosses and you see stars of David. 00:13:25.789 --> 00:13:36.479 You see boys that went to their death and they didn't die so the government could come along and make up some kind of crisis to take all our privileges from us. 00:13:37.253 --> 00:13:38.119 Let's wake up. 00:13:38.119 --> 00:13:40.961 Let's wake up Now. 00:13:40.961 --> 00:13:51.158 I know you're awakened, I know you are, but there's lots of people that are still asleep, including in the church, in fact, especially some of my brother pastors that I've gotten letters from. 00:13:51.158 --> 00:13:52.789 I saw one big leader. 00:13:52.789 --> 00:13:54.001 I've met him and he's a big. 00:13:54.001 --> 00:13:56.789 He's got a big ministry and it's a kind of a parachurch ministry. 00:13:56.789 --> 00:14:02.789 I think at one time he was a pastor, but now he's trying to talk guys like me and being more, more compliant. 00:14:02.789 --> 00:14:04.844 Let's be more cooperative. 00:14:04.844 --> 00:14:05.809 Well, I did that. 00:14:05.809 --> 00:14:07.616 It won't work. 00:14:07.616 --> 00:14:09.809 It's time to stand up for what's right. 00:14:09.809 --> 00:14:11.655 It's time to speak. 00:14:11.655 --> 00:14:12.799 Amen. 00:14:14.255 --> 00:14:17.006 I think he's running counter to what the Holy Spirit's telling me. 00:14:17.006 --> 00:14:19.809 I'm sorry He'll have to answer to God, but so will I. 00:14:19.809 --> 00:14:24.457 I'll have to answer for this church, no one else, and so I don't criticize. 00:14:24.457 --> 00:14:29.038 If somebody can do church livestream and do their ministry, hey, that's more power to them. 00:14:29.038 --> 00:14:29.802 They can do that. 00:14:29.802 --> 00:14:31.408 That's between them and the Lord. 00:14:31.408 --> 00:14:39.554 Jesus is the head, I'm not the head, but in this church I report to the head and then I've got a. 00:14:39.554 --> 00:14:44.789 I fear God, I respect him, I revere him, I want to please him, amen. 00:14:44.789 --> 00:14:50.082 So the message of the church is fear, not See the disciples. 00:14:50.082 --> 00:14:50.809 What did they do? 00:14:50.809 --> 00:14:53.875 They activated the word when they cried out. 00:14:53.875 --> 00:14:56.809 The word came in their boat with them and everything straightened out. 00:14:56.809 --> 00:15:03.414 All the toil left, everything quietened up and they went to the other side, just like that. 00:15:05.375 --> 00:15:09.809 I think if the church would rise up and be the church, this country would be through with this virus a lot faster. 00:15:09.809 --> 00:15:12.519 You know there are natural things. 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:17.027 Look, there are natural things that will finally get control of this virus. 00:15:17.027 --> 00:15:17.809 There are natural things. 00:15:17.809 --> 00:15:20.356 We can argue or we can debate. 00:15:20.356 --> 00:15:21.259 I should say debate. 00:15:21.259 --> 00:15:23.496 We didn't have any debate, by the way. 00:15:23.496 --> 00:15:38.562 No debate, I mean, these things came out, these edicts, and suddenly everybody was expected to just go broke and hide and hoard. 00:15:38.562 --> 00:15:46.561 I mean, I've never, I don't can't remember the last time I saw this kind of panic and fear in this part of the country. 00:15:46.561 --> 00:15:48.557 Maybe it, maybe it's happened before. 00:15:48.557 --> 00:15:51.809 I remember we had a time of trouble during the 9-11. 00:15:52.292 --> 00:16:03.809 The president declared a national emergency and millions of people came to church after the Twin Towers fell and the church failed miserably because we did not point people to Jesus. 00:16:03.809 --> 00:16:08.216 We we equivocated we well, why did they hate us? 00:16:08.216 --> 00:16:10.321 And all of that kind of thing. 00:16:10.321 --> 00:16:14.174 And the next thing, you know, we said we're going to build them bigger and taller. 00:16:14.174 --> 00:16:19.913 We needed to get on our knees and repent and ask God to forgive our national sins. 00:16:19.913 --> 00:16:24.640 Now we've done that here in the church in previous meetings. 00:16:24.640 --> 00:16:27.754 I'm not going to do it this morning, but we rep what? 00:16:27.754 --> 00:16:28.517 What did we repent? 00:16:28.517 --> 00:16:32.259 Well, we repented for national sins of, first of all, recently. 00:16:33.311 --> 00:16:35.236 I think he has a good heart, our president. 00:16:35.236 --> 00:16:43.038 I love him, I think he's done a lot of good, but I never agreed with his stance on trying to enter into the peace deal with Israel. 00:16:43.038 --> 00:16:45.809 Leave Israel's peace treaties alone. 00:16:45.809 --> 00:16:47.216 There's none of our business. 00:16:47.216 --> 00:16:54.653 That's God's land, and the Bible teaches against trying to make Israel give away their land for peace. 00:16:54.653 --> 00:16:58.658 Even if Israel does that, they come under, they, they well. 00:16:58.909 --> 00:17:00.154 God doesn't send the trouble. 00:17:00.154 --> 00:17:03.076 It just comes because of a violation of God's word. 00:17:03.076 --> 00:17:06.017 When you go against this word, there are consequences to it. 00:17:06.017 --> 00:17:08.636 It's not God sitting in heaven saying I'm going to smite him. 00:17:08.636 --> 00:17:11.238 No, he didn't send the the virus. 00:17:11.238 --> 00:17:19.701 But when we start drifting away as a nation From his word, look at the evidence. 00:17:19.701 --> 00:17:22.679 I mean, as soon as he had this peace thing out there, it didn't work. 00:17:22.679 --> 00:17:24.161 Nobody agreed to it. 00:17:24.161 --> 00:17:25.049 But guess what happened? 00:17:25.049 --> 00:17:28.259 This virus hit our shores almost immediately. 00:17:29.371 --> 00:17:33.096 And then the other thing I think we have to be concerned about is abortion is horrible. 00:17:33.096 --> 00:17:45.336 These people wanted abortion clinics open during the coronavirus, when the rest of the hospitals are closed to normal procedures, but they still want to have the ability to kill babies while we're going through this crisis. 00:17:45.336 --> 00:17:46.179 It's ridiculous. 00:17:46.179 --> 00:17:52.613 So thank God, texas stopped it and then won in court to enforce that. 00:17:52.613 --> 00:17:59.255 That's what courts are for to settle issues between government and its citizens. 00:17:59.255 --> 00:18:02.431 And so that's all there is, I mean. 00:18:02.431 --> 00:18:04.979 But the bottom line here this morning is fear not. 00:18:04.979 --> 00:18:06.635 Let's activate Jesus. 00:18:06.635 --> 00:18:08.297 Let's get Jesus in the boat with us. 00:18:08.570 --> 00:18:09.808 We're struggling with this virus. 00:18:09.808 --> 00:18:11.496 We're struggling with the effects of it. 00:18:11.496 --> 00:18:13.990 People there aren't people that are dying. 00:18:13.990 --> 00:18:15.857 It's not the bubonic plague. 00:18:15.857 --> 00:18:17.170 I don't care what they're saying. 00:18:17.170 --> 00:18:18.154 It's not like that. 00:18:18.154 --> 00:18:19.776 It's not like smallpox. 00:18:19.776 --> 00:18:22.459 It's not like tuberculosis. 00:18:22.459 --> 00:18:25.276 It's not like leprosy, and Jesus healed the leper. 00:18:25.276 --> 00:18:26.113 He touched him. 00:18:26.113 --> 00:18:28.994 The church can't touch anybody. 00:18:28.994 --> 00:18:31.630 This is a hands-on ministry. 00:18:31.630 --> 00:18:33.314 We lay hands on the sick. 00:18:33.314 --> 00:18:38.376 So this isn't going to work for very long. 00:18:38.376 --> 00:18:38.972 We're going to do it. 00:18:39.012 --> 00:18:41.257 This morning we have news media here check up on us. 00:18:41.257 --> 00:18:42.815 They want to see what we're going to do. 00:18:42.815 --> 00:18:47.300 Well, we're obeying the spirit of the law and the letter of the law. 00:18:47.300 --> 00:18:48.292 It's socially distant. 00:18:48.292 --> 00:18:50.500 Not touching, not embracing. 00:18:50.500 --> 00:18:51.694 We normally embrace. 00:18:51.694 --> 00:18:53.557 We normally shake hands. 00:18:53.557 --> 00:18:55.798 We normally greet each other. 00:18:55.798 --> 00:18:57.715 We love each other's company. 00:18:57.715 --> 00:18:58.772 We're one. 00:18:58.772 --> 00:19:00.157 But we're doing this. 00:19:00.157 --> 00:19:02.478 We don't want to offend the people outside. 00:19:02.478 --> 00:19:08.674 We don't want to make people feel like we're rebels and we don't care, but at some point we're going to get back to normal. 00:19:10.911 --> 00:19:11.913 That's all I could tell you. 00:19:11.913 --> 00:19:16.776 I'll tell you a message of the church fear not, turn to Jesus. 00:19:16.776 --> 00:19:23.249 He's the Savior, he's the healer, he's the deliverer, he's the protector, he's the provider. 00:19:23.249 --> 00:19:34.970 Acts 10, 38, how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed of the devil, for God was with him. 00:19:34.970 --> 00:19:37.815 That tells you one thing right there Jesus went about. 00:19:37.815 --> 00:19:40.217 He didn't stay in a closed place. 00:19:40.217 --> 00:19:44.580 He healed all who were oppressed of the devil. 00:19:44.580 --> 00:19:51.614 He didn't have to fast and pray and say, lord, if it be thy will, heal Sister Jones, otherwise killer. 00:19:51.614 --> 00:19:56.460 No, he never had to pray about God's will and healing. 00:19:56.460 --> 00:20:00.380 It is God's will to heal every person of this coronavirus. 00:20:00.380 --> 00:20:01.020 If they get it. 00:20:01.020 --> 00:20:03.778 It's really God's will for you not to get it. 00:20:03.778 --> 00:20:18.693 It's God's will for you to be completely protected against it In some segments of the population about half of some people's immune system is so strong that they can contract the virus and not even know it, or they'll have such minor symptoms they don't even know they have it. 00:20:20.269 --> 00:20:21.717 That doesn't sound like smallpox. 00:20:21.717 --> 00:20:22.970 That doesn't sound like leprosy. 00:20:22.970 --> 00:20:25.317 You can't get leprosy and not know it. 00:20:25.317 --> 00:20:29.214 You couldn't get the bubonic plague and wonder what was wrong. 00:20:29.214 --> 00:20:31.974 By the time you wondered you were dead. 00:20:31.974 --> 00:20:34.915 So that's not what's going on here. 00:20:34.915 --> 00:20:36.054 What is going on? 00:20:36.054 --> 00:20:39.509 Fear and panic and a departure from Jesus. 00:20:39.509 --> 00:20:40.955 Oh, let's get back to Jesus. 00:20:40.955 --> 00:20:42.954 Let's get under his protection. 00:20:44.569 --> 00:20:58.799 In Matthew 4.29 it says how Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:05.711 And I still say we cannot fulfill our mission in this church online Can't do it. 00:21:05.711 --> 00:21:09.089 It's not scriptural. 00:21:09.089 --> 00:21:11.000 This is a hands-on ministry. 00:21:11.000 --> 00:21:13.974 I have to see people, I have to be able to touch people. 00:21:13.974 --> 00:21:22.038 I have to be able to read their accountants and see whether they're receiving what I'm saying or not. 00:21:22.038 --> 00:21:24.875 It's just not going to work. 00:21:24.970 --> 00:21:26.296 Jesus didn't work that way. 00:21:26.296 --> 00:21:27.213 He's the head. 00:21:27.213 --> 00:21:30.534 Can the head do one thing and the body do something totally different? 00:21:30.534 --> 00:21:31.679 I mean, what did he do? 00:21:31.679 --> 00:21:33.390 He showed us how to minister to people. 00:21:33.390 --> 00:21:39.512 He showed us these signs shall follow them that believe not that them are in mortal fear and panic. 00:21:39.512 --> 00:21:43.338 These signs shall follow them. 00:21:43.338 --> 00:21:44.181 What signs? 00:21:44.181 --> 00:21:45.384 They shall lay hands on this. 00:21:45.384 --> 00:21:46.948 One of the signs lay hands on the sick. 00:21:46.948 --> 00:21:49.359 One of the signs is cast out demons. 00:21:49.359 --> 00:21:52.508 You know, this is a demonic power that's attacked our nation. 00:21:52.508 --> 00:21:56.194 We can argue about whether it was a germ warfare. 00:21:56.194 --> 00:21:58.240 We can talk about whether it was intentional. 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:00.365 All of that stuff is beside the point. 00:22:00.365 --> 00:22:01.105 The point is. 00:22:01.105 --> 00:22:04.825 It's here and it's doing damage, and how do we get rid of it? 00:22:04.976 --> 00:22:14.586 I say there's got to be something more than just what has been espoused From Washington and from Austin and from Harris County and from city of you. 00:22:14.586 --> 00:22:15.969 It's got to be more than that. 00:22:15.969 --> 00:22:19.319 Are you all with me now? 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:24.317 We want to be all together, make the case. 00:22:24.317 --> 00:22:25.560 That's what I'm doing this morning. 00:22:25.560 --> 00:22:30.862 Making the case, and so the church do, has to do with the head. 00:22:30.862 --> 00:22:32.868 Did that's where the body, he's the head. 00:22:32.868 --> 00:22:36.275 We have to do what he did, or else we don't have his power. 00:22:38.137 --> 00:22:55.145 So our message to those in fear, to those who are suffering, those who are going through things they never Dreamed of, as I mentioned a moment ago, I I could just see people that have never Not been able to pay bills and now suddenly they can't pay their bills. 00:22:55.145 --> 00:22:57.160 It's try, it's. 00:22:57.160 --> 00:22:58.003 I've been there. 00:22:58.003 --> 00:22:59.916 I've been there. 00:22:59.916 --> 00:23:05.429 I know exactly what it's like to not have any income and have bills piled up and you can't pay them. 00:23:05.429 --> 00:23:09.519 It is horrible and I feel for those people. 00:23:09.519 --> 00:23:11.143 I have compassion on them. 00:23:11.143 --> 00:23:12.265 What am I saying? 00:23:12.265 --> 00:23:16.803 I'm saying activate Jesus, get him in that trouble with you, get him in your boat. 00:23:16.803 --> 00:23:20.420 I'm telling you he can make the difference, he can turn things around. 00:23:20.420 --> 00:23:22.625 The first thing he'll do is he'll give you peace. 00:23:22.625 --> 00:23:24.758 That's what he did for me. 00:23:24.758 --> 00:23:28.545 My circumstances didn't change that quickly, but I got peace. 00:23:28.545 --> 00:23:32.618 I got peace in the storm, praise God. 00:23:34.097 --> 00:23:39.941 Some of you are here that I don't know, everybody that's here this morning, I certainly don't know everybody that's watching, but I know. 00:23:39.941 --> 00:23:51.117 If you're in that case where you know you've never asked Jesus to come into your boat, well, which, in other words, you've never asked Jesus to come into your heart and be Lord. 00:23:51.117 --> 00:23:52.221 Lord means master. 00:23:52.221 --> 00:23:54.707 Lord means that you're gonna line up with this word. 00:23:54.707 --> 00:24:04.315 Lots of people know about him, but they don't really, you know, they're not really students of his word, his Jesus and his word, or one God in his word or one. 00:24:04.315 --> 00:24:05.981 You can't know God without knowing his word. 00:24:05.981 --> 00:24:08.965 And it starts with just a simple prayer. 00:24:08.965 --> 00:24:10.694 For me, it just started with a simple prayer. 00:24:11.917 --> 00:24:19.482 Or you may have accepted Jesus at some point and now, through whatever Reasons, you have drifted away from it. 00:24:19.482 --> 00:24:22.755 You're not serving God like you did it first. 00:24:22.755 --> 00:24:33.287 You quit going to church, you quit reading your Bible, of course, going to church, you can't even go to church, but you quit hanging around with other Christians where you can't even hang around with other Christians right now. 00:24:33.287 --> 00:24:34.597 Just look at that. 00:24:34.597 --> 00:24:43.007 Look how easy it is for people to do what we call backslide, because you're taking away certain things that they need to stay in fellowship. 00:24:43.007 --> 00:24:47.824 You know God is up there, but the church, the body, is down here. 00:24:47.824 --> 00:24:49.125 We can't fellowship together. 00:24:49.125 --> 00:24:50.769 We can't really fellowship with God. 00:24:50.769 --> 00:24:57.048 So maybe you are out of fellowship with God. 00:24:57.048 --> 00:24:59.115 You quit praying, you quit going to church, you quit. 00:24:59.115 --> 00:25:01.162 You quit doing the things you used to do. 00:25:01.162 --> 00:25:05.464 You've drifted off into doing things you Used to do before you got saved. 00:25:05.464 --> 00:25:07.575 Listen, you can change that with one prayer. 00:25:07.575 --> 00:25:08.637 You can turn it around. 00:25:08.637 --> 00:25:10.262 God will accept you or cleanse you. 00:25:10.262 --> 00:25:11.326 He'll forgive you. 00:25:11.326 --> 00:25:15.926 You can get back in fellowship with God and all of his promises to you, or yes and amen. 00:25:15.926 --> 00:25:20.635 He can protect you, he can heal you, he can keep you from getting this sick sickness You're. 00:25:20.655 --> 00:25:23.785 The fear of death is permeating our society right now. 00:25:23.785 --> 00:25:24.487 Fear of death. 00:25:24.487 --> 00:25:30.875 Jesus came to deliver those who all their lifetime, through fear of death, walked in bondage. 00:25:30.875 --> 00:25:34.085 I'll tell you, the fear of death is bondage. 00:25:34.085 --> 00:25:36.560 Jesus came to set us free. 00:25:36.560 --> 00:25:41.067 So if you're in those cases, either one of those cases. 00:25:41.067 --> 00:25:43.503 Just lift your hand to heaven. 00:25:43.523 --> 00:25:46.234 And I'd ask everybody, stand here present today. 00:25:46.234 --> 00:25:48.624 Let's just all lift our hands and pray the prayer. 00:25:48.624 --> 00:25:56.928 And because I'm not trying to embarrass anybody, I'm not trying to point anybody out, it's just important for you to acknowledge that you need Jesus in the boat with you. 00:25:56.928 --> 00:25:58.700 Let's all say this prayer together. 00:25:58.700 --> 00:26:01.867 Say, oh God, I know without Jesus I'm lost. 00:26:01.867 --> 00:26:05.494 Say it online I know without Jesus I'll die and go to hell. 00:26:05.494 --> 00:26:07.981 But, oh God, I want to be saved. 00:26:07.981 --> 00:26:09.506 I want to go to heaven. 00:26:10.295 --> 00:26:12.083 Jesus, I believe you, the Son of God. 00:26:12.083 --> 00:26:16.183 You died for my sins, but God raised you from the dead. 00:26:16.183 --> 00:26:21.121 Come into my heart, make me the kind of person you want me to be. 00:26:21.121 --> 00:26:24.929 I give you my life and I make you my Lord. 00:26:24.929 --> 00:26:27.205 I'll serve you all my days. 00:26:27.205 --> 00:26:30.637 I'll let this word Gover my life. 00:26:30.637 --> 00:26:41.582 I'm delivered today from the fear of death, delivered today from the fear of the coronavirus, because Jesus is my Lord and I'm saved. 00:26:41.582 --> 00:26:47.257 Well, come on, let's lift our voices and give the Lord a big shout of praise Hallelujah. 00:26:47.257 --> 00:26:50.401 Now, james, if you'll come up, I'm. 00:26:50.401 --> 00:26:52.266 I gave you what I wanted. 00:26:52.266 --> 00:26:57.819 I made the case and now you can make the case to those that Over which you have a little influence. 00:26:57.819 --> 00:27:00.885 I tell you, people need what we have, james.