Speaker 1: Those Bibles around make Jesus glad and the devil mad.
Speaker 1: Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm here on Pentecost Sunday.
Speaker 1: I stayed around after the resurrection.
Speaker 1: I want everything you've got for me today.
Speaker 1: Have an open heart and a willing mind.
Speaker 1: I'm willing to change Lord, I'm willing to be instructed in a higher way and help me to be a doer of the Word and not just a hearer, deceiving my own self.
Speaker 1: Let me be the pillar and ground of the truth in Jesus name, amen.
Speaker 1: Let's turn in our Bibles to the book of Acts.
Speaker 1: Of course Acts chapter 1 will start there in verse four.
Speaker 1: And being assembled together with them, that's Jesus with the disciples, the 12.
Speaker 1: He suggested to them that they don't leave Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: He begged them.
Speaker 1: No, he commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father, which sayeth he.
Speaker 1: You have heard of me In my Bible.
Speaker 1: I've got a little letter there and it refers me back to John, chapter 14, verse 16.
Speaker 1: He said Jesus.
Speaker 1: He said I'll pray the Father and He'll send you another comforter.
Speaker 1: So he's talking about what the Holy Ghost, the promise of the Father, is the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Nobody had the Holy Ghost until Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead.
Speaker 1: That's the first time.
Speaker 1: And then the disciples.
Speaker 1: He said receive you the Spirit.
Speaker 1: And he breathed on them.
Speaker 1: But they didn't get the baptism, they only had.
Speaker 1: They had the Spirit by virtue of the fact they were born again.
Speaker 1: And so he says to them, verse five but John truly baptized with water.
Speaker 1: But you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days from now, verse eight but you shall receive power after that.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and under the uttermost part of the earth.
Speaker 1: So, and then chapter two is when they got it and when the day of Pentecost was fully come.
Speaker 1: Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord, in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as a fire, and it sat upon each of them and they were all, all filled with the Holy Ghost and they all began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Speaker 1: So today, my message is entitled the power of Pentecost, the power of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: Last week we talked about the power of the prevailing Word and you know we need both.
Speaker 1: We need the Word and we need the Spirit.
Speaker 1: If we didn't need the Spirit, there never would have been a Pentecost.
Speaker 1: I mean, for goodness sake, most churches don't even know anything about it.
Speaker 1: They haven't even investigated it.
Speaker 1: A lot of them say it's from the devil.
Speaker 1: I mean how can, how could Pentecost be from the devil?
Speaker 1: And you know I'm not.
Speaker 1: We're not ashamed around here of speaking in tongues casting out devils laying hands on the sick.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what Jesus did, that's what we're supposed to be doing, but we're not very many of us doing it.
Speaker 1: Power of Pentecost the day when everything changed.
Speaker 1: I mean you had the disciples.
Speaker 1: They were weak, they were competitive with one another, john and Peter always kind of rivals, which one's gonna get to the tomb first.
Speaker 1: Peter outran him.
Speaker 1: He's a little faster on his feet than John.
Speaker 1: John said I'm the favorite, I'm Jesus' favorite.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, john, give me a break.
Speaker 1: I laugh.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just so.
Speaker 1: They're flesh, they're flesh, and yet God used them.
Speaker 1: I mean they sent them out, the twelve sent out.
Speaker 1: They had a taste of the power of God.
Speaker 1: They healed the sick, and then the seventy.
Speaker 1: They went out two and two and they got God used them again, but yet at the end they were so confused and so afraid they locked themselves behind closed doors.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to show their face.
Speaker 1: Peter denied the Lord and all of that thing.
Speaker 1: But then everything changed on the day of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: I mean when the Holy Ghost, the infilling of the Holy Ghost, turned ordinary weak human beings into fire, breathing, you know, miracle working soldiers of the cross.
Speaker 1: There's no way they could have done what they did and there's no way we can do what God has told us to do without the power of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: And so you know that appointed day, that appointed time it happened to be fifty days after Passover.
Speaker 1: So this day, pentecost, was really the Jewish feast of the end, gathering, harvest, or you could.
Speaker 1: They called it the feast of weeks, they called it the feast of tabernacles.
Speaker 1: You know it was known by a lot of names because the Jewish Judaism had certain symbols that they associated with each of the feast days.
Speaker 1: So God picked out this day, the feast of harvest, because if you're going to get a harvest of souls, you're going to need the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Just forget about it, otherwise you're not going to have the power.
Speaker 1: No wonder there's such weakness in America.
Speaker 1: Here is, I mean, everybody on the earth calls America a Christian nation, but no America, america is gave up because it's just not politically correct.
Speaker 1: We've got to have diversity, poppycock.
Speaker 1: And so now you had 120 people up in that upper room.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it kind of grew, the crowd kind of grew.
Speaker 1: He was only talking to the disciples.
Speaker 1: Where did the other, you know 108 people come from?
Speaker 1: Well, blessed Virgin was there, and different ones.
Speaker 1: I mean actually Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15-6, he said that Jesus, after the resurrection, appeared to over 500 people at one time in Jerusalem and only 120 out of the 500 showed up at the upper room.
Speaker 1: How did they know?
Speaker 1: I believe that Jesus told them again, I can't prove it, well, you can't prove he didn't.
Speaker 1: So there, my opinion is good, as yours, and it is my opinion.
Speaker 1: But you know what?
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be a bit surprised that when he appeared to the 500, what did he tell him?
Speaker 1: You better make sure you're filled with the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: I'm sending in here real soon.
Speaker 1: You find out from the 12 and you get with them and have and you wait.
Speaker 1: Don't you dare leave this town until you get filled with the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Don't be going into all the world and preaching the gospel, don't you be laying hands on anybody, don't you be casting any devils out.
Speaker 1: Until you get endued with power from on high, don't leave home without him, praise God.
Speaker 1: And so only 120 out of the 500, 24%.
Speaker 1: If in case you're wondering 24%, I kind of wish we had 24% success.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we've got 24% success anymore.
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot less than that.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say, but this day was 50 days after the Passover and Jesus told him you shall receive power after that.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost has come upon you.
Speaker 1: Did he come upon him?
Speaker 1: I said, did he come upon him?
Speaker 1: Yes, how do we know?
Speaker 1: They all spoke with tongues.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope we're past all this Charismatic phallus doctrine that went around the church during that Charismatic revival, because there were some people you know.
Speaker 1: The Charismatic revival touched every major denomination of Christian.
Speaker 1: I mean the Lutherans, the Episcopalians, the Catholics, the Baptists, the Church of Christ, disciples of Christ.
Speaker 1: I mean all these church Methodists.
Speaker 1: I mean it.
Speaker 1: Every denomination was touched by the Charismatic revival.
Speaker 1: And I remember I came in at the kind of the tail end of the Charismatic Reveal, got saved at that time and I was around a lot of that and they would.
Speaker 1: The favorite thing they could say is oh, I'm filled with the Holy Ghost, I just don't speak in tongues.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a bunch of baloney.
Speaker 1: You've got to speak in tongues.
Speaker 1: They're about full.
Speaker 1: Yeah, get full.
Speaker 1: See, that's a lie.
Speaker 1: See, there's a.
Speaker 1: There's a shame about speaking in tongues.
Speaker 1: They used to call Pentecostal.
Speaker 1: I raised Catholic so we had one Pentecostal church in town.
Speaker 1: We called them holy rollers.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know why, I had no idea, I just thought it was some kind of a derogatory term.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that they rolled around the church.
Speaker 1: I mean, and that first building there that we had over by the super target now I mean our first building we had like sandpaper for carpet.
Speaker 1: Remember Dwayne, that carpet.
Speaker 1: You know Dwayne was on our cleanup crew.
Speaker 1: He ran the cleanup crew.
Speaker 1: Every Tuesday He'd come and vacuumed the carpet and the carpet was so thin it was like sandpaper.
Speaker 1: So if you fell on that carpet, you know you don't want to skid because it's gonna leave a strawberry, I mean you're gonna bleed, and but we had people that would roll across the front.
Speaker 1: I mean they'd fall out.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost would come on them.
Speaker 1: I had one lady.
Speaker 1: She was all properly coiffed, she had a business suit on, she had her heels on.
Speaker 1: I mean she was dressed to the nines and she started rolling all across the front Never a hair out of place Just perfectly, you know, had her legs kind of you know crossed like that, and she just I said, well, I shouldn't be making fun of the Holy Rollers, cause we're Holy Rollers right here.
Speaker 1: Some of you are thinking, wow, what kind of church is this?
Speaker 1: Well, it's a full gospel spirit field.
Speaker 1: Most people that come visit they say what are you looking for?
Speaker 1: What did you put in there?
Speaker 1: Spirit field, do we qualify?
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to let her hair down one of these days on Sunday morning and let people know what spirit field really means.
Speaker 1: Well, the apostles got drunk, 120.
Speaker 1: They came sumbling out of the upper room, they fell down on the ground and they all thought they were drunk.
Speaker 1: It's nine o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: Peter stood up, say how did he stand up?
Speaker 1: He's on the ground and said these are not drunk, as you suppose.
Speaker 1: This is that spoken by the prophet Joel.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: The word power is the Greek word dunamis.
Speaker 1: It means force.
Speaker 1: It means miraculous power, miraculous ability, power and influence belonging to wealth.
Speaker 1: There's no excuse for the church being poor.
Speaker 1: I said there's no excuse for the church being poor.
Speaker 1: Well, pastor, but we just went through this.
Speaker 1: There's no excuse for the church being poor.
Speaker 1: We shouldn't.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't even affect us if we were walking in the power of Pentecost like we should.
Speaker 1: I mean the economy of the world, the economy of the country, the global pandemic.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make one bit of difference to people that are filled with the Holy Ghost and know it.
Speaker 1: It means power consisting in or resting upon armies, forces and hosts.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm not talking about physical armies.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the armies of heaven.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about angelic hosts are at our beck and call.
Speaker 1: They're hearkening under the voice of God's word in our mouth.
Speaker 1: When we speak the word, I'm telling you right now, angels are there on the way to fulfill what we're saying.
Speaker 1: I rebuke these riots and this looting in the name of Jesus across our country.
Speaker 1: These are not protesters.
Speaker 1: This is not a protest.
Speaker 1: This is lawlessness.
Speaker 1: Has nothing to do with that man that died on the side of the road.
Speaker 1: Terrible thing that happened.
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: Don't get caught up in this thing and thinking that they're doing anything.
Speaker 1: That's not the people involved in protest.
Speaker 1: That's.
Speaker 1: The people in.
Speaker 1: These are left wing nutjobs.
Speaker 1: This is the same group that's been operating now for the longest time.
Speaker 1: They wanna get rid of the president.
Speaker 1: They wanna get rid of the church.
Speaker 1: We have something to say about it, and so the power consisting in and resting upon armies and horses and hosts.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, we've got a whole lot more to say about the COVID-19 than medical science does.
Speaker 1: We've got a whole lot.
Speaker 1: We can make a lot more difference in this world and all the demonstrations that ever existed.
Speaker 1: Well, we need to have a conversation.
Speaker 1: No, you need to get full of the Holy Ghost and start preaching the word to your congregation faster.
Speaker 1: Quit being a victim all the time.
Speaker 1: Have you looked at the calendar?
Speaker 1: It's 2020.
Speaker 1: It's not 1860, what else do you want?
Speaker 1: Let's come on, let's rise above all of this.
Speaker 1: That's the conversation.
Speaker 1: The conversation ought to be this right here.
Speaker 1: This is a preach it Glory to God.
Speaker 1: I'm getting fired up.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost, it's all your fault.
Speaker 1: Y'all come in here so hungry.
Speaker 1: It just stirred the whole place up.
Speaker 1: It'd be a good time for the rapture to occur.
Speaker 1: We can't think of a better time.
Speaker 1: So Jesus commanded them to wait for the promise of the Father, the Holy Ghost, and he said you're gonna receive this power, miracle working power.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what?
Speaker 1: We don't have to wait any longer.
Speaker 1: That happened 2,000 years ago.
Speaker 1: There's no tarrying needed.
Speaker 1: When I came in, they would have tarry meeting.
Speaker 1: Well, that's just ignorance.
Speaker 1: They thought they had to do what the disciples did.
Speaker 1: The reason that they tarried is because the appointed day had not happened yet.
Speaker 1: They had to wait until the appointed time.
Speaker 1: Guess what?
Speaker 1: The appointed time has come and went.
Speaker 1: All we've gotta do is open our mouth and he will fill it.
Speaker 1: Get over our pride.
Speaker 1: That's the simple reason why most people don't get filled with.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost is too proud to speak in other tongues.
Speaker 1: Uh-oh, I didn't get very many amends.
Speaker 1: I got one from Micah.
Speaker 1: Micah back there.
Speaker 1: He was proud for many years.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just joking.
Speaker 1: You know, the Holy Ghost came 2,000 years ago.
Speaker 1: We don't have to tarry.
Speaker 1: We don't have to wait, we just receive.
Speaker 1: We receive what's already been given, what's already been poured out.
Speaker 1: We receive it Right.
Speaker 1: He shed forth his mighty power on all those who received the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Otherwise, god lied.
Speaker 1: Did God lie?
Speaker 1: No, so the power was poured.
Speaker 1: Well, that pastor, that was in the first century AD.
Speaker 1: It's passed away.
Speaker 1: Well then, the need hasn't passed away, has it?
Speaker 1: If they needed to have a demonstration of miracle, signs and wonders in order for them to believe, let's look at a verse here John, chapter 20,.
Speaker 1: John said this in the Gospel of John, chapter 20, or is it 21?
Speaker 1: John 20, verse 30, jesus said many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of other miracles and signs and wonders that Jesus did that are not written in the book, but these are written.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: That you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life through his name.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you a question.
Speaker 1: When Jesus was on the earth and he had to prove to them through signs, wonders and miracles that he was indeed the Christ and that they had to have that in order to have faith in him, do you think we have less need of that today?
Speaker 1: We've gotten more.
Speaker 1: We've gotten more need of it.
Speaker 1: Today we need to have a manifestation of signs and wonders and miracles, and not just in the church house.
Speaker 1: It needs to be everywhere you and I are.
Speaker 1: We need to bring that demonstration.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: I tell you, it's time the Spirit-filled church rise and release its awesome power.
Speaker 1: You know, brother Hagin used to say it this way.
Speaker 1: He said the world needs to be taught to receive Jesus.
Speaker 1: I've been all over the world teaching people to receive Jesus.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many crusades I've done Canada, philippines, I don't know six times.
Speaker 1: India, numerous times Mexico.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, when I'm preaching to a group of unbelievers, what do I do?
Speaker 1: Do I teach them about the baptism?
Speaker 1: Of course not.
Speaker 1: I teach them about Jesus and how to get saved.
Speaker 1: Get saved, yes.
Speaker 1: Usually I teach them about the Jesus that heals.
Speaker 1: I get a few of them healed and have them testify, and then I invite them to give their hearts to Jesus after that.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because they need to see that Jesus loves them and he loves them enough to heal them.
Speaker 1: This business about.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I've heard them say this before some of the ones that don't have miracles, that don't believe in the baptism, and so well you know, we need to see his face and not his hand.
Speaker 1: Seek his face, god, and not his hand.
Speaker 1: Really, jesus hand was always ready to move.
Speaker 1: You know, jesus, you can make me clean If you will.
Speaker 1: I will.
Speaker 1: He stretched out his hand and touched the leper.
Speaker 1: Instantly he was healed.
Speaker 1: I mean what?
Speaker 1: Well, son, you need to seek the face of God.
Speaker 1: Quit looking for his hand.
Speaker 1: I mean, thank God, jesus is nothing like dead religion, amen.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and they're talking about lying wonders.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of them, you know what?
Speaker 1: If there's a lying wonder, that means it's a counterfeit.
Speaker 1: That already tells you, then, that there are true wonders, the one that's talking about the lying wonders.
Speaker 1: Have you ever manifested a real wonder?
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 1: See, this is the church, you know.
Speaker 1: You know we teach people how to receive Jesus, but the church needs to to be taught how to receive the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of work to do.
Speaker 1: There's millions of Christians in this country that are devoid of God's power, and that's why this country is turning inside out, wrong side out.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to say, it's going to hell in a handbasket, because the church is sitting around saying oh well, we just love everybody, I Just love, we just love you.
Speaker 1: Well, why don't you do something besides love them and heal them?
Speaker 1: Why don't you do something and teach them how to, how to be wealthy as Christians?
Speaker 1: Quit teaching them that they, that they're victims.
Speaker 1: Quit teaching them to look to government to meet their needs.
Speaker 1: Teaching something how to get off a welfare.
Speaker 1: Teach them how.
Speaker 1: Teach them how to rise up and take authority over there, over their household.
Speaker 1: Come on, folks, there's a lot of need for teaching in that area.
Speaker 1: I don't have any listening ears.
Speaker 1: There are.
Speaker 1: In January 2005 I Went out to Newport Beach, california, to interview dr Orle Roberts and I.
Speaker 1: That summer, before that, in July, I Heard that he had had a visitation and by August he was on Christian television and and he was being interviewed.
Speaker 1: He had a couple of interviews that I saw one with by Benny Hinn interviewed him.
Speaker 1: It was, you know, I Don't know, I mean it, just being on television for 15 years and interviewing people.
Speaker 1: I mean I, I know a little bit about interviewing.
Speaker 1: You know you've got to ask a lot of questions, you've got a probe and, and when someone has a visitation from God, they can't even remember everything that was said, and so your job as an interviewer is to probe and To uncover Everything that you can to get the full revelation of what it was said out.
Speaker 1: And I and I'm not trying to be critical of Benny, but I mean it just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: And then, even worse than that interview was, was Richard, his own son, and Kenneth Copeland.
Speaker 1: The two of them interviewed Brother Roberts and they didn't let him talk.
Speaker 1: They're both preachers.
Speaker 1: What are preachers?
Speaker 1: Do well, they talk, and they did they.
Speaker 1: They have a whole segment.
Speaker 1: They asked a couple of questions but they didn't let.
Speaker 1: I mean, as soon as brother Roberts would get into the meat of it, they go off on a tangent and they left him out.
Speaker 1: And I was throwing thing.
Speaker 1: I threw my shoe at the TV.
Speaker 1: I Said God, give me a chance to interview him, and he did.
Speaker 1: God opened the door for me to go to his house and Sit in his living room and talk to him about what God revealed to him.
Speaker 1: Now I've known of him, I've been in meetings.
Speaker 1: When I was first saved and talked about that Wednesday night, you might have heard me talk about it, but I'd never met him and never I've been a partner of his.
Speaker 1: But of course I knew of him a very great influence and If you do or, robert, you heard him say this God is gonna do something good for you today, which was a revolutionary statement that he made during the 40s and 50s.
Speaker 1: In fact, churches would not invite him.
Speaker 1: They didn't want that positive message.
Speaker 1: They wanted the message that God is gonna roast you over an open fire.
Speaker 1: God is gonna leave you behind in the rapture.
Speaker 1: I Mean Pentecostals.
Speaker 1: They were in, they were hard.
Speaker 1: If you didn't get baptized a certain way, if you weren't part of our group, you're going to hell.
Speaker 1: They just wanted hell.
Speaker 1: They wanted hell all that.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to.
Speaker 1: They didn't want to hear about abundant life, they didn't want about prosperity.
Speaker 1: And so he, he had to have had to do a tent.
Speaker 1: They went outside the church and he had a tent that seated 10,000 people.
Speaker 1: I mean they got people healed and and all of that tremendous man of God and built a university, so forth and so on.
Speaker 1: So I Heard in the visitation and when I went to see him he showed me exactly where it happened.
Speaker 1: He said he said, john, it happened right here in this hallway.
Speaker 1: It was a little bedroom off to one side, lived in a town, on On a golf course, and you could see through the golf course all the way to Pacific.
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful neighborhood.
Speaker 1: But he had a next door neighbor with a common wall, so it was a duplex kind of a thing.
Speaker 1: And so he said I was in the bedroom and it was lunchtime, I was hungry, I wanted, I had they fixed me a sandwich.
Speaker 1: I came out of my bedroom down this hallway it's a short hallway into the living room.
Speaker 1: Well, go through the living room to the kitchen.
Speaker 1: He's gonna sit down to get your table and have lunch out of sandwich, he said.
Speaker 1: I got in the hallway and suddenly I said I heard a sound.
Speaker 1: It was so loud and I was wearing this little sweater and he had the sweater on that he was wearing that day and it was a button, button up little wool sweater, light sweater.
Speaker 1: He said it blew my sweater open like that.
Speaker 1: He said I had a friend that went to see the, the Space shuttle launch and he said something similar happened to him that that that space shuttle was so powerful You'd feel a heat off of that, the light, the sound was so loud and he was two miles from the launch site and it would just bend over the grass, the, the, the, the beach grass, it would bend over from the shock waves of the force of the blast.
Speaker 1: And he said I could feel in my body.
Speaker 1: I could feel it hit my clothes.
Speaker 1: The shock wave hit my clothes.
Speaker 1: They just had a launch Yesterday.
Speaker 1: Did you see the launch?
Speaker 1: You know we're back in business that finally had the first launch from the United States.
Speaker 1: And how long?
Speaker 1: Ten years or something.
Speaker 1: And so he said I heard that loud sound and then I saw this dark cloud.
Speaker 1: It didn't touch the earth and it came right over New York City.
Speaker 1: And I was reminded of Acts, chapter 2, where it said you know, was quoting the book of Joel and Peter was preaching this.
Speaker 1: And he said In Acts 2, he just read it to you as he quoted it to me.
Speaker 1: And he said I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vaper of smoke.
Speaker 1: The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
Speaker 1: He said.
Speaker 1: I thought about Acts, chapter 2, joel chapter 2.
Speaker 1: It's quoting Joel.
Speaker 1: He said I saw it.
Speaker 1: It didn't touch the ground, was over New York, it blocked out the Sun, then it spread up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States, across the country to the west, covered the whole country, this dark, thick cloud, and then around the world.
Speaker 1: Now, keep in mind this was in July 2004.
Speaker 1: So it was after 9-11.
Speaker 1: So you could, you could think well, maybe he saw 9-11.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation.
Speaker 1: People have said maybe he saw the COVID.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, new York was heavily.
Speaker 1: It didn't start in New York.
Speaker 1: I mean we know where it started, started in China.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I mean, I don't know what, what?
Speaker 1: I don't think that we have to interpret the dream.
Speaker 1: We just know that it's a sign that we're in the last days.
Speaker 1: That's the main thing.
Speaker 1: Let's not get caught up on what he saw, trying to make it work.
Speaker 1: We already have the word.
Speaker 1: The word says it's you know, you're going to see signs in the heavens above, wonders and earth beneath, and we're supposed to supply some of those signs and one of the churches supposed to have those signs and wonders to supply.
Speaker 1: And so he said I.
Speaker 1: Then he began to speak and I knew it was that voice, that God's voice began to speak to me and I was trembling and he said my church is not ready for the second coming of my son, america is not ready for the second coming of my son.
Speaker 1: My children, the Jews, are not ready for the second coming of my son.
Speaker 1: The world, of course, is not ready for the second coming of my son.
Speaker 1: And then he interrupted that and then instructed me.
Speaker 1: He said, of course, he's talking about the coming of God, the coming of Jesus, in two parts his coming, his coming for the church, which is the rapture, and then his coming with the church, which is final judgment.
Speaker 1: And he said so the church isn't ready.
Speaker 1: And then he said to me, john, he said there's a wasting of power in my church.
Speaker 1: Now, after that interview and it lasted almost I don't know an hour I have the DVD out there at the media center.
Speaker 1: You want to see it for yourself.
Speaker 1: It's very timely, it's just true.
Speaker 1: And is it up to date today, as it was 16 years ago?
Speaker 1: And what was amazing to me was that God chose a man who was always positive.
Speaker 1: He chose a man that always talked about the goodness of God and he let his wrath and his disappointment, his anger, be felt toward us.
Speaker 1: A corrective, chewing out.
Speaker 1: The reason I was so interested is because God told me to wake up the church in 1999.
Speaker 1: And I did what I could do as a young pastor, trying, you know, pastoring a church.
Speaker 1: What am I supposed to do?
Speaker 1: How am I supposed to wake up the church?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I just preached the word, I preached it to my.
Speaker 1: I woke up myself.
Speaker 1: I started finding out what he was talking about.
Speaker 1: I needed to know more about Israel, I needed to know about more about judgment, and well, jesus took our judgment.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but you're kind of hitting over the high spots.
Speaker 1: There's some things in there we need to look at, and so forth.
Speaker 1: And so I began to learn.
Speaker 1: And then, when I heard that Oral Roberts had this visitation wake up the church, let them know that they're asleep, that they're not, they're not ready I had to go see him.
Speaker 1: I had to go hear what he had to say, because I felt it was confirmation of what I already had.
Speaker 1: And here's a general.
Speaker 1: Here's a general in the church of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: At one time, in 1978, he was the third most recognized name on the earth.
Speaker 1: You might not even heard of him, you are.
Speaker 1: Maybe you only heard of Oral Roberts University, the basketball team.
Speaker 1: That's most people don't.
Speaker 1: They're doing good to even hear that.
Speaker 1: But I mean, oral Roberts was on Johnny Carson, I was.
Speaker 1: I was lost.
Speaker 1: I watched Johnny Carson every night that he was on the Johnny Carson show.
Speaker 1: He had a variety hour on, I think, cbs where he had the Oral Roberts singers and so forth.
Speaker 1: And so he did what he could to reach the Bible, reach the country with a positive God loves you kind of a message and with power.
Speaker 1: But here he is bringing a corrective word to the church.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: I mean a corrective word.
Speaker 1: There's a wasting of power in the church.
Speaker 1: I mean, I got back.
Speaker 1: I wrote a book, rise up and reap.
Speaker 1: It's out there.
Speaker 1: I have a DVD that we produced.
Speaker 1: It cost lots of money to go to cut.
Speaker 1: I took 12 people with me.
Speaker 1: We had, we had a cameraman, we had, we had two videos, we, we, we gave a $10,000 offering to him.
Speaker 1: I made a second trip a year later and it brought him another 10,000.
Speaker 1: And by the time I went the second time, that vision, that entire visitation, had evaporated because no one drew from it.
Speaker 1: No one wanted to hear it.
Speaker 1: I would, I would talk to pastors everywhere I'd go If I was at TBN hosting a program.
Speaker 1: If I was on Daystar hosting a program, I'd talk to them.
Speaker 1: If there was a pastor, I'd talk to him Would you like me to send you?
Speaker 1: And it was just like, yeah, well, if you want to, no, I don't want to.
Speaker 1: It didn't hit a chord with anybody.
Speaker 1: Nobody was interested in this man of God's visitation, this corrective word to the body of Christ.
Speaker 1: Nobody.
Speaker 1: I found no one wanted to hear it.
Speaker 1: I went to India and I preached it.
Speaker 1: I went to Philippines and preached it.
Speaker 1: I went, I preached it everywhere I could go preach it.
Speaker 1: Nobody cared.
Speaker 1: It's like people are wasting God's power.
Speaker 1: They are using the power of God for their own personal church, their own personal campus, their own little thing, their little blessed me club thing.
Speaker 1: Listen, we've got to got to expand our vision.
Speaker 1: There's a lost world and we're going to be held accountable.
Speaker 1: We need to speak up.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: So fast forward to talk to you, so fast forward to 2020, and I have to tell you I don't like saying it but not much has changed.
Speaker 1: Not much has changed.
Speaker 1: Much of the church is compliant with unconstitutional orders suspending their freedom of religion and their freedom to peaceably assemble.
Speaker 1: Let's just, oh, yeah, let's just go ahead.
Speaker 1: What, what, what, oh?
Speaker 1: You want me to tell people to stay home?
Speaker 1: Sure, I'll be glad to stay home.
Speaker 1: If you love your people, if you love your congregation, tell them to stay home.
Speaker 1: Stay home, I love you, stay safe, be safe.
Speaker 1: I can't stand it.
Speaker 1: I can't stand.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a mouthpiece of dead religion.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a mouthpiece, I'm sure not going to be a mouthpiece of left-wing, power-hungry people that are just trying to destroy our country and get rid of the church in the process and create such poverty in this country that we were headed upward man and suddenly, bam, there's a lot of people that are going to take longer than just a few months to come back from this.
Speaker 1: Some people ain't.
Speaker 1: There's only one way out, there's only one recipe, and that's the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: I think y'all are getting this.
Speaker 1: Thank God there's a crea Nobody walked out of here.
Speaker 1: You know I've been up here preaching before in this building.
Speaker 1: I'm preaching here.
Speaker 1: I had a whole family walk right out the door right in the middle of my preaching.
Speaker 1: They remember that when they were right there on the third row, whoop, stood up, walked right out I think that was a Sunday.
Speaker 1: I said Obama's a Muslim.
Speaker 1: My kids cringe every time I say that, true anyway.
Speaker 1: Oh, I tell you, people yearn for the truth.
Speaker 1: When they hear the truth, they know it's If their hearts are open, if they really read their Bible, if they really are filled with the Holy Ghost, when they hear the truth, there's something that just witnesses in their spirit.
Speaker 1: You don't have to convince them, you don't have to prove it to them, they just know.
Speaker 1: They just know.
Speaker 1: And that's the group I want to speak to.
Speaker 1: I can't convince everybody, but I tell you what I can bring a demonstration of the spirit and the power that can convince them.
Speaker 1: And then after that, if they don't believe it, well then that's on them.
Speaker 1: At least it won't be on me.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit selfish of me, I realize, but I don't want to stand before God and say, well, I didn't do enough, I didn't speak boldly enough, I had the fear of man.
Speaker 1: Fear of man brings a snare.
Speaker 1: I had to be delivered from the fear of you and the fear of my audience and the fear of the news media.
Speaker 1: Once we were under the inspection, I mean, we were scrutinized pretty heavily.
Speaker 1: When we filed a lawsuit back in early April, oh boy, the news media was real interested.
Speaker 1: They wanted to see if we were doing things right.
Speaker 1: I invited them to come back.
Speaker 1: Baloney on all the rules.
Speaker 1: We know it's all a fraud now, but a whole lot of people don't know that.
Speaker 1: All right, the power of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: There's three things I want to leave with you today.
Speaker 1: Number one the power of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: The power of signs, wonders and miracles.
Speaker 1: Jesus said these signs shall follow them.
Speaker 1: That believe.
Speaker 1: He said going to all the world, preach the gospel to every creature.
Speaker 1: He that believeth in his baptized shall be saved.
Speaker 1: He that believeth not shall be damned, condemned.
Speaker 1: And these signs shall follow them.
Speaker 1: That believe.
Speaker 1: Jesus didn't expect them to go preach the gospel without signs and wonders and miracles.
Speaker 1: He said you shall cast out demons in my name.
Speaker 1: In my name, you shall cast out demons In my name.
Speaker 1: You shall speak with new tongues.
Speaker 1: In my name, you will take up serpents.
Speaker 1: That means throw them out of the way when they try to stop you.
Speaker 1: If you drink any deadly thing, it shall not harm you, amen.
Speaker 1: You shall lay hands on the sick In my name.
Speaker 1: You shall lay hands on the sick.
Speaker 1: The sick, not the righteous sick, not the Christian sick.
Speaker 1: The sick that takes in a lot of folks, that takes in everybody that's afraid of this virus.
Speaker 1: You shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.
Speaker 1: The literal Greek is hands, they shall lay, healed, they shall be.
Speaker 1: That's power.
Speaker 1: And then he said don't leave Jerusalem till you're being viewed with power.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna be able to do this without the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: You've gotta have the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: That's the power you've gotta have.
Speaker 1: Don't leave without it.
Speaker 1: Are y'all with me now?
Speaker 1: Yes, see, we don't have to choose between love and power.
Speaker 1: Really, power is proof that love exists.
Speaker 1: If you say I love you and you don't have any power to help somebody, then how valuable is your love?
Speaker 1: Your love isn't God, because God is love, isn't?
Speaker 1: He?
Speaker 1: Is God love or not?
Speaker 1: Brother Osteen used to say this all the time God is love and he has power, but we don't have to choose between the two.
Speaker 1: Listen, the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: So when you get baptized in Holy Ghost, you're baptized in love you.
Speaker 1: Finally, you love people so much you can't stand to see them sick.
Speaker 1: You can't stand to see them demonized.
Speaker 1: You can't stand to see people going to hell.
Speaker 1: It's gonna motivate you to get out there and do something about it, to stand between them in eternity and say, no, you don't have to go to hell, no, you don't have to live sick, no, you don't have to be poor.
Speaker 1: That's love and anything else is just dead religion.
Speaker 1: I love you.
Speaker 1: See his face and not his hand.
Speaker 1: Brrr, I want both.
Speaker 1: We can have both.
Speaker 1: Glory to God.
Speaker 1: I mean, the hand of the Lord comes upon the church.
Speaker 1: Whoo, power is the proof of love, and then number two, power over finances.
Speaker 1: I remind you what the fairs dictionary of Bible words it says power and influence, and influence belonging to will.
Speaker 1: That's been the biggest problem of the churches broke, churches busted flat.
Speaker 1: I mean just nothing.
Speaker 1: There's nothing.
Speaker 1: No, thank God we got out of debt.
Speaker 1: We paid this entire campus off.
Speaker 1: We've got a surplus in the bank.
Speaker 1: We don't trust in the surplus, but thank God we've got one.
Speaker 1: We're not up here begging for you.
Speaker 1: Oh, please, give us $26,000 so we can replace the two units outside.
Speaker 1: We've already ordered them.
Speaker 1: We've got the money to pay for them, but I want you to know about it so God can tell you to be part of the supply.
Speaker 1: Why should we just pull the whole thing out of our reserve and pay for it?
Speaker 1: You ought to be part of it.
Speaker 1: It's your church.
Speaker 1: But we're not gonna wait till we can get the offering.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna wait till we can raise the money.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, we're selling a brick out in the parking lot for $5.
Speaker 1: If everybody wants your name on a brick, we put five bucks and we're gonna collect all that.
Speaker 1: Everybody put your pennies in a jar out in the lobby.
Speaker 1: We're collecting the 26,000.
Speaker 1: Do you have any pennies?
Speaker 1: It take to pay $26,000 for two units.
Speaker 1: No, that's not the thing I mean, you know.
Speaker 1: I'm just letting you know.
Speaker 1: It's your church.
Speaker 1: We don't have to beg.
Speaker 1: We don't have to get up here.
Speaker 1: Oh my God, aren't you glad We've got the power.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost gave us the power concerning finances and wealth.
Speaker 1: Are you with me now?
Speaker 1: In Acts 4.34, the Bible says that in that early church there was not one of them that lacked.
Speaker 1: I confess that, over Every one of us in this room and everybody watching, there's not one of us that lacked.
Speaker 1: Not one of us that lacked.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because the power of the Holy Ghost and you've been taught how to navigate in God's financial laws.
Speaker 1: There are financial laws that you have to learn.
Speaker 1: We teach them regularly here.
Speaker 1: We teach you how to be blessed, amen.
Speaker 1: So power of signs and wonders and miracles, power over finances and, finally, the power over governmental persecution.
Speaker 1: We're not afraid of the government.
Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but in the middle of all this riding and looting and all the controversy, that's dominated the news.
Speaker 1: It's dominated everything.
Speaker 1: You haven't heard anything.
Speaker 1: Isn't it kind of curious, though, that all the crowds have masks on, so you don't know whether they're wearing the mask because they're afraid of the virus or they're wearing the mask so nobody can identify them.
Speaker 1: They don't know which it is.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I think Antifa wears masks anyway.
Speaker 1: I don't think they want you to know there.
Speaker 1: But anyway, the power over governmental persecution.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, though, that in a decision five to four and John Roberts once again broke the deal and sided with the left wing justices on the Supreme Court that and turned down California gave the governor of California the right to regulate churches and tell them how many people they can have in there and what they have to do and what they can do and what they can't do.
Speaker 1: This is an abomination and I'm gonna say that as loud as I can.
Speaker 1: John Roberts, you need to repent because you claim to be a Catholic and you're a Christian.
Speaker 1: You're a Catholic and you're denying the churches in California their constitutional right.
Speaker 1: There's nothing in the Constitution, sir, that allows this.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you remove somebody like that, but the best way to do it is to make sure that Trump gets reelected so that he can.
Speaker 1: Some of these people are either gonna die or they're gonna quit one of the two, and then we can replace them.
Speaker 1: I tell you what I'm never gonna obey, that I'm never going to obey the government telling me what we can do in this building and on this property.
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna do it.
Speaker 1: So you just do whatever you have to do.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's what the disciples did.
Speaker 1: I mean you know they had to revi After.
Speaker 1: You know you don't know the story of Ann and I's father.
Speaker 1: They died, they lied to.
Speaker 1: The Holy Ghost said that they gave everything, and they didn't give everything.
Speaker 1: They didn't have the faith.
Speaker 1: It wasn't about giving everything, they just wanted to be noticed as if they gave everything.
Speaker 1: So they did it all for the wrong reasons anyway.
Speaker 1: And then they lied and Peter gave them a chance to tell the truth and they lied again.
Speaker 1: So they killed over dead and they, you know they had a that's an interesting church because they had a burial detail.
Speaker 1: Who wants to volunteer for the burial detail?
Speaker 1: Been asking that for a long time.
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever volunteered for that ministry.
Speaker 1: We don't need one.
Speaker 1: In this church Everybody tells the truth Anyway.
Speaker 1: So and so the fear of the Lord hit that community.
Speaker 1: I mean people said I don't know if I want to join that church.
Speaker 1: They were careful before they joined that church and then signs in Wonders of America.
Speaker 1: I mean they started getting people healed, so much that they brought sick in the streets of Jerusalem.
Speaker 1: And just if Peter, passing by his shadow, would just overshadow some of them and they would get healed of sickness, demons would leave them.
Speaker 1: Just his shadow hitting there.
Speaker 1: I mean just his shadow, done in his power, but his proximity to them, I mean the power of God.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the power of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: I mean this is the man that denied Jesus and he's got so much power that just getting close enough through his shadow is over these sick people and demonized people.
Speaker 1: They got delivered, they got healed.
Speaker 1: And boy, I mean the Sadducees man, I mean they got mad and they, you stopped that, beat them, put them in jail, you stopped teaching and preaching that name.
Speaker 1: And the angel of the Lord came and broke them out and said go, stand and speak all the words of this life, I'm glory to God.
Speaker 1: I mean that's an Acts chapter five, I mean.
Speaker 1: And then in Acts chapter 12, you know they had rested, you know which one was it, james, I think and killed him.
Speaker 1: And they were gonna kill Peter after Easter.
Speaker 1: And the angel came and broke Peter out of jail because prayer was made by the church without ceasing unto God, for the hymn, and they didn't know what they were praying about.
Speaker 1: They were praying for his deliverance, but they didn't know what else they were praying about.
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 1: Because they're praying in other tongues.
Speaker 1: And they prayed.
Speaker 1: You know, you wanna be part of a prayer meeting like that.
Speaker 1: A week from tonight, sunday night, a week from now, we're gonna have power hour plus, we're gonna have worship first and then an hour of prayer, so the whole set.
Speaker 1: You know we're gonna have that last hour and a half, but be part of a prayer meeting like that, it's effective.
Speaker 1: And so, anyway, the angel came and broke him out of jail and he goes down there and I mean they start looking for him and he's gone.
Speaker 1: They didn't know what to do.
Speaker 1: And then Herod left town.
Speaker 1: He didn't wanna, he knew he had been shown up, he knew he'd been, you know, humbled and he went down to Caesarea and started preaching down there and people started worshiping like he was God and everything.
Speaker 1: He took all the credit for his oratory and the angel standing by smote him and he was eating with worms and died.
Speaker 1: Well, where did that come from?
Speaker 1: It came from that kind of praying, I mean that kind of apostolic prayer, and that protects the church.
Speaker 1: We don't all have to go to jail, we don't all have to die.
Speaker 1: God's not looking for us to die.
Speaker 1: He's looking for us to stand up and be counted and not obey unrighteous decrees from a government.
Speaker 1: The government is of the people, by the people, not far the people, not over the people.
Speaker 1: They're trying to lord it over us and I say we're gonna push back real hard and we're gonna do some things that are maybe not just entirely politically correct, but they're gonna be according to the power of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 1: Come on, lift your hand.
Speaker 1: Let's rise up and release.
Speaker 1: Rise up and release the power of Pentecost.
Speaker 1: I can't do it by myself.
Speaker 1: It has to be with all of us.
Speaker 1: It has to affect the people in your world.