WEBVTT 00:00:00.322 --> 00:00:02.774 Those Bibles around make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:02.774 --> 00:00:07.347 Let's say this together Say, heavenly Father, I'm here on Pentecost Sunday. 00:00:07.347 --> 00:00:10.980 I stayed around after the resurrection. 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:14.727 I want everything you've got for me today. 00:00:14.727 --> 00:00:19.902 Have an open heart and a willing mind. 00:00:19.902 --> 00:00:34.082 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. 00:00:34.082 --> 00:00:41.780 Let me be the pillar and ground of the truth in Jesus name, amen. 00:00:41.859 --> 00:00:43.606 Let's turn in our Bibles to the book of Acts. 00:00:43.606 --> 00:00:53.990 Of course Acts chapter 1 will start there in verse four. 00:00:53.990 --> 00:00:58.968 And being assembled together with them, that's Jesus with the disciples, the 12. 00:00:58.968 --> 00:01:03.740 He suggested to them that they don't leave Jerusalem. 00:01:03.740 --> 00:01:05.343 He begged them. 00:01:05.343 --> 00:01:15.590 No, he commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father, which sayeth he. 00:01:15.590 --> 00:01:18.667 You have heard of me In my Bible. 00:01:18.667 --> 00:01:22.868 I've got a little letter there and it refers me back to John, chapter 14, verse 16. 00:01:22.868 --> 00:01:23.512 He said Jesus. 00:01:23.512 --> 00:01:26.343 He said I'll pray the Father and He'll send you another comforter. 00:01:26.504 --> 00:01:30.644 So he's talking about what the Holy Ghost, the promise of the Father, is the Holy Ghost. 00:01:30.644 --> 00:01:37.504 Nobody had the Holy Ghost until Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead. 00:01:37.504 --> 00:01:38.388 That's the first time. 00:01:38.388 --> 00:01:39.682 And then the disciples. 00:01:39.682 --> 00:01:41.447 He said receive you the Spirit. 00:01:41.447 --> 00:01:42.489 And he breathed on them. 00:01:42.489 --> 00:01:44.405 But they didn't get the baptism, they only had. 00:01:44.405 --> 00:01:47.721 They had the Spirit by virtue of the fact they were born again. 00:01:47.721 --> 00:01:54.620 And so he says to them, verse five but John truly baptized with water. 00:01:54.620 --> 00:02:04.210 But you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days from now, verse eight but you shall receive power after that. 00:02:04.210 --> 00:02:17.268 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. 00:02:17.268 --> 00:02:26.961 So, and then chapter two is when they got it and when the day of Pentecost was fully come. 00:02:26.961 --> 00:02:58.550 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. 00:03:00.032 --> 00:03:06.812 So today, my message is entitled the power of Pentecost, the power of Pentecost. 00:03:06.812 --> 00:03:12.468 Last week we talked about the power of the prevailing Word and you know we need both. 00:03:12.468 --> 00:03:14.441 We need the Word and we need the Spirit. 00:03:14.441 --> 00:03:18.473 If we didn't need the Spirit, there never would have been a Pentecost. 00:03:18.473 --> 00:03:24.359 I mean, for goodness sake, most churches don't even know anything about it. 00:03:24.359 --> 00:03:26.145 They haven't even investigated it. 00:03:26.145 --> 00:03:27.849 A lot of them say it's from the devil. 00:03:27.849 --> 00:03:30.848 I mean how can, how could Pentecost be from the devil? 00:03:30.848 --> 00:03:34.258 And you know I'm not. 00:03:34.258 --> 00:03:38.942 We're not ashamed around here of speaking in tongues casting out devils laying hands on the sick. 00:03:38.942 --> 00:03:43.663 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. 00:03:45.606 --> 00:03:50.585 Power of Pentecost the day when everything changed. 00:03:50.585 --> 00:03:52.151 I mean you had the disciples. 00:03:52.151 --> 00:04:01.903 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. 00:04:01.903 --> 00:04:03.527 Peter outran him. 00:04:03.527 --> 00:04:05.361 He's a little faster on his feet than John. 00:04:05.361 --> 00:04:09.395 John said I'm the favorite, I'm Jesus' favorite. 00:04:09.395 --> 00:04:11.481 I mean, come on, john, give me a break. 00:04:11.481 --> 00:04:13.426 I laugh. 00:04:13.426 --> 00:04:14.269 I mean it's just so. 00:04:14.269 --> 00:04:17.062 They're flesh, they're flesh, and yet God used them. 00:04:17.062 --> 00:04:19.369 I mean they sent them out, the twelve sent out. 00:04:19.369 --> 00:04:21.201 They had a taste of the power of God. 00:04:21.201 --> 00:04:23.468 They healed the sick, and then the seventy. 00:04:23.468 --> 00:04:32.129 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. 00:04:32.129 --> 00:04:33.442 They didn't want to show their face. 00:04:33.442 --> 00:04:38.120 Peter denied the Lord and all of that thing. 00:04:38.161 --> 00:04:40.694 But then everything changed on the day of Pentecost. 00:04:40.694 --> 00:04:53.173 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. 00:04:53.173 --> 00:05:02.964 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. 00:05:02.964 --> 00:05:15.115 And so you know that appointed day, that appointed time it happened to be fifty days after Passover. 00:05:15.115 --> 00:05:22.360 So this day, pentecost, was really the Jewish feast of the end, gathering, harvest, or you could. 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:25.511 They called it the feast of weeks, they called it the feast of tabernacles. 00:05:25.511 --> 00:05:38.935 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. 00:05:38.935 --> 00:05:47.884 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. 00:05:47.884 --> 00:05:52.047 Just forget about it, otherwise you're not going to have the power. 00:05:53.952 --> 00:05:56.982 No wonder there's such weakness in America. 00:05:56.982 --> 00:06:07.502 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. 00:06:07.502 --> 00:06:13.148 We've got to have diversity, poppycock. 00:06:13.148 --> 00:06:22.384 And so now you had 120 people up in that upper room. 00:06:22.384 --> 00:06:24.461 I mean, you know it kind of grew, the crowd kind of grew. 00:06:24.500 --> 00:06:26.290 He was only talking to the disciples. 00:06:26.290 --> 00:06:29.824 Where did the other, you know 108 people come from? 00:06:29.824 --> 00:06:33.091 Well, blessed Virgin was there, and different ones. 00:06:33.091 --> 00:06:49.004 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. 00:06:49.004 --> 00:06:50.447 How did they know? 00:06:50.649 --> 00:06:54.704 I believe that Jesus told them again, I can't prove it, well, you can't prove he didn't. 00:06:54.704 --> 00:07:01.507 So there, my opinion is good, as yours, and it is my opinion. 00:07:01.507 --> 00:07:02.069 But you know what? 00:07:02.069 --> 00:07:05.855 I wouldn't be a bit surprised that when he appeared to the 500, what did he tell him? 00:07:05.855 --> 00:07:08.305 You better make sure you're filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:07:08.305 --> 00:07:09.649 I'm sending in here real soon. 00:07:09.649 --> 00:07:14.290 You find out from the 12 and you get with them and have and you wait. 00:07:14.290 --> 00:07:17.475 Don't you dare leave this town until you get filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:07:17.475 --> 00:07:24.007 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. 00:07:24.007 --> 00:07:30.927 Until you get endued with power from on high, don't leave home without him, praise God. 00:07:30.927 --> 00:07:36.704 And so only 120 out of the 500, 24%. 00:07:36.723 --> 00:07:43.196 If in case you're wondering 24%, I kind of wish we had 24% success. 00:07:43.196 --> 00:07:47.531 I don't even think we've got 24% success anymore. 00:07:47.531 --> 00:07:49.682 I think it's a lot less than that. 00:07:49.682 --> 00:08:01.213 I'm sorry to say, but this day was 50 days after the Passover and Jesus told him you shall receive power after that. 00:08:01.213 --> 00:08:02.622 The Holy Ghost has come upon you. 00:08:02.622 --> 00:08:03.584 Did he come upon him? 00:08:03.584 --> 00:08:08.458 I said, did he come upon him? 00:08:08.458 --> 00:08:10.403 Yes, how do we know? 00:08:10.504 --> 00:08:12.149 They all spoke with tongues. 00:08:12.149 --> 00:08:22.406 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. 00:08:22.406 --> 00:08:26.447 The Charismatic revival touched every major denomination of Christian. 00:08:26.447 --> 00:08:32.961 I mean the Lutherans, the Episcopalians, the Catholics, the Baptists, the Church of Christ, disciples of Christ. 00:08:32.961 --> 00:08:35.167 I mean all these church Methodists. 00:08:35.167 --> 00:08:35.768 I mean it. 00:08:35.768 --> 00:08:39.789 Every denomination was touched by the Charismatic revival. 00:08:39.789 --> 00:08:47.703 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. 00:08:47.703 --> 00:08:51.346 The favorite thing they could say is oh, I'm filled with the Holy Ghost, I just don't speak in tongues. 00:08:51.346 --> 00:08:52.541 Well, that's a bunch of baloney. 00:08:52.541 --> 00:08:53.865 You've got to speak in tongues. 00:08:53.865 --> 00:08:54.568 They're about full. 00:08:54.568 --> 00:08:56.274 Yeah, get full. 00:08:56.274 --> 00:08:57.480 See, that's a lie. 00:08:57.480 --> 00:08:58.923 See, there's a. 00:08:58.923 --> 00:09:01.006 There's a shame about speaking in tongues. 00:09:02.629 --> 00:09:03.813 They used to call Pentecostal. 00:09:03.813 --> 00:09:07.599 I raised Catholic so we had one Pentecostal church in town. 00:09:07.599 --> 00:09:08.653 We called them holy rollers. 00:09:08.653 --> 00:09:12.677 I didn't even know why, I had no idea, I just thought it was some kind of a derogatory term. 00:09:12.677 --> 00:09:15.077 I didn't know that they rolled around the church. 00:09:15.077 --> 00:09:23.596 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. 00:09:23.596 --> 00:09:25.596 Remember Dwayne, that carpet. 00:09:25.596 --> 00:09:27.654 You know Dwayne was on our cleanup crew. 00:09:27.654 --> 00:09:30.034 He ran the cleanup crew. 00:09:30.034 --> 00:09:36.239 Every Tuesday He'd come and vacuumed the carpet and the carpet was so thin it was like sandpaper. 00:09:36.239 --> 00:09:49.100 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. 00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:50.634 I mean they'd fall out. 00:09:50.634 --> 00:09:51.735 The Holy Ghost would come on them. 00:09:51.850 --> 00:09:52.552 I had one lady. 00:09:52.552 --> 00:09:56.754 She was all properly coiffed, she had a business suit on, she had her heels on. 00:09:56.754 --> 00:10:16.895 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. 00:10:16.895 --> 00:10:21.655 Some of you are thinking, wow, what kind of church is this? 00:10:21.655 --> 00:10:25.900 Well, it's a full gospel spirit field. 00:10:25.900 --> 00:10:29.580 Most people that come visit they say what are you looking for? 00:10:29.580 --> 00:10:31.154 What did you put in there? 00:10:31.154 --> 00:10:33.073 Spirit field, do we qualify? 00:10:33.073 --> 00:10:38.517 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. 00:10:43.259 --> 00:10:45.485 Well, the apostles got drunk, 120. 00:10:45.485 --> 00:10:50.015 They came sumbling out of the upper room, they fell down on the ground and they all thought they were drunk. 00:10:50.015 --> 00:10:51.294 It's nine o'clock in the morning. 00:10:51.294 --> 00:10:53.557 Peter stood up, say how did he stand up? 00:10:53.557 --> 00:10:57.619 He's on the ground and said these are not drunk, as you suppose. 00:10:57.619 --> 00:10:59.758 This is that spoken by the prophet Joel. 00:10:59.758 --> 00:11:00.975 Glory to God. 00:11:06.129 --> 00:11:08.558 The word power is the Greek word dunamis. 00:11:08.558 --> 00:11:09.514 It means force. 00:11:09.514 --> 00:11:20.019 It means miraculous power, miraculous ability, power and influence belonging to wealth. 00:11:20.019 --> 00:11:23.980 There's no excuse for the church being poor. 00:11:23.980 --> 00:11:28.957 I said there's no excuse for the church being poor. 00:11:28.957 --> 00:11:30.755 Well, pastor, but we just went through this. 00:11:30.755 --> 00:11:33.899 There's no excuse for the church being poor. 00:11:33.899 --> 00:11:34.471 We shouldn't. 00:11:34.471 --> 00:11:39.677 It shouldn't even affect us if we were walking in the power of Pentecost like we should. 00:11:39.677 --> 00:11:48.049 I mean the economy of the world, the economy of the country, the global pandemic. 00:11:48.049 --> 00:11:54.818 It doesn't make one bit of difference to people that are filled with the Holy Ghost and know it. 00:11:54.818 --> 00:12:05.014 It means power consisting in or resting upon armies, forces and hosts. 00:12:05.014 --> 00:12:07.057 Now, I'm not talking about physical armies. 00:12:07.057 --> 00:12:09.597 I'm talking about the armies of heaven. 00:12:09.597 --> 00:12:13.841 I'm talking about angelic hosts are at our beck and call. 00:12:13.841 --> 00:12:17.231 They're hearkening under the voice of God's word in our mouth. 00:12:17.231 --> 00:12:25.196 When we speak the word, I'm telling you right now, angels are there on the way to fulfill what we're saying. 00:12:28.149 --> 00:12:32.437 I rebuke these riots and this looting in the name of Jesus across our country. 00:12:32.437 --> 00:12:34.676 These are not protesters. 00:12:34.676 --> 00:12:35.995 This is not a protest. 00:12:35.995 --> 00:12:37.234 This is lawlessness. 00:12:37.234 --> 00:12:40.796 Has nothing to do with that man that died on the side of the road. 00:12:40.796 --> 00:12:41.975 Terrible thing that happened. 00:12:41.975 --> 00:12:43.554 That has nothing to do with that. 00:12:43.554 --> 00:12:48.397 Don't get caught up in this thing and thinking that they're doing anything. 00:12:48.397 --> 00:12:51.399 That's not the people involved in protest. 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:51.730 That's. 00:12:51.730 --> 00:12:52.592 The people in. 00:12:52.592 --> 00:12:54.479 These are left wing nutjobs. 00:12:54.479 --> 00:12:58.214 This is the same group that's been operating now for the longest time. 00:12:58.214 --> 00:13:01.816 They wanna get rid of the president. 00:13:01.816 --> 00:13:03.154 They wanna get rid of the church. 00:13:03.154 --> 00:13:14.692 We have something to say about it, and so the power consisting in and resting upon armies and horses and hosts. 00:13:14.692 --> 00:13:20.135 I'm telling you right now, we've got a whole lot more to say about the COVID-19 than medical science does. 00:13:20.135 --> 00:13:21.013 We've got a whole lot. 00:13:21.013 --> 00:13:26.019 We can make a lot more difference in this world and all the demonstrations that ever existed. 00:13:26.750 --> 00:13:28.256 Well, we need to have a conversation. 00:13:28.256 --> 00:13:33.559 No, you need to get full of the Holy Ghost and start preaching the word to your congregation faster. 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:37.017 Quit being a victim all the time. 00:13:37.017 --> 00:13:38.697 Have you looked at the calendar? 00:13:38.697 --> 00:13:39.653 It's 2020. 00:13:39.653 --> 00:13:45.221 It's not 1860, what else do you want? 00:13:45.221 --> 00:13:47.197 Let's come on, let's rise above all of this. 00:13:47.197 --> 00:13:48.394 That's the conversation. 00:13:48.394 --> 00:13:50.658 The conversation ought to be this right here. 00:13:50.658 --> 00:13:59.873 This is a preach it Glory to God. 00:13:59.873 --> 00:14:01.494 I'm getting fired up. 00:14:01.533 --> 00:14:04.033 The Holy Ghost, it's all your fault. 00:14:04.033 --> 00:14:07.676 Y'all come in here so hungry. 00:14:07.676 --> 00:14:09.335 It just stirred the whole place up. 00:14:09.335 --> 00:14:12.616 It'd be a good time for the rapture to occur. 00:14:12.616 --> 00:14:14.274 We can't think of a better time. 00:14:14.274 --> 00:14:24.355 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. 00:14:24.789 --> 00:14:25.393 Well, you know what? 00:14:25.393 --> 00:14:27.316 We don't have to wait any longer. 00:14:27.316 --> 00:14:28.976 That happened 2,000 years ago. 00:14:28.976 --> 00:14:30.294 There's no tarrying needed. 00:14:30.294 --> 00:14:33.818 When I came in, they would have tarry meeting. 00:14:34.350 --> 00:14:35.293 Well, that's just ignorance. 00:14:35.293 --> 00:14:38.037 They thought they had to do what the disciples did. 00:14:38.037 --> 00:14:41.859 The reason that they tarried is because the appointed day had not happened yet. 00:14:41.859 --> 00:14:44.256 They had to wait until the appointed time. 00:14:44.256 --> 00:14:44.818 Guess what? 00:14:44.818 --> 00:14:47.357 The appointed time has come and went. 00:14:47.357 --> 00:14:50.419 All we've gotta do is open our mouth and he will fill it. 00:14:50.419 --> 00:14:53.014 Get over our pride. 00:14:53.014 --> 00:14:57.413 That's the simple reason why most people don't get filled with. 00:14:57.433 --> 00:15:00.735 The Holy Ghost is too proud to speak in other tongues. 00:15:00.735 --> 00:15:06.235 Uh-oh, I didn't get very many amends. 00:15:06.235 --> 00:15:07.815 I got one from Micah. 00:15:07.815 --> 00:15:08.738 Micah back there. 00:15:08.738 --> 00:15:11.076 He was proud for many years. 00:15:11.076 --> 00:15:11.913 No, I'm just joking. 00:15:11.913 --> 00:15:18.676 You know, the Holy Ghost came 2,000 years ago. 00:15:18.676 --> 00:15:19.578 We don't have to tarry. 00:15:19.578 --> 00:15:21.874 We don't have to wait, we just receive. 00:15:21.874 --> 00:15:24.674 We receive what's already been given, what's already been poured out. 00:15:24.674 --> 00:15:26.171 We receive it Right. 00:15:26.171 --> 00:15:32.198 He shed forth his mighty power on all those who received the Holy Ghost. 00:15:32.198 --> 00:15:34.634 Otherwise, god lied. 00:15:34.634 --> 00:15:36.636 Did God lie? 00:15:36.636 --> 00:15:39.355 No, so the power was poured. 00:15:39.355 --> 00:15:41.457 Well, that pastor, that was in the first century AD. 00:15:41.457 --> 00:15:42.374 It's passed away. 00:15:42.374 --> 00:15:44.798 Well then, the need hasn't passed away, has it? 00:15:45.149 --> 00:15:54.413 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,. 00:15:54.413 --> 00:15:59.910 John said this in the Gospel of John, chapter 20, or is it 21? 00:15:59.910 --> 00:16:15.576 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. 00:16:15.576 --> 00:16:25.975 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. 00:16:25.975 --> 00:16:27.779 Why? 00:16:27.779 --> 00:16:33.488 That you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you might have life through his name. 00:16:33.488 --> 00:16:35.549 So let me ask you a question. 00:16:36.863 --> 00:16:52.269 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? 00:16:52.269 --> 00:16:54.009 We've gotten more. 00:16:54.009 --> 00:16:57.197 We've gotten more need of it. 00:16:57.197 --> 00:17:04.578 Today we need to have a manifestation of signs and wonders and miracles, and not just in the church house. 00:17:04.578 --> 00:17:07.438 It needs to be everywhere you and I are. 00:17:07.438 --> 00:17:09.935 We need to bring that demonstration. 00:17:09.935 --> 00:17:11.513 Are you with me now? 00:17:11.513 --> 00:17:19.616 I tell you, it's time the Spirit-filled church rise and release its awesome power. 00:17:19.616 --> 00:17:22.238 You know, brother Hagin used to say it this way. 00:17:22.238 --> 00:17:25.638 He said the world needs to be taught to receive Jesus. 00:17:26.750 --> 00:17:29.199 I've been all over the world teaching people to receive Jesus. 00:17:29.199 --> 00:17:35.299 I don't know how many crusades I've done Canada, philippines, I don't know six times. 00:17:35.299 --> 00:17:39.772 India, numerous times Mexico. 00:17:39.772 --> 00:17:44.398 I mean, you know, when I'm preaching to a group of unbelievers, what do I do? 00:17:44.398 --> 00:17:45.974 Do I teach them about the baptism? 00:17:45.974 --> 00:17:46.577 Of course not. 00:17:46.577 --> 00:17:48.455 I teach them about Jesus and how to get saved. 00:17:48.455 --> 00:17:49.761 Get saved, yes. 00:17:49.761 --> 00:17:54.259 Usually I teach them about the Jesus that heals. 00:17:54.259 --> 00:17:59.836 I get a few of them healed and have them testify, and then I invite them to give their hearts to Jesus after that. 00:17:59.836 --> 00:18:01.560 Why? 00:18:01.560 --> 00:18:05.696 Because they need to see that Jesus loves them and he loves them enough to heal them. 00:18:05.696 --> 00:18:09.094 This business about. 00:18:09.434 --> 00:18:17.932 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. 00:18:17.932 --> 00:18:26.079 Seek his face, god, and not his hand. 00:18:26.079 --> 00:18:31.258 Really, jesus hand was always ready to move. 00:18:31.258 --> 00:18:34.373 You know, jesus, you can make me clean If you will. 00:18:34.373 --> 00:18:35.056 I will. 00:18:35.056 --> 00:18:37.557 He stretched out his hand and touched the leper. 00:18:37.557 --> 00:18:38.874 Instantly he was healed. 00:18:38.874 --> 00:18:39.656 I mean what? 00:18:39.656 --> 00:18:43.661 Well, son, you need to seek the face of God. 00:18:43.661 --> 00:18:46.375 Quit looking for his hand. 00:18:46.375 --> 00:18:51.354 I mean, thank God, jesus is nothing like dead religion, amen. 00:18:53.681 --> 00:18:57.130 Well, you know, and they're talking about lying wonders. 00:18:57.130 --> 00:18:58.681 There's a bunch of them, you know what? 00:18:58.681 --> 00:19:01.607 If there's a lying wonder, that means it's a counterfeit. 00:19:01.607 --> 00:19:07.444 That already tells you, then, that there are true wonders, the one that's talking about the lying wonders. 00:19:07.444 --> 00:19:09.871 Have you ever manifested a real wonder? 00:19:09.871 --> 00:19:10.833 Probably not. 00:19:12.342 --> 00:19:14.817 See, this is the church, you know. 00:19:14.817 --> 00:19:21.113 You know we teach people how to receive Jesus, but the church needs to to be taught how to receive the Holy Spirit. 00:19:21.113 --> 00:19:22.986 We've got a lot of work to do. 00:19:22.986 --> 00:19:31.440 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. 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:42.306 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. 00:19:42.306 --> 00:19:44.932 Well, why don't you do something besides love them and heal them? 00:19:44.932 --> 00:19:49.328 Why don't you do something and teach them how to, how to be wealthy as Christians? 00:19:49.328 --> 00:19:51.673 Quit teaching them that they, that they're victims. 00:19:51.673 --> 00:19:56.349 Quit teaching them to look to government to meet their needs. 00:19:56.349 --> 00:20:00.527 Teaching something how to get off a welfare. 00:20:00.527 --> 00:20:01.188 Teach them how. 00:20:01.188 --> 00:20:05.319 Teach them how to rise up and take authority over there, over their household. 00:20:05.319 --> 00:20:11.009 Come on, folks, there's a lot of need for teaching in that area. 00:20:11.009 --> 00:20:13.516 I don't have any listening ears. 00:20:13.516 --> 00:20:13.977 There are. 00:20:13.997 --> 00:20:26.084 In January 2005 I Went out to Newport Beach, california, to interview dr Orle Roberts and I. 00:20:26.084 --> 00:20:38.026 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. 00:20:38.026 --> 00:20:41.633 He had a couple of interviews that I saw one with by Benny Hinn interviewed him. 00:20:41.633 --> 00:20:52.988 It was, you know, I Don't know, I mean it, just being on television for 15 years and interviewing people. 00:20:52.988 --> 00:20:56.134 I mean I, I know a little bit about interviewing. 00:20:56.134 --> 00:21:15.843 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. 00:21:15.843 --> 00:21:20.583 And I and I'm not trying to be critical of Benny, but I mean it just didn't happen. 00:21:20.623 --> 00:21:27.189 And then, even worse than that interview was, was Richard, his own son, and Kenneth Copeland. 00:21:27.189 --> 00:21:30.686 The two of them interviewed Brother Roberts and they didn't let him talk. 00:21:30.686 --> 00:21:32.531 They're both preachers. 00:21:32.531 --> 00:21:33.916 What are preachers? 00:21:33.916 --> 00:21:36.883 Do well, they talk, and they did they. 00:21:36.883 --> 00:21:38.267 They have a whole segment. 00:21:38.267 --> 00:21:40.532 They asked a couple of questions but they didn't let. 00:21:40.532 --> 00:21:46.748 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. 00:21:46.807 --> 00:21:48.109 And I was throwing thing. 00:21:48.109 --> 00:21:49.753 I threw my shoe at the TV. 00:21:49.753 --> 00:21:55.334 I Said God, give me a chance to interview him, and he did. 00:21:55.334 --> 00:22:06.834 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. 00:22:06.834 --> 00:22:09.281 Now I've known of him, I've been in meetings. 00:22:09.281 --> 00:22:19.270 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. 00:22:19.270 --> 00:22:37.930 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. 00:22:38.269 --> 00:22:40.555 In fact, churches would not invite him. 00:22:40.555 --> 00:22:43.505 They didn't want that positive message. 00:22:43.505 --> 00:22:47.133 They wanted the message that God is gonna roast you over an open fire. 00:22:47.133 --> 00:22:52.334 God is gonna leave you behind in the rapture. 00:22:52.334 --> 00:22:54.566 I Mean Pentecostals. 00:22:54.566 --> 00:22:56.049 They were in, they were hard. 00:22:56.049 --> 00:23:00.743 If you didn't get baptized a certain way, if you weren't part of our group, you're going to hell. 00:23:00.743 --> 00:23:03.025 They just wanted hell. 00:23:03.025 --> 00:23:04.391 They wanted hell all that. 00:23:04.391 --> 00:23:04.932 They didn't want to. 00:23:04.932 --> 00:23:08.324 They didn't want to hear about abundant life, they didn't want about prosperity. 00:23:08.324 --> 00:23:11.211 And so he, he had to have had to do a tent. 00:23:11.211 --> 00:23:15.394 They went outside the church and he had a tent that seated 10,000 people. 00:23:15.394 --> 00:23:23.614 I mean they got people healed and and all of that tremendous man of God and built a university, so forth and so on. 00:23:24.664 --> 00:23:32.391 So I Heard in the visitation and when I went to see him he showed me exactly where it happened. 00:23:32.391 --> 00:23:36.259 He said he said, john, it happened right here in this hallway. 00:23:36.259 --> 00:23:43.690 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. 00:23:43.690 --> 00:23:46.105 It was a beautiful neighborhood. 00:23:46.105 --> 00:23:51.679 But he had a next door neighbor with a common wall, so it was a duplex kind of a thing. 00:23:51.679 --> 00:24:00.059 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. 00:24:00.059 --> 00:24:04.692 I came out of my bedroom down this hallway it's a short hallway into the living room. 00:24:04.692 --> 00:24:06.708 Well, go through the living room to the kitchen. 00:24:06.708 --> 00:24:11.281 He's gonna sit down to get your table and have lunch out of sandwich, he said. 00:24:11.321 --> 00:24:15.250 I got in the hallway and suddenly I said I heard a sound. 00:24:15.250 --> 00:24:27.888 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. 00:24:27.888 --> 00:24:31.015 He said it blew my sweater open like that. 00:24:31.015 --> 00:24:59.013 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. 00:24:59.013 --> 00:25:00.960 And he said I could feel in my body. 00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:02.586 I could feel it hit my clothes. 00:25:02.586 --> 00:25:05.326 The shock wave hit my clothes. 00:25:05.326 --> 00:25:08.340 They just had a launch Yesterday. 00:25:08.340 --> 00:25:09.343 Did you see the launch? 00:25:09.343 --> 00:25:13.430 You know we're back in business that finally had the first launch from the United States. 00:25:13.430 --> 00:25:14.451 And how long? 00:25:14.451 --> 00:25:15.534 Ten years or something. 00:25:17.102 --> 00:25:24.012 And so he said I heard that loud sound and then I saw this dark cloud. 00:25:24.012 --> 00:25:27.174 It didn't touch the earth and it came right over New York City. 00:25:27.174 --> 00:25:35.530 And I was reminded of Acts, chapter 2, where it said you know, was quoting the book of Joel and Peter was preaching this. 00:25:35.530 --> 00:25:44.746 And he said In Acts 2, he just read it to you as he quoted it to me. 00:25:44.746 --> 00:25:52.599 And he said I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vaper of smoke. 00:25:52.599 --> 00:26:00.173 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come. 00:26:00.173 --> 00:26:01.602 He said. 00:26:01.642 --> 00:26:04.671 I thought about Acts, chapter 2, joel chapter 2. 00:26:04.671 --> 00:26:06.525 It's quoting Joel. 00:26:06.525 --> 00:26:08.364 He said I saw it. 00:26:08.364 --> 00:26:23.674 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. 00:26:24.961 --> 00:26:27.848 Now, keep in mind this was in July 2004. 00:26:27.848 --> 00:26:29.073 So it was after 9-11. 00:26:29.073 --> 00:26:32.989 So you could, you could think well, maybe he saw 9-11. 00:26:32.989 --> 00:26:33.410 I don't know. 00:26:33.410 --> 00:26:34.532 There's a lot of speculation. 00:26:34.532 --> 00:26:37.184 People have said maybe he saw the COVID. 00:26:37.184 --> 00:26:37.846 I don't know. 00:26:37.846 --> 00:26:40.593 I mean, new York was heavily. 00:26:40.593 --> 00:26:42.306 It didn't start in New York. 00:26:42.306 --> 00:26:45.650 I mean we know where it started, started in China. 00:26:46.942 --> 00:26:48.969 But anyway, I mean, I don't know what, what? 00:26:48.969 --> 00:26:51.660 I don't think that we have to interpret the dream. 00:26:51.660 --> 00:26:55.250 We just know that it's a sign that we're in the last days. 00:26:55.250 --> 00:26:57.804 That's the main thing. 00:26:57.804 --> 00:27:02.359 Let's not get caught up on what he saw, trying to make it work. 00:27:02.359 --> 00:27:05.048 We already have the word. 00:27:05.048 --> 00:27:18.604 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. 00:27:18.604 --> 00:27:22.259 And so he said I. 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:41.169 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. 00:27:41.169 --> 00:27:48.467 My children, the Jews, are not ready for the second coming of my son. 00:27:48.467 --> 00:27:55.587 The world, of course, is not ready for the second coming of my son. 00:27:55.587 --> 00:27:59.015 And then he interrupted that and then instructed me. 00:27:59.015 --> 00:28:12.547 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. 00:28:12.547 --> 00:28:16.083 And he said so the church isn't ready. 00:28:16.083 --> 00:28:26.890 And then he said to me, john, he said there's a wasting of power in my church. 00:28:28.575 --> 00:28:36.185 Now, after that interview and it lasted almost I don't know an hour I have the DVD out there at the media center. 00:28:36.185 --> 00:28:37.661 You want to see it for yourself. 00:28:37.661 --> 00:28:40.421 It's very timely, it's just true. 00:28:40.421 --> 00:28:43.765 And is it up to date today, as it was 16 years ago? 00:28:43.765 --> 00:28:53.528 And what was amazing to me was that God chose a man who was always positive. 00:28:53.528 --> 00:29:07.450 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. 00:29:07.450 --> 00:29:10.844 A corrective, chewing out. 00:29:14.156 --> 00:29:18.494 The reason I was so interested is because God told me to wake up the church in 1999. 00:29:18.494 --> 00:29:23.194 And I did what I could do as a young pastor, trying, you know, pastoring a church. 00:29:23.194 --> 00:29:24.575 What am I supposed to do? 00:29:24.575 --> 00:29:26.154 How am I supposed to wake up the church? 00:29:26.154 --> 00:29:29.125 I mean, you know, I just preached the word, I preached it to my. 00:29:29.125 --> 00:29:30.234 I woke up myself. 00:29:30.234 --> 00:29:32.154 I started finding out what he was talking about. 00:29:32.154 --> 00:29:38.234 I needed to know more about Israel, I needed to know about more about judgment, and well, jesus took our judgment. 00:29:38.234 --> 00:29:40.474 Well, yeah, but you're kind of hitting over the high spots. 00:29:40.474 --> 00:29:44.914 There's some things in there we need to look at, and so forth. 00:29:44.914 --> 00:29:46.275 And so I began to learn. 00:29:46.897 --> 00:29:55.795 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. 00:29:55.795 --> 00:30:01.522 I had to go hear what he had to say, because I felt it was confirmation of what I already had. 00:30:01.522 --> 00:30:02.506