WEBVTT 00:00:00.302 --> 00:00:12.387 To pick them up and wave them around, make Jesus glad and devil mad and say this say, heavenly Father, I've tuned in to live stream because I'm a live wire. 00:00:12.387 --> 00:00:33.863 I'm fully awake and fully attentive to the Word of God and to the Holy Spirit and I look to the Word and the Spirit to guide me in all the affairs that are before me and I'm determined that I will manifest victory in Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:33.863 --> 00:00:36.939 We've got three places for you to look at tonight. 00:00:36.939 --> 00:00:46.415 First one is John, chapter 16, and a very familiar verse in John 16, 33. 00:00:46.415 --> 00:01:03.042 Jesus is speaking to his disciples and this is the night before he was crucified and he said in verse 33, these things I have spoken unto you that in me you might have peace In the world. 00:01:03.042 --> 00:01:09.811 You shall have tribulation, but be of good cheer or be of good courage. 00:01:09.811 --> 00:01:25.469 The word cheer means courage, be of good courage or be very courageous, another way to say that I have overcome the world and of course the emphasis there, the implication, is that we can too and we should. 00:01:25.469 --> 00:01:35.370 All right, and so in first John we go to first John, chapter five, verse four. 00:01:35.370 --> 00:01:42.888 And whatsoever the King James says whatsoever I think it whosoever be a little better than that. 00:01:42.888 --> 00:01:52.486 So whosoever is born of God overcomeeth the world, and this is the victory that overcomeeth the world, even our faith. 00:01:52.486 --> 00:01:55.546 And then the chapter before that. 00:01:55.546 --> 00:01:58.106 First, john, chapter four, verse 16. 00:01:58.106 --> 00:02:02.484 And we have known and believed the love that God has to us. 00:02:02.484 --> 00:02:08.026 God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him. 00:02:08.026 --> 00:02:19.310 Herein is our love made perfect or mature that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because, as he is, so are we in this world. 00:02:19.310 --> 00:02:27.325 There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear, because fear hath torment. 00:02:27.325 --> 00:02:33.052 He that fears is not made perfect or made mature in love. 00:02:33.052 --> 00:02:39.868 And so tonight I wanted to share a message entitled entitled Love, the Key to Victory. 00:02:39.868 --> 00:02:43.388 Love, the key to victory. 00:02:44.000 --> 00:02:48.007 According to the word here in verse four, we were born for victory. 00:02:48.007 --> 00:02:51.787 Everyone that's been born again not necessarily born into the world. 00:02:51.787 --> 00:02:56.403 If you were born into the world, that's not necessarily your destiny. 00:02:56.403 --> 00:03:01.187 Victory is definitely not your destiny. 00:03:01.187 --> 00:03:03.247 That's why you have to be born again. 00:03:03.247 --> 00:03:06.027 So he's talking about people that have been born again. 00:03:06.027 --> 00:03:16.228 And so when we've been born again by his spirit, then our destiny becomes victory, a victory over this world and everything in it. 00:03:16.228 --> 00:03:24.902 And this victory, this conquest, another word for victory when you look it up in your concordance, this success, that's another word. 00:03:24.902 --> 00:03:26.207 Success. 00:03:26.207 --> 00:03:28.325 You know, we're born for success. 00:03:30.662 --> 00:03:37.383 And it says this victory is overcoming, or subduing be another good word for overcoming. 00:03:37.383 --> 00:03:40.387 Subduing what's in this world. 00:03:40.387 --> 00:03:44.865 I mean, every Christian ought to subdue the things that are in this world. 00:03:44.865 --> 00:03:48.930 And how do we accomplish that subduing? 00:03:48.930 --> 00:03:53.603 It's by and through our faith, and we know that. 00:03:53.603 --> 00:03:59.320 And that's why Jesus said be of good courage, be courageous, I think. 00:03:59.320 --> 00:04:03.145 Every time I look at that word courageous, I think about Joshua. 00:04:03.185 --> 00:04:08.796 When Moses died, god came to Joshua. 00:04:08.796 --> 00:04:12.406 He said Moses, my servant is dead Now, therefore, arise, get up. 00:04:12.406 --> 00:04:14.780 You know, don't be mourning. 00:04:14.780 --> 00:04:18.184 And they did mourn for him in an official way, but in a personal way. 00:04:18.184 --> 00:04:23.360 Three times in that first chapter of Joshua, god encouraged Joshua. 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.668 He said be strong and very courageous. 00:04:25.668 --> 00:04:26.644 Three different times. 00:04:26.644 --> 00:04:31.605 And he said no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. 00:04:31.605 --> 00:04:34.779 As I was with Moses, so will I also be with thee. 00:04:34.779 --> 00:04:39.139 Well, we said the same thing to us as I was with Jesus, I will be also with thee. 00:04:39.139 --> 00:04:40.545 We have the same Holy Ghost. 00:04:40.545 --> 00:04:44.742 Jesus overcame the world and we can too, and we should. 00:04:44.742 --> 00:04:46.146 That's what we were born to do. 00:04:46.146 --> 00:04:47.845 And so, faith. 00:04:47.884 --> 00:04:51.163 People love God so much more than they fear. 00:04:51.163 --> 00:04:52.086 What's in the world? 00:04:52.086 --> 00:04:55.839 You know, perfect love casts out fear. 00:04:55.839 --> 00:05:06.939 When you're hooked up with God, it's not that you don't notice things, it's not that you don't have, maybe, an emotion of fear, but you don't move on that emotion. 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:08.687 You overcome that emotion because of your love. 00:05:08.687 --> 00:05:15.949 Your perfect love minimizes and throws out and casts away all fear that would hinder you from operating. 00:05:17.139 --> 00:05:18.185 So what's in the world? 00:05:18.185 --> 00:05:21.444 See, when we start thinking about it, what's in the world? 00:05:21.444 --> 00:05:22.663 Well, sins in the world. 00:05:22.663 --> 00:05:23.665 Jesus paid for it. 00:05:23.665 --> 00:05:26.639 You know, he paid for all the sin. 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.035 What else is in the world? 00:05:28.035 --> 00:05:30.819 Sickness Jesus took it himself. 00:05:30.819 --> 00:05:32.786 Bear our sickness and took our infirmities. 00:05:32.786 --> 00:05:35.963 Demons Jesus defeated them. 00:05:35.963 --> 00:05:37.846 The devil, he defeated him too. 00:05:37.846 --> 00:05:42.100 And so what else is in the world? 00:05:42.100 --> 00:05:43.675 Seeming impossibilities. 00:05:43.675 --> 00:05:47.252 I mean, there seems to be impossibilities Sometimes. 00:05:47.252 --> 00:05:49.720 You know, with man it's impossible, but not with God. 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:51.716 But with God all things are possible. 00:05:51.716 --> 00:05:54.478 And as well as that, all things are possible. 00:05:54.478 --> 00:05:59.774 To those who believe, those who act on the Word, there's nothing impossible. 00:05:59.774 --> 00:06:01.072 So those are the. 00:06:01.072 --> 00:06:03.754 That's what he's talking about overcoming the world. 00:06:03.754 --> 00:06:13.557 And so no, we're not afraid of the world, we're not afraid of what's in the world, we're not intimidated. 00:06:13.629 --> 00:06:18.497 I like to say to people do you think the Holy Spirit on the inside of you is intimidated by your trouble? 00:06:18.497 --> 00:06:21.476 Jesus said you're gonna have trouble in the world. 00:06:21.476 --> 00:06:24.329 I mean he said that in John 16, 33. 00:06:24.329 --> 00:06:32.278 He said in the world, you're gonna have trouble, you're gonna have tribulation, you're gonna have anguish, you're gonna have disappointments, you're gonna have those kinds of things. 00:06:32.278 --> 00:06:34.476 They're not at all unusual. 00:06:35.350 --> 00:06:40.077 But the difference between people of faith and others is that we overcome those things. 00:06:40.077 --> 00:06:42.057 We overcome every obstacle. 00:06:42.057 --> 00:06:44.737 You see, faith always is opposed. 00:06:44.737 --> 00:06:56.540 Why should we be surprised, when God has given us faith in a certain area, that the enemy would attack us in that very same area and try to oppose us? 00:06:56.540 --> 00:07:02.017 The answer is he always opposes faith, he always opposes any action that we take. 00:07:02.017 --> 00:07:07.516 But the great thing is that we have the power to overcome any obstacle. 00:07:07.516 --> 00:07:08.079 Amen. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:11.836 And we just run right through it, man, with the words of our mouth. 00:07:13.795 --> 00:07:26.172 And so perfect love of God, mature, I should say the mature love of God, the mature love of God casts out all fear and our faith. 00:07:26.172 --> 00:07:28.540 The Bible says our faith works by love. 00:07:28.540 --> 00:07:30.100 It operates by love. 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:33.932 Without love, everything is useless, there's no point. 00:07:33.932 --> 00:07:45.600 But with love our faith works, and our faith is the success which comes from our subduing this world and reminding it. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:46.774 It's under our feet. 00:07:46.774 --> 00:07:55.995 Somebody said one time if you've got anything to tell the devil, write it on the bottom of your shoes While you're walking on top of me. 00:07:55.995 --> 00:07:59.637 Read the message Praise God. 00:08:00.430 --> 00:08:06.619 You know everything around us right now, especially right now, the Antichrist system is working. 00:08:06.619 --> 00:08:12.197 You know, here in First John he talks about there are many Antichrists in the world. 00:08:12.197 --> 00:08:14.016 He's talking about that spirit. 00:08:14.016 --> 00:08:15.053 That spirit is alive. 00:08:15.053 --> 00:08:19.841 I'm pretty sure the Antichrist could be alive right now. 00:08:19.841 --> 00:08:21.716 Also, I wouldn't doubt it. 00:08:21.716 --> 00:08:28.540 Whether he is or not, that spirit is alive and he is influencing men and women. 00:08:28.540 --> 00:08:31.399 He's influencing what we call society. 00:08:31.399 --> 00:08:33.197 He's influencing politics. 00:08:33.197 --> 00:08:41.337 Wherever there's money and power, the Antichrist spirit is active and beginning to move in that way to possess all these things. 00:08:41.337 --> 00:08:52.634 You know, the Antichrist spirit is just like the devil it's a lying spirit, it's a murdering spirit, it's a thief they steal. 00:08:55.895 --> 00:08:57.740 And so let's look at something real quick. 00:08:57.740 --> 00:09:04.355 I was looking at here in 2 Thessalonians the other day, which is one of the end time books. 00:09:04.355 --> 00:09:15.533 2 Thessalonians, chapter two, Paul is writing to them in chapter one in chapter. 00:09:15.533 --> 00:09:20.475 In the first excuse me, the first book of Thessalonians, he talks about the rapture. 00:09:20.475 --> 00:09:32.298 And then they got so focused on the rapture of the church and how it got Jesus is gonna take us away off the earth that they all began to think it was gonna happen next week. 00:09:32.298 --> 00:09:42.073 So he had to correct their thinking, you know, and give them some guidance about what was gonna happen before that would happen. 00:09:42.073 --> 00:09:53.440 And in that chapter two of 2 Thessalonians he said verse seven for the mystery of iniquity, talking about the antichrist, does already work. 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.395 See, this is 2000 years ago. 00:09:55.395 --> 00:09:58.197 That spirit was already working then. 00:09:59.809 --> 00:10:10.259 So let's not get confused with the spirit of antichrist, which are many of those, many people who have that spirit, and the lawless one that the Bible speaks of. 00:10:10.259 --> 00:10:12.214 Those are two different things. 00:10:12.214 --> 00:10:16.567 They're similar, but there's one particular Person that will manifest. 00:10:16.567 --> 00:10:19.774 That he said for the mystery of iniquity does already work. 00:10:19.774 --> 00:10:25.530 Only he who now letteth will let Until he be taken out of the way. 00:10:25.530 --> 00:10:26.914 What in the world does that mean? 00:10:26.914 --> 00:10:28.398 Well, let's look at this, break it down. 00:10:28.398 --> 00:10:32.355 So the mystery of iniquity is working. 00:10:32.355 --> 00:10:34.870 Only he who now let it. 00:10:34.870 --> 00:10:35.692 Who's he talking about? 00:10:35.692 --> 00:10:37.297 He's talking about the church. 00:10:37.297 --> 00:10:41.106 The word letteth means Restrains. 00:10:41.106 --> 00:10:47.458 The church is still restraining that spirit until the church be taken out of the way. 00:10:47.458 --> 00:10:58.072 Once the church is raptured, then the antichrist himself will come on the scene and he will be All the things that the book of Revelation talks about. 00:10:58.072 --> 00:11:03.768 The book of Daniel talks about a little bit too, and so we so getting. 00:11:04.428 --> 00:11:06.192 What I wanted to say is the church. 00:11:06.192 --> 00:11:41.095 One of the main jobs of the church is to Restrain the spirit of antichrist, and so that kind of leads me to what we're going through right now this whole COVID panic, the politics of panic and fear which got a whole lot of people so afraid that they willingly and quickly gave up their Constitutional rights of peaceful assembly, their rights to having freedom of religion, the right to be able to earn a living doing what they do. 00:11:41.095 --> 00:11:47.756 They just sat at home under Under penalty of law, threatened with fines and imprisonment. 00:11:47.756 --> 00:11:50.192 And why did they do that? 00:11:50.192 --> 00:12:05.980 This is the spirit of antichrist ruling through politicians and government bureaucrats to exercise authority, unlawful authority, lawlessness, and over the people of God. 00:12:05.980 --> 00:12:14.499 I'm sorry, I don't like the fact that there are churches, even in Texas, where we have ability to open, and they're still closed. 00:12:14.499 --> 00:12:16.259 And what is their excuse? 00:12:16.259 --> 00:12:19.644 I'm sorry, I just don't feel that they have one. 00:12:19.644 --> 00:12:23.202 I don't see it in the Bible. 00:12:23.202 --> 00:12:24.801 I don't see how we should obey. 00:12:24.801 --> 00:12:26.437 Well, you know. 00:12:26.476 --> 00:12:27.942 But there's a terrible pandemic. 00:12:27.942 --> 00:12:29.681 It's not that much worse than the flu. 00:12:29.681 --> 00:12:31.801 I mean, the facts don't lie. 00:12:31.801 --> 00:12:34.421 They lied about the death rate. 00:12:34.421 --> 00:12:35.236 You did know that. 00:12:35.236 --> 00:12:37.524 All of that all went away real quick. 00:12:37.524 --> 00:12:45.177 They found out that the actual death rate from coronavirus is 6% of the numbers they've been quoting. 00:12:45.177 --> 00:12:45.860 6%. 00:12:45.860 --> 00:12:49.244 So let's just say there are 200,000 deaths in America. 00:12:49.244 --> 00:12:51.240 6% is the real number. 00:12:51.240 --> 00:12:52.344 That's 12,000. 00:12:52.344 --> 00:12:56.883 That's about half of the normal death rate of the flu every year. 00:12:56.883 --> 00:12:59.783 I have 25 to 50,000 people die of the flu every year. 00:12:59.855 --> 00:13:00.980 We don't shut the church down. 00:13:00.980 --> 00:13:02.620 We don't shut the economy down. 00:13:02.620 --> 00:13:04.802 We don't shut the schools down over the flu. 00:13:04.802 --> 00:13:07.802 I'm not denying there's a COVID. 00:13:07.802 --> 00:13:16.480 I'm not denying there is a disease, but I'm denying the reason that all this happened is not because of the disease. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:21.203 It's because of the Antichrist spirit and the church should be restraining that thing. 00:13:21.203 --> 00:13:25.219 So I salute all of you, all of Gloria's Way Church. 00:13:25.219 --> 00:13:33.985 I'm so proud of you because you've walked right along with us on this thing and you did your part as an example to the whole society. 00:13:33.985 --> 00:13:44.100 Hey, listen, we don't have to cow-tow to the government and do every little thing they tell us to do, and so I'm believing that more and more people will wake up and see that. 00:13:44.100 --> 00:13:52.980 So every time I see a mask, every time I see distancing, it's an indication that many, many people bought in to this fear and panic. 00:13:55.116 --> 00:14:07.086 And so the real issue about closing churches, and this is something I meditated on why would it be so important to shut the church down? 00:14:07.086 --> 00:14:11.099 Well, they just don't preach the gospel, that's true, but they preach it online. 00:14:11.099 --> 00:14:12.423 There's online services. 00:14:12.423 --> 00:14:14.984 Almost every church has got online. 00:14:14.984 --> 00:14:16.421 What's wrong with online? 00:14:16.421 --> 00:14:21.182 I mean, well, online is better than nothing, but it's not really what the church should have done. 00:14:21.182 --> 00:14:22.359 We've never done it before. 00:14:22.359 --> 00:14:25.023 We've never gone to only online. 00:14:25.023 --> 00:14:27.363 I mean, anybody that has a church building. 00:14:27.363 --> 00:14:32.681 They wouldn't say, oh, let's not bother with the church building, let's turn off the air conditioning and let's meet in the parking lot. 00:14:32.681 --> 00:14:34.100 Let's have a parking lot meeting. 00:14:34.100 --> 00:14:35.519 No, nobody would do that. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:38.543 That would not be the recipe for success. 00:14:40.215 --> 00:14:41.279 So why are we doing it? 00:14:41.279 --> 00:14:43.341 Because we bought in to this lie. 00:14:43.341 --> 00:14:46.523 And why did the Antichrist want it to happen. 00:14:46.523 --> 00:14:58.342 Because in a corporate service, in a service like we have and we've been having ever since April the fifth, by the way six months, almost six months we've been having church Sunday morning and Sunday night. 00:14:58.342 --> 00:15:13.456 We, as a matter of our own decision, decided to stay live stream on Wednesday night, not because we're afraid of gathering, but we felt like it was working very well and we were reaching a lot of other people that were watching. 00:15:13.456 --> 00:15:15.744 So it just is another way to do church. 00:15:15.744 --> 00:15:18.523 So I don't know how long we'll do it this way. 00:15:18.523 --> 00:15:21.421 We're doing it this way right now until the Holy Spirit tells us otherwise. 00:15:22.455 --> 00:15:31.224 But the reason the devil doesn't want us to meet is because of this corporate presence where we're worshiping God, the vertical side of worship. 00:15:31.224 --> 00:15:34.037 And the Bible says draw near to God, and what happens? 00:15:34.037 --> 00:15:35.061 He draws near to you. 00:15:35.061 --> 00:15:37.422 So what happens when we have a church service? 00:15:37.422 --> 00:15:42.437 It's different on live stream because we're not all together, we're not worshiping, we're hearing the Word. 00:15:42.437 --> 00:15:54.101 It's valuable, but in a worship service, in a church service, we've got our praise team, they're leading us in worship and we draw near to God, he draws near to us. 00:15:54.101 --> 00:15:56.763 And then the vertical component. 00:15:56.763 --> 00:16:01.287 So we have that closeness, that love is manifest. 00:16:01.287 --> 00:16:03.683 That's when you really know the love of God. 00:16:03.683 --> 00:16:14.480 You experience the love of God and you get to express your love to him in a more powerful way with all of the company of believers, people of like, precious faith. 00:16:15.778 --> 00:16:20.269 It is no way to reproduce that on live stream effectively. 00:16:20.269 --> 00:16:23.341 You can try it, but it's not. 00:16:23.341 --> 00:16:24.504 There's no comparison. 00:16:24.504 --> 00:16:27.743 And what is it that casts out fear? 00:16:27.743 --> 00:16:33.683 It's that assurance, that maturity of love that is experienced in a church service. 00:16:33.683 --> 00:16:44.760 And then the other part of that is the horizontal benefit, because you're in a room full of other believers, people, many of whom you know. 00:16:44.760 --> 00:16:50.423 You may not know everyone, but you know a lot of people and the love of God is expressed horizontally. 00:16:50.423 --> 00:16:54.500 I mean, I think about when people come up to this altar and have hands laid upon them. 00:16:54.500 --> 00:16:59.102 You're out there with your hands stretched out and you're believing with them to get healed. 00:16:59.102 --> 00:17:01.643 You're believing with them to have deliverance. 00:17:01.643 --> 00:17:04.002 You're believing with them to have a breakthrough. 00:17:04.002 --> 00:17:07.738 And when we pray for people in the live stream audience, you all lift your hand. 00:17:07.738 --> 00:17:12.862 That's the love of God being expressed horizontally and you experience the love of God. 00:17:12.954 --> 00:17:17.320 And when people need to know that love, they don't have to just do it by themselves. 00:17:17.320 --> 00:17:18.820 You can experience it by yourself. 00:17:18.820 --> 00:17:21.844 I'm not saying you can, but I'm saying it's enhanced. 00:17:21.844 --> 00:17:27.403 That's why the Bible says neglect, not the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is. 00:17:27.403 --> 00:17:36.778 And so what I've seen is that, once churches closed and stayed closed, that love got less and less and fear got more and more. 00:17:36.778 --> 00:17:45.608 And folks I don't know whether you know it or not, but this church is an example, and that's what I wanna do is I wanna be an example. 00:17:45.608 --> 00:17:47.026 I wanna project that example. 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:54.208 People need to gain the courage to get back and do what they've been doing, because that's what's necessary. 00:17:54.208 --> 00:17:54.709 It been. 00:17:54.709 --> 00:17:57.989 And so you get all the fear cast out. 00:17:57.989 --> 00:18:10.006 I mean, when you're just in love with Jesus and you're worshiping Him, and you're in love with brothers and sisters like you that have needs, or maybe they're here to supply the need, I mean there's nothing like it. 00:18:10.006 --> 00:18:17.406 And so the more we let panic fool us into giving away our liberty. 00:18:17.406 --> 00:18:20.348 See, that's what the whole game is. 00:18:20.348 --> 00:18:24.147 The communists found this out a long time ago. 00:18:24.147 --> 00:18:29.907 If you make the people afraid, they will give you their liberty in order for a government to protect them. 00:18:29.907 --> 00:18:32.606 That's how Hitler got in charge. 00:18:32.606 --> 00:18:42.827 That's how Castro got in charge, that's how all the Communist Party got in charge, and let's stop this right now. 00:18:42.827 --> 00:18:43.623 Let's stop it. 00:18:43.623 --> 00:18:50.450 Let's not participate in the fear and panic, let's not be so compliant with government. 00:18:50.450 --> 00:18:52.665 Let's stand up and say no. 00:18:53.500 --> 00:19:09.507 I heard about a pastor recently who has several thousand in his ministerial alliance and he made a trip out to California just on purpose to urge the churches out there that he was related to open up, even if it means paying a fine. 00:19:09.507 --> 00:19:12.189 Open up, defy the government. 00:19:12.189 --> 00:19:14.488 See, that's what the church ought to be doing. 00:19:14.488 --> 00:19:15.362 We ought to not be just. 00:19:15.362 --> 00:19:17.528 Oh well, let me wear my mask. 00:19:17.528 --> 00:19:20.587 You know, look, amen. 00:19:20.587 --> 00:19:22.823 We've proven it, haven't we here at Glorious Way. 00:19:22.823 --> 00:19:23.465 We've proven it. 00:19:24.200 --> 00:19:26.481 It's not that no one has gotten sick, but everybody. 00:19:26.481 --> 00:19:33.227 You know, during a flu season, some people get the flu, some people get sinus infections, some people have this, some people have that. 00:19:33.227 --> 00:19:38.042 It's not about, nobody ever has anything wrong with them physically. 00:19:38.042 --> 00:19:38.946 But what do we do? 00:19:38.946 --> 00:19:40.084 We recover. 00:19:40.084 --> 00:19:43.047 The fear of death is overrated. 00:19:43.047 --> 00:19:58.490 It's 99 point something percent survivable, and so that's what the devil is trying to plant in the church the fear of death, so that the devil can still kill and destroy in our nation. 00:19:58.490 --> 00:20:00.547 I say no, we're not gonna let it happen. 00:20:00.547 --> 00:20:01.128 Amen. 00:20:03.380 --> 00:20:22.963 Just on a side note, while I'm talking about this and you know, I've heard ever since I got saved God does not live in temples made by hands, because, you know, on the day that Jesus was crucified, after he died on the cross, there was a great earthquake. 00:20:22.963 --> 00:20:35.349 And earthquake and the veil of the temple, which is something like 21 inches thick, it was ripped in two from top to bottom, and that signified that God moved out of the temple. 00:20:35.349 --> 00:20:47.584 He no longer dwell, his dwelling place was no longer in the temple, and now our bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost which we have of God. 00:20:47.584 --> 00:20:50.728 First Corinthians six what know you not? 00:20:50.728 --> 00:20:55.323 That your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost which you have of God? 00:20:55.323 --> 00:20:57.223 You're not your own, you've been bought with a price. 00:20:57.223 --> 00:21:00.988 Therefore, glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. 00:21:00.988 --> 00:21:14.902 So, it's true, the Holy Spirit now makes his residence in our bodies, but that doesn't mean he's not present in buildings, because actually, on the day of Pentecost, I wanna prove it to you. 00:21:14.962 --> 00:21:19.224 Let's look at Acts, chapter two, and I've got a reason. 00:21:19.224 --> 00:21:19.988 I wanna share this. 00:21:19.988 --> 00:21:21.546 It's what's he talking about now? 00:21:21.546 --> 00:21:25.384 Well, it's just a little aside, little parenthesis, just bear with me. 00:21:25.384 --> 00:21:26.186 Acts, chapter two. 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:48.566 When the day of 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 seated and there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as a fire, and it sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance. 00:21:48.566 --> 00:21:56.332 So they were in this upper room and, it says, a sound filled the house. 00:21:56.332 --> 00:21:57.967 Well, what was the sound? 00:21:57.967 --> 00:21:59.865 Well, it was the sound of the Holy Ghost. 00:21:59.865 --> 00:22:03.228 Right, it wasn't just a thunderstorm passing by. 00:22:03.228 --> 00:22:06.785 We're talking about a thunderstorm, and so what? 00:22:06.965 --> 00:22:19.186 My point is on the day of Pentecost, the Holy Ghost began to be everywhere present, but he was more present and very present in the upper room than he was anywhere else in Jerusalem or anywhere else on the face of the earth. 00:22:19.186 --> 00:22:28.048 And so my point is that, yes, his dwelling place is on the inside of us individually and on the inside of us collectively. 00:22:28.048 --> 00:22:32.549 That's his dwelling place, but his presence is everywhere. 00:22:32.549 --> 00:22:34.567 He is everywhere present. 00:22:34.567 --> 00:22:41.720 God, the Holy Spirit is everywhere present, but I say he's more present here than he is just almost any place. 00:22:41.720 --> 00:22:44.740 I mean, let's take Zeke's bar and grill down the road. 00:22:44.740 --> 00:22:47.144 Well, he's more present here than he is there. 00:22:47.144 --> 00:22:52.960 I believe that, and my point of this is because we've had these two very big Republican meetings. 00:22:53.785 --> 00:23:07.440 We opened our church and allowed the Harris County to have their organizational meeting and they had delegates from every corner of Harris County, so some of them had to drive all the way from east side, west side, south side, north side. 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:13.919 They had to drive to this church because this was the only venue available and they had run out of time. 00:23:13.919 --> 00:23:17.980 And we opened our church building and they had such peace. 00:23:17.980 --> 00:23:23.417 They all went over and said my goodness, this meeting was so smooth, it was peaceful. 00:23:23.417 --> 00:23:23.680 Why was it? 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:24.719 We just felt so good. 00:23:24.719 --> 00:23:26.113 It was an atmosphere. 00:23:26.113 --> 00:23:26.759 What were they feeling? 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:28.720 They were feeling the Holy Ghost. 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:32.200 We're so quick to say, oh well, god doesn't live in buildings. 00:23:32.200 --> 00:23:34.779 Well, he doesn't live here, but he sure is here. 00:23:34.779 --> 00:23:40.579 This isn't his dwelling place, but he sure hangs out here a lot, because I feel him when I come in here in the week. 00:23:40.579 --> 00:23:41.939 I feel him in the offices. 00:23:41.939 --> 00:23:45.380 I feel him more here than I do in other places. 00:23:45.380 --> 00:23:49.679 You know, I feel him here. 00:23:49.679 --> 00:23:51.616 What do you mean feel? 00:23:51.616 --> 00:23:55.519 I perceive him, I sense him, and so did the Republicans. 00:23:57.432 --> 00:23:59.777 And then we had just this past weekend a state meeting here. 00:23:59.777 --> 00:24:06.259 The executive board met here 100, 100 plus people, and every one of them said oh, I love it. 00:24:06.259 --> 00:24:10.157 The atmosphere, I feel so much better, so peaceful. 00:24:10.157 --> 00:24:11.839 It's wonderful. 00:24:11.839 --> 00:24:13.019 What were they feeling? 00:24:13.019 --> 00:24:19.279 They were feeling the Holy Ghost, and it made them want to get, and some of them came from churches that are still closed. 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:20.460 So now they're kind of challenged. 00:24:20.460 --> 00:24:22.768 They want to get their churches opened up. 00:24:24.003 --> 00:24:31.920 So I tell you, thank God, the Holy Ghost is everywhere present and we can tap into his power. 00:24:31.920 --> 00:24:37.036 And let's just keep continuing on what we're doing right now. 00:24:37.036 --> 00:24:40.359 Let's be bold witnesses for what God is doing. 00:24:40.359 --> 00:24:43.291 I've got three little things, just some. 00:24:43.291 --> 00:24:45.719 Let us do, let us let some action out of it. 00:24:46.785 --> 00:24:49.359 Number one let's grow in love and fellowship with the Father. 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:54.839 I mean, that's something you know the love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, and love can grow. 00:24:54.839 --> 00:24:56.900 Love is one of the fruit of the Spirit. 00:24:56.900 --> 00:25:08.759 Love can increase, and the more we love, the less fear has a hold on us, the less we're likely to buy into any kind of panic and fear that's coming on the scene. 00:25:08.759 --> 00:25:18.000 Because, let me tell you something, government was paying attention to how many people were panic-stricken, and they're going to use this over and over again. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:21.160 We must get perfect and mature in love. 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:24.099 We must the church must grow in love. 00:25:24.099 --> 00:25:24.685 All right. 00:25:24.685 --> 00:25:25.839 Number two let's grow in love. 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:26.506 Let's grow in love. 00:25:27.365 --> 00:25:28.240 That's the second point. 00:25:28.240 --> 00:25:31.804 Let's grow in love and mercy for those that are lost in the world. 00:25:31.804 --> 00:25:34.366 See, not everybody's going to agree with us. 00:25:34.366 --> 00:25:39.150 Some people are going to call us names, like they did when we opened on Easter. 00:25:39.150 --> 00:25:44.505 We had people that were sending us ugly Facebook posts and Twitter feed, all that. 00:25:44.505 --> 00:25:46.680 Well, that's okay. 00:25:46.680 --> 00:25:49.667 One person actually called the church and was ugly. 00:25:49.667 --> 00:25:51.481 That's fine. 00:25:51.481 --> 00:25:57.201 Don't threaten us, we'll call the cops on you, but anyway. 00:25:57.201 --> 00:26:00.805 But let's grow in love and mercy toward those that are without. 00:26:00.805 --> 00:26:02.507 They just don't know God like we do. 00:26:02.507 --> 00:26:04.748 They're not made perfect in that love. 00:26:04.748 --> 00:26:08.464 The Christians aren't, or they wouldn't obey this kind of silliness. 00:26:09.619 --> 00:26:15.006 And third, let's be examples for Jesus' love right here, right now. 00:26:15.006 --> 00:26:17.446 I mean, the world needs what we've got. 00:26:17.446 --> 00:26:18.349 What do we have? 00:26:18.349 --> 00:26:40.928 Well, we've got faith, but faith works by love, and so let's manifest that love by telling people the truth, modeling the right behavior, modeling the right attitude, and let's not crumble under every tin horn dictator that comes along with some quote unquote health expert that probably flunked out of medical. 00:26:40.928 --> 00:26:42.723 I shouldn't say that I don't know any of them. 00:26:42.723 --> 00:26:50.364 Okay, I just don't trust them, I think by virtue of some of the stuff that went on with the COVID thing. 00:26:50.364 --> 00:26:54.348 So let's wake up and let's manifest the love of God. 00:26:54.348 --> 00:26:55.412 Amen. 00:26:55.412 --> 00:26:57.646 Let's lift our hands and receive the word tonight. 00:26:57.646 --> 00:26:58.904 Praise God, love. 00:26:58.904 --> 00:27:00.704 And I mean we got the victory. 00:27:00.704 --> 00:27:02.464 We've got the victory. 00:27:02.464 --> 00:27:05.542 That's the way we get the victory, amen.