Speaker 1: So I was I feel like this is for us,
Speaker 1: But the Lord was working on my heart and he
Speaker 1: told me we need to steward his presence when he
Speaker 1: comes and gives us these meeting together, him meeting with
Speaker 1: us moments like that. It's a holy thing. It's a
Speaker 1: special thing. And even as you may be unpacking stuff
Speaker 1: that you got like last week, like you may be
Speaker 1: still unpacking, do you know what I'm talking about? Like that,
Speaker 1: I feel like the Lord is saying we need to
Speaker 1: be careful to steward it well. Because if I have
Speaker 1: a relationship with my wife, but I don't give her
Speaker 1: any care, concern, nor position or place in my life,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that probably we might have some marital problems
Speaker 1: or marital challenges.
Speaker 2: And so in the same context as we are.
Speaker 1: Yoked, connected, attached to the King, really the same thing
Speaker 1: is true, and that is that if I didn't value
Speaker 1: my marriage, I could lose it. If I didn't value
Speaker 1: when He came and touched me, when there's these special moments,
Speaker 1: these holy times he comes and does something.
Speaker 2: If we're what you don't value, you can lose.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm just throwing it at you because I just
Speaker 1: feel like there's something like a little bit of weight
Speaker 1: on that. Okay, so do you know you're living in
Speaker 1: one of the most exciting times to be a Christian,
Speaker 1: most exciting times ever.
Speaker 2: I'm going to read you some statistics. These are from
Speaker 2: the Barnet Group Barnar Research Group.
Speaker 1: There's been a forty two percent increase in Bible sales.
Speaker 1: Gen Z and Millennials have recently surpassed Baby Boomers in
Speaker 1: church attendance.
Speaker 2: Church. Listen to this statistic.
Speaker 1: Church attendance has doubled in the past five years for
Speaker 1: gen Z and Millennials. Don't cheer for this one, but
Speaker 1: there has been a consistent decline in participation in church
Speaker 1: rates and in church attendance over the past twenty five years.
Speaker 1: With boomers, however, listen to this, there has been a
Speaker 1: significant shift in church attendance in who is showing up.
Speaker 1: Barner Research Group says this about this shift, this is
Speaker 1: what it says. It says relational connection, volunteer engagement, and
Speaker 1: clear discipleship pathways are helping them gen Z Millennials to
Speaker 1: build a resilient and lasting faith. That don't sound like
Speaker 1: a weak gospel to me. That sounds like a strong gospel.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a gospel that takes ground. Okay, we're
Speaker 1: living in an exciting time, and so I'm kicking off
Speaker 1: a seven part series. Pastor Dwayne had a great idea,
Speaker 1: came up with this, and so our preaching teams, everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna take a chunk of this. But Joe's gonna be
Speaker 1: a preaching a message on communion, Frank is gonna do
Speaker 1: the laying on of hands and anointing with oil, Roman's
Speaker 1: gonna do the prophetic, Gary's gonna do grace and power
Speaker 1: for healing, Zach's gonna do supernatural gifts, and Austin's gonna
Speaker 1: do worship. So I'm here kind of prime in the
Speaker 1: pump today. Okay, so I'm gonna what my goal is here.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna preach on communion or excuse me, on baptism
Speaker 1: here in just a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I want to prime the pump in telling you.
Speaker 1: That I believe God is putting a door in front
Speaker 1: of us of discovery, of discovery. There's stuff for us
Speaker 1: to discover in Christ that we don't yet know. And
Speaker 1: when we do this, we can uncover fresh streams of revival,
Speaker 1: fresh streams of personal revelation. And a substantial growth.
Speaker 2: To the house.
Speaker 1: Okay, I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago when
Speaker 1: I had the opportunity to preach on the Lord's prayer,
Speaker 1: And the thing I'd mentioned is that if we only
Speaker 1: ascend to understanding biblical truth from a head knowledge standpoint,
Speaker 1: what will happen is we might be full of a
Speaker 1: lot of biblical facts, we might even have some decent doctrine,
Speaker 1: but we can be very very.
Speaker 2: We can be very lacking.
Speaker 1: We can be missing something as far as the experiential
Speaker 1: move of God, like the understanding something in a way
Speaker 1: that He shows it to you that you didn't know
Speaker 1: it before. If we said, you know I love my wife, Well,
Speaker 1: does somebody who's five know what love means? No?
Speaker 2: But you learn what love is when you experience.
Speaker 1: The interaction not only with God but with your spouse,
Speaker 1: with the sacrifice of giving your life, then you develop
Speaker 1: what love is.
Speaker 2: Right, then you begin to know what that is.
Speaker 1: But I'm sharing all of this because I feel like
Speaker 1: the Lord is playing a little bit of hide and.
Speaker 2: Seek with us.
Speaker 1: So over these next weeks, do yourself a favor, and
Speaker 1: do not settle for head knowledge. Do yourself a favor
Speaker 1: and do not accept what you think you know about
Speaker 1: an ancient path or an ancient way that we've had
Speaker 1: in the past that brings life. Don't just say well
Speaker 1: I've been baptized once. Well that is good, but there
Speaker 1: there might be another baptism in store for you, right.
Speaker 1: Don't just say well I took communion last week. Well,
Speaker 1: God has a capacity to touch you fresh again this
Speaker 1: week with it.
Speaker 2: Okay. So I really feel.
Speaker 1: Like there's something very for like our house, our body,
Speaker 1: where God's gonna do some really miraculous things through this series.
Speaker 1: And so and I'm just priming the pump, okay. So
Speaker 1: Proverbs twenty five to two. Please, so God conceals.
Speaker 2: Actually, I'm gonna do anasp First, it.
Speaker 1: Is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But
Speaker 1: the glory of kings is to search a matter out.
Speaker 1: That's Proverbs twenty five to two. Proverbs twenty five two.
Speaker 1: Let's put up the passion translation, if you would. God
Speaker 1: conceals the revelation of his word in the hiding place
Speaker 1: of his glory. But the honor of kings is revealed
Speaker 1: by how thoroughly they search out the deeper meaning of
Speaker 1: all that God says. So if God conceals revelation and
Speaker 1: a hiding place for his glory and his word. When
Speaker 1: we get in the word, do you know what happens?
Speaker 1: Do you know what we get revelation of His glory.
Speaker 1: You can't get his word revealed to you and not
Speaker 1: end up with the glory of God coming and visiting
Speaker 1: your life.
Speaker 2: Is that making sense?
Speaker 1: Like there's something powerful when we search things out for
Speaker 1: Him that just it wrecks us.
Speaker 2: We were not the same after.
Speaker 1: So, and I'm gonna this message is gonna have two parts. Okay,
Speaker 1: first is the priming of the pump. Then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: talk about baptism. So in the priming of the pump,
Speaker 1: when I knew I was going to be preaching on baptism,
Speaker 1: I kept getting woke awoke at night, and I kept
Speaker 1: getting awoke, and the same thing kept happened to me.
Speaker 1: And so then I'm like, okay, I got to get up.
Speaker 1: And what happened is the Lord started to give me
Speaker 1: a picture of the removal of rocks from the well
Speaker 1: and then he actually said you need to go and
Speaker 1: look at the digging of the wells and so and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, I've got my Bible open, and
Speaker 1: every single place I can find something on this I'm
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 2: And so I'm going to start off here.
Speaker 1: My first scripture is Genesis twenty six three through five.
Speaker 1: So there's a famine in the land of Egypt. Isaac
Speaker 1: is communing with God. And at the time Isaac is
Speaker 1: living in Gharaar. There is a Philistine king by the
Speaker 1: name of Abimelech who is ruling over this region. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the context through the backstory for it. This is
Speaker 1: what the Lord is saying to him. To Isaac, he says, stay,
Speaker 1: this is twenty Genesis twenty six, three through five. Stay
Speaker 1: in this land for a while, and I will be
Speaker 1: with you, and I will bless you. For you and
Speaker 1: your descendants, I will give all of these lands, and
Speaker 1: I will confirm.
Speaker 2: The oath I swore to your father, Abraham.
Speaker 1: I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars
Speaker 1: in the sky, and will give them all these lands.
Speaker 1: And through your offspring, all nations of the earth will
Speaker 1: be blessed. Because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I
Speaker 1: required of him, keeping my commandments, my decrees, and my instructions.
Speaker 1: So God is declaring that there's going to be a
Speaker 1: supernatural favor of God, a blessing of God, a hand
Speaker 1: of God over his son Isaac. And he's saying, it's
Speaker 1: tied to the covenant your father kept. And because your
Speaker 1: father kept my commandments, he kept my ways, he was
Speaker 1: concerned my instructions, my decrees, he was concerned about me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to convey that same blessing on you, my son.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So that's the dialogue between him and God. So listen
Speaker 1: to this. So what does he do based upon that declaration?
Speaker 2: This is Gen. Six twenty six, twelve through sixteen.
Speaker 1: Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year
Speaker 1: reaped a hundred fold. Because the Lord blessed him, the
Speaker 1: man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until
Speaker 1: he became very wealthy.
Speaker 2: So he's not a little bit wealthy. He's very wealthy. Okay.
Speaker 1: He had so many flocks and herds and servants that
Speaker 1: the Philistines envied him. So all the wells from his
Speaker 1: father's servants that had been dug in the time of
Speaker 1: his father Abraham, the Philissines stopped him up.
Speaker 2: Say the Philissines stopped up the wells, filling them with earth.
Speaker 1: Then Ibimelek said to Isaac, move away from us, for
Speaker 1: you have become too powerful.
Speaker 2: God's hand on you.
Speaker 1: Actually will make it so that your enemies will envy you.
Speaker 1: God's hand on you will actually make it so that
Speaker 1: the spiritual forces of evil will actually fear you, so
Speaker 1: that the spiritual forces of evil will actually say, please
Speaker 1: move away from us.
Speaker 2: You're too powerful for me. Do you understand this?
Speaker 1: And so some of you in here might actually even
Speaker 1: be facing some demonic opposition right now as we speak.
Speaker 1: And it's actually because God's hand is on your life,
Speaker 1: and it's because his grace is on you, and the
Speaker 1: demonic realm is trying to throw arrows at you. You've
Speaker 1: got a machine downe arrows coming at you. This is
Speaker 1: not me prophesying this. There's no arrows coming at you.
Speaker 1: But you could be experiencing something like this. And what
Speaker 1: happens is that if the spiritual forces of evil out
Speaker 1: there are afraid of you, if the spiritual forces of
Speaker 1: evil are envying you and want your destruction, You're actually
Speaker 1: going to face opposition in this life because God's glories
Speaker 1: on you. He's declared this over Isaac. And what does
Speaker 1: Isaac do? So, Isaac's got some challenges and we'll get
Speaker 1: into the story. And I'm going to try and do
Speaker 1: that pert quick. So Isaac repeats this pattern. Here's what
Speaker 1: Isaac does. Isaac builds an altar, pitches a tent, digs
Speaker 1: a well, calls on the name of the Lord. He
Speaker 1: does it again and again. Genesis twenty six, twenty two.
Speaker 1: He moved on from there and dug another well. Why
Speaker 1: because they keep stopping this stuff up. His adversary, the devil,
Speaker 1: who rolls around like a roars, he's like a oh,
Speaker 1: he stinks, but he's got no power. He's been absolutely defeated.
Speaker 1: And so anything that you're facing the Lord's pastor Dwayne
Speaker 1: was prophesying one Corinthians two fourteen, which if you were
Speaker 1: to come in my house, there's a huge thing that
Speaker 1: is this. It's on the wall, and it's talking about
Speaker 1: him giving you the victory, spreading everywhere the fragrance of
Speaker 1: the knowledge of him through the victory that he gives you,
Speaker 1: like this is the Lord over your life. This is
Speaker 1: like this is your life confession, Okay, And so Genesis
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty two, he moved on from there and
Speaker 1: he dug another well, and no.
Speaker 2: One quarreled over it.
Speaker 1: He named it Rehoboth, saying, now the Lord has given
Speaker 1: us room, and we will flourish in this land.
Speaker 2: Let's go to verse twenty four.
Speaker 1: That night, the Lord appeared to him and said, I
Speaker 1: am the God of your father, Abraham, do not be afraid,
Speaker 1: for I am with you.
Speaker 2: I will bless you.
Speaker 1: I will increase the number of your descendants for the
Speaker 1: sake of my servant Abraham. There were promises in store
Speaker 1: here for Isaac because of the relationship that Abraham had
Speaker 1: with God. But God's telling Isaac, you need to go
Speaker 1: and dig up some of the wells that your dad
Speaker 1: had initially.
Speaker 2: His servants had originally dug. Are you tracking with me?
Speaker 1: So why is he telling him to do this? I
Speaker 1: think anyhow, they need to dig up the well so
Speaker 1: the water starts flowing again.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: I believe there are elemental components of Christianity where God
Speaker 1: will move powerfully in these elemental components and he will
Speaker 1: bring revival, He will bring transformation, He will show up
Speaker 1: in power if we will align with these pathways, these
Speaker 1: ancient ways of life, these redigging the well experiences that
Speaker 1: we're going to be bringing to you as a preaching
Speaker 1: team over the next seven weeks.
Speaker 2: Okay, are you getting me?
Speaker 1: And I don't have much time to get into this,
Speaker 1: but I believe that this is prophetic. If you look
Speaker 1: back in these scriptures, what you're going to find is
Speaker 1: that Abraham, when he had dug a particular well at Beersheba,
Speaker 1: he dug a well, he planted a tree. The tree
Speaker 1: is a tamara tamarisk tree. How many in here know?
Speaker 1: How many in here know what a tamarisk tree is.
Speaker 2: This is what happened at first service. I was shocked.
Speaker 2: I was thinking, like ninety percent of you were gonna
Speaker 2: raise your hand.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so here's the thing. A tamarisk tree is
Speaker 1: an evergreen tree growing in the desert, in an arid
Speaker 1: place where there's almost no water. How does an evergreen
Speaker 1: tree grow in the desert and stay evergreen?
Speaker 2: Say it again, Dennis, deep roots.
Speaker 1: A tamorous tree has a very unique aspect to it
Speaker 1: in that it has roots that are terribly deep. And
Speaker 1: Abraham planted this tree as a prophetic declaration.
Speaker 2: Of not what would be.
Speaker 1: For him, but he was declaring it over the generations
Speaker 1: after him, Because that tree isn't planted for your generation.
Speaker 1: That tree grows very slowly, very slowly, with really deep roots,
Speaker 1: and that tree isn't enjoyed by the generation that actually
Speaker 1: planted it. Guess where the final well was that he
Speaker 1: started to take the rocks out of. It was the
Speaker 1: well where the tamarisk tree is there at Beersheba.
Speaker 2: That was his dad's declaration.
Speaker 1: Over the favor of God, over his lineage, and the
Speaker 1: people who would walk with God that they represent it.
Speaker 2: Do you get it? What was the purpose of redigging
Speaker 2: the well so that the water would flow again? Out
Speaker 2: of you?
Speaker 1: Streams of living water will flow. The well is not
Speaker 1: about the well. The well is about who comes out
Speaker 1: of the well. Yeah, the well is not about the well.
Speaker 2: The well is about who flows out of the well.
Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to preach
Speaker 1: here on a Friday night, and the Lord had given
Speaker 1: me a prophetic word that I thought was for this house,
Speaker 1: my family, and I mentioned that this word was build
Speaker 1: the family. And I can't seem to get away from it.
Speaker 1: I cannot get away from this thing. It just keeps
Speaker 1: coming at me everywhere. And then over the summit, Pastor Dwayne,
Speaker 1: I think, asked Ivan or something, do you have a
Speaker 1: prophetic or a declarative word for the year, and Ivan said, yeah,
Speaker 1: the declarative word for the year is the family. And
Speaker 1: it's just literally, I'm like, it's hitting me when I'm
Speaker 1: down here.
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, man, this is like, this is the
Speaker 2: Lord's heart.
Speaker 1: Like, if you want to see the heart of God, man,
Speaker 1: the family is where the heart of God is. And
Speaker 1: there is this unique thing that is multifaceted and multi generational,
Speaker 1: and if we don't dig the wells, the next generation
Speaker 1: won't get to see it.
Speaker 2: Ivan also preached a little.
Speaker 1: Bit about how when he was young, he had gotten
Speaker 1: to go to and be at an event and Kenneth
Speaker 1: Hagen Senior was there. He was ministering Leyden his years
Speaker 1: and Kenneth Hagen Senior was like prophesying over him and
Speaker 1: people were falling out and there was all this stuff happening,
Speaker 1: and he was like.
Speaker 2: And he was like really old, like really old. Like
Speaker 2: he was like worried he could be up on the stage.
Speaker 2: So old. You know.
Speaker 1: That was kind of the interpretation I received from what
Speaker 1: Ivan had said, And so I was reflecting a little
Speaker 1: bit on this when he was.
Speaker 2: Talking about it, because.
Speaker 1: Kenneth Hagen sor I got touched by some of his
Speaker 1: teaching maybe twenty five years ago, and he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's one of the fathers of the Word of Faith movement. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: we realized that as a movement, but we don't understand
Speaker 1: necessarily what started it.
Speaker 2: And what started it is he was a.
Speaker 1: Teenager, he was paralyzed, he had an incurable blood disease.
Speaker 1: People were saying, you're not gonna make it like they
Speaker 1: were expecting him to die. Like in a short period
Speaker 1: of time, he'd grown up in his perspective of Christianity.
Speaker 2: What he knew about Christianity.
Speaker 1: Was a branch of Christianity that didn't really think that
Speaker 1: God moved today, that God's not really a healer. God
Speaker 1: doesn't work in the same ways that he used to
Speaker 1: back in the New Testament and what you read of
Speaker 1: in the Book of Acts. So what I would call
Speaker 1: Cessatianist theology, people who believe that that God.
Speaker 2: Doesn't exist today.
Speaker 1: Okay, they think that that ended with the death of
Speaker 1: the last of the Apostles or the canonization of Scripture,
Speaker 1: depending upon what camp they're from. And so I'm sharing
Speaker 1: this with you to say that Kenneth Hagen Senior got
Speaker 1: a hold of a scripture.
Speaker 2: This is the scripture Mark.
Speaker 1: Eleven, twenty three and twenty four. If you could put
Speaker 1: that up for me. Truly, I tell you, if anyone
Speaker 1: says to this mountain, go throw yourself into the sea,
Speaker 1: and does not doubt in their heart but leaves what
Speaker 1: they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore,
Speaker 1: I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe
Speaker 1: you have received it and it will be yours. Believe
Speaker 1: you will receive it and it will be yours. So,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this guy's talking about like speaking
Speaker 1: to mountains. Plug for Pastor Dwayne's book. There's a book
Speaker 1: in the back written by Pastor Dwayne called Move Your Mountain.
Speaker 1: But it's on this it's this kind of teaching. And
Speaker 1: so all of a sudden, this man, Kenneth Hagen, Sr.
Speaker 1: He starts declaring to the sickness in his body, go
Speaker 1: I cast you into the sea.
Speaker 2: Get out. I cast you into the sea.
Speaker 1: And he was believing in his heart, and he was
Speaker 1: ruminating on it day and night, night and day.
Speaker 2: And you know what ended up happening. A supernet.
Speaker 1: You can go listen to YouTube and him talk about
Speaker 1: his healing, but like something in the way of like
Speaker 1: electricity came through his body. After standing on this for
Speaker 1: a duration of time, I think it was sixteen months,
Speaker 1: he was bedridden, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: And what happened is God touched him and he knew.
Speaker 1: He was different, so much so that he actually was
Speaker 1: afraid to share this with his family because he was
Speaker 1: concerned that if he told his family what happened, that
Speaker 1: they would actually try and talk him out of his
Speaker 1: healing because they don't believe that God does that. Today,
Speaker 1: if Kenneth Hagen Senior didn't have God come and visit
Speaker 1: him heal him, he wouldn't be one of the fathers
Speaker 1: of the Word of Faith movement. Do you know how
Speaker 1: many hundreds of millions of us have been blessed by
Speaker 1: the Word of Faith movement? Hundreds of millions of people,
Speaker 1: maybe billions, I don't know, but definitely hundreds of millions
Speaker 1: of people have been blessed by the Word of Faith movement.
Speaker 2: Do you think that God brought.
Speaker 1: Supernatural healing to Kenneth Hagen's senior just for Kenneth Hagen Senior. No,
Speaker 1: he did, but he didn't because he wanted to bring
Speaker 1: something forth to an entire generation of people, an entire
Speaker 1: group of pastors. He ignited generations of pastors who would
Speaker 1: be out.
Speaker 2: Teaching on faith.
Speaker 1: And it took this touch of God deep in who
Speaker 1: he was, where he was so radically transformed. He continued
Speaker 1: to preach powerfully well into his eighties, well into his eighties.
Speaker 1: There's something by the way of discovering and getting back
Speaker 1: on the track of these ancient pasts where God's going
Speaker 1: to I believe God's going to move in signs and
Speaker 1: wonders and powerfully over our church because of what He's unveiling,
Speaker 1: because of the gold that we're mining out, because we're
Speaker 1: going to find all the glory that He has hidden
Speaker 1: in his word. Thank you, Lord, Lord.
Speaker 2: I got to see that. I've even got to see.
Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Kenneth Hagen Senior, we wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had the summit we just had. Do you realize that
Speaker 1: you're watching every almost everything you saw at the summit.
Speaker 1: A lot of the stems from his ministry touching other
Speaker 1: people and those people touching you, and Pastor Dwayne writing
Speaker 1: a book on Move your Mountains, and this particular scripture
Speaker 1: right what I'm going to tell you is that there's
Speaker 1: something powerful by the way of transference that God's attempting
Speaker 1: to do here that He'll continue on with our lineage,
Speaker 1: with not only our church, our children, our children's children.
Speaker 1: This is more powerful than we know. Like I can't
Speaker 1: get away from this thing. Every time I think about this,
Speaker 1: it's like God comes and like fills up. I can
Speaker 1: be at home by myself at the table and I
Speaker 1: like I get something on.
Speaker 2: This and it's just like like.
Speaker 1: It's just like this is the word of the Lord,
Speaker 1: Like this is the this is the hour and the
Speaker 1: season and the time that we're in, and we have
Speaker 1: to choose that we're gonna partner with it. We have
Speaker 1: to choose that we're gonna partner with it. Yes, Dina
Speaker 1: is not here right now, but Dina was supernatural healed.
Speaker 1: Dina has not been able to get down on her
Speaker 1: knees in thirty two years. Somebody had a prophetic word,
Speaker 1: Gary came and prayed for her. Next and she's you know,
Speaker 1: she's got hardware and stuff or whatever in her ankle,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, she's down. You know, her
Speaker 1: legs are flat on the ground. She hasn't been able
Speaker 1: to do that in thirty years.
Speaker 2: What was that? It was the streams. It was the
Speaker 2: streams flowing again. My Ben, are you in here? There?
Speaker 2: You are? Ben?
Speaker 1: Ben had Ben had a headache for over a week
Speaker 1: and some other issues.
Speaker 2: Ben was in here.
Speaker 1: Ben got touched by the Lord and was healed and
Speaker 1: it went away. He was just testifying to it this morning.
Speaker 1: My son Lane injured his wrist at Tribe the week,
Speaker 1: the couple days before the summit, and he was supposed
Speaker 1: to play the guitar.
Speaker 2: So he's letting people down anyhow.
Speaker 1: That's the parent in me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: what were you doing? You shouldn't have been doing that,
Speaker 1: because now you're letting somebody down, and come on, man, anyhow,
Speaker 1: so Lord, please forgive me, Lord, please forgive me.
Speaker 2: Anyhow. So I'm looking at his hand.
Speaker 1: It's super swollen. He's having a lot of pain and discomfort.
Speaker 1: I took an X ray him. There was no fracture,
Speaker 1: but he's like, there's no way I can play guitar. Literally,
Speaker 1: he came up here to get prayed for. A handful
Speaker 1: of people prayed for him, laid hands on him. He
Speaker 1: left with no pain in his wrist and hand.
Speaker 2: That night we got home.
Speaker 1: Most of you who were here with us, we were
Speaker 1: here late. Right we got home, it was twelve o'clock
Speaker 1: at night. I'm at my house and I'm listening to
Speaker 1: my son worship the Lord in his room with his guitar.
Speaker 1: He would not have been able to do that had
Speaker 1: God not touched him. So as a dad then I said, well,
Speaker 1: does that mean you're gonna You're gonna text so and
Speaker 1: so and let.
Speaker 2: Him know you can play. Now, please regard me. Oh,
Speaker 2: it's so bad sometimes parenting. Parenting.
Speaker 1: Uh, listen to Paul, for Christ did not send me
Speaker 1: to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom
Speaker 1: and eloquence, lest the Cross of Christ.
Speaker 2: Be emptied of its power.
Speaker 1: I believe that a lot of the church today has
Speaker 1: been preaching what I'm gonna call a weak gospel. I
Speaker 1: believe that they have been preaching a gospel that says
Speaker 1: Jesus saves, which he does, and it's it's good not
Speaker 1: to spend eternity in hell. But the gospel that they're
Speaker 1: preaching is one that would just be for salvation only
Speaker 1: in escaping the flames of hell.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that's the real gospel. I believe.
Speaker 1: I believe that the gospel has been some of its
Speaker 1: weight and power and might has been maybe stripped of it.
Speaker 2: And that's clearly not God's design.
Speaker 1: So if the God, who's the gospel being preached by Christians?
Speaker 2: Correct? So if the.
Speaker 1: Gospel, if the gospel has been being preached by Christians,
Speaker 1: and it's a weak gospel, then who's Who's who's at
Speaker 1: fault here? Christians, christ Ones, the Little Christ's it's our fault.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you, Pastor Dwayne. I'm seeing it. I'm moving, Okay, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm hurried. Okay.
Speaker 1: The Greek word for baptized is baptized zoe. It means
Speaker 1: to make overwhelmed, to become fully wet, a serial ceremonial washing.
Speaker 1: In Hebrew, the word baptize appears ten I'm gonna speed preach.
Speaker 1: The word baptize appears ten times in your New Testament.
Speaker 1: Baptized appears sixty four times in your New Testament. Baptism
Speaker 1: appears twenty two times in your New Testament.
Speaker 2: I will do it. You don't want to get in
Speaker 2: trouble when you're up here?
Speaker 1: Is that I don't want to get You know, you
Speaker 1: need to obey, don't be naughty. So how how are
Speaker 1: you saved? You guys already know Ephesians two five through nine. Correct,
Speaker 1: it's by your faith in Christ. You've been saved. It's
Speaker 1: a free gift of God. You can't boast about what
Speaker 1: you did. It's not your work. It's the work on
Speaker 1: the cross.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: So that's how we come into salvation. However, listen to
Speaker 1: what Peter says. Repent and be baptized, every one of
Speaker 1: you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness
Speaker 1: of your sins, and you will receive the gift of
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. The promise is for you, your children,
Speaker 1: and those who are far off, for all whom the
Speaker 1: Lord our God will call. Who did it say to
Speaker 1: be baptized?
Speaker 2: Every one of you? Who? Everyone Jesus was baptized.
Speaker 1: And if Jesus supernaturally had the Holy Spirit, the Lord
Speaker 1: came and spoke to him and said, this is my
Speaker 1: son in whom I well pleased. Like hello, Why wouldn't
Speaker 1: we want to give the Lord that opportunity to come
Speaker 1: and meet us on the water like that? It's intended
Speaker 1: for you to live here on earth more focused on
Speaker 1: the Lord and less on yourself. It symbolizes Christ's burial, death,
Speaker 1: and resurrection.
Speaker 2: There's a battle between your soul and your spirit.
Speaker 1: Correct Romans seven point fifteen. I'm gonna just go through this.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read the first statement. This is Paul, I
Speaker 1: do not understand what I do for what I want
Speaker 1: to do. I don't do what I hate I do.
Speaker 1: Anybody in here ever experienced that before as a Christian?
Speaker 2: And you're like, how can I get over this?
Speaker 1: Ah, listen to the last part of that scripture.
Speaker 2: But thanks fee to God.
Speaker 1: Okay, Pastor Dwayne again, But thanks be to God who
Speaker 1: delivers me through Jesus Christ, our Lord. So then I
Speaker 1: myself in my mind am enslaved to God's law, but
Speaker 1: in my sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.
Speaker 1: He gives you the victory, though you don't have to
Speaker 1: be stuck in the flesh. You have life by the spirit.
Speaker 1: For you you have that Roman eight. You're led by
Speaker 1: the spirit of God because you're a son and a
Speaker 1: daughter of the Most High John three five. Jesus answered,
Speaker 1: very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the
Speaker 1: Kingdom of God unless they're born of the water. And
Speaker 1: of the spirit. Correct, you need to be born of
Speaker 1: the water right your mom the first time, and then
Speaker 1: of the spirit. This born of the spirit is the
Speaker 1: is the Romans eight Life.
Speaker 2: Romans six' four.
Speaker 1: W it's so. Difficult we were therefore buried with him
Speaker 1: through baptism into death in order that just as just
Speaker 1: As christ was raised from the dead through.
Speaker 2: The glory of the we too may live a new.
Speaker 1: Life you and, me we get to live a new
Speaker 1: life In.
Speaker 2: Christ, okay one more. Scripture i'm doing, This it's.
Speaker 1: Happening, Okay romans six twelveth through. Fourteen, therefore do not
Speaker 1: let sin reign in your mortal, body so that you
Speaker 1: obey its evil. Desires do not offer any part of
Speaker 1: yourself as to sin as an instrument of, wickedness tie
Speaker 1: in on that instrument of, wickedness but rather offer yourselves
Speaker 1: To god as those who have been brought from death to,
Speaker 1: life and offer every part of yourself To him as
Speaker 1: an instrument of. Righteousness for listen to, This For sin
Speaker 1: shall no longer be your, master because you are no
Speaker 1: longer under the, law but under. Grace, Say sin is
Speaker 1: no longer my, master FOR i am not under the,
Speaker 1: law BUT i am under. Grace there is a spiritual
Speaker 1: declaration in the heavenly realm when we're, baptized where we,
Speaker 1: say break off the ties that. Bind i'm born and,
Speaker 1: New i'm born, Again i'm born. FRESH i choose to
Speaker 1: live by the spirit and not by the. FLESH i
Speaker 1: align with this.
Speaker 2: ONE i put that one to death.
Speaker 1: In that scripture when it was talking about choosing not
Speaker 1: to be used as an instrument for.
Speaker 2: Wickedness you know what you.
Speaker 1: Are you're an instrument of. Righteousness you are an instrument of.
Speaker 1: Righteousness so just as up, here just as up, here
Speaker 1: he can be playing the, keyboard or we can be
Speaker 1: playing the guitar and it can send out this beautiful
Speaker 1: note and, tone and it can Bring god's.
Speaker 2: Glory you Bring god's glory because you're an instrument of.
Speaker 1: Righteousness and When he's playing through you through the, spirit
Speaker 1: then what happens is you're Reverberating. Heaven wherever you, touch,
Speaker 1: patterns behaviors and ties that bind are. Broken when we
Speaker 1: participate in this transformative, event.
Speaker 2: It is an outward.
Speaker 1: Display of a public a public outward display of an
Speaker 1: internal heart. Choice and here's WHY i Think god moves
Speaker 1: powerfully when you choose to be, baptized and you don't
Speaker 1: have to LIKE i got baptized WHEN i was in
Speaker 1: my early. Twenties, okay it's good to be baptized more than.
Speaker 1: Once maybe you're baptized because you want The lord to
Speaker 1: come meet you on the. Water that's a passage of.
Speaker 1: Scripture if you look In, genesis he was hovering over
Speaker 1: the deep right The. Lord that's where our Friend Todd
Speaker 1: smith last year where they got the idea of The
Speaker 1: lord hovering of waters for their baptism revival that they've been.
Speaker 1: Having i've had like thousands and tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: people all healed through. Baptism this is not a, liturgical
Speaker 1: no power. Event this is a power. Event it's a
Speaker 1: power Event.
Speaker 2: John seven point thirty.
Speaker 1: Seven when we choose to be, baptized he's, saying out
Speaker 1: of you will flow rivers of living. Water in the fifteen,
Speaker 1: hundreds The anabaptists had a resurgence.
Speaker 2: Like a baptismal revival if you, will.
Speaker 1: Okay and they did this because it Was protestantism, saying,
Speaker 1: hey the word says that baptisto means actually to be,
Speaker 1: immersed so like they were actually considered like demonicer or heretical.
Speaker 1: Like it was a big thing right and they had
Speaker 1: revival come through. Baptism listen to. This in the sixties and,
Speaker 1: seventies The Jesus people movement movement In Pirate's, Cove Newport,
Speaker 1: beach people were touched.
Speaker 2: From The Holy spirit again and again and again through.
Speaker 1: Baptism in twenty twenty, three there was a baptized So
Speaker 1: cal four thousand people baptized in a day In Pirate's
Speaker 1: cove again to signify and remember. It in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: five seventy seven hundred and fifty. People seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty people were baptized In Huntington, Beach. California last. Year
Speaker 1: there is a renewal of these ancient paths That god
Speaker 1: is administering his spirit. Through we're not going to get into,
Speaker 1: this but if you were to go back and look
Speaker 1: At jewish, tradition the, mikvah it was a cleansing ritual
Speaker 1: and the purpose listened to, this it was to be
Speaker 1: washed in preparation for his. Presence i'm gonna say that.
Speaker 1: Again if there's one thing you remember about, it that's
Speaker 1: the most important. Thing it was to be washed in
Speaker 1: preparation for his. Presence that was the purpose of This jewish. Ritual,
Speaker 1: okay we are closing, now.
Speaker 2: Would you stand with? Me can we agree as a?
Speaker 1: Body can we, Say, lord we will agree to partner
Speaker 1: with what you're endeavoring to do in this. House we
Speaker 1: agree with What Pastor dwayne had laid, out and that
Speaker 1: what we want is we want these ancient, streams these
Speaker 1: ancient paths for revival that bring life to be released
Speaker 1: on this. House and we say we will. Agree we
Speaker 1: will dig our wells. Again we will go and get
Speaker 1: the rocks. Out we will go and get the dirt,
Speaker 1: out no matter who put it.
Speaker 2: In there and how how long it's been.
Speaker 1: There we agree that we're digging up the wells of
Speaker 1: revival in this. House and we even we would, Repent we,
Speaker 1: rebuke and we renounce any cessationist, theology any theology would
Speaker 1: that would move away From god being a Powerful, god
Speaker 1: any any theology that would present a weak gospel or
Speaker 1: would actually bring the presentation of The gospel to be
Speaker 1: one that would be devoid of, power one of that
Speaker 1: would be devoid of might of. Might we would rebuke these,
Speaker 1: Things we repent of. Them we say we will not
Speaker 1: agree with. Them we kick them out of this. House
Speaker 1: we kick them out of the body Of. Christ we
Speaker 1: agree with the spiritual revival happening all across the body Of,
Speaker 1: christ where the body Of christ is being infused with
Speaker 1: a love for The, king and the love for The
Speaker 1: king is where The king's showing his.
Speaker 2: Power and we give you praise for. That we thank
Speaker 2: you for. That we agree with.
Speaker 1: It And Lord, jesus we just set the stage over
Speaker 1: these next six. Weeks we just, say come and move
Speaker 1: and have your, way visit us in power and might
Speaker 1: as we go down the path of redigging our, wells
Speaker 1: as we're on the path of restoring these ancient pathways
Speaker 1: that you would have for. Us we say we agree with.
Speaker 1: It we say we receive. It we say we have
Speaker 1: faith for. It we say it's your, will it's your.
Speaker 1: Plan it was from the beginning it still. Is and
Speaker 1: we agree with. This we agree with the fact that
Speaker 1: we are A mark sixteen. Church this is A Mark
Speaker 1: chapter sixteen. Church do you know what you know what
Speaker 1: it says about those who believe signs and wondrous fault believers?
Speaker 1: Believe are you a? Believer Say i'm a? Believer AND
Speaker 1: i believe and what it says In mark. Sixteen it
Speaker 1: says that demons will be cast, Out you will cast them.
Speaker 1: Out it says that you will speak in new. Tongues
Speaker 1: it says that you would be able to pick up
Speaker 1: a deadly serpent and it will not harm. You it
Speaker 1: says you could pick up and drink a deadly poison
Speaker 1: and it will not affect. You it says you will
Speaker 1: lay your hands on the sick and they shall, recover shall.
Speaker 2: Recover this is A mark.
Speaker 1: Sixteen House Lord, jesus we agree with, It we partner with,
Speaker 1: it and we, say, come we give you place to
Speaker 1: move amongst us over these next six.
Speaker 2: Weeks and we, say show yourself and power in the
Speaker 2: name Of. Jesus, amen