WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:02.439 So I've had a chance to literally go all over 2 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:05.000 the world preach the gospel. I love what God is 3 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:07.960 doing seeing people, uh, just seeing some of the craziest, 4 00:00:07.960 --> 00:00:10.240 most radical miracles. I was just in Brazil a few 5 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:12.640 weeks ago, saw God do some of the most unbelievable 6 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:15.679 miracles from man. I wish I had time from scars just 7 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:18.519 actually never seen this through my ministry, never seen scars 8 00:00:18.519 --> 00:00:21.600 disappear till that night in Brazil three weeks ago where 9 00:00:21.640 --> 00:00:23.359 this lady comes up and she's like, oh my gosh, 10 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:26.440 not only am I healed, but I don't see any scars. 11 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:28.920 She's in disbelief looking at her arm, like, oh my word, 12 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:31.359 my scars are gone. It was just so so cool. 13 00:00:31.719 --> 00:00:35.280 U saw God do some unbelievable things from from from 14 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:40.560 God restoring like movement and arms and and feeling and 15 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.399 all sorts of crazy stuff. This is a cool one. 16 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:44.280 That one lady had a big tumor on her her 17 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:47.640 on her on her stomach, like visible, like it was visible, 18 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:48.280 it was visible. 19 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:49.119 She came to the front. 20 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:51.320 She wasn't even able to like even sitting up, and 21 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:53.880 it would restrict her movement and she couldn't even like 22 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.359 move her upper body, and we began to pray for her. 23 00:00:56.359 --> 00:00:59.320 The thing literally visibly began to disappear on the spot. 24 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:01.439 She began move. She's weeping. She's like, I haven't been 25 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:03.759 able to move like this for I don't remember how long, 26 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:05.719 she said. But he was just so cool watching God 27 00:01:05.760 --> 00:01:07.560 do some unbelievable things. And so we're seeing God do 28 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:10.239 some amazing things. And so it's an honor to be here. 29 00:01:10.599 --> 00:01:13.959 I know this church is part of what God is 30 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:16.799 doing in the Northwest, and God is doing something special here. 31 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:18.480 And I'm here just to tell you that the best 32 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.719 is still ahead for this church, and the greatest days 33 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:22.560 are ahead for this church. And I think even with 34 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:25.480 construction happening, I think I think it's a spiritual position 35 00:01:25.519 --> 00:01:28.760 of some of some stuff getting reconstructed, even spiritually here 36 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:31.799 and get ready for multiplication, get ready for expansion, get 37 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:34.000 ready for more influence. I really, I really feel that 38 00:01:34.040 --> 00:01:36.079 in the spirit, in the name of Jesus, come on, 39 00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:39.200 I just felt this prophetically for the church. I just 40 00:01:39.239 --> 00:01:41.400 feel this right now. I just God just reminded me 41 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:43.879 of Acts chapter ten, and I just if you guys 42 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:45.560 remember that story where Peter got that vision of the 43 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.280 of the sheet that came down with all the unkosher 44 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:51.359 animals to a very religious mindset, and he's like no, 45 00:01:51.439 --> 00:01:54.200 He's literally God's like, go kill, eat and Peter's like no, 46 00:01:55.120 --> 00:01:58.000 It's like, how do you tell God? No? Three times 47 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:00.680 God had to be like, bro, seriously, seriously, come on. 48 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:04.040 Three times and He's like, no, I'm a good old 49 00:02:04.079 --> 00:02:08.080 fashioned Hebrew boy, Kosher, I don't want do that stuff. 50 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:12.240 And his religious mindset was offended. And three times God, 51 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:13.759 God had to speak to him, and he knew that 52 00:02:13.919 --> 00:02:15.680 it wasn't obviously about food. It was a way bigger 53 00:02:15.680 --> 00:02:17.439 than a food thing was. It was a cultural thing 54 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.680 where God began to speak to him. But I just 55 00:02:19.680 --> 00:02:21.800 felt that prophetically, even for this church. I just felt 56 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.520 like there's been doors that have been closed that God's 57 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:25.120 about to open. 58 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:27.120 And I really feel this for your church. 59 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:28.560 And I don't even know if Pastor Dowayne's and even 60 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:31.000 in this room or not, but I just really felt like, man, 61 00:02:31.360 --> 00:02:33.439 God is saying, go kill and eat, and there's some 62 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:35.599 things that God is going to begin to do in 63 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.159 this church. Things doors have been closed, and at that time, 64 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:41.240 the doors were closed for the for the world outside 65 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:41.759 of the Jews. 66 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:42.759 It was only for the Jews. 67 00:02:42.800 --> 00:02:44.639 The Gospels for the Jews, and this was the chapter 68 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:46.879 where God said, Hey, what the gentiles are going to 69 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:49.319 hear this message and salvation is going to now spread. 70 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:51.039 And I really felt like God said that, hey, listen, 71 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:53.800 get ready. So there's something special happening in this church 72 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.439 where things that have been closed and opportunities that haven't 73 00:02:56.479 --> 00:02:58.840 been available. Now is the season and the time for 74 00:02:59.000 --> 00:03:01.439 expansion to begin to come and take place. I really, 75 00:03:01.479 --> 00:03:03.759 I really feel that prophetically is gonna begin to take place. 76 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:04.919 Even in this house. 77 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.439 God is saying, go kill and eat, do not call 78 00:03:07.560 --> 00:03:12.879 unclean what I've already made clean. So get ready, get ready, Church. 79 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:14.919 I really feel like there are some even stuff that 80 00:03:14.960 --> 00:03:17.599 we've maybe said, oh those kind of people, oh that 81 00:03:17.639 --> 00:03:20.120 type of a people. Get ready for God to open 82 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:22.520 up your hearts, because there's gonna be some orphans here, 83 00:03:22.599 --> 00:03:25.159 some broken, messed up, busted and disgusted that are gonna 84 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:25.840 start showing. 85 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:27.159 Up in this church for freedom. 86 00:03:27.199 --> 00:03:28.800 And we need some hearts and minds that are gonna 87 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:30.639 be open to receive those things. 88 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:32.680 Some I'm telling you it's not just. 89 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:35.479 A natural construction season in this church, but there's something 90 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:39.439 God's gonna begin to do. So get ready. Get ready. 91 00:03:39.800 --> 00:03:43.240 Ministry is messy, but that's what we're here for. Come 92 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:46.800 on now, people are problems. The more people you got, 93 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:48.639 the more problems you've got, but also the more grace 94 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:49.639 you got to deal with them. 95 00:03:49.840 --> 00:03:52.360 Amen. And so I just felt like God is raising. 96 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.840 Up in this house, even specific shepherds and people that 97 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:57.280 are gonna begin to be here to help what God 98 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:58.280 wants to do in this church. 99 00:03:58.280 --> 00:03:58.599 Amen. 100 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.400 Amen, I'm super pumped about the scripture got put in 101 00:04:02.439 --> 00:04:03.639 my heart for you guys here today. We had a 102 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:05.479 great time in first service at a fun time last 103 00:04:05.560 --> 00:04:06.879 night at a young adult's service. 104 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:07.639 It was so fun. I got. 105 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:09.879 I brought my daughter and during worship I leaned over 106 00:04:09.879 --> 00:04:11.879 to her. We just felt such a powerful atmosphere in 107 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:14.039 this place. Leaning over to her, I was like, Hey, babe, 108 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:15.800 what do you feel God wants to do in the 109 00:04:15.840 --> 00:04:18.439 service today? And she's like, and so she I always 110 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:19.959 tell her, Hey, pray, ask God what he wants to 111 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.360 do if you maybe he's gonna give a word or 112 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:23.319 a word of knowledge or word of wisdom, a prophetic word, 113 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.000 whatever it may be, whatever you see in the spirit. 114 00:04:25.199 --> 00:04:27.480 And she's like, Dad is there somebody here that's pain 115 00:04:27.519 --> 00:04:29.879 in their left knee, and God wants to set him 116 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:30.839 free and heal him today. 117 00:04:31.199 --> 00:04:31.759 I said, all right. 118 00:04:31.759 --> 00:04:33.240 So at the end we were praying some people are 119 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:34.959 getting healed, and then I remembered where she said. 120 00:04:35.000 --> 00:04:36.279 I was like, hey, is there somebody in here today 121 00:04:36.279 --> 00:04:37.199 that's paining their left knee. 122 00:04:37.319 --> 00:04:41.439 A guy from another church, Colton Cameron Cameron was here 123 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:44.800 and he raised his hand. He's like, yeah, I got it, 124 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:47.000 and so I had I called her over my eight 125 00:04:47.079 --> 00:04:48.639 year old daughter. She went over there, put her hands 126 00:04:48.639 --> 00:04:50.199 on him. A couple other people put her hands on 127 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:53.120 and we begin declared healing over over him, and I'm like, 128 00:04:53.199 --> 00:04:55.879 chest it out. He starts moving around. All the popping disappears, 129 00:04:55.920 --> 00:04:57.560 like there's no more popping in my knee. He's like, 130 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:00.319 there was popping in my left knee is gone. And 131 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:03.319 I was like, how's the pain level. He's like, no way, 132 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.079 no way. And he's afterwards kept to me like guy, 133 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:08.240 He's like, this stuff happens to everybody around me all 134 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:10.079 the time, but I'm never the one where it happens 135 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.240 to me. And I'm like, well, there you go, Merry Christmas. 136 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:15.759 And so that was really cool. We had had a 137 00:05:15.920 --> 00:05:17.399 great night last night, and so I'm just so proud 138 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:19.519 of Roman and what he's doing with the young adults. Man, 139 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.160 I believe the best is yet to come, and get 140 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:26.120 ready for something special to happen. And your faithfulness God 141 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:29.800 is pleased with. And the cool thing about faithfulness is 142 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:33.839 the fruit of faithfulness is multiplication. Well done, my good 143 00:05:33.839 --> 00:05:37.199 and faithful servant. And what happened, The fruit of it 144 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:42.399 was multiplication. And so I believe that in Jesus name Amen. 145 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:48.959 Hebrews Chapter twelve. Hebrews Chapter twelve, Verse one says this, Therefore, 146 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:53.040 since we have such a great cloud of witnesses surrounding us, 147 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:57.120 let us rid ourselves of every obstacle and the sin 148 00:05:57.199 --> 00:06:03.720 that so easily entangles us. And let us with what endurance, 149 00:06:04.879 --> 00:06:09.199 the what that has said before us, the race that 150 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:12.000 is set before us. Let me tell you here today, 151 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:15.319 you're in a race. Whether you like it or not, 152 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:20.560 You're in a race. There's a race set before us. 153 00:06:20.600 --> 00:06:22.720 And verse two, looking only at Jesus, the originator and 154 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:25.360 the perfector of our faith, for the joy set before 155 00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:29.279 him endured the cross, despising the shame, is sat down 156 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:31.560 at the right hand of the throne of God. And 157 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:34.959 then verse three, for consider him who has endured such 158 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.600 hostility by sinners against himself, so that you will not 159 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:40.439 grow weary and lose heart. 160 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:41.800 Father, we love you, We thank you for your word. 161 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:43.720 God. We declare your word is alive and active here 162 00:06:43.759 --> 00:06:46.759 today in the Pacific Northwest, here in Fife. And so 163 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:49.439 we just thank you that you're moving even in this church, 164 00:06:49.480 --> 00:06:51.079 in this place. As Father, we just thank you that 165 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:53.920 your presence is here to save, to heal, to deliver, 166 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:56.560 uh set free in the mighty. 167 00:06:56.480 --> 00:06:57.199 Name of Jesus. 168 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:01.560 And all the believers said, a man so honored to 169 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:03.279 be here, like I said, I get to be part 170 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:05.160 of a church has seen a really cool move of 171 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:06.800 God right now. We're one of the things that we 172 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:09.800 prayed for when our church launch is God, we want 173 00:07:09.839 --> 00:07:11.600 to see a real revival. And we if we want 174 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:13.519 to see a revival, we got to answer the prayer 175 00:07:13.519 --> 00:07:15.839 that Jesus prayed before he left, and he said, may 176 00:07:15.879 --> 00:07:20.079 they become one as you and I are one. 177 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:21.680 You know, and we've seen moves of God. 178 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.680 We've seen, you know, different denominations, different churches, different houses, 179 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:29.079 light on you know, spiritually speaking, light on fire and 180 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:33.199 burn for Jesus. But man, real revival is going to 181 00:07:33.240 --> 00:07:36.319 happen when denominations and egos and logos get put to 182 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:38.439 the side and we all of a sudden we begin 183 00:07:38.519 --> 00:07:40.839 to be to realize that we are actually brothers and sisters. 184 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:43.759 We don't have to agree theologically on every point, come 185 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:45.759 on in our doctrine, but we got to agree on 186 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.959 one thing, and everyone across the board agrees on the 187 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:49.480 same thing. 188 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:50.959 We all agree that the dead. 189 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:53.639 There's the death, there's the burial, and there's the resurrection 190 00:07:53.680 --> 00:07:55.680 of Jesus our church. So man, if we can unite 191 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:58.439 on anything, let's unite on the most important message. Is 192 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.680 the message is the God right. And so we thought, man, 193 00:08:01.720 --> 00:08:03.480 what can we do? And we realized that, you know 194 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:07.120 what baptism is. This is a symbol a water. Baptism 195 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:09.959 is a symbol of those things. And it's wild that 196 00:08:10.759 --> 00:08:12.279 with this idea, like, hey, you know what, what if 197 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.040 we started doing a baptism and when we know that 198 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:18.000 Christmas and Easter are the two biggest church attended days. 199 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:20.399 People love coming on Christmas in Easter, and we thought, 200 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.519 let's make Pentecost Sunday the next big thing. We love 201 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:27.079 the resurrection of Jesus. You know, we love the birth 202 00:08:27.120 --> 00:08:30.040 of Jesus, but how about the birthday of the Church 203 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.639 should be celebrated, the birth of the Church, of the 204 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:34.440 Holy Spirit coming on earth, and all of a sudden 205 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:35.320 the church was launched. 206 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:36.559 And how did it happen? We know this. 207 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:39.480 Peter gets up on Mount Zion, he preaches the gospel, right, 208 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.440 and then the Bible says that three thousand were saved. 209 00:08:42.600 --> 00:08:45.080 We're added to the church that day and they were baptized. 210 00:08:45.480 --> 00:08:47.600 That was the reverse of the curse of What happened 211 00:08:47.639 --> 00:08:50.240 on Mount Zion when Peter preached, was the reverse of 212 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:52.679 what happened on Mount Sinai when the Law came. Because 213 00:08:52.679 --> 00:08:54.480 when the Law came, the Bible says, how many died? 214 00:08:55.080 --> 00:08:59.320 Three thousand died, right, And now the Spirit shows up 215 00:08:59.480 --> 00:09:01.639 and he were and he says, now there's what I do. 216 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:03.720 I come to give life. And all of a sudden 217 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:06.039 life happened in that place. And so we thought, man, 218 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:08.919 how cool would it be if we if we remarked 219 00:09:08.919 --> 00:09:11.039 what the what the baptism of the Church was, and 220 00:09:11.080 --> 00:09:13.919 it was manifest through the through water baptism, also baptism 221 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:15.960 the Holy Spirit, and then water baptism and so we 222 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:17.960 had we had this crazy vision and three years ago 223 00:09:18.000 --> 00:09:20.679 we did something called baptized so Cow. We gathered about 224 00:09:20.679 --> 00:09:22.480 two hundred churches. It was so cool. I watched that 225 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:24.200 time to tell you all the details. Gathered abut two 226 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:26.600 hundred churches, and we saw the biggest baptism to that 227 00:09:26.720 --> 00:09:30.879 date in US history. We saw four one hundred something 228 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:38.120 rather people literally confess Jesus and go public. Come on, listen, 229 00:09:38.120 --> 00:09:41.320 I'm telling you what I think. Water baptism is is 230 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.440 so important. And I feel like sometimes even like the 231 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:45.960 charismatic that the spirit filled church almost like lost touch 232 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:47.840 with the importance of that. But I'm telling about in 233 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:50.720 a culture where everyone's going public about all stupidity, let's 234 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:53.440 be honest, right now, everyone's going public, let's go public 235 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:54.279 about what matters. 236 00:09:54.840 --> 00:09:55.440 Come on now. 237 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:56.960 And I felt like, we're like, you know, we're gonna 238 00:09:56.960 --> 00:09:59.720 we're gonna start going public about our declaration of who 239 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.000 we have committed ourselves to for the rest of our life. 240 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:04.679 So we saw over four thousand people literally get water baptized. 241 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.519 Was unbelievable. Pirates Cove, where the last major. 242 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:09.600 Revival that swipped across the whole nation was the year later, 243 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:11.279 We thought, if God can do it in southern California, 244 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:13.120 he can do it all of California. So we decided 245 00:10:13.120 --> 00:10:15.879 to unite the Church of California. We were in almost 246 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:17.679 every single one of the counties. We had at least 247 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.200 one church represented. We had one hundreds of churches all 248 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:24.000 over California. And we did this event on Pentecost Sunday 249 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:25.519 across all of California. 250 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.879 Our our main event at Huntington Beach. 251 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.960 We saw over six thousand baptized over across all of California. 252 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:33.080 Last year we saw another six thousand. We saw over 253 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:38.360 twelve thousand people publicly declare that they're living for Jesus 254 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:42.720 in California. People come on, now, I don't know about 255 00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:43.440 you as revival. 256 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:44.200 There's never been. 257 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:46.120 Twelve thousand people that are in bath thousand one day, 258 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:48.960 you know, in history. And so we thought, of God 259 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:50.840 can do a southern California, you can do all of California. 260 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:52.399 If he can do it all of California, he can 261 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:53.759 do it in the nation. So this year we host 262 00:10:53.799 --> 00:10:56.039 has something called Baptize America. I don't know if you 263 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:57.639 heard about it or not. It was all over the news, 264 00:10:57.919 --> 00:11:00.720 and we did this thing where We basically got church's 265 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:04.840 partners all over the nation, every denomination from Baptists to 266 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.639 Assemblies of God, Charismatic, everything in between. We saw churches 267 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:12.360 from all over the nation, all denominations in every single state, 268 00:11:12.440 --> 00:11:18.159 including Puerto Rico. And we literally had over a thousand 269 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.240 locations that hosted on Pentecost Sunday. And guys, we saw 270 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:27.360 over twenty it was twenty seven eight hundred and seventy 271 00:11:27.399 --> 00:11:28.600 two or so. I could be off by by a 272 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.080 couple numbers, but something in that range. Almost twenty eight 273 00:11:31.080 --> 00:11:35.399 thousand people publicly in America declare that Jesus Christ, I'm 274 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:37.879 going public for him. So I'm telling you all, it's 275 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:39.759 exciting times we're in and I believe God is doing 276 00:11:39.840 --> 00:11:42.159 something special. He's not only uniting the church, but I 277 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:45.120 feel like there's there's an atmosphere of people actually locking 278 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:48.240 in and going after what God has made our inheritance 279 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:50.360 on earth. And I'm here just to encourage you guys 280 00:11:50.399 --> 00:11:51.960 that man, I'm telling you what We're We're in a 281 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:53.720 good time right now. I know the news is trying 282 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:55.120 to tell you things are getting worse and worse. We're 283 00:11:55.120 --> 00:11:56.960 all going hell in a hand basket. Things are getting bad. 284 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:58.960 But I'm here to tell you there are more people 285 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:03.320 being saved today on a daily basis that we've seen 286 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.960 in the history of Christianity. There's stuff that's happening all 287 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.799 over the Earth. I've been to basically every continent this 288 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.600 year alone, except for Australia and Antarctica. I guess got 289 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.840 to save those penguins, right. But I've been all over 290 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:19.600 literally the world that I'm seeing a crazy harvest and 291 00:12:19.679 --> 00:12:21.840 people are coming to Jesus. We're seeing some of the 292 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:24.840 craziest miracles I've ever seen are breaking out. Stuff is 293 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:28.519 happening on Earth. It's an exciting time to live in. 294 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:31.120 It's not a time to get busted and disgusted and 295 00:12:31.240 --> 00:12:33.679 get hurt and and and burn. It's a time to 296 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.639 come alive by the spear of God is moving. So 297 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.960 let's buckle up. Let's enjoy the ride because God's doing 298 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:43.720 something special. Amen. Amen, And I love this passage. This 299 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:47.879 passage is being written by It's it's I argue, it's 300 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:50.519 a debatable who wrote this book. We're not We're not 301 00:12:50.559 --> 00:12:53.120 for sure. Some people say Paul. Most people have agreed 302 00:12:53.120 --> 00:12:55.399 it was probably Paul. Some people think it was maybe Apollos. 303 00:12:55.519 --> 00:12:59.200 Some people think maybe Barnabas, maybe Luke or or somebody else. 304 00:12:59.240 --> 00:13:01.639 And people think maybe it was Apoulos's mentor spiritual mother 305 00:13:01.799 --> 00:13:05.399 and father, which was Aquila and Priscilla. Priscilla was a 306 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:07.600 we know, was a theologian, a mother of the church, 307 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:11.360 helped start the Church of Ephesus, a scholar who literally 308 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:13.440 taught Apolos, who became a scholar, and so some people 309 00:13:13.480 --> 00:13:14.799 think it could be heard. That's why the name is 310 00:13:14.840 --> 00:13:16.799 not mentioned. That's why the writing isn't mentioned. But she 311 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:19.399 understood the cultures. We don't know exactly who the author is. 312 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:21.399 That that's not the most important thing. The most important 313 00:13:21.440 --> 00:13:23.799 thing is the message. Here is happening at a time 314 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:27.679 where it's tough. Anybody going through some somethings in life. Okay, 315 00:13:27.679 --> 00:13:31.879 we got a few people that are honest. Things are tough. 316 00:13:32.240 --> 00:13:34.759 It's right before the temples destroyed. It was the time 317 00:13:34.879 --> 00:13:38.799 Jesus was crucified and Christianity began to get persecuted. It 318 00:13:38.879 --> 00:13:44.440 began to get crazy around politically, religiously, and Jewish Christians. 319 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:46.960 Book was written to the Hebrews Jewish Christians who were 320 00:13:47.000 --> 00:13:48.879 being persecuted by the Romans because They're like, hey, you 321 00:13:49.440 --> 00:13:51.639 got a bat out of Caesar and all the Greek gods, 322 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.080 and then they're being persecuted by the by the Jews. 323 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:56.960 We're saying, why are you leaving our history? Our culture 324 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:59.320 was wrong with you. You guys are worse than the Samaritans, 325 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:00.759 who are who know what they are? 326 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:01.159 You know? 327 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.600 And there's all this persecution happening. I guess Christian Jews 328 00:14:04.639 --> 00:14:07.120 who had accepted Jesus followed it and they tried to 329 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:11.039 exterminate Christianity. There was a bunch of chaos happening, and 330 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:13.519 many of them, the Bible says, began to reject the 331 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.320 faith and begin to go back into their traditions. And 332 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:18.679 so the Book of Hebrews is written to say, hey, listen, 333 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:20.879 Jesus is still the answer. You guys have seen it. 334 00:14:20.879 --> 00:14:22.919 You guys know what. He's better than anything the Mosaic 335 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:25.600 law could have given you. He's the answer. He's the Christ, 336 00:14:25.679 --> 00:14:27.919 he's the high Priest. He's better than angels, he's better 337 00:14:27.960 --> 00:14:31.240 than anything that you are into. It's Jesus. And so 338 00:14:31.320 --> 00:14:34.480 this book is about this, and it's chaotic time. 339 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:38.559 Now. I've been through some persecution in my life. I mean, 340 00:14:38.600 --> 00:14:39.360 I was a young kid. 341 00:14:39.360 --> 00:14:41.399 I was six years old when my family immigrants to 342 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:45.480 the US from Eastern Europe, from Moldova specifically, and we 343 00:14:45.480 --> 00:14:46.279 were part of. 344 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.080 The underground church where you're part of the church. 345 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.120 Where where literally this was illegal. You could not meet publicly. 346 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:54.559 In fact, if you met publicly, it was bad. And 347 00:14:54.919 --> 00:14:56.519 so we'd meet in the forest. I mean, we had 348 00:14:56.559 --> 00:14:57.840 some of the crazy I could take some of the 349 00:14:57.919 --> 00:14:59.440 craziest stories. 350 00:14:59.039 --> 00:15:00.720 Of what happened to say, wants this is a fun one. 351 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:02.039 So I remember my dad was somebody the story that 352 00:15:02.039 --> 00:15:04.559 they're in this forest and the preaching, and all of 353 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:06.320 a sudden, this guy is running from the forest with 354 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.799 this with this big knife, this machete. He's running and 355 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.279 he's like stop. It's up like freaking manifesting, right, you know. 356 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:13.120 I don't know what was going on. And I was like, Dad, 357 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:14.600 was a scary were where you guys? 358 00:15:14.600 --> 00:15:14.879 Scared? 359 00:15:14.879 --> 00:15:15.039 Man? 360 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:16.440 I was like, no, God is with us. 361 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:18.600 I'm like, Dad, the guy was charging you with a 362 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.240 knife and told you to stop. 363 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:22.559 And I'm like, Dad, what happened? 364 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:24.519 He was like stretched out my hand and I said, 365 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:27.480 in the name of Jesus, be still. You know what happened? 366 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:29.480 My dad tells the story. He's so crazy. He's like 367 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:34.000 the guy's arm literally was still. It froze and the 368 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:37.240 guy was like, ah, he turned around and ran back 369 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:38.879 into the forest with his arm and with his arm 370 00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:42.120 up like this. Who knows the kid's thirty five years later, 371 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:44.279 maybe he's forty years later, maybe he's still run through 372 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:46.960 the forest. I don't know, but pretty wild some of 373 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:48.240 the some of the stuff. And I'm just like, Dad 374 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:49.879 was a scary He's like, no, God was with us, 375 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:52.480 and I'm like, you're crazy. Our house was bugged. I 376 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:54.519 found this out later. We had we had listening devices 377 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:56.120 the government put into our house. We had one in 378 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.399 my parents' bedroom and one in our living room. In fact, 379 00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:01.559 we had missionaries from the West that Americans come on 380 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:04.159 brought the message of the Gospel to us during the 381 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:06.919 time when everything was shut down, snuck bibles and it 382 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.679 was incredible, and so we doing a prayer meeting, and 383 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.320 they had a bug detector because they're like, there's a 384 00:16:12.360 --> 00:16:14.000 lot of houses and so we want to know. And 385 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:16.440 so they literally had one of those like listening device detectors. 386 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:17.679 So they went through our house and they found out 387 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:19.840 there was actually two of them and We're like, no, wonder, 388 00:16:19.879 --> 00:16:21.799 we're getting broken into every time there's a prayer meeting. 389 00:16:21.840 --> 00:16:23.840 Every time people are meeting and stuff's happening, my dad 390 00:16:23.879 --> 00:16:26.360 would get crazy fines. I mean, they would bash his 391 00:16:26.399 --> 00:16:28.440 windshields in, they would slash his tires. I mean the 392 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:30.200 cops were they were trying to protect you, or actually 393 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:32.679 they're you know, doing the opposite of that, right, And 394 00:16:32.720 --> 00:16:34.799 so we grew up in persecution. So I kind of 395 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:37.559 get an idea of what's happening in this church where 396 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:40.840 they were literally being forced out of Jerusalem, being forced 397 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:42.919 out of Rome, and they're like, you're not welcome, you're 398 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:44.919 not wanted. This is not where you're gonna be. And 399 00:16:45.039 --> 00:16:48.200 but I love what Jesus does. He turns everything together 400 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:52.799 for his good everything, no matter what you go through. 401 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:56.399