WEBVTT 00:00.440 --> 00:02.000 How many were lost in the worship? 00:07.920 --> 00:08.320 Amen. 00:10.260 --> 00:11.400 How many in the room? 00:11.860 --> 00:13.920 First of all, let me, before I ask this question, 00:14.740 --> 00:17.880 and I, you know, I don't know all of what God wants to do. 00:18.020 --> 00:19.400 God's going to do what He wants to do. 00:19.560 --> 00:21.720 But I have some idea of what God wants to do. 00:22.520 --> 00:24.420 And God is extremely intentional. 00:24.920 --> 00:26.000 And God knows everything. 00:26.440 --> 00:28.940 And He's always ahead of us, even when we don't know. 00:29.340 --> 00:29.540 Amen. 00:29.540 --> 00:33.560 We might be spontaneous to us, but it's very intentional 00:33.560 --> 00:35.800 and very purposeful to God. 00:35.980 --> 00:37.240 God is extremely deliberate. 00:38.880 --> 00:42.280 God is never confused about anything and about what He's doing. 00:43.620 --> 00:44.040 Hallelujah. 00:44.840 --> 00:46.180 How many are glad about that? 00:46.640 --> 00:50.600 I want to be intentional to again and give a proper thank you 00:50.600 --> 00:55.060 to Pastor Vern and Pastor Mary, specifically Pastor Igor. 00:55.480 --> 00:55.540 Welcome. 00:55.900 --> 00:59.000 I don't know you as well, but I will tell you that 00:59.000 --> 01:02.680 we've done this meeting God numerous times. 01:03.380 --> 01:07.260 And yeah, I've been with Apostle Calvin Woods and, you know, 01:07.860 --> 01:09.260 it was a little strange. 01:09.420 --> 01:11.260 I told Pastor Vern, I said, it's a little strange 01:11.260 --> 01:14.360 I'm not going to be here with Apostle Calvin. 01:15.680 --> 01:17.880 But the Lord knows what He's doing. 01:18.240 --> 01:20.960 And that's neither here nor there. 01:22.500 --> 01:25.620 And I say that only to say that, you know, 01:26.300 --> 01:28.240 God wants to do something tonight. 01:28.940 --> 01:33.000 And I am just past a lot of church routine. 01:33.440 --> 01:35.680 But I want to give proper honor and due 01:35.680 --> 01:40.120 because these are great pastors, great men and women of God. 01:40.680 --> 01:42.220 And I'm thankful for them. 01:42.340 --> 01:43.340 I'm thankful to know them. 01:45.000 --> 01:46.320 Amen. That's right. Come on. 01:48.300 --> 01:49.560 My goodness, come on. 01:50.780 --> 01:52.840 You can stand if you want to stand and honor them. 01:58.200 --> 01:59.240 Thank you. 01:59.760 --> 02:01.620 We honor you both. My goodness. 02:01.920 --> 02:02.560 Honor your labor. 02:04.180 --> 02:07.700 And, you know, the Lord takes account of all of our labor 02:08.520 --> 02:09.360 in heaven. 02:09.680 --> 02:12.720 And the Lord records it and he has memory of it. 02:13.440 --> 02:14.540 And I love that. 02:15.380 --> 02:17.420 And the Lord has rewards for us 02:17.420 --> 02:21.100 based on how we fulfill the labor that he's called us to. 02:21.840 --> 02:23.740 And it's a lot. It takes a lot 02:23.740 --> 02:26.200 because you're responsible for a lot. 02:26.200 --> 02:26.800 In God. 02:27.360 --> 02:31.040 Now, the beauty about God is that God actually gives us the power, 02:31.180 --> 02:34.780 the strength, the ability to fulfill what he wants us to do, 02:34.960 --> 02:36.480 to walk in his calling, 02:37.560 --> 02:40.200 but understand that we have a part to play 02:40.200 --> 02:42.780 to decide to be responsible for it. 02:43.780 --> 02:46.400 And so they're not only responsible for the work, 02:46.920 --> 02:48.880 but they're responsible for you all. 02:49.480 --> 02:49.720 Amen. 02:50.960 --> 02:53.080 And for those that have been a part of this ministry, 02:53.860 --> 02:56.540 and, you know, I've been talking about leadership a lot. 02:57.420 --> 03:00.640 I do leadership development for a living 03:01.600 --> 03:03.720 and part of one of the things I do. 03:04.400 --> 03:06.580 And I've been talking about leadership a lot, 03:06.660 --> 03:09.400 and there's just an awesome responsibility to leadership. 03:10.880 --> 03:14.440 And, you know, when I got the text from Pastor Vern 03:15.320 --> 03:17.060 and he said to me, you know, 03:17.120 --> 03:20.240 what is some of the things or something 03:20.240 --> 03:22.820 that the church in America needs in the end times? 03:24.780 --> 03:27.780 And the first thing I heard in my spirit was leadership. 03:30.160 --> 03:32.640 Now, I'm not going to minister much about leadership, 03:32.760 --> 03:34.460 but I'm going to be obedient to the Lord. 03:35.220 --> 03:37.740 Somebody say, Brian is an obedient prophet. 03:40.480 --> 03:41.900 So I'm going to be obedient 03:41.900 --> 03:43.700 and talk about leadership for a minute. 03:44.940 --> 03:47.200 And the reason I'm going to talk about it for a minute 03:47.200 --> 03:51.000 is because I am convinced that most of us in the world today 03:51.000 --> 03:54.620 and people that aren't even saved that don't know Jesus 03:55.200 --> 03:58.400 don't fully understand what leadership really is. 03:59.680 --> 04:02.360 And leadership is a double-edged sword. 04:03.880 --> 04:06.420 Leadership has two sides of it 04:06.420 --> 04:08.000 in order for it to be effective. 04:08.860 --> 04:11.600 We always see leadership from the position 04:12.020 --> 04:15.180 and from the place of people leading us, 04:15.180 --> 04:17.880 somebody being in position and in charge 04:17.880 --> 04:19.000 and they're leading us. 04:19.440 --> 04:22.640 But we never take into account our responsibility 04:22.640 --> 04:23.980 to follow the leader. 04:24.580 --> 04:25.860 Somebody say, follow the leader. 04:27.700 --> 04:30.220 Now, you know, when I was young we played this game. 04:31.540 --> 04:34.220 How many of y'all played that game called follow the leader? 04:35.880 --> 04:39.060 The awesome thing is that we know that Jesus is the leader. 04:39.260 --> 04:40.580 Holy Spirit is the leader, right? 04:41.560 --> 04:45.060 But Holy Spirit places undershepherds 04:45.060 --> 04:47.980 in his body to help lead flocks, 04:48.560 --> 04:50.620 to lead communities of people. 04:51.340 --> 04:53.820 He takes and he puts something on somebody's heart. 04:54.440 --> 04:57.280 He burns it within them and he stirs them up. 04:57.800 --> 04:59.720 Most of the time they don't even want to do it. 05:01.280 --> 05:03.720 Can I just be real in here for a moment? 05:04.500 --> 05:06.480 I'm five minutes in. Can I be real? 05:08.360 --> 05:10.280 Most of the time they don't want to do it 05:10.280 --> 05:14.700 but they give in to the Lord because they love him. 05:15.040 --> 05:15.880 My goodness. 05:17.140 --> 05:19.460 And you can't really love him 05:20.640 --> 05:21.960 and hate the work. 05:23.720 --> 05:24.800 It's impossible. 05:26.040 --> 05:29.800 But the problem is that us and the body of Christ, 05:30.460 --> 05:33.200 if we're not the ones that are appointed 05:33.200 --> 05:34.820 in the leadership position, 05:35.540 --> 05:37.980 only want the leader to love the work 05:37.980 --> 05:41.040 and we can just be indifferent about it. 05:42.300 --> 05:42.500 Amen? 05:44.800 --> 05:48.180 And God is trying to shift something in our understanding 05:49.060 --> 05:51.780 because there's an element of our intimacy 05:52.770 --> 05:56.080 that is revealed in our commitment to the work. 05:56.760 --> 05:57.460 Amen? 05:59.280 --> 06:00.820 Here's the beauty of it. 06:01.820 --> 06:03.420 Leadership needs both. 06:03.420 --> 06:07.300 If we were to look at the centurion 06:07.940 --> 06:10.140 when the centurion came to Jesus, 06:10.980 --> 06:12.220 the centurion says, 06:12.320 --> 06:14.300 I got somebody back at home who's sick. 06:14.380 --> 06:15.560 I need you to heal this man. 06:16.280 --> 06:18.900 Jesus is like, I'm gonna go heal this dude 06:18.900 --> 06:20.560 because Jesus is a healer, amen? 06:22.300 --> 06:24.560 As Jesus gets up, the centurion says, 06:25.080 --> 06:26.820 no, you don't have to come to my house. 06:28.200 --> 06:29.620 You don't have to come. 06:30.320 --> 06:32.300 He said, I'm a man under authority. 06:32.300 --> 06:34.220 Somebody say a man under authority. 06:36.000 --> 06:37.760 And then he starts to tell him 06:38.100 --> 06:40.560 what that authority looks like in its function. 06:42.100 --> 06:46.040 He's saying, when I say go to my servants, they go. 06:46.460 --> 06:47.640 When I say come, they come. 06:48.900 --> 06:50.240 So he was saying to them, 06:50.240 --> 06:51.520 and you can actually read this. 06:52.040 --> 06:54.860 Matter of fact, I want you to go to Matthew 8. 06:54.940 --> 06:55.960 I'm gonna just show you this. 06:56.220 --> 06:57.700 I'm gonna spend my time doing this 06:57.700 --> 07:00.560 and then I'm gonna get into more of what the Lord says 07:00.560 --> 07:01.540 if he says so. 07:03.080 --> 07:06.400 Because God is doing something in the earth right now 07:06.400 --> 07:08.200 that is a major shift. 07:08.820 --> 07:11.480 The body of Christ has been prepared for this moment. 07:12.140 --> 07:13.700 If you're in the body of Christ, 07:14.480 --> 07:17.380 you need to understand that you are here 07:17.380 --> 07:20.060 because you've been prepared for this moment. 07:21.320 --> 07:24.160 And we have spent too much time 07:25.220 --> 07:26.340 devaluing ourselves, 07:27.460 --> 07:29.380 not being in tune with his voice, 07:30.480 --> 07:33.040 very hesitant to respond to his leading. 07:33.740 --> 07:36.740 And God's like, I created you 07:36.740 --> 07:40.580 and I equipped you to do something significant 07:40.580 --> 07:42.140 in the earth on my behalf. 07:43.300 --> 07:46.760 I need people to respond with a yes to me 07:46.760 --> 07:48.900 to do something great in the earth. 07:49.280 --> 07:52.280 But we're too in tune with our own shortcomings 07:52.280 --> 07:55.900 and we're too in tune with all of the distractions 07:55.900 --> 07:59.820 of the world in order for us to respond with a yes. 08:00.620 --> 08:01.160 Amen? 08:02.320 --> 08:04.040 Let me show you this. 08:05.260 --> 08:06.620 My God, hallelujah. 08:07.760 --> 08:08.780 Thank you, Lord. 08:10.380 --> 08:13.200 Matthew 8, I'm gonna read it in the New Living Translation. 08:15.460 --> 08:19.720 Verse 9 says, 08:21.180 --> 08:25.680 I know this because I'm under the authority 08:25.680 --> 08:27.400 of my superior officers. 08:28.680 --> 08:32.180 And then he says, and I have authority over my soldiers. 08:32.860 --> 08:35.220 So you can see here that he's saying, 08:35.720 --> 08:38.520 I understand leadership because I'm under a leader. 08:39.160 --> 08:41.460 But he was also a leader, my goodness. 08:42.400 --> 08:46.500 So he was showing what leadership looks like in totality. 08:47.180 --> 08:52.100 And when we understand what leadership entails, 08:52.600 --> 08:54.640 then we know how to respond better to a leader. 08:55.680 --> 08:57.080 Why is that important? 08:57.540 --> 09:00.140 Because God speaks to the leaders of the house 09:00.900 --> 09:04.300 and God wants to speak to us on how we can help 09:04.300 --> 09:05.960 support the leader in the work. 09:06.800 --> 09:10.140 So the leader will get certain information from God 09:10.140 --> 09:13.160 about what's necessary for the house. 09:13.160 --> 09:17.500 And as he gets this information or she gets this information 09:17.500 --> 09:19.160 or they get this information, 09:19.400 --> 09:25.480 God will also speak to us about information regarding the house. 09:26.180 --> 09:29.540 Because he needs somebody to do the work, my goodness. 09:30.300 --> 09:30.900 Amen? 09:32.060 --> 09:36.560 So the Lord said to me that 2026 was gonna be a year of the worker. 09:38.600 --> 09:42.380 Jesus said that pray for the workers. 09:42.380 --> 09:43.240 Amen? 09:45.100 --> 09:47.020 He said the laborers are few. 09:48.500 --> 09:51.520 We all want revival and we want to see this great harvest, 09:51.620 --> 09:54.820 but we don't have a lot of people that are willing to do the work. 09:55.720 --> 10:00.120 We don't have a lot of people that want to labor in the Lord's vineyard. 10:00.700 --> 10:01.120 Amen? 10:02.360 --> 10:05.860 And what we do is we set up atmospheres 10:05.860 --> 10:08.440 where we get really charged in the presence of God. 10:08.760 --> 10:11.480 And then we say, how many want to do the work of God? 10:11.480 --> 10:13.460 How many want to say yes to the Lord? 10:13.900 --> 10:16.080 And then we get a bunch of people that raise their hand. 10:16.420 --> 10:19.280 Watch, how many want to do the work of God? 10:20.480 --> 10:21.860 You guys are all scared now. 10:23.580 --> 10:24.760 Don't be scared. 10:26.080 --> 10:27.220 God is watching. 10:28.780 --> 10:29.980 God is listening. 10:31.280 --> 10:32.500 Don't be scared. 10:33.940 --> 10:37.140 So you'll raise your hand and hear the faithful few. 10:37.140 --> 10:39.720 You guys must have been a part of Gideon's army. 10:39.920 --> 10:40.400 Come on, somebody. 10:42.560 --> 10:45.660 But then when you get home and the Lord starts giving you dreams 10:46.460 --> 10:48.320 and the Lord starts giving you visions 10:48.980 --> 10:53.300 and the Lord starts giving you instructions on how to get involved in the work, 10:53.540 --> 10:57.440 there's not that same response that you had when you were in that meeting 10:57.440 --> 10:59.740 charged with the presence and the glory of God. 11:05.860 --> 11:07.720 Well, Brian, I'm just too old. 11:09.280 --> 11:12.880 Well, Moses was 80 years old when God went and called him. 11:13.820 --> 11:16.180 And Moses made a bunch of excuses. 11:17.080 --> 11:21.660 And how many understand Moses could not outnegotiate God? 11:23.360 --> 11:23.800 He tried. 11:26.360 --> 11:29.580 How many understand Joshua and Caleb were old men? 11:30.720 --> 11:32.760 They were around 70, 80 years old 11:32.760 --> 11:37.380 when they led the 21-year-olds into the Promised Land? 11:38.860 --> 11:41.360 I feel the Holy Ghost in here right now. 11:42.620 --> 11:47.860 How many understand David was anointed as king as around a 13-year-old? 11:48.940 --> 11:52.060 How many understand that Esther was a young woman 11:52.060 --> 11:55.900 when she was made queen of Persia? 11:57.680 --> 12:02.160 She wasn't just made queen so she could be adorned with nice, pretty dresses 12:02.160 --> 12:03.760 and be loved on by the king. 12:04.500 --> 12:08.600 She was put in position because God was setting her up 12:08.600 --> 12:14.120 to be the one who was going to bring a rescue to the nation of Israel. 12:14.380 --> 12:15.260 Come on, somebody, amen? 12:18.600 --> 12:22.460 How many understand King Josiah was seven years old 12:23.440 --> 12:24.860 when he was made king? 12:25.580 --> 12:30.740 And he tore down the altars in the high places of idolatry? 12:31.660 --> 12:34.200 Seven years old he was put into position. 12:35.500 --> 12:40.300 There is no excuse for any of us in the body of Christ 12:40.300 --> 12:42.820 to doing the work of the Lord. 12:43.580 --> 12:46.880 When God made you, he made you with an intention 12:46.880 --> 12:49.520 to fulfill something on the earth for his behalf. 12:50.300 --> 12:55.840 And what the devil tries to do is derail us and destroy us 12:55.840 --> 12:58.620 because if he can derail and destroy us 12:58.620 --> 13:02.260 then he'll also derail and destroy the work. Amen? 13:04.600 --> 13:07.760 So everybody in here has been called to do something great. 13:08.820 --> 13:09.200 Amen? 13:10.140 --> 13:11.860 Look at the person next to you and say, 13:12.000 --> 13:13.840 I've been called to do something great. 13:16.040 --> 13:18.080 Come on, stick your nose up a little bit. 13:18.180 --> 13:19.180 It's okay this time. 13:19.700 --> 13:22.880 Say, I've been called to do something great. 13:30.270 --> 13:32.910 But Brian, this one hurt me and that one hurt me. 13:34.390 --> 13:36.310 Jesus said they would be suffering. 13:39.290 --> 13:41.530 Joseph had his brothers throw him in a pit. 13:43.610 --> 13:46.130 Joseph was falsely accused. 13:47.810 --> 13:49.770 Potiphar's wife tried to seduce him 13:49.770 --> 13:51.930 and he was falsely accused throwing it to a prison. 13:54.710 --> 13:55.970 There's no excuse. 13:59.810 --> 14:01.350 Well, Brian, I don't know enough. 14:02.170 --> 14:04.690 The apostles were called unlearned men. 14:05.930 --> 14:09.510 Matter of fact, it says that they had a testimony 14:09.510 --> 14:11.230 that they knew they had been with Jesus 14:11.230 --> 14:14.090 being unlearned men because of the way they would speak. 14:14.750 --> 14:16.030 They were unlearned. 14:16.530 --> 14:18.710 They were regarded as ignorant men. 14:21.310 --> 14:22.490 Towards the scriptures. 14:24.070 --> 14:27.870 If God was putting all of it upon our ability 14:27.870 --> 14:29.550 then none of us would get the work done. 14:32.410 --> 14:34.670 So I want to start out tonight 14:36.130 --> 14:38.710 saying I'm not going to live like this anymore. 14:39.470 --> 14:42.170 I'm not going to look at myself in the mirror 14:42.170 --> 14:43.530 and not see what God sees. 14:44.690 --> 14:45.250 Amen? 14:46.450 --> 14:50.570 I think that we need to all make the decision right now 14:50.570 --> 14:52.650 before we continue in this meeting. 14:53.110 --> 14:55.970 Because how you hear and how you receive 14:55.970 --> 14:57.790 everything else that happens, 14:58.070 --> 15:00.790 not just tonight, but for the rest of the week 15:00.790 --> 15:03.970 and for the rest of the month and for the rest of the year 15:03.970 --> 15:08.810 because we are too complacent in the body of Christ 15:08.810 --> 15:11.130 with just having events like this 15:11.130 --> 15:12.850 and just having nice meetings 15:12.850 --> 15:16.710 and forgetting that we got a walk that lasts a lifetime 15:16.710 --> 15:19.510 and God wants us to pick this thing up 15:19.510 --> 15:21.170 and take it wholeheartedly. 15:21.510 --> 15:24.870 So I want us to make the decision right now. 15:25.270 --> 15:25.830 Amen? 15:26.170 --> 15:26.910 As we continue. 15:26.910 --> 15:31.070 I will see myself as Jesus does. Amen? 15:32.090 --> 15:34.430 Hallelujah. Come on, say I will see myself 15:35.050 --> 15:36.510 as Jesus does. 15:38.150 --> 15:41.990 Make the decision to not devalue who God made you to be. 15:42.910 --> 15:45.310 Make the decision to not devalue 15:45.310 --> 15:47.850 the God that's living on the inside of you. 15:48.750 --> 15:49.350 Amen? 15:50.910 --> 15:52.090 Glory to Jesus. 15:52.730 --> 15:54.510 Somebody give the Lord a mighty hand of praise. 16:01.660 --> 16:02.860 Revelation 22. 16:06.920 --> 16:08.920 So we appreciate the leadership 16:10.120 --> 16:11.400 because they're pioneers 16:13.360 --> 16:17.160 and they make a way for us to come into 16:18.240 --> 16:20.440 because a real leader prepares a way 16:20.440 --> 16:23.560 like Abraham was concerned about the wife 16:23.560 --> 16:25.320 that was going to be chosen for Isaac. 16:28.750 --> 16:29.350 Amen? 16:29.350 --> 16:33.010 They want you to come into your calling. 16:36.890 --> 16:39.330 I was all prepared not to even talk about this. 16:39.670 --> 16:41.650 I actually heard something different in worship. 16:42.870 --> 16:44.510 But as soon as I got up here, 16:46.190 --> 16:47.790 the Lord said, talk about it. 16:56.910 --> 16:58.830 Because we do God's work like 17:00.490 --> 17:02.430 can I get somebody to move the table? 17:08.170 --> 17:10.490 And only one, maybe two people moved. 17:11.650 --> 17:13.130 And how many people are in the room? 17:16.300 --> 17:18.100 Brian, it's too early for a conviction. 17:20.240 --> 17:21.900 Well, you take it up with the Holy Ghost. 17:25.240 --> 17:26.160 Revelation 22. 17:28.920 --> 17:30.120 Verses 6 and 7. 17:31.560 --> 17:34.400 Then he said to me, these words are faithful and true. 17:34.540 --> 17:37.240 And the Lord God of the Holy Prophet 17:37.240 --> 17:39.880 sent his angel to show his servants the things 17:39.880 --> 17:41.900 which must shortly take place. 17:42.600 --> 17:44.480 Behold, I am coming quickly. 17:44.720 --> 17:46.320 Somebody said the Lord is coming quickly. 17:49.720 --> 17:51.360 Revelation 22 and 12. 17:52.400 --> 17:54.280 And behold, I am coming quickly. 17:54.460 --> 17:56.040 Somebody said the Lord is coming quickly. 17:59.640 --> 18:01.300 Revelation 22 and 20. 18:02.420 --> 18:04.820 He who testifies to these things says, 18:04.820 --> 18:06.920 surely I am coming quickly. 18:07.100 --> 18:09.840 Somebody say, surely the Lord is coming quickly. 18:13.240 --> 18:15.040 But the Lord said to me, Brian, 18:16.080 --> 18:19.700 I will not come until the work is done. 18:22.000 --> 18:22.560 Amen? 18:24.900 --> 18:26.240 Go to Luke chapter 19. 18:36.300 --> 18:37.420 Verse 13. 18:39.240 --> 18:40.160 My goodness. 18:41.180 --> 18:42.440 Thank you, Lord Jesus. 18:46.710 --> 18:50.610 So he called ten of his servants, delivered to them, 18:50.730 --> 18:52.310 ten minors, and said to them, 18:52.950 --> 18:54.450 do business till I come. 18:56.050 --> 18:57.870 Or occupy till I come. 19:00.050 --> 19:03.430 So there is a work that God wants us to do. 19:04.430 --> 19:07.010 And he will not come until the work is done. 19:08.030 --> 19:11.190 We have been crying out for years and years and years. 19:11.190 --> 19:14.430 What struck me when reading Revelation 22 19:14.430 --> 19:17.910 is that he said, I am coming quickly three times. 19:18.610 --> 19:21.690 How many understand that the reason he said it three times 19:21.690 --> 19:22.770 is because he meant it? 19:23.550 --> 19:24.630 It's a sure thing. 19:25.270 --> 19:28.350 We should not be in question that Jesus is going to return. 19:28.870 --> 19:31.130 There will be a second coming of Jesus. 19:31.810 --> 19:34.970 All eyes will see Jesus when he comes when he returns. 19:35.810 --> 19:37.510 He is surely going to come. 19:37.510 --> 19:40.930 That needs to be settled in our spirit and our soul 19:40.930 --> 19:41.910 and our understanding. 19:42.290 --> 19:45.030 Jesus is coming back, but he will not come 19:45.030 --> 19:46.210 until the work gets done. 19:46.630 --> 19:49.330 We can pray, we can cry out, we can fast, 19:49.530 --> 19:51.670 we can worship, we can do all of that, 19:51.690 --> 19:54.070 but he will not come until the work is done. 19:54.270 --> 19:54.390 Amen? 19:55.890 --> 19:57.550 The work has to be completed 19:57.550 --> 19:59.890 because the work being completed 19:59.890 --> 20:02.230 or souls coming into the kingdom 20:02.230 --> 20:04.510 is predicated on the work being completed. 20:05.170 --> 20:05.450 Amen? 20:05.450 --> 20:05.530 Amen. 20:07.370 --> 20:11.130 How many understand that the Bible says 20:11.130 --> 20:12.670 that his purpose will stand? 20:13.130 --> 20:13.330 Amen? 20:14.990 --> 20:17.330 So that means his purpose inside of each 20:17.330 --> 20:18.450 and every one of you. 20:18.910 --> 20:20.750 Each and every one of us will stand. 20:21.390 --> 20:21.570 Amen? 20:22.570 --> 20:24.630 This is why the devil sets up things. 20:25.270 --> 20:26.730 You know, I didn't get to talk about it 20:26.730 --> 20:28.030 the last time I was here, 20:28.090 --> 20:31.530 but we were coming from Iowa in 2024, 20:31.670 --> 20:32.850 November of 2024, 20:32.850 --> 20:35.870 and coming down 35. 20:36.430 --> 20:37.950 I describe some in detail. 20:38.350 --> 20:39.590 We were coming down 35. 20:39.730 --> 20:41.870 We were 30 minutes north of Des Moines. 20:42.230 --> 20:45.570 And a guy who was driving southbound, 20:46.030 --> 20:47.270 he crossed over the median. 20:47.410 --> 20:49.290 He hydroplane crossed over the median, 20:52.290 --> 20:55.230 started coming southbound in the northbound lane. 20:56.110 --> 20:58.230 I was following Apostle Calvin Woods. 20:58.790 --> 21:01.130 He moved to the right. 21:02.950 --> 21:04.310 And when I saw it, 21:05.190 --> 21:06.770 I'm like something is wrong. 21:06.890 --> 21:08.450 Immediately I thought something is wrong. 21:09.370 --> 21:11.510 When I saw him veer to the right, 21:12.410 --> 21:14.050 all of a sudden there was the car. 21:15.450 --> 21:16.890 And I didn't have enough time 21:16.890 --> 21:18.370 to get completely out of the way. 21:18.950 --> 21:20.950 And all I could say was, oh no. 21:22.150 --> 21:23.410 And the night before, 21:23.610 --> 21:24.930 I had made some repentance. 21:25.210 --> 21:27.550 I had some time of repentance to the Lord 21:27.550 --> 21:29.590 and started to repent about certain things 21:29.590 --> 21:30.910 that were going on in my heart. 21:31.930 --> 21:34.210 Because that time of repentance 21:34.210 --> 21:36.790 was aligning me more with the fulfillment 21:36.790 --> 21:38.670 of the purpose of God inside of me. 21:39.070 --> 21:40.010 And the devil was like, 21:40.110 --> 21:41.690 I didn't want Brian to get there. 21:42.070 --> 21:42.710 But guess what? 21:42.830 --> 21:45.010 I had my 16-year-old daughter, 21:45.150 --> 21:46.590 Nevea, in the truck with me. 21:47.090 --> 21:48.910 And it wasn't just my purpose 21:48.910 --> 21:49.910 the devil was after. 21:50.290 --> 21:52.750 He was trying to kill her purpose as well. 21:53.690 --> 21:55.910 See, the devil understands how important 21:55.910 --> 21:58.110 the purpose of God is on the inside of us. 21:58.110 --> 22:01.670 The devil understands how important the work is 22:01.670 --> 22:04.610 that God has called us to on the inside of us. 22:04.790 --> 22:06.570 And we go about life 22:07.850 --> 22:09.210 just kind of, you know, 22:09.830 --> 22:11.070 just going with the flow. 22:12.130 --> 22:13.770 It's not that big of a deal. 22:14.470 --> 22:17.550 But see, I almost lost my life in that moment. 22:18.010 --> 22:20.530 My daughter almost lost her life in that moment. 22:20.830 --> 22:24.310 Head on collision at 70, 80, 90 miles an hour. 22:27.980 --> 22:30.520 Because the devil was not just trying to kill us, 22:30.780 --> 22:32.400 but he was trying to kill the work 22:32.400 --> 22:34.260 that God had called us to, amen? 22:35.240 --> 22:37.220 I feel the Holy Ghost in this room right now. 22:40.740 --> 22:41.620 Shabbat carrasandababbakashandababbasaya. 22:42.420 --> 22:44.720 Jesus will not come till the work gets done. 22:45.340 --> 22:47.160 And so there's a grace and an anointing 22:47.160 --> 22:49.900 on each one of us to accomplish the work of God. 22:50.460 --> 22:50.680 Amen? 22:51.720 --> 22:53.320 We got to start saying, God, 22:53.840 --> 22:55.340 I want to value this work. 22:55.340 --> 22:57.060 I'm going to give myself to the work. 22:57.480 --> 22:59.720 This isn't about a work with getting saved. 23:00.080 --> 23:01.880 The work of salvation was completed 23:01.880 --> 23:03.900 and could only be completed by Jesus. 23:04.260 --> 23:07.700 But this is a continuing of the work that Jesus began. 23:08.040 --> 23:10.960 A continuing of the ministry that Jesus began 23:10.960 --> 23:11.920 in the earth, amen? 23:12.580 --> 23:14.460 And each one of us is called to it. 23:14.740 --> 23:17.960 Some of us may not have to do what I'm doing right now, 23:18.060 --> 23:19.680 standing up preaching in a pulpit. 23:19.940 --> 23:22.000 But God wants to send you to people. 23:22.260 --> 23:24.200 And that could be on your workplace. 23:24.200 --> 23:25.720 That could be in your school. 23:26.160 --> 23:27.760 That could be at the grocery store. 23:27.960 --> 23:28.840 It could be anywhere. 23:29.140 --> 23:30.900 God wants to make you available. 23:31.100 --> 23:34.120 He wants you to be available anywhere and everywhere 23:34.120 --> 23:37.220 to send you to someone to complete the work, 23:37.420 --> 23:40.460 to finish the work, to present Jesus to a world 23:40.460 --> 23:42.040 that needs to see Jesus, amen? 23:43.040 --> 23:43.960 My goodness. 23:44.780 --> 23:45.740 Thank you, Lord. 23:46.760 --> 23:47.380 Thank you, Lord. 23:48.360 --> 23:48.720 Hallelujah. 23:49.560 --> 23:51.060 Philippians 2 and 13 says, 23:51.060 --> 23:53.360 It is God who works in you both to will 23:53.360 --> 23:54.780 and to do for his good pleasure. 23:55.340 --> 23:56.500 How many understand? 23:56.700 --> 23:59.000 God is doing the work in us, amen? 23:59.580 --> 24:00.880 He's doing the work in us, 24:00.900 --> 24:03.040 but He's doing the work in us to do the work. 24:05.980 --> 24:10.900 God did not call any one of us to be lazy Christians, amen? 24:12.760 --> 24:14.920 I know this is hard because most of us 24:14.920 --> 24:17.100 have become comfortable with being lazy Christians. 24:18.560 --> 24:20.700 Isn't that what Pastor was talking about? 24:22.260 --> 24:22.760 Right? 24:24.660 --> 24:27.120 The luxuries of America has ruined us. 24:28.860 --> 24:31.000 Well, what do we become after we're ruined? 24:31.160 --> 24:32.240 Somebody say lazy. 24:34.000 --> 24:35.920 Oh, you guys didn't want to say that with me. 24:36.000 --> 24:37.160 Help me preach this message. 24:37.800 --> 24:39.200 Come on, somebody say lazy. 24:43.740 --> 24:45.440 Most of us are lazy Christians. 24:47.100 --> 24:48.080 We don't pray. 24:48.240 --> 24:49.140 We don't read our Bible. 24:49.140 --> 24:50.460 We don't witness. 24:50.960 --> 24:53.300 It's been years since we led somebody to the Lord. 24:53.700 --> 24:55.340 Most of us are lazy Christians. 24:56.700 --> 24:59.200 We don't pray for somebody to be healed. 25:00.340 --> 25:02.960 We don't even want a fellowship most of the time. 25:03.760 --> 25:06.760 So then when we come to services like this, 25:07.520 --> 25:10.300 we expect people to join in and respond, 25:10.660 --> 25:13.800 but they don't have a lifestyle of responding to the Lord. 25:16.870 --> 25:17.510 Right? 25:18.970 --> 25:21.570 Listen, I'm a fan of social media. 25:26.880 --> 25:28.800 I like social media. 25:30.820 --> 25:33.740 But social media will make you lazy. 25:36.680 --> 25:38.680 Netflix will make you lazy. 25:42.300 --> 25:45.760 Netflix has killed more people's prayer life 25:45.760 --> 25:47.420 than the devil ever could. 25:48.280 --> 25:50.200 Oh, I'm preaching good right now. 26:05.480 --> 26:06.000 I'm preaching good right now. 26:06.000 --> 26:07.380 Brian, why are you being so hard on us? 26:07.800 --> 26:09.560 Because I see the value in you. 26:11.520 --> 26:14.300 As I'm walking back and forth across the room, 26:14.440 --> 26:15.400 I'm seeing the value. 26:16.060 --> 26:18.160 I'm seeing what God sees. 26:19.600 --> 26:21.160 I'm seeing what God sees. 26:23.740 --> 26:25.000 He's scanning the room. 26:25.340 --> 26:26.760 Like he's scanning the earth. 26:26.760 --> 26:29.780 Looking for those who want to serve him wholeheartedly. 26:31.240 --> 26:33.780 The question is, what else has our heart, amen? 26:35.900 --> 26:38.540 And what we don't understand, right, 26:40.140 --> 26:43.840 is that there's always going to be some type of an iteration 26:43.840 --> 26:47.800 of the local church or a gathering or assembling 26:47.800 --> 26:50.600 of the body of Christ in the earth at all times. 26:51.520 --> 26:55.060 The church is God's answer to the issues 26:55.060 --> 26:57.800 that are happening in the earth, amen? 26:59.120 --> 27:01.620 Because the church is the representation 27:01.620 --> 27:05.020 of the body of Christ in the earth, amen? 27:06.280 --> 27:10.140 Collectively, we become Jesus in the earth, amen? 27:10.740 --> 27:12.940 That means we're supposed to be a group of people 27:12.940 --> 27:15.920 that look like Jesus, that resemble Jesus, 27:16.380 --> 27:17.680 that talk like Jesus. 27:18.700 --> 27:21.540 The world will hold us to loving like Jesus, right? 27:22.500 --> 27:24.780 That means we got to accept their sin. 27:25.580 --> 27:29.540 They want a Jesus that just accepts their sin, right? 27:31.040 --> 27:34.600 But that's not the Jesus that's on the inside of us. 27:36.020 --> 27:40.260 But most of us don't want to ruffle anybody's feathers. 27:43.280 --> 27:45.980 And so we just get caught up in the rat race 27:47.140 --> 27:50.380 and we start to take on a resemblance of the world 27:50.380 --> 27:52.100 more than we look like Jesus, amen? 27:55.160 --> 27:56.100 How many understand? 27:56.780 --> 27:58.260 The local church is important. 27:59.860 --> 28:03.300 A gathering of a body of believers is important. 28:03.840 --> 28:07.360 Some people have para churches where they meet in houses 28:07.360 --> 28:10.420 or they meet at other venues 28:10.420 --> 28:12.080 and it's a smaller group of people. 28:12.480 --> 28:14.360 There's always some type of iteration 28:14.360 --> 28:17.460 where there's a gathering. God wants you to be in community. 28:17.460 --> 28:19.800 God wants a healthy body. 28:20.100 --> 28:23.580 And if you're not a part of a community, a local body, 28:23.640 --> 28:25.320 then you are unhealthy in God. 28:27.000 --> 28:29.980 God doesn't want us to be isolated and renegade. 28:30.600 --> 28:34.200 He doesn't have us as vigilantes out here just casting out devils, 28:34.220 --> 28:36.720 but we have no community and fellowship with his body. 28:37.580 --> 28:42.200 And because we have so many of these people that openly bash the church 28:43.620 --> 28:46.780 that say they love Jesus, it's creating confusion 28:46.780 --> 28:50.220 and it's making it difficult for the world to recognize 28:50.220 --> 28:53.720 when there is somebody that truly is sold out for God 28:53.720 --> 28:55.220 and looks like Jesus, amen? 28:56.920 --> 28:59.340 And that's why we can't just be lazy. 29:00.100 --> 29:02.040 Because if we're lazy, we're half-hearted. 29:02.380 --> 29:02.780 My goodness. 29:03.720 --> 29:06.640 If we're lazy, we're not all the way in it. 29:07.600 --> 29:09.800 How many know that everybody's a Christian? 29:12.300 --> 29:13.840 Here in America, right? 29:17.060 --> 29:17.820 Everybody's a Christian. 29:19.620 --> 29:23.240 If you ask anybody you go to school with, or you work with, 29:23.940 --> 29:25.740 they'll say, what's your religion? 29:25.880 --> 29:26.880 They'll say, well, I'm a Christian. 29:27.900 --> 29:29.140 I'm not religious, though. 29:29.940 --> 29:31.280 I don't go to church, though. 29:32.780 --> 29:34.840 Or they'll just go to church in Easter. 29:35.300 --> 29:38.460 Or they'll just go to church, you know, on Christmas. 29:39.480 --> 29:40.400 But they're a Christian. 29:41.640 --> 29:44.140 And the word Christian means Christ-like, amen? 29:44.140 --> 29:47.040 And they live every other day 29:48.340 --> 29:50.720 like a heathen, but they're a Christian. 29:52.080 --> 29:53.680 Well, Brian, why are you saying that? 29:53.780 --> 29:55.580 Because most of us in the world, 29:55.880 --> 29:56.980 I mean, in the body of Christ, 29:57.200 --> 29:58.640 tend to live like those in the world. 30:05.720 --> 30:09.140 So I believe that God wants us to shift something today. 30:10.840 --> 30:12.600 There's a challenge going on 30:12.600 --> 30:15.120 because there's an opportunity before us today. 30:16.800 --> 30:20.140 The Lord is doing a new thing in the earth today, amen? 30:22.860 --> 30:24.860 Isaiah 43 and 19 says that, 30:24.900 --> 30:26.380 behold, I'm doing a new thing. 30:27.500 --> 30:28.800 I heard that in worship. 30:28.960 --> 30:30.420 The Lord says he's doing a new thing. 30:32.640 --> 30:34.360 Now, when we say that, right, 30:34.840 --> 30:36.020 we take that and we hear that 30:36.020 --> 30:38.200 and we say, God's doing a new thing in me right now. 30:38.300 --> 30:38.940 We get excited. 30:39.520 --> 30:40.860 That scripture in context, 30:41.080 --> 30:42.300 he was talking to them about 30:42.960 --> 30:44.480 delivering them out of captivity. 30:45.120 --> 30:46.940 What he was really doing was releasing 30:46.940 --> 30:48.880 something that was in the future 30:48.880 --> 30:50.400 when Jesus was going to come. 30:51.020 --> 30:52.260 He was saying the way that, 30:52.580 --> 30:53.880 because they were like, you know, 30:53.980 --> 30:57.260 you delivered us with these ten plagues 30:57.260 --> 30:59.700 out of Egypt and, you know, 31:00.020 --> 31:01.860 where's your power to deliver us now? 31:03.240 --> 31:05.700 And God was saying, I'm going to do a new thing 31:05.700 --> 31:08.080 because his plan wasn't just to deliver 31:08.080 --> 31:09.180 the nation of Israel, 31:09.180 --> 31:11.920 but was to create an environment 31:11.920 --> 31:14.480 to bring in Jews and Gentiles 31:14.480 --> 31:16.800 as one people in his body. 31:17.100 --> 31:18.400 Amen. Hallelujah. 31:19.120 --> 31:20.620 That should get you excited 31:20.620 --> 31:22.860 because most of us are Gentiles in this room. 31:24.280 --> 31:26.180 And God is doing a new thing, 31:26.380 --> 31:28.440 but we got to be people that are not 31:28.440 --> 31:30.980 given to the creature comforts 31:30.980 --> 31:33.240 that America affords us 31:33.240 --> 31:35.540 in order for us to really experience 31:35.540 --> 31:36.520 this new thing. 31:36.900 --> 31:38.700 I don't want to just experience it, 31:38.700 --> 31:40.400 but I want to be a carrier of it. 31:40.700 --> 31:42.620 I don't want to just experience it. 31:42.620 --> 31:44.720 I want to get involved in the work of it. 31:44.800 --> 31:44.900 Amen. 31:47.560 --> 31:50.960 Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. 31:53.100 --> 31:54.580 God told me that this year 31:54.580 --> 31:56.420 order was coming to the house of God. 31:58.860 --> 32:00.540 How many understand that order 32:00.540 --> 32:01.960 is coming to the house of God? 32:03.860 --> 32:05.380 He said he was going to 32:06.120 --> 32:07.960 increase an eternal focus 32:07.960 --> 32:10.220 to us. Amen. 32:10.220 --> 32:13.380 And we were going to have eternal understanding. 32:14.320 --> 32:16.920 In Colossians 3, go to Colossians 3. 32:25.220 --> 32:28.200 Verses 1 and 2 says, 32:28.340 --> 32:29.880 if then you were raised with Christ, 32:30.560 --> 32:32.260 seek those things which are above 32:32.260 --> 32:34.100 where Christ is, 32:34.640 --> 32:36.160 sitting at the right hand of God. 32:37.160 --> 32:38.060 Verse 2 says, 32:38.180 --> 32:40.000 set your mind on things above, 32:40.160 --> 32:41.240 not on things on the earth. 32:43.040 --> 32:44.640 How many have heard that phrase, 32:44.640 --> 32:47.260 the mind justifies what the heart is chosen. 32:49.640 --> 32:52.260 The mind justifies what the heart is chosen. 32:52.920 --> 32:54.680 What does that mean? It's a concept 32:54.680 --> 32:56.880 that means that whatever the heart loves, 32:57.040 --> 32:58.840 the will chooses and the mind justifies. 32:59.400 --> 33:01.320 So if your heart wants it bad enough, 33:01.740 --> 33:02.840 if you want it bad enough, 33:03.240 --> 33:04.800 your mind will justify 33:04.800 --> 33:06.440 a way for you to have it. 33:06.720 --> 33:08.160 Your mind will justify 33:08.160 --> 33:10.140 a reason for you to get it. 33:11.040 --> 33:12.200 Even if it's sin. 33:12.200 --> 33:14.660 If you want the sin bad enough, 33:15.120 --> 33:16.560 your mind will convince you 33:16.560 --> 33:17.980 that you need that sin. 33:18.600 --> 33:19.120 Amen? 33:20.560 --> 33:21.660 If you want, 33:22.780 --> 33:24.400 if you want money bad enough, 33:24.540 --> 33:25.920 you're going to find a way to go get it. 33:26.960 --> 33:28.540 Your mind will justify 33:28.540 --> 33:30.260 regardless of what it is. 33:30.780 --> 33:31.840 That's why there's people 33:31.840 --> 33:34.220 that go and commit crime to get money. 33:34.680 --> 33:37.100 They rob banks and they do other things 33:37.100 --> 33:38.180 in order to get money 33:38.180 --> 33:40.540 because their mind has justified 33:40.540 --> 33:42.700 that this is the only way that they can get it. 33:42.920 --> 33:43.200 Amen? 33:44.060 --> 33:46.280 So we gotta shift our mindset. 33:46.800 --> 33:48.340 We gotta let the Holy Spirit 33:48.340 --> 33:50.060 come and shift our mindset 33:50.060 --> 33:52.460 to stop focusing on the things 33:52.460 --> 33:54.360 of this earth. In America 33:54.360 --> 33:56.300 we have such an earthly focus. 33:57.020 --> 33:58.460 And we are in the end times. 33:58.960 --> 34:00.340 We are closer today 34:00.340 --> 34:01.880 to the return of Jesus 34:01.880 --> 34:03.320 than we've ever been before. 34:04.060 --> 34:05.580 And that's for each one of us. 34:06.100 --> 34:07.940 I don't care if you're 8 years old 34:07.940 --> 34:09.660 or 80. We are closer 34:09.660 --> 34:12.260 to the return of Jesus than we've ever been before. 34:12.720 --> 34:14.640 But our mind is so focused 34:14.640 --> 34:16.360 and so attached to this earth. 34:16.920 --> 34:17.860 Our mind is so 34:17.860 --> 34:19.800 focused and attached to this world 34:19.800 --> 34:21.620 and to the things of this world 34:21.620 --> 34:23.740 and Jesus wants there to be a shift 34:23.740 --> 34:25.960 in the mindset on things eternal 34:25.960 --> 34:27.240 because his dwelling 34:27.240 --> 34:29.500 and the place that he's prepared for us 34:29.500 --> 34:31.700 is in eternity. And the eternal 34:31.700 --> 34:33.720 things have far greater value. 34:34.020 --> 34:35.440 They're far more important 34:35.440 --> 34:37.280 than the things on this earth. Amen. 34:38.500 --> 34:38.840 Hallelujah. 34:39.920 --> 34:42.340 We got to have a mindset shift. 34:45.590 --> 34:47.490 Because the things of this earth 34:47.490 --> 34:49.050 are making us lazy. 34:51.650 --> 34:52.290 Amen. 34:54.330 --> 34:57.290 If we start to behold Jesus 34:57.990 --> 34:59.990 I love it in some other translations 34:59.990 --> 35:01.290 it says, set your affections. 35:02.170 --> 35:03.370 I like that word because 35:03.370 --> 35:05.090 affection means it's something 35:05.090 --> 35:06.410 that's endearing to you. 35:07.150 --> 35:09.070 Something that you are emotionally 35:09.070 --> 35:11.130 attracted to. With all 35:11.130 --> 35:12.810 of your being and with all of your heart. 35:12.890 --> 35:14.310 You really desire this thing. 35:15.170 --> 35:16.970 And we don't have enough of that 35:16.970 --> 35:18.970 in church. We don't have enough 35:18.970 --> 35:20.270 of that in the body of Christ. 35:21.590 --> 35:21.890 Amen. 35:23.230 --> 35:24.910 Because we got to have people 35:24.910 --> 35:26.870 that come up and act as a cheer 35:26.870 --> 35:28.850 leader just to get us to praise and worship 35:28.850 --> 35:29.310 the Lord. 35:31.130 --> 35:32.810 The mind justifies 35:32.810 --> 35:33.810 what the heart has chosen. 35:35.690 --> 35:36.690 So what is your heart 35:36.690 --> 35:37.090 chosen? 35:39.710 --> 35:39.890 Amen. 35:41.190 --> 35:42.410 What is your heart chosen? 35:44.650 --> 35:46.010 And the thing about it is 35:46.010 --> 35:48.430 is that whatever our heart 35:48.430 --> 35:49.170 chooses 35:50.510 --> 35:52.510 we go after it 35:52.510 --> 35:53.370 passionately. 35:55.950 --> 35:58.550 We go after it enthusiastically. 36:00.330 --> 36:01.070 There's nothing 36:01.070 --> 36:02.150 that's going to get in the way. 36:03.070 --> 36:03.890 There's nothing 36:04.470 --> 36:06.110 that's going to hold us back. 36:07.930 --> 36:08.370 Whatever 36:08.370 --> 36:09.870 our heart chooses 36:12.690 --> 36:13.950 we're going after it 36:13.950 --> 36:14.370 hardcore. 36:16.010 --> 36:16.310 Amen. 36:18.030 --> 36:19.250 There were some young people 36:19.250 --> 36:21.010 in here years ago. I don't know if they remember. 36:21.230 --> 36:22.110 I don't see them in here. 36:22.210 --> 36:24.790 I would tell them when I would pray for them 36:24.790 --> 36:26.450 say I'm going to go hard 36:26.450 --> 36:28.030 for Jesus. Amen. 36:29.470 --> 36:30.610 This is what God 36:30.610 --> 36:32.050 wants to come out of America. 36:33.210 --> 36:34.470 The Lord said that there was 36:34.470 --> 36:36.090 going to be a resurgence 36:36.090 --> 36:38.430 of the church in America this year. 36:39.610 --> 36:40.530 God is not 36:40.530 --> 36:41.970 done with the American church. 36:42.490 --> 36:44.310 And many in the body of Christ 36:44.310 --> 36:45.850 has written off America. 36:46.670 --> 36:48.170 And they've written off the American 36:48.170 --> 36:50.430 church. And you know, you guys 36:50.430 --> 36:51.890 I think we lose sight of it. 36:52.270 --> 36:54.330 The influence that America has had 36:54.330 --> 36:56.110 on the world. In every 36:56.110 --> 36:58.090 area. America has 36:58.090 --> 37:00.010 the number one influence 37:00.010 --> 37:01.570 and impact on the world 37:01.570 --> 37:04.150 of any nation that's ever been. 37:05.170 --> 37:05.850 Even 37:05.850 --> 37:06.350 Israel. 37:08.770 --> 37:09.910 America has 37:09.910 --> 37:12.090 impacted this world more than 37:12.090 --> 37:13.010 any other nation. 37:13.830 --> 37:15.690 And we have a church that's sleeping 37:16.330 --> 37:17.990 and God wants the church 37:17.990 --> 37:19.490 in America to wake up. 37:20.310 --> 37:22.250 God wants to start something 37:22.250 --> 37:24.090 in the earth through the church in America. 37:24.790 --> 37:26.310 But you guys look around 37:26.310 --> 37:27.930 this room. Look 37:27.930 --> 37:29.890 around this room. Look at each other. 37:30.050 --> 37:31.990 Look at us all. Because we 37:31.990 --> 37:33.530 are the church in America. 37:34.250 --> 37:35.730 And because there's 37:36.250 --> 37:38.190 people and denominations 37:38.190 --> 37:40.130 that are sleeping, it doesn't 37:40.130 --> 37:41.830 mean that we got to be a part of those 37:41.830 --> 37:44.010 people. We can be 37:44.010 --> 37:45.950 a part of the remnant. Like 37:45.950 --> 37:47.890 he told Elijah when Elijah said 37:47.890 --> 37:50.070 I'm the only one that hasn't 37:50.070 --> 37:51.310 bowed to Baal. 37:51.630 --> 37:53.310 And God had to correct him 37:53.310 --> 37:55.570 and tell him that there were 7,000 37:55.570 --> 37:57.730 that didn't bow to Baal and 37:57.730 --> 37:59.530 that didn't kiss the mouth of Baal 37:59.530 --> 38:01.510 that were still devoted to him 38:01.510 --> 38:04.030 that refused to worship any other God 38:04.030 --> 38:05.930 that was so heart and willing 38:05.930 --> 38:07.610 to love him and pursue him 38:07.610 --> 38:09.570 and press in wholeheartedly 38:09.570 --> 38:11.610 that we're going to serve him wholeheartedly. 38:11.970 --> 38:13.630 I am trying to implore us 38:13.630 --> 38:15.670 to become that church in America. 38:16.110 --> 38:17.850 I'm trying to implore us 38:17.850 --> 38:19.870 to become that remnant church 38:19.870 --> 38:22.110 in America. Let it be beyond 38:22.110 --> 38:23.970 having a good meeting, good 38:23.970 --> 38:25.770 open heaven meetings that we 38:25.770 --> 38:27.970 have every year. We do this once 38:27.970 --> 38:29.810 a year and you know that it's 38:29.810 --> 38:31.570 going to happen and you're prepared 38:31.570 --> 38:33.410 and when you have prophets coming 38:33.410 --> 38:35.830 you're prepared to receive a prophetic word 38:35.830 --> 38:37.650 but it's got to be greater than that. 38:37.890 --> 38:39.270 It's got to be more than that. 38:39.490 --> 38:41.650 This is what Jesus wants from his church 38:41.650 --> 38:42.290 in America. 38:43.450 --> 38:45.070 And there's an invitation 38:45.070 --> 38:46.850 coming out to each one of us 38:46.850 --> 38:49.450 for us to become that remnant church. 38:49.750 --> 38:50.210 Amen. 38:51.110 --> 38:51.710 Hallelujah. 38:53.290 --> 38:54.610 Glory to Jesus. 38:56.170 --> 38:56.770 Hallelujah. 38:58.750 --> 39:00.310 Hebrews chapter 4 39:00.310 --> 39:01.850 and verse 12 says 39:01.850 --> 39:03.370 the Word of God is living 39:03.370 --> 39:05.110 and powerful and sharper than any 39:05.110 --> 39:07.010 two-edged sword, piercing even 39:07.010 --> 39:08.510 to the division of soul and spirit 39:08.510 --> 39:09.810 and of joints and marrow 39:09.810 --> 39:11.990 and is a discerner of the thoughts 39:11.990 --> 39:13.070 and intents of the heart. 39:13.930 --> 39:15.810 And so a lot of times words like 39:15.810 --> 39:17.890 this is they're coming to examine 39:18.590 --> 39:20.050 the intents and the 39:20.050 --> 39:21.030 thoughts of our heart. 39:21.670 --> 39:23.590 It's putting a magnifying glass 39:23.590 --> 39:26.370 on the things that we desire in our heart 39:26.370 --> 39:27.990 and it's a discerner 39:27.990 --> 39:29.890 or it judges it and it 39:29.890 --> 39:31.210 identifies the source 39:31.710 --> 39:33.830 and it also identifies 39:33.830 --> 39:35.530 whether or not that 39:35.530 --> 39:37.850 desire is something that is 39:37.850 --> 39:38.990 from him or not 39:38.990 --> 39:41.110 and whether or not we should 39:41.110 --> 39:41.810 pursue it. 39:42.190 --> 39:44.690 And we've got to allow this to come in 39:44.690 --> 39:46.450 and judge these desires 39:46.730 --> 39:48.650 that are causing us to fall asleep. 39:49.230 --> 39:50.610 Some of these desires 39:50.610 --> 39:52.930 and the things that we're going after in the world 39:52.930 --> 39:54.510 is working like melatonin 39:54.510 --> 39:56.970 and God wants to wake 39:56.970 --> 39:58.890 us up and he's sending a 39:58.890 --> 40:00.790 word to say, wake up church! 40:02.050 --> 40:03.410 Let me judge that 40:03.410 --> 40:04.890 desire because 40:04.890 --> 40:07.010 the devil has many of us set up 40:07.010 --> 40:08.590 and he's trying to lead us 40:08.590 --> 40:10.710 to destruction because we're 40:10.710 --> 40:12.590 sleeping that desire that we won't 40:12.590 --> 40:14.790 allow God to come and judge in our heart. 40:14.930 --> 40:15.130 Amen? 40:16.610 --> 40:17.570 My goodness. 40:19.470 --> 40:21.130 It's to bring a distinction 40:21.130 --> 40:22.870 and the distinction 40:23.950 --> 40:25.110 is not only to 40:25.110 --> 40:26.950 identify the source of the desire 40:26.950 --> 40:28.870 but also to identify 40:28.870 --> 40:31.050 those that belong to God. Amen? 40:32.050 --> 40:32.430 Hallelujah. 40:32.930 --> 40:34.750 And if we belong to him, we should have 40:34.750 --> 40:36.850 a desire for him. We shouldn't need 40:36.850 --> 40:38.610 a cheerleader. We shouldn't need 40:38.610 --> 40:41.110 to be exhorted to join into the worship. 40:41.470 --> 40:42.790 It should already be something 40:42.790 --> 40:44.550 that is just second nature 40:44.550 --> 40:46.490 because we love him 40:46.490 --> 40:48.850 because we want him because he's 40:48.850 --> 40:50.850 our greatest desire. When he's 40:50.850 --> 40:52.830 your greatest desire, you don't need 40:52.830 --> 40:54.770 anybody to egg you on to praise 40:54.770 --> 40:56.750 and to worship God. When he's 40:56.750 --> 40:58.670 your greatest desire, you don't need 40:58.670 --> 41:00.710 anybody to come and to tell you 41:00.710 --> 41:03.130 to pray and to pray for an hour. 41:03.130 --> 41:05.490 Amen? Hallelujah. 41:06.130 --> 41:07.330 Glory to God. 41:08.370 --> 41:09.830 Thank you, Lord Jesus. 41:12.910 --> 41:14.950 The desire should be passionate. 41:15.730 --> 41:17.330 We should be passionate 41:17.330 --> 41:18.630 about Jesus. 41:19.490 --> 41:21.190 How is the world going to be 41:21.190 --> 41:23.110 passionate about Jesus if we're not? 41:25.030 --> 41:26.890 We're the born again believers. 41:27.710 --> 41:29.750 We're the ones that are a partaker 41:29.750 --> 41:30.590 of his nature. 41:31.190 --> 41:32.610 If we've got his nature, 41:32.810 --> 41:34.870 if we have this intimate relationship 41:34.870 --> 41:36.390 with him, it's like 41:36.930 --> 41:38.710 some of you have met my wife in here. 41:38.770 --> 41:40.470 I know Pastor Mary has met my wife. 41:40.730 --> 41:42.270 Pastor Vern, I believe, has met my wife. 41:43.090 --> 41:44.490 You guys, listen, when I first 41:44.490 --> 41:46.670 saw my wife, I saw her 41:46.670 --> 41:48.450 at a football game. I was 41:48.450 --> 41:50.510 coaching and I just saw her smile. 41:50.950 --> 41:52.770 Somebody say she had him with a smile. 41:55.910 --> 41:57.230 She had me with a smile. 41:58.210 --> 41:59.550 We had mutual friends. 41:59.790 --> 42:00.570 I got her phone number. 42:00.570 --> 42:01.750 I got her phone number from our mutual friends. 42:01.910 --> 42:03.690 I carried her phone number in my wallet 42:03.690 --> 42:04.730 for two years. 42:08.170 --> 42:09.730 Some of y'all look at me like, 42:09.970 --> 42:11.530 Brian, you don't seem like you're that scared. 42:11.870 --> 42:11.950 I mean, 42:13.830 --> 42:15.730 I wasn't. But I knew that 42:15.730 --> 42:16.550 she was the one 42:17.390 --> 42:18.250 from a smile. 42:19.810 --> 42:21.010 It was one moment. 42:21.550 --> 42:23.310 I didn't even talk to her. But I knew 42:23.310 --> 42:24.890 she was the one from a smile. 42:26.610 --> 42:27.730 And I needed God 42:27.730 --> 42:29.170 to do some things in my life. 42:29.910 --> 42:31.950 And watch this. I started telling everybody. 42:33.030 --> 42:33.670 When I, when I get 42:33.670 --> 42:34.110 with her, 42:35.350 --> 42:36.970 it's over. I'm going to marry her. 42:38.010 --> 42:38.810 I'm going to marry her. 42:39.510 --> 42:41.590 I started telling everybody like a test 42:41.590 --> 42:42.850 like I was testifying. 42:44.110 --> 42:45.870 I wasn't ashamed to say 42:45.870 --> 42:46.030 it. 42:47.410 --> 42:48.870 She had me with a smile. 42:50.270 --> 42:51.790 When I finally ended up 42:51.790 --> 42:53.850 calling her. And we finally 42:53.850 --> 42:54.490 connected. 42:56.210 --> 42:57.410 Even though she had me 42:57.410 --> 42:58.090 with a smile. 42:59.290 --> 43:00.830 The deal was sealed one night. 43:02.070 --> 43:02.670 When she, 43:03.050 --> 43:04.490 when I just was talking to her about 43:04.490 --> 43:06.630 something. And the next day 43:06.630 --> 43:07.430 she had it done. 43:08.390 --> 43:09.630 And I said, oh my God. 43:10.290 --> 43:11.070 She's a keeper. 43:12.210 --> 43:13.610 Not only is she gorgeous. 43:14.350 --> 43:16.170 And she's got this beautiful smile. 43:16.450 --> 43:18.210 But I didn't even ask her to do it. 43:18.230 --> 43:19.230 And she just did it anyway. 43:20.110 --> 43:22.770 And I so appreciated what she did. 43:24.530 --> 43:24.970 I 43:24.970 --> 43:27.010 so appreciated because it revealed 43:27.010 --> 43:27.950 her heart to me. 43:29.450 --> 43:30.410 To me it said 43:30.410 --> 43:32.930 by what she did. This is a woman I can trust. 43:33.610 --> 43:35.170 This is a woman I can trust 43:35.170 --> 43:36.050 my life with. 43:36.390 --> 43:37.650 That we can build together. 43:38.290 --> 43:40.410 And the deal was sealed. And I told her 43:40.410 --> 43:41.550 I said we're getting married. 43:41.890 --> 43:42.770 I'm going to marry her. 43:43.470 --> 43:45.310 And she didn't want to get married right away. 43:45.430 --> 43:46.770 I said no we're getting married. 43:47.670 --> 43:49.470 I said you don't have a say so. 43:52.350 --> 43:53.530 We're going to get married. 43:55.070 --> 43:56.330 She's watching right now. 43:56.490 --> 43:57.770 She's probably laughing at home. 43:59.190 --> 44:00.110 My daughter too. 44:00.430 --> 44:00.570 Amen. 44:02.110 --> 44:03.970 The point I'm making is that 44:03.970 --> 44:05.330 what does God have to do? 44:05.690 --> 44:07.290 The first time I encountered God 44:07.290 --> 44:08.750 I knew that this was a love 44:08.750 --> 44:11.310 that I was looking for my whole life. 44:12.050 --> 44:14.030 When Jesus made himself known to me 44:14.030 --> 44:15.630 it was enough in that one moment. 44:15.750 --> 44:16.590 Come on somebody, amen. 44:17.490 --> 44:19.330 And then when he started doing 44:19.330 --> 44:21.310 things for me it made me want to love him 44:21.310 --> 44:22.210 even more, amen. 44:24.570 --> 44:26.330 How much more does he have to do 44:26.330 --> 44:28.050 for us to passionately love him? 44:29.290 --> 44:29.610 I 44:29.610 --> 44:31.170 passionately love my wife. 44:32.170 --> 44:33.990 We've been married almost 19 years. 44:34.470 --> 44:36.130 I'm passionately in love with her. 44:36.370 --> 44:37.970 Or together almost 19 years. 44:38.150 --> 44:39.010 Married almost 18. 44:39.550 --> 44:40.890 She had to correct me the other day. 44:40.990 --> 44:41.810 I was adding years. 44:42.190 --> 44:44.830 I was adding years on without realizing it. 44:46.030 --> 44:47.570 So I was just trying to figure out 44:47.570 --> 44:49.030 the math when I was telling you guys. 44:49.130 --> 44:51.430 I was all messed up. She had to correct me. 44:53.390 --> 44:55.690 But I'm passionately in love with her today 44:55.690 --> 44:58.070 just like when I saw her smile for the first time. 44:58.790 --> 44:59.450 And I'm 44:59.450 --> 45:01.150 passionately in love with Jesus 45:01.150 --> 45:03.490 just like the first time he made himself 45:03.490 --> 45:05.570 known to me in a hotel room 45:05.570 --> 45:07.170 in Milwaukee when I was committing 45:07.170 --> 45:09.210 egregious sin. And I'm talking 45:09.210 --> 45:10.890 right in the middle of the sin. 45:11.110 --> 45:12.750 Right in the midst of the sin. 45:12.990 --> 45:15.150 God came and revealed himself to me. 45:15.150 --> 45:17.430 And I passionately love him today 45:17.430 --> 45:19.710 just like I did when he revealed himself 45:19.710 --> 45:20.930 for the first time. Amen? 45:23.890 --> 45:25.190 Come on. Where is the 45:25.190 --> 45:26.950 passion for Jesus in the church? 45:28.870 --> 45:30.470 Where is the passion for Jesus 45:30.470 --> 45:31.570 in this church? 45:32.750 --> 45:34.630 Where is the passion for Jesus 45:34.630 --> 45:35.610 in this meeting? 45:44.700 --> 45:47.560 I know I'm a loud tall black man. 45:51.700 --> 45:52.200 but 45:52.200 --> 45:52.560 every 45:53.300 --> 45:55.360 focus, every desire 45:56.000 --> 45:57.620 every longing of the heart 45:57.620 --> 46:00.160 needs to be for Jesus in this room. 46:01.240 --> 46:03.220 See, I think Jesus wants to do miracles 46:03.220 --> 46:03.980 in here tonight. 46:05.580 --> 46:07.300 But see, what good is it 46:07.300 --> 46:08.180 to do a miracle 46:08.840 --> 46:11.380 if it doesn't cause us to fall in love with him? 46:16.610 --> 46:18.710 Where is the passion for Jesus 46:18.710 --> 46:19.490 in this place? 46:27.050 --> 46:29.050 The Laodicean church 46:29.050 --> 46:31.170 was called lukewarm. 46:34.130 --> 46:36.250 The word lukewarm 46:36.950 --> 46:38.530 is neither cold or hot 46:39.050 --> 46:41.170 tepid. That word tepid 46:41.170 --> 46:42.890 is interesting because it also means 46:42.890 --> 46:45.250 without enthusiasm. 46:47.510 --> 46:49.370 There's no passion in it. 46:51.950 --> 46:53.250 We have become 46:53.250 --> 46:54.630 the Laodicean church 46:56.630 --> 46:58.210 not just in America 46:58.210 --> 47:00.190 but in our local services. 47:02.110 --> 47:03.750 We've become just 47:04.670 --> 47:05.390 comfortable 47:07.130 --> 47:07.850 complacent. 47:12.420 --> 47:14.380 Where is the passion for Jesus? 47:16.640 --> 47:17.900 Where is the burning? 47:18.260 --> 47:19.700 I'm burning right now for Jesus. 47:21.260 --> 47:23.020 I'm not just trying to preach 47:23.020 --> 47:23.780 and yell at you. 47:24.700 --> 47:26.400 I'm passionate for Jesus. 47:26.860 --> 47:28.320 I'm burning right now 47:28.320 --> 47:29.580 in this moment for Jesus. 47:31.900 --> 47:33.580 Where is the passion? 47:38.360 --> 47:40.580 We can't do the work without the passion. 47:41.920 --> 47:44.240 We won't do the work without the passion. 47:44.240 --> 47:47.460 We can't do the work without the passion. 47:56.890 --> 48:00.150 Did we ever stop to see it from his point of view? 48:01.730 --> 48:03.290 He's passionate for us. 48:07.530 --> 48:08.650 This passion 48:09.650 --> 48:10.790 gives us a distinction. 48:11.830 --> 48:13.570 You know what the word distinction means? 48:13.570 --> 48:14.950 The word distinction 48:15.570 --> 48:17.570 means a difference or contrast between 48:17.570 --> 48:18.770 similar things or people. 48:19.330 --> 48:21.190 Excellence that sets someone 48:21.190 --> 48:23.170 or something apart from others. 48:24.150 --> 48:25.630 So when God is saying 48:25.630 --> 48:26.250 be holy 48:28.010 --> 48:29.410 he's actually saying 48:29.410 --> 48:31.410 I want a people that are... 48:31.410 --> 48:32.430 there's a distinction. 48:33.390 --> 48:35.450 See the thing that makes us 48:35.450 --> 48:36.470 familiar 48:37.250 --> 48:39.870 with everyone in the world is our humanity. 48:40.770 --> 48:42.670 But the fact that we have 48:42.670 --> 48:43.350 his nature 48:43.870 --> 48:45.430 gives us a distinction. 48:45.670 --> 48:47.990 Because we are in relationship with him 48:47.990 --> 48:49.810 it gives us a distinction 48:49.810 --> 48:51.130 from the rest of the world. 48:51.690 --> 48:53.970 But the laodicean church 48:53.970 --> 48:56.230 and this lukewarm 48:56.230 --> 48:57.670 mentality 48:59.450 --> 49:02.050 this mentality that is rich 49:02.050 --> 49:03.590 in its own comfort 49:03.590 --> 49:05.970 this mentality that's unable 49:05.970 --> 49:08.310 to recognize its own sickness 49:08.310 --> 49:09.390 and nakedness 49:10.170 --> 49:11.690 and need for God 49:13.150 --> 49:14.410 starts to look 49:14.410 --> 49:16.430 like the world and environments 49:17.390 --> 49:18.410 of people 49:18.410 --> 49:19.750 that are in relationship 49:20.110 --> 49:20.790 with Jesus. 49:21.850 --> 49:23.570 They lose the distinction. 49:24.270 --> 49:26.350 He said I want you to be hot or cold. 49:26.830 --> 49:27.810 There's a distinction. 49:28.530 --> 49:29.990 Did you know laodicea 49:29.990 --> 49:32.210 actually had lukewarm 49:32.210 --> 49:34.190 water in it? It actually had they had 49:34.190 --> 49:36.250 aqueducts. They had to have water 49:36.250 --> 49:38.470 come in because their water was lukewarm. 49:39.770 --> 49:40.270 They also 49:40.270 --> 49:42.050 were a people that wore black a lot 49:42.050 --> 49:43.310 because they had a commodity. 49:43.770 --> 49:46.290 That's why they were wealthy. They had this black 49:46.290 --> 49:47.990 wool that came from black sheeps 49:47.990 --> 49:49.370 and they sold this. 49:49.810 --> 49:51.930 The city was positioned on major 49:51.930 --> 49:54.050 trade routes. And so that's how they 49:54.050 --> 49:55.110 made a lot of their money. 49:56.130 --> 49:58.030 And so they got comfortable in the money. 49:58.530 --> 50:00.030 They got comfortable in the wealth 50:00.030 --> 50:02.150 and they started to lose 50:02.150 --> 50:04.090 their need and their dependency 50:04.090 --> 50:04.890 upon God. 50:07.330 --> 50:08.290 And they not only became 50:08.290 --> 50:10.010 lazy, but they 50:10.010 --> 50:12.010 lost the passion. They lost 50:12.010 --> 50:12.650 the zeal. 50:14.990 --> 50:16.330 We're talking about 50:16.330 --> 50:18.090 what America needs in the end times. 50:18.830 --> 50:20.310 America needs 50:20.310 --> 50:22.090 the passion for Jesus again. 50:31.510 --> 50:32.270 When 50:32.270 --> 50:32.590 I was 50:32.590 --> 50:35.130 320 pounds in the hospital 50:35.130 --> 50:36.370 with my heart 50:36.910 --> 50:38.570 functioning at 22 percent 50:38.570 --> 50:40.970 and the doctor said to me 50:40.970 --> 50:42.470 you need 50:42.470 --> 50:43.710 to lose weight. 50:46.290 --> 50:48.030 I said, I'm going to lose the weight. 50:50.110 --> 50:52.570 And they're like, we're going to set you 50:52.570 --> 50:54.430 up with nutritionist 50:54.430 --> 50:55.450 and dietitians 50:56.270 --> 50:57.970 and do you want any medication? 50:58.310 --> 50:59.890 I said, I don't need any medication. 51:00.390 --> 51:02.110 I'm going to lose this weight. 51:04.110 --> 51:06.150 And I became so passionate 51:06.150 --> 51:07.950 and so dedicated and so 51:07.950 --> 51:09.910 disciplined to lose this 51:09.910 --> 51:10.270 weight. 51:11.750 --> 51:13.810 And I depended upon the Lord 51:13.810 --> 51:14.850 to give me instruction 51:14.850 --> 51:16.930 on how to lose the weight. 51:18.270 --> 51:20.010 But once my mind was 51:20.010 --> 51:21.850 made up, once my heart 51:21.850 --> 51:23.910 had chosen to lose that weight 51:23.910 --> 51:25.810 there was going to be nothing that stopped me. 51:26.230 --> 51:27.670 And I changed my diet 51:27.670 --> 51:29.990 but now my diet has become a way of life. 51:30.670 --> 51:31.610 And so these 51:31.610 --> 51:33.570 meetings and these 51:34.170 --> 51:35.510 experiences in God 51:35.510 --> 51:37.570 need to become more than just a meeting we 51:37.570 --> 51:39.750 do at the beginning of the year 51:39.750 --> 51:41.490 and need to become a way of life. 51:41.710 --> 51:43.750 And when you're passionate for Jesus 51:43.750 --> 51:45.730 they will become a way 51:45.730 --> 51:46.430 of life. Amen? 51:47.090 --> 51:49.530 Now I'm a plow. So I'm plowing 51:49.530 --> 51:51.390 the way for everybody else that's coming 51:51.390 --> 51:52.030 after me. 51:53.310 --> 51:55.150 And I don't have any problem with 51:55.150 --> 51:55.670 doing it. 51:56.810 --> 51:58.670 Remember, I'm an obedient prophet. 52:01.490 --> 52:03.090 But this is not just 52:03.090 --> 52:04.530 a plow for them so they can 52:04.530 --> 52:05.710 come in and minister 52:06.250 --> 52:08.210 and see signs and wonders in the 52:08.210 --> 52:09.850 meeting. This is a plow 52:09.850 --> 52:11.110 so you can have a breakthrough. 52:11.730 --> 52:13.750 This is a plow so you guys 52:13.750 --> 52:15.310 can experience the fullness 52:15.310 --> 52:17.750 of what Jesus wants you to have 52:17.750 --> 52:19.730 because these meetings will change 52:19.730 --> 52:21.310 your life. And I'm 52:21.310 --> 52:23.370 prophesying that you will not be the same 52:23.370 --> 52:25.510 after these meetings if you receive 52:25.510 --> 52:27.530 this and if you allow God 52:27.530 --> 52:29.570 to awaken the passion in you again. 52:30.150 --> 52:31.570 Allow God to awaken the 52:31.570 --> 52:32.790 fire in you again. 52:33.430 --> 52:35.150 You will not be the same. 52:35.670 --> 52:37.190 Your whole life is going to change. 52:37.910 --> 52:39.530 I had one more... 52:42.430 --> 52:43.550 whole life... 52:53.270 --> 52:55.110 I turned this off. I might 52:55.110 --> 52:56.330 have turned the microphone off. 52:56.670 --> 52:57.930 I didn't need it anyway. 52:59.250 --> 53:00.130 It's probably 53:00.690 --> 53:02.910 for you guys is... 53:04.410 --> 53:05.990 Listen, Revelation 3 53:06.970 --> 53:08.310 Verse 19 says, 53:08.430 --> 53:09.970 As many as I love, I rebuke 53:09.970 --> 53:11.930 and chasing. See that? 53:14.650 --> 53:15.910 Why Lord, are you coming 53:15.910 --> 53:17.910 with this rebuke because he loves 53:17.910 --> 53:18.170 you? 53:20.190 --> 53:21.610 Because he chasens you. 53:23.170 --> 53:24.210 He loves you. 53:25.330 --> 53:26.270 Come on, somebody say 53:26.270 --> 53:26.910 he loves me. 53:27.950 --> 53:28.910 Oh my goodness. 53:30.990 --> 53:32.070 He's saying therefore 53:32.070 --> 53:32.750 be zealous. 53:33.790 --> 53:35.350 The word zealous there. 53:36.730 --> 53:38.210 The word zealous means 53:38.210 --> 53:38.710 to be 53:40.710 --> 53:41.350 passionate 53:42.610 --> 53:44.330 either for or against. 53:45.350 --> 53:46.470 That's hot or cold. 53:47.450 --> 53:48.310 You're going to either be 53:48.310 --> 53:49.770 passionately for Jesus 53:49.770 --> 53:51.610 or passionately against Jesus. 53:52.270 --> 53:53.730 You can't have it both ways. 53:54.270 --> 53:55.830 There is no middle of the road. 53:56.350 --> 53:58.590 We got to get out of the middle of the road. 53:59.010 --> 54:00.090 Or we're going to become 54:00.090 --> 54:01.790 the Laodicean church. 54:02.770 --> 54:03.650 And we'll be 54:03.650 --> 54:05.210 spewed out of the mouth of God. 54:05.990 --> 54:08.070 And I don't care if you're hooked on drugs. 54:08.710 --> 54:10.230 I don't care if you're watching 54:10.230 --> 54:12.190 pornography. I don't care 54:12.190 --> 54:13.490 if you're going through a divorce. 54:14.130 --> 54:16.090 I don't care if you're broke and you're 54:16.090 --> 54:18.010 homeless. You can still 54:18.010 --> 54:20.210 passionately be in love 54:20.210 --> 54:21.870 and on fire for Jesus. 54:22.830 --> 54:24.210 And Jesus will heal 54:24.210 --> 54:26.150 your marriage. Jesus will 54:26.150 --> 54:28.210 set you free from the pornography. 54:28.730 --> 54:30.570 Jesus will break the addiction 54:30.570 --> 54:32.010 of the drugs and the alcohol 54:32.930 --> 54:33.990 and the cigarettes 54:34.770 --> 54:35.930 and the vaping. 54:36.950 --> 54:38.950 I don't want anything to get in the way. 54:39.370 --> 54:40.770 Well, Brian, it doesn't say in the Bible 54:40.770 --> 54:41.630 you can't smoke. 54:42.110 --> 54:43.850 Yeah, but I don't want to love anything 54:43.850 --> 54:46.090 more than I love him. Because it's 54:46.090 --> 54:47.950 passionate as I am for my wife. 54:48.070 --> 54:49.350 I don't love her more than Jesus. 54:50.870 --> 54:52.190 It's passionate as I 54:52.190 --> 54:54.090 am for my children. I don't love her 54:54.090 --> 54:54.870 more than Jesus. 55:02.750 --> 55:03.110 These 55:04.370 --> 55:05.470 meetings are going to change your 55:05.470 --> 55:05.750 life. 55:09.600 --> 55:10.820 You won't be the lay of the 55:10.820 --> 55:11.820 seeing church. You'll be the 55:11.820 --> 55:12.540 remnant church. 55:14.620 --> 55:15.580 Here in America. 55:18.760 --> 55:19.420 And listen. 55:20.360 --> 55:21.800 Come on say, I want revival. 55:24.100 --> 55:24.960 Come on say it again. 55:25.120 --> 55:25.760 I want revival. 55:26.280 --> 55:26.500 I want revival. 55:28.420 --> 55:34.740 Listen, everybody wants revival. But if revival is coming that means stuff is dead, stuff is 55:34.740 --> 55:40.600 sleeping. And revival is just the beginning. We preach it like it's the conclusion. But 55:40.600 --> 55:46.480 it's not the conclusion, it's just the beginning. That's why revivals don't last. Historically 55:46.480 --> 55:52.140 they last like three to five years. The reason why is because it's not the conclusion, it's 55:52.140 --> 55:59.880 just the beginning. The conclusion is to bring us into this relationship with God that sustains 55:59.880 --> 56:06.120 us for a lifetime. That's far greater than revival than meetings that last for three and four 56:06.120 --> 56:17.450 and five years. I want something greater than that. I keep turning this microphone off. Let 56:17.450 --> 56:26.490 me hold it down here. He gave up everything and I'm going to give up everything. But what 56:26.490 --> 56:32.190 I have in him, come on somebody, hallelujah, I've gained everything by what I have in 56:32.190 --> 56:37.710 him. Come on, we gained everything by what we have in him. We just got to be passionate 56:37.710 --> 56:40.730 enough to receive it and to want it. Amen?