WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.560 I just want to mention something and we'll go right into prayer. 00:02.880 --> 00:06.000 And that's Romans chapter one. 00:07.700 --> 00:09.660 Thank you for your presence here. 00:10.880 --> 00:13.480 Thank you, Lord, for your presence here. 00:14.560 --> 00:20.440 Thank you, Lord, for your presence in this house we choose to honor. 00:21.220 --> 00:25.020 We choose to make weighty our praise 00:26.180 --> 00:28.380 and the laying down of our life for you. 00:28.580 --> 00:32.740 Thank you for all the wonderful things you've already done. 00:34.280 --> 00:38.380 Thank you for how you're going to seal inside of us this morning. 00:39.680 --> 00:42.840 All those concepts and precepts and commands 00:42.840 --> 00:48.060 as we grow line upon line, precept upon precept, 00:49.100 --> 00:50.700 you're showing us the kingdom. 00:51.940 --> 00:54.220 And we're so thankful for that, Lord God. 00:56.960 --> 00:59.680 It's just something simple. 00:59.880 --> 01:02.320 The Lord wants me to mention. 01:03.420 --> 01:06.200 And that's Romans chapter one, verse 18. 01:08.500 --> 01:11.900 He just gets done talking about the gospel 01:13.780 --> 01:16.960 and how faith leads to different things. 01:17.200 --> 01:20.140 And you can go back and read the beginning part of the chapter. 01:21.200 --> 01:23.880 Then he says, for God does not overlook sin. 01:23.880 --> 01:27.840 And the wrath of God, this verse 18, is revealed from heaven 01:27.840 --> 01:30.900 against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men 01:30.900 --> 01:35.500 who in their wickedness suppress and stifle the truth. 01:36.460 --> 01:39.940 So sometimes as Christians, what we do is we label sins 01:39.940 --> 01:42.860 that are ranked. We rank them. 01:43.280 --> 01:45.460 If someone swears that while that's down here, 01:45.840 --> 01:48.220 someone does that next thing, drugs or something, 01:48.380 --> 01:50.280 then they're really into it. 01:50.280 --> 01:54.360 And really what he's saying is anything that's opposite 01:54.360 --> 01:58.400 of the kingdom, ungodliness and unrighteousness, 01:59.240 --> 02:03.660 will be that thing that causes us to suppress and stifle the truth. 02:04.140 --> 02:08.340 Because that which is known about God is evidence within them. 02:08.500 --> 02:10.920 So if we know something about God, like we said last night, 02:11.180 --> 02:12.500 once you know, you can't not know. 02:14.040 --> 02:16.580 And we know that in our inner consciousness, 02:17.980 --> 02:20.100 God is made evident to us. 02:20.340 --> 02:22.800 So when he's made evident to us, 02:22.900 --> 02:25.840 then there's that spot like once you know, right? 02:25.980 --> 02:27.780 You're held accountable for what you know. 02:28.500 --> 02:30.700 Forever since the creation of the world, 02:30.880 --> 02:34.460 his invisible attributes, his eternal power and divine nature, 02:34.840 --> 02:39.020 have been clearly seen being understood through his workmanship, 02:39.280 --> 02:42.400 all his creation, the wonderful things that he has made, 02:42.400 --> 02:46.760 so that they will, they who fail to believe and trust in him, 02:46.960 --> 02:49.800 are without excuse and without defense. 02:50.040 --> 02:53.540 Now one version indicates it's more like, 02:53.620 --> 02:55.860 even by nature you can see that there is a God. 02:56.460 --> 02:57.860 And once you know that, you know that. 02:58.000 --> 03:00.300 So whatever you know, you're held accountable for. 03:01.060 --> 03:05.380 But the point of this is not, 03:05.620 --> 03:07.920 he'll go on in the chapter and name all kinds of sins, 03:07.920 --> 03:11.960 but at the same time the point of this is what starts everything, 03:13.600 --> 03:17.520 going down a road of being opposite of the kingdom is unbelief. 03:17.920 --> 03:20.140 For even though they knew God as the Creator, 03:20.820 --> 03:22.820 they did not honor him as God, 03:23.780 --> 03:26.480 or give thanks for his wondrous creation. 03:27.140 --> 03:29.920 On the contrary, they became worthless in their thinking, 03:30.160 --> 03:33.960 godless with pointless reason and silly speculations, 03:34.100 --> 03:36.160 and their foolish hearts were darkened, 03:36.160 --> 03:38.940 claiming to be wise they were fools. 03:39.700 --> 03:41.680 That sounds like America right now. 03:43.160 --> 03:47.320 And exchange the glory and the majesty and excellence 03:47.320 --> 03:50.780 of the immortal God for an image or worthless idols. 03:51.280 --> 03:53.940 And that's why, you know, when everything broke up, 03:54.300 --> 03:56.300 you know, in front of the Capitol and everything, 03:58.500 --> 04:01.340 during 2020 through 2023, 04:02.100 --> 04:04.200 just people were popping up idols. 04:05.100 --> 04:06.540 Things were coming out. 04:09.140 --> 04:11.440 It talks about the different kinds of idols. 04:11.600 --> 04:12.520 Verse 24 says, 04:12.880 --> 04:15.620 Therefore God gave them over to the lusts of their own heart. 04:15.820 --> 04:19.600 And he goes on and talks about several times. 04:19.820 --> 04:21.420 It says, God gave them over. 04:22.900 --> 04:24.420 He didn't give up on them. 04:24.600 --> 04:28.900 He just let them go where they intended to go to begin with. 04:29.520 --> 04:32.140 Didn't put any stoppers to that, right? 04:32.280 --> 04:33.360 And he'll do the same with us. 04:33.360 --> 04:37.840 It's like, if we know something and we do the opposite 04:37.840 --> 04:39.480 and we know something, it's not just, 04:39.640 --> 04:41.700 oh, I failed at this or I tried 04:41.700 --> 04:43.660 and I got to get back up again and try again. 04:44.020 --> 04:47.740 There's an unbelief that says, I know, I know this, 04:48.060 --> 04:50.240 but I'm going to do my own thing, right? 04:51.340 --> 04:54.920 And so verse 28, after he names what happens 04:54.920 --> 04:55.800 when he gives them over, 04:56.480 --> 04:59.120 and since they did not see fit to acknowledge God 04:59.120 --> 05:02.580 and consider him worth knowing as their creator, 05:02.580 --> 05:04.880 God gave them over to a depraved mind 05:04.880 --> 05:08.520 to do things which are improper and repulsive. 05:10.600 --> 05:13.560 So with everything that we've gone through this week 05:13.560 --> 05:15.740 and belief for, it seems like, 05:15.820 --> 05:18.180 well, that's kind of an interesting scripture to bring up, 05:18.240 --> 05:25.120 but I want to bring up that we experienced some things here 05:25.120 --> 05:27.820 and for a lot of us, it was for the first time this week. 05:28.560 --> 05:30.520 And then once you know, you can't not know. 05:32.460 --> 05:35.540 And so what happens is we're held accountable to that. 05:36.040 --> 05:40.080 We don't have to repeat everything that happened through this week 05:40.080 --> 05:42.980 or, you know, praise just like we did this week 05:42.980 --> 05:46.760 or anything, but once you've been exposed to deeper ways 05:46.760 --> 05:49.820 of worshiping God and things like that, 05:50.220 --> 05:53.240 we shouldn't just go back to what we would call the norm 05:53.240 --> 05:56.120 because to do that, we'd actually have to go back 05:56.120 --> 05:59.200 and say, well, that was good and I believed it in the moment, 05:59.200 --> 06:01.300 but now I believe this more. 06:02.220 --> 06:05.640 See, unbelief will take us into depraved things. 06:06.460 --> 06:11.840 So it's not that, you know, people are just born wicked 06:11.840 --> 06:13.640 and that's why we got a world like we have. 06:14.180 --> 06:16.620 There is enough known about God 06:17.020 --> 06:19.060 that people have made a choice to say, 06:19.580 --> 06:21.840 even if that is true, even if I was raised at whatever, 06:22.240 --> 06:24.020 I'm going to go over here and believe this. 06:24.640 --> 06:25.860 And so they've been given over. 06:25.860 --> 06:29.320 So much of our land has been given over 06:29.320 --> 06:30.940 to this depraved way of thinking. 06:32.780 --> 06:38.140 Revival is going to bring alive faith, which is belief. 06:39.820 --> 06:42.460 It's going to cause us to face the things 06:42.460 --> 06:44.300 that are so the kingdom of heaven 06:44.860 --> 06:47.080 and then we have to be able to say within our hearts, 06:47.380 --> 06:47.960 that's true. 06:48.980 --> 06:51.740 That's what I'm going to do because that's what I experienced. 06:51.940 --> 06:54.700 This is how I believe and come up into it, 06:54.700 --> 06:57.020 which means in this same chapter, 06:57.300 --> 07:00.680 it talks about being ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 07:02.180 --> 07:05.940 Last night, there was dance like we've never had dance here before. 07:06.140 --> 07:06.900 There was different things. 07:07.660 --> 07:11.320 And you can get up the next day for a lot of people, 07:11.440 --> 07:12.540 they'll get up the next day and be like, 07:12.660 --> 07:13.720 whoa, that was intense. 07:14.380 --> 07:17.560 That was that unique thing that happened or whatever. 07:18.200 --> 07:20.300 But if you're not careful, you can in your flesh 07:20.300 --> 07:22.820 go back and retract the importance 07:23.640 --> 07:25.440 of how intense that really was. 07:26.320 --> 07:28.240 How eye-opening that really was. 07:28.600 --> 07:30.000 How free that really was. 07:31.560 --> 07:31.800 Amen. 07:33.680 --> 07:36.180 And so we have to look at 07:36.180 --> 07:40.140 what does it mean to be ashamed of the gospel? 07:40.640 --> 07:43.160 You know, speaking in tongues and different things like this. 07:43.460 --> 07:45.240 There'll be people that, you know, 07:45.460 --> 07:46.780 talk about our services. 07:47.000 --> 07:48.360 We're going to place certain things online 07:48.360 --> 07:50.960 that probably, you know, others would say, 07:50.960 --> 07:51.620 they don't do that. 07:52.140 --> 07:53.540 They'll make you guys look crazy. 07:53.860 --> 07:56.080 It's like, it's the kingdom of heaven. 07:57.000 --> 07:58.880 Manifesting here in the kingdom of earth 07:58.880 --> 08:00.040 and we're not ashamed of it. 08:00.720 --> 08:02.060 There's used wisdom, 08:02.320 --> 08:03.600 but at the same time, 08:03.800 --> 08:06.280 we're not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 08:06.460 --> 08:09.600 The good news, the way that the kingdom works. 08:11.560 --> 08:14.960 And I think, going way back to last week 08:17.080 --> 08:18.960 where Pastor Brad came in 08:18.960 --> 08:22.260 and talked about intercessory prayer. 08:23.160 --> 08:25.700 I do believe that intercessory prayer 08:25.700 --> 08:28.180 in the way where you reach a point 08:28.180 --> 08:30.100 where it's like groans come out of you. 08:30.840 --> 08:32.560 Like you can't even speak English words 08:32.560 --> 08:35.540 because this thing that he's birthing through you 08:35.540 --> 08:37.080 is so intense. 08:37.900 --> 08:39.960 That is a hard one to explain to the world. 08:40.580 --> 08:43.440 And that's one that, you know, 08:43.700 --> 08:45.820 we're not going to hide out from or anything like that. 08:46.080 --> 08:47.520 But here's the thing. 08:47.520 --> 08:49.080 As we entered that, 08:49.180 --> 08:51.080 that was happening through some of our services. 08:51.320 --> 08:53.760 It happened before the services at prayer meetings and things. 08:53.920 --> 08:55.380 It happened in your own home 08:55.380 --> 08:59.720 for those who are after birthing that next thing in God. 09:00.580 --> 09:02.720 And so, if we retract, for instance, 09:03.000 --> 09:05.560 on the very thing we started with last Sunday, 09:06.200 --> 09:07.760 if we come back and be like, 09:07.780 --> 09:08.880 well, you know, I'll just pray. 09:09.160 --> 09:10.900 We don't have to go to that or whatever. 09:11.740 --> 09:14.080 Then everything we experienced during the week, 09:14.200 --> 09:15.260 in some sense, we're saying, 09:15.260 --> 09:16.700 we're going to step back from that too. 09:17.560 --> 09:20.420 So it started out with the base of what we need 09:20.420 --> 09:21.680 and its intercessory prayer. 09:23.280 --> 09:23.760 Amen? 09:25.040 --> 09:26.700 And we can't be ashamed of that now. 09:26.860 --> 09:28.240 It probably won't happen in Walmart. 09:28.440 --> 09:31.520 Nile 3, where I'm doing that, you know. 09:32.480 --> 09:34.580 There's wisdom, just like speaking tongues. 09:34.800 --> 09:35.300 There's wisdom. 09:37.480 --> 09:39.040 But we have to remember, 09:39.280 --> 09:40.860 he's mapping out this week. 09:40.960 --> 09:42.560 And we're going to do that also. 09:43.100 --> 09:44.940 Map out the week where it's like, 09:44.980 --> 09:46.700 what is it that were the highlights? 09:48.020 --> 09:48.460 Right? 09:48.580 --> 09:50.520 Because this is our mandate, 09:51.180 --> 09:52.320 especially for this year. 09:52.440 --> 09:54.280 This is that thing that's going to take us 09:54.280 --> 09:56.660 to the next steps of where we need to go. 09:57.680 --> 09:58.000 Amen? 09:58.860 --> 10:00.680 And there can't be any shame in it. 10:03.620 --> 10:04.060 Amen? 10:05.400 --> 10:07.360 Because if we're ashamed of the Gospel, 10:07.540 --> 10:08.840 we back off on the Gospel. 10:10.220 --> 10:11.700 And like he said, 10:11.800 --> 10:12.800 you back off far enough. 10:13.500 --> 10:15.720 God will just give us over to a depraved mind. 10:15.840 --> 10:17.380 I mean, that sounds really intense, 10:17.540 --> 10:20.580 but that is the spectrum of how intense it can be. 10:21.020 --> 10:24.140 And why isn't there revival in every house? 10:24.300 --> 10:26.700 And people getting saved and all those different things? 10:26.980 --> 10:29.420 You can tell even by how we label our churches, 10:30.400 --> 10:30.840 levels. 10:31.620 --> 10:33.460 Well, this brand only believes up to here. 10:33.580 --> 10:35.080 Then this brand believes up to here. 10:35.500 --> 10:37.540 Then, well, these guys do this, but they don't do that. 10:37.820 --> 10:38.860 It's the Gospel. 10:40.080 --> 10:42.840 And so this is what gives permission 10:42.840 --> 10:45.520 for Cinder Run rampant in the house. 10:46.580 --> 10:49.000 Because wherever we're in unbelief 10:49.000 --> 10:50.620 of what he can do, 10:50.640 --> 10:53.140 there's a freedom for the demonic realm 10:53.140 --> 10:54.640 to do what they want to do. 10:55.800 --> 10:55.940 Amen? 10:56.820 --> 10:59.280 It's a difference between not knowing something 10:59.280 --> 11:01.160 and knowing it and being like, 11:01.540 --> 11:01.980 now I'm good. 11:02.600 --> 11:04.480 We don't have to do that. Let's stand. 11:07.320 --> 11:07.840 Hallelujah. 11:11.000 --> 11:13.380 This is where it says in the last days, 11:13.700 --> 11:15.400 you know, there'll be a form of godliness. 11:16.200 --> 11:17.720 There'll be people who say, 11:17.740 --> 11:19.380 I know there is a God, 11:20.060 --> 11:21.540 but deny the power thereof. 11:21.660 --> 11:23.260 So to deny the power, 11:23.400 --> 11:26.080 you have to know the power, 11:26.320 --> 11:27.980 but deny that it's God, 11:28.140 --> 11:29.660 which is being ashamed. 11:30.040 --> 11:31.460 It's like, I'm not going to do that. 11:32.760 --> 11:34.160 Father, we thank you. 11:34.160 --> 11:35.700 We thank you. 11:35.780 --> 11:38.100 The other part that brings us into maturity 11:41.140 --> 11:41.740 is 11:42.460 --> 11:45.060 not like we live everyday life, 11:45.120 --> 11:46.440 like last night's service, 11:47.900 --> 11:48.820 but we 11:48.820 --> 11:50.220 experience him 11:50.220 --> 11:52.460 and then we go actually do 11:52.460 --> 11:54.120 the assignment he's given us. 11:55.440 --> 11:56.860 That's a balanced church. 11:57.120 --> 11:58.880 That's a church that says, 11:58.940 --> 12:00.500 I believe, I've experienced, 12:00.760 --> 12:02.180 I've encountered, I go. 12:02.720 --> 12:04.560 I go. I'm going to do the thing 12:04.560 --> 12:05.740 he's asked me to do.