 All styles and sizes are $20 each. This is a great way to point others to Jesus' site and share our great church with others. Paces and liturgy shirts are available for purchase in the four year as you exit today. All styles and sizes are $20 each. This is a great way to point others to Jesus and share our great church with others. Now here's what's happening this week at pace. Monday at 6.30, men of influence, Bible study. Tuesday at 7, intercessory prayer. Wednesday at 6 p.m. at night, student ministries, grade six through 12. At 6.30, royal rangers and impact, K through fifth grade. And at 7 p.m., our adult Bible study. Thursday at 7 p.m., most excellent wait. And at 7 p.m., the voices of PACE choir rehearsal. Saturday at 7 p.m., PACE Young Adults, singles age 18 through 30, will be meeting at oops alley. Let us know if you're coming by registering online. That's what's happening here at PACE for further information or to register for any event, visit the PACE assembly app or website or call the church office and remember, PACE is the place. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. Here's this week's change of pace. If this is your first visit at PACE assembly, our pastors Joey and Rita Rogers have a special gift just for you. As you leave the service today, please visit guest central located on the left as you exit the foyer. If you're age 60 and over, join us for our Singers in Touch potluck lunch on Tuesday, March 21st. Gathering in the fellowship hall at 11 a.m., meets will be provided. Be sure to bring your favorite sides and desserts enough to share. And let us know if you're planning to come by by registering online or come to our front office. We'll see you there. PACE assembly is pleased to host the upcoming Colton Dixon Build a Boat Tour Saturday, April 1st. Info and tickets are available for purchase online at coltondixon.com. Beginning Sunday mornings, we'll be offering Christians United for Israel, the Israel course. This 10-week interactive study provides prophetic biblical perspectives concerning the nation of Israel. Today and our opportunity to stand with God's chosen people. Workbooks and registration are available at paceassembly.org. On Sunday, April 2nd at 6 p.m., join us for prophecy files with TBN's host of the watchman, Eric Steckelbeck. Eric has spent nearly two decades covering the Middle East and national security issues, traveling to the region and interviewing world leaders to Islamic terrorists and highlighting the shared threats to America and Israel. Invite all your family and friends to join us. Registration is now open. KidCon is taking place June 19th through June 22nd. All information is available at our website, paceassembly.org. PACE assembly t-shirts are available for purchase in the foyer as you exit today. All styles and sizes are $20 each. This is a great way to point others to Jesus and share our great church with others. Now, here's what's happening this week at PACE. Monday at 6.30, men of influence, Bible study. Tuesday at 7, intercessory prayer. Wednesday at 6 p.m., at Knight Student Ministries, grade six through 12, at 6.30, Royal Rangers, and MPAC, K through fifth grade. And at 7 p.m., our adult Bible study. Thursday at 7 p.m., most excellent way. And at 7 p.m., the voices of PACE choir rehearsal. Saturday at 7 p.m., PACE Young Adults, singles age 18 through 30, will be meeting at Oops Alley. Let us know if you're coming by registering online. That's what's happening here at PACE. For further information or to register for any event, visit the PACE assembly app or website, or call the church office and remember, PACE is the place. Good morning, thank you for joining us today. Here's this week's change of pace. If, good morning, thank you for joining us today. Here's this week's change of pace. If this is your first visit at PACE assembly, our pastors, Joey and Rita Rogers, have a special gift just for you. As you leave the service today, please visit guest central, located on the left as you exit the foyer. If you're age 60 and over, join us for our Singers in Touch Potluck lunch on Tuesday, March 21st. Gathering in the fellowship hall at 11 a.m., meets will be provided. Be sure to bring your favorite sides and desserts enough to share. And let us know if you plan to come by by registering online or come to our front office. We'll see you there. PACE assembly is pleased to host the upcoming Colton Dixon Build a Boat Tour Saturday, April 1st. Info and tickets are available for purchase online at coltondixon.com. Beginning Sunday mornings, we'll be offering Christians United for Israel, the Israel Course. This 10-week interactive study provides prophetic biblical perspectives concerning the nation of Israel. Today and our opportunity to stand with God's chosen people. Workbooks and registration are available at paceassembly.org. On Sunday, April 2nd at 6 p.m., join us for prophecy files with TBN's host of The Watchman, Eric Steckelbeck. Eric has spent nearly two decades covering the Middle East and national security issues, traveling to the region and interviewing world leaders to Islamic terrorists and highlighting the shared threats to America and Israel. Invite all your family and friends to join us. Registration is now open. KidCon is taking place June 19th through June 22nd. All information is available at our website, paceassembly.org. Pace assembly t-shirts are available for purchase in the foyer as you exit today. All styles and sizes are $20 each. This is a great way to point others to Jesus and share our great church with others. Now here's what's happening this week at pace. Monday at 6.30, men of influence, Bible study. Tuesday at 7, intercessory prayer. Wednesday at 6 p.m. at night, student ministries, grades six through 12. At 6.30, royal rangers and impact, K through fifth grade. And at 7 p.m., our adult Bible study. Thursday at 7 p.m., most excellent wait. And at 7 p.m., the voices of Pace choir rehearsal. Saturday at 7 p.m., Pace Young Adults, singles age 18 through 30, will be meeting at Oops Alley. Let us know if you're coming by registering online. That's what's happening here at Pace for further information or to register for any event, visit the Pace assembly app or website or call the church office and remember, pace is the place. Are you blessed this week? Have you been blessed to the Lord this week? I think if you're here today, that that's a blessing, that God has kept His hand upon you. Take a moment right now as we begin this service to just praise our Lord. Thank Him for His wonderful goodness to you. Father, we love you today. Thank you, God, for keeping your hand upon us, bringing us together again into the house of the Lord. We look forward to what you're going to do today. With expectation, we look to you today. Do what you wanna do in this service. But Lord, let us know when we leave that we were in the presence of the Lord. That's what we ask today in Jesus mighty name. Put your hands together this morning, church, and let's lift a thunderous ovation of praise to our God. Come to church on Spring Forward Sunday. It is just now five o'clock forward. So they're scrambling. And here, this is just for y'all. I just wanna make sure when they walk in, when the ladies walk in, and their lipstick is on the top of their head, don't look at them funny. Don't look at them funny. If his hair's not combed right, don't look at them funny. Just welcome them on in and say good morning. Right? Amen. I believe God's gonna do something great today, don't you? Let's believe God together. Come on, let's pray. Father, we thank you today for the goodness of God. We praise your name because you're in this place on the wings of praise already. And we believe right now, mighty God, that you're gonna reach out and touch those that are here and those that are watching online. So Lord, have your way in every life. Let lives be changed by the power of your word. And we believe that your spirit will cause us to come alive this morning in the mighty name of Jesus. And everybody shouts a great big amen. I want you to get around and shake a few hands and let them know how glad you are to see them. If you don't know who they are, introduce yourself. While I talk to all of you that are watching online this morning, we welcome you from around the world. Come to come to your way to places and believe God. Lord, God bless you for being here this morning. If you're a first time guest with us, or you just happen to set your clock forward enough to make it on time and it's your first time, we welcome you into this place. As you're leaving out this morning, Guest Central is on the left hand side, walking out the front door. We would love for you to stop in there. Got a special gift for you as well as being able to get your name. We won't harass you, but we wanna make sure that you feel apart. And there's a place at pace for you, amen. And I wanna encourage you that are watching online to let us know where you're watching from. It's your first time. Let us know that and be sure to share it out on your social media so that other people can be a part of the services right here at pace. I'm always amazed at what God is doing in reaching around the globe and touching the lives of people that I have no idea that are watching from week to week. And I hope that you're participating in getting that word out as well. So if you wanna use your phone in this service, there's two ways you can do that. In the offering and sharing it out on your social media so that other people can connect. Right now we are live on Roku on the Journey Network thanks to Pastor JT Geithen who's in the room this morning. Come on, give God praise for the Journey Network. I'm thankful to God for that this morning. We welcome all of you. Hey, we wanna be able to give away a Bible this morning. Anybody need a Bible? Thank you very much. See, that's what I've been waiting on right there. I've been waiting on somebody to get excited about the Word of God. So reach up underneath your seat and look for the right place. And if there's empty seats beside you, you might wanna check it out. For those of you that are watching, if you don't understand what's happening, every week throughout the remaining part of this year, we're giving Bibles away. Last week we were able to give Bibles all the way into Kenya in the native language there of Swahili. I encourage you to do that. Bright green or yellow on the ticket. So if you don't have it, look for it. There it is, all the way in the back. Get that Bible to him. Come on, give God praise for the privilege to give the Word of God to somebody. And we gave away our first Hispanic Bibles this morning as well. Three individuals who've been coming here in Rique and Alex and Jose that are with us this morning. We praise God for that opportunity to be able to give. Amen. Why do I feel like that the Anti-Griffith show is on? Own Will Purvis right over there. Back spiritual, I don't know. I'm telling you, Anti-Griffith is spiritual. You know what I'm saying? Those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, you've missed a whole generation. Anyway, we're back. I want you to get ready to be a giver this morning. Amen, give the Lord praise for that. While you're doing that, getting ready to give on your phone, your tithe, your offering, I want to encourage all of you that are watching online to do the same. If you have your own church where you're at, you're watching from, for example, there in Brazos Valley, Texas, be sure that you're giving to the kingdom of God through your church. If this is your church watching online, you be sure to get your tithe in your offering in. And I want to encourage you to understand this morning as the principle of God's word, that when you give, first of all, you're never more like God than when you give. Thank you for those three, amen. If somebody falls asleep in this service, you have my permission to slip over and give them one of those mama pinches. You understand what I'm talking about? Anybody ever had a mama pinch in service before? You didn't have a mama like that? All right, well, wake them up and tell them I am your mama. There it is, right there. I don't want nobody falling asleep in here because you lost an hour. So, I just want to encourage you to be a giver. In the time we're in, and I told the congregation Wednesday night, and I encourage you to be here on Wednesday night as we're studying the Beatitudes. I believe it will be a blessing to you. This past Wednesday night, I was sharing with the congregation about how they got blessings. And he does that for leading us to repentance, but whenever he gets the attention of a nation, when they've strayed, when they've drifted, when they've gone off into idol worship, whatever that it may be, he uses economics to do that. And he will bless that nation to show them that he is the God who is able to bless, but realize this, when God runs out of that and has to use others to draw you back, he withdraws that blessing from the people. He did it to Israel, he does it to nations now. I know that some people don't believe that the Old Testament can still actually be in effect today, but it is. And you need to understand that God has always dealt with nations such as this. All you gotta do is read the Word of God, you'll see it. And I see things that are on the horizon that are taking place. Most people, this went right over their head this week, maybe you don't even know about it, maybe you do. But the second largest bank failure in the history of the United States took place this week. In of all places, Silicon Valley, the richest county, the richest area in the United States, California is suffering from floods and landslides and torrential rains, and in the Silicon Valley, the Silicon Valley Bank defaulted. The ripple effect has taken place through Wall Street and multiple other banks. The second largest FTX cryptocurrency was the greatest failure of all times. It peaked just a few weeks ago. They started standing in front of the SVB banks in New York and other locations and could not get their money. It vaporized. Pastor, why are you saying this? Because when you give into the kingdom, I want you to know God is not FDIC. FDIC will carry you, they say, to $250,000 if you're in the bank. But God will carry you and sustain you. Has anybody ever been sustained by the hand of God? When you didn't know where and how and when here comes the Lord moving in to bless your life that money couldn't pay for. How many of you know what I'm talking about? So I want you to get your phone. If you're giving on your phone, I want to pray over this offering this morning. You can give on the way out in the buckets that are provided. The tithing envelopes are there. You can give online, you can give on the app. You can give rings, watches, teeth, gold bars, I'm not ashamed. Whatever it is that the Lord wants you to give, one precious saint gave a cake this morning. She baked the prophet a cake. And when I get done with his service, the prophet's gonna go home and I'm gonna eat that cake and pray God's blessing upon everybody who bakes a cake. I know this. I've never seen the righteous forsaken. If you put your investments and I'm not talking about your regular investments, I understand. I'm talking about your heavenly investment and trusting in God above everything else. That's what giving does. And God will measure it back to you. So hold your phone up, you're tied, you're offering the envelope, whatever it may be. And I want you to get ready and let's believe God. All around the world, let's do it. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the privilege we have to give this morning. We recognize that you're the giver of all good and perfect gifts. You're the God who sustains us, provides for us and even watches over it to protect it to bring it to pass. So I pray that you would bless and multiply the seeds sown today. Do it for your riches and glory in Christ Jesus. And everybody shout out a great big amen. God bless you this morning. One quick thing before I turn them back loose a couple of things, please be sure to look inside. We're not taking a lot of time for an announcements mid-service time. We wanna be able to flow in what God wants us to do but there are a number of important things that for you to be able to get a hold of an upcoming Israel class that you can sign up for, a Seder dinner that's coming up as well as well as prophecy files and many other things that are available. And we want you to be able to be a part of it. And one last announcement before we go back into this worship time and prepare your heart for the word. This after the altar call is concluded today, yesterday they had a tremendous time. All you gotta do is put $3 on women's clothes and fill up the entirety of the gymnasium and it's amazing. I was at a gas station this week and somebody said, what time does that sale start? I said, I think eight o'clock and they were standing in line out there, it was great. Here's the thing, all of that's gonna go right back into the kingdom of God and then after the altar call is concluded today, after you've come to the altar, I say unto thee, after thou hast come to the altar, then for one hour, they're gonna open it up in the gym for what is remaining. Tomorrow morning, the rest of that will be collected and we're donating the rest to Teen Challenge. They're gonna come pick that up tomorrow morning. I believe God's gonna bless in multiple ways, amen? So don't forget that. I want you to just, would you just stand with me all over this place? And there's so many things happening in our world that is reflecting and showing us how that the Lord is reaching for a last day harvest. And I want to say this to you, I was on the phone with a preacher friend of mine, long time friend, friend of this church. He called me this week and said, pastor, I just wanted to touch base with you. I want to talk to you for a few moments. And we talked for a few moments, he shared some things that were going on with him. And he said, pastor, I've never in my life seen so many pastors making a difference if they just gotten in the ministry or they've been in the ministry for 20, 30, 40 years that are under such an attack that's going on right now. He said, I had a pastor that called who's been in the ministry for over 20 years and he called him up and said, I can't do it anymore. My friends, this is a time when we must draw near to God. I wish I had a better amen in this house than that. Draw near to God, pray for one another, pray for your pastors here, there, wherever it may be, hold them up and believe God for a supernatural. Why is this attack happening? I have to ask that question. It's coming against any number of people, people that you feel like is strong and all of a sudden they get hit from the left and the right side. Why did you come here today? This is my one reprieve, pastor, my one refuge, my one sanctuary all week long. I'm answering phones and emails and texts and trying to do my job and trying to earn finances and take care of the kids and the list goes on and on and on and this is my one place that I can set the phone down and turn off the emails and everything else and enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Not because I need to check off my religious duty, but because I need him more than what my soul needs, the refreshing. Does anybody need a soul refreshing from the Lord? Lift those hands towards heaven. Father, in the name of Jesus, for all that you're doing now and through the remaining part of this service, may you get the glory that is worthy of your name right now as we worship you in spirit and in truth. Come on, call on the Lord this morning. Lord, we need you today. Our people need you today, Lord. We've come, Lord, to your house to see you, to see him high and lifted up in his glory filled with sanctuary. We praise you today, Lord. Come stand in your situation today. God says, I know all things. Work together, fortune that you see, no way possible situation. I dare you today to trust a God who does the impossible, to place your faith and all that he will do it, possible with him today. Say it with me, you are working faith being him. He's the unshakable rock of ages. We trust and believe in you today, Lord. Good time to stretch out your faith and believe for it, right? This is a good time to believe God for our in your family to be saved. This is a good time for you to come on, lift those hands and those voices and say, you said, you don't have to know what their need is in order to pray for him. What God is going to do by his spirit is that he's going to begin to cause you to pray the prayer of faith for what they need. I want you to begin to pray one for another right now and let the spirit of God touch through you. Come on, reach over and touch and somebody and agree with them right now. All of this platform, all around this auditorium, in fact, all of the insignificant thing, but it's in the heart of your people. Lord, there's times when I may not rate riches in glory. If you're believing for it, throw it and just begin to praise him like you've already should have turned to the left and right and tell him, I believe it. I believe God's going to do it. That's what I believe. Then just remain standing. The Bible's in turn to John chapter one. The songwriter, you can say it in so many different ways. I'm so thankful for songwriters and melodies and things like that that help us to express to God how we feel. Cause sometimes it's hard to get it out in words. And then along comes somebody to express it the way you feel it. John chapter number one. One songwriter said it like this. It's so sweet Jesus just to take his word just to rest upon his promise just to know the sad. Do you trust him? Come on, say it. Jesus, Jesus, trust him. Come on, let's do that chorus one more time. Say Jesus, Jesus, I grace to trust him. Shout, amen, somebody. Well, I believe God's word's going to give you that today. The book of St. John chapter number one. If you found it, say, oh, good, amen. In the beginning, what's the word? And the word was with God. And the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God and all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made. Haven't lost my place. I'm just thinking about Einstein's theory. Einstein's theory relativity says that you can't have anything exist without the induction of life. The chair, the platform, the carpet, everything has to have the induction of light or it does not exist. So let's see if, let's see if Einstein's right. In him was life, Jesus. The life was the, and the light shined it then and the darkness comprehended it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe. Now, John was not that light. The induction of John into something doesn't make it exist. The induction of light makes it exist. He was sent to bear witness of that light. Well, what light are you talking about? That was the true light. Which lighteth every man. Well, there it is that cometh into the world. Even you need light to exist. I know you're still mulling that over. Think on it. He was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. He came into his own and his own received him not. But as many as received him, stop. Have you received him? The Bible says to as many as received him, have you received him? I'm losing him, Jesus. To them gave he power to become the sons of God. Even to them that... Come on, are you reading the same Bible I am? Even to them that believe on his name. Which were born not of blood nor of the will of flesh nor of the will of man but of God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. He's dwelling among us right now. And we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. Can you say amen to God's Word? Father, thank you for this awesome power and opportunity. Thank you for the anointing of God that makes the difference. And I pray that you'll speak to every heart in this place today. Lord, that you're not some outdated God. You're not some yesterday God. You are the I am that I am. And we give you glory for it in Jesus mighty name. Everybody believes it, shout a great big amen? Look at somebody and tell them I believe. I believe. You should believe. I want to give you a little something more to believe in. And this is a little bit ahead of my... A little bit ahead of my message this morning, but I've got to bring it to you as a way of Bible prophecy because what the Word of God has to say will always come to pass. Thank you for those four, amen. I'm just saying to you, it will come to pass. Believing for it does not guarantee an exact time. Believing for it says for as long as it takes and whenever it takes to God be the glory, the Word of God will not return void. It shall accomplish what God sent it to do. So as I speak here today, please understand that there is a gaining increase of power. This is not even in my message. A gaining increase of power between the nations of Russia and China that have now worked out a deal with Iran over this past week and now have become the negotiators of nations and the forward power moving forward. Well, let me say to you, in light of Bible prophecy, this week the study has come forth to prove that the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as mentioned in the book of Revelation chapter 16, are drying up as we speak. If you'll read Revelation chapter 16, you'll find that the purpose of God drying up, now they'll call it climate change, they'll call it this, they'll call it that, but I just want to let you know, God said he's going to dry up the river Euphrates and the Tigris River to do what? The Bible says to make way for the king of the east, which has been identified in Scripture even as China. I'm saying to you that the Word of God will not return void, it shall accomplish what it said. In light of that, it's very unfortunate as we pick up on part two of this message that we started last week and I believe it's a series that will be going on for the next few weeks, the Lord willing. But just about the time that I think I've exhausted the informational flow that needs to happen along comes last week, the descriptions further and surveys and polls as they were taken by none other than Lifeway and Barna and Gallup polls to talk about the changing minds of world views in our culture. And this article from just a few weeks ago states that the state of theology among evangelicals in the year of 2022 now that has been completed. This article says a new survey reveals that the theological beliefs of Americans about God and sin, salvation, heaven, hell, the church and the Bible was taken and the results show that many evangelicals hold an unorthodox or even a heretical belief in their own mind and heart. What does that look like? Well, the survey in brief that was asked and then the responses that came back concerning these topics in the Word of God and about God and sin and salvation, 73% of evangelicals, not talking about the world, evangelicals agree with the claim that Jesus is the first and greatest being created by God. Now, some of you said, what's wrong with that? Jesus was not created. I just read to you from the book of St. John, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. 73% believe that he is a created being. 56% in this survey agree that worshiping alone with one's family is a valid replacement for regularly attending church. Now, the one thing about it I found out is that God won't argue with you about your beliefs. He just lays the truth down and you can choose to believe it or not. He says in this survey, 55% of evangelicals believe the Holy Spirit is a force and not a personal being. That's heretical. 55% agree that everyone sins a little but most people are good by nature. Somebody should ask somebody in Portland today. 53% disagree with the claim that even the smallest sin deserves eternal damnation. Maybe I've got some of those here. God wouldn't throw me. My God wouldn't put me in hell over this. You better read the book. Some of you are feeling so good. Hang out. 44% of evangelicals say that Jesus was a great teacher but he's not God. 29% agree with the statement that God learns and adapts to different circumstances. Here's another one that came out just this week. The biblical worldview, listen to this. Biblical worldview is much closer to extinction after the COVID-19 lockdown. Listen to this. The survey of the majority of Americans, 96% do not hold a biblical worldview following COVID-19 lockdowns according to the survey by George Barna. What is the definition of that biblical worldview in this article? The definition of a biblical worldview is one in which the entirety of a person's ideas about all dimensions of life and eternity are based on biblical principles and commands. That's what they said. 96% said we don't believe the Bible has a place. In our thinking that much. Now, according to the data, which is part of the survey that began in 2020, and this survey is known as the American worldview inventory which evaluates the worldview of the United States adult population also found that the pandemic fueled a decline in biblical worldview even among those who'd identify as being born-again Christians from 19% pre-pandemic to 13% post-pandemic. Well, what does that mean? What that means is that you may be saved and on your way to heaven, mom and dad, grandparents, aunts, uncles, but what does it deal out for those generations that are coming behind us to inherit? For what one generation does in moderation, the next will do in excess. So how do we help our children? Hear the words that your children, according to this article that came out at just the first of the year, how to develop a child's biblical worldview because they are constantly hearing this. Live your truth. These are statements that your children are constantly hearing. If you're enough, you shouldn't judge. God just wants you to be happy. Follow your heart. We're all basically good people. In this particular article, here's the statistics that are coming from the life way. If America continues, this article said, on its current trend, the number of 18 to 29-year-old Americans who state, quote, my religious preference is none or non-Christian religion will grow to over 50%. Wait for it by 2030. That's only six years away. Are you hearing this? Some research indicates that up to 46% of youth have spiritually checked out by the end of middle school. So in order for the children to recognize truth and not fall away from it, parents, grandparents, and those of influence who have a biblical worldview must grow the knowledge of the Bible and develop and help them to develop a biblical worldview. I will submit this to you. I don't often do this, and you can find this article even online. But I'm thankful and I'm grateful that we support every month with our mission's budget, the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C. They have developed a two-year Bible reading plan for you and your child to walk through to help them answer the questions of who is God, who is Jesus Christ, how should we relate in this world, and what should we do with the Bible, and so forth, because, ladies and gentlemen, according to Barna, who is a Christian poster, he made this statement that children start forming their worldview before they are two years old. And then this statement certainly woke me up. If we don't help them develop it, someone else will. And who are those someone else as well? This past week I shared with you at the beginning of the message, how that the Church of England is changing its whole understanding and rewriting the Bible, and somehow really evolving into something that is not even Christian. And yet they're purporting to be the Church of England and Christian principles and orthodoxy. But this past week, they invited in drag queens to read to four-year-olds inside of the Church. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to let you know that truth is not something that we hold in ourselves. It's not my truth, and it's not your truth. And it's also not relative. Truth is what God's Word has to say, and it's not truth until God's Word says it. So last week I started talking to you and preaching to you about I believe God. Last week we dealt with the subject of God, and that's a huge subject I can assure you that I have not breached the height, the depth, or the width of it, but the divine character and nature of God, as we brought to you last week, is one of immutability. In other words, he doesn't change. It's also omnipotent. God is omnipotent, all powerful. There is no one that is greater in power than our God, the God of the Bible. You must understand that. Let me put this on you. Satan is not more powerful than God. Stop attributing so much power to the devil. I know we want to point fingers and say the devil did this and the devil did that, but ladies and gentlemen, he is a bell hop. He is a bell boy. God owns it all and has all power. The only power the devil has is the power God gives him. Our God is omnipotent. He is omniscient. He is all-knowing. He knows everything. Whatever you erased on your email, he still knows it. Smile at somebody and act like you didn't do it. He is omnipresent. He doesn't mean he's everywhere all the time. There's nowhere you can go that God is not. Come on somebody. He is the eternal divine creator of the universe. He is the Word in the beginning. He is the God who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask, think, or imagine. How do I know him then, Pastor? I'm glad you asked. By his moral attributes, we know God. In fact, God said, I want you to know me. But don't think you know me to the degree that you have arrived in knowing all of me. You don't know me that deep, but you can know me in that depth. Our God is a God who is holy, who has set apart. I think I touched on this a little bit last week in Isaiah 6, where Isaiah, who was in despair over the king dying and now they had no one to lead them. And he said in the year, it was significant. He said in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord. That'll change your mind. I don't care who is the leader of a nation, the president, the king, the prime minister, whoever that it is, you need to look above him and see the Lord. Isaiah said I saw the Lord high and he was lifted up. I just want to let you know you'll never see God low and push down. He is high and lifted up and his train, his presence fills the temple, Isaiah said. He's so holy that when he's high and lifted up, he's separate from me. I am not him and he is not human. He cannot be reduced down to one of the miniscule gods and poured into a form and made a little golden idol to sit on your shelf or in your backyard to keep the rain away. I came to tell you he cannot be formed into an image nor can he be drawn on a piece of paper and say that's God. Somebody said well I got his picture hanging up on the wall. We don't know exactly what he looks like ladies and gentlemen. We do know that he's Jewish. We do know that he's got olive skin. We do know that he died for all of mankind and he's placed himself at the right hand of the father ever living to make intercession for us. So if you're going to see God don't look down here. Don't look at me and don't look at your neighbor. You better look up. Hallelujah. Our God is high and lifted up and his train fills the temple. Our God is separate from sin. He cannot sin and will not be tempted with sin. He's holy. He's perfect. Isaiah said when I caught a glimpse into the heavenly throne room I saw angels flying and they carried with them the cry Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty day and even night they would cry out Holy Holy Holy Isaiah said they cover their feet with two of their wings cover their eyes with two and they flew with two wings the cherubim and the seraphim and they cry out he's holy holy holy. Now when you get into the presence of a holy God as a human being you suddenly realize like Isaiah I am not holy and he is holy. Woe is me to step into the holiness of God. I'm amazed at how people treat God today. Even the Jewish people will not even write his name out with all of the letters that we would because they revere him above everything but I will let you know he's not us and if somebody tells you that they saw Jesus walking down a fifth avenue in New York City with a toga on don't believe him the next time he comes he's coming in power and great glory they will not crucify him again and God the Father will set him up as the righteous king of the universe. Even the best things about man are evil compared to God's holiness. 1 Peter chapter 1 16 says be holy for I am holy. That must mean that God will allow us to be able to draw near to his holiness and partake of that divine nature of God. Think about it. If you're born again you have the divine nature of God. You're not God. Let me help somebody here this morning. Help me preach. Turn to your neighbor and tell him you ain't God. Woe get over yourself you ain't God. You created nothing you showed up here and you didn't have any say so when you arrived and you won't have any say so when you leave and when it's all said and done every man woman boy and girl are going to stand before a holy God and the only thing that's going to make you holy is because Jesus lives on the inside of you by his divine nature not by what you've done or works of righteousness lest any man should boast. I don't care if you stay with a pillow and a blanket inside of the house of God ain't going to make you no more holy or than the next God. The only thing that makes us righteous and holy is the righteousness in the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for us. When he put the blood on the doorpost a Passover he said this one already is protected and kept by the blood. I just want to wave my hand in heaven and say put a fresh coat of blood on me today. I need your righteousness and not mine. He set apart from all other gods. I don't I'm amazed people want to have Jesus and a few others. We want to put Jesus on the same level as every other God. I came to tell you he's not one of the million gods of the Hindus. He doesn't belong to the Jehovah Witness. He don't belong to the Mormons and watch this. He don't belong to the assemblies of God either. Let me tell you what God will do. Got this yesterday. This is a hot off the press. One of the missionaries that we support he's Guatemalan. But he's lived all of his life in Turkey. He's been establishing and building churches in the location of the seven churches of Asia that John wrote about in the Booker Revelation. He'd been witnessing to a guy that was a Muslim for a long time and that Muslim who was in search of the Lord and he said I'm going to follow the pilgrimage and he got up just a few days ago just a few days ago. He got up from where he was and made his pilgrimage down to Mecca. He found himself there with millions of other Muslims walking around a great big rock and throwing a rocket to rock. He said while he was standing right there now some of you this will mess with your theology but I want you to know God is God he can do whatever he wants to when he wants to. He's showing up to Muslims all around the globe in visions and in images of Jesus Christ. A theophany if you will and suddenly there that man is throwing a rock walking around this pagan rock of Muslims and they're just worshiping and all of a sudden he lifted his eyes and a shot of light, shaft of light hit him right here in the heart he stopped what he was doing he put his hand on his heart he said this is coming from the man he said I put my hand on my heart right here and I could feel the light coming into my soul he said it was Jesus that I saw and he said get away from here and go back to your village and preach my gospel ladies and gentlemen as I stand here this morning that man is born again by an absolute encounter with the burning bush and a modern day exercise I came to tell you he's God and I worship his holiness this morning somebody give him glory today he's a God who has set apart he's a God who is just and righteous everything God does is right just and good God took my love one ladies and gentlemen appointed and a man once to die and after that the judgment who told you you were going to live everybody going to die it just your choice as to whether or not you want to go up or down come on somebody Roman step to three verse 26 says that you might be just and the justifier of him that believeth on Jesus it does matter what you believe I'm going to go further than that and tell you it does matter which church you attend his righteousness required the death of Jesus Christ to pay for the sins of all mankind because God does not overlook sin so through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross God paid the price for our righteousness Jesus was sinless Jesus was already righteous but he said in the garden he said Adam where are you and Adam said I'm afraid and we hid in the bushes he said come out of there some of you heard that this morning and you're here on spring Sunday come out of there come out come out what are you doing hiding in there we don't know what to do he said your righteousness is as filthy right now because of what you've done in your sinful activity I'm now going to have to take the innocence of this lamb and put the innocence of the lamb on the guilty man and I'm going to take your guilt and put it on the lamb when God speaks lamb you do know God speaks lamb don't you there's six of you that read the Bible I just to let you know that God speaks lamb and God speaks elephant cockroach and everything else first of all he called all of them two by two come on how many of you know what Noah stood up said alright y'all line up all your little cockroaches and ants and all your little termites and everything two by two no no no you can't go only you two no God spoke into the animal kingdom and they lined up and walked up on the ark now I know that's hard stretch for you to believe but I just want to let you know whenever God got ready to get the prophet right when the prophet was thrown overboard God called for the fish the great fish the whale came and swallowed up Jonah God speaks lamb the lamb said what do you mean I'm going to have to die what is death you're going to die why for him why don't he die because he can't I love him my spirit is in him I'm going to take your innocence and I'm going to put it on him and I'm going to take his guilt and put it on you and then I'm going to strip your clothing off and I'm going to put it on him to cover his nakedness because there must be a bloodletting in order for this to take place a sacrifice that's called righteousness did you hear what I just said I'm not talking about just doing right I'm talking about the act of righteousness that caused the innocent lamb to be slaughtered now if you don't think that God is still speaking lamb today look in the book of Revelation and the Bible will tell you that they're standing in the presence of God one that is slain like a lamb hallelujah and the lamb will then rise up and all of a sudden that lamb is the one who receives the crown and the scepter he's speaking metaphorically about Jesus Christ but if you don't think that I'm talking about the lamb who knows how to talk lamb and God knows how to speak lamb let me just say it when Abraham was walking up the mountain on one side with the boy Isaac and he said Isaac come on we're going to yonder to the mountain to worship Isaac said daddy I see the knife I see the fire I see the wood but where is the sacrifice he said don't worry son God will provide himself a lamb and by the time they arrived up at the top of the mountain look at here look at here if you don't think God speaks lamb and will provide for you a lamb while they were walking up one side of the mountain get into the top here comes the lamb walking up the other side and both of them meet together at the top of the mountain of Moriah as I speak today that's the location where Jesus was crucified at Galgotha don't you think God hadn't got a plan I came to tell you he said Abraham where's the lamb he said don't worry God will provide himself a lamb what lamb here comes Isaiah who said look at him he's a lamb that is slain from the foundation of the world looking here here's John the Baptist rises up out of the Jordan river and said behold the lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world and then John say worthy is the lamb to receive glory honor and pray ladies and gentlemen he's righteous because he's righteous I am not but he is and he gave me his righteousness that's why I stand justified today I feel like shouting this morning you can't talk about God's righteousness and not get excited the world will write you off and say we don't need any of that that Christianity is for the weak minded according to what Ted said back in the day of CNN but I came to tell you everybody else is gonna pass away but God is gonna sit on the throne forever high and righteous above our hearts and lives God is righteous and God is faithful as anybody found God faithful wave at me this morning what does that mean he means he's worthy trust God cannot deny himself God's faithfulness is not dependent on man's faithful we like to judge God by the way we treat one another you said you was gonna be there for they didn't you didn't show up till sick or you didn't show up at all and you didn't call to let me know you weren't coming but when God I said when God says I am Jehovah Shema the Lord who is there you don't have to turn around twice to find out where God is look at somebody and tell him God's got you back I say God's got you back second Timothy chapter 2 verse 13 identifies his faithfulness when it says even if we believe not yet he abideth faithful I wanna know how many of you gonna stay with God even if the depression comes and a recession comes and it goes to 18% how many of you gonna stay with God even though you walk through the trial of your life how many are gonna stay faithful to God I want you to know that's not a passive thing because when God said I am faithful to you it means whether you're in obedience or disobedience God will never leave me and God will never forsake me that's hard to wrap your mind around about God but God isn't fickle like we are God is faithful not fickle God's not a iffy God God is a God who's so faithful that he will finish what he started in you a long time ago he will keep you he will preserve you protect you well what do I have to do just obey God's got the rep well I thought coming to church today was gonna merit me something not a thing in fact even on this day whenever you rolled your clock forward and you said in your heart God look at me now I made it to church on time you can't earn his faithfulness I say you can't earn his faithfulness I never earned it to start with you know what God said I'm making a covenant with you regardless of what you do and how you feel about me I will never withdraw my word from you in fact he says it like this in that while you and I were yet sinners Christ died for us imagine that wouldn't you wait until somebody proves themselves to be faithful before you did anything Jesus went ahead and went to the cross with the expectation that when you're looking for a God to serve you'll find that he is faithful and trustworthy enough that you won't have to have your arm twisted are you coming to church today or not are you gonna make it to the to the Bible study are you gonna serve the Lord oh no no God said I've laid it on the line and that's all I need to do it's a covenant that's so strong that even when you're not thinking about me God said I'm thinking about you look at somebody tell them God's thinking about you right now he has able to deliver you in his faithfulness from every temptation the Bible says and the Bible is a testimony of God's faithfulness from Abraham to Moses to David till today his promises remain the Bible said unto a thousand generations and he will finish what he started look at somebody tell him God's faithful now tell him God's gracious he is full of grace tied us to an 11 I'm talking about God you want to know God when somebody why am I preaching this to you when somebody comes to you and says look now you had to bury your loving where's your God now look what you're going through I thought this Christian thing would keep your kids in the kingdom but look at him running like a bunch of wild animals I know you can't say a man for you but go ahead and say a man for your neighbor right there because you know and I know that there's a hundred different situations that are going on here and if you're not careful the devil and people around you will point fingers and say your God is not faithful just like they did in the Bible your God is not gracious your God is not holy but you've got to maintain what you believe regardless because God is not fickle God is always faithful and God is always gracious the Bible says and tied us to an 11 for the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust we should live soberly here's what he's telling us soberly, righteously and godly in this present world right now with the mess that it's in he is expecting us to operate in the grace of God God's grace in his favor is the undeserved blessing that comes every day to us I heard somebody or maybe I read it on Facebook the other day they said look God's mercy is so brand new when the sun came up but the Bible said his mercies are new every morning I don't have to wait for the sun to come up at 12 01 it's morning in the middle of the dark place somebody ought to thank God for a God who starts the morning at midnight our God is a gracious God getting what we do not deserve is the grace of God God's grace is in this place right now the Bible says in 2 Peter 1 and 2 grace and peace be multiplied watch this be multiplied grace and peace be multiplied to you through what through the knowledge of God and Jesus our Lord what is he saying the knowledge you get of God and understanding of who he is the more grace and peace is going to be multiplied in your life God is not only gracious but he's long suffering I know him in the right place here's what the Bible said in Romans 2 verse 3 you think you can judge others when you do the same or even escape judgment or despise now the riches of his goodness forbearance and long suffering not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth to repentance I'm just going to tell you God's never been anything but good to me come on somebody I say God's never been anything but good to me Pastor you don't understand I've gone through the valley he's good in the valley I've been on the mountain I've been on the side of the mountain God's good on the side of the mountain have you been what you've done God's long suffering and his goodness is always leading us to repentance sometimes people mistake God's long suffering for his silence long suffering of God is the forbearing with us in our disobedience not that he's tolerating our sins but he is forbearing he is waiting in your disobedience as he's drawing you in fact in this building right now God has withheld punishment from people because of his long suffering but don't mistake his patience for his approval on your disobedience his long suffering is designed according to the scripture to lead us to repentance so please don't think that you're going to keep on doing what you do one day it will all be shut down but God is long suffering isn't it God is loving before you get a concept of God is love like us because we love when other people love us back God's love is extended to us not because he does love God is love according to the book of verse John 4 and 6 4 and 8 and it is the most simplistic of all the attributes of God it is the hardest for us to comprehend how could God knowing everything about me still love me how could he know what I did last night and still love me today well first of all I have to tell you he's not a man that loves like a human being because we love when we get the Christmas cards so we feel obligated to send one back but the bible said God has extended his love toward us and he will never retrieve it you know the one thing that hell is going to be it's going to be a place of such misery because God's love will be absent from that place he showed his love the bible said while we were yet sinners so I just want to sum this portion of this message up by telling you God that he is the everlasting father that he is the god of hosts that he is the lord of heaven and earth that he is the author and the finisher of our faith that he is the comforter and he is the counselor and he is the creator that he is the great physician and the god of all grace he is the great I am and the alpha and the omega he is the holy one of Israel we call him Jehovah the lord of the living and he is the lord of the dead he is Jehovah God he is the god of the Jews the god of the Christians the god of the Muslims the god of the Hindu the god of the Baha'i the god of the atheists because he is the lord and god of all and Isaiah said when I started searching for the god I found none that were higher than him he is the god who is the master of our master and Messiah he is the god who is our prophet king and priest our redeemer our refuge and rock the bible said that he god is our refuge in the book of Deuteronomy and underneath are his everlasting wings and arms I want you to let you know ladies and gentlemen the god that you serve is not one of the gods that's being played out today to hug a tree or some climate control god that will communicate he is separate from all of that he is God all the sovereignty all by himself and when you walk into his presence you better get ready to take your shoes off because you're standing on a holy ground I came to tell you I still believe that the bush is still burning today if you'll set aside enough time to go talk with him you'll hear the voice of the Almighty coming from a burning bush you who were all set down today would get at least half excited as you did at the ball game yesterday but just sit there, I'm coming for you I believe in God and I believe I came from God and I believe I'm going back to him let me take up this second portion I believe in God and I believe in the God of the bible and the bible itself do you know how controversial the statement I just made is today because a preacher was thrown out of a facility because he protested about a drag queen event taking place and they threw the preacher out now the first thought in some of your minds is well what did the preacher do and because preachers and evangelists and pastors and everybody else has created an environment where we don't even trust that leadership anymore it's difficult for us to be able to communicate to you but I came to tell you I'm not trying to get you saved from my salvation in my heaven everybody goes and it's party time but in God's heaven the only ones that are going to get there are going to come from the Word of God the Word of God way and obedience to the Word of God and the Word of God is held up above his name I believe the bible but most people don't I know it's shocking but according to the Gallup poll fewer in the United States now see the bible as the literal Word of God according to the record of the record low of 20% of Americans now say the bible is literally the Word of God in fact a new high of 29% over a quarter of Americans not Christians Americans say the bible is a collection of fables legends history and moral precepts recorded by a man the majority of Christians at 58% say the bible is the inspired Word of God but not everything in it is to be taken literally while 25% say that it should be interpreted literally and 16% say that it's an ancient book of fables in any given church there are conservatives and liberals and independents and nothings and everybody got an opinion ooh you gotta watch out for them quiet ones they will blog you down to the ground they won't say nothing in public but they'll write stuff about you and put it out on Facebook but I came to preach to all of you liberal, conservative, independents libertarians, nothings and everything else to tell you that the bible is the God's final authority that has been written and handed down to man all scripture 2 Timothy 3 15 is given by inspiration of God God breathe the author of the bible is God who breathed it, inspired it conceived it and authored it 2 Peter 1 20 says knowing this first that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation for the prophecy never came by the will of man you know if these folks that deny that the bible is really truly the Word of God if they would just read it they'd find out the answer didn't come by the will of man that holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit let me give you some things you need to know because these are the challenges that you and I are going to face today because this book right now in many locations is hate speech but I want you to know what God was for 100 billion years ago and I did that for all of the dinosaur crowd God is still for today and he will be for it tomorrow watch it what God was against back then he's still against today and he will be tomorrow I want you to contemplate that when you're getting ready to vote next year because if you don't vote the bible we're about to see America plunged into the depths of stuff that we've never seen before and if Christian people would simply vote the bible and understand it to be the inspired written for life and learning and living then ladies and gentlemen we would have a revival overnight but not even the house of God believes that it is literally inspired of God so I got something to say to you today I believe the bible if you come to Pace Assembly I'm not going to preach out of somebody's book this is the book I'm going to preach out of and I don't even have to have any other book to interpret it the bible interprets the bible now if you choose to read it that's up to you if you choose not to read it that's up to you but what I do need you to understand is when all of us stand before the throne of God he's not going to open up Dr. Spock's book on how you're going to be able to raise your children and he's not going to open up Shakespeare to tell you some wonderful words and he's not going to open up the scholarly writings of professors from godless colleges he's going to roll this book that you've been holding your lapper on your iPhone for a long long time and he's going to judge every one of us by the words that are written inside of this book so ladies and gentlemen the best thing you can do is read what God said about himself and start living by the book because if the book is worth living for then the book is worth dying for how many saints, preachers and prophets have laid down their life because they believe the book well let me take you to Hebrews chapter 11 I feel like preaching right now the Bible says that all this litany of those heroes, patriarchs and matriarchs that said they believe God, they believe God they believe God for this, that and the other and it comes down to the end and said some of these died not having received the promise yet but they saw and looked for a city whose builder and maker is God. Ladies and gentlemen we have not yet seen what they've even been believing for yet but one day very soon the Bible says not without us in other words, God is getting ready to wrap this thing up and the world is looking right now saying we don't understand this going on and we don't understand that going on and I came to tell all of God's people read the book and you'll know it before CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or even the latest prophet why are you waiting on a prophet to tell you your name and telephone number the Bible originated in the mind of God not in the mind of man well then pastor how do you know it's God's word I'm glad you asked this is the most simplistic definition I can give for you because we could go into the theological and all that but hear me no man would have put this kind of restraint on himself on purpose the denial of self is not in the nature of man watch this test I'm gonna go buy 200,000 Krispy Kreme donuts look at you and all you're thinking about right now is not the Bible but a Krispy Kreme donut because we would not put that restraint upon ourselves because as humans we don't know that restraint without Jesus Christ that's the reason why Jesus said deny yourself take up your cross and follow me at no time in history has the Word of God been more needed and more relevant than today the Bible is the answer to all of life's questions it is the Word of God for life and for living it is the inspired Word of God God breathe it's not a man writing it down it is from God and man put it on pages what God said the Bible is indestructible no other writing in history has outlasted the attacks of criticism and unbelief like the Bible the Bible this very moment is being mocked on every line and more will happen in the days ahead because of the pressure to change the enemies of God have tried to destroy the Bible and rid the earth of all of the Word of God they're doing that right now as a matter of fact they're defying in horrible disobedience in Canada where they first now initiated euthanasia for old people older people and now they are writing along as I speak today to allow children to be able to be euthanized without their parents consent you can go off yourself if you want to but the book ladies and gentlemen is telling you that there's a life to live and a God that we're going to stand before man's laws are defying the book today like never before just like it was in the days of Jeremiah when he sent that letter to King Jehoachim and what did he do he ripped it up and threw it in the fire and tried to burn it but God spoke to Jeremiah said write down the word you wrote down and send him letter number two the Bible is an indestructible book the grass withers and the flower fades but the word of the Lord shall stand forever Isaiah said the word stand in that scripture literally translates rises to stand when the word is pushed down the word will rise to stand again the Bible has traveled more roads spoke more languages knocked on more doors and delivered more freedom to people than any other book in history it is the number one best seller of all time every year no one will outsell it some say it's historically inaccurate some say it's scientifically unproven some say it's absolutely archaic in it's archeological and it's unfounded but I want you to know time and again the word of God rises to stand ladies and gentlemen just about the time that you don't think the word of God is accurate some author of an article will say look the Tigris and the Euphrates river is drying up just like the Bible said about the time somebody says that book is outdated throw it out somebody in Jerusalem will dig up a little coin and verify look this is David's house and Hezekiah's waterway I came to tell you you better know that for the ages and the sages of all mankind the book the Bible is held as the premier word of life and living the Bible is the most influential book of all time cannot preach this thing in the time remaining not another book has impacted the world form governments or change societies like the Bible it influences every area of our life that is a Biblical worldview when you respond like the Bible responds you don't have to be hateful you don't have to stand on the corner and beat the Bible just be ready the Bible said in 1 Peter to give a defense for the gospel sake so where the Bible is speaking I will call sin, sin I'll call evil evil I'll call good good and bless bless because God is not fickle with what he said the Bible says what it says and he's saying it the same today live and be free and be influenced by the word of God change the lives of millions is deliver the drug addict I'm praying for the drug addict that we had to have the police come this past week who stood out on the side of our building so completely out of her mind that she began to disrobe in front of the boys and girls next door at the Methodist church when the police came she was drinking bleach and pouring bleach all over her body I could see her when she was walking like a zombie up in Philadelphia welcome to Pace, Florida ladies and gentlemen where evil knows no boundaries but I came to tell you if there's a church anywhere that believes in this book there is deliverance that can be found for the drug addict and the alcoholic I said deliverance and you don't have to get them in the power course in the name of Jesus come out is there anybody that believes that he's a delivering God today he sets the bond bound free he opens blind his eyes the word of God rolls back the seas the word of God is made away where there seem to be no way so many times in your life you stop counting them the spoken word of God has the power to move mountains and calm the stormy seas and melt the hearts of men women boys and girls he'll make tax collectors to leave their trade and follow Jesus with all of their heart the word of God will open graves and breathe life into the infant baby of the lungs that Jesus spoke over of Jairus' daughter I want you to know the word causes the dead to live again ladies and gentlemen the word was there in the beginning the word is here right now and he shall forever be the word of Almighty God give him glory this morning he's here the word is the most influential the word is inescapable the Bible can't be ignored I want to say this to everyone that's sitting in congress in the supreme court the white house, the state house the local county commissioner the word of God will never be ignored when you have written your laws and done your deal the word of God will always be standing there to judge your heart men should judge righteously by the word and then only those laws pass ladies and gentlemen you cannot ignore the word of God you can outlaw it and say that men can marry men and women can wear men but I can tell you that God's word is abomination so when it's all said and done the word will rise to stand again I'm talking about the word of God y'all it's inescapable it's absolute are y'all tired of this preaching in a school decided one day they were gonna ban the Bible from the library and all of a sudden enough people got up and said if you can have that book you're gonna put the Bible back in here for our kids guess where the Bible went right back on the shelf in the library the moment you stop believing it is the moment things are gonna change ladies and gentlemen if you believe the word of God is high above all the standard and laws of men and then speak the word don't you worry about God he's already behind his word making it happen it's inescapable for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten something but whosoever would believe in him and not perish but have everlasting life don't you ever touch Franklin Graham man stand on Fox News or the Bible in the hand and he said listen do I understand it all no do I believe it all again he said it's the best selling book of all time God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son and whosoever believed in him not perish but have everlasting life I'll call the number on the screen and give you a heart to Jesus we'll send you a Bible back thanks for watching God bless you if we just have this church right here do that in this community what would happen in here somebody said oh I'm looking for a revival how about a revival of the Bible the word is inescapable the Bible demands a response that's the reason why I don't preach for your information in a few moments I'm gonna ask you to respond give me the information off the top of my head for you to get up yawn and get you a latte and walk out the door the Bible requires demands a response it demands an action the worlds were formed by the Word of God and I found out that the Word of God will find your hiding place some of y'all are hiding in clear sight today that word will search you out I said won't that word search you out see that's the problem coming to a Holy Ghost church like this cause you can't just keep on doing what you always done you know at least once a week for most of you once a week there's gonna be a confrontation with the Word of God I wish you would say amen right now just sit there and act like I'm not talking to you I'm just saying to you ladies and gentlemen I want you to know in this hour we don't need some pablum or some three points and a little poem or some little story that you had last week I wanna hear what thus saith the Lord I wanna know when I walk out of this building that I've got a rock that I can lay my head on and I've got a Bible that I can trust in and a God who is faithful and I've told you all that this morning y'all settle down I'm trying to preach now before somebody tells you that the Bible has contradiction and I looked it up I looked it up last night I put Bible in and then I put news and one of the latest news articles out there is the Bible is full of contradiction and if you listen to the Bible it's full of contradiction it's full of contradiction and if you listen to this world and even some preachers they'll tell you well it's a good book no it's a God book and it is inerrant I said it's inerrant the battles that have been fought over the truth of God's Word have always come out with the Word of God on top the Bible said in John 1717 that the Word is truth that Jesus said that some people say that there's contradictions in it and it should be changed to meet the time that's what they're doing with the church anglin right now we're going to take the Bible and we're going to inject it and we're going to take the fatherly terminologies and pronouns out I probably have made a few people mad in the past few weeks because I've said some offensive things I said things like I'm going to confess it right here in front of God and everybody I've said things like yes ma'am no ma'am would you like some more tea no ma'am yes sir I'm sorry you're going to have to deal with my pronoun I say when you know who you are come on somebody why do I say that because that Bible is inerrant in the beginning God created male and female oh I'm going to offend some people now you don't know who you are go home immediately after this service go in the bathroom in a private situation and do what you need to do to figure out who you are I want you to know ladies and gentlemen that's the only ones that God made and he did it inerently and until you know who you are you'll never know where you're going but if you want to know who you are read the book and the Bible will tell you I'm created in the image and likeness of God Almighty I am fearfully and wonderfully made either the Bible is right and the world is wrong or the world is right and the Bible is wrong I'll give some of you to get over your offense one things for sure you're going to have to love me to get into heaven so you might want to get it out before you leave out telling you my opinion I'm telling you with all the love of God that I have that the word is inerrant and if you don't have that settled in your heart anybody will convince you someday that something in here doesn't fit and they're trying to rewrite it right now but I want you to know you better not touch this come on somebody you better not touch this there congressman jumping jack flash whoever you are you better not touch this book because you need to read the back end of it here's what the back end y'all don't know what the back end says remove anything from this book I can never backslide you better read the book you remove it your name will be removed you add anything to it there's consequences to you messing with God's word I said there's consequences to you messing with God's word I don't care what kind of theological kind of gathering you have together with with all the professors of the college when God gets ready to move on to college he'll breathe upon a bunch of college students they'll fall on their face and begin to worship God and confound the professors at religious college you know what I heard this past week I heard that across America on black university campuses that they're seeing a revival in the sweeping hand of God at black university ladies and gentlemen do you not think that God said in the last days I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh your sons and daughters are prophesied your old men will dream dreams and upon your hand made it and my servant will I pour out of my spirit why is God doing that because there's a generation that has forgot that the word of God is the word of God and now God is going to show a new generation what it feels like to experience the burning of bush it's God's word it's inherent it's worthy of reverence let's see it's worthy of reverence my dad and my first Sunday school teacher studied the word of God and when the evangelist came to the church years ago and preached something that wasn't in the word of God and kept on preaching it it was doctorly incorrect they called him on it he got mad he stopped the revival and prophesied my dad and just a cave were going to die before the end of the week in the 40s and just to show you that he was the man of God he went to the one and only door exiting the building and dropped his Bible and made everybody walk across to get out the door I pastured my Sunday school teacher until she was almost 89 years old daddy was about 40 he went on to be with the Lord at 93 false prophet false prophet false prophet alert come on somebody why are we listening to everybody else when we have in the pages what we can read for ourselves I don't need prophet flip-flop to tell me what does God say in his word that confirms it's an errand y'all can't take no more of this it's strong it's strong it's strong word it's offensive to people and that Bible said Jesus said don't you worry they're going to be offended in the last day not because of you you ain't doing nothing they're offended because of me Jesus said they're going to be offended because of me if you've got Jesus and you put him out there has a question are you putting him out there I'm not talking about by convenience and I'm not talking about jumping up and beating your Bible on the street corner I'm talking about when you encounter someone when you come in contact with somebody is it clear who you are and what you believe or do you start talking about what church you go to what church you go to I talk to people what church you go to sometimes I like introducing most of the time they treat me like the pope and start confessing did you not don't they do it oh pastor I'm sorry I ain't been in church oh no stove time out don't tell me no more pastor if you knew what I did 39 now I'm going to tell you I was shrappin it oh no I don't know nothing about you keep back to yourself I'm asking this congregation this morning and those of you watching to stop being a secret service saint the Bible is right I don't care what the Supreme Court said the Bible is right I don't care what the denominational government says the Bible is right I said the Bible is right and until you're convinced of it you won't stand with it but when you believe it how much do you believe it from Genesis to the maps got it all even the maps why do I need to have that kind of steadfastness and unmovable position on the Word of God well let me ask you what happened when you gave your life to Jesus Christ did he save you come on talk to me how did he save you how did he save you well I just put my faith in the cross he did the rest I think you'll find that right here what happened when you messed up so bad and you thought it was all going down the tubes and you found yourself on your face calling on the Lord what did you find out that the God of the Bible was faithful to me and my house I was never so glad to step in we went preached here not long ago in Birmingham and we were they put us up in a hotel over there and I slid open one of the drawers and there in that drawer in that Bible from the Gideons we can't hand out them little Bibles to fifth graders anymore, a little New Testament because it might influence them a few years ago they put a cover that says someone read them and be offended if you think that you're going to live for Jesus and not find someone who gets offended you better be ready does that mean I got to get mad? oh no no no you got to treat them like Jesus that's the reason why when I walked around there the police officer said come tell us what you want to do first time in fact six o'clock Friday morning they had found that girl walking down and going on down the street and then she made her way back around here our staff saw her she's pouring bleach all over her body hopeless without any kind of thought completely out of her mind emaciated dried up body and when people would drive past and ignore I told the officers listen we're going to press charges because you're going to take her and you're going to make sure that she gets somewhere safe instead of roaming the streets but these charges are not our charges I want you to know that I want her to know that we are praying for her and we're going to help her any way we possibly can and they're saving grace it's right here in okaloosa county and project hope that we put money into just that such an occasion so don't you let that girl just die inside that jail you make sure you do what you need to do they call me back on the phone and said pastor is there anything else that you want us to tell her I said you just tell her that God loves her God loves her and she going to be alright you know how I can say that not because I can do anything I don't even know her name I don't know who she is but the word of God can step behind the jail cell and walk right in there by your bedside and whisper in her ear that you're alive and you're going to be alright just come on to me because when I pulled that drawer back and found a Gideon Bible in the cover of it it said this Bible contains the mind of God the state of man the way of salvation the doom of sinners and the happiness of believers its doctrines are holy its precepts are binding its histories are true its decisions are made immutable read it to be wise believe it to be safe and practice it to be holy it contains the light to direct you food for support you and comfort to cheer you its the travelers map the pilgrim staff the pilots compass the soldier sword and the christian charter the Bible reveals heaven is open and the gates of hell are disclosed Christ is its grand subject our good is its decision the glory of God its end it should fill your memory rule your heart guide your feet read it slowly read it frequently read it prayerfully it is a mind of wealth and a paradise of glory a river of pleasure it's given to you in life it will help you at the judgment it will be remembered forever it involves the highest responsibilities and the rewards of the greatest labor and will condemn all those who trifle with its sacred contents what do you believe what do you believe do you believe God I said do you believe God Blake get ready to kill the lights in the auditorium do you believe the Bible I leave you with this and last illustration do it thy word oh lord is a lamp to my feet and a light it is a lamp to my feet it is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path in a dark world my friends you need a light that will show you where to put your feet in dark places lead me oh lord and guide me bring them up Blake lead me and direct me and guide me in the path that is straight what do I have thy word oh lord thy word oh lord is forever settled in heaven I don't know the way that I should take turn the word on I believe God's speaking to hearts today I believe he's speaking to lives today I believe he's wanting you to reaffirm your complete and total devotion to God and to his word I have other messages that are coming on Jesus and him healing and coming again and all these major doctrines of the Bible but if you don't believe God is who he says he is and he will do what he says he will do and that he loves you more than you could ever imagine but I feel like somebody needs to meet me at this altar right now if that's you get up from where you are and come and give your life to God today come on come on I'm standing right here I'm waiting on you the spirit of God saints are praying all around this room right now I wish you would pray because this might be your son or daughter that needs to come come on look at somebody on the left and right and ask them do you need to go to the altar come on the word is waiting on you to transform your life come on saints of God pray the word is waiting on you to transform your life the word is waiting on you come on he loves you more than you could ever imagine he loves you more than you could ever imagine I'm not even going to wait on anybody else I'm not even going to wait because see when you're broken enough and you need Jesus bad enough there'll be somebody that will come along come on girl I know the Holy Spirit is dealing with you right now I know that the spirit of God is dealing with you come on here come on here you ain't got to wait on nothing just come on come on come on come on come on come on come on just kneel with me right here see God's going to make everything alright right now that's what he's going to do I need to help somebody else do I need to lead somebody else are you going to wait on another day when it's more convenient are you going to wait on somebody else that's going to talk you out of your salvation are you going to come on right where you are come on guys come on these are my buddies right here come on Enrique come on down here come on come on come on please don't block the aisles ladies and gentlemen when the spirit of the Lord is moving it's time to move right then come here Paul come here come here come on come on Jose come on Alex come on man I know the Lord's waiting on somebody come on pal trust in you oh boy the spirit of the Lord is moving here hey I don't care what time it is you got to go run I'm after a soul this morning I pick some up but I'm after a soul this morning I wish somebody would pray your child may be watching online right now did you hear me your child your grandchild might be watching online this morning might need you to just know that it's going to be alright sing Steven do you need to come if you need to come you better come while you can because there's a day coming really fast when you're not going to be able to get here but the spirit of God is calling you say I would trust somebody in this building that's born again lift those hands and begin to worship him right now come on come on lift your hands everybody stand will you please can we reverence I know what time it is I really don't care and I bet you if one of your daughters or sons was in this altar the soul is being transformed right now if you need to come you better come thy word oh lord come on bring them babies if that world is before they're two years old who's this to you your granddaughter what's her name Davina how old is she four years old you sure are a pretty girl yes you are yours grandmother but the mama she's hard on drugs so Davina is four years old and she's already making a world view about things but what she needs to know in this atmosphere is that God is for her and God loves her unconditionally that's right baby and no matter what's going on with mama God can hear the prayers of a four year old go up before the throne father in the name of Jesus I pray for Davina right now that the Holy Spirit would use her young life to transform right now every everything that's going on Holy Spirit surround them right now because lord they've tried everything and gone every direction but you are our hope you are our strength you are her life and I pray that her young mind would be protected by the Holy Spirit right now come on give me somebody that knows how to pray in the Holy Ghost right now I bet if you'll just start interceding for your children and for your children God's gonna do a transformation here today all this mother back from every drug addiction in the name of Jesus Christ let the faith of this child rise to stand again hallelujah let the Word go forth and penetrate her heart I believe you for it lord I believe you for it we're trying to begin to pray one for another would you do it come on come on come on as anything is transforming power is transforming power hallelujah Jesus I want everybody to pray this prayer right out loud I know that this is being interpreted for our Hispanic both in English and in Spanish because he's a God of the English speaking the Spanish speaking the Portuguese speaking the Russian speaking the Chinese speaking he's a God of all so today and I'm being slow on purpose Sergio come on with me I want you to pray this prayer right out loud I want you to believe it in your heart and the God of the Bible is going to forgive you of your sins and he's going to cleanse you and make you righteous and it's going to happen in a moment if you're ready say amen all around this building pray this prayer with me right out loud Dear heavenly father I come to you in Jesus name I'm a sinner I've done wrong and I know that I have but I believe that you died for my sins I believe you hung on a cross I believe you were buried and you rose again on the third day and in my heart right now I confess my sin and my need of you Jesus come into my heart today show me your grace and mercy I give my life to you Jesus from this day forward I will serve you I will live for you I will live all the days of my life thank you Jesus thank you Jesus for saving me healing me comforting me and giving me a new life in Jesus name I'm washed I'm cleansed I'm healed I am forgiven I am saved now lift your hands towards heaven and thank the God of glory thank you Jesus for saving me thank you Jesus for saving me thank you Jesus for saving me thank you Jesus for saving me is anybody still glad to be saved today? I want you to stretch your hands towards these young men they're not the only ones who have prayed this morning but there's four six that have been listening in the ear this morning I've been waiting for this moment in this church for 18 years when I preached the word in one language and people around the world and even in this sanctuary hear it in another and respond to the same Jesus come on church these are our sons and daughters and some of you ask what is all this Latino outreach for why are you doing it pastor you want the evidence you want it right here here it is right here and if we help one soul get into the kingdom of God then they were sent on purpose from wherever they were sent from to hear the gospel I know these guys that's alright amen we're going to get them Spanish Bibles tell you go get me some Spanish Bibles guys we're going to pray for you because I know you're here and your families are not God can keep your families and the Lord is going to keep you you've given your life to Jesus Christ watch what God is going to do he's your God would you lift your hands towards heaven stretch your hands this way folks oh my God father in Jesus name I pray that your spirit now would touch their lives in a supernatural way and that I pray for their families right now that you would keep their families Lord keep their hearts centered and focused upon you whatever that their future may be I pray God right now that they will never forget this day that this is the day that old things passed away and behold all things became brand new brand new brand new brand new anybody glad that the Lord of heaven made all things brand new for you I wish you give him a shout and praise any praise every praise some kind of praise if it had not been Lord who was on your side in mind where would we be I know that God I've already had one of them tell me I want to be baptized now you may not like me and you may not like this but I'm going baptizing and I'm not asking them where they're at where they're from what's going on in their life all I care about is they're born again if they're here today or gone tomorrow I know Jesus Christ has had an encounter with them today have I got a church that believes that way today because if you don't you're in the wrong place I'm just telling you we're reaching out to we don't want them to just stay online we want them to come in from the highways and hedges and fill God's house and every soul is important in God's eyes now if you don't think God is a God and the God today listen somebody's marriage got healed today I didn't even preach on marriage somebody's body got healed today and I didn't even preach on healing somebody got saved around this altar today and I didn't even necessarily preach on salvation you know why that is because the Holy Spirit knows exactly what you need and He's reaping His harvest before He comes again I want you to find about 10 people and shake their hand and tell them I believe in God and I believe in the Bible I'll see you Wednesday night don't miss it