 Good morning, good morning. Come on, let's stand up and give God some worship. We're gonna praise the Lord this morning. Come on, let's give God a big hand, clap and praise. Hallelujah. Yeah. Are y'all ready to praise the Lord this morning? Come on, let's come on, give God some praise. Come on, clap those hands, hey! Open up your hearts this morning. Let the Holy Spirit come on in. Sing Holy Spirit. Say, we understand that it's yes, God, come fill, you're singing, God, fill this place, this body that you, come fill this place, not just the four walls of a building, but God, fill my heart. Lord, whatever you need to do, fill me that I have what I need a day by day. This atmosphere, not to the four walls of a building, but to yourself, that's what you're singing about. That's what it really means. So if you believe that this one is, step up your hands right now, let this be their prayer this morning. Say, sing this one more time. Say, Holy Spirit. Say, yourself, about your heart. You would fill this place. Fill every heart, fill every heart that you wanna do this morning. Do it as you see fit. Holy Spirit, we welcome you into this place. We invite you into this place. You have liberty to do what you and only you can do this morning. Save souls this morning. Set the captive free this morning. Deliver this morning. Do what only you can do. We lift up every need, everything that we have. We give it unto you because you're the only one that can do it. You're the only one being in this house. Freedom in this house. Let a river of your Holy Spirit flow through this building. Mean every need. Do it this morning. Leave this morning. And then I want you to lift up the greatest shelf and praise, give the God. You're expecting the Holy Spirit to do something. Tell somebody. And for everyone that's watching via live stream from around the world, we're so glad you joined us. The Holy Spirit is coming right where you are this morning. So we're so glad that you joined us this morning. Amen, amen. Are you excited to be in God's house this morning? Come on, once you give God a great handcuff and praise this morning. David said, I was glad when they said it to me, let us go into the house of the Lord. So I'm so glad that you're here and to be here this morning. The Holy Spirit is going to meet us in a supernatural, powerful way this morning. I believe that this morning. And this is your first time here. We're so glad that you are here. We're so glad whether it's you or with your family. We're so glad that you may pace assembly your church this morning. If at the end of service today, if you'll walk out to the four year, as soon as service is over, right over to the left-hand side, we have a place called Guests Central. If you'll step in there, we want to get to know you, get some information about you and how you can stay connected with us, let you know about some events and different things that we have going on here at the church. Again, whether it's you or with your family, if you'll step right in there, Pastor and Miss Rita have a special gift just for you, for you being a first time guest this morning. So if we have any guests here today, why don't you give them a great hand clap all of our home folk. Let's another welcome here this morning. Amen. Amen. Well, let's continue in a worship by giving in our tithes and offering this morning. Amen. It's great to be a giver in God's house. There are multiple ways that you can give. They're right here up on the screen. You can give whether you're watching via a line, you can give right there on the giving, click right there on the giving and then on the app too as well or you can grab an envelope here in service today. So if you have your all things, whether it's on your phone like I do or whether you have it physically, why don't you just hold it up in the air for me right now. Let's God ask God to bless it and multiply it this morning as he can do. Lord, we thank you to the Lord for every gift and giver this morning. Lord, I ask you to multiply it like you did the fish and the loaves. Multiply it this morning for the needs of your kingdom. Do what you want to do with it and we thank you for it in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Before we go into some announcements that you'll need to hear about, I'm ready to give away a Bible this morning. How many brought their Bible this morning? Hold it up. Let me see it. Let me see it. It's bring your Bible. You know, bring your Bible. I don't see every hand lifted but that's okay, share with your neighbor. Hold your neighbor's Bible up. Said, yeah, it's right here. It's right here. So mine's on the front row. That's why I don't have mine but it is on the front row, I promise. But I'm ready to give a Bible away this morning. So if you will kindly look under your seat, if there's a seat open next to you, look underneath that seat. There should be something taped under there. If you get that, I mean reach really far up under there. There should be a little piece of slip that has the word Bible underneath it. Look under every empty seat. Every empty seat. If you have it, let me know. Let me know. The word's at, I'm looking. So many has not looked under every seat. Really look very hard. Like literally put your hand all the way up under the seat. All the way like literally like all the way up under there. I mean, we're just gonna stay in here until somebody finds that piece of paper. It's somewhere up in those rises on this section over here. So all you guys are just sitting there. Look underneath your seat. All the empty seats in front of you. I mean, you find it. Find it. Somebody, you got it? You got it right there? Hey, Ben, if you'll give, give me that expository, that adult one. The adult one. Or Michael, run it. Whoever it is, hold it up. Who are you? Where you at? Right there. Right there. Come on, y'all give it a great big hand. Maybe I need to tape it like right there in front because I mean, it's a piece of paper. It's not that hard to find. But we're so glad that we were able to give that away this morning. So watch these important announcements, let you know what's coming up. Good morning. Thank you for joining us today. If this is your first visit to Pace Assembly, pastors Joey and Rita Rogers have a special gift just for you. As you leave service today, please visit Yes Central, located on your left as you exit through the foyer. Water baptism. It's scheduled for next Sunday, February 19th, following the morning service. If you desire to be baptized, please completely water baptismal info card and return today. Cards are available in the foyer. Carrie Crabbe will be with us next Sunday, February 19th at 10 a.m. And Jason Crabbe and Mickey Bell will be with us next Sunday night at 6 p.m. A love offering will be received at each service. Intut will hold their Valentine luncheon on Tuesday, February 21st. If you're 60 or older, make plans to meet us at Chedders at 11.30. Let us know you're coming by registering online or by calling the church office by February 20th. The Pace Young Adults are planning a lunch and game day for Sunday, February 26th, following the morning service. If you're a single adult between the ages of 18 and 30, join us for Firehouse Subs at the Pace Assembly Firehouse. Please register online so we can plan accordingly. The first annual James Mitchell softball tournament takes place Saturday, March 4th with a rain date of Sunday afternoon, March 5th. Information and registration are available online. Ladies, if you're looking for a bargain, come shop with us at the Marketplace. Saturday, March 11th, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Pace Assembly Gym. We've got brand new clothing, shoes, handbags and more. All proceeds go toward the Pace Assembly Building Fund. Mark your calendar for prophecy files with Eric Stacklebeck. Sunday, April 2nd at 6 p.m. Invite all your family and friends to be in this special service. Registration is now open for KidCon Kids Conference, taking place June 19th through June 22nd. Fearless Youth Conference is scheduled for July 18th through July 21st. Both these events will take place on the Pace Assembly Campus. Info and registration is available on the Pace Assembly website. Now, here's what's happening this week at Pace. Monday at 6 p.m., Men of Influence, Men's Bible Study. Tuesday, 7 p.m., Intercessory Prayer. Wednesday at 6 p.m., Ignite Student Ministries, grade six through 12, at 6 p.m., Royal Rangers and Impact, pre-K through grade five, at 7 p.m., Pastors Adult Bible Study. Thursday at 7 p.m., Most Excellent Way. 7 p.m., The Voices of Pace Rehearsal. If you thought about getting involved in the greatest choir around, join us at 7 p.m., There's Room for You. Saturday at 8 a.m., the Men's Breakfast guest speaker, David Phillips. Cost for the breakfast is $5 per person. Pay the day of the event. At 10 a.m., Pay Skid's Family Skate Day. Meet us at Weber Skate World in Milton. We're gonna have a great time. 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. If you're hungry for God, just slip your hands towards heaven and open your mouth and begin to give Him the praise that comes out of your mouth, out of your heart. If you need the Lord, open up your heart to Him right now. And begin to give Him the glory right out of your heart. We want you to move, Lord. We don't dictate that. We ask you to have your way. We need you now. We need you now. Need you now. Need Him in this place. Anybody watching online that need Him? Call upon the Lord. Show you great. He's waiting on somebody to call upon Him. We call upon you now, Lord, to have your way. If you've got a teenager, a young person that's standing in and around you, I want you to just reach over and gently lay your hand on them. This past week saw another tragedy in our community, and there is but one hope for young people who find themselves at a place of hopelessness. And that's not a church event. That's not a religious routine. It's not mom and dad who don't know which direction to go. It is us pointing them towards the one who gives hope and surround their life with so much of the presence and the word of God that no weapon formed against them shall be able to prosper. I want you to pray right now, and I want you to pray for families. 16-year-old girl that took her life right here at Pace High School this past week. Can you step in the gap this morning and intercede in the behalf of this family? You may not have children around you or someone you can touch, but would you lift up that family before the throne? Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, we don't know all the details. We don't need to know all the details. All we need to do is wrap up our children today and our grandchildren, and we say, Lord, come and let your presence hover upon their life. We pray whatever adversary that's tracking them, whatever enemy that's forming a weapon against them, we pray right now, God, that you'd step in and give them peace in their mind, hope in their heart, and assurance of your presence. We cover our children by the blood of Jesus Christ. I wish I had a group of people that knew how to plead the blood. My daddy used to plead the blood of Jesus over our lives, over our minds, over our hearts. Surround us like Joe's hedge and surround them right now. And we believe you right now, God, to send a mighty move of your spirit, a mighty revival into their soul. Awaken them. Awaken them to you, Lord. I pray that you would keep them in the very palm of your hand. In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus. Now everybody in this building lift your hands towards heaven and begin to open your mouth and worship him right now. Come on and just worship him right now. The spirit of the living God is in this place. He's right where you are. He's right where you are. Wherever there's a worshiper, he will come and inhabit the praises of his people. Lord, we praise you. Lord, we glorify your name. We glorify your name. We worship you, Jesus. You're the only true living God. I pray, God, that you would speak this morning. Speak, Lord, into our hearts, into our minds, into our spirit. We're not here on this planet by accident. We're not still alive just to have a place to occupy. We're here because you've brought us to the kingdom for such a time as this. So speak, Lord, into our hearts today. We give you glory, we give you praise. I want you to remain standing, please, and reach around and take your Bibles and turn with me to the book of Exodus. Thank you for praying continually for this family, those that are grieving in our congregation. I want you to lift up your prayers towards heaven every day for students in our community. I know that there's a lot of people that are hurting, a lot of faculty and staff that are doing their best to take care of the situation. But I'm telling you that the hope that this nation needs is found in Jesus Christ. And if we don't see that, the Bible says it like this, that if the righteous scarcely be saved, where will the sinner and the ungodly be? I want you to hear that. In other words, we can't just barely make it through. There's gotta be such a clear marker, a clear direction of the people of God. So convinced and so convicted that it's not just something we do on Sunday, but when we hit the door on our jobs or wherever it be on Monday, that the Lord has complete control of our life and no matter what's going on, we're ready to give the gospel, ready to give the love of Jesus Christ, ready to touch lives for the kingdom of God's sake. Can you say, man? I do not by any stretch of the imagination think that I am just preaching a sermon this morning. I believe these messages on the altar are timely and I believe this one is timely. There's a hunger that's going on in our nation and we've been so estranged from the word of God and illiterate of the word of God. And I mean that sincerely. Whole generations don't know of from a quarterback named Noah, okay? And I'm not saying that as an attack, I'm just saying it is what it is. And that indictment actually comes upon the previous generation. So there must be a reacquaintance with the word of God, with the very stories from the word of God. And that obligation, listen carefully to me, that obligation rests upon the previous generation to tell their sons and their daughters what the word of God has to say. Are you hearing me this morning? It rests upon you, mom and dad and grandparents to translate the truths of God's word into their life. There's a move of God that is happening in different locations. I, several years ago, I felt in my spirit that the Lord was dealing with me about what would happen. Sometimes we look for some sweeping revival to cover the world or to cover the United States, but what I sensed in my spirit, this was me. As the Lord was dealing with me, oasis and pockets of revival across our nation. And I want you to know that God doesn't reserve that for special people. He's just a special God who deposits where there is a hunger and a thirst that draws on heaven. Are you hearing what I'm saying? If you're not hungry or thirsty for it, not even your mama can cook a meal that can attract you. But if you're hungry and thirsty, the Bible says you shall be filled. So what we need is a revival in the land. And what we need is to pray and ask God in His sovereign hand to sit down where hunger and the need is at. As I speak today, as I speak today, since last Wednesday at Asbury College, a Wesleyan holiness college, students came into the normal chapel on Wednesday of last week, and they discovered that they came right into the room with the burning bush, the power and the presence of God. Suddenly when the service was over with, you can go online and check it out. It is literally blowing up online because students suddenly stayed in the chapel after the end of the chapel was supposed to be over. They have remained in the chapel 24 hours a day to this very moment, seeking the face of God and calling upon the Lord for a spiritual awakening. And you know what God's doing? He's meeting them there on that campus. They have suspended the classes, they have suspended all the normal activity. The faculty and the staff are bringing food and water into the chapel because the students are not seeking, searching for a class or a degree, nor are they looking for food or water. What their heart's desire is, boy I feel the push in my back this morning. What they're hungry for is what they didn't even know they were looking for. This is a generation who has no reference to something of the past. We can talk about revivals of the past, but this is not a reference point. This is a new beginning and a new thing and behold the Lord said I would do a new thing among you. And he's breathing into that college. So from all around the country, the Nazarenes are getting on buses and driving to the college today. They're arriving there to worship and to seek the Lord who is invisible. Not a statue, not a personality, without a preacher calling an altar call, without a diva singer singing a song. They're on their faces before God seeking the Lord and God is meeting them there. Search us out, find us where we... Come on, let me hear your voices this morning. I need to hear your voices. God needs to hear your voices. Ladies and gentlemen, before there is a move in heaven, there's gotta be a move on the earth. And they were all gathered in the upper room and they begin to seek the Lord and they begin to call on the Lord right there in one mind and in one accord. And suddenly heaven moved on their behalf. Suddenly heaven moved on their behalf. Friends, we don't need an encounter with church and we don't need an encounter with our social group. What we need is an encounter with God. We need an encounter with God. We need an encounter with God. We need an encounter. We need an encounter with you, Lord. We need an encounter with you today, Lord. God speak to our hearts. Speak to our hearts today, God. Speak to our hearts today. Do you realize how urgent the hour is, ladies and gentlemen? Do you realize it? We must be a people who can hear the voice of God at any moment, at any time. Are you hearing me? I believe that God is wanting to move and he'll move wherever people are hungry and thirsty for him. Friday night, Rita and I traveled Friday up to Birmingham, north of Birmingham and preached for Pastor Donnie and Carrie Sanders at the Christ's Way Church of God. When we arrived at the church a little after 6.30, the congregation was already on their face about 150 on a Friday night, laid out on their face in prayer and calling upon the Lord, their pastors. Even today are suffering with COVID. They were not even able to be in the service. But because he's a man of God, he said, this thing's not about me, this is about a move of God for my church. And there was such a hunger, a kindred spirit that I feel here this morning as there was Friday night for people that are sick and tired of religious forums, but they want an encounter personally with the burning bush of God. And so it wasn't hard to preach. I just gave what the Lord said and suddenly the room as they prayed and saw the Lord, the Spirit of God came down in a powerful way. A prayer line around the corner of that church, everybody prayed for and a spiritual renewal taking place. I'm finding that in pockets around our country. So let me say this, don't speak against revival. If it's of the Lord, the Bible says it will remain. If it's not, it will fly by as a trend as a fad. Did you hear me? And I promise you that the next one that I see coming is not gonna be based upon somebody's three-day road show that showed up into town. This one at Ashbury has no leader to it. Let me just tell you, the only leader at Azusa Street was a African-American pastor by the name of William Seymour, whom most of the time had his head stuck into an apple crate and humbly calling upon the Lord as God rained fire down at Azusa Street. Well, we're not at Azusa Street anymore and the building at Azusa Street only has a plaque that's there to say this is where it was at one time. We can't go back. I appreciate what's happened, but what we need and what God knows we need is a move today in the year of our Lord 2023. If you agree with that this morning, shout a great big amen somebody. In your Bibles in the book of Exodus chapter 17, this is an extensive reading. If you've got your Bible, I hope you brought your real Bible. If you didn't, you're forgiven today and today only. The Bible reads like this, follow with me in verse one and all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of sin. Isn't that something? After their journeys according to the commandment of the Lord and pitched in Refedem, there was no water for the people to drink. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses and said, give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, why chide ye with me? Wherefore do you tempt the Lord? The people thirsted there for water and the people murmured against Moses and said, wherefore is this that thou has brought us up out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst? Moses cried unto the Lord saying, what shall I do unto this people? They'd be almost ready to stone me. The Lord said unto Moses, go on there before the people. Go before the people. And take with thee the elders of Israel and thy rod. Wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand and go, behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock of Horib. Thou shalt smite the rock, there shall come out, there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel and he called the name of the place Massa and Meraba because of the chiding of the children of Israel and because they tempted the Lord saying, is the Lord among us or not? Verse eight is where I'm gonna zero in. Then came Amalek and fought with Israel in Rephidim. Moses said unto Joshua, choose us out men and go fight, go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand. So Joshua did as Moses had said to him and fought with Amalek and Moses, Aaron and her went up to the top of the hill. And it came to pass when Moses held up his hand that Israel prevailed. And when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands were heavy and they took a stone and put it under him and he sat there on and Aaron and her stayed up his hands. The one on the one side and the one other on the other side. And his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. That phrase is interesting in the Jewish text until the coming of the sun. You missed a good place. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. And the Lord said unto Moses write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua. For I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven. And Moses built an altar and called the name of it Jehovah Nisi. For he said because the Lord had sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation. May God add the blessing to his word today. I wanna talk to you for a few moments about Moses' altar. I believe God's gonna speak to our heart. Come on, lift your hands with me, Father. Thank you for everything that you've done, everything that you're doing. And I pray that you would open up our ears to hear what the Spirit would say today. Not what I say, but what the Spirit would say. And Lord, we give you the glory in advance in Jesus' mighty name. And everybody shouted a great big amen. You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. I don't believe that I'm in this pulpit with this particular word today by accident. And so today we bring you this message about Moses' altar. Last week we learned of Abraham's altar and the sacrifice that was necessary. That being a type and shadow of Jesus Christ. You can rest assure each one of these messages on the altar and there's a whole lot more altars than what I will get to. Each one of them are foreshadowing and speaking forth of the coming Messiah and his sacrifice and the victory that he will have and did have at Calvary. I'm concerned that many people are amazed that the Christian life somehow is exclusive of the battles that we face. We as believers will face battles and blessings. You've been the recipient of blessings and many of you and I too have been in battles in the name of the Lord. You will never really know your God outside of trouble. It takes trouble to show you who you are and to show you who your God really is. We found out during our recent shutdowns that we found that many people did not serve the same God for their faith went by the side of the road. So much preaching and teaching today centers around the path of least resistance. In other words, it doesn't prepare us for what the Bible lets us know is warfare in our Christian walk. When God wants to increase our faith for the journey because he knows what is ahead, the Holy Spirit will do what he did with Jesus and lead us into the wilderness on purpose to experience another level of the glory of God. And so it is the trying of our faith, the Bible says, that works patience. The trying of our faith. Expect your faith to go on trial if you're gonna have patience and patience will give way to experience and experience will give way to hope. Faith that will be built in that moment of trying and testing is a faith that will last. Why is that so important? Because there's so many voices that are speaking into our heads today from news and every other expert in the world. And what we need is not another word from the social media group of people. What we need is to hear the word of faith that builds and encourages us to keep on believing God in spite of what it looks like. I promise you, the enemy to your faith is your physical eyesight. What you see does damage to your faith. Faith, my dear friends, is not believing it because I see it. Faith is believing it because God's word said it and it shall come to pass just like he said. Faith that stands the test. Faith that the Bible says in Ephesians 6 makes you strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. Anybody can opt out. And we have a lot of opt outers. People that when it gets heated, when it gets into pressure, when you have to bury a loved one, when you have to deal with a child situation, when you have to go through what you have to go through, many people wanna say where is God and they opt out of their faith. But ladies and gentlemen, I wanna encourage you this morning to stay with the test through the wilderness. Rita and I were talking about this yesterday, coming back home that many people want titles but they don't want the process. And you can have a title but the moment you get into the heat of the battle, you'll be ready to burn that diploma and title because you don't have what it takes. You didn't walk through what it took to be able to endure the process and to win the victory. There's a level of maturity that God is looking for out of us. And the blessing that is on the other side of your obedience is awaiting you. The thing that gets in the middle of all of it many times is what we see Israel doing time and again, murmuring and complaining, murmuring and complaining, and that is a sign of immaturity. But God will use the wilderness experience in each one of our lives to mature you as a believer, to train you. Please don't put me on the job before I'm ready to do it. Please don't give me the title before I'm ready to do it. I don't want the blessing before I love the blesser. Please don't make me climb the pole with 72,000 volts of electricity and not train me how to handle that situation. Please don't call me a pastor if I've never had sheep bite me before. Everybody wants a title. But I found out in my years of ministry that sheep have teeth. They're not big, but boy, they can create a sore on your leg. The trial, the test is actually profitable for you. It gains you a testimony. If you're writing something down, you might wanna remember this. Never throw away your old testimony. You're gonna need it again. Some people may not like to hear it over and over again, but whatever you do, don't throw it away and act like that was for then. I'm telling you there's gonna come a time when you gotta tell that story to yourself again and again and again to encourage yourself in the Lord. Because your last trial was for the one you're in right now. And I've come to this pulpit this morning with this assignment. Because many people don't realize what's going on, even Christians. And I speak to Christians. The world, they're oblivious to it. But we are in, and I want you to hear this because this is the crux of the message this morning. Spiritual warfare is increasing like never before. And we are in the middle of spiritual warfare right now. The dichotomy of that looks like this. According to the book of Ephesians chapter six verse 12 that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers and rulers of darkness in high places. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, that there is a spiritual battle going on above your head in the heavenlies. And there's a battle that's going on that you're touching every day of your life. The pendulum swing of that in our society, I've just spoken to you about one at Asbury College where from out of nowhere, the Holy Ghost steps in and disrupts everything of their order that they've known. And the power and the presence of God is renewing the lives of people there without a doubt. But the pendulum swing goes all the way to the Grammys where we have a celebrated satanic worship for everybody to look at. And now we're wondering what's going on when it's been there all along. I want you to see what I'm saying to you that the goodness of God and the revival fire of God has been there all along and the unholy satanic evil of this world is there all along. There is a battle that's been going on since the dawn of time between these two forces of good and evil, God and Satan. And right in the middle of it is every person who claims themselves to be a believer, a Christian. America and the world are living in such a perilous time right now. The Bible describes it. We're living in a time when people don't know what to do and where to turn. We don't know if there's a blue or not. We don't know where to turn and what to do. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Now long before, listen to me carefully, long before that shows up in the physical, it has already happened in the spiritual realm. And I don't have time to this morning to preach to you all about spiritual warfare. That's another subject in combination with this, but when we're looking at the scripture in Exodus 17 and in chapter number 16, previous verses, we find that Israel has been delivered by Moses, the deliverer, the type of Christ in the Old Testament and he comes and brings them out of Egypt. That's a type of salvation. I want you to know these types and symbols are important for us because what happens in the Old Testament physical reveals the New Testament spiritual. The battles that we see in the Old Testament are revealing themselves to us in the spiritual realm of the same type of battles we're facing today. Moses calls the children of Israel out of Egypt out of Pharaoh's hand and leads them out into the wilderness and God teaches them lessons in the wilderness. The first lesson they learn is when they get to the Red Sea, Moses by the order of God takes the rod that he had in his hand and says, God tells him lift this rod over the Red Sea and he said, behold the salvation of the Lord and the first lesson they learn is that God is a deliverer, God is our salvation. And the sea rolls back at the blast, the Bible says, of God's nostrils and they walk across on dry ground. They get to the other side and there becomes a worship team that gets together. They haven't had any practice, they haven't had anybody say anything to them about singing in tune or attitude. They grab a tambourine and Maryam cranks off and they begin to sing the deliverance song because for the first time in over 400 years they have seen not a man's hand but the hand of the almighty God deliver them. They march on through the wilderness to find out that they got hungry out there. There was no publics, there was no Walmart, no 7-Eleven. They said, Moses, we're hungry, feed us. Murmuring and complaining against Moses and the next lesson they learn is that God will supply all of their needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. God goes to, Moses goes to God and calls down flesh to fly through the air in quail. They reach out and grab it. Manna that falls at the very door of their tent and there to reach out and give us this day our daily bread and they learn that God is there every provision. He is their provider. By the time we get to Exodus chapter 17 they're murmuring because they've got flesh, they got manna but we're thirsty, we need some water. What's wrong with you, Moses? You brought us out here, you led us into this church service and now we're thirsty. You brought us out here to die. Why didn't you? Now I'm gonna tell you, some days God got upset with the Hebrews and some days Moses got upset with the Hebrews but they should thank God to this day and so should you that God and Moses didn't get together on the same day and be mad at the children of Israel because one of them talks the other way and come on, right on out of what judgment could have come. They started chiding on Pastor Moses. Nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh. It's too high, it's too cold. We're thirsty, I need somebody to fan me. You're too loud, you preach too long. We don't like it, nyeh, nyeh, nyeh. Chiding on Moses. Now you gotta be a pastor to feel what Moses was feeling because that rod, I'm trying to be easy. Y'all pray for me. See Moses was human and so am I and they chided on him, they said give us something to drink and he says, God, what am I supposed to do? They're almost, they're almost be ready to stone me. You know they had an urban dictionary back there in the day, in the King Jane. They're almost be ready to stone. Do it with these people. I gave them everything, supplied it, what are they gonna do? Give them some water, Moses. But it won't be you doing it. Take that rod, go over to this rock and smite the rock. Later on we'll find out that Moses smites the rock again but because the rock is a type of Christ and would only be smoked one time, that's the reason why Moses didn't go into the promised land. Y'all stay with me, I'm gonna try to teach you something here this morning. So Moses smites the rock and what do you know? Just like God said, water comes gushing out of the rock. Not a little trickle. I can assure you that pace, water system, Milton water system, East Milton water system, Pensacola could not compare to the amount of water gushing out of the rock to meet everybody's need all at the same time. God says, smite the rock, here comes the water. The lesson reveals that God is the living water that's gonna take care of everything that will never run dry. How do you know that it never ran dry? This is the rock that was smitten like Christ according to the book of 1 Corinthians 10 and four and all did drink, speaking of the Hebrews, all did drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ. The rock had legs. I don't know how you get around it, the rock moved when the children of Israel moved because he wasn't gonna let any other rock supply that need. Only that rock, that rock is Jesus, yes, he's the one. This rock is Jesus, the only one. Be very sure, be very sure your anchor holds and grips the solid rock. Ladies and gentlemen, if you drink of that good living water today, it will not come from a world's rock or it won't come from a denominational rock. That rock is none other than Christ that can satisfy and quench every thirst you ever had. So there they are. He meets that need, God meets the need and shows them that he's the living water and it's a place that they identify in scripture as refodem. It is defined as a resting place. It's a place where they've gotten some meat and they've got some bread and they've got some water now and they're comforted. They're in a place where they can cool off and get some fresh water and that's wonderful but Moses calls it Massa and Meraba. He said this is a place of testing and a place of contention because these Hebrews said to God in an arrogant pride-filled way, are you God among us or not? I know you would never say that but after 9-11 people were saying, are you God, where was God? And in the atmosphere we're in right now, even Christian people are asking God, are you around us, are you among us or not? I came to tell you that God is not only among us but he is walking in this place by his spirit and if you'll just make a move towards him, he'll be moving towards you too. God supplying all of our needs according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus and yet the people of God tempted God and in verse number eight is where we leap off of the page into a whole breaking of the story. Up to this point, here they are resting and drinking in that living water enjoying the blessings of God and the Bible says in verse eight, then cometh amalek, amalek. It is a type of Satan, this tribe is. It's a type of the flesh that we wrestle with every day but from the Jewish context, it is the personification of evil. It is evil that steps in at this moment and God said I will be at war with that evil until the day I come and eradicate it. Up to this point in the scripture, Israel had not had to fight. The Bible says in Exodus 13, 17 that the Lord fought all of their battles for them but now the Lord is choosing. Hear what I'm telling you. The Lord is choosing for the people of God now to fight and God would fight through them. Israel had been delivered from Egypt's bondage, a type of salvation and deliverance, but God's people were always and this is the revealing for us today would always have that fight with the battle of the flesh. What I call for you, not just spiritual warfare against the devil but even the warfare of what's going on on the inside of every one of us every day. After salvation, it's a wonderful refreshing of the infusion of the water of the Holy Spirit into our life but you can rest assured that the day you give your life to Jesus Christ, the battle is on, the fight is on. How many of you understand what I'm saying? Wave your hand at me. Now for those of you that claim to be saved and say that you've fought no battles, I've got no trouble with the devil, you better check which sides you're on because God and Satan are not on the same side and you better know which God you're serving because if there is no battle going on, there's no spiritual warfare, you can better check yourself. You better realize what's happening. Something is not right because the scripture gives us an outline of another lesson that the children of Israel are learning the spiritual and physical warfare that's going on. These Amlicites are the descendants of Esau, Jacob being his brother and they've been fighting each other from birth even to the day we're in right now. The Bible said then cometh Amalek. Then cometh Amalek, it's a brand new era and period in the life of Israel because this is the first time in scripture that we find that Israel has to go in hand to hand combat against their enemies face to face and God was going to teach them how to war and how to win. Today I'm gonna teach you how to war and how to win. I didn't say concede, I didn't say tie, I didn't say give up and lose, I'm teaching you today from the word of God, how to war and how to win. God has no contingent plan in the Bible for those that are losers or those that are gonna give up to every person that overcomes to him that over cometh, to him that over cometh. God's intent for you is to be an overcomer through Christ Jesus who strengthened you. So today I'm shaking this house and those of you online to tell you, you're not a loser, you're a winner if you'll choose the side of the Lord. And so God is gonna teach them how to war and how to win. And I'm gonna tell you it's tough when God said I hate Amalek. The Bible said God hated Amalek, why? Because about the time, just about the time that Israel got themselves a refreshing, cool drink of water and got their strength back, then cometh Amalek. Suddenly they came attacking, how did Amalek attack from behind? I see this in this pandemic of COVID for they would attack Israel from behind and they didn't just attack everybody. They would attack the handicap, the old, the young and those that were infirmed, those that were weak. This is the warfare that we are seeing in our nation and in our world right now. The attack of those who may be falling behind and suddenly they're trampled on by Amalek. God said I hate Amalek, but it's even more than that. In the Jewish texts of Ezekiel or Exodus 17 and 16, the Bible says this in the Jewish texts because their hand, Amalek's hand, was against the throne of God. In other words, it wasn't even about the people. Amalek's intent in their spirit of evil, satanic kind of operation is to come against the very throne of God. You're talking about Satan coming against the throne of God because they put their hand towards the throne of God. God said I hate them and I will be at war with them from generation to generation. I came to tell you this morning, ladies and gentlemen, that from now to the coming of the Lord, you can expect after salvation. You can expect after a blessing. You can expect as you're walking with the Lord, minding your own business. You can expect if a revival sweeps through here and slays everybody in the house. You can expect after a little flow of water, after an anointing that has rested upon you and your life has changed. You can expect that old spirit of Amalek to come up and try to steal and hit your family and hit your children and the young and the old and cause them to commit suicide. Ladies and gentlemen, we are at war and God said the violent will take it by force in the kingdom of God. You may not like that kind of side of God, but can I tell you God said he told David he's teaching my hands to war. You better teach your hands to war, but remember it's not flesh and blood. Don't go out and suck somebody in the mouth. That's not where the battle is. Don't go over and blame your spouse because your marriage is the way it is. Don't go blame the preacher and child on the preacher or child on somebody on your boss, on your job. Ladies and gentlemen, this battle is not in flesh and blood. This is in spiritual warfare in high places. Why do you think they're having such trouble with balloons in high places? I'll tell you why. It ain't about China. It's not about our government. God is showing us a spiritual portrait right here to let us know that our battle is not down here. Our battle is in the heavenlies and God has already won that war. I tell you, I think I'm about ready to preach. Is there anybody in the house? He said Moses, Moses, listen, you're not going out to fight like other times. This time, this time I want you to tell Joshua. I want you to tell Joshua to get chosen men. Don't just give me anybody, give me some chosen men. I want to know around this building, have I got any chosen men inside of this house today? I want all the chosen men to stand up on your feet right now. Get up, get up, get up, get up. Get up, get up, get up. Give me some men that know how to fight. Give me some men that won't shove it off to your wife. Give me some men that won't shove your children's discipline off to your wife. Give me some men that will arise and take hold of the battle and say, the battle is not mine, but the battle is the Lord's and I'm not gonna, come on, me and make some noise in this house. But high five and tell him we're about to go to war. Moses, you're not going down in the valley. Moses, you're going up to the mountain. Give me some chosen men. Before I go too far, all you men that stood up, now you're gonna have to put up or shut up. Now your wife knows you stood up and acted like you was something, something and now they're gonna be saying, okay, I know what happened yesterday and you're getting a new start. I'll give you some mercy today, but there better be a difference on Monday. Don't come up in here acting limp-wristed and saying I'm gonna do something. No, no, no, you better stand up. Listen, in Islam, they'll put the wives and the children out front and shoot at them first. The devil is a liar. Let the man arise and let his enemies be scattered. Moses, you're too valuable to go down there in that. I'm gonna show the children of Israel the example of spiritual warfare in Exodus 17. This, my friend, is the fight that we're in right now. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Moses, you choose out. You let Joshua choose out. Some chosen men to go into this battle, but I want you to go up on the mountain. Come here, Pastor Victor. I need the tallest guy in the room. Today, you're not Victor. Today, you're Moses. Stand right over there, Moses. You don't have to talk. I got Aaron, that's me. I want you to take that rod and get up to the top of the mountain. And come here, Joshua. I want you to get the sword and get you some chosen men. Come here, Joe. Get right down here in the valley. Come here, Joe. Come here. That's you. Right over there. Come here, young man. Come on, quick. Come on, quick. Come on, I need some mighty young men. Come on, somebody. There's some mighty men that's gonna fight in the valley. Moses, you go up to the mountain. Look at the spiritual warfare. Moses, you go up to the mountain with the rod. Oh, what's that rod made of? Wood. With the rod of... Now, I don't know exactly how he held it, but I know that he didn't hold it like this because when he raised it, ha te beke si. Ladies and gentlemen, you find in the wood that's raised above Moses' head a type and shadow of the cross of Jesus Christ that he took up to the top of the mountain. Down in the valley is fighting Joshua with his strong and chosen men to do this. Let me tell you something. If I had to go into battle today, don't give me somebody who's afraid. Don't give me somebody who's gonna make excuses. Well, pastor, I can't be there. I can't do this. Let me tell you something, my dear friend. This is not a time for cowards in the service of the Lord. Wherever you are, you better set your fortress up and fight like a man. Be quick like a quick man, the Bible said like a strong and mighty man. So the Bible says that he sent Moses up to the top with a rod of God in his hand. He sent Joshua down to the valley with the chosen men, with a sword in his hand. Raise the sword. I hope you understand in the spiritual realm, the sword is not a physical sword. I got six of you. A sword is not a physical sword. If you're gonna fight in this battle, the weapons of your warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imagination. Everything you're thinking about it, you throw it to the ground and bring it subject and obedient to the word of Almighty God. He says in Ephesians 6 that the sword is the sword of the spirit, the sword of the word of God. Ladies and gentlemen, every victory that you will ever have will be found between the pages of the holy writ of God. And if you'll search the scripture, he has an answer on how to raise your children, how to take care of your money, how to heal your body, everything, everything is found in the word of God. Somebody ought to thank God for the word of God. As long as Moses' hands were lifted up on the mountain, the enemy was defeated in the valley. When he lowered his hands on the mountain, the enemy began to prevail in the valley. Now you're seeing the teamwork. Pastor, I don't know what time the prayer team meets on Tuesday night, but the prayer team knows how much you need prayer. So they're praying for the service right now. They're praying, they prayed for the anointing upon the prayer clause that you're getting because there's a team effort in this thing. Moses' hands were up, Joshua's hands were on. And here's a couple of guys named Erin and her. Erin and her were watching the relationship between what was happening in the valley and what was happening in the mountain. And they correlated it somehow to say, whenever he drops his hands, they start losing. But whenever he raises his hands, they start winning. Something's going on here. Moses, Moses gets tired in his physical body. He's fighting the battle up on the mountain, raising the rod. But these two guys say, what's happening up there and what's happening down here, there is a connection to that. In other words, Moses is doing more on the mountain without a sword than Joshua is doing in the valley with a weapon in his hand. And suddenly, come here, Ben. Come here, Pastor Rod. Run up here to Moses. Here comes Erin, a type of the priesthood, a type of Christ. And here comes another guy named her, not H-E-R, H-U-R. Hers name means light, a type of the Holy Ghost. So now you've got Christ with the wood in his hand and you got a type of the priesthood and you got a type and shadow of the Holy Ghost. And the Bible says that Jesus, even now, even right here at 1137 on this Sunday morning, Jesus and the Holy Ghost are making intercession before the throne of God in your behalf right now. I came to tell you, you got more help than you think you do. Quit looking around for somebody else. God's already sent the support system called the Holy Ghost and none other than Jesus Christ, our great high priest, whoever live it to make intercession for you. I came to tell you there's a battle going on in the physical. There's a battle going on in the spiritual, but greater is he that is in me. Somebody shout and give him glory this morning. Stay with me, fellas likewise. According to the book of Romans chapter 8, 26, likewise the spirit also help with our infirmity, helps our weaknesses, for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the spirit itself make intercession for us with groanings that cannot be uttered. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I wanna let you know something. Without a shepherd, the sheep are scattered and I've seen pastors and shepherds that have been shot at from every angle and they're quitting by the thousands every week. Am I right about it, Pastor Rob? You know exactly what I'm talking about. It's happening every week and what's happening? Churches are closing and the sheep are scattering. Wait a minute. Are we living in the last days or not? Are we living in perilous times or not? Come on, Pace Assembly. I'm not talking about somebody else's church. I'm talking about this one that you've heard in the Bible prophecy and the true word of God that the rapture is imminent even over our head. And ladies and gentlemen, this is not a time to lay down your sword and it's not a time to drop your hands. It's time for you to arise to the occasion and get engaged in the battle. They said the battle is lasting too long. We gotta do something. We gotta do something. So they grabbed a stone out of all the things they could have grabbed. They grabbed a stone. Yeah, they did. They got that rock. Don't sit on it too hard, Moses. But he rested his weight upon the stone. That's right. That's the way to go, bro. What are y'all doing? You're supposed to be fighting down here. Don't laugh at the leader. What does he do? Out of all the things he could have sat on, God said, sit him down on the rock. Oh, I wonder if that was the same rock that had been following them in the wilderness that had gushed out water. And they said, we can count on that rock. Ladies and gentlemen, I know what's happening in the world, but I also know that there's a rock, Hallelujah. His name is Jesus. And that rock is steadfast and unmovable in the time we're in. Sat him down on the rock, his arms got tired, and they knew what to do. The Holy Ghost and Christ himself raised in those arms up to let him know we got you covered. And as long as the victory was won on the mountain, the victory was won in the valley. They said, if it takes all night, it will be all right. We're set up for it now. He not having to stand on his own two feet because it wasn't him that got the victory anyway. This is the Lord's victory. Come on somebody. And they sat him down on the rock and they said, ever how long it takes, we're gonna stay here until the battle is over. Ladies and gentlemen, don't give up now. It's a spiritual battle that's already been won. Shout, yes, somebody. If you get this lesson in spiritual warfare, the devil, Amalak will never be able to defeat you. This is the first occasion of them running into Amalak. I'm almost done. Hang in Moses. God said I will be at war with Amalak from generation to generation. What do we see unfolding here quickly? This same tribe of Amalak, this evil would show up again and again. Some of you met that same evil of Amalak this past week. Some of that as Amalak waiting on you to get into this next week yourself. The Bible says in Numbers chapter 14 that they came along. Amalak did and smote Israel. The next time we see him in 1 Samuel 15, there's Saul who's been instructed by God through the prophet, Samuel, kill everything of Amalak. He's supposed to be annihilated and what does Saul do? He keeps King Agag and a few of the precious things and some of the good goats of the tribes of Amalak and the next thing you know, Amalak is still alive. Some of you got problems when you read the Old Testament scripture, when you find out that God commanded him to wipe out everything. Jezebel's seed, wipe it out. Amalak, wipe it out. You know why? Because if there's still a little seed of sin that can get on the inside of you and grow up another generation, it'll do it. So you gotta kill it while you got the anointing to do it. Well, I feel something in this house this morning. Did you hear what I said? You gotta kill that thing while you got the anointing to do it when you're in a holy ghost service and the anointing of God is all around. That's the time to put it to death. Praise him right now. You know what I'm talking about because Saul would not put Amalak to death. There they are, hearing the bleeding of the lambs and the goats. And then Amalak comes along because he wasn't killed like he should have been. He comes along when David and the mighty men are out there fighting in battle and Amalak comes up to Zyglag where, watch this, where David and all the other mighty men's wives and children were. What do we got now? We got a messed up world. We got Supreme Court people and all that that don't know a man from a woman. Come on, somebody. What's that all about? I'm telling you, it's the confusion of Amalak that's trying to confuse the gender and everything else under the sun. Whenever David arrives to Zyglag, he smells the smoke of the fire and finds out that his wives and children have been taken captive by Amalak. Then the people of God, the strong men turn around on David and say, it's your fault. We're ready to kill you. But David encouraged himself in the Lord. Oh, come on, somebody. I said, David encouraged himself in the Lord. You flip over to 1st Chronicles chapter four and you'll find that the Amalak is back again fighting against the sons of Simeon, Dearing Hezekiah's reign. And he fights against Amalak, these sons of Simeon do, and they wipe out Amalak. But here what I'm telling you, just because you wiped something out physically don't mean it's not spiritually alive. That's the reason why you gotta be alert in the time that we're in. And letting little stuff come into your house and all kind of junk come into your house. And the next thing you know, you've got loud of spirit to get inside of your house and your children don't know what to do with it. You might know what to do with it, but your children and your little children don't know what to do with it. Ladies and gentlemen, you better draw a line in the sand against Amalak, because we see Amalak's spirit rise again. What happened? He rises in the heart and life of Haman. And in the book of Esther, we have the story of that ancient, ancient spirit of Amalak. Let me go a little further. Haman was an Amalakite. It wasn't an accident that he wanted to kill all the Jews. Have you seen what's going on with the anti-Semitism and the attacks against Christianity where a man cannot walk down the mall with a shirt that says Jesus on it? Let me tell you something, my dear friends. If I can raise up enough money, I'm gonna put more billboards around this town that's got Jesus' name in the biggest letters we can find, because the only hope for peace, the only hope for Pensacola, and the only hope for the world is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Somebody shout, Jesus. I'm almost done. Esther chapter number three, that same old evil spirit of Amalak comes up behind and says we're gonna take out the Jews. Now I want you to see this. And we know, if you may not know the story, but Haman was hung on the same gallows that he made. He is the epitome in the Old Testament of the greatest anti-Semite that there is. Haman, what happened? I want you to see this. There is every day in your life as a believer a physical fight that's going on, and there is a spiritual fight. You and I are fighting on two levels at the same time. Y'all still with me? You're fighting on two levels at the same time. Some of you haven't understood. I don't know what got into that person. I don't know what happened with that person. I'll tell you what happened. All up in the spiritual world. Something went haywire because we get all excited about the blessings of the water coming and we forget that there's another battle coming. And I've got to have something happening up in the heavenlies in prayer and in intercession. That's what the Jewish people saw. They saw Moses interceding. While he prayed, they fought. While he prayed, they fought. And while they fought, he prayed. And as long as those arms were up. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I came to tell you, help me, help me, there it is. Right there, standing before you. Here's Moses, he's lifting his hands and what are we getting a picture of? None other than Jesus Christ and Him crucified. As long as Jesus hands are uplifted, there is victory in every valley. Let me tell you this and I'm done. The Bible says God said this. Thank you guys. They did a good job. Come on, give them a nice round. I wanted to show you that because if you don't see the physical of that, you won't engage the spiritual in the physical. There's something for you to do in the valley and there's something for you to do on the mountain. Hear me? And there's going to be times in spiritual warfare that you'll occupy the mountain with the rod and sometimes you're gonna be down in the valley fighting a physical battle. Come on somebody, somebody get a diagnosis. They said cancer and there you are down there and your mind is going crazy and you don't know what to do and should I do this and should I do that? But I came to tell you while you're down in the valley fighting all those thoughts, there is on top of the mountain the God of heaven and the saints of God that are interceding in your behalf. And God said I will be at war with Amalek from generation to generation. Hear me? God said I will be at war with Amalek, not you. Why pastor? Because the battle is not yours. The battle is the Lord. I said the battle, well then pastor why I gotta fight it in the middle of the valley? Because it's in the valley ladies and gentlemen where our faith and our confidence is placed more and more in him who holds up the cross by his own hand. Nobody helped him. He hung up on that cross nailed up for our sins, for our deliverance, for our healing. Are you hearing me? It was Christ and Christ alone. I will be at war with Amalek but not with you. If you get this principle this morning, what's the principle pastor? Here's the principle. You'll never be defeated again. You don't believe it, I had two amen. Here you are fighting in the valley, fighting the thoughts that are hitting your head on a daily basis, fighting here on your job, here you are, you're trying to do your own business and make your own living and all that kind of stuff and what do you know I gotta contend with this and this and this and somebody else's attitude and all that's going on and I don't understand why in the world they're mad at me today and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, murmur, complain. You need to open your eyes to the reality of what's going on and see it for what it is. I want you to know something that all that's taking place with the suicides and things like that, that's not down here on earth. It's happening physically but it's happening more in the spiritual realm with the darkness and the evil that is in the heavenlies today. So what have I got to do? I gotta get my eyes off of all this that's going on down here. Give me that thing. I gotta get my eyes off of all that's going on down here because if all I see is enemy after enemy after enemy, I'll get tired and I'll get worn out but I came to tell you it's not about all that's going on down here, if I will lift my eyes under the hills from whence come with my help and keep my eyes lifted on Jesus, I said you gotta keep your eyes on Jesus. Pastor, I've been watching that balloon. Get your eyes on Jesus. Pastor, I've been watching people. Get your eyes on Jesus. I've been watching preachers. Get your eyes on Jesus. A pair of that Asbury College, nobody started the service. The singers have been playing and they just trade out. Nobody's jealous because the power of God's got them all laid out. They just singing whatever's coming into their spirit. You know why? Cause it ain't about me. This battle is over that evil Amalek that's trying to take me down but I came to tell you as long as Jesus is Lord, you and I will always have the victory. So I conclude my message today by telling you that whenever Joshua disconfideth, I love that word, laid them out. Come on somebody. Some of you are too nice in fighting. Let me just tell you something. I was, I know it's hard for you to believe but I was a much thinner young man in my middle school and high school day. A strong wind would blow me over. I had somebody come up and pick fights with me. My own cousin, he might even be watching this more. My own cousin threw me down in the dirt at the elementary school. He's bigger, he's always been bigger than me. It's not about who's big. Some of you are fighting too cute. I want you to know the devil don't fight fair. I said the devil don't fight fair. You're trying to fight it by convenience. You're trying to fight the battle when everything is just right but I want you to know when you fight the battle with the devil you better go for the gusto. That's the reason why I didn't ask nobody what was the rules? What was the rules of engagement? Are you kidding me? I will claw your eyeballs out, bite your tongue off and kick you in the knee. Anything and everything I got, I'm using everything I got because when it's all said and done I will rise and be alive. I will not let Amalette prevail in my house. So Moses, Moses, Moses, Moses, Moses. Moses tells Joshua now that the battle has been won. It's time to mark it down. Ladies and gentlemen, listen too many times we get in the middle of the battle and we walk away with our victory and we forget what God did for us but that's why the altar is here because God said, Moses, I want you to make a memorial. I want you to build an altar so that people in the future, I'm not just talking about Israel and the Hebrews and the wilderness. I'm not just talking about David at Zigg lag or Saul and Samuel. I'm not just talking about when Haman hung himself. I want you to let it be written down, not just in a book. That's a poor translation. The translation actually reads, Moses, write it down in the book. Where am I book? Look at here, you and I just read from the writings of Moses, the man of God and God said, write it down in the book. Write down for a remembrance and build an altar in this place. What do you want me to call it, God? I want you to call it this. I want you to call it Jehovah Nisi, the Lord our banner, hallelujah. And when the banner is waved, the battle is over. When the battle is waved, the battle is over. I came to tell you the enemy's afraid and running right now because I will cling to the old rugged cross. It is my banner of victory. Jehovah Nisi, the Lord, I shout, yeah, on your feet. Look at somebody and tell them, look up. Come on, punch about five people and tell them, look up. Tell them, look up. Tell them, look up, look up, look up. Don't look down. The battle is not gonna be won with you down. Look up, look up under the heaven, look under the rock that is higher than I. Look under the hills from whence come at your help. Look up to Jesus, the author and the finisher of your faith. Look at somebody, tell them, look up, man. You're looking around. You're looking around and you're getting discouraged. You're looking down and you're being depressed. And it is a spiritual battle. God did not give you the spirit of fear, but power ate of the sudden flinches of the enemy. God sitting on the mountain with his hands raised up to let you know I've got this battle already won. Where'd he win it at? He's gonna be at war with him from generation to generation. But as long as sometimes you just gotta sing it as long as Moses hands are lifted up. As long as Jesus is lifted up. I don't think you're reading the Bible like I read the Bible. He said, he said, if I even I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me. What is it that you're fighting down here? Look up and see the victory of God. My faith is in Jesus Christ and crucified. You know what that means church? I don't lose battles. I've already won it. How many of you would say this morning, pastor? I see now I've been fighting a spiritual battle. Let me see your hand. I want you to put me some music in here. And as soon as he strikes the first chord, I wanna pray with you around this altar for the battles you're facing. Today we're gonna win the victory because we're gonna look up everybody that's in a spiritual battle. Get to this altar right now in the name of Jesus. Shh. Over this place you need somebody to support you physically, mentally, and spiritually. Faith is really, really high. And you've been winning victories and victories and you're feeling the victory today. Your job will stand on the mountain and intercede and praise God for the victory. Some of you in the valley, who am I talking to here? You're in the valley fighting it one-on-one. You got a face on with it. I came to tell you the Lord put as a chosen vessel. Did you hear what I said? When God spoke to Joshua, he said, give me some chosen people. Give me somebody that can take the heat and not run away from the battle. Then there's some of you that are support staff. Today your job is not to be on the mountain and your job is not to have a sword in your hand. Today, since you got a diagnosis of what's going on in your body, you're gonna have somebody that's gonna come alongside and hold up your hands. Cause see, when you're having a fight in the physical, I need somebody who knows how to fight in the spiritual realm. Moses, Aaron, I want you to reach around and support somebody's hand. Grab them by the hand. Hurry below the G for aging. Come on, somebody that are in this room to 18 years old. Come right here on this platform right now. Come now. Send your children. Send your children to this platform. Come on, that war cry. Get on this anointed platform. Babies, I can tell you that right now. Have I got a witness in this house? In this house? They're gonna hurt you this morning. But I told you it's the second. You better listen to me, cause this is gonna take boldness and faith. Cause people don't want, until it's your baby in the back forest that's taking a gun to their life. But it's time we step up to the occasion that pays assembly. Did you hear what I said? You better talk to me somebody. There's some chosen people in this house. And here's what's gonna happen. We're not gonna keep our mouth shut any longer. If there's a drug deal going down on your street, you pick up that phone and call the cops right back. It's the battle in the physical. Then go in your house and get on you this week to sit down with the principal. We're gonna lay hands or it's in a public school. I could carry him across the street to the cotton field. But we're gonna lay hands on the administrator cause they gotta have a support system and air in it. Bring your boys. Jeremy Tompkins is one of our board members. I need two board members to come up here and two board members' wives to come up here right now. Come here quick. Come on. Where are my board? Board wives, come here. I want you to get up underneath her arm. Have I got no more board ladies over here? Come over here. Come here board members. I want one on one side and one on the other. Jeremy Tompkins, your title changes so much. Tell me what it is. The coordinator of student engagement for the Escambia County. I'm the coordinator of student engagement for the Escambia County School District. And how many students have you had to deal with? He deals with disciplinary issues in Escambia County. How many of you had to deal with in just whatever the time? About 600 just this year. What does that mean? It's about triple what I normally do. Those are students that have done things they should in school and all that comes. I know people may hear me talk about this and they kind of write it off, but officially what you were telling me in the green room about the residual effects of COVID on our kids, what is it? Sure, let me go ahead and tell ya. The effects are simply this. For two years, students were in their homes, locked up, didn't really weren't able to get out and do anything. They had an impact. Kids are socially motivated so they didn't have their friends, they didn't have their support base, they didn't have any of that. So now that they've come back to school, there are always some form of normalcy, but they're always thinking that the rug's gonna be pulled out of them now because for two years everything was taken away from them. And so they're still struggling with anxiety, depression and everything that's there. They're under attack more so than they ever have been. And so what pastor tells you on a day to day basis and what you hear here is absolutely true. It doesn't matter what school you're at, what district you're in or wherever, across the state, across the country, our students are under attack. And if the people don't stand up and don't pray, the devil's gonna win and take them away. We've seen that right in this area. We've seen just this year three students at Pace High School that have committed suicide. And this is supposed to be the center of a Pentecostal movement that's been here for 90 years. What more so is it like anywhere else? So it's time that we wake up as a church and begin to know that we need to be a force to reckon with across this area again. And can't do it by ourselves. It takes everyone praying and doing what they need to do. So there's two guys that are gonna hold your arms up and there's two ladies that are gonna hold your arms up. And I wanna know how many of you young people would come, give me four people right here, one on each side. Now I'm gonna tell you, this is a Christian godly man. One of our board members, it was one, he's the president of the band boosters at Pace High and it was one of the band boosters parents, children, that took place this week. And if you don't think it will come near to your house, you better wake up. Cause I guarantee there's not a student that's up here right now that's not had thoughts that's run through their head that the enemy has tried to push their button. But listen to me young people, don't you listen to the voice of the devil or even friends on social media or anybody else? Am I talking true right here? You know I am. You listen to the voice of the Lord and he tells you to live. Live. It don't make any difference what anybody says on social media or anywhere else. You are precious, born and made in the sight of God and the devil wants to steal it but God's given you the victory this morning and I am thankful. He wouldn't say this but I am thankful that there is a godly spirit field administrator that is dealing with the issues he has to deal with with the wisdom of God upon his life. I want them to know and she is a teacher at Tate Washington High School. I'm just gonna tell you, teachers, moms and dads, I'm glad to have godly people that are in these positions. So they're in the valley and this morning you're gonna be on the mountain and some of you are gonna lift up the arms and that's what they're gonna do. I want you to stretch your hand this way. I want you to pray for this family right now. Would you do that? Father in the name of Jesus Christ we anoint them right now. Koura maha sheh reba kasaya. Come on, let them hear you pray. Father in the name of Jesus, we anoint them right now. Lord, only your wisdom can bring about solutions. Only your wisdom can bring about understanding. Only your wisdom can bring about mercy and grace and healing in a time of brokenness and destruction God and the attack of the enemy. I pray that he would be anointed with wisdom that comes down from above. Lord, let the peace of God rule and reign his heart and put the words in his mouth and a two-edged sword in his hand. I pray God that they would recognize in Escambia County that there is a man of God who's standing in the gap making up the heads. And those students would look at him not as the administrator, but as the godly example in front of them who loves them more than their actions, more than their addictions, more than the things they're walking through. He loves them with the love of God, giving the compassion that comes from above. We believe you for it now in the name of Jesus. Everybody believes it, slip your hands up and give God glory and honor and praise right now. Come on, open your mouth. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. You know what's covering us right now? 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