 free come on I am free oh I'm worthy of our praises that your hands and worship Jesus thank him he's worthy let your hands and worship Jesus in this place your voice and worship Jesus you are great and greatly to be praying that you boys and see you're all together here I am to worship this is why we come here together and cry so that we can co-operate worship the king of kings take next 30 seconds and with your own words begin to worship the king of kings if you have heavenly language begin to pray in your heavenly language Bible says when we pray in tongues when we pray in our heavenly language we worship that we worship God Holy Spirit worships through us right now this is a moment in time we're together corporately we exalt him we honor him we lift him up we say father you are worthy of our praise you are worthy of honor Jesus you are the Lamb of God who came down and gave you and gave your life for us and today we celebrate today we honor and exalt you are worthy to receive all the glory and all the honor come on 15 more seconds lift him up lift him up with your own praise with your own worship with your heavenly language we thank you for your grace we thank you for your mercy we thank you for your presence in this place spirit of God we acknowledge you here thank you for being with us hallelujah hallelujah we have come to the time of communion we're gonna remember the Lord's death and then shortly after that we're gonna be praying for healing and I believe that today as we partner with the spirit of God he's going to touch your body he's going to heal you he's going to break the bondage of sickness over your life and you will leave this place healed in your body and will testify to the glory of God and to the goodness of God in your life Corinthians first Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23 Apostle Paul writes this for I received from the Lord what I have passed on to you the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread and when he has given thanks he broke it and said this is my body for which is for you do this in remembrance of me in the same way after supper he took the cup saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me for whatever for whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes why the Lord's death because in his death in exchange we receive life by bus out of Bible says not only eternal life but life to our immortal bodies and today as we're gonna partake of this communion we're gonna partake it with the reverence understanding that this is our life this is our eternal life and this is our life that's good this is the life that lives and inside of us that will give life to our immortal bodies that any sickness and you pain it would have to yield to the life of Christ inside of us by the Spirit of God amen right now we're gonna pray and we're gonna take this in the remembrance of Jesus Christ his death and his coming father I thank you for sending your son Jesus Christ on this earth I thank you Lord for redeeming us from death redeeming us from the from law and giving us grace I thank you Lord that you redeem us from consequences of sin that brought that that brought pain that brought suffering and brought death thank you for giving your son Jesus Christ on the cross for us and today we remember your death and we remember that your death brought us life in Jesus name amen right now you can peel the top and take the weaver as well as you can pick peel the second layer and drink that grape juice as a remembering and remember that we are in the covenant with Jesus Christ we thank you Lord for your blood that washes our sins away we thank you Lord for the blood that brings us to a new covenant with you in Jesus name in Jesus name I just came back from Germany three days ago four days ago maybe five I can't remember but we had an amazing time there in the presence of the Lord celebrating Pentecost the coming of the Spirit of God the coming of the Godhead and on Saturday evening we were praying for healing and there was some incredible healings that took place a man that was wearing very thick glasses because of a poor eyesight when we were praying during a mass prayer for healing he didn't think that he had any prayer he needed any prayer for healing so he's like well I I'm pretty healthy I'm okay and as I was going down the list and I mentioned blindness I mentioned issues with eyesight or poor eyesight he thought like well let me just close my eyes and believe the Lord and maybe the Lord wants to heal me as he's closed his eyes he was actually operating the center camera right behind right on the back right in the center when he opened his eyes he was his vision was blurry so he wiped his eyes and vision still was blurry so then when he took his glasses down and he was seen very clearly and after the service he filmed it let's put our hands together for Jesus after service he on his Instagram story he filmed it how he threw his glasses in the garbage and thanking Jesus for his permanent healing there was another lady there was another lady that received healing from a lung cancer previously she had she went through chemo and she had surgery to remove some mass cancerous mass off of off of her lungs and in Germany there they have pretty advanced medical science and it went into remission and shortly after that it came back again and she was afraid that she was gonna die she was afraid to go through all of these painful procedures and surgery and chemo once again and she was there at the service and as we were doing a second prayer against every spirit of infirmity she felt like something lifted from her body and she said I felt like a double capacity of breathing and she's super excited that then she was a new believer so she she was like I always knew there's somebody up there watching over me I've said that somebody is Jesus we let her in a prayer we let her in a prayer of receiving Jesus she's just weeping and crying and and I was just reminded of the scripture that is the goodness of God that leads people to repent and say man the leads people to repent is we're gonna pray for healing in just a moment we're gonna do two prayers we're gonna come in healing to take place in your body and then the second prayer we're gonna come against the spirit that is behind your sickness and we're gonna believe that today you're gonna be healed listen it is God's will for you to be healed now there's other two wills involved in this process which often we don't think about but there is a will of devil and demons that God also honors because God honors wills not just of man but of spirits and their will is to destroy you to bring you harm to kill still and destroy but this is why it's essential that you partner with your will with the will of God to come against the enemy to come against the will of Satan to come against the will of demons so that the will of God will be manifest manifested in your life the healing will be manifested in your life that you will receive healing permanent healing and permanent relief in your body in Jesus name amen are you ready to preach church put your hand on yourself put your right hand on that part of the body that is sick or if this is general inside you just put it on your chest Bible says the right hand of God is power right now your right hand is gonna symbolize the right hand of God which is power that will flow through your body say this prayer with me and those of you that are watching online those of you that in a second sanctuary I want you to do the same the Jesus that is here is there with you by this spirit say my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit it's not a temple for sickness for disease and pain and right now I command every pain every sickness leave my body once and for all and never return in Jesus name you pain you sickness get out of my body leave my body once and for all I receive health I receive healing in my body right now in Jesus name amen right now as I'm praying for you receive healing in Jesus name I command healing to begin to take place in the saints of of God's people in Jesus name in children of God be healed from every sickness and every disease right now be healed in a mighty name of Jesus every pain in the joints be gone right now I tried as be gone right now in a mighty name of Jesus Christ every back pain be gone right now in Jesus name every joints pain be gone right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ every issue with heart irregular heart beating right now in Jesus name weak heart be healed in Jesus name be healed in a mighty name of Jesus Christ every issue with blood right now be cleansed right now be cleansed right now be cleansed right now by the powerful and a mighty blood of Jesus Christ every poor eyesight issues with eyes right now be healed in a mighty name of Jesus Christ every nerve issue right now in Jesus name be healed be healed be healed be healed gastritis every issues with the stomach with digestive issues right now be healed in the mighty name of Jesus Christ be healed in Jesus name be healed in Jesus name by the powerful blood of Jesus holy ghost fire holy ghost fire holy ghost fire holy ghost fire all over your body right now be restored to your original position be restored to your original position right now in Jesus mighty name every migrants every headaches go right now in Jesus name every migrants and headaches go right now in Jesus name in the mighty name of Jesus Christ Father I thank you for your healing I thank you for your touch every skin disease every rash right now go go go go in Jesus name be healed I thank you Lord for your touch I thank you for your touch every thyroid issue every thyroid issue every hormonal imbalance balance chemical imbalance I command be healed right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ holy ghost fire all over your body thank you Jesus thank you Lord thank you Jesus hallelujah hallelujah during this prayer is there anybody that felt the power of God go through their body and you feel relief in your body right now raise your hand raise your hand if you feel like doing this prayer right now you felt the power of God go through your body and you felt relief in a in a second sanctuary lift your hands as well those of you online type in a chat that I felt the power of God I received healing and testify it is important that we'll testify when and shortly in a moment we're gonna have time for testimony those of you that receive healing during this prayer or the next one we're gonna pray or maybe you received healing watching online and you've never testified about it or maybe during one of our prayer lines or previous services you received healing maybe didn't notice it immediately but now you see the evidence of that healing and you haven't testified yet today is your day to testify and give God the praise for what he has done he expects your testimony amen so just in short few moments as we're gonna go into testimony if you received healing in this prayer or as I mentioned any previous prayer if you could be making your way down to my right your left okay and our team will talk to you those of you that lifted your hand go ahead go ahead go there and begin to testify this prayer or previous prayer but we're gonna do one more prayer Bible says that there is a spirit behind infirmities a woman was bent for 18 years and Jesus did not just pray for her healing he commanding the spirit to leave and the woman straightened out a father the broad an epileptic boy there was a demon behind that epilepsy we're not saying that behind every sickness there is a demon but you would be surprised that how many sicknesses there are demons behind it evil spirits come to kill steal and destroy they want to keep you in pain and suffering right now we're gonna pray one more time there's gonna be a short prayer but it's gonna be prayer of authority keep your hand on that part of the body that is hurting that is in pain say this with me saying every unclean spirit every evil spirit behind my pain my sickness right now I take authority in Jesus name and I commend you lose my body lose my body take your pain take your discomfort take your sickness and leave me once and for all in Jesus name amen right now I'm gonna pray for you keep your hand on that part of the body in the mighty name of Jesus I command that evil spirit behind that pain behind that sickness behind that virus to leave God's people behind that migraine behind that stiffness behind a regular heartbeat heartbeat behind that stomach issue behind the infertility right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ holy ghost fire holy ghost fire holy ghost fire all over you right now in Jesus name go right now in Jesus name leave the sense of God leave God's people leave the children of God in the mighty name of Jesus Christ come out in Jesus name come out in the mighty name of Jesus Christ leave their head leave their abdominal area leave every part of their body that you're holding on to take your pain take your sickness come out in a mighty name of Jesus Christ holy ghost fire all over your body holy ghost fire all over your body be healed in the mighty name of Jesus Christ be healed right now in Jesus name you on conspirit you have to obey the authority of the name of Jesus spoken in this place and through this broadcast leave God's people in Jesus mighty name thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Jesus when I begin to test your body begin to move your body check if there is any improvement Bible says one Jesus prayed for the man that had stiff hands he said stretch out your hand and as he was stretching healing begin to take place sometimes healing is immediate we call it the miracle oftentimes healing is progressive the pain begins to decrease so if you even if you notice the pain has decreased begin to thank God for it because God has started the process of healing some of you will go home and you will wake up and begin to see that you have no need in glasses you have no more discomfort you have no more pain begin to thank God for your healing in the mighty name of Jesus Christ amen let's put our hands together for Jesus Christ I can do I can those of you that you felt the touch of God and you found relief or healing your body right now or before from second century to this century begin to come here to my right stage right or your left and our team wants to interview you and ask for your testimony so that we give God the glory in Jesus name amen with that being said greet your neighbor on your left and your right and take a seat as we're getting ready to hear some testimonies good morning church how are we doing today how many of you guys are blessed to be here on a Sunday morning y'all don't sound convinced how many of you guys believe this is the best place to be on a Sunday morning come on give God some praise shout him down for everything he's done in your life till today amen I believe God is good and I'm excited to hear what God has done today and in healing and in deliverance I quickly want to go ahead and read off the book of Corinthians so you have your Bibles whether it's your phone whether it's a physical Bible go ahead and join me in second Corinthians chapter 9 verse 6 and quickly I'm going to read it says remember this a farmer who plants only a few seeds will will reap a small crop but he who plants generously will get a generous crop I want to highlight verse 7 that says but you must each decide in your heart how much you want to give and don't give out a reluctancy or a response of pressure and that God is good how many of you guys believe that come on I want to encourage you guys with a quick word today when we sow into the kingdom of God we sow into what God is doing not only our cities but what God is doing in the world we sow into what God has planned for the children of God so generally when we sow into the kingdom of God we believe that just like the farmer when he plants the seeds that he's in to receive his crop we believe that when we plant our seeds we believe God is gonna be faithful to his promise amen so this remind us that the extent are we are giving is directly proportional to the amount we will receive amen so I want to challenge you guys today and this is something that the Lord has spoke to me recently and he challenged me the Bible says test me and see that I am faithful I want to challenge you today to take an extra step of boldness extra step of faith and say God this month or this week or within the next six months I'm gonna take an extra step believing in your promise believing that you are faithful and whatever situation you're in whether it's financial whether it's in your studies whether it's at home with any case you partner with God and say God I believe that as I give you will be faithful to your promise amen because when we tied and we give our offering we partner with God and we let God know God my problems will be your problems my financial needs you will take care of amen so I want to encourage you guys today by giving to the kingdom of God we are investing into an internal purpose we are investing into seeing the souls be saved here in tri-cities and in the world amen so that being said I want to encourage you today to sow into the kingdom of God partner with God and believe me he is faithful to his promise when he says he will give back he will give back amen so that being said I want you to hold your tides in your hands and whether you have an envelope or whether it's your cash have Venmo or any platform online you could also use hungry gen.com slash give so that being said hold your tides let's pray father we thank you today for what you have done we thank you for every person in this place father I thank you God for their lives father and I pray that you meet everyone God at their point of need father I pray God if there's someone in this place God lacking finances God or lacking any support father I pray that you encounter them today father that you touched their hearts they speak to them father I pray you bless the work of their hands God as they go out seeking opportunity of employment God that you will bless them that you will favor them in a great way father I thank you those who are giving father I pray you continue to bless and continue to multiply God what they are giving into the kingdom God I pray that you give anybody who is in need God and we pray all this in Jesus name and the church said amen that being said please help me welcome us video on the screen Lord cause our people to come to morning prayer and also could you change my wife oh I didn't see you there and I haven't seen you at prayer lately what he meant to say is you're welcome to come and join us for prayer every morning at 5 a.m. from 5 a.m. Monday through Friday you don't have to come at 5 you can come a little bit later but our doors are open why do we do prayers every day Monday through Friday it's because we believe the church is a house of prayer and as we pray God not only will answer our prayers but the Bible teaches us that God will forgive our sins he will heal our land and he will bring revival to our region our families and our school so church let's come and pray and who knows maybe God will change your wife now help us to welcome the next person in this back but you're in this first prayer today you felt the power of God surge through his neck and through his back and now he has been completely healed with no pain Holy Spirit in here for sure I know it's in this place and I just felt the tingling through my body when I was sitting there praying and hearing the worship and everything and it was so awesome is amazing praise God thank you Jesus thank you less you can go ahead experienced such a breakthrough in his health he's been dealing with sinus clogging in his nose and he hasn't been able to breathe properly through his nose for the past month no medication has been able to help it but today God touched him and he can breathe properly can you testify to that yeah I want to testify to the goodness and glory to God nothing's worked I have the worst congestion for a month I couldn't breathe through it keeps me up late at night and as I placed my right hand on my nose and prayed along with our brother I feel I can really I can breathe just fine through my nose never have been able to do it for a whole month so come on God is so good thank you Brandon and church this is Alexis Alexis had been experiencing some pain for some time and today during prayer she felt like that has been slowly decreasing so can you share a little bit about that so I was actually wearing kind of shoes like this one time and we've all been there walking and I hurt my ankle really bad it's been in so much pain for the last couple months and I was kind of debating on wearing these today the pain is slowly starting to break away and it does not hurt I can move it around I can like jump on it it looks it feels good it feels so much better amen amen we give God the glory and the praise thank you so much for sharing that guys we know that this is the beginning of what God's gonna do through this ministry amen so with that please help me welcome Pastor Marianna she's sharing one more testimony morning church we have a testimony a live testimony that's going to bless and encourage you but before I invite him on to the stage we have two incredible testimonies that came through on live stream as they're watching right now taking place one came from Florence said that I felt a warm touch on my forehead and my headache is gone so thank you father I'm currently watching right now amen another one is I was on glasses wearing glasses for eight years with an era of negative point five and I got healed now I'm free from glasses just happened right now come on God is so good just one last time we just encourage if you still are receiving healing please just send it to hungry gen.com slash testimony we want to hear what God is doing even on live stream amen amen without further ado let's give a warm hungry gen welcome to Nathaniel as he comes on up amen amen Nathaniel thank you so much for sharing your testimony just come a little bit this way and and a couple steps it's like a dance so so he has an incredible testimony to share with all of us and I will just have you start from the beginning of where God started but just from the beginning of your childhood okay so I grew up in with two addicted parents foster care of drugs addicted to drugs yeah my father was never around so I was exposed to drugs at a young age went to foster care had to live here and there which eventually led to my own addiction starting at age 14 just started with just marijuana alcohol and then it led to pills eventually led to a methamphetamine of heroin fentanyl and I was basically doing everything drinking a lot doing a lot of horrible things so and can you tell us through your addiction like you mentioned that you had a couple of overdoses can you mention how many and what happened there yeah so I've experienced six overdoses total woke up in the hospital a bunch of times not knowing what happened at first the worst one I was I was found at a park don't know how I got there my chest was broken from somebody doing CPR the doc they got me in the ambulance got me to the hospital the doctor hit me with Narcan five times that's the drug that counteracts fentanyl and then he gave up on me because I was gone and then all of a sudden I started puking and came back to life and I woke up the next morning in the hospital so and and tell us yeah come on God's hand it was evident in his life even through those six overdoses now can you tell us a little bit about what and ended up your encounter with the troop officer and go from there so I was living homeless living in a tent addicted to drugs this was last July when the Lord sent a state trooper there was a crime that had been committed up from where I was staying it was a fire in a train car and the state trooper responded to it walked down the trail and seen me there standing there I was this I was waiting for him to harass me or something I asked me if I had done it which I didn't but he he didn't ask me anything like that he actually invited me to church yeah yeah and then me and him were texting for about a week or so and he asked me do you want to get your life better do you want a change and I did you know I didn't want to I didn't want to die in addiction I didn't want to end up like my family so he knew the director of Teen Challenge up here in Tri Cities and because the director at the time was actually a police officer in my hometown before he came up here has actually arrested me before but yeah he they brought me up here and that's the second day I was in Teen Challenge that's when I I gave my life to Jesus yeah yeah I just I couldn't I couldn't ignore him after everything that had happened and how I'd gotten here and the director came and he sat down next to me and he just looked me in my eyes and he said God's gonna do such amazing things in your life and I just I believed him I broke down I started crying I threw my hands up I said God I won't ignore you I can't agree I just won't ignore you and so that began a journey of really trying to just get to know God as best as I can by trying to do everything to do to be pleasing to him I started to pray a lot started fasting started reading Bible you know oh yeah I was delivered from drug addiction the moment I gave my life to Jesus I've never craved a drug ever since so let's give God some praise come on so yeah it's just been a I'll be 27 in about a week but this year has been the best year of my life I've never experienced such amazing things and I'm just thinking if I can experience this many blessings in one year like imagine the rest of my life now for timeline sake you are 11 months in team challenge correct yep I graduate next July 14th so and tell us what happened about a month ago oh so I came here to Hungry Jen and experience of deliverance from from demon so yeah it was it was really intense yeah it was it was it was amazing and yeah I just found that after that yeah afterwards it was amazing so after that I experienced a deeper connection with God there wasn't something there trying to show me how long you've been in him because all those things were getting interrupted because it's just you know I watched Pastor Vlad a lot on and I got a lot of inspiration through through your ministry so yeah so where was I so no that's okay Nathanian that's why I'm here and this is the part where you were mentioning about the difference where you received deliverance and you saw and noticed how something was heavy on you and it was gripping your relationship with the Lord but once you received freedom a month ago you said that things were lifted off you were able to praise you were able to worship and pray and get closer to the Lord and love on people now that being said you're 11 months in you're about one year to graduate from team challenge tell us what are you up to what's your next step what do you want to do so in August I'll be starting at Bible College in Phoenix Arizona it's a college called American Indian College I'm a half-native American and so I've seen a lot of darkness in my people in my tribe a lot of lack of God and so I plan to just be an evangelist to the native people around the country so let's give God some praise come on God is good he's alive and he right here shows God's resurrection power in Jesus name amen God is so good such a powerful testimony Nathaniel can you just give last words of encouragement for mom's dad's or anybody that is suffering in a drug addiction or they know someone that is struggling in drug addiction what do you want to tell them today so I would say the the most the best thing that you could possibly do because it's really hard to try to know what to do for somebody that's addicted when they don't listen when they don't react the way that you would hope and and they don't see the the fact that you care about them you know I would say prayer just cry out to God literally just get on your knees and cry out to God I have a sister that she literally would would she would stream tears and cry out to God for me and she told me when I got here and I gave my life to Jesus I was a couple months in I was like sister dude I was like I can't really believe this happened she's like I knew it was coming she said I knew it was coming so yeah so yeah prayer thank you so much Nathaniel you can go take a seat I hope each and every one of you have been encouraged today that your faith increased but also believing for your situation if you know someone that has a drug addiction or is dealing with some substance abuse that you don't give up that you keep on praying keep on pressing he's a testimony right there with God's hand upon him and God's case your situation is in God's hands just give it to him in Jesus name amen amen you guys without further ado let's give a warm welcome to Pastor Vlad for the message oh okay video sorry good morning church I think this we could already finish the service this was so filling of what we received today the presence of the Lord during worship thank you our worship team for waking up earlier coming to church earlier so that we can experience Jesus's presence amen can we give a round of applause to just wonderful team members who are here way earlier than us who are able to do that we welcome you in the second sanctuary as well we love you and Nathan thank you for sharing your testimony incredible we're so encouraged by that your deliverance story and those of you who received healing today it was wonderful I'm just gonna go through just few simple things before I go into the message one of them is we start our fast we start a monthly three day fast 72 hours tomorrow Tuesday and Wednesday if you've never fasted and you are able to we welcome you to consider taking next three days to see God's face through prayer and fasting if you are pregnant nursing or a child we discourage you and ask you please not to fast food but fast something else we also have our prayers during those days here at the church we're really excited for that one of the things that we are fasting this time for is for our encounter retreat which about 80 people from our life class will go into and then our youth camp which is an annual youth camp we're believing for many youth to experience the Lord and be free and experience Jesus amen and we are also fasting and praying for our monthly prayer line with our brother shared once a month we have people from all around the world like two weeks ago we had a pastor who came from turkey we have every single prayer line people come from around the world not just united states so we're praying and fasting that our monthly prayer lines which happened on the last Saturday of the month will become times of notable unusual miracles healing and deliverance for people to experience Jesus and experience God these prayer lines have been growing in numbers we've been seeing a greater manifestation of the glory of God in these prayer lines and that's one of the things that we're strategically and intentionally praying for if you know a sick person if you know a demonized person join us for fasting and sign them up for the prayer line let's believe for the Lord to move in our life amen another thing that I want to highlight and that is this week I want to encourage every person if you're part of our church and you have never joined a small group and you are able to we provide child care and Tuesday here at the church so that you can go to a small group we will have a very different small group meeting this week and I want to encourage you to not miss a small group through our church we believe that you get pastored in small groups you grow in small groups through being accountable connected and it's one of the ways you can go from a believer to a disciple to a disciple maker we will have a special guest in us all of our small groups this week and so I can't tell you who that's going to be it's a surprise so make sure that you go to a small group this week would really encourage you to do that and the last thing that's on my agenda and that is we will finish this month on 25th of I think it's June 25th the last Sunday of the month would you give us Graceland 24th I apologize June 24th which would be the last Sunday of this month could you give us the last Sunday of the month not the June 24 20 25th of June which will be the Sunday after deliverance I want us to do something we've never done this before we it might become an annual thing but I want us all to dress in white so for few reasons our culture has deemed this month to be a very colorful month and we want to take as a church a stand for something and that's something that we stand for is for the biblical definition of marriage we stand for happy marriages we stand for happy families and we stand for sexual purity in the midst of sexual perversion and so we have a month so for those of you who are like man I ain't gotten anything white just go to Ross or something buy it return it next day I'm just kidding why this is a good moment to go and get to get yourself another wardrobe and so it's I've been carrying this in my heart since January to do that you don't have to so this is not a you still can come to church that Sunday okay so this is not going to be like that the biblical parable where the person who didn't have a wedding garment was kicked out at the art of darkness nobody's gonna spend the time on the gas station or in the parking lot but this is something that we feel as a church that in the midst of our culture what's happening in our culture that for us to be to take a stand for what we believe and we believe in the biblical truth about sexuality that is to be enjoyed in the context of marriage a next month I guess one more thing next month is we have a water baptism and this will be a water baptism that we do once a year in the river so if you've never been water baptized and you gave your life to Jesus Christ let us know let your life complete or no and on July 16th in the afternoon so after the church we will have we were gonna call it Super Sunday so barbecue fun and just a family night and we will baptize people in the Columbia River so you are welcome for that we're really excited if you're watching us online and you are living anywhere near tri cities like maybe Nevada or Texas you know consider coming to our church on the weekend of the prayer line come for deliverance on Sunday get a white dress or white pants and white shirt and join us for Sunday let's let's let our voices be heard in the spirit realm as well as in our culture and to our children and grandchildren that we stand for purity we stand for righteousness and we stand for the truth I want to welcome you to join us in that amen church let's give the Lord a clap offering hallelujah I want to begin today speaking about redeeming the rainbow when God puts down or lays down a bow warning this message will be a little bit different well actually no warning you know how I preach so it's the same thing I don't change and so it's just gonna be a little bit more of maybe not for a younger audience I will do my best to sanitize as much as I can but at the same time I will address the topic of what is happening in our culture today this is nothing to do with politics if things wouldn't be shoved down our throat so probably would be silent but when things are being crazy in our culture and things are right now taken over our entertainment taken over the big tech and taken over the government and everywhere the culture is buzzing and Christians are bullied into silence I think that this is the moment where we have to speak biblical truth in love amen I want you to notice from the beginning the book of Genesis starts with God creating everything beautiful and then the Satan comes and he deceives the mankind and two things happen we and when I say we I'm going to connect ourselves to the humanity we rebel against God we overthrow God as someone who tells us outlines what's good for us and the moment humanity rebelled against God the second thing happened is we redefined good and evil because Satan when he pushed humanity to rebel against God when God said this will cause you death Satan says you won't die meaning he redefined good and evil and ever since then humanity has been because the devil is in opposition to God he has deceived the mankind see the devil doesn't mind if we don't worship him the devil doesn't want you to worship him that is not his goal his goal is that you be like him in opposing God he doesn't even mind if you don't believe in him as long as you behave like him the devil was full of pride and he'll oppose God that's why many Satanists will flaunt and say we don't even believe in Satan they don't have to to be Satanist you don't have to believe in Satan or God as long as you oppose the idea of a Lord Creator giving you instruction to live a life that's pleasing to him you're already playing into the deception of the enemy the moment humanity rejects God you have to understand we have to develop our own morals truth is no longer obsolete and morals become fluid we develop we redefine what is good and what is evil and that's been going on for generations Jonathan Kahn an author who I would encourage you to read this book if you haven't it's a long book so he outlines something here that I found very intriguing he said in Israel what they had is this when Israel started to worship one true God who gave them principles by which they should live Satan the enemy would use other gods and he would use he mentioned three main gods one is bail and if you remember if you read the Old Testament you will see a lot of about bail he says the bail is like the possessor the bail was trying to overthrow Israel's belief and allegiance to God but after bail there was always the second God that would come in the cannonite deity and that was Ishtar Ishtar was considered bail's wife bail was the one that caused Israel not to worship one true God remove him but Ishtar came alongside and helped Israel to explore and exploit sexuality she was the sex God the arrows Greeks called it arrows God who was actually a son of Ishtar Ishtar would really push the sexual revolution in Israel a lot of immoral perverted things would happen and then there comes a third God that would come and attack and oppress Israel and this one was Mollek Mollek was a different type of deity a divine spiritual principality because unlike Ishtar who wanted sexual revolution and bail who wanted Israel not to believe in one true God but believe in everything and nothing Mollek demanded human sacrifice Mollek demanded the sacrifice of children and so Jonathan Kahn in his book says this when Christianity came on the scene Roman Greek cultures who had these gods embedded into their culture if you study the Roman culture the Greek culture you will see homosexuality you will see perversion you will see cult cults having priests and priestesses in the temple who were practiced sexual immorality as a way of initiation into occultism this was so embedded into their culture because these principalities ruled those parts of the world but when Christianity came in these gods the bail the Ishtar and the Mollek will pushed into exile they were removed from those lands because where Christianity came there was a huge value on human life Christians believe that if you cause any of the little ones to stumble a millstone can be put around your neck and drown in the sea meaning children have value children don't get sacrificed children get honored Christians believe that marriage is between a man and a woman Christians they believe that homosexual behavior is not according to God's original design Christians they encourage that there is a God and he's a good God he's not some kind of a mood swingy has a mental illness he's not sure you can't trust him he's unpredictable but God is a holy he's stable and he can be trusted and so the second sanctuary are you there so when Christianity came in these gods went into exile and this rabbi Jewish rabbi Jonathan Kahn says what happened in America America was first started for example in 1624 sodomy was punished by death in the colonies until 1925 in 1952 the American Psychiatric Association labeled homosexuality as a mental illness in 1953 president Wyden Eisenhower then gave people from working for the government actually label it as a security risk since the homosexual people according to the medical journal were labeled as mental illness that could be treated and then we see honestly very strong stance in the United States on the issue of moral purity until about 1960 when prayer in school issue of the Ten Commandments was voted as unconstitutional and according to this rabbi he says that these ancient gods started to make their way back now into America why into America because America is one of the most influential nations in the world as America goes so as many many different nations first is started with coming of bail the one of the symbols of bail is a bull surprisingly United States has a bull in New York a big statue we have that after that comes ish star in the United States ish star represents sexual revolution in 1960s when pornography becomes legal when the laws on marriage change when the laws on homosexuality change when when everything begins to take a shift and the churn but there comes one more God and that is Molek and this Molek has claimed the lives of 60 million children in the United States Nazis have killed six million Jews Molek has killed 60 million babies when America made God sex love into a God this God demands a sacrifice and the sacrifice this God demands is children our God sacrificed his son for us to be saved the God of this world wants us to sacrifice our children so he can destroy our life this God the principality in our generation today seeks to infiltrate the minds and the lives of people that they reject one true God and worship sex and worship love and he demands a sacrifice I believe there is a demonic agenda that is at play in the United States that are gay people who struggle with homosexuality that are Christians who struggle with struggle with homosexuality there are people who identify as homosexuals but something that I want to touch in is behind the scenes there is a spiritual principality that we as Christians believe who has an agenda and that is to infiltrate our society with perversion and with pride it's not secret anymore we even see this in the parody song by San Francisco gay men chorus that says you think will corrupt your children if our agenda goes unchecked funny just this once you're correct will convert your children happens bit by bit quietly and subtly and you will barely notice it we're coming for your children the gay agenda is here for those of you who say well it's a parody song yes it is a parody song that has a hint of fact in it I believe that demonic agenda behind the rise of perversion in our culture has really five steps one is to help people come out of the closet you may say what is wrong with all of that well as a Christian the Bible tells us that we should be ashamed of sin and repent of sin the culture says sin should not be ashamed of it should be celebrated that I have a problem with now when a non-Christian seeks to celebrate their sin they're non-Christian but we're talking today to Christians and I'm speaking to you for those of you who come here today as believers and first and that was this something that used to be shameful now becomes something that we all celebrate the second step is to demand rights rights were given by God not by the government and we must understand that God never gives rights for sin the government can give civil rights for consuming producing pornography no fault marriage the government can give rights civil rights to abortion the government can give civil rights to homosexuals can redefine marriage that's what the government can do but we understand our rights as people in America came from our creator it even says that in our independence of in our independence letters and our God in his word never gave rights to a sinful behavior he gave a way of salvation he gave a way of deliverance to us as sinners but he doesn't tolerate he doesn't celebrate and he doesn't promote what he calls sin number three is there is a demand that everybody recognizes those rights number four and that is and that's where we at right now is that everybody else's rights are taken away and number five everybody else who doesn't agree with the agenda of this principality has to go into the closet so first everything comes out of the closet so that everyone else who speaks on anything that contradicts is labeled with homophobic transphobic and every other obit canceled the platform removed silenced and put in the closet and this is happening in our culture see the enemy cannot penetrate the minds of people the emotions of people with lust until he first fills their minds with lies and today it's illegal even some of you sitting here today you feel very uncomfortable that I'm talking about this because the culture has bullied everyone into silence and if you believe you speak about what you believe if it doesn't conform to the culture and to the agenda of the alphabet community you're labeled right away you are deflat for the platform you are canceled you are right away punished and you are called with names but it's possible to love somebody and not agree with them this agreeing with somebody and speaking the truth that you believe is in the Bible is not hateful anymore that when I had my blood work done and my doctor with a smile on her face looked at me and says you have high cholesterol I said in my mind I'm thinking how dare you say something like that to me you're hateful you don't like me I'm not paying for you to tell me what I don't want to hear but my doctor didn't care about my feelings my doctor cared about my health and I want to tell you something today our culture today doesn't care about the truth it cares about people's opinions and feelings but God's Word is the truth God's Word speaks the truth in love and it gives us the way of deliverance and freedom and as Christians we have to stand today for the truth we have to stand today for grace and we have to stand today for love if you agree with me in the first or second century give God a praise a shift that took place in the United States in 1969 on June 28th it was called the Stonewall riots what happened was that the police raided a Stonewall Inn where it was a gay bar and they started to make arrests you have to understand that homosexuality was illegal homosexual behavior was illegal and so as they would make arrests the community rose in the protests and started to throw things at police and it was very very harsh confrontation that lasted for about six days and that point I believe and Jonathan Kahn also confirms almost like a portal was open in the United States where something entered in America America was not the same after that because after 1969 in 1970 on June parades started to break out in different cities some Francisco Los Angeles New York and others to celebrate the protests at Stonewall Inn and these protests and these parades started to grow bigger and bigger and more and more famous until 1978 on June 25 there was a San Francisco gay parade and the first openly gay elected official Harvey milk requested that Gilbert Baker makes a flag a symbol for these parades because prior to this the flag of the alphabet the homosexual community was a flag that Nazis use actually to label homosexuals and put them in consecration camp concentration camps and so Gilbert Baker creates a flag that had eight stripes now it's reduced to six due to some printing stuff and these eight stripes the hot pink represented sex to coast represented magic red represented life orange orange represented healing yellow represented sunlight green represented nature blue represented serenity and violet represented a spirit and Gilbert Baker said this a rainbow flag is a conscious choice natural and necessary the rainbow came from the earliest recording history as a symbol of hope in the book of Genesis it appeared as a proof of a covenant between God and all his living creatures it was also found in Chinese Egyptian and native American history a rainbow flag would be our modern alternative to the pink triangle now the Roy Roy writers people who protest who claim their freedom at the Stonewall bar in 1969 would have their own symbol of liberation shortly after that 19 2015 is when legalization of same-sex marriage happened and our culture since then has been growing rapidly in advancing the agenda that I believe has a spiritual principality behind it now what do we do as Christians few things when we see in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12 we see that there are spiritual principalities and powers at work the first thing that I want to mention to you that what we could do number one is this things are more spiritual than they seem you can see for example the company and the company that was responsible to put new garments that promoted the alphabet community in target this person said in his Instagram he says Satan respects pronouns is a fun way to show your pride a lot of LGBT people have found that Christianity wasn't always been the most welcoming to them and found solace and humor in the area that Satan would I want you to notice that not only there is a perversion of biblical stance and sexuality but it also is mingling with paganism Satanism witchy boards and a cult make no mistake for those of us who think Vlad leave this alone let people do what they want to do please understand there is a spiritual entity behind it that's why a lot of this movement has witchcraft with it as well in fact merging of sexual immorality and paganism was always what canonites did their temples had always sex in them because the devil knows sex is a part of your sacred inner deep part of you you don't share with your kids you don't share with your friends and you don't share with your co-workers that's why the reference to sex in book of Genesis it says Adam knew his wife the word for sex there is no meaning it's some deep knowledge you have with another being and that's the sacred deep part of you Satan wants that's why he mixes a cult with it all the time he mixes paganism with it my friends please understand this is more than just people having a right to express their sexuality spiritual principality is behind it you may say well you see a demon behind everything not behind everything but almost everything I see today has a principality behind it the second thing I want to notice some Ephesians chapter 6 the Bible tells us our war is not against flesh and blood that means we are never given a license in encouragement and green light to hate alphabet community our war is not against them we're not at war or we're not fighting them we disagree with their system their belief we come against the strongholds that the enemy builds we don't come against people there are people just like you and I who were created in the image and likeness of God for whom Jesus died and whom God loves so deeply that he wants to save them there are no different sinners that many of us were and that's why Paul tells to the people in Corinth he says and such were some of you but you were washed but you were justified but you were sanctified by the name of our God and by the power of the Holy Spirit and if you are here today and you are a homosexual or if you are transgender or if you are a lesbian I want to tell you something that you are welcome here but at the same time I want you to know this that welcome does not mean approval we stand on God's truth and his truth sets us free Jesus loves you so much that he died on the cross for you he bled on that Calvary so he can forgive you of your sin and he can wash you from every unrighteousness and you have to accept that don't believe into the lies of the enemy just because they're popular in our culture this is not me spitting hate against a homosexual community they are the people that God loves and they are the people that we love but we stand with God's truth and we stand with Jesus's mission to reach people who need Jesus number three we see this in Ephesians chapter 6 and that is we have to take a stand in fact verses 11 and 13 Paul tells us stand in the evil day principalities will advance and our role in this culture is to stand somebody say stand it doesn't say to fight actually to take a stand and we see what's been happening with Christians the enemy doesn't want you to stand so when you see target putting stuff out in the front you can stand easily stand with your dollar stand with your vote don't vote for people that support Molek don't vote for people you with your vote can stand for the principality or against it we don't have to take today and go and burn stores that's not the warfare God calls us to do but in our culture if your children at the tender young age are being taught about anal sex instead of science you can stand go to the school board and say I do not want my child to learn about sex at this age you can stand with your vote with where you shop with what you buy and I want to encourage Christians don't let the enemy bullying you into silence this doesn't give us a right to be nasty this doesn't give us a right to be hateful this doesn't give us a right to be mean-spirited but it does not also give us a right to be spineless cowards everybody came out of the closet it's time for you to come out of yours it's time for you to come out of your shyness and to take a stand to take a stand for your family to take a stand for your children to take a stand for morality and to take a stand for what God takes a stand for somebody shout amen this agreement is not hate don't any don't let anybody lie to you that disagreeing means you hating somebody I disagree with my wife sometimes this doesn't mean hate she said no it doesn't the next thing that we can do and when we are at war against principalities and this is to put on the armor of God you know what the armor of God is salvation Christians that means let's let's walk like we are saved righteousness the truth peace the Bible expects us to put on the armor of God it's one thing to say this is wrong in someone else but during spiritual warfare we also have to repent of the wrong inside of us it's easy to attack the sin you don't struggle with it's easy to hate the sin in someone else you don't battle with or homosexual behavior is wrong so is viewing pornography so is whoever looks at another woman with lust the Bible says commits adultery and the Bible calls us as Christians not only to take a stand but to be clothed in the armor of God the armor of God is righteousness the armor of God is truth the armor of God is peace the armor of God is salvation the armor of God is faith that means that God expects us not only to stand for something but also to examine our hearts that those sexual sins that that pride doesn't rule unchecked in our heart amen that our families are healthy the divorce doesn't run in our bloodline that these things don't do not get named among us we're not perfect but the God calls us to be blameless in this generation because a lot of Christians what they do is they fight against the culture but they do exactly same sins in their own life the Bible says put on the armor of God but there's one more thing that we must do I know that our families here and you have a child that is chosen to transition maybe you have a child who has said hey I don't want your God I'm just gonna go follow the culture and Paul in Ephesians chapter 6 he ends Ephesians chapter 6 talking to Christians and says pray intercede with perseverance with supplication with repentance church I want to tell you something maybe your child has gone your brother or sister maybe has decided to embrace an alternative gender or embrace an alternative lifestyle your goal isn't to say no I disown you they're your brother and your sister they're your son and your daughter you love them but when your words cannot reach them remember you can reach them with your prayer when you can no longer speak to them because things just get to hear it you can still get on your knees you can still fast and you can still pray the God will open the eyes of their heart and God will grant them repentance you are not weak you are not a victim you may feel like but there's nothing else I can do have you prayed keep on praying what our brother shared today when he was abusing drugs when he was lost in his sin his sister didn't give up praying for him you have a weapon at your disposal not a weapon to beat people but the weapon to beat heaven and says God have mercy if my people that are called by my name says God they will repent and they will humble themselves and seek my face I will hear from heaven I will forgive the sin and I will heal their land this is why we're fasting tomorrow on Tuesday and Wednesday because we know that it's a spiritual thing when a child doesn't want to serve God it's more spiritual than just natural the goal isn't just to debate them into faith the goal is to Holy Spirit to convert their hearts and that happens when Christians link up with the powerful God who rules over the affairs of men and women on this earth God who loves the humanity God who moves because we pray we have power in our prayer we preach the truth we love people we right walk in righteousness as God wants us in this generation but we also got to pray we got to pray because only God can change the hearts of people can somebody say amen bringing this message through a conclusion I want to address the issue of the rainbow and pride in Genesis chapter 9 verse 16 and as Gilbert Baker quoted this passage of course he quoted out of context and as Satan does a lot of times he takes the scripture out of context to justify whatever that the enemy is doing but I want to read this verse in Genesis 9 16 he says the rainbow shall be in the cloud and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth I want you to notice five things in progression number one we should mistake in God's patience for God's approval humanity was committing sin violence was breaking out on the earth the sons of God left their abode and started to have physical intimacy with the daughters of men these spiritual beings transgressed most likely and had sexual intercourse with the women on this earth as a result of that hybrid human race started to develop Satan who knew that the seat of the woman will crush his head wanted to pop wanted to pollute the human race by creating a hybrid human race sexual immorality violence broke out God in his mercy did not punish the earth for 120 years imagine seeing this vile violence hurt and pain for those people think who God is quick to judge he's not he's slow to anger God is merciful but this is what happens to us when we see God's patience we mistaken it for God's approval Ecclesiastes 811 it says because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil God is long suffering patient not willing that no one should perish God gives chance for people to repent 120 years of mercy and then arc is built and God takes extra seven days says please turn from your way turn around this is now right way to go but only eight people heated that advice eight people one family took this seriously everybody else said we will do whatever we want to do no wonder Jesus says in the last days it will be like days of Noah the second thing I want you to notice is God provides the way of salvation Noah was saved from the wrath of God now now maybe the word wrath of God gives you triggers you please understand you would not want a God who's not just God is merciful but God is also God think of a judge let's say that you were in a very unfortunate situation where somebody duped you of money you take him to court and the judge causes the crime not to be punished and lets the criminal go free what would you call that judge good no you would call that judge corrupt you would call that judge not trustworthy see when we think of God the only time we want God to let our sins slide and tolerant be tolerated is when we're the criminals but God cannot deny his nature God is a perfect holy God loving God but one of the things that makes God trustworthy is his holiness he didn't stop being holy when my sin was placed on Jesus he will not stop being holy because of me because he is God he doesn't change I want you to notice that God punish the sin of the first world God punish the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah and 1st Peter 3 then it says that God will punish the sin of the earth and there will be a fire that will burn this earth completely one day and we see with the amount of atomic bombs we have I could see how that's gonna happen very soon the world we live in today will experience the punishment of God because God is holy and God is just and we broke his commandments this doesn't make us comfortable but at the same time it doesn't matter how it makes us feel what matters is that we are not outside of God's way of salvation but that we are in the boat called Jesus this arc that God provided for Noah it was God's idea to save Noah from his own wrath sometimes Christians mistaken that when we are saved we're not saved from hell necessarily we're saved from God's wrath that's manifested in the lake of fire we're not saved just that we are removed from the devil we are removed first from the penalty of sin from the power of sin and in the future will be removed from the presence of sin but we are saved from the wrath to come God provided an arc the arc was made out of wood our arc by which we are saved is made out of the cross the arc had one door our Savior is the door of salvation the arc had only one window and the Bible gives us one window through which we see the spiritual world and through which the light of illumination comes into our life and that window is called the Bible the work saved Noah from the flood it took the flood in it got beat with the flood and with water but Noah didn't get touched Jesus on the cross took the beating the punishment that I deserve so that I can be protected and shielded and sheltered from the wrath of God arc had only one family everyone in Jesus Christ is brothers and sisters that's why there's no black there's no white there is no young or old male or female in Christ in Christ we're a family amen God has provided a way of salvation interesting that there was only one way to be saved and that was the arc there's only one way to be saved and that is Jesus number three God doesn't tolerate sin God punishes sin please understand we are free to make decisions we like it's a beautiful part about our God he gives us the freedom to choose what we want he doesn't force us to choose him God doesn't break our will and says you will follow my way because I know it's the right way God gives you the freedom to even rebel against them but there's just one thing that we must remember while we have the choice to choose we don't have the opportunity to skip the consequences of our choices you know when I was thinking about this and I knew how preaching on sin is not necessarily you get a lot of amends and I do understand that some people might not come to church after this again but if I water down sin I water down the cross that paid for my sin if I say sin is not a big deal I am automatically saying Jesus what you did was not a big deal and I can't do that what Jesus did on the cross was so important do you know why because my sin is so bad sin is not a light matter sin is not a weakness it's a rebellion against God we all were infected with it we were born with it it is so nasty and horrible none of us could ever describe its horror and how bad it is to God but if you want to know how bad sin is look at the cross and if you think that it's not fair that we address the ugliness of sin if you don't know the ugliness of sin you'll never appreciate the beauty of the cross and maybe you're feeling its shame you're feeling its dominion over your life you're feeling it's destroying you from the inside causing you to do things I have a message for you today as Christians we not only know the power of sin we know the power of the blood that takes a drug addict and sets him free that takes us homosexual and makes him holy it takes a person who was bent on adultery and makes him a man that is faithful to his spouse that takes a person who was addicted to lying and stealing and makes him an honest person the power of the blood God is better at saving you than you are at sinning the power of the blood of Jesus is stronger and the power of homosexuality the power of lesbianism the power of transgenderism the power of lying the power of self-righteousness and pride the power of the blood of Jesus it said it saved a wretch like me it saved a wretch like you come on somebody when we water the meaning of sin we water the sacrifice which paid for it number four God proclaims peace to the saved people through a rainbow I want you to notice when the rainbow came after God judged sin something Gilbert Baker didn't mention God didn't give rainbow to people until sin was punished sinners were saved through the Ark and then God came and gives a rainbow in Hebrew word for rainbow is a word for a bow what is the rainbow God taking a warrior God executes punishment and sin takes the bow puts it down declares peace war stops that's why God says I will no longer punish why sin was punished you were saved you were delivered from the wrath to come and God turns the bow down pretty much almost like a person that puts the gun down it's no longer targeted focused and facing you the bow gets put down and God says I declare peace please understand you cannot have peace with God until your sins are covered by the blood until your sins have been paid for either by you or by his son Jesus Christ when you experience salvation and you get delivered from the wrath of God you get delivered from the penalty of sin you experience the pleasure reconciliation and peace with God the bow is put down the bow is laid down number five the world has turned the bow into an act of provocation God puts the rainbow down we take the rainbow up and we provoke God use that which he used as a symbol of mercy to a world he just rescued by his means and now use it as a symbol of pride against God God says clearly in his word it's an abomination we say it's something we are born with and we are proud of it we couldn't create provocation against God if we didn't have a pride to fuel it that's why June in my culture is called month of pride because you can't redefine good and evil until you rebel against God like Satan did in pride you need pride to not be ashamed anymore and redefine good and evil and that's what's happening in our culture you know I was reading this morning in my devotional about Sodom and Gomorrah and Ezekiel has two verses about Sodom and Gomorrah and one of them he says this he said look this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom she and her daughter had pride fullness of food and abundance of idleness neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy and verse 50 and they were hearty and committed abomination before me before I took them away as I saw fit word abomination is the same word that is used for homosexual behavior in Leviticus 1822 I want you to notice that Satan did not become Satan because he played with Ouija boards Satan became Satan because in Isaiah 14 12 through 15 five times he said I will I will I will I will I will pride is a worship of self national religion of hell my savior twice three times in a garden prayed die will die will die will Christians do not endorse pride we repent of that there's nothing wrong with having pride in your work on your children that's not the pride is referring to but a pride a direct rebellion against God says I know better your will no I know better and I don't need you to tell me and be outdated God change your program this is no longer acceptable God we don't like this we will make God in our image and likeness the God that doesn't require us to change so we can change him that kind of a way fuels whatever that's gonna come after that which for Sodom and Gomorrah was a lot of other sins homosexuality a fullness of food a lot of pride idleness and a lot of really sin that was happening in there look chapter 18 Jesus compares the last days to as it was in the days of Noah so it will be in the last days before the summing of Christ eight people were saved as it was in the days of Lot Jesus says so it will be in the last days four people were saved angels came and they told Lot get out from the city lot was reluctant finally he got out of the city but lot was smart he's like let me get some people with me and as he preached to them that this city is going to be doomed and understand this sounds like doom and gloom but it's in the Bible and you know what his son is in law were thinking Noah was joking lot was joking lot finally gets out because God has mercy on lot and his family and as they were leaving Sodom and Gomorrah his wife turns back because though her feet were carrying her out her heart was there if you are here today I want to remind you we no longer live in a country that is Christian we live in a post Christian country which is worse than pre-Christian country I'm gonna go as far as to say we live in Sodom and Gomorrah the difference between our Sodom and Gomorrah is our Sodom and Gomorrah we domesticated and we have celebrated what God clearly states is against his will churches have embraced pride some priests and pastors have become homosexual queer and so many other things they brought drag queens for the children even in churches why because the Bible says we shouldn't be conformed to the world but many Christians out of the fear and because they're not anchored in Jesus and the truth and they care more about what people will think about them than what God thinks about them they've fallen and got bullied into what is happening in our culture I am not gonna be surprised if in the last days the fight between the truth and the lies will get sharp I also won't be surprised if there won't be many people who will stand for the truth because Jesus says the way is narrow and the path few find it yes we're believing for many people to be saved and we will evangelize and pray and fast but I do want to let you know as it happened in the days of Noah and in the days of Lot few you are the few you are the remnant when I throw my salt in my soup I don't throw a lot of salt to make a big difference we don't have to be a lot to be a bit to be a difference but we have to stop being silent we have to stop being lukewarm we have to stop compromising we have to stop walking to God's kingdom and keep looking into the world and being like the world may this month be another draw in the line that we are not like this world we were never meant to fit in that's why if you don't fit in you were not created to fit in you were created to stand out Jesus didn't say that he will make us like the world we don't have to embrace their culture we don't have to curse we don't have to drink use drugs slip around to reach the culture God is gonna reach the culture but he wants us to be his light and to be his salt in this generation I want to challenge you church to word holiness I want to challenge your church to repent of our sins I want to challenge you to live a life as though Jesus is coming tomorrow and I want to challenge you to be the light and the salt in your generation I want to challenge you to stand for the truth in love pray for your neighbors pray for your co-workers and in this month when the culture celebrates pride live in humility walk in righteousness amen if you are here today and you are not a Christian please understand we only have two kingdoms kingdom of darkness and kingdom of light Jesus Christ gave his life for us because God loved us if you think God hates you the gospel says God loves you but God is a holy God and because he knows the sin is to be punished he loves you so much that he let his son take your place on that cross that you will be saved that you will be rescued God doesn't tolerate our sin but he wants to forgive a sinner he wants to forgive and wash that sinner with his blood today he's done it to this body of people and many of us who are watching us online as well he wants to do it to you God is not gonna break you to go into heaven force you or drag you it gives you a choice but I ask you today choose Jesus be part of the rebellion stand up for what God teaches is right this new cultural thing that has been happening for the last 90 years it will pass as wrong past as Greek past and so much stuff even this stuff will pass God's word will endure it doesn't matter what your friends think of you think of the day when you stand before God what he thinks of you and that day will matter not what Facebook thinks of me not what tiktok thinks of me not for YouTube thinks of me who deplatforms me who censors me those things they don't matter they matter maybe right now but when I stand before God I don't want God to censor me I don't want Jesus to deplatform me and say you would ashamed of me in this perverted generation and I will be ashamed of you I am saying today with you I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is a power unto salvation for the Jew for the Greek for the white for the black for the children for the parents for every person I watch the rise to your feet if you are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and give God a clap of offering right now amen every head bowed and every eye closed in this room our second sanctuary and online I would like to give an invitation today to anybody in this room who would like to give Jesus their life if you're not saved if you don't know what the forgiveness of Jesus is the power of his blood if you're walking in shame because of your sin because that's what sin does Jesus wants to forgive you today and give you gift of salvation he wants to give you new life he wants to give you purity holiness and most importantly eternal life he wants to be your Lord and Savior if you are that person in this room or second sanctuary or online when I count to three if you would like to give your life to Jesus or you would like to come back to Jesus maybe you walked away from your Christian faith today Jesus is waiting for you he loves you so much and he wants to forgive you of your sin when I count to three I'm gonna ask you to raise your hand that's gonna be your way of saying I would like to be saved I would like to come back to the Lord Jesus Christ one two three just raise that hand hi if you're saying today this is me thank you I see your hand anybody else is saying hey today is my day I would like to make the decision in the second sanctuary I want to see your hand if you that person if you're watching me online drop this in the chat and say I want to be saved if you raised your hand or you wanted to raise your hand I'm gonna ask you to do something right now that is bold the Bible says confess me before men and I will confess you before my father I want you to step out of your seat and I want you to come here just stand here with me I want to pray with you if you raise your hand or you wanted to raise your hand just make your way forward don't be afraid like oh this is my rose not gonna let me in they will let you in just ask to come in and just come come in the second sanctuary as well come forward to the front and we want to pray with you that Jesus will come into your heart come on if you brought a friend this is a good moment God bless you bro bless you Paul was standing with you anybody else who's saying hey today I would like to recommit my life to Christ if you're watching us from the second sanctuary this would be the day you will never forget this would be the day that will mark your spiritual life so let's get ready to pray in the first and the second sanctuary as well as online let's pray together I want you to say this prayer with me say Lord Jesus Christ I am a sinner please forgive me of all my sin and wash me with your precious blood I believe you are the son of God who died on that cross for all my sin thank you for dying for me I accept your gift of salvation your Holy Spirit and I commit my life to you from this day forward I promise to follow you as you lead me in Jesus name amen amen amen brother God bless you God bless you sir you can go to your seat I'm gonna invite our pastors I'm gonna invite the ministry team as well I'm gonna invite the ministry team if you were notified this morning as a part of the ministry team I want to invite you forward if you are here today on our first and second sanctuaries second sanctuary and you need prayer for anything you need prayer for healing deliverance or whatever that you have you're going through it right now after we dismiss the service just line up in the center and we would love to minister to you but church and our people online we want to say God bless you don't forget about fasting tomorrow Tuesday and Wednesday better is not good enough the best is yet to come God bless you have a wonderful Sunday