 Let's stand together, shall we? Have a word of prayer. We're so glad for you to be here tonight like for you to take your prayer and praise please and Refer to that to the names that are listed there so we can remember them all and believe in God to touch In that area. I want to also just mention to you Some special prayer requests for families that have lost loved ones over the past few days and that is Brother David Phillips's brother unexpectedly had a heart attack and passed away that funeral service will be this coming Saturday And I want you to make sure that you are praying for that entire family. You find the information of course on the Website for the funeral home as well as Sister Donna Adams for the Morris Adams his wife. She is passed away. She's been dealing with a lot of issues of Alzheimer's and so forth for quite some time stroke. I should say I'm sorry stroke for quite some time and Just a few days ago. She made her entrance into heaven. I can tell you this without a doubt That make going to heaven is not a bad thing Look at your neighbor tell her for a little bit just tell him going to heaven is not a bad thing Amen, so when this life is or You won't have to worry about me flying away The absent from the body is the present with the Lord and that's the best thing that could take place for our life Amen, you believe God and it hears you when you pray That's all it takes then faith in him We'll bring it to pass. Let's believe God for all of these needs tonight father in heaven We thank you for the privilege we have to come before you in prayer Believing you Lord that you are well able to do more than what we could ever think think ask or imagine And we recognize tonight Lord our desperate need of you in fact in this nation Lord in Uvalde, Texas at Rob elementary you know all things that have been going on there We asked you right now Lord Jesus in a very special way to visit that community and every parent Lord that is suffering tonight of a very deep painful heard for that community and Tragedy that has taken place our hearts and our prayers and we dispatch the angels of heaven to do what they only can do To be able to minister by the spirit of God to the lives of people that are there pray that you would hold them up tonight Lord we know Lord Jesus beyond any doubt that you have the children in your arms and Lord we believe tonight God that by your grace you're able to hold them and keep them and there's nobody better But Lord the parents in that community and those in leadership and other locations need Lord your visitation tonight God America needs your visitation tonight. We're in a desperate place right now We see evil that is raising its head all over Around the world and we need you now more than ever before so we cry out to you tonight Come on church lift your voice. We cry out to you tonight right now Lord to let your anointing touch our lives. Don't let us be Bystanders in all that's taking place, but let us engage our lives spiritually physically mentally Emotionally in every way God We ask you cast your net of grace and protection Around this community around this church around your people around the children of schools Lord We ask you right now to just move by your spirit on our churches We need revival in our churches Lord desperately in this place tonight for those that are hurting those that are grieving We pray you'd dispatch the anointing of God wherever they are and let them feel the mighty touch of God and your presence That is real in their life and we give you praise for that right now in the mighty name of Jesus and everybody believes you Pray the prayer of faith tonight. Say a good. Amen. I want you to get out and shake hands with somebody appreciate them being here While I talk to all of you that are watching online. We're glad to have you join us tonight from wherever you may be watching from I know that your hearts are heavy over The tragedy and the recent days But I want you to know there is one solution and that is as we fall upon the grace of God and call upon him He has the answer for our lives and the comfort for our soul So I encourage you to keep on praying at just a moment We're gonna have the privilege of being able to give into the kingdom And then you download the study where you're watching from and join with us in the word of God tonight May it be strength to your life and we thank God for you being with us Let us know where you're watching from. We appreciate you taking time to be a part of pace assembly live tonight Praise god So glad for you to be here this evening if you're first time guests with us We're certainly honored that you're with us. Hope that you will come back and be in service with us again If you're first time guests stop by the guest central or talk to one of our ushers and greeters out there Let them know that you're first time and as a matter of fact This is one of the wonderful things about wednesday night that I get the opportunity to be able to hang out around the altar So if I haven't met you now if I've met you, please don't come and meet me for the 50th time But if I haven't met you then I need to meet you my wife and I would love to do that So please feel free to come Right up around the front We would love to be able to have a chance to meet you face to face This coming weekend is memorial weekend And I want you to make sure that you're in the house of the lord and you invite a couple hundred people to come with you If they don't have a ride stop by and pick them up Thank you very much. Why did god give you that car? Amen, that is the first bus ministry. So stop by and pick somebody up and needs to come to church Bring them to church with you and let's fill the house of god up And I believe god's going to meet us in a powerful way as you get ready to give the information is on the screen Encourage you to be able to do that through all the different mechanisms that are available to you And I appreciate you and this church appreciates everybody's participation in being able to give the kingdom of god Is not isolated some corporate entity nor is it isolated to just one or two people But it takes everybody doing your part and it's not just that but you're opening up the windows of heaven above your head And if you need me to teach on that I can do that all night long Because I know that god has blessed and will bless the cheerful giver If you believe that tonight get ready to do that on your phone your smart device They're online at pace assembly.org Whatever mechanism you do cash the buckets are available in the back as you're leaving out God bless you for giving tonight father. Thank you for the opportunity. We have to show you where our heart is at Lord, we know That when we give we're never more like you than when we do that And lord, I pray that you would just take what it is that is in our hands And now put your hands upon it and multiply it to exceed the need And we give you glory and honor for it in the mighty name of jesus and everybody believes god's a blesser say a good amen Praise god. God bless you for Giving to the kingdom. Let me mention to you very quickly This coming weekend on saturday starting at noon Out at the Pensacola pavilion go side pavilion on Pensacola beach We'll be the family beach fest. We want you to make sure you're praying earnestly for it And that if you're going to participate I know that uh as a matter of fact if you'd like to be able to help in any capacity Tonight right after the service you can come up see ben and sherry. They'll be happy to put you to work from eight o'clock I think it is in the morning till noon is when a lot of the work is going on and Putting up all kinds of stuff sound everything under the sun And so we want you to be able to participate if you'd like to so make sure that you see them after the service And it'll be a blessing Also want to make sure And I know let me just say um that I know that hearts are heavy I can tell you that mine has been all day long and hearing and watching and seeing what's taking place um I am Greatly grieved and I don't really understand and I'm just going to be I'm just going to be pastoral here for a moment and I'm going to be um A parent and a grandparent for just a moment To let you know I don't quite understand why parents would not Have their children in church Knowing and seeing what's taking place Um, they sent their children telemetry school on the last few days of school hoping to see them and um Evil rose its ugly head And let's just quit telling it. It's not Cars that kill people. It's not guns that kill people. It is people that pull the trigger and drive the car And I'm just going to tell you when I got up this morning and God has had me in the book of Ezekiel I know for a reason for a purpose. I'm I'm preparing to bring you messages concerning The prophet Ezekiel And what he what God gave to him to the people and I got up this morning and reading In Ezekiel 14 Where God outlines four Different judgments that come upon a nation That are worshiping idols and are Without a doubt Saying to god, we don't want you in our nation anymore And without going into detail. It's not my message tonight But I'm just going to tell you all four of those we're suffering right now And one of them that Brought me to my knees this morning literally in prayer and And just pull the rug out from me emotionally These four of these four judgments war is one of them. We're in that whether anybody likes it or not. We're in war The the other one is food shortages famine That's a judgment Um But the third one is the one that arrested me He said there would be a judgment of noisome beasts That would be allowed to be unleashed upon you but the thing that really arrested me is that The connection to that in the prophecy was that these noisome beasts Would attack according to the commentaries your innocent children Now whatever you want to call people who are Going into places of innocence like schools Grocery stores wherever it may be And pulling the trigger and slaughtering people That's as beastly and evil as it gets And you can they'll they'll talk mental health and and I know there are people that are not mentally well and all of that And I would be remiss not to address this so I hope you'll bear with me for just a moment because my message Is I've asked the lord to give me what he wants to say to us tonight and what we need to do in light of what's going on Because it's no good for me to come in here and just teach some lesson to you so we get our bible study in If it's not practical if it's not real and if we can't apply it into our daily life then Then then we're not we're not practicing what we need to do but But when I read noisome beast and I started researching out what that was all about it literally identified Evil Attacking innocence And I said to myself this is this is where we are We've seen it in the past 24 hours And and the only solution lawmakers have is to pass another law But you heard me say this past weekend You cannot legislate holiness You can't legislate evil You can't legislate righteousness All we know is that when people live right and honor god Righteousness exalts a nation But sin becomes a reproach The bible says to any nation and and You know, I I've been attacked Here recently and I say I don't say that often and I don't see it flippantly because of my engagement into Political issues from the spiritual and the bible I don't have to make it up and I'm not here running for anything I'm just telling you if truth doesn't speak to power then what is truth? Okay, so I'm not afraid of that I mean, I've had An individual that is in the political realm contacting today And and others that have come to my office And I'm just telling you That the church is in the place where it's being ignored and its voice is not being heard because We're watching The same things as I preached about this past weekend happening in the church and our minds Are far off out there somewhere And evil and noise and beasts and war and food shortages and everything else is creeping into The fourth one for your information the fourth judgment is pandemics You hear me? Pandemics So I'm saying my friends. I'm not looking I don't pastor any other church for size pace assembly. Okay So and and you get the choice of going anywhere you want to go I'm I'm honored and blessed and and all of that that you would even care to come out and hear What I have to say or what the spirit has to say I say that humbly But I'm just going to tell you if we're not making and this is relevant to this lesson That I'm about to bring to you if we're not making the difference in our society And I'm saying to every parent and every grandparent It's time for us to stop looking for this and seeking and I don't I just hold your tongues here for just a moment I don't need applause or even a man's right now. Okay I'm saying to parents and grandparents if we don't stop seeking after The what makes me feel good and pleasure And ignoring and putting our children and grandchildren on the altar of sacrifice Can I just talk to you here for a minute if we don't stop doing that and ignoring Our children I I don't understand it and I'm saying this as a pastor here tonight Before coven there were Children we couldn't even handle. I say we couldn't we were handling it just fine But there were more than a hundred kids coming into into into kids church Okay, now some churches may be seeing that and and quite frankly when I see pastors This past week have been on the phone with pastors in our local area throughout our district that That are on the edge of quitting One did He said i'm done. I can't do it anymore. I can't get anybody to respond. I don't have a sugar stick I'm not paying you to come to church I'm not giving you candy donuts, you know barbecue ribs fish all that kind of stuff If if that's what gets you to church, I'll have to keep shoveling that stuff out and we'll turn this into a carnival But i'm just going to tell you something my friends. I can't all I have to you to give I give you jesus And if he's not enough that's all I got And i'm just telling you people better make up their mind of what the priority is because When evil attacks innocence You know, I thought about I told my wife before I came here and forgive me. I know i'm running into my time here I really didn't know all of what I was going to do. I got a lesson for you and I believe it's relevant to where we're going But I was just telling her today I said i've been thinking about memorial weekend this coming weekend What you know what the Lord's laying on my heart to preach and so forth and then it hit me This memorial weekend is not going to be about memorials Of the korea memorial or This one's all going to be focused On rob elementary And I implore you and I implore all of you that are watching If you physically can get up and come to church You need to get up and make church and the fellowship of god's people And the word of god and prayer the priority of your life and you need to do it right now I don't I'm not looking for your applause. Don't even applaud I'm not trying to condemn anybody I'm trying to tell you right now that we're sitting on the precipice and on the edge Of the hostile takeover of hell itself And if the people of god can't see the necessity and the priority of that and all we want is pleasure Because people are going to hit the road this weekend and i'm not against all that Playball do all those kind of things, but i'm just going to tell you something Like I said to you this past weekend anything that gets between you and god becomes an idol And we must put aside and break the idols down In fact, you reading the word of god god is so serious about that That when kings rose up after evil had slaughtered their people in israel and all that kind of thing And a righteous king would rise the first thing he would do was start smashing idols and breaking down totem poles and and and things that people had worship Literally and and why am I saying this? because our friends Our friends In the southern baptist convention tonight have hit A wall of of evidence and and And issues and i'm not bringing it up. I'm not slamming. I'm telling you i've been in prayer about it today because when Here's what jesus said Smite the shepherd And the sheep will scatter You hear me So when you have notable figures in In denominations and non-denominations, whatever that is That are that are No longer credible to hear because of something that they've done It confuses and makes people in despair in the congregation and the next thing you know all it takes is one pandemic And people start thinking maybe i don't need to go to church anymore Maybe i don't need god anymore. Maybe i don't need that or whatever it may be But i'm gonna tell you something my friends with all the sincerity of my heart and i you know I don't know how else to say it But if we ever needed god We need him right now Would you not agree? Everything's on the back burner tonight, isn't it for a little while Till he gets out of the news That won't stop those parents and grandparents And we can act like That it won't happen in pace But i just i need to remind you Of my message this past weekend The children of israel In juda said it won't happen in jerusalem will never be invaded in jerusalem But they were they were So i'm saying to you tonight Pray like you never have I'm not saying that flippantly, but i've heard it today on different news Organizations and political figures and everybody else and whenever people say you know We need prayer and and pray for and all that and i'm hearing now I'm hearing now People in leadership positions that are totally discounting prayer whatsoever and you know what? I would discount prayer too if you're praying to the wrong god But if you truly believe in the god of this bible not only hears and answers prayer But my friends The church better find itself on its face before god So i'm imploring you to to spend time in prayer And focus your attention upon That and covering your family in prayer. Okay, nobody's going to pray for your family like you are Nobody's going to fight for your family like you are But i bet you you put them babies pictures up in front of you As an altar And and and and and kneel down and begin to call each one of them everybody you can think make your own prayer list Are you hearing what i'm saying? Are y'all hearing what i'm saying here tonight? Okay, so i'm not talking to somebody else. I'm talking to you and i'm talking to me So don't flip this over all we got the prayer team on tuesday night. No No, i'm talking about everybody in this church picking up the prayer burden And calling upon the lord And if you'll call on listen if you you and i will call on the lord Not everybody's going to do it, but if you and i will call on the lord The god of heaven said i will hear you when you pray And we're going to spend some time in prayer here before we leave here tonight I we prayed up front, but but we're going to pray Again for these families before we leave here because i'm going to tell you those those might as well have been in my my children grandchildren yours too Am i right? How important that it is that we Not let this just come and go like every other and and let me just say to you Over this past weekend. There was over 200 and some odd people shot in chicago Now the news didn't pick that up because it's not expedient But the bottom line is chicago has the strongest gun laws Of any other state in any other city in the united states of america. It is not laws. We need my friend It's if my people Come on somebody And believe me nobody was running in there Asking are you black? Are you white? Are you hispanic? Are you mexican? Or what are you? I want to know what you are and then i'll shoot no no no this evil cares nothing That's the reason why i told you about ezekiel 14 And here's what you need to know about zekeiel 14 Now i'm going to preach this soon out of those four judgments. Here's what god says through ezekiel he says he said if noah and moses and daniel Were in this company of people Their righteousness would not save or stop the judgment of god coming basically he's saying Their righteousness is going to stand for themselves And you can't because this is what they were saying hey as long as our ancestors are here that are praying as long as we got some people down there that church God's saying it even if the righteous even if these three righteous men were alive It will not stop the judgment of god from coming. You need to hear what i just said Because people are going to say and maybe people watching online are going to say well That's not what god I don't believe in that god. Well, you got the wrong god Because god's a god of mercy and god's a god of justice and i'm just telling you you can't spit in the face of god with everything That's been going on in our world And then say oh let's pray There comes a point at which god says there's no turning back now I got it on the track And and what's he gonna do? What did i tell you this past weekend? There's a mark on the head of people And that's what's going to preserve them in the judgment that is to come Is it coming? Oh, I'm I as I stand here tonight I'm telling you it's coming Prepare yourself prepare your house prepare your family Because it's coming And if we'll do what god tells us to do we can reap another harvest And I am imploring everybody in this building to take on the burden of a soul winner immediately It could be it could be that you may be the last voice of a 10-year-old child before they go to school and some evil takes them out You hear what i'm saying That's how much you matter as a believer how many christians are in the house. Let me see your hand raise it up high Let's see Okay, look at all this If everybody in this room and everybody watching that just lifted their hand does your part wherever you are What would that do? That brings me to our lesson here tonight in matthew chapter five Jesus is saying in matthew chapter five. He tells us at the very beginning of that And and teaches about the beatitudes The attitude you are supposed to have as a believer So if you don't know how you're supposed to think or act As a believer open up to matthew five and you can read what we call the beatitudes And he goes into blessed are blessed are blessed are and all of that And then he comes down to the conclusion of all of the way that we're supposed to act And how we're supposed to conduct ourselves with kindness and Temperance and mercy and grace and love and compassion and all these beatitudes Even at the fact that if we do them we will reap What we sow Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain Come on blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain So if you want mercy You must Sow mercy And he goes through that whole process But then he comes down and confronts us in verse number 13 and says this Year the salt of the earth But if the salt has lost its flavor its flavor its seasoning it's the reason why it exists its purpose If you'll allow me to paraphrase Year the salt of the earth church But if the church has lost its savor Wherewith shall it be salted? How in the world what kind of effect is it going to have? It is and he tells us what kind of effect it is henceforth good for nothing But to be cast out and to be trodden underfoot of men I want to deal with that one verse there tonight, especially in light of what this tragedy is all about Because I do not intend to let this take place And and and I I just say you know, I want to have mercy For those that would politicize this situation for their own agenda and their own political gain The lord rewards you for your works This is not the time To be a democrat or republican or a white or a black This is the time for us to be merciful gracious loving and kind and be americans and come together as one period so Jesus speaks here the beginning of this concerning our attitudes the character the conduct the the principles for christian living It's like a profile of a christian life and what it's supposed to look like and act like I want to remind you go back and read this because this is what the lord expects us to live like in matthew five the beatitudes But then he comes down and he talks about the salt of the earth And that's who believers are supposed to be and salt Is an out of all of the types of elements that jesus could have used as an illustration He didn't use paprika pepper He didn't use all these different kinds of spices and ingredients He used one That is the The foundation of all others He uses salt Salt has always been a thing of great value in fact In our times salt is so abundant and the cost is so low that it's usually taken for granted But in jesus time and in previous times in history salt was so valuable that it was used in the ancient world as a form of currency Which is the word salary where we get salary from it is the word salt so whenever there was a whenever there was a contract or a A covenant that was made the salt covenant was secondary only to the blood covenant The salt covenant everybody carried a pouch of salt wherever they went And if they made covenant with someone else They would take a pinch of that salt put it into the other person's salt bag And that covenant was a irrevocable covenant made with them Why because the only way that they could break that would be to retrieve their own Individual grains of salt and since that was impossible. They had to stay true to their word and to the salt covenant Salt is made up of 40 sodium 60 chloride. That's what it comes there and 14 thousand different uses for salt 20 of your body weight is salt Being salty in our current culture is actually the opposite of what jesus described and taught here in matthew five Today we say when somebody's salty if they ever even use that type of language It means bitter. It means Irritated upset maybe grumpy, but when jesus spoke about it. He said ye are the salt of the earth stop He said you're the salt of the earth stop He said you're the salt of the earth You're not the salt of the church If all we're doing is having ourself a salt convention here We're not helping anybody and we're not changing that world Jesus said we are the salt of the earth We are to affect And influence this world for the gospel of jesus christ and the kingdom of god wherever we go wherever we live Well pastor, I you know, I just haven't studied enough. I haven't done this. Are you saved? Are you born again? Do you know jesus has he washed your sins away? Well, then you're just like paul Because paul was trained in the highest order of the sanhedrin. He knew the law He knew how to stand toe to toe with anybody that he needed to debate with right there on mars hill But every time you ever hear him speaking about his conversion. He was simply saying i was blind But now i see i was lost but now i'm found god help us to get back Well, I feel the anointing push right there god help us to get back to the place where we try to quit wowing everybody With oh, I wasn't a drug addict. I wasn't a drunk. I wasn't this I wasn't that I don't have a testimony Oh, yes, you do you are about to burn your seat going down to hell because sin occupied all of our life But he saved me He didn't just give me a better life He saved me He didn't just give me a great church to go to where I can have social interaction and feel good and hopefully everything is about me Me me He saved me I was going over the cliff. I was about to die. I was in a crime. Listen to me Everybody in this room and everybody watching didn't just wake up one day and say, you know today. I think I'll go get saved 98 percent of the people that are in this room came to jesus christ because you hit a wall in your life And said if I don't have a change right here god I'm not going to make it and suddenly the light came on and jesus reached down in the dreads and the Mire and the clay and pulled your nasty soul out Washed you in his blood and now you're sitting here by the grace and mercy of god Have you forgotten the lord saved me? Don't care what your background is Don't care how many pills you did and how much alcohol you did Don't care how much sinning you did he saved you And if I never get blessed again by anything else, I thank god that he saved me And if that's not enough my friend What else is there? I might get blessed. I might not please get on a plane and go overseas Where people and all I have to reference is where I've been Where people in the guatemalan hills of escapulis will now grope through the darkness without electricity Are the modern Indoor toilet or anything else and lay down wherever they are and wait for the morning Tonight my friends I believe the word of the lord for pace. I don't have it For first baptist first presbyterian anywhere else, but I believe the word of the lord coming out of this major tragedy Is that god's calling us to be salt And if we're not going to be salt then the bible says we are Good for nothing Don't care how many times you come to church sing all the songs play all the music lift your hands dance shout fall out All of that's wonderful and I love to experience it But my dear friend if we're not affecting that world out there If we're not changing the hearts of people if we're not affecting them with our life and lifestyle Then what good are we? Jesus said you're not worth nothing And that includes preachers I am not exempt from testifying and giving witness in the day But today I had to go down the street here and do some business And when I walked into that establishment And started doing what I needed to do He looks at my name And I tell him who I am and where I pastor And he says to me Well I used to go down to pace assembly as a boy Brother Lowry was the pastor back then he said He used to hang out we had all of our friends and he started naming people That I said well if you know them then I know you go to pace Where are you going now? Well, we're just kind of searching we're kind of hopping I said it's time to hop right on down And bring all seven of those children you have And get them in the house of God because because because because see See you and I have had the privilege Out of about you But I've had the privilege of being able to be raised in this thing since before I was born and and so so to who much It's given much is required And so call me passionate call me whatever you want to but I can't sit still It's more important than the necessary food that I eat to get the gospel out to reach somebody to touch somebody to affect somebody and be salt It's what god's calling us to do every church in the land should be a salt church tonight Are you here? This is not fancy I'm just telling you that the influencing character of christ Is not about you jumping up with a bible on the desk It's about you being Christ with skin on What does this salt do the salt is the influence and the character the results of it should be that wherever you go in your office In in in your work wherever you go that it literally influences and affects change there And I promise you not every day you're going to get up and feel like sunshine Right today, we got up to the sounds of thunder and lightning And we're going to do the same thing tomorrow. Pardon me while I time us you But I'm just telling you son Son or no son lightning or no lightning storm or no storm. Jesus is still God And we still have a work to do come on somebody So there's an influence and a character that needs to take place. What is the work of salt? Well, it is first thing first and foremost. It's purifying God's people are to be the purifying effect like salt God's people are to lift the moral standard And I'm going to tell you there's a reason why and I have people that are sitting in this auditorium here tonight That have made a choice to leave where they have been living for decades And get up and come To this church and to this area And I don't take it lightly Because when that's kind of thing happens and there are people that are watching online right now I'm telling you there are people that are watching online tonight That are getting ready to pack their bags and move to this area Because they've been watching online and it's not about it's not about the pace. It's just so great But there is a compelling that's going on. In fact, I spoke to a pastor just yesterday about this. I said, you know He was telling me where he was and where he was ministering over the weekend and how how absolutely dry Inside of the church. He couldn't squeeze an amen out of nobody And I said, well pastor, I just want to let you know I truly believe in the last days and we are there that there are going to be pockets and oasis I don't know if I'm prophesying or prophesying But I'm just going to tell you what I've had in my spirit for a long long time right now And I believe that God is allowing there to be oasis across the united states of america Where the people of God are going to begin to migrate to and find there's some fresh water in that place And I'm just going to tell you when the water is there. I'm moving whatever I got to do Listen, I'm just telling you that's the reason why it's bearing in these dry and desert places because the mississippi river Has gotten multiple tens of thousands of people because the water's there And I want you to know if the water ain't there you better get to where the water is and these last day You're going to need your drink of the living water The purifying effect of salt Can probably be most best illustrated By that gigantic gulf of mexico that's out there The content of salt water I'm going to tell you in in my own raising growing up salt was a big deal And jewish people know that salt's a big deal Whenever whenever we got through fishing Catching as many mullet as the water would hold And dragging them to the beach and getting a board out and start Start getting them prepared to go into the grease not many days hints The first thing that daddy started crying for was this he said I want you to get that bag of ice And I want you to bring me some salt Because that salt's gonna purify this meat and draw that wild blood taste out of that meat and make it clean and nice Now some of y'all don't have a clue what i'm talking about, but i'm just telling you that's the way it is Part of my job salt that stuff down and get it in that ice water and draw that stuff out and then pour that off And we go about it again and brother most of the time the salt wasn't enough time We got to the table. There's a little bit more salt going on I get it cut on my foot or hand or something like that as a boy We're going fishing because daddy said get down in that salt water And it'll heal and dry that cut up And brother it did it every time Why because there's a purifying effect that takes place in there Are y'all hearing what i'm saying Scientists tell us that if the oceans the salt water is the salt is extracted from the oceans that There would be massive corruption in our oceans Now listen to me. This is prophetic The earth would be swept clean of the life and epidemics would begin to take place God's people are to be the purifying effect like salt God's people are to lift the moral standard of a community Whenever the preachers of old would come into town They put those tents up and have revival and the next thing you know The houses of alcohol and everything else started shutting down Because of the purifying effect of so many people getting saved Y'all hear what i'm talking about If we don't have that kind of revival again my dear friend, we're watching a generation That are being turned over to evil God help us to have the effect that we need to have In these days under the mosaic law salt was used to draw the blood out of the meat make it kosher or clean Babies according to ezekiel there's ezekiel again. He just keeps popping up on me 16 and 4 the bible says that they would use salt to rub the babies down to cleanse them and protect them from infection after they were born Salt was used in many most all of the offerings under the law When i got a sore throat at the house We didn't run down and get some listerine We didn't run down and get some act or whatever that it is Mama would get warm salty water swish her own finger around in that and say gargle with that you'll be good Some people think that it's uh something brand new, but i'm just going to tell you there's your home remedy right there that works And if you swallow some it ain't gonna kill you So let them gargle you Do you hear what i said? Let that world gargle you a little bit. They got a sore throat. They can't even talk. They don't even know what they're saying Their vocal cords are inflamed with nasty infection And the only thing that's going to make that right is when they get around somebody who's got enough salt in their life And all of a sudden the water of the holy ghost is mixed with it and they have to drink a little bit of that But all of a sudden they're gonna say i'm feeling better salt water salt water it salt it purifies salt it also Move me ahead back there this thing ain't working. It preserves Before refrigeration salt was the chief ingredient for preserving food It kept food from decaying God's people are to be a preservative When abraham prayed for Sodom God promised to preserve Sodom Why if he could find 10? righteous people in it Look at the preserving effect Of 10 righteous people over the city The preservation i want you to hear me and i know that Well, i don't know how far this is going out. So i say just share it as many times as you can The preservation of our nation That's it depends On the presence of god's salty people And whenever you were valued In ancient days They would say this You're worth your weight in salt Think about it Number three the salt is a seasoning It's a seasoning It adds flavor to food It adds flavor To food how many of you know what i'm talking about? How many of you use some salt now in the end? How many of you use some of that no salt one time? Just one time Yeah, after that you said that ain't for me Because if it ain't salt i don't want it and they say and i don't know why we bought it because it plainly says right on the package No salt Now i'm just going to tell you You know and i know that there's some people claiming to be christians sitting up in the house of god Who clearly have written no salt And i'm going to tell you you can't afford to hang around that I'm going to show you that in a minute This is so important for you to get a hold of anybody getting this This is the call for what's come out of what's taking place in texas tonight Salt needs to be added in its right proportion To enhance the taste of food Too much of it you wind up having to throw it away God's people are to add good flavor to society To be cheerful kind Well as soon as they're kind to me i'll be kind to them Not the way it works Now sometimes he will put you in a place Where your saltiness actually brings such irritation Come on somebody You ever rub salt in the wound before? Yeah So while it's fixing the problem While it's actually fixing the problem It's also painful burning like fire And you might want to back out from somebody you put the salt in because they might have the spirit of slap on Now what does that look like pastor when you say one of those words coming back like a barb Sometimes he uses this in order to get the thing healed and cleaned up and until that wound receives it Until there's watch this genuine repentance Genuine sorrow Genuine remorse that that's that's the problem we have today. There's a reason why people don't want to hear preachers I want to hear no preacher. Tell me that i'm wrong What we want to hear is God's so good. He's so good to you all the time. He's going to be good to you and it literally is giving a license For sin in the lives of people because the mentality is much like it was in the days of jesus Where they said I can do whatever I want to with my body, but i'm good On the inside because god's good and he'll be good at me all the time Well, I just want to tell you God is good And he's good all the time But there's coming a day when he's going to say i'm not winking at your mess no more And what is that salt doing? It's actually getting you prepared For the thing to heal over I don't like you saying that to me. I don't call me a sinner. Let me tell you I challenge you to turn on any tv program preaching the gospel today suppose and wait for them to say center You might as well have given somebody a four-letter word right in their face Like here's a four-letter word Work Hold it past your fishing the curse right here. I don't think Well, some people think work is a curse Come on somebody It's a seasoning It's supposed to add good flavor Not bring your bitterness to the table. They're already bitter They're already full of contaminants We're supposed to raise the moral standard Not judge them That's the reason why I say to you and everybody's watching online Pace assembly's doors are welcome and open to whoever you are whatever you look like every how you dress I don't care bring your transgender self up in here. I could care less come on in the house Give me a chance to talk to you about the love of jesus christ And the fact that everybody's going to one or two places heaven or hell and then there's an altar for you And then you have no excuse But I have a feeling that because the moment you enter into the presence of god in an environment where the salt Is just right god's gonna get you like the ice and the salt on a mullet fish and wash all of that out of you And make you clean Is anybody glad you're clean tonight? I'm clean I'm clean. I'm clean and that salt helps me stay clean God's people should improve the environment What are these other I don't have time to go through So many of these things many of you are familiar with it preservative purifying all of that Here's a few other things and I like to preach this right here for just a second salt melts ice Let me say it again salt melts ice in any church If the pastor is salty enough then the ice in the pew will melt when the fire hits it Isn't that something Isn't it something that out of all the ingredients When the snow hits the ground They're looking for the salt trucks Talk to me somebody Yeah, we're so bright down here aren't we You want to see something shut down let it snow in northwest florida And the last time that it did that And the place was so locked down school shut down now folks that deal with the snow up north are going What is y'all's problem crazy? Shut down schools or grocery. I mean all of it shut it all down And a brilliance of leadership in our local area Spent money on one Salt truck I tell you the truth They broke out that one truck And there's the church we can't get to everybody We're only one truck right here And there's a whole bunch of people that needs some salt on them So lord, yeah raise up godly churches and godly people to effect come on somebody Because i'm just telling you Preachers right now are trying to find pastors right now trying to find what's what's the what's New thing i got stuff in the mail today come to this deal. We got the we got the solution for the future Well, they might and i don't discount that but i'm just going to tell you I speak as a pastor The gimmicks are over Did you hear what i said? I'm going to be able to preach to a bunch of preachers here in a few weeks And i'm flat out the holy ghost already told me some things to say and that's one of them Because we're at a place right now Where people in the outside world are saying give me some hope give me something that's real And the last thing they need is another gimmick that's reason why i'm telling you Well, you know if we don't get a mullet fry Don't get your feelings hurt But come on to church anyway Come on somebody I'm just telling you because i'm not coming to church And and fellowshiping with god's people in here in this word Because there's something that i can get You're receiving the word of god, but for what? What are we going to do with it? You better get in that field out there Between now and sunday Thank god for family beach fest. It's going to get right out in the in the smack dab middle of it And and i say bring the gospel and bring it red and bring it hot You know why because ain't nothing to lose. I mean oh pastor. You might offend somebody. What hell are we going to offend them to one? Two or three You better go ahead and lay it out ben You better turn adam feel loose and let him preach it red hot and on fire and smoking alive Because i'm just telling you my dear friends. We're that close to the coming of the lord and there's no time to fool around Because what's coming down the pike? monkey parks We've had two infections in the united states of america and the leaders are losing their minds Now most of you may not even know this i digress a little bit, but this is a reason why we need so much salt Because we've no salted for so long Then now we got monkey parks Where'd that monkey parks come from Well, it's it has been traced back to two locations where pride festivals Of homosexual activity has been going on in the canary islands and in another location And by rubbing their skin together They transferred these boils One to another this coming weekend on pincicola beach Might be the next breakout uh-oh and in the in the In the circle of all that mess of sara megamora Yeah Just down the beach Is going to be a righteous few And the gospel is going to get out And you know what god's going to say to him run to the mountain and don't look back lot Why because if you don't You're going to turn to a pillar of salt salt melts the ice Salt makes you thirsty it actually makes you want to drink More and more to be hydrated look at the effect that it has too much of it can dehydrate you The right amount in your body actually creates a thirst Well, that's a good thing Because if you read a few verses up in matthew five, you're going to find out to those who hunger And thirst after righteousness they shall be filled Are y'all with me tonight? Here's the third thing salt holds your body together. Did you know that? Salt literally holds your body together salt sticks together My nephew was with us On the israel trip we got down there in the In the dead sea where where the bottom is literally rock salt I mean the ability to cut your feet and all I mean it's just that way And everywhere we went he picked up a rock from here and there and I'm not going to tell you how he got it over here. I think that might have been illegal, but nonetheless He brought back these lumps of salt that's from the dead sea Why is it dead pastor? It's not because it doesn't eat salt. It's because there's no outlet See if all you do is hoard the salt I'll come to church great message pastor loved every minute of the oh lord the lord's really blessing my soul. Why? Because if all you do is take it in You're going to kill yourself But if you've got an outlet Then the salt that's good coming in and the salt you need to retain you and sustain you and the salt You give to somebody else is going to be a blessing to somebody else other than that If you retain it you're going to die and everything around you is going to die The dead sea Y'all with me out there Jesus said there is a danger of losing your saltiness Listen salt when it is mixed together with other elements will lose its own saltiness Even pure salt when dissolved in water can lose its potency So how does that relate to the idea of salt losing its saltiness what jesus said if the salt has lost its savor It's henceforth good for nothing The words lost its savor that phrase lost is lost his savor Is translated from the same word that's translated become fools so that would properly read like this If the salt has become fools or foolish Then it's good for nothing If god's people don't live godly that means they're living foolishly There'll be no value in society you want listen. It's not hard for me to explain. I don't have to have a prophet come by Everybody's all let me oh prophet this prophet that I don't have to have a prophet got the word right here Prophet to yourself read this book Come on somebody One guy the other day that's purporting some false doctrine that people are sucking it up like it's the brand new Jesus juice Knocking down about 12 million dollars on his product I'm gonna tell you something This is not a time to be fooling around with ministries that you don't have and know that you haven't proven Now you may not like me you may not like this church You may not like the way we do things find where god is the words being preached and the spirit of god is free And have yourself a ball But i'm just going to tell you jumping around or jumping out and staying out is the wrong thing Right now You you might could have fooled around a few years ago You might could have I wouldn't suggest it Every child of god needs to pray to be faithful And to be influential so I conclude this here tonight and then we're going to pray Salt means standard That's the literal translation of the word salt standard It is the standard of measurement like like a ruler Has 12 inches and that is a foot That is the standard I was thinking to myself today as I was watching some of these news reports concerning this school shooting And I heard the same people In the media and others Who just a few days ago Were pushing The transgender You're not speaking the right pronoun Garbage Describing these children as he her are you hearing me? And i'm telling you it when it gets all down to it When you get all the way down all the way down to the bottom You scrape it off and find out what's really true and real Nobody stomps on the brake in the car and hollers old buddha Nobody stomps on the brake and says oh i'm an atheist Everybody everybody centers and saints alike Jesus Why because he's the only one you don't mess with a dead man You don't fight with a dead man You only fight with one that's living So why why is it? Why is it ceo of fiser this week? Who came out and said i'm gonna bring this to you next weekend next wednesday night lord willing I'm gonna bring you a prophecy files update bring you update on what's going on But here's an article here's an article right here that that i've got i'm gonna bring it to you next week But here's what he said that they've invented a chip That when you swallow it fiser says for a vaccine it will go into your system and we'll know Your condition wonder who's going to get that information And then he comes down to the bottom of the article and makes the statement Everybody's doing this misinformation i'm paraphrasing a little bit Misinformation and all this kind of stuff about the vaccines and all that kind of stuff that's going on But he says You know all this stuff about jesus raising from the dead is fake news too Now my dear friends We are in the greatest fight that's ever been The fight between light and darkness God and satan and you and i are right in the smack and you know what god is expecting out of us He's expecting us to be salt The standard Are you hearing what i'm saying? Watch this You go home research it yourself when salt is removed Literally from sys from something The water forest life Everything collapses as a matter of fact just just to give you a couple of things I want you to get this When salt Is removed from a society What happens? Things simply cease to exist Plants and animals Begin to die The desalination The desalting Of the ocean Would begin to wipe out the ocean's fish and marine life When salt is removed plant life starts dying Too much carbon dioxide The climate goes crazy for lack of oxygen And suddenly extreme heat and cold dramatic hurricanes Weather food shortages These things are the effects of salt being removed from society. I didn't I didn't get that from a biblical commentary fluctuations in the weather People become dizzy headaches vomiting Suffering extreme fatigue emotional mental and physical problems due to the lack of salt In the earth I have just described to you The book of revelation And the beginning of the tribulation period for seven years When the salt of the earth every believer Is removed from this planet and the preservative and the purifier Has been removed It collapses into utter chaos Are you understanding that parallel for everything spiritual for everything that's happening physical it's first spiritual So look at this they're talking about climate change They're talking about more extreme weather and all kinds of stuff food shortage all that kind of stuff going on God is showing us right now That when There is No salt and the salt has lost its savor the church has lost its effect in the community Before it wipes it out completely god Scrapes up the remnant And takes it to heaven and there won't be one believer one Salty preservative person left on this earth five seconds after the rapture takes place This is the explanation Of what the world Describes as climate crisis and change and all that's going on right now This is moving us So fast because salt is losing its savor and when it finally ends It collapses on itself Well pastor, then I guess we just sort of go to our house and suck our thumb and read our bible and wait till jesus comes Wrong As long as we're still alive and breathing on this earth There is a pull in our spirit To put salt everywhere we go Now it don't worry I want to make sure everybody here and those of you watching right now understand this You are not The savior You are the savor Y'all miss that didn't you You're not the savior. You're the savor You're the flavor. You're the salt. You're the purifier. You're the preservative You're the one who steps on the scene and says hey What jesus has done in my life he can do in yours too And a little sprinkle of salt in the right place Will make those peas that Rita cooked this past weekend Come on. How may be crazy enough to put some salt on your watermelon and suddenly it tastes totally different Come on somebody. Oh, I got some holy ghost in here now Y'all about to shout right now. Maybe I should pass out watermelons this weekend, right? Maybe that'll be a y'all come to church get a free watermelon and a salt packet Now you can eat any of that food without it But glory to god I know my wife is jewish because when jewish people eat bread i've sat in the satyr i've sat in the Sabbath meal with them there in israel and part of the whole process Is salt in the in the plate And whenever they get ready at certain times they will break that bread And dip it into that salt now. She's notorious for that Dip the bread just raw bread just right on down in there. Oh, you got some believer you can start yourself a small group Right here I don't think I would call them the dippers, but I think Dipping that bread down in that salt Because because the salt is on top of the bread Are you hearing me? That's what's going to make that. I mean an ordinary piece of bread suddenly turns in To a crispy cream doughnut with some salt on it. Are you all with me out there? Some of y'all don't get it. Let me let me see if I can help you right here Why do you keep going back to olive garden? It's not for the stoffers lasagna. They serve you It's for them breadsticks Come on somebody I lost my whole appetite the other night when we went over there I didn't care nothing about the lasagna because I'd already had about four or five of them sticks How many of you agree tonight? That you're not saved for no reason you're saved So you could be salt and if I could add the other scripture salt and light Would you stand with me all over this building? Would you take the time? And I know I didn't give you the last one there But spending time in prayer and worship and the word and being empowered with the holy spirit and fellowship with other people Ladies and gentlemen if I was going to preach a message about the church this coming weekend, that's it That's what the church is for You're to be built up here Resalted You understand what i'm saying? You're here to get resalted and then you go out and spread that salt I want you to find some people around you you agree with and and and get them by the hand here tonight I want you to get them in agreement all of you that are watching online do the same thing Just move around the room wherever you are just get where you need to be because Because see when salt gets together something's going to happen When salt gets together something's going to happen And I don't want you pray you're some you're your same old little prayer I want you to pray this will you do this or you be bold enough to do this Will you pray that god would burden your heart for the lost? I'm not talking about bless me again. I'm talking about a burden I'm talking about burden when I see a soul Walking down the street in a in a tent under the bridge My employees my my co-workers whoever that it may be would you pray right now god Send that burden and lay it upon my spirit right now I dare you to open your mouth and pray that way all of you that are online right now lord You know where my workers are the the workers co-workers and and my family members right now I'm praying that you would give entrance to the word and the light tonight Help me to be salt when I get around them lord It might irritate them it might make them mad and and lord I might have to just salt a little bit and then and then get out of the room because I don't want to put too much on it But I'm asking you god to give me the wisdom to know just how much To put on it and just what to do because because I see what's happening lord You're about to take all the salt out of this earth We're the salt of the earth But when you take us out of here and nobody going to get the word like like because the church will be gone Nobody will be concerned about the laws. Everybody will be all about themselves They won't be about one another the church has got to do this And if the church has lost its saver, then we'll be good for nothing. Oh god result us tonight Result us tonight Set me in a place god where i'm not just doing life and going along but Something in my soul burns every day To reach one more soul with the gospel of the kingdom God for the friend that i've got a hold of their hand tonight Make them a fire brand for you Would you take the coals off of the altar tonight and put it on their lips right now Would you set their soul on fire so much would you fill them With the overflowing power and baptism of the holy ghost so much That they'll not just go through life, but they'll seek To save those who are lost God I hear the clock ticking. It's going down fast It's it's faster than what we believe if we knew if we knew when the last when the alarm was gonna go off lord Surely we would do more than we're doing now burden Burden us from the pulpit to the pew tonight wall to wall God I pray that you would arrest and convict young couples who have children and And grandparents who have their grandchildren and that the priority of their life would be we're going to church We're not going to go to the game. We're not going to go to here But we're not going to put anything in front of god. We'll have our time We'll vacation we'll do all of our stuff But the priority of our life is to raise up another generation that knows the god of our fathers Oh lord Would you send a humbly request for you to send The fire of revival into this house? Revive us In this hour revive us Don't care how hot and on fire. I am right now how full I am Let my high she cut our rebbe on double cost so rebbe I tell about shy Revive me again. Oh lord Revive me again. Oh lord Revive me again And I give you glory. Here's my life use it. Here's my salt Here's my salt use it In the name of jesus Now for every person here that's got somebody on their heart that needs to be saved and you know right now that the lord's heard your prayer Would you do something in advance? Would you do something by faith and just lift your hands? And thank god that they're coming into the kingdom that somebody As somebody salty is going to go past their life and it's going to affect change inside of their life And father, we pray for the family beach fest this weekend that there would be many souls that would be born again Right out there on that beach. Don't care what they look like. Don't care what they act like Lord transform their life renew their life Lord bring them into the kingdom get them in the ark let jesus And I pray holy spirit that you would just lay a blanket of conviction upon that beach right now Prepare prepare the place. Oh god of the altar and we pray once again lord for the families of those there in texas Lord those that have been affected both family members and god The police officers and emergency workers and lord my heart goes out for those paramedics and others who had to walk into that classroom and be able to Gracefully be able to do what they had to do Lord, I know their minds and their hearts may be Maybe so affected tonight, but would you holy spirit? Would you just would you just made and cover that entire city? An area and every emergency worker and every school worker and teacher and parent and principal and And everyone would you just cover that place with a muddy blanket of the comfort of the holy spirit tonight? As people are crying out in prayer across american around the world Lord we pray right now that you would just That you would just alert our leaders lord to what is really real and what's needed in this hour For us to return back to god right now before another incident like this happens We pray this humbly and mercifully We pray for your mercy upon america your grace upon america right now in the name of jesus Thank you for using my life right now in jesus name Hallelujah, hallelujah. How many of you got the word that you needed here tonight? Amen Praise god give god glory for it. He's the only one worthy So turn around and be affected by salt around you shake hands and be friends I'll see you this coming weekend bring somebody with you God's gonna meet us in a powerful way