 but let me tell you about my camp. FYC is coming up July the 18th through the 21st. We're gonna have some special guests that are coming, so make sure you go online and sign up today. The link to register is right here at the bottom. Also check our social media, Facebook and Instagram for more updates. Can't wait to see you there. Now let's get back to our announcements. Peace out! Now here's what's happening this week at PACE. Today, following morning worship, the PACE Young Adults Lunch and Game Day at PACE Assembly Firehouse. Monday at 6.30 p.m. men of influence men's Bible study. Now here's what's happening this week at PACE. Wednesday at 6 p.m. Ignite Student Ministries. The PACE Young Adults Lunch and Game Day at 6.30 p.m. Royal Rangers and Impact. Monday at 6.30 p.m. Men of Influence. At 7 p.m. Pastors Adult Bible. Thursday at 11 a.m. Real Women's at 7 p.m. Most Excellent Way. Also at 7 p.m. Royal Rangers and Impact. Pre-K if you've thought about getting involved in the choir, join us at 7 p.m. There's Room Day at 11 a.m. Saturday at 10 a.m. The First Annual James Mitchell Softball Tournament. Come out, support your favorite team. Rain date for Sunday afternoon, March 5th. Next Sunday is Mission Sunday. Be sure to remember our Missionaries and Mission Projects at 10 a.m. The First Annual James Mitchell Softball Tournament. Come out, support your favorite team. Rain date for Sunday afternoon, March 5th. Next Sunday is Mission Sunday. Be sure to remember our Missionaries and Mission Projects with your giving. That's what's happening here at PACE. For further information or to register for any event, visit the PACE Assembly app, the website, or call the PACE office. Thank you for joining us. Here's this week's Change of PACE. If this is your first visit to PACE Assembly, Pastors Joey and Rita Rogers have a special gift just for you. As you leave service today, please visit Guest Central, located on your left as you exit through the foyer. Are you interested in learning more about PACE Assembly or would like to become a member? Then join us on Sundays for Starting Point, a four-week course that will help get you plugged into your place at PACE. Start date is next Sunday, March 5th at 9 a.m. Here's this week's Change of PACE. Come shop with us at the Marketplace. This is your first visit to PACE Assembly, Pastors Joey and Rita Rogers have a special gift just for you. As you leave service today, please visit Guest Central, located on your left as you exit through the foyer. Are you interested in learning more about PACE Assembly or would like to volunteer some time to help in this event? Then join us on Sundays for Starting Point, a four-week course that will help get you plugged into your place at PACE. Start date is next Sunday, March 5th at 9 a.m. and tickets are available for purchase online at coltendickson.com. Saturday, March 11th from 8 a.m. with Eric Stackelman. On Sunday, April 2nd at 6 p.m. Invite all your family and friends to be in this special service. Hey Ryan, just tell me when you're ready. Hey everybody, it's Pastor Caleb here with PACE Kids and I've got the best news ever. KidCon 2023. Registration is now open for both kids and volunteers. So sign up so that you can get your T-shirt. Our special guest this year is Blitzman. They're amazing. We're going to have so much fun. I can't wait to see you there. Pastor T's up. Cool, cool, cool. Thanks Pastor Caleb. I'm super excited about kids camp. But let me tell you about my camp. FYC is coming up July the 18th through the 21st. We're going to have some special guests that are coming. So make sure you go online and sign up today. The link to register is right here at the bottom. Also check our social media, Facebook and Instagram for more updates. Can't wait to see you there. Now let's get back to our announcements. Peace out. Now here's what's happening this week at PACE. Today, following morning worship, the PACE Young Adults Lunch and Game Day at PACE Assembly Firehouse. Monday at 6.30pm, Men of Influence Men's Bible Study. At 7pm, Intercessory Prayer. Wednesday at 6pm, Ignite Student Ministries. Grade 6 through 12. At 6.30pm, Royal Rangers and Impact. Pre-K through Grade 5. At 7pm, Pastors Adult Bible Study. Thursday at 11am, Real Women Widows Lunching. At 7pm, Most Excellent Way. Also at 7pm, The Voices of PACE rehearsal. If you've thought about getting involved in the choir, join us at 7pm. There's room for you. Saturday at 10am, the first annual James Mitchell softball tournament. Come out and support your favorite team. Rain date is Sunday afternoon, March 5th. Next Sunday is Mission Sunday. Be sure to remember our missionaries and missions projects with your giving. That's what's happening here at PACE. For further information or to register for any event, visit the PACE Assembly app, the website or call the church office. And remember, PACE is the place. Good morning and thank you for joining us. Here's this week's Change of PACE. If this is your first visit to PACE Assembly, Pastors Joey and Reader Rogers have a special gift just for you. As you leave service today, please visit guest central, located on your left as you exit through the foyer. Are you interested in learning more about PACE Assembly or would like to become a member? Then join us on Sundays for starting point, a four week course that will help get you plugged into your place at PACE. Start date is next Sunday, March 5th at 9am. Register online. Come shop with us at the marketplace. Saturday, March 11th from 8am to 3pm in the PACE Assembly gym. We've got brand new clothing, shoes, handbags and more. All proceeds go toward the PACE Assembly Building Fund. If you'd like to volunteer some time to help in this event, please call the church office. PACE Assembly is pleased to host the upcoming Colton Dixon Build a Boat Tour Saturday, April 1st. Info and tickets are available for purchase online at coltondixon.com. Join us for prophecy files with Eric Stackelbeck on Sunday, April 2nd at 6pm. Invite all your family and friends to be in this special service. Hey, Ryan, just tell me when you're ready. Oh, now, now. Hey everybody, it's Pastor Caleb here with PACE Kids and I've got the best news ever. KidCon 2023. Registration is now open for both kids and volunteers. So sign up so that you can get your t-shirt. Our special guest this year is Blitz Ministry. They're amazing. We're going to have so much fun. I can't wait to see you there. All right, Ryan, I'm done. Oh, Pastor Teza? Cool, cool, cool. Thanks, Pastor Caleb. I'm super excited about kids camp, but let me tell you about my camp. FYC is coming up July the 18th. Through the 21st, we're going to have some special guests that are coming, so make sure you go online and sign up today. The link to register is right here at the bottom. Also, check our social media, Facebook and Instagram for more updates. Can't wait to see you there. Now, let's get back to our announcements. Peace out. Now, here's what's happening this week at PACE. Today, following morning worship, the PACE Young Adults Lunch and Game Day at PACE Assembly Firehouse. Monday at 6.30 p.m., Men of Influence, Men's Bible Study. At 7 p.m., Intercessory Prayer. Wednesday at 6 p.m., Ignite Student Ministries, Grade 6 through 12. At 6.30 p.m., Royal Rangers in Impact, Pre-K through Grade 5. At 7 p.m., Pastors Adult Bible Study. Thursday at 11 a.m., Real Women Widows Lunching. At 7 p.m., Most Excellent Way. Also at 7 p.m., The Voices of PACE rehearsal. If you've thought about getting involved in the choir, join us at 7 p.m., There's Room for You. Saturday at 10 a.m., The First Annual James Mitchell Softball Tournament. Come out and support your favorite team. Rain date is Sunday afternoon, March 5th. Next Sunday is Mission Sunday. Be sure to remember our missionaries and missions projects with your giving. That's what's happening here at PACE. For further information or to register for any event, visit the PACE Assembly app, the website or call the church office. And remember, PACE is the place. Prayer, shall we, Father in Heaven, we come before you today recognizing that you have made this day. Enjoy, Senate. We recognize also that you're the God of all gods, the King of all kings. And you're worthy of our praise today on this service with the outpouring of your spirit. And lives will be changed both here and those that are watching online. And may the spirit of the Lord just envelop us in a powerful way. Healing, saving, and delivering. And we give you glory for it. In Jesus mighty name. And everybody's glad about it. Shout a great big amen. Can you play a little bit more of that music? I know I just throw that on you right there because it's good handshaking fellowship and kind of music. How many of you know what I'm talking about? So I want you to find somebody, in fact, I want you to find at least 10 people that don't look half as happy as you do and let them know how glad you are to see them in the house of the Lord. Go shake hands part of this service in this environment today, I promise you. Today I'm going to be bringing a message, the altar of Jacob. It's a family message and you'll want to get your family to hear the word of the Lord today. God bless you, let's celebrate. Shake hands with somebody there with you. The Lord another praise, amen. Praise God. You can be seated in the presence of the Lord. Some of you are looking at me like, hey, wait a minute. We're supposed to be singing right now. Well, all of you that are watching online, just hold tight. Let's get a little bit of changes. Anybody like change? Anybody don't like change? All right, well, we're changing. What have I told you? What have you heard me preach? Two constants, time and change, right? For some of you, and especially watch this, watch this because in just a few moments like the 10-20 crowd will arrive. Hey, hey, don't dog them out. They think it's 10 o'clock. And then we're going to have another wave that's going to come in about 10-35. Don't dog them out. They're thinking I'm on time for the 11 o'clock service. But we've started. We're changing the format a little bit, and here's the reason why. Here's the reason why. We're going to make room for God. Come on, somebody. There's a lot of stuff, and it's not to say that we won't change it a little bit up again, but we need to make some room for the Lord, amen. So we're going to do some things a little bit different, and I want you to just help us with it again. The only thing that's sacred is this Bible right here. All right, our formats of services and so forth are... Pardon me. That was a big frog right there is what I'm saying. Our formats of services may change from time to time because the last thing I want to do is get in a rut. I mean, you know that a rut is just a grade with both ends kicked out. So we don't want that. We want the liveness, the realness, the presence of Lord to have His way, amen. So we're so glad for all of you that are guests with us, first-time guests with us here today. We welcome you here, and all of you that are watching online, I'm just telling you, just looking right now, there are more people watching online than there were last week, more people watching online than there were the week prior. Would you let all of our online church know how glad we are to have them joining us today? Praise God. And all of you that are guests here, first-time guests with us in this sanctuary, we want to encourage you as you're leaving out of the building today on the left-hand side is Guest Central. You go right into that door, there'll be those waiting on you to welcome you in a proper way, get you a special gift from us, and we're so glad for you to be in service with us again today. First thing I want to do this morning is be able to give away a Bible. I want you to reach up underneath all the seats in the... We got two Bibles? I didn't realize that. We got Dose. Amen. Reach up underneath there, and you might want to check those seats that are beside you that somebody may not be sitting in, and here's the deal. If they show up at like 10.35 and sit in that seat, they could have been. They could... When you get the ticket, hold it up real quick. Hold it up real quick. Hold it up real quick. In fact, hold it up. Stand up. Check those seats, ladies and gentlemen. Stand to your left and right. I got Bibles to give away this morning. There you go. See, that's what you get. That's what you get. Run that out there, Pastor T. Praise God. Come on. Give the Lord praise for that right there. I know... I know it may seem a little bit silly if you think of a different way to do it. You let me know. Is there another one out there? There's another one out there. Where is it supposed to be? It's on that far section over there. So obviously, y'all haven't checked it out. So I would encourage you to check it out, because if you miss it, it's all the way up underneath it. Look at these people. It's the first time some of them got on their knees in their lifetime. Come on. Ha. Ha, ha, ha. That's the way to get you to pray, isn't it? Amen. Well, they haven't found it yet. I am not a preacher that I should lie. I will tell you somewhere there's a Bible. But I just want you to know this, that once I move on with this service, forget it. It's just a piece of paper. I'm moving on. There you go. Look at there. Praise God. Come on. Give him a big God bless you this morning. Every weekend, we're giving away Bibles in this year. And why are we doing that? I want you to have that physical Bible in your hand. There's a big deal. There's a lot of conversation that's going on these days about AI and everybody using their phones for Bibles. And that's a wonderful tool. But let me tell you something. When everything shuts down, whatever it may be, and you still know how to operate this, I can assure you, ladies and gentlemen, the Word of God will be life to you. Can you say amen to that? How many of you love the Bible, love the Word of God? Come on. I mean, you know, some of you love me, but when I was growing up, we used to do it like this, the B-I-B-L-E. Yes, that's the book for me. I stand upon the Word of God, the... Some of you went to Sunday school. Praise God. I'm just telling you, you fall in love with the Word of God. Why is that so important? Because the Bible says in the end of days, the last days, that men would not love the truth and that's what would get people in trouble. So whatever you do, love the truth of God's Word. Amen? Praise God. Well, it's a blessed day to be at Pace because we get the privilege of being able to welcome into the body and the family of God brand new members into the body of Christ. And I am glad for that to take place. So, Jeremy, if you will please, read the names of those that are coming in to this family of God. Also coming, we have Sal D'Cunha and Carol Santos. Just come straight to the front. That's good. Come on. Raymond and Josie Gray. Nikki Hawkinson. Matthew and Kimberly Holder. Arthur and Linda Pittman. Matthew Sweet and Sama Dulaki. Jackie Williams. And finally, Brian Winniger. Would you let all of these fine people know how much you love and appreciate them? I need all of you to take about two steps back, if you will please. Very good. Now, I want all of you in this congregation, whether you're members or not, to pay close attention to what you're about to hear. We rehearse this with this entire group. What a wonderful group of people that are coming into the family of God here at Pace Assembly as members. And we rehearse it for all of you as well because you need to know what kind of church you're in, what this church believes, what the leadership is all about, and what is your part, your role to play. The Bible tells us in the Book of Ephesians, now you're no longer strangers to God and foreigners to heaven, but you're members of God's very own family, citizens of God's country, and you belong in God's household with every other Christian. I'm glad this morning that we have the privilege of being able to bring in new members to the body of Christ here as family into Pace Assembly. Now, membership is not salvation. We're not talking about shaking the preacher's hand or signing a card to get you into heaven. But to be a part of the family of God at Pace Assembly as members is not a small thing because being able to have a church family that can pray for you and hold you up in prayer, and you can do the same. There's something to be said about that kind of connection. In fact, God's word has much to say about that kind of connection. In fact, membership actually is part of the identification process of a true believer. It gives you the spiritual family that you need for support and to help you in your walk with the Lord. It gives you a place to discover your own gifts in your own ministry and the spiritual protection of godly leadership gives you accountability to grow. In turn, the church is going to provide a place for you to worship and focus upon God. One thing you're not going to have to worry about is a message coming from behind this pulpit that's not biblical. Fellowship with other believers in the walk of life so that you can be able to be encouraged along the way. Discipleship, biblical principles and ministry and evangelism that will take place as part of all of that as a member of Pace Assembly. Here's some things you need to be aware of as they put it on the wall and this is the commitment that you're making and we're making to you. First, I will protect the unity of my church by acting in love towards one another by speaking in a positive supportive way of the church and the leadership. If you want to, you'll hear this passage description in a few moments, it's a foolish person that tears down their own house. Can I get a good amen out there? Amen. And third, by staying focused on the vision and the mission of the church. Next, I will share the responsibility of my church by doing what? By praying for its growth. I know there are people that are coming in here to the body of crisis, members that many times come from other churches. I always ask them to make sure that they close the book there, do what they need to do if God's calling them here. In this group we got people from Iowa and from Oregon and from Texas and multiple places that have moved into this area because they found a church home that they can be able to call their very own. I thank God for that, don't you? So we pray for its growth. We also are inviting un-churched people to attend. I'm not looking for church growth built from other churches. I'm looking for church growth to be built by those that are needing Christ. And believe me, there's a whole lot of folks that need Jesus Christ by warmly welcoming those who visit. That's the reason why I provoke you to get out of your seat and go shake hands with somebody. And I know that it's a blessing when you do that to others and yourself. Not only that, next, but I will serve the ministry of the church by discovering your gifts and your talents and using them for the kingdom of God. Many of you have already done that and already started by developing your personal discipleship. In other words, there's a responsibility on your part to help yourself to grow. If you're a new believer, we'll help feed you. But if you've been walking with the Lord, you need to pick the fork up and feed yourself by doing that personal discipleship. By equipping yourself to serve other people because you know and I know it's about reaching out to other people with Jesus Christ. And then finally I'll support my testimony of the church by faithful attending. Why in the world would you become a member? Do you know if you were a member down at the Kiwanis and you didn't show up after your first deal, they kick you out? Three of you said that. Three of the Kiwanis were here. They say, where's your dues and why haven't you been here? Why do you want to become a member of something and not show up? So faithful attendance is a big deal. Now, why am I saying this? It's not about necessarily all of you. This is about all of us. Because faithful attendance is a big deal. Because in this hour, you don't know when you're going to need to support help and prayers of other people that are sitting around your life. So faithfully supporting with your attendance and faithfully giving or living a godly life. That's very important for people because I know how you do and I know how people do. I always love that. First of all, my name is Joey Rogers, spelled R-O-G-E-R-S. I need you to know that. I asked the person the other day when they told me, hey, I go to such and such church. I said, who's your pastor? They said, give me just a minute. You haven't been to church in a long time, man. Don't even know your pastor's name. It's important, it's important that you give a faithful testimony and then faithfully giving into the kingdom of God. Listen, we don't have big corporate sponsors here. And the Assemblies of God headquarters is not sending a check down to the local church. It takes everybody doing their part and every part put together with every other part causes this church to be a great church of influence in this community. And trust me, this is a church of influence that's changing and making a difference in this community. Can you say a man to that? So I want everybody to stand, if you will, please. I want our board of directors and their wives pastors, ministers and their wives to come and stand behind these that are standing in line this morning as we are about to pray for them and ask God's favor. And I'm going to ask everyone please to look up on this screen and you'll see Pace Assembly is committed to see people and we're going to rehearse this right out loud. Everybody say it together right out loud. Are you ready? Hey, Pace Assembly is committed to see people save, heal, set free, equip, empower and serving. Can you say a man to that today? I want you to stretch your hand this direction as we pray upon each one of these and we pray God's favor of this house upon their house right now. Let them hear you pray right here as we begin to pray Father in the name of Jesus. We thank you right now for the blessings of the Lord that are upon each and every one. Here today as they commit themselves to be members of this particular body at Pace Assembly you have brought them to this church for such a time as this and right now God as we lay hands upon each and every one of them we pray that your favor would rest upon them from this house. May the spirit of God speak to their lives and touch their hearts and draw them by your divine presence every time that they hear the word and receive the word. Every time God that they're fellow shipping together may they be drawn closer to you, closer to one another and see Jesus Christ lifted up and you said you draw them in unto us. Thank you God for each and every one that has come to this house to become a member and a part of this body of Christ. And we ask that your favor, your blessing, your anointing and your presence would rest upon their home from this day forward in a very special way. We give you glory, we give you and we give you praise in Jesus mighty name and let all the church shout a great big amen. Would you that are in this line turn right around there's someone there to welcome you into the family of God right here at Pace Assembly church give them a great big God blessing a hand clap today would you do that come on give them a great big one praise God it's a blessing you may be seated it's a blessing to be in the house of the Lord amen. I want you to get ready to be a giver this is some of the change we're taking care of all this we're going to enter into worship in a moment and I know that God is going to be lifted up and you're going to be blessed and I just want to remind you a couple of things real quick we're not even taking a lot of time you're going to find out that all of the announcements are going to be running pre-service 15 minutes before every service you're going to hear all the announcements running continually at the time of service also just to drop a couple of things on your mind and for you to be involved in and that is this coming Friday or this coming Saturday is the James Mitchell softball tournament out on the ball field right out here Pace ball field and we want those of you that want to be able to come out just watch some teams I think they've got five or six teams that are going to be playing and it's going to be a great time if you want to get involved in that contact the office we'll be happy to speak to you about that and you can just come out watch and have a great time it's going to be a beautiful time they'll have some concessions it's going to be a great time also just mention all that starting point for all of you that want to become members and you didn't go through the starting point class it will start up again next Sunday at nine o'clock in sixty one oh seven just be there at nine a.m. next Sunday morning and you'll get started in starting point don't want you to forget that and then of course the upcoming prophecy files update that's going to be happening you check your calendar download the app or go online and you can see what's taking place right there all the events that are happening all the things that are taking place at Pace Assembly and we're glad for you to be here I want you to get ready to be a giver today and let's worship the Lord in giving amen come on that's good give the Lord praise for that today you're glad to be a giver are you glad to be a giver amen I want to do something a little bit different this morning I know that I know that I said that I was going to do that but we're going to do something different y'all rolling with me on this come on you're going to roll with me on this because if I turn left I don't want you to get thrown off the motorcycle alright alright so I want everybody to stand once again because we're like just as close to Catholic and standing and sitting and kneeling as you possibly can get I want you to get your tithe and you're offering out if you're giving on your phone I know I'm sorry David I told all the ushers I'm ready to do it at the end I want to become give me some ushers up front up here I want you to come and bring your offering this morning put it right here on this altar and get ready to do that and as you're ready to do that those of you that are watching online you can do that online or you can do it on your app whatever that it may be I want us to pray and you can give me a little bit of music Mr. Maestro of what that is some good given music whatever that it may be I don't know what that is but I want you to just spread out fellas all the way across the front I want you to be a participant in bringing it to the altar would you do that today Father in the name of Jesus we thank you for the privilege we have to give we pray God that you would bless the gift and the giver alike let it be out poured upon your people in the mighty name of Jesus and everybody shout a great big amen praise God come on and just be ready lay it right on this altar God bless you for that praise for the privilege to give God bless you ushers thank you you may be seated there's a lot of stuff going on here so you're going to have to keep your mind and focus on what's happening but this I'm telling you this is going to charge your heart this morning I want you to join me watching on the screen this morning last weekend some 30 individuals this is going to take a little moment but I need to testify of what the Lord has done in water baptism for this past weekend let's enjoy what God's done in the lives of people it's miracle my everything was decided to follow Jesus miracle paced upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Sunday I raise you the new life in Jesus Christ in the Miracle my name is Joshua I have decided to follow Jesus Joshua paced upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father in theivity Jesus Christ Hi, my name is Sammy and I've decided to follow Jesus. Sammy, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, I raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. You got me and you went. Right? All right. Hi, my name is Jadon Leon Carter and I have decided to follow Jesus. Jadon based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, I raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Hey, my name is Rodney K. Lewis and I'm here to follow Jesus. Rodney, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you. In the name of the Father and of the Son, I raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen, amen. My name is Evea Fay and I decided to follow Jesus. Faith based upon your confession to the Lord Jesus Christ is your Savior. I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son. Now the Holy Ghost will raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. My name is Andy and I decided to follow Jesus. Andy based upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. My name is Stella Lavery and I decided to follow Jesus. Stella based upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus as your Savior and Lord I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hi, my name is Mason and I decided to follow Jesus. Mason based upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hi, my name is Colleen and I decided to follow Jesus. Chloe based upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Praise God. Hi, my name is Loden and I decided to follow Jesus. Logan based upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hi, my name is Autiana and I decided to follow Jesus. Autiana based upon your confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Amen, amen. Hi, my name is Destiny. I've decided to follow Jesus. Destiny, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to new life in Jesus Christ. Amen to God. Hallelujah. My name is Sylvia Morado, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Sylvia, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hi, my name is Olivia, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Olivia, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and I'm going to raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Praise God. Praise God. Hi, my name is Madison, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Madison, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you now in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen, and amen to that. Praise God. Hi, my name is Cody, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Cody, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and I'm going to raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Yes, sir, Ray. Hallelujah. Hi, my name is Rocky, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Rocky, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and I'm going to raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hi, my name is Callie, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Praise God. Callie, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hi, my name is Cal, and I have decided to follow Jesus. Charles, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and I'm going to raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. Blessed be God. Hi, my name is Chuck, and I have decided to follow Jesus. Charles, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen, my friend. Hallelujah. Hi, my name is Brooke, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Brooke, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. Hi, my name is Kelly Fields, and I have decided to follow Jesus. Kelly, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Blessed be God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm Matt, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Oh, Matthew, I think you got a story, pal. Today, old things are passing away, and behold, all things are becoming brand new. Hallelujah. Matthew, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. My name is Michael Higgins, and I have decided to follow Jesus. Well, Mike, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and I'll raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Blessed be God. Hi, my name is Lisa, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Lisa, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Oh, blessed be God. Blessed be God. Blessed be God. Hi, my name is Trinity, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Trinity, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Praise God. Praise God. Hi, my name is Tanner, and I've decided to follow Jesus. Tanner, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Yeah. Hi, my name is Tammy. I decided to follow Jesus Christ. Tammy, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. My name is Chad. I've decided to follow Jesus Christ. Chad, based upon your confession and faith in the Lord Jesus, I gladly baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and raise you to a new life in Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Lord, we seek your face today. Generations, and your family, and your children, and their children, may his generational blessing God. This world wants our kids. They want our grandkids. They want to corrupt. They want to steal. They want to destroy. They want to snuff the life out of those babies that you've blessed the people of God. I pray the priestly blessing. The priestly blessing that was spoken through Moses to the people of God. I pray today, let your blessing be upon your people. Your people. I don't know about the people of the world. I don't have a blessing for them, but I got a blessing for the bloodbath. I got a blessing for the redeemed, that it's a blessing. I will keep you in your coming, and in your going. When your kids go out to school, I have these circumstances of life that has so pre- that sustains. And we say amen. We seal that prayer, and we seal that blessing. Long live those hands towards heaven and blessing. Your worthy, just gently reach over to your neighbor, and just lay your hand on their shoulder, and a board would bless them just like you've sung. Would you pray for them? Let them hear you pray. Father, in Jesus' name, for my friend that's standing here next to me, would your favor rest upon them now and their house? And to their children and their children's children. You said to a thousand generations, let it be. Lord, move upon my friend whatever needs to be adjusted, whatever needs to be changed. God, let them find the blessing of the Lord that maketh rich and hath no sorrow. We believe you for it today. Keep us in all of our ways, oh God, and direct our paths. We trust you, Lord. We trust you, Lord. We trust you, Lord. We trust you, Jesus. We give you glory, Lord. If you receive that blessing, I want you to just slip your hands towards heaven and thank Him with gratitude of heart this morning for the blessings of the Lord that are upon you and upon your house today. Gratitude is a big deal, my friends. It's my worship. It's my worship unto the Lord. It's my worship unto the Lord. We bring you glory and honor and praise, God. We thank you now. Every blessing is not for today. You've reserved some blessings into the future for us. But I'm thanking you today for the reserved blessings that are in the future for me, my house, my church. We give you glory right now, Jesus. We thank you. We give you praise, hallelujah, hallelujah. Are you a blessed people this morning? If you're blessed, let the Lord know. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so today. You remain standing in the presence of the Lord. I want you to take your Bibles, please. Join me in the book of Genesis. The book of Genesis the 28th chapter can physically stand. Please do so for the reading of God's Word. Genesis the 28th chapter, and then we're going to go to Genesis the 35th chapter. Blessed be God. The Lord is in his holy tabernacle this morning. I want you to look with me in the book of Genesis chapter 28 as your heart is set for this Word. It's not an accident that they sang this song. They relate to me earlier in the week, but the Lord was already working. So today I want to draw your attention to the altar of Jacob, and his story really kind of starts. We kind of pick it up in Genesis 28 in a significant first encounter with God. Genesis 28, verse number 10, is where I want to start reading, a little extensive reading this morning, but I believe it's important for the background and for your understanding. And Jacob went out from Bersheba and went toward Heran, verse 11, and he lighted upon a certain place. He happened upon a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and laid down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set up on the earth and the top of it reached into heaven, and behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it. I feel like that ladder is here this morning. And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed. Thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth. Follow this covenant he's making with him. There'll be as the dust of the earth and thou shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south. And in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. Behold, I am... I want you to mark, verse 15, and behold, I am with thee, and I will keep thee in all places whether thou goest, and I will bring thee again unto this land, for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of. Jacob awakened out of his sleep and said, Surely the Lord is in this place and I knew it not. And he was afraid and said how dreadful is this place. This is none other than the house of God and this is the gate of heaven. I have found God's address. Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillars and set it up for a pillar and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Bethel. But the name of that city was called Luz at first. Jacob vowed a vow saying, If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and ram it to put on so that I come again to my Father's house in peace, then shall the Lord be my God. And this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be God's house. And of all that thou shall give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee. Now look with me in chapter 35 because here we are at the beginning and God and Jacob have this meeting. Jacob has an encounter with God. He sees angels. He hears the voice of God. And now we're coming toward the close of Jacob's life in chapter 35. And God said unto Jacob, Verse 35, arrives. Go up to Bethel and dwell there and make there an altar unto God that appeareth unto thee when thou fledest from the face of Esau thy brother. Direct reference to verse chapter 28. Then Jacob said unto his household. He said to his whole house. Jacob became a leader. He said to his whole house, and to all that were with him, put away the strange gods that are among you and be clean and change your garments and let us arise and go up to Bethel and I will make there an altar unto God who answered me in the day of my distress and was with me in the way which I went. And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hands and all their earrings which were in their ears and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem. And they journeyed and the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them and they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob. So Jacob came to Luz which is in the land of Canaan that is Bethel. He and all the people that were with him built there an altar and called the place El Bethel because there God appeared unto him when he fled from the face of his brother. Verse 10 And God said unto him thy name is Jacob thy name shall not be called any more Jacob but Israel shall be thy name and he called his name Israel and God said unto him I am God Almighty I am El Shaddai I will multiply a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee and the king shall come out of that loins and the land which I give which I gave Abraham and Isaac to thee I will give it and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. God went up from him in the place where they talked with him where he talked with him and Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him and he poured a drink offering there on and he poured oil there on and Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him or spake with him Bethel I want to talk to you this morning God giving me help today on the altar of Jacob it's not an accident that the song was sung the blessing of the Lord it's not an accident that this is family Sunday I did not have intentions about this series falling out like it did but today I'm focusing on the family altar Jacob's altar and I believe as we're watching it take place I got word just yesterday that one of our assembly of God colleges Valley Forge college of which my son went to that college for a period of time is now in a state of humility and revival fire is burning in the hearts of students at that particular college I read online yesterday as I am standing here and we're talking to folks that are in Brazos Valley, Texas right now at the Texas A&M University it is broken out on the campus as they're all over praying and seeking the face of God my friends God is trying to tell us something it's time to go back to Bethel can you say amen come on lift your hands towards heaven Father in the name of Jesus let the words of my mouth and meditation of my heart be acceptable in my sight today let the words Lord penetrate every heart even this pastor's heart I pray and let this whole house Lord submit ourselves to the very altar of God of which we will meet with you in your power and presence in Jesus mighty name and everybody believes it shall a great big amen be seated in the presence of our Lord hear the word of the Lord today before the church was formed God created the family there is no church without family and since the days of the Garden of Eden the family has been under a constant attack pressure and in the time we're living right now the very nuclear family has been under such an attack that you hardly can recognize it in many cases today pressure like it's never been breaking it down redefining it but I want you to know God is pro family he's pro life and he's pro family that's not a political statement that's a biblical fact and it must be ladies and gentlemen that each member of the family from the smallest to the oldest must have a sustained constant relationship with none other than Jesus Christ in this hour to survive the environment that we're in and for those of you that say I have no family I'm by myself the book of Psalm chapter 68 verse 6 says that God puts the solitary in family in other words he says I take the person who's lonely by themselves and I place them into my family your mind your part of the family of God if you're born again God has always had a remnant of people and you're watching that remnant cloth come to the surface in the face of all adversity throughout the scripture and throughout time and history I believe that God saves families I'm going to try that on again I believe that God saves he not only saves individuals he saves whole family my God I think that's a good place for us to stop and say Lord save my whole family you promised the Bible says that Noah built an ark to the saving of his entire household that Philippian jailer found out soon after the jailbreak that took place with Paul and Silas he fell on his face and the Bible says in Acts 16 that he was saved and his whole house in the Old Testament the book of Exodus the Bible says that a lamb would save the house where the blood was applied at the Passover whole houses were saved because of the blood that was applied to the doorpost why is that because God is interested in preserving another generation that knows the God of their father and it becomes important for us regardless of whether they receive it or not I promise you they won't forget it to teach our children and our children's children in this our biblical values not your conviction biblical values to found their life upon society's pressure is vexing our souls every day it's affecting us how we live, how we think good godly people at one time who had convictions about certain things straight from the Bible are now questioning or re-evaluating their biblical position I promise you in all the eons of time what God has spoken what God was for in the New Testament God is for in the New Testament God was yesterday He is today and will be tomorrow we must purge ourselves as the book of 2 Corinthians 7 says we must purge ourselves of the sins of the flesh watch this and the spirit many times we focus upon the flesh the outward things that people can see but God said there's things on the inside with His will and none of us are immune to the pressures of the past our past, the present and the future in fact doctors have figured it out some time ago that what's happening in your family history most likely is going to happen in the next generation that's the reason why it takes you so long to get an appointment with the doctor because you're filling out all that paperwork about your grandmother and your grandfather and all that information goes in because they understand what happens with the parents passes to the children I want to say that again what happens with the parents passes to the children now for those of you who don't understand that whole concept let me say this if you're the man here today or watching online that is looking for a wife take a look at her mother Selah pastor I married my wife I married my husband I didn't marry their family oh you married every last one of them you got the whole bag of goodies you got all the good you got all the bad and you got all the in between somebody knows what I'm talking about say a good amen many times the slow eating spiritual termites of the past physical we'll eat away at the house and we don't realize that the house has suffered such damage that it crumbles what looks to be overnight has been a process unseen to the eyes of our friends unseen even to the family living inside of the house these termites of sin and other things creep in the weights of sin things that distract us away from God anger and bitterness and unforgiveness unresolved issues fail relationships stack one on another and these termites eat little bit at a time away at our house some things we may have brought upon ourselves and other things we may not have had anything to do with it might have been someone else that let the termites in the door I know one particular day at our home I left the garage door open and the door coming into the house open I was going in and out bringing things in bringing things out and I left the door open and the next thing I know I start hearing screams in the house I went into our bedroom which is just off of that door to find that a field mouse had found his way into our bedroom my wife was on top of the bed I said what's wrong she said there's a mouse in the house I'm going to tell you something you got to be quick to get those little jokers he was everywhere under the bed on the bed around we were jumping around like popcorn trying to get this field mouse somebody say I didn't have anything to do with it but somebody left the door open somebody left the door open somewhere I would just say to you I'm not here to blame your judge you and you don't need to turn to another family member or friend and judge and blame them what I am saying is somebody needs to guard the door that we're in because there's a whole lot of stuff that's beating on the door knocking on the door saying I want to come in and if you give it just a little bit the bible says in the book of Ephesians give no place to the devil come on say that with me give no place to the devil because it will manifest itself as you see in the time we're in right now it manifests itself physically by abuses and drugs and finances gone awry and self abuse and on and on I can list it for days but unless these issues are dealt with the problem will only eat away at the house until the whole house falls to the ground today I came to encourage you and to give you something to say today you need to let the termites in your house know the exterminator is coming his name is Jesus Christ he knows how to get the bugs out of your house come on say amen somebody we must deal with these issues before it grows because every deed is a seed and some people don't want to think about the consequences of things done in your life and how that it may not necessarily manifest itself upon you what I found out is is that one generation who does not deal with certain issues in their family or life pass those things down and the next thing you know you don't understand I was talking with someone the other day that said it took me a little while to figure out what's going on in this direction but I found out at 13 years old this happened in my life and I did not realize it it affected me all the way down the line so what one generation may do in moderation the next one will do in excess are you hearing what I'm saying if the termites are a generational curse and can be passed down to the next generation then I'm here this morning to preach to you that we need to break the cycle and to declare it's time to have an intentional generational blessing that comes down upon the next generations in our house if you say that amen right there I believe it'll help me preach better Satan is stolen from your house and the question is are you going to let him steal from you until it's all gone are you going to stand there and watch your generation and your family after family generation after generation get robbed and stolen from simply because you don't want to change or are you going to put your foot down no matter how old or how young you are and say as for me in my house we're going to serve the Lord I didn't say it was going to be easy I didn't say it was going to be some pain and some heartache some sacrifice but when it's all said and done you can lift your hand and say Lord I've done my best I put it out there the best that I can and I'm going to keep on contending for the Lord I can tell you right now it's important for parents to pray over your children to let them hear you pray over your children to this moment as I stand here today my mother and grandmother are in heaven but I know them to be two individuals I gotta pray I am fully persuaded that my grandmother kept my mother on this earth for a period of time because God honored my grandmother's prayer standing over her bedside and when granny got through praying and said it's enough Lord it's okay to take her she left this world in a moment so what's going on pastor I'm saying that when you send up prayers and you don't see the answer right away don't you worry Revelation 5 says that God is bottling up those prayers and when God gets ready to do his thing he will pour it out upon another generation don't you think that these revivals that have been popping up are just because students got stirred up they're grandmothers grandmothers grandmother and father poured out those prayers and God said it's time for it to happen and he's pouring it out on the most unsuspecting location and nobody can put their hands on it cause we need that in our homes when we get desperate enough for change in our house we'll do whatever it takes did you hear what I said up until the time you got the diagnosis you kept right on eating Twinkies I can't tell your story I can tell mine up until the doctor said those mountain do's you're drinking multiple of every day drinking cause kidney stones I said today ladies and gentlemen mountain do's are done in my life hallelujah praise the lord don't need no more conviction one pain in your kidney you'll get your mind right I just came to tell you it's time to make the change as necessary and this story today in the bible is the story of a family probably like no other in the entirety of the bible that is an example of a spiritual awakening a renewal and what it took to get there here's the good news the good news of the gospel is that we don't have to stay where we are oh my god at the moment that you come to yourself prodigal and say what am I doing here eating a slop with the pigs I will arise and go back to my father's house at the moment the conviction falls upon you at the moment your mind says it's time for me to get out your mind has already got out it's just time to come and get your body and everybody else and say we're coming out of this thing no matter how many times we fail the lord I'm about to help somebody this morning no matter how many times you fail the lord I'm gonna ask this one time and one time only how many of you in this building and watching online have ever failed the lord one time how many of you failed him twice how many of you failed him three times oh you holy people I just want to let you know something ladies and gentlemen there's never been a time when you fail the lord that he ever said I'm done with you I'm throwing you out the good news of the gospel is he's still got plans for your life whether you think that you're worthy or not God said I'm coming to get you and I'm coming to call you back to the house if that's true you can look it up in the bible he did it for Abraham said his wife with his sister the moment I told somebody just to protect myself that my wife was my sister I have a feeling there'd be some choice words coming from my wife come on somebody he did it for Isaac, he did it for David he did it for Jonah he did it for Peter and now in this story he did it for Jacob I'm just giving you an overview this morning there's so much contained in this story but to understand Jacob you got to do what the doctor said you got to read back on his chart and you got to have an understanding of his mother his mother Rebecca the bible is very clear Isaac loved Esau but Rebecca loved Jacob there's a family divided already come on somebody so to understand that you got to understand Rebecca who married Isaac brought together by God there's no doubt about it but the problem is that Rebecca started leaving the door open and the termites got in the door and I don't have time to rehearse all the story I'll bring you up to the point at which she said I want Jacob to get this blessing not Esau and she was for Jacob to lie, con and trick her own husband to get it done because she wanted Jacob to have the blessing of Isaac upon him are you hearing me that spirit of lying, cheating and trickery passed to her son Jacob the bible says only foolish people tear down their own house why would you speak oh you know what if this old husband of mine let me tell you something there's 16 women waiting to get a hold of that old husband of yours let me give you some bible you don't believe what I'm saying at rascal I can't stand him he's blah blah blah blah blah or you say it I tell you what that woman I tell you I get 10 oh yeah I know you could got a little tight in here didn't there's a husband Isaac who was too blind to see and could not understand he trusted his wife to make decisions but there he is blind at the end of his days and both of the boys are looking for the blessing and their mother got in the middle of it and said we're going to manipulate this thing that's when you know it's the devil when things start manipulating come on somebody she wanted Jacob to be the heir the blessed son not Esau she literally went she went and found what it took to get him a Halloween costume and she dressed up Jacob bring me a goat and we shed the hair of the goat put it on your arms and put it on your chest we got to make this believable your daddy can't see no more he's losing his mind he's losing his stuff a little bit so you're going to dress up you're going to put this on your arms and Jacob says you really don't think this is going to oh yeah baby don't you worry about this we're going to get that blessing for you I wish I could preach this she dressed him with hairy arms to look like his brother Esau but Isaac could not see with his physical eyes so when Jacob dressed up as Esau comes in the room he said it's me father how did you get back from hunting so quickly well things just worked out dad come a little closer so I can make sure you're Esau because the blessing is about to hit and he fell to the arms what he felt was goat hair what he felt was his own righteousness his own filthy rags his own covering for his own sin come on somebody and Isaac couldn't see but he felt his arms and this is one of the most classic statements in all of the Bible he said you feel like Esau but you sound like Jacob I'm going to try that on again you feel like one thing but out of your mouth is coming something else you look like a Christian what's coming out of your mouth don't sound like a Christian to me I wish I had some help he dig any deeper you look like you're married but what's coming out of your mouth you look like you're trustworthy but I'm hearing something else and Jacob from that moment runs for his life away from his brother who's ready to kill him until the end of his days and all of his days are filled Jacob's days are filled with fear and worry and lying and being lied on now listen carefully Jacob's home becomes dysfunctional because he regularly disobeyed God I'm not talking about I messed up and I need to get right he regularly rebelled and disobeyed God what does that teach us you might want to write this down I have points for you I just got some word for you that Jacob's life teaches us you cannot get a blessing or disobedience I'm going to try that on again you cannot disobey God and expect to get God's blessing in your life oh Lord bless me oh you're singing in here one of the reasons why you couldn't sing the song is because you know that there's some stuff up in your heart and you're not feeling worthy but you want that oh the people want to bless it bless me Lord bless me I need you to bless me because but my dear friends it's a relationship with God that brings you into a place where whether he blessed you physically spiritually or mentally you trust the Lord no matter what's going on in your life and you keep on obeying him let me give you the back story of the record of Jacob very quickly in a nutshell of his disobedience Jacob chooses to live where God told him not to he worshiped the gods of the land only at risk in every way his daughter then is raped by the men of Shechem his sons then turn around and murder the men of Shechem Jacob's name is so horrible that the Bible said it stinks in the city that's bad when your name stinks people want to kill him they're tracking him down to do that he's also afraid about his brother still getting too close on his trail he wants to be around him according to the Scripture and if that wasn't enough and there's more to it his wife Rachel stole the idols of the gods of Canaan packed them away and brought them with them everywhere they went my favorite little pastimes my idols the things that attract my oh the idols just in case don't come through just in case just in case I pray and Jehovah God doesn't come through I got myself a bag full of trick some of you came in here this morning with a little bag full of tricks I'm here to check off my religious responsibility but just in case it don't work out I got my little idols boy it got quiet and I'm glad it did because this is what brought termites into their house and their house was falling apart and God tells them the cure on how to get termites out of your house he tells them the cure of how to be able to be rescued from the pressures and the anxiety of life that's putting the pressure on so much that I read this article that popped up yesterday and this is where it's at I knew we would come to this day years ago and you better be careful mom and dad because some of you have already got your bag I read with a little cheerleading girl who held to the values of her mother and father as being the Lord God first because she didn't make it to cheerleading practice on a certain day on that Wednesday when they were playing ball the picture was taken of her sitting up against the wall while the other girls were cheering because she put God first and it got her kicked off of the cheerleading team you don't like me because I tell you the truth in the days that are ahead my dear friends you're gonna have to make some hard decisions and tears may roll down your kids face but you better tell your little babies that God is more important than the thing you're doing out there in that world and I love you but this house is gonna serve the Lord come on somebody you can love them and wrap them up and there's plenty to get involved let me tell you I played ball as a boy I was the worst ball player on the team but I kept going to practice in those days in those days the ball and the coach and everybody respected Sundays and Wednesdays and didn't hold practices on that they didn't do that and when they started trying to do that my daddy made sure that that coach knew he'll be here to play he'll be here to practice but Sundays and Wednesdays we're gonna be in church end of story they respected that when it came along for our son Taylor who loved to play ball they started at that moment starting to work that in on Wednesdays and Sundays and all that kind of stuff now it's no big deal see I'm so old to remember that they shut down all the stores on Sundays because it was the Lord's Day are you hearing what I'm saying so whenever it was time for Taylor to play ball we didn't sit around and wait for the coach and the system and everything else to tell us what we're gonna do y'all don't wanna talk to me this is so far off, this is so politically incorrect, it's so against everything that's going on and that tells me how far we've drifted away from God in this hour so we had to tell that coach Taylor will be here to play he loves to play and I'm gonna tell you for all that I'm paying to be on this team he will play have I got any parents with a backbone at all he will play because I'm paying for him to be on this team but we will be in church on Wednesday night and we will be in church on Sunday make sure you make room do you know what happened because we took a stand, see we're pastors in that city because we took a stand, the coach and his whole family started coming to our church God saved and started serving the Lord I just wanna let you know the world is looking for somebody that's not going with the flow but you're saying as for me and my house we're gonna serve the Lord have I got anybody in here watching online that agrees with this radical thinking cause I'm telling you this is the shape that it's in right now getting God says in my presence is where you're gonna find peace and revival people type revival in today like it's some kind of little word I came to tell you you don't start revival and neither do I did you hear what I said you can't pray revival down it's a sovereign work of God when the Lord said I'm gonna touch you I'm gonna visit you you can rest assured if that was pastor I don't really believe that I just think this this this well let me just say this to you that I know of there's not a prophet that I know of or prophetess that has prophesied what's going on all around America you know why cause God ain't asking the prophets the preacher, the denomination God the church of God when God gets ready to move he's gonna move like the wind he's over here he's over here he's up there and I just want to tell you I say to God it pays assembly move oh Lord let the wind blow I drove down the road wife and I did on Friday and we saw billboard up on the on the synagogue down at the Jewish synagogue in in Pensacola and it said this the answer my friend is blowing in the wind now some of you that are old enough are gonna go the answer my friend is blowing the rest of you are going what happened to my pastor he just reverted and we started thinking exactly the Holy Spirit is blowing the question is can you hear him can you see him getting there is half the trouble before you start hearing termites in the walls it's time to get real because the silence is killing our families where parents are waiting on the children to make their mind up on what they want to do I'm just gonna tell you I'm sorry I know I only have the reference that I have mom and daddy didn't ask me baby sweetie honey babe sugar button do you want to go to church today what are you tired baby I know so am I oh we're not laying down for a nap we're gonna play video games for three hours into two o'clock in the morning but oh we can't stay awake for an hour and a half two hours I came to tell you we've drifted far away somebody needs to build an altar somebody's gotta say my house is going to get in order because silence is a terrible thing especially when you know something is wrong and you live like it's okay come on say amen for your neighbor right there and here's the thing you already know living for the devil what you're gonna get we we were on a trip here we took the kids and all we went up I think it was a game or something went up to Atlanta or something and I was trying to get we were gonna go over to stone mountain and we plugged into our phone I got it on my phone still just as a reminder we plugged in our phone because I was trying to make my way over there and I don't know what happened we found ourselves down in the town of stone mountain so we said stop let's let's plug it in we plugged in the GPS and it starts weaving us through the neighborhoods and residential areas and we come all the way down and sure enough we came to stone mountain but we were on the backside of that big old mountain and as a real in your face deal there was a stop sign that apparently many others had had chosen to follow that same path and the stop sign says this your GPS is wrong you have gone the wrong way I came to tell you you got to stop listening to the GPS of this world and you better plug into the GPS of heaven God's positioning system says I will arise and go back to Bethel say amen somebody so the Bible says that Jacob after many actually about 30 years of wandering away from Bethel and he paid dearly for it he now hears the voice of the Lord that tells him get up and go back to Bethel and settle there he already knew about Bethel remember we read it in Genesis 28 it's the place where he laid his head on a pillar on a stone and made a pillar out of it many stones that were there he stacks them up at the end of his visit hears the voice of God sees angels ascending and descending he said whoa I had no idea that I had happened up into the presence of God some of you in fact some of our new members were saying in the class this morning they said you know what I've been from this and I've come from this but when we walked in here all of a sudden I could feel the presence of God stirring and I knew I was in the right place I came to tell you my dear friend wherever the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty and you better mark that place cause you're going to need to go back to it again I think I need to say that one more time you better mark the place where you had an encounter with God cause you will need to go back there again so you need to mark it so well that your children know how to find that place and Jacob comes to this place and he says God I'm here chapter number 33 let me take you there very quickly the Bible says that it's there at Shechem where his daughter gets raped and his sons go in and they plot and plan and they kill the men of the city at Shechem and what does he do chapter 33 verse 20 I believe it is the Bible says that Jacob I have to touch this Jacob build and alter at Shechem well pastor I thought all these altars were sacred and doing oh yeah this one's not he built an altar it's only one line one verse he built an altar at Shechem and he called it God of the God of Israel but you know what God wasn't in that altar there was no presence of God at Shechem at that altar you know what it was the spirit of the Lord said it was an altar of convenience we built all kind of altars and then we invite God to come over where we are this is where we're at right now ladies and gentlemen that we've come up out of COVID and everything was so convenient that now you can't even get people to go to work because they're too interested in sitting their pajamas and typing on a computer to be able to do something but you know what it's time you get you and the rest of your family and everybody that's with you and get up and go back to the house of God because ladies and gentlemen that kind of attack hit us and everybody was running for their lives but God is calling us back to Bethel not an altar of convenience but an altar of the power of God so here he is he builds that altar but God said I ain't there I need you to go to Bethel where I told you to go and where more importantly you know to go did you hear me you know where the presence of God is call it with your own eyes angels ascending and descending I want to remind you quickly before I go any further of Genesis 28 and verse number 15 I want you to hear this if you got your Bible open it's two of you thank you I'm just wanting to know I'm preaching this out of the Bible not out of the Washington Post it says this and behold I am with you this is God to Jacob the first time I am with you and amen right there because I came to tell you God's with you you've seen enough of the power of God you've experienced enough of the power of God that any denial you make at this moment is to say in the face of God somehow you're not working again this is the problem we're waiting on God to do something before we want to believe in him and God's waiting on us to move and believe in something before he does it I'm with you and watch this this is before Jacob got into all this trouble and I will be with thee I will keep thee in all the places whether they got wherever you go I came to tell you right now God has been keeping you in spite of you I said God's been keeping you in spite of you he said I'll be with you wherever you go you may not even know that I was there but I was there at three o'clock in the morning in the emergency room I know you experienced twin towers falling from the ground but I came to tell you I will never leave you I was there all the time in the stairwell walking him down he said not only that but hear this this is the word that God gave Jacob at the beginning of his wondering years he said not only am I going to be with you not only am I going to do all that but I will watch this prophecy rest it clean over I will bring you again to this land and furthermore he says I'm not going to leave you until I've done everything I've spoken of man I've read this and preached from this for years and I never saw that in there maybe you have but God said I want you to know I'm going to bring you back let's say let me say it like this he's saying to Jacob you can go home again for everybody that feels like that you've sinned too far gone too far been too far gone and all that's happening in your life well pastor you don't know where I've been I've been here I've been there I've been up I've been down I've been all full of all kind of junk he said that's alright you just know you can go home again look at your neighbor and tell him you can go home again and then he prophesies into his future and says I'm not going to leave you until I get done doing what I'm going to do in your life my God where are you at this morning I came to tell you God ain't going to give up on you just cause you give up on you God said I will finish what I started in the beginning that's the reason why you can't shake it that's the reason why you can't shake it off pastor I don't want to live this way anymore I don't want to do this anymore I don't care what you're saying I never started with God God said I'm not going to leave you I'm not turning you loose somebody ought to wave your hand as a praise to God Almighty that your children that are estranged from the Lord right now God said I got them covered I'm watching over them I'm going to finish what I started in their life you better say something to me you better say something to God cause gratitude ladies and gentlemen what God has done is something you're causing into the future when I praise him it's not for what he has done I praise him for who he is and what he's going to do why don't you throw some praise forward out there and tell the Lord I thank you that my children are going to be coming back home so what does he tell him I gotta hurt what does he tell him he said first of all he busts right into the whole situation of altars that shake them and murder and rape and mayhem and he says Jacob arise and go back to Bethel and settle there see the problem with Jacob is he been wondering for 30 years when he was just 30 miles away from Bethel did you hear what I said he was close enough to drive there to come to church but he said Lord I'd rather you just come on over here he said I told you to get up and go to Bethel it's going to change and you've got to move for it to take place and you know what Jacob said after all that I imagine here you are with your children in court because all your sons just murdered all the leaders of the city imagine your hurting daughter Diana over here who's been raped by the men of the city and she's crying and weeping tears and it's a painful place that they're in and your whole house is getting raped you know what Jacob said I hear you God because my family matters more than anything else my family matters more than the ball game my family matters more than the political position my family matters more than my job my family matters more than my money my family matters more than anything have I got a taker in here or have you completely sold out it's time to shake yourself some of you waited too long the only reason why that you're in the shape you're in is because you kept pushing it off and waiting to get there I should have already moved do you know what pain will do pain will paralyze you pain will say you're not worthy to get there but I'm going to tell you if you hurt enough you won't care what anybody says come on somebody you know what you'll do you'll get up and go to the front seat and I don't care if 25 people are sitting in that same seat, excuse me because I got to get myself undistracted from all these people that are patting their babies and balancing their checkbook because my family matters more than me just doing my religious check off thing he said you get up and go back to Bethel some may feel like that you waited too long I'm going to tell you no God said I've been waiting for you right here at Bethel and some people in the building adjust your halo have said I don't need a Bethel well write this day down because there's going to come a day when God calls you and you're going to be so desperate for God you're going to say Lord where is that Bethel again Bethel was a place of Jacob's salvation it was a place that he called him and he said get up and go back because you've been looking for what you need in all the wrong places see I'm just old enough to know all that country stuff looking for love in all the wrong places oh you didn't know I knew that I know that and a whole lot more and you're not going to find the blessing of the Lord in a place of disobedience come on somebody wondered for years didn't even realize how far he had drifted away from God Genesis 35 to the Bible says then Jacob said to his household this one stood out for me I never I've never really seen this before either he said he told all of his household all of his family we're going back to Bethel there wasn't a vote this is a democracy no it's not my daddy's house wasn't a democracy there wasn't nobody voting I deserve my opinion you deserve the only thing you've got is because I gave it to you see we've forgotten about our heavenly father who gave us breath to breathe today and we want to go use it somewhere else he said he told all of his household we're going back to Bethel and watch this and those that were with him you know when I read that he started speaking to my heart because by virtue of my office as the pastor of this house I become the under father of the heavenly father and I came to tell all y'all and every one of you that are watching online that call pace assembly your house we're going back to Bethel at pace assembly and if you're with me you'll go with me if you're not stay here if you want to but I want to see the move of God in these last days before we leave this earth anybody with me this morning if they're with you they're willing to obey God and go where you need to go he said I want you to when you get there one of the signs is that I don't want you wandering around anymore I want you going from this church to that church to this church to that church over there and then no church and all that kind of stuff and you point fingers at the church if you want to well a bunch of hypocrites down there that pastor he ain't nothing I heard somebody sent me a message not long ago that pastor at pace ain't what he appears to be you're laughing but you're sitting here every week listening to me preach I guess you're with me guess what that means all of y'all ain't what you appear to be either that's right some days I look like a saint some days I look like a sinner and if it was up to you you'd already toss my soul in hell but thank God his mercies are brand new every morning and I will rise and go back in a permanent way and build me an altar at back somebody on a shout in here and wake the devil in hell up come on somebody alter jacob when you get there do you realize this is the only time are y'all still with me this is the only time that God told a patriarch to build an altar all the rest of them were spontaneous alters this is the only time apparently God wanted Jacob to have a permanent location where he could my God I feel the anointing of God and it's 12-01 you're all alright out there I want y'all to know God is still God at 12-01 I think he wanted a permanent location where Jacob and Jacob's children and his children's children to the third and fourth generation could say hey I know you've been to a lot of churches but we build an altar at pace and I can assure you God is meeting us in that location I gotta hurry this was an altar of gratitude gratitude has to be fed continually did you hear me that's the reason why you can never praise and worship God enough when you thank him for this you need to thank him for that gratitude has to be constantly fed but resentment comes naturally if you want bitterness to stay in your heart close your mouth and don't give to God no praise and the devil will give you every reason under the sun why you shouldn't build an altar Jacob gave this name he said it's Bethel in chapter 35 he said it's not just Beth it's not just the gate of heaven and the house of God this place right here is El Bethel God of the house of God let me just tell you something real quick I'm going to be out of your way you know what he was saying more importantly than the place is the God of the place come on somebody I said more important you know what that means when I get in my car a few minutes from now and drive down the road I ain't leaving God in this house of sheet rock and mortar he's going to get in with me by the third person of the God head and wherever I go he's going to be with me how do you know that because that's what he said to Jacob I won't leave you until I finish what I started you know why I can't die before my time because God said I will arise and call you to live until you've completed what I started in your life yeah I got to get out of the way he says I want you to go there build an altar he said what else you want me to do I want you to tell all them people put away you strange God I'm going to ask you what kind of strange God that you've been carrying around good luck charms some of y'all got a rabbit's foot in your pocket right now come on you got a little something just in case God don't answer I got a little something I got a plan down at the bank I got a plan with my friend and this and this oh Rachel she been carrying around a bag of tricks since they left her daddy you can pick up your parents idols she stole them but she stole them and brought and she's dragging these idols and they're wondering why in the world things are not right you better be careful wife and husband what you open the door to could come in like termites and tear down your whole house you got a little something in the bag he said put away your strange God put them away get rid of them give the idols of your hands to me Jacobson what you gonna do with he said we've been worshiping the other gods for 30 years these things have crept into our life and we know we can't serve two gods we can't serve God and Mammon somebody gotta go say amen watch this he said I want you to take those idols and bury them under the oak of Shechem bury them at the oak of Shechem bury them don't plant them if they plant them they'll come back up again you gotta bury them you gotta forget them you gotta walk on top of them like they're dead cause they are what you gonna do I'm gonna bury them at the tree of Shechem the tree of weeping as it's called I got a tree I don't have to get on a plane and fly over to Shechem we went over there and saw Rachel's tomb and all that kind of stuff but I don't have to fly to Israel cause if you're not careful there's things that get on you and you not even know it every day I wish I had some help but I thank God for the tree I got I got some great big oaks in my yard I got some great big trees in my yard and they are beautiful trees but that's not the tree I'm talking about when you get ready to really have a revival you want a revival at pace then get all that stuff up in a bag and all those idols of your hand and take them to the only tree that you can bury them forever and forever and he'll toss them in the sea on this never to be remembered against you again I call it the cross that's the tree of deliverance the tree of salvation the three give me three minutes and I'll be done I want you to remove everything that offends God out of your house cause ladies and gentlemen true worship is going to cost you something I said true worship is going to cost you something when I drive out of my out of my subdivision a lot of times I'll see guys on Sunday out there washing their boat washing their cars all that kind of stuff and I guess if they're dirty you got to clean them cause if you got the wrong God you always have to be doing something for it instead of it doing something for you and you wash it all you want to until until the doctor says come on in we found a spot on the screen and then call a preacher around the corner I had somebody that cursed me, cursed my staff they wound up calling me and said hey I need to talk to you blah blah blah blah blah I said well I'm sorry I apologize I don't want there to be any hindrance between you and this house I wouldn't treat it right blah blah then I'm over here in that playground a few days ago putting that equipment together and all of a sudden that truck pulls by I know who it was glowed to horn when he went by the first time couldn't see him incognito this is not the first time that this guy has had an encounter with this church the first time he had an encounter with this church one of our employees accidentally pulled out in front of it and he flipped that pickup truck the same one but he survived and came out alive you know you could call it fate one time but the second time you better be saying what is God trying to tell me I wish I had some help in here at 1204 he stopped and said truck gets out tears rolling down his eyes now you better be careful ladies and gentlemen because the people that you talk to and work with on your job and all that kind of stuff sooner or later they're going to have their Bethel moment, preach master suddenly I don't care what time it is sooner or later they're going to be watching you in the office complex they're going to be watching you reading your bible and saying I go to church and all this kind of stuff you know what's going to happen they're thumbing their nose at you right now but whenever their baby is laying up in the hospital like this one is and sees to you and we don't know what to do oh pastor pray for me and you know what you're going to do you're not going to say go on down somewhere else you're going to stop right there and say you know what I believe in a God who is able to do exceedingly abundantly ready to minister to the people that have been worshiping their idols for years because God has called them to Bethel shout out to you somebody he says he says I want you to I want you to I want you to that's what this church is here for he said I want you to I want you to build an altar and I want you to throw out everything that's an offense to God some of y'all need to go home this afternoon and toss some stuff some of you need to get it out of your heart right now and then he says this and I'm done right here he says two other things he says he says I want you to clean up I want all of y'all he told all of his family and all that were with him go take a bath go physically and take a bath clean yourself up you got the dirt and the grime of all that kind of stuff going on you smell like your idols you got that incense going on come on somebody you've been worshiping the hundred million gods of the Hindus and you got so much curry on you you don't know what to do go take a bath go take a bath and then when you get done taking a bath put on clean garments you know what he said he said I want you to let the blood of Jesus wash you and cleanse you and then I want you to change your mind put on a change of thinking put on a change of attitude put on a change of heart put on a change of your thinking change of your thinking because we're not going back and we're not going to serve those gods anymore we buried them in that old tree from this day forward and ladies and gentlemen the blessing that God told Abraham and his father Isaac all of that fell upon Jacob and he said there's so much of a change it needs to take place I'm going to change your name from Jacob to Israel my friends I don't care what's going on in the world the descendants of Jacob Israel are still blessed today because what God said he did not retract he was just waiting on Jacob to do his wondering how many years have I drifted how many years have I been just down the road from my Bethel hey what is it that God sees in you that you don't see in yourself why are you still alive I've had so many people past several days testifying about their experience with COVID to me and I asked the question why are you still alive I asked myself why are you still alive why are you breathing why are you still sitting in this church what is it that God sees in me that I don't see in my own self I care I'm high I tell you what he sees he sees the promise and the vow and the covenant he made to you before you were ever born and you can run but you'll never be able to hide I am a hosai and I'm just saying to this crowd and those of you watching you can go home again you can go home again pastor I can't go home again oh yes you can oh yes you can I will arise and I will go back to my father's house I belong to him I belong out there we're going to close this service this morning with collective prayer I want you to get your family and those that are with you by the hand and I want you to get up from where you are and join me around this altar I know I preached over my time some of you are upset because you got appointments on the Lord's day you do what you need to do but as for me and my house we're going to pray get them by the hand and come right now Lord bless you come on come right on up to the altar come right on up to the front let's make room for everybody in the house sing me come on make some room all the way around say the Lord bless they're still coming come on just keep on coming keep playing food now I'm so serious about what I've preached today some of you are aware of some of the things that your pastor has been walking through but I didn't preach this message because I needed something else to preach this message the more I dug into it the more it smoked me in my own heart so today I'm building an altar again because I'm not going to let what God has chosen and what God is doing my grandmother's prayer my daddy's prayer my mother's prayer I'm not going to let them suffer loss if I can do anything about it there's some things I can't do anything about some of you right now are estranged from family members friend so this morning this morning I brought my family and I brought my extended family and I brought my sister and her husband's family and I brought all my brothers and all their families I brought my wife's sister's family I brought my uncle and aunt the last surviving members of my mother's family and I brought me and Rita and I'm building an altar today and when you and Susan and babies are right here on this altar I got something else to bring it'd be one thing if I was just it was just me at my house I started collecting those pictures off of the wall bring them here today I heard the Holy Ghost go you're not done you got another family that you're pastoring it's called Pace Assembly of God church and you know what I talked on the phone to the pastor in Brazos Valley in Texas yesterday and they said you know what you know that you're our pastor out here too and for the orphanage that's in Kenya that are counting on a church to stay true to God and stay at Bethel and settle there today I lay all of you right on that altar every one of you and your children and your children and your children and your family I want you to lay them all on the altar this morning you can't fix it but God knows where you are let's go back to Bethel right now lift those hands toward heaven and let's lay them all on the altar all of your unsaved children all of your saved children come on church may your favor lift up both of your hands let's all go there right now the first thing he said put away the strange gods come on right now father search my heart and see if there be any wicked way in me anything God that I'm harboring hiding inside of my heart cleans me oh lord and blot out my transgressions and renew a right spirit within me lord I failed you time and again and I'm sure that I will fail you again I am here and I'm burying it at the altar at the church at the cross I'm burying every hidden strange idol come on church every strange thing everything that's not of God everything that's offending God that is in between you and God I put it away I put it away I'm not going to serve that thing and it's not going to control my life anymore I will serve the lord as for me in my house I will serve the lord and somebody got to be a leader and say we're going back to Bethel we're going back where we heard God the first time now cleanse me with your blood and wash my thoughts and my spirit and my soul wash it out let it be such a clear testimony lord a clean testimony come on somebody pray that lord give me a clean testimony I didn't say perfect I just said clean I didn't say you had to do it I said just be clean in the lord cleanse me oh God and now let me put a new thought in my mind that I'm not what my enemy said and I'm not even what my family has called me hypocrite I'm not what people say I am who you say I am and we dedicate ourselves of the altar of fresh and anew and we say Jehovah God you are our God hey hey Jehovah God is our God we will have no other gods before us I know too much about him now to deny him you're my God to the third and fourth generation I call back in those children and grandchildren that are wandering away from God right now somebody ought to prophesy over your house lord they're drifting away they're getting involved in things they shouldn't be and I know they won't listen to me but I know they're listening to the Holy Ghost in the middle of the night lord put your hand on them and remind them who they belong to they don't belong to the devil they are hidden things of the flesh they belong to you God I gave them to you at the altar and I will not be denied I will not be denied my family save my save my house I dedicate myself to you lord we'll raise up another generation that knows the God that I serve we're about to leave here but we're going to leave with a praise because hear me that's the reason why he wanted to bury it at the tree because he don't want you picking it up and walking out the door with it you cannot save yourself but God values you so much that he's willing to give you another chance and stay with you until he has finished what he started oh my God I just want to thank you lord I have failed you too many times but you're faithful to your word if you believe God has done that lift your hand and I want to pronounce God's blessing upon you and your house all over this place all of you that are watching online around the world the word of the lord in numbers chapter 6 the erotic blessing he said you tell the people Moses the Lord bless you and the Lord keep you and the Lord make his face shine upon you and the Lord be gracious unto you and the Lord give you his peace may the Lord's favor shine upon you with his close presence and may every day be a brand new day of his mercy for you for your house and for those that are with you we declare it and decree it in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and if you receive it give him gratitude right now for his gracious favor upon our life I want you to turn around to three or four people and tell them you can go home again tell them I'm a living witness I just went back home again hallelujah