WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT IF YOU WANT TOO SEE THE TRUE SALVATION THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A RELATITIONSHIP WITH HIM HAS TO BE DEVELOPED AND IT HAS TO BE MAINTAINED


WELCOME TO THE POPULAR MOUNTAIN FAITH PROGRAM WITH DYNAMIC PREACHER AND TEACHER PASTOR DAVID J. GONZALEZ. 

PREPARE YOUR HEART FOR A GOOD WORD, AND HAVE YOUR BIBLE READY NOW FOR TODAY’S POWERFUL MESSAGE WITH PASTOR DAVID J. GONZALEZ. 


TODAY I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT NO MORE FEAR FOR THE FUTURE. IN PHILIPPIANS 4:13 SAYS, “I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME. I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME.” (AMEN) NOW THAT'S THE WORD OF GOD. (AMEN) IT SAYS OVER IN MATTHEW 6:33, “SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL THE THINGS THAT YE DESIRE SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU.” ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE CONCERNED ABOUT, ALL THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU BUT IF YOU SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. (AMEN) LET'S OPEN UP NOW IN HEBREWS CHAPTER 1, HEBREWS 1. AS I TALK ABOUT HAVING NO FEAR FOR THE FUTURE, NO FEAR FOR THE FUTURE. (AMEN) IN OTHER WORDS WHATEVER IS GOING TO COME OUR WAY, WE CAN HANDLE IT. (YEAH, AMEN TO THAT) WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT WE NEED TO RETHINK OUR THINKING TO GET OUR WORSHIP IN LINE. SO THAT WE HAVE NO FEAR FOR THE FUTURE. (HALLELUJAH) HEBREWS CHAPTER 1 STARTING IN VERSE 14. WE READ THIS LAST WEEK OR PART OF THIS ANY WAY LAST WEEK. HEBREWS 1:14 IT SAYS, “ARE THEY NOT ALL MINISTERING SPIRITS SENT OUT TO RENDER SERVICE FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE WHO WILL INHERIT SALVATION.” YOU CAN UNDERLINE THAT WORD SALVATION. THIS IS A LETTER TO THE HEBREWS. WHAT'S ANOTHER TERM FOR THE WORD HEBREW? JEW. WHAT'S ANOTHER TERM FOR THE WORD HEBREWS? ISRAEL OR THE SONS OF DAVID. OR THOSE THAT WORSHIP THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB. SO WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THE WORD SALVATION TO A JEW BACK IN THAT DAY, HE'S NOT THINKING ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE, BECAUSE THAT WORD SALVATION. IT MEANT TO THEM BACK THEN DELIVERANCE FROM THE MOLESTATION OF THEIR ENEMIES. (AMEN) SO HE'S WRITING A LETTER TO THE HEBREWS. AND THE HEBREWS KNOW HEBREW. AND THEY UNDERSTAND THAT WORD SALVATION. AND HE SAID, FOR THE SAKE OF THOSE WHO INHERIT SALVATION. NOT INHERITING SALVATION IN HEAVEN, NOT GOING TO HEAVEN IN THE GREAT BY AND BY BUT GETTING PROTECTION HERE IN THE EARTH VERSE 1 OF CHAPTER 2. “FOR THIS REASON WE MUST PAY MUCH CLOSER ATTENTION TO WHAT WE HAVE HEARD, SO THAT WE DO NOT DRIFT AWAY FROM IT. FOR IF THE WORD SPOKEN THROUGH ANGELS PROVED UNALTERABLE, AND EVERY TRANSGRESSION AND DISOBEDIENCE RECEIVED A JUST PENALTY,  HOW WILL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION? AFTER IT WAS AT THE FIRST SPOKEN THROUGH THE LORD, IT WAS CONFIRMED TO US BY THOSE WHO HEARD,” I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED JUST TO END VERSE 3 AT THE END OF THAT WORD SALVATION BECAUSE THAT IS A GRAND THOUGHT IN AND OF ITSELF. HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE OR HOW WILL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT, NEGLECT, NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION? HOW SHALL WE KEEP OUT HOUSE LOOKING GOOD IF WE NEGLECT TO MOW THE GRASS? NEGLECT TO PUT SCREENS ON COME SUMMER TIME? NEGLECT TO CLEAN THE WINDOWS? NEGLECT TO CLEAN THE INSIDE OF THE HOUSE? HOW SHALL WE LIVE IN A GOOD PLACE IF WE NEGLECT TO DO THE THINGS THAT OUR HOME REQUIRES? SO WE CAN OWN SOMETHING AND NEGLECT IT. WE CAN BE MARRIED AND NEGLECT OUR MARRIAGES AND AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, IF YOU NEGLECT YOUR MARRIAGE IT ENDS UP IN ONE PLACE – IT'S CALLED DIVORCE COURT. IT'S NOT A HAPPY PLACE; IT'S NOT A PLACE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO BE. SOME PEOPLE BY DEFAULT HAVE NEGLECTED THEIR MARRIAGES. THEY'VE NEGLECTED THEIR CHILDREN, THEY HAVE NEGLECTED THEIR JOBS. THEY HAVE NEGLECTED THE RESPONSIBILITY, THEY OWN THESES THINGS THEY HAVE POSSESSION OF THESE THINGS, THEY HAVE ENTITLEMENT TO THESE THINGS, BUT THEY HAVE NEGLECTED THESE THINGS. AND HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE, HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE THE SWORD OF THE ENEMY, HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE THE DEVICES OF SATAN IF WE NEGLECT THAT SALVATION? IF WE NEGLECT TO DO THE VERY THINGS THAT ARE REQUIRED OF US TO DO? 


 LET'S GO OVER TO EXODUS CHAPTER 12. EXODUS12, EXODUS CHAPTER 12, EXODUS CHAPTER 12. FIRST WE'RE GOING TO BOUNCE AROUND A LITTLE BIT IN A FEW CHAPTERS HERE. EXODUS 12 STARTING IN VERSE 21. “THEN MOSES CALLED FOR ALL THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL AND SAID TO THEM, "GO AND TAKE FOR YOURSELVES LAMBS ACCORDING TO YOUR FAMILIES, AND SLAY THE PASSOVER LAMB."YOU SHALL TAKE A BUNCH OF HYSSOP AND DIP IT IN THE BLOOD WHICH IS IN THE BASIN, AND APPLY SOME OF THE BLOOD THAT IS IN THE BASIN TO THE LINTEL AND THE TWO DOORPOSTS; AND NONE OF YOU SHALL GO OUTSIDE THE DOOR OF HIS HOUSE UNTIL MORNING. "FOR THE LORD WILL PASS THROUGH TO SMITE THE EGYPTIANS; AND WHEN HE SEES THE BLOOD ON THE LINTEL AND ON THE TWO DOORPOSTS, THE LORD WILL PASS OVER THE DOOR AND WILL NOT ALLOW THE DESTROYER TO COME TO YOUR HOMES TO SMITE YOU. NOW WE KNOW THAT THIS PASSOVER LAMB, JESUS WAS CALLED THE LAMB OF GOD, WE KNOW THAT JESUS WAS CRUCIFIED ON PASSOVER, ALL RIGHT? WE KNOW THAT WHEN WE ANALYZE, EVERYTHING THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY IDENTICAL TO THE PASSOVER LAMB THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT HERE IN THESE CHAPTERS. THAT JESUS FULFILLED EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT HIM COMING INTO JERUSALEM, ABOUT HIM BEING ANALYZED TO MAKE SURE THAT HE WAS PURE BECAUSE A LAMB WOULD HAVE TO BE ANALYZED BY THE PRIEST TO MAKE SURE IT WAS PURE AND THEM AFTER IT WENT THROUGH A, BASICALLY A, WATCHING PERIOD OF TIME, WHICH WAS ALL DONE IN GENERALLY SPEAKING IN JERUSALEM FOR THIS PARTICULAR EXAMPLE. THEN WE SEE THAT JESUS SACRIFICED HIMSELF SO THAT THE DESTROYER WOULD NOT COME AND TOUCH US. (HALLELUJAH) AND THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST NOW HAS BEEN PUT ON OUR HOMES AND ON OUR MINDS AND OUR HEARTS SO THE ENEMY WOULD NOT HAVE HIS WAY WITH US. (HALLELUJAH) SO THIS IS A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME AND IT'S INTENTIONAL. NOW THE INTERESTING THING IS THIS IS THE PLAGUE THAT IS ABOUT TO COME UPON THE EGYPTIANS IS THEY'RE ABOUT TO LOSE THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY HOUSEHOLD AND THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY ANIMAL OF THEIR LIVESTOCK IN THE FIELD. SO EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT TO DIE THAT WAS FIRSTBORN. AND IT WAS THE 10TH PLAGUE THAT WAS ABOUT TO COME UPON THE EGYPTIANS. BUT LET'S JUST REVIEW THOSE PLAGUES REAL QUICK. THE FIRST PLAGUE THAT CAME ONTO THE EGYPTIANS WAS ALL THE WATER IN THE LAND TURNED TO BLOOD. EXCEPT FOR THE WATER THAT THE JEWS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR OR DRINKING. THEN THE FROGS CAME ONTO THE LAND EXCEPT FOR WHERE THE JEWS WERE LIVING. AND THEN GNATS CAME OVER THE LAND EXCEPT AGAIN WHERE THE JEWS WERE LIVING. AND THEN FLIES CAME OVER ALL THE LAND IN THICK CLOUDS AND THEN BEGAN TO ROT AND STINK UP EVEN THE PALACE BUT EXCEPT WHERE THE JEWS WERE LIVING AND THEN A PESTILENCE AND ALL THE LIVESTOCK CAME EXCEPT WHERE ALL THE JEWS WERE LIVING. AND THEN BOILS CAME UPON ALL THE EGYPTIANS BUT NOT THE JEWS AND THE BOILS CAME ON THEIR LIVESTOCK AS WELL AND HAIL FELL ON ALL THEIR HOMES AND IT WASN'T JUST HAIL; IT WAS HAIL WITH FIRE AND IT BURNT UP ALL THE CROPS OF THE EGYPTIANS BUT NOT OF THE JEWS. IT DESTROYED HOMES AND KILLED MEN. AND THEN LOCUST CAME UPON THE LAND. AND GOD SENT THE LOCUST UPON THE LAND AND THEY ATE UP ALL THE CROPS, EXCEPT FOR THE CROPS THAT BELONGED TO THE JEWS. AND THEN A DARKNESS CAME UPON THE LAND. THIS IS SO INTERESTING; A DARKNESS SO THICK THAT THE JEWS COULD SEE LIKE IT WAS REGULAR DAYTIME, BUT NOT THE EGYPTIANS. THEY WERE COMPLETELY IMMERSED IN DARKNESS WHEREVER THEY WENT AND NOW HERE'S THE SETUP FOR THE 10TH PLAGUE. AND I WOULD SAY THAT YOU WOULD THINK THAT AFTER THESE FIRST NINE PLAGUES THAT THE JEWS WOULD OF SAID, “YOU KNOW WE GOT SOMEONE WORKING FOR US LATELY: WE'VE GOT SOMETHING GOING ON THAT WE HAVEN'T HAD GOING ON IN 400 YEARS THAT WE NEVER REMEMBER TALKING ABOUT.” YOU WOULD THINK LIKE WHAT I PREACHED ABOUT LAST SUNDAY, “DO YOU NOW BELIEVE?” JESUS TURNED TO HIS DISCIPLES AND SAID, “DO YOU NOW BELIEVE? IT'S TAKEN 3 YEARS AND YOU'RE JUST COMING TO THE REVELATION THAT I'M THE SON OF GOD? AND THAT THESE MIRACLES WEREN'T PERFORMED BY MY HAND ALONE? ARE YOU JUST STARTING TO GET THAT AFTER 3 WHOLE YEARS?” IT'S KINDA LIKE A STUDENT GOING TO COLLEGE AND HE GOES, “YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN STUDYING ACCOUNTING FOR 3 WHOLE YEARS, I THINK I MIGHT END UP BEING AN ACCOUNTANT AS A RESULT OF THIS. I THINK I MIGHT BECOME A PLUMBER AS A RESULT OF ALL THIS. I THINK I MIGHT END UP BEING A CAR MECHANIC AS A RESULT OF THIS. I THINK I MIGHT END UP GETTING INTO THIS INDUSTRY BECAUSE OF ALL THIS TRAINING.” DO YOU NOW BELIEVE? I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE FOLLOWING BUT DO YOU NOW BELIEVE? AND SOMETIMES I WONDER WHAT CHRISTIANS THINK THAT THEY ARE FOLLOWING. (YES) ARE THEY JUST FOLLOWING GETTING THEIR SINS WIPED AWAY? I MEAN THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD DEAL ALL BY ITSELF, I UNDERSTAND THAT. YOU KNOW I MEAN IF ALL WE GOT IS HAVING YOUR SIN TAKEN AWAY THAT WOULD BE A PRETTY GOOD DEAL. (AMEN) TO BE ABLE TO COME BEFORE THE FATHER; TO BE ABLE TO ASK FOR WHATEVER YOU WANT; COME BOLDLY BEFORE THAT THRONE OF GRACE ASKING FOR MERCY AND GRACE TO HELP IN YOUR TIME OF NEED. THAT WOULD BE GREAT. (HALLELUJAH) JUST GETTING THAT ALONE, BUT HE'S GIVEN US SO MUCH MORE. AND YOU WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE ISRAELITES KNEW THAT THEY HAD SOMETHING COOKING HERE. SAY, “MAN, WE'RE ON A ROLL.” THEN THEY WENT AHEAD AND PUT ALL THE BLOOD ON THE DOOR POSTS. THEY PUT SCANDALS ON THEIR FEET AND THEN THEY ATE UNLEAVENED BREAD AND THEY ATE BITTER HERBS IN PREPARATION TO GO ON A JOURNEY. AND THEN CERTAINLY THE DEATH ANGEL CAME THROUGH THAT NIGHT FOR THE FIRSTBORN OF EVERY EGYPTIAN IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD, THE FIRSTBORN OF ALL THEIR LIVESTOCK THAT WAS STILL LEFT STANDING IN THE FIELD IF THEY WEREN'T DEAD ALL READY FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT PLAGUES. NOW THEY WOULD DIE FROM THAT. AND ONCE THE ISRAELITES LEFT, THERE WAS A SENSE OF DREAD THAT THEY STILL HADN'T GOTTEN OVER. AND THE DEVIL WANTS YOU TO LIVE IN THIS NEBULOUS WEIRD AREA OF YOUR MIND WHERE YOU ALWAYS HAVE A SENSE OF DREAD. WHERE YOU'RE ALWAYS DREADING WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.  WHAT'S GOING TO GO WRONG NEXT?  WHAT'S GOING TO END UP HAPPENING IF THIS DOESN'T OCCUR AND IF THAT DOESN'T OCCUR AND IT'S JUST A SERIES OF THINGS. WHAT HAPPENS IF? AND THERE IS LIFE AFTER DIVORCE AND THERE IS LIFE AFTER THE LOSING OF A LOVED ONE; OF A SPOUSE IN PARTICULAR. THERE IS LIFE AFTER THIS BUT SATAN WANTS YOU TO LIVE IN THE REALM OF THE DREAD WHERE YOU ARE DREADING ANYTHING EVER NEGATIVE OCCURRING TO YOU AGAIN AND AS LONG AS YOU ARE LIVING IN THAT AREA OF DREAD YOU'LL NEVER BE WALKING IN THE FULLNESS OF THAT POWER RIGHT NOW. (AMEN) YOU'LL ALWAYS BE DREADING THE FUTURE. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, “DON'T WORRY ABOUT TOMORROW FOR TOMORROW WILL TAKE CARE OR ITSELF.” DEAL WITH JUST TODAY. (AMEN) BECAUSE IF YOU TRY TO DEAL WITH TOMORROW, TODAY YOU'LL BE LIVING IN TOMORROW AND NOT FOR TODAY. (HALLELUJAH) YEARS AGO I WAS MINISTERING TO A WOMAN WHO HAD LOST ONE OF HER CHILDREN TO CRIB DEATH AND TEN YEARS HAD GONE BY AND SHE WAS STILL MOURNING FOR HER CHILD THAT DIED TEN YEARS EARLIER. AND SO MUCH SO THAT SHE WAS NEGLECTING HER OTHER CHILDREN TO THE POINT SHE WOULD TALK ABOUT THIS PERFECT CHILD THREE MONTHS OLD THAT DIED THIS DEATH AND THE KIDS WERE NOW ELEVEN, TWELVE, THIRTEEN, FOURTEEN YEARS OLD AND THEY WOULD HAVE TO HEAR MOM TALK ABOUT THE DEATH OF THIS PERFECT CHILD. AND WHAT SHE WAS DOING WAS BELITTLING THE LIVING (YEP, RIGHT) AND PAYING ATTENTION TO SOMETHING SHE COULDN'T CHANGE. AND A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LOCKED INTO THEIR PAST. THEY'RE FEARING AND WISHING, 'OH I WISH I HADN'T DONE THAT OR I WISH I DIDN'T DO THAT.” THEY'RE LIVING IN THE PAST ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT HAVE GONE WRONG IN THEIR PAST. OR THEY'RE IN THE FUTURE WORRIED ABOUT WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE AND THE DEVIL'S GOT THEM IN THE WRONG SPOT IN BOTH CASES. (YEAH AMEN) WE HAVE TO LIVE FOR TODAY. (THAT'S RIGHT) YOU HAVE A VISION FOR THE FUTURE AND THE VISION MUST BE GOOD, BUT YOU CAN'T HAVE A VISION NOW JUST BY NATURE OF YOUR INTELLECT. YOU CAN NOT HAVE A VISION THAT'S WORTHY OF YOU BY YOU JUST DREAMING IT UP WITHOUT WALKING BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO HELP YOU DO IT. (AMEN) IN ORDER FOR YOU TO HAVE A SUPERNATURAL BELIEF SYSTEM FOR WHAT YOUR FUTURE'S GOING TO BRING YOU, YOU NEED TO HAVE SUPERNATURAL INCLINATIONS (HALLELUJAH) WHICH ARE PRAYER, BIBLE READING, USE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, PRAYING IN OTHER TONGUES, DOING ALL THOSE THINGS THAT GOD WANTS YOU TO DO. (AMEN) NOW LET'S KEEP READING HERE. WE'RE IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS. LET'S JUMP OVER TO CHAPTER 14. AND I'M GOING TO START READING IN VERSE 10. “AS PHARAOH DREW NEAR, THE SONS OF ISRAEL LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, THE EGYPTIANS WERE MARCHING AFTER THEM, AND THEY BECAME VERY FRIGHTENED; SO THE SONS OF ISRAEL CRIED OUT TO THE LORD. “THEN THEY SAID TO MOSES, "IS IT BECAUSE THERE WERE NO GRAVES IN EGYPT THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN US AWAY TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS? WHY HAVE YOU DEALT WITH US IN THIS WAY, BRINGING US OUT OF EGYPT? MY GOODNESS, THERE'S A FAITH FILLED PEOPLE FOR YOU. THERE'S A PEOPLE EVERY PASTOR WANTS TO SHEPHERD. (LAUGHING) EVERY SINGLE TIME A MIRACLE CAME TO PASS, THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER MIRACLE COME TO PASS TO PROVE THAT GOD WAS ACTING AND ANOTHER MIRACLE TO COME TO PASS AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS GOD TOLD MOSES TO GO HERE AND TO GO THERE SO THAT THE SPIES OF EGYPT WOULD SAY THEY'RE LOST AND THEY'RE WANDERING AROUND IN THE WILDERNESS. LET'S GO DESTROY THEM. AND THAT'S THE REPORT THAT CAME BACK TO PHARAOH. AND NOW HERE WE SEE THIS. SO NOW THEY'RE MOANING AND GROANING AS IF THEY HAD NEVER SEEN THE SALVATION OF THE LORD OCCUR IN THEIR RECENT HISTORY. THEY'RE ON A ROLL. THEY'RE OUT OF EGYPT AND THEY DESPOILED ALL THE EGYPTIANS; THEY TOOK ALL THE SILVER AND THE GOLD. NOW THEY HAVE GOTTEN BACK FOUR HUNDRED YEARS OF BACK WAGES. (HALLELUJAH) THEY'RE WALKING OUT THERE. NOW LOOK AT THIS. VERSE 12, “IS THIS NOT THE WORD THAT WE SPOKE TO YOU IN EGYPT, SAYING, 'LEAVE US ALONE THAT WE MAY SERVE THE EGYPTIANS'? FOR IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER FOR US TO SERVE THE EGYPTIANS THAN TO DIE IN THE WILDERNESS." OR, “PASTOR, IT AGITATES ME EVERY
 SINGLE TIME YOU TALK ABOUT THAT I CAN HAVE DELIVERANCE, I CAN BE SAVED, I CAN BE HEALED, I CAN BE PROSPEROUS, I CAN BE DEBT FREE, THESE THINGS AGITATE ME. WOULD YOU LEAVE ME ALONE.” I'VE HAD PEOPLE, SOME OF THE CELL LEADERS ALREADY KNOW THIS, SOME OF YOU HAVE CALLED PEOPLE REPEATEDLY JUST LETTING THEM KNOW YOU'RE PRAYING FOR THEM, JUST LETTING THEM KNOW THAT YOU LOVE THEM THAT GOD LOVES THEM, AND THEY'RE NOT RETURNING YOUR CALLS. NOT YET. BECAUSE THEY HAVEN'T ADJUSTED TO THE FACT THAT GOD ACTUALLY WANTS THEM TO HAVE ANYTHING. (AMEN, THAT'S RIGHT) AND IF YOU'RE GOING THROUGH A DRY PERIOD OF TIME, IT IS HARD TO HEAR THIS WORD. IT'S HARD. BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME OF THEM STEPPING OUT OF THEIR COMFORT ZONE. YOU KNOW ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS THAT I STUDIED RECENTLY WAS ELISHA, WHEN HE HAD GONE TO THE WIDOW IN ZAREPATH, BEFORE HE WENT THERE HE WAS BY A BROOK AND HE WAS TIRED AND RAVENS CAME AND BROUGHT HIM FOOD. AND THE BROOK WAS RUNNING; IT GAVE HIM WATER AND REFRESHMENT. AND THE ANGELS WAITED ON HIM SCRIPTURE SAYS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. AND AFTER A PERIOD OF TIME THE BROOK DRIED UP AND WHAT HE DID NOT DECIDE TO DO WAS PRAY THAT THE WATER START RUNNING AGAIN AT THAT BROOK. HE DIDN'T PRAY, “OH LORD GOD SEND THE RAVENS TO SEND SOME MORE BREAD MY WAY.” (RIGHT) HE GOT UP AND FOUND ANOTHER WAY TO INVEST HIMSELF IN THE ECONOMY OF GOD. HE GOT UP OUT OF THAT PLACE AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO AND RECOGNIZE THAT WE CAN'T ALWAYS STAY IN THE SAME PLACE AND CONTINUE TO GET WHAT WE USE TO GET IN THE FUTURE. THERE ARE CHANGES IN THE EARTH THAT WE NEED TO WALK THROUGH.(AMEN, THAT'S RIGHT) SOMEONE CAME TO ME JUST RECENTLY AND SAID, “PASTOR, YOU KNOW I HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY THAT SOMEONE HAS PRESENTED BEFORE ME AND I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK YEARS FROM NOW AND SAY I LOOKED A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH AND WALKED AWAY FROM IT AND THEN REGRET NOT MOVING IN THAT REALM.” HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE MISSED OPPORTUNITIES AND WE SEE IT LATER ON THAT WE MISSED IT AND WE GO, “WHY DID WE DO THAT?” I CAN TELL YOU WHY. YOU WERE OPERATING BY YOUR INTELLECT, YOU WERE OPERATING BY YOUR NATURAL SENSES AND YOUR NATURAL SENSES SAY'S TAKE CARE OF YOU. (RIGHT) YOU'RE GOING TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LEARN SOMETHING BRAND NEW. YOU MIGHT EVEN HAVE TO LEARN TO OPERATE A COMPUTER. (AMEN) YOU MIGHT HAVE TO LEARN A NEW PARTIAL TRADE. (YEAH) YOU MIGHT HAVE TO GO BACK TO NIGHT SCHOOL. YOU MIGHT HAVE TO MOVE FROM WHERE YOU'RE AT NOW TO ANOTHER LOCATION SIMPLY BECAUSE GOD WANTS YOU TO DO THAT. (HALLELUJAH) YOU MIGHT HAVE TO LOWER YOUR STANDARD WHICH IS SOMETIMES NOT REALLY A STANDARD AT ALL EXCEPT YOU GOT THIS HIGH STANDARD THAT NO ONE COULD EVER MATCH. (RIGHT) HUH?
LET'S KEEP READING.  VERSE 13 OF EXODUS CHAPTER 14, “BUT MOSES SAID TO THE PEOPLE, "DO NOT FEAR! STAND BY AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD WHICH HE WILL ACCOMPLISH FOR YOU TODAY; FOR THE EGYPTIANS WHOM YOU HAVE SEEN, YOU WILL NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN FOREVER.” WOW! IF YOU WERE TOLD THEY'RE COMING DOWN IN AN ARMY, YOU SEE WATER BEHIND YOU, YOU NEVER HEARD A STORY OF THE WATER OPENING UP AND ENGULFING SOMEONE ELSE'S ENEMIES. SO YOU'RE STANDING THEIR WITH YOUR BACK TO THE WATER, YOU'VE BEEN WANDERING AROUND FOR DAYS, YOU'VE GOT MOUNTAINS ON THE LEFT, AND  MOUNTAINS ON THE RIGHT, YOU'VE GOT A MOUNTAIN PASS IN FRONT OF YOU, THEY'RE BARRELING DOWN AND MOSES GETS UP AND SAYS THE ENEMIES YOU HAVE TODAY YOU WON'T HAVE TOMORROW. (LAUGHING) YEAH, OKAY. MOSES YOU'VE BEEN OUT IN THE SUN TOO LONG TAKING CARE OF THOSE SHEEP, YOU COME BACK IN HERE AND YOUR BRAIN IS HALF FRIED, LOOK HOW OLD YOU ARE ANYWAY (LAUGHING) YOU SENILE OLD SHEEPHERDER YOU, WE FALLOWED THE WRONG WE HOOKED OURSELVES TO THE WRONG STAR. (YEP!) YOU EVER FEEL LIKE THAT, YOU JUST GRABBED ONTO SOMETHING, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GO HOLD OF AND YOU GO, “I DON'T KNOW WHAT   I'M DOING HERE.” BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE DARK TIMES IN YOUR GLORIOUS FUTURE. THERE'S GOING TO BE TIMES WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO BE CHALLENGED TO SHOW GOD WHERE YOUR HEART REALLY IS AT. (AMEN, THAT'S RIGHT) AND THE CHALLENGE IS THAT YOU DON'T FAIL GOD, THAT YOU DON'T IDOLIZE YOURSELF OVER IDOLIZING HIM. (AMEN) THAT INSTEAD OF YOU LOOKING AT ALL THE THINGS THAT ARE GOING WRONG OR PERCEIVED WRONG RIGHT NOW IN YOUR CURRENT STATUS THAT YOU RECOGNIZE THE VOICE OF THE LORD WHEN HE FIRST SPOKE TO YOU. WHAT DID HE TELL YOU TO DO? WHAT DID HE TELL YOU TO DO? I BELIEVE GOD HAS GREAT THINGS IN STORE FOR EVERY ONE OF YOU. (HALLELUJAH) BUT GOD CAN'T FORCE THEM ON YOU; THERE IS A PROCESS OF ACCEPTING THEM. (AMEN) THERE IS A PROCESS OF TAKING THEM. THERE'S NOT A MONEY TREE GOD WANTS YOU TO GO PICK FROM. BUT THERE IS A PROCESS OF INHERITING THE BLESSINGS OF GOD. (HALLELUJAH) THAT GOD WANTS TO SHOW HIM SELF STRONG THROUGH YOU. (AMEN THAT'S RIGHT AMEN) IF YOU HAD A TRIAL, A TRIBULATION, IF IT LOOKED LIKE IT COULDN'T BE DONE AND YOU DID IT, YOU CAN'T WALK OFF LATER ON AND GO, “I DID IT.” NO. IT WAS THE HAND OF GOD. IT WAS HIS SALVATION THAT BROUGHT THESE THINGS TO PASS. (HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU JESUS) BUT GOD DOES WANT TO SHOW HIM SELF STRONG THROUGH YOU AND GIVE YOU ALL THE GLORY AND THE HONOR. (AMEN, YES) SO PEOPLE SEE YOU AS A DIFFERENT PEOPLE. (AMEN) AS A UNIQUE PEOPLE, AS A PEOPLE CHOSEN OF HIMSELF, AS A PEOPLE HE HASN'T IGNORED. (YES) NOW VERSE 14 IT SAYS, “ THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU WHILE YOU KEEP SILENT.” (HALLELUJAH) IN OTHER WORDS NOT WHILE YOU'RE CRYING OUT AND FRETTING. YOUR FRETFUL PRAYER IS NOT GOING TO GET THE POWER OF GOD TO COME DOWN ON YOU. I SAID YOU'RE FRETFUL PRAYER. I'M ALSO GOING TO TELL YOU THIS, PRAYER LINES WON'T NECESSARILY GET THE POWER OF GOD TO COME DOWN. I MEAN I'M ALL FOR PRAYER LINES, WE BELIEVE IN PRAYER HERE, WE HAVE PRAYER ALL THE TIME. BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN PEOPLE WHO WANT TO COME BEFORE GOD AND THEY WANT A BAD HABIT TO BE TAKEN AWAY SO THEY COME FORWARD AND SAY, “PRAY FOR ME THAT THAT BAD HABIT GOES AWAY.” AND THEN THEY WONDER WHY LATER ON WHEN THEY WALK OUT TO THE PARKING LOT OR THEY GO HOME AND GO ANOTHER WEEK AND THE BAD HABIT IS STILL THERE. THEY SAY, “WELL THAT PRAYER LINE DIDN'T WORK.” WELL IT WASN'T DESIGNED TO WORK THAT WAY. (AMEN) SEE YOU'RE STILL OPERATING BY YOUR INTELLECT. I'VE PRAYED OVER PEOPLE THAT WERE ALCOHOLICS THAT HAVE COME INTO THIS CHURCH OR HEARD THAT WE HAD AN ANOINTING TO PRAY FOR ALCOHOLICS IN THIS CHURCH AND WE WOULD PRAY OVER THEM AND THEY WOULD BE INSTANTANEOUSLY DELIVERED FROM ALCOHOL. (HALLELUJAH) BUT SEE THEY WOULD GO BACK TO THAT HOME CHURCH THEY WERE COMING FROM, AND THEY WOULD GO BACK AND THEY WOULD STILL HEAR THE TEACHINGS THAT ALLOWED THEM TO STAY IN THAT PLACE IN THE FIRST PLACE. AND DON'T YOU KNOW SATAN'S GOING TO WANT TO TRY TO REINTRODUCE THAT TROUBLE BACK INTO YOUR LIFE. (THAT'S RIGHT, HALLELUJAH, AMEN, YES) YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE CANNOT FORSAKE OR PUT AWAY THAT THING OF OUR SALVATION. (AMEN BUT EVERY MAN AND WOMAN NEEDS JESUS CHRIST. (HALLELUJAH, AMEN) WE ALL NEED THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND IT'S THAT RELATIONSHIP BUILT ON A DAILY BASIS THAT YOU REALLY NEED. YOU NEED TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD. FAITH COMES BY (HEARING) AND HEARING BY THE (WORD OF GOD). SO FAITH COMES BY HEARING AND HEARING BY THE WORD OF GOD. WE NEED TO HEAR THE WORD OF GOD ON A REGULAR BASIS. MAKING IT HERE IS PART OF THE SOLUTION, BUT YOU ALSO MUST HAVE A DAILY RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM. WHERE YOU'RE TALKING TO HIM, WHERE YOU'RE PRAYING TO HIM AND JUST COMMUNING WITH HIM. ONE OF THE THINGS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS YOU'RE SUPPOSE TO BE PRAYING IN OTHER TONGUES, PRIVATELY. PRAYING IN OTHER TONGUES BUILDS UP YOUR SPIRIT MAN. FAITH IN A PERSON ONE DAY AND FEAR IN THAT SAME PERSON ANOTHER DAY MOMENT, FAITH IN THEM IN ONE MOMENT, FEAR IN ANOTHER MOMENT JOY IN THEM ONE MOMENT AND THEN ANGER UNNECESSARILY IN THE NEXT MOMENT IS A SIGN OF A PERSON WHO IS DOUBLE-MINDED. AND A PERSON WHO IS DOUBLE-MINDED SIMPLY DOESN'T HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. YOU CAN SAY ALL YOU WANT TO SAY. “PASTOR, I'M SAVED.” I BELIEVE YOU. I DON'T DOUBT THAT. YOU CAN SAY, “PASTOR, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? ARE YOU SAYING THAT I'M AN EVIL PERSON?” NO I'M NOT SAYING ANY OF THAT AT ALL. WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE TRUE SALVATION THAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM HAS TO BE DEVELOPED AND IT HAS TO BE MAINTAINED. (UUHHMM!) THE BIBLE SAYS THAT A SLUGGARD TURNS IN HIS BED AND SAYS THERE'S A LION OUTSIDE. IT SAYS THAT A SLUGGARD PUTS HIS HAND IN THE DISH AND CANNOT DRAW IT BACK OUT. IT SAYS THAT THE HOUSE OF THE SLUGGARD, THE RAFTERS ARE SAGGING. IN OTHER WORDS HE'S NOT MAINTAINING THE HOME THAT HE BUILT YEARS AGO. NOW HE'S LETTING IT ALL GO. AND YOU CAN'T COME INTO THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD AND BE EXCITED ABOUT GOD THE FIRST YEAR AND DECIDE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE DOING ANYTHING AFTER THAT, OR GET INTO A PLACE OF COMFORTABLENESS. JESUS TALKED ABOUT THOSE TYPES OF PEOPLE IN THE PARABLE OF THE VIRGINS. THERE WERE 10 VIRGINS THAT HAD THEIR LAMPS LIT AND THEY CAME IN, 5 OF THEM DIDN'T BRING IN ENOUGH OIL OR DIDN'T MAINTAIN THE FLOW OF THE RIGHT KIND OF OIL IN THEIR LIFE AND THEY WENT OUT TO BUY MORE OIL. IN OTHER WORDS THEY LEFT THE PRESENCE OF THE MASTER, AND WHILE THEY WERE GONE, HE CLOSED AND BOLTED THE DOORS AND HAD THE WEDDING FEAST. THERE ARE CHRISTIANS, I BELIEVE THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, WE KNOW FROM SCRIPTURE THAT ARE GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND AT THE SOUND OF GOD'S CALLING. (AMEN) AT THE TRUMP. AT JESUS' COMING ON THE CLOUDS ON THE FIRST TRUMP. WE KNOW FROM SCRIPTURE THAT ARE GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND AND YOU DON'T WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND BUT LET'S NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE IF THAT WON'T MOTIVATE YOU. LET'S THINK ABOUT THE NOW. (RIGHT) WHAT ABOUT HAVING ENOUGH FOR THE NOW? WHAT ABOUT AT LEAST HAVING A HOPE FOR YOUR FUTURE? (HALLELUJAH) AND THAT SALVATION IS THE HOPE FOR YOUR FUTURE. NOW LET'S LOOK AT THIS AGAIN. IN VERSE 15 IT SAYS, THEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, "WHY ARE YOU CRYING OUT TO ME? TELL THE SONS OF ISRAEL TO GO FORWARD.” I LOVE WHAT GOD SAYS HERE. HE SAYS, “WHY ARE YOU CRYING OUT TO ME?” HAVEN'T YOU FIGURED OUT MOSES HOW TO OPERATE THIS THING YET? (YEP THAT'S RIGHT, HALLELUJAH) AND THE ROD REPRESENTED HIS WORD AND THE HAND REPRESENTED PUTTING THE WORD TO WORK. AND HE SAID LIFT UP THE ROD AND STRETCH YOUR HAND OUT OVER THE WATER. TAKE THE WORD AND PUT IT INTO ACTION. (AMEN) SPEAK TO THE THINGS THAT YOU GOT GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU DON'T LIKE. (THAT'S RIGHT) SPEAK TO THOSE NASTY OLD THINGS. (AMEN)  I'VE SPOKEN ALL KINDS OF THINGS, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL CHANGE (HALLELUJAH) BECAUSE THE VERY DNA OF HEAVEN AND EARTH IS FAITH. (YES, AMEN)  AND ALL YOU GOT TO DO IS SPEAK TO IT. YOU DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD; ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU POUNCE ON IT LIKE A LEOPARD AND MAN IT'S GOT TO CHANGE. (HALLELUJAH) WHATEVER IT IS, IT'S EITHER GOT TO GROW OR IT'S GOT TO DIE. (AMEN) THEN THE LORD SAID TO MOSES, “WHY ARE YOU CRYING OUT TO ME? TELL THE SONS OF ISRAEL TO GO FORWARD. "AS FOR YOU, LIFT UP YOUR STAFF AND STRETCH OUT YOUR HAND OVER THE SEA AND DIVIDE IT, AND THE SONS OF ISRAEL SHALL GO THROUGH THE MIDST OF THE SEA ON DRY LAND. AND WE KNOW BACK IN VERSE 13, IT SAYS, “STAND BY AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD. THE EGYPTIANS THAT YOU SEE TODAY YOU WILL NEVER SEE AGAIN.” WOW. THE PROBLEMS THAT YOU HAVE (HAND CLAP) CAN DISAPPEAR IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS. (HALLELUJAH) YOU CAN HAVE HOPE (HAND CLAP) IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS. YOU CAN HAVE A NEW BELIEF (HAND CLAP) SYSTEM IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS AND BEEN A CHRISTIAN FOR TWENTY YEARS. (YES, AMEN) ALL OF A SUDDEN ONE THING WILL CHANGE IN YOUR DAY AND YOU'LL HAVE A BRAND NEW HOPE. (AMEN)


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THIS IS THE FINAL SEGMENT OF PASTOR MARK CLEMENTS OF LIVING WORD CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN LACROSSE WISCONSIN. 


YOU WILL LOVE THIS VERSE. MICAH CHAPTER 7 IN VERSE 18. MICAH 7 IN VERSE 18 IT SAYS HERE. WHO IS A GOD LIKE UNTO YOU.” WHO IS A GOD LIKE YOU WHO PARDONS INIQUITY AND PASSES BY THE TRANSGRESSION OF THE REMNANT OF HIS PEOPLE. HE RETAINS NOT HIS ANGER FOREVER BECAUSE HE DELIGHTS IN WHAT? (MERCY) WHAT IS IT THAT HE DELIGHTS IN.? (MERCY) HE LOOKS DOWN AND HE SEES YOU! AND HE SEES SOMEBODY THAT SERVES THE LORD. AND HE LOOKS DOWN AND HE SEES SOMEBODY WHO FEARS THE LORD. WHO REVERENCES HIM WHO WORSHIPS HIM. HE LOOKS DOWN AND SEES SOMEBODY WHO'S WALKING BEFORE THE LORD WITH THERE WHOLE HEART. YAH THEY'VE MADE MISTAKES. YAH THERE LIFE ISN'T PREFECT BUT THERE DOING THE BEST THAT THEY CAN. AND THERE WHOLE HEARTS IN IT! HE'S GONNA HAVE MERCY ON THAT PERSON. AND HE DELIGHTS IN SHOWING MERCY. YOU OUGHT A YOU OUGHT A JUST GET UP IN THE MORNING AND MAKE YOUR MIND UP THAT YOUR GOING TO MAKE THE LORD HAPPY TODAY. SO WHAT IF I EVER EXHAUST HIS MERCY? LISTEN FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER. HALLELUIAH, AMEN? AND HE'S PLENTEOUS IN MERCY, GENEROUS IN MERCY ABUNDANT IN MERCY AND OUR GOD IS RICH IN MERCY. HE'S RICH IN MERCY. ARIGHT, LAST VERSE FOR THAT POINT. PSALM 52, IN VERSE 8. PSALM 52 IN VERSE 8, "I AM LIKE A GREEN OLIVE TREE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD; I AM LIKE A GREEN OLIVE TREE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD;" THAT MEANS I'VE BEEN PLANTED THERE I'M GROWING THERE AND I'M FRUITFUL THERE. PRODUCTIVE THERE.  "I AM LIKE A GREEN OLIVE TREE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD; I TRUST IN THE MERCY OF GOD". AMEN? NUMBER 2 REJOICE IN HIS MERCY. REJOICE IN HIS MERCY. ROMANS CHAPTER 15 VERSE 9 "...THAT THE GENTILES (NATIONS) MIGHT GLORIFY GOD FOR HIS MERCY TO THEM." IF YOU DON'T YOU OUGHT TO GLORIFY GOD FOR HIS MERCY. TITUS 3:5 "...NOT ON THE BASIS OF DEEDS WHICH WE HAVE DONE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, BUT ACCORDING TO HIS MERCY." THAT WE ARE SAVED.  HEBREWS 8:12 FOR I WILL BE MERCIFUL TO THEIR INIQUITIES, AND I WILL REMEMBER THEIR SINS NO MORE.", COLOSSIANS, EXCUSE ME 
LAMENTATIONS 3:22, THE LORD'S LOVING KINDNESSES INDEED NEVER CEASE, FOR HIS COMPASSIONS NEVER FAIL." WE OUGHT TO GLORIFY GOD FOR HIS MERCIES EVERYDAY! PSALM 89:1 I WILL SING OF THE LOVINGKINDNESS OF THE LORD FOREVER; TO ALL GENERATIONS I WILL MAKE KNOWN YOUR FAITHFULNESS WITH MY MOUTH." I WILL SING OF THE MERCIES OF THE LORD. IF YOU DON'T YOU OUGHT TO SING OF HIS MERCY. SING OF THE MERCIES OF THE LORD FOREVER. II CHRONICLES 20: NOW RATHER THAT GIVE A PARTICULAR VERSE I'M JUST GOING TO REMIND YOU OF THIS ENTIRE CHAPTER. II CHRONICLES CHAPTER 20 THIS IS WHERE THE PEOPLE THERE IN ISRAEL THEY WERE SURROUNDED BY THEIR ENEMIES. ANYBODY HERE BESIDES ME, I'LL PUT BOTH HANDS UP, ANYBODY HERE THIS MORNING YOU'VE GONE THROUGH SOME BATTLES IN LIFE? THERE'S TROUBLES ALL AROUND US IN LIFE. AND THAT'S WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO THESE PEOPLE RIGHT HERE! THIS WAS A NATURAL BATTLE THESE WHERE ENEMY'S COMING AGAINST THEM WITH SWORDS AND SPEARS AND CHARIOTS. AND THEY WHERE ADVANCING ON THREE DIFFERENT FRONT'S. THEY WHERE COMING FROM THE NORTHEAST COMING FROM NORTHWEST AND COMING RIGHT UP FROM THE SOUTH AND THERE WAS NO ESCAPE. THEY WHERE GOING TO HAVE TO STAND THERE GROUND AND THEY LITERALLY SAID TO GOD IN VERSE 12 THEY SAID "WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO BUT OUR EYES ARE ON YOU." OUR EYES ARE ON YOU THE LORD GAVE THEM A WORD THAT YOU'LL NOT HAVE TO FIGHT IN THIS BATTLE STAND YOU STILL AND SEE THE SALVATION OF YOUR GOD. AND HERE'S WHAT THEY DID THEY SENT THE SINGERS OUT. SEE WHAT'S POINT NUMBER 2? WHAT IS IT? (REJOICE) REJOICE IN HIS MERCY! REJOICE IN HIS MERCY! NOW THE LORD NEVER TOLD THEM TO DO THAT VERBATIM HE NEVER COMMANDED THEM TOO GO OUT AND SING ABOUT THE MERCY OF GOD. BUT I THINK JEHOSHAPHAT THE KING HE  KNEW SOME THING ABOUT GOD. HE KNEW HE REMEMBERED BACK THERE IN THE PENTATEUCH AND THE TORAH WHEN HE HAD GROWN UP AS A LITTLE JEWISH BOY AND HAD TO LEARN ALL OF THOSE FIVE BOOKS BY MEMORY. HE REMEMBERED THAT WHEN GOD PASSED BY MOSES UPON THAT MOUNTAIN TOP HE SAID I'M GONNA PROCLAIM MY NAME TO YOU. AND HE READ BY HIM AND HE PROCLAIMED THE LORD! THE LORD GOD! MERCIFUL, MERCIFUL, MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS COMPASSIONATE AND KIND LONG SUFFERING AND HE REMEMBERED SOME THESE AND THE LORD IS MERCIFUL AND THE LORD IS GOOD AND HIS MERCY ENDURES FOR EVER. MAYBE HE REMEMBERED WHAT HAPPENED BACK HERE IN THE 5TH CHAPTER IN THE 5TH CHAPTER 11 CHRONICLES AT THE DEDICATION OF THE TEMPLE WHEN THEY ALL CAME TOGETHER AND THEY GOT THE TRUMPETERS AND THE SINGERS AND EVERYONE HAD WHITE GARMENTS ON AND THEY HAD THE CYMBALS. AND IT SAYS IN CHAPTER 5 VERSE 12 THE CYMBALS AND SULTRY'S AND HARPS AND THEY HAD ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY PRIEST'S SOUNDING THE TRUMPETS AND IT CAME TO PASS VERSE 13 AS THE TRUMPETERS AND THE SINGER WHERE UNITED TO MAKE ONE SOUND TO BE HEARD AND PRAISING AND THANKING THE LORD THEY LIFTED UP THERE VOICE WITH THE TRUMPETS AND CYMBALS AND INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC. TO PRAISE THE LORD AND TO SAY FOR HE IS GOOD!! AND HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER, THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY WAS SINGING. EVERYBODY. HAD THE TRUMPETS BLASTING AND BLARING HAD THE CYMBALS CRASHING HAD ALL THE INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC GOING AND THEN ALL AT ONCE EVERYONE SHOUTS THE LORD IS GOOD AND IS MERCY THEY DIDN'T NEED MERCY THEY WERE DEDICATING A CHURCH BUILDING. THERE DEDICATING A SANCTUARY THEY GOT CHAIRS, BENCHES, WALLS, CEILING. THEY DON'T NEED MERCY. THEY'RE NOT CALLING BECAUSE THEY NEED MERCY, THEY ARE REJOICING IN THE WORD OF GOD. THERE EXALTING IN THE MERCY OF GOD. THERE BLESSING THE GOD OF MERCY, AND REMEMBERING THE MERCY OF GOD. (AMEN) AND SO THEY LIFTED UP THE GREAT GOD OF MERCY, WHO'S GOOD AND WHO'S MERCY ENDURES FOREVER. AND IT SAYS THAT WHEN THEY DID THE WHOLE BUILDING WAS FILLED WITH A CLOUD. EVEN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, WHAT KIND OF A CLOUD WAS THAT PASTOR, VERSE 14, SO THE PRIESTS COULDN'T STAND UPRIGHT TO MINISTER BECAUSE OF THE CLOUD, FOR THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAD FILLED THE HOUSE OF GOD. THE GLORY OF THE LORD HAD FILLED THE HOUSE OF GOD. I THINK JEHOSHAPHAT REMEMBERED THAT, I THINK HE REMEMBERED WHAT HAD HAPPENED WHEN THEY ALL GOT THERE AND STARTED SHOUTING ABOUT THE GOODNESS AND THE MERCY OF GOD, AND WHAT HE DID IS BEFORE ANY OF THEIR OWN SOLDIERS BEFORE ANY OF THEIR OWN COMPANIES BEFORE ANY OF THERE TROOPS WENT OUT HE PUT SINGERS OUT FRONT. HE SAID WERE GOING TO GET THAT GLORY BACK HERE WERE GOING TO GET THAT CLOUD BACK HERE. WERE GOING TO GET THE LORD INVOLVED IN THIS AND THE WAY TO DO THIS IS TO REJOICE IN HIS MERCY. AND SO GET SOME SINGERS OUT IN FRONT THERE, THE LORD DIDN'T TELL HIM TO DO THIS HE DID THIS, GET SOME SINGERS OUT THERE. AND THEY WENT OUT IN FRONT OF HIM AND THE BIBLE  SAYS, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THEY WENT OUT, THAT THEY WENT OUT, IN II CHRONICLES 20: VERSE 21 AND WHEN HE HAD CONSULTED WITH THE PEOPLE, HE APPOINTED SINGERS UNTO THE LORD, AND THAT SHOULD PRAISE THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS, AS THEY WENT OUT BEFORE THE ARMY, AND TO SAY, PRAISE THE LORD; CAN YOU IMAGINE THEM OUT THERE I MEAN ALL THE SOLDIERS ARE BACK THERE, ALL OF THE GUYS WITH HELMETS AND BOOTS AND BANDOLIERS OF AMMO AND MACHINE GUNS AND ALL THE TANKS, WELL IN  THERE DAY ALL THE SWORDS AND THE SHIELDS AND THERE ALL BACK THERE, LETS GET THE WORSHIP TEAM AND PUT THEM OUT IN FRONT. THE WORSHIP TEAM! AND THEY ALL COME OUT IN THERE LITTLE CHIFFON DRESSES AND MATCHING SUITS AND TIES, AND THEY ALL GET OUT THERE IN FRONT OF THE TROOPS LOOK BACK AT THE TROOPS AND WHAT DO THEY SEEING OVER HERE? ENEMIES! ENEMIES ARMED TO THE TEETH! FAR AS THEY CAN SEE HORIZON TO HORIZON! NOTHING BUT ENEMIES! HORSES AND CHARIOTS AND ALL THE SPEARS LORD AND GLARING AND GLARING ANGRY HOSTILE ENEMIES! AND HERE COMES THE WORSHIP TEAM. HERE COMES THE WORSHIP TEAM SENT OUT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY ELSE. JEHOSHAPHAT SAID TO DO THIS, NOT GOD, JEHOSHAPHAT  SAID GO OUT IN FRONT OF US, GO OUT IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY AND START SINGING TO THE LORD ABOUT HIS MERCY. JUST START REJOICING IN HIS MERCY; JUST START GLORIFYING THE MERCY OF GOD. AND THE GOD OF MERCY. OH GOD JUST LOVES THIS WHEN SOMEBODY JUST STARTS COMING BEFORE THE THRONE OF GRACE TO FIND MERCY AND HELP TO CALL OUT AND THANK GOD FOR HIS MERCY. AND THEY WENT OUT THERE AND YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY. IT TOOK THEM THREE DAYS TO COLLECT ALL OF THE STUFF. THEY NEVER HAD TO FIRE ONE ARROW, UNSHEATHE ON SPEAR, OR SWORD, OR FLING ONE SPEAR NEVER HAD TO RAISE A SHIELD. THEY DIDN'T EVEN FIGHT IN THAT BATTLE. WHEN THEY STARTED SINGING ABOUT THE MERCY OF GOD THERE WAS A GREAT GREAT CONFUSION AMONGST THEIR ENEMIES AND THEY ALL WERE BATTLING EACH OTHER FOR HOURS. AND THEY JUST STOOD AND WATCHED. (GLORY, AMEN) WHEN IT WAS ALL DONE THERE WAS NOT ONE ENEMY SOLDIER THAT WAS LEFT ALIVE! THEY JUST WENT AND COLLECTED EVERYTHING, TOOK THREE DAYS TO COLLECT IT ALL! (HALLELUIAH) BOY IF YOU START SINGING ABOUT THE MERCY OF GOD INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING ABOUT YOUR PROBLEM YOU JUST DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE YOU TO JUST GET ALL THE STUFF  THAT GOD HAD BLESSED YOUR LIFE WITH! (GLORY, PRAISE GOD, AMEN) AND FINALLY NUMBER THREE: CRY OUT FOR HIS MERCY, NUMBER 1 TRUST IN HIS MERCY, NUMBER 2 REJOICE IN HIS MERCY. AND NUMBER THREE DON'T HESITATE TO CALL ON GOD AND SAY I GOT THIS TERMINAL DIAGNOSES, LORD THAT'S THE FINAL DECREE, LORD I'VE JUST RECEIVED MY PINK SLIP, I NEED MERCY! DON'T STAND UP THERE AND SAY, AW I'VE JUST BEEN A WONDERFUL THIS AND I'VE BEEN A WONDERFUL THAT, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I'M BEING TREATED LIKE THIS. JUST CRY OUT FOR HIS MERCY. (YEAH) AMEN. (AMEN) AMEN! (AMEN) PSALM 57 VERSE 1 "BE MERCIFUL TO ME, O GOD, BE MERCIFUL TO ME! FOR MY SOUL TRUSTS IN YOU; AND IN THE SHADOW OF YOUR WINGS I WILL MAKE MY REFUGE, UNTIL THESE CALAMITIES HAVE PASSED BY."  I MEAN I'M GOING TO GET INTO YOU GOD HAVE MERCY ON ME! (OOH) BE MERCIFUL TO ME IN THE MIDST OF THIS CALAMITY. (YEAH HALLELUIAH) PSALM 86 VERSE 3, PSALM 86 VERSE; "BE MERCIFUL UNTO ME, O LORD: FOR I CRY UNTO THEE DAILY." I DON'T THINK YOU'D BE OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLES UH COMMISSION AND MANDATE AND DICTATE IF YOU'D GET ON YOUR KNEES EVERY DAY AND JUST SAY, LORD BE MERCIFUL TO ME TODAY, HAVE MERCY ON ME TODAY, I NEED YOUR MERCY TODAY. OH GOD DELIGHTS IN SHOWING MERCY. HE'S NOT GOING TO GET MAD AT YAH. I MEAN GONNA PUT A SMILE ON GOD! HE'S GONNA GO OOH ALRIGHT! SOMEBODY, SOMEBODY WANTS MERCY (YEAH, AMEN)  AMEN! ALRIGHT IN THE GOSPELS WE'LL GIVE YOU FIVE OPENINGS IN THE GOSPELS, AND WERE FINISHED. MATHEW 9:27, MATHEW 9:27; "AND WHEN JESUS DEPARTED THENCE, TWO BLIND MEN FOLLOWED HIM, CRYING, AND SAYING, THOU SON OF DAVID," WHAT WOULD YOU THINK YOU WOULD SAY IF YOU WERE BLIND? WHAT THEY SAID," HAVE MERCY ON US.", "HAVE MERCY ON US." IN MATHEW CHAPTER 15 IN VERSE 22 A WOMEN CAME ON BEHALF OF HER DAUGHTER, YOU CAN COME ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE. AND WHAT DID SHE SAY? SHE CAME TO THIS, "... AND CRIED UNTO HIM, SAYING, HAVE MERCY ON ME, O LORD, THOU SON OF DAVID; MY DAUGHTER IS GRIEVOUSLY VEXED WITH A DEVIL." AND SHE'S CRYING OUT FOR MERCY. CRYING OUT FOR MERCY.


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ALL OF A SUDDEN ONE THING WILL CHANGE IN YOUR DAY AND YOU'LL HAVE A BRAND NEW HOPE. (AMEN)  AND THEN YOU'LL NEED TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS. WON'T YOU? YOU'LL NEED TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS OF WALKING IT OUT WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU NEED TO WALK OUT. LET'S GO OVER TO PSALM 78, PSALM 78. PSALM 78 STARTING IN VERSE 20. "BEHOLD, HE STRUCK THE ROCK SO THAT WATERS GUSHED OUT, AND STREAMS WERE OVERFLOWING; CAN HE GIVE BREAD ALSO? WILL HE PROVIDE MEAT FOR HIS PEOPLE?" IN OTHER WORDS, “IS GOD BIG ENOUGH TO GET ME THROUGH THE NEXT HUMP? IS HE BIG ENOUGH TO DELIVER ME THIS NEXT TIME?” AND I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TODAY GOD IS NOT ONLY BIG ENOUGH, HE'S READY TO DO IT, HE'S WAITING ON YOU TO RECEIVE IT. (HALLELUJAH) IT'S NOT GOD UNABLE TO DO IT. IT'S YOU GETTING READY TO RECEIVE IT. MAKING YOURSELF BIG ENOUGH ON THE INSIDE TO RECEIVE THE NATURE OF GOD AND YOU CANNOT GET THAT NATURE WITHOUT RELATIONSHIP. (AMEN) LET'S KEEP READING. VERSE 21, “ THEREFORE THE LORD HEARD AND WAS FULL OF WRATH; AND A FIRE WAS KINDLED AGAINST JACOB AND ANGER ALSO MOUNTED AGAINST ISRAEL, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN GOD AND DID NOT TRUST IN HIS SALVATION.” THEY DIDN'T TRUST IN HIS HAND AND HIS FAVOR TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THE SITUATION THAT THEY WERE UP AGAINST AND REVERSE IT TO MAKE IT LOOK GOOD. I AM FULLY EXPECTING SOMEONE TO COME IN AND PAY THIS DEBT OFF ON THIS BUILDING. (HALLELUJAH, AMEN) WE'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD ON PAYING IT OFF BUT THAT'S IN THE NATURAL. IF YOU WANT OR NEED TO KNOW WHAT IT IS JUST SEND ME AN EMAIL, I'LL SEND YOU BACK THE EXACT AMOUNT. PAY OFF IS. IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THAT KIND OF THING ALWAYS HAPPENS IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF BELIEVING GOD. IT JUST ALWAYS COMES TO PASS. (HALLELUJAH, AMEN) GOD DOESN'T WANT THIS CHURCH IN DEBT. GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU IN DEBT. (HALLELUJAH) AMEN? (AMEN) GOD'S WILLING TO DO ABOVE AND BEYOND, EXCEEDINGLY AND GREATER THAN ANYTHING THAT YOU'VE EVER BELIEVED HIM FOR. AND HE SAYS RIGHT HERE, “BECAUSE THEY DID NOT BELIEVE IN GOD NOR DID THEY TRUST IN HIS SALVATION.” OR TRUST IN HIS DELIVERANCE FROM THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES AND FROM THE SITUATIONS. NOW HERE IT'S NOT EVEN THE HAND OF THEIR ENEMIES. THEY WERE JUST BELIEVING TO HAVE A GOOD STEAK DINNER WITH RICE. AND THAT'S ALL THEY WANTED. WE'RE DONE EATING BREAD FOR SUPPER, BREAD FOR LUNCH, AND BREAD FOR BREAKFAST. YOU KNOW, CAN WE HAVE SOMETHING ELSE? AND THEY COMPLAINED. HAD ALL THE NUTRIENTS IN IT THEY NEEDED. DIDN'T NEED TO TAKE VITAMINS. NO ONE HAD BLACK BAGS UNDER THEIR EYES. KIDS WERE ALL DOING WELL. HUM? PERFECT HEALTH FOR EVERYBODY. (RIGHT) AND THEY DIDN'T TRUST IN HIS SALVATION AND THAT WORD THERE, SALVATION, MEANS IN THAT CONTEXT, PROSPERITY. (HALLELUJAH) THEY DIDN'T TRUST IN THERE GETTING THERE DAILY BREAD THE WAY THAT THEY WANTED IT. AND SO HE WAS ANGRY WITH THEM. JUMP DOWN TO VERSE 36. “BUT THEY DECEIVED HIM WITH THEIR MOUTH, THEY LIED TO HIM WITH THEIR TONGUE. FOR THEIR HEART WAS NOT STEADFAST; UNDERLINE THAT WORD IN VERSE 37, STEADFAST TOWARD HIM, NOR WERE THEY FAITHFUL IN HIS COVENANT.” IF YOU'RE NOT STEADFAST TOWARDS GOD THEN YOU CAN'T BE FAITHFUL TO HIM. AND SALVATION OR NO FEAR OF YOUR FUTURE WILL COME WHEN YOU'RE STEADFAST TOWARDS GOD (HALLELUJAH). IF FEAR IS ENTERING IN THEN IT'S BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT STAYING STEADFAST ENOUGH. “YOU'RE SAYING IF I HAVE ANY FEAR, YA MEAN I'M JUST BEING A BAD CHRISTIAN?” FRIENDS I HAVE TO DEAL WITH FEAR. EVERYONE HAS TO DEAL WITH FEAR. (RIGHT) I JUST CAST IT DOWN. (HALLELUJAH, AMEN, THAT'S RIGHT) IT'S NOT A SIN TO BE FEARFUL, IT'S A SIN TO MAINTAIN THAT FEAR, TALK ABOUT THE FEAR, COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FEAR, AND NOT DO ANYTHING TO GET RID OF THE FEAR. (AMEN, YES) THAT'S UNFAITHFULNESS. IS THIS WORK? YES IT IS. BUT I'D RATHER WORK AND GET THE BLESSINGS IN THIS LIFE THEN STAY WHERE I'M AT, YOU KNOW, AT CERTAIN TIMES AND NOT SEE THE BLESSINGS COMING. (AMEN) I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULD WANT GOD TO PUT YOU IN A BRAND NEW PLACE. (HALLELUJAH) PRAISE BE TO GOD. JUMP DOWN TO VERSE 41. “AGAIN AND AGAIN THEY TEMPTED GOD, AND PAINED THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. THEY DID NOT REMEMBER HIS POWER, THE DAY WHEN HE REDEEMED THEM FROM THE ADVERSARY,” THEY DID NOT REMEMBER THE POWER, THEY WANTED A FUTURE FULL OF HOPE, BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO THINK BACK AND THINK ABOUT THOSE THINGS THAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO THINK ABOUT. (RIGHT) LET'S GO OVER TO ROMANS CHAPTER 12, ROMANS CHAPTER 12, ROMANS CHAPTER 12 STARTING IN VERSE 1, “THEREFORE I URGE YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, TO PRESENT YOUR BODIES A LIVING AND HOLY SACRIFICE, ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, WHICH IS YOUR SPIRITUAL SERVICE OF WORSHIP. AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND,” WHY? “SO THAT”, EVERYONE SAY SO THAT (SO THAT), SO THAT YOU MAY PROVE WHAT THE WILL OF GOD IS, THAT WHICH IS GOOD AND ACCEPTABLE AND PERFECT.” THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET YOURSELF CONFORMED IS BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. YOU DON'T RENEW YOUR BODY FIRST AND THEN HOPE YOUR MIND FOLLOWS. YOU DON'T MAINTAIN YOURSELF TO BE GOOD BY BRUTE FORCE. BRUTE FORCE WASN'T WORKING FOR YOU BEFORE YOU GOT SAVED. (AMEN) IT WASN'T WORKING BEFORE, THAT'S WHY MOST OF YOU GOT SAVED. IT WASN'T WORKING. BRUTE FORCE, BRUTE ANGER, BRUTE DETERMINATION, WILL NOT KEEP SIN AWAY FROM YOUR DOOR, (RIGHT) WILL NOT KEEP FAITH OPERATING IN YOUR LIFE. YOU MUST NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. HOW DO WE NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD? WELL WE KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS, “HALLOWED BE THY NAME.” IS GOD'S NAME HALLOWED IN YOUR HOUSE? “OH YES, AMEN.” IS IT REALLY? OR DO YOU HAVE MOVIES ON THAT ARE TAKING THE LORD'S NAME IN VAIN ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE MOVIE? (THAT'S RIGHT) OH I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN TO TREAD ON YOUR TOES THERE. YOU GOT SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT WHEN YOU LEAVE. (LAUGHING) HUH? ARE YOU HONORING GOD BY WATCHING ALL THOSE HORROR MOVIES WITH SATANISM AND WITCHCRAFT IN IT? NOPE. THE WITCH WAS SUPPOSE, THE WITCH WAS SUPPOSE TO BE STONED TO DEATH IN THE DAYS OF KING SAUL AND EVEN IN THE DAYS OF JESUS. WITCHES WEREN'T SUPPOSE TO BE ALLOWED INTO THE KINGDOM. IF YOU'RE PRACTICING WITCHCRAFT, YOU'RE PRACTICING SERVING ANOTHER GOD. ALL WITCHCRAFT IS TO SERVE THE DEVIL. (YEAH AMEN) IT'S SATANISM. “WELL I'M A GOOD WITCH.” ARE YOU REALLY? (LAUGHTER) NOW I'VE HAD PEOPLE IN CHURCH COME UP TO ME AFTER I'VE PREACHED THIS AND SAID I'M A GOOD WITCH, A WHITE WITCH. (LAUGHTER) WHAT CHURCH DO YOU GO TO? (LAUGHING) AND THEIR CONVINCED OF IT. YOU'RE SERVING  THE DEVIL. (THAT'S RIGHT) (COME ON) NOT EVERYONE THAT COMES INTO THE CHURCH IS PERFECT LIKE YOU. (LAUGHING) SOME OF THEM  NEED A LITTLE BIT OF WORK. (LAUGH) (PASTOR LAUGHING) AND DO NOT BE CONFORMED TO THIS WORLD BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY WHAT? THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND OR THE RENEWING OF A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD. (AMEN) IT SAYS OVER IN ROMANS 13, THAT RULERS ARE NOT A CAUSE FOR FEAR, IF YOU'RE DOING GOOD. BUT THEY ARE A CAUSE OF FEAR IF YOU'RE DOING WRONG. (THAT'S RIGHT) IT SAYS OVER IN ROMANS 8, IT SAYS THOSE BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD, THOSE ARE THE SONS OF GOD. IF YOU'RE BEING LED BY THE SPIRIT, YOU'RE NOT BEING LED BY THE WORLD. (THAT'S RIGHT) AND YOU CAN SAY, “WELL YOU KNOW (SHRUG)” YOU'RE GOING TO BE JUDGED FOR WHAT YOU KNOW AND FOR THE AUTHORITY THAT YOU HAVE AND HOW YOU RELEASE THAT AUTHORITY INTO THE EARTH. IF YOU WANT NO FEAR OF THE FUTURE, DO WHAT IS RIGHT TODAY. (HALLELUJAH, AMEN, PRAISE GOD) I'M GOING TO CLOSE IT HERE IN I SAMUEL CHAPTER 30. I SAMUEL:30. I SAMUEL CHAPTER 30 STARTING IN VERSE 1, “THEN IT HAPPENED WHEN DAVID AND HIS MEN CAME TO ZIKLAG ON THE THIRD DAY, THAT THE AMALEKITES HAD MADE A RAID ON THE NEGEV AND ON ZIKLAG, AND HAD OVERTHROWN ZIKLAG AND BURNED IT WITH FIRE; AND THEY TOOK CAPTIVE THE WOMEN AND ALL WHO WERE IN IT, BOTH SMALL AND GREAT, WITHOUT KILLING ANYONE, AND CARRIED THEM OFF AND WENT THEIR WAY. WHEN DAVID AND HIS MEN CAME TO THE CITY, BEHOLD, IT WAS BURNED WITH FIRE, AND THEIR WIVES AND THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS HAD BEEN TAKEN CAPTIVE. THEN DAVID AND THE PEOPLE WHO WERE WITH HIM LIFTED THEIR VOICES AND WEPT UNTIL THERE WAS NO STRENGTH IN THEM TO WEEP.” PUT YOURSELF IN THIS PLACE. YOU NOT ONLY LOST ALL YOUR PROPERTY, YOU LOST EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER BEEN WORKING FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE, YOUR WIVES AND YOUR CHILDREN. YOUR BLOOD HAS BEEN TAKEN CAPTIVE. YOU COME BACK, THINGS ARE LOOKING GOOD, YOU SEE SMOKE OFF AT A DISTANCE AND YOUR HEART COMPLETELY SINKS. YOU GET TO THE PLACE AND YOUR KNEES ARE WEAK, YOUR WRISTS ARE LIMP, YOU HAVEN'T ANY STRENGTH LEFT IN YOU. YOU CAN'T EAT, YOU CAN'T DRINK WATER. YOU TRY TO SLEEP TO GET RID OF THE DEPRESSION OF WHAT YOU'RE EXPERIENCING AND EVEN SLEEP WON'T COME TO YOU. AND YOU MOAN AND YOU CRY AND THROW DUST ON YOUR HEAD AND NOTHING BRINGS YOU ANY RELIEF OF PAIN OF WHAT YOU ARE EXPERIENCING. NOTHING. DAVID'S TWO WIVES HAD BEEN TAKEN, VERSE 6, “MOREOVER DAVID WAS GREATLY DISTRESSED BECAUSE THE PEOPLE SPOKE OF STONING HIM, FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WERE EMBITTERED, EACH ONE BECAUSE OF HIS SONS AND HIS DAUGHTERS. BUT DAVID STRENGTHENED HIMSELF IN THE LORD HIS GOD.” LOOK HOW QUICKLY, WHEN A TRIAL COMES UPON PEOPLE THAT THEY LOSE HEART, GIVE UP, THROW IN THE TOWEL, AND LOOK FOR AN ALTERNATE ROUTE TO GET OUT OF IT. “LET'S STONE OUR LEADER. LET'S TALK BAD ABOUT THE LEADER. LET'S DESTROY HIM; AT LEAST WE'LL HAVE OUR VENGEANCE. BUT WILL THAT BRING BACK THE WIVES, THE KIDS AND THE BOOTY? IT WON'T BRING IT BACK BUT WHAT DAVID DID THAT SHOWED DAVID'S HEART SEPARATE FROM THE HEART OF THE REST OF HIS PEOPLE, BUT DAVID STRENGTHENED HIMSELF IN THE LORD HIS GOD. HOW DID HE DO THAT? HE WENT BACK INTO RELATIONSHIP. (AMEN) HE SAID, I AM GOING TO HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD NO MATTER WHAT I AM EXPERIENCING; I AM NOT GOING TO ALLOW MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD TO BE BROKEN OFF BECAUSE OF ADVERSITY. (YES AMEN) AND AT THAT MOMENT IN TIME GOD SAW DAVID'S HEART. AGAIN! AND GOD SAW THE HEART OF THE PEOPLE WHO WERE SERVING DAVID. AGAIN! (AMEN) AND GOD IS LOOKING AT YOUR HEART; GOD
 HAS THE ABILITY TO DELIVER YOU. DAVID WAS GOING TO WAIT ON THE SALVATION OF THE LORD. JUMP OVER TO VERSE 18. “SO DAVID RECOVERED ALL THAT THE AMALEKITES HAD TAKEN, AND RESCUED HIS TWO WIVES. BUT NOTHING OF THEIRS WAS MISSING, WHETHER SMALL OR GREAT, SONS OR DAUGHTERS, SPOIL OR ANYTHING THAT THEY HAD TAKEN FOR THEMSELVES; DAVID BROUGHT IT ALL BACK. SO DAVID HAD CAPTURED ALL THE SHEEP AND THE CATTLE WHICH THE PEOPLE DROVE AHEAD OF THE OTHER LIVESTOCK, AND THEY SAID, "THIS IS DAVID'S SPOIL." (AMEN) I'M GOING TO TELL YOU A SECRET. SOME OF YOU ALREADY KNOW THIS. DAVID WENT DOWN TO FIGHT WITH THE PHILISTINES AND WHAT THE PHILISTINES AND THE AMALEKITES HAD FOUGHT AMONGST EACH OTHER AND TAKEN, DAVID NOW TOOK BACK FROM THE AMALEKITES, SO WHAT DAVID WANTED FROM THE PHILISTINES ANYWAY , HE GOT BACK THROUGH THE DESTRUCTION OF HIS HOME. HE GOT BACK EVERYTHING. HIS CHILDREN WERE UNMOLESTED AND HIS WIVES WERE UNMOLESTED WHICH IN THAT DAY! AND NOT ONLY DID HE GET BACK ALL OF HIS PROPERTY, HE GOT THE PROPERTY HE INITIALLY WENT AFTER ANYWAY WHEN HE WENT TO GO TO TRY START A FIGHT WITH THE PHILISTINES. (AMEN) HE GOT MORE BACK BUT HE HAD TO PERSIST THROUGH THE FIGHT. (AMEN) HE STRENGTHENED HIMSELF IN THE LORD AND DID NOT GIVE UP. (THAT'S RIGHT, HALLELUJAH, AMEN) HE WENT AHEAD DESPITE HOW HE FELT; HE FELT LIKE LAYING DOWN, HE FELT LIKE MOANING AND GROANING, HE FELT LIKE “GOD THIS IS IT. SOMEONE GIVE ME A KNIFE; I'M GOING TO KILL MYSELF.” AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE YOUR NEXT VICTORY IS ABOUT TO SPRING FORTH FROM, (HALLELUJAH) IS SOMETIMES FROM YOUR (AMEN) GREATEST TRAGEDIES. (AMEN) IT CAN COME FROM YOUR GREATEST TRAGEDIES IF YOU DO NOT GIVE UP. (AMEN) AMEN? (AMEN) LET'S ALL STAND.

WELL WASN'T THAT A GREAT BROADCAST AND A GREAT MESSAGE. 

FRIENDS IF YOU'VE NEVER MADE JESUS CHRIST YOUR PERSONAL LORD AND SAVIOR IT'S TIME THAT YOU DID. I KNOW THAT YOU THINK SO AND I THINK SO TO. SO LET'S DO THIS RIGHT NOW. LET'S JOIN THE REST OF THE BODY OF CHRIST IN MAKING A DECISION TO BE IN HEAVEN. REPEAT THESE WORDS OUT-LOUD AFTER ME, SAY DEAR JESUS COME INTO MY HEART RIGHT NOW AND MAKE ME A NEW PERSON, A NEW CREATION I DON'T WANT TO BE THAT OLD PERSON ANYMORE. THANK YOU JESUS FOR DIEING ON THE CROSS FOR ME SO THAT I DON'T HAVE TO DIE FOR ALL THE THINGS I'VE DONE WRONG IN JESUS NAME AMEN AND AMEN.  NOW DIDN'T THAT FEEL GOOD. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, YOU'VE JUST MADE THE MOST POWERFUL DECISION A CHRISTIAN CAN EVER MAKE IN THEIR LIFETIME AND THAT IS CHOOSING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO HEAVEN AND CHOOSING ON YOUR OWN. I'M PROUD OF YOU AND I LOVE YOU AND I WANT TO SEND THIS FREE BOOKLET OUT TO YOU, IT'S CALLED WELCOME TO THE FAMILY. WRITE ME HERE P.O. BOX 847 LAKE DELTON, WI 53940 AND WE WILL SEND THIS FREE BOOKLET OUT TO YOU CALLED WELCOME TO THE FAMILY IT'S OUR GIFT TO YOU FOR YOU MAKING A GOOD DECISION IN JESUS CHRIST AND A GOOD DECISION TO GO TO HEAVEN. WELL THIS IS ALL I HAVE FOR YOU TODAY SO THIS IS PASTOR DAVE GONZALEZ SAYING PRESS INTO GOD AND HE'LL PRESS INTO YOU AND I'LL SEE YOU HERE NEXT WEEK AT THE MOUNTAIN.


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HI THIS IS PASTOR DAVE GONZALEZ WITH THE MOUNTAIN FAITH MINISTRIES AND I'M SO THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE WATCHING THIS BROADCAST TODAY AND I HOPE YOU'RE GETTING A LOT OUT OF IT. I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER RIGHT NOW HOW IT IS THAT WE’RE EVEN ON THE AIR IN FRONT OF YOU RIGHT NOW. AIR TIME COSTS MONEY. PRODUCTION TIME COSTS MONEY. WE HAVE TO PAY EMPLOYEES FOR THE CHURCH. EVEN THE EQUIPMENT THAT IS RECORDING THIS RIGHT NOW. ALL THESE THINGS COST MONEY. WILL YOU CONSIDER RIGHT NOW BECOMING A FINANCIAL PARTNER WITH THIS MINISTRY. IF YOU’VE NEVER DONE THAT BEFORE I'D ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO SO. AT THIS TIME IN THIS MINISTRY WE WANT TO EXPAND FASTER AND GREATER THAN WE'VE EVER EXPANDED BEFORE. AND WE CAN DO THAT WITH YOUR HELP. WE’RE REACHING RIGHT NOW ALL AROUND THE WORLD. PEOPLE ARE WATCHING US RIGHT NOW ALL AROUND THE WORLD ON THE INTERNET. WE ARE ABLE TO GO INTO HOMES MORE THAN EVER BEFORE AND EVERY YEAR WE LITERALLY REACH MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WITH THE GOSPEL. AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY HELP IN REACHING THE LOST WITH YOUR FINANCIAL GIVING. WRITE ME HERE AT PO BOX 847, LAKE DELTON WISCONSIN 53940 AND SEND YOUR BEST QUALITY GIFT TODAY. MAKE YOUR GIFTS OUT TO DAVID GONZALEZ MINISTRIES. AND TELL US THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE GIVING THOSE GIFTS EVERY SINGLE MONTH THEREAFTER. WE DEPEND ON YOU. WE COUNT ON YOU AND WE LOVE YOU. AND WE PRAY OVER ALL THE PARTNERS, THE FINANCIAL PARTNERS WITH THIS MINISTRY. I KNOW THERE'S A SPECIAL BLESSING COMING TO YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE PARTNERING WITH THIS MINISTRY. I’LL BE EXPECTING TO HEAR FROM YOU.