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And we just wanted to start our service before we get into the word.

We just want to get into prayer.

And there's just some things going on this week.

We know this is a heavy week.

In fact, even coming in this week, I actually, I had a guest preacher lined up to come and deliver the word.

And...

You know, and with everything that happened this past week, we're kind of wrestling with, do we keep doing that?

Do we not?

Do we, you know, he's from a church in Lincoln.

Should he stay home, be with his people?

Should I be here with our people?

And we're kind of wrestling around with it.

And he just called me late last night.

You know, it was just kind of just good confirmation that we each needed to be home with our people today.

But it was, you know, we want to come for a moment and just intercede on behalf of him.

Pastor Sean, Crossroads Church in Lincoln, we just want to intercede for them.

They had a young lady in their church, just 19, Sarah, who passed away in a car accident last night.

He was supposed to be here preaching with us this morning.

And so we just, he and I, we talked and I just told him, I was like, you need to be with your people.

um she was best friend to his daughter like a daughter to him and his wife and so i just asked pastor steph if she would just come up here we're just gonna we're gonna come into agreement here praying for crossroads praying for their people uh praying for sarah and her family uh we just we thank the lord she knew she knew him and she's with him today but we know that this is hard for those people that are there in lincoln today so we just want to pray for their church

If you just want to pray in agreement with us, Pastor Steph's going to lead us, and then I'll close us in prayer.

But we just want to intercede for them, for their family, just everything they're going through right now.

And so if you want to pray in the Spirit, you want to pray in understanding, go ahead.

You can come into agreement with us, but we're going to come against the works of the devil right now as a church.

Pastor Steph, would you lead us?

Lord, I just thank you for just being present.

My heart is heavy and we walk in and we are filled with just peace because Jesus came and he's the one that he will crush Satan.

And he, you...

God, you are the deliverer of all.

And so I just pray right now, we just intercede for Sarah and her family.

We pray for Aubrey, her best friend that is going through a really wilderness season herself in here, her best friend.

I just ask that you just bring comfort, that you bring peace, that you give Pastor Sean and Pastor Beth the right words to comfort their people, to comfort her family and her house.

Lord, you love us, you meet us, and you want peace.

You want to bring us peace.

We know that you are the God of not order and chaos.

Satan wants to do a mighty thing.

And you say, no, I love my people.

I will surround my people.

And that is what you're doing today here in this house.

Thank you for the peace and the comfort that you're bringing us this morning.

just by being in your presence.

You love us and you want good things.

And Lord, I just pray that her life was a testimony to her friends.

Lord, I thank you that she is in the arms of Jesus right now, that she gets to meet you.

And that is what we get to look forward to too, that you want us in our hearts too.

Lord, I just ask for a supernatural comfort for her and her family and her friends.

Father God, we just thank you right now for this moment.

We know this is holy ground right here that we're standing on.

Lord, we pray for your church, just the church.

We know this is your plan.

We know that you've called us.

God, I just pray for strength in this season.

Lord, I pray for just an encouragement and just a supernatural peace.

We know you're the God of peace.

You're the God of comfort.

Lord, we pray for Charlie Kirk.

We thank you for his ministry.

That's really what it was.

He stood on your word.

He was more of a minister than a politician.

Everything he did was founded on your word.

And so we thank you for his life, for his ministry, for the words that you used him to speak boldly to declare your truth.

God, we thank you for that, for the testimony.

We overcome by the blood of the lamb and the testimony of your saints.

And so, Lord, we know there's just a new season of overcoming that's coming.

God, we just praise you and we thank you for this new season that your church is stepping into.

It is a beautiful thing.

The church is rising again the way you intended it to rise.

You're remaking it.

You're making all things new.

We're getting back to the word.

We're getting back to being planted on your word.

It's a firm foundation.

And so, Lord, we just sense that.

There's a powerful move.

There's a restructuring.

We don't look like a business.

We look like the church.

We're not a 5013C.

We're the church.

We're not a nonprofit.

We're the hope of the world through Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.

So we just thank you, Jesus, for what you're calling us into.

We thank you for prophets and apostles and evangelists and teachers and pastors that are rising up in this season, that you're calling into this new season, and that where there's been a bubble just suffocating somebody from hearing the spirit of truth, I pray the bubble would pop today in the name of Jesus.

that all of a sudden the scales would come off the eyes, ears would be open, that we'd hear your word fresh for the first time, Jesus.

Let it rise, let it rise, let it rise.

In Jesus' name, let God's people rise.

Hey, let's worship for a second.

Let's worship for a second.

Let it rise, let it rise, let it rise.

Let me tell you, it's only by the blood.

Bye.

We'll be right back.

Revelation 12, verse 7.

And war broke out in heaven.

Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought, but they did not prevail.

nor was a place found for them in heaven any longer.

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world.

He was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

Then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser of our brethren.

who accused them before our God day and night has been cast down.

And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.

And they did not love their lives to the death.

Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them.

Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea, for the devil has come down to you having great wrath because he knows that he has a short time.

He's got a short time.

He's coming as hard as he can.

He's coming after you, but he will not prevail.

He will not prevail.

I had a vision not too long ago.

And I saw the church, I saw our church getting into a rocket ship.

And I saw a red dragon coming near the ship, coming to get to the people.

And the people were inside.

And I saw pastors, I saw, it's the church.

And I saw pastors pulling up some kind of, it almost looked like he was pulling a curtain.

And I just saw pastors pulling a curtain around this ship that the people were in.

And as the dragon drew near, he could not touch God's people.

And the shield that he pulled around, it was faith.

I see pastors rising up in this generation that begin to build faith and say, oh, we don't have to look like the world to win the world.

We're going to look different than the world and win the world.

People are hungry for the real.

We're building up faith in this season.

You're here today?

Good.

Praise the Lord.

You're going to get some faith today.

You're going to get a shot of faith.

You're going to hear a pastor preach that believes in the Word more than anything in the world.

I don't care what science says.

I don't care what the experts say.

I live my life planted on the firm foundation of His Word.

Whoo!

You tell me the world is round?

His word says that ain't true.

That's how crazy this pastor is.

Yeah, you all didn't know I was one of them.

Yeah, yeah.

I just had to confess that to you all today.

I believe in the word of God more than I believe in any scientist, any expert.

I believe what his word says, and I'll stand on it, and I'll die upon it.

I don't care.

I know that sounds stupid to some of you, but that's stupid faith.

I just believe every word is soaked in the oil of his presence.

It's all him from the front to the back, from the back to the front.

He does not make mistakes.

His word is oil.

His word is life.

His word is truth.

His word is fire and a hammer, and it's breaking up hearts.

Church, you can have a seat.

Worship team, you can have a seat.

You can go rest for a minute.

I didn't know I was going to confess that to you today.

Some of y'all are like, this guy is crazy.

I just believe.

I believe so firmly.

2020 shook me to the core because everything I thought I could believe and trust in this world, I found out the experts are liars.

The scientists are liars.

Why?

Because they all have a price.

I don't have a price except death.

I can't be bought.

Church, we're raising up a church in this generation that can't be bought.

The price is death.

We saw it this week.

The price of truth is death.

If it's not death, then you have a price and you can be bought and paid for.

I saw it in 2020.

I saw people that said they were experts.

I saw people with degrees.

I saw people who were all the experts and scientists.

And what did they do?

They were bought and paid for.

And they said things that were not true.

Why?

Because they had a price.

I don't have a price.

Don't you want that kind of freedom that you can't be bought and paid for except by the blood of Jesus Christ?

That's the price.

It took me on a path in 2020.

It took me on a journey.

And all it took me back to was the Word of God.

Everything I thought I could believe in in this world, I realized, no, no, no.

The Word of God, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He has not changed, and He will not change.

That's the one thing I can build my life upon.

Let every man be a liar.

Whoo!

I had one woman of God with me on that one.

Let every man be a liar.

Go to Romans.

What's that say there?

Romans 4, I believe.

Romans 4.

Oh, my hands.

I'm going numb already.

I feel the Holy Spirit coming on strong in this room.

I can barely move the pages in this book.

Oh, jeez.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you for how you're moving in this place right now.

Hmm.

Romans 3.

Romans 3 verse 1.

What advantage then has the Jew or what is the prophet of circumcision?

Much in every way.

Chiefly because to them were committed the oracles of God.

Everything we have in here.

It's the oracles of God.

All scripture is what?

God breathed.

I just started going on this journey and getting back to realizing my faith, my faith was in shambles.

My faith was, it was half in the word and half in the world.

And I just began to realize I need to put it all in the word.

I'm going all in.

These are the oracles of God.

It doesn't matter if you don't believe.

It doesn't matter if any one of us is unfaithful.

It does not change the faithfulness of God.

Indeed, let God be true, but every man a liar, as it is written, that you may be justified in your words and may overcome when you are judged.

We got overcoming in the blood.

We are overcomers.

That's who we are.

It's in our DNA.

How do we overcome?

What's it say in Revelation?

The accuser of our brethren who accused them before our God day and night, he's the accuser, has been cast down and they overcame him.

How do we overcome?

They overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony.

And they did not love their lives to the death.

Isaiah 5 verse 20 says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

I started to see that more clearly in 2020.

I've been starting to see it.

We kept seeing it in our culture, in our world.

We kept seeing these people who kept telling us, this is bad, this is bad, this is evil.

You're evil, you're evil.

And then all of a sudden it started to hit me.

Oh, no, no.

Who are they calling evil?

Who are they calling these bad people?

Those who stand on the word of God.

They didn't want to discredit a worldview.

They wanted to try to discredit the lamb.

They wanted to try to make the lion out to be a liar.

But you kept looking at what they were saying, and you're here today because you've gotten the revelation.

You saw it.

You understood it.

You knew it.

You realize what they're calling evil is actually good.

And what they're calling good is actually evil.

It's actually an abomination.

Do you want to love what he loves and hate what he hates?

Understand this, the battle's not against flesh and blood.

It's against powers and principalities and rulers of this invisible world, this unseen realm.

That's the battle.

And what are they trying to do?

They're trying to pull strings to what?

To deceive, to accuse, to discredit the lamb, to discredit the lion.

That is their only play.

That's all they got left.

To try to make the lamb and the lion out to be a liar.

But he's the truth.

He's the bread of life.

And his word is soaked in his presence.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.

Who put darkness for light and light for darkness.

Who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

And some of us, we've just been in it these last few years, and we just keep getting told, this is good, this is good, this is good.

You're a good person if you believe this, if you say this, if you do this.

And you just kind of kept thinking, like, I don't know.

I don't think that lines up with the Word of God.

I don't think that lines up with what I've heard in church.

I don't think that lines up with who he is, with his character.

And some of you, you're here today because you've gotten that revelation, you've gotten a piece of it, and you've dove all in.

You've said yes to the lion, to the lamb.

And some of you are here today, and it's almost like you've got a bubble around you.

I felt that today during worship.

I felt like there were people that walked in today, and it was just like you've got a bubble around you.

Like when you go on the airplane, and your ears, they need to pop, but they won't pop.

And you kind of know, you're kind of hearing something.

You're here today, and you're kind of hearing something.

And you're like, there's something going on in here.

And I'm just, I'm believing right now.

In the name of Jesus, let it pop.

Let it pop.

You're going to hear in your spirit, and you're going to know truth from the lies.

You're going to know good from evil.

You're going to see it today.

You're going to see the play of the devil, the deceiver, the accuser of the brethren.

And you're going to realize, oh, my goodness, I've had scales over my eyes.

I haven't been able to hear.

My heart's been hard, but I see it today.

In the name of Jesus, I feel the bubble bursting today.

Press in, press in, press in.

He's here.

He's here and he's moving and he's speaking.

And there's just, it's what's happening this past week.

You saw it.

You saw a man who was shot before the entire world.

He was assassinated.

He was killed.

And you were told it was political.

It wasn't political.

It was spiritual.

That's what it was.

The devil is doing everything he can to cut off the voice of the Lord in this world.

That's what he's doing.

I'll be honest with you.

There's so many voices.

There's so many people on the Internet out there.

There's all kinds of people.

I've followed and listened to all kinds of people.

I knew about Charlie Kirk, but I really didn't know much.

In fact, I really, my understanding, it was just kind of from afar, and I thought, well, he's a conservative political figure.

And I started watching some of his things when he was killed this week, and I started watching some of his videos, and it just hit me so hard.

This was a man of God.

This was a man of God who preached the word of the Lord.

All I'd heard was what the world said about him.

Oh, he's too political.

He's too political.

And that's what they say when actually it's spiritual.

And they want to guilt you to get you out of the conversation and get you out of the fight because they want to guilt Christians.

They want to accuse Christians and say, oh, you're too political.

It's not political.

It's spiritual.

There's a spiritual battle.

Let me help you with this today.

Let me help you.

Because in Acts, what did they accuse?

What did they accuse the apostles of?

Or even go back to the gospels.

What did they accuse Jesus of?

What did they keep calling him?

They kept calling him a blasphemer.

He's a blasphemer.

Why?

Because if he's a blasphemer, it gives them legal grounds to murder them.

The devil is still playing the same accusation game all these years later.

It's just the names have changed.

It started out as blasphemer, but now what's it become?

I've heard it all this week.

Charlie Kirk is a fascist.

He's a racist.

And I started going through and watching his stuff.

I'm like, oh my goodness, no.

They call what is light dark.

And what is dark light?

The devil is a deceiver.

He's an accuser.

Where you see accusation, begin to ask for discernment from the Holy Spirit.

I began to watch his stuff.

That man's no fascist.

What is a fascist?

A fascist is a follower or proponent of fascism, far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology.

That's what it says on Google.

All right?

And I said, oh, oh, he's a fascist.

Because he believes God is the ultimate authority.

Oh my goodness, guess what?

You got a fascist pastor.

You do.

Here's my confession to you.

I believe God reigns above it all.

I don't care who.

I don't care who's president.

I don't care who's king.

I don't care who's senator, who's governor.

I believe God is above them.

And I believe and I obey his word before I obey man.

Found out I'm right there with you this week, Charlie.

I guess I'm a fascist.

They said he's a racist.

Galatians 3, 26.

For you are all sons of God.

You are all.

Not white, not brown, not black, not Hispanic.

No, no, no.

You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

My goodness, I feel the Holy Spirit coming on so hard in this room because some of you are getting free from the lies of the devil.

The devil's been telling you, if you believe this, you're a fascist, you're a racist, you're alt-right, you're whatever the stupid term is.

They're doing just, it's the same playbook from all the way back in the Gospels, from all the way back in the book of Acts.

Let's call them names.

Let's accuse them of a crime, and we'll cancel them.

We'll fire them.

We'll get them killed.

We'll get them hung on a cross.

We'll get them stoned by their peers.

It's a lie from the devil, and we rebuke every lie in the name of Jesus.

Sorry.

We're getting free today.

For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

You put them on.

It's clothing that you choose to wear.

You put them on.

There is neither Jew nor Greek.

There is neither slave nor free.

There is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Thank you, Lord.

Amen.

Give him a hand.

Give him a hand right there.

We're one.

This is what Charlie believed.

The man that they told me was a racist, that he was just a politician trying to stir up racial strife.

No, this is the word of God that he stood on.

He wanted good for all people.

And if you are Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise.

I remember in 2020, they were telling people that were Christians, they were telling them they were all bigots.

You're a bigot, you're a bigot, you're a bigot.

You believe this, you're a bigot, you're a bigot.

It's funny because when you look up the definition of bigot, I didn't even write this one down, but I just remember it because I looked it up in 2020.

Because I had this friend of mine who kept accusing me, saying, you're a bigot, you're a bigot.

Everything you believe, it's bigotry.

And I just, I kept thinking, what is a bigot?

And it's somebody that just basically like discredits another person because they have different beliefs.

And I was like, that's funny because I feel like you're doing that to me right now.

That's kind of stupid, but hey, I love you.

They just keep changing the names.

Blasphemer, racist, white supremacist.

It's like, no.

We just stand on the word of God.

God is no respecter of persons.

Who's he for?

All people.

Who does he call you?

Don't believe what the world is saying in the headlines, saying that you're this if you believe this, saying you're this if you believe this.

Don't believe what the world is saying.

Look at what the word of God says about you.

You're a son.

You're a daughter.

You're an inheritor.

You're a saint.

That's what Paul keeps saying.

For those who are in faith, for those who have put on Christ Jesus, what's the label he calls them?

In all of his letters, he says, to the saints, to the saints, to the saints.

You're a saint.

Christian nationalists.

I heard that one from my friend in 2020.

You believe in Christian nationalism.

Matthew 28, verse 19.

I was kind of struggling with that.

I was kind of offended.

I was like, don't call me a Christian nationalist.

How dare you?

And then I went to Matthew 28, 19.

Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the, all the, all the, what?

All of a sudden, I was like, oh, shoot, I am a Christian nationalist.

I want to go and make disciples of all nations.

If that makes me a Christian nationalist, then yeah.

Go ahead, put that label on me.

But I know the truth of God.

It's not that ill intent, that evil thing that you're trying to call me and label me to separate us.

No.

I know where I stand, and I know my calling.

I'm called to go to all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you.

And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.

Amen.

And they're saying, don't mix politics and spirituality.

And I'm saying, well, if we're doing our job, we won't really have to work that hard to mix politics and spirituality.

Because if we're making disciples of all nations, the nations, the way they vote, and the laws they desire to see are going to

What are they going to do?

They're going to bear the image of the creator.

Praise God.

We're going into all the nations.

You're a Christian nationalist.

Next time somebody says that to you, be like, well, here, Matthew 28.

Yeah, actually, yeah, I guess.

You can call me that.

I love you.

Sorry, I'm just, I've been dealing with it this week.

It's heavy.

It is heavy.

Like, we're having some fun.

Like, it's fun, but it's also heavy.

Like, I called my friends.

They're elders in our church.

You know, I told you last week, we had some people, you know, I had some family members that wanted, they wrote a letter to our church.

They wrote a letter to our elders, and, you know, they're trying to, whatever, get me fired or something.

I don't know, whatever.

You know, it's a long story.

Da-da-da-da-da, or whatever, you know.

It's like, I'll fill you in sometime.

But, you know, and so they met with these guys this last week.

And I just, you know, with everything going on and the heaviness, I just felt so much like, man, the accuser of the brethren is trying to get the church divided in this season.

And I just, I kind of felt some lies from the enemy coming in, trying to say, oh, you know, there's going to be division.

There's going to be something bad that comes out of this.

And I just had to call them.

I had to call my friends.

And I called them up, and I just wanted to ask, like, how did it go?

How was everything?

Like, you know, what happened?

What did the Lord bring out of it?

And they just kind of filled me in.

But at the end of it, I just told them, I said, with everything going on this week, I know, like I know the calling of our church.

I know the calling of this house.

This is not a silent house.

This is a house that stands on the word of God, and we proclaim it to the nations.

And I know that the path we're on, there will be more and more people like these people this week.

They'll want to cancel us.

They'll want to fire us.

They'll want to call us names.

They'll want to label us.

They'll want to accuse us.

And at some point, they'll even want to murder us.

And I just, I told these guys, I know the path we're on and I felt the heaviness.

And I just said, like, I just, I love you guys and I want to make sure, like, I just want to know, like, we're in this together.

We're going to see this out.

Wherever God's taking this church, wherever he's calling this house, we're going to run the race and we're going to finish it well.

And both of them just, you know, there was no doubt.

Brandon got up here today.

There's no doubt.

We're in it till the end.

We're in it.

We want you to be in it with us.

And I know there's some people, I know there's some men and women in here that are in it.

You just keep saying yes to Jesus.

You just keep saying yes.

No matter what it is, no matter what the call, what it looks like, you just keep saying yes.

I love the path we're on because we get to do it together.

We get to run this race together.

Thank you, Lord.

Let's just pray for a moment.

Father God, we thank you.

We just pray in the name of your son, Jesus.

We thank you for your Holy Spirit whom you sent.

We know he's the spirit of truth.

Lord, I pray that your spirit would just move right now in this room.

Any place where we've come in partnership with any lies, any deceit, anything that comes from the accuser, I pray that that would get broken off by the blood.

We just apply the blood right now.

Where there's resistance, where there's a hardening of hearts, Lord, I pray for strength in this season.

I pray for us to just lean into your presence and listen and obey.

Lord, we pray for the accusers, for those in the flesh who are listening to the spirits that are unclean, to the deceivers.

We pray for them to get a revelation this week of who you are.

Lord, I pray for scales to come off eyes, for ears to open, for hearts just to be broken and softened.

And Lord, I pray for peace and unity within your church, within the body.

Lord, I pray for that revelation that the body would rise up in this season and do what you've called it to do and do what you've created it to do.

Lord, that we would stand strong, that we'd stand firm, that we would build this house on the firm foundation of your word, that we know it's never changing, that it's never going to change, and that we can always count on it, that we can always rely on your word.

Lord, let us be a house built on your rock.

Jesus, any place where there's been doubt or skepticism, I pray that you would come in and answer that for people this week, that there would just be some kind of revelation, that there'd be a video, that there'd be a sermon, that there'd be something they just needed to just get confirmed about who you are, that you are who the Word says you are, and that people's faith would be built up in this season, that they would become strong and rooted in you.

Jesus, in your name we pray.

Amen.

2 Timothy 3.

This is one of the verses in 2020 that I started to go to over and over, and I just started to look at, and I just started to believe, and I got it rooted in me.

All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, reproof, correction, and training in righteousness, that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

You've got to get that deep down inside of you.

In this season, as we're pulling on the shield of faith over the church, you've got to get that inside of you, that the Word of God is more trustworthy and true and reliable than anything you will ever hear in this world.

Any expert, any scientist, anybody that you see on the news,

That you thought, oh, I can trust that person.

They're reliable.

They got a nice face and a nice smile.

If they don't got the word of God, let every man be a liar.

We stand on the rock.

Get it in you this week.

Get it, 2 Timothy 3, 16 and 17.

Write that one down.

Begin to memorize it.

Put it on a sticky note on your mirror.

Put it in your car.

Put it wherever you go.

See it every day.

Put it on the background of your phone.

Just begin to say it and declare it.

Acts 7.

Let's go there.

And if you want the notes today, text REVNOTES to the number 94000.

Acts 7.

Verse 44.

This is the story of Stephen the martyr.

And I just got to tell you something.

He was a man whom the apostles chose and said, hey, all we need you to do is just kind of be in charge of the food and make sure the food gets evenly distributed to the widows, to those who are in need.

That's all we need you to do.

But when you are faithful with little, he will entrust you with more.

He was faithful with the little.

There's some of you in here right now, and you're like, well, nobody's ever going to kill me for my faith.

All I do is I just, you know, I just serve coffee.

Stephen was in charge of the coffee.

And they didn't have coffee.

That's a joke.

Bad joke.

All right.

Stephen, you know, he was in charge of making sure people got food.

That was it in the early church.

But he was faithful with it, and he did it well.

He did it with excellence.

And what happened?

God promoted him to a place where he began to, like, we began to see miracles come out of his life.

God began to use him for miracles.

God began to use him to preach the gospel.

And in fact, the Pharisees came, and what did they do?

They knew they had to cut this off.

He was becoming too powerful of a force.

God was using him in mighty and great ways.

And so what did they do?

They accused him.

What did they do?

They called him a blasphemer.

The names have changed.

The playbook is still the same.

The devil's still using the same plays from 2,000 years ago.

And so they call him a blasphemer and they bring him before this group of leaders and

And he begins to preach, and he preaches, I mean, read Acts 7.

It's one of the most powerful sermons.

What does he do?

He goes through the Word of God, and he's just going back through a timeline of the history of God's people, and it's just Scripture, Scripture, Scripture.

Get Scripture so deep down inside of you that when they bring you before men, the words are just going to flow out.

The Holy Spirit's going to give you the words.

When you got the word rooted deeply inside of you, it's going to flow out.

I want to skip ahead to this sermon.

Verse 44, our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness as he appointed instructing Moses to make it according to the pattern he had seen.

God gives his people a pattern and then he says, do it this way.

This is my way.

It's better.

That's the whole word of God.

The whole word of God is a pattern for

for your life, for the church.

Many people have said, oh, I think we can build a better pattern.

And we took the blueprint.

That word is like a blueprint.

That's what we would use today.

It's like a blueprint.

And the church today in these last, I mean, all throughout the centuries, but especially in these last 50, 60 years, the church today said, oh, I think we can build a better blueprint.

I think we can come up with a better blueprint for the church.

And the church got away from what God had designed it.

I just need you to know that right now.

Revival, we are seeking to get back to the pattern that God gave us in his word.

We want a house like David.

We want a house like Moses.

We want a house that Jesus died for.

And so we get back to his word.

It's a pattern.

And what's he saying here?

We got to get back to the pattern.

We've gotten off the pattern.

What did those people do?

Those Pharisees, those religious leaders, they added to the pattern.

They started adding rules and regulations that weren't actually a part of the blueprint that God had designed.

And they thought, we can build a better blueprint.

We know more than God.

No.

Stephen calls them back here to the pattern.

The pattern God gave them in his word.

Revival is just, what is it?

It's seeking the old.

It's seeking, it's getting back to the things that we thought we don't need anymore.

And we thought they were dead and they were old and they were tired and we buried them.

But there's a revival happening and his church is coming back to life.

Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Woo!

Come on.

Dry bones hear the word of the Lord in Ezekiel 37.

We're getting back to the word.

The church got away from the word.

The church got to the point where they're like, you know what?

We just need a cute little 25-minute sermon with a lot of good illustrations and stories and movie clips and all these different things.

And if we do that, then more people will come.

That's stupid.

Let's just preach the word.

Let's stand on the word.

Let's die on the word if we're called to die on the word.

Let's do it.

So some of you are here today and you came from one of those cute churches.

Hey, I love it.

You know, there's some good ones out there, whatever.

And you're like, man, this guy, he's just been going and going and he just keeps reading these long scriptures.

And it's like, I don't care.

I'll sit here and I'll read from the word.

I'll go all day.

In Nehemiah, they preached the word for three to four hours and they made the people stand to listen.

I'll let you have these nice chairs.

You're welcome.

One of these days, we're going to have a three to four hour stand fest.

We're going to start in Genesis and we're going to go all the way.

Get back to the pattern.

Verse 45... ...and asked to find a dwelling for the God of Jacob.

But Solomon built him a house...

However, the Most High does not dwell in temples made with hands as the prophet says.

Heaven is my throne and earth is my footstool.

What house will you build for me, says the Lord?

Or what is the place of my rest?

Has my hand not made all these things?

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears.

You always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did.

So do you.

Hold on to verse 51.

Write this one down.

Make it your prayer.

Lord, please, never let me become stiff-necked.

uncircumcised in heart.

What does that mean?

There's stuff that is built up.

The flesh has built up around the heart.

And now you hear and see and listen and do everything in the flesh.

And what does God want to do?

He wants to circumcise the heart.

He wants to cut the flesh away from the heart.

So all of a sudden you start to hear and see in the spirit again.

I just got to say that again.

You are so caught up in the natural, in the flesh.

Your heart is completely flesh, and he wants it to be circumcised, to cut the flesh away.

Die to self.

Die to the flesh.

Be raised new in the Spirit.

Start to see things.

Start to make that your prayer.

Lord, let my heart, let the flesh be cut away.

Let me hear and see and listen to you in the Holy Spirit.

You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.

Do not resist him anymore.

Say, come, Holy Spirit, come.

I want to listen.

I want to obey.

Even if it's difficult, even with what you begin to hear from him, even if it sounds like, Lord, that sounds too tough.

That sounds too difficult.

I don't know if I can do that.

My wife won't like it if I do this.

My husband won't like this if I begin to do this.

My parents will disown me if I begin to believe this way, to talk this way, to do this thing that you're telling me to do.

My friends won't like me.

My coworkers are going to think I'm weird if I become obedient to what you're saying to me to do.

He wants you to learn to listen again.

He's teaching his people to listen and see again.

Don't be stiff-necked.

Don't be resistant to the Holy Spirit.

Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute?

And they killed those who foretold the coming of the just one, of whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers.

Do not become the betrayer and the murderer of those who God has called.

Don't get caught up in the lies of social media saying these guys are the bad guys and we're the good guys.

No, no, no.

They call evil good and good evil.

Don't fall for the lies anymore.

In the name of Jesus, nobody in here is ever going to fall for the lies again.

I believe it.

You're not going to fall for it again.

You won't be deceived.

You'll be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves, the way Jesus told us.

who have received the law, verse 53, by the direction of angels and have not kept it.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart.

That phrase, hold on to that phrase.

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart and they gnashed at him with their teeth.

But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.

Every other time he is seated at the right hand of God.

It's the one time he stands at the right hand of God and said, look, I see the heavens open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.

Then they cried out with a loud voice, stand.

stopped their ears.

They screamed so they would not hear him anymore.

That's really what that phrase is saying.

They screamed and then they stopped their ears.

They literally, they put their hands over their ears because they could not handle the word of the Lord.

They were so cut to the heart and they were so convicted they had to cut it off.

They couldn't hear it anymore.

And they cast him out of the city and stoned him.

And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul.

And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, Lord.

Do not charge them with this sin.

And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

In this season, learn to be like Stephen.

Learn how to call out in love and grace.

Learn how to call out the truth.

We walk in spirit and truth, truth and grace.

Learn how to call it out.

What did Stephen do?

He said, you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit.

You can call it out, but you can also pray it out.

You can call it out and you can pray it out.

Begin to pray for your enemies.

Pray for those who persecute you.

Pray for those who lift up the stones.

Pray for those who lift up the guns.

Pray for those who try to lift up whatever power and strength they have to come against the kingdom of God.

Pray.

Pray that God would find them, that he would get a hold of them, that they would repent and turn back.

Because guess what?

He prayed that day, and there was one man among them, a man named Saul, who later became Paul.

Praise God.

Do you understand that?

Do you get that revelation?

He was there that day.

He saw this man, Stephen, who was killed for what he believed and preached for the crimes that he was accused of.

And he saw him and he heard him say this thing, Lord, do not charge them with this sin.

And what happened?

The Holy Spirit got a hold of him.

And he took his life and redeemed it for good.

There are people right now saying really stupid things and really evil things, and they're loud about it, but there's people out there that are going to go from Saul's to Paul.

As you pray, as you intercede, as you begin to pray blessings for those people, those people that you see putting the stuff out there that's so evil.

I've seen stuff on the internet that it's evil, it's demonic, and you need to understand this.

The battle's not against flesh and blood.

It's against rulers and principalities of this unseen world.

And what is going on?

They're either oppressed or possessed by demonic spirits.

And so you begin to pray deliverance for them, that the king of kings will get a hold of them, that every unclean spirit that they're listening to, that they've been deceived by, would be cast out from their life, and that they would not be stiff-necked anymore.

They would not resist the Holy Spirit anymore, but they'd begin to listen to the Holy Spirit, and their life would become a testimony like Saul to Paul.

that people would see somebody that was so deceived and so in darkness and so in love with what they once called good and realize it's now evil, that others would see their testimony and be like, oh my goodness, maybe I've got it wrong.

Maybe I've been wrong this whole time.

Maybe I haven't been listening to God.

Maybe I haven't been listening to the Holy Spirit.

Maybe I've been listening to a demonic spirit.

People are going to get free in this season.

We have a deliverance ministry for a reason.

We're seeing more people get free in this season.

We're seeing people, we're booked out until September.

No, not until, it's September right now.

We're booked out until December.

We're booked out with deliverance sessions all the way through December.

And some of you are like, I can't wait that long.

We'll come up for ministry time.

We'll pray for deliverance.

Jesus, he's the deliverer.

He'll deliver you right here, right now.

If you want to get free from the darkness, if you want to get free from the lies, if you want to be able to hear him and see him and know him, my goodness, he wants to meet you.

He's here today.

Ministry team, would you come up?

Worship team, would you come up?

Get ready to receive people today.

If you've been deceived, if you've been one of those people, you've just been given into the hate and you've been given into the anger and you're realizing, I was calling what was good evil and evil good.

I've had it so backwards.

And you just need to pray with somebody and just repent with somebody.

There's power when you confess and repent your sins to others.

He forgives you, but there is physical healing that takes place when you confess and repent your sins to others.

And so if you're looking for that today, come up, come find our ministry team.

These people, they were cut to the heart and they screamed and they resisted and they covered their ears.

But in Acts 2, when Peter preached the very first sermon...

It says at the end of his sermon, verse 37, when they heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, men and brethren, what shall we do?

There's two responses when you are cut to the heart.

You can resist him or you can repent and turn back to him.

Stop resisting.

He loves you.

He died for you.

He came for you.

The invitation is open.

The altar is open.

Come back to him.

What did they do when they were cut to the heart?

It says, Peter said to them, repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promise is to you and to your children and to all who are far off as many as the Lord our God will call.

He's calling you home.

He's calling you back into truth.

He's calling you back into the light.

Don't resist him anymore.

Repent and return.

Church, would you stand up as we worship?

Church, would you run to the altar if that's you today?

If you just need to repent, if you need to give something back to him, if you've been resisting his voice, would you run to the altar today?

Would you turn back to him today in the name of Jesus?

He loves you.

Let's pray.

Church, if you want, just put your hands up.

If you're comfortable, just put your hands up.

Holy Spirit, please come.

Holy Spirit, please enter in right now.

Lord, where there's any resistance, where there's any just fighting, anything fighting against your Holy Spirit, Lord, I pray that those walls would come down right now.

That this would be a new season that somebody is stepping into.

Lord, I feel like that bubble is gone.

I feel like somebody today is hearing more clearly.

And I feel like the resistance is just, it's like a volume knob that's just getting turned down.

And Lord, I just pray that you would give them that last push to come forward.

I feel that tingling, that numbness in my left hand.

If you're feeling that, I think this is for you today.

The Holy Spirit is hitting you right there in your left hand.

And he's saying, this is me.

This is my presence.

This is my fire.

I'm near you.

And I'm just, I'm drawing near to you today.

He's calling you to be his hands and feet.

He's calling you to lay everything down right now in this moment.

Thank you, Lord.

Lord, we just praise you.

We thank you.

There's just a newness.

There's a freshness in this place.

There's a lightness in this place where it was heavy, where it was chaotic.

I just feel the God of peace.

The God of peace is coming in.

The God of peace will soon crush Satan.

So when we dance with joy, when we move our feet in joy and worship today, remember he's underneath your feet.

You are seated in the heavenly places.

He's the God of grace.

He's restoring all things.

He's making all things new today.

Father, we praise you and we thank you.

Jesus, you're good.

Father, you're good.

Holy Spirit, we know that you're near, that you're in us.

Our bodies are the temple now.

The temple's not made of stone and hands.

No, no, no.

We are the temples.

We're living temples of your Holy Spirit, your presence, and you're near us today.

Lord, we draw near and we repent.

And let every spirit that is not from you, let it be cast out in your name, Jesus.

And let every man be a liar.

Because you're the God of truth.

And you're the God who will soon crush Satan underneath our feet.

In Jesus' name, amen.