THE PROPER POSTURE FOR PENTECOST | Pastor Rickeno R. Moncur | 5.24.2026

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[00:00:00]May be seated.

[00:00:04]I want to call your attention today to the book of Acts chapter 2.

[00:00:12]I am not I'm not a uh seasonal preacher. I don't necessarily allow myself to be restricted to the season whether it's Easter, Pentecost, or cuz some of these things we do and the Lord don't know much about.

[00:00:31]Where it's more tradition than ministry.

[00:00:37]And so I want to call your attention here today and I want to show you a different side of Pentecost.

[00:00:47]Beyond the fire and the power.

[00:00:50]I um And pardon my energy. I've been up from 2:00 a.m. struggling with this message.

[00:00:57]Because I feel I feel a bit I I feel the heaviness of God.

[00:01:08]For his people and more importantly for our nation and nations of the world.

[00:01:17]And I want to share with you some things that he placed on my heart as humbly and pointedly as I possibly can.

[00:01:26]And I wrestle because this is not what I had in mind for today.

[00:01:33]Because I was also wanting to be connected to the excitement of Pentecost.

[00:01:43]And the celebration and the fire and the power and all the wonderful things we do. Shut the move.

[00:01:50]Huh?

[00:01:51]Oh, okay.

[00:01:52]And I And I want to say that to the people in the finance room, everybody in the foyer, let's clock in today. Let's see if we can stop whatever we're doing and let's tap into what the Holy Spirit is saying. You may You may not shout today, but I want to I want to be faithful to this and the Lord said, "I gave you this assignment I expect you to be faithful."

[00:02:13]And not allow crowds and and any of the trimmings of what we do in church to distract you from what I'm telling you to do.

[00:02:26]And so, today I want to talk about the proper posture for Pentecost.

[00:02:32]And I want to deal with the subtopic of unrepentant nations.

[00:02:39]Acts 2:37, "Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart." The same Acts chapter 2, "When the day of Pentecost is fully come, they were all in one accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven a mighty rush wind and there was fire and there was tongues and the Holy Ghost and sat upon them etc. etc." But when you read on down further, afterwards Peter gets up and he preaches and says to them, "These men are not drunk as you suppose, but this is that which was prophesied by the Holy Spirit."

[00:03:14]He started to preach to them about and confirm to them that this was what was prophesied by the prophets of old as a result of what Jesus did on Calvary's cross.

[00:03:27]And he looked at them and said to them, "You You killed him and you crucified him, but we have witnessed his resurrection and this is as a result of his resurrection and ascension."

[00:03:42]And when they heard the message that Peter preached in verse 37, the Bible says, "And they were they were pricked in their heart and said to Peter and to the rest of the apostles, "Men and brethren, what shall we do?

[00:03:59]What should be our response? What should be our attitudes, our our our posture as a result of all that has occurred?

[00:04:13]Holy Ghost has come.

[00:04:15]Fire of God has fallen.

[00:04:17]They're speaking with new tongues. Lot of wonderful things are happening.

[00:04:22]But the people ask, "What should we do?

[00:04:25]How should we respond to this Pentecostal experience?"

[00:04:31]Peter says unto them, "Repent."

[00:04:39]That's interesting.

[00:04:41]I've never heard on Pentecost this particular perspective.

[00:04:50]Good to see you, Shau.

[00:04:51]He says, "I thought you should shout. You should dance. You should sing. You should have a You should feel the fire. You should pray."

[00:04:59]Peter says, in response to all that has happened here today, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

[00:05:23]And uh John 16 and 8 says, "Well, 7 and 8 says, 'Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is expedient for you, this is Jesus talking, that I go away.

[00:05:36]For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you.

[00:05:42]But if I depart, I will send him unto you.

[00:05:48]And when he is come, when the Holy Spirit is come, who's the comforter?

[00:05:52]Watch what he's going to do. He will reprove the world of sin.

[00:05:58]Another translation says convict the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment.

[00:06:06]The word convict means to cause to see.

[00:06:10]He will cause the world to see their sin.

[00:06:14]So, when the Holy Spirit is at work in your life, you don't ignore your sins.

[00:06:21]You see your sins.

[00:06:26]He will convict you of righteousness. He will let you know what is really righteousness, what is really right.

[00:06:32]And then he will convict you of the judgment that is to come.

[00:06:39]I I I need to take an unpopular but necessary stance today because of so much that's going on in the climate of our nation.

[00:06:51]And uh Ezekiel 16:49 and 50 says, this is talking about Sodom and Gomorrah.

[00:07:00]It says, "Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom.

[00:07:06]I want you to hear this really good. I'm going somewhere. Hang on.

[00:07:09]Behold, this was the iniquity or the sin of of Sodom.

[00:07:16]As I read this, it ain't going to it ain't going to list homosexuality.

[00:07:22]It ain't going to list fornication, although all of those things were a part of their sin.

[00:07:28]He says, "The sin of Sodom was pride.

[00:07:36]Fullness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Neither did she strengthen or look out for the poor and the needy. I never heard this.

[00:07:51]When you talk about Sodom and Gomorrah, we only talk about the homosexuality and the lesbianism and the perversion, but God is speaking in Ezekiel to the prophet and the prophet is speaking to Jerusalem who is the people of God and saying to them the real sin of Sodom was pride.

[00:08:12]Verse 50 says, "They were haughty.

[00:08:15]They were high-minded.

[00:08:17]They were arrogant and committed abominations before me.

[00:08:21]Therefore, I took them away as as I saw fit."

[00:08:28]One translation says Sodom's sin was pride, gluttony, and laziness while the poor and needy suffered outside her door.

[00:08:38]And he says, "So, I wiped them out."

[00:08:41]So, their their their real issue, ladies and gentlemen, wasn't their sinfulness or the things they did as much as it was their arrogance.

[00:08:53]It was their pride.

[00:08:56]Cuz we all sin.

[00:08:58]I go to this congregation and pass the mic around. I'm sure just in this section alone you'll be surprised to know what all these dressed up holy, sanctified, white wearing men and women what they came from and what they got going on right now in their life.

[00:09:18]If we could have shined a a screen over this congregation with all the shouting and more wind, more fire, and all the things we've been going on if we could pass this mic around and if you could know what the person sitting on the side you thought about you just 5 minutes ago cuz you wouldn't sit down and shut up.

[00:09:36]You would be shocked to know what's going on behind all these white dresses and white hats.

[00:09:48]And the truth of the matter is, I can't condemn you and you can't condemn me because all of us got something we don't want God to expose.

[00:09:57]Could I get a true true church in here today? All of us got something going on in our lives that we praying God keep us covered over cuz we don't want him to expose.

[00:10:10]For Paul says, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

[00:10:15]Every time Paul would speak, he would always say, "I am chief among sinners."

[00:10:19]So, be careful of people who praise their righteousness.

[00:10:23]Because Paul was one of the greatest man of God in the in history, but he would always declare, "I'm chief among sinners."

[00:10:29]Somebody say, "You magnifying or celebrating imperfection." No, I'm just conscious of the fact that he is so holy and I I am so undone.

[00:10:38]Isaiah became a prophet. He said, "I'm a man of unclean lips. I dwell among a people of unclean lips."

[00:10:45]He said, "I am undone and woe is me."

[00:10:49]So, I'm careful of people who celebrate their righteousness cuz when you really have an experience with the Holy Spirit, he shows you things about you that you didn't even realize was was happening in your life. Things that you used to be okay with and laugh at and other people used to be fine with, all of a sudden you begin to look at it and say, "Wow, I didn't but I know for a lot of people who sing and shout, they only going through emotions and a performance because they always pointing at other people, but the Holy Spirit never shows them themselves."

[00:11:21]Because when you really have a experience with the Holy Spirit, you start to say like Isaiah, "Woe is me."

[00:11:27]Not woe is her, not woe is him, not woe is them, but woe is me. I am undone. How many of you today would admit I am undone? I I I don't pray because I'm perfect. I don't worship because I'm perfect. I don't come to church because I'm perfect. I'm trying to be perfected.

[00:11:44][music] That's why I spend time with God. That's why I pray because I'm trying to get past some things. And if you're really saved, ladies and gentlemen, you'll find yourself on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day, saying, "Lord, forgive me." "Lord, have mercy on me. And Lord, sanctify me." Because of the thoughts that go into your mind, you came away from a conversation and you said some things you know you should not have said.

[00:12:11]But that's only when the Holy Spirit is it really at work in your life. And I am concerned, ladies and gentlemen, cuz I don't really think the Holy Spirit is as much at work in the church as we say he is, because most of us are unrepentant.

[00:12:25]Most of us don't see our wrong and don't see our sin. AND WHENEVER WE ARE CONFRONTED WITH THINGS in our lives that we don't we we get uncomfortable and we start to cuss and CARRY ON AND FIGHT AND GET NASTY with people. But because but IF YOU REALLY HAVE THE HOLY GHOST, WHEN SOMEBODY TELL you something about yourself, you'll be like, "You ain't telling me nothing new. You're right.

[00:12:44]That's true. I'm praying ABOUT THAT. I'M TRYING TO WORK ON THAT. THAT'S WHY I STAY IN THE WORD OF GOD. AND I KEEP COMING TO THE HOUSE OF GOD AND I KEEP PRAYING AND SPENDING TIME IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO GET MYSELF TOGETHER because the Holy Spirit WILL SHINE THE LIGHT on the vessel he inhabits.

[00:13:02]He said he will convict the world of sin.

[00:13:07]And I'm concerned because we are becoming so good in the Bahamas at spinning stories and manipulating facts that we are becoming an unrepentant.

[00:13:28]I know I have to repent about it if I could just spin the narrative on it.

[00:13:34]If I could just fix it to make it more palatable, I don't have to repent about it.

[00:13:41]Because it matters to us, ladies and gentlemen, more with people things, and we forget that there's a God who sits high and look low, and he sees the good.

[00:13:51]And so it's in my best interest to just say, "Lord, I'm sorry. I repent. I I didn't do right. I I have some things going on because even though people may not know or see or know the real facts, his eyes go to and fro in the earth for holding the good and the evil. And if I want to walk with him and get what he's ordained for my life, it's better I just be honest. If it's nobody else, I got to be honest with God. I got to be honest with myself, and I got to tell the truth about And that truth will make me Sin, ladies and gentlemen, is what Each and every say, "Wake up."

[00:14:29]Sin Sin Somebody say, "Sin."

[00:14:35]I know we don't use that in these modern churches much now, but sin Sin is one issue.

[00:14:41]But being unrepentant is an entirely different and more troubling issue.

[00:14:51]God doesn't turn a nation over to reprobacy or a people over to destruction like he did with Sodom and Gomorrah just for sin.

[00:15:02]He does so when they are too proud to humble themselves and admit their sins and repent.

[00:15:11]If my people which are called by my will do what?

[00:15:18]See, cuz you're only going to do the rest of them things until you get humble.

[00:15:22]Humble themselves and what?

[00:15:24]Humble themselves and what? And then humble themselves and what? Seek my And then humble myself themselves and then turn from their wicked You ain't going to do none of the other two things if you don't first humble yourself.

[00:15:36]If you self-righteous, you ain't going to humble yourself cuz you think you right when you wrong. And the Bible says let a man examine himself less when he thinks he stands, he falls. So, I don't just spend time in prayer telling God what I want. I go before God to see how I am a lying. Lord, are you pleased with me? Are you pleased with my walk? And if you ain't pleased with it, lying it up, help me. I'm weak, but thou art mighty.

[00:16:00]Hold me with thy your your But it begins with humility.

[00:16:11]If I'm too anointed, then I ain't going to humble myself.

[00:16:14]If I'm too much of a man of God, I am not going to humble myself.

[00:16:18]If I have I have I got too much knowledge and you think I I ain't going to humble myself.

[00:16:25]But he says, "Don't pray till you humble."

[00:16:30]Don't don't say you seeking me till you Don't try turn from your wicked ways till you cuz you ain't going to acknowledge your wickedness ness ness ness.

[00:16:41]Unless you are It's GOING TO TAKE HUMILITY TO SAY YOU DIDN'T speak to me right.

[00:16:47]You didn't handle me right. You didn't deal with that situation right. It's going to take humility to say you are wrong.

[00:16:55]And we are dealing with a generation THAT IS STRUGGLING TO HEAR YOU ARE WRONG. WE ARE DEALING WITH A GENERATION THAT IS PARENTS CAN'T TELL THEIR CHILDREN NOTHING BECAUSE THEY ALWAYS GOT A MOUTH on them to respond TO EVERYTHING YOU SAY BECAUSE WE ARE IN A CULTURE TODAY WHERE WE DON'T WANT TO hear we are WRONG. BUT HOW DID YOU GET SAVED?

[00:17:18]BECAUSE TO GET SAVED YOU HAVE TO CONFESS I AM A SINNER IN NEED OF A SAVIOR. HOW DID YOU GET SAVED? BUT ARE YOU REALLY SAVED IF YOU CAN'T CONFESS I CUZ TRUE CHRISTIANS get used to saying wrong.

[00:17:36]Your biggest deliverance may be connected to your admission.

[00:17:39]Your biggest breakthrough may be connected to your admission that there are some THINGS I'M WRONG ABOUT.

[00:17:48]I didn't do that right.

[00:17:50]And it's uncomfortable.

[00:17:52]And it's tough.

[00:17:54]And it's difficult.

[00:17:56]And you don't want to hear it.

[00:17:58]But if my life can line up for me to walk in with God as ordained for my life, there's some things about me I don't want to hear. And let me tell you why some of us go through some things we shouldn't be going through cuz we don't want to listen.

[00:18:11]And mama told us long time if you don't if you don't listen, you going to fix So you GOING THROUGH SOME HARD TIMES IN YOUR LIFE right now cuz nobody could talk to you. And nobody could tell you you're wrong. You need to fix that.

[00:18:23]Don't do IT LIKE THAT. AND DON'T BE SUCCESSFUL AND HAVE A LITTLE BIT of money CUZ WHEN YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY AND YOU HAVE A LITTLE SUCCESS AND YOU HAVE a little connection with people who are in a building power and who are popular and then nobody could talk to you cuz it's but your success COULD BE YOUR GREATEST THREAT BECAUSE THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEM RIGHT UNTO A MAN, BUT THE END THEREOF IS DESTRUCTION.

[00:18:47]Y'ALL ain't hearing me today. The way that destroys you the Bible said it will seem right. It will feel right. It will look right. But you got to always make sure you go before God to make sure it is right.

[00:19:02]Help me, Holy Spirit.

[00:19:12]It's your It's the humility.

[00:19:16]It's the humility.

[00:19:18]It's the humility. We get a lot more peace in families if we just had humility.

[00:19:24]We could have more peace on these jobs if we just had humility. We could have more peace in our nation if we just had humility. We could have more peace in the church if we just had I mean we we we even hate to say sorry.

[00:19:39]We we We We hate to pull it We supposed to be Christians operating in the fruit of the spirit. We We hate to say sorry.

[00:19:46]Two weeks ago I had to I did something I that I you know I was just kind of I I I was dealing with something I didn't know how to deal with it. And so I just dealt I just dealt with it by not showing up. Yeah, not dealing with I I I and so after the fact the Holy Spirit said said I said I understand why you didn't go.

[00:20:04]But you should have at least said something.

[00:20:06]I understand why you were disturbed and why you you you I understand that but it ain't what you did is how you did it. So you could be right wrong or wrong right.

[00:20:16]Cuz y'all ain't saying nothing to me.

[00:20:17]You could be right wrong.

[00:20:19]You're saying the right thing but you're wrong but how you're saying it. You're You're doing the right thing but you're wrong but how you're doing it. And so I had to send a message to the person without them saying anything to me. The Holy Spirit convicted me cuz when you have the Holy Spirit you shouldn't need somebody to come and tell you YOU DID WRONG. THAT WASN'T RIGHT. YOU AIN'T HANDLE THAT RIGHT. IF YOU REALLY HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT AND I FIND MYSELF EVEN AS A PASTOR WARY OF HAVING TO TELL PEOPLE THINGS I FEEL THE HOLY GHOST SHOULD TELL THEM. AND SOMETIMES IT'S SOME OF THE DEEPEST SUPPOSED TO BE MOST SPIRIT FILLED PEOPLE.

[00:20:59]CUZ ONE OF THE GREATEST SIGNS OF TRUE SPIRITUALITY is brokenness.

[00:21:10]Oh, YOU WANT SOME POWER IN YOUR LIFE, GET BROKEN BEFORE GOD. You want the anointing TO COME ON YOUR LIFE, GET BROKEN BEFORE GOD. I'M NOT THE MOST TALENTED, I'm not the most humble, but I I I I I SMILE IS A BUT I KNOW HOW TO GET HUMBLE BEFORE GOD. THAT WOMAN WITH THAT ALABASTER BOX THAT OIL COULDN'T FLOW UNTIL SHE BROKE IT. AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE OIL CAN'T FLOW IN YOUR LIFE, THE FAVOR CAN'T FLOW IN YOUR LIFE, THE BLESSINGS CAN'T FLOW IN YOUR LIFE UNTIL YOU BREAK IT. AND YOU DON'T WANT TO BREAK YOUR PRIDE AND BREAK YOUR ATTITUDE AND BREAK YOUR MINDSET AND BREAK HOW YOU HANDLE THINGS. SO, YOU'RE HOLDING UP THE OIL FROM FLOWING IN YOUR LIFE. BUT IN 2026, [music] IT'S OUR WINNING SEASON. AND GOD SAID, "I'M WAITING FOR THE OIL TO FLOW IN YOUR LIFE." AND THE GREATEST OF BREAKTHROUGHS GOING TO COME WHEN YOU ADMIT, "I COULD POSSIBLY BE WRONG."

[00:22:01]WE COULD SAVE SOME MARRIAGES IF ARROGANT EGOTISTICAL HUSBANDS WOULD JUST SAY, "I KNOW I'M THE MAN IN THE HOUSE, BUT I'M A WRONG MAN. I WAS WRONG."

[00:22:17]You can save some marriages.

[00:22:21]The hard mode wife says a Christian woman, "I talking too much. I run on too much. You see what the Bible say about how Christian women should conduct themselves."

[00:22:35]Be subject to your own husband.

[00:22:43]Today, everybody is a defense attorney.

[00:22:56]They defend everything.

[00:23:01]We ain't wrong about nothing.

[00:23:07]Now you could convince yourself of that.

[00:23:09]I convince other people of that.

[00:23:11]But you know that God you just go to pray to?

[00:23:15]He know all things.

[00:23:21]And the heavens may remain shut over your life until what you think about you is what he knows about you.

[00:23:30]You You feel safe because everybody hugging you, laughing with you, and they should. We should love people whether they good, bad, ugly. We supposed to love them. But you But don't let people celebrating you make you feel you don't have to humble yourself and look at some things in your life and fix some things IN YOUR LIFE. NOT BECAUSE I'm a pastor of this church mean I got everything together. So, I got TO SPEND MORE TIME IN PRAYER THAN YOU BECAUSE I GOT TO FIX SOME THINGS BECAUSE EVERYTHING I DO AND DON'T DO COULD AFFECT SOMEBODY'S LIFE.

[00:23:59]AND WHEN YOU WANT GOD TO DO MORE, that means more responsibility. So, we got to make sure YOU ARE A PERSON WHO IS HUMBLE ENOUGH.

[00:24:13]DAVID DID FAR worse sins than Saul.

[00:24:17]I want I want somebody tell me one thing Saul did was so bad.

[00:24:23]No, I talking about before God fired him.

[00:24:26]Cuz And what did he do? What? Try to kill David? He tried to kill David?

[00:24:30]David did kill somebody. He didn't try.

[00:24:35]So So So, I'm trying to I'm trying to create a a parallel between Saul who God outrightly rejected and David who the Lord said is my beloved.

[00:24:51]And David did far worse, more egregious things and saw that.

[00:25:02]Yet, David was always willing and ready to admit and repent for the wrong he did.

[00:25:14]So, COULD IT BE THAT YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS ONE AND THAT ONE AND WHAT THEY DOING, BUT THAT PERSON MAY STILL BE WALKING IN THE BLESSINGS EVEN THOUGH YOU KNOW SOME THINGS ABOUT THEM BECAUSE THEIR HEART IS PROPERLY POSTURED BEFORE GOD.

[00:25:32]WHY YOU USING PETER? HE IS CUSSING. HE IS DOING THIS. I DON'T I I DON'T I DON'T KNOW HOW FAR IS HE INSIDE TO SAY, "WE DON'T DO THIS AND WE DON'T DO THAT." YOU KNOW, THERE WAS a Pharisee and a publican and the publican got on his knees and he said, "Lord, I'm a sinner."

[00:25:44]And the Pharisee was over there saying, "Lord, YOU KNOW I FAST EVERY DAY. I PRAY EVERY DAY." AND HE WAS JUST HE CALLED OFF HIS SPIRITUAL RESUME. AND GOD SAID A MAN THAT SAID I'm a sinner WENT AWAY FAR MORE JUSTIFIED THAN THE ONE who was calling OFF HIS RESUME OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.

[00:25:59]YOU DON'T NEED TO SAY NOTHING to me because it's a brokenness GOD LOOKS FOR.

[00:26:03]IT'S A HUMILITY GOD LOOKS FOR. IF YOU WALKING AROUND WITH YOUR SPIRITUAL NOSE IN THE AIR, GOD WOULD DOES NOT WALK WITH THE PROUD.

[00:26:13]HE SAID, "IF YOU HUMBLE YOURSELF UNDER MY MIGHTY HAND IN DUE SEASON."

[00:26:23]Some of our due season constantly being delayed cuz he waiting on us to be in a just a humble. I ain't got it all together yet, you know, but just humble.

[00:26:33]I still making some mistakes, Lord, but humble. I I STILL falling down, BUT HUMBLE CUZ A JUST man falls seven Look at your neighbor and say, "A just man."

[00:26:43]Talk Talk to them. Tell them a just man.

[00:26:45]You could be JUST AND STILL FALL. JUST DON'T MEAN YOU NEVER FALL. JUST DON'T MEAN YOU NEVER MAKE NO MISTAKES. JUST MEAN YOU NEVER SIN. THE JUST MAN THOUGH WHEN HE FALLS, HE CAN REPENT AND ACKNOWLEDGE HIS FAULT, HIS FAILURE, AND THEN HE CAN GET BACK UP AGAIN.

[00:27:08]He didn't say one of you going to betray me. Everybody on the table asked, "Is it I?"

[00:27:12]Y'all remember that?

[00:27:14]Talk to me. Y'all remember that?

[00:27:16]He said he said one of you going to betray. That means all of them know they didn't say something behind Jesus' back.

[00:27:23]And they wondering if somebody done tell Jesus what they say about him.

[00:27:30]Cuz if you know your heart right with Jesus, you be you be like, "Well, that ain't me. I know I I I got no issue. I I I BUT IF YOU KNOW IF SOMETHING JESUS MIGHT HAVE FOUND OUT.

[00:27:44]AND YOU ASK YOURSELF, "IS it I?"

[00:27:50]We don't ask that in churches, do we?

[00:27:52]"I?"

[00:27:55]We complaining about what's wrong with the nation. Could it be that you ain't in position?

[00:28:00]You blaming the politician, but could it be that you ain't doing your job?

[00:28:04]Cuz they only can get away with what they get away with because we ain't doing what we supposed to be. Y'all ain't saying nothing to me. So, we blaming and pointing fingers, BUT WHEN LAST YOU ASK YOURSELF, "LORD, AM I DOING WHAT I'M SUPPOSED YOU DON'T EVEN PRAY FOR THE NATION TO EXPECT ANYTHING GOOD OUT OF THE NATION. AND WHAT YOU DON'T PRAY FOR, YOU SHOULD HAVE NO RIGHT TO EXPECT anything from.

[00:28:31]"Is it I, Lord?"

[00:28:33]"Could it be me, Lord? Could I be doing some things that you are not pleased with? Could I be out of alignment with you, Lord?"

[00:28:41]"Is it I?"

[00:28:47]David was always willing to admit and repent.

[00:28:50]When Saul can You give me a few more minutes, please. I know the time is running.

[00:28:55]When Samuel confronted Saul for wrongdoing, Saul make excuses and sought to justify.

[00:29:04]He said "J- God said kill all the sheep."

[00:29:07]All the He said He said "But But you know when Samuel said but you ain't do what I tell you what the Lord said." He said "No, no. I saved some of them because I thought we could use them for worship."

[00:29:19]So, we spiritualize our sin.

[00:29:25]>> [snorts] >> See See, I talked to the doctor she was She was You know what she doing? No, no, but I You still ain't right. Right.

[00:29:33]She could be wrong as soon as she left.

[00:29:34]She was.

[00:29:35]But that ain't how Christian people handle things.

[00:29:39]Y'all talk to me. This is a quiet church. I do.

[00:29:46]So, so, so, so, so Yeah, she she She ain't got no right spirit.

[00:29:52]He He He He He got a Jezebel spirit.

[00:29:55]The Lord never tell you insult nobody.

[00:29:57]He told you Y'all ain't saying nothing to me. Bless them that curse you. Do good to them that despite you. And you trying to use your spiritual status to condemn people [singing] and pull people. You That ain't your role. YOU AIN'T DIE FOR NOBODY. THAT AIN'T YOUR SOUL. YOU AIN'T CREATE NOBODY. YOUR JOB is to love them. And if you have to rebuke them, he says do it in CUZ WHAT'S THIS? GOD CHASTISE THOSE HE IF YOU DON'T LOVE ME, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO CHASTISE ME.

[00:30:26]OH, Y'ALL AIN'T SAYING nothing to me.

[00:30:28]So, you want to tell me ABOUT HOW I DRESS, BUT DO YOU LOVE ME? YOU NEVER TELL ME ONE DAY NOTHING NICE. YOU NEVER GAVE ME A COMPLIMENT. BUT YOU WANT TO TELL ME you shouldn't COME TO CHURCH LIKE THAT. YOU NEVER EVEN FIND GOD I MADE IT TO CHURCH. AND AND DON'T KNOW THE HELL I HAD TO GO THROUGH JUST TO GET UP IN CHURCH. MY MOMMY DON'T GO TO CHURCH. MY GRANNY DON'T GO TO CHURCH, BUT I DECIDE I GOT LIT FOR JESUS AS A YOUNG WOMAN AND THE BEST YOU COULD DO IS CRITICIZE WHAT I'M WEARING?

[00:30:58]AND SOME OF THE SEEING PEOPLE CRITICIZING PEOPLE, THEIR CHILDREN AIN'T EVEN IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. DON'T THEY YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO PRESS THROUGH AND PUSH THROUGH AND YOU GOING TO OPEN YOUR MONEY MOUTH TO PUT PRESSURE ON PEOPLE AND THEY COME TO GOD'S HOUSE?

[00:31:13]>> [cheering] >> WE TELL THEM COME AS YOU ARE AND WHEN THEY COME, WE STILL CRITICIZE THEM.

[00:31:24]CUZ WE DON'T WANT TO WAIT FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT to clean them up.

[00:31:27]We want to be the Holy Spirit.

[00:31:30]And I'm not saying it's right, but I'm saying it ain't right how I deal with it either.

[00:31:41]When Nathan confronted David for wrongdoing, David made sacrifices unto God and said in Psalm 51, "Oh God, have mercy on me." Now this is the psalm where he say, "No, no, Lord, we The psalm I do this and I do this."

[00:32:02]When Nathan confront David and say, "Thou what thou art," David say, >> [snorts] >> "You right. I You ain't lying."

[00:32:11]Ain't no sense I try to defend myself on this. I this is true.

[00:32:18]This worshipping David, giant slaying David, anointed David, praying David, who done do the most, but I I can measure his spirituality not by the fact that he don't sin, but by how he respond to when he is called out for when he makes a mistake.

[00:32:36]Somebody shout I don't know if you I don't know if you're ready for this, but somebody shout if you're serious, Lord call me out.

[00:32:42]And you don't have to do it in public. I just need him to call me out to me.

[00:32:46]I need him to visit ME IN MY PRAYER CHAMBER AND SHOW me me. I WANT TO KNOW WHEN I COME out here I ain't being no hypocrite, double-standard, double-minded, I'M A WALKING CONTRADICTION. I WANT TO KNOW AND I TELL YOU I'M PERFECT, BUT I WANT TO KNOW AT LEAST MY HEART IS WHERE IT NEED TO BE FOR GOD TO DO IN MY LIFE WHAT I NEED HIM TO DO.

[00:33:06]COME ON, Y'ALL ain't saying nothing TO ME.

[00:33:09]CUZ MY [screaming] HEART IS THE ENTRY GATE. IF THAT MESSED UP AND THAT BITTER AND THAT IN ORDER ORDER, THEN WHATEVER else God want to do IN THE OTHER AREAS OF MY LIFE, MY HEART IS HINDERING IT.

[00:33:23]I JUST NEED THIS RIGHT.

[00:33:28]I want you to make a practice of this.

[00:33:33]I'm a I'm a I'm a repentant man of God.

[00:33:38]I I apologize.

[00:33:41]And I And I want the Holy Spirit to help me see cuz sometimes I can be stubborn.

[00:33:45]I could be >> [clears throat] >> I could be stubborn.

[00:33:48]You tell the truth, you could be stubborn.

[00:33:51]Especially when you believe YOU'RE RIGHT.

[00:33:55]YOU EVER YOU EVER BEEN LIKE strong and I mean and doing THE MOST AND CARRYING ON BAD AND LETTING AND I MEAN IF YOU DON'T GET OUT OF MY FACE, GOD, I'M TALKING AND JUST TO DISCOVER >> [cheering] >> I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE SPEAKING IN TONGUES HOLY GHOST TODAY.

[00:34:25]I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE FIRE HOLY GHOST TODAY AND THE POWER HOLY GHOST TODAY. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE HOLY GHOST WHO WILL SHOW you you.

[00:34:37]Cuz listen TO ME, IF ALL OF US [screaming] START WORKING ON OUR HEART AND OUR MIND AND OUR SPIRIT, I BELIEVE WE David said, "Have mercy on me, oh God, according to your loving kindness, according unto the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions."

[00:34:58]He said, "I know you're merciful, too."

[00:35:01]That's why we ain't got to cover it up.

[00:35:04]He's merciful.

[00:35:06]You could admit it cuz he's Mercy mean he ain't going to punish you.

[00:35:12]Give you the punishment you deserve.

[00:35:16]But there's a step here.

[00:35:18]You want the mercy, but you don't want to confess nothing.

[00:35:23]You're all right?

[00:35:25]I'm almost done.

[00:35:27]He He says as he goes further he said, "Blot out my transgression."

[00:35:32]Lord, wipe them like clear clear my criminal record.

[00:35:37]S- sponge the record.

[00:35:39]Cuz you know know we serve a God who'll take your sin and throw it into the sea of forgetfulness. And he'll deal with you like you never make one mistake in your life. Like you never say When when the church people try to bring up what you did, God will be like, "I don't know nothing about that. I don't forget that.

[00:35:52]That that in the sea of forgetfulness.

[00:35:53]Now I'm dealing with them according to the blood of my son, Jesus."

[00:36:01]He says, "Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin."

[00:36:10]You see I own it?

[00:36:12]My transgression.

[00:36:14]My iniquity.

[00:36:16]My sin.

[00:36:17]For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me.

[00:36:23]You know I don't understand people. How you getting my sin?

[00:36:26]David said, "My sin is always before me." HOW YOU GETTING MY SIN?

[00:36:31]PLEASE TAP YOUR NEIGHBOR SAY, "STAY OUT OF MY SIN, PLEASE, and deal with your own."

[00:36:37]And if they get MAD AT YOU, THAT'S JUST what I mean. They're talking about they ain't got no repentant HEART AND SPIRIT.

[00:36:42]THEY WANT TO SIT UP IN CHURCH AND FAKE AND ACT LIKE THEY GOT IT ALL TOGETHER LIKE THEY AIN'T NEVER GOSSIP BUT NOBODY.

[00:36:47]THEY AIN'T NEVER SAY NOTHING BAD BUT NOBODY. THEY AIN'T NEVER DO NOTHING WRONG. THEY NEVER MAKE NO MISTAKE. THEY JUST ALL TOGETHER LOVELY. THE DEVIL IS A LIAR. SHAKE YOUR NEIGHBOR SAY, "DEAL WITH YOUR SIN."

[00:36:58]AND LEAVE MINE [screaming] ALONE.

[00:37:03]UNLESS YOU PRAYING FOR ME, LORD, HELPING ME. HE WEAK. He He struggling, LORD. HE GOING THROUGH. LORD, HE HAS SOME GENERATIONAL CURSES IN HIS LIFE. THERE'S SOME THINGS HE PUT THAT PASSED DOWN TO HIM FROM HIS FATHER AND GRANDFATHER.

[00:37:14]THAT SCHEMING SPIRIT. HE GET THAT FROM HIS PA. SO, LORD, GIVE HIM THE Y'ALL DON'T WANT TO BE REAL IN CHURCH.

[00:37:24]But if y'all don't waste your own time, y'all ain't going to let y'all waste mine.

[00:37:32]He said, "Wash me, Lord."

[00:37:34]He said, "Cleanse me, Lord." You know why he said that? CUZ HE SAID, "LORD, I'VE BEEN trying to fix this and I can't do it."

[00:37:40]I I've been trying to I've been trying to dig this thing out and change my behavior and change my ways and change And Lord, I can't do it. So, this is a matter of prayer cuz prayer is ABOUT DO GET GOING TO GOD ABOUT THINGS GOD COULD FIX THAT YOU CAN'T FIX.

[00:37:56]He said, "IF I ACKNOWLEDGE MY transgressions and my sin is EVER BEFORE ME.

[00:38:02]PURGE ME WITH HYSSOP AND I shall be clean.

[00:38:06]Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow." I wish I had a witness in here. HE SAID, "LORD, HIDE YOUR FACE FROM MY SINS AND BLOT OUT ALL OF MINE."

[00:38:17]I Lord, I know you're looking at me. I know I know you see ME BUT HIDE YOUR FACE from this. I THERE'S SOMETIMES, LORD, I I I CAN WEAR THIS, LORD. I need you to hide your face. Don't don't don't look up.

[00:38:30]Don't look Don't Somebody say, "Don't look on me. Don't look on me, Lord."

[00:38:34]Don't look on me, sir.

[00:38:37]He says, "Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me." I want y'all to see the brokenness of David. We just only talk about the slinging David, the David WHO SLAYED GOLIATH AND SLAYED GIANTS AND THE WARRIOR DAVID, BUT WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS DAVID WHO WILL SLAY A GIANT TODAY AND THEN FIND HIMSELF FALLEN ON HIS FACE BEFORE GOD SAYING, "LORD, I I SEE WHY HE COULD TAKE OUT GIANTS CUZ IF YOU CAN'T kill the giant in you, YOU CAN'T KILL THE GIANT IN FRONT of you. And I [clears throat] see why that stronghold wouldn't leave your life." Y'all say, "YOU GOT TO GO THROUGH THE SAME CYCLE CUZ THERE'S SOME THINGS IN YOU YOU wouldn't deal with, but [clears throat] you believe in God to deal with the things around." Y'all say amen to me in here.

[00:39:27]Somebody lift your hands and say, "Lord, help me to slay my giant."

[00:39:31]The one in me, Lord. Come on, talk to me. Help me pray. The one in me, Lord, that's keeping me back from my promised land and keeping me back from my destiny and keeping me back from what you ordained for me. Lord, help me TO SLAY MY GIANT. I'M A SINGLE WOMAN READY TO get married, BUT THERE'S SOME GIANTS I CAN'T TAKE INTO THAT MARRIAGE.

[00:39:47][laughter] I GOT TO MAKE SURE I'M READY FOR WHERE YOU WANT TO TAKE me and I don't need nothing DELAYING ME ANOTHER DAY IN MY LIFE. THIS GIANT GOT TO FALL.

[00:39:55]THIS GIANT GOT TO DIE. SO, CREATE IN ME DAVID WAS ANOINTED to be king, BUT COULDN'T BECOME KING TILL HE SLAYED HIS GIANT. WHAT ARE YOU ANOINTED TO BECOME THAT YOU CAN'T BECOME BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T KILL THIS GIANT.

[00:40:22]And you can't kill what you don't confront.

[00:40:24]What you don't want to admit.

[00:40:26]Holy Spirit reminding you in my I promised you yesterday and I repent.

[00:40:33]I pull up to McDonald's.

[00:40:36]And I felt convicted.

[00:40:38]About eating McDonald's.

[00:40:43]And I still go into McDonald's.

[00:40:46]And buy that nuggets.

[00:40:48]And cheeseburger.

[00:40:50]And cheeseburger. On Sunday. Oh, that's terrible.

[00:40:54]You should repent.

[00:40:57]I mean, if I can do it, I can sin all the way. I ain't playing.

[00:41:00]I just say it.

[00:41:03]I don't got to go to God. We got I got a real prayer.

[00:41:06]Ain't no halfway here.

[00:41:12]>> [laughter] >> But you know, he said the Holy Spirit is telling me but eating clean.

[00:41:21]So I know and I said in my head Saturday get a little cheat.

[00:41:24]Yeah.

[00:41:25]And I try to negotiate and I still rebel.

[00:41:30]And that thing sit right there on my stomach.

[00:41:38]You see it you see the arch golden arches over here?

[00:41:41]>> [laughter] >> But no but you you and you think I joke and I was and I was literally walking through the house repenting.

[00:41:51]Because I knew I felt convicted that I shouldn't eat this thing.

[00:41:55]But you know, McDonald's long line long and this take long. So if I had to wait I mean I didn't put in I'm a living sacrifice. I didn't eat.

[00:42:03]I didn't put in my sacrifice.

[00:42:07]I don't pay the price to wait on this line THIS LONG. COME ON NOW.

[00:42:18]And I And all y'all just like me, we don't really acknowledge our sin till we done sin.

[00:42:23]So I done ate it.

[00:42:30]But you have to acknowledge.

[00:42:32]Acknowledge.

[00:42:34]Acknowledge.

[00:42:37]Holy Spirit, help me to see, convict me.

[00:42:41]He said, "Cast me not away from your presence.

[00:42:45]And don't take your Holy Spirit away from me.

[00:42:47]Restore unto me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with your free spirit.

[00:42:52]Deliver me from blood guiltiness." You know you're guilty.

[00:42:57]Though God thou of my salvation, my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Your praise don't come out right.

[00:43:03]When you don't acknowledge, "Lord, I ain't right."

[00:43:13]For thou desirest not sacrifice, else I would give it.

[00:43:17]Thou delightest not in burnt offering.

[00:43:20]The sacrifices of God are broken spirit and a contrite heart.

[00:43:28]O God, thou will not Gently nudge your neighbor and say, "Man, where your brokenness?"

[00:43:35]You want to see the glory of God for We got to get broken.

[00:43:39]We got to get humble.

[00:43:42]Ladies and gentlemen, righteousness, not perfection, righteousness exalts nations.

[00:43:50]But sin will bring us to open shame. It's a reproach.

[00:43:57]As a people, if we don't acknowledge our sins and wrongdoing anymore, we will find ourselves guilty before God.

[00:44:06]If we arrogantly just move on like we did nothing and do not repent before God, we'll find ourselves in trouble with God.

[00:44:15]Now, it is no longer man you will have to give an account to.

[00:44:19]It is God.

[00:44:21]Because our lives are dedicated to.

[00:44:24]This nation has been dedicated to.

[00:44:27]We are developing a culture where we don't acknowledge sin and repent.

[00:44:34]And there's some people who bypass you preaching this. All these young people are changed. They don't want to hear me today. That's on them.

[00:44:40]But I got to go home to God.

[00:44:44]Let me end with this. We all sin.

[00:44:47]My sins are many.

[00:44:49]I I'm I ain't quoting no scripture. I'm talking to me.

[00:44:52]My sins are many.

[00:44:55]But God is merciful.

[00:45:03]And that's why it should tell your neighbor and say, "Neighbor, it should be easy for you to forgive me as a Christian cuz you know how much God had to forgive you of AND STILL FORGIVING YOU OF."

[00:45:23]WHY IS SO HARD FOR US TO GET ALONG WITH GOD?

[00:45:29]He is merciful.

[00:45:31]Who is willing to forgive us and pardon us for our sins.

[00:45:36]But we must acknowledge them and repent of them.

[00:45:39]First John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." Psalms 32:5 says, "Then I acknowledge my sin to you and did not hide my iniquity.

[00:45:55]I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

[00:46:03]God loves us.

[00:46:05]He bears long with us because he wishes that none of us would perish, but that all of us will have everlasting life.

[00:46:13]But when a people and a nation acts as though there's no God, we will find ourselves in trouble with God.

[00:46:21]The Bible says in Psalms 9 and 17, "The wicked will be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God."

[00:46:30]I stand today, ladies and gentlemen, as a warning voice.

[00:46:35]I am not here to condemn us for our sins, for we have all sinned and fallen short.

[00:46:40]And we strive toward perfection, but I am here to warn us against the arrogance of not repenting of our sins.

[00:46:50]He who conceals his sins, Proverbs 28:13 says, "will not prosper."

[00:46:58]But whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

[00:47:04]The Bible says when people hate the truth, God responds by sending them strong delusion so that they believe a lie and find themselves in destruction. That's 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12.

[00:47:19]Ladies and gentlemen, we got to be careful.

[00:47:22]Haggai says, "Consider your ways."

[00:47:25]And I pray today that we will all come to that place where we consider our ways.

[00:47:31]Finally, Jeremiah 29:11 says, "I know the plans I have for you.

[00:47:36]They are plans for good and not for disaster."

[00:47:41]God says, "I don't plan disaster for my people."

[00:47:45]That doesn't mean disaster will not happen, but God says, "I didn't plan that for you."

[00:47:50]So when we see disaster, we could rebuke disaster and pray against disaster cuz he says his plans for us is that we prosper.

[00:48:00]And ladies and gentlemen, I'm out of time.

[00:48:04]But God said on this Pentecost Sunday, he wants his people to respond to his presence and his glory by coming before him and developing I don't not just an act.

[00:48:19]Say it with me, not just an act.

[00:48:22]But an attitude.

[00:48:24]An act is a one-time activity. An attitude is my habit.

[00:48:29]How I now function.

[00:48:30]Not an act of repentance.

[00:48:34]An attitude of repentance.

[00:48:39]Search me Oh God and know [singing] If you know it, sing it with me.

[00:48:57]Oh savior >> [music] >> Yes.

[00:49:04]I pray See if there be >> [music] >> there be [singing] some wicked way some wicked [music] way in me.

[00:49:22]Oh Lord [singing] >> [music] >> cleanse me from every sin from every sin >> [music] >> Ladies and gentlemen, there are certain there are certain things we deal with in our lives that are not supposed to be present in our lives.

[00:49:53]I don't have time to get into it, but it comes through open doors.

[00:50:00]We open doors.

[00:50:02]Uh can I give you one example? When Jesus healed the woman, he said thou would lose He says to some people he said He said, "Thy sins be forgiven thee."

[00:50:12]And that's how they got their healing.

[00:50:14]Because the sickness wasn't the problem, the sin was the problem.

[00:50:18]So even So even if he healed them, the sickness would return because it was really connected to the door they opened through the sin.

[00:50:26]So the reason we repent of sins is cuz every time I repent, I shut a door.

[00:50:32]So whatever access point the enemy wanted to my life, he no longer has that access point cuz I didn't take that to God and shut that door.

[00:50:43]Y'all all right?

[00:50:45]And let me say this to parents.

[00:50:47]There's certain things attacking your children because of the doors you didn't close.

[00:50:55]And let me say this to you as a parent also, be careful how you deal with other people cuz you're sowing the seeds for how people are going to deal with your children.

[00:51:06]And let me tell you all this. Let me tell you all this. Not cuz you forget what you did mean heaven forgot what you did. And certainly don't mean the devil forgot what So the devil saw what you did and he says, "I know I got legal rights."

[00:51:20]because of an unrepentant area of your life. I don't care if you sin a million times in a day, repent.

[00:51:27]Say, "Lord, I'm sorry. Lord, forgive."

[00:51:28]And the Bible says if somebody sin against you 70 * 70 in a day, forgive them.

[00:51:34]If God is If God is telling you to forgive other people that much, you don't think he's prepared to forgive you even more?

[00:51:42]But he said 70 times in a day cuz he know we messing up a lot.

[00:51:49]I I may be the only person here today.

[00:51:52]I I I just mess up a lot.

[00:51:57]I mean God the Lord working on me Mother Johnson like and every day I I cuz I don't want to be a preacher AS MUCH AS I WANT to be a Christian.

[00:52:04]You can take the mic. I I live.

[00:52:07]Cuz this mic don't MAKE MY LIFE. MY GOD IS THE SOURCE OF MY LIFE.

[00:52:15]SO IF YOU TAKE THE MIC AND TAKE THE CHURCH, I PROMISE YOU HE ONLY GOING TO LET YOU TAKE THAT CUZ HE ALREADY MADE PROVISION somewhere else.

[00:52:27]So I'm not TRYING TO BE I mean I I do want to be a a better preacher and a better pastor. I Anything I do I want to do with everything.

[00:52:34]But my fundamental goal is to not preach and be a castaway.

[00:52:40]And hear depart from me.

[00:52:43]I know you not. See, I ain't going to be guilty of the Lord giving you a great church and I compromising my preaching just to keep the numbers.

[00:52:54]I want the record of heaven reflect that regardless of how much people give tithes and offering and how much people showed up, he still preached the truth of God's word. People may walk out.

[00:53:03]People may never return. But if the Holy Ghost don't come back, we are not a church.

[00:53:13]You know what keep these mothers in this this place? The Holy Ghost press.

[00:53:19]This ain't might and power.

[00:53:22]I don't want I don't want that people coming back to church every Sunday. So So I I I want to make sure we please Could your marriage be better if you just at least sit down and consider maybe I could be wrong.

[00:53:36]It could be me the one wrong in this situation.

[00:53:40]And you got to be careful of your friends who when you even feel conviction they come and reinforce your sin.

[00:53:47]Girl, if I was you, boy, if I was you I don't want to be like you, I want to be like Jesus. You wrong and you want to keep me wrong and you want to aid and abet me in my wrong and you want me to don't want me to get better and when you get done with me and show ME A WAY, I GOT GOD CUZ I FOLLOW YOU.

[00:54:05]OH, I pray God break up some of these ungodly soul ties in your life. Some of these demons and wicked people in your life making you feel you right when you wrong. A REAL FRIEND WILL TELL YOU YOU WRONG, YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE THAT ATTITUDE, YOU SHOULDN'T DO IT THAT WAY, THAT AIN'T THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

[00:54:25]AND WHEN HE COMES, HE WILL CONVICT US.

[00:54:31]That's what we SAY WHEN THE HOLY GHOST COMES. JESUS SAID WHEN THE HOLY GHOST COME, HE'S GOING TO CONVICT US OF OUR SINS.

[00:54:38]So today I ain't going to pray sickness off of you today, then got to pray it off you again next week.

[00:54:44]Cuz you go right back to the same and wouldn't repent.

[00:54:50]So while I'm going to wait it on me, I can stay humble and repent.

[00:54:55]He waiting on me but I going to I going to apologize.

[00:54:58]I I know there's some some grace teachers who teach you don't need to confess your sins. I ain't on that run.

[00:55:03]Let me tell you why I'm not on that run.

[00:55:05]Cuz if I offend you or you offend me, even though you may be sorry, I would like for you to say it.

[00:55:13]So out of my I don't need no Bible to tell me I should confess. Cuz if I have A RELATIONSHIP WITH SOMEONE AND THEY mean something to me, I am GOING TO SAY TO THEM I know I hurt you.

[00:55:24]I know I let you down. I know I disappoint you and I am sorry.

[00:55:30]And mean it.

[00:55:35]I I I I am I do I wanted to preach this as humbly as I can because I can't preach it as though I arrive.

[00:55:43]I got to preach it as though we all in the journey together.

[00:55:48]Trying to get to that place of perfection in Christ Jesus.

[00:55:56]But we want a church of repentant people.

[00:56:00]Just you know it is for me to have a church every Sunday in Surrey and do all of this and then I stand before God and the people I shepherd who I was responsible for their souls and they go in hell?

[00:56:22]And they're not hearing well done thou good and faithful servant?

[00:56:27]You you You know what I have to live with?

[00:56:31]The Bible says you are teachers will be beaten with more stripes.

[00:56:37]Don't try justify your wrong.

[00:56:39]Admit it. God ain't mad.

[00:56:42]He ain't going to kill you. He ain't going to condemn you.

[00:56:46]He's just saying, man, show me you want to be better at least.

[00:56:53]Show me you want to be the person I know I called you to be at least.

[00:56:58]You say I I struggle with homosexuality.

[00:57:00]Okay, fine.

[00:57:02]But repent.

[00:57:05]Say, Lord, work on me.

[00:57:07]Lord, fix me.

[00:57:09]Cuz ain't a person here who ain't struggling.

[00:57:11]I struggle with with pornography or whatever it is.

[00:57:16]Ain't a person here who know what and no one can say their sin is greater or lesser.

[00:57:20]Sin is sin.

[00:57:24]Just say, Lord, this me. I I I got some issues I need you to help me with.

[00:57:30]I want serve you. I want to be holy.

[00:57:33]I won't be more like you. I want I want you to be glorified in me.

[00:57:38]Not just when I come to church, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

[00:57:45]And nobody can judge you or condemn you.

[00:57:49]God will have mercy on you.

[00:57:51]Can we stand together?

[00:58:07]I want to make this whole church a big altar.

[00:58:14]Cuz I don't want your blessings hold up.

[00:58:19]I don't want the favor of God held up in your life.

[00:58:23]And he don't just bless you when you're good, but if he is trying to mature you, he will delay.

[00:58:35]I want to be better.

[00:58:36]>> [music] >> I don't want to come to church dressed up and go through the motion.

[00:58:45]Angry at people right next to me every Sunday.

[00:58:52]See, that's when you become fake.

[00:59:12]Lord, forgive us.

[00:59:15]Have mercy on us.

[00:59:20]For your children's sake today, I want you to acknowledge some areas in your life that may be an open door even for your your kids.

[00:59:35]But I got to shut these doors.

[00:59:37]I sowed some seeds and I don't want them things to spring up.

[00:59:43]Men and brethren, what shall we do?

[00:59:45]Repent.

[00:59:47]And be baptized. Baptized mean be immersed in it.

[00:59:51]So don't just repent and then walk away and do whatever.

[00:59:54]Get consumed with changing your mind, your attitude, how you live, and watch the heavens open over your life and the floodgates pour into your life and you see the glory of God.

[01:00:16]Lord, today we acknowledge as David did, even as Paul did, that while we are passionate about serving you, there are areas of our lives that we need you to help us with.

[01:00:39]Paul said, "I have not yet apprehended that for which I have been apprehended."

[01:00:44]But this one thing I do.

[01:00:47]So Lord, we press into your presence.

[01:00:50]Cuz there's some things only you could help us with. It ain't ain't about willpower.

[01:00:55]Ain't about therapy.

[01:00:56]There's some things only you could break.

[01:01:01]There's a level of discipline only you could help us to achieve so it doesn't keep upending our destiny.

[01:01:07]Have to go from one job to the next job to the next job and we keep up in the start over because we out of control.

[01:01:16]This our season. This our This the season we win.

[01:01:21]Somebody say this with me.

[01:01:23]We will win over sin.

[01:01:28]Yeah.

[01:01:28]Sin will not dominate us, not rule us, not have dominion over us.

[01:01:34]We will win over sin. And I'm talking to you as a sinner.

[01:01:41]But if But when we sick, don't we believe God for healing?

[01:01:44]So even though we have sin, we going to believe God to make us righteous.

[01:01:50]And I don't care how long it take, we going to get there.

[01:01:53]We will be a holy people, a godly people, a different people, a set aside people, a people of light [singing] and salt and light and salt and light and we will shift nations for the glory of God.

[01:02:09]Hit about two or three people, tell them I'm praying for you. We going to do this. We going to make this happen. We going to overcome. We going to conquer.

[01:02:16]We are more than conquerors. We are the head and not the tail. Above only and not beneath. Can I get some witnesses in here? I need you to build your faith now because only your faith can cause God to move in those areas of your life and give you the victory. Somebody shout the devil is a liar.

[01:02:32]He ain't going to destroy my life, nor my family, nor my children, nor my marriage, nor my My future is secured [music] in God. My destiny is secured in God. I need somebody to give God the kind of praise he deserves because YOU KNOW HE HAS YOUR FUTURE PRESERVED FOR HIS GLORY AND FOR HIS HONOR.

[01:02:50]NO, I DIDN'T GOOD ENOUGH. I NEED YOU TO GIVE GOD THE KIND OF [music] PRAISE THAT HE DESERVES. THE SPIRIT of the living God is about to fall. THE BLOOD OF [music] JESUS WASH AND CLEANSE.

[01:03:03]REST on us.

[01:03:07]I declare.

[01:03:10]Bible says after they said repent and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine.

[01:03:17]And they had no lack among them.

[01:03:22]Your nothing will be missing or broken or absent in your life because you are a repentant believer.

[01:03:33]Ain't that I DON'T SIN? AIN'T THAT I DON'T MESS UP? BUT WHEN I DO, I acknowledge and I fix it.

[01:03:39]Somebody say nothing missing.

[01:03:42]Y'all didn't say with enough authority.

[01:03:43]I know you're ready to go, but let's do it. Say nothing missing.

[01:03:46]Nothing lacking.

[01:03:48]Nothing broken in any area of my life because I'm a repentant believer.

[01:03:55]AND THERE ARE PROMISES THAT I WALK IN BECAUSE THE PROMISES OF GOD IN CHRIST ARE YAY AND AMEN. LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY YES AND AMEN.

[01:04:04]TELL THEM GOD SAYS YES.

[01:04:06]WHATEVER YOU'RE PRAYING FOR, BELIEVING FOR, TRUSTING HIM FOR, ASKING FOR, EXPECTING HIM TO DO, YOU AIN'T DOING IT RIGHT. SHAKE YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY GOD SAYS YES.

[01:04:17]THAT'S THE WRONG NEIGHBOR. FIND TWO OR THREE OTHER PEOPLE AND TELL THEM GOD SAID TO TELL YOU ON THIS PENTECOST SUNDAY, IF YOU JUST ACKNOWLEDGE WHERE YOU WENT WRONG AND GET BACK IN ALIGNMENT, [music] HE SAYS WHEN YOU GET IN CHRIST, HE SAYS YES.

[01:04:33]NOW HERE'S THE BIG SHOUT. SO LET [screaming] IT Y'ALL AIN'T READY FOR IT.

[01:04:39]Y'ALL AIN'T READY FOR IT. YES AND AMEN.

[01:04:41]AMEN MEANS SO LET IT NOW LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY NEIGHBOR, I'M EXPECTING BEFORE THE WEEK IS OVER FOR SOMETHING THAT WAS [music] MISSING IN YOUR LIFE TO SHOW UP BY WEDNESDAY, TO SHOW UP BY THURSDAY, TO SHOW [music] UP BY TIME AS I SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.

[01:05:00]I BELIEVE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A CELEBRATION >> [music] >> BECAUSE THE GLORY OF THE LORD IS GETTING READY.

[01:05:09]I NEED A CRAZY CHANCE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND GIVE GOD THE GLORY. LIKE I SAID, LIKE SOMETHING'S GETTING READY.

[01:05:18]YES, LORD.

[01:05:20]YES, LORD.

[01:05:23]I NEED YOU TO DO ME ONE MORE FAVOR AS WE GET READY TO GO. HOLD YOUR NEIGHBOR BY THE HAND AND SAY, "NEIGHBOR, THIS NEXT SHOUT IS FOR YOU. I WILL GIVE GOD THE PRAISE FOR EVERYTHING THAT WAS HELD UP IN YOUR LIFE. EVERYTHING THAT WAS BLOCKED UP IN YOUR LIFE. EVERYTHING THAT WAS DELAYED IN YOUR LIFE. [music] BECAUSE WE GETTING BACK IN ORDER WITH GOD. THERE'S ABOUT TO BE A SUPERNATURAL RELEASE IN YOUR LIFE. TELL THEM TO WAIT TILL THE BATTLE IS OVER. WHEN I COUNT TO THREE, I NEED YOU TO GIVE GOD A PRAISE AND RIP UP THAT ROAD. ONE, TWO, THREE, SHOUT.

[01:05:59]YES.

[01:06:01]YES.

[01:06:03]YES.

[01:06:08]>> [music] >> Shift it, Lord. Shift it. SHIFT IT.

[01:06:17]SHIFT IT. Shift it.

[01:06:18]Shift it. Shift it. Shift it. THE DEVIL IS A LIE. SHIFT IT.

[01:06:23]SHIFT IT. FIX IT. SHIFT.

[01:06:26]>> [music] [music] >> I'm out of time.

[01:06:43]>> [music] >> I'm talking to 120 people.

[01:06:53]There's about to be a release.

[01:06:56]Glory to God like you have never seen before. And I need you to give God [music] praise for what was going to happen in the next 90 DAYS. IF EYES HAVE NOT SEEN, IF EARS HAVE NOT HEARD, IF HEARTS HAVE NOT PERCEIVED WHAT GOD IS GETTING READY TO DO, BUT YOU CAN'T WAIT TILL THE BATTLE IS OVER. YOU GOT TO [music] GIVE GOD the praise. GIVE GOD THE GLORY. Give God >> [music] >> The Lord BLESS YOU AND THE LORD KEEP YOU. The Lord make HIS FACE TO SHINE UPON YOU AND BE GRACIOUS UNTO YOU. THE LORD LIFT [music] UP THE LIGHT OF HIS COUNTENANCE UPON YOU AND GIVE YOU HIS PEACE NOW AND FOREVER MORE AND LET revolution God bless you. I'll see you all next week Sunday.