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i want to present just a short message
today concerning
living on the fence if you're taking
notes i want you to write this down
living in the limbo
in the limbo meaning when you are in a
forgotten or ignored
state place or situation it's an
uncertain and undecided state or
condition
a condition between two extremes
living in the limbo
i remember a young man who was married
who was having an affair came up to me
and i started talking to him and he was
so excited about his affair
he was alive and he was trying to
convince me
how to get his wife to agree
that is to his best happiness
that he could have a stable relationship
at home
and a sizzling fire side check
and he's like why is this so wrong for
me to be happy
why can i can i not have this woman whom
i love
i'm married to and this girlfriend
that i'm experiencing things i used to
experience
with this woman that i am at home with
but you know
things got kind of cold things got
predictable there's this routine and
and i would like to have both the
stability
and the excitement and i'm looking at
him and i'm thinking like is he demon
oppressed
possessed or i'm like oh he's like i'm
looking and i was like are
you hearing yourself he's like please
understand he says i don't hate my wife
i just simply want to have the best
of both worlds
and he said the chica that i am having
an affair with
she's cool with it she's completely okay
with me having a wife at home
and i said what about your wife she says
that's that's the concern i have
i'm like she doesn't know yet he's like
no she doesn't
he said how do i sell it to her
how so he's coming to me not how to
repent how to convince his wife
that it makes him happy
to have both worlds in his hands
and i said well good luck telling your
wife
and as he's saying this as bad as this
sounds adultery is sin
adultery destroys marriages and adultery
it does not fit anywhere nowhere in the
bible and in a relationship even if
you're not a christian it's bad it's
wrong
period but how many times as i'm
listening to him i'm thinking of a
christian
who wants to have the best of both
worlds
the devil doesn't mind if the devil is
your side chick
and this is why we do it because we say
this we say well
it makes me happy
to have enough god that i don't go to
hell
and enough of sin that i don't enjoy god
it makes me happy vlad it gives me
i love church on sunday i also love a
club on saturday
i love me a lot of ungodly things and
friday night but
oh man i love god i don't have a problem
with god god
is the stable side of my life but i want
more excitement in my life
i want more passion in my life i want
more excitement and desire i just i just
love that why cannot not have to
and then you listen about hyper grace or
greasy grace like i
like to call it where it almost feels
like you can do whatever you want and
you're forgiven and you're loved and
like man god will never leave me he is
stuck he's boring but i need him why
because the last thing i want is end up
in hell when i die
so i need god i love god but i need me
also some exciting some awesome cool
things in my life that i know
god is not really pleased with but he
maybe he'll be okay with it it says in
james chapter 4 verse 4 and verse 5
it says do you not know that the
friendship
with the world is the enmity with god
in fact let's open james chapter 4
verse 4 and verse
5. james
chapter 4 if you have a bible app
open it to james chapter 4 verse
four and five now it's very strong
language
i'm warning you warning faint-hearted
warning
because james throws this he says
adulterers
and adulteresses he's not talking about
people who are cheating on their spouses
he says do you not know he's not even
saying an affair with the world he says
a friendship with the world
is enmity with god whoever therefore
wants to be a friend of this world makes
himself an enemy of god
do you think that the scripture says in
vain the spirit who dwells
in us yearns jealously
meaning the holy spirit on this side who
dwells with me i am married i am
joined to christ the spirit lives inside
of me
he is not indifferent he is not a side
chick who's like
i don't care the holy spirit yearns
jealously he is a jealous holy spirit
not jealous like your ex not jealous
like somebody who is overly sensitive
but jealous he says
i gave myself to you you're the broken
piece of dirt i gave my son to you
i gave my life all of it and it's its
entirety to you
i deserve it's my right to have
all of you not part of you not the
sunday you
not the morning devotions you i want
all of you i will not share my glory
with you
with nobody else i will not share you
with nobody else so he yearns
jealously see some of us want god as a
side chick
we want god who will simply want to have
a little bit of us
and be okay with it because that's
exactly how the world is
devil does not care if the devil is your
side chick
he doesn't care about that and so today
i want to bring just an encouragement a
conviction
and an inspiration to each and every one
of you the lord
wants to have all of you he does not
want you there are people who are
sitting on the fence today
in this sanctuary and some who are
watching us on youtube
zoom and facebook and who will be
watching it there's one thing you have
to remember about sitting on the fence
something will hurt after about 15
minutes
it will hurt not 15
5 you have the view
of both worlds when you're on the fence
but you usually end up having none of
the worlds
and you have this uncomfortable pain
that will follow
for trying to grab both worlds
and being in neither of them fully
christian life is boring only to those
who are trying to have both worlds in
their fingertips
you will never go deep with god when
you're trying to keep god and the other
one on the side
when that man looked at me and said that
i want to have my stable wife at home
and i want to have this hot little thing
on the side i simply told him i said if
you would give your wife 100
of you you'll be shocked to see how hot
and sizzling she is
you'll be surprised i'm like you married
that girl
you fell in love with that girl that
girl is still the same thing that can
give you the same feelings
the problem is you're trying to get a
100 percent benefit
from a 50 percent input
my first point if you if we want to have
full-time benefits with jesus we must
stop
being part-time christians
if we want to have a full-time benefit
from christianity
it has to be not a part-time
christianity for us everything we see in
the bible
the benefits are for full-time
christians there's just only one problem
if you
spend your whole life
if your whole life is spent like this
this is what happens and then you name
it claim it blab it
grab it confess it possess it he will
supply
all my needs he will bless me the lord
is my shepherd i shall not lack
and so we begin to confess the full-time
benefits we lay claim to the full-time
benefits but there's just one problem
if you are a part-time christian you can
get the full-time benefits
you can't enjoy christianity fully it's
because you're trying to indulge in the
world partially
and then there's this fear of letting it
go completely the fear is that man i'm
going to lose my life yes you will
there is going to be a loss of life
temporarily
until jesus will give you the life that
you dreamed of
having and the life you lost to have
we can't be a full-time christians
benefits excuse me we can get the
benefits of full-time christianity
if we are sitting on the fence if we are
in the limbo
i have the best of both worlds i have a
little thing here on the side
and i have this thing on the side if
rapture happens i'm going up
but if stuff happens in the culture i'm
also having the culture
and i'm also having christ i have the
word but i also have the world
most of my christians don't even know
i'm a christian why because i'm a secret
cia
when i live with them like i am like
them and when i am in church man i'll
praise me jesus i love god
and so sitting on the fence after a
while your nuts will hurt
it's not in the bible but it will hurt
sitting on the fence means two things
write this down
sitting on the fence means two things
it's having enough of the world that you
aren't fully
living for god sitting on the fence
means this having enough of the lord
that you aren't fully enjoying the world
let me say that again say this with me
say having enough of the world
that you aren't living for god
having enough of the lord that you
aren't enjoying the world
i want to invite every each one of you
to make up your mind
and either live for god or live for the
world
because you're depriving yourself from
enjoyment
or indulgence of both
be hot or cold jesus says but please
don't be warm
because you are hurting yourself by not
getting
full benefits of neither of the worlds
you're not fully enjoying the world
because you have enough god
to make you feel horrible about it and
then you aren't enjoying god because you
have enough of the world that god is
grieved with
and it's sitting and living on the limbo
it's sitting on the fence
it's being friend it's trying to keep
the best of both worlds
and really losing both of them joshua 24
14 says now therefore fear god
serve him in sincerity and in truth put
away the gods which your father
served on the other side of the river
and in egypt serve
the lord have you noticed joshua didn't
say believe in god
he says serve him he's not talking about
believing in his existence he's not
talking about even trusting in him for
salvation
he's talking about fully serving
the lord and a lot of us where we hide
today
is why we sit on the fence because we
say i believe in god
and i attend church i do give my tithe
but today i'm not asking you to add
another day in your schedule to the
church's schedule
i'm asking you jump off of the fence my
desire during the sermon is to
electrocute this fence
and everybody who sits on it to even
either fall on that side or to fall on
this one
either you go into the world so when you
go to hell you know where you went there
for
or you go into the lord so you will
actually experience the pleasure that is
in his presence
experience the joy that christianity
promises and you keep missing it maybe
the experience the commitment that your
friends will see something is different
about you
and to be radically committed to god to
be radically
fully serving god not enough to have a
relationship with god you have to have a
reverence for god
it's not enough just to simply flirt
with sin you have to flee sin but to do
that he says fear god
and serve god a lot of us we flirt with
sin why because we lack that fear we
lack that full commitment
we struggle with certain sins that could
be completely cut off
if we will stop going one way and
looking at the other way if we will stop
trying to see that we don't
miss neither of the worlds i want to
have this world but i want to have this
one man i don't want to be crazy my
friends will think of me man you don't
know this you don't know that
you don't know about the football you
don't know about the hollywood you don't
know about the scandal you did not watch
the oprah interview
interview with those two spoiled brats
i'm sorry the queen and the and the king
you did not watch that you're not aware
of what's happening in the culture
because you are trying to keep both
worlds but god says i want you to be in
my world
i want you to leave behind the other
world and go completely
and be ignorant and naive of what is
happening in the world why because you
are serving
and fearing me
joshua 24 15 the next verse he says and
if it seems
evil to you to serve god if it's too
hard
but god is boring i don't want to be a
religious crazy person
i don't want to be like one of those
people that i made fun of
if it seems evil to you to serve god
if it seems evil to you that god demands
your night your morning and your
noon if it seems evil to you that god
demands all of you
joshua gives a solution choose for
yourself
this day whom you will serve let me say
it again
not whom you will believe whom you will
serve
choose this day whom you will serve
whether the gods which your fathers
serve
on the other side of the river or the
gods of amorites in whose land you dwell
but as for me and my house see you have
to understand this when you as a man
make a decision
your house will follow you
when you start following god i'm not
talking about just believing in god
that will be my house my co-workers my
friends
my colleagues they will begin to go
under the influence
of my commitment to god ask for me
somebody say yes for me
come on somebody somebody said a little
bit louder to chat and say ask for me
drop that on youtube right now and my
house
we will serve
touch your neighbor and say not just
believe
but serve the lord
first kings 18 21 in a message
translation says the following elijah
challenged the people how long are you
going to sit on the fence
if god is real god
follow him if it's baal
if it's netflix if it's amazon prime if
it's hollywood
if it's the clubs if it's being gay
being transgender
if it's being cool if it's socialism
if it's social media if it's religion
follow him but he says make up
your minds said a word see
elijah did not have a church like ours
we speak back
we're like yes pastor i agree say it
again
nobody said a word nobody made a move
meaning they kept sitting on that fence
he's coming literally he's trying to
electrocute that fence he says please
guys jump one way or the other
he says you can't walk around still have
the temple still have the priest still
have the rituals and he says
but one way you one day you're doing
this when the other day you're doing
that he says begin to make up your mind
jump on this side or jump on that side
but please don't live in the limbo
please don't sit on the fence please
don't try to get to both worlds
live either for god or don't live for
him because you're depriving yourself
from the enjoyment of god
when you are trying to get a little bit
of the world and you are depriving
yourself from the full indulgence of sin
when you're trying to put god in your
life choose
one of them you may say well vlad a
little bit of sin
does not destroy my relationship with
god
what if you would have a coke and i spit
on it a little bit of spit
you will never drink from it again
what if you eat your lunch
and i come in and i just an accident
took some dirt from the yard and just
dropped it right in the middle of your
salad
you wouldn't say oh it's not a lot i
could just isolate that part of my salad
and continue to eat you will never be
able to touch it some of you will be
disgusted by it
see devil my dog does not mind if i
throw dirt into his food
my wife does satan does not mind if you
throw a little bit of god
into whatever you're doing with him god
does
yearns jealously and before you say well
he just needs to get over himself oh
really
what if your husband will do to you what
you're doing to god
would you just simply get over no you
say i gave my life to you
man i deserve your heart back i'm
entitled to it
because of what i gave same thing with
god he yearns jealously
my friend i want to remind each one of
you this is not a condemning message
this is just
bringing us all back to the reality to
the basics of christianity if we want to
have the benefits
of full-time christianity it cannot come
with a part-time dedication
number two jesus is worth
of everything you're afraid of losing
i think ben fitzgerald said that that's
what i heard it from i asked him for
exactly the quote he sent this to me so
don't say passover i said it i copied
from ben fitzgerald
but the statement is 100 true jesus
is worth everything
you're afraid of losing
the problem with living on the fence is
the fear of loss
if i'm gonna come on friday nights from
ten o'clock to three
i'm gonna lose my tv shows i will no
longer be in line i'm not gonna know
what's happening there
in the world of hollywood but jesus is
worth
every loss
samson spent the night with the
prostitute
paul spent the night in jail singing
psalms
both had ministries
one bench watched the other one bended
his knee
and worshiped him one shook the city
and the other one walked out still shook
the gates
still moved in power but he was an
expiration clock
because sooner or later hypocrisy double
life
the private compromise caught up to him
jesus is worth everything
you're afraid of sacrificing everything
you're afraid of losing he is worth it
all
you are worthy overall you're worthy of
the loss
you are worthy of my sacrifice you are
worthy of my early mornings
and you are worthy of my all nights you
are worthy of my tithe and you are
worthy of my treasure
jesus is worthy of everything
you're afraid of losing maybe you need
to put a relationship on the altar
and you say i'm gonna lose it jesus says
unless a man
follows after me and denies himself
picks up his cross
he is not worthy of me
you could be believing in jesus
but not be worthy of jesus if you're not
seeing your lost sacrifice as worthy of
jesus
is worthy of everything you're afraid of
losing
worthy of every moment of it and one day
when you will stand before god
one day by the end of the year when you
look back at this year
you will never regret what you lost for
the lord
your only regret would be is what you
kept
for yourself when he asked you to give
it up
when we went into a 40-day fast and
right in the middle of the 40-day fast
the pastor from ukraine called me and
said i want you to come and speak for me
in kiev i flew in there it's been my
dream to go back to or desire to go back
to ukraine we flew in there it was 21st
22nd day
and i remember precious pastor mega
church pastor
churches under him sits in the first
meeting with me and begins to convince
me why i should quit fasting
and he uses stories when he quit fasting
god blessed him and says you're into
kind of more of a legalism
he says you really need to believe in
god's grace and i'm listening literally
and part of me just wants to say i
rebuke you
in the mighty name of the lord jesus
christ right now get behind me devil
but i listen to him and i know one thing
and my flesh
my self-pity kicks in
vlad why are you hurting yourself 21
days is already a lot
why are you killing yourself why are you
doing this
we flew in there first class somebody
bought us the tickets i
flew first time first class on the
international flight
i understood the deep revelation about
the difference
you can be in the same airplane total
different experience
same destination total different
experience you can sit into that little
thing where your back your knees
everything hurt the same plane
you're on the bed there's a waitress
that comes in she serves you food
and honestly as he's speaking to me i'm
remembering my first flight first
uh first class flight and i'm
remembering the experience and i said i
don't want to go to heaven on the
economy seat
you know the difference between the
economy seat in the first class is only
the price somebody was willing to pay
only one so here is the gentleman who's
convincing me to move to the
to the economy but i say i want a first
class
i want to fly to heaven we all going to
get to heaven
on this plane called jesus but in this
plane there's a first class seats and
there's the economy
and for me i really felt like i need to
sacrifice
my self my body and my food for those 40
days was it easy
no sometimes it was hard we know what
the hardest part was self-pity
it's when me pitied me
it's when i felt sorry for myself and
when i looked at my losses that i was
doing and i was trying to honestly say
man but hey
why why are you doing this people are
much more blessed spiritually
and much more spiritual gifts and why
are you doing this but there's this one
thing i have to keep on telling myself
jesus is worth of every loss
you're making right now i'm not talking
about just my future my calling and
god's gonna take me behind none of that
stuff because after 21 days
none of that is more attractive you just
want food
for those who are like man i'm gonna
vest for the power that could last three
four five days
your motive cannot be power your motive
has to be the lord
and you have begin to sacrifice your
life for the lord
when we started to have night prayers on
friday you know i will be very
transparent with your church i'm going
to repent of my sins right in front of
you
because from thanksgiving to christmas
i've let myself go
and i started to indulge in
entertainment
especially on friday nights because the
next day was the only
day i had during the week that i don't
have to wake up early for prayer
so i always try to make up on friday
night all the movies tv shows i miss
throughout the week
because i don't stay up late i wake up
early for prayer
and i would do that and honestly in the
morning i never felt good about it
felt empty so when during the fast you
know you can't be watching movies
because you're like well why am i
fasting for
it's like going to a gym working out and
eating donuts right after that
it's like at least you need to give
three or three hours or something after
that because the consciousness will eat
you for lunch
and so so you can't eat donuts so like
we started to sacrifice that you know
like started to give ourselves and
pastor ilia is the one that started we
started to pray
on friday nights and i remember the idea
of praying on friday nights
sparked fear i said i'm going to die
friday night what do you mean all night
in prayer are you nuts
who does that what about my sleep crazy
part i never thought about my sleep when
i was bench watching
i never thought about the fact that i'm
gonna break the sleep and the ram cycle
the moment i would go watch three four
episodes of some kind of
action tv show but when it came to god i
became such a health conscious person
and i remember the holy spirit says are
you going to be samson
or are you going to be like my son who
spent all night in prayer
and he says vlad your biggest problem is
your fear of loss
of sleep of food of everything and he
says i am
worthy of everything you're afraid
of losing he's worthy
looking back now on the 40 days that
passed
they passed like a like a thought
if i wouldn't done what the lord called
me to do they would have still passed
look at the last year that you spent
doing what you were doing
it's gone and i'm pretty sure those of
you who gave your life fully to the lord
you have zero regrets and those of you
who didn't
that's all you got is regrets you will
go to heaven not only you will lose your
reward
you will gain a lot of regrets which is
why the lord is going to have to wipe
the tears out of our eyes
you know one of those tears will be
tears of regret
it's not just going to be the tears of
joy for a lot of us there's going to be
a lot of tears of
why in the world my church was praying
five in the morning
and i didn't why in the world we were
evangelizing i never did it
none of this stuff i did the minimum i
could
but i was always claiming maximum
benefits
when the preacher was there promising
prophecy i was the first in life
give me maximum so that can do minimum
there will be regret my friend
there will be regret that some of us
feel with that right now
lack of enjoyment of god lack of
appetite we can scroll through
hours and hours but you open the bible
and
you're like man why why am i can we be
honest why am i not honestly i don't
like this
but i have to do it why i grew up in a
christian home i know where i'm gonna go
if i don't do it so
i i have to do it i have to force myself
but the real real reason
is that there is an area of your life
you're currently sitting on the fence
if you jump from the fence and give
yourself entirely
what could happen to you
what would have happened to you if jesus
would get all of you and if you think
you're gonna have to spend
you know 70 chapters a day that's not
what jesus wants he doesn't just want
you to read more
he just wants to have more of you that's
it
my wife doesn't want me to walk and
holding her hand 24
7. that's not going to be healthy for me
or her
she just wants my heart and when my
heart is there everything else will fall
into place
and find its proper balance but there
could be no balance as long as i am
living a life
holding both worlds in my hands god says
jump off the fence
god says get out of the limbo lifestyle
and go fully
serve me i am worth it i am worthy
of everything you're afraid of losing
somebody give god some praise right now
if jesus is worthy of every loss if
jesus is worthy of every sacrifice
every sleepless night every tear every
visit
every evangelism give him some praise
right now give the lamb that his word
the honor and glory that is due to his
name
hallelujah hallelujah number three
the best way to stop certain struggling
sins is to fully surrender to god
the best way i didn't say all sins some
things we need to be
delivered from some things we need to
repent there are some things we need to
go to counseling for
but there are a lot of sins besetting
sins
that they could be taken away if we
simply
replace that area with god
what some call radical god sees it
as simply a replacement
god does not want radical you he just
wants
to be replaced over the thing that you
used to be committed and loyal to
i remember when brian shared his
testimony about when he would get saved
radically and first month he would give
his
or second month his paycheck and ryan
would give a call brian would give a car
and you know and we would look at him
and say brian you you you're giving
so much away don't you want to start
rebuilding your life because he spent so
much
time being you know on drugs and doing
other things and and he said crazy how
it was normal to give one hundred
thousand dollars away to drugs
and now it feels radical to give ten
thousand to god and you make yourself of
some kind of a big saint
the lord is not asking you to give more
to him than what you gave to the devil
at least the same
when you were in the world did you go to
sleep at nine o'clock on friday
no you didn't did you go to sleep at 10
o'clock on friday
because you studied psychology no
we gave the devil everything even though
he beat us for it
destroyed our finances destroyed our
driving record our insurance is still
three times our co-pay uh
three times our premium because of what
we did we're still some of us are going
to be paying for the consequences of our
sins our children will be paying for
consequences of our sins of what we did
we're done with those sins but we gave
everything knowing it's destroying us
the school counselor told us it's going
to destroy you the mama told you it's
going to destroy you your conscience
we still gave everything to the devil we
did not spare nothing
we gave ourselves everything now we're
coming to god and we grew
wisdom give little be wise with your
time
because family time on sunday and what
that family time means is that every kid
is watching netflix on their own device
in their own room that's not family time
that's netflix time
we made an idol out of the family sunday
is not a family day sunday is the lord's
day
sabbath saturday is the is the rest day
saturday is your family day
but what we do is we go running around
like a chicken with a head cut off
building everything and then on sunday
we go in and we say well now it's a
family time that's not scriptural that
you will never see in the bible that
sunday is a family day
you say but it's an american bible is
different than american
when we made a family an idol christian
divorces are the same
in a lot of cases are similar to what
the world is why because my friend the
lord wants all of us
i am not saying that you have to come in
here from six o'clock to six in the
morning in the evening what i'm just
saying is that your life
your family has to be surrendered to the
lord or we have to stop
doing one thing and saying the other
thing the lord wants to replace what the
enemy used to occupy
jesus says and paul says in in galatians
chapter 5 verse 16
he says i say then walk in the spirit
and you will not fulfill the lust of the
flesh
he is not saying come to just to the
altar not just get a counseling he says
if you want to get rid of the fulfilling
of the lust of the flesh
indulging in the lust of the flesh he
says pretty much you have to replace
that
by walking in the spirit but some of us
were like well lord i want to have both
i want to not fulfill the lust of the
flesh but i'm not ready to the
commitment of walking in the holy spirit
i'm not ready to the sacrifices that
walking in the holy spirit will produce
i'm not ready to change my alarm clock
and my schedule to begin to spend time
with you in the mornings and
consistently i'm not talking about
reading the scripture as you are making
food or scrolling through instagram
i'm talking about giving yourself to the
lord walk in the spirit
and you will not fulfill the lust of the
flesh when jesus when the lord delivered
israel from egypt
he says to pharaoh he says let my people
go
and he doesn't say so that they will
live a beautiful life in the promised
land
so that they will serve me
let my people i counted i think 19 times
in exodus
when moses comes to pharaoh he's not
lying moses is not
he's not exaggerating this was god's
real reason to getting them out of
suffering
that they will serve me see many of us
think god saved us because he pitied us
god saved us because he felt sorry for
how sin was hurting us
god saved you because he wanted you
he wanted you he wanted me
yes he was hurt because of what was
hurting me but god's desire for me
was greater than his spirit of my
suffering
because if you think god pities your
suffering why did he allow christians to
be eaten by lions
suffering is now what drives him it's a
desire
for you if you and i think that god
somehow just
wants to rescue us from the pain and
suffering why did his son die
why for 300 years all the nero and the
other emperors they destroyed and killed
sometimes god the stomach of a christian
put pigs food
and let pigs eat out of the stomach
their food and a christian would die
in suffering why would god not stop that
because that is not his number one
priority his number one priorities he
wants you he wants you
let my people go so that they can serve
me
but when israel got out of egypt they
thought he got them out of egypt so that
he can make their life
better that wasn't the goal because the
first three days
they had no water and no food
it wasn't better life it was a better
lord
god wasn't replacing their life he was
first replacing their lord
he was taking them out of a monster and
making himself their master
he was taking them out of being slaves
to making them
being his royal priesthood but please
understand god's goal number one
is not to give you better physical life
god's goal is to give you a better lord
but sometimes we become christian and we
think we are little meaning gods
we are many little lords we do whatever
we want
god does not want that he says i want
you to replace what sin used to be in
your life
make me that make me that
instead of bench watching and five times
or ten times on office
he said bench watch the gospels
make me that instead of spending hours
and hours
aimlessly browsing through tick tock god
says i want you to go
hours and hours through the gospel or
through the book of revelation
or through the book of romans you're
like it's boring so is tv if you don't
turn it on
so is the tick tock if you don't log on
to it
so is everything else if we don't turn
it on god
wants to replace what used to possess
you
and control you not just remove it
replace it if you spend 400
on weed and now you're debating me and
tithing shame on you
if you spend evenings with god and now
you're coming in and you're like
why do they want a friday night prayer
why would anybody do that it was
regular drug addicts that spend all
night in prayer regular christians
should spend also their time with god
i'm not saying every night or maybe once
a week
spending time with god pressing in three
days fast are you kidding me
why not why not
bringing your friends when you tried
drugs and you tried other things you
never went to university to learn how to
spread weed
you smoked it and you sold it you told
other people you never
took sales skills but you became a
little mini drug dealer
i know some of your testimonies
evangelism 101 and you were making money
you were making friends build a little
pyramid and everything and today's like
well i don't know how to evangelize
you gotta be kidding me we're teaching
and preaching in the school of leaders
i don't know how to tell my friends
about god come on
we can do better than that i'm sorry
what got into maybe just two weeks of
not preaching that is something just
amen are you with me you know that is
truth and love amen
number four someone is currently
living in revival but unfortunately it
might not be you
but your sin
somebody is currently living in revival
unfortunately it might not be you
it might be something else this came
heavy at me last december in romans
chapter 7 verse 9 it says
i was alive once
without the law but when the commandment
came
sin revived and i died
and i won't go into the theological
application of this verse i'm going to
take you to the practical application of
what it applies to our spiritual growth
maybe you were alive once
but something came and now instead of
you being revived you're spiritually
on a life support but there's something
else that is
in full-blown revival
it just happens not to be you
you are in a revival the question is
is it your spirit that's revived or is
your flesh right now has revival
meetings every night
every morning spends money so where the
flesh wanna grow
flesh is having revival for the spirit
is having revival
when your flesh has revival it will
steal money from you it will hurt your
relationships
there will be consequences that will
live so much
longer than even when you indulge in the
flesh they will live for
years and years credit score driving
record
insurance premium there's going to be
consequences that will be
for years even after you stop indulging
in the flesh
but if you go into the revival of the
spirit
god will benefit
your life for years to come your flesh
will be subdued
someone is living in the revival is it
you
or is it your flesh i was alive
once last december
i got a heavy hit with the conviction it
wasn't condemnation it was conviction
what i was i started to remember the
moments i was alive
i remember the 17 year old me with ilia
we had nothing no myspace facebook
ministry barely could
put english words together my man
we were hungry i remember starting to
recall those things because
in order to come back to the place where
you used to be spiritually and further
you have to remember first and then
repent you can't repent until you
remember
and and there are some of you here today
you remember when you were alive before
something came in commandment came in
not a bad thing good thing
maybe it's the kids that came in maybe
it's the marriage maybe it's the degree
the commandment came in so a good thing
came in not a bad thing we're not
talking about something was sinful
maybe a blessing of god came in
influence came in
maybe what came in is the gifting your
anointing
marriage came in maybe children came in
maybe business ideas something came in
there was good and i
died and sin revived
i said to god i made a promise 2021
will be my most radical year what i
loved you the most and that would be the
year i will be remembering
and then 2022 will be a year that's
going to go even further than that
and i said god you blessed me with money
you blessed me with influence you
blessed me with the wife you bless me
with ministry
but god i want to be a living sacrifice
and i'm i'm tired
of remembering 17 and 16 year olds and i
don't want to have a revival
in other areas of my life i want a
revival here i want to be revived as a
person
not just the church i personally vlad
wants to love jesus more than
love jesus many years ago i'm like lord
i loved you before and i did not know
you will provide for me
i loved you before i did not know that
you will not fail me i wasn't sure yet i
knew it in the world but i didn't know
an experience
and i trusted you now i know
i want to love you more not less
who's who's having revival is it you
or is it your sin as the commandment
came in and you died
as the good thing came in and somehow it
killed your passion
killed your drive killed your pursuit of
the god today i'm here to wake you up
and to let you know if the lord is god
let's serve him and he is not
don't do it don't do don't deprive
yourself of joy
i remember one kid and i've shared this
many times and i'll share with many more
because it illustrates the power of the
gospel precious child
a kid came in young man and the youth
service and looked at me in the lobby
and he says is it wrong for me to smoke
weed
and that's it for you no
he said you gotta be he's like what
about having sex about for you of course
not
and i said look at this you're going to
hell
you know that i know that your mama
knows that
your school counselor knows that because
he got kicked out of the school
and i said everybody knows that i said
what difference will it make if you go
to head and you smoke
pot or you never smoked i said if i
would be in your shoes
i would smoke as much as i can so that
when i go there at least i knew that i
didn't deprive myself from the
indulgence of sin
i said you on the other hand is a
horrible sinner
because you're trying to hold yourself
back i said i'm a better follower of
jesus than you are a sinner
i was like i go all the way you're not
going all the way why
he looked at me like that night he got
saved
he gave his life to christ
my friend let's be good christians
let's be great followers of jesus and if
not then go
be a good sinner go you a lot of us were
good sinners
we were sinners with a plus like when we
sinned we we seem good
we sin in a way that we're still paying
for it right now and stuff we went all
out we were not professionals we were
not good at it we didn't study on how to
do the stuff but when we did it man
we did it with all of our heart all of
our mind and all of our soul
we went all the way and now when we came
to the lord
i want to ask you please do not adopt
this little
place that some of you your certain
parts of your christian life are hurting
right now
because you are afraid of going too far
you're afraid you're going to lose
yourself that's exactly what god wants
he wants you to lose yourself
so that he can use you and so he can you
can experience the other life
it's called the eternal life the
abundant life and the new life
that it belongs to you some of us
experience the death the suffering but
today god wants us to experience the
resurrected life and that will happen
you don't have to be skilled in it you
don't have to be educated for it
all you got to do is jump off from the
fence and say lord i will follow you
as much as i can i will go after you
only i will love you
and i will give my life to serve you and
jesus i want to experience you
jesus i want your joy i want your
pleasure and i
want you he will let you enjoy things
more than you will even imagine
you will enjoy your family more you will
enjoy
your work more he will bless you with
things financially because he can trust
you
because your heart is not attached to
those things but to god
being that person doesn't mean you have
to be mother teresa
it doesn't mean that you have to live on
some kind of an isolated island or
or somehow god will call you to go to
china and die in north korea some of us
maybe that could be the case
and stuff so but jesus is worth of
everything you and i are afraid of
losing
so let's go after god before we before i
give a call for salvation this message
was inspired
last year but when i was in florida it
was a finishing of the 40-day fast
daniel calendar shared something
pretty much he shared this one phrase or
two phrases
that that the illustration for this came
from and i want to give him the credit
for that and also i wanted to what
impacted me on that conference i wanted
to impact you as well
so if we can play this short clip i
think it's like a minute and a half
of daniel kolenda so they don't have it
could we go find it
it's on dropbox and sunday services
media and so daniel kolenda
clip he shared with us about when he as
a teenager made the decision not to sit
on the fence
not to be in the limbo with his friend
and what happened after that
the results of that and i want you to be
inspired also by the results
of what has happened to him to his
ministry and i believe what's going to
be happening to a lot of us
yes you and i might not be daniel
calanda that's not the point the point
is that god wants you to be
the best version of you that he could uh
be
and to do that we have to be the
version of us that will live for the
lord amen amen amen i think it's coming
up right now
i was um a meeting with my best friend
his name is russ benson and we still
work together today
we were praying together every morning
we were meeting before school and
praying for two hours
and we were in my dad's church you know
we my dad let us open the doors and we'd
go in there early in the morning we'd
pray for a couple hours
and one morning as i was praying i
suddenly had this revelation
i realized that i was i was living in
such a way that there was enough of the
world in my life
that i wasn't fully living for the lord
and yet i had enough of god in my life
that i wasn't enjoying the world either
and i felt like i was
living in this in this place between two
worlds in limbo
sitting on a fence i don't know if
you've ever sat on a fence
but it's not comfortable and and i
realized i'm not getting the full
benefit of either of these lives
because i'm not fully committed to
either one and so i went and got my
friend russ
and i i pulled him into another room and
i said russ we have to talk
i said i can't live like this anymore i
said either
we're going to go out we're young we're
teenagers
we're going to go out into the world and
we're going to live our lives we're
going to enjoy
the fast cars the money the girls
everything
or i said we're going to turn our backs
on the world completely and from this
day forward
we're gonna live for jesus and with
tears in our eyes
we held hands and we prayed and we said
god our lives for the gospel
and i didn't know back then that i would
see millions and millions and millions
of people come
to christ around the world i didn't know
that i would preach in 80 some countries
of the world i didn't know that i would
see miracles i didn't know that i would
see people literally raised from the
dead
all i knew is that i had to decide what
i was going to do with my life and i put
my life
into his hands and that's why i can tell
you that the decision to follow jesus
is not one that you will ever regret
come on i'm challenging our church i'm
challenging myself
what would our church look like if the
remnant
i'm not asking everybody but a few of
you will heed the call
today jump off the fence and go all out
i don't know what that would look like
for you i know that i jumped off of the
fence last december spiritually just for
myself
not as a pastor but as a follower of
jesus christ but it influences
my pastoring preaching and messages in
my family
i want to invite you to do the same this
is not a sermon this is a message
this is not a talk but this is an
invitation
to a transformation in your life i want
to invite you for that today
today is going to be a different call
before i give a call for salvation
because i'm noticing most of us here
today are the same i want to invite you
for those of you who've been in the
limbo
sitting on the fence and you're saying
you know what i know that there are
things in my life that are not right
i know there are things in my life god
has put his finger on and they need they
need to go
and they need to be replaced today and i
would like to make the decision if god
was convicting you
if god is moving up on your heart i want
us to rise to our feet i'm going to
invite you to the front
to come in and begin to lay your life on
the altar i'm going to say god's going
to take this very seriously so do not do
it unless you mean it do not do it
unless you're going to ask the holy
spirit to really help you with that but
god's going to move
and god's going to break change today
and god is going to usher some
ministries and launch certain things so
if you are ready and you're saying i'm
ready
to go i'm ready to lay my life today on
the altar i'm ready to start praying i'm
ready to start fasting i'm ready to jump
in the vision i'm ready to follow jesus
full blown
i'm gonna ask you that you come that you
begin to come don't look at these people
this this is their decision
what are you gonna be what is your
decision what is gonna be the decision
of you and your family
not just decision right now of these
people what's going to be the decision
of you and your family
god might not call you the 40-day fast
he might call you to feed somebody
he might call you to pray he might call
you too fast he might call you to invite
your friends
but this is a season this is a moment
and this is the time where the holy
spirit
is calling the church he's calling the
fathers he's calling the men
he's calling the women and he's calling
the children he says i want you to come
i want to consume you
i'm worthy of what you're afraid of
losing i'm worthy of what you're afraid
of sacrificing
i'm worthy of what you're afraid of
laying on the altar
we can't build the vision of the church
if our church
is not willing to die for christ if
we're not willing to lay our life down
for jesus christ
father we welcome your spirit right now
i ask you that you will descend
as your people kneel as we bend our knee
before jesus as we bend our knee before
christ
as we bend our knee i pray holy spirit
that you will do the work that only you
can do
lord i can preach scream spirit and jump
on the fence but only you can produce
the work of the holy spirit in the lives
of these people
whereas we're going to sing this song i
ask you that you produce a contrite
there's some brokenness in our hearts
i ask you that you give us an appetite
for your word that we we were missing
i pray right now for people on youtube
and on facebook as they kneel
in front of their device as they kneel
in front of their zoom lord god that
your spirit will visit them right there
and right now
begin to break your heart before god as
jesus broke the bread and then in
multiple i begin to break your heart
right now before god
let the alabaster box fall on the ground
and let it break
and let the fragrance be released let
prayer let rivers of living water flow
out of your spirit today let be setting
sins things that held you hostage
things that crippled you things that
locked you up laid them at the feet of
jesus and said jesus if you take this
away
you can help me jesus deliver me so i
can serve you
deliver me so i can love you more than i
love this thing
deliver me so that i can go after you
more than i went after this thing lord
and you will see god will set you free
right now
god will deliver you god will visit you
god will touch you in jesus name
in jesus name
spirit of god fall afresh right now
spirit of god i ask you that you will
fall afresh right now
the ghost i ask you that you will visit
us in the mighty name of jesus
in the mighty name of jesus
chuck chuck bryce and mo and our pastor
to begin to pray for people
in the name of jesus christ
draw me to your presence where
you are
oh spirit
of god
come and consume me with
your fire
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lord all of me all of me
consume me with
your fire
sue me with your fire
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oh
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holy holy spirit
oh come and consume me oh lord precious
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oh
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is
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life
me i want you to stand to your feet if
you are able to right now wants to lift
your hands
for those of you in the sanctuary those
of you watching us on youtube or
facebook just lift your hands right now
to the lord
if you're receiving this on youtube and
facebook comment below say i'm receiving
this god has given me new hunger new
passion right now
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i want us to repent today for the fear
of lost repent for sitting on the
sitting on the fence being in the limbo
say god i forgive me
god i don't want to treat you as a side
chick god i don't want to have side
shakes on the side i don't want to have
sight little flames on the side god are
you a jealous god you want all of me and
i want to give you all of me
god i want to experience the benefits of
what is to know you let's pray right now
first the prayer of repentance
in any area of your life the holy spirit
highlighted during the service begin to
bring it to the lord
and speak honestly to god don't downplay
me don't blame
somebody else begin to say god i repent
of that god i laid that at the cross i
laid that at the cross right now in
jesus
father we lay it at the cross right now
father every single thing lord in our
lives lord
that lord not allowed us not to see you
in our fullness lord
in your fullness father we ask god that
you would forgive us god
open our eyes open our ears god open our
hearts god to receive you
lord we ask for forgiveness god you
would forgive lord us even in our minds
that we would understand god
that we are forgiven lord that we are
perfect in our spirit god
but in our soul god that you will begin
to transform
and renew our minds god forgive us lord
we ask god right now lord that you would
forgive
god every single idea every single
notion
every single precept god of who we
thought we were lord
we abandon our old life god and we
clench on
lord to our new life in jesus we ask you
and we thank you for our forgiveness
lord
in jesus name come on tell the lord
right now that you're worthy come on
whatever that you just laid at the altar
just tell the lord the lord you are
worthy
you can lift it up a little bit more
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of everything i'm afraid of losing you
are worthy
of it
to the lord the slain lamb of god the
coming king
the triumph and messiah
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come on one more time
you are worthy
come on one more time every voice lifted
every hand raised to god
lift up your voice to the lord
revive this heart of mine let 20 21 be a
revival for my heart in jesus name come
on pray that right now pray there over
your life
father put a heart that is fully
lord after you lord stir a passion
so deep in our hearts cut that the
pleasures of this world lord
will not become attractive to us lord
but addict us to your presence
god we want to go hard after your
presence
we want to love you lord with everything
that we have
with everything that we are lord
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make us addicted to your presence
lord make us addicted to your presence
put a passion and a hunger
a fire and a love in our hearts for you
that it may be contagious to those
around us
we want to love you we want to serve you
with everything that we have
in jesus name in the name of the lord
father we thank you that you are
strengthening our desire we thank you
that you're a quickening of passion for
you we thank you god that
our heart is being purified we thank you
father that you're quickening a desire
for prayer
you're quickening a desire for your word
you're quickening a desire to share our
faith god
that we will go all out living for you
lord god that this will be the year
the radical year god this will be the
year of revival here this will be a year
god that did we will go after you god we
rely on your help holy spirit
we know the resolutions we can make at
the altar but we only you give us the
power
you give us the power you give us the
power holy spirit give us the power
that we can change our world for you
lord that we can change our life for you
lord through your power
not our strength not our decisions even
god
not our discipline but your power god
your power lord your power in jesus name
we're gonna take a moment right now pray
for those that are sick for those who
are sick and we're going to continue in
this but as we surrender our bodies
something begins to happen god begins to
take responsibility for our bodies
come on somebody god begins to take
responsibilities for our bodies because
somebody say amen
last thursday as i was doing this stream
there's quite a few testimonies that we
received when the stream was happening
one of them is there's a there's a lady
that had a fungus on her
feet and uh and it just came out of my
mouth i wasn't thinking about fungus or
anything
and then she starts saying there's fire
that came on her feet and the next
morning she sent a testimony the fungus
was completely gone
uh from from her feet the itching was
gone the the that's that rash in her
skin was gone god told instead of free
and so right now as you if you have a
sick painful part in your body right now
where you need healing
back heart problem or maybe take just
the problem can we agree right now in
the name of jesus this is a place of
miracles
this is a place of impossible if you're
watching us on live streams same thing
can happen to you right now
i'm going to lead you just in that in
that prayer right now then we're going
to continue to worship say this with me
say my body
belongs to the lord belongs to the lord
every member
every man is an instrument he's an
instrument in god's work
and right now in the name of jesus
i think authority over every pain over
every pain
every dysfunction every dysfunction
every disorder every disorder every
broken peace
let it be realigned in jesus name
be healed be healed
i speak life to my mortal body
in the name of jesus come on keep your
hand there right now begin to prophesy
begin to speak life right now
digestive system to begin to work in
jesus mighty name
reproductive organs to be healed in
jesus name decide to be healed in jesus
name
deaf ears to open in jesus mighty name
the mutant to speak in jesus
mighty name we speak right now killing
asthma to go in jesus mighty name
bronchitis to be healed in jesus mighty
name every arthritis to be god in jesus
mighty name
in the name of jesus every spasm in the
in the muscles be healed in jesus mighty
name
let your fire come right now let your
glory come right now god
let your fire come right now let your
glory come right now god
in the name of jesus christ
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make me a house
make me a house
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my altar may the fire on my altar
never burn out may the fire on my altar
never burn up
the spirit of god is falling right now
he's healing right now
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make me
make me
we want to help us to love jesus holy
spirit
help us to love the father holy spirit
help us to
live for him only we are not able to do
it in ourselves
we are weak our resolutions are weak our
decisions are fragile
but holy spirit we lean on you right now
we lean on your hell
this is not just going to turn into
another fire that dies out but a fire
that will consume and grow
in jesus name every head bowed and every
eye closed
if you're in this room today and you
don't know jesus christ as your personal
lord and savior
perhaps you're visiting us for the first
time
oh you've been coming for fierce few
times and you realize
you're not sitting on the fence you're
on the other side
you went after the world after sin
perhaps the consequences are catching up
to you or maybe the spirit of god is
calling you right now you haven't even
touched the consequences of your
decisions
i do want to tell you the scripture that
says the wages of sin is death
death is separation from god but the
gift of god is eternal life
god is not just wanting to pay off your
sins he wants to take you into his
family
god is not some stranger paying off your
debts
god is a father looking for it to adopt
a son
a father looking to adopt a daughter if
you don't know
jesus as your savior god as your father
spirit is your comforter perhaps you
black slid
maybe church hurt you or your came from
a broken family maybe you've had an
abuse
whatever your reasons and blame is today
there's only one solution for you and
that is jesus christ no one can come to
the father but through me jesus said
he's ready to receive you right now all
you got to do is confess with your mouth
believe in your heart
and repent of your sin if you're saying
glad i'm ready to do that right now
but no one looking around i want you to
raise your hand high and say i would
like to get saved today
i would like to give my life to the lord
today i would like to come to know god
as my savior as my healer if you're
watching us on live stream right now and
you don't know
jesus all you got to do is just comment
below so count me in that prayer i would
like to get saved
count just just comment it i would like
to get saved and
we're going to pray right now when we
pray you pray with us you pray with us
in jesus name church let's say the
spirit out loud with me say let's say
lord jesus
lord jesus i am a sinner please forgive
me
of all my sin and wash me
with your precious blood i surrender
my good the bad and the ugly
my whole life to you come and be my
savior
and i crown you as lord i repent of my
sin
i believe you're the son of god
who died in my place and i receive you
your gift of salvation in jesus name
amen
