Reformation: Called to be Like Christ

Welcome back to today's episode of The Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. On today's episode we have Pastor Dan Goostree being obedient to Holy Spirit in sharing truth. You are called to do as Christ did and He says you will do more if you choose to. When is enough, enough? You don't have to live this miserable life until you get to Heaven. When you are born again you are set free, restored, made whole, and have Holy Spirit within you to guide you and teach you these things. This is only if you are willing to choose to receive this. God won't force you to receive what He's given you, but He does give you every opportunity to choose to receive Him. Do you truly believe that God heals? Do you truly believe he satisfies all your needs? There is so much more for you!

Sermon from 4-5-26 by Pastor Dan Goostree

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Welcome to the Gathering Tabernacle Podcast. We're located in Rocky Comfort, Missouri. Our mission at TGT is to host the presence of the Lord, to see his glory fall like fire, and free those who are in bondage. He came to set the captives free. On the podcast, we share our live sermons from late pastors Dan and Clara Couser, teachings from special guests, and personal testimonies. Thank you for joining us today. If you would like to contact us, you can find us on Facebook or online at www.thegatheringtaberacle.com. Let's jump into today's episode.

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When isn't long enough enough?

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You know, when long enough's enough. You know, I've been a new creation for 15 years right now. Some of you've been new creation for a month or a week or 10 or 20 or 30 years, but whatever it is, Lord. But I'm telling you, when you give your life to Christ, you become a new creation in Christ. The old things are gone. Behold, all things have become new. And you have the resurrection power. You know, you know, if it if it wasn't for the resurrection, you know, we would be serving this dead, limitless God, but we're not serving a dead, limitless God. We're serving a powerful, almighty, living God, an almighty risen Savior, you know. And I thought, you know, how how how how how wonderful is that, you know, and what the resurrection gives us today. The resurrection gives you hope. The resurrection gives you faith. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen, and the and the substance of that is in the resurrection of Christ. If he wouldn't have resurrected, we wouldn't have had all we wouldn't have known all these promises are ours. We would, we wouldn't be able to stand on the promises of God. You know, maybe you put a lot of faith in a person, you know, and I'm not saying it's not wrong to love a person, but but you have to put your faith in Christ and what he's done. Well, well, my grandma was the was the greatest lady that that ever lived, but my grandma passed away almost over 20 years ago. But I'm telling you, I haven't seen her since then. She hadn't come back since then, she hadn't done that. But I'm telling you, Christ over 2,000 years ago went into a grave. He came back and he's alive and he guides you and he directs you, and you and you access him by faith. See, faith is the substance of things hoped for. Faith in what? Faith in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Faith that what he did paid for it all. Faith that and faith without works is dead. Praise the Lord. We don't have a dead faith. We have a corresponding action, faith to the word of God. Amen. That's good stuff. You know, with the resurrection gives us the fruits of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. With the resurrection, gives us the Holy Spirit dwelling in us in John 14, 15 through 21. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We got his word. If you love me, obey my commandments. And I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate. He will never leave you. He will never leave you. Shun-da-da-da. He is the Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth. The world cannot receive him because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him, but you know him because he lives with you. He lives with you. He's telling his disciples this. He says, He lives with you now and later will be in you. And when the when Christ resurrected, when he came up out of the grave, and then the Holy Spirit, uh uh Holy Spirit's always been here, but then he chose to come and dwell in you at that point. He came to dwell in you in that point. He will be in you. The same power that rose Jesus from the grave lives inside of you. Thank you for the three people. You know, it only took two people in the land of Canaan when they went out through there and said, I want you to, we'll get into that later. I want you to go look at that land and see. But I but I'm asking you here this morning, what do you see? Do you see a defeated dead God that's still in the grave? Or do you see a risen living Savior that's alive to come to give you life and life more abundantly? We praise you, Lord God. Ain't no grave gonna hold me down, ain't no grave ever held you down, Lord. Lord, so I'm gonna speak your word with truth. I'm gonna stand on the word of God, I'm gonna stand on the promises of God. Hallelujah, Lord. Lord, thank you, Lord. Your word gives us eternal life, Lord. Lord, thank you, Lord. In John 11, 25 and 26, we thank you, Lord, for eternal life, Lord. We thank you, we praise you, Lord. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this? Do you believe this? Do you believe that he is the resurrection and the life? Do you believe that he actually lives in you? Do you believe? You know, son of man said, when I come back, will I even find faith? And I'm thinking like what will even find faith? And I'm thinking, my goodness, Lord. Faith in what? You know, faith in what I did. Faith in and I really really who I am, I say I am. Faith in my resurrection, faith in my my death, burial, and resurrection, faith in in God. Will I even find it? And I'm saying, yes, he's gonna come back, and he's gonna find it. He's gonna find it right here in these houses that are dwelled by the Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. He he gives you rest. The resurrection gives you rest. Matthew 11. Thank you, Lord, for you are our rest. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. He is your rest. If there was no resurrection, we would have no hope for rest. We have no rest. Come to me, all you who are leaving and laden, I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. For my yoke is easy, my burden is light. All these are promises. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. He gives us a teacher. Isn't that awesome? Who wants a teacher? Like I want a teacher, John 14, 26. But when the Father sends the advocate as my representative, that is the Holy Spirit, he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything I have told you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, that you give us a teacher. Thank you, Lord, that you said it's good that I must go and I'll send another. And then another was the Holy Spirit, and He came to dwell inside of us. He gives you forgiveness of sins. He gives you healing from sickness and disease. He gives you deliverance. He gives you deliverance from anxiety, depression, fear, tormenting spirits. He gives you the word. He sent his word and healed you like the word come to life. Amen. The word come to life and it's here right now. So you think about that. You think about uh about Jesus in Matthew 27, 51 through 54. And you think about how no grave could hold his body down. And you know he was he was he took punishment for you on a whipping post for your sickness and diseases. He was wounded for your transgressions, bruised for your iniquities, the chastisement of your pieces upon him, and by your stripes he was healed. And they took him and they whipped him and they beat him and they mocked him and they and they put him in a grave. And they said, at the moment, it said, in the sanctuary of the temple, at the moment, the curtain in the sanctuary of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, rocks split apart, and the tombs opened, and the bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead. Amen. Then they then they left the so so think about this. Jesus gives up his life. The veil is torn from top to bottom, giving you direct access to everything Christ had, giving you direct access to the Holy of Holies, giving you direct access to the Holy Spirit. And it was such a thunderous uh earthquaking type moment. You know, everybody in town heard it. And the graves opened up, and people come up out of them graves and were walking around town. The old saints were walking around town. Praise the Lord. Man, that's good stuff. They left the cemetery. Yeah. Has anybody here know anyone that's left the cemetery? I think I'll go over there and check. Our family's buried. Most of them's buried right down the road here. Hey, camera, right down the road. Go over and check and see if anyone's left the cemetery. No, no, no, but but they left the cemetery. They come out. You know, you think, who was it? Was it Abraham, Isaac, Jacob? Who was it? Was it David? I don't know. Some of them, them ones, and they raised up and they left and went into the holy city of Jerusalem and appeared to many people. Many people. How many do you think many is? One? It's a lot, isn't it? It's many. It's several. 500. There you go. Lindsay says 500. There we go. So the Roman officer and the other soldiers at the crucifixion were terrified by the earthquake and all that happened. And they said, This truly was the Son of God. Amen. Amen. That's the God we serve. Amen. So here's some resurrection verses. 1 Corinthians 15, 14. And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless and your faith is useless. Have you ever thought about that? If he's not been raised from the dead, then what we're doing is in vain. It's useless. It's worthless. But it's not in vain because he has been raised from the dead. And I'm telling you, he comes and he lives on the inside of me. And if you've been born again, he lives on the inside of you and he guides you and he directs you. Do you have the next one? I want to know Christ and that I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing with his death. So that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead. Amen. Keep going. You're doing great. The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. The Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in me. Amen. Amen. You born again? You born again? Then the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you. And just as God raised Jesus Christ from the dead, he will give life to your mortal bodies by this same Spirit living within you. I also pray that you will understand the incredible greatness of God's power for us who believe in Him. This is the same mighty power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead and seated him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly realms. Jesus told her, I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live even after dying. Good stuff. That is no more. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this, Martha? Do you believe this, Martha? Do you believe this? Do you believe you'll never die? I mean, I said, Do you believe you're living? Like, do you believe you're living? Because he lives, I confess tomorrow. Because he lives. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again. Because God raised Jesus from the dead. Now we live with great expectation. Amen. What's your expectation? And we have a priceless inheritance, an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of a change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see. The Lord now said to me, Oh, never. You're doing good. You're like, get on through this. Amen. Amen. The resurrection power is available to you today. It's available to you today. It's something that you have to act on. You have to act on it by faith. Amen. Something you have to act on. So I'm kind of going to compare this to when they took over the promised land. You know when Caleb and Joshua and Lord said, you know, send out these 12 spies and go check on the promised land. They told told Moses. See, Moses is a type of Christ. You know, there's very few in the Bible that they talk about from their birth all the way to their death, right? And Moses is one. You know, Moses, he was born, they they hid him, you know, they hid Jesus, they hid Moses, and and they done these different things. And uh, but but I but I'm telling you, the the promised land represent is a resemblance, uh representation of the resurrection. And it's yours today. But but you have to choose to take what's in the promised land. You have to choose to be a part of what the resurrection has. You know, it's just not, you know, I think it's like like a like an egg that has candy in it. Anyone got any candy? No. It's like, you know, no, we want something, but we but we don't want to do nothing for it. Right? Like we we want something, but we don't want to do nothing for it. Man, I'm just waiting to to live on easy street. Well, I heard a guy say, actually, Jonathan Shuttlerworth said, you can either work hard or have a hard life. You can either work hard or have a hard life. I'm gonna choose to work hard. Amen. I'm gonna choose to work hard, physically and spiritually, standing on the word of God and to keep going. Amen. So we'll start out in Numbers, chapter 13, verse 1. Now the Lord said to Moses, send out men to explore the land of Canaan, the land I am giving to the Israelites. So, so so just from that there, like, like, like explore the land that I am giving. No, he doesn't say explore the land that they might get. It doesn't say say this or that, but it says, explore the land that I am giving. Right? There's nothing nothing to it. They're going to get the land. They're going to get the land. It's a promise, it says right there, that they're going to get the land. And I'm telling you, when Jesus was here, he spoke life, he spoke promises, he spoke ways, he spoke truths. Loose to what you was going to have in him and what you're going to have after the resurrection. Right? Amen. So send one leader from each tribe, each of the twelve ancestral tribes. So Moses did as the Lord commanded. He sent out twelve men, all the tribal leaders of Israel, from their camp to the wilderness of Paran. And in them leaders, we're going to go on. I think we're going to go to 17 now. It's talking about the leaders in the next one here, but it's one from every tribe of Israel, and then Joshua and Caleb was in there. So Moses gave these men instructions as he sent them out to explore the land. Go north through the Negev to the hill country. See what the land is like, and find out whether the people living there are strong or weak or few or many. So he just tells them, go out, go out and find what find out what this is like, right? He doesn't tell them, now go out and see if you can take over this land. Go out and see if if you're stronger than they are. He says, go out and find what this land is like. And when you know what the character of God is, when you know what he is like, you know, know the promises that he has for you. You know that he has healing for you, as he has deliverance for you, is he has salvation for you? Is he has freedom for you? Go out and find what he's like. He said, He said, go out and check out this land. See what kind of land they live in. Is it good or bad? Do their towns have walls or are they unprotected, like open camps? Is the soil fertile or poor? Are there many trees? Do your best to bring back samples of the crops you see. It happened to be the first season for harvesting for the first ripe grapes. So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zen as far as Rahab near Laboamath. Going north, they passed through the Negev and arrived at Hebron, where Anaman, Sheshe, and Talamai, all the descendants, you guys don't know them either, all the descendants of Anak lived. The ancient town of Hebron was found seven years before the Egyptian city of Zon. When they came to the valley of Eshol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, so large it took two of them to carry it on a pole between them. So think about what does this land look like? What does this land look like? You know, it is a land flowing with milk and honey. It is a land where where it has these fruit grape that it that it takes two people to carry one cluster of grapes. How many, how many clusters of grapes do you think you could carry if you put them all in a in a basket? Five? With one finger? Ten, a hundred, two hundred. How many clusters of grapes could you carry? With two hands. Couple hundred. Bishop did a deal on it. He bought a deal of 200 clusters of grapes and put them in a little box. So say it's a hundred. Say it's a hundred clusters. But now it's taking two men to carry one cluster of grapes. And imagine how big the vines had to be in the in the in the imagine how how big they had to be just to carry the cluster of grapes. So imagine this land. Imagine this land that is so fruitful. Imagine this land that is that is full of life. Imagine this land that is full of healing. Imagine this land that is full of uh of abundance. Imagine this land that set you free. Imagine this land that that nothing formed against you will prosper. Imagine how great this land is. So they also brought back samples of the pomegranates and figs. That place was called the Valley of Eskol, which means cluster, because the cluster of grapes the Israelite men cut there. After exploring the land for 40 days, the men returned. To Moses and Aaron and the whole community of Israel at Kadesh in the wilderness of Paran. They reported to the whole community what they had seen and showed them the fruit they had taken from the land. This was their report to Moses. We entered the land you sent us to explore, but it is indeed a bountiful country, a land flowing with milk and honey. Here is the kind of fruit it produces. But the people living there are powerful and their towns are large and fortified. We even saw giants there, the descendants of Anak. The Amalekites lived in Negev, and the Hittites and the Jebuzites and the Amorites live in the hill country. The Canaanites live among the coast of the Mediterranean Sea along the Jordan Valley. But Caleb tried to quiet them down. They stood before Moses. So think about what did he first tell them? Here's the land that I am giving you. You go there and get the land. So so today, resurrection 10 or 2. Resurrection 10 or 2 for you. So there were 12 people that went to the land of Canaan. There were 12 people that went, and there were two people there at the land of Canaan. And they and Caleb said right then, he says, Let us go at once. He said, Let's take the lamb. We can conquer it. We can conquer the land. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Let's get up. Let's go do it. But but then they started mummering, and then they started, no, no, no. They're too big. Oh no, no. They're too powerful. Oh no, no, they'll overtake us. Oh no, no. We're like ants in the sight of them, and they say we're like ants in our sight. And the ten talked all the millions, or ever how many it was with the with the with the 12 tribes there, talked them out of going into the promised land. And I'm saying there's always gonna be something to keep you from trying to go into the promised land. There's always gonna be something to keep you from trying to receive what the resurrection of Jesus Christ has done for you. I'm telling you, you got to make a choice. Are you gonna be the 10 or are you gonna be the two? As for me and my house, we're gonna be the two. As for me and my house, we're gonna stand on the word of God. As for me and my house, we're gonna be the 17%. 16 and two-thirds, if you want to get exact, but but two thirds. out of ten is seventeen per seventeen percent have said no no we can take the land no no no we can go in the land no that that land there there there's healing i'm going to that land there's unlimited resources i'm going to that land there's unlimited knowledge i'm going to that land there's unlimited prosperity i'm going to that land there's freedom i'm going to that land salvation i'm going to that land i'm i i'm gonna do it but caleb and joshua because of the negative naysayers now think about how many negative naysayers do we have how many negative naysayers do we allow to to to pour into our life how many negative naysayers see these negative naysayers kept them from entering the promised land for 40 years i'm telling you there's some that's been in here for a month or two months or 10 years or 20 years or a hundred years and and negative naysaying has kept you receiving what Christ done for you over 2,000 years ago I'm telling you that over 2,000 years ago Christ was raised from the dead 2000 years ago the the promised land was open for you to receive what he done so you didn't have to live in bondage anymore so you didn't have to live in hate and anger anymore so you didn't have to live all bound up by depression that you didn't have to live hang bound up by fear and anxiety you didn't have to live bound up by by cancer or dementia or or whatever it may be. I'm telling you that the word of God is powerful it's sharper than a two-edged sword and he come to free you and set the captives free and then he took a breath and said in Jesus' name breathe breathe he is the breath of my lungs he is the breath of my lungs he is the breath thank you Lord God thank you Lord God thank you Lord God see Caleb and Joshua they had they had a vision they had a vision God's looking for a group of people who's got a vision a vision of what he did I'm talking about about not a vision of what you see I'm talking about a vision of what he did do you see yourself born again do you see yourself healed do you see yourself set free do you see yourself made whole do you see yourself pulled out of poverty do you see yourself pulled out of lack well where do you see yourself Caleb and Joshua they seen their self and they're like I see that land we're more than willing to overtake it yeah but but but there's giants there's cancer there there's there's hate there's anger there but no no no we're more than able to conquer the cancer we're more than able to conquer the hate we're more capable to conquer the the poverty and and when they went to the land they after the generations died and Caleb and Joshua actually went entered the land then they went through the the Jordan bat the Jordan River which is the type of of baptism and I'll tell you we we entered the land through the shed blood of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit we we enter that land and and what's in that land but you still got to work once you get into the land there's still stuff that had to be done when it got through the land when Caleb and Joshua entered the land they still had to fight off the things that were coming against them. Not telling you as a Christian you still have to fight off the things that are coming against you. It's not like you become born again and then you just become or nothing ever tries to attack you nothing ever tries to bother you nothing ever comes against you like that. No it becomes to where where you have the power and authority to speak to those things and not let them come to fruition. I'm not saying that sickness won't try to get on your body but I'm saying you that the word of God says by his stripes you were healed. I'm telling you he took on your sicknesses and bore your infirmities I'm telling you that that God loves you so much that he provides you a way to to to for that to be defeated and to walk in that to walk over fear to walk over anxiety praise the Lord praise the Lord Jesus Jesus offered himself up on a whipping post to give you this land he was despised and rejected a man of many sorrows he was wounded for your transgressions bruised for your iniquities the chastisers are pieces upon him he done that to give you this land he shed his blood for the land and he was resurrected for the land if he wasn't resurrected it would mean nothing it would mean nothing I could give my life to you but if it's not a resurrected life it's not going to do you no good Jesus's life he was resurrected life he comes so you could have life and life more abundantly so what's in the land what's in the lamb what's in the resurrection there's salvation in the resurrection there's healing in the resurrection there's deliverance in the resurrection there's freedom in the resurrection there's freedom of sickness freedom of disease there it's a prosperous land a land that where you deny yourself take up your cross and follow him it's a land of resurrection power it's a land of life but but but but that looks that sounds too good to be true it's not too good to be true shoo it's a land that looks impossible only if you go by sight only if you go by sight boy Jesus didn't die for me he died for you he loves you Jesus didn't take stripes for my healing he did he took stripes for everyone's healing we walk by faith and not by sight. We're not moved by what we see we're moved by what Christ did it's a land that people try to talk you out of it it's a resurrection power people try to talk you out resurrection power. Has anyone tried to talk you out of the resurrection power oh you you really believe that stuff really do you do you really believe that that that God's a healer do you really believe that he can set you free and deliver you you know I can't believe you you're you're falling for that I I can't believe you're you're doing that so you were one of the ten right ten or two so as that starts going when someone starts speaking negative to you be like oh ten oh ten I I'm part of the two not not the ten I'm part of the two I'm part of the two yeah not not only do I know the Lord but I have received it I believe it and I have received it and I am acting on it I'm acting on the word of God he has sent his word and healed me he gave me power from the Most High Amen you really think you got to go to church every week you really think you got to do this you really think you got to read your Bible you know God created you to be happy God created you know to to you know just just to fulfill your own desires see he created you in his image he created you to fulfill his desire he created you to have a relationship with you and the only way you're truly happy is when you're in him and when you give when you surrender your life to him and you let him work through him but not when you're led off by your own lust and desires I've been led by my lust and desires before it it only made me darker and darker. It only took me down a a darker path but now I'm going into a lighter path and it just keeps getting brighter and brighter and it just keeps getting stronger and stronger because the resurrection of Christ just keeps getting stronger and stronger every day. Amen it's a land that looks impossible to what's been spoken to us. Well no you know all that all that ended all that ended with the last disciples you know there there's no more healing there's no more there's no more this there's there's no more that all that ended I can't believe you're or you're one of them churches that believes that you're one of them churches that believes that anybody heard it you're one of them churches that believes that we're one of them churches that believes the word of God and stands on the word of God. We're not concerned about what what other people think or other people do or other churches do. We're concerned about what the word of God says and the word of God says he sent his word and healed me and you know I have zero problem when someone's sick when I go when I go lay hands on them and pray for them if it's in English or if it's in tongues. If somebody is sick then then they are more than thankful. They are more than glad to receive it and it's exciting to see someone that's that's freed. Amen because because the word of God works in the same power that rose Jesus from the grave lives in you so you have the power to go out and minister the same stuff Jesus ministered amen you any one of you any one of you that's been born again you you have that same power yeah yeah we gotta get past our our our stinking thinking yeah but your butt gets in the way used to be a song about butts but I don't know it's a land that's opposite to the way we're used to doing things no you know I've asked one time I asked a guy and he's like so do you believe God heals? Oh yeah I believe God heals like okay I believe that if we you know live and and and eat healthy and and do this then then God heals. I'm like anybody can just do that and we should be doing that. I'm not saying we shouldn't be eating healthy and I'm not saying we shouldn't be doing this. But but you know I believe they they heal through doctors and through medicine and then then this and that like so so really you don't you don't believe God heals like I truly believe like the word of God and I'm not against doctors and I'm not against medicine and I'm not against open heart surgery I'm not against any of that surgeries I'm not I'm not against any of that but but take your faith with you when you go to the doctor take your faith with you when you take your medicine you know we're beginning to hear testimonies of of people how their their bodies are getting messed up because their medication's too high because they've been healed. Because it's a medication you know why can't figure out what's wrong. Well well you know your your body's messed up because because the medication because you're healed and you don't need that anymore. Right so so faith is not you know I'm gonna start trusting in God and throw all my pills away well if God tells you throw your pills away that's one thing. But if you're just sat there and say I'm gonna throw all my pills away and trust in God your faith's in throwing all your medication away not in trusting God. You know just the same way same way with your glasses well I'm gonna just trust the Lord that that my eyes are healed and then throw your glasses away well no you just trust the Lord your eyes are healed and then your glasses will quit work and you'll be like man that's that's that's blurry I don't know what's going on I think I need some new glasses and take your glasses off like oh I see that clear as a bell you know so so our face in Christ and what he did our face in the resurrection our face in in his life amen amen thank you Lord God the resurrection power is for you and you can put an act you can put an action to it today you can put an action to the power today amen there's power power wonder working power well how how do I do that you know you know it's not hard you know I think I think a lot of times we think man it's really hard to put the word of God to action no no it's actually simply faith is acting on the word of God and that's simply all we have to do. All right John 3 John 316 I'm sorry for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life faith is acting on the word of God faith is and verses are the word of God I wish wish I had the word of God we have the word of God it's written in form and then he also speaks to you through the Holy Spirit. Amen for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life John 12 but as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of God to those who believe in his name to believe have faith put trust in his name the name above all names the name above anything that's going on in your life the name above any any other God that that you've been serving see see there's there's only one God the great I am there's only one God that gives you life there's only one God that's been raised from the dead and that is Jesus Christ the Son of the living God the Father Son Holy Spirit they're three and one just like you're a three part being you're a spirit that has a soul that lives in a body. Thank you Lord thank you Lord Romans 10 9 and 10 that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation it's simple you act on the promises of God the promises of God are yours and you act on them by faith and you act by them by by speaking them out of your mouth Lord teach us to pray he's like when you pray say Lord teach us to pray when you pray say not when when you pray think when you pray say Lord increase our faith if you have faith as a mustard seed not not just a little bit of faith boy I just wish I had a little bit of faith no you just need a seed of faith if you have faith as a seed you can say to this tree to this mountain be removed you can say to this tree be removed so so our faith is activated by our words we're agreeing with the word of God all right John 3 3 Jesus answered and said to him Most assuredly I say to you unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God so how do we how do we become part of the kingdom of God? How do we become resurrected? By being born again that which is born of the flesh is flesh that's which is born of the spirit is spirit. Don't marvel that I say to you that you must be born again that's the God we serve that's the living God and Savior we serve thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord you can go ahead and put some music on we'll do the announcements here in a bit so I want to ask you today we can just stand up for a minute the resurrection power has been available to you for over 2,000 years. So I asked you today is there some part of it you haven't been receiving man you know so many years I I didn't know that that there was healing that there was deliverance that that my that he really did provide all my needs so I'm asking you today are you are you ten or two? Are you one of the the ten that that looked and said like man man no that this this is impossible are you part of the two that says no I'm gonna take the land I'm gonna take the land I'm gonna take what's mine I'm gonna go in there and I'm gonna fight for it I'm gonna fight for it so I ask you here today to join me up here if you're part of the two if you're part of the two like man I I want to be part of the two I'm gonna do it I'm gonna walk by faith and not by sight. I'm gonna trust in the Lord with every part of my being every fiber of my being I thank you Lord I thank you Lord the land is good the land is good the resurrection power is good he imagine a God that he didn't have to prove himself he's already proved he's the great I am he's the alpha these he didn't have to to prove himself he is who he says he is but he chose to come down out of heaven Jesus always has been with God so he chose then to come out of heaven and then be born again through a woman to give life just like when when he comes when you receive him as Savior then you are born again through him you are born again through him and the same power in that instant by by confessing with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believing your heart God raised him from the dead you will be saved. From that very instant that that as many as received him to them he gave the right to become children of God at that very instant you place your faith in what he did at the very instant that you turn from your sin he takes away your old nature your old sin nature and he gives you a new nature so Mass is that anyone here today you know if you confess him as Lord does anyone here today need to make him Lord Lord is anyone here today like man I'm gonna make him Lord today what not a better day than the 2026 anniversary of him being risen right you know we sat there and we think oh yeah he's risen and next year he's like he's no he's been risen and we just keep getting stronger and stronger and we keep getting you know we're more than conquerors so anyone today all right on the on the two the two thank you thank you you're not gonna be moved by sight not going to be moved by sight Caleb and Joshua wasn't moved moved by what they seen it's so easy to get moved by the doctor's report it's so easy to get moved by what other people say it's so easy to get moved by the the news it's so easy to be moved by by all these things my goodness gas is four dollars praise the Lord if it's $24 I'm still gonna have enough money to put gas in my tank because he's the one that provides my needs hamburgers I don't know how much hamburger is chicken's three bucks chickens chicken's three dollars well praise the Lord if chicken's thirty dollars I'm gonna have enough to meet my needs what if you ain't got no money he's gonna send ravens to come and feed me he's gonna send ravens to come and feed me i i'm not gonna be no no lack there there's no lack in him there's no lack in him see it's all to try to get you from from taking your eyes off Christ see see God must not love us he's causing all this stuff to be so expensive you know and we sit there and we blame God but but no we're we're not gonna blame God no more no we're we're gonna take the land I'm taking back my my healing that's been stolen from me I'm taking back The life that's been taken from me. I'm taking back the peace that's been stolen from me. And that and we're going to stand on what the word says. We're going to stand it. We're going to say, I'm going to be the two. We're going to be the two. I'm going to be the two. If you're just one, you're still two. So right? You're part of the two. So we're going to be the two. We're going to stand on the word of God. We're going to do what the word of God says. Because faith without action is dead. I'm telling you, 2026, we got about, well, we got eight months left. Almost nine months left, I guess. But uh I was thinking someone has time to have a baby, but anyway, I don't think that's for anybody in here. But uh we got, you know, nine months left. I'm telling you, the rest of 2026 is going to be the best year of your life. There's going to be freedom for you in 2026. There's going to be freedom for your families in 2026. There's going to be financial prosperity for you in 2026. There's going to be knowledge and wisdom in 2026. You know what? I get so excited. You know, we actually have an author in the house. Right? Do what? Don't do that. That's awesome. It's awesome to have an author. Amen. Amen. We won't tell. It's Cameron's wife. She don't want to be. She got a little book. It's out on Kindle. And it's $3. Amen. I was speaking a blessing over that the other day. And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, amen. I was speaking a blessing over that. And I thought, Amen. Thank you. What the Lord's done. Father, we praise you. Father, we thank you, Lord. Lord, that they put to action, Lord, what your word says, Lord. Lord, from the experience that they've received in their lives from your resurrection power, Lord. Lord, may this $3 book turn into billions for them, Lord. Billions, Lord, to fund the kingdom, Lord. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Got ones doing podcasts, podcasts and little deals coming out. Got uh all kinds of different things. And it just excites me to no end, you know, to see the the body growing. You know, we we look around, sometimes we might be like, well, there's there there's not you know as many people here as we'd like to see, but but but we're not going by what we see. We're going by what he did. And I'm telling you, people's getting stronger. The the foundation is getting stronger. This church's foundation is stronger than it's ever been. I'm telling you, you know, uh the biggest part of a tree grows underground, and I'm telling you, the roots are strong, and it's gonna be they're gonna keep getting stronger and stronger. And as that branch starts going out, people's gonna start grabbing on to them, say, how did your tree grow like that? And he said, Man, man, our roots are strong, you know. You know, would you like to sit down and have a Bible study? Hey, come to church with us. Hey, hey, that's what it is. But I'm telling you, so so we thank you, Lord, for the for the inventions that are coming, Lord. We thank you, Lord, for the yeah, new business. The guy started like a new business. Uh I mean, there's just there's just all kinds of stuff that that's happening. And he gives you the power to do that. He he wants you to work. So if you don't work, you don't eat. So we we'll work physically and spiritually. So so we thank you, Lord, for the blessings that are coming, Lord. We thank you, Lord, that that we are going to be part of the two, Lord. We thank you, Lord, that we're not moved by what we see in the land. We're moved by who you are, Lord. Lord, we're not moved by by poverty. We're not moved by sickness. We're not moved by hate and anger, Lord. Lord, we're moved by love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Lord, we're moved by your word. Lord, we're moved by by putting your word to action, Lord. Lord, and we praise you and we honor you that in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. All right, you can be seated for just a couple minutes and we'll get you out of here. So, amen. So, so it's exciting to uh that we get to give. Uh you know, that there's nothing joyful than to you know to give someone a hug and then see them smile on their face or or give them a compliment. And and you know, hey, you know, we're we're good to see, we're we're thankful to see you here today. We're we're glad to see you here today. And and the same way when we when we give to the Lord, Lord, Lord, we're giving to you because you have provided all of our needs, Lord. Lord, and we're trusting in you with with all of our heart. And and when you begin to, when you begin to, and when you are, some of you have been, both ways, whatever it may be, when you begin to trust Him with every fiber of your being, with with your finances, with your relationships, with your job, with whatever it is, and then then He can actually take control of that and begin to bless you in that. So know today as you're as you're sowing, you're sowing into the kingdom of God. And know that uh He is such a good God that He wants to take care of you financially too. I you know, I think we just put Him in these little segments and He'll meet you wherever your faith is. If you want to believe in Him for salvation but not for healing, then He'll still be fine with you believing in Him for salvation. If you want to believe in Him for you know for salvation and healing but not deliverance, then He's but He just meets you where you are. So if you if you want to trust in Him with your finances Then Amen. He's gonna bless your finances But if you don't want to, your financial part's not gonna be blessed, just like your healing part's not gonna be blessed, your deliverance part's not gonna be blessed. But no, we're gonna be a church that that we're be a church, be a body that's like, no, we're we're the two. We're the two. We're the two. And Lord, we're gonna trust in you. So let's raise your giving up as our ushers come. Father, we thank you. Father, we praise you, Lord. We praise you, Lord, that we get to give, Lord, we get to sow into the kingdom of God. We thank you, Lord, that that all of our needs are met in you, Lord. Lord, do we praise you and you on you, Lord? Lord, as we speak a blessing over this these tithes and offerings. If it's above the offerings, we speak a blessing over them, Lord. Lord, that they produce, Lord, the fullest potential, Lord. Fullest potential, Lord. Lord, is you provide all our needs for life in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen and amen. What a wonderful day.