Harvest Chapel 10-11-2020 Service

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Harvest Chapel Live Stream •Streamed live on Oct 11, 2020 Harvest Chapel Transcript The meaning of the word Devout are we on now hello everybody out there 00:04 you know we finally got to uh the 00:06 message and uh 00:07 you know josh and uh terry are on 00:10 vacation for three weeks so we're gonna 00:12 do the best we can 00:13 Rosie's on our uh computer right now 00:16 and getting the live stream to you and 00:19 so 00:20 uh greetings in the name of the Lord 00:22 we've been talking about 00:23 uh being devoted people and 00:26 uh you know Jesus says that we can't uh 00:30 serve two masters we love one or we'll 00:33 be devoted 00:34 to the other you will despise one you 00:37 can't serve god and money 00:38 uh there was a verse i have been reading 00:40 in Micah chapter seven two 00:42 the devout godly holy faithful loyal man 00:46 with good character and integrity has 00:50 been carried off and perished and died 00:52 from the earth 00:53 there is no one who does what is right 00:56 there is 00:57 there's there's not a good upright 00:59 straight loyal 01:00 honest devout person 01:04 among mankind that's a 01:07 for that period of time and what was 01:10 going on in 01:11 Israel you know god had just removed the 01:14 devout because he was going to bring 01:15 judgment he got them out of the way and 01:17 then he 01:18 he took care of business and uh we we 01:21 talked about 01:22 David we talked about Obadiah in the old 01:25 testament 01:26 i found you know ezra 01:29 was defined as a a devout person we 01:31 haven't covered him 01:32 yet and i was reading in another 01:34 translation in the niv 01:36 said that Hezekiah was devout 01:40 those are the old testament ones i i 01:42 want to 01:43 look at a new testament person who was 01:46 devout today 01:46 but let's remember god called Solomon 01:50 he said that his heart was not fully 01:53 devoted 01:55 amen there was a couple times and they 01:57 compared it to David who 01:59 David was and we talked about David and 02:02 he was not a perfect man he had some 02:03 things on his uh 02:05 on his slate uh that he had to repent 02:07 for and get right with god but 02:09 he had a heart after god he was willing 02:11 to do all of god's will he became 02:13 a devout or devoted person 02:18 we have a word similar to devotedness 02:20 devotion which means 02:22 a worshiper of god in the old testament 02:25 you feared the lord in the new testament 02:27 you love 02:28 the lord and you become devoted let me 02:31 give you the definition again 02:33 devoted means to give and apply one's 02:35 time or attention to a particular 02:37 activity or an 02:38 end it's to be set apart by a solemn act 02:42 a vow a sacred commitment or a 02:44 dedication 02:45 to be consecrated or dedicated 02:48 completely 02:50 the word comes from a greek word called 02:52 you lobbies 02:53 it's two Greek words put together you 02:55 meaning well 02:57 lombo meaning to take hold of or 02:59 somebody who is taking hold of god well 03:02 you become 03:03 a god chaser amen 03:06 i was uh reading the story of a 03:09 of a man of god and he was saying that 03:11 his father was a revival junkie 03:15 what's a revival junkie well he was a 03:17 man who 03:18 chased and went wherever he heard there 03:21 was a revival 03:23 when god was moving on a church over 03:24 here he didn't go and attend the service 03:26 there 03:27 he was willing to travel you know i used 03:28 to be a a kind of a revival junkie too 03:32 you know i i i would go down all the way 03:34 to Calvary chapel during the tent days 03:37 especially on Saturday nights when they 03:38 had the concerts and stuff and 03:40 and then for about six months of my 03:42 parents i took my parents down and we 03:44 listened to Chuck Smith preach uh you 03:46 know and 03:47 and i found out about Leonard Fox's 03:49 church and go down there and 03:51 and experience the revivals and things 03:53 and you know you kind of chase around 03:55 and trying to find the lord and and what 03:57 he's doing 03:58 well if you have a bible open 04:02 to uh Luke chapter two wrote let me give 04:05 you a bible here 04:07 got one right on the shelf 04:14 Luke chapter 2 04:22 and behold there was a man in Jerusalem 04:25 whose name was Simon 04:26 or Simeon and this man was just and 04:29 devout waiting for the consolation of 04:31 Israel 04:33 and the holy spirit was upon him and it 04:36 had been revealed to him by the holy 04:38 spirit that he would not see death 04:39 before he had seen the lord's Christ 04:42 so he came by the spirit into the temple 04:46 and when the parents brought in the 04:48 child Jesus to do accord 04:50 due to him according to the custom of 04:51 the law he took him up in his arms and 04:54 blessed god and said lord 04:56 now you are letting your servant depart 04:57 in peace according to your word 04:59 for my eyes have seen your salvation 05:02 which you have prepared before the face 05:04 of the people 05:06 a light to bring revelation to the 05:07 gentiles 05:09 and the glory of your people Israel 05:11 Joseph and his mother 05:13 marveled at those things which were 05:14 spoken of him 05:16 then Simon blessed them and said to Mary 05:18 his mother behold the child is destined 05:21 to 05:21 for the fallen rising of many in Israel 05:24 and for a sign which shall be spoken 05:26 against 05:27 yes a sword will pierce through your own 05:29 soul 05:30 also that the thoughts of many 05:34 may be revealed father we thank you for 05:36 your anointed word now we ask you to 05:38 anoint us 05:39 with eyes that see and ears that hear 05:41 and hearts 05:42 that will respond to you put the spirit 05:44 of truth upon us lord 05:46 cause us to be fed today word uh 05:49 knowledge and 05:50 wisdom and understanding lord 05:53 and give us the ability to discern the 05:56 right ways of the lord father we pray in 05:58 Jesus name and everyone said 06:01 amen the name Simeon is used in the 06:05 bible several 06:06 times we have Simeon the son of uh of 06:09 Jacob in genesis chapter 06:12 29 and verse 33. he was 06:15 uh an instrument of cruelty he with him 06:18 and his brother Levi 06:20 uh went and killed uh Hamor and Shechem 06:24 who had raped Diana their 06:26 their their sister Simeon was 06:29 the one who was most envious of Joseph 06:33 because of his dreams and he was one of 06:34 the ones among them let's kill him you 06:36 know 06:37 and reuben had to intervene finally they 06:38 sold him into slavery 06:42 joseph gets a little bit of revenge 06:44 because when when he put one of 06:46 his brothers in prison and sent the rest 06:48 back he it was simeon 06:51 that stayed in the jail while they were 06:54 gone 06:55 in there then 06:58 there's in the lineage of jesus in luke 07:01 3 30 there's a 07:02 there's another simeon there's a simeon 07:04 the sorcerer 07:06 in the book of acts philip goes down 07:08 into samaria 07:10 and he finds a sorcerer there he gets 07:12 converted i've i've got the c uh 07:16 which doctors and things like that 07:17 converted to the to the lord in my 07:20 in my ministry but uh they have that 07:22 name and then of course there is this 07:23 simeon 07:24 uh who's a man from Jerusalem who is 07:27 going to 07:28 circumcise the baby Jesus and he's going 07:31 to 07:31 do all these wonderful things that are 07:34 happening 07:35 this sim this Simeon he succeeded his 07:39 father Hillel as president 07:42 of the Sanhedrin uh in about a.d 07:45 13. so this is before Jesus gets even in 07:49 his ministry you know 07:50 he's the president of the thing guess 07:52 who his son was 07:54 you may know his son was Gamaliel 08:00 that's really good information isn't it 08:02 Gamaliel was the pharisee 08:04 at who Saint Paul was brought up he was 08:06 the chief 08:08 teacher this is a family 08:12 that is really committed to god and god 08:15 is moving on him and there's one leader 08:17 after another just beginning to 08:19 uh to come Gamaliel is the one that that 08:22 said guys just don't touch these guys 08:23 let's 08:24 you know uh we we we've seen things come 08:27 and go 08:28 let's don't go out and put put our hand 08:29 against something that may be god you 08:31 know we have had some wisdom 08:32 there and that's the son of this man 08:36 who is gonna come on the scene uh 08:39 eight days after Jesus was born in 08:42 Bethlehem in the mange remember 08:44 uh they had to travel about six miles 08:47 south 08:48 and come to Jerusalem the temple 08:51 remember they had a donkey so 08:52 most likely in my mind I'm I've seen you 08:54 know 08:55 she's only eight days away from having a 08:58 baby so I'm thinking Joseph put 09:00 Mary on the donkey she's holding the 09:02 baby and he's walking along 09:03 and they're making a six mile journey i 09:06 used to go to Gary high school 09:09 up on Gary avenue in Lexington that's 09:11 three miles so 09:12 if i walk there and back that's how far 09:16 uh the journey was so to kind of 09:19 put that uh in your mind and they came 09:22 to the temple 09:36 now 09:39 i just kind of want to want to point out 09:41 the blessings that come to people who 09:44 are devout 09:47 god just puts his hand on people who are 09:51 devout i was i read several 09:53 messages online about this and 09:56 one of the guys points out remember I've 09:58 given you the statistic i 10:00 on from msn that only six percent of the 10:03 people 10:04 uh who believe in god and are religious 10:08 type people 10:09 uh were called themselves devout this 10:12 guy said nine percent 10:13 so he did he got some other surveys some 10:16 other things a long time ago 10:18 so it's just a small group of people 10:21 not even 10 percent that even 10:24 say they're devout and god keeps 10:28 pointing out to us 10:30 these little people and in this little 10:33 characteristic 10:34 uh that he wants so I'm going to read 10:36 that and 10:37 and kind of take this from the expanded 10:40 text i 10:41 took the time to go through all sorts of 10:42 different translations and 10:45 i just want to begin to point these out 10:46 it says and behold in those days 10:51 there was an encounter 10:54 with an elderly man living 10:58 in the resident of Jerusalem whose name 11:00 is Simeon 11:03 this guy's advanced in years he's he's a 11:06 senior he's been around a lot 11:09 he's been dedicated to god for a long 11:12 time 11:14 and there's going to be this encounter 11:18 there is going to be a divine 11:21 appointment 11:23 amen are you praying as I've been 11:26 instructing you are you praying to have 11:29 divine appointments 11:30 are you praying to meet the lovers of 11:32 god 11:33 amen if you'll start if you'll start 11:35 doing this you'll begin to have these 11:37 strange things happen 11:39 amen i had one happen last Sunday after 11:41 uh after church 11:43 you know Jerry's uh just walked on to 11:46 the back to get some tacos and things 11:48 for this man 11:49 and as i was there all of a sudden god 11:51 starts talking to me real 11:53 fast i said lord why are you talking to 11:55 me so fast I'm trying to 11:57 take down the information onto my mind 11:59 well the problem 12:00 the problem was Jerry's coming out with 12:02 his food puts it in the bag 12:03 they say god bless you god bless you and 12:05 he goes out the door 12:07 I'm standing here like I'm still trying 12:09 to get my thoughts together and 12:11 am i going to say something we're going 12:13 to miss her and he's gone and the holy 12:15 spirit said to me 12:16 run after him and give him the word 12:20 i actually literally ran out the door in 12:22 my Rosie 12:28 i thought he was gone and when i got out 12:31 the door he was 12:31 in that white truck that stole our 12:33 parking placement yeah 12:35 we're waiting and they turned left and 12:37 the parking space is open and he turns 12:38 while these other cars were holding me 12:40 up you know 12:41 on the rascal i had to park farther away 12:43 in the walk anyway 12:47 I'm running out there and he's rolling 12:48 his windows down and you know 12:50 so i went up i put my head in the window 12:52 and said excuse me I'm Pastor Dan from 12:54 Harvest Chapel 12:56 when i looked at you God gave me a word 12:58 for you 12:59 do you want to know what god said he 13:02 looked at me he says oh yes i do and so 13:06 i said 13:06 i said you have friends who are born 13:10 again 13:10 Christians who've been witnessing to you 13:13 about Jesus 13:16 and they've been inviting you to church 13:17 but you're just ignoring him 13:19 this is what the lord told me he says 13:22 you 13:23 you have made Sunday your own special 13:25 day to do your own pleasure 13:28 but the lord would say unto you that 13:31 Sunday is the lord's day 13:33 and i want you to listen to your friends 13:36 go with them to church because i want to 13:37 speak to you there 13:40 as i as i ended that thing he takes his 13:43 head and he just 13:44 lays it on on the steering wheel 13:47 and i i looked at him and i said the 13:49 lord's really talking to you isn't he 13:51 i said do any of these words i said have 13:53 meaning to you he said 13:54 he says every word you spoke to me is 13:57 exactly 13:58 true i says well 14:02 the lord wants to meet you in the in the 14:04 in in their church 14:05 and you need to listen to them this 14:07 pastor as i gave you my card he gave me 14:09 his card 14:12 in there devout people 14:15 have encounters 14:20 isn't that exciting 14:24 we're not talking about church as usual 14:28 you know three little psalms and hymns 14:30 and take the offering 14:32 and the pastor preaches for 20 minutes 14:34 and then and everybody's falling asleep 14:36 and then out the door 14:38 we're not talking we're talking about a 14:41 living relationship 14:43 with the lord Jesus Christ where where 14:46 he's 14:47 you're getting involved in what god's 14:49 doing 14:50 i love to be involved in what god's 14:53 doing i used to when i was a disciple 14:55 myself and just a young guy i just 14:57 love to watch the ministers and and what 14:59 they were doing i just oh i want to be 15:00 able to do some of this 15:02 i want i got addicted to it let me 15:05 let me let me have a little some of this 15:07 you know 15:10 and i didn't have anything to give i 15:12 mean no nothing 15:13 you know i went to Sunday school and 15:16 learned nothing for six years 15:18 yeah i don't get nothing not my thing 15:21 when i finally got saved we went out to 15:23 the circle park over there 15:24 and everybody had to give their verse 15:26 man I'm almost crying because i don't 15:28 know i had one verse from release time 15:30 education and it wouldn't come to my 15:31 mind 15:35 you know out of the psalms I'd memorize 15:37 one verse 15:39 i was embarrassed because I what I've 15:42 never read the bible 15:43 i went to a church where we never read 15:44 the bible 15:52 he's an elderly man and he's a resident 15:55 of Jerusalem his name is Simeon 15:57 this same upright 16:00 good man who loved and served god 16:06 was just and righteous 16:09 fearing god a very devout 16:13 lover of god pious keeping himself pure 16:16 living honorably before god 16:22 god has some labels 16:25 he wants to put on people 16:29 sinner amen 16:33 full of iniquity liars so somebody was 16:36 talking about liars today 16:38 don't you want some good names placed 16:42 upon you 16:43 the the King James says he was righteous 16:47 and devout righteous meaning 16:51 his relationships with people 16:54 are really good your godliness is this 16:56 part of the cross your righteousness 16:57 is this part of the cross amen he was a 17:00 righteous man 17:03 he had good relationships with people 17:08 he's he he's a he's a leader 17:12 in in in the in what we would call the 17:14 church he's an elder of the church you 17:16 know these 17:18 had different different terms for those 17:20 kind of things he's honorable 17:22 and very devout 17:26 he was committed 17:35 David was was beloved of god god 17:38 gave him a label he gave a name what 17:41 what would god call 17:42 you amen 17:46 Mary when the angels spoke to her you 17:48 know she couldn't figure out what 17:50 who are you talking about you know 17:52 highly favored 17:53 you know and all this blessed and I 17:55 think she's like she's never heard of 17:57 these kind of words that we're coming 17:59 over you know god wants to put some good 18:01 names 18:01 some good labels over you have you ever 18:04 been late you know 18:05 somebody had a uh online had this little 18:08 thread you know and they wanted to 18:09 to label us white people you know 18:23 [Applause] 18:26 Jerry's here today you know uh we're 18:28 gonna have Larry and Alicia 18:30 you know but Jerry represents a different 18:32 race and I'm glad he's here 18:34 [Laughter] 18:37 don't label me yeah I wish we had some 18:41 some black people here and some asian 18:43 people I've never had an asian 18:44 uh you know ever in my in my ministry 18:47 somehow I'm not 18:48 reaching the asians 18:51 but he gets some good labels he's a 18:54 lover of god 18:56 and he's living honorably before the 18:58 lord cautiously carefully and 19:01 reverently observing the divine law 19:05 amen so he was asking us whether we 19:08 walked in truth 19:11 you know are we are we are we living in 19:13 the truth or does the bible mean 19:15 something to you 19:16 do the principles of god mean something 19:19 to you 19:21 yeah I was the Boehnkes have a 19:24 a baseball player now and their their 19:26 grandson 19:27 and Tim was talking about they won the 19:29 they won the championship you know so 19:31 I'm 19:33 writing a few things and i i wrote in 19:35 there being a parent 19:37 the best thing the best thing you could 19:38 do with being a parent is to be there 19:41 be there 19:45 why you know some some people you know 19:48 I'm so busy I'm working on my job and 19:50 then i gotta eat dinner and i 19:52 gotta have a pound down a few drinks you 19:54 know 19:56 right hopefully coke and um 20:00 cranberry juice groceries 20:05 and then i got to watch my favorite TV 20:07 shows and of course you know the Lakers 20:08 are 20:08 are going to win the championship this 20:10 week you know so i got i got to get that 20:12 and then the dodgers are going to play 20:13 in the 20:14 in the national league championship 20:16 series you know 20:17 well son i just don't have time for you 20:19 right now 20:20 daughter you're interrupting me I'm busy 20:24 wow this was a man who walked in truth 20:30 the principles of the word of god were 20:32 guiding his life 20:34 that's what a devout person is 20:38 being devoted 20:41 we're progressing we're not perfect but 20:44 we're walking and following after the 20:46 lord 20:47 you know some people's growth in the 20:49 lord is almost impossible 20:52 i had a friend used to be in my youth 20:54 group and then i had to 20:56 do some bible college teaching you know 20:57 and listening to him and then he went to 20:59 another church and i met him ten years 21:01 later he was still 21:02 talking on the same verse 10 years later 21:07 no growth imperceptible 21:12 and causing trouble actually in a in 21:15 another church 21:16 are you is your walk with the lord 21:18 imperceptible you're just 21:19 not making it it's supposed to be here a 21:21 little 21:24 there a little and every day 21:27 how do you get a lot from god how do you 21:30 get more anointing how do you get more 21:32 knowledge how do you you get you know at 21:35 least 21:36 just a little every day 21:39 pastor George Evans he says what's the 21:42 difference between a good 21:44 average preacher and a great preacher he 21:46 says just 21:47 15 more minutes of study a day and he 21:50 says 21:50 he says you know if you read 3.1 21:54 chapters a day of your of your bible 21:56 you'll read through the whole bible in a 21:58 year and i thought oh 22:00 i started doing that amen this is going 22:03 to be my first 22:04 first I've I've probably read the bible 22:06 40 sometimes i can't 22:07 don't know exactly i got it marked since 22:10 1998 at about 18 times 22:13 but uh uh this year is going to be my 22:16 first time to read the bible through 22:18 twice in a year i found another little 22:20 way 22:21 to get a little more reading in and 22:26 it's not like I'm laboring over it you 22:29 know I'm just enjoying 22:31 uh these these kind of things you we 22:33 gotta we gotta make some progress 22:36 we're not only supposed to walk after 22:38 god sometimes we 22:40 run when i was 22:43 when i finally got saved and then i got 22:45 filled with the spirit i realized how 22:47 far behind i was everybody else 22:49 my what Rosie knew by the time she was 22:52 18 and what i knew 22:54 she was imperceptibly farther advanced 22:58 i had to go to bible college you know i 22:59 was i was listening to 23:01 chuck smith tapes sometimes I'd go down 23:04 the church I would buy two or three tapes 23:05 and he would be teaching through the 23:07 bible and so I'm not 23:08 I'm trying to catch up 23:14 when you're when you're devout you're 23:16 committed to these 23:17 these principles and it says and he was 23:19 eagerly waiting 23:23 for and living in a prayerful 23:25 expectation anticipating looking forward 23:28 to the promise 23:29 of the taking away of the sorrow and the 23:31 bringing of a liberation from troubles 23:33 with consolation comfort help and 23:35 salvation 23:36 and the restoration of Israel the Jewish 23:39 nation to be saved 23:42 there was there was an anticipation of 23:45 something that was about to happen 23:47 when you're a devout person you begin to 23:50 sense 23:51 something's about to happen amen 23:55 does anybody besides me just feel like 23:59 something's about to just 24:00 break through i have such hope right now 24:03 people people 24:04 are devastated right now people are 24:06 hurting people are discouraged 24:08 you know they're they're talking about 24:09 the condition of the world somebody was 24:11 talking about you know 24:12 the united states is the last stallion 24:14 of freedom in the world 24:15 you know but Poland and Hungary just 24:18 declared themselves christian nation 24:20 Honduras is having a wonderful revival 24:24 something just broke loose in Venezuela 24:27 in the midst of all their socialism 24:29 and six thousand people got saved and 24:31 and 24:32 were baptized several African nations 24:35 have declared themselves 24:36 christian nations and god is determined 24:40 to visit the nations and we have an 24:42 eschatology of victory in this church 24:44 amen that's right that god is going to 24:47 go 24:47 forth and have a be a witness he's going 24:50 to have a church 24:51 he's going to have a prophetic word it's 24:53 all it's going to be in every language 24:55 things are about ready to happen man 24:57 we're moving towards those things 25:00 amen oh yeah there's there's darkness 25:02 and god said there was going to be gross 25:04 darkness but we need to be brought up 25:06 and 25:07 listen to what god's saying and doing 25:09 amen 25:10 and god god's doing miracles 25:13 he's bringing healings I've been hearing 25:15 more reports 25:17 about the wonderful things that god that 25:19 god is doing 25:21 recently than in any other time in the 25:22 midst of darkness god loves to bring 25:24 forth light 25:27 there's such hope he he was 25:30 waiting you know Daniel had started the 25:33 clock 25:34 and maybe he was reading some of those 25:36 things and the years were getting closer 25:39 to 25:39 to when Jesus was going to appear there 25:42 were there were people in the know 25:43 weren't there there were three wise men 25:45 who 25:45 who knew about these things that's right 25:48 Elizabeth and her and her husband what 25:51 was there his name um 25:52 the the priest they were people of the 25:54 word Mary and Joseph were people of the 25:57 word 25:58 there's always a remnant there's always 26:01 you know yeah yeah the Episcopalians 26:05 are are allowing the homosexuals to 26:08 to be their priests and their uh you 26:10 know an apostate denomination we can 26:12 we can we can look at that but look at 26:14 all the wonderful things that have 26:16 happened since the Jesus movement 26:17 the Calvary chapels and the and the 26:20 vineyard churches and 26:21 and non-denominational churches that uh 26:23 that are springing up and 26:25 all the great things that are uh that 26:27 are happening 26:29 we need to be encouraged because god's 26:31 about to do 26:32 something when you're a devout person 26:36 that's right yeah get this expectancy 26:40 that maybe nobody else has 26:44 god's about ready to thunder what are we 26:47 gonna 26:48 what are we gonna see there's some 26:50 there's some people that are 26:52 that he's going to judge there's some 26:53 people that are just going to go 26:55 down probably before the election 26:58 i just i just get that sense there's 27:00 going to be some things so it's going to 27:02 shock the world 27:03 amen this is going to be a big shot and 27:05 then there's gonna be some people that 27:06 god 27:07 just raised us up yes amen a guy like 27:10 mike pence 27:11 and I'm talking about him because he's a 27:13 republican you know because I'm a 27:15 conservative he's a conservative but 27:17 this is the guy who loves the lord 27:18 it just came out in that debate the most 27:21 truth in there 27:22 his responses back to that lying spirit 27:25 that he was facing 27:26 yeah was what was on me 27:29 you know if trump somehow passes away or 27:32 something like that 27:34 while pence becomes the president isn't 27:35 that a wonderful thing 27:36 [Music] 27:38 there's a lot of hope 27:42 where's your eyes what's what's not what 27:44 do you want what are you eagerly waiting 27:46 and anticipating that's what devout 27:48 people do 27:50 amen god's about to move we've got a 27:53 word of hope for people 27:57 confident expectation of 28:00 good god loves to come into negative 28:03 situations 28:05 and do something marvelous amen 28:08 he loves to take beauty 28:12 for ashes all my dreams 28:16 turned to ashes my castles all crumbled 28:20 my fortunes turned to lost 28:25 so i wrapped it all in the rags of my 28:29 life 28:32 laid it out the cross he made 28:36 something beautiful 28:41 something good 28:45 all my confusions 28:49 he understood 28:54 all i had to offer him 28:57 was brokenness and strife but he made 29:01 something beautiful 29:05 out of my life 29:13 well pastor dan man you're living in the 29:16 worst city in the valley you live in 29:17 Pomona 29:21 god still got here some people call this 29:24 the barrio i guess 29:26 [Music] 29:28 that's right i don't you know sometimes 29:31 i look at that but 29:32 most of the time you know look look at 29:34 what i get to be involved in 29:38 what god's doing being a devout person 29:40 puts you in contact with god so 29:43 so you get to be involved with him 29:46 amen we're not a part of some religious 29:49 thing that i i joined you and i used to 29:51 i got sprinkled and i became a member of 29:54 of the church at 16 years old i wasn't 29:56 even saved 30:00 i went to one church where you couldn't 30:02 get saved and then i got saved in a 30:04 church where you couldn't stay saved 30:09 I've been on both sides of it with your 30:12 extreme Calvinist or your 30:13 extreme Arminian both 30:16 yeah somehow 30:23 man just i just feel like i i have such 30:25 hope today 30:27 and this is in the holy spirit was 30:30 something what was 30:31 it inside him another said with him 30:34 no one said resting upon him with a 30:37 heart that was 30:38 open touched with what god was saying 30:40 and very full of god 30:42 wow you know this is unusual before the 30:45 holy spirit outpouring on the day of 30:47 Pentecost that's right 30:48 it was only a few people touched here 30:50 and there and this was a man full of the 30:52 holy spirit 30:53 god was with him yes god was in him 30:57 in the in the in the Greek language as 30:59 they're translated it was resting upon 31:01 him 31:02 yes he was a holy ghost man 31:06 full of the holy spirit very 31:10 full of god amen 31:13 don't you love that feeling when you 31:15 feel full of god 31:18 you ever you ever walk out of the walk 31:20 out of the church just really feeling 31:22 good you came in kind of 31:23 but you know that i was untouched i was 31:25 ministered to today 31:27 something something came inside of me 31:29 something touched my mind 31:30 maybe you got a verse you know maybe you 31:32 got a filling with the holy spirit maybe 31:34 you got healed 31:35 you know something something stimulated 31:37 you 31:38 you you feel like you could take on your 31:40 weight and devils you're ready to go out 31:42 and 31:42 and testify to somebody who's got a 31:44 frown on their face you know 31:47 amen this is this was a man that was 31:52 open and touched with what god was 31:55 saying 31:57 now what was his revelation you know 31:59 when you're a devout person you get 32:01 revelations 32:04 it had been revealed divinely 32:07 communicated to him by the holy spirit 32:09 that he would not see death or die 32:12 before he had seen the lord's messiah 32:14 the Christ 32:15 and when anyone whom the lord would sin 32:17 wow 32:18 I've heard a lot of people boast back 32:21 in the 32:22 in the in the 70s and stuff like that I 32:24 had people saying 32:25 seeing the lord told me I wasn't 32:28 going to die until Jesus was going to 32:29 come 32:30 but they were convinced that you know 32:32 that Israel was the sign 32:34 again in 1948 in that generation he was 32:37 going to come when they 32:37 they had all their years you know it 32:39 used to be a generation it was 40 years 32:41 and that went by 32:42 you know and then it was then it was 70 32:44 years and that's gone by now they're 32:46 saying 32:46 you know well three score and ten and if 32:49 by reason is strength so now 32:50 now that now the generation is 80 years 32:54 I'm going to tell you something right 32:55 now I've been right 32:58 I've taken persecution you've got the 33:01 wrong doctrine 33:02 and all this kind of thing but I've been 33:03 right we are still here we will still be 33:06 here 10 years from now 33:10 is the coming of the lord soon maybe i 33:13 don't 33:14 there are things that we have to do that 33:15 we could not possibly get done in 10 33:17 years 33:18 we don't have enough devout people 33:22 maybe you know i mean god has a count 33:25 member 33:25 remember Obadiah you know he he you know 33:28 he 33:28 saved those uh 100 prophets but there 33:30 were 7 000 in Israel that hadn't bowed 33:33 their knee to Baal 33:34 god knows the exact number I think maybe 33:37 and he can do things really fast too 33:39 maybe I'm wrong 33:41 you know and there but so far i've been 33:42 right we need to 33:44 we need to have an as an eschatology of 33:47 getting the job 33:48 done don't just look at all the negative 33:50 things that are happening in the world 33:52 and say 33:52 Jesus is coming let us escape 33:55 oh we need to get out of this terrible 33:58 socialism and communism that's 34:00 creeping us like a hand of 34:03 Halloween coming and this guy's 34:13 yes preach to every every every every 34:16 creature let's let god use 34:18 us amen let's get the holy spirit on 34:20 them like like this guy 34:22 and god will give you special 34:24 revelations 34:25 amen that's right we're supposed to be 34:30 seeing visions and dreaming dreams 34:35 you ever read those verses that's what 34:38 the holy spirit 34:39 don't just stop well yeah you know i got 34:41 back in 1970 i had 34:42 shonda omaha c and I got so I spoke in 34:46 tongues 34:53 that's just the initial sign that you 34:56 got baptized in the holy spirit 34:59 you're supposed to you're supposed to 35:00 get a revelation Jesus says he would 35:02 show you 35:03 things to come 35:06 you ever looked at somebody and you had 35:09 these 35:10 strange suspicious thoughts you know my 35:13 wife has this 35:14 this uh prophecy about they will think 35:17 you're suspicious 35:20 and and and some people will rebuke you 35:23 because oh you're just suspicious Sylvia 35:25 yeah and the lord reminded me i went in 35:27 there and she says yeah 35:29 she says me and Karen had this word and 35:32 the the pastor said you guys are just 35:34 suspicious i said what happened she says 35:36 it came to pass just like i 35:37 i was i suspected mm-hmm 35:44 what's about going to happen in 35:45 somebody's life sometimes we have to 35:46 warn them 35:48 and you know the lord told me he says 35:52 he says you are a fixer of messes 35:55 you're going to hate it and sometimes it 35:58 takes you a long time 36:00 to figure out what to do but you 36:02 eventually get to it 36:05 and i hate it somebody else makes a mess 36:08 and i gotta clean it up don't you hate 36:10 that Ruth 36:12 ladies you know you've been washing the 36:14 dishes and doing the clothes and then 36:16 you're just all done and then somebody 36:17 brings in another pile and it's just 36:19 like oh 36:20 another mess i gotta clean up 36:24 why me lord 36:29 why not you he says 36:34 i know you know i get to fight with god 36:38 because I'm devout 36:43 i could just struggle with god i can you 36:45 know yeah 36:46 what am i going to say am i really going 36:47 to say am i really going to do this you 36:48 really want me to talk to us we'll give 36:50 you some more information you know 37:02 yeah maybe you're thinking oh lord i 37:04 wish i could do that oh 37:08 you wish you could wrestle and fight 37:09 with god is this god is this me you 37:12 might have me in my is this my 37:13 imagination 37:15 am i just thinking this or is this god 37:17 you'll never know until you 37:18 do it that's right and then when it's 37:22 right and it's right and it's right and 37:24 it's right and it's right is right 37:26 you go okay god's talking to me i guess 37:29 i am a prophet 37:32 right takes a while to convince yourself 37:36 of everything that they've spoken over 37:37 you amen 37:41 and so he came prompted moved 37:45 led directed and guided by the spirit 37:47 into the temple courtyard enclosure 37:49 complex 37:50 house of god 37:55 we had a prayer we needed to have 37:58 another another session of these so that 38:00 we're so everything's so crazy right now 38:03 we need to have three days of just 38:05 prayer and an hour of prayer and 38:07 i was at the third day and i decided i 38:09 was going to fast that day 38:10 the last day sylvie and rosie were rosie 38:13 was working sylvia wasn't feeling well i 38:15 went to the meeting myself 38:17 we we prayed and i was hungry so i'm 38:20 i'm i called rosie or anything sylvia 38:23 i'm gonna i'm gonna go to legends no no 38:24 we're fine okay all right i'm driving 38:26 the legends 38:29 and into my mind came espios 38:33 and since i was going that way i went to 38:35 espios 38:37 and i sat down and i was really tired i 38:39 was hungry 38:40 and i was tired i wasn't thinking about 38:42 ministry 38:44 and this guy's in front of me you know i 38:46 told the story before 38:48 but i i mean how did i get to espios 38:51 i was not going to espos i was going to 38:54 legends 38:55 and i ended up in espios and this guy 38:58 goes 38:59 what are you watching i'm watching the 39:01 hockey game 39:04 who's playing 39:08 the the ducks and the and the devils 39:12 he goes what's the score i'm thinking 39:15 why didn't you just look up and read it 39:19 i was getting a little irritated and it 39:21 was i think it was two to one ducks i 39:23 said it's two to one ducks i was just 39:24 trying to maintain you know you're just 39:26 out of a prayer meeting you ought to 39:27 be functioning in the spirit or 39:28 something 39:30 i'm a little i mean i'm at the end of 39:33 myself i don't have a lot of strength 39:35 and 39:35 i've been fasting and i'm getting when i 39:37 fast i get a little irritated i don't 39:38 know about you 39:44 why do i have to be so honest lord with 39:45 everybody all these 39:47 things i have to deal with and uh 39:51 i i said sir is there something wrong 39:53 with your eyes and he goes oh 39:55 i said i'm sorry he says he says i'm 39:57 legally blind 39:59 i said you are. and so i bowed my head 40:02 and i said lord 40:05 i'm so tired but if you'll heal 40:09 this man i'll tell him the stories 40:12 and my heart just lights on fire 40:15 and i go okay so i i said to the man 40:18 that said i'd like to talk to you when 40:20 we're 40:20 when we're done eating outside over here 40:22 would that be okay i'd like to and i'd 40:24 like to pray for you 40:25 oh would you do that for me thank you 40:26 you know and 40:28 it starts to rain you know he pays for 40:31 his meal and i paid for mine and i'm 40:33 i'm going it's raining outside but he 40:35 goes out he sits 40:36 at the table in the rain you know i'm 40:38 walking outside there i don't want to 40:39 sit in the rain 40:41 and i saw a little place under this 40:42 little cover hey come over here we can 40:44 talk and i told him the stories and uh 40:47 then i just 40:48 put my hands on him you know i don't i 40:50 don't wave handkerchiefs 40:52 you know i don't quote 15 verses and i 40:55 just said be healed in jesus name 40:57 and then i just then i asked him are you 40:59 born again 41:01 have you received jesus he goes no can 41:03 you do that for me too 41:04 he actually asked me can you can you can 41:07 you 41:07 say get me saved yeah 41:11 and before i could give him a four 41:13 spiritual law you know the roman road or 41:15 something 41:16 and there he goes oh my god it's working 41:18 it says across the street acme cleaners 41:22 he could read when you are a devout 41:26 person god directs you 41:30 amen i wish it was more clear 41:34 sometimes i wish it was go to the street 41:36 called straight and there you'll meet a 41:37 man how come they got 41:39 great information like that 41:43 they just kind of feel these little 41:44 pullings and pull it to the left and 41:46 pull to the right you know 41:47 and and so i'm a little slow maybe at 41:49 this stuff i don't know 41:55 he was prompted moved led directed 41:58 guided by the spirit did you hear that 42:00 he was prompted 42:02 moved led directed guided by the holy 42:04 spirit 42:05 he was prompted moved 42:09 led directed guided by the holy spirit 42:12 into the temple conflicts 42:15 into the house of god the very moment 42:20 when his parents mary and joseph had 42:22 brought the child 42:23 to perform and do for the new baby 42:25 concerning him 42:26 according to the obedience and customs 42:28 of the teachings 42:31 the sacred ritual obligations required 42:34 by the law of moses 42:36 his timing when you're a devoted person 42:39 your timing is perfect amen 42:44 some of you know dave stevenson i just 42:46 got the fight you know it's been 42:48 a year or so and i hadn't got the got 42:49 the results i never found out what 42:51 happened 42:51 but you know he walked out of the gym 42:54 one day and collapsed and died they 42:56 carried him to the hospital and we got 42:58 this report 43:00 david said well they zapped him and and 43:02 brought him back but they said that he'd 43:04 his heart would only be functioning like 43:05 at 10 percent and 43:08 many of the organs in his body would 43:10 never recover you know and he would 43:12 he would he would never uh return to 43:15 normal life you know 43:17 in his life and so i went down to rush 43:19 down to the hospital they're not even 43:21 members of our church anymore but 43:23 dave was my disciple i led rebecca 43:26 rebecca to the lord and saw some great 43:28 miracles in her life 43:29 so i i walked up and she was just happy 43:31 walking down i just walked up 43:33 saying hello pastor you're here says 43:35 yeah i just wanted to come down and pray 43:37 for david 43:38 she goes come with me right now we went 43:40 in the laid hands 43:42 and i you know i rebuked a few things 43:44 and i i said you're going to bring his 43:46 heart back you're going to bring his 43:47 brain power back he's going to function 43:49 he's going to function perfectly again 43:51 lord and praying jesus may be healed 43:53 and left and i never heard what happened 43:55 i was 43:56 online and having to talk to becky god 43:59 did exactly what we prayed 44:02 he brought back all of his male mobility 44:04 every organ in his body function he 44:06 actually ran you know the little mount 44:07 baldy race up to mount baldwin that he 44:09 actually ran out of the rape can you 44:10 imagine a guy that 44:12 collapsed and died physically thinking 44:15 that wonderful 44:16 the very moment 44:19 devout people have this strange 44:23 timing years ago when 44:26 when when ruth wasn't wasn't a part of 44:29 us you know we were at kaiser's hospital 44:31 she just then she's got some kind of a 44:33 walker on there and she's just 44:35 feebly going down there i go oh lord she 44:37 never saw us i started praying for 44:40 you know god touch her lord she had some 44:42 issues 44:43 and stuff she got through them with us 44:45 today 44:47 here but that's tiny 44:50 she never knew i saw what with her 44:52 condition 44:54 it was just the perfect timing of god 44:58 the smell of god he's he's coming just 45:00 at the right time let of the holy spirit 45:04 your timing turn your neighbor and say 45:05 your timing is going to be perfect 45:09 jerry 45:15 then simeon received him the baby jesus 45:20 taking him up in his arms don't you love 45:22 to pick up babies 45:24 and he praised and thanked and blessed 45:26 god and said 45:28 now sovereign lord master and king o 45:31 adonai 45:34 you are letting and permitting and 45:35 releasing and despis 45:37 dismissing your love slave your humble 45:40 bond servant i can leave and die 45:42 contented departing this world and peace 45:45 according to the fulfilled promise of 45:47 your word for my own eyes have seen your 45:50 freedom and salvation 45:55 he had a desire one thing have i desired 45:58 of the lord if you delight yourself in 46:01 the lord he will give you 46:03 the desires of your heart 46:07 god fulfilled the devoted person god 46:10 fulfills 46:11 their desires 46:14 i've been talking to the lord and i says 46:16 lord i'm not asking you for a house in 46:18 beverly hills 46:19 i would sure love a house on the 46:21 overlooking the ocean and get the 46:23 get the breezes i'm not asking you for 46:25 new cars would you just please 46:27 you know keep my truck running not 1987 46:30 toyota i'm not asking for cars 46:32 it says if you're ever going to give me 46:34 the disarm and i tell them what it is 46:39 the desire of your heart will be granted 46:42 to you if you're devoted 46:46 that's psalm 20 verse 4. psalm 20 verse 46:49 4. thank you 46:52 she's been studying her bible 47:02 call himself your love slave your humble 47:06 bond slave 47:10 bond slave was they'd been a slave for a 47:13 little while it was the year of release 47:15 but if you love your master then you 47:18 then you can stay and they put a little 47:21 earring 47:22 upon you and then you're the slave for 47:24 life 47:26 lord i'm just your servant devoted 47:29 people 47:30 have told the lord i'm gonna serve you i 47:32 have decided 47:35 to follow jesus i have decided 47:40 to follow jesus i have decided to follow 47:46 jesus no turning back 47:49 no turning back even though the way it 47:51 gets hard is the way it gets tough 47:54 they don't receive you if they walk away 47:57 from you 47:58 it doesn't make any difference i'm your 48:01 humble servant lord i 48:02 i i'm dedicated to you 48:05 i'm your doulos 48:10 lord you let my eyes see you know when 48:13 you're a devoted person 48:15 god lets you see 48:18 things that nobody else sees 48:22 you get to experience things that nobody 48:25 else 48:26 experiences and then you got your 48:28 atheists over here there's no god 48:29 you're saying there's no god can you sit 48:33 down and i'll talk for 24 hours and tell 48:35 you stories 48:37 i can i could literally talk about jesus 48:40 for 24 hours and tell them the stories 48:42 of what 48:43 what god has done in my life they're 48:45 just not in the place where god moves 48:47 they're not devout you get the desires 48:51 that you hear your eyes get to see 48:53 these wonderful things that god is doing 48:57 the punishment of of the sins of israel 49:00 uh he is and 49:01 it's going to be he's this con this uh 49:04 uh hope is going to be given to the 49:07 world which plan you have prepared 49:08 before the face and the eyes into the 49:10 presence of all of god's 49:12 all all people groups and every foreign 49:14 nation 49:16 this is what jesus is going to do man 49:19 they're in the temple this is a hebrew 49:21 thing this is a jewish thing 49:22 that's going on and he's going to be 49:25 reaching out to gentiles oh that's a bad 49:28 prophecy 49:30 you don't want to say that simeon you 49:32 don't want to say that 49:34 that's all the enemies of israel we've 49:36 been fighting all these heathen nations 49:38 all this time 49:38 and and and now you're going to send 49:40 somebody that's going to 49:43 preach to them spaniards are gonna 49:48 gonna get saved welchmen are gonna get 49:50 saved 49:51 cherokee indians are gonna get saved we 49:53 have some germans here 49:54 that are gonna get saved amen norwegians 49:57 like sylvia 49:58 over here going to get saved much like 50:01 rosie 50:04 nothing of anything everything yeah but 50:07 she's really 50:08 she really a mutt amen your mighty power 50:12 is a god revealing light to show the way 50:15 and to bring revelation 50:16 to disclose the message of salvation of 50:19 what was previously unknown to the 50:21 non-jewish heathen nations 50:23 and the praise and honor and the shining 50:24 great glory of your covenant to the 50:26 people 50:27 israel well you're going to minister to 50:31 people 50:32 not like yourselves because you're 50:33 devoted 50:35 god woke me up a week ago 50:38 and he started showing me the faces of 50:40 all these people i ministered to and 50:42 they were black people 50:44 about half of the people that i've been 50:46 having these contacts with have been 50:48 black people and where does god use me 50:50 the most when i'm in 50:52 kenya amen he gives me in russia the 50:55 same way 50:56 he used me in mexico the same way but a 50:58 lot of the great things that 51:00 among spot people 51:05 if you're if you're devout you're gonna 51:07 you're gonna get to minister to all 51:09 kinds of people 51:12 my son says if you take away all the 51:15 skin 51:16 everybody's the same i thought wow 51:18 that's a really good way of looking at 51:20 things 51:21 amen yeah why do we have why do we have 51:24 to look at the skin color when 51:25 when the lord looks deeper anyway where 51:27 does he look the heart 51:28 he looks at the heart amen 51:32 and there's bad hearts in all races of 51:34 people and there's good hearts and all 51:35 races of people 51:37 amen you just got to find them 51:42 yeshua's parents joseph his legal father 51:45 and mary his mother 51:46 kept standing there wondering and they 51:48 were amazed astonished awestruck stunned 51:51 surprise and marveled 51:52 at those things which was spoken in the 51:54 prophecy over him concerning jesus 51:57 then simeon blessed and honored them and 51:59 said to mary his mother behold listen 52:02 carefully take notes 52:06 what did i give jerry today on the back 52:08 of it says take some notes he's got the 52:10 band 52:11 you know write some things down that 52:13 god's saying to you because you 52:15 won't remember them sometime take notes 52:18 god has chosen this infant boy child as 52:21 a warning sign 52:22 destin appointed a sign and set for the 52:24 condemning fall 52:26 of the destruction failure and the 52:28 rising to stand of many in israel 52:30 what is what does jesus do he's going to 52:32 list some people though 52:36 over time you'll see it yeah amen 52:40 for a sign which will generate the 52:42 undoing opposition rejection and setting 52:44 up a standard to be attacked 52:46 a figure misunderstood contradicted or 52:49 spoken against by the people 52:51 that will not accept him wow he came 52:55 unto his 52:56 own and his own receipt but as many 53:00 as received him to them gave you the 53:02 right of the power to become the sons of 53:04 god 53:05 amount of time let me just finish the 53:06 reading here yes you will experience a 53:08 wounding 53:10 a long knife or dagger type sword of 53:12 pain 53:14 suffering and deep sorrows 53:17 will pierce and cut through going to the 53:19 innermost part of your own soul 53:22 also that the innermost thoughts of 53:24 hearts what they are actually 53:27 secretly thinking may be revealed 53:32 yeah the devout sometimes we 53:36 we suffer sometimes we grieve 53:40 sometimes it's almost more than you can 53:42 bear 53:43 you go into the bedroom and shut the 53:46 door 53:47 put your head in the pillow and then and 53:49 soak your 53:50 your pillow until the tears won't come 53:53 anymore 53:56 but it's in though it's in that 53:58 deepening of you 54:00 that the secrets of hearts can be 54:01 revealed 54:04 amen but what a scary thing it is when 54:07 god gives you the secret of somebody's 54:08 heart and you've got to be very 54:10 careful because you're going to touch 54:12 somebody's heart 54:15 mary she had to watch her son 54:20 be crucified and embarrassed 54:23 she was there standing 54:27 is this is this why i went through all 54:29 these things and was chased into egypt 54:32 and persecuted they wanted to kill my 54:34 boy came back and we just had to 54:36 go to the worst area of israel and 54:39 nazareth no good thing comes out of 54:41 nazareth 54:42 why do you have to live there all this 54:44 stuff now all this 54:48 they're chasing them out of the 54:49 synagogue you know jesus is making 54:52 whips driving people out well 54:57 i just want to encourage you to be 55:00 devout 55:01 good things happen to people who are 55:05 devout 55:06 and it happened to send you amen 55:11 praise you lord father we ask you to 55:14 seal these words into our hearts and 55:16 into our lives 55:20 we are so inspired by your word today 55:22 lord 55:25 just we're hungry lord to experience you 55:28 more 55:29 we want to be like this man we want to 55:31 be led by the spirit we want to 55:33 well our eyes need to see some things 55:35 lord we we need to have encounters we 55:37 need 55:38 to have the holy ghost just come upon us 55:40 and be in us lord 55:42 and lord we need to we need to be led at 55:45 the 55:45 precise timing of things so we want to 55:49 experience lord 55:50 your prophetic word coming upon us and 55:53 out of our mouths well we didn't mention 55:55 that 55:56 in in the message lord we want the 55:58 secrets of hearts 56:00 to be revealed lord we're excited lord 56:04 in anticipating that something is about 56:07 to happen something great oh lord 56:10 and we we pray for revivals and renewals 56:12 and awakenings lord they ask for many 56:16 souls 56:17 to be saved give us someone heart this 56:19 week now may the lord bless you and keep 56:22 you may the lord cause his face to shine 56:24 upon you and be gracious unto you 56:26 and give you peace may you bless you as 56:28 you come in and as you go 56:30 out may bless you in the basket in the 56:31 store may bless you at the temple 56:33 and in the field may you find yourself 56:36 opening your bible reading the words of 56:39 life may the 56:40 the book speak to you may you devour 56:44 it may you drink it in may it just come 56:46 and attach 56:47 to your mind and you receive the 56:50 promises of god and may you have a word 56:53 for somebody 56:53 you have a scripture i love what rosie 56:55 said nobody was putting a scripture 56:58 on it lord maybe we put a scripture on 56:59 it for somebody 57:01 we maybe comfort somebody maybe we 57:03 encourage somebody this week give us a 57:05 divine appointment 57:07 give us and let us meet the lovers of 57:09 god lord 57:10 and your special timing may we lead 57:13 someone to jesus christ this week and 57:15 bring them to the house of the lord 57:17 grant us traveling mercies we pray in 57:20 jesus name 57:21 and everyone said amen 57:24 god bless you dismissed English (auto-generated) English (auto-generated)

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