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5:05Lord,
5:06I want to thank you for the opportunity
5:09that I have to be in your presence
5:10today. I want to thank you, God, that
5:13I'm here gathered together to lift up
5:15your name and magnify you in the beauty
5:18of holiness. Thank you, God, for the
5:20mercy and the goodness and the grace of
5:22the Lord. Why don't we give the Lord a
5:24good hand clap of praise?
5:28Oh, come on. Give the Lord a good hand
5:30clap of praise.
5:33I want to welcome every guest that's
5:35here today.
5:37How many of you appreciate our guests
5:39that are in the house?
5:41Why don't you turn around, look around
5:43you, and if there's a guest around you,
5:44let them know you're glad to see them.
5:46shake their hand. Tell them you're glad
5:47to see them in the house of God. I'm
5:49glad to have all the saints of God, the
5:52members of Pine Grove. Thank you for
5:53being with us today. We're going to have
5:55church like you've never seen before.
5:57This praise team's coming. Worship with
5:59the praise team. God bless you. Welcome
6:01to Pine Grove. You can be seated if you
6:03need to. Let's have church.
6:05[Music]
6:11Heat.
6:16[Music]
6:24Heat.
6:27[Music]
6:33Heat. Heat. Heat.
6:35[Music]
6:49The enemy
6:54as long as I brea I' got a reason.
7:19[Music]
7:23You're still in control.
7:26[Music]
7:31[Applause]
7:34[Music]
7:38[Applause]
7:39Heat. Heat.
7:40[Music]
7:48[Applause]
7:53Heat.
7:59Heat.
8:06[Music]
8:19Somebody give him a shout of praise in
8:21the house today.
8:24[Music]
8:26Come on, somebody show him that you mean
8:28it. Yeah. Praise cuz you praise your
8:33son. Praise you. Heat. Heat.
8:41[Music]
8:46Yeah. Heat.
8:49[Music]
8:57Heat. Heat.
9:06[Music]
9:09Yeah. Heat.
9:18[Music]
9:20[Applause]
9:25Heat. Heat.
9:27[Applause]
9:35Heat.
9:42[Applause]
9:48Heat.
9:57Heat. Heat.
10:13[Applause]
10:18I think y'all want to hear that praise
10:20one more time. I don't think you've
10:22given all the praise you want to give
10:24just yet. Hey, anybody thankful that God
10:27is sovereign in your life? Oh, that he's
10:30undefeated. Yeah. Sing this with us.
10:34Praise God cuz you praise God cuz you
10:37praise your praise cuz you rode
10:42Heat. Heat.
10:46[Music]
10:56Heat. Heat.
11:12Heat. Heat.
11:21[Music]
11:22Yeah.
11:26Heat.
11:30[Applause]
11:38[Applause]
11:43Heat. Heat.
11:45[Applause]
11:57[Music]
11:58Heat. Heat.
12:00[Music]
12:08praise
12:14[Music]
12:18the Lord. Oh my soul. Sing it one more
12:22time.
12:24[Applause]
12:27[Music]
12:33He's worthy.
12:35[Applause]
12:37Woo!
12:40Thank you, God. Thank you.
12:48Hallelujah.
12:50Hallelujah Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.
12:53We praise you.
12:56Yeah.
12:58[Applause]
12:59[Music]
13:01[Applause]
13:07The weapon may be formed, but it won't
13:11prosper.
13:14>> When the darkness falls, it won't be.
13:18>> Yeah.
13:20>> The God I serve knows only how stri
13:27[Applause]
13:31Oh my god.
13:32>> Oh my god. You never
13:37>> I'm going to sing the victory.
13:40I'm going to see a victory
13:44for the battle belongs to you.
13:50I'm going to see a victory. Heat. Heat.
13:56[Music]
14:05[Music]
14:16There's power in that mighty name of
14:19Jesus
14:20[Music]
14:23everywhere.
14:28Heat. Heat. Heat.
14:38Heat. Heat.
14:41[Applause]
14:47[Music]
14:51Yeah.
14:52Heat.
15:04[Music]
15:09[Applause]
15:11[Music]
15:14[Applause]
15:17I think somebody needs to hear this
15:18verse.
15:23Jesus
15:25power might
15:28Jesus.
15:30[Music]
15:50[Applause]
15:51Oh,
15:56[Music]
16:05[Applause]
16:10heat, heat.
16:12[Applause]
16:15Yeah.
16:17[Applause]
16:19Heat.
16:35Heat. Heat.
16:41[Music]
16:43[Applause]
16:45Heat.
16:46[Applause]
16:52[Music]
16:57[Applause]
16:59[Music]
17:06Heat.
17:14[Music]
17:22Heat. Heat.
17:32Heat.
17:34[Applause]
17:36Heat.
17:41[Applause]
17:50Heat.
17:57[Applause]
18:00Heat.
18:08[Applause]
18:11Heat. Heat.
18:13[Music]
18:21Yeah.
18:24Heat.
18:26[Music]
18:34Yeah.
18:36Heat.
18:38[Music]
18:40[Applause]
18:46Yeah.
18:51Heat.
18:59[Music]
18:59[Applause]
19:07Heat up
19:10here.
19:12[Applause]
19:25[Applause]
19:28Heat. Heat.
19:30[Music]
19:36[Applause]
19:38Heat
19:49up
19:52here.
20:00[Music]
20:03Heat.
20:05[Music]
20:17[Music]
20:29Heat.
20:31Yeah. Heat.
20:34[Music]
20:42Yeah.
20:45Heat.
20:47[Music]
20:56[Music]
21:03Oh,
21:05[Music]
21:23heat, heat.
21:26[Applause]
21:26[Music]
21:37[Music]
21:51That's it. Come on. All across this
21:53house, let's lift our hands.
21:56The song says he's already won.
22:01Brother Thornton just come through and
22:02said we we don't need to waste time
22:04fighting a defeated foe this morning.
22:07Let's not waste time fighting a battle
22:09that's not ours this morning. If you
22:11need victory, you can come to the front
22:13of this building. You can lift your
22:14hands and you can give your battle to
22:17this to this God that we serve. My my my
22:22hallelujah.
22:24Hallelujah.
22:33They used to think that the God of
22:34victory's name was Nike or Nike. We know
22:39that the God of victory's name is Jesus.
22:43Hallelujah. And you can call on that
22:45name this morning.
22:48He'll fight for you. Hallelujah. If you
22:51will please remain standing as you
22:54return back to your seats. Those that
22:56are praying, please continue to pray.
23:00Hallelujah. We're going to give you an
23:02opportunity to be blessed.
23:04[Music]
23:05If I could have some ushers come and
23:07help us.
23:09Thank you guys.
23:12There's such a sweet presence of the
23:14Holy Ghost that's in this place today.
23:17Such a deep move of the Holy Ghost. We
23:19started in the prayer room this morning.
23:22Hallelujah. I'm expecting great things
23:25to happen.
23:27Lord, we ask that you take this
23:29offering. We ask that you use it to
23:31further your kingdom and to spread your
23:33gospel.
23:34In Jesus name, we pray you will march as
23:38you do.
23:41[Music]
23:45[Applause]
23:48[Music]
24:02Heat. Heat.
24:04[Music]
24:17[Applause]
24:21Heat.
24:23Heat.
24:29[Music]
24:52Praise the Lord. You can be seated.
24:56So thankful to be in Pine Grove on
24:59Sunday morning. They're about to sing a
25:02song.
25:04It talks about waiting on the Lord.
25:08and immediately come to my mind uh a
25:12lesson that I taught several months ago
25:14on a Wednesday night about Noah
25:17in the ark and how the Lord
25:21told Noah about the 40 days and the 40
25:24nights that he was going to spend in the
25:27ark, but he never told him about the
25:30almost year preced or that that yeah
25:34that came after that that he would just
25:36be sitting floating found in the water.
25:38He never told him. He only told him
25:41about the 40 days and the 40 nights. And
25:44if we're not careful, in the very middle
25:47of one of the greatest miracles we'll
25:49ever experience, we can feel like we're
25:52just waiting for No. We're all
25:53forgotten. We're all alone. I know Noah
25:56was a man. So, I know Noah had thoughts
25:58like, "God, have you forgotten me? You
26:00said 40 days. I'm on day 120.
26:03God, have I'm here. I am just waiting on
26:05you.
26:07Have you forgotten me? Little did he
26:09know that he was that from him would
26:12come all the nations of the earth after
26:14that. Every He was the He was the only
26:17person that God had protected in that
26:19moment. He was the only one that was in
26:22the direct middle of the will of God. So
26:26listen to the words of song this
26:27morning. Maybe where you're waiting is
26:29not in a wasteland. Maybe you're right
26:31in the middle of your miracle.
26:33Hallelujah. Worship with them as they
26:34sing.
26:37[Music]
26:56There's not a mountain to
27:01sing. Yeah. And there's not a
27:05from so small
27:10that Jesus can't resolve and in time
27:14he'll get involved cuz our God he cares
27:18about us.
27:23[Music]
27:34Heat. Heat. Heat.
27:42[Music]
27:45yourself.
27:50[Music]
27:51[Applause]
27:53There's not a night to dark
28:00[Music]
28:02to embark.
28:06Jesus will see you through. And in time,
28:11he'll make you move. is our God. He
28:14cares about
28:19[Music]
28:38Heat. Heat.
28:57Heat. Heat.
29:01[Music]
29:02[Applause]
29:04[Music]
29:07Yeah. Heat.
29:13[Music]
29:18Heat.
29:25Heat.
29:27[Music]
29:30[Applause]
29:35Yeah.
29:42Heat.
29:43[Music]
29:54Heat.
29:59[Applause]
30:01[Music]
30:04[Applause]
30:09Heat.
30:13[Music]
30:16Oh,
30:21[Applause]
30:24[Music]
30:30[Applause]
30:37heat, heat.
30:41Yeah.
30:44Heat.
30:50[Music]
30:53[Applause]
31:03the
31:06[Music]
31:09I believe the
31:13[Applause]
31:16IR.
31:28So I'm going to wait on you, Jesus. And
31:32I'm going to wait on you, Jesus.
31:35And I'm going to wait on you, Jesus.
31:38And I'm going to wait on you, Jesus. And
31:42I'm not turning right now.
31:45I'm not turning right now.
31:48[Music]
31:55[Music]
31:57Heat.
32:01[Music]
32:03Heat.
32:13[Music]
32:21[Applause]
32:22Heat.
32:25Heat.
32:34Yeah.
32:38[Music]
32:48Heat.
32:50[Music]
32:57Heat
33:09up
33:12here.
33:28[Music]
33:35Heat
33:38up here.
34:00Heat up
34:10here.
34:14Yeah. Heat.
34:29[Applause]
34:35Heat
34:46up
34:52here.
35:00Heat.
35:02[Music]
35:05Heat.
35:09[Music]
35:32Heat
35:33up
35:36here.
35:56Heat
36:00up here.
36:22Heat up
36:29here.
36:33[Applause]
36:34[Music]
36:41[Music]
36:52Heat
36:55up here.
37:00[Music]
37:07Heat
37:08up
37:13here.
37:15[Music]
37:37Heat up
37:43here.
37:45[Music]
37:56[Music]
38:00Heat
38:02up
38:03here.
38:11[Music]
38:21[Music]
38:28Heat
38:32up here.
38:36[Music]
38:43[Music]
38:49Heat.
38:58Heat.
39:02[Music]
39:13[Music]
39:18[Applause]
39:19[Music]
39:25Heat up here.
39:26[Music]
39:44Come on all
39:46[Music]
39:49all over this house. Let's lift our
39:51hands and just worship the Lord
39:52together. Can we do that? Come on. Let's
39:55entertain the presence of God.
40:00Come on everybody here magnifying his
40:02name.
40:03[Applause]
40:06Come on. The Holy Ghost is trying to
40:07move all through this building right
40:09now.
40:11[Music]
40:16Hallelujah.
40:18[Applause]
40:24My God.
40:26[Music]
40:44[Music]
40:46[Applause]
40:47[Music]
40:49[Applause]
40:54My god. My God.
41:01Jesus.
41:03[Applause]
41:03[Music]
41:06[Applause]
41:12My my my my.
41:20If I did not
41:23if I did not have such a
41:26important message to preach to you, I
41:28would just I would just let this service
41:31go.
41:33But I want to I want to encourage
41:35everybody that needs to go out, get a
41:38drink of water, use the restroom, take
41:39your children out, whatever, do that
41:42now. I want to I want to implore you to
41:48remain in the building and try not to
41:50disturb the message today.
41:53While the preaching of the word's going
41:55forth, I want to ask you to limit the
41:57moving around, going in and out, talking
42:01so that the word of the Lord can go
42:03forth unrupted for a few minutes. choir,
42:06please make haste to get back in the
42:08building
42:10as I have such a
42:12serious
42:14serious message from the Lord today.
42:19[Applause]
42:23Hallelujah.
42:27>> If you'd stand in honor of the reading
42:29of the word, I want to go to Psalms
42:30chapter 39 and verse 4.
42:33Psalms the 39th chapter
42:36and the fourth verse.
42:38Psalms 39 and4
42:42for what I feel is a very very important
42:44message
42:46that I will preach to you today. Psalms
42:4839:4
42:50says, "Lord, make me to know mine end
42:54and the measure,
42:56the measure or the balance
43:00of my days.
43:03What it is that I may know how frail
43:07that I am." That I may know how frail
43:12that I am. I want to preach to you for
43:17uh what will be a short message today
43:20because I want to give plenty of room
43:22for the Holy Ghost to move in the ending
43:24of this message. I know you're standing.
43:26I'm not going to leave you, but just let
43:27me encourage you that I'm asking every
43:31prayer warrior to be praying while I'm
43:33preaching.
43:34I'm asking every Holy Ghost fil person
43:36to be praying for God to fill people
43:39with the Holy Ghost and change lives and
43:41minds while I'm preaching today.
43:44And then in the end,
43:46as I'm bringing this message to a close,
43:49I need you to obey the Holy Ghost.
43:52Don't hold back.
43:55If God's drawing you, let me tell you,
43:57anything that's following the Holy Ghost
43:59is in order in an apostolic church. If
44:02you feel like going to the altar, go.
44:06but bring someone with you and let's
44:09fill this altar up in the last moments
44:12of this message. Would you help me pray
44:13before you're seated? Jesus, dear Lord,
44:16I'm asking you to anoint my mind and my
44:18spirit.
44:20God, allow me to feel this message
44:22again. I felt it while I wrote it.
44:25Let me feel it while I preach it.
44:27>> All right? Let the feeling and the
44:29emotion and the compassion of this
44:32message
44:33reach and communicate with every heart,
44:36mind, and spirit in this house today in
44:39the precious, precious name
44:42of Jesus. God bless you. You can be
44:44seated.
44:50I want to start today by
44:54saying that life is short.
44:58and life is fragile
45:00and life is uncertain.
45:04David prayed that God would help him
45:06grasp just how brief his days were.
45:10One of the most subtle, patient, and
45:13deadly thieves of life is not only and
45:17necessarily sin or even Satan.
45:21>> But today I want to preach to you a
45:24message called the thief. The thief
45:27called familiarity.
45:31>> The thief called familiarity.
45:36>> Familiarity makes us blind to the
45:38blessings around us.
45:41>> And it we usually continue in blindness
45:43to tragedy opens our eyes.
45:47>> Familiarity steals the appreciation of
45:50our family.
45:52A 45year-old mother lay dying of cancer
45:56in a hospital.
45:58Her husband estranged and separated from
46:01her suddenly realized the seriousness of
46:04her condition. He rushed back to her
46:08side, back to her bedside, now
46:10cherishing her as the wife and mother of
46:14his children.
46:16But her son, perhaps out of fear or
46:18selfishness, said, "I don't like
46:20hospitals.
46:22I'll come see you when you get out."
46:25But she never did. She passed away in
46:29the hospital without ever seeing her son
46:31again.
46:33That boy moved into manhood,
46:36moaning in regret that he took his
46:39mother for granted because of
46:42familiarity.
46:44Proverbs 31-28 says, "Her children arise
46:47and call her blessed, her husband also,
46:50and he praiseth her."
46:53During the Civil War, a soldier deserted
46:56from the Union Army, and was sentenced
46:59to die by hanging.
47:02His mother went to see President Abraham
47:05Lincoln and plead with him for mercy.
47:10Lincoln moved to tears by her weeping
47:14and her begging. Pardon the man.
47:18But then this is what Lincoln said with
47:20his sharp wit.
47:22I'm pardoning pardoning him for his
47:25mother's sake, not for his own. What
47:28your son needs, ma'am, is a little bit
47:31of hanging.
47:33Lincoln knew that sometimes we only
47:35learn the the gratitude through hard
47:38consequences.
47:41When we are blessed, sometimes we're
47:43blessed with tragedy because it reminds
47:46us sometimes our greatest blessings or
47:49circumstances that come along disguised
47:52as tragedy in order to wake us up in
47:55order to get our attention so that we
47:57can then appreciate again appreciate
48:00life and family and friends and
48:03blessing.
48:04>> You see, familiarity doesn't steal our
48:07children from us. He just paints them in
48:10such drab opa opaque camouflage that
48:13they blend in to life's surroundings and
48:16start going unnoticed.
48:21A family with a two-year-old child
48:26went to visit another family who had a
48:27three-year-old and in their backyard a
48:30swimming pool. The children were outside
48:33playing when suddenly the three-year-old
48:36ran inside shouting, "Gina's in the
48:39pool." Panic swept through the house and
48:42everyone rushed into the backyard and
48:46they pulled the 2-year-old from the
48:47water. Her little young lungs already
48:50full of already completely full. She
48:54began vomiting water and by God's mercy,
48:56she survived. That night, her parents
48:59held her tightly, wept over her,
49:02realizing how numb they had become to
49:05life. That day, tragedy had slapped them
49:09awake,
49:11knocked them on the head with mercy,
49:13>> and showed them the true value of having
49:16a little girl. I guess you could say
49:18what they got was a little bit of
49:20hanging. All right.
49:23>> A little girl walked into her father's
49:25office one day and said, "Dad, where
49:27where's my picture?
49:30My friend's daddy's Oh, that they have
49:33their kids' pictures on their desk." The
49:36father caught up in his career
49:38explained, "Sweetheart, I I have very
49:40important guests that visit this office,
49:42and my office was decorated by
49:45professionals,
49:47and when they got done, there wasn't
49:49room for your picture. Before
49:53that year was out, tragedy struck. That
49:56little girl died. And then with a broken
49:59heart, he commissioned and had hung in
50:02his office a life-sized painting of his
50:05little girl. So that the first thing
50:08that you see when you enter his office
50:10now is a lifestyle rendering of that
50:14beautiful daughter that he had lost. He
50:17had learned too late what was most
50:19precious. Maybe what he got was a little
50:22bit of hanging.
50:26>> A legend tells of a little boy in
50:29heaven. This little boy in heaven begged
50:33an angel, "Let me go back to my house
50:37just one more day." The angel allowed
50:40the little boy to visit his home, but
50:43the condition was he could only visit on
50:46the most ordinary day.
50:49He stood in the yard smiling at his
50:51father as his father mowed the grass.
50:54His dad looked up at him and said, "Move
50:57out of the way, son. I need to mow where
50:59you're standing."
51:01He walked inside where his mother where
51:03his mother was sewing and stood in front
51:05of her, longing for her eyes to meet
51:08his. And without looking up, she said,
51:09"Son, you need to move over. You're
51:11blocking my light. Go play." The boy
51:15sadly returned to heaven. He had visited
51:18his home on the most common day and so
51:22therefore went completely unnoticed.
51:26It seems to me like there were a couple
51:28of parents that needed a little bit of
51:30hanging.
51:32>> James 4 and4 says, "What is your life?
51:36It's even a vapor that appearth for a
51:38little while and then vanishth away."
51:42Thomas Carlile, the great writer, had a
51:46wife named Jane who fell ill.
51:49Out of convenience, she was moved into
51:51another bedroom with a nurse. Jane
51:54longed for her husband Carile's
51:57presence. She would hear him pass his
52:01shoes on the stairs day after day.
52:04Hoping that he would step in and visit
52:06with her for a few moments. Sometimes he
52:08did, but usually he was too busy with
52:11his books and his work. After her death,
52:14Carile found her diary.
52:17Page after page seemed to contain
52:19similar entries. He did not come today.
52:24I wish that he had. Perhaps tomorrow he
52:27will have a little time.
52:30Carile wept uncontrollably,
52:32realizing that he had neglected the
52:34heart of the most precious person in his
52:37world.
52:39In grief, he ran down the stairs and
52:42through the front door into her grave.
52:44He fell across it and cried, "Oh, if I
52:47had only known. If I had only known."
52:51Historians say he lived out his days
52:54broken and never recovered from the loss
52:57and the regret.
53:00A pastor in preaching told Carlile's
53:03story in his Sunday morning service.
53:06When church was over, a little lady
53:08approached the pastor and said, "My
53:10husband is coming to service tonight. I
53:12I plead with you tell the story in the
53:16evening service that you told this
53:18morning." You see, she wanted the story
53:21to be told in the presence of her
53:23husband. I wonder how many parents would
53:26like for their children to hear that
53:28story. And how many husbands want their
53:30wives to hear a story like that?
53:33Children would love for their parents to
53:35be moved by such a story. It seems that
53:39all of us go through seasons where we
53:41need a little bit of hanging.
53:45Hebrews 2:1 says, "Therefore, we ought
53:47to give more earnest heed to the things
53:50which we have heard, lest at any time we
53:53should let them slip." Familiarity
53:57doesn't always show up as open hatred.
54:00It has many offspring.
54:02contempt, treating the holy as precious,
54:06as treating the holy unprecious and is
54:10worthless. Broken hearts from neglect,
54:14wasted opportunities from assuming time
54:16will always be there. Procrastination
54:19says, "I'll do it tomorrow until
54:21tomorrow never comes." Familiarity
54:24doesn't rob you by taking things away.
54:27It robs you by making you take them for
54:30granted.
54:32Familiarity invented the yawn. He
54:35authored discontent.
54:37His mission is a thief.
54:44>> His mission as a thief is unique.
54:48>> The army of hell gave him his marching
54:51orders. Yeah.
54:52>> He has to take nothing from his victims,
54:55but to cause his victims to take
54:57everything for granted and see nothing
55:00as appreciated or sacred.
55:03>> You see, he's been hunting and haunting
55:06you for a long, long time.
55:08>> Actually, for many years, he is deadly
55:12but patient.
55:14>> He is willing to let time work at taking
55:16those valuable and precious things in
55:18your life. and painting them is only too
55:22common.
55:24Through procrastination, familiarity
55:26says you can always have opportunities.
55:30You can always do the things that are
55:32important. He wants to deaden our senses
55:35to the majesty of the moment. He wants
55:38to poison our ground
55:41until everything becomes just ordinary.
55:45Familiarity wants to paint your
55:48prettiest dress until it becomes just a
55:50bathrobe. He wants to cause romance to
55:53become routine and replace I love yous
55:56with pouting. He wants to scatter the
55:58dust of busyiness of life over your
56:01wedding photos until you walk down the
56:04halls never noticing the greatest events
56:07in your lifetime.
56:10Familiarity
56:12wants to steal the memory of the
56:15greatness of your salvation.
56:19>> He wants to rob you of the wonder of
56:21your worship.
56:24>> He wants to take your love for the word
56:27>> and your appreciation for church,
56:29>> your pastor. Yeah.
56:31>> Sometimes God allows what Lincoln called
56:34a little bit of hanging, a tragedy, a
56:36scare, a wakeup call so that we can
56:39remember the precious things that
56:41surround us in our lives.
56:44I pray that maybe this message today
56:47serves as a little bit of hanging for
56:49someone here that's become all too
56:52familiar with the greatest and most
56:54precious things in your life.
56:57Familiarity
56:59wants to steal the memory of the day you
57:01got saved and wants to paint your
57:03wonderful deliverance and restoration in
57:06the drabst of colors until you cannot
57:09remember Psalms 40 and two. You can't
57:12remember that great pit that God dug you
57:15out of. Come on.
57:19>> Familiarity wants you to take your
57:22pastor for granted and forget all the
57:25counseling sessions and all the time he
57:27was there for your children, all the
57:29hospitals and funerals and dedications.
57:32>> He wants you to take your prayer life
57:34for granted until you rarely pray
57:36anymore. He wants you to take the prayer
57:38room for granted until you forget that
57:41it even exists. He wants you to take
57:44your worship for granted and act as if
57:46it's forced. He wants the word to become
57:49so commonplace in your life that it lays
57:52dusty on a table or a chair unread. He
57:55wants you to take your altars for
57:57granted as if they'll always be there
57:59and you'll always have opportunity to
58:02repent. He wants you to lose the wonder
58:05of it all.
58:07>> Oh, don't you remember before
58:10familiarity picked your pocket? Come on.
58:13>> Don't you remember before familiarity
58:16robbed you? How in awe you were of
58:18preachers? How you appreciated the
58:21pastor that preached the truth to you?
58:23The church that prayed you through an
58:25altars, the saints that that mentored
58:27you and helped you and turned your life
58:30around, the Bible studies, the visit,
58:32the calls, the encouragement, the
58:35Christian school that salvaged your kids
58:37from the dangers of public school. The
58:40messages that put you in an altar
58:41weeping and changed your direction and
58:44saved you from making life's biggest
58:46mistakes. all the revivals that turned
58:50your life around and turned your family
58:52around.
58:56>> He wants you to take the revelation, the
58:59thoughtfulness and the gratitude and the
59:01revelation of this one God message. Oh,
59:04he wants you to take Jesus name and
59:06baptism for granted. 2 Corinthians 6
59:09and2 says, "Behold, now is the accepted
59:12time. Behold, now is the day of
59:14salvation. Don't let familiarity rob
59:17you. There's a thief in this house
59:20today. There's a big pocket in this
59:22house today. Ah, he's walking the aisles
59:25of this building, picking your pockets
59:27and robbing you of things more most
59:30precious
59:33before another chance sleeps slips away.
59:38Embrace your church.
59:41>> Cherish the people that sit around you.
59:43Above all,
59:45>> renew your love for the Lord.
59:49>> Oh, God.
59:52>> We need to lift our hands and worship
59:53the Lord. Just a minute. Musicians, come
59:55please. I'm not going to be much longer.
1:00:02[Music]
1:00:04>> Come on, somebody pray right now.
1:00:10Oh, somebody pray right now.
1:00:20Oh, familiarity wants to take away your
1:00:22love for your church. He wants to paint
1:00:25the saints that have loved you as unkind
1:00:28and uncaring. He wants you to forget how
1:00:30many times they prayed for you and wept
1:00:33over you into the night. He wants you to
1:00:35forget how many times that if somebody
1:00:37wouldn't have been praying for you, it
1:00:39wouldn't have turned out like it did. It
1:00:41could have been much, much, much worse.
1:00:45Don't let familiarity rob you today.
1:00:49Now is the time. Today is the day.
1:00:54This service is a wakeup call.
1:00:57Someone needs to yield to the spirit.
1:00:59Would you stand together and lift your
1:01:00hands?
1:01:02Come on. The Holy Ghost is here.
1:01:08[Music]
1:01:11Come on. The Holy Ghost is in this
1:01:12house.
1:01:15[Music]
1:01:22Come on. Something miraculous is trying
1:01:23to happen right now.
1:01:28[Applause]
1:01:29Why don't you bind somebody and pray
1:01:31with them right now?
1:01:34Oh Lord God,
1:01:37don't let familiarity pick my pocket
1:01:39today.
1:01:42Don't let my mad familiarity rob me of
1:01:45my wonder,
1:01:47the wonder of my conversion.
1:01:50Don't let me forget the awful pit God
1:01:52dug me out of.
1:01:55[Music]
1:01:55[Applause]
1:01:57[Music]
1:02:01Oh, Holy Ghost.
1:02:05Oh God, in the name of Jesus.
1:02:09[Music]
1:02:12Come on. Something's trying to happen in
1:02:14this place today.
1:02:18Woo. Something's trying to happen.
1:02:20Something's trying to break in the house
1:02:22today. Pray for somebody around you
1:02:24right now.
1:02:26Come on. Come on. Get a hold of somebody
1:02:28and pray with them.
1:02:30[Applause]
1:02:30[Music]
1:02:32Come on. Come on. There's a deep sense
1:02:33of conviction moving in the tabernacle.
1:02:37Come on. There's a deep sense of of
1:02:39conviction moving in the house. Thank
1:02:42you, God, for the church.
1:02:45Thank you, God, for the people of God.
1:02:49They're not perfect, but I don't know
1:02:50where I'd be without them, God.
1:02:53[Music]
1:02:56Thank God for every Bible study.
1:02:59Thank God for every prayer.
1:03:01[Music]
1:03:02Thank God for altars that are available.
1:03:06Thank God for altars and repentance. It
1:03:09won't always be here. The days coming
1:03:11the altars won't be here anymore.
1:03:15[Music]
1:03:20I'm opening these altars right now.
1:03:23I'm opening these altars right now. Come
1:03:25on. These altars are open.
1:03:30Why won't you come with somebody?
1:03:32The day is going to come these altars
1:03:34won't be open anymore.
1:03:36The day is going to come you're going to
1:03:38be given the last altar call you'll ever
1:03:40hear. I don't know when that day is
1:03:42coming, but one of these days you're
1:03:44going to get your last. I'm begging
1:03:46everybody to come. Please bring somebody
1:03:49with you to these altars.
1:03:51I'm asking everybody to come. Please
1:03:54bring somebody with you.
1:03:57[Music]
1:03:59Holy Ghost,
1:04:01>> come on. There's something miraculous
1:04:02trying to happen in this house.
1:04:05>> Take me back, dear Lord God.
1:04:10To the place
1:04:14where I first.
1:04:15>> Come on. Convictions trying to fall in
1:04:17this house today.
1:04:21>> Come on. You make sure you step forward.
1:04:23Open the aisles up. There's others
1:04:25trying to get in behind you.
1:04:27Open these eyes up where others can get
1:04:29in behind you in these altars.
1:04:32>> God,
1:04:35>> God, don't let me take my children for
1:04:37granted.
1:04:39>> God, don't let me take my children in my
1:04:40home for granted. God,
1:04:44>> you've given me such a gift in my
1:04:46family.
1:04:48>> Don't let me take my spouse for granted.
1:04:51God, where I first received you,
1:04:55>> Holy Ghost, Oh, take me back.
1:04:58>> Take me back, Holy Ghost.
1:05:01Take me, take me back,
1:05:07>> where I first believe.
1:05:10>> Yes, Holy Ghost.
1:05:13>> I want to go
1:05:15back.
1:05:17[Music]
1:05:19>> Oh, God.
1:05:21Jesus, Holy Ghost.
1:05:25to
1:05:27the place of God. Don't let me take my
1:05:30children for granted.
1:05:34>> God, remind me that my children are a
1:05:36gift from you.
1:05:39>> They can be taken from me so easily.
1:05:44You're first
1:05:46believe
1:05:49and I want to go back Jesus.
1:05:55Oh Lord,
1:05:56>> come on. The Holy Ghost is here. Bring
1:05:58me backord.
1:06:00>> Come on. Respond to the move of the
1:06:02spirit that's in this house.
1:06:04>> I receive you.
1:06:06>> Come on, respond to the move of the
1:06:08spirit that's in the tabernacle right
1:06:10now.
1:06:13God, remind me of the precious things.
1:06:18[Applause]
1:06:20>> Holy Ghost,
1:06:25God,
1:06:27take me. Take me.
1:06:29>> My God, in the name of Jesus,
1:06:32take me. Come on. The Holy Ghost is
1:06:34doing a work right now.
1:06:39Come on. The Holy Ghost is doing a great
1:06:40great work in this house right now.
1:06:43[Music]
1:06:48Come on. A great work is being
1:06:50accomplished.
1:06:52[Music]
1:06:55Holy Ghost.
1:06:56[Applause]
1:06:58Oh, Holy Ghost.
1:07:01[Applause]
1:07:02[Music]
1:07:06God. God. God in your name.
1:07:10God in your name.
1:07:13God by the power of your blood.
1:07:18Come on. The Holy Ghost is working right
1:07:19now. Cry out. Somebody reach out right
1:07:21now.
1:07:27God.
1:07:31God, don't let me take the most precious
1:07:33things for granted.
1:07:36God, don't let me become so familiar
1:07:38with the greatest gifts
1:07:41that I lose them, Lord.
1:07:44God.
1:07:46[Music]
1:07:51[Music]
1:07:52Woo. God.
1:07:55God. God remind me.
1:07:59Don't let me pick my pocket. God,
1:08:03[Music]
1:08:06don't let familiarity rob me right
1:08:08before my eyes.
1:08:11God,
1:08:11>> take me back to Jesus.
1:08:13>> Get hold of me. God, remind me of the
1:08:15wonder.
1:08:17>> The wonder of receiving the Holy Ghost,
1:08:21>> the wonder of being baptized in Jesus
1:08:23name.
1:08:24>> I first received.
1:08:25>> Remind me. Let me remember when my
1:08:27burdens were rolled away.
1:08:29>> I want to go back.
1:08:31God to that place belonged
1:08:35[Music]
1:08:37where first.
1:08:42Oh, I need you, Lord, to take me back.
1:08:48Oh, I want to go back, Jesus,
1:08:54to that place where I I first receive
1:09:00you. Take me, take me, take me back,
1:09:04Lord.
1:09:06Take me back, Jesus.
1:09:10Oh, where I I first believe
1:09:16I want to go. Want to go back home. Take
1:09:22me back to that place where I
1:09:28where I first found you. Where I first
1:09:31received you, Jesus.
1:09:35Take me back. Jesus,
1:09:39I want to go
1:09:43where I first
1:09:45first believe.
1:09:47[Music]
1:09:49I want to go.
1:09:53>> Come on, let's spend some time within
1:09:55this altar today.
1:09:57Let's don't rush away. Let's don't rush
1:09:59out. Let's spend time with the master.
1:10:04>> Come on. Let's spend time with the Lord.
1:10:08>> Take me there. Take me back. Take me
1:10:13back home
1:10:15[Applause]
1:10:17where I
1:10:19[Music]
1:10:22want to go.
1:10:28Take me back. Take me back.
1:10:32[Music]
1:10:37I first received you.
1:10:40I want to go back.
1:10:45I want to go
1:10:47back. Jesus
1:10:50where I first believe.
1:10:55Now
1:10:57I want to know.
1:11:02I want to go
1:11:05to the place
1:11:08where I first first received you. And I
1:11:13want to go.
1:11:17I won't go back, Lord. Where I where I
1:11:23where I first be.
1:11:27Lead me, Lord.
1:11:30Lead me, Lord. back.
1:11:32>> Come on, let's give God some time in
1:11:34this altar.
1:11:36>> Come on. He's still reaching for
1:11:38somebody.
1:11:40>> Come on, let's give God some time in
1:11:42this altar. He's still reaching.
1:11:45>> Oh, the things more most precious.
1:11:49All the things most precious
1:11:53to the place.
1:11:53>> Oh, remind me God of the things most
1:11:56precious.
1:11:57>> Where you brought me.
1:12:01I want to go. I want to go and
1:12:06take me back. Jesus
1:12:10where I first
1:12:13[Music]
1:12:22Heat. Heat.
1:12:24[Music]
1:12:32[Applause]
1:12:34Take me back. Take me back.
1:12:38Take me back
1:12:42where I
1:12:44[Music]
1:12:50want to go back.
1:12:53[Music]
1:12:54I want to go back home
1:12:58to the place
1:13:01where I see I
1:13:05[Music]
1:13:06[Applause]
1:13:08[Music]
1:13:19take
1:13:22Give me back.
1:13:36[Music]
1:13:42Oh
1:13:46my god.
1:13:52[Music]
1:14:12Heat. Heat.
1:14:16[Music]
1:14:24[Music]
1:14:40Come on. There's people seeking the Holy
1:14:41Ghost.
1:14:44Come on. There's people seeking the Holy
1:14:45Ghost.
1:14:48Come on, Pine Grove. There's people
1:14:50still seeking.
1:14:53Come on, Pine Grove. There's people
1:14:54still
1:14:56[Music]
1:15:01[Applause]
1:15:02[Music]
1:15:16[Applause]
1:15:19Heat.
1:15:24[Music]
1:15:32[Applause]
1:15:36Heat.
1:15:39[Music]
1:15:43Heat.
1:15:44[Music]
1:15:55Heat.
1:16:01[Music]
1:16:05I want Jesus.
1:16:12Come on, let's lift our hands and
1:16:14magnify him.
1:16:17Come on, lift your hands and magnify
1:16:19him.
1:16:23Come on, lift your hands and magnify the
1:16:25Lord
1:16:30my God in Jesus name.
1:16:35[Music]
1:16:40My God in the name of Jesus.
1:16:44[Music]
1:16:46Oh hallelujah.
1:16:54Oh precious Lord. Precious Lord Jesus.
1:16:58[Music]
1:17:33[Applause]
1:17:34Come on, let's lift our hands. Everybody
1:17:36lifting your hands together.
1:17:39Come on, everybody. Everybody lifting
1:17:42your hands together.
1:17:44Come on, let's magnify the Lord.
1:17:49Come on. Come on, would you praise him
1:17:50together right now?
1:17:54Come on. Would you praise the Lord
1:17:55together right now?
1:18:00Oh, I magnify you, Jesus.
1:18:08[Music]
1:18:43Come Come on. That's it. Lift your hands
1:18:45and magnify him.
1:18:47Come on, lift your hands and magnify him
1:18:49right now.
1:19:03[Music]
1:19:11Hallelujah. We're about to baptize Becky
1:19:13Creel right now in the name of Jesus
1:19:15Christ for the remission of her sins. In
1:19:18the name of Jesus,
1:19:20[Applause]
1:19:28[Music]
1:19:45Heat.
1:19:49[Music]
1:19:56Heat.
1:20:03Take me back.
1:20:07Take me back.
1:20:10[Music]
1:20:12Take me back.
1:20:14[Music]
1:20:15[Applause]
1:20:15[Music]
1:20:31[Music]
1:20:40Heat up here.
1:20:50[Music]
1:20:58[Applause]
1:20:59[Music]
1:21:04Heat
1:21:10up here.
1:21:16[Music]
1:21:28Heat.
1:21:33Heat.
1:21:40Heat
1:21:41[Music]
1:21:43[Applause]
1:21:46[Music]
1:21:53up
1:21:57here.
1:22:00[Music]
1:22:15Heat. Heat.
1:22:19[Music]
1:22:40Heat
1:22:42Heat
1:22:45[Music]
1:22:56up here.
1:22:57[Music]
1:23:07Heat
1:23:11[Music]
1:23:21up here.
1:23:27[Music]
1:23:47Heat.
1:23:49Heat.
1:23:51[Music]
1:24:06Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Why don't we
1:24:08lift our hands and thank God for what
1:24:11he's done in this place today? Can we do
1:24:12that? Would you lift your hands and
1:24:14thank the Lord?
1:24:17Come on. Thank God for what he's done in
1:24:18this place.
1:24:20[Music]
1:24:23Come on. Thank God for what he's done in
1:24:24the house today.
1:24:27[Music]
1:24:32Oh, I thank you, Jesus.
1:24:36Oh, I thank you, Holy Ghost.
1:24:39Thank you, God, for your goodness and
1:24:41your mercy.
1:24:44Oh, thank you, God, for your goodness
1:24:46and your mercy.
1:24:51Yes, Lord.
1:24:54Yes, Lord.
1:24:58My my my
1:25:00[Music]
1:25:06thank you, Holy Ghost.
1:25:09How many appreciate the Holy Ghost
1:25:11that's been in this place today?
1:25:14Why don't we just give the Lord a good
1:25:15hand clap of praise?
1:25:19Come on, just give the Lord a good hand
1:25:21clap, everybody.
1:25:23[Music]
1:25:28Oh, thank you, Jesus.
1:25:31[Applause]
1:25:34Oh, thank you, Jesus.
1:25:37[Music]
1:25:41my my
1:25:45Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. We love you,
1:25:47Jesus.
1:25:50We appreciate the goodness and the mercy
1:25:52of God.
1:25:56Don't you appreciate the goodness and
1:25:58the mercy of the Lord?
1:26:03[Music]
1:26:08Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
1:26:12[Music]
1:26:15Brother,
1:26:16[Music]
1:26:19where's brother? Where's brother Josh
1:26:20Campbell? I saw him while ago. There he
1:26:22is. Y'all didn't know he had a baby, did
1:26:25you?
1:26:28I want you to know we appreciate you
1:26:29being here this weekend. We miss you
1:26:31when you're out of town. Love you.
1:26:35[Music]
1:26:38I tell you,
1:26:41somebody else I want to
1:26:43appreciate
1:26:45is uh
1:26:48I want to I want to appreciate the Snout
1:26:50family.
1:26:51[Music]
1:26:55It it took a it took a lot of courage
1:26:59for them to uproot their life,
1:27:02leave Louisiana and move here.
1:27:05And um I'm going to tell you what God's
1:27:07going to do.
1:27:09He's He's going to give them the home of
1:27:10their dreams.
1:27:12He's going to give them the jobs of
1:27:14their dreams.
1:27:18Yeah.
1:27:20I'm speaking into an existence right now
1:27:22in faith. I'm speaking it in faith.
1:27:28I want I want them to know that. And I
1:27:30went back and told him, I said, "You
1:27:31don't turn a ship around that's been
1:27:33headed one direction for 20 or 25 years
1:27:36and turn it and it just everything come
1:27:39together overnight.
1:27:41Sometimes it takes a year or two or
1:27:43three or four. But the day will come
1:27:45that they'll they'll know they made the
1:27:48right decision to move to a great
1:27:50church. They could have moved anywhere
1:27:52in the world and they came here for a
1:27:54great church. So, I appreciate them and
1:27:57I want this church family just to wrap
1:28:00them up and love them, pray for them,
1:28:03invite them over, drink coffee with
1:28:04them, make them feel a part of what's
1:28:07going on right here. They they made a
1:28:09lot of sacrifices to be with us. How
1:28:11many of you work to make sure these
1:28:13people feel loved by this church family?
1:28:16[Music]
1:28:19Please don't forget, please don't forget
1:28:22second service at 3:00. Sunday school
1:28:24service at 3:00. There's a meal prepared
1:28:26right now. God bless you. Eat lunch with
1:28:29us and let's come back at 3:00 to have
1:28:31church. God bless you in Jesus name.
1:28:40Thank you for joining us here at Pine
1:28:42Grove. We pray that you felt the
1:28:44presence of God wherever you're at. If
1:28:46you enjoyed the service, we'd love for
1:28:47you to reach out. Also, shoot us a
1:28:49follow on Instagram, Facebook, and
1:28:52YouTube. Check out the website,
1:28:53pgpc.net,
1:28:55for ways to connect, submit a prayer
1:28:57request, or plan your next visit. Until
1:29:00next time, walk in faith. We'll see you
1:29:02again soon.

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