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0:00I want you to welcome hey remember the
0:02Jerry Jones our general secretary of the
0:03United Pentecostal church to Portway put
0:05your hands together a man magnet
0:07fountain praise God Oh hallelujah let's
0:12praise the lord for his wonderful
0:14presence here today thank you Jesus we
0:18praise You Lord we worship you what a
0:21great honor to be in Parkway again I'm
0:23so appreciative the opportunity to come
0:26and spend some time with you once again
0:29I'm of course I'm so thrilled to be with
0:32the dillons we love these folks kinfolk
0:35but we still love them amen and what a
0:39wonderful work what a what a what a
0:42consistency a commitment to truth and
0:46you are the result of their commitment
0:50to god I'm thankful for this this great
0:53church man what a beautiful building it
0:58was all imaginary last time I was here
1:00now there were the outer walls were up
1:03but we went through it by the Dillon
1:05says this is where this is going to be
1:07and that's and I'd nod and say yeah yeah
1:09but I couldn't see it all but now here
1:12it is and what a joy how blessed you are
1:15thank you for your commitment your
1:19willingness to follow and pour your
1:22lives into this great work of the
1:24kingdom of God's good to be part of the
1:27United Pentecostal church part of what
1:29God is doing around the world a great
1:32outpouring of his spirit were so
1:35appreciative of of God at work hundreds
1:40of thousands filled with the Holy Ghost
1:42new efforts being established now some
1:46two hundred and five nations and
1:48territories that have a witness a
1:51oneness apostolic witness and we're
1:54appreciative
1:56of being part of what God is doing a man
1:59state line is our home church I I've
2:05been looking into the history of our
2:08church a little and I've been
2:10particularly interested lately in a
2:12revival that happened there it's when
2:14brother Travis Scott the Holy Ghost
2:17six-week revival church every night when
2:21it was done 119 had been filled with the
2:23Holy Ghost this was in 1952 when
2:27revivals of eight or ten were considered
2:30big revivals Church probably didn't have
2:32more than 70 in it maybe 80 so the
2:36church nearly doubled in that revival
2:38many many teenagers filled with the Holy
2:41Ghost that served God all their lives
2:43many of them in their 80s now and I was
2:46able to call some of them and get their
2:50remembrances of that great revival you
2:53know God's the same today he's the same
2:57today he still wants to pour his spirit
3:00out he still wants to send revival and
3:03our God is able to do exceeding
3:07abundantly above above beyond what we
3:13could ask or even think I want to I want
3:18to turn to first Peter chapter 3
3:21I'm gonna read one verse there the 20th
3:25which sometime were disobedient that
3:31doesn't mean they were occasionally
3:34disobedient it's referring to a
3:37particular time in the days before the
3:40flood who were in that time disobedient
3:45the Old Testament says their
3:49imaginations were evil continually when
3:53once the long-suffering of God waited in
4:01the days of Noah while the ark was a
4:05preparing wherein few that is eight
4:11souls were saved
4:16by water what I want to preach this
4:19morning is this what I would ask if I
4:25were buying the arc god bless you thank
4:28you so much please be seated
4:34now I want you to use your imagination
4:37and with me and you'll you'll have to
4:40really use your imagination I know the
4:44premise is even a little bit silly but
4:47just stay with me here just a minute
4:48just suppose and that after the ark
4:52landed it on the peak of Ararat and
4:56knowing his family came down to the
4:59wreckage of the world and Noah got to
5:03thinking about that our kin got to
5:05thinking about that rainbow in the sky
5:08that was God's promise that he would
5:11never send a flood to destroy the world
5:15so Noah decided I don't need the ark
5:19anymore so I'm going to sell the ark now
5:25I i know i know that's a stretch because
5:28after all the market was a little
5:29limited there weren't but seven that
5:34could have potentially bought the art at
5:37the time but but bear with me and let's
5:40just suppose that Noah decided to sell
5:43the ark and he goes down to the local
5:45boat trader magazine and he puts in an
5:48ad for sale one slightly used ark and it
6:01catches our attention and we decide that
6:04we're interested i'm going to buy the
6:08ark now i have to confess here today
6:11that i don't know a lot about boats I i
6:19I've not owned a boat I don't know well
6:23I did on the little kind of little
6:26Luminum boat one time but i don't really
6:29know a whole lot but have brothers and
6:32laws and I have cousins that know
6:34something about boats and I had to get a
6:38little help on some of this but here's
6:41what i've discovered if you're going to
6:43buy a used boat there's
6:45questions you better ask there's some
6:50things you need to find out before you
6:54buy that boat and here here's what I've
6:58discovered about those questions the
7:00questions you would ask depend on what
7:04use you plan to put the boat to for
7:09example if I were going to buy a
7:11freshwater bass boat I would ask
7:16questions like does it have a fish
7:19finder now if you're a fisherman like me
7:22and not like brother Dylan you need a
7:25fish finder another question might be
7:30does it have a live well for all those
7:34fish I'm going to catch I need a place
7:37to put them someone someone told me a
7:42friend of mine said ask that's gotta sit
7:44low does it may know what that is they
7:47said it's something that allows that
7:49boat to sit lower in the water so you
7:51could pull those big lunkers oh I don't
7:54know but you ought to ask some questions
7:57now if I were going to go fishing in the
8:00saltwater now that would be a whole
8:02different thing I would need to ask
8:04questions like how does it handle rough
8:07water does it have a large fish storage
8:14box and if I'm going to go out in the
8:17Gulf there's one I'm going to ask does
8:19it have a GPS because I'm going out
8:25there I want to get back home now if
8:28you're a if you're if you're looking at
8:30a pleasure boat you'd have a whole
8:32different set of questions how powerful
8:35is it will it pull more than one skier
8:37at a time now if you're like me this is
8:39an important question does it have a top
8:41to keep the Sun off your head now I
8:48could go on and on about questions you
8:50ought to ask but I think you're getting
8:53the point now if I were in the market
8:57for the arc if I
8:59met mr. Noah and I was asking about
9:02buying the ark I have to confess I
9:06wouldn't care if it had a bimini top or
9:08the latest radar devices I wouldn't be
9:12interested in its luxury amenities its
9:15fishing features how powerful how many
9:19skiers how fast it would go in fact I
9:22think if I were buying the ark I would
9:25only have one question will this boat
9:30float in a flood because friend nothing
9:37else matters about the ark unless it
9:41will rise above the waters of the storm
9:45and take me safe to the other side of
9:49the flood will it float when the flood
9:54comes that's all that matters the ark
9:58was 450 feet long 75 feet wide 45 feet
10:04high the total volume of the ark was 1
10:08million five hundred thousand cubic feet
10:12it's gross tonnage was more than 14,000
10:16tons it had a deck space of ninety seven
10:20thousand seven hundred square feet if
10:24you calculate what it needed to save
10:27every animal that needed saving it would
10:31be about 35,000 vertebrate with an
10:36average size of that of an adult sheep
10:40it would take a hundred and fifty modern
10:45boxcars on a train to carry all those
10:49animals but you could get not a hundred
10:53and fifty boxcars but you could get five
10:56hundred and twenty bucks cars in the ark
11:01there's room in the ark for everybody
11:05that wants to go put every animal in it
11:09and you could still get every
11:11npn that was interested in going one
11:15window one door that arc was filled with
11:21animals and hopefully people and then
11:25God plan to shut the door but the length
11:29of it and the height of it and the width
11:32of it and it's it's a total tonnage and
11:36it's a square or cubic footage none of
11:39that mattered what mattered was when the
11:42rain came and the florida began to rise
11:47and the deep bro kappa there came that
11:52moment when the ark rosa from the
11:55surface of the earth rocking back and
11:58forth a-- it began to rise above the
12:02waves and it carried its precious cargo
12:08into their destiny ladies and gentlemen
12:12what matters is will it float when the
12:16flood comes now you all know of course
12:21that the art is representative of the
12:25church that the Ark is the method of
12:30salvation in that time today our Ark is
12:37the Church of the Living God there were
12:41many boats in that day surely they had
12:44lakes and rivers and an ocean nearby and
12:48they understood the principle of a boat
12:51but none of them floated when the flood
12:54came mr. Noah there's coming a Florida
12:59to our day and what I'm interested in is
13:03a place to get my family a place to get
13:07my own heart and my life a place that
13:11when the flood comes up that will flow
13:15to regardless of what I face my question
13:20today is will your church
13:23ohta when the flood comes up nothing
13:27else' matters I'm not saying that some
13:37things aren't important in themselves my
13:42what a beautiful building how
13:45comfortable carpet padded chairs and air
13:50conditioning and we didn't have that in
13:53those early days of staying I no no
13:58pastor and and his team that care about
14:01you and look out for you programs i
14:06thank god for programs pester taking me
14:10through and and uh this this room is for
14:13this age and this room is for that age
14:15and one day we want every age group to
14:18have their own I thank God for that a
14:20nursery sin and this is where the young
14:22people gathering this for the choir
14:24practice at all hey all that's
14:27incredible it's awesome I had news for
14:29you there's somebody with a bigger
14:31building there's maybe somebody with a
14:39nicer building there's somebody with
14:43better programs I can't imagine it but
14:46maybe somebody with better singers and
14:49better music and and if that's what
14:52matters you keep shopping for the rest
14:56of your life I come to tell you that
14:58stuff is wonderful but what really
15:01matters is when the flood comes will
15:06this boat float when the water rises and
15:11the rain comes down will it float in a
15:18flood there's church on every corner and
15:26they're all competing for our attention
15:29and I'm going to get a little playing
15:32here I don't wanna hurt nobody's
15:34feelings but you can find somebody
15:37to agree with anything you want to
15:40believe I don't care how wild how weird
15:45there's something out there that'll say
15:48yeah yeah I believe that you just come
15:51on here you'll feel right at home but it
15:54isn't about somebody agreeing with what
15:57I want to believe what it's about is
16:01when the flood comes if I read the Bible
16:10right only the art floated everything
16:14else went straight to the bottom I don't
16:17want to gamble with what really matters
16:19I don't want to take a chance I I want
16:22to be sure that when the water rises
16:25that my boat is gonna float then my
16:29church is gonna stand up that my belief
16:32is in line with the word of god I want
16:38to float in the flood I don't care how
16:43many books he wrote I don't care how
16:45many watches his TV show I don't care
16:48how slick his hairdo I don't care how
16:50expensive his suit I don't care if he
16:53owns a jet or not I want to be sure my
16:56preacher preaches what the Word of God
16:59says because what matters is win the
17:04trouble comes
17:09and need I tell you that the flood is
17:13coming you cannot follow the news you
17:19cannot look around you and not realize
17:22surely that the end of time is drawing
17:25near the German is going to fall on our
17:28beloved nation that the wrath of God
17:31will be poured out I'm not here to scare
17:34anybody but my job is to preach the word
17:37and if the word is true a flawed is
17:41coming up the crowds are now gather Anna
17:44the first drops of rain pal to gets the
17:49windows it's time to realize a flood a
17:54judgment is coming when the imagination
18:00is evil continually the flood is coming
18:04when violence fills and a flood is
18:09coming ladies and gentlemen per wind
18:12perversion is no longer permitted but
18:16rather promoted a flood is coming up
18:20this world is not our home we're just a
18:25passing oh it will come to a cataclysmic
18:31end and then the only thing that matters
18:35are you in a boat this gonna fly when
18:40the flood come hey here's my question
18:50how did he know it would float that
18:57never been a flood it had never when the
19:11old preacher got up and started
19:12preaching about water falling from the
19:15sky about the rivers overflowing their
19:18banks on the lakes washing out into the
19:22fields
19:23they didn't know what he was talking
19:25about your crazy preacher I'm 50 years
19:30old I never seen nothing like that that
19:34ain't gonna happen I sound like
19:38conspiracy theory to me that's crazy how
19:48did he know I mean it's not like he
19:52could prototype the thing it's not like
19:56he understood them the tensile strength
20:00of the wood and the the dynamics of the
20:03rushing water the flow over the mountain
20:07peaks the dangers that the flood would
20:11bring because there had never been a
20:13flood he couldn't get on the internet
20:17and Google flood and figure out how to
20:21build a boat that would float when the
20:25flood comes how could he know far as I
20:31know he was a preacher not a boat
20:33builder he didn't he didn't know he
20:36didn't know about the golden mean he
20:38didn't know about proportions about how
20:40long and high and and widen and how to
20:42get that proper how to get that proper a
20:45vol of the boat that would allow that
20:49would to float regardless of the
20:51stresses and strains of the rushing
20:54water there was no he wasn't educated
20:56that way he wasn't trained that way how
20:59could he know the Pope would float
21:01friends I don't want to guess I don't
21:06want to just hope I want to know that
21:11the boat i'm in is gonna float when the
21:15flood comes me tell you something it
21:20matters he invested 120 years of his
21:22life in this labor he invested his red
21:28mutation in this work they laughed at
21:32him they made fun of him the Bible
21:34implies rather heavily that it caused
21:37people to to to ridicule what he was
21:41doing to rejected speak against it made
21:45it tough on his boys going to spray
21:50what's your daddy building in the
21:52pasture out he's a hundred miles from
21:56the nearest body of water that's a boat
21:59ain't nobody it was some estimate it
22:02might have been the largest structure
22:03ever built up till that time that
22:06preachers crazy but he invested more
22:12than his time and he invested more than
22:14his reputation more even than his wealth
22:18he invested his family's future because
22:25my friends it wasn't just saving those
22:28animals that could not save themselves
22:30in a flood his boys would be on that
22:33boat his daughters in law would be on
22:37that boat his wife would be on that boat
22:42some things you just don't want to take
22:45a chance on you want to be sure so how
22:52could he be sure couldn't prototype it
22:56he didn't know how to design it he
22:59didn't know what kind of materials would
23:00stand the stresses of a flood there was
23:03no way to duplicate it there was no way
23:05to figure it out he had no computers he
23:08had nobody that had any experience there
23:11were no experts there was no way how did
23:15he know he knew because he built it
23:24according to the Word of God
23:34god knows how to build boats God knows
23:38that gopher wood is strong enough God
23:41knew that three stories was right God
23:44knew one door in one window was perfect
23:47God knew how to pitch it inside and
23:51outside with pitcher God knew about the
23:54golden mean and the length and the
23:56breadth and the height God knew what it
23:59would take for that boat to float and
24:01Noah said if God said it that settles it
24:05for me and I'm gonna build it like the
24:08word San till that time because only
24:11boats built according to the word are
24:15gonna float in a flawed I don't want
24:19preachers opinion I don't want polling
24:22data I don't want the latest ideas huh I
24:26don't want pop culture I don't want
24:28political correctness I want to know
24:31what does the Bible say and I want to
24:35build my boat according to the Bible
24:39because I wanted to float
24:48you're my shock I I'm preaching to
24:51somebody right now doesn't matter what I
24:53think doesn't matter what you think my
24:55opinion isn't important and neither is
24:58yours but what matters what does the
25:01book say what does the Bible teacher I
25:05want to do it according to the Word of
25:09God we come from a day where they made
25:17fun of folks who raised their hands in
25:19church they made fun of folks who
25:22clapped their hands in church they made
25:24fun of aisle runners and damn the spirit
25:28they made fun of tongue talkers and holy
25:31livers they made fun of those who dared
25:34model their life after the Word of God
25:37but we didn't care because it was in the
25:41balke and we wanted to live our lives by
25:45the book now they quit mocking us and
25:52they joined us now they raise their
25:55hands they clap their hands they'll sway
25:57with the music they'll even do a little
25:59jig for Jesus huh they'll get themselves
26:01involved but frienda didn't part of it
26:04you can't say this much and no more it
26:08takes what the book says men and
26:11brethren what shall we do r up here top
26:15and be baptized every one of you in the
26:20name of Jesus Christ for the remission
26:23of sins and you shall receive the gift
26:28of the Holy goals
26:37you are free to say that's not in the
26:42book you are free to do what I was
26:47sitting in a church and heard the
26:49preacher do and when the day of
26:51Pentecost was fully come he until they
26:53were all in one a place it in one accord
26:56with our court in one place when
26:58suddenly there came a sound from heaven
27:00that filled all the house where they
27:03were sitting and they were all filled
27:05with the Holy goat and he stopped and he
27:10closed his Bible and he preached his
27:14whole sermon and he never read the rest
27:17of the verse that he stopped in the
27:19middle of because it said and began to
27:23speak in other tongues as the Spirit of
27:27God gave them the utterance I you can
27:30pick and choose if you want to you can
27:33find a church that won't challenge you
27:35you can find a church that will say
27:37that's not necessary but hear me the
27:41question is do you want the boat to
27:43float and if you want the boat to flip
27:46can't pick and choose you gotta take
27:50what the word says and you gotta do what
27:55the word says you can't live in your way
28:06do any old thing dress in the old way
28:12you can't conduct your life according to
28:15the world's standards you can't let
28:18Hollywood decide what your morals will
28:21be and Paris and Madison Avenue decide
28:25how you're gonna look you gotta get in
28:28the pages of the book huh and you gotta
28:31build your life according to the book
28:34ladies and gentlemen it's about floating
28:37in the Florida
28:38and the floods are coming up it's more
28:41important now than ever be sure you
28:44build it by the book no I'm gonna need
28:53to quit there's so much to say to my
28:59shock i M de la Monde area makeba show
29:03Monda hi Emma don't be fooled don't be
29:08cured as way astray with every wind of
29:10doctrine you gotta make up your mind
29:12only one boats gonna float that's not
29:15you pc da that's not my let's not
29:17parkway dr and that's not pastor Dylan
29:19is doctrine that we didn't dream that up
29:21there's one Lord there's one faith
29:24there's one that is as there is one God
29:28above all through all and in you all
29:32that's the word of god I tell you stand
29:39with me sailing miamor I'm gonna try to
29:42bring this in it's an amazing thing to
29:45me because when I talk about the flood
29:52it it's so it's so overwhelming the
29:56world we live in we're getting older but
30:00Dylan and you know I love those songs
30:04you picked now I like the songs picked
30:07but I really like the ones you pick yeah
30:17we come from a different place and it's
30:21just um I'll be honest I just don't it's
30:27the country I live in I don't I don't
30:30recognize this world I live it
30:36we're from a day you couldn't say
30:38pregnant in a public gathering that was
30:41a that was a word you just you didn't
30:42say that I wish we were a little more
30:48proper and prim I hear stuff in public
30:51discourse I my daddy was a roughneck in
30:54the oil field before he came to go well
30:56even after he came to God before he came
30:58to God my daddy used pretty rough
30:59language he hadn't ever said some of the
31:01stuff they say on the internets they say
31:03on on the news and stuff I understand it
31:09all I can tell you is we're near the
31:14flood and it is more important than it
31:19ever has been that you gather up your
31:21family and you get them in the boat
31:29I know he even the New Testament
31:32comments on how few were saved only
31:34eight people but to me that's not the
31:41that's really not the remarkable aspect
31:44that only were saved but that eight were
31:47because all they had was the word of a
31:50preacher describing events that had
31:53never happened before they could look
31:59around in their entire history and their
32:01dads history and their granddad's
32:03history and their great granddad's
32:05history nothing like that had ever
32:06happened and here came a preacher saying
32:11if you don't get in my boat you're not
32:15going to make it
32:22those boys went to school and I'm sure
32:25they were made fun of in their little
32:27playmates I'm sure thought they their
32:30daddy was crazy and and I'm sure they
32:32heard all of that kind of stuff you
32:34don't have to do that they'd hear it all
32:37day but then when school was out they'd
32:39go home and they'd buckle on their their
32:42hammer in their nail Belton had go out
32:45there and help daddy build the park
32:47because they believe the flood was
32:49coming they bought into it they believed
32:59his wife believed her husband's
33:02preaching she didn't that she knew he
33:05wouldn't greatly the ones that I find
33:10really remarkable were the
33:11daughters-in-law their own moms and dads
33:14didn't believe it they no doubt had
33:17siblings who did not believe but they
33:22felt something when the old man preached
33:27something happened when he described the
33:29water that's gonna fall from the sky and
33:34that you got to be in the boat
33:37you can't be playing around outside of
33:39it you can't you can't be standing by
33:42the door you can't even pop in and go
33:45back out every once in a while you got
33:49to move in you got it you gotta you
33:52gotta get on board you gotta be part of
33:54this you gotta get in the boat because
33:58we look back and we know that he God
34:01called him in and they went in and then
34:02for seven days the door stayed open and
34:05then after seven days God we know that
34:07looking back they didn't know when that
34:09door was going closed
34:13they just knew one of these days we will
34:16have preached our last sermon boys we
34:20will have sung or less oh we would have
34:26made our last off
34:29thought our last home Bible study would
34:32have reached for our last neighbor and
34:38when they heard the door and saw the
34:41hand of God
34:53let me broaden it from
34:59let me turn your minds from that
35:01cataclysmic end of time event is coming
35:05to her we might have one day said it was
35:09for some future generation but now we
35:11know it is nears tomorrow's sunrise the
35:17door may slams shut at any moment the
35:20Trump sound in the voice of the
35:22Archangel echo and the dead in Christ
35:26rise and we that are alive and remain
35:27caught up in the moment in the twinkling
35:30of an eye we know that could be right
35:33now
35:39what about the storms that come to each
35:43of us the open gray sad farewells in the
35:48hospital rooms and the operating Suites
35:53what about the family trials in the way
35:56were children in the broken hearts the
35:58shattered dreams in the hopes that never
36:00come true what about the floods that
36:05come to each of my friends you need to
36:10be in a boat little flow when the flood
36:13comes you need to be part of something
36:17that will endure when all things change
36:20and the Sun is no longer to be found in
36:24the rains fall and the waters rise you
36:29need a place where you're safe the Bible
36:33uses metaphors to try to describe it to
36:35a strong tower and the righteous runneth
36:38into it and our say under his wings and
36:43in his arms and in the boat in the boat
36:58so here's my question
37:03will it float in a flood will your faith
37:07endure when the test comes is your
37:11commitment strong enough that regardless
37:13of how deep the waters above the
37:16mountaintops no matter the surges and
37:20the tides and the dynamic forces the
37:25twist and would destroy
37:29will your boat float when the flood come
37:32mr. Noah
37:35what I'm interested in okay I
37:39comfortable it is I don't care how much
37:41you have to cook charged me I don't I
37:43don't care about the cost I don't care
37:45about the sacrifice I don't care about
37:47any of that but what I care about I want
37:54to save my family
37:56I want to save my friends I want my
37:58neighbors to be saved I want to be saved
38:03so I don't care about all the other but
38:06here's how will it float will it float
38:10please tell me there's a way please tell
38:14me there is a boat that will flow
38:18in flood come on Melvin like the word
38:25don't be ashamed to be what the Bible
38:28teaches us to be make up your mind that
38:32if mama don't go I'm gonna be in the
38:34boat if my daddy don't go I'm on being
38:38fun if I made fun of if they mock me if
38:41there's dong dark nights without even
38:45the stars I'm gonna be in the boat I
38:49want to be in the boat I want to be
38:52saved I'm gonna be saved if the preacher
38:58never shakes my hand if I don't get to
39:00sing in the choir if I never get any
39:03attention at all be saved I want to be
39:09saved I want to be saved
39:13I want the boat that will flow in a
39:17flood would you join us nobody's gonna
39:21bother you don't have to be Pentecostal
39:25don't have to be religious don't have
39:27permission don't have to be anything but
39:29somebody that knows there's a flood
39:32coming
39:34and I want to be in the boat that will
39:35flow so I in voy invite you everyone who
39:40had care to let spend some time talking
39:43to the Lord

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