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"Why You Should Go To Church", Rev. Caleb Adams | 09/24/2024 — Transcript

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0:00e
0:55thank you for joining us online for
0:56miracle midweek at fpcnlr we have a few
0:59announcements we would like to share
1:00with you about the rest of this week at
1:01First Pentecostal
1:12Church my name is Brina Randall we are
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1:45following events we want to invite you
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1:49service this Wednesday night at our
1:51North Hills campus service begins at 7.m
2:11please join us next Monday evening
2:13September 30th for our fall truth
2:14college at the Rock sessions Pastor Ben
2:17weeks will be speaking about how to keep
2:18the water flowing in your life dinner
2:20will be served at 6:00 p.m. personal
2:22growth begins at 700 p.m. and
2:24christology begins at 8:00 p.m. are you
2:27new to
2:28fpcnlr do you want to know more about
2:30what we believe and why they make plans
2:33to join our discipleship class this
2:35Thursday evening for dinner in the Great
2:37Hall at 700 p.m. with the Bible study to
2:40follow our young moms's connect group
2:42will meet this Thursday morning at 9:30
2:45in west level 3 for a session with
2:47sister Heather wheeler learning to hand
2:49embroider fall tea towels bring $5 for
2:52supplies Kingdom Builders will have
2:54prayer at 10:30 Friday morning all are
2:56welcome also Kingdom Builders will be
2:59attending the ladies conference in
3:00Branson this October so make plans to
3:03attend please see sister Tana Armstrong
3:05for more details and to sign up connect
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3:10Pavilion at Burns Park this Friday
3:12evening from 7:00 to 9:00 for Ultimate
3:14Frisbee and burgers bring $5 for food
3:17connect high will be hosting a cookie
3:19Wars night in the Great Hall from 7: to
3:229:00 p.m. all the ingredients will be
3:24provided but there will be no recipes
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3:31supplies the connect College and Career
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4:07thank you so much for choosing to spend
4:09this time online worshiping with us here
4:11at first Pentecostal Church of North
4:13Little Rock service will begin shortly
4:15let's Worship the Lord
4:20together did you come to praise the Lord
4:22tonight let's all Stand
4:25[Applause]
4:28Together Hebrews HEBs 13 says by him
4:32therefore let us offer the sacrifice of
4:36praise to God continually that is the
4:40fruit of our lips giving thanks to his
4:45[Music]
4:48name the song says God be praised anyone
4:51come with a praise on their lips tonight
4:53anyone come to give God praise on a
4:55Tuesday night put your hands together
4:57with us
4:59[Music]
5:11pour it all out lay it all out on the
5:15line all out on the line holding nothing
5:19holding nothing go till we lose track of
5:23time till we lose track of time you we
5:27we all for for you we make this our pray
5:34God be
5:37praised be prais God be
5:41praised receive our work rece our all
5:45our praise our praise you're welcome in
5:49this place God be
5:54praise
5:57today God be praise God be
6:00[Music]
6:16it all out lay it all out on the line
6:20lay it all out on the line holding
6:23nothing
6:24Jesus we will go to it dragon
6:30you we
6:34choos we make
6:40this God be
6:44PR God be
6:47praise
6:49praise receive our work and all our
6:53praise welcome in this place God be
6:58praise
7:24oh no matter what it comes or what goes
7:25we're going to give God praise whether
7:28in the valley on the mountain to we're
7:30going to give him
7:32praise somebody help me move your hands
7:34right
7:34[Music]
7:38here we'll keep on loving we'll keep on
7:42praying we'll keep on pressing Jesus we
7:46lift you up we'll keep on singing we'll
7:50keep on shouting we'll keep on dancing
7:53Jesus we lift you up we keep on keep on
7:57PR keep on praise
7:59we'll keep on keep Jesus we lift you up
8:04we'll keep on see we keep on keep on
8:08keep on Jesus we lift you up Jesus we
8:13lift you up Jesus we lift you up Jesus
8:17we lift you up Jesus we lift you up you
8:20up higher and higher Jesus we
8:25lift be pra be pra
8:30God
8:36God our all our prise you're welcome in
8:42this place God be
8:45[Applause]
8:49praise God be praise God be PR
8:59of
9:07your
9:09[Music]
9:12God we'll keep on Ling we'll keep on
9:16praying we'll keep on press Jesus we
9:20lift you lift up the name of Jesus in
9:22the room we keep on Ander we keep on and
9:27Jesus we lift you up Jesus we lift you
9:30up Jesus we lift you up and
9:34higher Jesus we lift you up Jesus we
9:38lift you up Jesus we lift you up Jesus
9:42we lift you up
9:44Jes be
9:47prais God be
9:52prais receive our wor all our praise
9:58welcome with
10:01God be
10:05[Music]
10:08praise
10:25be oh can someone give God a great
10:28praise can someone give God a great
10:30Hallelujah in the
10:32room my Hallelujah belongs to Jesus my
10:36greatest praise belongs to
10:38[Music]
10:40Jesus you can just lift your hands all
10:42over the
10:44room Jesus my Hallelujah belongs to you
10:47all of my praise all of my worship
10:49belongs to you
10:50[Music]
10:54Jesus Hallelujah belong to you
10:59[Music]
11:03my Hallelujah belongs to
11:09you can you help me sing my Hallelujah
11:14belongs
11:15to
11:18Hallelujah say my hallelujah
11:24hallelujah can we all lift our hands and
11:26sing my Hallelujah
11:30Hallelujah Belongs to
11:35You
11:36[Music]
11:37hallelujah hallelujah belongs to you
11:42anybody know that your Hallelujah
11:44belongs to
11:45Jes
11:50Hallelujah my
11:52Hallelujah
11:54Lord
11:56hallelujah can we all lift our hands and
11:58say
12:00oh you
12:05deserve you
12:08[Applause]
12:09deserve you deserve it
12:13all you deserve
12:17deserve you
12:22deserve you
12:26deserve you deserve
12:31you
12:34deserve oh you
12:39deserve all of my
12:40[Applause]
12:43praise all of my
12:47work you
12:53deserve say hallelujah hallelujah
12:57hallelujah hallelujah Hallelujah
13:00Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
13:03Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
13:06Hallelujah we give it to
13:09you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
13:13hallelujah you deserve hallelujah
13:16hallelujah hallelujah Belong To You
13:19Hallelujah you deserve Hallelujah you
13:23deser hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
13:27hallelujah hallelujah to the King of
13:30Kings Hallelujah you deserve it
13:32Hallelujah to the Lord of lords you
13:35deserve it all the glory all the glory
13:39all the honor all the honor all the
13:42praise all the
13:47prise you
13:52you you
13:55deserve can we lift our hands and say he
14:13you Lord we give it to
14:16you
14:18more can we sing
14:21Hallelujah hallel LIF up your voice and
14:24give God praise Hallelujah someone give
14:27God some praise oh somebody to wave your
14:30hands somebody on to lift Your Voice
14:36Hallelujah say hallelujah hallelujah
14:40hallelujah hallelujah the Angels Cry
14:43hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah our
14:46creation hallelujah hallelujah
14:49hallelujah We join with the heavens and
14:52say hallelujah hallelujah the Angels Cry
14:56hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah 24
15:00Hallelujah they bow out hallelujah
15:03hallelujah the glory all the
15:06praise All Belongs
15:13to
15:15You
15:17Des My
15:22Sacrifice You Deserve You
15:26Deserve no you deserve
15:30anybody know that he deserve the wor
15:34deserve can we give him our
15:39worship
15:45Des my
15:47Hallelujah belongs to
15:52[Music]
15:55you it all belongs to you say my
16:02hallelujah
16:04hallelujah belong to it don't belong to
16:08my mother nor my father nor my sister
16:10nor my
16:13brother
16:15belong
16:21[Music]
16:25you I LIF my hands and say oh w we come
16:30to see
16:33you this is our
16:41war say all for your
16:46family for your children
17:11heart on
17:13Hallelujah belong to you can we all sing
17:19s my
17:21[Music]
17:26Hallelujah my heart
17:32[Music]
17:38[Applause]
17:39[Music]
17:45hallu oh come on why don't we give him
17:47praise
17:49tonight oh could you just offer up your
17:52Hallelujah to him come on out of the
17:55fruit of your
17:56lips give him a big Hallelujah
17:59[Applause]
18:10[Applause]
18:14huah
18:16Hallelujah well praise the Lord everyone
18:19so good to see you here at Miracle
18:21midweek this beautiful Tuesday evening
18:24why don't you turn to someone and tell
18:26them it's good to see you at church
18:28tonight
18:32[Music]
18:38Hallelujah you can find your way back to
18:40your seats it's testimony
18:43[Music]
18:51time my name is Emily kissling and I get
18:54the privilege of reading the testimony
18:56tonight it states in 2020 I worked from
18:59home due to covid-19 for FIS Global
19:03taking calls for a bank there was a very
19:05low season in my life for a long time I
19:08had fasted and prayed for a husband and
19:11a family but I felt it had gone nowhere
19:15the best words I could describe myself
19:18then were discouraged and bitter one day
19:21while working I took a call from a lady
19:23who was struggling to breathe on the
19:25phone and was so very sick she asked me
19:28to pray for her because she had double
19:30pneumonia I said that I would but I
19:33didn't pray on the phone with her that
19:34day although later I wish I had as I
19:37went to bed that night I prayed God heal
19:39her even if I never know that she was
19:42healed she was heavy on my heart for a
19:44long while and I remembered her prayer
19:47Faithfully a few months later I again
19:49felt like my prayers weren't reaching
19:51the ceiling of the room much less heaven
19:53when I took a call from a lady who
19:55sounded a lot like the lady I had been
19:57praying for considering the hundreds of
20:00calls and the number of Associates
20:01answering those calls the likelihood of
20:04it being her was slim as I saw my prior
20:07note on her account timestamped I knew
20:10it was indeed that lady she was alive
20:13and well I told her that I had talked to
20:15her previously and that I had prayed for
20:17her she was also amazed that she had
20:20gotten me on the line again and must
20:21have known it was God she to told me you
20:25know you must be a righteous woman
20:27because God hears the prayers of the
20:28righteous he heard your prayer and he
20:31healed me considering that day I had
20:34felt that God had selective hearing and
20:36mine wasn't the selection I broke down
20:39on the phone I knew God was speaking to
20:41me through this lady I had felt so low
20:44for so long and had lost faith in God
20:47answering my prayers but God heard all
20:50my prayers and reassured me that he had
20:53seen my heart and knew what I needed to
20:56encourage me to keep me going she asked
20:58me about my greatest prayers so she
21:01could help me pray I told her my heart's
21:04desire was to have a family she
21:06reassured me that she would pray and
21:09that it was God's will for me to have my
21:11very own family four years later on
21:13September the 7th 2024 though she may
21:16never know it God answered Dorothy
21:19Smith's prayer and gave me a
21:23[Music]
21:25family Matt as my husband and Isa as my
21:28daughter more than that after 10 years
21:30of praying for it I know God answered my
21:33prayer and gave me my heart's desire I
21:36have been absolutely astonished by all
21:38the help from my church family in
21:40setting up my wedding and celebrating it
21:41with me I have felt that scripture
21:44pressed down shaken together and running
21:46over I want to encourage someone today
21:48that the season you are in is in fact
21:51only a season it may drag on and on but
21:54the longer the wait the greater the
21:55blessings God is faithful to the
21:58faithful and when he does move the
21:59pieces will fall into place better than
22:01you could ever have dreamed even more
22:04than that he will chase you down to
22:05prove his love for you just like he did
22:08me sister Autumn
22:14Kane oh Hallelujah come on let's give
22:17God praise what a beautiful
22:19testimony
22:22hallelujah
22:25hallelujah hallelujah thank God for for
22:28his goodness to us ushers why don't you
22:31come down to the front we're going to
22:32receive our evening offering I just want
22:35to thank this church for your commitment
22:38to
22:39prayer uh yesterday there were 452
22:42logins for prayer and in fact several
22:46days last week uh we went over that 400
22:51Mark and we're just bumping that 500
22:53Mark I believe we can do close out this
22:56year making every prayer meeting count
22:59what do you say can we do it
23:01together Hallelujah put the school with
23:05the church put it all together you got
23:07over
23:094,450 people praying and I believe
23:12praying in the Holy Ghost and that is
23:14the reason we're experiencing a great
23:17outpouring of God's spirit three people
23:21baptized this past week in jesus' name
23:24we give God praise for it Lord we thank
23:27you for this night thank you for what
23:29you're doing in our church thank you for
23:31the blessings that come only from you
23:33Lord I pray you bless each and every
23:36person here tonight that is prepared to
23:38give of their offering in Jesus name
23:40let's keep worshiping tonight
23:48[Music]
23:59look back over my
24:01[Music]
24:04life I can see how love gu
24:09me even though i' done wrong you never
24:13left me alone but you forgave
24:17me and you kept on blessing this I
24:21recall to my mind therefore I have
24:24hope it is because of your mercy got a
24:28we are not coming soon CU th compassion
24:32fa not they are new every morning great
24:37is th
24:38faithfulness great is th
24:45Faith you been so
24:49faithful do what you me to
24:56do you been so thanful
24:59you've been so
25:01faithful look back over my
25:05[Music]
25:07life I can see how your love is guiding
25:13me even though I've done wrong you never
25:17left me alone but you forgave
25:21me and it kept on blessing this I recall
25:25to my mind therefore I have hope
25:29it is because of your mercies that we
25:32are not
25:33consumed because thy compassion fail not
25:37say I new every morning great is th
25:42faithfulness great is th
25:49faithful you've been so
25:52faithful even though times I didn't do
25:55what you wanted me to do
26:01you been so
26:04thanful I can never you Lord for what
26:08you done for me how you lose my shackles
26:10and you set me free how you made way out
26:13of way turn my darkness in day you my
26:18joy in the time of
26:20Sorrow the power peace in the kind of
26:24storm Str when I'm weak and War I can
26:27never repay you love what you done for
26:30me how you lose sh and you set me free
26:33how you made a way out of no way turn my
26:36darkness in day my Jo in the time of
26:40Sorrow hope
26:44tomorrow in the time of when our we
27:01the time
27:03ofor my
27:21tomorrow the
27:34you
27:36been you've been so
27:38faithful even though sometimes I didn't
27:41do what you wanted me to
27:46do you been so faithful you been so
27:52faithful you been you been
27:58you been so thankful come on lift your
28:01hands do what you wanted me to
28:07do oh yes you is that anybody's
28:11testimony tonight I wonder if you can
28:14just wave your hands if you've seen God
28:17make a way out of nowh been so faithful
28:21oh God we praise
28:23you I can never repay you Lord for what
28:26you done for me lose my shackles and S
28:29me free how you made a way out of no way
28:33turn my darkness in to day my joy in the
28:37time of
28:39Sorrow my tomorrow peace in the time of
28:43storm strength when I'm weak and warn I
28:45can never repay you Lord for what you
28:48done for me how you lose my shackles and
28:50you set me free how you made a way out
28:53of no way turn my darkness in today my
28:58in the time of Sorrow hope for my
29:02tomorrow peace in the time of storm when
29:05I
29:22we
29:25tomorrow St when we
29:52God you've been
29:54so you've been so faithful
29:59oh
30:01Hallelujah anybody know him to be
30:05faithful could you just wave your hand
30:07if you know him to be a faithful
30:09God hallelujah you know I'd like to ask
30:13the calvary Academy choir y'all come on
30:16up here and we're going to I want y'all
30:17to sing
30:19Wildfire didn't they do a great job last
30:21Tuesday night come on Calvary Academy
30:23quick Calvary Academy upper school
30:27campus choir come on hallelujah we're so
30:30honored to have with us tonight brother
30:32Brown we love and appreciate he and his
30:35Good Wife this is Brother jiren Brown's
30:39father and what an honor it is to have
30:41him in service with us brother Brown why
30:43don't you come greet this congregation
30:45you may be
30:49seated praise the Lord everyone it's
30:52good to be in the Lord's House tonight
30:55about 10 years ago my assistant Pastor
30:58in Rialto
31:00California was in the um in the store
31:05ran across a couple of Mexican young
31:08men who he did not realize were
31:11professional soccer players one of them
31:14had a shirt on that said something about
31:17Jesus and he looked at him and he said
31:20do you know this Jesus that's on your
31:24T-shirt he
31:26said he said no but I really want
31:31to and 10 years ago we have since
31:35baptized Four
31:37Brothers Mom and Dad have come from
31:40Mexico they've been baptized filled with
31:42the Holy Ghost amen and the reason we're
31:45here is one of those
31:47boys just got married amen here in
31:50Arkansas and we're thrilled I'm telling
31:53you just a little contact you never know
31:55who you're talking to amen isn't God
31:58good are you looking forward to the word
32:00tonight praise God God bless
32:03[Applause]
32:06you hallelujah we're so blessed by the
32:10class last night Pastor Caleb Adams was
32:12with us and he's going to be preaching
32:14here tonight Lord willing here in a few
32:15moments let's worship with this choir
32:18tonight as they sing wild fire
32:21[Music]
32:27I wonder if we can stand all across this
32:30building I think we can give God praise
32:32a little bit
32:33tonight the Holy Ghost is pring all over
32:36this place 2 let's 2 3
32:40[Music]
32:434 verse 2 3
32:48[Music]
32:514 we coming
32:55soon and we are waiting
33:00I can feel my rushing wind going in his
33:06house again the Holy Ghost on
33:11us and you the sound it'sing like a
33:17wild it's fall it's falling
33:22like United by a one
33:25desire this is our
33:34Lord your
33:37king that you are
33:41proing
33:43my you talking to me talking to
33:49me I
33:54feel in this again
34:22it's falling it's falling like
34:25know night
34:30by
34:36this I we can lift our hands across this
34:39place if you believe that God can spread
34:42Revival all over this city God's been
34:44doing so much recently he's been filling
34:47people with the Holy Ghost people been
34:49getting
34:51baptized these four walls can't
34:55contain what you're going to do what you
34:58going to do Revival is here
35:02today and it's on the Move yes it's on
35:10the going to do going to
35:15do here today the it's on the it's on
35:21the
35:28what
35:35do on
35:37the for
35:40today what you're going to do what
35:43you're going to
35:46do here
35:48today it's on
35:52the it's ready like a wild
36:11like
36:21fall
36:24Ral this is our own Rev
36:33[Music]
36:40[Applause]
36:42[Music]
36:45today what you're going to do what
36:48you're going to
36:50do here
36:53today and it's on the Move yes it's on
36:56the move
36:59all what you're going to do what you're
37:02going to do what you're going to
37:05do are here today on the and it's on the
37:11and it's on
37:16the what you're going to do what you're
37:19going to
37:23doday and it's all the and it's all the
37:46the what you're going to do what you're
37:49going to
37:51do here
37:54today and it's on the
37:59it's rain like a
38:02fire it's fall
38:11likeed
38:22Ral our
38:25one of Ro
38:31R this is our uper this is
38:39[Music]
38:39[Applause]
38:47our oh Hallelujah come on if you believe
38:50that why don't you praise
38:52him I really believe that these four wws
38:55will not ever be able to contain all
38:58that God is going to
39:00do Hallelujah just remain standing with
39:03me tonight thank you chir that was
39:06instant in season and out of season come
39:09on let's give our young people a great
39:11big
39:12support hand clap of support here
39:16tonight we love them appreciate them so
39:19much hallelujah we're so honored tonight
39:22to have with us Pastor Caleb Adams what
39:26a blessing he is to the kingdom of God
39:29and he has blessed us here in our
39:32church many times and we're just honored
39:35that he agreed to be with us tonight to
39:38preach the word of God I believe the
39:40Lord has a word for us tonight and I
39:43want you to be receptive and ready to
39:45receive that word in Jesus name why
39:48don't you give brother Adams a great big
39:51hand clap of Welcome as he comes to this
39:54pull pit tonight
39:57thank you Pastor Holmes let's put them
39:59together and give it to Jesus because
40:01he's worthy of all of the praise we can
40:04give
40:04him has God blessed anybody in this
40:08house this week we ought to just just a
40:11little extra
40:13effort in an appreciation to what God
40:17has done for us we are so
40:21blessed amen what an honor to be back in
40:25North L Rock and for me this is home
40:28away from home you can be seated
40:31momentarily I want to uh take just a
40:34moment
40:35to just say man how good it is to be
40:38back together with all of you wonderful
40:40people and I have have a lot of
40:45Heritage in this church I believe it was
40:48in the early 1960s that my grandparents
40:51became members here raised their family
40:55here and looking across the congregation
40:59uh not only are there many friends but
41:02I've got cousins and aunts and uncles
41:04and it's just just feel like I'm coming
41:07home today and I want to give honor to
41:10the uh Shepherd of this house Pastor
41:14Nathan Holmes what a mighty man of
41:19God I
41:20uh I just reflected a little while this
41:24afternoon on your pastor and first
41:27lady and there's a lot of things that
41:31come to my heart that I think need to be
41:34expressed because we need to have a
41:36culture of Honor in our church and we
41:39need to honor Ministry God blesses us
41:41when we do that but Nathan and Mandy
41:44Holmes are classy people when they when
41:47they step into any conversation they
41:49step into any room I've noticed this
41:52over the years they just they just bring
41:55a feeling of class
41:57but yet there is an
41:59approachability there is a there's a
42:02softness when they need to be soft but
42:05the ability to be firm when they need to
42:07be firm and that's a blessing it's a
42:09gift from
42:10God
42:12and his his astuteness in the
42:16scripture is tremendous his ability to
42:20articulate the word of God from this
42:23pulpit and build faith and inspire is to
42:28just do things right it is so it's so
42:31profound and I'm grateful uh for them
42:35their Vision their burden leadership so
42:37Pastor Holmes thank you for this
42:40opportunity and Bishop Holmes sister
42:42Holmes love and appreciate you so very
42:45much and and so
42:50God brother Bishop asked me to say a few
42:54things about what God's doing in Memphis
42:56and and I hesitate to do that uh I'd
43:00rather toot somebody else's horn I guess
43:03we could toot God's horn a little bit uh
43:05We've we've been so blessed over the
43:08years it's been 19 years since uh my
43:11wife and I left this church to take a
43:15fledgling Congregation of 33 members in
43:19Memphis and and back in those days it
43:22was uh there was some rough going we
43:24were in a community called free asure
43:27and if you know Memphis uh you know
43:29that's a rough area we had for years we
43:32had bullet holes on the side of our
43:33church and driveby shootings were common
43:37um gunshots outside the church were so
43:40common that uh I didn't even bother
43:42looking out the window after a few
43:44years and people weren't hunting deer I
43:48promise you
43:49that so over the years God blessed us to
43:53grow in that building and we were able
43:57to
43:58acquire uh 21 Acres of property on
44:01Interstate 40 in the very best part of
44:04town and pay cash for it going tell you
44:07why we were able to do that obviously
44:09it's the blessing of God but we did that
44:14because our Bishop set that example that
44:19it could be done you people set the
44:22example that it could be done and I can
44:24remember when the Lor was showing us
44:27little dinky scrap pieces of property
44:31that we could afford in bad areas and
44:34saying just settle there was something
44:37in me that said if God Did It for Bishop
44:40he can do it right here in
44:42Memphis
44:44and and I just told him I said we want
44:47property on the freeway and you know
44:49what we got blessed with property on the
44:52freeway and
44:57so
45:00we we spent
45:03uh I thought it was going to be easy to
45:06build a church on it and uh we we
45:11started getting plans drawn and they
45:13come back so expensive and and we have
45:16big Visions with a little
45:19budget and I can remember after a couple
45:23of years of going through planning and I
45:26walked in to a highrise office building
45:29where the engineering firm was I met
45:31with the
45:33contractor an
45:35Engineers it was a a whole room full of
45:38professional
45:40people and this was the second time we
45:43had drawn plans and they were this was
45:45the meeting where they just let me know
45:47that it was not going to be affordable
45:50for
45:51us and I can remember the contractor he
45:54didn't mean anything ugly by it
45:57but sometimes the devil uses
45:59well-meaning
46:01people and he said pastor he Saidi am so
46:05sorry he said the best advice I can give
46:10you is sell that freeway
46:13property and go way out in the country
46:16and find you a little piece of ground to
46:18build a church on that you'll be able to
46:20afford
46:22it and I'm not a crying person I can go
46:25years hard as dear I'm just not
46:28emotional I almost broke down
46:32crying in front of all those
46:34professional people but I was able to
46:36hold it in till I get out the truck and
46:40the tears started
46:44flowing and
46:48there's excuse me
46:50[Music]
46:58I went to pray and I
47:00said God you're the god of Joel
47:05Holmes and if you can do it a little
47:08rock you can do this some
47:11Memphis and when I tell you it looked
47:13like there was no
47:16way it looked like no way and I done let
47:20her congregation by this property I
47:22looked like we got out in
47:24the limb and
47:27there was no way forward and there was
47:29no way to go
47:31back but I we got to praying and time
47:34rocked on a little
47:36bit finally we was able to get a big
47:40loan and I didn't say anything to people
47:43but I I just hoped we could pay for
47:45it and we got the building
47:49built and we moved uh we took that
47:52church with 33 members we built that
47:55building and we moved in we we got in it
47:58and God blessed us and we had 156
48:02members when we moved in that
48:04building and uh I thought man we're
48:07going to get in this big Sanctuary it's
48:09going to swallow us up but wouldn't you
48:11know man that first week people started
48:13getting the Holy Ghost Revival broke out
48:16it's
48:17been in 4 years and 11 months later we
48:22burned the
48:25mortgage on that
48:30building I asked a secretary the other
48:32day I said I said I don't know how many
48:35people's coming to church pull the
48:36numbers it's in the mid 300s of people
48:40that's coming to church now we just had
48:42another one get the Holy Ghost and get
48:44baptized Sunday night and here in about
48:48two weeks we're breaking ground on our
48:50next
48:52building thanks be to God but I'm going
48:56to tell you in addition to being in the
48:59favor of God it matters who your leader
49:02is it matters having a man of God having
49:05the favor of God and I believe there's a
49:08flow of anointing that's went from
49:10Bishop to Pastor Nathan homes and people
49:14that are connected up with this church
49:17they're just something about the
49:19blessing of God it gets
49:24contagious praise God well just remains
49:27standing together I don't I'm sorry for
49:30taking so much
49:32time but Bishop said blame it on
49:37him I've got something in my spirit
49:40tonight that the Lord is going to help
49:42me I'm going to unpack it Hebrews 12: 22
49:46and
49:4823 let me tell you
49:51um why I'm preaching this
49:56our church is growing quickly at home
49:59and and we're reaching a lot of people
50:01that just coming right out of the
50:03world and it seems to me after 19 years
50:07of pastoring that people that come pray
50:09through
50:10nowadays it takes them longer to catch
50:13on to some of the
50:15basics seems like even 10 years ago
50:18people just come in and just kind of
50:19fall in step with the church but it's
50:22not been
50:25happening as easy as it used to happen
50:28but people
50:30coming so God got me on a theme that
50:35I've been preaching on Wednesday nights
50:37for several months now and the theme is
50:41I am a church
50:45member and I said you know we're just
50:48going to State the obvious on these
50:51Wednesday nights and I decided I'm going
50:53to go through
50:54every thing that God God will put on my
50:57heart the basics of what it takes to be
51:01a powerful church member cuz we'll never
51:04have a powerful church until we have
51:07powerful individual church
51:09members and so what I am about to bring
51:13to you I preached at our church just a
51:16few weeks ago and I felt it for this
51:20service tonight Hebrews 12:22 but ye are
51:24come unto mountains
51:27Zion and unto the city of the Living God
51:30the heavenly
51:32Jerusalem and to an innumerable company
51:35of
51:36angels to the general assembly and
51:40Church of the
51:41firstborn which are written in heaven
51:44and to God the judge of all and to the
51:48spirits of just men made
51:54perfect I don't have an elegant title
51:57tonight but I'm going to tell you what
51:59I'm going to preach about why you should
52:03go to
52:04church why you should go to church can
52:09you receive the word with an
52:12amen God bless you you can be
52:15seated I'm convinced that the church is
52:19the best thing
52:21going God
52:23has created a lot of institutions
52:27and of all the institutions that God
52:30made the church is primary the first
52:35institution in the Bible is marriage
52:38marriage is very important and I've got
52:40a wonderful wonderful
52:42wife but I can get to heaven without a
52:46spouse I can't go to heaven without the
52:50church I can be saved and single but I
52:53cannot be saved without having a church
52:57church I thank God for human government
53:01human government is a god ordained
53:04institution even when it's all messed up
53:07like a lot of ours are today but guess
53:10what I can be saved without a
53:13politician Donald Trump is not what it
53:15takes to get me to
53:17heaven and I can go to heaven with or
53:20without
53:22comma but I can't go to heaven without
53:24the church I I've got to have the
53:28church I thank God for the companies
53:31that we get to work for but I can be
53:34saved without a job but I can't be saved
53:37without a church school and college is
53:40important I thank God for a diploma I
53:43thank God for college degrees but the
53:47degree is not what's going to get me to
53:48Heaven I can be Sav without an education
53:52but I've got to have the church thank
53:56God God for a powerful Pentecostal
54:00Church to be a part
54:02of now I'm going to show you a couple
54:05scriptures that underscore how important
54:08the church is we have a type of the
54:11church all the way back in the Book of
54:12Genesis chapter
54:1428 in Jacob's experience at bethl the
54:18word bethl means House of God and the
54:21scripture tells us that Jacob went to
54:23bethl and he he was camping there when
54:26night and he the Bible says in verse 16
54:29of Genesis 28 that Jacob awake out of
54:32his
54:33sleep and he said
54:36surely the Lord is in this place and I
54:39knew it not now this is a side note but
54:43you're going to have times when you are
54:45going through things in life and you
54:47will not be able to feel the presence of
54:50God there's going to be people maybe
54:52people here tonight that come to church
54:54and you don't feel God I'm over the
54:56years I've come convinced that God lets
54:59us have those Seasons to test our
55:02faith but let me tell you the fact that
55:04you can't feel God in a particular
55:07season doesn't mean he's not
55:09there just because you're in such
55:12distressed you can't sense what God's
55:14doing in the church doesn't mean he's
55:16not working Jacob said he was in this
55:20place and I knew it not and look at
55:23verse 17 the Bible said he was afraid
55:25and he said how Dreadful is this place
55:29this is none other but the house of God
55:34and this is the Gate of
55:39Heaven so this tells me that bethl the
55:44house of God is the gate to heaven if
55:48we're going to heaven we've got to go
55:51through the gate and the gate is ingly
55:55inter twined with the house of God on
55:59Earth thank God for the church the
56:03church is important I do not believe
56:08that we have the option of privatized
56:12Christianity there's a modern idea that
56:15floats around our society that says as
56:18long as I've got Jesus the church is
56:22optional me and Jesus the old song said
56:26have our own thing going me and Jesus
56:29have it all worked out me and Jesus
56:32don't need anybody to tell us what it's
56:35all about I don't know who wrote that
56:37song but I've got to let them know
56:39according to the Bible they're dead
56:41wrong it takes more than me and Jesus to
56:45have what we need to have me and Jesus
56:49have got to have the people of Jesus we
56:52have got to have the body of Christ it
56:55will not do to say I love Jesus but I
56:59don't need his body if you love Jesus
57:02you have got to love his body which is
57:05the church uh you need the people of God
57:08the people of God need you we are not an
57:12island to ourself God did not call us
57:15just to sit at home and testify to
57:18people at Walmart and disconnect from
57:21the church uh but God has called every
57:24one of his children uh to join together
57:28with his people and be a part of one
57:33family the church is important because
57:35it is the gate to
57:37heaven but there's another reason that
57:39the church is
57:41important it's because God's church is
57:44the
57:46sole facilitator of God's mission on
57:49Earth the mission of God is simply to
57:52redeem people God is in the business of
57:55Souls saving and God does not have any
57:59other plan to reach Souls than for the
58:04people of the church to go out and reach
58:07them I believe in angels I believe that
58:11Angels Minister and help us I've never
58:14seen one but I very much believe in them
58:17let me tell you something that an angel
58:19will never do an angel will never preach
58:22the Gospel of Jesus Christ to you God
58:25did not delegate to Michael and Gabriel
58:28or any of the other Angels the
58:31responsibility of witnessing and
58:33preaching and teaching Bible studies God
58:36gave that mandate to his disciples to
58:40the people of God an angel will never
58:43pay ties in this church uh an angel will
58:47never sing on this platform unless it's
58:49my wife the angels of God uh do not do
58:53the worship uh that we are called to do
58:56that is our
58:59responsibility and so that means that if
59:01God's mission in North Little Rock to
59:04reach Souls is going to go forward it's
59:08because there are members of this local
59:10church that say we are going to take
59:13God's Mission and make it our
59:16responsibility we have a world to reach
59:20we have a kingdom to build for God and
59:23it's time for the church uh to stand up
59:26and be the
59:32church but there's another aspect of
59:35church that is important and it's the
59:37church
59:39service now I grew up going to
59:42church I'm 47 years old
59:45and I was raised up in
59:48church and I've been
59:50to all kind of churches over the
59:53years and I know
59:56good church services and I know bad ones
59:59and I've been the both
1:00:03kinds and we're all churchgoing people
1:00:07but if we're not
1:00:08careful this business of coming to
1:00:11church becomes just
1:00:14routine and we can just get so mired up
1:00:16in the
1:00:17minutia of putting church clothes on and
1:00:21hurrying out the house on a Wednesday on
1:00:23a Tuesday night to get to church
1:00:26that we lose focus on what is
1:00:30happening but I want us to pick apart
1:00:32for just a moment the text that I
1:00:34read and I want to step you through some
1:00:38of the
1:00:39things that the Bible says happen when
1:00:43we come to
1:00:44church let's look again here at Hebrews
1:00:4822 12 and verse
1:00:5122 the writer said you are come unto
1:00:53Mount Sion
1:00:56unto the city of the Living God the
1:00:59heavenly
1:01:00Jerusalem and to an
1:01:03innumerable company of angels let's stop
1:01:06right
1:01:07there so first of all we see a reference
1:01:12to
1:01:13Jerusalem but not just in Jerusalem it's
1:01:15the Heavenly Jerusalem now it becomes
1:01:19evident when we work through the New
1:01:21Testament that there are two Jerusalem
1:01:24that are very important to
1:01:26God one of which is the the city of
1:01:30Jerusalem that's over in the Middle East
1:01:32in the land of Israel if you think of
1:01:34Jerusalem right now you probably in your
1:01:37mind the first thing that comes to your
1:01:39mind is the Temple Mount and right now
1:01:40there's a gold domed building it's a
1:01:42mosque that sits on the Temple Mount
1:01:45Jerusalem is important to God it's a
1:01:47city that God loves and I believe that
1:01:49Jerusalem still has some significance in
1:01:52Bible prophecy for things that are going
1:01:55to fold in the
1:01:57future but when you go through the New
1:02:01Testament there are some mentions of
1:02:05Jerusalem that immediately we understand
1:02:09that the
1:02:10writer is not talking about the Physical
1:02:15City but he refers to Heavenly
1:02:19Jerusalem and that is referring to God's
1:02:24church so there is a sense in which we
1:02:28are gathered together in this building
1:02:31as
1:02:32citizens of the Heavenly
1:02:35Jerusalem what town do you live in well
1:02:38you could say I live in the Little Rock
1:02:40area or you could say I'm a citizen of
1:02:44the Heavenly
1:02:45Jerusalem now
1:02:48Jerusalem is significant in the Bible
1:02:52because Jerusalem is the place where
1:02:55Heaven
1:02:56and Earth
1:02:59connect one writer said it this way
1:03:02Jerusalem is the place where Heaven
1:03:06invades Earth Jerusalem is the place
1:03:09from which God rules it is the center of
1:03:14all Divine activity well with all due
1:03:19respect to our friends in the Middle
1:03:21East I love the city of Jerusalem I've
1:03:24been there multiple times
1:03:26but I love the Heavenly Jerusalem even
1:03:29more I love the citizens of the Heavenly
1:03:33Jerusalem a whole lot and so when we
1:03:36come here we need to understand on this
1:03:40Tuesday night that there's something
1:03:43more happening than just a whole bunch
1:03:46of people gathering in a room to sing
1:03:49and to hear preaching and to do some
1:03:52praying but this is a gathering of the
1:03:56city of Jerusalem this is a holy
1:04:00convocation and in the moments that we
1:04:03are having service together the king of
1:04:07Jerusalem is working on his throne right
1:04:10now and there is divine activity that
1:04:14takes place when we gather with God's
1:04:17people now I want you to notice what
1:04:20else the scripture said it said we come
1:04:23not only to the Heavenly Jerusalem but
1:04:26to in
1:04:27innumerable company of angels all of my
1:04:32life I've read this scripture I don't
1:04:34know how many times I've read Hebrews
1:04:36but it's a couple of times over the
1:04:38years and I would read through this and
1:04:41it would not mean a whole lot to me
1:04:43because you see I have never personally
1:04:46to my knowledge seen an angel other than
1:04:49my wife but I've never I've never had
1:04:52these Angelic experiences that I've
1:04:55heard other people tell about but I
1:04:57believe in them so I got to probing the
1:05:00scripture I got to digging into it what
1:05:03does the writer mean when it says that
1:05:07when I come to church I come to an
1:05:11innumerable company of angels and as I
1:05:14probed this scripture I found that this
1:05:18reference in fact when you go to the
1:05:19original language in the Greek language
1:05:21the innumerable company means that it is
1:05:24a festal Gathering it's a it's a time
1:05:27when Angels gather together to celebrate
1:05:30around the Throne of God and so what the
1:05:34writer of Hebrews is saying is that is
1:05:37around God's Throne angels are there and
1:05:42they are celebrating and there's a whole
1:05:45lot of them you know what's happening
1:05:48right now there is a worship service
1:05:51that's going on in heaven I believe it
1:05:54is a 25 4 seven worship Services angels
1:05:59are right there in proximity to the
1:06:02throne of God they are worshiping uh can
1:06:06you imagine the sound the Roar of the
1:06:09worship that must be going around the
1:06:12Throne of God at this very moment uh but
1:06:16the writer said that when you and I come
1:06:19to Mount Si uh when we come into the
1:06:22house of God uh and we lift our hands
1:06:25and start worshiping with Calvary uh
1:06:29School choir and we're singing about the
1:06:32Wildfire then what's happening is we are
1:06:35taking our voices uh and our voices are
1:06:40mingling with the of angels uh and there
1:06:43is a synchronization of worship Services
1:06:47uh as the worship in heaven uh is
1:06:50reflected by the worship and first
1:06:53Pentecostal Church uh can I tell you
1:06:56when you came into this room today you
1:06:59might have been weary from a long day at
1:07:02work uh but you just stepped into a
1:07:05Heavenly realm and there is an
1:07:08interaction between the Heavenly and the
1:07:11Earthly in this service right now this
1:07:14is not a moment to take lightly this is
1:07:17a sacred moment this is a holy moment uh
1:07:20when we worship God uh we ought to
1:07:23worship uh with all of our heart because
1:07:27we are standing in proximity to God's
1:07:33Throne
1:07:35now
1:07:37who who you sit next to at church it
1:07:41matters why don't you look to either
1:07:43side and see who you sitting next
1:07:45to it matters who you sitting next
1:07:48to
1:07:51and if I'm
1:07:53sitting next to somebody who's not all
1:07:56that
1:07:59spiritual now nobody
1:08:02here but if I were sitting next to
1:08:05somebody was a little
1:08:06carnal I may not feel too much
1:08:09obligation to
1:08:11worship but let me tell you when I'm
1:08:14sitting up here next to pastor and
1:08:16Bishop and brother
1:08:18Brown I know I better
1:08:21worship cuz I'm sitting next to some
1:08:24holy men of God
1:08:26but when you have understanding that in
1:08:29a church service there is an Angelic
1:08:33interaction you ought to worship just
1:08:36like Gabriel is sitting on the Pew next
1:08:39to
1:08:40you I've never seen an angel but if I
1:08:42had an angel come stand next to me at
1:08:45church I promise you I would not be
1:08:47chewing gum I promise you I would not be
1:08:50checking Instagram on my phone I promise
1:08:53you I would have my mind mind on what's
1:08:56going on uh if we would just have our
1:09:00understanding open to how sacred and how
1:09:04powerful these moments are it will
1:09:07change the way we
1:09:11worship so the writer said we come to
1:09:14these angels but let's go to the next
1:09:16line he said unto the
1:09:20general
1:09:22assembly so
1:09:26when I'm working through
1:09:28scriptures I like
1:09:30to I I use a technique of study
1:09:33frequently called verse mapping and and
1:09:35long and short of it one of the things
1:09:37you do in a verse map technique is you
1:09:40take
1:09:40every sentence and phrase and you you
1:09:43got to figure out what it
1:09:45means the general
1:09:48assembly is talking about all the saints
1:09:51of
1:09:52God who have ever lived all through
1:09:58history it's not just all the people at
1:10:00a church on Tuesday
1:10:01night but it's all the people that used
1:10:04to go to church that's went to the
1:10:08grave
1:10:11and I thought about
1:10:13that I puzzled it and so what this means
1:10:17is when we came to church tonight
1:10:19Tuesday night here we are in month of
1:10:22September
1:10:232024 we came
1:10:26to service with all these wonderful
1:10:28people but we
1:10:30also stepped
1:10:33into the general
1:10:36assembly that means when we're having
1:10:40Church we're having church with
1:10:42Abraham David
1:10:45Paul Bishop Al Holmes Bishop Murray Burr
1:10:50all the great people of God that's gone
1:10:53on before
1:10:56how does this
1:10:57happen well it happens because God is
1:11:00not bound by
1:11:03time God is
1:11:07eternal we live in the constraints of
1:11:11time but when you slip out of this life
1:11:15you enter into an eternal
1:11:18realm and so what this writer is saying
1:11:21in Hebrews when you come into the house
1:11:24of God
1:11:25for a moment you to quote Ronald Reagan
1:11:29you slip the Silvery bands of time to
1:11:33touch the face of God for just a moment
1:11:37we step out of time and a linear flow of
1:11:42history and we step into an eternal
1:11:45realm and there is this
1:11:47interaction between Earth and Heaven and
1:11:51we join with all the saints of God uh
1:11:55that have went on before and with just a
1:11:58few glorious moments uh we are
1:12:01worshiping God as the roar in heaven is
1:12:06duplicated with the Roar of worship
1:12:09that's coming from our souls in this
1:12:18moment can I preach a few more
1:12:21minutes and I'm feeling this right now I
1:12:23got a ways to go
1:12:26he said into the
1:12:28Church of the
1:12:31firstborn well what's that
1:12:34mean in West Tennessee vernacular it
1:12:37don't mean
1:12:39much I'm the
1:12:41oldest of all the Adams kids and I've
1:12:45got got seven
1:12:47siblings I've got there's five of us
1:12:50boys and three girls the girls are all
1:12:52sweet none of us boys was but I can
1:12:55still whoop them
1:12:58all but being the firstborn me I just
1:13:01had more duties and
1:13:05chores but in the Bible
1:13:08time being the firstborn meant
1:13:11everything because it meant when your
1:13:14parents passed
1:13:16away you was going to get most of the
1:13:19inheritance so like if you live the in
1:13:21the Bible and you say you was oldest of
1:13:23three kids the oldest would get about 80
1:13:26or 90% of the estate and whatever's left
1:13:30over just crumbs would go to the rest so
1:13:35you wanted to be a firstborn being the
1:13:37firstborn meant you were special being
1:13:40the firstborn meant you had privilege
1:13:44being the firstborn meant you had
1:13:47entitlements coming your way but I love
1:13:50what the Bible said when you come into
1:13:53the church you come into the Church of
1:13:56the
1:13:57firstborn how can everybody be the
1:13:59firstborn it's cuz everybody's got to
1:14:01have their own experience with God but
1:14:04what that tells me is that everybody in
1:14:06the building is a firstborn saint of God
1:14:10that means there are no second class
1:14:12people in God's Church uh everybody in
1:14:17this building uh is equal and everybody
1:14:20has equal access to the throne of God
1:14:24everybody in this building has access to
1:14:27the favor and the blessing of God I
1:14:30don't care if you've been coming here
1:14:32for 21 days or if you've been a member
1:14:36for 40 years uh welcome to the Church of
1:14:39the firstborn uh everybody in this
1:14:42church is special it matters not your
1:14:45net worth your net worth has nothing to
1:14:48do with your worth in God it matters not
1:14:50your ethnicity your language your
1:14:53background uh I I don't care if you've
1:14:55been married 17 times uh and had 17 kids
1:15:00uh with 17 different companions uh when
1:15:04you got born again uh everything has
1:15:07changed uh and you stand here on equal
1:15:10plane uh with the most functional family
1:15:13in the church uh we're all members of
1:15:17the church born with first born and we
1:15:20all have a big heritance from heaven
1:15:26thank God for the church do anybody love
1:15:29the
1:15:35church next line said we come to the god
1:15:38of who is the judge of
1:15:41all
1:15:43now let me say something
1:15:47about God the
1:15:51judge I've heard people say off and on
1:15:54over the years
1:15:55that the
1:15:58church is too
1:16:01judgmental I don't want to come to a
1:16:03church and get
1:16:05judged
1:16:07well to be very blunt you will go to
1:16:13hell you got to stand in front of the
1:16:17judge but you have a
1:16:20warped understanding of
1:16:22judgment if you think judgment's bad
1:16:26I thank God for a judgmental
1:16:28church cuz let me say something about
1:16:31the judge it is the judge's
1:16:35responsibility to condemn evil and to
1:16:39condemn what is wrong if I come before
1:16:43the judge and I've got sin going on in
1:16:45my life the righteous judge has got to
1:16:49condemn my sin but let me tell you
1:16:52something about about a judge the judge
1:16:56has equal power to liberate as he does
1:17:00to condemn the same judge that can lock
1:17:03you up is the judge that can set you
1:17:06free and let me tell you how judgment
1:17:10works in the church when you come here
1:17:12and you're locked up in your sin you're
1:17:15locked up in guilt and condemnation and
1:17:18the preacher starts preaching about what
1:17:20you're doing that is the judge saying
1:17:24you need to qu qu the judge is saying
1:17:26you need to quit looking at pornography
1:17:29you need to quit being jealous and
1:17:32bitter you need to quit yourself pity
1:17:35but I also like it uh that when the
1:17:38judge speaks in this house uh he has a
1:17:41word of Liberty the judge says you can
1:17:44make a brand new beginning uh the judge
1:17:46says uh you don't have to live another
1:17:49day like you've been living I'm going to
1:17:51change your life
1:17:55Hallelujah aren't you grateful for the
1:17:57loving good judge the just
1:18:03judge
1:18:05so I'm preaching about why you should go
1:18:08to
1:18:10church it's the gate to
1:18:13heaven it's the only way God gets his
1:18:15mission done and when we come to a
1:18:20service Heaven and Earth come together
1:18:25and the judge
1:18:29works
1:18:31okay I had the preach all
1:18:35that in order to preach what I really
1:18:38need to
1:18:41preach but what I really need to preach
1:18:43is not near as much as what I just
1:18:48preached let's look at a scripture we've
1:18:50heard before Hebrews 10:25
1:18:57now we've heard this scripture preach a
1:18:59number of
1:19:00times the Bible says in Hebrews
1:19:0410:25 not forsaking the assembling of
1:19:07ourselves
1:19:08together as the manner of some
1:19:11is but exhorting one another watch this
1:19:14now and so much the
1:19:18more as you see the day
1:19:21approaching you know why some of us
1:19:24struggle with Hebrews
1:19:2710 it's because we never comprehended
1:19:29Hebrews
1:19:3112 but when I get to Hebrews 12 and I
1:19:34see what
1:19:36happens when I come to
1:19:39church then I back up to Hebrews
1:19:4210 I see
1:19:45why I should go to
1:19:48church let me preach to you
1:19:51basically just what it is
1:19:55one of the great challenges of our
1:19:59day is getting people to commit to go in
1:20:03the church every time we have
1:20:07service maybe it's a Memphis
1:20:10problem but judging from the gaps in the
1:20:12pews
1:20:14tonight I think I'm preaching this right
1:20:16on
1:20:17time in the right
1:20:21place people are more busy than they've
1:20:23ever been
1:20:27and arguably we're
1:20:28all fighting more carnality than we've
1:20:31ever
1:20:32fought there are so many competing
1:20:37interests and I don't know about
1:20:40you but does it feel like life gets more
1:20:44tiring all the
1:20:45[Music]
1:20:47time sometimes on
1:20:49Wednesday I work all day on Wednesday at
1:20:52the
1:20:53church there there's times on Wednesday
1:20:56when I leave the church to go home to
1:20:58get ready to come back and
1:21:00preach I'm wore
1:21:04out can I be frank there has been a
1:21:07moment or
1:21:09two when I envy
1:21:12those who said I'm tired this evening
1:21:15and I'm just going to stay home and
1:21:18rest but I'm the pastor and I can't
1:21:25so the pressure is
1:21:27on to miss
1:21:30church and here's what a lot of
1:21:32Pentecostal churches are
1:21:35doing they are
1:21:38downgrading the importance of the church
1:21:48service
1:21:51dismissing midweek service
1:21:55canceling Sunday
1:21:58nights and like one Pentecostal church I
1:22:01just talked to a member called me the
1:22:02other day said we have service for one
1:22:04hour on Sunday morning one time a
1:22:09week and he said there's not much a move
1:22:11of God during that
1:22:13out well you know what I told him to do
1:22:15don't
1:22:17you I knew where he could come to
1:22:21church and I told him where to go to
1:22:23church I wanton say where I told him to
1:22:25go I didn't tell him to come
1:22:30here we're
1:22:32downgrading
1:22:35service because we don't have real
1:22:39revelation of what happens at
1:22:45service and so
1:22:48consequently we're having an epidemic of
1:22:51absenteeism
1:22:55now this church has a great live stream
1:22:58it reaches a lot of people and I think
1:22:59it's
1:23:00wonderful we start a live stream during
1:23:02Co just like you guys
1:23:04did uh and the live stream has been the
1:23:07best thing we've ever
1:23:09done we have sinners in our church every
1:23:13week every single
1:23:15week that started watching on live
1:23:18stream and a lot of times people say
1:23:21Pastor I've been watching for months
1:23:23before I ever SED to come I love live
1:23:26stream and we're going to do it till
1:23:28Jesus
1:23:29comes and I love it I think every Church
1:23:33ought to have a good live
1:23:35stream and I was
1:23:37worried when we started a live
1:23:40stream would an
1:23:42unintended impact of that be that people
1:23:45would think you know I'm just going to
1:23:48stay
1:23:50home we had to shut the church down for
1:23:53a little bit during covid and I hated it
1:23:56it was awful and we had never had a live
1:24:01stream before that happened and I
1:24:03remember that first
1:24:05Sunday I step up in the pull Pit and the
1:24:08building's
1:24:09empty and we got a camera that we rigged
1:24:13up and I'm trying to
1:24:16preach to a
1:24:20camera now I'm pretty sure some my
1:24:24people was wearing pajamas and eating
1:24:28Cheerios when I was trying to feed them
1:24:30the word of
1:24:31God I can't prove it but I've got a
1:24:37suspicion and we did that for a while I
1:24:40got tired of
1:24:42that but live stream's great when you're
1:24:45sick and can't be there when you're on
1:24:49vacation you can still go to church with
1:24:50your
1:24:51church but let me just say something
1:24:55with all the respect to live
1:24:57stream watching
1:25:00online is not an
1:25:04equivalent to walking into the general
1:25:09assembly watching online is not the same
1:25:15as coming together with the Assembly of
1:25:19God's people and being in this
1:25:23atmosphere
1:25:25online is a stop Gap measure it's what
1:25:28you do in extenuating
1:25:31circumstances but the ideal is to be in
1:25:35the house of God every single time the
1:25:38doors are
1:25:48open I've got to land the
1:25:52plane now
1:25:55there's nothing more important than
1:25:57church now I want to ask you to do
1:25:59something unusual I want you if you got
1:26:01your cell phone handy pull it out and
1:26:02hold it
1:26:06up y'all got these phones don't you no
1:26:10don't
1:26:11don't we're going to do something
1:26:14together now I want you to open your
1:26:16phone go to your calendar app right
1:26:21now I want you to go to September 24th
1:26:24that's today Tuesday September
1:26:2824th now down there at the bottom at
1:26:327:00 I want you to show by the uplifting
1:26:35of your hand how many of you all have
1:26:37church scheduled on your calendar lift
1:26:40your phone up if you got
1:26:44scheduled oh dear
1:26:51God I ain't even going to go to Sunday
1:27:03Pastor only Pastor I'm glad man I was
1:27:08going to be worried I wasn't going to
1:27:09look over
1:27:12here
1:27:14hey if I got an appointment with the
1:27:17president I don't even like
1:27:21him I put it on my calendar
1:27:27if I got an appointment to groom my dog
1:27:29I put it on the
1:27:32calendar I put Church on my
1:27:35calendar I cannot accidentally schedule
1:27:39something on top of church because I am
1:27:43here to walk before the king of glory I
1:27:47am here to go with the general assembly
1:27:51I'm here with Heavenly Jerusalem I'm
1:27:53here to interact with the angels church
1:27:57needs to be on your calendar make it a
1:28:01reoccurring event and make a commitment
1:28:04I don't schedule anything on top of
1:28:11church y'all doing all
1:28:14right can you handle some strong
1:28:16preaching right
1:28:18now now we can clap and shout when I'm
1:28:21talking about Gabriel dancing up there
1:28:23but man when we get down to this level
1:28:25it gets a
1:28:26little little
1:28:30gritty
1:28:32now when you go to take a
1:28:35job first thing you need to look at is
1:28:38what's the
1:28:40schedule now we got people in our church
1:28:42that has the Miss some Sunday I get it
1:28:45sometimes you just can't do nothing
1:28:46about it but let's be
1:28:49honest a lot of times you
1:28:52can but you make more money if you agree
1:28:55to work
1:28:58Sundays I'm not here shaming anybody
1:29:01that's in a situation where you just
1:29:02can't because sometimes that's a just a
1:29:06reality what about when they say would
1:29:09someone like to pick up a shift on
1:29:11Sunday and we'll pay you double
1:29:14time what you going to
1:29:19do who is your god is it George
1:29:22Washington
1:29:25or is it
1:29:27Jesus tell you Jesus competitor is not
1:29:30Satan he said no man can serve God in
1:29:33Mamon it's going to be one or the other
1:29:35your God is either going to be money or
1:29:37it's going to be Jesus one or the other
1:29:40and the way you know who your God is is
1:29:42when they wave some money in front of
1:29:44you and you're willing to miss church
1:29:47and miss this General Assembly to miss
1:29:50the word of God just to make an extra
1:29:53dollar I happen to believe that God will
1:29:56bless people that are faithful to his
1:29:59house why don't you just determine I'm
1:30:03putting church first if I got to go
1:30:06bankrupt I am not going to miss the
1:30:09house of God to chase money I tell you
1:30:12what'll happen if you work hard money
1:30:15will chase you because the blessings of
1:30:18God cannot be outrun when we are
1:30:22faithful to his house
1:30:28church needs to be priority over
1:30:36work is everybody
1:30:40okay I I done went to
1:30:43plowing but I'm not to the end the road
1:30:46just yet let me just get to the end of
1:30:48the road we'll be
1:30:51done who said that did you mean
1:30:55it he said I could take my time and
1:31:02I
1:31:04now I believe there's a blessing in
1:31:07going to church when it's
1:31:13inconvenient I get that there's times
1:31:16when you Ox gets in the ditch because
1:31:19the Bible says you could work on the
1:31:20Sabbath if your Ox is in the
1:31:22ditch so those times I mean if the
1:31:26company's burning down and you got to go
1:31:28put out the fire on Sunday just do it
1:31:31the ox does get in the
1:31:33ditch let me just say this if I had an
1:31:37ox that fell in the ditch about every
1:31:39other
1:31:43Sunday what you need to do is you need
1:31:45to get you a 357 and do what you got to
1:31:47do that ax and you go get you an
1:31:49ax that knows how to stay out the ditch
1:31:55the stuff people will miss church
1:31:59over
1:32:01Pastor my toddler has got a runny
1:32:04nose the whole family staying in
1:32:08tonight we'll join
1:32:13online let me just be
1:32:16blunt it don't take the whole family to
1:32:19blow that kid's nose
1:32:24Mom and Dad if one of y'all got to stay
1:32:26home trade off but get as many members
1:32:29of the family into the house of God as
1:32:31you can there needs to be an established
1:32:35churchgoing ethic in your home that says
1:32:38just because we don't feel so good we're
1:32:41not using that for a reason to miss
1:32:50church somebody told me a while back
1:32:52pastor we can't come Church something
1:32:54cuz my dogs have
1:32:57puppies you missing the general assembly
1:33:01and the angels and
1:33:05the your dogs having
1:33:12puppies now I'm not a
1:33:17veterinarian but I know this dogs have
1:33:21been having
1:33:22puppies for
1:33:24millenniums without human
1:33:31help tell your dog I'll pray for you at
1:33:35church you come on to church hurry home
1:33:39afterwards if you got to but then
1:33:42puppies will be just fine but we cannot
1:33:45lose these moments of coming together
1:33:48because there is an eternal work to get
1:33:50done what we are doing in this church is
1:33:53important important it is matters
1:33:55ultimacy is dictated here salvation
1:34:00happens here it matters that we are in
1:34:03the house of
1:34:06God well let's all stand and clap our
1:34:08hands to the
1:34:20Lord just remain standing
1:34:26now I don't have time to unpack this
1:34:30but everybody that came in the building
1:34:34tonight you brought something to the
1:34:36table to add to this
1:34:39service only percentage wise just small
1:34:42percentage of people got on this
1:34:45platform
1:34:47and some of us can't
1:34:50sing when I sing in the Pew people wish
1:34:53I was
1:34:56when God told me one time he said man
1:34:57you sound like a dying cow out in the
1:35:00field when you sing hurt my feelings a
1:35:03little bit but he's prably telling the
1:35:05truth but I'm going to sing
1:35:07anyway on key off key I'm going to
1:35:10sing I'm going to bring something but
1:35:12let me just say
1:35:15this you might feel like the church is
1:35:19big and it's getting too big and I don't
1:35:22matter but you do matter
1:35:24you matter to God and it matters to
1:35:26people CU you know what I've learned
1:35:28over the years when you get the whole
1:35:31family
1:35:33together
1:35:35everybody said I mean it might be one of
1:35:38these Tuesdays you're a wh slap out you
1:35:40think I'm not going to be worth shooting
1:35:41at church just come on anyway if you got
1:35:45to come in your work
1:35:46clo it don't bother me to see people
1:35:49come in their work clothes when I see
1:35:51somebody in church in their work cloth I
1:35:53think that's a a faithful person they're
1:35:55doing what a lot of people been too
1:35:57proud to
1:35:58do get to the house of
1:36:02God cuz when you get together to
1:36:05whatever extent you can join in what
1:36:08we're doing there is a power and a
1:36:10Dominion that occurs when people get
1:36:14together first Pentecostal Church of
1:36:17North Little Rock I'm standing in this
1:36:19pull pit to say we need to be more
1:36:22faithful to the house of God than we've
1:36:25ever been it's getting bad in the world
1:36:28outside and it's time to crank the fire
1:36:31up on the
1:36:34[Music]
1:36:38inside you're ready to make a commitment
1:36:42to be faithful to the house of God I'd
1:36:44like you to join me right up here at the
1:36:46front why don't we just run on down here
1:36:49as quick as we can we're people
1:36:51determined to be committed
1:36:54I'm not backing out of
1:36:56church I'm not going to if I got to ask
1:36:59for a ride to get
1:37:01here whatever I got to
1:37:09do I'll just say
1:37:13this if I live so far away from the
1:37:16church that I couldn't hardly be
1:37:18here I'd call A realtor tomorrow
1:37:22morning and I'd have a for sale sign in
1:37:25my
1:37:26yard before 5:00
1:37:28tomorrow and you watch what God does
1:37:32when you make a move to get close to the
1:37:35house of God so you could be
1:37:37faithful amen I want us to join together
1:37:40with this great company come on just
1:37:42gather in close step on in close we've
1:37:44got hundreds of people coming I want
1:37:46everybody to get the crowd up here I
1:37:49want us to pray right now that there
1:37:51would be such a fervency
1:37:53come over this whole church regarding
1:37:55coming to church that a spirit of
1:37:58faithfulness would be on us we're not
1:38:00going to give in to the trends of this
1:38:03world of missing church and putting it
1:38:07down the list of priorities we're going
1:38:08to make it a priority more than
1:38:11ever come on can we pray how about some
1:38:15of the elders in this house can you pray
1:38:17with me God let a spirit of faithfulness
1:38:21be on us
1:38:24hallelujah hallelujah Let There Be unity
1:38:27in this
1:38:29church let us come together in powerful
1:38:33Services let there be a Unity on a
1:38:36Tuesday night and a Sunday night and a
1:38:38Sunday
1:38:41morning
1:38:43Hallelujah I want us right now
1:38:45specifically to pray for those that are
1:38:48dealing with job situations that's been
1:38:51keeping them from being here like they
1:38:52want to be I want us to pray right now
1:38:55that in the next 6 weeks that God would
1:38:57begin to do miracles for one person
1:38:59right after another so they could be in
1:39:01the house of God God you see their
1:39:03heartbeat to be in the house of God I
1:39:05pray that you would open up doors right
1:39:07now I pray that you would give them
1:39:09positions so they could be here I pray
1:39:12that you would give them favor with
1:39:14supervisors I pray that new shifts would
1:39:17open up let there be new job
1:39:20opportunities God make a way for your
1:39:23people to be in your house I pray for
1:39:26somebody right now that's watching
1:39:28online that's been too sick to be here I
1:39:31pray right now that healing Mercy would
1:39:34move on their body so they'd have
1:39:36strength to be here in the house of God
1:39:38Sunday
1:39:39morning man I feel the Holy Ghost right
1:39:42now I feel the power of God come on
1:39:45let's pray that the doors would be open
1:39:47for people to be here let's pray that
1:39:50God would help us together in
1:39:53if we'd all get here Sunday we'd hardly
1:39:55have room to put everybody let's pray
1:39:58that that happen this
1:40:00Sunday
1:40:03Jesus
1:40:06hallelujah
1:40:08hallelujah hallelujah now put your hands
1:40:11together let's give God big
1:40:14praise thank you
1:40:21Jesus oh I'm so so glad to be in God's
1:40:25service I'm glad to be in God's service
1:40:29I'm so glad to be in God's service one
1:40:33more
1:40:35time he didn't have to let me live oh it
1:40:40didn't have to let me live I'm so glad
1:40:43to be in God's service one more
1:40:47time and I'm so glad to be in God's
1:40:51service I'm glad to be in God service
1:40:55I'm so glad to be in God's service one
1:40:58more
1:41:00time oh no he didn't have to let me
1:41:04live he didn't have to let me live I'm
1:41:08so glad to be God service one more
1:41:12time oh and it's a joy to be God service
1:41:18Joy Jo to be my Serv oh Jo Jo to be
1:41:23service one more
1:41:25time oh no didn't have to let me live
1:41:30didn't have to
1:41:32let live it's a joy to be God service
1:41:37one more
1:41:38time oh it's a joy to be service Lord
1:41:43It's a joy to be service oh it's a
1:41:48joy service one more time one more time
1:41:52oh
1:41:54not to let me live oh not to let me live
1:41:59it's a joy to be we sing that one more
1:42:03time come on
1:42:08everybodyy sounds
1:42:11good the
1:42:13joy service
1:42:17more oh no he didn't have to let me live
1:42:22no he didn't
1:42:28let come on everybody sing it one more
1:42:30time I'm glad I'm glad to be in God
1:42:34service glad to be in God
1:42:38service to be God service one more
1:42:43time he didn't have to let me live you
1:42:48didn't have to let me live I'm so glad
1:42:52to be God
1:42:54one more
1:42:55time oh come on let's praise
1:42:59him oh hallelujah hallelujah we've been
1:43:04blessed by the word tonight you know I
1:43:07just thought as brother Adams was
1:43:09concluding here tonight I thought about
1:43:11brother Chris Moss not able to be here
1:43:14due to sickness Terry inscore I just
1:43:18think right now those that are dealing
1:43:20with with cancer diagnosis es and
1:43:24different situations why don't we just
1:43:26pray for them right now they want to be
1:43:28here hallelujah come on let's do that as
1:43:32a church
1:43:35family God you can heal their bodies so
1:43:39they can be in this house to praise you
1:43:42Lord oh your word says that the dead
1:43:45can't Praise You only the Living God I
1:43:48pray right now that you would heal their
1:43:51bodies lift them up
1:43:56God In The Name of
1:43:59Jesus in the name of
1:44:02Jesus in the name of Jesus hallelujah
1:44:06thank you brother Adams for blessing us
1:44:09tonight come on can we show our
1:44:11appreciation for what we've heard
1:44:15hallelujah hallelujah I tell you what I
1:44:18have always appreciated and loved about
1:44:22the ministry of brother Adams is
1:44:26his
1:44:28Clarity and the
1:44:31articulation that he brings to the
1:44:34scripture to the word of God it's just
1:44:36beautiful I love that when I leave
1:44:40church I want to know I've been to
1:44:43church I said I want to know I've been
1:44:45to church you know how I know I've been
1:44:47to
1:44:49church I'm either sweaty from shouting
1:44:52so much or my heart's full from the word
1:44:55of God being
1:44:57preached and we've been blessed tonight
1:45:00by the word of
1:45:01God
1:45:04hallelujah hallelujah I think I'll be
1:45:06here Sunday morning
1:45:0910:30 let's come believ in God for great
1:45:12things thank you for being here Church
1:45:14let's keep praying what do you say let's
1:45:15hit that 500 I'm going to speak it in
1:45:18faith in Jesus name God bless you to see
1:45:21you here this Sunday
1:45:23[Music]
1:45:26thank you so much again for joining us
1:45:28here online for fpcnlr M Miracle midweek
1:45:31you know Pastor Adams made a fantastic
1:45:33case this evening for being in church
1:45:35and why you should be here so we want to
1:45:37see you this Sunday morning 10:30 a.m.
1:45:40uh Sunday evening also at 7:00 p.m. if
1:45:43you're not local and you think well I'd
1:45:44like to go to church but I don't know
1:45:46where to go please feel free reach out
1:45:47to us here at the church 501 758309
1:45:53and we would be more than happy to
1:45:55connect you with a fantastic Church in
1:45:57your local area again thank you so much
1:45:59for joining us and being a part of the
1:46:00FBC nlr online family may God richly
1:46:03bless you this week
1:46:05[Music]

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