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Divided Devotion - Tim Timberlake
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In this powerful message, we continue through Acts chapter 7 as Stephen stands before the Sanhedrin and exposes a dangerous spiritual pattern: God moves, people receive, people replace Him with idols, and then God removes His presence.
“Divided Devotion” confronts the reality that many people don’t abandon God—they simply add other things alongside Him. Through the story of Israel carrying both the tabernacle and idols, this message challenges us to examine where our devotion has been split between God and culture, comfort, success, or self-made systems.
This teaching calls us back to full surrender, reminding us that God will not share His throne—and what we refuse to remove, may ultimately remove us from His promise.
Hey, I'm Tim Timberlake, and I want to thank you so much for listening to the Celebration Church podcast. I hope this message encouraged you, strengthened your faith, and gave you something you can carry into your week. If you'd like to stay connected, I encourage you to join us live every Sunday at 9 a.m. or 11 a.m. on YouTube. We would love to have you there. And if you're ever in the Jacksonville, Florida area, come see us in person. We have a seat saved for you. Thanks again for being with us. We're so grateful for you. And see you next time. Acts chapter 7. I tell you to take your seat as we read. Because you'll be doing a lot of standing today. Want you to rest up, get prepared. Rest your legs now. Acts chapter 7, verse 43. The NASP translation. It says, You also took along the tabernacle of Maloch and the star of your God Rampha. The images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon. Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen. And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out from before our fathers until the time of David. You also took along the tabernacle of Malek and the star of your God Rampha, the images which you made to worship. I also will remove you beyond Babylon. Our fathers have the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen. And having received it in their turn, our fathers brought it in with Joshua upon dispossessing the nations whom God drove out from before our fathers until the time of David. For a moment, I want to utilize these three verses as we continue to journey through the Acts of the Apostles for a message that God has given us entitled Divided Devotion. Divided Devotion. Let's pray. We know that you are here. We know that you are moving. So we ask God that you would change and transform our lives so that we can be reflections of your glory, your grace, your mercy, your steadfast love towards us. We give you all the glory. We give you all the honor. And we give you the praise. In the name of Jesus we pray. And everybody that's glad is the love. He's being accused of three things specifically: the first being blaspheming God, the second being blaspheming the temple, the third being blaspheming Moses. And he's utilizing some of the patriarchs and the word of God to show the Sanhedrin Council that they are repeating a cycle that he has seen over the course of time. And the cycle that he is telling them that they are repeating is one that I believe we should pay close attention to today, because if we're not careful, we repeat that same cycle, and then we turn around and we blame God for what we have made a decision to do. That cycle that we see throughout scripture is that God moves. Everyone repeat it after me. God moves, people receive, people replace, God removes. That's the cycle. God moves, people receive, people replace, God removes. God moves in a supernatural and mighty way. The people receive what God desires from the receive. And then they get impatient, and they start to create their own idols, and they start to worship false gods. And when they replace God with idols and false gods, God then removes his glory from the equation. Stephan is teaching this to the Sanhedrin as he stands trial. He's quoting to them Amos chapter 5, verse 25 through 27, and he's confronting Israel's hidden idolatry that was constructed in the wilderness. The people outwardly followed God. They outwardly gathered, they lifted their hands in worship. They danced at the altar in praise, but inwardly they had other gods. Inwardly they had constructed, made, molded, false idols. They carried these other gods with them, and it created a tension that we find in the text. And the tension that we find in the text is one that you may be able to identify with in your own life. And that tension is that they had God's structure, but they lacked consistent and faithful devotion to God's presence. I'll say it again. They had God's structure, but they lacked consistency and faithfulness in their devotion to God. Verse number 43, it says, You also took along the tabernacle of Maluch, the star of your God Rampha. Maluch was a Canaanite god associated with child sacrifice. And the way they would sacrifice these children, they would take them alive, they would place them on the altar, and they would burn these children alive to appease this false god Maloch. And as we sit here and we skirm and we make noises and we get uncomfortable that that thought, some of us do the same thing with our children, laying them on the altar of leading themselves and being consumed by the fire of culture and society. To appease your schedule, to appease your priorities, to appease your preference. And some of you, you've even made your kids the idol. And your kids tell you when they want to go to church, they tell you when they want to do certain things, they tell you and they dictate your plans and your schedule, and they've become little idols that talk to you every single day. I don't wanna. For we in our house, we will serve the Lord. There is no priority that takes precedence over our relationship with Jesus Christ. Ain't no basketball, ain't no football, ain't no soccer, ain't no ping pong, ain't no race cars, ain't nothing gonna take the presence of God away from what it is he desires for us to do. You better stop idolizing your children and catering to everything they want and giving them everything they want. You're setting them up for failure. What you are actually creating is a little Ramfa for yourself. We sacrifice our children on the altar of ambition, on the altar of image, on the altar of convenience, and parents chasing success. They lose their children emotionally. And you make excuses for them, telling them you're preparing a better life for them when they don't want a life without you. Y'all don't gotta talk to them. It's okay, I'll talk to myself. Kids being more discipled by their algorithm than the anointing. Tablets and phones raising our children because we don't want to spend time with them. Ramfa. Families trading presents for platform. Our kids are confused about their identity because parents haven't told them who they are in Christ Jesus. Put them on the altar of malak. And allow them to be consumed by the fire of parental laziness. I'm a firm believer in this. There are no lazy children. Just lazy parents. Stop making excuses for why you don't want to spend time with them. Because in your mind you don't think you know how to raise them. And start sitting with them and just letting them know how much you love them. How much you care for them and the plans that God has for their life. If you don't know what to tell them, tell them what the word of God says about them. For I know the plans I have for you. Those plans are good, saith the Lord. Those plans are to prosper you, those plans are not evil. And maybe Moloch has not become your God, but Ramfa has. Ramfa was known as an astral deity. And although we don't bow to stars in 2026, we sure do consult them. And we'll identify with the sign more than we do the Savior. And so people ask you, what sign are you? Here you go. I'm a cancer, I'm a Sagittarius, I'm a Leo, I'm an Aquarius, and you just confessing demons on yourself. It always confused me. Why would someone want to call themselves a cancer? Something that's known to kill millions of people. Why would you even identify yourself with something that sifts life from someone else? You better be careful with how you identify who you are. What week you born in. What month you born in? And you sitting here aligning your destiny with what some stars tell you. Ain't it crazy how we have a tendency to trust the creation more than the creator? And we're gonna say things like Mother Earth and God is a woman, and we sit here and we listen to that jump. God is a woman, God ain't no woman. You can't point to one scripture in the word of God that says God is a woman. Let me take you back to what the word of God says in Acts chapter 7, verse 44. Our fathers had the testimony, and in the wilderness, just as he who spoke to Moses, not she, not Shim, not her, he. And God main changing his identity to physical presence.
SPEAKER_00He was the same yesterday, he's the same today, and he'll be the same forevermore. You better stop worshiping these false titles in God that trying to tell you that God is something and someone that he is not. The universe told me.
SPEAKER_01The universe ain't told you nothing.
SPEAKER_00You listen to a demon titling in the universe. Tell me something. Did the universe save you? Did the universe change your mind? Did the universe heal your body?
SPEAKER_01Did the universe put the Red Sea open for you? Did the universe create heavens and the earth? No, the universe didn't. Only God did that. And you better stop worshiping something that does not have the authority to tell you where you're going and set for hell. We root identities and zodiac signs over scripture. Trust in creation for direction. Because it's easier for us to follow culture than to trust the word of God. I want to point out to you the danger in this passage that Israel followed. They didn't abandon God outright. They added other gods alongside of them. And this is the most dangerous rebellion. Not the danger of atheism. Not the danger of laziness. It's the danger of mixture. Where it's Jesus and. Maybe for you, it's not Jesus and Allah. Jesus and Hinduism. Jesus and Buddha. Maybe for you, it's Jesus and your calendar. It's okay. We're gonna make it through it, I promise you. Maybe for you it's Jesus and your money. That's my money. That's mine. That's mine. That's not it ain't yours. Deuteronomy teaches us it is he who gives us the power to get well. Not we ourselves. The mixture. They were carrying the presence of God and carrying portable idols. And Stephan is teaching the Sanhedrin a valuable lesson. Yahweh became a God, not their God. The tabernacle became one option among many devotions. This family is more dangerous than outright rebellion. Because outright rebellion rejects publicly. While mixture feels spiritual. And so we'll chase spirituality separate from Jesus. And we'll go on these retreats all over the world to chase spirituality, but we won't come to church. We'll go to Bali, but we won't go down the street. This is spiritual pluralism inside of people that were created for covenant. And that's why you will never find satisfaction or fulfillment in those things. You can fill your schedules, you can fill your calendars, you can fill your mind with all these things that your heart's desire, and you still won't find satisfaction or fulfillment. You will only find an empty vessel at the end of the day. Because you are created for one person and one person only. You weren't created for many gods, you weren't created for many idols, you weren't created for the worship of many different things. You were created to worship one true living God. And his name is Jesus. And God will not sit on a shelf beside what he died to deliver you from. So you don't have to bow publicly to be bound spiritually. The reality of this passage is that Israel didn't leave God, they just diluted their relationship with him. And dilution is just a slow denial, leading you down the pathway of death. For the wages of sin is death. And make no mistake about it, at the end of your life, you're gonna have to pay the bill. Yeah, and ain't nobody too tough to spend eternity without Jesus. Ain't nobody gangster enough to take their last breath here on earth and find out that you will be separated for eternity from the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, and they think to themselves, I'm gonna be alright. And you sitting here, you're chasing after the possessions of this world. Because the possessions of this world have become your Ramfa, they become your malach. And we sit here and we chase money, we chase gold, we chase opportunities. I just want to remind you of what scripture says. Scripture says, for the streets of heaven are paved, so why are you chasing what is pavement in heaven here on earth? You killing yourself over what is pavement in heaven. What what we woke on. You are killing yourself over what is pavement in heaven. Because this gold, these dollars, this money has become yours. This is deeper than inherited sin. This is customized sin based upon our preference because we are impatient. This is us opening the door to sin and welcoming sin into our lives because we were too impatient to wait on God. Genesis chapter 4, verse 7, God speaking to Cain said, Cain, if you do things the right way, will not your countenance be lifted? But if you don't do things the right way, sin is crouching at your door. And its desire is to rule you, so you must master it. And the reality for some of us today is we are opening the door to sin, and we don't even realize that sin is walking with us, it's training us, it's developing us because we did not change our countenance by the word of God. And so point number one is this the most dangerous idols are the ones you design to agree with you. That's why some of you are not faithful to Jesus, because he doesn't always agree with you. That's why you're not consistent in the word of God, because the word of God doesn't always tell you what you want to hear. That's why you're not consistent in prayer, because when you pray, God desires to speak to you, but you don't actually want to hear what God has to say because you've already determined what you want him to say. The most dangerous idols are the ones you design to agree with you. Let me put it to you like this: an idol is any God that never disagrees with you. And if your God never corrects you, you created him. Or her. We don't fall into idolatry. We fabricate it. We make it, we manufacture it. And a God you can control, a God that you can change, a God that you can demand and tell that God to do whatever you want it to do is a God that will never deliver you. That's why some of us are still stuck because we're sitting here trying to control God. Let me tell you this: any spirit you try to control is a demon spirit. And it will not deliver you. Any idol you can control, any little God that you can control, it will not deliver you. Only one God can deliver you. His name is above every other name. His name has and will always have all power locked on the inside of it. And scripture says, when you say the name of Jesus, every demon flees. When you say the name Jesus, every disease listens. When you say the name of Jesus, there's still power in that matchless name. And some of us were sitting here calling out our idol instead of the name of God. What we fail to realize is a self-made relationship and self-made worship, it always leads to self-made destruction. And look at what God tells the children of Israel, I also will remove you beyond Babylon. Babylon represents exile, displacement, judgment. When we read this, God didn't just punish their behavior, he removed them from the promise. Which teaches me if I refuse to remove my idols, God will remove me from the place I'm supposed to thrive. God will never compete with what you refuse to confront. But it's not that bad, Pastor. Okay. It ain't never hurt nobody, Pastor. Okay. I paid a lot of money for this gold necklace, Pastor. Okay. Let me point out something to you. That little eye you wearing? I hope it can see where you're going. And warn you for where you're headed. Because that little eye, it's an idol. God won't compete with what you can fuse to confront. And the thing you protect can become the reason you are displaced. Unaddressed idols in our heart, in our life, they don't stay hidden, they just relocate into other areas. And so you may be thinking you're hiding it over here and it reappears over here. And you're a little bit selfish here. And you say, okay, God, I'm willing to give that to you, but I'm not willing to give this to you. God, I'm willing to give you a little bit of time, but I'm not willing to give you all my time. And He's the one who gave you time in the first place. Verse 43 teaches us that you can't carry idols and expect to stay in the promise. Verse 44 says, our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony. This tabernacle of testimony is God's dwelling place. It contained the ark, the law, the presence of God. It was called testimony because it testified of God's covenant with the children of Israel. And here's the tension that we may live in right here. They had the right structure, but they had the wrong heart. And some of you, you have the right structure. You got the right plan. You got the right blueprint, but you got the wrong heart. You're trying to use God to accomplish the outcome you want to see instead of being used by God to fulfill the thing that He desires for you to walk out. Point number two is this. Verse number 44 teaches us you can build what God designed and still miss what God desires. You can build what God designed and still miss what God desires. You can absolutely host his presence without surrendering your preferences. That's why some of you, you want to meet with me and ask me, can we do the things your old church used to do? Because it reminds your mom and them and grandmama and them and big mama's church. And here's my rebuttal. Find it in Scripture. It's a preference. And if we prioritize preference over God-given purpose, we make our preferences an idol. And so the structure of a thing can be right while devotion to that thing is wrong. And you can have a holy system, and you can replace that holy system with an unsurrendered soul because your preference reminds you of how you used to experience God and not how God desires for you to experience Him today. And you will create a whole theology framework based around an encounter you had four years ago. Because you failed to realize that God is still moving. And so we talk about how we used to experience God and what God used to do and how God used to move. And I remember back in 1995, revival broke loose and revival was everywhere, and all these great things. It was the golden age and the golden era. And I'm telling you, God is moving today. God is healing today, He's delivering today, He's setting the captives free today. But you will miss what God is doing if you keep looking through the rearview mirror of what God did. Look at what the passage never says. The passage never says that God demanded from Moses to have perfect construction. He asked for full consecration. And the children of Israel were too impatient to give God their full consecration, and so they interjected other idols and false gods with their God. Scripture says, according to the pattern which he had seen. Moses did not invent the tabernacle, he replicated heaven's designs. He followed the instructions. And let me tell you, it is very, very frustrating for a leader to get instruction from God, and the people are too impatient to receive it. Let that sink in for a second. And so God, He's not just a God of pattern, He's also a God of preference. And when you abandon God's pattern and preference, you replace it with your own selfish desires and label it as spirituality. And so God's pattern, it produces presence. And your preference produces performance. And that's why we settle for pastors who perform instead of pastors who teach the Word of God. That's why we can receive instruction from God and think to ourselves, I need to improve what God has given me. And we think we can make God's instruction better, so we add to it. We think we can do better than God's plan for our life, and so we add to it. You don't improve God's design. You just obey it. Now you listen to me. You can't improve God's design, it is perfect. You just have to obey it. Let me say it this way: innovation without revelation always leads to imitation without power. And so you'll use the name, but you won't know the name. And when heaven gives us patterns, and when heaven gives us blueprints, and when heaven gives us instructions, earth does not have the authority to edit it. You don't have the authority to edit the plan of God for your life. You don't have the power, the intellect, the know-how, the wisdom, the revelation to take instructions and blueprint from God and tweak it, and it'd be better than what God gave you. And so the moment you try to adjust God's design for your life is the moment you reduce God's glory in your life. Verse number 45. Our fathers bought it in with Joshua. The tabernacle, it didn't stay in the wilderness, it moved into warfare, it moved with them as they moved, but they wanted to keep it stuck, they wanted it to be positioned, they wanted it to be fixed because they kept making false gods and making false idols because they did not believe that God was in fact moving. And sometimes when it seems like God is doing nothing, God is in fact doing something. And sometimes when it seems like God is not moving, God is intentionally not moving because God is moving something in you. And so don't be impatient when it feels like God is not doing anything to then create your own idol or your own God because you were not patient enough to see God work it out for you. The tabernacle didn't stay in the wilderness, it moved into warfare. And under Joshua, it entered into the promised land. This is a powerful truth for us to understand and identify with because God's presence wasn't just for survival, God's presence was also for conquest. The presence of God would go before them before they went into battle. Whenever God called the children of Israel, whenever God called his people to occupy or to take territory, he always sent his presence with them because the presence of God is not just for survival, it is also for conquest, for progress, for the advancement of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And what God gave you for victory, you can reduce to becoming a relic if you stop walking in faith. And so what once led you can become something you just look at. Some of you got these pretty Bibles. Soft leather. Supple leather. Big bold print. But you don't open it. And you talk about it, but you don't read it. And once in your life it led you, and now you look at it, and you pass it by every single day, and you ask your coffee on it. In the back of your car somewhere, you don't even know where it is. What once led you, now you look at it. And it is only this that can change you. It is only this that can lead you. It is only this that can change you. It is only this that can set your mind on the path of righteousness. It is only this that can build your faith. It is only this that will change your mind. And make no mistake about it, you need your mind changed. What you have to understand is yesterday's encounter cannot replace today's obedience. Point number three. Revival dies when remembrance replaces pursuit. Revival dies when remembrance replaces pursuit. This will be a house that continues to pursue the presence of God. We will not talk more about what God did than what God is doing and what God has a desire for us to see that He's already done. We will always and continue to chase after the presence of God. Because revival dies when remembrance replaces pursuit. If it doesn't move with you, it will eventually mean nothing to you. Are you listening to me? If the presence of God does not move with you, the presence of God will eventually mean nothing to you. That's why some of us can treat the presence of God just like it's an accessory to our lives, and we dictate and determine when we spend time with the presence of God, and we spend time with the presence of God when we need something from God. And if we don't need nothing from God, God does not hear from us. That's why we can look at a service and determine when God stops moving in the service because we have idolized our schedule and our calendar over the presence of God, and that's why we can dictate and determine how long we take off from the house of God because we don't want to go to church and we don't want to be inconvenienced to sit 20 minutes and traffic and the church is getting too big. And if you think the church is getting too big, what in the world do you think heaven is going to look like? Oh, they worship too long. What in the world do you think heaven is going to sound like? And as God is moving forward, idolatry has you standing stuck. You can honor yesterday so much that you miss God today. I refuse to create a culture where we honor what God used to do more than what God is doing, where we honor how God used to move more than how God is moving right here, right now, today, in this very moment. And the danger isn't losing God, it's locking him into where he used to be. And God, he did not bring you this far to be remembered, he brought you this far to keep moving with him. And Stefan's message is clear. But you carried other things along with God. And the tragedy of this revelation isn't that God stopped moving. It's that his people kept moving with everything except for him. But regardless of if we identify it, regardless of if we identify him, he is still God. Let me say it like this. He is still him. He's still God. Whether you acknowledge him to be or not, he's still God. Whether you believe in him or not, he is still God. Whether he changes your circumstance or your situation, he is still God. He's still the God of the wilderness. He's still the fire by night. He's still the cloud by day. He's still the voice in the burning bush on the top of Mount Sinai. He's still the voice that shook the mountain. He's still the God that provided matter in the wilderness when they had no resources or any food to consume. He's still the God that provided water from the rock when there was no source. He is still that God.
SPEAKER_00And the word of God says, Beside me, there is no one else. He is still, God, still the one that split the Red Sea and carried his people over. He's still the God that closed the Red Sea and trapped the Egyptians in it. He is still, God. He's still the God that made a way out of no way and turning possibilities to possibilities.
SPEAKER_01He's still, oh God. The one who crushed Egypt and carried his people over and carried his people over. I wish I had about 30 people that could have come. He's still God.
SPEAKER_00Yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy, yummy. He's still the one who's blowing the film of the tabernacle until the flesh can't stand in it. He's still the God that didn't lose power. People just lost firm in it. He's still God.
SPEAKER_01He's still the God that has all the power over sin. He's still the God that has all the power over devils.
SPEAKER_00He's still the God that has power over everything that's trying to master you. He is still God. He's still the God that has the autonomy for putting every chair. Remove every humanity. And the straw every hill. He's still gonna be a big one. There is no iron that can be the money. He's still he's still him. He's still gonna be still gonna walk on the set.
SPEAKER_01He is glad and greatly to be played. Still moving, still speaking, still delivering, still feeling hearts and changing love.
SPEAKER_00He's still the god that changes the mind. He's still the god that sticks the cancer and cancer disappearance. He's still on the god. That has a name that is above every other name. Yeah, even that name, even that name, his name is greater than that name. He's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore because he's still God.
SPEAKER_01And something happens when we call that name.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I feel the Holy Spirit up in this place.
SPEAKER_02I said something happens when you call that name. Things begin to move, things begin to shift, things begin to change. When you call that name, I call to the name of the Lord. And he heard my cry.
SPEAKER_01Let me read to you Psalms 24.
SPEAKER_00The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, and the world and those that dwell in it, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend to the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands. Oh, I wonder if there's anybody that got clean hands. Oh, clap your hands, oh ye people. Oh, Son of God, with a voice of Christ. Who can ascend to the hill? Who can stand in the presence of the Lord?
SPEAKER_01He who has clean hands and a pure heart. Who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully? He will receive the blessing from the Lord and the righteousness from God of his salvation. Such is the generation of those who seek him. I wonder, do I have any seekers in this place today?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I said, I wonder, do I have any seekers in the house today? I don't care if you're in this room, maybe you're watching online, maybe in the overflow. I said, I wonder, do I have any seekers? Any worshipers, those that worship them in spirit and in truth, who seek the face of God of Jacob. Lift up your hands, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, you ancient doors, for the king of glory shall come in. Who is this king of glory? Who is this king of glory? Who is this king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty and battle.
SPEAKER_02Lift up your heads, o ye gates, and be ye lifted up, and the king of glory shall come in, no more divided devotion, no more duality, no more spiritual sticisms.
SPEAKER_00No, no, no. We serve one true living Savior. He is the King of Glory, the Lord strong in battle. Who is this king?
SPEAKER_02I'll tell you who he is. He is the Alpha, He is the Omega, He finished you before He started you. Now, if you believe that Jesus is still the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, throw your hands up, open up your mouth, and say, Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I want to do a heaven and seekers in the house. Oh, don't wait on me. Get what you need.
SPEAKER_02Don't wait on me. You get what you need. Yes. Yes. Yes. Come on, somebody. Celebrate the King of Kings. And the Lord Lord. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And the king of glory. He shall come in. You've been waiting. You've been watching. You've been praying. He is here right now waiting on you to acknowledge his presence. Oh, I wish I had some folk that would lift their hands in the presence of an Almighty God.
SPEAKER_02Woo! Come on, if he's been good to you, Shia.
SPEAKER_00He is God all by himself. And that's why we enter into his courts with thanksgiving. Well, Pastor, I don't feel like it, but you're in his courts. So you be thankful. And that's why we enter into his courts with praise. I don't feel like praising him.
SPEAKER_01It's not about how you feel, baby. It's about where you're standing.
SPEAKER_02Oh, you're still standing. I said you're still standing. The enemy threw his backstab, and you're still standing. Oh, I wish I had a praising church. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, seek him. Pursue him. Chase him. And don't let go until he blesses you.
SPEAKER_00I called on the Lord. And he heard my cry. There's that a tear that you can drop that God doesn't hear? There's that a prayer that you have prayed that God did not receive. Will you call in the name of the Lord? Oh, I tell you just to call them, call them, call them, call them. Call them, call them, call them, call them. Call them, call them, call them, call them. When I call on the name of the Lord. You've been too tormented to stay silent. Call on the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_02You've been going through too much pain to stay silent. Call on the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Jesus. Something happens when I call that name. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.
SPEAKER_02Jesus. Jesus. My mortal flesh quickens. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Pain leaves my body when I call on the name of the Lord. My mind changes when I call on the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01Stretch those heads.
SPEAKER_00Go ahead, get what you need. Go ahead, get what you need. You done been through too much hell to stay silent right now. I said, get what you need. Come on, open up your mouth and give God the glory.
SPEAKER_01For in the last days, will not your old men dream dreams and your young men see visions. This is that. Will not your old women dream dreams and your young women view visions. This is that that you've been praying for, that you've been longing for, that you've been searching for, that you've been fasting for.
SPEAKER_02This is that. I wonder is there anybody glad that you're alive to see what God is doing through and for his people?
SPEAKER_00Bodies are getting healed right now. Prayers are getting answered right now. Somebody in this room, somebody online is getting delivered right now. The captives are being set free right now.
SPEAKER_02Demons are fleeing right now. We serve notice to the devil right now. You can't have no one under the sound of my voice, for the spirit of the Lord is here. And when the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
SPEAKER_01Now I wonder what free people sound like in this place.
SPEAKER_02I wonder what free people look like in this place. Are you free? Are you free? Are you free? So they're not like it.
SPEAKER_01You came searching for a cute little twenty-minute sermon that catered to your sin. This ain't the church for that.
SPEAKER_00I don't care about filling a room. I don't really care how many people come. I have one assignment, and that is to point people back to the presence of Jesus. And we will pursue his presence and we will position his power, and we will prioritize the person of Jesus above our preference. I wonder is there anybody listening to me right now that's glad when he said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. What a mighty God we serve. Angels bow before him.
SPEAKER_01Heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God.
SPEAKER_00Every other God is a liar that cannot save, that cannot heal, that cannot deliver, that cannot change or transform you. Every other God is a liar that cannot redeem, that cannot restore, that cannot revive, that cannot resurrect. Every other God is a liar that cannot open up anything on your behalf. And so if you serve the true and living God, I tell you to open up your mouth and for the next 30 seconds, give him all the honor, give him all the glory, give him all the praise.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Close your eyes. This is what demons fear. This is what the devil hoped you never got a revelation of. I repeat it for my sins. I ask you to forgive me. Cleanse me. Wash me. Take my sin. Take my idols. Take the false gods. Burn them. Destroy them. Cast them as far as the east as from the west. And may my life never be the same. I acknowledge that I am a sinner in dire need of your grace. And so I praise you. I thank you. I magnify your name for your grace and your mercy and your love that you've shown towards me. In Jesus' name. Amen.