Covenant and Peace at Home — Acts 2:42

0:00–0:38 Opening

Hey, happy Sunday. Happy Sunday, guys. Guys, welcome to Bethl online. We're so happy to have you with us this beautiful Sunday morning. Beautiful Sunday. Um, today's going to be a good day. Amazing day. An amazing day. We have Bill preaching. Yes. And we have Brian and Leah of Venuela leading worship. Brian Johnson, Leah Venuela. It did sound. It sounds like family today, huh? It's the whole Johnson family. We love it. We love it. Um, it's also communion Sunday. If you're able to, we'd love to encourage you to grab the communion elements. If you've got a cracker, if you've got a piece of cheese, I don't know. I'm just kind of Sometimes you have to get creative with communion.

0:39–1:03 Opening

Breaking of the bread. Um, if I could grab a piece of sourdough and a little bit of grape juice, that would be excellent with a little bit of butter just because it would be so excellent. Um, but we encourage you to grab that so that you are ready when we take that after worship today. I love communion Sundays. Me too. Isn't it wonderful? Um, Yan is with us. I know we've got our Portuguese family. We've got a stream going at the same time

1:03–1:40 Worship

Um where they're translating this in Portuguese. They are. Um, is it Ben Venita? Benindos. Benindos. Sorry. Benos. When I say that, they have to translate it in English. And I like it. Yeah. Yeah. They have to actually to find out what you're saying. No, I'm just teasing. But yeah, we have we have our Portuguese family with us today. And uh it's such a beautiful such a beautiful moment to see them coming with us and we're worshiping the Lord together and especially taking communion together. It's so beautiful what the online can do. I like people spread all over the globe

1:41–2:17 Worship Acts 2:42

And we can gather all at the same time or even if you're watching the replay, we get to worship the Lord and take communion together. This is so beautiful. It's so beautiful. I love it. Um, we were talking so much this morning in prayer about unity and the Lord spoke to me about Acts 2:42. I want to read that as we prepare for um, worshiping together, as we prepare to take communion together, as we listen to the teaching of the word, um, knowing that we're actually doing this together as one bride, as one body connected to the head, who's Jesus. And so, um, it says, "And they devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and the fellowship

2:17–2:53 Worship

To the breaking of bread." Oh, the breaking of bread. and the prayers. And all came upon every soul. And many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. And all who believed were together, and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings, and distributing the proceeds to all as any had need. And day by day, attending the temple together, and breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts, praising God, and having favor with all the people. and the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved. God, we just thank you that today

2:53–3:27 Worship

Um people are getting to break bread with other people in the family of God. That that we get to see many s signs and wonders who would be done by all the apostles that all of us we have been given authority to cast out demons, to heal the sick, to raise the dead, to cleanse the lepers, and that we would go and actually share the good news of the gospel that everything that Jesus paid for would actually be um would be found. you know, everyone will be able to experience not only the salvation, but the freedom that Jesus prayed for. And I believe that that is what's available to us today. I even felt like there were people out there,

3:28–4:01 Worship

It's been a long time since you've walked into um the building of a church. You've you've actually um not been as acquainted with the body of Christ, but I felt like today God was going to begin to speak to you about the importance of the body and and unity and walking with other believers and knowing that you don't have to do it by yourself. Yeah. Yeah. And I also feel like there's restoration coming to some of you. Yeah. Um I don't know exactly what it is. U I don't know your context, but I really feel the restoration of God coming especially into relationships and uh redeeming situations, redeeming relationships.

4:02–4:41 Worship

Maybe you got frustrated about something that it broke your heart. But I really see especially through the communion of the Lord that he's inviting some of us to the table again. And there's a seat prepared and reserved for you where your name is on it. And he's inviting you to, hey, come again. Let's feast together. Let's have communion together. Commune union together. So that's what I feel that the Lord is inviting some of us. Thank you, God. So good. If that's you, you can just receive that. If you're like, "Hey, that actually is speaking to me. The Lord's telling me like that's for me." Um, just receive that. Receive that by faith.

4:41–5:21 Worship Hebrews 12:24

Um and then I felt today I was reading in Hebrews um and the Lord just reminded me again even as we take communion that the Lord remind us the power of the blood. Yeah. And in um Hebrews 12:24 and it says and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant and to the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel. And I felt like there were people today that would understand the power the power of the blood and that this actually speaks a better word than any anything else uh anything from the old covenant. Like I I actually felt like people were going to experience like the power of the blood like they've never experienced before. I feel like people are out there and they think like

5:21–6:03 Worship

I I feel like Jesus could but I've never seen um him actually work a miracle in my body. I feel like Jesus could but I've never um experienced transformation in mind in my mind. I feel like Jesus could, but my relationships are struggling. And I and I just felt like there was going to be power in there's always power in the blood, but I felt like some people would actually recognize and experience the raw power of the blood today and that you would see like what Jesus paid for. And so, I don't know who that's for, but I bless you right where you are. If that's you, you can even just say that's me on the chat. If you're watching this back, you can just receive it um by faith. You can just say, "God, that's me. Would you would you do a work in me?" Yeah. Uh, and I really feel something on that cuz um, two weeks ago I was teaching my 7 years old Eric

6:03–6:41 Worship Revelation 12

About uh, Revelation 12 where it talks about uh, the accuser of the brethren and the and the what they used to to conquer it to the it was the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. And I was teaching my son and you know you have to be creative with a with a kid and I was teaching him like hey this is like the six seven just because I was doing that just to attract his attention. But I was teaching him about like the blood of the lamb like hey I I just saw myself teaching like hey this is the blood of the lamb. remember one of the the the weapons the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimonies and he saw me doing that and he was like six seven

6:41–7:15 Worship

You know kid being a kid but it was something beautiful that happened because for some reason that I I didn't know yet my son he didn't want to practice soccer all of his friends they were going to it and he was like no dad you know what I'm not good enough all of my friends they're very good at it but but I'm not so I don't want to participate for some reason he felt like unworthy to join that. But after that teaching, I started to use the 67 again with him and suddenly shift in his mind and he was like, "Dad, you know what?

7:15–7:48 Worship

I want to face my fears. I want to go and practice soccer and I want to yeah, I want to I want to see how I do it." And he went last Wednesday. He went for his first practice in last first game ever. It was yesterday and he was really good at it. Everybody was kind like, "Hey, Eric, you're really good at it. Why you took so long?" He was like, "Yeah, for some reason I was afraid, but now I'm on it." So, it's kind of like a child, but I want to I want to encourage some of you. Maybe it was something like, "Oh, you maybe you see failure in front of you or the fear of failure,

7:49–8:26 Worship

But actually the blood is inviting you like, "Hey, come. There's a place for you." And you and I, Jesus is saying, I really feel it. Jesus is saying you and I, we can live so many amazing things together because of the blood that was spilled on the cross for you. So I want to encourage you with that. So good. Why don't you actually just do a prophetic act with me where as a child, right, we can actually uh inherit the kingdom of of God. And so right now, even just the blood of the lamb and the power of the testimony, the word of the testimony, and just seeing the combination of the two, if you've been um

8:26–8:59 Worship

If if fear has kept you paralyzed from moving forward, if if you've if you resonate with Eric and and sometimes I love it that a little boy at such a young age can actually have such breakthrough. Why not us, you know? Why not for people who've been gripped by it? Why not for anyone else who feels like, God, I'm not sure if I can do that. I'm not sure if that's for me. But actually receiving something by faith and saying, "Ah, Jesus already paid for this." Like, I'm not unworthy. I'm not going to prove myself. I don't have to qualify for the blessing of the Lord. I actually get to receive it because of what he already paid for. And so, let's just do it together. Ready?

9:00–9:32 Worship

Some of you are like, I don't know what they're doing. Listen, the kids are into it. So, yeah, but just picture in your mind the blood of the lamb and the word of testimony. The two, the two, the two, the two of them. The kids are going to be like, "Oh my goodness." But Lord, we just thank you for what you did with Eric. And we just say, "Do it again. Do it again. Do it again, God. That you would renew our minds. That you would remind us what you already paid for. That we don't have to do it ourselves. That we get to rest in the assurance and the power of what you paid for on that cross, Jesus.

9:33–10:06 Worship

Guys, we're so expectant for worship today. I pray, I actually feel like a lot of you are going to resonate with that word, like that picture. And there's going to be moments even this week when you do hard things and you're going to remember that silly thing and say, "No way. It's by it's by the blood of the lamb and the power of the word of the testimony that allows me to walk into this." So, um, we're going to get ready to worship in just a second. We bless you guys. We're expecting for the Lord to move in such a beautiful way. Let's get ready to worship the Lord. We love you. Good morning.

10:08–10:42 Worship

What is your opening song? I pray. Good morning. Good morning. Hello. Hello everyone. Good morning. Happy Sunday. So good to see you all. If you are a worshipper that usually worships in the front, you can come up to the front. Uh why don't you greet a neighbor? Say hello.

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Give them a little bit of encouragement. Hello online church. It's good to have you. Why don't we put some encouragement in the chat as well? Oh, wonderful. Wonderful. Why don't you stand up? If you would, if you are able, would you stand with me? We're going to worship the Lord this morning.

11:23–11:58 Worship

I want to just open with a a testimony. And um so last week I got to travel and I got to go be with God got got to do some women's events and um it was really powerful but I saw something that I haven't personally um seen breakthrough in and it was like over and over again there was this theme of um of breakthrough in a certain area and it was breakthrough around the effect of trauma. So the side effects of trauma, God delivering and healing people instantly.

11:59–12:34 Worship

And um it was really profound for me. I've obviously ministered and taught um and shared much of what I'd shared before. You know, it's it's um I was sharing my testimony of what God did for me. And um I was in a very different context than what I usually share in. And um I I started to get Instagram messages, people stopping me, and I'm talking like people with 13 years of of hard effects of trauma, anxiety, depression, feeling totally stuck in life. Another another

12:34–13:16 Worship

Uh woman shared with me 33 years of anxiety, depression, overwhelm in a moment in the presence of the Lord, getting completely all the burden coming off of their shoulders, all of the brain fog leaving their minds, all of the anxiety, um people things uh one of the the people that shared with me, they had been holding on to these things thinking it was part of their identity, like because of all they had gone through And we understand this, right? People go through hard things. And this was a wonderful person, but she was saying, "I was holding on to this because it was it felt like it was part of my identity. And if I let it go, I had to let go all of the pain that happened to me." And

13:16–13:54 Worship

Uh in a moment of courage, she surrendered it to the Lord. And the Lord took all of this bondage, all of this pain, and touched her heart and healed her. And um hallelujah. Can we give thanks to the Lord? And I I just as we are coming into church today, it's it it feels like you know sometimes you hear testimonies and and you I got f I have five so far that I've heard back from mo in a moment God delivering someone from that. And I think sometimes it takes those moments for us to remember like that the Lord can do anything in a moment.

13:55–14:34 Worship Psalm 24

That he is mighty to save. that in his presence and under the blood of Jesus, it's prophesying a better word than the things that have been spoken over us. And today, as we magnify the Lord, as we come into his presence to to worship him, I just want to invite you to just let lift up your head. Oh, you gate. Psalm 24. Lift up your head and remember that there's a King of glory that isn't isn't distant. He isn't far. He is riding in on our praise. And he's not just the God of victory. He is the God in the battle and that whatever we face, he doesn't wait at the finish line for us to figure it out. He stands in the in the place of battle. He stands on the battleground

14:35–15:07 Worship

And he shows himself strong. Amen. Amen. And so why don't we just pray? Lord Jesus, we just invite you. We lift up our heads. We lift up our eyes to the heels. Where does our hope come from? Our hope comes from you. For you are the maker of heaven and earth. You don't let our foot stumble. You don't let us fall, Lord God, to a place of of desolation, Lord, but you lift us up. You put our feet on the miry clay. Jesus, you expose your wounds to remind us that the debt has been paid.

15:08–15:42 Worship

Today, we look at the wounds in your hand and in your side. and we remember Lord Jesus whatever we are facing, whatever mental torment, whatever brain fog, whatever's going on in our body. I feel like the Lord is saying today, I'm here to touch the unseen things. Maybe there's cancer in your body. Maybe there's things going on internally. The Lord says the the unseen things that maybe we have don't have faith for. The Lord says, "I've given you faith. I am God in the battle." And today as we praise him, as we magnify him, Lord, we pray, Holy Spirit, you would remind our souls,

15:43–16:16 Worship

We would you would remind our souls that we have a God who is not just waiting at the finish line. He is here. He is working. He is moving. Amen. And the church says, "Amen." Hallelujah. Can give the Lord a hand. Why don't you hug someone next to you? Bless them. And we're going to worship the Lord.

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I pray into the atmosphere. here.

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Spirit of God, you're here. You have all authority. [music and singing] And I pray over my heart and mind. I am healed by your stripes. Your blood declares that I am free in the mighty name of Jesus. And I pray calling all the power of heaven. I proclaim every weapon

17:28–18:01 Worship

Formed against me. It must break in the mighty name of Jesus. And I draw a permanent boundary line. The enemy has no right to come and near my family. No scheme could ever [music and singing] undo God's plan. No matter the circumstance,

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The cross has sealed my destiny. In the mighty name of Jesus, I pray calling on the power of heaven. I proclaim every weapon formed against me. Must pray in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty

18:35–19:08 Worship

Name of Jesus. And I know all the power of fear and darkness. It must go. Is every key to every victory. And I hope in the mighty name of Jesus. And I will not fear. I will not fear when the enemy comes near

19:08–19:41 Worship

On the door frame of my life. It's the blood of Jesus Christ and I will not fear. I will not fear. There's an army of angels here. I'm protected on all sides by the blood of Jesus Christ. I will not fear. I will not fear when the enemy comes near on the door frame of my life. It's the blood of Jesus Christ.

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And I will not fear. I will not fear. There's an army of angels here. I'm protected on all sides by the blood of Jesus Christ. In the mighty name of Jesus and I calling on the power of heaven everywhere against me in the mighty name of Jesus.

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In the mighty name of Jesus. And I know all the power of fear in darkness. My key in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus.

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In the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name Jesus. Oh yeah. in the mighty

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Name of Jesus. And I pray calling on the power of heaven. I proclaim every weapon formed against me. must pray in the mighty name of Jesus. Oh, in the mighty name of Jesus. And I know all the power of fear and darkness,

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It must go. It's every key to every victory and our hope in the mighty name. Yes, Jesus. Yes, Jesus.

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Single lamb behold. For the lamb of God on the cursed cross weight of every sin by owning betraying all my shame, forsaking anything to my forgiveness. for your love

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And this hallelujah. [music and singing] We praise the lamb upon the throne. All they be deep within

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The grave is his broken body lay. The darkest dark heaven was defeated. But Jesus proved him wrong. The death was overcome. And all the angels shouted, "He is ris." The tomb was open.

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Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Soon the day will come.

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The skies will open up and all the clouds will see descending. In the case never Yeah. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah. We praise the Lamb upon the throne. We praise the Lamb upon the throne. We praise the lamb upon the throne.

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Holy, holy [singing and music] are you, Lord God Almighty. [music and singing] Worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the lamb. You are holy. Let's sing that out. Holy

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Are you, [music and singing] Lord God Almighty. Worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the lamb. You are worthy. Holy are you, [music and singing] Lord God Almighty. Worthy is the lamb. Worthy for you are holy.

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Holy are you, Lord God Almighty. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. What is the word for you are holy, holy are you, Lord God Almighty. [singing and music] Worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the lamb. Just the voices. You are holy.

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Holy are you, Lord God Almighty. Worthy is the lamb. Worthy is the lamb. For you are [music and singing] holy. Are you God? Amen.

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In the Wonderful power of the blood in the one who remains strong enough for all of us. I still believe in the freom you [music and singing] won on the cross. laid your life down and paid with your love for all of us. I still believe

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You're the God of the impossible. You're the God of males. every day. I still believe I still believe when you say it is done. It is done that you bless

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Every generation for all of us. I still believe you were here to restore family. You are faithful to all who believe. Let it be and I still believe. You're the impossible.

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The God of many mirac king. And I still believe.

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Oh, my hope is in your name. I will lift these hands and say, "As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord." Your word stands from age to age. Yesterday, today the same. And forever we will live to serve the Lord. All my hope is in your name. I will lift these hands and say, "As for me in my house, we will serve the Lord."

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Your face is from yesterday and forever we will ser Heat. Heat.

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You're still the king. I still believe that you're the lover of my soul. And you refuse to let me go. You're still the king. I still believe. Let's sing this bridge again.

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All my hope, all my hope is in your name. I will lift these hands and say, "As for me, in my [music and singing] house, we will serve the Lord." Your word stands from age to age. Yesterday, today the same. And forever we will live to serve the Lord. All my hope is in your name. I will lift his hands and say as for me in my house we will serve the Lord.

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Your stand from age to age yesterday the same and forever we will see my heart. Oh my heart is your name. Heat. Heat. from age to age. Yes. And forever we will live to serve

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The Lord. I still believe. You're the God of the impossible. In everything I still believe. You're the lover of my soul. You refuse to let me go.

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You're still the king. I still believe. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

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Lord, you are wonderful. Lord, you are beautiful, more precious than silver, more costly than gold. Nothing else compares. Your love, your love keeps me singing. Your love amazes

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Me. Your love, your love, I'm always singing. Your love amazes me. Yeah. Lord, you are save your friend. You'll be my song until the end.

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More precious than silver, more costly than gold. Nothing else compares. Your love, your love, your love, your love keeps me singing. Your love amazes me. Your love, your love, I'm always singing. Your love

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Amazes me. Love, love, your love, your love keeps me singing. Your love amazes me. Your love, your love, I'm always singing. Your love amazes me. All I've ever wanted. All I've ever wanted

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Was you, Jesus. You all I've ever needed. All I've ever needed was you, Jesus. You all I've ever wanted. All I've ever wanted was you. Jesus, you all

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I've ever need. All I've ever needed was you. Oh yeah, Jesus. Sing it again. All I've ever wanted. All I ever wanted, all I've ever wanted was you. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.

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Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. There's

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Something love cuz your love your love keeps me singing. Your love amazes me. Your love, your love, I'm always singing. Your love amazes me.

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Lord, you are wonderful. Lord, you are beautiful. More precious than silver, more costly than gold. Nothing else compares. Yeah. 2

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Where would I run. But to the throne of mercy, where would I kneel? But at this cross of grace, how great the love,

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How strong the hands that hold us. Beautiful, so beautiful. So here I bow to lift you high and Jesus be glorified in all things for all my life. I am yours

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Forever yours. There is a king who bore the scars of healing. There is a son who came and grace the truth. How great the love that carries us to kindness.

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Wonderful. You're wonderful. Oh, here I bow to lift you [music and singing] high and be glorified in all. Thanks for all my life. I am yours forever yours.

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Oh here I bow to lift you high and Jesus be glorified in all things for all my life. I am yours forever. Yours right here and now

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Be lifted high. right here and now we go to heaven back to life. I am yours forever. Right here and now be right here and now

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Bey. I am yours forever, Lord. So here I bow to lift you high and Jesus be glorified [music and singing] in

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All things for [music and singing] all my life. I am yours forever. So here, so here I bow [singing and music] to lift you high. Jesus be glorified in all things for all my life.

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Forever. Ooh yeah. Yeah. Heaven and earth. God, you brought me back to life. I am yours forever. To God here and now. God here

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And now be lifted high right here and now be glorified. God of heaven and earth. God who brought me back to life. I am yours forever yours. I am yours forever. Yours.

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Let's just wait in the presence of the Lord for another couple of moments. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I just feel so much like the Lord is healing hearts right now. Just want to make sure that we give time for it. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.

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Thank you, Lord. The Lord is close to the brokenhearted. Thank you, Lord. We just release, Lord, your anointing right now for the brokenhearted. Lord, those who have been disappointed and disillusioned. We just pray right now, God, that you would heal broken hearts, people that have gone through divorces and maybe others who've been betrayed.

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Lord, we just just pray right now, God, you just move on in the hearts of your people. Just move on the hearts of your people right now. Can we let's just pray in the spirit for a moment, can we? feel like the Lord's healing

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Broken hearts in the area of miscarriages. Lord, I pray God for everyone in this room and online who've had a miscarriage, God, broken hope and broken lives, broken hearts. Lord, we just pray for right now that you would just bring new life. We just bring new life. Hope deferred makes the heart sick. But a word spoke in a right season. It's like apples of gold and settings of silver. Thank you, Lord. Just pray just another minute in the spirit.

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Press in just a little bit. for. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. There's such a spirit of reconciliation

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In the room too. I believe the Lord is reconciling friendships and families body. Even the body is being reconciled right now. I just see the Lord wrapping his arms around the body just pulling the body together that's been separated. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Let's all stand. We're going to take communion together in the spirit. Let's just stay in the same I want us to stay in the same mode though. I want to read you a part of uh

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The Apostle Paul said about communion. Yeah, you can go back to your seats. Sorry. Administration is not my gift. I don't know if you noticed that. Thank you, Lord. If you uh don't have the communion implements, would you just raise your hand? Ushers will bring them to you. We have some folks over here. Over there. Yes. Over here. Ushers, are you bringing elements?

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Okay. Thank you, Lord. Can you just feel the Lord moving even right now? Just as even as we're just pausing, I just all morning just feel the Lord moving so powerfully this morning. Worship so intense this morning. So beautifully intense. Okay, if you don't have the alments, would you still raise your hand? Make sure we get everyone has them. Cool.

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I want to read you a part of what Paul wrote. He said, "For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed, he had given when he'd given thanks, he said this, this is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me." In the same way, he took the cup also, saying, "This is the cup in the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me." Uh before I go on, this is a the context of Paul's

56:44–57:18 Worship

Message and them taking communion is really profoundly important for us today because he opens this part of his message with I hear there's division among you. He says I hear there's division among you. And he closes his exhortation. And let me read you the end of this before we take communion. It goes on to say, "As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes."

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Goes on to say, "Therefore, whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But a man must examine himself in so that he eats the bread and drinks of the cup. For if he eats and drinks, he eats and drinks judgment to himself, if he does not judge the body rightly. For this reason, many among you are weak and sick, and a number even sleep. But if you judge ourselves rightly, we would not be judged.

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But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, so that we will not be condemned among with the world. I just want to point out here that the context of communion with the Corinthians is you guys have division among you. And he opens this the context with we call what we call the last supper. The Bible actually calls on the night he was betrayed. I don't know why, but we tend to whitewash things and and smooth out things that the Bible doesn't smooth out.

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He doesn't call it the last supper. He says, "You guys have division among you." And let me tell you what Jesus did on the night he was betrayed. And then he ends the communion with this. If you misjudge the body, he's still talking about division among you. If you misjudge the body, some are sick and weak and some have even died. And I I love this. Why don't you grab the bread out of here?

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You have to really be have a vision to call this bread. But okay. And I want to point out that we live in a time in history where that opening statement, I hear there's division among you would be an underexaggeration. And I I hear the Lord saying, "I was

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Broken so you could be whole." And I feel like the Lord wants to break the spirit of judgment. Listen, listen. Bethl, do not enter into this spirit of judgment. It is not the Lord. We are losing parts of the body of Christ that are to bring healing and wholeness to us. When we misjudge people that think a little differently,

1:00:13–1:00:46 Worship

We eliminate ourselves from their care they're supposed to bring to us. And yet Jesus was broken so that we could actually be healed. And he did it on the night he himself was betrayed. Let us not remove the context. On the night he was betrayed, he said, "I will not betray you. I will be broken for you." You can betray me, but I will not betray you. Let's take the body and break it.

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Mine's in crumbs. I don't think I should break it anymore. And let's take the body right now, the broken body of Jesus, so that we might be one. Can you just say this with me? Jesus, forgive me for any place where I have judged the body wrongly. And Lord, heal me from any of the ramifications of the judgments I might have the judgments I have of the people that you call your family.

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Now, let's take the blood. You are witnessing a miracle. All right. Listen, I don't know about you, but I read the Old Testament and then I read the New Testament. And I'm so thankful for the blood of Jesus. We We've been doing the school of prophets for 20 years. And the first message we do in every school of the prophets is the difference between the old and new covenant

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In prophecy because prophecy and the new covenant is encouraging, exhorting, and comforting. There's a little there's a little contrast between the old and new covenant. And it's right here in the blood. Can we just say, Jesus, thank you for the blood. Jesus, thank you. That speaks a better word. And Jesus, thank you. Jesus, that you died for me. You died for me. We're like Judas. I was an enemy. I was an enemy. And you brought me close. You brought me close. Not by my works. Not by my works. But by yours. I thank you for the blood.

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Thank you for the blood that brought me into commitment with you. That brought me into commitment with you in a covenant with you. And Lord, I receive this covenant in your blood. In your blood for the entire body of Christ. Let it bring healing today. Let it bring healing. May this thing we do today this may this communion that we take today begin to heal the body all over the world in Jesus name. Let's take the covenant right here. Thank you Lord.

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Thank you Lord. I want us to do one more thing that'll be a little inconvenient. I want you to grab a hand. I know that means you got to get rid of the stuff there. Just grab a hand. It's just a There's something about grabbing a hand this morning that really is kind of more than touching someone. It's kind of a declaration that we are together. If you're online, so glad you're with us. And I want you just to take a moment. And here's what I want you to do.

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I don't want you to pray for the person next to you, at least not in the traditional sense. I want you to bless the person next to you. I want you just to bless the person on your left and right. Just take a minute, just say, "I bless you. May your family prosper. May your children prosper. May your finances prosper." Come on, let's do this. May everything that happens this week be a blessing in your life. May the blessing overflow you. May it overtake you. May blessing overtake you today in Jesus name.

1:04:18–1:04:53 Worship

May God's blessing overtake you today in Jesus name. So good. Amen. You can be seated. And can we just thank the worship team? Such a great job today. [applause and music] played my favorite songs. That's always helpful. So awesome. Thank you so much. How many of you are visiting for the first time? Like you have never been to Bethl. Oh my gosh. Come on. Over here. Over here. We have some folks over here.

1:04:54–1:05:34 Worship

Yeah. We have some folks over here from Persia. They were reading a Persian Bible. I'm like, "Wow, that is amazing." Yes. I asked them, I said, 'What are you doing here? And they said, 'We just wanted to check out what we've what we've been hearing about Bethl. So, I told them some of it's true, too. Awesome. Awesome. If uh can you raise your hands one more time if you're first time, you've never been here before. Guys, can we just give it up for them? Thank you so much for being with us today, be being part of our family for the day. And uh we we would like to uh we'd like to just get to know you. And so in the south lobby, which I learned after first service, south is that direction.

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I am uh directionally dysfunctional. And uh I'm the reason why they invented GPS's. Um in the south lobby, we'd love to you just to come out and after the service and be with us for a little bit. Love to pray over you. We got a prophetic team out there and just to get to know you for a few minutes. That would really honor us. And now I think I did everything. We're going to have uh church news. Church news. Hello. Hello. Happy Sunday, everybody. Isn't it good to be in the house of the Lord? How about you look to the neighbor next to you and say, "It is good to see you in the house of the Lord this morning."

1:06:17–1:06:51 Worship

It's good to see you, Ashley. If you are a junior high student, now is your time to go ahead and go out to your Sunday school class so you can head out this door. You guys have a funpacked class and you guys are going to have the best time. If you haven't if I haven't yet met you, my name is Tori Baker and I help oversee the events department here. And speaking of events, I have a fun little announcement that Ashley actually talked about. This Tuesday, the 20th at 5:30 here at College View, we're going to have a fun

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Festival fall time. That's a lot of Fs. Fun festival fall time. We're going to have DJ Smashburger. And I am no like food connoisseur, but I will tell you, I love DJ Smashburger and I think that they are the best in Reading. So, we're going to have some food. We're going to have some fun and honestly, we just want to connect with one another. We're going to have some games for kids. So, if you have any young ones, make sure that you bring them. I told my friend group that we're going to be there. We're going to show up and so I would love to see you there as well. Yes, I'll be there. And I just met some visitors for the first time. They said, "You don't look the same as you do on the screen, but I was wearing my flannel because we're having a flannel competition. So, if you come Tuesday, dress in your flannel and we will be giving out prizes."

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Haley's going to lead some line dancing. We have Lucia in our house. Um, she has been a part of our community for a long time. Chris is going to be doing it. is going to show up. If you don't line dance, it's equally as fun to watch as it is to participate. So, we got Yeah, you can try and and we have someone who's been with our body for a long time who's going to be teaching the rest of the evening some line and barn dancing. So, come and join us. We're so excited. And now, it's my exciting privilege to have you guys stand again for offering time.

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Yeah, you're a little excited. It is a joy to give into the house of the Lord today. And so, I'm excited. Uh we're going to do offering number one. If you are visiting us, we are actually declaring because we believe the Bible says life is in the the power of our words. Life and death is in the power of the tongue. So, we're going to declare this offering together. And if you are visiting, please know your offering belongs in your home church. But if you want to sew into this house, we would love to receive anything above that. So, let's declare today offering reading number one. As we receive today's offering, we are believing the Lord for

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Jobs and better jobs, raises and bonuses, benefits, sales and commissions, favorable settlements, estates and inheritances, interest and income, rebates and return, checks in the mail, gifts and surprises, finding money, debts paid off, expenses decrease, blessing and increase. Thank you, Lord, for meeting all of my financial needs that I may have more than enough to give into the kingdom of God and promote the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Hallelujah. Why don't you take your offering if you're going to scan the QR code or your wallets or your phones and let's just bless this as the ushers come forward with buckets. God, we just declare every bit of giving today. God, you would multiply and generously pour out as we give you everything because you paid the highest price for us, God. So, we bless this offering today in Jesus name. Amen. Okay, you guys can pass the buckets and would you welcome You can stand for just another moment. Welcome Pastor Bill with us this morning. The fall harvest. No, no, I'm not. Thanks.

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Thanks. Thanks. Thanks. She wanted to know if I was going to dance at the fall harvest. Not going to happen. Not going to happen. No, not even if you say please.

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Not going to happen. Well, good afternoon. So good to see you. Uh we had a I don't know what your week was like, but man, I it was a full full week. There are full weeks and then there are full weeks that are pregnant weeks. There are four. And uh it was a it was a wonderful wonderful week. got to spend time online with about goodness there's several thousand uh underground pastors from a place that doesn't allow that

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And uh it was a great great privilege to minister to them and and uh it's amazing what you can do online and uh and what they do to conceal their identity that's also amazing but uh it's a great privilege just to love the people of God all over the world and glad that we get to be together today. Glad you're here and u enjoy the worship so much. Um I have something very important to read to you and you will be edified and strengthened as a result. Several days ago I left a meeting at a hotel.

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I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down. I was looking for my keys. They [clears throat] were not in my pockets. A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing. Suddenly, I realized I must have left them in the car. Frantically, I headed for the parking lot. My husband has scolded me many times for leaving the keys in the ignition. My theory is the ignition is the best place not to lose them. His theory is that the car will be stolen. As I burst through the door, I came to a terrifying

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Conclusion. His theory was right. The parking lot was empty. I immediately called the police. I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car and that it had been stolen. Then I made the most difficult call of all. Honey, I stammered. I always call him honey in times like these. I left my keys in the car and it's been stolen. There was a period of silence. I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard his voice. Are you kidding me? He barked.

1:12:20–1:12:53 Sermon Acts 2

I dropped you off. Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said, "Well, will you come and get me?" He responded, "I will as soon as I can convince this cop I didn't steal your car." Yes. I liked it. Open your Bibles to Acts chapter 2. We have u

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Two possibly three portions of scripture that we'll read today. And um I I have certain themes that have been running in my heart for last several months. As most of you know, I took uh four months off. And during that time, in my [clears throat] own just reading and devotional time, certain things would stand out to me that just seemed to be really important. And so, I've been looking forward to having the chance to be with you and to talk to you about these things.

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And I'm going to do the first time in quite a while, I'm going to do a series. And it'll be minimum of two weeks, could be as many as four. But, uh, I want to talk to you about those things. And the first one we'll do today and it has to do with the purpose, the meaning, the significance of a corporate gathering. I don't know. I I think you know everybody in the room I think you like me I just I love just being together. I I I just the fact that we walk into the room it's successful before we do anything. I'm I'm just happy that we we get to do life together. We get to spend time together and for me it's a real highlight of my week. I look forward to sitting right there and joining with you in worship and

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Celebrating the goodness of God. And I I I crave it when I don't have it. And so I'm I'm thankful for that. So I I I I know we have value, but I feel like there's, if I can use the term prophetic significance of the corporate gathering that is easy to miss. You can do all the right things, celebrate all the right things, and not really know what's happening or why and what the Lord is doing. So I'm going to talk to you about that today. That's my um that's my desire. Everything that happens in our life, the Lord is targeting several several things, but one specifically

1:14:50–1:15:24 Sermon

Is that the lordship of Jesus in our life is absolutely central to everything we are in everything we do. Lordship of Jesus, we know that he is the king of kings and the lord of lords. So let's talk first about the kingdom. Let's make a quick definition because I want to make sure that we're clear on the mandate that Jesus gives us. Number one, the kingdom, kingdom, king's domain, the realm of his dominion. So when you pray for somebody that's tormented by demons

1:15:25–1:16:07 Sermon Matthew 10

And that evil spirit leaves, it's because the kingdom came. Why? There's no demons in heaven. Why are there no demons in heaven? Probably a ton of reasons, but one is there's no one up there that agrees with the devil. Agreement is what gives him place. Believing a lie empowers the liar. So Jesus ministered the kingdom of God. It was his message. It was his practice. John the Baptist announced the coming kingdom. Jesus preached it. He trained his disciples to do the same. Matthew 10 says, "When you go into a city, tell them the kingdom is at hand. The kingdom is near. Then do the things of the kingdom. heal uh raise the dead etc.

1:16:08–1:16:51 Sermon Acts 1Acts 28

So the message of the kingdom actually has to do with manifesting God's dominion here as it is in heaven. So because there are no evil spirits there when you run into one here you have an assignment to what? Seek first the kingdom which is what to seek first the dominion of God that exists there for it to be manifest here in the same way. is clear as mud or you are you with me? All right. So that's the mandate of of the of the message of the kingdom. So Jesus preached it. He told his disciples to preach it. We see his final words in Acts uh in Acts chapter 1 were about the kingdom. The Apostle Paul's final words in Acts 28

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Were about the kingdom. It's the central theme. It's not peripheral. It's not an addition. It's not a oh it would be nice if you did this too. It is central to the gospel is the message of God's dominion being realized here. Another term we can use is the lordship of Jesus. When the kingdom of God comes over a person's mind, their thinking is sorted out, becomes clear and represents Christ. Would you agree with me on that? That was a slow pitch. Come on, you got everybody can hit that one. All right.

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So when but when the lordship of Jesus comes over somebody's mind, it's the same thing. It's the same concept, just different terminology. Does that make sense? So here's the deal. Any part of my life that is not under the lordship of Jesus is outside the kingdom. Any part of my life that is not under the lordship of Jesus. Now the lordship is measurable. It's not a theory. It's measurable. any part of my life that is outside the lordship of Jesus

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Is outside the kingdom. And the problem is is we have areas that are outside the kingdom, so to speak, and we continuously seek for God to bless that which is outside the kingdom. [clears throat] Blessings come naturally to everything he is lord over. Hallelujah. They come naturally. To ask him to bless things that are outside the kingdom is to ask him to reaffirm

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Our independence from him. So good. To approve and endorse independence when all that he does is to lead us into the place of abiding presence and continuous surrender. Yes, sir. One of the most important things and and uh uh one of the most important things that I think is seriously neglected in this hour is the corporate gathering. The room's full. I'm I'm not trying to Yeah. I [clears throat] I'm thankful, but I I need you to hear me.

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Here's the problem is in the Christian life, much of what we do is in the Christian buffet. It's choices. It's not mandates. It's the Christian buffet. Well, I can take this this week. Oh, so and so speaking that dude. And there's this sorting that happens in the Christian life where we adjust our values week by week according to how we feel at the moment. It's the buffet. Do I want meat today? Do I want dessert? Do I want potatoes? We have all these decisions that are made that are not based on values.

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They're not ba based on covenant values that we have made before the Lord. They're actually based on how we feel at the moment. Jesus then doesn't become Lord. My emotions become Lord. My appetite becomes Lord. My will becomes Lord. And there are certain things that have to be established in our life and in our routine in order for us to properly disciple and create a momentum for the next generation. So good.

1:20:18–1:20:52 Sermon Acts 2

All right, that went over pretty well. Let's uh let's just move on. Acts chapter 2. Did you turn there? Did I tell you where to go? No, I didn't tell you. How many of you heard me say? How many of you didn't? What were you doing? What were I'm teasing? Acts chapter 2. Um, this is the chapter obviously of the great and mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit that had such an incredible impact and the momentum of chapter 2 carried on for many many many years.

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In fact, it I've heard it said that what we're going to read uh we're going to start with verse 42 was actually describing like the previous five years. So, I don't know the exact length of time, but it's a period of time. It's not it's not the Holy Spirit outpour on Friday and this is the report they wrote on Sunday. This is years later of practice and and catch this. This is years later of what they what they did that enabled them to succeed in God's assignment. All right. Verse

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42. They continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine. They continually devoted themselves I think is one of the translations. In other words, they constantly re-up the covenant. All right? They continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders, and signs were done through the apostles. Now all who were who believed were together and had all things in common

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And sold their possessions and goods and divided them among them all as anyone had need. Look at that again. They sold their possessions and goods divided them among them all as anyone had need. What you need to know because I don't want to teach on this but I need to make I need to make a reference here. What you need to know about this chapter is that they would sell their properties, their homes, whatever to help the people around them to be uh to take care of crisis and problems and needs. This was not a mandate given to them. This is what they did out of the explosion of compassion

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That they had because they connected with each other. It was not a rule of uh it was not Christian communism. It was not a rule of redistributing wealth so to speak. It was this is what compassion looks like when you're joined at the hip to people that you really care for and you know they walk the walk and you want to make sure that they along with you live in a victorious manner. Amen. Verse 46. So continuing daily with one accord in the temple. Please notice. And in breaking bread from house to house,

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They ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God, having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who are being saved. We're going to read a couple of these verses over again, but look for just a quick moment at verse 47. Praising God, having favor with all the people. My goodness, what an extraordinary season. the church, this newly formed body of people that were being transformed by surrender to Christ. These people had favor with the entire community, the entire city.

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And as a result, people were being added daily. If you go through the first 10 chapters of Acts, you'll see that they had periods of incredible favor and then it was met with incredible opposition. There was intense persecution. And what that what's really cool is the church responded equally to the favor and to the persecution. They were faithful. They just remained faithful because of that. Somewhere around chapter 10, 11, 12, somewhere in there. I forget where they came into a place where no longer were souls added daily. It was now they were multiplied. Addition is good. Multiplication

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Is better. It was it was things increased exponentially. that they had not known before. And it was the breakthrough perseverance of perhaps 10 maybe 15 years of perseverance in the things of the spirit that they celebrated faithfully when they were approved. They celebrated faithfully when they were opposed. And because of that, God entrusted to them the multiplication. They continued with one accord in the temple

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And in house to house. The corporate gathering is significant. The small gathering is significant. There are things that can happen in the corporate that won't happen in the small. And there are things that happen in the small that won't happen in the big. They each have a place of shaping and defining who we are and how we're going to do life. It has been thought that the reason we gather together is for teaching.

1:25:33–1:26:07 Sermon Luke 17

And I don't want to do anything to diminish the value and the the fact that we love to hear and read scripture and study together and be taught the word of God. It's a significant part of our life. I would never want to do anything to diminish that. But the problem is that's not the standard that Jesus set. Let me read to you what Jesus said. He said in Luke chapter 17, I'll just read it to you. He said, "If you uh which of you having a servant plowing or tending sheep will say to him when he's coming from the field, "Come at once and sit down and eat."

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But will he not rather say to him, "Prepare something for my supper and gird yourself and serve me till I have eaten and drunk, and afterward you may eat and drink." What did Jesus just do there? Oftentimes, the church gathers together on a Sunday. We bring out our spiritual knives and forks and we say, "Jesus, feed us." And we're the servants that have been working in the field all week and sometimes think we actually deserve the prime spot in the meeting. And he says no. He says you serve him first.

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This is not a hard taskmaster. This is the loving father who doesn't look for worship. He looks for worshippers. The difference is because he loves me. He knows that I will become like whatever I worship. And so he wants me to be a worshshiper because then I become like him. It's the best choice he can make for me. And so he looks for me to come to that place of tenderness where I actually minister to him. So our corporate gathering has a very significant purpose. You can do this individually, you can do it in a small gathering, but there is something so profound and so significant

1:27:19–1:27:52 Sermon 1 Corinthians 141 Corinthians 12

About the corporate gathering in this area. The expression, the sense of presence, what happens in those moments are uh are just extraordinary. On top of that, the Apostle Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14, he says, "Whenever you come together, have a song, have a teaching, a testimony, have something, bring something together so that when you come together as a people, you have something to contribute to someone else." If you read 1 Corinthians 12 13, the love chapter 14, 12 and 14 are on the gifts.

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There's an overwhelming theme to the expression of the gifts of the spirit and that is the edification edification and strengthening of the body of Christ. The target of the Lord is that every one of us would have a part in bringing strength to somebody else. So let me put it this way. When we come together, if you have not through design and effort worked to encourage, strengthen, help to bring strength of identification to people

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In the gathering, then you've missed the reason for why you're here. Yes, we're here to worship, but the life of my human body works because each member contributes to the next. And when you cut off the contribution, you create a separation. And that separation is death. I'm I'm not trying to do guilt trip. I'm trying to define purpose. I'm trying to define what you are skilled at. You may or may not know it, but you actually can be the person that has the song. I

1:29:02–1:29:38 Sermon

Jokingly talked told the story about Chris this morning when he he we I I said we're to have a song when we come. So he began to sing over Lesie in first service. And I was reminded when he went to visit my dad who was dying. And he told my dad, he says, "I feel like I'm supposed to sing over you." And uh and and and my dad said, "Okay." And Chris says, "Is there anything you want me to sing?" He says, "Yeah." He says, "On a hill far away. and and and Chris and Chris said, "You want me to sing the song on a hill far away?" He says, "No, I want you to sing on a hill far away."

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So my my my dad's my dad's dying literally and he and his sense of humor never did die. So it was it was it was still there. But we we come together with that that can contribute to somebody else. And it may not be a heavy revelation. It doesn't have to be. It's just supposed to be that word of encouragement. It's the fact that you woke up with that song and the words to that song. Maybe it's for somebody in the room and you go, "Hey, John, I I was I when I woke up this morning, this song is going through my mind." And you share that and often times the very thing that you've experienced

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Brings a a refreshing word to that person in need. What is it doing? It's strengthening the connection of the members of the body. It's who we are by design. None of us discover who we are fully by ourselves. We're not designed that way. We're designed to discover identity, purpose, placement, all of that by our connection with the family he brought us together with. That's the privilege of life. I realize we have so many. In fact, I I was I was in Bakavville. This

1:30:50–1:31:26 Sermon

Excuse me, yesterday for a one-day conference down there at the mission and uh a lady came up and just was expressing her thankfulness for for Bethl TV because she's able to connect with us. She's not health-wise, she's not able to be here. And so I I understand there are so many that their only way they can keep a connection is through online, through YouTube or whatever service is out there. I get that and I celebrate that. But for you and me, there's a there's a challenge. And here's what happened for us. Weaverville, we focused a lot on giving ourselves to missions to touch nations of the world.

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We figured not even the devil knew where we were so we could get away with we could ambush him at at at every turn in the road. And so we did. So we just talked about our responsibility to the nations literally. And it took a few years for that to catch on, but it finally did. And I think the final year I was there, we had sent something like I think it was close to 150 people to some part of the world to minister the gospel in these various places around the world. And they were there for up from a week up to an entire year. But that was a real heavy focus of ours. During [clears throat] those years before the Iron Curtain fell,

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We sent multiple trips uh to the Iron Curtain and they would uh they would specifically go into Romania and they would serve there. We had contacts there uh believers and uh and our people would uh get a custommade car with secret compartments and they would have Bibles and medical supplies, all kinds of stuff and kind of doing the James Bond kind of thing, you know, as they as they get into the country. But it was it was such a they they they were our our teams were so deeply impacted by the passion and the hunger

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And the willingness to take a bullet for the gospel by these people that they served and it really was a absolute testimony that marked our people. They would come home with these stories and we were just you know we were just stunned by the reports of our brothers and sisters in that part of the world. I remember I was in Reading at what used to be the Hilton Hotel. Some of you if you've been around long enough to know it's a different different name now, but we had a men's retreat and it was the night the iron curtain fell. I remember turning the TV on in my room before going to a meeting and I saw people walking through

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The uh the wall the that uh fallen wall in Berlin and they were singing this is the day this is the day that the Lord has made that the Lord has made extraordinary. I found out later the location where that part of the wall fell where the people came through from East Berlin into West Berlin. That part of the wall wall there was a very powerful and significant prayer meeting the night before at that exact location and it was this incredible incredible breakthrough. So we had teams that went in there and they brought supplies to our brothers and sisters

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In Romania and celebrated with them the privilege to worship together. when they would go to the churches, they were packed to the rafters. Packed every place you could put a body standing, there would be somebody standing because the desperation and the hunger. And it was an extraordinary thing to have them bring back these reports to us. But after the Iron Curtain fell, we sent more teams and the churches weren't full anymore because people had options. It's amazing what luxury does.

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Luxury gives you options. And with those options, you can either fortify the right choices that you've learned to make or you can add to them and weaken your own stance. Luxury is not evil in itself. It can help to fortify, increase, establish the decisions, the values that we have made as a people, but it can also weaken and draw us away. And what we saw there, at least in this example, may not be across the board, but in our with our relationship with the teens we ministered to,

1:34:56–1:35:33 Sermon

What we saw was half empty churches, no longer standing room only because now they can drive to the coast for the weekend. I don't want to say that any of those things are wrong, but something has been weakened when we have many options. If you have options that pull you away from the absolute values of your life, then you're discovering a weak point in your thinking, a weak point in your planning. How many of you have traditions for Christmas? You have certain traditions on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I I I like I like traditions. I like uh I like knowing, well, this is what we're going to eat

1:35:33–1:36:08 Sermon

And because it's because it's God's will that we eat this. You know, I'm my family's Norwegian in Sweden and we love the lessa. So, it's a a flatbread made out of potato and so we just have lessa every Thanksgiving and or or or we'll die. It's it's we we just love those traditions and and we we have them as you do. The Christian life should be filled with traditions, not the when Jesus warned against tradition, it was the man-made traditions that wared against what God said. That's right. It was not

1:36:08–1:36:47 Sermon Mark 7

A rebuke for tradition. It's in It's in Mark 7. You read it. He was rebuking them because they created traditions that undermine the actual commandments of the Lord. The commandments of the Lord are always invitations into greater freedom. That's what a commandment is. They are not restrictive in the sense that I'm going to keep you from that which uh brings you delight and pleasure and identity. I'm going to keep you from the very things that rob ident identity. It may give you short-term pleasure but in the it ends in death. And so the Lord gives us commandments

1:36:47–1:37:20 Sermon

That restricts us so that we can be all present for the breakthroughs in the life that God has designed us for. So when he gives us commands, he invites us into greater liberty. And one of the traditions that I I want to see established in the body of Christ of this hour, we've got to get the next generation ready to uphold biblical standards. And part of that is I am willing to be inconvenience to make sure I I I show up. I show up. I don't know any other way to say it. I'm I'm not going to miss

1:37:20–1:38:02 Sermon Hebrews 10

If it's at at all possible. I'm going to design my life around what is most important. What happens in the corporate gathering? I want you to go to um Hebrews chapter 10 and we'll read one more passage here. You guys all right? I tightened this down and then I'm trying to move it. You know, didn't work so good. All right. Hebrews [clears throat] chapter 10. Let's uh uh just because of time I let's just jump right down. We have incredible statements being made. verse 19 to 22 about the blood of Jesus and and this uh high priest that made it possible for us to be confident before God.

1:38:03–1:38:37 Sermon

But then let's get to verse 23. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering. For he who promised is faithful. Let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works. not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another in so much the more as you see the day approaching. What day is that? Jesus is coming back. He really is. He's coming. He said he would, so he will. It's impossible for him to lie. He will be coming back.

1:38:38–1:39:17 Sermon

When? Nobody knows. But if the writer of Hebrews, who wrote this several weeks ago, If the writer of Hebrews could send out the warning that man, we need to make sure to pay attention to this because the day is near, then how much more can we say in this hour, this is a priority? Why? Do you remember the the the parable where Jesus talked about the 10 virgins that needed to keep their lamps full of oil? I've got a sense that this not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together is the habit of some. I have a sense that that is a part of

1:39:17–1:39:50 Sermon

Well formula is the wrong word but I'll use it. It's that it's that design of God to keep us continuously ongoing full of what the spirit of God is saying and doing. So what does it mean when it says that they continually devoted themselves to the apostles doctrine? I love that phrase, but we don't have a list of the doctrines. We don't have the we don't have the outline of this is what you teach in your Sunday school class or the Sunday morning service. I think it's just my opinion, but I think when he says the apostles doctrine, he's he's addressing

1:39:51–1:40:30 Sermon

There's a phrase in scripture um it's uh it's called this present truth. Um there there are times where the Lord is emphasizing this truth in our life. All these things are true, but this is what he's focusing on. Does that make sense to you? He says to the disciples, I no longer call you servants. I call you friends. Was he saying servantthood is not valuable? No, he's saying the emphasis in this season is friendship. I'm I'm going to be work we're going to be working on this intimacy area. This this uh this communication, this friendship area. This is the emphasis. The apostles doctrine, I do believe, is that that those themes that God is emphasizing in a particular season?

1:40:32–1:41:14 Sermon

Have you noticed that we can have a half a dozen speakers up here in a period of three months and there's going to be a a similarity to what says it's not because there was a plan. It's because there is an inspiration, a father who thinks and he helps his children to discover those thoughts and communicate them. We can bring we can bring a a speaker in from South Africa. They will come and they will say something very similar. Why? Because we're connected to the same father. It's it's can I say it's the apostles doctrine. It's it's the theme for that season. And what they did is they continually devoted themselves to the apostles doctrines. So what does that mean? You have to be present to hear the themes that God is uh orchestrating,

1:41:14–1:41:49 Sermon

Designing, uh declaring over people for a particular season. Why? Because in part our identity is formed in hearing those words. It's true. Identity is everything. Whenever I talked to you last, I think it was a couple weeks ago, I talked to you about the 10 spies that brought a bad report.

1:41:50–1:42:22 Sermon

Was Was that last week? Two weeks ago. Two weeks. Two weeks ago. Um I talked about the 10 spies. If you weren't here, please listen to it. I talked about the 10 spies. The 10 spies are still alive. The 10 spies have brought a bad report. They persuaded, let's say, two million people to turn away from the promise of God. They thought they were hearing words of wisdom. And they were thankful that those words of wisdom spared them from imminent disaster. But in reality, the words pulled them from potential

1:42:23–1:42:57 Sermon

And promise. Often times words of caution appear to be words of wisdom and they're actually words of fear and and the enemy used that. Well, what was a part of that storyline is that Israel didn't go into the promised land because they saw themselves as grasshoppers. We are grasshoppers in our own sight and so we are with them. And then you read the story where Rahab in Jericho says, "We have been afraid of you for 40 years. We heard when the Red Sea was open. We've been terrified of you. are people who have been faint-hearted all this time because of you.

1:42:57–1:43:36 Sermon Hebrews 13

They they they saw themselves according to how they saw the size of their enemy, not according to what God said when he gave them a promise. Identity is everything. And when God defines you and me as members of one another, there's a significance there that can only be discovered through sacrifice. Let me rephrase it to make it more appealing. through obedience. See, there's something about fellowship in Hebrews 13. Fellowship is actually called a sacrifice, which tells me that I cannot I cannot fully discover

1:43:37–1:44:09 Sermon

Who I am as a member of the body of Christ until my fellowship costs me something. If it if I only do what's convenient, then I am in charge. And it's [clears throat] not the lordship of Jesus. This the lordship of my religious opinions. One of my favorite things that we do

1:44:10–1:44:47 Sermon

Several years ago is Eric and Nate from the stirring and and I think a couple other churches. They they Brian Blank from Little Country. These are all such great people and great churches and we have such meaningful relationships with [clears throat] but they thought we should start meeting together on Good Friday. And so some of you remember many years ago [clears throat] they started meeting and it was like a two or three years in there's like 80 to 100 110 churches in Reading that started getting involved and just wanting to be a part of that Good Friday service.

1:44:48–1:45:23 Sermon

It was just uh such an incredible thing to be a part of. And I I remember when I when I first had the chance to mention it here, I mentioned it to all the all the parents of young children. I I know that when we're gathering like that, the last thing we want is to be holding holding the baby that cries in a given session. And uh when we're trying to all worship together as a community, but my encouragement was this and and I want you to hear the reason behind it. I encourage all all of our people, bring your kids anyway, even if they make a mess, even if they fuss, even if they cry.

1:45:24–1:45:58 Sermon

I I want them I want them to be trained in values. I want them to be trained in what's important. Our children know when we make decisions that cost us. They can tell when we make decisions and we make those repeated decisions faithfully. and they can see that it costs us. It's not convenient. That is a some of the greatest teaching you'll do with your children is you teach them what's important. We have a generation coming up that needs to know

1:45:58–1:46:33 Sermon

There's something unique and special about the continuous gathering in the house of God from temple to the house to house. Here it says, "Let us consider one another." Verse 21, "In order to stir up love and good works." That really is the description of the corporate gathering is that you want to be a strength. I realize sometimes sometimes we are the ones that get shot at and we come together because we're hoping somebody will notice we're in pain in a service. I get that and I think that's an important thing. But sometimes the most important thing you can do is even in your pain

1:46:34–1:47:07 Sermon

Come with a word of promise. I've had times where the Lord's given me a very specific word and I have felt I need to give this word away. I'm going to keep it for myself, but it's such a good word. I need to give it to somebody else. And as I've done this through the years, I' I can see where certain individuals or lives literally have been marked by a word that was given in a specific season that was first given to me. Some of you have had friends call you. They've prayed for you. They've done various things to encourage you, strengthen you in your faith. They've given you promises when you've been in crisis.

1:47:07–1:47:42 Sermon

You've been in great financial needs. They've quoted scripture to you. You've been in a health crisis. They've told you by the stripes of Jesus, you were healed. They've prayed for you. They have equipped you within words of encouragement for you to give to others. And there's something profound that takes place in the life of a church family that learns to live that way. So Paul says, when you come together, I'm going to put it in my terms. Come with the intention to speak into somebody's life in a way that will strengthen and encourage them. That's right. I I think that there's there's something about

1:47:43–1:48:15 Sermon

Even the release of the gifts of the spirit. Anybody else want to grow in the function of the gifts of the spirit to to be able to prophesy more clearly, to release healing, to all the words of wisdom, all that stuff? There's something there's something about that element that is only released to a people who are trustworthy, who are in covenant, they are in community because they will use the gifts for strengthening the people of God. This that I'm talking about is the atmosphere where the gifts multiply.

1:48:19–1:48:54 Sermon

We could have the greatest preacher on the planet come here and speak to all of us. We be encouraged. We have the greatest some of the greatest worship leaders I've seen anywhere in the country. They come week after week. Ministry teams down here. Miracles take place week after week after week. We can't have all of that and fail. and why we're together as a people. If it doesn't happen here, the connection to another person, the eye to eye, moment of extending a hand, value, encouragement, coming with the intention to bring strength to somebody else.

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If that's not there, we have failed in spite of all the good things we've done. We are members of each other. That's right. I didn't think it was that dramatic, but apparently it was

1:49:29–1:50:06 Sermon

Dramatic enough. Yeah. what we've been hearing from the Lord. Our teams, we we spend time together talking and praying stuff and what we've been hearing. We have friends around the world, around the country that have been calling and visiting us and Ben Fitz was here week couple weeks ago. Such a rich time with him. He ministered to me, to my wife, Linda, and our teams were so encouraged. We've had others call us. I've been places. I was in Brazil,

1:50:06–1:50:43 Sermon

Linda and I with Randy Clark and Leif Hetland and others. And the words of encouragement about our future are really really significant. They're so wonderful. I'm so thankful. [clears throat] And I'm I'm I'm I'm both thankful and so soberly approaching this next season with a realization. [clears throat] There's a couple things I want to make sure we strengthen before we enter as we enter this next phase. Is that is that making any sense to you? Not trying to make anybody paranoid. just

1:50:43–1:51:21 Sermon

As as one who's at least attempting to hear from the Lord on what he's saying and doing, I can tell this corporate gathering is significant. I'm I'm going to take the next week or two following this to deal with a few other things that I feel like the Lord wants us to give attention to. And I [clears throat] believe I don't think it's a coincidence, we're getting close to a new year, believe it or not. Chris, Merry Christmas, by the way. It's almost here. Oh, some of you probably are already ready and you you you make me sick is what? No, that's not true. That's not true.

1:51:22–1:51:55 Sermon

That's not true. I couldn't [clears throat] believe I was in the store like a month ago and they already had Christmas stuff up. What's up with that? Hobby Lobby had it in July. Well, I love Hobby Lobby because I love the people who own it. So, I bless them. Sell the Christmas stuff. Amen. Amen. All right. All right. They're really they're amazing amazing people. Really I I know David Green and so thankful for him. So my cry is this is that the Lord would help us to together

1:51:56–1:52:29 Sermon

To have singleness of mind, singleness of focus so that we can fully enter with confidence this next season and see the kinds of breakthroughs that we were born for. So why don't you stand? Stand. [clears throat] [clears throat] Thank you Jesus.

1:52:41–1:53:15 Sermon

Who's going to rescue me? Is that you, Steve? I don't need rescuing yet, but it wouldn't hurt for you to get ready because because when I need it, I'm going to need it quickly. Thanks for being here today, honestly. and thanks for being so responsive because I I I [clears throat] I don't do well at describing the hopes and burdens of my heart, but I can I can feel it. It's tangible today and what I sense and believe that God is doing

1:53:16–1:53:49 Sermon

In us and through us. And I'm expecting some unusual breakthrough. So, if you wouldn't mind, grab the sweaty palm of the person next to you. Those [clears throat] of you that are watching at home, I don't know, maybe grab your own hand or there's somebody else in the room. And let's just we're just going to take just a quick moment to pray together. Father, my cry, my request is that you would help us discover the richness of being a body. the richness,

1:53:51–1:54:24 Sermon

The richness, the privilege beyond imagination that you made possible because you caused us to be born again and you joined us together. I ask you to do it for all of our guests that everyone would find that same refreshing element of belonging because of the church body they're part of. And that you'd help us to discover the word in a fresh way, worship in a fresh way, miracles in a fresh way, but also friendships,

1:54:25–1:54:59 Sermon

Just common simple connection with friends. And help us as we do this to impact an entire city. And I do ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Let me ask a quick question. Jesus made this statement. He said, uh, he said, "What is it worth if you gain the entire world?" Think about that. Every dollar, every house, every beach, every every every you gain the entire world, but you lose your own soul.

1:55:00–1:55:38 Sermon

You've gained nothing. And Jesus makes it possible for everybody in this room to have peace with God and a relationship with him, everyone who's watching online, the same thing. And if there's anybody in this room that would say, "Bill, I don't want to leave this building till I know what it is to be born again, what it is to be to place my trust in Christ for my salvation, have my life changed, then I want you right where you are, just to put a hand up, say, "Bill, that's me. I don't want to leave the building till I know what it is to have peace with God. I'm going to give you just a moment to do that. But put your hand up high because I don't want to miss you.

1:55:39–1:56:03 Sermon

There's anyone right back over here. Wonderful. There's another two over here. Amen. Amen. Anyone else? Anyone else? Okay, here's one I want to ask. Let's get the banner up over here. Any We're going to have a ministry team down here in just a moment. Anyone who wants to talk to somebody about walking with Christ,

1:56:03–1:56:34 Altar Call

We'll have a team over here that we know and trust. It's not about belonging to Bethl. It's literally about coming into a relationship with Jesus. And there were at least two over here that I saw. I want to encourage you be courageous enough to make your way right over here. We'll have friends that will come and talk and pray with you. I would like the ministry team to come to the front. Everyone else, if you'd hold your place, and Steve will come up and tell you what you won. Come on. Bill for bringing the word. So good. Minister team, go ahead. Come up to the front here.

1:56:36–1:57:09 Altar Call

Such a good word. And I if you didn't raise your hand and you're still just having that internal tug of like, no, I I want to give my life to Jesus. I want to encourage you. You can still come up to the front. Uh community important. That was such a good word. But uh this means nothing if you first don't have connection and community with the father. And so uh we love you guys. Thank you so much for coming. If you're believing for a miracle, you need prayer, you need God to speak, uh want to encourage you to come up in the front. Uh but we bless you guys. Hope you have an amazing day, amazing week. And then if you're looking for prayer, please come up to the front. God bless you guys.

1:57:12–1:57:46 Altar Call

Hello. Hello. Wow, guys. I love the church. I'm so happy that each and every one of you is watching on here. We're so grateful. Actually, um I want to just I want to say like if you're watching this, like we we are genuinely overjoyed that you're with us. Yeah. That you're here, that you get to be a part of this community, that you're part of the family of God. Um I I felt like the Lord was going to remind specific people how much he loves you and how valuable you are, how important you are. And I saw just people hearing the simplicity of

1:57:47–1:58:20 Altar Call

You're important, you're chosen, you're valued, you're loved. And I felt people were going to get ministered to by the Lord even right now as I'm speaking that people would experience just even um like the breath of heaven would come so close to your ears that you would hear it. You would experience it in your heart. And so whoever that's for, God, we just bless your kids, your sons and your daughters that you're so pleased with them. You're so thankful that they made it today. Some of you have gone to uh church in person. Some of you are unable and you're watching online. And we're so so so

1:58:20–1:58:53 Altar Call

Grateful to be a part of the bride with you. Yeah. Yeah. And even um how can I say this? Last week even um we had one of our kids very sick and we we couldn't come. And I really I want to pray even for healing right now. Come on. Um whatever whatever you're facing right now, the Lord sees it. And not just the situation, but actually he sees you. whatever you are right now, the season that you're facing right now. Um, and you're joining us,

1:58:54–1:59:30 Altar Call

You're joining us in the spirit. We're all gathering in the spirit, in the spirit of unity. So, whatever you're facing right now, Lord, I want to I want to pray a blessing over them right now. Lord, I pray your healing power, God, and the power of your love to touch them right now. whatever they need in their bodies, in their soul. Lord, I speak a blessing. And I thank you, God, because your blood speaks a better word. And we've been we've been praying about the blood. We've been singing about your blood. Um we're remembering right now about how powerful your blood is. So Lord, I speak a blessing right now.

1:59:30–2:00:09 Altar Call

The blessing of your blood over their bodies, over their emotions right now, over their memories. I I believe there's somebody here that for some reason today is a painful day for you. So Lord, I I I bless them right now. I bless their memories and I pray for you to come and redeem these memories in their lives, God, in Jesus mighty name. Lord, we thank you because there's no limitation um for your power and the power of your blood right now. So Lord, I thank you in Jesus mighty name. In Jesus mighty name. And if this was for you or if you feel something different in your body, please type in the chat.

2:00:09–2:00:45 Altar Call

We want to continue to bless and pray for you guys and thank you again for joining us. Thank you. Thank you. So good. I saw uh Eric's on our Bethl online platform right now and he said a lot of the pain and inflammation I was experiencing at the beginning of the service has gone away. Thank you, Jesus. God, we just thank you that you're taking pain away, that inflammation is decreasing, God, in any areas where you came in with a struggle, any areas where you came in even with fear, um any areas, I I just right now, we just bless your bodies, we bless your minds, we bless your spirits right now in Jesus name. And God

2:00:45–2:01:21 Altar Call

Um I I even felt like a lot of people were looking for financial breakthrough and people were uh crying out to the Lord and saying, "God, would you come? Would you move in my life?" And so, Holy Spirit, we just bless your people, God, that you would bless them with financial breakthrough. I feel like um there are people who you're going to see provision in um small doses this week. Um and little little areas of breakthrough and and gratitude would actually lead to increase in areas of gratitude and breakthrough. And I saw people, it's going to sound really silly, but um I remember hearing testimonies of friends where they would see um like a dime on the ground or a quarter, like little coins

2:01:21–2:01:59 Altar Call

Um and whatever your currency is, whatever the coin version would be. And I remember people would be like, "Oh my gosh, 10 cents." And they would be so expected or so excited and thankful. And they would see like a dollar and then they were like, "God, you've already multiplied it." And then seeing that dollar uh multiplied as well. And I felt like there would be these little moments this week where the Lord would remind you he's the provider. he has you. And I felt like many would actually see like coins and the coins would multiply. Um, one of the the Moore's daughters, she like walked in and had her handful of coins and they were from multiple different currencies and she was like she felt like she was rich like holding just a handful

2:02:00–2:02:35 Altar Call

Of coins and she's like, "This is all my money." And I don't know why, but I feel like people are going to experience that this week. And so God, I bless what you're doing in finances. I bless what you're doing in terms of provision, God, that we would see radical increase, that we would see radical generosity and that from little tiny increments that they would multiply. I love what Bill was saying about the souls being added and then the souls multiplying. So God, would you do that again in finances? I know so many of you are saying you've had either financial stress or um you've just been needing breakthrough. And so God, we just say, would you do it, Lord? Would you provide for your kids in the most radical ways

2:02:35–2:03:10 Altar Call

Right now in Jesus name? Yes. Yes. It's it's so amazing and the way that we see the Lord moving sometimes we have to kind of like put aside our understanding. I love also what Bill says if you want to experiment um the peace that surpasses all understanding. We have to give up the right to understand. Totally. Um and I love what Bill was saying because sometimes as children Yeah. Sometimes we have to set aside what we understand and what we understood in the past to be able to come into something new

2:03:10–2:03:46 Altar Call

And I I want to speak about the emotions now all the anxiety that comes with something. Oh yeah, I want breakthrough and I want to understand or I want healing but I want to understand. I want the breakthrough in my finances but I want to understand first actually I want to bless you to kind of like turn off your own understanding and receive his understanding about his kingdom. And I want to pray for emotions right now. May maybe you're going through a process right now that you you're struggling because you want to understand. I want to bless you to rest under his mighty

2:03:46–2:04:30 Altar Call

Hand. Rest under his mighty power. And in your emotions, I want to speak a blessing. I want to speak up peace, perfect peace over some of you. Um some anxieties that you don't understand why this trying to come up and try to control that. Actually, I don't believe that the Lord wants you to control this kind of emotions because it's is bringing pain to you. Actually, I feel that the Lord he wants to switch with you. He wants to give you his peace and he wants you to give him his your anxiety to him. So Lord, I want to speak of peace right now, your perfect peace over some of them right now. And and I I believe that this is very specific to some of you. So Lord, I speak of perfect peace over some of them right now. And they will feel like a shift

2:04:31–2:05:11 Altar Call

And not just in their minds, but their body also will follow the power of your word, God. So I want to bless their bodies. I want to bless their soul. and I want to bless their spirit to be in alignment with you in Jesus mighty name. Come on. And um as Yan was praying, I um I was getting this picture of a mom. I feel like you're watching here and um I saw like a toddler maybe two, three um years old who's been wetting the bed. I just heard like bed wetting and you haven't been sleeping. And I felt um I saw the father actually just putting you in his arms and comforting you. And I feel like um I don't know who this is for. I I just feel like it's for a mom out there who

2:05:11–2:05:41 Altar Call

Um has felt like almost rattled. Like I almost feel like you've been saying like, "God, if I don't sleep, I don't know what's going to happen." And I saw the Lord comforting you. I saw him bringing you in so close. And I saw him soothing you. And I saw um peace filling not only your your mind and your body, but peace filling your home. And so God, I just bless this mom wherever she is. God, I bless that that child even um that whatever has been happening. I don't know if it's related to fear or something is going on, but God, I just bless that that toddler, Lord, that baby to um uh

2:05:42–2:06:17 Altar Call

Yeah, to stop the bed wedding, God, that you would bring peace and comfort um not only to their minds, but to their house, God, that this would be a household would that would experience the peace of the Lord. So, whoever that's for, I just I bless you. I just um I just stand right now in the gap, and we just are contending on behalf of of heaven for you, mama. I don't know who you are, but I bless you. I bless your sleep schedule and that you would have a return of rest and that you would experience radical peace and even joy in the midst of what feels really hard. Yeah. And one thing that I also um I I I feel the Holy Spirit highlighting this.

2:06:18–2:06:53 Altar Call

If for some reason, just like Bill was saying, we can gain the whole world but lose our own soul. M if you're one of those that you you if you look to your relationship with God for some any reason any possible reason you don't feel in peace and you want to you want to experiment this perfect peace in your life and you want to look at yourself and see that you are definitely for sure a child of God. If you wanna if you want to see yourself like that, I want to invite you to give your full self to the Lord.

2:06:53–2:07:34 Altar Call

All of your decisions, all the rest of your life, you want to see, yes, I'm a child of God. He is my father, my heavenly father. I want to invite you, if you want to give your life to the Lord, I want to invite you to type in the chat right now. I don't know. I'm I'm I'm feeling that. Go ahead. Um, but I want to invite you if you want to experiment the perfect peace of God and be a tabernacle of the Holy Spirit to be a house of God to have the Holy Spirit dwelling inside of you and you get to experiment the fullness of heaven inside of you. I want to invite you right now. This is the best decision you can make in your life. I did it. Cassie did it. So many people here here did it. I want to invite you.

2:07:34–2:08:11 Altar Call

This is the moment if you want to be part of God's family. Type it in the chat. Yan, this is me. Um, and even if you're watching it back, I want to pray for you right now. Lord, I thank you. I thank you because your perfect love washes over us every single day. You renew your mercy over us every single day. So Lord, I thank you for my brothers and sisters right now that are coming to the family now. And Holy Spirit, I pray for you to come and fill them with your love, with your power, and with your presence, God. Yeah. Write their name in the book of life right now. and wash over them with your perfect love in Jesus

2:08:12–2:08:44 Altar Call

Mighty name. Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord. If that's you, we just bless what you're doing. Our chat hosts will put a link in the chat if you would like to uh or to let us know that you said yes to Jesus. We've got a team of of people who are ready to pray for you. If you would like to receive ministry on our online ministry rooms, they're about to open. We'd love to prophesy over you, pray for you if you need healing in your body, and just to bless what the Lord is doing. You can jump on that link now in the Zoom. Guys, we love you. We bless what the Lord is doing and we'll see you well tonight or next week. Yeah. See you.