A World In Crisis Needs A Church In Revival
Pastor David T. Elms Preached on 10/25/2026
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Summary
Pastor David T. Elms calls for a church in revival to meet the needs of a world in crisis, arguing that while the world knows how to bind people, only Jesus has the power to set them free from spiritual oppression and addiction.
Key points
- •A world in crisis is not just suffering from mental or chemical issues, but often from spiritual oppression that requires a spiritual solution.
- •The world attempts to 'bind' people through constraints like duct tape, zip ties, or medications, but only Jesus has the power to truly set the captive free.
- •The church must prioritize the move of the Holy Spirit and authentic worship over cool presentations and entertainment-style services.
- •Believers should not live in fear of modern anxieties like AI or spiritual curses, but trust in the authority and protection of the blood of Jesus.
- •Revival is necessary because a cold, dead church cannot provide the hope or deliverance that a desperate world is seeking.
Scripture
Revival
Spiritual Warfare
Faith
Holy Spirit
Restoration
Life application
This week, identify an area of your life or a relationship where you have been relying on 'temporary binds' like avoidance or chemicals; intentionally bring that specific burden to God in prayer, asking for His spiritual deliverance instead.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have you seen the 'world' try to bind or fix problems that are actually spiritual in nature?
- How can we as a church community ensure we are focusing more on the presence of God than on the 'show' of a service?
- Pastor Elms mentioned that 'it is hard out here for a sinner' when the church lacks power. How does that change your perspective on evangelism?
- Is there a 'horsehair worm' - a negative influence or habit - that you feel is driving you toward places you don't want to go?
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0:00to be in our group. Listen, the kids
0:00were wired for this church. Amen. Amen.
0:00Well, I'm going to speak for uh your
0:02consideration today just for a few
0:04moments on the subject. A world in
0:06crisis needs a church in revival.
0:11Why don't you greet [music] somebody
0:13near you and say those words to them? A
0:15world in crisis needs a church in
0:17revival.
0:39So, my wife is not sure she wants me to
0:42uh to do this, but Grace Mulligan has a
0:44birthday on Saturday. Sandre Marin has a
0:47birthday on Friday. Terresa Npalitano
0:49has a birthday on Thursday. Lessiah
0:52Green has a birthday on Tuesday. And on
0:53Monday, Oswaldo, who just married Mindy,
0:56has a birthday. All these people are
0:58getting old.
1:02So, if you know them, love them. To know
1:03them is to love them. Don't tell them
1:05that I told you it's their birthday time
1:07because my wife's very concerned that
1:09I'm going to miss somebody. And she has
1:11a good, fair reason to do that.
1:14Introducing Melanie Elms. My wife.
1:18[applause]
1:20My wife with whom I'm well pleased. 36
1:23years she has been my queen. On Thursday
1:27night, September the 3,
1:30American flight 618 took off from Dallas
1:34Fort Worth, Texas
1:36for a non-stop to Newark, New Jersey.
1:41Somewhere near the the halfway point of
1:43the flight, a diversion had to happen
1:46because of something that happened in
1:49the first class cabin. A 67year-old real
1:54estate agent from Tucson, Arizona sat
1:57down in I believe 4A
2:00and beside him in 4C was a man that if
2:03you're a Christian reader, you're very
2:05acquainted with his work. a man by the
2:07name of Jonathan Khan who is the author
2:11of the harbinger and he is a messianic
2:15rabbi who believes in the gospel of
2:17Jesus Christ. He just finished a book a
2:21few weeks ago and two days before this
2:24flight he was on a book tour introducing
2:28the book he just finished the altar of
2:31of Pergamon
2:33and Khan tells the story differently
2:36than you saw it reported on CNN, MS Now,
2:40Fox News or any other place where you
2:43get your news. If you read about this,
2:46you just heard that a man
2:49uh of some religious sort made a
2:53terrible scene on a plane and they had
2:56to divert the plane and cause it to
2:58land. It's easy to see how the media
3:01always gets things a little twisted,
3:04especially when it comes to deal with
3:05God. Because Jonathan Khan had been
3:09upgraded on that flight. He was tired.
3:12He got on and they upgraded him to 4C, I
3:16believe was the number. And he sat down
3:18and he says that for the first two hours
3:21of the flight, they had the most
3:23friendly conversation. In fact, he said
3:26I was tired from having signed books. I
3:29wasn't trying to get in a conversation.
3:32And so when I sat down, I was just going
3:34to try to relax, maybe open my computer
3:37and work a little bit, but I was kind of
3:39exhausted. But the gentleman that he sat
3:41down next to wanted to chat and so
3:46Jonathan Khan said,"I
3:49proceeded to chat a little bit until he
3:51found out who he was." And he found out
3:54that I believed in Jesus Christ. I was a
3:57Messianic Jew and I was an author. I'm
4:00not sure this man knew who Jonathan Khan
4:02was, but uh apparently somewhere at
4:05halfway through the flight, this man
4:07began to attack Jonathan Khan by raising
4:10his voice and using the name of Jesus
4:13Christ in vain in the most profane and
4:15vile manner one could. It's stunning to
4:18me how the news media could call him a
4:20religious man because he used the name
4:24of Jesus.
4:26I guess everybody's religious who curses
4:28using the name of Jesus, but that's just
4:31not an accurate report. This man then
4:34proceeded to start cursing the Jews and
4:37he started verbally accosting Jonathan
4:40Khan until it began to proceed. He was
4:44spitting on him. Well, Jonathan Khan
4:47realized he said, "I had a premonition
4:49that all my work is on my computer." And
4:52he said, "I felt like this was
4:53spiritual. This was not just a mental
4:55breakdown. And immediately, so he
4:59started to pull his computer away and
5:01fold it up. But as soon as he started to
5:03fold his computer away, this man grabbed
5:06for his computer. Of course, Jonathan
5:09said that everything a bit of my work is
5:10on that laptop. So, I pulled it away and
5:13the man proceeded to attack me. There
5:17were a couple men who were retired
5:18police officers who were in one D and
5:20one F. They turned around and saw what's
5:23going on. And you would imagine if the
5:25fights are going to happen, you would
5:27think it would be at the back of the
5:28plane next to the restroom.
5:33I mean, if you've ever sat back there,
5:37you can have a bad spirit.
5:43You wouldn't think in the comfortable
5:45first class cabin is where this happens,
5:48but those two men got out of one seat. I
5:51mean, one D and one F and came back and
5:54tried to stop this man who was swinging
5:56and cursing and vially calling the Jews
6:00all kinds of terrible names and
6:02Christians, all kinds of things. And
6:04Jesus, of course, the worst of the
6:06worst. His case is a a a federal case
6:10and uh he's still being tried for this.
6:13And by the time the man the plane landed
6:17in Baltimore, they had had to zip tie
6:20him and duct tape him. And what I didn't
6:23know was that on every plane they have
6:25zip ties and duct tape just for this
6:28reason.
6:29>> Uh and so they zip tied him and taped
6:34him to the seat. And if you haven't seen
6:36it, I'm surprised number one. But if you
6:37haven't seen it, it's really easy to go
6:39see. They duct taped from the seat
6:43across his mouth and all the way back to
6:46the seat. So, he is duct taped to a seat
6:50until they were able to land in
6:51Baltimore. Now, I love these stories. I
6:54could have told you this the Sunday
6:56afterwards because I just seen it, but I
6:58was wanting to handle it more uh nimly.
7:01Uh so, I like to follow up and see what
7:03what's behind all of this. Turns out the
7:05man, 67y old real estate agent, and he
7:08said he don't he does not know what
7:11happened. He had just had two drinks.
7:14Now, this is a much more spiritual
7:16service than the first service. Most of
7:19the people in the first service have had
7:21two drinks before. I'm sure none of you
7:24guys know what two drinks can do.
7:27I know what two drinks can do.
7:30>> Nothing.
7:33I mean, you know, I'm a big old guy.
7:35Maybe for some of you little ladies, two
7:37drinks will do something to you. Two
7:39drinks can't cause that. Give me a
7:42break. You know, some people start
7:44acting, well, it was the alcohol. Whoa,
7:46whoa. A lot of folks have been down that
7:48road with alcohol and didn't do all of
7:50that. It's amazing how fast we can throw
7:53the blame off and try to blame, well, it
7:55was the marijuana that did it.
7:58You're not the only one that's had
7:59marijuana.
8:01It doesn't make you do all that,
8:05but it's his federal case. And I'm not
8:07trying to judge him. The bottom line is
8:10you and I both know what I'm going to
8:12say about it.
8:14It was not just a mental crisis. Right.
8:18>> I I I wonder why is it that when people
8:20have these mental crisis which uh with
8:23the police department many times I have
8:24to go on ride alongs and in the ride
8:26alongs will come across people that are
8:27having the moments and it just stuns me.
8:30Why is it that when we're having a a
8:32critical moment, a critical incident,
8:35that the person that's having it always
8:38is cursing
8:40and vially
8:42tearing down everyone around them with
8:45the most profane words, and Jesus is
8:48always going to be present.
8:50>> I've been waiting for one to do it with
8:52the word Buddha or one to do it with
8:54Muhammad.
8:56>> What? Why not Zeus? Zeus you.
9:02>> Zeus to you. Apollo,
9:06Mercury to you.
9:09>> No.
9:13And it's interesting because police
9:14officers have to look at it through, you
9:16know, I got a problem. I got to solve
9:17it. We got to either baker act this man
9:19or something. And they're not trying to
9:21analyze this. But I was doing a ride
9:22along with an officer the other day and
9:24I asked him, I said, "Why is it that
9:26when we go to these calls that no one is
9:28having a crit critical incident of
9:30blessing?"
9:32I bless you. I bless you in the name of
9:34Jesus Christ. I blessed you and blessed
9:36you and I'm going to bless you even
9:37more. And I'm going to bless you in the
9:39morning. I'm going to bless you at night
9:40and blessings and blessings and
9:42blessings be to you and bless you and
9:44bless her and bless them and bless.
9:49Am I making any sense?
9:52>> I'll tell you why it's not blessing.
9:54Because it's not just a mental crisis.
9:59>> Spirits are involved in the story.
10:02>> I'm not saying every mental health
10:04crisis is demonic, but I'm telling you,
10:06many times demons and and the evil side
10:10will take advantage of the
10:11vulnerabilities of an individual and
10:14jump on that. And the thing that I want
10:16to present to you today is that the
10:18world knows how to tape a man down.
10:22>> But only Jesus
10:25>> knows how to take them that are bound
10:29>> and say, "Take off the zip tie.
10:33>> Take off the duct tape.
10:35>> Take off the chains and take off the
10:38bond bonds. Take off the shackles."
10:41That's what is in our story of our text.
10:44Mark 5 begins and tells us about a man
10:47that has been bound. He was obviously
10:49having mental health crisis. He would
10:50scream and cry all night long. He would
10:52cut himself. So cutting yourself is not
10:55new to our generation. They've been
10:57doing that ever since you ever get
10:59oppressed of the enemy. He's always
11:01trying to get us to cut ourselves. This
11:03man cut himself. He would go in the
11:04tombs night and day. He would take off
11:06all of his clothes. He would walk around
11:08naked. And the Bible tells us all of
11:10that process going on. Now, here's my
11:13title of this sermon is that a world in
11:16crisis needs a church [snorts] in
11:19revival. Years ago, I preached a message
11:21titled, "It's hard out here for a
11:23sinner."
11:25And it was a take off of the old movie,
11:26which I've not seen, but it was a great
11:28title. It's hard out here for a pimp.
11:31>> Some It's a song. It wasn't a movie.
11:35That's my I'm saved.
11:41It's hard out. It's not bad that a
11:43sinner sins. It should not be a shock
11:46that a sinner does what sinners do. But
11:50when a sinner does what sinners do and
11:52they go and encounter church and church
11:55is so dead and so cold and so cool and
12:00so presentationoriented
12:02and so much about just getting
12:05promotions, getting elevations, having a
12:07good marriage and but they don't ever
12:10understand that there are forces of
12:11darkness that are trying to destroy all
12:14the way till suicide comes in their
12:17world because those courses uh Those
12:19forces, the Bible says, have come to
12:21steal, kill, and destroy. No, the the
12:25the writing is not wrong. It's not kill,
12:28I mean a steal, destroy, then kill. No,
12:31no. Because the destruction doesn't come
12:33before you die. The destruction comes
12:36after.
12:38>> And either the blessing of God is upon
12:40us after we die or the destruction that
12:42wasteth all souls happen after we die.
12:45The church is in the business of not
12:47dealing with temporal time, but opening
12:50understandings to eternity. We are all
12:53going to live forever. There is no opt
12:56out clause. There's no way you can get
12:59out of it. You cannot buy a new GPS
13:02system to get to a different place after
13:04you die. You're going to meet God.
13:09>> And it's crazy. somebody that lived like
13:12not not so good in their life and they
13:13die and they come back to a life and
13:15people say what happened. Well, I saw a
13:17light and people say, "Well, then they
13:20must have been going to heaven."
13:22Everybody goes to heaven first.
13:25Everybody's got to meet God
13:28and then you get assigned.
13:30>> And what's stunning, if you're familiar
13:32with your Bible, is the Bible says there
13:33are angels there that throw people into
13:35the lake of fire.
13:37Now, I know that doesn't feel good to
13:392026 ears to think that God has people
13:43throwing people, but I'm not going to
13:45change the Bible just because I don't
13:47like it.
13:52>> If you want those that will water it
13:53down and adjust it for your ears, then
13:55I'm not that guy.
13:57If the Bible says that when you go to
14:00meet God and he's going to judge us and
14:02when we get judged, if there's going to
14:04be angels that are going to separate the
14:06sheep from the goats, the light from the
14:08darkness, the wheat from the tears, all
14:11these metaphors that says God's going to
14:13judge us. Be not deceived. God is not
14:16mocked. Whatsoever a man seweth, that
14:21shall he also reap. And so we can
14:24whistle our way through the tulips and
14:26feel our way to happy land and say, "Oh,
14:28as long as I pay my bills and brush my
14:30teeth, then I'll go to heaven." You can
14:32believe that. But let me tell you, the
14:34Bible says you got to do more than that.
14:36>> And when you find out that there are
14:38forces of darkness that are out to
14:40destroy your kids, your marriage, your
14:43home, your own very mind. He wants to me
14:46mess up your workspaces and and and he
14:49wants to destroy, to steal,
14:52to kill, and then destroy.
14:56>> So, it's terrible to be a sinner when
14:58the church
15:01doesn't have the power. And yes, we're a
15:04church that believes in a move of the
15:05spirit. We have spiritual church here.
15:09We're going to have a worship service
15:10that doesn't last according to a certain
15:13song set.
15:14We're going to sing until the power
15:16comes down. We're not going to just say,
15:18"Wow, we've got a nice song set. They've
15:21ordered it out. We're going to set this,
15:23that, the other, and then have good
15:24smoke machine happen and wonderful light
15:27adjustments." No, I'm not against all
15:30that that. I'm just telling you the
15:32spirit, the world, a sinner knows when
15:36it's just entertainment and manipulation
15:38of a Vegas style. They know also when
15:42the presence of God walk in a place and
15:44nobody touched them, but they've been
15:47touched. Nobody spoke as precisely what
15:50they've been going through, but somehow
15:53by a miraculous force, the word of God
15:55comes and they all of a sudden feel
15:57like, were they in my house?
16:01It's not because anybody's sitting
16:03around spying
16:05like some have done in the past to look
16:08like they had a word from the Lord.
16:12Some people want that power. Oh, I speak
16:14for God. And then they have a little mic
16:16somewhere in the foyer to catch your zip
16:18code and then they they say and you know
16:2160 Minutes caught some preachers doing
16:22that.
16:24Ladies and gentlemen, the bad will
16:26always get a lot of publicity.
16:28But just because there's bad doesn't
16:30mean the real isn't real.
16:33>> And the real is sent not by a man, not
16:36by a church trying to manipulate you,
16:38but because God loved you from the time
16:40you were a little child. While the Bible
16:43says, even while you were in your
16:44mother's belly, God knew your name. He
16:47knows the number of hairs on your head.
16:49He knows you from the beginning to the
16:51end. He knew you. And he's the one who
16:54put you on this earth. And while the
16:56world may act as if you're a haphazard
16:58mistake that just came from two parents
17:01that were just having a fling, no, no,
17:04no. God said, "I made you. I called you.
17:07I performed a miracle to keep you alive.
17:10And I'm going to be the one that lifts
17:12you up. [applause] And if you're tired
17:14of being told you're just another person
17:17on this earth trying to get a social
17:19security number, I want to tell you,
17:20you're far more than that. You are a
17:23creation
17:24>> [applause]
17:27>> made by God.
17:30>> And only the Lord can set people free
17:33from their chemical chemical addictions.
17:36You know, our children, they diagnose
17:38them with ADHD and ADD and LTD. And I
17:41don't know, I've been di I haven't been
17:43diagnosed with anything.
17:45I think I've got a lot of diagnosis,
17:47though.
17:49And I'm not against the great profession
17:51of psychology, but we are too quick to
17:53put our bodies in chemical zones.
17:56>> Too quick in every zone. We think, well,
17:59another chemical will change things. No,
18:01you are made good.
18:03>> Now, I'm not against all these things.
18:04I'm just telling you in the overall
18:06scheme of life, the Lord doesn't want
18:09you to have to depend on a chemical to
18:12find joy, to find hope, to find health,
18:16to find healing, to find friends.
18:20You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
18:24You don't have to have two cans of
18:26courage before you talk to somebody.
18:29>> But the world will put you to that
18:31place. I can't talk to anybody till I've
18:33had a couple cans. When I get a couple
18:35cans of beer in me now, I'm a lot more
18:37talkative. I'll be more enjoyable at
18:39that point. Give me a glass of wine and
18:41I'll be a lot better with a glass of
18:42wine. I'm telling you, you are perfectly
18:47made.
18:48>> You don't need to lean on these chemical
18:51additives that the world assigns us to
18:55give us some kind of a a feeling of of
18:58having a happy atmosphere around us. No.
19:01In a church in this hour with the world
19:04is always prescribing more chemicals to
19:07add to their life. Whether it be
19:09alcoholism or some drug that manipulates
19:12your joy zone or some kind of other
19:16additive that can come in your body or
19:18vaping. These things that people become
19:20addicted to and get hooked to and they
19:23hide it but they do it over here on the
19:25side because something is blessed in
19:28their heart. They think it is not a
19:30blessing. And in a world like this,
19:32those are good people doing those
19:34things. I said good people get caught in
19:37these places. Good people need these
19:41chemicals, but they really don't.
19:43They're convinced they need them. Why is
19:45Koshi doing so well? Why is there so
19:48much great I'm I'm going to talk about
19:50it. Why is the gambling such growing
19:53more than ever before? Sports draft.
19:56Sports draft and simol are in the courts
19:58right now.
20:00Why? Because there's such a press for
20:04people to gamble.
20:06>> Why are they gambling? Well, they want
20:07hope.
20:09>> There's this addiction to feeling like,
20:12man, there's there's maybe hope on a
20:14Friday, maybe hope on a Saturday
20:16morning. And I charge over here at Seol
20:18my truck. I I I I go over there and I'll
20:20sit and and I just watch the people
20:22going in and out and I just think,
20:25man, they walk in with a whole different
20:27way than they walk out. And then you see
20:29the some walk out and they're all, man,
20:32you you they won that day and it's just
20:34easy. And I'm just sitting there
20:35analyzing them as a child of God.
20:37They're going in and out going like a
20:39lamb to the slaughter. Y'all built that
20:42guitar.
20:43>> Well, and listen, I'm just telling you,
20:45it's not the gambling. It's the desire
20:48for hope that if you don't have it, God
20:51wants to give you a hope that the world
20:53cannot [screaming]
20:54give you. [applause]
20:57The world can't give it to you.
21:01These chemical addictions that come,
21:04these lustful addictions. And you know,
21:06I don't often talk about lust of the
21:08flesh from this pullpit, but it's
21:10everywhere. It's inundating our society.
21:12And so many relationships are shredded
21:15because of this attack against the eyes
21:19of our flesh.
21:21What will deliver us? The world can bind
21:23a man, but it cannot free a man. And
21:26that man that Jesus met had been bound
21:28by the world and no man could bind him
21:31with anything that would hold him. But
21:33he was so terrible that in the night he
21:35would cut himself and cry. He had the
21:37chains would not hold him. The town had
21:39often bound him with feathers and
21:41chains, and the chains had been plucked
21:43aunder by him, and the feathers broken
21:46in pieces. This is demonic strength.
21:50>> And the best that the superpowers of the
21:53world could do was bind, but not set him
21:55free. This coming Saturday is Halloween.
21:59But it's also the day Harry Houdini
22:01died. He died 100 years ago this
22:04Saturday on 1926.
22:07And Harriet Houdini was the greatest
22:09escape artist in the history of America.
22:12He lived and then he died in Detroit.
22:14Harry Houdini who uh would go into their
22:18sales and their straight jackets. And I
22:20always love uh the Barney. No, it's
22:24never mind. I'm talking about Andy
22:27Griffith show, but I don't need to get
22:29off on that. You know, these people that
22:31think they can get out and for some
22:33reason they're not able to get out.
22:37Well, Harry Houdini was able to escape
22:40everything that they put him in. They
22:42dropped him into the East River in New
22:44York. New York's East River. They
22:46lowered a weighted crate with lead and
22:50he was out of that thing in 57 seconds.
22:52To the delight of audiences around the
22:55world, Harry Houdini could escape. And
22:58and then at the end of his life, he was
23:00going around catching people in their
23:02hoaxes. So part of his end was finding
23:05hoaxes and exposing them. But you know
23:07what he did when he died? He told his
23:09wife, he said, "I'm going to escape
23:11death. And when I do, I want you to go
23:14to seance and I'll give you a key secret
23:16word. And when I get out, I will get
23:19that secret word to you. And whoever you
23:22find it from, you'll know the word came
23:24out." And of course she went for many
23:27years and had seances to try to get a
23:30word from her husband. But that word
23:32never came. You know why? Because no one
23:36has escaped death
23:40except Jesus.
23:42>> You knew I was going to say that. But
23:44it's the only reason we breathe in this
23:46church. It's the only reason I'm
23:48standing in front of you because death's
23:51coming. And there's one who said, "Death
23:54shall be no more." Now, death hasn't
23:57come close to you. I'm happy for you,
24:00but I flew here from a funeral
24:02yesterday, and I'm tired of death. I'm
24:05sick of death. I hate death. I don't
24:07want death anywhere near me. But I'm so
24:10thankful that I don't have to grieve as
24:11do others when you encounter death
24:14because Harry may not have escaped it.
24:16But Jesus Christ got up from the grave,
24:20rose from the dead, showed himself by
24:23many infallible proofs, and went around
24:26saying, "I will set you free."
24:31>> The horsehair worm grows up inside of a
24:33cricket
24:35or a preying mantis. It's a little
24:38parasite that gets in these insects. And
24:43Japan just did a recent study on it in
24:452023.
24:47And in Japan, they found out that this
24:49horsehair worm when it gets older, it
24:51needs water. And it will literally draw
24:54the insect to the water. And even though
24:58those insects normally have an aversion
25:00to getting in the water because they
25:02don't swim, they when they fall in
25:05water, they're going to drown. They
25:07watched as these insects that had the
25:09horsehair worm jump in the water and
25:12drown. And the reason is because they
25:15said the horsehair worm literally starts
25:18directing
25:20its host. And these preying mantises and
25:24these crickets that have it will
25:26literally never know why it's driven
25:28into the water. But its destination
25:31every time with a horsehair worm is
25:34straight into the water. Because when
25:37the horsehair worm gets in the water, as
25:39soon as its host dies, it has gotten
25:41what it wants and it swims away.
25:43Something in you can drive you to places
25:46you don't want to go. And I don't want
25:48to play the spiritual oppression card,
25:50but there are demons in this world that
25:52are out to destroy. And as the end of
25:55time come upon us, there will be more
25:57and more of these Jonathan Con kind of
26:00stories where spirits show up and show
26:03out. And people in the natural world
26:05will say, "Well, let's tape them down.
26:08Let's zip zip tie them up." And the
26:11answer may not be that. The answer is
26:14Jesus Christ. I'm not saying what what
26:17happened on the plane that day. I'm just
26:19telling you this church had better be
26:21ready to help a hurting world because a
26:23world in crisis needs a church in
26:26revival. The Bible says sister come. The
26:29devil knows he has but a short time and
26:33he comes down having great wrath. Don't
26:36be afraid of this artificial
26:38intelligence. Don't be afraid of super
26:39intelligence. Don't be afraid of the
26:41robots are coming. Don't be afraid. All
26:44of this stuff that's supposed to take
26:46everybody's job and everybody all the
26:48report that's out there, the data center
26:50that's going to kill everybody. And so
26:53don't let one come near you. Listen,
26:57all of this fearmongering
27:00is just telling me the Lord is coming
27:03soon.
27:05>> He said, "In the last days, knowledge
27:07will increase." I thought it had
27:08increased the day I went from geometry
27:10to algebra. I thought when I went out
27:13from algebra to trigonometry, I thought
27:15it had increased. When I went to
27:18calculus, I thought knowledge had
27:20increased. When I left chemistry and
27:23started taking physics, I thought
27:24knowledge had increased. But ladies and
27:27gentlemen, this year more has been
27:29solved from math problems that is
27:31blowing the minds of mathematicians and
27:34they're even have in they're having
27:35crisis in their own selves saying I
27:37don't even know what we're going to do.
27:40things are being solved that we haven't
27:41been able to solve for years.
27:44>> Doctors and lawyers and people that have
27:46studied and made professions out of it.
27:48Now it's solved and they're saying,
27:50"What are we going to do?"
27:52>> Well, I'll tell you what the church is
27:55going to do for a world in crisis. The
27:58church is going to keep on praying.
28:00>> They're going to keep on worshiping.
28:02>> They're going to keep on fighting for
28:03one another. There will be faith in this
28:06house. There has not been an invention
28:08in my lifetime that has removed God.
28:10There has not been a discovery from
28:12science or archaeologist or geologist
28:15that have proven this Bible to be wrong.
28:17They keep trying to prove it wrong and
28:19they find out more that it's right. They
28:21keep trying to say that a place in
28:23scripture doesn't exist and a and
28:25archaeologist just found a coin that
28:26said it did exist. What am I saying? I'm
28:29saying that God is still God and he's
28:31still coming to set this world right
28:33side up, not upside down. He's going to
28:36take people that have been torn and
28:38broken and pulled apart. Their families
28:40are on the edge of devastation their own
28:43lives. They've been cutting themselves.
28:45They've been going through eating
28:46problems. They've been trying to do all
28:48kinds of chemical additives to stabilize
28:50themsel. I want to proclaim to you that
28:53there is a deliverance that doesn't come
28:55from my hand. It doesn't come from the
28:57name on this church. It doesn't come
28:59from an organization. It comes from the
29:01Lord God above. And when I pray, things
29:04happen. I said he's a healer. Does
29:07anybody know he's a healer? Is there
29:10anybody that's been healed in this
29:11house? I've been healed. I I'm not doing
29:15this emotionally. No, it's real. I've
29:18been healed by the power of God. Has
29:21anybody supposed to be dead? And you
29:23don't know how you're alive? You don't
29:26know how in the world you made it
29:27through that wreck? How you got from
29:29this side of that car to that side of
29:31that car? You still have no clue. Is
29:33there anybody? I ought to be dead right
29:35now on I95 almost to Washington DC. I
29:39should be dead. But by the goodness of
29:41God, I'm alive because Jesus
29:46saves.
29:49Jesus
29:51saves.
29:53A powerful church is what's needed in
29:56this place. And so when you come here, I
29:59make no apology. We're going to pray
30:02with passion.
30:03We will not pray wrote prayers,
30:05memorized prayers in this house. I make
30:08[music] no apologize apology. I'm going
30:10to preach. I won't be cute when I
30:12preach. I make no apology. I'm be
30:15emotional. I'm emotional when I preach.
30:17I make no apology that I'm going to
30:19preach from my heart. No apology. I know
30:22how to be calm, cool, and collected. I
30:24graduated from NC I didn't graduate from
30:27NC [music] State. I graduated from Bible
30:28school, but I was at NC State. I took
30:30public speaking at NC State. You think
30:32they taught me how to speak as a
30:34preacher? No. I learned all the public
30:37speaking stuff, though.
30:39But when [music] you're preaching
30:41eternity, it's not time to put on a
30:43show. It's not time to be cool, calm,
30:46and collected.
30:48>> Eternity awaits every one of us. And
30:50some of you are fighting real demons.
30:57And you got voodoo in your family.
31:03You've got somebody who knows their
31:05favorite witch doctor.
31:09>> You don't have to admit it. I'm [snorts]
31:11preaching to somebody right now.
31:14>> There's people that go around with a
31:16chicken foot.
31:18I've heard of rabbit foots, but when I
31:20came to South Florida, I found out they
31:21carry chicken foot.
31:23Now in Jamaica, they call that soup.
31:31I went and ate some chicken foot soup in
31:33Jamaican. I thought it's the best thing
31:34in the world, man.
31:37They were serving me in a styrofoam cup.
31:40That thing was so good. I had my plastic
31:43fork and my styrofoam cup and I
31:48[snorts]
31:51I thought I might want a little protein.
31:52So, I went along a little deeper and it
31:54came out.
32:05I thought, "What kind of voodoo have
32:07they put in my soup?"
32:13And they said, "If you'll suck that toe,
32:15it's good.
32:18[applause and cheering]
32:25this California boy.
32:30I have my limits.
32:34Some of y'all are still trying to
32:35convince me that oxtail is good.
32:38>> I've seen that thing swish on the back
32:40of that cow. I don't think that's for me
32:42to eat.
32:50Don't you Some of you Latin people are
32:52laughing.
32:55I pastored [music]
32:58two Spanish churches. One of my Spanish
33:00congregations cooked me tacos.
33:05I said, "Man, this meat is good." What
33:08is it?
33:14Y'all know
33:17they thought because it was Spanish I
33:19wouldn't know. They said, "Oh, that's
33:20lingua."
33:25>> It was very good. It was delicious.
33:29>> Listen, I'm not going to eat a cow's
33:31tongue. I want that cow to have its
33:34tongue.
33:36I've passed enough cow tongue in the
33:38grocery store laid out on that styrofoam
33:41with the plastic over the top. I
33:43thought, "What are you doing there?"
33:47I felt sorry for that old boy. He lost
33:49his tongue.
33:52You ever heard a cow tongue? A cow moo
33:55without his tongue.
34:00I'm having fun, but I'm also having
34:02serious church right now because when we
34:05stand in just a moment, I open this
34:07front. We're going to pray. And when we
34:10pray, there are demons that are shaken,
34:13scared, because they have been haunting
34:15you and you see one little bit of powder
34:19around your house and you [music] think
34:20somebody has cast a spell on you.
34:23Somebody has dropped a little bloody
34:25foot around you and you thought
34:26something bad [music] was happening. You
34:29know, somebody has a doll and they've
34:30been stuck sticking needles in that doll
34:33and those curses you've [music] been
34:34exposed to. There is power in this house
34:38that they can take a doll of me all day
34:40long and poke everything they want in
34:42that doll of me. And I'm going to stand
34:43right here before you and say, "I'm
34:46good.
34:47I'm not afraid. I'm not going to be
34:51subject to the spirits of evil.
34:54[applause]
34:55>> And I'm not creating some false fear
34:58scenario. This is real."
35:01Shall we stand?
35:03If the church doesn't have power when
35:05she prays, I'm feel sorry for all the
35:08sinners. If the church doesn't act like
35:11the church, if the church doesn't
35:14worship like the church ought to
35:15worship. If the church doesn't love the
35:18word [music] like the church ought to
35:20love the word. If the church is just
35:23trying to be cool instead of being hot
35:26for the Holy Ghost. If the church is
35:28trying to be so user friendly that they
35:31don't scare any devils.
35:33Oh Lord, it's hard [music] out there for
35:36a sinner because sinners still have
35:39their burdens and their pain and their
35:41loss. They still have their fear that
35:44shows up at 2:30 in the morning and they
35:46don't want to tell anybody else that
35:47what's been haunting them. They hide it
35:50and try to try to pretend like it's not
35:52there. I want to tell you, God knows
35:54what you've been going [music] through.
35:55And the Lord sent me to tell you on this
35:58Sunday afternoon, you can be free today.
36:02You can be free by the blood of Jesus
36:05Christ.
36:06>> Satan, [music] the blood of Jesus is
36:09against you, Satan. [music] The blood of
36:12Jesus is against you.
36:15Satan, the blood of Jesus is against
36:19you. [music]
36:20You have no power in this house. You
36:23have no power to doom or damn. You have
36:26no power to destroy homes. Oh Lord, in
36:30your name, I pray for every person
36:32that's under the sound of my voice.
36:33[music] You know what's sitting in this
36:35house. God, we want deliverance. We want
36:38the power to see deliverance. [music]
36:40Maybe it's somebody that we work with
36:42that's really oppressed and we know it.
36:45Give us [music] the wisdom and the power
36:47to walk into that workplace with an
36:49authority that's not from this earth,
36:52but it's a power to set somebody [music]
36:54free. I don't want to bind them more. I
36:56don't want to assign them more
36:57medications. I don't want to assign them
37:00more chemical adjustments. [music]
37:02I don't want to send them to more kinds
37:04of things that would just turn them into
37:06a [music] destruction. I want to see
37:08them find a hope that supersedes
37:11anything that they could encounter on
37:14[music] this world because there's more
37:17joy than money can bring. There's more
37:20peace than this world can offer through
37:23its chemical adjustments.
37:25>> [music]
37:25>> There's more joy than I can get from a
37:27bottle of wine. There's more peace than
37:30I can get from a bomb. There's more hope
37:33than that which I can get from winning a
37:35lottery. There is more happiness at home
37:39than I can get from all the things the
37:41world would assign me. And I'm coming to
37:45you for my joy today, [music] oh Lord.
37:48I'm opening this altar for anybody who
37:50wants to come and just have a talk with
37:53Jesus [music]
37:54to say, "Oh Lord,
37:56I'm not playing now. I'm not playing. I
37:58[music] want help. I want help. I want
38:01help. I want deliverance. I want
38:04deliverance. I want deliverance. [music]
38:07>> I don't want to be bound. I don't want
38:08to be bound. [singing]
38:10>> I don't want to be bound. I don't want
38:12to be bound. [music]
38:14>> I don't want to be bound. [singing]
38:16Oh, I've been denying [music] that I'm
38:19drinking way too much. I've been telling
38:22myself I'm okay,
38:25that I'm not okay, Lord.
38:28Oh, God, deliver me [music] from the
38:31lust of the flesh that's trying to
38:33destroy my relationships.
38:40[music] Heat.
38:46[music]
38:53[music]
39:02Heat. [music]
39:12>> [music]
39:17>> Heat.
39:19[music]
39:28Heat.
39:30[music]
39:38>> [music]
39:46>> Heat. Heat.
39:52[music]
39:59Heat. Heat.
40:08[music]
40:09Heat up
40:19>> [music]
40:26[music]
40:32[music]
40:34>> here.
40:36Heat. Heat.
40:39[music]
40:49[music]
40:55[music]
41:02>> [music]
41:08[music]
41:10>> Heat up here.
41:13[music]
41:18[music]
41:25Heat. Heat. [music]
41:35[music]
41:41>> [music]
41:48[music]
42:06[music]
42:14[music]
42:33>> Heat. Heat.
42:46[music]
42:53[music]
42:53Heat. Heat.
43:08[music]
43:15Heat.
43:20[music]
43:29Heat.
43:35[music]
43:37Heat.
43:40[music]
43:50Heat.
43:52[music]
43:58Heat.
44:02[music]
44:10[music]
44:11Heat.
44:17[music]
44:26>> [music]
44:31>> Heat up here. [music]
44:47[music]
44:47Heat.
44:53[music]
44:59Heat.