Making Disciples
Pastor David T. Elms 10/5/2025
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Summary
Pastor David T. Elms challenges believers to move beyond religious tradition and 'invented traditions' to embrace the biblical, apostolic pattern of the New Birth. He emphasizes that true salvation involves a life characterized by repentance, baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, and the infilling of the Holy Spirit.
Key points
- •True discipleship requires a commitment to the 'apostolic precedent' (standing by the established truth) rather than human traditions or cultural adaptations.
- •Baptism should be performed by full immersion in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, as modeled by the early church in the Book of Acts.
- •The 'New Birth' is not merely an emotional experience but a spiritual requirement involving both water (baptism) and spirit (receiving the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues).
- •Integrity in ministry means preaching the word without political maneuvering, personal gain, or fraudulent claims of miracles.
Scripture
Apostolic Doctrine
Baptism in Jesus Name
New Birth
Spiritual Integrity
Life application
Commit to studying the Word of God for yourself rather than relying on cultural trends, and ensure you have been born again according to the scriptural pattern of repentance, water baptism in Jesus' name, and the infilling of the Holy Ghost.
Reflection questions
- In what ways have I allowed cultural 'tradition' or human logic to override the clear teaching of Scripture in my life?
- Pastor Elms mentioned the difference between listening (comprehending) and hearing (receiving with action) - how can I move from just listening to truly hearing God's word this week?
- How does understanding that 'all power is given unto Jesus' change the way I approach spiritual warfare or fear in my daily life?
- Why is it important for the church to remain anchored in the original 'once delivered' faith rather than evolving with society?
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Full transcript
0:00I answered the call to be a preacher as
0:02a freshman at North Carolina State
0:05University
0:07where I was attending to be an
0:09electrical engineer.
0:14I did not want to be a preacher because
0:16I had been in the home of a man who
0:19worked as an engineer fixing F4
0:23Phantoms, fighter jets. He did it in San
0:26Diego at North Island. And so my young
0:30childhood
0:31grew up in the energy of Southern
0:33California technological district which
0:36if you know your history in America
0:39ingenuity southern California has always
0:42played a very large role in the
0:44innovation and space pursuits of our
0:47nation.
0:49That's what I wanted to do. I'm wired to
0:52be an engineer.
0:54My dad left when I was 30. When not I,
0:58I'm still 30.
1:01He left San Diego when he was 30 and I
1:04was six.
1:07And I lost my world. I lost my friends.
1:12I lost a lot of steadfast stable
1:15stability that I had had all my growing
1:18up years. I remembered a wonderful
1:20family vacation because engineers that
1:23fix the fighter jets of America get paid
1:26well. And my dad had all kinds of extra
1:29cash. We had movies. He always had a
1:33camera, an 8 millimeter camera and
1:35plenty of money to get film. And uh we
1:39had vacations in Big Bear and
1:41Yellowstone and uh the Redwoods in San
1:45Francisco. uh Carl'sbad Cavern in New
1:48Mexico. I remember going to West Texas
1:51Deion during those years. And even
1:54though I was young, I didn't know what
1:56it meant that it was special to have
1:59vacations.
2:01Everybody didn't get vacations like
2:03that. And I didn't realize how special
2:05it was until my dad entered the
2:07ministry. And never again in my growing
2:11up years until I left home do I remember
2:15a family vacation that went for a week.
2:19Never again. Our vacations from that
2:22point forward were at conferences,
2:24church conferences. And while my mom and
2:27dad had me convinced that a church
2:29conference was a vacation,
2:34it also meant that I went to the church.
2:37I went to church morning, noon, and
2:39night.
2:40I had three altar calls a day.
2:44And I got dressed up for all of them.
2:49>> It wasn't until later on in my life that
2:52I realized and asked my dad, actually,
2:54the most intense part was when we were
2:56celebrating their 50th wedding
2:58anniversary and I was making of my own
3:00accord a family video of all the
3:03remembrance of our childhood. And uh
3:06there was plenty of videos when we were
3:08in San Diego. Plenty of movies that I
3:10had had converted to a digital copy to
3:13include in this family video. But then
3:17when we left San Diego until later on,
3:20much later in life, there was very
3:22little video, very little digital movies
3:26and even very few family pictures. We
3:29had had a family picture every year
3:32growing up. I remember going to Olan
3:34Mills at Sears
3:39twice the rest of my life.
3:43Now, mom and dad did want the kids to
3:45not suffer, so I always did get to
3:47purchase the smallest package of the
3:49school pictures.
3:51I was on the school lunch program. I saw
3:54somebody coming out of the bank this
3:55past week and his front of his shirt was
3:59a lunch ticket and it said where I come
4:02from and it was a huge lunch ticket.
4:05What you get when you're on government
4:07assisted food and I thought where can I
4:10buy that
4:12>> because that's all I knew. In fact, I
4:15had friends that were embarrassed that
4:16they were on a lunch ticket and I
4:19thought,
4:21man, I'm happy I get this lunch. I
4:23couldn't afford the six cents chocolate
4:25milk that everybody got at the 10 a.m.
4:27break
4:30at Oak Creek
4:32Elementary School.
4:35The 10 a.m. break. The rich kids got to
4:39get milk.
4:42And I was good enough to go carry the
4:44milk. But only very few times was I
4:47blessed enough to be able to afford the
4:50six cent.
4:56Believe you me, it feels like scent.
4:59The six cents
5:01carton of milk. So, I've said this
5:04before many times. I um will stop and
5:07buy myself a big old chocolate milk. And
5:10if you ever happen to see me drinking a
5:12big old chocolate milk, don't ask me
5:13why.
5:16I'm rich enough now.
5:19I can buy the biggest chocolate milk in
5:22the store. And if my wife sends me to
5:25the grocery store, one of the penalties
5:28is I may come home with half a gallon of
5:31chocolate milk.
5:34And it's my silent club. Get out of my
5:38way while I pour that thick thing and
5:40let it get its smile right up on my lip.
5:45And then I finally after fighting it
5:47many years, I think I was called when I
5:50was a young boy. I really remember the
5:52moment actually I was called. I'll
5:55always remember it when God called me. I
5:58denied the call and pressed against the
6:00call and went my own way until I finally
6:02surrendered the freshman year of
6:04college. I'd like to say that uh the
6:07engineering courses had something to do
6:09with it, but
6:12engineering wasn't a problem for my
6:13mind.
6:15It was the problem of the cost of
6:18preaching the truth.
6:22When I finally surrendered, I said,
6:23"Okay, God, if I'm going to do it, I'm
6:25going to do it all the way true blue. No
6:29manipulation, no game plan, no political
6:31maneuvering." And so I did that
6:34evangelizing. And when I came here to
6:37Fort Lauderdale, those of you that were
6:38here, Sister Lisa Smith reminded me she
6:41voted for me this week.
6:44She said, "When I voted for you."
6:46And uh I'm honored to still pastor
6:49several of the seven that voted for me.
6:52Several of them still attend this church
6:54after 33 years. What an honor.
6:58But I promised myself back then I would
7:00not be a game player because I had seen
7:02enough game players in and around the
7:05church and even unfortunately sometimes
7:08in the ministry
7:10in that process of deciding we will not
7:15play games. It means that you've got to
7:18always be honest with yourself. It's
7:21hard for me to stand up and say
7:23everybody received a miracle in this
7:25place when I haven't seen anything with
7:27my very own eyes. I'm not saying that
7:30miracles haven't happened or can't
7:32happen, but I'm not going to look at
7:34something that just looked like just a
7:36normal event and say, "Wow, that was a
7:39miracle."
7:41Because I got to be honest with the man
7:42in the mirror and I'm tired of frauds
7:44trying to say that was a miracle. when
7:47there was nothing that was obvious. A
7:49healing maybe
7:51I've been healed of headaches, but none
7:53of y'all would know it.
7:56It's a miracle for me, but for me to say
7:59miracle, miracle is a notable event.
8:04Those words ought to mean something.
8:06Well, when we preach and pray and pursue
8:09the ways of God, when I tell you I had a
8:11dream, I promise you I didn't make it up
8:13that day.
8:16I refuse to be that kind of a fraud
8:20because the Lord said I have preachers
8:22that say I have said something
8:27and I know I didn't say it and they're
8:31going to be judged.
8:34So how do you know that I heard from the
8:36Lord? You don't know. You got to trust.
8:40And that's the way the whole flow of
8:42living for God authentically is. Well,
8:45when one mounts the pullpit and says,
8:47"I'm going to preach the truth." He's
8:49got to bring truth with him. 1 Timothy
8:534:16, Paul wrote to his mentee in the
8:57gospel, Timothy, and said, "Take heed
9:00unto thyself and unto thy doctrine.
9:03Continue in them, for in doing this,
9:08thou shalt save who?"
9:11Yourself.
9:13See, just because I once knew the truth,
9:16if I don't continue to walk in the
9:18truth, then that doesn't mean I'm going
9:20to be saved.
9:22>> There is a terrible doctrine in this
9:25world that once you're saved, you will
9:28always be saved.
9:29>> That is not in the scripture. And
9:32anybody who believes portions of that
9:34thing are building their lives on fraud,
9:39>> phoniness,
9:41what Jesus called sand that will not
9:44hold you when the storms come. In doing
9:48this, Timothy, by staying faithful and
9:51paying attention to how you walk, paying
9:54attention to what you teach and to
9:58continue in them doesn't just because I
10:01preached true doctrine maybe for my the
10:04in in the in the 80s when I started
10:06preaching and in the 90s and maybe in
10:09the 2000 first 10 years doesn't mean
10:12that I'm going to be saved. You say,
10:14"Well, 30 years you preach the truth."
10:16But if I don't continue in them,
10:19>> are you with me?
10:20>> Then I won't save myself,
10:23>> I need to save myself from this
10:25untoward, that means not God-facing
10:28generation
10:30>> and them by preaching that and staying
10:33true to it myself. I'll save myself and
10:37them that hear me.
10:40>> Now, there's a lot of people that listen
10:41to me. Some of you hear me.
10:46There's a difference between listening
10:49and hearing.
10:51>> There are those that listen to the word,
10:54but then there are those who hear the
10:57word. To listen means I comprehend. I've
10:59received. I thought it, but I don't
11:01receive it unto myself to make me have
11:05actions. Maybe the most inappropriate or
11:08misappropriate text in scripture
11:11is the text that we read today, Matthew
11:1528:19.
11:17This verse is quoted so often by many in
11:22Christendom
11:24to be the standard whereby as people
11:29that are following Christ ought to walk.
11:33And it is known as the great commission.
11:35It's a very important verse of
11:37scripture. It happens in the last
11:40chapter of the book of Matthew. And it
11:42says this. Jesus came unto them saying,
11:45this is the final word before he goes.
11:49All power is given unto me in heaven and
11:53in earth. In other words, I'm the boss
11:55up there and I'm the boss down here.
12:00>> I'm the boss everywhere. Who's talking?
12:04>> Everybody. Jesus.
12:05>> Jesus. Jesus is talking. Jesus said,
12:09"I'm the boss.
12:12>> All power is given to me in heaven and
12:17in earth. Now you have a purpose. Go ye
12:21therefore and teach
12:24just the nations like you."
12:28Today at 2 o'clock, I mean at 5:00 will
12:31be our second anniversary services of
12:33our second Spanish church start. I'm
12:36preaching it. I can't wait to be here to
12:38celebrate two great years. Brother uh
12:42Abel Bon and Sister Scarlet will be
12:44here. Brother Torres has guided the last
12:46chapter of it and I thank the Lord for
12:48it. But one of the things that I've
12:50often said to our Spanish churches that
12:52we've always started is that if you only
12:55sponsor Spanish missionaries, then you
12:59will be rebuked by me.
13:05>> Because he didn't call us to only save
13:07people like us.
13:10>> He said, "Go and teach all nations."
13:17And then from there he said baptizing
13:20them in the name of the father and of
13:24the son and of the holy ghost teaching
13:27them
13:29teaching them that doesn't mean after
13:31they've been baptized in that name.
13:34Now, we're not to quote wrote and I'll
13:36talk show you this in a moment that
13:38because a lot of Christianity baptized
13:41quoting this verse. They say, "I baptize
13:43you now in the name of the father and of
13:45the son and of the holy ghost."
13:49And I want you to never leave this place
13:52ever again. And if you this is your last
13:54Sunday here, I don't want you to ever go
13:56to any other church and hear them
13:59baptizing by quoting this verse without
14:03you knowing that was never done in the
14:07Bible.
14:10>> No matter if you don't like me and leave
14:11today, I want you to listen when they
14:14baptize. A lot of people think, well,
14:15it's spiritual. We're just being
14:16spiritual. No, we're not being
14:18spiritual.
14:20We're building on sound doctrine.
14:24>> And you need to listen to what they're
14:25saying.
14:26>> And if they say, "I baptize you in the
14:29name of the Father and of the Son and of
14:30the Holy Ghost," and they do not declare
14:33that that name is Jesus,
14:36>> then they have fallen victim to a fraud
14:40that has happened in Christianity 325
14:44years after Jesus was on the earth.
14:48It's a fraud.
14:50>> Now, I'm not here telling all of them
14:53they're evil.
14:55>> I'm not telling them that they're
14:57stupid.
14:59>> I'm telling them that they are not
15:01modeling what the Bible
15:04claimed was the only way to be baptized.
15:08>> Because if you look literally, it says
15:11baptizing them in the what
15:14>> is father a name?
15:20is son a name.
15:24>> I had I won a a deal against my
15:27insurance company this past week and I
15:28got a large check uh because I won a
15:31suit against my law my insurance
15:34company. I didn't win the whole thing,
15:36but we settled for a helpful helpful
15:38helpful amount for me.
15:40I know we need more. It's not near my
15:43wife over here. Listen to her. We need
15:45more. I agree.
15:49But when I went to sign that check, it
15:52was too big to put through the ATM. In
15:53fact, I asked him because I want ATM so
15:55bad. I wanted to deposit this with my
15:57phone so bad. There are some checks too
16:00big to deposit with your phone. Susan
16:02knows all about that. I've just learned.
16:04I'm just learning this. Stand there and
16:07it says too big.
16:09I like those two big checks.
16:12So, I went and the line was so ignorant
16:14I tried to deposit at one one bank that
16:18I've got some accounts in. My wife knows
16:19all about, but it's just in my name
16:21because I didn't want to get her to come
16:23up to the bank.
16:25I stood in this long line
16:28and and I had my signature and I had my
16:32wife's signature
16:37and uh you got to do unto them what they
16:40do unto you. After
16:44standing in this long line, the teller
16:47said "Uh
16:49your wife's name is not on this bank
16:52account." I said, "No, it's not. Mine
16:55is."
16:57And he said, "I'm sorry. You can't
16:59deposit this check. Calm down. Calm
17:02down.
17:06Calm down."
17:08She's never even known this because I
17:10wouldn't tell her. This would make her
17:11too happy.
17:14Men, you got to hold some things back.
17:15Listen, don't lay all your cards down.
17:18Listen to your leader.
17:30After standing that long line,
17:33I had to go to the other bank
17:36>> and there was another long line.
17:39>> But since her name was on that account,
17:43>> they were happy to deposit
17:46that check.
17:48>> The only problem is it's so big I can't
17:49get it immediately.
17:51They got to sit there and make money on
17:53my money for a couple of days.
17:55>> Don't get me started. All you bankers in
17:57this house,
18:00>> I need that money
18:03dying down here,
18:07babe. I'm preaching.
18:13One of the most misappropriate
18:17verses of scripture misinterpreted is
18:20Matthew 28:19.
18:23And so what I want to do is put it in
18:26the proper understanding for you to
18:29never
18:30ever go to any church ever and be able
18:35to hear them preach baptizing and titles
18:39>> ever again
18:41>> and say, "Oh, that's a Bible way to do
18:44it."
18:50I'm going to give you some things put on
18:51your thinking cap and I'm going to try
18:52to do it in the next few minutes.
18:57When Christianity was driven out of
19:00Israel in 70 AD,
19:03it was taken into the Grecian lands and
19:05Roman lands because of what is known as
19:08the diaspora.
19:11They killed and destroyed much of
19:13Israel. And there had never been a
19:16nation in that city from 70 AD when
19:19Titus, the Roman general, burned the
19:22city to the ground. And every stone was
19:25made flat of that city. Right now, the
19:29Mount of Olives and Mount Zion, which is
19:31Jerusalem, is completely different in
19:34its topography because of the tearing
19:38down of the original temple in
19:41Jerusalem. You can go there now. I've
19:43been blessed to go a couple of times.
19:45It's still astonishing, but it isn't the
19:48the Jerusalem that was in Jesus's day.
19:51Because in 70 AD, they did not just burn
19:54the city down and say, "We're going to
19:55repurpose this building as a warehouse
19:57district." They literally took all the
20:00stones and made it flat.
20:04Every stone was taken down. This is
20:06history. This isn't Bible. What I'm
20:07telling you is history right now, but
20:09Bible is history, too. And in that
20:12process, Christianity was taken to lands
20:15that had much thinking of the Grecian
20:18style and the Roman style. And in that
20:22process, Christianity was taken away
20:24from its roots, which was Jewishness,
20:28to where a prejudice came into quote
20:31unquote Christianity,
20:34and dispelled it from its roots. And
20:37they called it a completely reaching of
20:41Christianity and made it a gentile
20:44religion.
20:46Christianity has never been gentile. It
20:49has never been just Jewish. Following of
20:52Jesus is for all people of all nations
20:55of all continents of all times.
20:59>> It is not western nor is it eastern. It
21:02is eternal. And so because of that a
21:05great thought process which Grecian
21:08thought and I don't want to teach a
21:09philosophy class right now but Athens
21:11and Rome proved there was this dualistic
21:14thinking that I can be a spirit and then
21:16I can be a body and I can do things in
21:19my body that will not soil my soul.
21:23I can think something on Sunday and be a
21:25Christian on Sunday, but the rest of the
21:27week I can be low life and it not soil
21:30my Christianity
21:32when that object and that thought
21:34process was never a part of the original
21:37church, not the Jewish church nor the
21:40first church.
21:42>> And as we pursue this, it became a
21:45doctrinal disaster in Christianity. And
21:48that's why you could see from
21:50Constantine
21:52the council of Nika which is 325
21:56years after Jesus was walking the earth.
21:59325 AD Jesus died about 33 AD. So it was
22:03more like 295 years after. Okay. That
22:07period of time they changed what the
22:10original preachers preached. There is no
22:13history in those 200 years of people
22:16ever baptizing in the early church in
22:19any other way than baptizing in the name
22:22of the Lord. Sometimes they would say
22:25the name of Jesus. Sometimes they would
22:27say the name of the Lord Jesus.
22:29Sometimes they would say in the name of
22:30the Lord
22:32in historical records, not in scripture,
22:35but historical records. And everybody
22:38knew when you said Lord, you're saying
22:42Jesus. You're not saying father, you're
22:45not saying son, you're not saying holy
22:47spirit. You're saying Jesus. And it
22:50wasn't until 3:25 when Constantine was
22:53trying to gain power. He locked a bunch
22:56of preachers around up in a palace and
22:59they could not come out until they
23:01decided on their doctrine. And they
23:03found that it would be easier to reach
23:06the mass of the world by removing
23:09the name Jesus
23:13and just stick it in there the name of
23:15the father,
23:17the son, and the holy ghost. And they
23:20did it by the strength of Matthew 28:19.
23:25because this fits the exact narrative of
23:27what they were saying. Although you will
23:29find out that it wasn't until the
23:30council of Constantinople that they
23:32finally got the spirit in it. Because at
23:34first it was just father son.
23:37Then they opened it up even further to
23:38where you started praying to Mary
23:42and then started praying to saints.
23:45And to them the saint was only somebody
23:47that was elected by the council of the
23:49headship of their church.
23:52And you couldn't be a saint unless you
23:54reached that. And most saints were dead.
23:56Maybe a few were living when that was
23:59never ever the intention of the
24:02scriptural definition of the word saint.
24:06It was never ever in the intention of
24:08the scripture for baptism to be done by
24:11sprinkling. Never was it the intention
24:14of the scripture. And the Bible said,
24:16Jude 3, earnestly contend for the faith
24:21which was once
24:23delivered unto the saints. Not twice,
24:26not 20 times. The faith was once
24:30delivered.
24:31Ephesians 4:11, and I switched these
24:33verses up on them, but it says we are to
24:35be built up in the unity of the faith.
24:38It's a faith that's unified. It doesn't
24:40have a thousand ways to heaven. There's
24:42not 10 different ways in the Bible to
24:44get to heaven. There's one door.
24:47>> That's right.
24:47>> There's one gate. There's one savior.
24:52There's only one.
24:53>> There's one spirit.
24:55>> And the Bible says after this this uh it
24:58says, "Henceforth that we henceforth be
25:00no more children
25:03tossed to and fro, carried about with
25:06every wind of teaching, of doctrine by
25:10what? the slight of men
25:14and cunning craftiness.
25:17Very, very cunning. They change what the
25:20Bible says and envelop it with spiritual
25:24talk
25:25>> and they say it's going to stand up at
25:27the judgment. No, it will not stand up
25:29at the judgment. It doesn't matter who
25:31tells you it's going to stand.
25:33>> This book is the only thing that we're
25:36going to be able to be judged out of.
25:38You won't be able to quote David Elms
25:40and say, "Well, David Elms told me,"
25:42>> nor any other spiritual leader in the
25:44entire world. It will be this book.
25:47>> That's the reason it's a shame when a
25:49church doesn't encourage the people to
25:52study the book
25:54>> because this book is what saves us.
25:57>> This is the difference between two
25:58words, exesus and isogesus. Exesus is
26:01finding out what the text means and
26:04drawing it out. Isog Jesus is putting
26:07into the text what your culture wants it
26:10to say,
26:12>> what is convenient for your philosophy.
26:16And that's what they did by making
26:18Grecian Christians create new doctrines
26:21out of the scripture that it never
26:23intended for it to say.
26:25>> There are six sin that clamors
26:28throughout all of America. And I'm
26:30telling you, I went to seminary and
26:32there are so many papers written by
26:34supposed seminarians that are trash.
26:38They are trash.
26:40They are cunning craftiness. Now, I'm
26:42going to throw you some stuff, but just
26:45don't be bored with it, okay? I just got
26:47to put it down on tape. It poses as an
26:50appropriate hermeneutic. Hermeneutic is
26:52a theological word that means how it
26:55impacts mankind.
26:57You got to study hermeneutics when you
26:59become a preacher. How to get the
27:01message to the men. If it's all
27:03theology, it doesn't help anybody. It's
27:06got to be applied to the man, the
27:07hermeneutic. But here's the problem with
27:10our day. Every culture has tried to
27:13apprehend scripture to make it mean what
27:16it was convenient for them. This is why
27:18slavery through fraudulent means was
27:21promoted by supposed white men to say
27:24that it's all right to have slaves.
27:27Trash. A lie. Never was that a part of
27:31the Bible. There's slavery all through
27:33the Bible. But it was a recognition of
27:35the hermeneutic that was on the earth.
27:38The first slavery was put out by the
27:40cursed uh lies of Lamech when he would
27:44bruise a man for or kill a man for
27:46bruising him. He started making people
27:49work like crazy for him. And yet this
27:52Anglosaxon
27:54hermeneutic
27:56changed scripture to empower slavery.
28:00Now, there's African-American
28:01hermeneutics
28:03that declare all white people as evil.
28:06Trash.
28:08There is Latino hermeneutics that's out
28:11there that they bend and twist scripture
28:13through manipulation to make the Latinos
28:15look awesome. Trash.
28:18There's LGBTQ
28:25>> queer
28:27hermeneutics
28:28that take scripture and twist it by
28:31manipulation and fraud.
28:34>> They say take scriptures like David and
28:36and Jonathan loved each other and say
28:38they were homosexual.
28:39>> You're a liar. You're a fraud. And it's
28:41isog Jesus.
28:44>> You're a liar. The scripture never meant
28:47that.
28:48>> Now there's feminist hermeneutics.
28:51>> That declare all masculinity to be
28:53toxic.
28:54>> That God never wanted the Bible to be
28:56written only by men. And very few women
28:58written in it wrote in it. But the Bible
29:01is still clear that God made man first.
29:05>> Saw that it wasn't good for man to be
29:07alone.
29:08>> And thank God,
29:10>> he took away my rib.
29:13>> She's sitting on my right.
29:17Thank God for all you ribs in the house.
29:20I've always loved a ribs restaurant.
29:24That could be mistaken. So, I'll take
29:27that one back.
29:33There is a western hermeneutic where we
29:37have taken scriptures in the Old
29:38Testament and made them western
29:41and it's not biblical. You know that
29:44verse Jeremiah 29:11, that I have plans
29:46to prosper you, plans that are of good
29:48and not evil, that you might have an
29:50expected end.
29:52>> That wasn't talking about an individual.
29:54That was talking about God's collective
29:57people.
29:58>> And yet people all through America take
30:00that verse, don't attend church. They're
30:01not a part of anybody. They're not a
30:03part of any church. But they pull a
30:04western hermeneutic out of the scripture
30:07and say, "Wow, that's my verse, and I
30:09don't know who else owns it." That was
30:11not talking about an individual. That's
30:13talking about God's people.
30:16>> An expected end for God's people
30:19among scholars. It's called invented
30:22tradition.
30:24Now, I promised myself when I went to
30:26get my graduate degree that I would
30:28never bring the boring stuff of college
30:32to the pull pit. Sometimes I failed and
30:35brought it. Just the fact that I even
30:37told you the word invented tradition, it
30:40matters about this much to all of us
30:42that live. Except the Bible says that
30:44there are those who will be blinded by
30:47the rud by the traditions of men and the
30:50rudiments of this world. Rudiments are
30:53the workings of business, family,
30:57structure, culture, and they're blinded.
31:01Having eyes, the Bible said they see
31:02not. Having ears, they hear not. They
31:06listen, but they don't hear. This is why
31:09the Lord was asked by his disciples, why
31:11do you speak in parables? Why not just
31:13say it plain? He said, because some
31:15people don't want to hear,
31:18and so I'm going to speak in parables so
31:21that all of those who say they don't
31:23want to hear on their inward heart will
31:25have an excuse when they walk out and
31:26say, you know, that's just above me. I
31:28can't get it. I just can't get it. Well,
31:32you'll answer for the can't get it
31:33because all of us can get what we want
31:36to get and all of us have a spirit and
31:39there's a spirit inside of us. You are
31:41not just logic, Mr. Spock.
31:45You are spirit, too. And when people
31:48come and say, "Well, I don't understand
31:49this spirit stuff." I'm going to tell
31:51you something. Yes, you do. You just
31:52don't want to have ears to hear because
31:55you have spirit in many aspects of your
31:57life.
31:59trickery and complexity of interpretive
32:02maneuvers deploy false teachers who
32:05endeavor and twist the scripture to what
32:08the Bible says is their own destruction.
32:11And when Jesus was talking in this
32:12verse, Matthew 28:16 tells us that he
32:16was speaking to his disciples. Now, I'm
32:19going to ask permission to preach a
32:21little longer today, okay?
32:24I just I just need to lay lay this down.
32:27Acts 1 gives us the names of those that
32:30heard him because he told them, "Go to
32:33Jerusalem and wait until you get power."
32:37They had all confessed on Jesus. They
32:38had performed miracles in his name. They
32:40had all done wonderful works in his
32:42name. But then he said, "Go and tarry
32:45until." And then it tells us who was
32:48there. This is in Acts the first
32:49chapter. We get a list of the names that
32:52were there. There were others because
32:54ultimately it was 120. So there's a lot
32:56of believers who came along. But these
32:58were the disciples who heard him say
33:00Matthew 28:19. And when they were come
33:03in, there went up into the upper room
33:04and were abode with Peter and James and
33:07John and Andrew, Philip, Thomas,
33:09Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son
33:12of Alphus, Simon, Zelotees, and Judas
33:15the brother of James. These all
33:17continued with one accordion in prayer
33:20and supplication. Everybody say, "With
33:22the women."
33:24This is why the Bible's different than
33:25history. Most of history talks down
33:28about women,
33:29>> not the Bible.
33:30>> It's very special. You don't know how
33:32special it is.
33:34>> If you want to know how women are
33:35treated, go live in a Muslim country.
33:38>> And if there's Muslims here today, I
33:39love you, but live in the truth.
33:42>> Live in the truth.
33:46>> We're tired of people preaching lies and
33:48acting lies and not pretending lies.
33:51multiple wives in and being a Muslim,
33:54>> many wives. Polytheism,
33:57there's some versions of Christianity,
33:59Mormonism, where you can have many
34:00wives. Not the Bible.
34:03>> You can't have many wives. Not Not in
34:05the New Testament Bible. It was never
34:07the plan of God. Yes, Abraham had many
34:09wives, and that was a problem. David had
34:11wives, and that was a problem.
34:13>> The Bible doesn't hide their mistakes.
34:16>> The Bible doesn't show that they were
34:18perfect. The Bible tells you the truth
34:19so that you and I can walk in integrity.
34:25>> And so those same people heard Jesus
34:28say, "Baptizing them in the name of the
34:30Father and of the Son and of the Holy
34:32Ghost."
34:33>> Acts 2:38 is the very first time baptism
34:37is performed in the scripture.
34:40We read about the baptism of Jesus by
34:42John, but we're talking about being the
34:44birth of the church.
34:46And this the Bible tells us repent and
34:50be baptized every one of you. Not those
34:53who feel like it.
34:55>> Every one of you baptized that is all
34:57the way under in the name of Jesus
34:59Christ
35:00>> for the remission of your sins. Now he's
35:02standing there with the levan when he
35:03said that either the people who baptize
35:06after Matthew 28:19 which is not even
35:09Matthew
35:11not even the man who wrote that verse
35:13baptize in the name of the father and
35:15the son and the holy ghost by literal
35:17wrote or repeating after that no one of
35:20them baptized by saying I now baptize
35:22you in the name of Jesus Christ for the
35:25remission it's for something it's not to
35:27get you wet it's not to mess your hair
35:29up it's not so we can have some kind of
35:31culture of submissiveness. No, it is so
35:34that your sins might be
35:38>> remitted,
35:40taken care of.
35:44>> Ephesians 4:4 tells us there is one
35:48spirit. Only God gets the capital S. And
35:52that one spirit is the spirit of God.
35:562 Corinthians 3 says, "Now the Lord is
35:59that same spirit."
36:03Jesus
36:04is the spirit of God.
36:08>> Now, God, so we don't pray to God the
36:10Son. We don't pray to God the Father,
36:13>> nor God the Holy Ghost.
36:15>> You will never one time read in your
36:18Bible it say God the Son.
36:21Never one time. You will read the son of
36:25God.
36:27>> Which was referring to the flesh
36:28manifestation of the omniresent God.
36:32>> But it wasn't God the son.
36:34>> It was the spirit of the father. I and
36:37my father are
36:39>> one. Please get this in your heart. I
36:41don't care if you don't shout any today.
36:44I want people to get the Holy Ghost. And
36:46he's going to move when we close this
36:47service. We're already baptizing
36:50somebody today in the only saving name,
36:53the name of Jesus. But I want to tell
36:55you why we're doing it.
36:58You don't baptize in the titles. There's
37:00no power in the titles.
37:03>> I baptize you in the name of the father.
37:05Try signing your check. Name of the
37:08father.
37:10>> Nobody knows who you are.
37:12>> You say, "Well, we all sort of know."
37:14No. Go see how much uh uh they they they
37:17take Christianity and mix it with voodoo
37:21and mix it with the names of the gods of
37:23their countries and they say this is the
37:25mother god. They're not talking about
37:27Mary. They're talking about some mother
37:29god. This is the father god. They're not
37:31talking about Jesus.
37:33>> They're not talking about the almighty
37:35Jehovah
37:36>> which is the old testament manifestation
37:38of god. They're talking about what rah
37:40which is the Egyptian son god.
37:44And so that is that is that that mixing.
37:46They call it synretatism. Another one of
37:48those boring words. They synchronize
37:51their religions and say, "Well, we're
37:52spiritual." And they come to churches
37:54that have great music and they feel
37:56spiritual and they say, "Well, we got
37:57our spiritual uplift today." Let me tell
38:00you something. You will go to hell after
38:01a spiritual uplift if you're not built
38:03on the doctrine of the word of God.
38:112 Corinthians 3. Now the Lord is that
38:13same spirit. Acts nine Saul was killing
38:17the Christians, beating them, locking
38:18them up, and he was blinded on the road
38:21to uh Damascus, and he said, "Who art
38:24thou Lord?"
38:27And the answer
38:30from the sky
38:32didn't say, "I am the father."
38:35>> This is the voice that wasn't
38:37earthbound. I am Jesus
38:41whom thou.
38:44He hadn't hit Jesus one time, but he was
38:46hitting the church. And the church is
38:49the body
38:51>> of Christ.
38:54>> First time they baptized was Acts two.
38:56They did it in the name of the Lord
38:57Jesus.
38:58>> The next time they baptized was Acts 8.
39:00They did it in the name of the Lord
39:02Jesus.
39:03>> Then Acts 10 and Acts 19, every time
39:05they baptized in the name of the Lord
39:06Jesus. In law, there's this thing called
39:09stere stereis.
39:12I don't want to bore you. This is
39:14another one of those things, but you
39:15need to know about it if you're in law.
39:18It is a Latin word that essentially
39:20means it means to stand by things that
39:24are decided,
39:26things that had been established. You
39:29stand by them. Precedent. It's a
39:31powerful thing in law. The question is
39:34how did they rule when they looked over
39:36this kind of a case in the very
39:38beginning. Former cases establish a
39:42precedent. Stereis.
39:46But there's a problem with stereotis.
39:47When men are deciding it, they can get
39:50it wrong.
39:52Dread Scott was a slave who moved to
39:54Missouri from the south.
39:57Missouri was a free state. And when
39:59Dread Scott moved to Missouri, he
40:02brought to the courts a case, a law case
40:07against his own owner. He said, "I am
40:10now living in a free state.
40:14Therefore, I'm going to be able to be
40:16free because I'm living in this state."
40:19Well, the case could not be decided in
40:21the local courts. It took a year, but it
40:23was taken to the Supreme Court. And in
40:261857, Chief Justice Roger Teny of
40:29Maryland
40:30wrote, "And five of the nine Supreme
40:34Court justices were from slaveowning
40:38families, and they ruled seven to two."
40:42In the case of Dread Scott, they told
40:45Dread Scott that you are not a person.
40:49You are property. and since you're
40:52property, you will stay a slave.
40:56This was the beginning of the messiness
40:58of a democracy.
41:00And so that process was put down as
41:05stereis
41:08I mean in 1899 there was a labor strike
41:10in New York City. The bakers who worked
41:14for their breadmaking owners were being
41:16forced to work seven days a week. And so
41:19they brought a lawsuit to the Supreme
41:21Court.
41:23And this was 43 years after the Dread
41:27Scott case. And during this thing, the
41:30Dread Scott case that a man could be
41:33property rather than a person was
41:36invoked in this case in the Supreme
41:39Court 43 years later in the Lochner
41:43versus New York case of 1905.
41:46They contended that you working 60 hours
41:50a week, 10 days a week, I mean 10 hours
41:53a day, six days a week was okay because
41:57you were not a person. You were the
42:00property of those your owners that you
42:03belonged to the owners and that stood
42:07from 1905.
42:09Was that a proper ruling? Was it let me
42:12ask it differently. Was it a righteous
42:14ruling? No, it was not. Was it an
42:17American ruling? Yes, it was. It was the
42:20American Supreme Court. Men get it
42:23wrong.
42:24>> By the way, you got it wrong last week.
42:28So, before you start playing the card
42:30that you always get it right, you need
42:32to stop and look in the mirror and say,
42:33"Sometimes I get it wrong."
42:37>> It was an American problem. But it was
42:39used in the Dread Scott case was used in
42:42the in the Lochner case. And it was not
42:46changed until 1937.
42:49In 1937,
42:51it was changed and they finally
42:53realized, no, we will have some labor
42:55laws. You can't don't cannot be forced
42:57to work more than 40 hours a week or up
42:59to 50 hours a week. And beyond that, you
43:01got to get time and a half. And then
43:03it's it's dangerous beyond that. The
43:05only people who work more than that are
43:07those who are entrepreneurs
43:09and they work all the time.
43:12And here's the thing about stereotis.
43:14When it's done wrong, when it is
43:16unrighteous from the beginning, it can
43:18you be used like that forward because
43:20Row versus Wade came up in 1973,
43:24116 years after the Dread Scott case,
43:26which was unrighteous.
43:29And it was the use of the Dread Scott
43:31case through Lochner that decided that a
43:35woman in her body was her property.
43:39And she could do with her property
43:41whatever she wanted to do. That that
43:44baby was not a person, it was property.
43:48And because of that ruling was connected
43:50to the sterecis of the 1899 ruling that
43:54you belong to your employer which was
43:56connected all the way back to the
43:58stereis of the Dread Scott case. It was
44:01built on that ruling that a person could
44:04be property instead of a person. And so
44:07the foundation of that ruling to approve
44:09abortion nationwide was based on the
44:12ruling that one could own slaves.
44:16Isn't it something how ignorance blinds
44:18people
44:19>> to the process of unrighteousness?
44:22That's the reason I'm not an American
44:24citizen as much as I am a citizen of
44:27Jesus Christ.
44:30Now, I know this is boring and I know
44:32this is just crazy legal ease, but if
44:35you don't understand the foundation of
44:38truth and where it came from, then you
44:40can hop and jump and jabber and jimmer
44:43and go to any Christmas drama you want
44:45and sing any Christian song you want and
44:47not understand why you are who you are.
44:51>> And that's why we will be a spiritual
44:53church. We will be a a jumping church
44:55and a worshshiping church, a crying
44:57church and a smiling church. But don't
44:58ever for one minute think that all we
45:01want is an expression of emotion in this
45:03house because it is not about emotion
45:05here. It's about the spirit of God
45:07moving in us in truth.
45:13And the ruling of Row versus Wade wasn't
45:16corrected until 2022 in the Dobs versus
45:20Jackson Women's Health Organization
45:21case, which put it back in the hands of
45:24the state, which now states can decide
45:26however they want, but they can do it in
45:28a modern day understanding and not tie
45:31it to this slaveowning property kind of
45:34rule.
45:36And if states want it, they've got it.
45:38If states don't want it, they don't have
45:39it. And there's some places like Dick
45:41Sporting Goods that'll pay for you. If
45:44this state won't allow it, they'll give
45:45you money to go have your abortion in a
45:48state that won't that will allow it.
45:51That's the reason I haven't walked into
45:52Dick Sporting Goods since then.
45:59>> Now, that's a personal thing. You're not
46:01in trouble if you go to Dick Sporting
46:03Goods.
46:04This is just me.
46:07But we've got to build our life on
46:09sound,
46:11>> not ignorance,
46:13>> understanding of what is. There are
46:15tentacles of unrighteousness that
46:17permeates our society.
46:19>> And as we go through the first president
46:21precedents of baptism, the stereis of
46:24baptism, we've got to go back and see
46:26how they baptized in the beginning, the
46:28last chapter of the book of Mark. All
46:29four of the gospel writers wrote about a
46:32biography of Jesus. Matthew did, Mark
46:34did, Luke did, John did. The book of
46:37Acts is what they did. Matthew, Mark,
46:40Luke, and John are the autobiograph are
46:42the biographies of Jesus. The last
46:44chapter of Mark 16 says, "And he said
46:46unto them, go ye into all the world and
46:49preach the gospel to every creature."
46:50This is what we're supposed to do. He
46:52that believeth and is baptized
46:56>> shall be saved.
46:58He that believeth not
47:01>> shall be what? All right. If you're not
47:04baptized,
47:06what are you?
47:07>> I didn't say it.
47:11>> That's what the Bible says.
47:13>> And the reason it doesn't say that he
47:14that believeth not and is not baptized
47:17is because it's obvious if you believe,
47:19you're going to get baptized. But if
47:21you're not baptized, you can't say
47:22you're a believer unless you are
47:24baptized.
47:27>> It's just common sense.
47:30And so where do you go to observe what
47:32they did? Acts two where Peter said
47:35repent and be baptized every one of you
47:38in the name of Jesus Christ for the
47:41remission for something. Sin is remitted
47:45by the baptism in water in his name.
47:49Luke 24 is the last chapter of Luke and
47:52the Bible says verse 45. Then he opened
47:54their understanding that they might
47:55understand the scriptures. That's what
47:57I'm wanting you to do today. I don't
47:59need an emotional response. I need your
48:00brain turned on. So they understand the
48:02scriptures. And he said unto them, "Thus
48:04it is written, and thus it behooved
48:06Christ to suffer and to rise from the
48:07dead the third day." And that repentance
48:10that's changing from the way of the
48:12world.
48:13>> That's not crying because you got
48:14caught. Repentance is turning away from
48:16the world and turning towards God.
48:18Repentance and remission of sins.
48:21Baptism should be preached in his name
48:22among all nations beginning at
48:24Jerusalem.
48:26John is the one who tells us in his
48:28gospel writing the next to last chapter,
48:31but these are written that you might
48:32believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
48:34son of God, and that believing you might
48:37have life through his name. All four
48:40gospel writers record that salvation,
48:42healing, life comes in the name of
48:46Jesus. And so we're here not to give you
48:49emotional candy or catchy tunes or
48:53tweetable moments, tell you stories of
48:56empowerment, how to have a healthy
48:58marriage. I'm commissioned to get you
49:00into Jesus. And if you get into Jesus,
49:03transformation
49:05starts happening immediately. The power
49:08of our salvation is found in John the
49:11fourth chapter I mean the third chapter
49:13where we read the story of Nicodemus who
49:15came to Jesus by night. He was one of
49:17the most educated high rulers of that
49:20day. And he came to Jesus said hey uh
49:23prophet thou art great. And the Lord
49:25said to him uh except you're born again
49:29you cannot enter or cannot even see the
49:31kingdom of heaven.
49:33>> Except a man be born again he cannot see
49:36can't see it. I mean, that's far off.
49:39We're not talking about get in. You
49:40cannot even see it unless you're born
49:42again.
49:43>> And this baffled this education
49:46academic. And so, he goes on to say,
49:48Nicodemus said to him, "Well, how can a
49:49man be born when he is old? Can he enter
49:51the second time into his mother's womb
49:53and be born?" You know what? I love you,
49:55Nicodemus, because you asked exactly the
49:57same question I would have.
50:00>> You want me to be born again? I only
50:02have one vision of what being born is
50:04like.
50:06And the Lord said, "Okay, you don't
50:08understand what being born again is." He
50:10goes on to say, Jesus answered and said,
50:12"Except a man be born of of water and of
50:16thee, not a spirit,
50:20the spirit." That's baptism of water,
50:23born of water, and baptism of spirit,
50:26born of spirit. He cannot, he didn't say
50:30see.
50:31He said, "You cannot enter." There's a
50:34bunch of people shouting, singing, and
50:36going home today feeling good about
50:37themselves that have never been born
50:39again. And I want to know who, what
50:43foolish man gave them the authority
50:47to walk in that blindness.
50:50What ignorant man has more authority
50:54than what Jesus has?
50:58Tell me
51:00Jesus is the founder of the rapture
51:02machine.
51:04>> He's the giver of eternal life.
51:07>> I can't. No one else can. Only Jesus
51:11can.
51:13>> If this is strong medicine, I love you
51:15still.
51:17>> You cannot enter.
51:21>> You can enter this church easier.
51:27And if I don't tell you that, I'm a
51:29fool.
51:37That which is born of flesh is flesh.
51:42That which is born of spirit is spirit.
51:46Marvel not.
51:48Don't be amazed.
51:50Don't be confused.
51:52Marvel not that I say unto thee, you
51:56Nicodemus, with all your academia, with
51:59all your election, he was a supreme to
52:02compare it with today. He sat on the
52:04Supreme Court of the nation. It doesn't
52:07matter who you are. If you're not born
52:10again, you will not enter the kingdom of
52:13heaven.
52:16My wife babysat my grandbaby girl,
52:19little Rome Avalon this week. She went
52:22down there and Scarlet was going to
52:25work. So Melanie was watching her and
52:28she took her on a walk
52:31in a stroller
52:32and she's videoing my granddaughter
52:35rubbing it into all the rest of us who
52:37are
52:41doing a different kind of work.
52:45than she was that she was doing this.
52:47And while she's videoing my
52:48granddaughter, beautiful girl,
52:51stunningly gorgeous,
52:53my granddaughter proceeds to allow some
52:55yellow seepage come from underneath her
52:57leg.
53:04And as soon as this started coming forth
53:07from the edges of her cute cute
53:10outfit,
53:13she smiled so big like the greatest
53:17thing in the world has just happened.
53:25I wanted to say Rome, you know better.
53:30Good night. Don't embarrass the family
53:33name. name. It's Bonia.
53:38Don't you have any charm, young lady?
53:42You've lived on this earth and seen
53:44toilets for six months, and you want to
53:46smile after doing that?
53:50How ridiculous are you, young lady?
53:58Jesus said, "Being born in the spirit is
54:00like a baby."
54:02There's two ways you're going to know
54:03the baby's coming. Number one, water's
54:07going to break.
54:10All you mas, amen, all you men look at
54:11me like a bunch of dunes.
54:14You're still waiting for your water to
54:15break. I've been poking all day long
54:16trying to get this water to break.
54:21Every birth starts
54:25the breaking of the water.
54:28And I looked it up today. The longest
54:29period of time for a healthy child after
54:31the water break is just 72 hours. That's
54:34the longest. It's not healthy beyond
54:36that. It can happen, but it's very, very
54:40troubling.
54:42And the next thing that going to let you
54:43know the baby's born
54:46when that baby comes forth.
54:49It happens a lot slower on those
54:51C-sections,
54:53okay? But it happens almost immediately
54:55when the baby's born, usually through
54:58the canal.
55:01That baby's going to be heard.
55:08I had four of them. Every one of them
55:11sang.
55:17I've been near or I've seen a birth of a
55:20C-section. I haven't been there for one.
55:22I don't want to come to y'all's births.
55:23Okay, I'll be there later.
55:26Don't be calling and calling me in. It's
55:28not happening.
55:30I love you. Not that much.
55:36They'll clean that baby up. It'll be
55:38laying there and clean it up. After a
55:39little while, you know, they won't. The
55:41smacking on the bottom is that's wife's
55:44tail. That's husband's tail, whatever.
55:46But after a while,
55:53Some of you women are going into
55:55twitching right now. I'm telling you,
55:56right now you're starting to twitch. And
55:58that's me practicing my hunting call.
56:00You know,
56:02I'm going to call in some geese here in
56:03a minute.
56:10Water
56:12sound.
56:15He that is born of the spirit
56:18will be born of the water
56:20and of the
56:22>> spirit.
56:24It happens in the natural.
56:27>> It happens in the spiritual.
56:30Yamicus lived in Syria just before
56:33Constantine called the council of Nika
56:35together. He was not Christian but he
56:38lived among some and he wrote a book
56:39called on the mysteries. He had observed
56:42people talking in tongues. He describes
56:45it as a non-Christian. What happens when
56:48the people begin to do what he called
56:51prophesy,
56:53which is still called that in the New
56:54Testament as well. It's not just
56:56tongues. Bible also refers it to as
56:58prophesy. And this is what his words
57:01are. They emit words which are not
57:03understood by those that utter them. For
57:06they pronounce them, as it is said, with
57:09ecstatic and sacred speech, and are
57:13wholly, subservient, and entirely
57:16yielded themselves to the in energy of
57:19the predominating God.
57:24Bunch of high speak to let you know when
57:27you get the Holy Ghost, you will speak
57:29in tongues.
57:35I'm closing.
57:37I've got more. Maybe I'll continue later
57:39next week.
57:42Today is football season
57:44and I know some of you know you've got
57:46about an hour before kickoff.
57:49It's mostly
57:51the women.
57:55Don't be confused. I got some women in
57:56this church like that. Listen, don't
57:58mess with them.
58:02I like sports myself.
58:06There's this new phenomenon going on in
58:08sports
58:09where they are showing a football game,
58:11but they don't have your typical
58:14announcer.
58:16And last night, I watched Florida State
58:19get pounded on by Miami.
58:22But I didn't watch it through the ABC
58:24feed which has normal announcers and
58:27color commentary.
58:29But they had four former players and
58:32they had some of them switch up from the
58:35University of Miami and some from the
58:37University of Florida State and all they
58:39did the whole game was talk about the
58:42game.
58:46Why? Why are a lot of guys watching
58:49Manning and Manning on Monday Night
58:51Football when they come on? Two
58:53quarterbacks talking about the game and
58:55then they have guests come on. Why is
58:56this a new phenomenon?
58:59Why is it that Tom Brady, those most of
59:02you think you pastors up north
59:03somewhere,
59:06Tom Brady is not a pastor yet.
59:10Tom Brady is the greatest of all time
59:12quarterback that has ever lived. And I'm
59:15a Charger. I'm a Los Angeles San Diego
59:18Charger guy. Okay. So, it's hard for me
59:19to say that having Dan Fels and Philip
59:22Rivers and Drew Brees and now Herbert.
59:26Hush.
59:30John Elway was a cult copout.
59:35And only real insiders know what I'm
59:37talking about.
59:43John Elway was paid very handsomely.
59:48He was paid great by New England.
59:52Then he left New England and proved that
59:53Bill Belich can't coach without him.
59:56>> And the Carolina Tar Hills are finding
59:58that out right now.
60:01>> He won because of Tom Brady. Did I say
60:04it wrong?
60:04>> You said
60:05>> because you got that guy who doesn't
60:07know how to run football in my mind.
60:13Tom Brady,
60:15listen.
60:16Listen to me. I'm making a lot of sense
60:18right now. And some don't like it and
60:20the devil hates it. But I'm going to
60:21tell the truth until I die.
60:25>> And I hope you'll never be the same
60:27anytime you ever hear someone baptized
60:29from this day forward.
60:31>> Never the same. Write my name on these
60:34words and put them on my casket.
60:37I'm preaching the truth. Even the
60:40Catholic Encyclopedia will tell you they
60:43only baptized in the name of the Lord
60:45Jesus Christ in the early church.
60:48So what Yahoo came along and thought he
60:51had the authority
60:53to change what Peter preached on the day
60:56of Pentecost?
60:59>> Who do you think you are?
61:07Tom Brady retired and you know what he
61:09made at Tampa Bay the last year he
61:11played football? $30.1 million. That's
61:15not a bad year.
61:17Hadn't done that in my life. Haven't
61:19done half of that in my life. Haven't
61:21done a quarter of that. I I can't stop.
61:2531.1
61:27million.
61:30Guess what he did the very next year?
61:33[Music]
61:35He went to become a color commentator.
61:39He doesn't have to run any sprints, lift
61:42any weights. He doesn't have to go
61:45practice all week. All he has to do is
61:48show up at some Friday meeting,
61:51practice talking plainly. And he still
61:53doesn't do very good at that.
61:55Annunciation is important for a
61:57broadcaster.
62:02You know how much he got paid the first
62:04year as a broadcaster?
62:0737.5
62:09million.
62:11He signed a 10-year contract for $375
62:16million.
62:21>> Now, for all of you that didn't know
62:23that, you say, "Woohoo!"
62:27But the business doesn't.
62:30You know why he gets paid that much?
62:34Because people
62:36want to hear not from somebody who
62:38studied football in a college.
62:42Not somebody who knows how to speak with
62:44amazing annunciation.
62:47They don't want to hear a man who knows
62:48how to paint colorful pictures with
62:51words. They want somebody
62:55who's done it.
62:59The Bible says in Acts 4:11, when they
63:01brought the disciples Peter, James, and
63:03John before the academic professors of
63:06the Sanhedrin court,
63:09they noticed that they were ignorant
63:14and unlearned men.
63:19But they took note of one thing.
63:23They had been with Jesus.
63:28If you've ever not been pastored by a
63:30man who did not have the Holy Ghost
63:32speaking in tonesues,
63:34he will never push you to get the Holy
63:37Ghost speaking in tonesues.
63:39If you've been pasurred by a man who
63:41doesn't believe in baptism by immersion,
63:44he will never push you to the only Bible
63:46way. Only Bible way
63:50>> to be baptized by immersion.
63:54If you've ever been pasurred by a man
63:56who has never ever
63:58repented of his sins and stopped walking
64:01in the way of the world, he will never
64:04stand before you and say, "Repentance
64:06doesn't stop after the first month
64:08you're born.
64:10My baby Avalon still is messing her
64:13britches.
64:14And I ought to be upset about it.
64:18But I'm not
64:20because this is what babies do. They
64:23grow and they learn and they learn and
64:28they grow and they start rocking first
64:32and then they start crawling. Then they
64:35stand up at the coffee table and wiggle
64:38their little booty.
64:39[Music]
64:40And then mama sits down here and daddy
64:42sits down there and they have about this
64:44much space between their hands and that
64:45child takes a half a step and everybody
64:47said they walked
64:54and that baby forgets to do his chores
64:56at 13 and we get a little upset but we
64:59remembered when we were 13
65:03>> and at 18 they do something stupid and
65:05then we stop before we start getting our
65:07high horse
65:09and somebody in leadership will remind
65:12you, uh, let's take the trip down memory
65:16lane.
65:22There are some people in this church
65:23that are becoming transformed. You still
65:26make some messes. You hadn't stopped
65:28some of your worldly trash, but you
65:31can't get enough of Jesus.
65:33>> You come with a filthy diaper on Sunday
65:35morning. You know what we do? We laugh
65:39and smile and say, "Some of the yellow's
65:41showing."
65:43Some of y'all post up on Facebook. This
65:46is why I'm not on Facebook cuz what
65:48y'all put on on Facebook makes your
65:51pastor blush.
65:54But you don't even know you supposed to
65:55be blushing.
65:57But transformation
66:00is bringing you to where you won't just
66:03be a somebody who comes to church here.
66:05You're going to be a prophet and you're
66:07going to be a prophetess who walks into
66:10hell holes with the power of the name of
66:13Jesus. And when a wizard and a warlock
66:15stare you down having just played a
66:18Ouija board and done tarot cards to try
66:21to tell you they know your future, you
66:24can say, "Yes, you do. It's in the name
66:26of Jesus and by the blood of Jesus
66:29Christ, I am a new creature. Old things
66:31passed away. All things are new. You
66:34have no power in my world. So I rebuke
66:39you in the name of Jesus Christ. Shall
66:43we stand all over this building? I'm
66:46going to open this front. If you want to
66:48just come down here and talk to the Lord
66:50a little while and say, "Oh God, I'm
66:53serious about this thing. I want to be
66:55real. I want to be born again. I want to
66:58be born Aresh. I want to have eyes that
67:01see. I want to have ears that hear. I
67:04want to obey your word. Why don't you
67:07come and talk to them? Make a covenant
67:09with the Lord a little while this
67:11morning. Just say, "Jesus, I want what's
67:14real. I don't want emotionalism. I want
67:17what's real. I don't want
67:18Pentecostalism.
67:20I want what's real. I don't want
67:22Cathedral of Pentecostism. I want what's
67:25real. I don't want elmsisms. I want
67:28what's real. I don't want any other
67:30thing except the undisputed,
67:33undefiled,
67:35pure, true word of God that stands
67:40forever. That stands forever. Why don't
67:43you pledge yourself to the truth? Pledge
67:46yourself to the truth. Pledge yourself
67:49to the truth.
67:51>> Oh Jesus, open my eyes that I may see.