The Missional Church
Bishop Stan Gleason Preached on 10/28/2026
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Summary
Bishop Stan Gleason challenges the church to return to its New Testament roots by moving beyond 'going to church' to 'being' a missional church. By embracing the power of the Holy Spirit for the specific purpose of witnessing, every believer can act with spiritual authority to reach the world, starting in their own city.
Key points
- •The early church reached 10-20% of the world population with no modern technology because they lived as 'martus' (witnesses/martyrs), dead to self and sold out to the mission.
- •The Holy Spirit was not given primarily for personal comfort, dancing, or church attendance, but for one specific purpose: to empower believers to be witnesses.
- •Apostolic churches must be 'sending' churches, embracing both the theology and the missiology of the 'sent ones' to reach cities, regions, and nations.
- •The 'pulpit' is a 10th-century invention; the real work of the ministry happens when 6 million believers act as the church in their everyday lives, not just at a campus location.
- •Every believer is empowered to heal the sick and cast out devils; miracles are for the kitchen table and the street corner as much as the church platform.
Scripture
Evangelism
Holy Spirit
Purpose
Discipleship
Revival
Life application
This week, look for an opportunity to ask someone, 'If God was to do a miracle in your life, what would that look like?' When they answer, do not simply invite them to a church service - offer to pray for that specific need on the spot.
Reflection questions
- Am I living as a $1 bill (just going to church) or as a $20 bill (going on a missional adventure with the Holy Spirit)?
- If my local church was the only apostolic church in the entire world, how would my urgency for evangelism change?
- Who is one specific person ('a name') that I am committed to turning from a friend into a disciple this year?
- How can I begin to see my workplace or neighborhood as a legitimate 'church location' where I have spiritual authority?
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0:00north to south
0:00and we thank God for all of you.
0:00I'm reading tonight from the book of
0:02Acts
0:04chapter 1
0:06verse 8.
0:10These are
0:12the departing words of our Lord.
0:17Immediately prior to his ascension
0:21into heaven,
0:23he's already died.
0:25He's been buried
0:28and he resurrected on the third day.
0:32And now after 40 days
0:36of speaking of the things pertaining to
0:38the kingdom of God and showing himself
0:41infallibly alive,
0:45these are his final words.
0:49But you shall receive power
0:53after the Holy Ghost has come upon you,
0:56and you shall be witnesses unto me, both
1:00in Jerusalem,
1:02and in all Judea,
1:06and in Samaria,
1:09and unto the uttermost part of the
1:12earth,
1:15by the help of the Lord, from his own
1:17words,
1:19I would like to draw a text and an idea.
1:26My subject tonight is
1:28the missional
1:30church.
1:32The missional church. And everybody
1:35that's going to help me preach by saying
1:37amen at least one time may be seated.
1:42>> Most of you got your amen out of the
1:43way.
1:51It is estimated
1:55that by the end of the second century
2:00or approximately
2:03165 years
2:06after Pentecost
2:10that's somewhere between 10 as a minimum
2:12and 20 as a maximum % of the world's
2:17population
2:19have been baptized
2:22in that name that we so masterfully had
2:26presented to us tonight. Let's all say
2:29that name.
2:31>> Baptized in the name of Jesus. 10% of
2:33the world's population. It is believed
2:36by the end of the second century the
2:38world's population was somewhere around
2:40200 million.
2:43So, we're talking
2:4510%
2:47to 20%.
2:50We're talking 20 to 40 million people
2:55by the end of the second century
2:57baptized
2:59in the name of the Lord Jesus. By
3:03comparison,
3:05according to Dr. Dr. Tomage French
3:09research an extensive researcher of one
3:13Pentecostals in the world today
3:17we are at 0.05%
3:21of the world's population
3:25some 40 million
3:28around the world have been baptized
3:32in the name of the Lord but how many are
3:34thankful that Jesus tent revival is
3:36changing that
3:45And when you think about all the things
3:47that we have that they did not have,
3:52they didn't have phones,
3:55internet,
3:57Zoom.
4:00They didn't have planes, trains, and
4:02automobiles.
4:07They did have 49,000
4:10miles of paved roads built by the Romans
4:15so that Paul and Barnabas and Silas and
4:18others could open continents with the
4:21gospel.
4:24>> How is it
4:26that they did so much more
4:32with so much less?
4:38This compels me to pray and to think
4:45and to read
4:47the only blueprint for revival
4:51that we need.
4:53the entire Bible encapsulated
4:57in the book of Acts, which is the only
5:00history, church history that we have for
5:04the New Testament.
5:08So perhaps they lived in a way that
5:13we're not living. Perhaps they did the
5:16business of the kingdom
5:19in a way
5:21that we're not living.
5:24I do not doubt that we have the only
5:27gospel message
5:29as has already been tremendously
5:31emphasized tonight. We have the right
5:34God. We have the right book. We have the
5:37right gospel. we have the right uh life
5:42that we're living in a life of
5:45separation
5:46and sanctification and consecration and
5:49coming out from the world and being
5:52separate. I heard a preacher a few years
5:56ago say we are blowing the book of Acts
5:59away.
6:01And I know what he means and I'm holding
6:03him to his best possible motive.
6:06He is saying that every miracle that we
6:09read about in the book of Acts has been
6:12reproduced in the 20th and the 21st
6:16centuries. I understand that. But I'm
6:20going to say that
6:23the high watermark of revival is still
6:27the book of Acts.
6:31>> I'll just give you one example. Acts
6:3521:20.
6:38How many myriads of Jews
6:42have believed?
6:44A myriad is 10,000.
6:49Speaking of one city, Jerusalem. How
6:52many myriads of Jews
6:55have believed? Do you all read your
6:57Bible?
6:59A myriad is 10,000.
7:02and he uses it in the plural.
7:05>> I don't know that we have one city in
7:09the entire world that has tens of
7:12thousands of Jesus name oneness
7:16apostolic believers. But it's coming.
7:25>> It's coming.
7:27Come on, turn to somebody and point at
7:28them and say, "It's coming."
7:30say, "It's coming to a city near you."
7:42>> So perhaps
7:45we should
7:47take another deep dive
7:51into the blueprint of revival,
7:55>> the book of Acts. Consider
8:00the context of the text.
8:04It's been about 43 days
8:07since Jesus died, rose,
8:12died, and buried, and rose again. He's
8:15proven beyond the shadow of a doubt he's
8:17alive.
8:18He's standing on Mount Olivet,
8:23uttering these last words.
8:26He's about to ascend into heaven
8:29to be glorified
8:32that he can become the baptizer
8:37>> in the Holy Ghost.
8:40He's speaking to a group of
8:44approximately 500
8:48local believers
8:52in Jerusalem.
8:54I want you to not miss that. Paul said
8:57he was seen after his resurrection by
9:00about 500 at one time.
9:04And most scholars would agree that this
9:06is the time. This is the moment when he
9:09is seen above 500.
9:12So, if I could put it in a 21st century
9:15North American church con context,
9:19Jesus is speaking
9:23to your local church.
9:27He's not preaching at a conference.
9:31He's not at the general conference that
9:34we just had in Salt Lake City.
9:38He's speaking to a local group of
9:42believers. He not talking to an
9:45organization that has a presence around
9:49the world.
9:51We thank God in United Pentecostal
9:54Church. We have an apostolic presence in
9:57203
9:59nations and 35 territories.
10:03And we're working feverishly
10:06for the access to the access challenge
10:10nations. And truth is breaking in where
10:14it is not wanted. Hallelujah. Nobody can
10:18stop the church. Even Jesus said the
10:21gates of hell shall not prevent the
10:24church. I want you to know the church is
10:27advancing. The Bible says of the
10:30increase of his government and peace
10:33there shall be no end. The rapture will
10:36not be a rescue mission. The church is
10:40not going to be on the phone or in the
10:42phone booth dialing 911.
10:44Amen. He's coming back for a glorious
10:47church. He's coming for back for a
10:49revival church. He's coming back for a
10:53forwardthinking church. He's coming back
10:55for a church that's on the move with
10:59revival.
11:05So in this real time moment,
11:08Jesus is speaking
11:10to a local group of believers. Please
11:15let me repeat that
11:18for emphasis.
11:20He's casting vision
11:23to one group of believers,
11:25a church of about 500. That's a pretty
11:28goodized church. About 500 believers.
11:33And he's giving them the big idea
11:38of his mission and his purpose.
11:42He tells them what they are going to do.
11:46All right.
11:47>> He tells them how they are going to do
11:50it.
11:52>> He tells them where they are going to do
11:55it.
11:56>> And then he also lets them know how they
12:01will have reached their goal.
12:05This is it. He's leaving.
12:09and he's encapsulating everything he's
12:12worked on for three and a half years of
12:15his ministry in this singular
12:19vision statement.
12:22Acts 18 is a vision statement.
12:27I'm going to give you power
12:30>> and you will be witnesses.
12:33The word witness is the Greek word
12:36martyr from which we get the Greek word
12:38martyr.
12:39>> It's martus.
12:41That's the Greek word. We get our word
12:43martyr from it. You're going to go live
12:45like martyrs.
12:47>> That might be a clue.
12:50>> Why? They did more with less.
12:53>> When somebody dies, you can't mess with
12:56them.
12:57>> When somebody's dead to the world, you
12:59can't threaten them. When somebody's
13:02dead to their flesh, you can't tempt
13:04them. Jesus said, "I want you to go
13:07living like dead men." It's the language
13:09of Paul who said, "My old man is
13:12crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I
13:15live, yet not I, but Christ that lives
13:18in me." I've come to ask you tonight,
13:21are you dead to yourself? Are you dead
13:24to the world? Are you dead to your
13:26flesh? Are you dead to your own mission?
13:29And have you picked up his cross? Have
13:31you picked up your cross? And are you
13:34sold out for the mission of Jesus
13:36Christ?
13:40Acts 18 is a vision statement.
13:44A vision
13:46is a compelling picture of the future
13:51that inspires passion.
13:56A vision is a compelling picture of the
13:58future
14:00that inspires passion.
14:03Would you agree with me that Acts 18 is
14:06a pretty big idea?
14:10I'm going to give you power
14:13to be witnesses.
14:16>> You're going to impact your city,
14:19Jerusalem.
14:20>> You're going to reach your region,
14:23Judea.
14:25Then you're going to start touching
14:26people that don't look like you.
14:30>> Samaria,
14:31>> they don't eat your food.
14:35>> And then
14:37you're going to reach the outer reaches,
14:41the utmost areas
14:45of the world.
14:47In 1999,
14:51I had traveled 27 hours,
14:55three flights. Then I drove 8 hours. I
14:59rode eight hours in a bumpy
15:03jeep ride. There wasn't a 100 smooth
15:08There wasn't a 100 feet of smooth road
15:11in any direction.
15:13bumping exhausted.
15:16We came to the end of the road. We're
15:19walking up a mudbeaten path
15:24to give the gospel to the king of all
15:26the tribal kings of India where they'd
15:29had human sacrifices. The babies were
15:31dying, the crops were failing,
15:34the the witch doctors were enscconced
15:38and in charge.
15:40And it was some of the darkest part of
15:42the earth. And my host, my friend, as
15:46we're walking up the mud path and I'm
15:48going to meet the king, King Ramen, the
15:51king of all the tribal kings, he says,
15:54"Oh pastor
15:57now you preach gospel to uttermost part
16:00of the earth."
16:06I'm like, and I just hope I get out of
16:07here alive.
16:09Wait, I'm living like a martyr. I'm
16:11living like a martyr.
16:14And this is the vision
16:17that Oh, by the way, I did give him the
16:21gospel. He told the translator, "When
16:23your missionary was talking to me, he
16:26said, "I felt my black heart changing.
16:29He was baptized in the name of the Lord
16:31Jesus and filled with the Holy Ghost and
16:35no more human sacrifices.
16:38The crops stopped failing. The babies
16:40stopped dying because the devil got
16:42kicked out of the jungle. Hallelujah.
16:45Come on. How many knows this gospel
16:47works wherever it's preached in the
16:50deepest, darkest jungle of India? Amen.
16:53Or on a street corner. Amen. in
16:55Melbourne, Florida. People are going to
16:57get saved when they hear and obey the
17:00gospel.
17:04So, this was a compelling vision. You
17:06know, Jesus didn't say, "Now, boys,
17:08gather in. I'm going to fill you with
17:10power and every year, every year, we're
17:14going to paint the bathrooms in the
17:16church."
17:19Well, wouldn't that be an exciting
17:20vision?
17:22Jesus gather around ladies
17:25Uh, I'm going to fill you with my power.
17:27And then every year we want this this
17:31flower bed with with fresh hydrangeas.
17:36Every year I'm going to give you power
17:37to do that.
17:40We're laughing. But do you know there's
17:43one thing that Jesus assigned to the
17:47purpose of the Holy Ghost?
17:50>> You shall be witnesses.
17:53you're going to go change the world.
17:57>> He didn't say, "Now, when I give you the
17:58Holy Ghost, you're just going to punch
17:59your ticket and check your box so you
18:01can go to heaven."
18:04>> He didn't say, "When I give you the Holy
18:06Ghost, you're going to have power to
18:08shout and dance and talk in tongues and
18:11and and spin around and run the aisles
18:14and go to church three times a week and
18:17pay your tithe and sing on the praise
18:19team."
18:20That's why we haven't reached the world
18:22yet.
18:24>> Can I have a better amen?
18:27>> That's where why we're at 05%
18:30and they were at 10 to 20%.
18:33Because we're coming to church and they
18:36were being the church.
18:44>> Come on.
18:49The purpose of the Holy Ghost
18:53>> is not so you can have a style of
18:55worship.
18:59>> The purpose of your Holy Ghost,
19:03>> is not for you to punch your ticket and
19:06wait for the trumpet to sound.
19:08>> We're glad you're here,
19:10>> but there's a bigger purpose than that.
19:12There's a greater purpose than that
19:14that's coming. Can I tell you heaven is
19:17not my goal. My goal is not to get to
19:20heaven. My destiny is heaven. Heaven is
19:23my destiny. I'm going. Nothing can stop
19:27me from getting there. But my goal is to
19:30live like a martyr. My goal is to live
19:33like a witness. My goal is to be the
19:36church and not just go to church.
19:47Everybody okay?
19:50>> Oh yes.
19:52Jesus assigned one purpose
19:58to the Holy Ghost.
20:02I don't know if you ever heard the story
20:03about the $1 bill and the $20 bill were
20:06being decommissioned
20:08and they're bouncing down the conveyor
20:10belt headed for the shredder.
20:13And the $1 bill
20:16admiringly looks over at the 20 and
20:19says,
20:21"It's a 20."
20:25He says,
20:27"Where all of you been in your
20:30circulation,
20:32in your days on this earth?"
20:35$20 bill sort of puffed out his chest,
20:41inhaled deeply.
20:43Well, I'm so glad you asked that
20:45question.
20:47I've been to the Grand Canyon 14 times.
20:52I've been to the Louv and the Eiffel
20:54Tower and Petra.
20:56I've seen Disney World 84 times.
21:02and he sort of condescendingly
21:04looked down at the $1 bill and where
21:07have you been during your days of
21:09circulation?
21:11And the $1 bill said, "Oh, I just go to
21:14church."
21:23And I'm not even up here to receive the
21:24offering, Brother Myers. That'd be a
21:27good offering sermon right there.
21:31But I want to ask you a question.
21:34>> Do you have a $1 bill or a 20?
21:39>> Is your Holy Ghost just take you to
21:41church
21:43>> or does your Holy Ghost ever get to go
21:45have an adventure?
21:48>> Ah, come on. That's why we're at 05%.
21:54If you'll listen to your Holy Ghost,
21:56your Holy Ghost wants to go on a
21:58mission. Your Holy Ghost wants to go
22:00talk to somebody. Your Holy Ghost, like
22:02Jesus said, these signs shall follow the
22:05believers in my name. He didn't say go
22:07to church and do this. He said go be the
22:10church in my name. They will lay hands
22:13on the sick and they shall recover in my
22:15name. They will cast out devils. In my
22:17name, they will speak with new tongues.
22:19In my name, they will go and baptize.
22:23Come on, let your Holy Ghost out right
22:25now. It's missional.
22:28It's missional.
22:36>> The Holy Ghost
22:39is missional.
22:41>> You would have to admit that Acts 18 is
22:47a compelling vision.
22:50And this is great leadership
22:53on the part of Jesus.
22:56We do not usually think of Jesus
22:59strictly
23:01in the context of being a leader. We
23:05think of him as Messiah,
23:07savior,
23:09redeemer,
23:11healer,
23:13rabbi,
23:15soon coming king.
23:17But I want to tell you tonight, Jesus
23:21was the greatest leader
23:25>> the world has ever seen.
23:28>> Nobody's close.
23:31In fact, prolific Christian author named
23:34John Ortman
23:36posed the question.
23:38He said, ' If you were a betting man in
23:40the first century,
23:42would you put your money on the powerful
23:44Roman Empire or a nondescript rabbi from
23:48Nazareth
23:50to have an enterprise
23:522,000 years later?
23:56Nobody would have put their money on
23:57Jesus.
23:59And then to put an exclamation on his
24:01point, Ortman said, "We're still naming
24:04our children Peter, Paul, and Mary, and
24:09we're naming our dogs Nero and Caesar."
24:17Jesus vision was so compelling and
24:20inspired so much passion that every one
24:23of the apostles
24:26laid down their lives.
24:30for him. It was so compelling that here
24:34we are 2,000 years later.
24:38>> Are you glad to be in the church Jesus
24:39started?
24:41It's the same church. It's the same
24:44church.
24:49The first job of the leader is to define
24:51reality.
24:53Jesus told his followers,
24:56"Here's your reality. Here's what you're
24:59going to do. Here's how you're going to
25:01do it. Here's where you're going to do
25:04it. And here's how you will know you
25:08have reached your goal. In the wake of
25:11911,
25:13it was President George Bush who defined
25:15reality
25:17when he referred to Iraq and Iran and
25:20North Korea
25:22as the access of evil.
25:26It was Winston Churchill in the darkest
25:28days of World War II for his beloved
25:31Great Britain that he rallied the troops
25:33and said, "I have nothing to offer you
25:37but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. But
25:42we will fight them on the beaches.
25:46>> We will fight them on the landing
25:49grounds. We will fight them in the
25:51fields and in the streets. We shall
25:55fight them in the heels. We shall never
25:59surrender. On March 23rd, 1775
26:04at St. John's Church at the Second
26:06Virginia Convention with the
26:08Revolutionary War, poised to begin. It
26:12was Patrick Henry in an impassion speech
26:15at this critical juncture in American
26:18history who inspired everyone in the
26:20room when he defined reality with these
26:23words. I know not what course others may
26:26take but as for me, give me liberty or
26:32give me death.
26:34>> Jesus our Lord defined reality for his
26:39disciples.
26:41Amen. He defined reality for us. This
26:46single verse of scripture
26:50defines reality
26:53for your local church.
26:58>> He's saying to your church,
27:02>> reach your city.
27:04>> Think about it for a moment. as not a
27:07part of an organization.
27:09I pastored 40 years,
27:1235 in one city, five in another city,
27:16and I had to embrace Jesus vision for
27:20our local church. I couldn't just sit
27:23there and write checks to global
27:24missions. Well, yeah, we're yeah, we're
27:27we're going out there. We're we're
27:28sending out we got them in Norway and we
27:31got them on 203 nations and and we're
27:34just going to try to reach our little
27:36old city and just be happy clappy until
27:39Jesus happens. Can I tell you something?
27:43The reason we haven't baptized 10 to 20%
27:47is because we don't have the attitude
27:50that they had in the first century.
27:53Amen. Jesus wasn't preaching to an
27:55organization. He's casting vision to one
27:59local. Think about it. What if your
28:01church What if your local church
28:05on the count of three, I want you to
28:07shout to me. Shout at me the name of the
28:09city you live in. Ready? Go.
28:13>> On the count of three, I want you to
28:14give me the address of your church. 1 2
28:163.
28:20What if that church
28:24>> was the only church
28:26>> in the world
28:29>> in Jerusalem? It was the only church.
28:35>> Come on now.
28:38What if your church, what if the church
28:41I served for 35 years in Kansas City,
28:43Missouri, was the only apostolic church
28:47in the world.
28:49And I got to tell you, it has been my
28:52conviction from the first day I ever
28:56pastored. We went to a church that
28:58hadn't baptized anybody in two years.
29:03The baptistry was a
29:06a storage room for musical instruments.
29:10>> I got them all out of there. The It was
29:13also a spider
29:15condo.
29:18>> Cleaned it out, filled it up, warmed it
29:21up. Church came in on Sunday.
29:26>> What happened to the baptistry? I put
29:29water in it.
29:31They had baptized anybody in two years.
29:35I don't blame him for being a little
29:37perplexed.
29:38>> I mean, let's not get anybody saved or
29:42anything.
29:44Let's not let Jesus mess up our little
29:46Pentecostal traditional church.
29:51And in the first three months, God
29:53blessed my wife and I to baptize 16
29:57people
29:58>> in the name.
30:05I don't ever remember a day in 40 years
30:09of pastoring that I did not believe that
30:12my revival could touch the world.
30:18say, "Well, that's arrogant." No, that's
30:21not arrogance. That's passion.
30:25>> Well, that that's being proud. No,
30:28that's the opposite of pride.
30:31>> That's when you have when you feel that
30:33way, you know you can't do it.
30:37>> You know you're not slick enough and
30:39smart enough and educated enough. You
30:41know you got to depend on God.
30:46Come on. I'm preaching to every preacher
30:48in this room right now. You got to
30:51preach like the next message is going to
30:54reach the world.
31:03I preached a five. I preached a 500. I
31:07preached a 5,000.
31:09I preached a 25,000. It doesn't matter
31:13how many are there. You never know who's
31:16in the audience. You never know who's
31:18listening to the sound of your voice. Uh
31:21the best preaching I've ever done is
31:23across a kitchen table or at a Starbucks
31:26coffee table. I never know who I'm
31:29talking to.
31:43I honor Pastor Roy Rston Royston, New
31:48Brunswick.
31:50His church never ran more than 75.
31:53But on a Wednesday night, they had a
31:56missionary
31:58and there was a little boy,
32:00seven-year-old boy was in the service
32:04and he was so mesmerized by this
32:07missionary. By the time he was eight,
32:12whenever anybody would ask him what he
32:14wanted to be, he would say, "I want to
32:18be a missionary."
32:20When he was 14,
32:23he had a vision and he was on a
32:25watercraft going down this large body of
32:29this river and there was black waters
32:31coming from one side and brown waters
32:34coming from the other side and meeting
32:36in the middle of this river and there
32:38was jungle he rolling jungle heels in
32:42the background and 10 years later Benny
32:45and Teresa de Merchant were fully
32:47appointed missionaries to Brazil. And
32:50that little 7-year-old kid that got
32:52exposed to a worldwide revival in a
32:55church of less than a 100 people, he
32:58became the apostle, amen, to Brazil. I
33:01wonder who's in your Sunday school
33:03class. I wonder who's in your youth
33:05group. Uh I wonder who's going to walk
33:07into your building. I wonder who you
33:10going to pray through to the Holy Ghost
33:12this Saturday. You never know if you
33:15believe your revival can touch the
33:18world.
33:24Apostolic churches are sending churches.
33:31>> Well, that went over like a flock of
33:32dogs.
33:35>> Let me run it by you again. Apostolic
33:37churches,
33:39>> you know,
33:41apostlelike.
33:45>> If you're going to call yourself
33:46apostolic,
33:49You better embrace the theology
33:52>> and the myology.
33:55>> Aposto
33:57sent one
33:58>> were built on the foundation
34:01>> of the apostles
34:03>> and prophets.
34:05>> Apostles go, prophets guide.
34:09We'll never reach the world
34:11>> without apostles. God for 21st century
34:14apostles that have spiritual authority
34:17to go put their feet on the ground and
34:19say the Pentecostals are coming.
34:30>> That's what opened Madagascar.
34:34>> Eel Freeman told his wife in the early
34:3650s they were in Africa. He said, "I'm
34:38going
34:41to Madagascar." She said, "Why are you
34:43going there? You don't know anybody. You
34:46don't know the language." He said, "I'll
34:47be back in 3 days."
34:51She said in her book, "He got to the
34:54nation. He got on a boat, arrived at the
34:57port, he walked into a village
35:01and got into the area of commerce in the
35:04market and he lifted his hands
35:08and he announced, "Devil,
35:12you've had this nation long enough. The
35:16Pentecostals are coming.
35:20Come on. If you're under authority, you
35:21have authority. Don't you drive through
35:24any cities on your way to work. Don't
35:26you walk through any other neighborhoods
35:28but yours. Why don't you stop in the
35:31middle? Why don't you stop at the corner
35:33of Grand and Maine and lift your hands
35:36no matter who's listening, no matter
35:38who's walking and say, "The Pentecostals
35:42are coming."
35:45I wish somebody lift your hands right
35:47now and declare that over this entire
35:50world,
35:54>> we're coming.
36:03>> Hallelujah.
36:11>> Glory to God.
36:14Hallelujah.
36:16In Luke chapter 10,
36:26Jesus sent out the 70
36:31and he trained them.
36:34He didn't just say, "Now about 70 of
36:36y'all come on over here and
36:39here at about 2:00 I'm going to disperse
36:42you two by two."
36:45No, he trained them.
36:50Here's how you cast out devils.
36:54Here's how you heal the sick.
36:57Am I in the book?
37:03Have you ever wondered
37:06why did he send out 70?
37:09Oh, I know what some of you theologians
37:11are thinking.
37:13Oh, that's because uh you know Moses
37:15gathered the 70.
37:18Well, hey, thank God for that moment
37:21when they all fell out and prophesied,
37:22but it never happened again.
37:26Thank God for L Dad and Bad.
37:30And Moses said, 'I would that all God's
37:32people were prophets.
37:34Don't worry about the prophets. We need
37:35them.
37:38And
37:40then
37:43some, well, it must be because of the
37:45Sanhedrin.
37:46No, it wasn't because of the 70 and the
37:48Sanhedrin.
37:50Those are the knuckleheads that
37:51crucified him. and have nothing to do
37:54with that. So whenever I have deep
37:57theological questions,
37:59I go to my deep theological resource
38:04brother Google.
38:09Just kidding. But I did I asked Google
38:15AI
38:17how many nations
38:20had been identified
38:22in the first century.
38:25You guessed it. Everybody say it.
38:30There were 70 nations in the world in
38:35the first century. The reason Jesus sent
38:3870, not that they not that they went in
38:42that little few week excursion or
38:45however long it was,
38:47but Jesus is sending a message. You see,
38:50the sending of the 70,
38:53it's a roll out of the prototype
38:56of the church.
38:58It's a first glance
39:02>> at the function and the operation
39:06>> and the spiritual authority.
39:09These 70 weren't even baptized in the
39:12Holy Ghost yet.
39:14>> They weren't even baptized in Jesus'
39:17name yet.
39:19>> But Jesus gave them special
39:22dispensational authority
39:25>> to cast out devils.
39:27and heal the sick
39:30>> and bring as much of the gospel as they
39:34could bring
39:36in a sense of revelation
39:38at that point. And they went out and
39:41they did it
39:42>> and they came back and they were
39:44excited. Oh Lord, we cast out devils. We
39:49heal the sick. And Jesus said, "Don't
39:52rejoice because devils are subject to
39:55you, but that your names are written in
39:58heaven." Now, most of the time when us
40:01preachers preach that text, we we sort
40:04of situate Jesus as a wet blanket on
40:07their testimony. Now, boys, don't get
40:09too excited here. You know, yeah, you
40:12did some cool stuff, but you know,
40:16did he jump? Was he pouring water on
40:18their fire? No. No. No. He was giving
40:21priority. He's saying the most important
40:24thing is that people get saved.
40:27>> But he did send them out to cast out
40:29devils. And he did send them out to heal
40:31the sick. And you know what else? And
40:33when preachers that want to pour water
40:36on that, I'm sorry, I shouldn't be
40:37talking negative about us preachers
40:39after all.
40:41But they don't go on to the verse that
40:43said in that same hour,
40:46>> come on. In that same hour, what did
40:48Jesus do? He rejoiced.
40:51>> He rejoiced.
40:51>> He rejoiced. Every commentator I've ever
40:54read on that verse says that word is not
40:57enough to explain what Jesus did. I
41:01don't know what Jesus did, but it was
41:03something like this.
41:08>> Listen, Jesus was not a robot.
41:12>> Jesus was not a dial tone of a
41:14personality. We don't know if he was an
41:17extrovert or an introvert, but he was
41:19rejoicing because he said, "Oh, they're
41:22doing this without the Holy Ghost. Wait
41:24till they get the Holy Ghost. They're
41:26doing this before they're washed in my
41:28name. Wait till I wash them in my name.
41:31Wait till I launch the church on the day
41:33of Pentecost." He rejoiced. He was
41:35saying, "It's going to be worth it all.
41:38My sacrifice they're going to reach the
41:42world.
41:50Everybody okay?
41:53>> Well, good. Cuz I'm not sure if I am.
41:58>> I believe
42:03that your revival
42:06can touch the world.
42:10I believe the revival of your local
42:12church
42:15can touch the world.
42:18Brother Elms gave us a masterful
42:22recap of
42:24space exploration
42:27when JFK
42:30announced in 1961.
42:34And you have to understand
42:37I was four years old.
42:40I don't remember it, but
42:44in 1969
42:46I lived to see his vision of putting a
42:49man on the moon. He said, "By the end of
42:51this decade, America will put a man on
42:55the moon." America needed a vision like
42:58that. We were living in the days of the
43:01Cold War and Sputnik and the AR the the
43:03the space race and America was ramping
43:08up to the civil rights movement and
43:10there was unrest and and JFK was a great
43:13communicator and a great leader and a
43:15great president
43:17and uh
43:19and so when he made that announcement it
43:21shook the world.
43:23And so they said a few months later he
43:26was touring Nassau
43:28and the Secret Service detail were all
43:30around him. He's walking down a long
43:32hallway and he came up on another
43:34hallway perpendicular to the one he was
43:36on and he said, "Gentlemen, it's all
43:39right. Just let me go down this
43:42hallway." Down at the end of the other
43:44hallway was a man with his back turned
43:46to the president and he was swinging a
43:48mop.
43:50He was cleaning the floor.
43:52And the president came up behind him and
43:54tapped him on the shoulder.
43:56He said, "Sir," the man turned around.
44:00He goes, "Mr. President,"
44:03he said to the man, "what are you
44:07doing?" And leaning on his mop, he said,
44:10"Mr. President, we are putting a man on
44:16the moon.
44:24We're not going to reach the world until
44:25every one of you get that
44:28>> on Sunday morning. If you're just
44:29folding bulletins, we're never going to
44:31reach the world on Sunday morning. If
44:34you're parking cars, thank God for that.
44:36We're never going to reach the world on
44:38Monday morning. If you're pushing a
44:40vacuum cleaner, thank God for you. We
44:42need you. You're a part of the body of
44:44Christ. But when you're pushing a vacuum
44:46cleaner to clean the carpet at the
44:48church, you need to be pushing. We're
44:50reaching the world. We're going to touch
44:52the world. We're going to change the
44:54world. It's not enough for your pastor
44:56to believe it. You got to start
44:58believing it.
45:05>> Stand with me.
45:09When Jesus says it's it it's one thing,
45:14>> but Peter picked it up.
45:16>> For the promise
45:18>> is unto you
45:20>> and to your children,
45:22>> and all who are a far off,
45:26>> even as many as the Lord our God
45:30shall call
45:33your revival.
45:37Everybody say my revival
45:39>> can touch the world.
45:47You know we have 50,000 congregations
45:52UPCI all over the world. 50,000.
45:56Can we just thank God for that? Amen.
45:58Thank God.
46:08And approximately 6 million constituents
46:12and we rejoice and we thank God.
46:16But as long as we just keep going to
46:18church,
46:22we will never reach the world
46:25>> until every believer
46:28starts obeying Jesus command in Mark 16.
46:30And these signs shall follow them that
46:32believe. Lee Stone King preached that
46:34for 50 years. It was his golden text. I
46:36heard him preach it 25 times. Turn with
46:39me in the Bible to Mark chapter 16. Say,
46:42"I can do that.
46:45I love him for that.
46:50He was preaching that to preachers that
46:52didn't believe it.
46:56>> He was preaching that message to
46:57preachers that thought all the power in
46:59the church is on the platform.
47:08That's not apostolic.
47:12I know the book of Acts is called the
47:13Acts of the Apostles, but it would not
47:16injure the intent of the book of Acts if
47:19it was called the Acts of the Apostles
47:21and the saints.
47:30>> Miracles are not only for the preachers.
47:36>> Somebody raise your hand and say, "I can
47:37do that."
47:39Say, I'm a believer.
47:41>> I can't do it like brother Stone King
47:43did it, but oh, I believe it.
47:46>> These signs shall follow them that
47:47believe.
47:52>> I'm going to tell you what'll reach the
47:54world when 6 million people
47:57stop just going to 50,000 campuses.
48:03But what will reach the world is when 6
48:06million people when they leave the
48:09campus.
48:12>> Oh yeah. I was afraid of that.
48:16>> Come on. When 6 million drive off or
48:20ride off or walk off their campus,
48:23are you going to be a $20 bill or a $1
48:26bill?
48:32We don't have, if we capture that
48:35imagery of the book of Acts, they didn't
48:38have a dedicated Christian campus until
48:43230 years after Pentecost.
48:50230 years. And they baptized 10% of the
48:53world's population.
48:55Why?
48:57Because they didn't just go to church.
48:59They were the church everywhere they
49:00went. They were doing church stuff
49:02everywhere they went. If we would really
49:06capture the essence of the book of Acts,
49:08we would not have 50,000 churches. We
49:11would have 6 million church locations.
49:23I don't think you understand that
49:26everything that happens in here, if
49:29you're under authority,
49:32if you have a pastor,
49:34>> can happen beyond the walls of this
49:36church.
49:43If we want bring people to church, bring
49:44people to church.
49:47But they don't have to be here to have a
49:48miracle.
49:53>> It's more important what happens on
49:55Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
49:57Friday, and Saturday than what happens
50:00on Sunday because you are a priest.
50:07You are called by God.
50:11God has given us apostle, prophet,
50:13evangelist, pastor, and teacher to equip
50:16the saints to do the work of the
50:18spiritual ministry.
50:23>> That's what you're called to do.
50:25That's why Ananas can baptize Saul of
50:28Tarsus.
50:32>> Oh, that wrecked somebody right there.
50:35Are you sure Peter didn't baptize the
50:38future writer of half of the New
50:39Testament?
50:41Ananas baptized him. God sent him over
50:43there.
50:45>> That's why in Acts 68, Steven the
50:47deacon, he's laying hands on sick folks
50:50and great miracles are happening. He's
50:52not on the platform.
50:55>> He's having miracles.
50:57>> That's why in Acts 8:4, they that were
51:00scattered abroad went everywhere
51:01preaching the word.
51:03Who's preaching? They that were
51:05scattered abroad. Who's that? Just the
51:07apostle? No. The apostles stayed in
51:09Jerusalem.
51:12And we're not preaching because we think
51:14we have to have one of these to preach.
51:21Is a pulpit apostolic?
51:25>> Say it.
51:27>> It's an invention of the 10th century.
51:33We don't need apostolic props. It's
51:35handy. I put my iPad and my Bible on it.
51:39But you don't have to have one of these
51:40to preach.
51:42>> That's why we haven't reached the world
51:43yet because you think you think you've
51:46got one pulpit in town and that's the
51:49only there's only twice when somebody
51:51when the word the Bible says in Acts 6:1
51:54and the word of God increased and the
51:56number of disciples multiplied greatly.
51:58Let me tell you how the word's going to
52:00increase. Not when we got one pulpit in
52:02one town, but when we got everybody that
52:05here's the word in that one pulpit and
52:07then they leave the campus and they
52:09start telling everybody, "Here's what my
52:11pastor preached on Sunday. Here's the
52:13Bible study from Wednesday night. You
52:16should come. You should hear it. Let me
52:18share it with you right now. Can we just
52:20pray right now?
52:27I'm going to equip you with a skill.
52:31I'm going to equip you with an apostolic
52:33skill right now.
52:35>> Here it is. Go up to somebody
52:39that you're having a conversation with
52:41and ask them this question. If God was
52:45to do a miracle
52:47in your life,
52:50what would that look like?
52:54That is a powerful emotionally charged
52:58question.
53:00>> And when they tell you what it is, do
53:03not say, "Well, come to church."
53:08>> You know, 10:00 and 6:00 and Wednesday
53:12at 7.
53:13>> You've only got three chances
53:16for that miracle.
53:19>> No. Can we pray right now?
53:22You know what they're going to say? You
53:24know what that You know what they're
53:25going to say? It's an emotionally
53:26charged question. They're going to say,
53:28"My grandmother was just diagnosed with
53:30stage four cancer. My son just overdosed
53:34on drugs and he's in the hospital. My
53:37parents just announced that their
53:39marriage is breaking up and it's killing
53:42me. They're going to this this world is
53:45broken.
53:48>> And Jesus needs you to bring him to the
53:51street corner, to the coffee table, to
53:54the lunchroom. Don't just try to get
53:56them to church. Be the church.
54:01I'm asking for a commitment right now of
54:03apostolic believers
54:06who will take Jesus at his word. These
54:09signs shall follow them that believe.
54:12Come on, believe that your revival can
54:14touch the world. Your Bible study can
54:17touch the world. Your disciple could
54:21become greater than you.
54:31Come on, somebody cry out to the Lord.
54:33Get desperate.
54:38Say, "God, I want to teach a Bible
54:40study. I want sinners on my hands.
54:45I want to baptize sinners
54:48in the name of Jesus.
54:51I'm going to be an apostolic believer.
54:53I'm not going to be a traditional
54:55Pentecostal believer. I'm going to be an
54:57apostolic believer.
55:14Come on, activate your Holy Ghost.
55:17Your Holy Ghost loves to pray about this
55:19kind of stuff. Your Holy Ghost love to
55:22pray about the mission.
55:25The mission.
55:27The mission.
55:38Hallelujah.
55:53Listen.
56:07Listen for a minute. I'm sorry. Just
56:09listen for a minute. The Meyers team and
56:13the crusade, they've been to Madagascar.
56:15I've been there. Powerful.
56:18Did you know the grandfather of
56:21Madagascar Revival was a factory worker
56:23in Cincinnati, Ohio, Brother Ursan,
56:26named Ernie Cox?
56:29They told the story.
56:31I've been telling it for years. I'm glad
56:33Global Mission finally picked up on it
56:36at General Conference.
56:39So, I got a picture of a guy named Ken.
56:42He stumbled into our church on a Sunday
56:44morning
56:46looking about like this.
56:48wife and three kids
56:511990.
56:55I found out in our conversation where he
56:57worked.
56:59So on Monday I showed up where he
57:03worked.
57:05It was Champ Sporting Goods and I was
57:07walking through
57:09the sports store looking for golf club
57:12looking for golf balls.
57:14Well, I had 12 dozen already stacked in
57:16my garage. But when you play as bad as I
57:18do, you can always use another dozen.
57:21And I didn't really need the golf balls.
57:23I just was looking at every security
57:25camera.
57:27Finally, he came out. He said, "Pastor,
57:28I was just in your I was just in your
57:30church yesterday." I said, "Oh, I know.
57:32Are you have any plans for lunch?"
57:34"No." "Can I take you to lunch?" "Sure."
57:38We go to lunch. Then he drops the bomb
57:41on me. He says, "I was raised in an
57:45apostolic church. I'm 27 years old, and
57:49I never got saved."
57:54I said, "Tell me about that."
57:57He said, "It was a small church, 30, 40
57:59people, a good man, but he didn't always
58:02have wisdom, and he'd always have the
58:04microphone cranked up like General
58:06Conference." and he came flying off the
58:08platform and I was sitting in the second
58:10row with my three-year-old son and he
58:12took that mic and right in front of my
58:14son's face, he said, "Justin, you don't
58:16want your dad to go to hell, do you?"
58:21He said, "You see this hamburger you
58:22bought me for lunch?" I said, "Yeah."
58:25He said, "I love hamburgers, but I don't
58:27want you shoving it down my throat." I
58:30said, "Oh, you'll love me."
58:35Before we left lunch, I got a Bible
58:37study appointment with him and his wife
58:38and kids. The next Tuesday at 3 p.m.
58:42After the fifth lesson, he asked me if
58:44he could be baptized.
58:46The next Sunday, he was sitting right
58:48over there. The only time in 46 years of
58:50preaching, somebody ran to the altar and
58:53interrupted my sermon. I still had three
58:56more good points.
58:59He wrecked my message and he stopped
59:02right in front of the pulpit and he
59:04lifted his hands. You know how the Bible
59:06uses the language and the Holy Ghost
59:07fell? It fell on him and he spoke with
59:12other tongues.
59:15Show the next picture. Today him and his
59:18wife are the regional directors of the
59:21UBCI global missions in the Middle East
59:24and Eurasia. That's the same guy. My
59:28disciple is changing the world.
59:33Ernie Cox's disciple brought revival to
59:37Madagascar.
59:39So, I want you to close your eyes and I
59:42want you to get a name right now. I want
59:43you to get a first and a last name. I
59:46want you to get a name. Are you loving
59:48sinners? Jesus turned sinners into
59:51friends and friends into disciples.
59:54That's Matthew 11:19 if you need Bible
59:56for that. He was the friend of sinners.
59:59I want you to get a name. And now here's
60:01what we're going to do.
60:04In just a moment, I'm going to release
60:05you to pray an apostolic prayer. You're
60:08going to need to come against addiction.
60:11You're going to need to come against
60:13religious tradition. You're going to
60:16need to come against false doctrine.
60:19If you got a name, come on. You ought to
60:20have a name quickly. If you're worried
60:23about getting a name, I'm worried about
60:25you.
60:27My name is Jeremy Log. All right, on the
60:30count of three, I want you to have a
60:32burst of intercessory powerful apostolic
60:37prayer. And this prayer is going to
60:40release harvest into your church and
60:43into your community. Are you ready? One,
60:46two 3 go.
60:55That's it.
61:13Yes. Yes.
61:17Yes.
61:27We can reach the world.
61:30We're going to reach the world.
61:41Come on, young men. Young men are for
61:45war.
61:47Heat.
61:59Heat.
62:16For Christ
62:19we lay down our lives for this goel
62:26till the end of time. All this is for
62:32Christ.
62:41For Christ
62:45we lay down
62:47for this
62:51till the end of Heat. Heat.
63:04Heat. Heat. Heat.
63:14Heat. Heat. Heat.
63:29For
63:33Christ
63:36Yeah.
63:42Heat.
63:54Heat. Heat.
64:05Heat.
64:09Heat.
64:21Christ.
64:49Oh,
64:57heat,
65:07heat.
65:13Oh,
65:35he's given me authority
65:38to push back the enemy
65:41to fight for
65:45It's about time you
65:54fight for the victory. It's about time.
66:05Yeah.
66:09Heat.
66:19Heat.
66:21Heat.
66:33Heat. Heat.