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We Need A Visitation by Pastor Claude Whittaker (LIVE SERMON)
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We Need A Visitation by Pastor Claude Whittaker recorded live at Deeper Life Ministries located in Salisbury Maryland.
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We don't need casual church. We need a visitation. We need a visitation. Casual church. Or for casual people. Want to come and gawk and look and not participate in the service. Not give God glory. Sikh warmers that just want to go and do out of form of happiness, a form of fashion. I made it to church on Sunday. No, that's what they do. We don't do that in here. We come to bless the Lord. Hallelujah. Yes, we come to give our God glory. We come to honor our King. Hallelujah. Yes, because he deserves all the honor. He deserves all the glory of God. Hallelujah. Asap, amen. Amen. That David appointed. Amen. Asap. And he says, give ear. Psalms 80 and verse number one. Give ear, O shepherd of Israel. So he looks at God and deems God as the shepherd who watches over his flock. David will let it write in Psalm 23: the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He leadeth me through green pastures. That God that I know is my shepherd, my rofiki. He is the one who's leading me and guiding me. Hallelujah. Yes, the Lord is my shepherd. Whatever is leading you is your shepherd. Hallelujah. Yes, the Lord is my shepherd. And he leadeth Joshua Joseph like a flock. And uh he dwelleth between the cherubim. So he lets you know he talks about God. And he shined forth. I need God to shine forth. He says, now, before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh. Now Manasseh and Ephraim are the children of Joseph. But Joseph and Benjamin are brothers. So he said, God, shine upon our family. I want God to shine upon our families. I want God to shine upon your family. God, shine. Stir up thy strength. Come and save us. And so he calls on God, eternal God, to come save the people. All of us in here need God to save our family members. Someone need God to save us. Yes, because we're heading in the wrong direction. Y'all don't mind. Just give me about 20 minutes. I just feel something coming out of me. Amen. Hallelujah. Come save us. Save us from what? Save us, God, from ourselves. There's sometimes we need salvation, God, to save us from our own destruction. Hallelujah. Yes, save us from our own way of thinking. Save us from other people. Save us from other situations. Save us from other folk. God, save us. Stir up thyself. And so they're going through a period of time, Israel is where they feel like that they're out of the will of God and out of the way of God. And they're asking God to save us. They're under amen attack. And they need God's salvation. God needs to save us. Too many folk trying to do things on their own. Jesus said, without me, you can do nothing. Too many people, amen, are taking their salvation like a daisically. Oh God, I don't never want to take what God done for me like a daisy. No, no, no, no, no. God, out of all of the trillions of billions of billions of people in the world, when the Lord heard me cry, Jesus, he came and he saved me. I've gotten I've not gotten so so uppity, not gotten so poignant that I cannot give God the glory for salvation. It's because some of y'all take your salvation on your word on your sleeve lightly. Oh God, you think you got it made, but we're still all in here, got clay feet, and ain't none of us made it to glory yet. Oh, that's why God work on me. Keep me on the wheel. Don't never let me get so pious that I think that I can't put my hands together and tell God thank you for what you've done for my life. Hallelujah. As a matter of fact, some of y'all won't do it, but I'm gonna give you an opportunity right now to tell God thank you. Take 10 seconds to tell God thank you. Thank you. Thank you for waking me up this morning. Thank you for putting breath in my lungs. Thank you for giving me away to the house of the Lord. Thank you for the food on my table. Thank you for the clothes on my back. Thank you, God, for my right mind. You kept my mind. Hallelujah. Thank you. Amen. This morning I couldn't even breathe. I was so congested. I started to turn from here and go to the hospital. But God, I thank you. God, that you enable me, God, to get up here. God, I feel all right now. But I thought about going to the hospital. Amen. That's how God, that's how bad I felt. But God, I thank you. I don't have time to be playing around with my salvation. Tell somebody I don't have time to be playing around with my salvation. Now you can play with yours all you want, but God's gonna get the glory out of my life. Yes, yes, yes. I'm not gonna put nothing in front of God. Listen to me, nothing's gonna keep me out of the house of God. Yes. What have you put in front of God? Yes. And it should be quiet. It should be quiet because you're going the wrong way. And God's got to speak to you and save you from your mistakes and save you from yourself. Don't worry, I'm going on up north. They'll shout on the word. Yes, they'll tell God, thank you. Thank you for your word. It stepped on my feet, God, but I thank you. It cut me, God, but to God be the glory. Yes! Thank you for getting me ready for eternity. Yes.
unknownThat's right.
SPEAKER_02Yes. Now here's what he says. Heading in the wrong direction. Turn us again. He says, turn us again. We've turned out of your way. Now, God, turn us back again. So the plead to God was to come and see about them, come down and turn them. Listen to me now. Oh God, and cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. For God's face to shine means God give us favor again. Because I've turned against you and gotten out of favor with God. I don't want to lose my favor with God.
unknownCome on, let's go.
SPEAKER_02Turn us again. Turn us. The religious institution that they call church needs to be turned again because they turned away from God. And when you turn away from God, you become carnal. And a carnal man cannot please God. Hallelujah. And so they go about having church out of carnality, not experiencing the glory of God, not experiencing the power of God, not seeing miracles, signs, and wonders. They turn away from God and they have a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. I want to keep the power that God gave me. I'm gonna keep the power that God gave me. Am I got any power in here? Am I getting any power in here? I can't afford to turn away from God. I got too much invested in this thing. I can't afford to turn back from God. Any man that puts his hand to the and turn back or look back ain't fit for the kingdom. Oh, I got too much invested in this. I've got 27 years of sweat and tears invested in this. I got too much time invested in serving God, seen too much, had my heart broken too many times, have been stabbed in the back too often, to see folk walk away too often. I got too much invested in this to allow folk to call me to turn away from God. The devil is a liar. You can sit in the church and be back in the church, turn away from God. You forgot what God means. You forgot stay at home because you're tired. Stay at home because you don't want to come to church. You turn away from God. You'd allow situation and circumstances to keep you bound. I'm not staying anywhere, I'll be right here serving God until they come back. Yes, turn us again, Shia. Turn us again. You had my heart one time. Turn my heart back to you. Turn it back to you. Turn it back. Some of y'all, them women worked themselves hard. Uh staying up late at night and going through all this, and some of y'all didn't even show up. God turn our hearts back to you. The man of God getting into the Bible, fasting and praying, sacrificing to the Bible studies. Some of y'all won't even get online. Not alone, don't come. On even get online and watch. God, turn our hearts back to you. Turn our hearts back to you. Turn us back. Turn us back. God, hallelujah. Yeah, I feel God. I feel God. You feel God? Lift your hands to the Lord. Tell God, thank you. Thank you for your words. It's a lamp unto my feet. It's a light unto my path. Thank you. Yes, Shah. Yes, hallelujah. Yes, God done blessed us with good jobs and nice cars and fancy stuff. And we done turned our hearts to God. God turn our hearts back. Oh God, don't let us go astray. Oh God, hallelujah. God done blessed us and gifted us with stuff. If we get into the house of God, make like that we don't want to owe God nothing. You owe God a praise. Yes, He called you out of darkness into this marvelous light. That you might show forth, amen, the glory of Him, the praises of Him that called you out of darkness into this marvelous light. Turn us again. Turn us again. Turn us again. Church, this church here won't be like a social club. We won't be like the Elks or the VFW. Well, you come sit for an hour and go back and don't do nothing. Bible on the stand, ain't witnessing nobody, ain't talk to nobody, and then call for prayer. Nobody wanted to do anything. Turn our hearts back to you again. Yes. Yes. Turn our hearts back again. When I was in love with God, hallelujah. We ran for God. Whatever we could do, we did. Whatever we would go, we went. Whatever we could do, we did. But then all of a sudden our hearts turned to something else. What's got your heart this morning? I hope it's the Lord God Almighty. If God's got your heart, you can shout unto the Lord with a voice of triumph. If He's got your heart, hallelujah.
SPEAKER_00Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER_02He has my heart. Shedama. Sedama. Sonama. Shia. Yes, sho my son. Yes. You don't feel the anointing like you used to feel the anointing. Because you something else has got your heart. You don't feel God like you used to. You're speaking in tongues with no tears coming down your face. Something's got your heart. Yes, something's got your heart. Something got your heart. Is it money? Is it a man? Is it a woman? Is it your job? Something's got your heart. And you're going to have to ask God to turn you back to him.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah, my soul-called Shia.
SPEAKER_02You know, my sea. Yes. I hope the word of God is pricking your heart right now in the name of Jesus. And I hope you're sitting there asking God to turn your heart back to you. Hallelujah. You're going to go to the beach and not go to church, but you're going to go to the beach. Ah, what kind of foolishness is that? Something else has got your heart. So on Facebook. On Facebook, one of the saints. Well, down at the beach. Out on the sand. Church going on. We in here struggling. Trying to serve God with all we got. And you out there working on your tan. The devil is a liar. You better ask God to turn your heart back to him. You'd have missed out. I gotta get ready to go. Turn us again, oh God. Cause thy face to shine. We shall be saved. What is it? But lose your soul. We've got cocky and arrogant. I don't want to go, I ain't gotta go, nobody gonna make me go. But you make time for whatever you want to make time for. We would never do that when I was coming up in church. There were two days that we would never work. Wednesday night Bible study and Sunday morning. We got to be in the house of God. Now some jobs you got to work on Sunday. But you ought to be praying to God and ask God, God change that man's heart. Because I've got to make it to the house of God that I can serve the Lord. I can serve God with gladness. Yes. Used to be, whatever we could find our hands to do, we would do it. Now one or two people running around like they with chickens with their head cut off. God, oh God, turn our hearts back. Get a hole of our hearts again. Oh Lord God of hosts. How long would thou be angry against the prayers of the people? See their hearts went in. They were still praying. But their hearts went in it. God was angry against them. And now they know they're in trouble, so they're asking God got you. See, you can get so far away from God, and it can happen so quickly that you don't know how it happened. A little leaven, leaving a whole lot. One moment you start missing here and there. And then the devil tells you you're all right. Then you start coming up with ways and planning ways to miss the house of God. Yes, I'm gonna tell the truth. Nobody can get mad but the devil. Your soul's at stake. Your soul's at stake. We got too many seeker-friendly churches that want to tickle the people. Oh, you all right? Just come on, bring your tithes and offering. Don't matter, don't matter, don't matter. No, you've got to tell people the truth. And the truth is, some of us have gotten weak. We become stagnated, and we've lost our first love. And God has got to have to turn us back to Him so that we can He can hear our prayers again. And that's why everything is a struggle. Because you forgot this. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these other things shall be added unto you. That's why we're struggling for the other things.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, my soul caution.
SPEAKER_02My soul does magnify the Lord. Oh, somebody go ahead and praise God with me. All I need is about two or three of you. For when the two or three gather together in his name, here he is in the midst of his people. And I know God's in the midst. Hallelujah. The people do draw nigh unto me with their mouths, but their hearts are far from me. Glory to God. There was a song way back in the 80s, I think it was. Y'all know the song. Some of you probably still listen to it. The song went like this. If your heart isn't in it, why didn't you tell me so? If your heart wasn't in it, why didn't you let me go? Yeah, yeah. And so and so some of your heart ain't in it. And you God, you ain't got to tell God He told me so. And if you don't get your heart right, He gonna let you go. That's what the Lord told me. That's what the Lord told me.
SPEAKER_01He gonna let you go.
SPEAKER_02You better hear what the Lord is saying. You better hear what the Lord is saying. God was angry against the prayers of the people. God fed them with the bread of tears and gave them tears to drink in great measure. They're praying. But they turned their hearts from God. So now all their experiences are tears. Remorse. This ain't working. That ain't working. You thought you had that going over now, and that just fell down. That ain't working over there. That ain't working over here. And then this door you go through, then another door shut down in your fate because he's giving you the bread of tears. Trying to get you to turn back to God. If we would only turn back to God, if we would only give God the glory. Amen. Some of us are losing our testimonies. We've testified in the house of God, this, that, and the third, and we're doing the opposite of what we said we were gonna do for the Lord. You know why? Because your heart's not in it, it's more in the stuff. Who got the biggest? Car. Who got the biggest house? Who got the nicest this? Who can go on the most extravagant vacation? Who can do this, that, or the third? Well, let me tell you something, honey. The only vacation I want and need is to go back with the Lord when He comes. I want to be on that ship. I want to be on that train. I want to be on that boat going back with the Lord.
unknownThank God for the word. Thank the Lord.
SPEAKER_02Watch this. Thou make us a strife unto our neighbors. And our enemies laugh among themselves. Wondering what's going on. What's going on? But the enemies don't know that you've turned your heart from God. So they're laughing at you. Because you were before talking about the Lord. Then you got strife with your neighbor. You know, when a man's ways please God, he'll make even his enemies be at peace with him. Then you're having strife on your job. Strife with your neighbors. Wondering what's going on with me now. Because your heart ain't in it. Listen to me. They ask him, turn us again, oh God of hosts, and cause your face or your favor to shine upon us that we might be saved. Israel have gotten out the will of God. Their hearts have not been conducive to being real to God. And so is Israel, so has the church. The church has gotten so weak that they look at you like you're crazy when you begin to worship and shout to God. They gotten so weak that they come to church thinking they're in a theater, won't lift their hands to worship God, won't praise God. They look at the preacher like, okay, preacher, with our arms folded on a chair, laid back. Come on, what you got, preacher? We're gonna judge. Not knowing that God is looking at you. You the judge. You the worshipper. He looking at all of us. You looking at me, come on, what you got, Pastor. Pastor ain't saying nothing. He ain't talking about nothing. Look at me. Get mad. I can't be, I got to do this and that. I'm gonna say what God told me to say, and I'm gonna say it, and I ain't done saying it yet, and I'm gonna keep on saying it. And then when I'm done saying it, I'm gonna straight out of here, go up north, and I'm gonna say something more up there. Get your house in order. I heard the Holy Ghost say. Get your house in order. Get your house in order. No man know the date or the hour. No man know the date or the hour. We don't have time to be out here playing. We don't have time for that. We don't have no time at all. Amen. He says, turn us again. Let your face shine upon us. We might be saved. Now listen to this. Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt. Thou hast cast out the heathens and planted it. So the writer is speaking about Israel here. How God brought them out of bondage 430 years into Egypt. Do you remember when God brought you out of Egypt? Yes. He said, Thou had brought a vine out of Egypt and had planted it. Thou planted it. Thou brought it out and thou planted it in the land of Canaan. God told Moses and Joshua that the land was theirs. Brought them out of bondage. Gave them the land of Canaan. I'm coming down your room in a minute. I'll make it applicable to you in a minute. God brought some of you out of prison, brought some of you out of drugs, brought some of you out of alcoholism, some of you out of whoredoms, brought some of you out of being drunkards and out of different places and different things. And God established you and blessed you with nice jobs and nice homes and nice cars. He took the taste of alcohol out of your lips and he took the taste of whoredoms out of your body. And God began to bless you and God began to establish you because now God is with you. And all of a sudden now God put a hedge of protection around you. And you've been getting jobs that you shouldn't get and getting favor that you shouldn't have. And God's been opening doors that shouldn't be open. All of a sudden you turn your heart against God. Yes. Did cause it to take root, and it filled the land. Hallelujah. God began to prosper you. You begin to grow. God began to do things for you that you couldn't do. Yes. You got the contract, not because you're so smart. You got the raise, not because you're so intelligent. But God gave you favor. Yeah. You got it? Because God gave you favor. And thou begin to prosper. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and that vine began to grow. And uh it was like the goodly cedars. They began to prosper. That vine began to get grow and go, and God began to do things. Then you have to ask yourself, why ain't God doing it anymore?
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SPEAKER_02And the Bible says she sent out her brows into the sea and branched into the river. It was growing and it was prospering. And it was growing, it was prospering. You want to find a way to really cut off what God is blessing you with? The very way for you to cut off what how God is blessing you is to get another God. Why has thou then broken down her hedges? Lost her protection. Was a time when the devil couldn't run rampage over you like he's running. Thou hast taken down her wall, her hedge of protection. The walls for protection. And so that all that they which pass by the way do pluck at her. Used to be no one could touch you. You were walking in the favor of God. Used to be you didn't have everything you wanted, but you had just enough. Now you begin to struggle because you put something else before God. I got to get out of here. The boar, the animal, the boar out of the woods does waste it. And the wild beast of the field does devour that vine. The vine has lost its protection. He says, We return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts. Look down from heaven. Behold and visit this vine. You planted me. I took root. But now it seems like I can't stand on my own. What the church needs is another visitation from God. What I mean by the church, I'm talking about us individually, need another visitation from God. We need to call on him again. We need to cry out to him one more time. We need to cry out from the innermost, technology chamber of our soul. We need to cry out till we speak in tongues again. Hallelujah. We need to cry out till the fire comes back again. We need to cry out to God. Put his spirit in us again. We need to cry out again till we get zeal again. We need to cry out again till we run again. Oh, I wish I had something about it. They didn't mind crying out to the Lord. Some of y'all won't even worship God collectively while we're worshiping together. So I know at home ain't nothing going on. Some of y'all are so dry. Your mouth seals. You're so dry. You've not spoken tongues in years. You've not shouted in years. You've not ran for God in years. And you've got to ask God to come visit you to see what's wrong with you. You need a visitation from the one on high. Oh God, the great physician needs to check us out. We need a visitation. Anybody know we need a visitation. Oh God, come and visit your church. Come and visit our families. Come and touch us again. Nobody, nobody wants to sacrifice. Nobody wants to pray. Nobody wants to get alone and fast. Nobody wants to cut off the things of the world. A visitation only comes after repentance. And a turn back towards God. And the moment you turn and I turn is the moment God will visit us. Oh God, I wish I had somebody that really wanted to turn from the world and turn back to God. Hallelujah. Yes. Turn back to God. He said, Come and visit this vine. Come on and visit it. And the vineyard which thy right hand power has planted. And the branch that thou made as strong for yourself. Watch this. Watch this. Leave me alone. That's the devil. I ain't gonna tell y'all who it is. It's the devil. Listen to the condition of the vine. The protection is gone and now it's burning with fire. The vine is on fire. Oh my god. It's on fire. I ain't on no fire, Pastor. My house, you and fire on fire in your flesh. Your flesh is on fire. That's why you done lost your first love. Yes, your flesh is burning up. On fire. Yeah, the desires that you have are burning up. It is cut down. They perish at the rebuke of thy continence. Here's what he asked them. Watch this. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand. Huh? Let thy hand be upon the man of your right hand. And we know God is a spirit. And we know that God don't have a hand. The right hand denotes power. Let thy hand be upon the man of thy power. I'm gonna show you something here. Upon the son of man whom thou made strong for yourself. So they ask God that let his hand be upon the man of his right hand. And upon the son of man, whom thou made strong for yourself. It is the right arm of God that wrought salvation. You talking about Jesus. Talking about Jesus. I'm gonna show you. He's talking about Jesus. He says, So will so will not we go back from thee. Quicken us. Let Jesus come. We won't go back. Quicken us. That's the Holy Ghost. Make us alive again. Something that is quickened is something that's dead. And the church needs to be made back alive again. That's why God's got to come back and save us when we turn back to Him. And we will call upon your name. Turn us again, O Lord, God of hosts. Cause our face to shine, and we shall be saved. Turn us, God. We've gotten out of your will. You planted your spirit in us. You made us large. We ran like a vine. And now, God, everything's falling apart. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna show you who the man at his right hand is and who the Son of Man is. In John chapter 12, and verse number 12. I gotta give it a get up the road. John chapter 12, verse 12, verse uh 12. On the next day, much people that were come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, they took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him and cried, Hosanna. Now, in the Psalm 80, they asked him, Send the man of your right hand, the Son of Man, and let him turn to us and he will save us. Hosanna means save now. So save us now. God, we need saving now. Hallelujah. And so blessed is the king of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord. And Jesus, when he had found a young ass set thereon, and as it is written, Fear not, daughters of Zion, behold, the king cometh, sitting upon an ass coat. These things understood not his disciples at first, but when Jesus was glorified, they remembered these things and wrote them down. Amen. Save now. The people, when they saw Jesus, they fulfilled prophecy in the book of Zechariah. And they were putting palm branches down. Watch this. Watch this, and we got to go. Brother Roger, thank you so much for coming to church today. Amen. I'm gonna ready to let you go. Thank you so much for coming again with the baby. Amen. Thank you for helping me sing that song. If your heart isn't in it, do that thing. And so, so they put palm branches down. I want you to see this. This is how weak the churches got. They put palm branches down, and they quoted Psalms 80. When the people say, Turn us back to you, O Lord, and save us. The people are crying outside of the temple. In the highest, they're saying, Save us now, Jesus. We know who you are. Save us now. Worship was outside the temple where Jesus was. In the temple were the money changes, those that was selling doves and a whole bunch of what? Corruption in the church. So Jesus now takes the people. And they're saying, worship is good. Wherever there's worship, you'll find somebody's heart. That'll preach all by itself. You keep your eye on folk that won't lift their hands to worship God. Because their heart ain't really in it. And so when you see worship, you'll see people on their face giving God glory with prayer. When you see worship, you'll see folk coming together. Oh, glory. I know y'all ready for me to leave. Some of y'all counting down in your mind. What time, Pastor, leave it? I'll be here up and get out of here. He's all on my feet, my toes, my neck, my back. Pastor working on me today in here. Some of y'all gonna leave and go home and say, Pastor was working on us in there today, wasn't he? Oh, yeah, Pastor was tiring us up. You need to be torn up. Yes, I'm gonna tie you up again next week. The Lord left, let me live long enough to see it. So hear what he said. He said, Come, Steve laughed. He said, Come, turn you up, Steve. Come, come, and they worshiping him. Don't do your hand like this. But you're not in the temple, you're outside where the presence of the Lord is. And you're saying, Hosanna, somebody said, Hosanna. So you're saying, Save me now. In the very condition that I'm in, I need you to save me now. Save my children now. Save my mind now. Save me now, Lord. Jesus now goes in the temple. And when he gets in the temple, he sees what they're doing. He overturns the table. He begins to run out the money changes. He got a cat of nine-tails. He began to whip run them out of there. Sometimes you got to do when things get crazy, you got to do some crazy things. And he began to radical situation called for radical measures. And he began to run them out the temple. That's what the word is doing right now, running them demons out the temple. And uh uh running them out the temple. And uh they got out the temple, and uh I asked the Lord, the Bible says that there were people in the temple because they were selling doves, the doves were used as a sin offering, the money changers were taking the Jewish money, the Romans were, and they were exchanging it for Jewish money, so they were ripping them off in the temple, and as a result, nothing was going on in the temple, but what'd the word you use? Corruption. I like that word, but corruption, and as a result, Jesus ran corruption out of the temple. And uh some of y'all uh either gonna turn to God or God gonna turn away from you, and so and so uh they came in the temple, and uh when they came in the temple, uh the people from the outside brought the worship in the temple. The same one that was saying Hosanna began to come in the temple, and that's why I said, Hosanna, Hosanna, save now. So I asked the Lord, Where do you people come from in the temple? He said they were already in there, except for the ones that came from the outside. These were already in there, that's why they were getting turtle doves because they wanted deliverance, they were getting their money to put in the treasury because they were trying to be rightful with the law. And then the Bible says that all of a sudden, when the worship came from outside in the temple, Jesus began to heal those that were broke and those that were lame, and those that were hurting and needed something from God. Today's church is too full of corruption and their hearts aren't right towards God. And when folk come into church that need healing, they can't get it because there are too many spirits in the church. But God is getting to run these demons out of here. God give me to bring worship in here. What about worshipers at? Hallelujah. God give me to take somebody's place in the name of the Lord Jesus. He can take somebody's place. I'm trying to tell you, you don't want to glorify God. God can bring somebody in here that don't mind giving God glory. Somebody don't mind turning back to God and worshiping God. Yes. He's gonna do it. Listen to me real good. Corruption is running rapidly in these churches. Nobody wants to preach the truth of God's word. Nobody wants to tell the people what they need to do to be saved. And the people are getting weaker and more worldlier and more worldlier coming to church for performances, coming to church out of just idealism, coming to church thinking they ain't got to do nothing else. They love the world more than they love God, but then there's a remnant. Somebody say venom is a remnant. The remedy love God. And we won't be silent, and we won't stop until we see the glory of God back in the temple.
SPEAKER_01Somebody say hallelujah. Yes.
SPEAKER_02I won't be quiet. I'm not used to this. I'm used to being in the glory. Anybody used to be in the glory? I'm not accustomed to this. I'm not accustomed to that folk. I'm not among the tubes. Jesus Christ has risen. I'm never gonna get used to this. I'm not used to folk that you gotta pump and pride, pull and go get. I'm listening to us to folk that's got the Holy Ghost on the inside. Folk that wanna do something from God. Folk that wanna worship God. And folk that wanna live for God. Somebody said hallelujah! Turn us, oh God. Turn us again. Turn our hearts back to you, Lord. Come and visit this vine. Come and visit this vine. Yes. He overturned some tables. There were radical times going on, TJ. And when times get radical, it takes a radical preacher to do some radical things to get God's house in order. I will never let this church become a dead church. I will never let people institute laziness instead of worship. I will never let people make excuses instead of doing what God called you to do. I will never let people get just tired of with the status quo, just satisfied, stagnating. Anything that don't move stagnate. But I've been right here crying till God either remove you and somebody take your place or the power of God falls in the house. Feel more of God at home. Y'all don't quit praying? You don't quit coming to church? Quit coming to Bible study? Quit reading your Bibles? Quit just quit everything. God needs to turn us again. We take the altar. There's something just to be doing. Come to the altar, go back out the same way. This thing starts at home. This thing starts at home. If you can't get it at home, I know what I look what I see in here. Ain't a whole lot going on at home. Some of y'all won't pray. Won't do it. Won't do it. Won't get on the prayer line. Won't do it. But God's got to turn us. I'm gonna see the glory of God. I'm gonna see it. I'm gonna see the glory of God. They're asking God to come visit them because they need to be revived. They recognize their condition. You gotta recognize your condition. Height used to be and high is now. If you don't recognize your condition, then nothing's gonna change. I recognize God, I've gotten far from you. I put other things in front of you. Oh God, come visit this vine. Turn me back to you. Get me back in right standings with you, oh God. So we might experience the power of God. The glory moved from the outer into the inter. And those folk that were in there couldn't get what they need. Now Jesus is in the house. And worship is in the house. And people are getting what they need. Don't you know the power that can happen when we all get together with one mind and one accord and worship God? It'd be a shame. Amen. To put God second and then still don't get what you need. I need somebody that wants a visitation. I need somebody that really wants a visitation. That is really tired of the status quo. That is not just saying it with their lips, but their heart said, I've learned this thing since I've been pastoral. People will tell you anything. They'll say just about anything. I don't want to hear it, I want to see it. You know the tree by the fruit that it bears. By their fruits, you don't know. We need a visitation of the Holy Ghost. And we need it in here. So that when people come in here, they can get what they need from God. In order for that to happen, you need a visitation in your own personal life. Go back and check your spiritual meter. Look from the day you got filled and when God visits you. And look at today. Have you got more of God? Or have you got less of God? Have you got more of the world? Or less of the world? Love not the world. No the things that are in the world. We can't fall in love with the world. That's gonna pass away with a fervent heat. We've got to love this word. We've got to love prayer. We got to love serving God, and we got to love living for God. I want the glory back in the house. There was fire when I came here, and there's gonna be fire when I leave here. There was prayer when I started the ministry. There's gonna be prayer when the ministry's finished. Until it's finished. There was fasting when I started, still gonna be fasting. There was Bible study when I started, still gonna be Bible study. There are gonna be people getting together, being in church when I started, and we still got to come to church.