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Turn to Isaiah 65, please, Isaiah 65.
My message, not every trial is a test.
Not every trial.
How many are going through a trial?
I mean, now, right now.
And in the annex, I can't see your
hand, but put it up, Jesus sees it.
All right.
You think you're being tested?
Not every trial is a test.
Isaiah 65, verses 17 and 18.
For behold, I create new heavens and a
new earth.
The former shall not be remembered nor come
into mind, but be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create.
For behold, I create Jerusalem rejoicing and her
people a joy.
In the original Hebrew, it should be, I
create Jerusalem for rejoicing and her people for
joy.
God says, I create a people for the
purpose of joy and rejoicing.
Now, Heavenly Father, we come to your word
humbly, thanking you for your heart revealed to
us, your mind open to us.
And I pray, Holy Spirit, that you quicken
me as I preach and quicken us as
we hear.
Let the Lord be glorified in the service.
Let the Lord be glorified in the word
that comes forth, we pray.
Lord, I need your touch.
I need your touch now so that this
will flow, not just from my heart, but
from your mind.
In Christ's name I pray.
Amen.
God gets no delight in our afflictions and
in our trials.
And the Bible said he sympathizes, he agrees
with us, he's touched with the feelings of
our infirmities.
And there are many afflictions, the scripture says,
that come to God's people.
The Lord Jesus said to one of the
churches in the book of Revelation, I know
your tribulation and I know your poverty.
God is saying, I know what you're going
through.
You don't understand it, but I know.
And I'm glad that he said that, because
sometimes we think that he we know theologically
that he knows.
But specifically to our own case, sometimes we
doubt whether or not God is moving on
time.
The scripture says thou has tried us as
silver is tried.
The Bible said our faith is tested and
tried as by fire.
The Bible said the Lord tries the righteous.
Yes, the Christian life is full of trials
and afflictions.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, the
scripture says.
Much affliction, anguish of heart, many tears.
This is the language of Paul, the apostle.
He said, this is what I experience.
He said, in my life, there are many
afflictions, anguish of heart and many tears.
In Hebrews, we read of the saints of
God of old time who were tempted, destitute,
afflicted and tormented.
In Hebrews, we read of Christians who fight
a great fight of affliction.
Now, hearing me now in the annex and
here on the main floor in the main
auditorium are people that I know in the
spirit are going through this very thing.
Many and great afflictions, a fight of afflictions,
drinking from the cup of trembling, the scriptures
call it.
My soul, the psalmist said, is full of
troubles.
My life draws near to the grave.
Paul or the David said, I have endured
sore and great troubles.
I don't know a single Christian in my
circle of friends.
I don't know a single Christian anywhere in
the face of this earth that hasn't gone
through these things, afflictions, suffering, trial and testing.
I don't know one.
And if you happen to be one of
those, I'd sure like to get your autograph.
Because you're some kind of a super saint
that is unusual.
You probably should be moved on to heaven.
I can say with David, I've known sore
afflictions in my lifetime.
Now, this is a very, very simple word
that God has given to me.
But it's been born out of the fires
of my own trials.
Recent trials, even.
And I'm relating now by the spirit to
those who came this morning.
And you're on the very brink of despair.
And even thoughts of saying, I can't live
like this.
This is too much.
God has placed too much upon me.
I don't know why.
For the last few weeks, I have been
pushing this and dealing with these kind of
issues of the suffering.
Because, you see, there's a theology in America
now that if you're walking in faith, you
don't suffer.
But, you know, suffering comes to all those
people who preach that.
And then they're not ready for it when
it comes.
But I've known sore afflictions.
Now, certainly, the Lord has a purpose in
mind.
You can't believe, you couldn't even comprehend that
God would let you endure sore trials without
a divine purpose.
God doesn't just promiscuously go around saying, oh,
this brother, I've just got to take him
through some more fire.
And I've got to send another flood to
this brother or this sister.
He doesn't do it without a purpose.
Your trial of your faith, the scripture says,
is more precious than gold, though it be
tried with fire.
Brother Peter says in that trial is a
fiery trial.
What about those who have already been tested
and they pass the test?
Like Paul, the apostle, he said, I've finished
the course.
In other words, I was in school, I
was in the school of testing.
I had trial after trial and he enumerates
these.
It's incredible.
It's mind boggling.
The suffering and the pain and the affliction
and the rejection and all that Paul, the
apostle, went through.
And he said, I fought a good fight
and I finished my course.
He said, I have finished my course.
I have kept the faith.
You see, he it's not that he will
never be tested again, but God trusts this
man now because he is.
He said, I know now whom I have
believed.
I know how now when the enemy comes
against me like a flood, I know how
to, with God's glory, raise up that standard.
I know how to resist the devil.
Then he flees from me.
I have learned these lessons in the furnace
of affliction.
And he said, now I have kept a
faith.
I can say that honestly.
I know that I'm going to be tested
on my faith till Jesus comes.
But I know that not every trial in
my life is a test of faith.
Because I know in recent years, especially from
the death of our granddaughter, 12 year old
Tiffany, and the strength and the faith that
he gave me in that ordeal.
And I never once doubted in that moment.
And I came out of that saying, thank
God, I know whom I have believed and
I know God has a plan.
God would not hurt me.
He would not hurt the family.
He is a God of love and mercy.
He has a plan.
I give this over to you by faith.
And I've gone through serious trials since then.
And I have seen God allow that faith
to mature.
I fought a good fight.
Think about the present trial that you're going
through right now.
Let's talk about the ordeal, the affliction, the
suffering that God has allowed into your life.
Talk to you just as a father.
Have you accused God at this time of
needlessly taking you through something?
You said, I've been tested so much, but
this is too much.
Have you questioned God?
Has there been having doubts or fears?
Have you just felt like giving up?
You know, I don't need to go to
church anymore.
I don't need to pursue the Bible.
It doesn't seem to be working.
We don't say it in those kind of
words.
But those thoughts rage through our mind.
Is that how you are reacting to your
difficult time, your hour of trial?
Or and this is what I believe.
This is where I believe most and many,
many and most of you are here.
If you know the Lord, if you're a
lover of Christ, you're able to sit here
at this service this morning.
When I preach this message and say, Pastor
Dave, I know whom I believed.
I know that God has given me a
confidence in him.
I love my Lord and I'm going to
fight this.
I'm going to come through this victorious.
I don't doubt it.
I know God has a purpose in it.
You see, your faith is mature.
God doesn't have to take you through that.
How many tests do you go to before
you pass?
You know, many of you have not failed
that test.
I'm not saying that there won't be tests,
but there comes a time when God is
going after more than faith.
It's not just faith he's trying to get
from us.
You see, God is preparing a bride for
his son.
He's preparing.
And many of you don't know, but the
test, what you're going through now is not
a test.
It's more than that.
God is looking for more than that.
This bride that he's preparing for his son
is getting a new home.
And Jesus is the founder and the maker.
But the father, the son and the Holy
Spirit.
And I just read to you the scripture.
Isaiah saw a picture of a new world.
He said, God is creating a new world
and a new heaven.
This world that we are in now is
going to vanish.
The scripture says it's going to pass away
and God is going to bring new galaxies
into.
He's creating it now.
The word create in Hebrew is to bring
into being.
He said, I'm creating a new heaven, a
new earth.
And you see what you're going through now
is not testing, but training.
Because in this new world where there will
be no pain, no devil, no trial, no
testing.
In this new world, will there be no
sun and the moon or stars?
Because he will be the son of our
life.
This new world will be populated with brand
new bodies.
That body that goes down into the grave
is not the body that's coming out of
the grave.
It's a new body with a new DNA
of the Holy Spirit.
It's the DNA of Christ himself.
You can't tell me God's going to populate
that new world with lazy saints who are
covetous and living nothing but for materialism.
How did God get Egypt or the children
of Israel out of Egypt?
See, there's a promised land that represents where
we're going into this new world.
This was a new world for them.
And God had to allow affliction.
They had to be taken into a furnace.
Everything had to become hard pressed so that
they could be winged out of Egypt.
They would have never accepted this call to
go.
They would have settled down with their leeks
and onions and garlics and all of their
fancy salads and saying, We have bread to
eat.
This is heaven.
Because, you see, we have a whole generation
now like eat this or what's at that
time.
We have a generation that doesn't want a
heaven.
They don't talk about it.
Do you hear anybody in the new generation,
this modern generation talking about going to heaven?
See, they don't want to have me because
that's an interruption.
That interrupts my good life.
Rich man said recently, you know, they call
them toys, the Mercedes.
And if you have Mercedes, God bless you.
I hope God give you Rolls Royce.
That's that's not what I'm talking about.
But you see, those are toys.
They call them toys.
And one rich man wrote this.
And I think it's a travesty.
He said, he who dies with the most
toys wins.
And this is the attitude of so many
in this modern age.
They don't want heaven.
There was a preacher that preached here in
the northeast.
And I heard heard him say, I don't
want heaven by and by in the sweet
by and by.
I want my mansion now.
You see, they don't want heaven.
They don't want to talk about a new
world.
We hear the secularist in America and around
the world talking about the new world order.
They have no idea what they're talking about.
The new world order is the new creation
that Isaiah is talking about, a new heaven
and a new earth.
And Isaiah said, the old will not come
into mind.
The old world, folks, went one minute into
glory, one minute into eternity.
Your trials that you're going through now, you
will not even remember.
Oh, everything of this old world will pass
away.
Only the love, the love of God, the
love of family is going to be able
to pierce that new world.
And yet to that new world.
But this is all passing away.
And God had to go into Egypt and
cause trial after trial to wean them away
until they were ready to go, until they
cried enough of this.
I don't want this world.
I don't want this environment.
I don't want to be in Egypt anymore.
And when the Lord said, go, they were
ready to go.
Many of us do not realize that we
needed to be winged.
Sometimes God sees us going into materialistic way.
Sometimes things in our life getting out of
control by our own foolishness.
Sometimes other times that there are people that
Satan enrages, he enrages them to come against
you.
And the Bible says that's that's the dregs
of the cup.
And the Bible says God chooses out of
the fiery furnace.
He chooses those that are in the fiery
furnace because he is eternal purpose.
God is after something because you see, you
can have faith and still not want to
have what you don't have a longing for
Christ to be with him.
You can have faith and you can move
mountains, but you don't have love.
You have nothing.
You see, you can be tested and you
can come out with a glowing faith.
But the Lord wants more than that.
He wants to get you out of the
camp.
The Bible said Jesus suffered outside the camp.
He said, therefore, let us go with him
outside the camp.
And until God gets you outside of camp,
that's the world.
That's the spirit of this age.
That's this lust and covetousness for materialism.
God blesses his people.
God, anything that you have, you give him
thanks.
I live in a nice home.
I drive a nice car.
But you see, we have a Christianity and
millions of Christians.
These things are getting a hold of their
heart that they don't have that longing, that
yearning to go and be with Christ.
Paul said, I am caught between two dilemmas.
He said, I have a dilemma caught between
two forces.
He said, there's something in me that yearns
and longs.
I want to go and be with the
Lord.
That was not a morbid fixation on death.
He was a well-used man.
He was a man who did everything with
his power to live out his days in
fullness.
But Paul said, I have in me a
longing, a yearning to be with the Lord
face to face.
And if that is not in us, if
we don't have that constant yearning, if we
don't have the New Jerusalem state of mind,
if we are lingering here, you see, Jesus
suffered outside the camp, outside the ecclesiastical system,
outside the political system, outside of society, rejected,
outside the gate, outside the camp.
They pushed him out.
And God has a wonderful way of pushing
us out the gate, away from the things
of the world and the attractions.
This bride of Christ that God is preparing
for his son.
God has to see that yearning.
He said, if I'm going to give my
son to you and I give you my
son, I want to know that there's no
other attraction in your life.
I want to know there's no other longing.
I want to know that he's everything.
And I want to know that you want
to be with him bodily, face to face,
and that that's your dream and that's your
pool in your heart, that you want to
be with the Lord.
Paul said, to die is gain.
He was not in this world.
Abraham said, I'm a sojourner, I'm an alien,
I'm a foreigner.
In the promised land.
The Bible said he was looking for something.
There was a constant yearning every time he
got up every day.
This searching, this longing of heart.
He said, I'm looking for a city whose
builder and maker is God.
The same city that Isaiah is talking about
and prophesying about.
A new Jerusalem, the home of Christ and
his beloved for eternity.
Sitting here this morning.
How about yesterday and this past week or
this past month?
Has there ever been thoughts of going home?
Have you ever had thoughts of saying, Jesus,
I just want to be with you.
I want to be with you in that
new world.
Now, we know his presence is with us.
We talk about seeing Christ face to face
in the spirit.
But you see, these spirits of ours have
to be trained.
This body, I'm going to get a new
body like unto his, the scripture says.
He said that which goes into the ground
is not that which comes out.
But you see, the spirit that I have
this morning, Bible said, worship him in spirit
and in truth.
So the worship that I have, what I'm
learning in the way of worship, what I'm
learning in the way of praise, his training
for that day.
How would you and I expect that suddenly
Christians who just live in constant anxiousness live
as though God were dead?
Those that don't know how to praise their
way through their trial.
And that's the only way you're going to
come out of your trial is to praise
your way out, to worship your way out.
You can come here and praise God in
the flesh.
You can come here and praise him in
your body with your bodily mouth and bodily
lips.
But you see, you can do all of
that without praising in the spirit.
Your spirit could be somewhere else.
Your spirit could be in the worry world.
It could be there fretting outside of your
body.
Your spirit.
God says, I'm after your spirit.
I want to change your spirit so that
you worship me in spirit and truth.
And when you come home and when you
see me and you embrace me, you will
have already been appraiser.
You have learned in your spirit to worship
and your spirit will be one with my
spirit.
Brother, sister, what you're going through is a
training process.
You're in school, the school of praise, the
spiritual school of true worship of heart and
soul, mind and body.
Behold, I create a new heaven and a
new earth and the former shall not be
remembered nor come into your mind.
Be glad and rejoice forever in that which
I create.
For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing and
her people for joy.
Now, listen to that.
God saying, behold, I am creating a new
world order.
But for that world order, that new world
is a world of rejoicing.
He said, I've created it as a house,
as a place of rejoicing.
He said, but I'm doing something else.
Now, remember, the word create here in Hebrew
is bringing something into being.
And God said, I am creating people.
I'm putting together a body.
I'm putting together the bridegroom for my son.
I'm doing that.
I'm creating that.
And Scripture says these prophets were looking the
future, speaking to our age.
The Bible says they were speaking to those
of the last days.
And he saw that city and he saw
God preparing and creating this new city.
He was bringing it into being.
And even now that world is under construction.
You know, our God is so big you
could take this entire cosmic, entire all the
planets and all of the galaxies that even
man can't see.
And the Lord is so great.
God is so big and so mighty.
He can have a whole new system, whole
new galaxies, even populated where his saints are
kings and priests and rulers.
That's beyond my comprehension.
I don't want to go there because when
I get Jesus is going to be big
and broad enough in him or the world's
unlimited and unknown.
But you see, he said, I'm preparing the
people for that prepared place.
And there is no way in to conceptualize
how that can happen, except by through the
furnace.
And through the suffering.
And through the tribulation.
And for the most part, I would say
that many of you that are going through
it, because you see, the closer you get
to Jesus, the longer you walk with him
and the more you trust him, the more
severe your trial is going to be.
It's going to be very, very severe sometimes
because he said, I am making something.
I am creating something here.
And he's sculpturing and he's working.
It's so far beyond me, but I do
know that it's very important how we react
to our trials in our trials.
How are you reacting now?
What you're going through?
How are you reacting to the difficulty that
you're even now enduring?
Now, you can you can just give up
and many are giving up all over the
country and around the world.
We see them.
They're just quitting.
They said, well, I'm not mad at God.
I'm just going to go my way.
I can't live under that intensity.
I can't go that way because when I
get close to the Lord, more I suffer.
Yes, you do.
But then you have something that others often
do not have, and that's the glory and
power and the understanding of the ways of
the comforter.
You know how now to face the devil
and all the powers of hell and be
unshaken.
And God has to have a people who
cannot waver, who will not be shaken in
the dark, dark times that are coming.
Where does he find these men?
Where does he find these women?
He finds them in the furnace.
Go to Hebrews.
Well, no, I've been there.
I don't want to go to Hebrews.
Abraham said, for here we do not have
a lasting city, that we're seeking the city
which is to come.
Let us go forth unto them outside the
camp, bearing his reproach.
Bible says if we suffer with him, we
shall also be glorified together.
Paul's apostle said, for I consider that the
sufferings of this present time are not worthy
to be compared with the glory that's going
to be revealed in us.
Paul said in your trial, stop a minute
and get your eyes on eternity.
Get your eyes on what is to come.
Bible said Jesus endured the suffering for the
joy that was set before him all through
his ministry and time on earth.
He had his mind fixed on the joy
of that new world.
Please understand that as a believer established in
the word of God.
There's not a there's hardly any believer that
loves Jesus hearing me right now who is
not established in the word.
You have the word hidden in your heart.
You have promises that can be brought to
attention at any moment.
You've been well supplied.
God has said that nothing befalls us, but
what he will make a way for us
to endure.
And how you react is so important because
there's a danger if we don't immediately do
what Isaiah told the children of Israel to
do.
He came to Jerusalem and Jerusalem had gone
through some severe testing, severe trials and afflictions.
Incredible.
They were staggered, so stupefied they were sitting
in the dust.
And Isaiah came on the scene.
He was shocked.
He said, these are God's people with all
the promises.
Look at him.
There's Zion is sitting in the dust with
a chain around her neck.
Go to Isaiah 53.
Isaiah 52.
Isaiah 52 verses one through three.
Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion.
Put on that beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the
holy city.
For henceforth, there shall no more come into
the uncircumcised and the unclean.
Shake thyself from the dust.
Arise and sit down, O Jerusalem.
Loose thyself from the bands of thy neck,
O captive daughter of Zion.
For thus saith the Lord, you've sold yourself
for nothing.
You should be redeemed without money.
Lord, help me now to speak what you're
putting in my mind.
Help me to see it.
And I want you, congregation, to pray.
God, give you insight and give you ears
to hear and eyes to see what the
prophet Isaiah is saying.
Because, you see, we are spiritual Zion.
And those of us that are sitting here
now, going through the time of our life,
are going through the most difficult time and
affliction.
You see, this Zion of Jerusalem, historical Jerusalem,
the people, this is speeding metaphorically, but these
people were so stupefied, so overcome by their
sufferings.
They just sat down, feeling weak, no strength.
And they had cast off their robes.
They cast off their outer garments.
And they're sitting there saying, I have no
strength.
I am so weak.
I am so undone.
There's no good thing in me.
And Isaiah comes on the scene and he
said to those in the dust, shake yourself
from the dust.
Rise and sit down.
Put on your strength.
Put on your beautiful garments.
Who is our strength?
But Jesus Christ.
What is our garment?
But the garment of righteousness.
The robe of righteousness.
And the Bible says, the prophet said, shake
thyself from the dust.
Now, you can sit in your problem and
ask for some kind of great miracle.
And God is a miracle working God.
But there's something He expects of us.
He said, I want you to lose yourself
from this chain that's on you, this chain
of despair, this chain of worry of the
future, worrying about family, worrying about health, worrying
about all these things.
He said, you are bound by fetters of
weariness, fetters of discouragement and anguish.
He said, shake yourself.
Give yourself a lecture.
Do whatever you have to say.
I don't have to be in despair.
I don't have to feel this way.
You have the power in you.
You have the authority in you to stand
up and take your place seated with Christ
in a heavenly place and say, this is
a lie.
God is not against me.
I'm not going through this because I'm a
wicked, evil person.
I'm going through this because I'm being trained
to preach or to praise God and to
worship.
A few weeks ago, a wave of despair,
a wave of something out here in the
prophets talking about the uncircumcised and the unclean
coming against us.
Those are the powers of hell, the uncircumcised
devils.
Those evil powers of iniquity come.
And I just sat down in the den
in our house and Gwen said, what's wrong
with you?
I said, I don't know.
Have you ever had that?
You don't know?
I don't know where this came from, but
I don't.
I just don't feel very righteous.
I don't feel like doing anything.
You know how you go on and on
and you're down and you've lost your strength
and you cast off your faith on that
holy garment God's put on your back.
And I was walking up the stairs.
In the middle of the stairs, the Holy
Spirit stopped me and said, David, stop it.
Stop it right here.
That's flesh.
You have power over the flesh through the
spirit that abides in you.
And I got orders.
David, be glad in the Lord.
Rejoice in the Lord.
That was no test of faith.
My faith wasn't wounded.
I'm going to close in just a minute.
But remember the three Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego?
And they're thrown into this furnace heated seven
times hotter.
That was no test of faith.
It was faith that put them there.
Did you get it?
Well, say, well, well, what is it?
God was training three Hebrew children for glory.
Because when the king looked in, he bends
over and he looks in that fire.
And I'll tell you, he sees four men.
He turns to his associate, didn't we put
three men in here?
And they were all bound.
Look at them dancing.
And that fourth one looks like a god.
It looks like a son of God.
And I know what Jesus said as soon
as he manifested himself.
Gentlemen, get up.
You're not bound anymore.
Get up.
Folks, we get bound by our own thoughts
by allowing these things to overpower us.
And the word from the Lord right now
is saying I allow.
God could have stopped that.
But you see, the king and that political
system would have didn't listen to their holy
lives.
Didn't listen to their preaching.
Didn't listen to their testimony.
God said, I'm going to give them an
object lesson.
I'll give them a lesson.
I'm going to give them something they're going
to hear and see.
What was it?
Three saints of God in the worst trial
that could ever behold mankind.
And there they are seeing Christ in his
reality.
There they are.
And the king is saying their God is
going to be my God.
Folks, look around.
You don't have to look far.
Fourth man is right in your furnace.
Fourth man is right there.
Let's stand.
Hallelujah.
I want to say it again.
And I want you to listen closely.
There are many, many of you here.
Godly saints.
Lovers of Christ.
You've never heard it before, probably.
You may not want to believe it.
But often it's been your faith that puts
you in this situation.
It's your faith.
God says now I'm going to take that
faith and I'm going to put it in
divine order.
I'm going to make it pure gold.
This is coming out of this fire.
Divine purpose.
A yearning heart.
Weaned from the spirit of this age.
Weaned so that there's a growing desire to
be with the Lord.
Yes, I'm going to work while it's yet
day.
I'm going to do everything that God empowers
me to do.
But in it all and through it all,
I'm going to have my eyes on the
new Jerusalem.
Heavenly Father, you spoke to my heart that
there would be a number of people here
this morning.
Some that make this their church home and
others that walk into this building.
In the annex and here in the auditorium.
Who are really, truly up against something they
can't get over.
They can't understand.
It's beyond them.
And Lord, you have to do something for
us this morning so that this is not
just a pep talk.
But there's something of truth that pierces the
heart and lays hold of it.
And new hope and new faith rises.
That God has a purpose.
That the Lord is training me.
The Lord is working, weaning me.
And creating me a longing to leave this
world for His world.
And not be tied.
Not be distracted.
In Jesus' name.
Now, if the message this morning was something
that is yours.
In other words, you stand here right now
saying, Pastor Dave, that you're talking about me.
I am truly going through it.
And there's some, I would like to come
down.
I want you to come down if you
say, Pastor Dave.
I've been on the brink.
I've been pretty close to saying I can't
go anymore.
I can't live like this.
I invite you to step out of your
seat and come here in the annex.
Here in the main auditorium.
Upstairs.
Go to the stairs on either side.
And say, well, Pastor David, I have got
to touch God.
I've got to, I don't want to leave
this house the way I came in.
Now, if you don't know Christ.
If you're not walking with Jesus.
If you have known him.
If you've slipped away from your love for
him.
You've grown cold or indifferent.
I invite you, if the Holy Spirit is
talking to you, to come and join these
that are coming.
Now, if you don't know the Lord, the
Savior.
All you have to do is right now
say, Jesus, I surrender.
Jesus, I give it all to you.
Jesus, I trust you.
I trust you with my life.
I don't have to lead you in a
prayer.
You say that right now where you stand.
And the Lord said he's more willing to
give than you are to receive.
He's more willing to forgive than you are
to be forgiven.
So right now say, Jesus, at this moment,
in this place, I surrender my life to
you.
Just say it right now.
You can whisper it.
If he can read your mind, he can
hear your whisper.
Just say, Lord, here I am.
If you've been backslidden, Lord, I'm coming home.
I'm coming back to your arms.
Lord Jesus, draw me now, and I'll run
after you.
Do that right now.
And the rest of you that are in
the aisles in here.
Folks, the whole church are now in the
annex, all of us, in the annex.
The Lord Spirit is moving there as well
as in this auditorium.
And the Bible said God inhabits the praises
of his people.
And I want you to pray.
I want you to praise the Lord as
though you were heading home right now.
I'll tell you what, if God somehow could
just manifest himself.
And we saw manifestation, and the Lord said,
let's go.
Follow me.
And he took you right through that tissue
that separates time and eternity, and you break
through.
I'm going to tell you, you would not
be standing there like you're standing now.
You would not be standing.
I would not be here.
I would be leaping.
I would be dancing.
I would be praising God.
And the truth is, he said he could
come at any moment.
The truth is, I may be prophesying right
now.
I don't know.
But we are, this is not your citizenship.
You have papers, yes, thank God, I love
America, but this is not my home.
We are sojourning, we're passing on, we're passing
through, we're going to go home.
I want, in the annex, here may not
term, we're not working something up.
My Baba said, make a loud, joyful noise
unto the Lord.
If heaven, the new heaven, new earth that's
being created and under construction even now, if
God said, I created that as a place
of praise and rejoicing and joy, you do
what the Baba, this is your, he wouldn't
tell you to loosen those bands if you
couldn't do it.
He said, you loosen those bands.
You shake them off by a step of
faith.
I say, I will not take this anymore.
My God is with me.
This is the conclusion of the message.