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Let me speak to you this morning on
the subject, Offended in Christ.
Offended in Christ.
Now, I want you to go to Matthew,
please, the 11th chapter.
Matthew, the 11th chapter.
Offended in Christ.
It doesn't say by Christ, but offended in
Christ.
Matthew, 11th chapter, beginning to read verse 2
through verse 6.
Now, when John had heard in the prison
the works of Christ, he sent two of
his disciples and said unto him, Art thou
he that should come, or do we look
for another?
Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and
show John again those things which you do
here and see.
The blind receive their sight, the lame walk,
the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the
dead are raised up, the poor have the
gospel preached to them.
And here's my text.
And blessed is he whosoever shall not be
offended in me.
Heavenly Father, we're asking that you speak to
us about our confidence in you, our faith
in you, that you will speak to us
lovingly but convictingly about the areas of unbelief.
Lord Jesus, in those areas in our lives
when we are offended, when we do not
see the hand of God revealed as we
think we should.
Lord Jesus, do a marvelous work among us
today.
Thank you for the moving of your spirit
already.
Lord, we pray for those in the annex
and the overflow rooms and all over this
house, wherever we may be seated, that you
will speak from heaven to our hearts.
Speak, Holy Ghost.
This is your temple.
I'm asking you because I know that you're
in the temple and you're here speaking through
your temple.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
John the Baptist is in prison.
That voice crying from the wilderness has been
silenced by Herod.
The crowds are gone.
The voice of the one crying in the
wilderness has been silenced.
John's ministry lasted one year from August to
August.
If you want to know where I got
those dates, see me after the service.
It's in your Bible.
I don't have time to get into it
for a year.
The crowds came, the proud Pharisees, the scribes
and the Sadducees, the rich and the poor,
the soldiers.
They came to hear this voice, powerful, convicting
preaching.
Jesus said of this man, there's no greater
prophet born among men than John.
The Lord also dignified this man by saying
he's the one who is supposed to come
to lay a straight path before me.
Jesus loved this man.
John's public ministry, though now silenced.
The priest and the Levites came to him
one day to visit.
They said, who are you?
Are you the Christ?
Who are you?
And he said, no, I am not the
Christ.
Really, who are you?
They insisted, tell us who you are.
He said, I'm the one that Isaiah prophesied
about, the one who would come before the
Messiah, come before him who was to come
to lay down a straight path before him.
He said, that is it.
And while in prison, John was permitted to
be in touch evidently with his disciples.
And they gave him a daily report, probably
most likely of the activities of Christ, of
Jesus.
He heard everything he did.
He heard about the wedding feast of Canaan,
I'm sure.
He heard about all of these things Jesus
did, the miracles and the signs and the
wonders.
And when John heard these things, by the
way, his disciples were there when Jesus raised
a widow's son from the dead.
His disciples were there when they saw this
boy sit up in the coffin and begin
to talk.
And the scripture says, there came a fear
upon them all.
And they glorified God saying, what a great
prophet has risen up among us and that
God has visited his people.
And I'm sure that was the sense and
the joy that was in John's disciples when
they went to tell John of all the
miracles.
He said, the blind eyes, John, are opened
and the deaf are hearing and the dead
are being raised.
And I'm sure they were awed by what
God was doing, what Christ was doing.
And they were excited.
They were enthused.
But John did not share their enthusiasm.
John said, I want you to go.
And he sent two of his disciples.
He said, I want you to go to
this man and I want you to ask
him one question for me.
Are you the one who is to come
or do we look for another?
This from a man who is called the
greatest prophet ever born.
This from a man who once pointed to
him and said, this is the Lamb of
God taking away the sin of the world.
This is the one who spent years in
solitude studying the prophets.
Everything Isaiah especially said about him, because the
word that came to John, you can find
it all in the book of Isaiah.
This this man spent years and last week
they claimed to have found the cave that
John used to sleep in, not far from
where he baptized.
And they're trying to claim that now that's
the cave that he slept in.
But from this man that baptized Jesus and
saw a dove descend and heard a voice
from God saying, this is my beloved son
in whom I'm well pleased.
This is the man who says go to
him because Jesus had told his disciples.
And when Jesus heard this, and evidently in
Luke, it suggests that it was said before
a multitude.
It must have been a shocking experience for
the disciples of Jesus and especially of John
to hear this from John.
Is John doubting?
And the question is, are you the one
who is spoken of by the prophets?
Or do we look for another?
And they gave this to Jesus.
And these are the very words here.
He said, are thou he that should come
or do we look for another?
Jesus answered and said unto them, go and
show John again those things which we do
here and see.
Blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the
lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead
are raised up, and the poor have the
gospel preached to them.
And then Jesus and then aside the two
disciples and said, look, and it says and
and this is in the side.
He said, tell John, here's a personal message
to John.
Blessed is he whosoever is not offended in
me.
You see, John, John is a student of
the word.
According to John, it has to be as
it is written.
He spent his lifetime in the word of
God.
And he has this he has this concept
of what the kingdom of God is to
be like.
John has the the old Jewish concept, the
Jewish concept that when the Messiah comes, he
will set up his kingdom here on Earth.
It'll be a political religious system and he
will legislate holiness.
And when he comes, he's going to lay
the axe to the root of the tree.
All of these proud judges are going to
come down.
All of these proud Pharisees, they're going to
burn as an oven.
He knew and understood the prophecy of Malachi,
that he will come and he will send
fire and consume the wicked and he will
make it hot as an oven.
And he has this all his lifetime.
He sees this kingdom of power and might.
And he said when he comes, he's coming
with an axe in his hand and he's
coming with a flaming fire.
And he's going to he's going to cut
down everything that offends.
And John, I'm sure, is thinking if they
think they've heard preaching, if they think they've
heard something smiting, wait till he comes.
And when he comes in, this was a
Jewish concept that he will gather his army
and he will rule with a rod of
iron and he will legislate holiness.
But now John hears the report of Jesus
at a wedding and he's sitting with sinners,
feasting, eating with sinners.
The very sinners that John condemned.
And something is happening to this man.
Some dark test of faith is coming to
John the Baptist in that prison.
And I'm sure the enemy came and said,
did you not hear?
Did you not see?
Did you not preach that he's come to
release those who are in prison and set
the captives free?
Why are you here?
Why hasn't he come and set you free?
And the context of this chapter, if you
look at the first few verses, Jesus has
dispersed his disciples to the whole the whole
country now and sent them out two by
two.
And Jesus is working all alone.
He's going about the bus, just doing good.
And John is how the enemy must have
dealt with this man.
The devil, I'm sure, whispered, John.
And you see, he's human.
He feels everything in common to you and
to me.
I wouldn't want to believe this.
And I wouldn't want to believe anything about
John the Baptist.
I wouldn't.
I can't accept it unless it relates to
my human nature.
He's a human being.
And Jesus knew that he was depressed.
Who wouldn't be depressed?
A man who's lived his lifetime without walls.
His lifetime spent in solitude.
A man who loved nature.
A man who loved to walk and meditate
and talk to God.
A man who would spend days with the
parchments of all the prophets and the law
and the Psalms.
A man who came out with no walls
and now he's caged like an animal.
And that to John is a living hell.
And I'm sure John heard the gossip among
the guards that this king's wife, Herod's wife,
has already decided he's going to have his
head.
And you see, there's a battle going on
and the devil whispers to this man, Hey,
John, this man Jesus, yes, he's a good
man.
He's a holy man.
But he's just another prophet.
All the prophets did miracles.
What did Moses do?
He opened a red sea.
Elijah raised the dead.
Hosea preached to the poor.
He's just another miracle working man.
He's a prophet.
And doubts begin to come into his own
heart.
Go ask him.
What prompted this outburst in John?
Kind of deep, dark trial.
Something is troubling John's soul.
He's not really, the enemy is saying to
this man, he's really not setting captives free.
He would have started with you.
Jesus said, Blessed is he whosoever shall not
be offended.
And what Jesus is saying, John, I know
that you're offended by the way I am
fulfilling the kingdom of God.
You're offended because the expectation you had and
everything that you saw and wanted and hoped
it to be.
And John's not thinking of anything personal because
he has such a passion for God and
he has such a hatred for sin.
He's lived with this for so long and
he's longed for the kingdom of God.
He's longed to see God avenged and righteousness
established.
But now his expectations are not being fulfilled.
You see, you can go to the scriptures
and we have our expectations built up so
high through the promises.
The promises of God create these expectations in
us.
And we read these promises and we claim
these promises.
And time after time we wait and we
wait and we wait.
And the promise is not fulfilled in our
timing.
When we conceive and our expectations are not
fulfilled.
And that's why the enemy comes in with
all the questions about the faithfulness of God.
About the reality of who he is and
the reality about who you are in him.
He said he who comes is going to
have a fan in his hand.
He's going to purge his floor.
He's going to gather wheat into the garner.
But he will burn all the chaff with
unquenchable fire.
He'll lay the axe to the root.
He'll hew down every tree not bearing fruit
and cast it into the fire.
Malachi said the day cometh.
And he's speaking of the day of the
Messiah.
That shall burn as an oven and all
the proud and all who do wickedly shall
be stubble.
And that day that cometh shall burn them
all up.
It was said of the judges by Isaiah
the prophet.
He's going to bring the princes down to
nothing.
He's going to make all the judges of
the earth as vanity.
He shall blow upon them and they shall
wither.
John, this is the expectation of the kingdom.
But now comes a gentle man with passion
of love.
Just going about doing good, healing the sick,
casting out devils.
And John said that's not what I saw.
That's not what I believe the prophets have
said of this man.
And so he's saying once again, ask him.
Are you the one that has been prophesied
about?
Are you the one that I read about
in Isaiah?
The devil tempted Jesus in the wilderness.
In the same manner he is now testing
John.
In the same way he tests every one
of us.
What a deceiver the devil is.
And he can come to the most godly
of saints.
Yes, I believe John was in depression because
of his being caged.
Yes, I believe there were raging doubts.
And I believe the devil was coming at
this man.
If he came against Christ, he'd certainly come
against John.
And if he came against Christ and he
came against John, he's going to come against
you.
He's going to come against me at times
and try to rob us of our confidence
in God.
And especially our confidence in his faithfulness in
prayer.
To answer prayer.
And the devil is doing a work.
And unbelief is set in.
May I tell you that the sign of
unbelief being sprouting in us is that you
no longer pray for the things that you
once believed God for.
You don't pray for them anymore.
The evidence of unbelief sprouting and taking root
is that you no longer lay all of
your problems.
You don't lay this before the Lord.
You don't come to him by faith anymore.
And this is the temptation of the enemy.
That John be tempted in a way that
very few men have been tempted.
Let me expose the devil's most effective, destructive
device to rob us of our confidence and
faith.
Jesus said, blessed is he whosoever shall not
be offended in me.
And the Lord is there in that one
sentence exposing the worst lie of the devil.
He is exposing the worst device.
We're not ignorant of his devices and this
is one of his most destructive devices.
Jesus is tenderly warning John.
John, you asked me if I'm the one
you claim me to be.
But can't you see that that's a trap?
Because if the devil convinced you that I'm
not who you claimed I was, then you're
not who you claim to be.
You're a fraud.
You're a phony.
And if he is not, then there's no
resurrection.
And here I am facing death and I'll
be left in a grave.
Oh, how the enemy came against this man.
He comes against us the same way.
He'll come against you and say, all right,
you spent your lifetime seeking God.
You spent years talking about the faithfulness of
God.
He hears your prayer before you even ask.
He knows what you're asking for.
He that hears will answer.
You make all of these statements about the
greatness of God, about him being a God
of impossibilities.
Then why are you in the condition you
are?
Why is there no evidence of a deliverance?
Why are you stuck in this condition?
Is God just a slow God?
But you see what Jesus, I believe, is
really saying to John, John, the devil not
after me in this issue.
He's trying to get to you.
He's trying to trap you.
And Jesus loved this man.
And Jesus knew this man was going to
come through because I'm sure Jesus prayed for
him that his faith fell not.
But some of you that are here now,
this is what I heard from the Holy
Spirit.
And I'm trying to tie this together now.
So do you see the point that the
Lord is trying to make?
There are some of you that are sitting
here right now.
You're going through a test in your faith
because things have been things have been so
slow.
There doesn't seem to be any evidence of
those things that you prayed about and so
believed about and so talked about and encouraged
others to believe for.
And now here you sit in this meeting
this morning, hearing me speak.
And the enemy has come to you.
And what he wants you to do is
the same thing he wanted to happen to
John, that he would doubt who Christ is
so that he would doubt who he is
in Christ.
He would doubt who he is.
He would doubt all the things that God
had done for him, the call of God.
He would doubt that the hand of God
was on him and the lie, the lie
from the pits of hell, screaming at him,
John, you're a fraud.
Because if he's not the one who is
to come, you're not the prophet to set
the road straight.
And that's what the devil is trying to
do to you, to make you so doubt
that God is faithful to you.
Because John, yes, he heard of the miracles
all around him.
But that's what the devil said.
Yeah, you look around, you look at everybody
getting answers to their prayer.
Look what God's saying to other people in
the revelation they have now.
Look at you, stuck in a prison in
a marriage that is unfulfilling and like a
prison.
And you pray for your unsaved children and
you go month after month, year after year,
and where's the evidence?
Why doesn't the preaching you preach work for
you?
Now, I know there are many going through
this battle and the devil is trying to
not only get you to doubt God, he
wants you to doubt the faithfulness of God
so that you will doubt yourself.
Oh, I know what that's about.
I know what it is to have those
kind of doubts flood my soul, especially after
having to prophesy.
All the devil wants to do is get
John to speak three little words.
And if he can get him to say
these three little words and just voice them,
and Jesus knew the consequences that would happen
if John gave in to this lie, this
trap.
In fact, the word offended in Greek is
entrap, it's slave and ensnare, to trip up.
He's trying to trip you up, he's trying
to ensnare you with a lie to say
that if I were really in Christ, he
didn't have any places, surely I would have
his ear.
Surely he would not hold back from me.
Surely he would not allow me to go
through what I'm going through without.
You see, Jesus didn't even answer John's question.
He didn't answer him because he's not trying
to persuade John.
It has to be a work of the
Spirit of God in him through the word.
He has to get John to say these
three words, I have regrets.
You see, if he voices these regrets, and
the word regret here means distress over unfulfilled
expectations.
Distress of heart because of unfulfilled expectations.
And if all John says to one or
two of his disciples, I have regrets.
My expectations have not been fulfilled in this
man.
If he does that, he's undermined every prophet
of all ages who spoke of his coming.
He's undermined the work of Christ for generations
to come.
And it's so important that this man hears
the word of Jesus, Blessed is he whosoever
is not offended in me, who will refuse
the lies of Satan and stand faithful and
believe.
He comes at us with the same thing
he came to John because the devil saw
John's impatience.
John was impatient with the way Christ, with
the way Jesus was fulfilling the ministry of
bringing about the kingdom of God.
John didn't know much about the cross other
than what he read in Isaiah, but still
steeped in the Jewish traditions.
Impatience is an inability to wait, unable to
bear afflictions calmly.
Unable to just be calm in the spirit
and rest in the Christ who made the
promise.
And John is impatient, not for himself.
He wants to see sin defeated.
He's not trying to be validated.
John just says, I want to see the
word fulfilled.
I have all these promises.
I spent my life on it.
And this is what the devil wants you
to do.
And that's to be impatient about the promises
God has made you.
Promises about salvation of your family, about your
ministry, about your life, about your future, about
children.
So many things.
And God has made you a promise.
And these expectations are built in you.
And now, if you don't mix patience with
your faith, it's not faith.
This body is a temple of the Holy
Ghost.
This is his church.
This is his body.
And there's an altar in this body upon
which incense waves to the throne of God.
And that incense is faith, the prayer of
faith.
But you see, the enemy wants to mix
a little mixture of unbelief.
And there's a thing in the Bible called
strange incense that turned in an obnoxious odor.
And you see, when you mix just a
little bit of impatience with your prayer, that
incense, it goes up.
You cause that incense to become an obnoxious
stench in the eyes of God.
And the devil picks up that scent.
To him, it's his perfume.
He picks up that impatient spirit.
And some of you have that right now.
Some of you, in fact, are about ready
to give up on God, ready to give
up on your confidence in the Lord.
And I've seen many people like that.
They've been so offended because Jesus hasn't answered
on time.
Jesus, you're too slow.
And now in their impatience, their prayers have
become obnoxious in the sight of God because
now it's producing unbelief.
And then out of this temple, everything that
comes out is mixed with that impatient spirit.
Inability to wait, unable to bear afflictions calmly.
Hebrews 6, 12, be not slothful, but followers
of them who through faith and patience inherit
the promises.
The Bible says of Abraham, after he patiently
endured, he obtained the promises.
God has been speaking to me about my
impatience.
We get impatient with people.
Husbands and wives get impatient with one another.
But oh, buddy, brother, sister, I tell you,
it's another thing to get impatient with God.
Thank God John did the right thing.
He ran quickly with his doubts to Christ.
He ran directly to Jesus.
Jesus knew this man's heart.
Jesus warned in the last days, many shall
be offended.
Same Greek word.
So many are going to be offended, he
said, and it results in Jesus said an
amazing thing.
When I come, will I find faith on
the earth?
So many of my people are going to
be offended.
So many of my disciples are going to
be offended.
And after the death of Jesus, this prophecy
came to pass.
Jesus had prophesied to his closest disciple, all
you shall be offended because of me this
night.
And when Jesus gave the parable, the seed
that was sown and fell on various types
of ground, he said, when there are those
who have no root in themselves, in other
words, meaning they have no patience.
When affliction or persecution arises for the word's
sake, immediately they are offended.
And affliction there in the original is pressure,
trouble, stress.
He said when stress and all this can
come because of the word, until the word
came, the Bible said, the word of God,
till his time came, the word of God
tried Joseph.
Those promises can try you.
And when stress, he said, there are some
that are coming and they serve me for
a while.
They were faithful for a while and in
their stress and in their trouble, they held
on.
But because they didn't have roots and because
really saying because of their lack of patience,
they couldn't wait calmly.
They didn't mix faith with their patience, with
their faith.
He said they are offended.
Immediately they are offended.
There's a powerful verse in Proverbs 18, chapter
verse 19.
And I saw this last night and it
really struck me.
This is serious business before God.
The scripture says a brother offended is harder
to be won than a strong city.
And their contentions are like the bars of
a castle.
Offended here is in Hebrew, break away, apostatize.
And the word contention here is argument.
And when you put it all together, being
offended, a brother was offended.
If not, if this offense is not dealt
with, there's a danger of breaking away, spinning
out of faith completely, breaking away and apostatizing.
He said, and then when you go to
this person, they have bars.
They they are all barred in because of
their argument.
I have a reason to feel like I
do.
He said, and if you hold on to
that offense.
It gets harder and harder because your heart
gets hard because you have an argument now.
And they're like the bars of a castle.
They lock you in so that nobody can
reach you and you hear it.
You hear it from the girl.
Fifteen year old girl wrote to me and
said, I believed in God and I prayed
and I fasted.
My father, who was dying of cancer, be
healed.
But he died and I'll never believe in
God again.
And you'll never persuade that girl because she
has walls, bars of a castle around her.
This is the danger.
This is the danger of holding an offense.
While you're in Christ holding this impatient spirit,
the danger of is breaking away.
Not that God wants to let you go,
but he will come and speak to you
about the blessings there are.
If you will lay that offense down, I
will bless you.
There are incredible blessings that wait.
That blessing is the fulfilling of the promise
that God gave to you.
He's going to bless you.
He wants to bless you.
He wants you to remind you of it.
You see, by the day, what's the cure?
You're speaking to my heart.
I want to go to James.
The book of James, chapter one.
Folks, I'm going to close in five minutes.
This is not a long message, but here
is the cure.
My brethren, count it all.
What joy when you fall into diverse temptations,
knowing this, that the trying of your faith
worketh.
Say it.
Patience.
God is doing a work.
This waiting, this apparent slowness of God.
God is working something in you that couldn't
be worked in any other way.
It's working patience in you so that when
the times that are really hard, when the
world is spinning out of control, when you're
in a time like this, when what happened
in the Asian nations, an eruption, one
million times more powerful than the bomb that
dropped on Hiroshima, one million times more powerful.
And when we're going to have to bow,
the whole world is going to have to
bow one of these days.
At the immense release of a power they
don't understand.
And even scientists now, thinking men all over
the world are saying, somebody somewhere is tinkering
with nature.
They're tinkering with nation, with nature.
Someday, God is going to be known for
who he is.
And God is going to shake everything that
can be shaken.
Now, friends, those times are at hand.
The beginnings of sorrows are upon us.
And God is trying to raise up a
people without offense.
He's trying to wake up a people.
I believe that before John stood before the
executioner, I believe he stood up and made
a confession.
Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes
away the sin of the world.
And I believe John stood up and said,
I am John.
I am the prophet called and anointed.
And I've made his path straight.
And that's what God's trying to produce in
every one of us right now.
If we're going to reach New York, we're
going to be the testimony.
We're not going to be straggling around in
unbelief.
You're going to have to know who you
are in Christ.
And the world begins to shake.
You stand still because God's tested you and
your patience.
If you don't get it.
I forgot to get the rest of that.
Go back to James.
Back to James 1.
Faith, work with patience, but let patience have
her that you may be perfect in entire
wanting means lacking nothing.
If any of you lack wisdom, let him
ask of God.
Oh, he's a giving God that God give
it to all men liberally, upbraideth not and
it shall be given him.
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering
for he that wavers like a wave of
the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Let not that man think he's achieved anything
of the Lord.
If you don't get anything else, let this
out of the message.
I'm speaking in the spirit to so many
here.
Be patient.
Faith without patience is not faith.
It's not faith.
Let God finish the work and hold on.
The answer is coming.
And one day you'll be able to stand
up before the whole world and say, I
don't have to be afraid anymore.
God took me through the worst trial of
my life and he'll take me through anything
now.
And he'll do that.
Will you stand, please?
No clapping, please.
Jesus, I.
I don't want to be that kind of
person.
That's so offended.
I couldn't be reached.
Become so hard and so bitter.
God, don't let it happen to anybody within
the sound of my voice.
And I pray, Holy Spirit, you come in
loving kindness as you did with John.
Come speak lovingly to our hearts.
Lord, you know what we're going through.
You know the trial and some of it
is so painful and so difficult.
But, Lord, you've heard every cry in your
time and in your way.
And even now, you're working behind the scenes
that we don't see.
You're convicting.
You're doing things that are miraculous.
And we have no sight.
But the Lord saying, I'm not going to
show you what I'm doing.
I want you to believe.
And I want you to let this working
in you be finished.
I was praying while you were coming.
This is what I received from the Holy
Spirit.
Listen closely, please.
This won't be long.
Very short, right to the point.
Holy Spirit, show me that many of you
that stand before me never meant to be
impatient with God.
It never wanted to feel left out or
that God was not answering you.
But fear, see, fear has torment.
You allowed fear into your heart.
You got afraid.
Maybe God will not answer.
Maybe God will let me down.
And then you say he wouldn't do it
for any other reason.
But I'm not worthy.
There's something in me.
Because you wouldn't dare blame God.
But you blame yourself.
I guess I'm not seeing it right.
I'm not getting it right.
Or I don't know the Scriptures.
Or maybe there's some sin in me that's
holding God back from giving me what the
Bible caused me to expect and believe.
But it's fear.
And you're going to confess fear.
Right now.
Lord, I've been afraid.
Wait till I lead you.
But you're going to have to get this
out of your heart.
He said, I'm not giving you a spirit
of fear, but love and power in a
sound mind.
You have the power and the authority in
the name of Jesus to let the spirit
have access to your heart and pluck out
every spirit of fear.
Bow your head and pray this with me
right out loud.
Dear Jesus, I have been afraid.
I'm really not mad at you.
But I've had doubts.
I've had doubts about you.
But I've loved you.
And Lord Jesus, I'm asking you to forgive
my unbelief and my impatience.
But most of all, take out the fear
and bring the spirit of calmness and rest
and confidence.
Forgive me, Jesus, for everything that's offended you.
Anything against you, Christ, cleanse me.
And by faith now, I lay hold of
the promise of God and I believe.
Say it again.
I believe.
Convince your heart right now.
Lord, I will step out in faith and
patience.
What did what did we just read?
If you need this wisdom, let him ask
what in faith.
But if you don't, he said, don't let
that man woman think they receive anything from
God.
If you prayed in faith now, Father, I
pray for those that have come forward, those
who are yielding their heart to you, Jesus.
Some maybe for the first time, some that
are coming back to their love for you.
Some Lord laying down their offended spirit.
Lord, whatever it is, we pray you accept
repentance.
You accept our brokenness before you and our
willingness to confess and open our hearts to
you.
And I pray now for the anointing of
the Holy Spirit upon every one of these,
not only at the altar, but those within
the sound of my voice.
Send the anointing of the Holy Ghost.
Lord, let us not be afraid of the
future.
We're going to see things now, Lord, and
it's going to be coming to the United
States shortly.
And when we see and hear these things
that Bible says, we will have come through
and we shall not be shaken.
We will not fear.
Nothing then shall move us from our confidence
in you.
Oh, Lord, prepare our hearts and confidence in
faith.
We pray.
I want you to raise your hands and
just give God thanks.
This is the conclusion of the message.