Identified With Us | Matthew 3:3-17 | Philip Anthony Mitchell

If you are a guest, we welcome you to 28, 19, where we are serious about the spread of the gospel and the multiplying of disciples. And to all of our digital family across America and around the world, we welcome you to this space wherever you're watching from you, our family, and cities all across this nation and continents all around the world. And if you're not a follower of Christ in the room, we are glad that you're here. If you're in the overflow, we're glad that you're here. Some way, somehow, you're not a follower of Christ and you are in this chat. You're watching live right now, wherever you are. We are glad that you are watching, and our prayers that you would be brought into this family before us too late. Time is running out on humanity. Today, I was supposed to start a series through the letter of Ephesians, which is where our church is going next. We will be in the letter of Ephesians for a number of months and in a new series that's called In Christ, where your identity will be properly shaped as we walk through that series together. And we will be unified as a church. And you will come out of the side knowing who you are, that you are more than what people call you, you are more than the labels of your place in yourself, you are son and daughter.

And there is much to be said about you in Christ, but I want to obey the Holy Spirit. And so, that series, I'm going to put that off until the first Sunday in September. This morning, when I got up at 3 a.m., I prayed until about 6 a.m., about three hours of prayer. In that time, I felt like God spoke to me to do something different today. (gentle music) So what I have is not like prepared, but it will be whatever it's going to be. And today, we're going to pray together as a church. And if that's boring to you, then you are full of your flesh and you have not read the scriptures for, Jesus said, "My house will be a house of prayer." And there is a lot of preaching and not enough praying. A lot of conferences, not enough praying. A lot of Christian activity and not enough praying. Today, I'm calling our entire church to prayer. And specifically, I want to call us to prayer. Maybe around three things. And I'm going to tell you what they are. Father, in the name of Jesus, Holy Spirit, have your way. That is all. In the mighty and the majestic in the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.

(gentle music) - Thank y'all. We're going to pray, but before we pray, I want to read something to you. And on the heels of that, I want us to pray about three things specifically. I'm going to try to end this in enough time where we don't have to feel rushed to beat each other into the parking lot. Okay. Amen. Probably the greatest encounter that any human being will ever have in their life is that moment when they pass from death to life. When they know something has transpired in their heart in which God is no longer just a name in a book, but He becomes real and tangible. Their eyes have been opened. They realize all this time they have been living separated from God. They realize in a moment they have come alive now in the spirit, they start to feel conviction for sin. They start having desires that have been changed. They start longing for things that are righteous. They want to go to church. They want to read the scriptures. They want to pray. We would-- when a person has been rescued from being on a path that's leading to damnation and destruction

in which by the power of the Holy Spirit, he wrestles them down to the ground with conviction. They surrender their life to Christ. They are now born again or they are regenerated. They are made new. Their dead spirit comes alive on the inside and they are now sealed as a child of God, as a son and daughter of God. And there is a Christian practice that is a public demonstration to people of that supernatural act that happens in the lives of men and women and even children all around the world and we will witness those public demonstrations next Sunday. And what I want to do is bring you back to the origins of the most important public demonstration. We've seen a baptism and then call you to pray for three things, you know biblical history, how God sent a prophet named Malachi, the last of the prophets in the Old Testament that was written preaching to people who were far away from God and through him, God sent to a people, if I am a father, then where is the honor do me? He rebuked priests for greed and rebuked them for withholding tithes and received people who manipulate Christians for tithes, not reading things in context that he was first dealing with corrupt preachers first, who love money more than people. And then after Malachi, God goes silent for 400 years.

After 400 years have passed, Christ is born in the first century. He is in obscurity for 30 years, three decades. He is an obscure, we know very little about his life. We know where he was born. We know the name of his parents. We know he grew in wisdom and then he disappears after 12. From the age of 12, until the age of 30, we have no record of what Jesus was doing. He is in the dark, he is in obscurity. No one even knows that he is this publicly. And then God will break that 400 year silence when he raises up the last great prophet of the Old Testament era, a man whose life was prophesied by an angel named Gabriel, a man who's at the center of the text. I'm about to read to you before we pray. Matthew wrote about that man in Matthew chapter three, beginning in verse one, he said in those days, John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea. John was the son of a woman who formerly did not have children. And God promised her a son and said to her, your son will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from the womb, he will be set apart for God, he will be a Nazarene, that boy will be anointed, he will be different. And you're gonna name him John. And his mother Elizabeth was a relative of Mary who was the mother of Christ.

John was a mighty man. John was a separated man. John was austere, he was rugged, he was gangster, he was stogged out. John was holy, John was righteous, John was set apart, John was different. And he came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, not in the city, not in the comforts of villages. He goes out into Judea and to the barren wayside just outside of Jerusalem, east of Jerusalem, west of the Dead Sea, I've walked through there, there is nothing green there. And there he was raised his whole life in the wilderness. This man was in the wilderness his entire life out there alone being intimate with God. 'Cause sometimes it takes being away from people Sometimes it takes us getting away from the noise of social media and the noise of society and the noise of the world to get alone with God. When was the last time you'd been alone with God? And he's out there in the wilderness and I love what they say about him in Luke's Gospel. He grew mighty in spirit. I read that yesterday and I wept on the pages of my Bible. I said, "Lord, I want to grow even more mighty in spirit." Like you got people who preach not mighty in the spirit, people who sing not mighty in the spirit. Men and women who sit down in chairs every Sunday, not mighty in the spirit. Now, I want to walk in rooms and demons tremble

when I walk in rooms. I want to walk into situations and lay hands and people get healed when I lay hands. I want to be sitting at the table ready for a business man about the sign of document and the Holy Spirit says no. I'm so filled with the spirit. I hear him clearly even at the office. I want to get ready to start something the Lord said, don't start that now. Wait for another season. I want to be so mighty in spirit that every step I make, every decision I make is in line with the spirit. I want to be so in step with the spirit that even my haters are confused by the fruit of my life that they repair him down in public and God keeps blessing him in public. I want to be so in step with the spirit that I eat fruit in the face of my enemies. (crowd cheering) I want to be so in step in the spirit that the devil creeps into my house. I say, not my house. I'll grab oil and a Bible and run you out of this house. I want to be so in step in the spirit, man. You lay hands on your spouse at night and they wake up more loving in the morning. (crowd cheering) John grew in spirit. Are you growing in spirit?

And John came with a message, verse two, repent for the kingdom of heaven is that hand. How's that for sermon? Not you're going to be blessed next week. Not sow a seed and God will make you a millionaire. Not God turns a blind eye to sin, live reckless and then come to church. No, no, no, no, no. John's first message was, repent. For the kingdom of heaven is ahead, which was also Jesus's first message, repent. For the kingdom of heaven is ahead. America needs to hear that message. Repent. For the kingdom of heaven is ahead. Let me give you the modern translation. Turn from your sins quickly for time is running out. Run to Jesus quickly for time is running out. Get right with God today. Why? Because time is running out. Repent John preached to the nation of Israel, a nation bearing spiritually, legalistic, and drifting from God. His first message to people in trouble was not God loves you. His first message to them was, turn from your backwards ways. Turn back to God. Turn back to the word. Turn back to prayer.

America needs to hear that. Turn. Man, preach us. We need to hear that. Turn. Turn from lying to people on Sunday to keep butts and seats. Turn from prophylion. Turn from raping people for money. Turn for using the ministry for self-anggrandizement. Turn. America needs to hear that, watch. Turn. Turn from your foolishness. Turn from your antics. Turn from your vain ambitions. Turn from your reckless behavior. Turn. Back to God, one for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom is alive right now on the earth. It will crush everybody who was watch an enemy of Christ Every false religion every false belief everyone man who turned a blind eye on Christ the kingdom will crush them in the end So everybody's gambling but what they believe you better make sure you have believed right before you die repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. That's what we need in America Second tired of re-pritching about revival with no repentance Second tired of us coming to church without repentance right we have dead church services all across America No repentance right man. This is a joke in America man. We're full of sin and no repentance If we will see revival in our nation if we will see a breakthrough in your home, man We must first repent Man a husband today needs to repent to a wife a wife today needs to repent to a husband I'm gonna go deeper a parent needs to repent to a child

and Repentance is not I'm sorry Lord a repentance is I change So John comes preaching a baptism of repentance For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said the voice of one crying in the wilderness Prepare the way of the Lord and make his path straight. Come on man. I feel heat John's whole ministry was to prepare a nation for the rise of Christ who is just about to merge on the world stage John's whole ministry was to prepare a nation For Christ pay attention. He tells them since Christ is coming turn Watch since Christ is coming don't let him come and catch you where you was Man, this is the same message we need right now. Is this not what the nation needs right now? We have too many diva voices Too many fake voices too many cotton candy voices too many soft voices too many Compromide voices know what we need right now in America from your seat to this platform is both voices who will help Prepare the way for the Lord. I Wish I have a thousand bold voices in the room right now This is a mission of 28 19 Man, we ain't gathered here just to have Sunday morning services No, I'm on my knees praying and shredding tears and crying that we In 19 will be a church local and global that is serving giving praying laboring forgiving And watch this working together in America and around the world to prepare the world for the coming of the Sun This is why I preach the way that I do It's why I prayed the way that I do why I post the way that I do why I live the way that I do Why I sacrifice the way I do why I hang myself on the cross the way that I do Why I apologize the way that I do why because I said to God my life belongs to you use it to prepare a generation for your tummy And you have no idea what God would do with your business Your ministry your podcast your marriage your home your life I'm talking to teenagers and adults when you said Lord all of me on your altar Use me use everything I have to prepare people for your

Coming We are living in the final hours of the church age and if the church is not about Getting people ready for the coming of Christ. We are wasting our time So nobody care about a dead song and a dead sermon If we don't even care about the fact that the Lord is coming and we're doing nothing to get people ready And we get people ready by disciples, not churchgoers, committed followers after Christ, and telling people to stay close to Jesus because we're right at the very end. What about your voice? You only think about mine, because I'm repassed to 2019. What about your voice? It's the past I don't have a voice, really? You got social media? Your fingers is a voice. How you handle yourself on your job is your voice. What you teach in your children is your voice. How you deal with your spouse is your voice. What about your voice? The devil is a liar. Now John, verse 4, your peep is fit, like we're about to do a biblical fit check. Your peep, peep, John's fit. Now John wore a garment of camels here and a leather belt around his waist, puffs. My man has no guards, no royal robes, the man got a camel, skinned it, put it on and put a belt on, fit check. He's dressed like the prophet Elijah, another prophet who was a preacher of righteousness, and I love when I read John's fit check because the fact that he were dressed like this in a culture when everybody's about their clothes tells me that John was his authentic self, that John was not afraid to be, watch this word, different, that John was not afraid to be, watch these two words set apart, that John was this word free, why you wear black because I'm free, why you only wear a uniform because I'm free, I ain't trying to impress,

John's fit gives us permission to be the authentic person God has called you to be. The point I'm trying to make is God will never bless the phone of you. He's not going to bless the person you're pretending to be. When I first came to Atlanta because this is a church going city, I thought I had to look a certain way and talk a certain way and act a certain way for people to come to my church, and for four years that did not work until one day I was saying to myself I'm an urban dude from Queens, I'm from the hood, I like night keys, and I don't want to be stuffy when I preach, I'm just going to dress the way that fits my natural makeup. I wear black and ones, and I wear uniforms and God has breathed on the ministry, he's entrusted to me, when I accepted who I was inside his kingdom. I be jealous or pretend to be something you're not, when the genius of Jesus is variety. He does not need another PAM, he needs you to be who he's called you to be. John's fit tells me he is free to be his authentic according to the will of God. He's dressed like Elijah, his food is locust and well honey, so he's a consecrated man with a consecrated diet and then watch the impact of authenticity according to God's will. Verse 5, "Then Jerusalem and all Judea and the region about the Jordan were going out to him." So God blessed who he was inside. all around the nation of Israel went out into the wilderness to hear John preach in essence. His stand for righteousness called people out of comfort zones into the wilderness. His stands for righteousness and holiness called people out of the comfort zones to meet with God in the wilderness. Verse 6, "And they were baptized by him in the river Jordan confessing their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees and the Sadducees come into his baptism, these are the religious rulers of the day who were also very fake in the enemies of Jesus." He said to them, "You, brood of vipers!" So we can never check a hater. No, you got to know when to speak, I'm meant to remain silent. You snakes who warned you to flee from the wrath to come. Bear fruit and keep in with repentance. Bear fruit, fruit that remains. Bear fruit, fruit that

remains. Bear fruit, fruit that remains. Shout out to our elders and pastors. Bear fruit, fruit that remains. Bear fruit that remains. That is, he seen fake people coming to inspect what he was doing in ministry. Because not people, not everybody who gets close to you is for you. And where there is authentic anointing, it will always attract enemies. So sometimes when people are hating on you, that doesn't mean you've done something wrong. Sometimes opposition is a sign that you're moving in the right direction. Don't be confused. Just pay attention to who the devil attacks. And why is everybody talking about this person? The devil never attacks what he owns. He attacks threats. He will try to mitigate threats. He will try to diminish the character and the witness of threats. The problem with America is you have no discernment. So you call evil good and good evil. And you call real prophets fake prophets and let fake prophets run rampant. You spend all your time making videos about real prophets hurting the cause of God. You don't like what the real prophets said? Pray for them. And do not presume yourselves that we have Abraham as our father. I tell you, God is able to raise up stones for his children in Abraham. So he's saying, don't think just because you are Jew, you're going to get into the kingdom. And people do this all the time. You see, people do this all the time. Right now as I'm talking to you, there are people listening to me right now, we do this all the time. You have people all around the country who think they have a relationship with God because of their parents or because they go to church every once in a while. They were thinking they was in the kingdom because of their ethnicity. No, you don't have a walk with God just because you've been around church a few times. There is no relationship with God apart from Christ who said, I am the way to truth and the life. This is like people running around. It's crazy to me. People running around on social media with syncretism, you mixing God and all this other crazy mess. And you're saying, God, which God we talking about? And you're going to be careful. We're talking about God. God said, which God we talking about? Be careful. Everybody who says God is not of God. We just throw his name on everything and everybody. There is only one God, and every other God is the idol, and our God has a name. Yahweh, Yashua, Hamashiya is God. There is no other God. It's God we talking about? Yashua!

Every tree that therefore does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. No fruit, no kingdom. John says, "I baptize you with water for repentance, but he," this is him preparing the way, "who is coming after me is mightier than I, who sandals I am not worthy to carry. We will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." So he said, "I only baptize you with water for repentance, pay attention. The person coming behind me, who is Christ, his baptism is far more powerful. He baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire." So Jesus has two baptisms. His first baptism is with the Holy Spirit. That happens to every person who gets saved, they get filled with the Spirit like me in a bathroom over a toilet seat while I want it to unalive myself. I am saved in that bathroom. Jesus baptizes me with the Holy Spirit in that bathroom over the toilet seat. A former thug comes out a brand new man. The other baptism with fire, some people could say, "This is to make you more energetic and alive." Sounds good for preaching. More so in context, the baptism of fire is judgment. This is Jesus' watch saying, "In the end, to every person who dies who disrespected him and says, "You can't come into the kingdom." "Lord, I believe the wrong thing, too late." "Lord, I did not know, too late." "Lord, I wasn't paying attention in church too late. Depart from me, I never knew you." The only other option is down. That's the baptism of fire. And that's what Jesus will baptize everybody. Every human being will get baptized by Christ, either with the Spirit unto salvation or with

fire unto damnation. No one escapes Christ. The evidence that the fire baptism is judgment is verse 12. His winnering fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into his barn, which is heaven, and the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire. In those days, they had a fork, and they would go down to a threshing floor for wheat. That is bread. The threshing floor will have wheat on the floor. They will take the floor, the fork, poke it in the wheat, throw the wheat up in the air. The wind will blow and separate the chaff from the wheat. They will take the wheat and put it in a basket, and the chaff, which is the unusable part, will fall to the floor to be thrown away. What John is saying, when Jesus comes, he is going to rise, and over time, he will separate the real from the fake, believe us from unbelievers. He will gather those who loved him into his glory and those who rejected him into everlasting fire. Nobody is going to escape that. Everybody is going to end up one or two places. And then these last verses, and now, after 30 years of obscurity, verse 13, Jesus comes to the world stage. Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to be baptized by me?" That is, John felt unworthy to baptize Christ. Just like many of us sometimes feel unworthy to serve Christ. Our past, our mistakes, our failures, our insecurities, our lack of education, listen, God can use anyone who is willing and able. But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so for now, for thus it is fitting to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented.

And when Jesus was baptized, he immediately came up out of the water and behold, the heavens were open over him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on his shoulder, which was prophetic. For the scripture said, "Whoever you see this dove land on, we know that person is the Son of God. And behold, a voice from heaven said, 'This is my beloved Son with whom I am well pleased.'" I want you... Jesus goes down to the, give me that picture of the Jordan River. This is the Jordan River, murky, dirty, filthy, where I had an opportunity to baptize 12 disciples, including my wife. Jesus comes down to this filthy, dirty body of water to be baptized by John in the same river. Now, John's baptism is a baptism for repentance, but Jesus has never sinned. So why is Jesus going down to John to be baptized? If John's baptism was only for sinners, why is a sinless man going to be baptized for a baptism for sinners? He was never committed sins. He lived a perfect life. Why is the son of God who was perfect going down to this filthy river to be baptized by a man which is a baptism for sinners? Why did Jesus do that? Did he do that to repent? Had nothing to repent of? Did he do that because he was a sinner? Never committed sins.

Why is Jesus going down to be baptized in a sinner's baptism? Jesus goes down to this filthy river to be baptized in a sinner's baptism so that in his humanity, he can be fully identified. - Jesus. - Wow. - With you, a sinner. (audience applauding) You missed that. In his baptism, he identifies with you a sinner and then the opposite happens in your baptism. (audience cheering) You identify with twice who is holy that in his baptism, he shows the death and resurrection identifying with you as a sinner. So he beats baptized to identify himself with you. Of your heat. Next Sunday, 3,000 people will be baptized to identify themselves with choice. (audience applauding) His baptism wants to be identified with you. Your baptism is to be identified with him in his death burial and resurrection. As for those who have already been baptized, my question is, are you continuing to be identified with him in the way that you talk, the way that you live, the way that you serve, the way that you sacrifice? And notice all three persons of the Godhead are present. The sun is in the water,

the Father is speaking from heaven and the Spirit is descending like a dove. He said, we don't believe in a triune God. You have not read about God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, not God our mother. (audience applauding) And he said, this is my beloved son. And who, I am well pleased, watch this. Jesus was a firm before he did anything. But you're trapped in performance based religion. You feel like I have to read more for God to love me. And I have to pray more for God to love me. And I've got to fast more for God. You're trying to do all these things to earn affirmation from God. You was a firm through the cross. Jesus was a firm before he did anything. You are affirmed. And next Sunday? Oh yeah, thank you Holy Spirit. You are affirmed, loved, fully known, fully accepted. You know how, you can't earn love from him. Can't earn salvation, can't earn. You are affirmed. You are a son before anything else. You are a daughter before anything else. Loved and affirmed. (soft music) Three things. We're about to pray for the 3,000 people that are registered to be baptized next Sunday.

Right? We're going to pray for them that God pours out His glory next Sunday for all 3,000 of them. And for you who are not registered, next Sunday is not just Sunday off, next Sunday we gather together as a church to celebrate 3,000 public decisions for Jesus, that we're going to stand and support our family and shout for them and love on them and be there for them, 3,000 of them. And you're looking at me right now, you said, "Darn it, Pastor, I didn't get a chance to register." Pull up by faith, fly in by faith, drive in by faith, hop off the train by faith and trust God to make room for you in the Jordan. You said, "So we're going to pray, we're going to take two minutes and we're going to pray for baptism. Let me tell you the second thing we're praying for, listen to me carefully. We live in the last days, there is trouble in this room, trouble in our homes, trouble in our marriages, there are needs we have, we want to see signs, wonders and miracles, we got unsafe loved ones, the nation is in trouble, our law system is in trouble. Our nation is in trouble." Spinning down the commode to the basement, we got lawmakers saying the craziest things and an invasion happening right now in America that's going to try to take over the country and persecute Christians, I'm telling you, we're living in the final hours of the church age. And if we will see revival, we're not going to see revival because we keep having services, we're going to see revival because we pray. If my people, give me this camera, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, turn from their wickedness, I might hear and heal. So the second thing we're going to pray for is this. I'm calling every digital disciple of 20, 19 in America and around the world and everybody local in Atlanta, I'm calling us to a moment of national prayer when on October 10th we take over AT&T Stadium for access.

We're over the set where we take over AT&T Stadium for access. 80,000 of us will be a multiplication of power that heals, delivers, miracles, signs, wonders. We are going to shake the nation. We are going to shake the nation and the world together, 80,000 believers in the Dallas, Texas area. Thank you for all you haters, free tickets will be available, free tickets will be available on September 1st, while you're waiting so long because we want to give you only 40 days to get in the room, 40 days to get your heart ready, 40 days to pray, 40 days to fly in, 40 days to get your hotel, you only get 40 days, why? We want the room filled with the hungry. But right now, if you're able, I want you to slip off the chair onto your knees. We're going to take two minutes and if you can't get on your knees because you're elderly or you're in pain, don't do it, you can sit on your chair. I'm asking us to pray for, I don't like the number two, three minutes, three minutes. We're praying for baptism, we're praying for access. Pray Right Thank you Get up here, Rhonda Oh Come up here Lena Come up here Danielle Oh Pray for baptism Follow we pray for baptism next week. I pray Lord that baptism will be a glorious day I pray Lord that you will begin to print the hearts of your children I pray for those who are coming in favor, and I pray for those who are registered I pray Lord that that day the nation will shake up I pray that that day the people will be healed and delivered up I pray that they will go down one way and rise another

We thank you for an opportunity to be baptized There will be transformed that the spirit of the Lord will be with us Father that we will never be the same again. I I pray for breakthrough I pray for revival. I pray for strength. I pray that we will never be the same again I pray Lord that we will go down and die in this watery grave We thank you Lord that all things will die and never return Father we look forward to the day Where we bury our own heavens where we bury sickness where we bury diseases And we rise up a new creature in you. I pray that you will transform our lives and help us fathers to go high up Far the faster and the name of Jesus pray for action Hallelujah, Lord. We thank you our God for October 10th We lift up October 10th until you father God we believe in your power We believe in your presence and we believe in your spirit We thank you by the trust here arrest on us Oh God on October 10th that people will be saved that people will be redeemed That people will be delivered and set free. You are the God who can do all things But they'll and so we trust you that lives will be transformed That healing will take place that saving will take place that deliverance will take place It is by your spirit. It is by your authority It is by your power. So we speak freedom now We can't look the angels could be around AT&T stadium. We pray God for breakthrough We pray you can do it and we have seen it before We have seen your head move bring the dance things back to life the dance things back to life My will be here. The bodies will be delivered by the water It's by the blood It is by the blood the blood the blood still works The blood still saves us the blood still delivers and we trust you We call you

Yahweh, we call you Jesus We call him Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Their name and is above every other name Every digital disciple will come and feel the power of your presence We call against the enemy now We call against the enemy now every plan every steam Oh God to come against what you are doing in the earth We thank you for your power. We thank you for your presence You are with us. You are with us. We give this day back to you It belongs to you. 2819 belongs to you. Come on. Now you receive that Everybody do your feet and give God Christ in this house. Come on. If you receive it, give it your feet Give it Christ in this land. All in all, we call you deliver a hand. In the name of Jesus Somebody give a prize in this place. [MUSIC] Somebody giving praise in this house, come on. [MUSIC] Come on, we ain't playin' no games. [MUSIC] I said, we ain't playin' no games. [MUSIC] See, we're not playin' no games. We're gonna preach this word. We're gonna spread this gospel. We're gonna baptize thousands of disciples. We're gonna call a nation to pray out. [APPLAUSE] 28, 19, we're not playin' no games. [APPLAUSE]

We're gonna be serious about the law's business in these final days of the church age. [MUSIC] [SOUND] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [SOUND] [MUSIC] [SOUND] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] I wasn't gonna do this, but I just got to obey the spirit. I know we're like four minutes over, I don't care. Let me obey the whole spirit, okay? [MUSIC] I'm the camera. [MUSIC] John Cole Pharisees, a brood of vipers. It reminds me there are times when you need to speak up and times when you need to remain silent. I will speak up now. [MUSIC] I am the pastor of 28, 19 church who's bringing access to the nation for free and did it last year for free. It cost us almost $2 million to do that. Nobody paid to get in, I didn't even take a ball free. Now, I also have a podcast I've never talked about on this platform, because my podcast is separated from 28, 19. It is my own ministry outside of the church with my partner, Tim Timberlake. Now, we have decided to go on a tour to take the gospel to cities. And because that's not funded by 28, 19, and it's not funded by celebration church, Tim and I got to do that with our own pockets. It's why there are tickets who have to pay for venues and security and productions and staff from our own pocket

for all you ignorant people. And for all of you that want to tear me down in public for having a $60 ticket and a VRT for me, all right. Last year on our tour, our first location was Dallas, Texas. We worshiped for our, Tim and I lay hands on everybody, and at the end of the night, there was a woman in the back who was pregnant. And I went up to her, "Why are you crying?" She said, "I'm pregnant." And the doctor told me about that. And I got down on my knees and myself and our prayer team laid hands on her womb and prayed for her baby. This is the stuff you're concerned about a ticket, instead of getting in the room. (audience applauding) And before I left for sabbatical, I get a letter on my desk. (audience applauding) Testimony of a miracle, there I am praying for her. And I am praying for her, and there is her healthy baby boy. (audience cheering) (dramatic music) So, Kate on. (audience applauding) (audience applauding) How do I respond to all of your hate and your ignorance? I pray for you. Attach you to my heart, blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for a joint is to reward in heaven. (audience applauding)

(audience cheering) If we was money men, we would charge you more than that. How do you expect us to put on a toy and get to these cities where we're gonna get the money from? That's not funded by my church. We gotta come out on our own pocket to make it to these rooms. You brood of vipers. (audience applauding) Now, lastly, Jesus had the Peter who became the past of the first church. Peter, do you love me, feed my lambs? Peter, do you love me, feed my sheep, tend to my sheep? So Jesus told Peter, take care of the little ones. There's a lot of teenagers in our church and they have no shepherd until today. (audience cheering) There is a young man who Lina and I have known since he was a little boy. And like John, we've watched him grow mighty in the spirit to a man, a husband, and a disciple of Christ. He was in another city and God led him to Atlanta, not knowing why. And by God's divine providence, he led him here back to Lina and I. God brought him home. (audience applauding) He loves his wife. He loves Jesus.

He loves the scripture. He is consecrated. He is serious. He is holy. He is anointing. He is sold out for Christ. A chip off the house. I introduce to you our new youth pastor, Bryson Mullis. (audience cheering) - Starting today, we launch our ministry for our routines. Every other Sunday during our 1030 gathering in their own space that was built. You see them hanging out in the streets, bring them. Return Y ends into YDs here. As Brice's language, we turn Y ends into young disciples. Stretch your hand towards Brice. I'm sorry, just let Lena talk. So I just want to say that, you know, as regards to Brice and I've been really this past week just thinking about how he's entering into his pastured and how he's going to be shepherding his teenagers and my heart has just been so overwhelmed. I was going to reach out to you, Brice, but I didn't get a chance. And I'm so excited to see what God is going to do through him and through our youth. Amen. Our kids need this. My children need this. I believe Brice was brought to us for such a time as this and that there's something inside him that he needs to impart into the youth. And I'm just super excited to see what's going to happen. And I'm also just happy that we could offer this to all of the youth here.

We love you guys. And yep. So if you're watching this gathering in Atlanta, bring your team to this next gathering. You've got 40 minutes to get hit. Put your hands towards our new youth person. We need no thesis. Father, we thank you for your divine providence that led this young man of God back home to Atlanta and for ordering his footsteps to 28/19. We thank you, Lord, for his parents, that instilled in him to fade from a very young age. Ah, he has followed you faithfully from a very young age. Ah, he has loved the scriptures and kept himself wholly and pure for you. Ah, he has entered into the covenant of marriage, has loved his wife, and has set apart himself for the work of the ministry. Ah, he has loved your word and has fasted and prayed and has concentrated himself for this office. And Father, right now, before all the people, God, we anoint him for this assignment that you have called him to. We stretch our hands to him as a church family, God, Lord. We consecrate him into the office of the youth pastor. Before the people this day, God, we pray, you would anoint him for this great assignment. We pray that he would be a great shepherd for our routines and our preteens, and he will multiply disciples, God, in these last days, God, through community and biblical teaching and whatever you have put on his heart to do, God. Bring around him, God, everyone that he needs, the personnel, and may he feel the support of this church, his family, and parents. We thank you for him right now, and we bless him to be fruitful, and the mighty, and the majestic, and the matchless name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Can you take the roof off this place for what God is doing? Jesus Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ Christ

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