TAKE YE AWAY THE STONE

[0:00] I believe that he that will be taken out of the way is the Holy Ghost. But he will not be taken out of the way. He's going to be pushed out of the way. So many churches in this world have pushed the Holy Ghost out. They said we don't want you.

[0:12] They said if you want to speak in tongues, you've got to go to the back room. So many places have said we want Father, Son, Holy Bible. And we love the Bible, but we need the Holy Ghost, don't we?

[0:23] Amen. And I'm thankful to have a house here that is still faithful in seeking the face of the Lord. To seek in the Holy Ghost. Amen. I'm thankful for men and women that have gone before me that have earnestly sought the Holy Spirit.

[0:38] Men and women that have fought, that have battled, that have pleaded. There's a reason that this house is still standing here. That's because men and women have fought earnestly for the faith of Jesus Christ. I'm grateful tonight. Amen.

[0:52] God is good, ain't He? And all the time. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm thankful for the Holy Ghost tonight. Can I be honest with you guys?

[1:08] I'm in a church full of hypocrites. Is anybody a hypocrite in this house? I'll tell you right now, I'm the biggest hypocrite. When God called me to preach, I'll tell you how He taught me how to preach.

[1:22] He led me down the path of Brother Van. Amen. Hey, I look at all these churches and there ain't no holy row and preach. No churches no more that go that way. I thought God has sent me out.

[1:33] I'm going to bring back the Pentecostal faith. I'm going to restore it all. Amen. Amen. Amen. This is where the hypocrite Brother Jake comes in. So I'm waiting for the Lord to send me to church. God sends me to a Methodist church.

[1:45] That's where the Lord sent me. Hey, I've been there for six months and the Holy Ghost has failed. The Holy Ghost is moving. When we went to that church, it was Sacramento Methodist church.

[1:56] Today, last Sunday, we voted Sacramento Community Church. We have a people in Sacramento that are hungry for God. Hungry for the Holy Ghost and the fire. Amen. How many know the Holy Ghost is moving?

[2:09] Hey, if there was, look at all these little ones around here. That's right. That Holy Spirit brings them little ones in. Amen. Man, I'm thankful. Raise your hand if you're under the age of 18 tonight. Hallelujah.

[2:22] Hallelujah. Hey, give the Lord a big round of applause for that. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. How much is that? 18 times 3.

[2:34] Yeah. 18 plus 18. 3. 18 times 3. 18 times 3. Praise God. Turn with me in your Bibles to John chapter 11. Brother Seth, I want you to jump up here and read John chapter 11, verses 25 and 26 for us.

[2:48] You already have it turned? Yeah, I got it right there. I can't say chapter. I'm trying to take notes. 11, 25. 25 and 26 for us, Seth.

[3:01] And Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

[3:16] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

[3:27] Thank you, Brother Doherty. Y'all give Brother Seth a big round of applause. Y'all give Brother Seth a big round of applause. That's a little inside joke between me and Brother Seth. We'll laugh about it later.

[3:37] Thank you, Brother Seth. How many is thankful that Jesus Christ is the resurrection? How many is thankful that he is the life? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Do you believest thou this?

[3:48] Yes. Yes. I believe thou this. Don't you? Hallelujah. I know in whom I have believed. I have believed only on Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. What about you? Yes. Yes. Praise God. Thank you, Lord.

[3:59] Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Now in this chapter, John chapter 11. How many has got their Bibles open? Amen. John chapter 11. John chapter 11 starts out talking about a small little family.

[4:11] How many know who this family is? Lazarus, who's really sick. His sister, Martha. What's the other sister's name? Mary. Mary. In verse 2, this is powerful to me.

[4:22] In verse 2 of John chapter 11, the Word of God says it is that Mary. This isn't some Joe Blow Mary. This isn't all Mary in left field.

[4:32] No. This is that Mary which poured it all out at the Lord's feet. Hey, if her name says that in the Word of God, then my name in the Lamb's Book of Life is going to say it was that J that poured it all out at the Lord's feet.

[4:45] Amen. How many want your name to say it? It was you that poured it all out at the Lord's feet. Amen. That didn't hold nothing back. Born in the fire and the smoke.

[4:55] Don't? Hallelujah. Never has and never will, will it? Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. And in chapter 11, we see that Jesus is really close friends with this family.

[5:06] And Jesus learns that Lazarus is really, really sick. His homeboy is sicker than a dog and it ain't looking good. In verse 4, Jesus says, But this sickness is not unto death, but it's for the glory of God, brother Seth.

[5:22] It's for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified. That's why he's sick. This sickness is not unto death. If you've got a sickness in your life, it is not unto death. Believe God that it is going to work out for his good.

[5:33] Amen. Because we know that all things work out for those that love him. Amen. Thank you, brother Seth, for that. Thank you, Lord. In verse 6, remember, Jesus is close with Lazarus.

[5:46] He finds out that he's sick and he needs a healing. How many know who the healer is? The Bible says that Jesus waits two days. He doesn't move. He just hangs out there chilling, relaxing, taking his time.

[5:59] In verses 7 through 12, or verses 7 through 16, Jesus says, All right, it's two days later, let's go. Let's go back through Judea. Now in Judea at this time, the Jews are trying to kill Jesus.

[6:14] They're saying, If you guys come out, we're going to get you. But Jesus says, We're going to go anyway. We're not going to go at night. We're going to walk in the daylight. Because the Bible says that whoever walks in the light shall be in the light.

[6:25] Amen. And he will lead us if we walk in that light. In verse 15, Jesus says, I'm going no matter what. And in 16, Thomas says, Well, if he's going, I'm going with him. If he dies, I'm going to die with him.

[6:37] Douton Thomas. How many is ready to say, If Jesus goes, I'm going with him no matter what the cost. Take up your cross and follow Jesus. Hallelujah. How many is ready to take up their cross tonight?

[6:48] Oh, hallelujah. Take up your cross and follow Jesus. In verse 17, Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already.

[7:02] Wow. Then we find out about how far away Jesus is in the next few verses. And then verse 20, the Bible says that, Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met him.

[7:15] But Mary sat still in the house. That's important. It's real important. Mary's hanging on to that word. She's saying, I don't know what's coming, but I'm waiting on Jesus. But Martha went on.

[7:26] In verse 21, Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. Now I want us to put ourselves in the shoes of Martha.

[7:40] This is Martha that's real close with Jesus. She's seen the healings. She's seen the miracles. She's seen the wonderful things that the Son of God does. She's seen when Jesus laid hands on Jairus' 12-year-old daughter and brought her back from the dead.

[7:58] She's heard about when Jesus walked up to that coffin in Luke chapter 7 and just put his hands on it and the young boy got out of it and leaped. She's heard of these stories. And because she knows that Jesus is a healer, she cries out, If you had been here, my brother had not died.

[8:16] Has anybody else ever felt like this? Been in a situation, something go on, and you just said, God! Where are you at in this? If you had been here in the midst of my situation, in my distress, where are you at, God?

[8:27] If you had just said the word, it could have been healed, it could have been fixed. But why didn't you? Anybody else ever felt this way? Yes. I don't believe there's a soul in the house that ain't never felt that way, is there?

[8:39] Lord, if you had been here, how many know we've got to wait on God? Amen. I understand why she said this. Hallelujah.

[8:53] But can I tell you that God has not forgotten you in your distress? God has not forgotten you. Whenever you say, God, where are you? God is still working all things to your good. God is still watching over you.

[9:04] God has not forgotten you. No matter what the enemy tells you, no matter if the enemy is saying you're unworthy, you're unrighteous, you're an old, dumb piece of junk, Jesus says that you are good enough for me to go to Calvary for.

[9:15] Amen. It doesn't matter what the world says. It matters what he says. Can you say amen? Amen. Hallelujah. It's in these seasons, it's in these trials that we must hang on by faith.

[9:27] And not faith in ourselves, faith in the one who saved us. There's a lot of people that like to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. In America, in Western Christianity, we like to think that we got ourselves here a lot of times, don't we?

[9:39] We like to think, well, I pulled myself out of that pit. You know, Rocky Balboa said it's not about how hard you can get hit, it's about how hard you can get hit and get back up. Honey, let me tell you, it's not about how hard you can get hit and get back up.

[9:53] It's about how hard you can get hit and Jesus can kick you back up. Hallelujah. And he's more than able, ain't he? The Bible says that he is exceedingly, abundantly able anything that we can think or imagine.

[10:09] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. And even those that's running away from God, God has not forgotten them. God still sees them. In Matthew chapter 18, the Bible talks about that that one sheep that ran away, Jesus was so concerned about that one, that that's the one he went after.

[10:26] He left the 99 for that one. He has not forgotten that one sheep's name. He has not forgotten your name. No matter what anybody says, God is still pursuing you. He is still seeking you.

[10:37] He is still drawing you close to him. Those people in your life that you pray for, I don't know why I continuously pray for them. They ain't ever going to come to God. That's not the voice of the Lord.

[10:47] That's the voice of the enemy. You keep on praying. No matter what. Hey, until God moves, we will not quit. Amen. No matter what. Hallelujah.

[10:58] In verse 25, Jesus said, I am the resurrection, and I am the life, and he that believeth in me, he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

[11:10] And whosoever, how many is thankful to be a whosoever? Amen. Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. How many is thankful to be a whosoever? You ain't ever going to die.

[11:21] If you are saved by Jesus Christ, you will never die. You will pass from death to life. Amen. Amen. Yes. Praise the Lord. Thank you, Jesus.

[11:31] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. In verse 27, she said unto him, Yeah, Lord, I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.

[11:42] Yes. How many is thankful to be believing in Jesus tonight? Amen. In verses 28 through 32, we see Martha, or Mary's encounter with the Lord. We see Mary when she gets in touch with Jesus.

[11:54] She's been waiting at the house. Jesus finally gets there. You know what Mary says? She says the same thing that Martha did. Lord, if you'd have been here, my brother wouldn't have died.

[12:06] Lord, if you'd have been here, my brother would still be here. You could have just laid hands on him, and he'd have been better. Where was he at, Lord? Mm-mm-mm. Where was he at, God?

[12:17] Can I tell you that no matter where you're at, God is always on time. God has never been late. He's never been early. He is right on time. Hallelujah. Hang on.

[12:29] Hang on. That's all I... If there's anything you get from this message, hang on by faith. He will never let you go. Keep your eyes steadfast on him. Hey! That's the key to this thing.

[12:40] The world, the devil, will try to get you to take your eyes off of him everywhere you go. In 1 John 2, verses 15 through 16, it says, If any man have not, or love not the Father, or somebody quote it to me.

[12:53] If any man, for all that is in the world, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life.

[13:04] Those are the things that's trying to get you to take your eyes off of him. Those are the things that's trying to get you to just get off the path. That's right. To get you to not follow Jesus. Hallelujah. How many is thankful that we're going to keep our eyes on him no matter the cost?

[13:18] Hallelujah. In verse 33, When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping, which came with her, he groaned in the spirit and was troubled, and said, Where have ye laid him?

[13:33] They said unto him, Lord, come and see. Verse 35, Jesus wept. Y'all know that this is the shortest verse in the whole Bible.

[13:44] Jesus, the King of glory, the King of kings, and the Lord of lords, weeping over Lazarus in the tomb. In verse 36, Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him.

[13:57] The Jews seen how Jesus was weeping over Lazarus. They said, He must have really loved him. Do you know what Jesus is doing right now in heaven? He is sitting at the right hand of the Father, interceding.

[14:11] Do you know what happens when you intercede for somebody else? Usually tears come out and usually you go to weeping for him. Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father, weeping, interceding for you, interceding for your lost loved ones, interceding for everybody else that does not know him, interceding for the world that they would get their eyes off of everything else and get their eyes on him.

[14:29] That is the cry of Jesus tonight. Amen. That is the cry of the Spirit. Hallelujah. What Psalms say, He that soweth in tears shall reap in joy.

[14:41] How many of you enjoy tonight? Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Behold how he loved him. How many is thankful that he loves you? I've done everything I can to run away from him, but he just keeps on hanging on to me with everything he's got.

[14:57] Amen. Even when I turned my back on him, he turned me right back around. Every time I tried to say, Jesus, I just want my own thing. He said, No, you need me. You need me.

[15:08] And he showed so much love to me that I couldn't help but fall back in love with him. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. And verse 37, And some of them said, Could not this man, could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

[15:26] That's what the doubters will say. That's what the devil would say. That's what they said on the cross. Remember when Jesus is hanging there? Remember what the people said? If he's really the son of God, let him come down from the cross.

[15:38] Let him save himself. People that are in the will of God don't understand. They don't understand. Because Jesus stayed on the cross, not only did he stay himself, he saved every single one of them.

[15:49] Amen. He did it for you. He paid the price for you. Amen. Glory. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Verse 38, Jesus, therefore again, groaning in himself, coming to the grave.

[16:03] Jesus is groaning in his spirit. He's saying, why will you people not believe? Why do you people just constantly question me? Please, just get your eyes on me.

[16:13] He's groaning in his spirit. Guys, I'm right here. The resurrection and the life is right in front of you. Get dead religion out of the way and just get your eyes on me.

[16:24] Thank you, Lord. He groaned in his spirit and himself coming to the grave. It was a cave and a stone lay upon it.

[16:35] How many's got some stones in your life that need to be taken out of the way? How many's got some stones in between you and Jesus tonight? I think we all do. Verse 39, Jesus said, take ye away of the stone.

[16:49] Take the stone out. Roll it out of here. Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord. By this time he stinketh.

[17:01] For he hath been dead four days. My goodness. In the grave, four days Lazarus has been laying. More than likely, his body has already begun to decay.

[17:14] More than likely, some animals have already been getting on him. It's too late. There's no possible way this situation can be fixed. Anybody got any situations in your life that cannot be fixed?

[17:26] There's no way that you can do anything with them. You don't even know if God can fix them. Martha said, there's no way you can help him out. He's been in the grave four days, brother Seth. Jesus said, take away the stone anyway.

[17:39] Take ye away the stone. Hallelujah. How many know that we must take away the stones in front of us? The stones in between us and Jesus have got to get out of the way.

[17:50] The stones that we're clinging on to have got to get out. If we're going to get to where we need to be in our spiritual life, if we are going to get into the measure of the fullness of the stature of Christ, some things got to get out.

[18:02] Can you say amen? Amen. We must get them out. These stones must be thrown out. Now when I was studying for this message, the Lord, brother Seth, kept bringing four things to my mind.

[18:17] I didn't quite understand why He kept bringing four different things to my mind. It wasn't until later I was reading this again and I realized that He'd been laying in there for four days. For some reason, the Lord gave me four different types of stones that get in our way.

[18:31] You know what the first stone the Lord gave me was? Sin. Sin. Not the sin itself, but the shame that comes along with sin.

[18:43] How many know that Jesus paid for every sin in your life on Calvary? Even your future sins. He paid for every single one of them. The Bible says that He made you white as snow.

[18:55] Yes, He did. If you're thinking you're unworthy, if you caught on the name of Jesus, if you've been saved by faith, can I tell you tonight, you are righteous no matter what the devil says.

[19:06] Hallelujah. It's a gift. The free gift of God, isn't it? That's right. That sin in your life and you can't quit doing it brings shame. You say, God, I'm unworthy. I'm not even worthy to come to church.

[19:17] I'm not even worthy to pray. We put the stone back up in front of us because we've got so much shame that we can't even let Jesus throw the stone out and redeem us to set us free from whatever that temptation is.

[19:27] To set us free from whatever's going on. The Bible says that He took all your sins, brother Seth, and cast them to the depths of the sea. Charles Spurgeon said He took them to the depths of the sea.

[19:37] He didn't put them on the edge of the water for them to put them back up. No. He has forgotten them forever. Now it's up to you whether you take a boat out there and go fishing for them again. It's up to you to leave them out.

[19:49] Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Sin. Everybody say sin. Sin. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Bible says that if we confess our sin, He is faithful and just to forgive us of it all.

[20:04] Hallelujah. Number two. Number two thing that the Lord gave me. Pride. Amen. Come on. Self-exaltation. A lack of humility.

[20:16] That's the one thing that puts a stone in front of us in Jesus, Brother David. We say, I can pick myself up by my own bootstraps. I can do this thing on my own. I can restore my own family.

[20:26] I can put things back together. That puts a stone between us and Him, doesn't it? If we're unwilling to call on His name. Hallelujah. Pride. Hallelujah.

[20:37] In Matthew chapter 18, verse 2, Jesus gives us a little lesson of humility. Jesus says, Verily I say unto you, except you be converted and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

[20:55] Whosoever, therefore, shall humble himself. How many is ready to humble themselves tonight? Whosoever shall humble themselves as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

[21:06] Hallelujah. How many is thankful that if we will humble ourselves, we can be the greatest with Jesus? Amen. If we will humble ourselves because He humbled Himself the most when He laid off His garments of glory and He went to Calvary for us.

[21:20] Verse 5, Now remember, we're talking about stones, brother Seth. When the Lord led me here, I thought, that is amazing. That cannot be no coincidence.

[21:30] How many knows with God there is no such thing as coincidence? In verse 6, But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me. It were better for him that a millstone, a millstone were hanged around His neck and He was thrown out in the edge of the sea.

[21:45] That's what pride will do in our lives. We will be better off to have the stone wrapped around our necks and thrown to the depths of the sea. Hallelujah. Because our pride also gets in between other people and Jesus.

[21:58] We say, it would be better if you just asked me, I can get you to Jesus. Let me help you with your situation. We'll do that a lot of times. We'll say, let's do some work, brother Seth. Not let's pray for it right now in the mighty name of Jesus and let Him take care of it.

[22:11] We must get pride out of our lives. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. I don't know about you, but I'm not getting a millstone wrapped around my neck. Everybody say pride.

[22:21] Pride. Alright, remember the first one that we said together. Sin. What's the second one? Pride. Pride. Alright, here's the third one. This one hurts. Unforgiveness.

[22:32] I don't know what went on in your life. I have no idea. But if you hang on to it, it puts a stone up between you and Him. He can't redeem you.

[22:43] He can't save you like He needs to. He can't forgive you if you don't forgive them. Do you know that's why when the disciples said, Jesus, teach us to pray. Jesus says, pray like this.

[22:55] Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done. In earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us of our trespasses as we forgive others.

[23:13] How many is thankful? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. In Matthew chapter 18, once again, Brother Seth, in verses 23 through 35, Jesus teaches a parable about a servant that owns 10,000 talents to a king.

[23:30] Now we don't use talents today, we use dollars. So let's say somebody owes the king $10,000. The king's fixing to throw him in jail and lock away the king.

[23:41] But this guy begs, he pleads, please forgive me of the debt I owe you, king. Please, and I'll serve you. The king is merciful. He forgives him of it all. This man goes out back into the world.

[23:52] He finds his buddy that owns him $100. You know what the Bible says he does? He grabs him by the throat and chokes him up and says, give me my money or else. And it was or else. He threw him in jail.

[24:03] The king eventually finds out about it. You've got to listen to this, what he said. Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt because thou desirest me.

[24:19] Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow servant, even as I had pity on thee? Mark chapter 11, verses 25 and 26.

[24:35] Hallelujah. You know what's a condition of answered prayer is to forgive? If we don't forgive, we can't get our prayers answered. We can't get to Jesus. We put that stone right back up that Jesus done took out of the way.

[24:47] The Bible says, and when you stand praying, forgive. If you have ought against any, that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

[24:58] But if you do not forgive, if you do not forgive, if you do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive you of your trespasses.

[25:13] That's the third one. Everybody say, unforgiveness. unforgiveness. Say sin. Sin. Pride. Unforgiveness. Hallelujah. Time for the fourth one. Doubt.

[25:28] Doubt. We'll believe Him enough on Sunday, but during the week, Lord, I don't know if You can help them or not. I don't know if You can save them or not.

[25:39] I don't know if You can take care of this situation in my life or not, God. I don't know if You can really do it. You did it for them 2,000 years ago. Can you do it for me? Anybody else ever felt this way? Thought this way?

[25:52] Doubt. And it puts a stone up so that we can't get our prayers answered again. In Mark chapter 11, verse 22, the Bible says, Have faith in God. For verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say unto this mountain.

[26:06] How many have got some mountains in your life? That's a mountain. You know what a mountain is? It's a really big stone. Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea.

[26:19] You know, I didn't realize how many times we were going to talk about the sea tonight. The Lord just showed me that. Isn't that powerful? How many is thankful He casted your sins to the depths of the sea? Hallelujah. And shall not doubt in His heart, but shall believe that those things which He saith shall come to pass.

[26:38] He shall have whatsoever He saith. Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them. Hallelujah. Which one of you sisters was talking about the power of death and life is in the tongue?

[26:52] Amen. It's true. If we don't have faith, if you don't speak it, hallelujah. Hallelujah. Doubt will choke out your spiritual life with God.

[27:04] It will choke you up and it will make you say, I don't know. God will impress your heart to go pray for somebody, lay hands on somebody. You'll say, well, I guess it wasn't for me, God.

[27:18] That's what doubt will do. It will stop you from getting miracles. Stop you from getting a healing. Amen. Hallelujah. These four examples will kill your spiritual walk.

[27:29] What are the four? Sin, pride, forgiveness, and doubt. These four stones in your life will cause you to stink.

[27:41] These four causes will cause you to have a funk. How many know that we've got to get the funk knocked off of us? Yes, God. If we carry it around, it's just going to continue to stink even more.

[27:51] We've got to turn it loose. We've got to submit it to God. Can you say amen? Amen. Hallelujah. Wow. Hallelujah. So what was the four? Sin, pride, and forgiveness, and doubt.

[28:07] When the Lord gave me these, Brother Seth, it wasn't in this order. And I thought, God, this doesn't make any sense. Is there a cool word that I can put together with this? And it was a bunch of goofy words. S-P-U-D.

[28:19] Then the Lord told me to put it in S-P-U-D, that order. Do you know what S-P-U-D spells? Spud. Do you know what a spud is? It's a potato. Do you know how a potato grows, Brother David? You put it in the ground, and it rises up.

[28:34] If you pack it around, if you pack it around, it's going to begin to stink. It's going to begin to rot. It will be unvaluable. It will be useless. But if you will plant it into the ground, oh, hallelujah.

[28:46] What's Romans chapter 6 say? Romans chapter 6, verse 3, or verse 4 and 5. Hallelujah. How many is ready to get planted into the likeness of His death? A potato of all things.

[29:01] I was thankful for the spirit of wisdom and revelation. That's so quirky that I couldn't have come up with that, Sister Connie. Verse 4 of Romans chapter 6. Therefore, we are buried with Him by baptism into death.

[29:15] that like as Christ, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

[29:27] For if we have been planted together, just like that potato, if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, oh, hallelujah, we shall also be likened unto His resurrection.

[29:39] We shall also be risen with Christ. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Sorry for dragging you up through my potato scenario, but I'm thankful.

[29:49] I'm thankful for that spud tonight. Amen. I'm thankful that God's fixing to take out some stones in your life. Hallelujah. He's fixing to bury them and they're going to rise up in the mighty name of Jesus. Hallelujah.

[30:02] Hallelujah. I don't know about how much of a fool I felt. God, you going to have me get up here and preach about a potato? Amen. Only us. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

[30:12] How many are ready to dig some potatoes up? God. Woo! Hallelujah. Cast ye away the stone.

[30:24] We've got to get the stones casted away from us, don't we? Hallelujah. Verse 40 of John chapter 11. Jesus saith unto her, said I not unto thee, that if thou wouldst believe, thou shouldst see the glory of God.

[30:43] Jesus has already said the word. He's already used the power of the tongue. He's already said take ye away the stones. But if you don't believe it, if you have doubt in your heart, you will not receive it.

[30:56] Oh, hallelujah. What's that song Brother Seth will you sing and live more? If I walk out, he'll bring me out. If I obey, he'll make a way.

[31:09] If I believe, I will receive everything that he's promised me. Hallelujah. I'll win. How many say we're going to win tonight? Thank you, Jesus.

[31:20] I'll win. I'll win. Do you guys believe you're going to see the glory of God? The devil says that this country is too far gone. The devil says that this city is too far gone.

[31:32] The devil says the country two hours away is too far gone. Can I tell you the devil is a liar? The devil is a liar. I'm believing that we're fixing to see one of the most powerful moves of God that we've ever seen before in our life.

[31:44] Hallelujah. There's a reason there's about 20 kids in this house. God is raising up a generation of young believers, not of just churchgoers, but of holy, safe, sanctified, holy ghost, filled fire, baptized children in the mighty name of Jesus.

[31:56] Can you say amen? This new generation coming up is sick of pro wrestling Christianity. Y'all ever watch WWF?

[32:09] Stone Cold Steve Austin? You know what it is? Them guys look really mean. They look really good. They look really tough, but you know what it really is? It's really fame.

[32:20] It's really not real at the end of the day. Stone Cold's a bad man of jam on TV, but you get him outside and who knows what's liable to happen to him. This generation rising up is sick of pro wrestling Christianity.

[32:31] They are sick of dead religion. They are sick of just going through the motions and saying Sunday's good enough. They are sick and tired of not having the Holy Spirit in their life. There is a generation rising up hungry for God that will not be satisfied with fake, that will not be satisfied with cheap, that is going to believe that they will see the glory of God.

[32:52] Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. In verses 41 through 42, we see a powerful prayer from Jesus.

[33:05] Jesus says, Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. How many is thankful that your stone is getting rolled away tonight? The stone in your life, Jesus just said, get out of the way.

[33:16] And if you'll receive it by faith, you're going to get it. Amen. Roll away the stone where the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes. He didn't bow down and said, He lifted up his eyes so that everybody could hear the prayer that he was fixing to pray.

[33:31] He wanted everybody to see what was fixing to happen. He didn't want nobody to say, I didn't see it. I don't know if that really happened. He wanted to make sure that everybody seen what was going to take place. Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

[33:48] And I knew that thou hearst me always. How many know that he hears you always? But because of the people which stand by, I said it. Because of the people that was around him, he said it anyway.

[34:00] Father, I know that you're going to hear me. I know that you're going to do what I need you to do. I know that you're fixing to raise Lazarus from the dead. And I want these people to see it. I want to make sure that there is no doubting.

[34:11] There's no way they can say that wasn't real, that was fake. I want them to really get it. Hallelujah. That people would stand by, I said it, that they may believe that thou has sent me.

[34:28] Verse 43. And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus!

[34:41] I want everybody to shout out your name right now. Come forth. You know why Jesus said Lazarus?

[34:52] And he didn't just say come forth? If he had said come forth, everybody in the whole cemetery would have walked out of the grave. Hey, but you just heard it, the power of the tongue, or the power of life and death is in the tongue, isn't it?

[35:04] What you just said, it's time to come out of that grave. Amen. Your name has been called. Get up out of that grave. Hallelujah.

[35:15] Hallelujah. Jesus is calling for each and every one of us to come out of that grave. Jesus wants nothing more than to get glory for the stone which is in your life, for you to let him roll it out of the way and for you to walk out of it.

[35:26] Hallelujah. Lazarus, come forth. Verse 44. And he that was dead, walked out.

[35:44] How many say with that though you was dead in sin and trespasses? He's raised you. Amen. Get up, get up, get up out of that grave.

[35:55] He that was dead came forth bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face was bound about with a napkin. So when he come out of the grave, when Jesus called his name, he still had his clothes on, strapped at his knees and his hands bound tight.

[36:15] You know what Jesus then said? Loose him! He's called on your name. You've got to let him take the grave clothes off.

[36:26] You've got to quit carrying around that bag of potatoes. You've got to quit carrying around that old thing that was in your life. You've got to release it. You've got to let him set you free from it. Hallelujah! Because if you don't, the devil's going to keep bringing it back to you.

[36:38] But if you'll leave it there, if you'll let them grave clothes come off of you, hallelujah, that's when you really get freedom. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

[36:50] Now this is a King James preaching church, so it's liberty for the Seth, but we'll like freedom too. Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus! How many is thankful? How many is ready to get them grave clothes off of you?

[37:05] How many is ready to get those stones out of your life? How many is ready to get free from sin and shame? Ready to get free from pride and self-exaltation? Ready to get free from unforgiveness?

[37:16] And ready to get free, most importantly, of doubt? How many is ready to believe that you're going to see God move in a way that he's never moved before? You're going to see a move that moved on the day of Pentecost? A move that moved that Azusa street?

[37:27] I'm believing in are you! Because if you will believe it, you're going to see it. Amen? Woo! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

[37:38] Thank you, Jesus! You know, in the Old Testament, if you read the book of Leviticus, you see many times where God tells Moses things that will cause him to be unclean.

[37:53] That's what causes a man to be unclean. If you touch the dead, you'll be unclean. If you touch a woman with an issue of blood, unclean.

[38:04] If you touch a dead carcass of an animal, unclean. Do you know Jesus was perfect? Everything he touched had to be made perfect because if it wasn't made perfect, then it made him unclean.

[38:21] So, Brother Seth, if you're a dead man, if Jesus touches you, Jesus cannot get dirty. Jesus is perfect. If he touches you, you have no choice but to rise up out of that grave. Hallelujah.

[38:34] Hey, there's no option. There's no option. If Jesus touches you, there's one thing left, and that's for you to get right. Amen? Amen. Hallelujah.

[38:49] You might say my life is too unclean for Jesus to fix it. You might say they done put me away in the grave. They done put the stone up. They even sealed it. It's too far gone.

[39:01] There's no way that Jesus can repair my situation. My family is too messed up. There's no way that he can restore it. I'm too deep in sin and shame. There's no way that he can pull me up out of the miry clay and set me upon a rock.

[39:12] There's no way possible. Is there? Let me tell you there is. Amen? There is. It doesn't matter if you think you're too far gone or you're too dead or you stink so bad that Jesus doesn't want you.

[39:27] Jesus is calling you by name. He's saying come out of the grave. Walk out. Take off them grave clothes and walk in the newness of life which Christ has given you. Remember when he touched the leper?

[39:41] There wasn't much people dirtier than a leper. that man came up to him and said Jesus all you have to do is say the word and I can be made clean. Jesus was moved with compassion.

[39:53] He said be cleansed. That's all he said. Be cleansed. The woman with the issue of blood. She reached out with everything she had and just touched the heel.

[40:07] And guess what? Jesus wasn't going to be made dirty. No, the woman was made cleansed instantly. That's powerful brother Seth. Instantly she was redeemed. She was saved.

[40:18] Her issue of blood stopped. The flow did. Hallelujah. Woo! Jairus' daughter dead. It's too late.

[40:28] There's no sense in even going. Jesus says I'm going anyway. Anybody remember what he said to her? I think he said Tabitha Akumi. I don't know if that's the right.

[40:40] Talitha. Talitha. Close enough. It means woman or young girl get up. I don't know what you're going through but get up. Get up. Get up.

[40:50] Get up out of that grave. Hallelujah. Jesus already paid it all didn't he? Jesus went to Calvary for you and for me.

[41:01] He put him in a tomb. They sealed it shut. When Jesus rolled that stone away he didn't just roll his stone away. Hallelujah. He rolled your stone away too. Hallelujah. And the only way that stone is coming back is if you let it come back.

[41:19] You know what you got to do? It's the blood. You got to play the blood over it. Amen. Like that song we just sang sister Rachel. It's the blood.

[41:30] Ain't it? Woo. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. How many is ready to walk out of their grave clothes? How many is ready to put on a new robe?

[41:41] Come alive for his wonder and power and awe. What's the rest of the song go? He slayed my giants. And he crushed all of them. Woo.

[41:53] What's the rest go? Go. Go. Something about the mouth of the lion. Something. But because he did it I can do it too. Amen. Woo.

[42:04] How many are standing for the word tonight? How many is ready to come out of your grave clothes? How many is ready to walk in the newness of life with Jesus? Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Let's pray. Woo.

[42:18] Thank you Jesus. That though our sins be as scarlet, you make us white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, you make us white as wool. Thank you Jesus that you have taken all of our sin and cast them forth to the depths of the sea.

[42:32] Thank you Lord that sin has no power over us. Thank you Jesus that pride has no power over us. Thank you Jesus that unforgiveness has no power over us.

[42:43] Thank you Lord that we will not doubt but we will believe that those mountains which we speak to that they're going to be moved. Let us never doubt the wonderful works that you have done Lord. Let us walk in newness of life.

[42:53] Let us come out of the grave that the enemy has put us in Jesus. Let us hear your call. Let us hear your call. Let us not have deaf ears. Let us not have closed eyes. Let us call on your name.

[43:05] Seek your face. Turn from our wicked ways and chase after you with everything we have Jesus. Lord I believe in revival amongst this church Jesus. I already see it with all these people here tonight Lord I'm thankful for it.

[43:16] I'm thankful that in Shively Kentucky on a Saturday night that you could have been anywhere else but you brought everybody here tonight to hear the word. To get in worship together to pray. Lord we're grateful for everything you've done.

[43:27] Everything you're going to do Lord. And we can't wait to see what else is coming Lord. We can't wait to see the people that's fixing to walk out of their grave clothes. We can't wait to see the stones that's fixing to be rolled away in the mighty name of Jesus.

[43:41] Jesus you overcame it all. You overcame hell, death and the grave and because you did it. Because you live. We can face tomorrow. I love you Lord.

[43:56] I'm thankful for this church. I'm thankful for these people. I'm thankful for the move of the Holy Ghost tonight. We love you and we praise you. We ask it all in the mighty name of Jesus. And everybody said amen.

[44:07] Brother Seth. Give the Lord a hand for the word of God tonight. Everybody say.

[44:19] Brother Hinton used to do that. It was about every service. Turn to your neighbor and say I don't want to be potato head. I really don't want to do that.

[44:32] I don't want to be that anymore. I don't want to do those things anymore. Jay when you were preaching the verse came to mind and said lay aside let us lay aside every way that does so easily beset us.

[44:47] a lot of potatoes. Wow. You can't get that kind of preaching just anywhere. You just can't. I do want to ask Brother Jeremy to come up and pray over the give thanks for the word but also to give thanks for the food that we're about to receive as well.

[45:08] If he would. Give the Lord a hand for the Jeremy. I'm sure he's got a word from the Lord. Hey man why don't y'all give Brother Jake another big hand.

[45:23] Hallelujah. Yeah in case you don't know you can't deny genetics amen. You can't deny genetics if Pat Paul could only be here and see and he got to witness it but hey man his whole family you know still going on for God and preaching the word as he taught it to them amen.

[45:43] So wonderful. Let's all bow our hand and go to the Lord in prayer. Father Lord as we come to you tonight Lord we're so grateful and honored for a little place to come to here in Shively. But Father Lord we know that it's just not this place but it's the people that you fill it with Father.

[46:00] Father Lord it's the people that's been exposed to your truth that's been exposed to your love your grace your mercy Lord your anointing and the Holy Ghost that you put inside of them. Father Lord we're so thankful for this opportunity to get together Lord and to worship your name in one mind in one accord in one place as they did on the day of Pentecost.

[46:20] Lord we ask that you bless this food that we're about to receive tonight. Father Lord we ask that you bless the hands that prepared it. Father Lord as we go to eat naturally because we've done eight spiritually.

[46:31] Lord we thank you and will never fail to give you glory, honor, praise in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Thank you.

[47:06] Thank you.

[47:36] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[47:48] Thank you. Your Uncle Homer can probably show you how to be scored. I'm going to be scoring. Here's the word.

[47:59] Here's the word right here. Jar may come. My little man has to work. My little man has to work. Oh. Give me a hug.

[48:10] I can hug him. I can hug him. I can hug him. That's a little baby. Little puppy. Oh, she's good. She's good. Wow.

[48:21] It's hard of me. It's hard of me. It's hard of me. She told me that Eddie James' story.

[48:46] And he is praying or being talking about this point. Usually he needs some kids to get up and tell them. Oh, my God.

[49:07] God.